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to bring them under control. there are hundreds of them that staged this breakout because they were fed up at the conditions they were being held in. they couldn't take it anymore. young, old, men, parents with families, all breaking through. and now also being pursued by the police force through this cornfield. this all kicks off about half an hour ago. and there are people who have been carrying their children. there are some elderly among these crowds. these are people who at this stage are literally running for their lives. >> cnn's senior international correspondent arwa damon will join us in just a minute. also hundreds clashed with police in this same area one day earlier. hungarian police releasing pepper spray. austria and germany are now alliall i calling on their european neighbors for help. children with nothing but the clothes on their back, sifting through donated shoes. the danger is enormous. there are also major concerns that isis militants could try to hide among the migrant crowds. we're covering this story from all angles in berlin. i want to start with you, frederick. what's it look like from your vantage point? >> reporter: yeah, carol. once again today here in vienna there have been hundreds of migrants coming in here to the railway station in vienna. vienna is one of the focal points because a lot of the migrants come through hungary and through austria and the first place they come to is right here. and the vast majority of them want to catch trains to go further onto europe, most of them of course to germany. many of them told us about the horrifying experiences they have had along the way. a long walk for many of them. many of them with children. there are some heartbreaking scenes we have been hearing about. but there's also a lot of volunteers here in vienna, a lot of people helping the refugees and trying to guide them on the right way to make sure they have an easier time reaching european. but of course the big problem in european is what are the sku countries going to do to come to terms with all of this. there's countries like germany taking them in, but there's a lot of countries that don't necessarily want to do that. the obama administration is becoming involved. i just want to give you a statement from the head of the national security council. it says that the administration is actively considering a range of approaches to be more responsive to the global refugee crisis, including with regard to refugee resettlement. of course that's been the big issue here in european over the past couple of days with britain for instance pledging to take in some 20,000 refugees from syria over the next five years. just to give you an idea how big the problem is, those 20,000 -- germany has taken in about 20,000 over the past five days. that's how big this crisis is right now, carol. >> unbelievable. thank you so much. and germany has been generous in accepting the huge numbers of migrants, but some in germany say enough is enough. why? >> reporter: well, as you can imagine, you're seeing upwards of more than 10,000 in some cases coming in every day into germany. and some people are asking when does it stop. what germany has said is it's willing to take in about 800,000 refugee applications. right now i'm at a refugee shelter. this is the kind of temporary home they're trying to build. they're trying to build abo150, of them. it's like a one-room apartment. they're shipping containers. as you point out, even though there has been such a warm welcome for so many refugees here and we see many volunteers, there is a segment of society that is not happy with the state of affairs. in fact, just yesterday a shelter like this was burned down. and there was suspicion that was a right wing attack. they say there have been more than 340 attacks, everything from vandalism to hate speech to arson attacks. and they believe that most of these attacks are carried out by right wing extremists that are angry at tin flhe influx of ref. and angela merkel has spoken out very strongly against it. there's no doubt authorities are worried to see rising tensions the more refugees come in. that jailed kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses gets a high profile visitor today. republican presidential candidate mike huckabee is about to meet with kim davis behind bars. afterward, he'll lead a rally in her support. a rally that could get so big that five school districts have already called off classes for students over traffic con investigati -- congestion fears. >> reporter: there are concerns that with all the people that want to attend this rally that maybe it's best that the students stay home. so that was the decision that was made. the preparations were well underway. the truck is in place. that is where mike huk bckabee going to be addressing this crowd. we'll have an update. most of those who are going to be attending are clearly strongly in support of kim davis. she has remained inside the jail here ever since thursday. there are efforts underway by her legal team to try and get her out, including an appeal that's been filed in federal court. stateme at the same time there's an appeal to the governor of the state, who a at this point doesn't seem to anxious to get involved. and then you had demonstrators that also showed up outside of the judge's house. this is the judge who put her in jail for contempt of court. emotions are strong here. it seems the support for kim davis is in the majority of that feeling. joining me now, davis's attorney, roger ganim joins me now from florida. welcome, sir. thank you for joining me this morning. >> thank you, carol. >> do you think that mike huckabee's visit will help? >> it certainly can't hurt. kim davis has been overwhelmed by the amount of support she's receiving. and the fact that a presidential candidate will take time out of a busy campaign schedule to come visit kim and lead a rally on her behalf, it can only help raise awareness about kim davis sitting in jail for believing that marriage should be between a man and a woman. >> did you guys reach out to mike huckabee, or did mike huckabee reach out to you? >> no. this was mike huckabee's own act here. he's the one who wanted to come visit kim and throw this rally in her behalf. we're thrilled that he's coming and that he's visiting kim in jail. but this is all his doing. >> you want kentucky's governor to accommodate davis's religious convictions and exempt her from issuing marriage licenses. but it's unlikely he's going to do that. why should he? >> it's his duty to accommodate all persons. kentuc kentucky's religious freedom act makes it clear that all persons have the right to act or not act according to their religious beli beliefs. he's already changing the marriage licensing form once since the supreme court ruled in june. there's nothing stopping him making additional changes to that form to accommodate kim davis or other like-minded clerks. he can reorganize the marriage in kentucky until the legislature can meet in january. >> why should he do that when mrs. davis took the job as county clerk, she promised to uphold the constitution. if she can no longer uphold the constitution, why doesn't she just resign? >> miss davis made an oath to uphold the constitution of the united states and kentucky and kentucky laws. she's doing exactly that. >> she's not. the u.s. supreme court ruled that same-sex marriage is legal. it's a constitutional issue. she's not upholding the constitution if she won't sign marriage licenses for same sex couples. >> the united states supreme court said that states must treat same-sex marriage on the same terms as different sex marriage. but the supreme court has never said who has to issue marriage licenses. the states are free to implement their marriage licensing laws however they see fit. and you see a diversity of laws throughout the states. in north carolina -- >> right now in the state of kentucky mrs. davis is required to sign marriage licenses for all. >> right now in the state of kentucky the law is that religious accommodation must be accommodated. that's the law in kentucky that miss davis is seeking to be accommodated under. she has the highest respect for the law. what she's doing right now is not in defiance. it's simply requesting a reasonable accommodation which the governor has the power to give. >> if she really feels strongly about this, why doesn't she resign her position and then run for the state legislature and then she can change the law? >> the fact is she was elected to do a job and she does it well. marriage licenses can be issued in the state of kentucky without miss davis signing them. that's all she's asking for is a reasonable accommodation and she has a right to ask for that. >> how long is she willing to stay in jail? >> miss davis's conscience is not going to change. unfortunately the trial judge's order was open-ended. he said she has to stay there until she changes her mind. she's going to sit there until either a court rules otherwise or until the legislature tor govern or the governor takes action. still to come in the "newsroom," hillary clinton says she's not stoorry for using tha personal e-mail account. is that going to be a problem for her campaign moving forward? some say absolutely yes. technology empowers us to achieve more. it pushes us to go further. special olympics has almost five million athletes in 170 countries. the microsoft cloud allows us to immediately be able to access information, wherever we are. information for an athlete's medical care, or information to track their personal best. with microsoft cloud, we save millions of man hours, and that's time that we can invest in our athletes and changing the world. ♪ col♪ i know, i know... ing.. ♪ color is a beautiful thing if you feel it, you can find it. all new color by behr. real milk vs. almond milk protein show down milk wins. 8 times the protein, less bathroom breaks. we've been together since 2012. dinner is absolutely our favorite time together. i do notice that sometimes i eat better than her. i get my healthy bowl of beneful, and she eats a cheese stick and a cracker. that's what she ate last night. cheese stick and a cracker. can you believe what some people put in their bodies? 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>> reporter: campaigns when they're going through a tough period, they like to send a signal that they're doing a reboot. what the campaign is saying on the pages of the "new york times" she's going to try and campaign with more humor. she's going to try to be in a more humanizing situation. it sound similar to what they said at the beginning of this campaign, that they're going to show her more as the funny person she is behind closed doors. a campaign reboot is always easier to promise and harder to actually pull off or measure the effects of any type of reboot. >> maybe we'll see the van again. >> we'll see. she's certainly out there campaigning. this fall fight is underway. they know it is. she's always at her best when she's on her heels, when she's up against the fight. we saw that before. the real campaign is underway now that labor day is behind us. >> just remember in just over a week the republican presidential hopefuls will take part in their second set of debates. those debates happen at the reagan library at 6:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. still to come in the "newsroom," think steven colbert will lose his political edge now that he's hosting the late show? 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brian shelter is outside the ed sullivan theater here in new york city, colbert's new home. >> reporter: a couple of months ago we were here for david letterman's last show. today, stephen colbert's first show. he has hinted that he wants to get serious sometimes. we know joe biden will be here later in the week. here's what he said about giving up his identity and playing himself. >> i worked really hard to be that other guy for ten years. but thank god you know who i am. i hope they find out pretty quickly that the guy they saw for ten years was my sense of humor for sometime. it is, i guess, flattering that people thought i was an actual pundit over the years. but it's really nice to not have to pretend it anymore. >> reporter: so starting tonight we'll see who the real colbert is. already a few fans who have lined up who want to make sure they're guaranteed a seat inside tonight. just to give you a sense of the booking battle that's going on carol, we know that jimmy fallon also wants these political guests. he has donald trump later this week. colbert's show wanted hillary clinton for tonight's show. she declined because she's going on fallon instead. nbc confirming she'll be on fallon's show next week, september 16th. >> they want the political types. so interesting. brian stelter, many thanks to you. i appreciate it. of course jeb bush isn't the only political heavyweight appearing this week. joe biden will stop by on thursday. bernie sanders is there next thursday. here to talk about this and many, bill carter, author of the war for late night. welcome to both of you. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me on. >> absolutely. so, bill, i'm going to start with you. >> bill carter. >> yeah. how are you doing? >> do you have an uneasy relationship with jay? >> no. actually was in the movie the late shift that i wrote. >> yeah. and also i did monday night mayhem also. i'm a huge fan of bill carter's. >> i love when there's a lot of love going around. it's fantastic. bill, i thought -- >> write another book and a movie, bill. >> i thought colbert was going to drop the political stuff and just be a comedian. >> he knows this is a field he can play in well. jon stewart has left "the daily show." there's not going to be as much focus on that. and he sees it also as a way to distinguish himself from the two jimmys. i think he's going to be funny but he's going to be substance. he's having the u.n. general secretary as a guest. he's trying to mix it up and stand out as being somewhat different rather than just having movie stars. >> you're right. steven colbert does have a bite, because when it was announced that jeb bush was going on to be on the show, jeb bush was using his appearance to raise money for his campaign. and colbert did bite back. watch. >> governor bush is to pumped for the first show that he sent this e-mail. we'll fly one lucky winner to new york. to enter all you have to do is donate $3 to jeb's campaign. and if you can't afford $3, you're probably not voting for jeb bush. i think the contest is a great thing, but here's the thing. no one from jeb's campaign asked me if it was okay with me to raise money off my first show. where's my sweet cut of the three bucks, governor? huh? i am launching my own jeb bush on the steven colbert late show raffle. the lucky winner will also be invited to the late show. but they can ask one nonobscene question that i will ask governor bush on their behalf. >> didn't that just seem like the colbert that was on the tv show? i think he'll be the same guy, certainly urbane. letterman was considered alauoo. i think they're not so worried about beating jimmy fallon or the other 12 guys that do late night tv. i think it will be an urbane, newsy, fun show. they'll make a ton of money. i don't think he'll win the rates. he'll be good for maybe a few days. fallon looks like he's trying to cu crush him this week. fallon has a line-up that's crazy. it's all aimed at crushing any excitement over steven colbert. i think he'll be fine. bill and i will watch him on youtube. we'll be the two oldest people watching him on youtube the next morning. >> all of these late night comedians are vying for political types. shouldn't they be vying for the most popular actor or actress out there? . >> they're eating up all the air time so they are the people worth talking to. you'll see jeb bush come on, probably try to show a lot of energy, that he's not low energy. >> that he deserved that exclamation point after his name. >> good point. >> will people get tooir etired though? >> i think colbert is going to be kind of an awake charlie rose, who looks like he's about to fall asleep all the time. i think he'll be a funny, interesting guy. he'll know the issues. he'll have fun. sadly, no one cares jeb bush is on tv tonight. no one. it's all about donald trump. and hillary clinton, what are you going to do, have her play some e-mail parlor game on fallon? he'll take it easy. i don't think he's worried about anything other than he's going to stay where he's comfortable. why would you change? he's successful. he sounded just like steven colbert to me a few moments ago even though he's not that other guy, but he seems like that other guy to me. this is kind of schizophrenic, isn't it? >> it really is. i'm going to be watching so i can figure it out. thank you. >> bill, i'll call you later. i have an idea. >> all right. i'll find another job for you. still to come in the "newsroom," pope francis wants the united states to do more to held the poor. up next, we talk about the 45 million people in need in our own country. well, it was nice to see everyone. i just wish it had been for a better reason. me, too, but the eulogy that frank's daughter gave was beautiful. i just feel bad knowing they struggled to pay for the funeral, especially without life insurance. i wish they would've let us help. but, it did make me think, though. about what? well, that i could leave you in the same situation. i don't have life insurance, either. if something were to happen to me tomorrow, how are you pay for my funeral? or my other bills? nothing's gonna happen to you tomorrow. you don't know that. i made a promise to always take care of you kids. without life insurance, i'm not keeping it. besides, i already looked into it and between my budget and health, well ... you should call massmutual. they have a new policy called guaranteed acceptance life insurance. i got covered with one call, and it was an affordable option for reliable coverage. what do you think, mom? 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>> yes. which is shocking to us, i think. because we don't tend to think that we have that substantial a problem with people who are poor. and we do. and many of those are children. >> when some in this country talk about the poor and you say 45 million, they'll say, oh, come on, they're taking advantage of the system, some of them. and they have tvs. what more do they want? >> it's tragic to me when i hear that. or just get yourself out of this. go get a job. sometimes people don't have the resources to do that. they haven't had the education to do that. they haven't had the opportunities to do that. and so for us to just even use the term "the poor" dehumanizes them. >> when the pope criticizes capitalism, what is he doing? >> he's raising our awareness of what happens in our world when the rich continue to get richer and we have this growing gap between those that are very wealthy and those who are living at the bottom. and how do we -- and he's raising our awareness to say how do we start to work with that? it's a complex issue for sure. >> and we all have to work together to find answers. you can learn more about the end 45 initiative by visiting catholic charities website at cathol catholiccharities.org. coming up, the warning from secretary of state john kerry, next. but it is not the device that is mobile, it is you. real madrid have about 450 million fans. we're trying to give them all the feeling of being at the stadium. the microsoft cloud gives us the scalability to communicate exactly the content that people want to see. it will help people connect to their passion of living real madrid. ♪ col♪ i know, i know... ing.. ♪ color is a beautiful thing if you feel it, you can find it. all new color by behr. russia is dismissing allegations that it's sending military equipment and troops to syria. that's after secretary of state john kerry warned russia could escalate syria's already-bloody war. jim sciutto is following the latest developments from washington. >> reporter: carol, the pentagon is watching this very closely and in these satellite photos they see signs of what could be a preparation for a large scale deployment by russia in the hundreds, all taking place in the home provis of bashar al assad, of course the leader of syria and russia's longtime ally. new russian military personnel and equipment on the ground inside syria. u.s. military officials tell cnn, potentially volatile addition to a bloody civil war already three years old. john kerry called sergei lavrov to warn such actions could, quote, further escalate the conflict. an allegation the kremlin dismissed as premature. it's unclear who the russians intend to fight. >> is it to shore up the assad regime? >> you know full well that the russians have had a long relationship with the government in syria. again, it's up to the russians to explain exactly what they're doing. >> reporter: satellite images show russia -- this and this image identified as a modern russian made vehicle not previously seen in syria and painted in russian army camouflage. >> what the russians might or might not be doing at the moment is of concern to secretary kerry and who would replace assad? who would replace any of the other groups that are fighting for power? >> reporter: syria is russia's key ally in the middle east. moscow also has a strategic naval base in syria. it the fragile regime falls, so too may russian influence in the region. russia and the united states have been talking about finding a political solution to the crisis. administration officials until recently expressing hope that moscow was open to a future without assad. the administration officials now making clear there is only one kind of military help the u.s. would welcome. >> there's a 37-some-odd country coalition that's taking the fight to isil. we would welcome russia to be more involved in that effort. >> reporter: one side of how seriously the u.s. is taking this, greekos say that the u.s. has asked greece to deny russia overflight of their territories. blocking the air lift of russian military personnel, supplies, u.s. watching this very closely. they want russia's help against isis but not in propping up the assad regime. carol? >> jim sciutto reporting this morning. still ahead, nfl commissioner roger goodell on deflategate and tom brady's suspension being overturned. yes, the commissioner speaks out. from the people who brought you underwhelming internet speeds. and the people who brought you temperamental satellite television. introducing... underwhelming internet speeds and temperamental television... in one. welcome to the moment no one's been waiting for. the fastest internet and the best tv experience is already here with x1. only from xfinity. first it was tom brady. now nfl commissioner roger goodell is breaking his silence on espn for first time since the star quarterback's deflategate suspension was overturned, and mr. goodell said some interesting stuff. coy wire has been listening in. tell us more, coy. >> good afternoon, good morning still, carol. people were waiting to hear from goodell, and you could almost sense some relief in his voice, that this process is now mostly over. it's going through the appeals process but football is upon us, and he can get back and the fans can get back to football. the one most intriguing aspect of this interview that jumped out to most people was when the question was asked about the appeals process, and his involvement. he's always been the judge and jury since he made all the changes in the nfl. would he be interested and open to lessening his role in disciplinary process? listen to this. >> we need to sit down and figure out how do we get to a better position on our discipline procedures, whether it's the personal conduct policy or whether it's the integrity of the game policy. those things have to be determined by us in collective bargaining. they have been effectively done in the past, and they should be going forward. i am very open to changing my role in that. it's become extremely time consuming, and i think i have to be focused on a variety of other issues and that's what i've discussed with many of the other owners over the last couple years. gee went on to say that the person that came up with the disciplinary issues could be a panel. it could be a panel of people who would come up with the suspension suspensions, come up with the fiennes and then he would designate an arbitrator, someone would deep knowledge of the nfl rules and deep knowledge of the game as well. he also said they would be resistant to third-party arbitration. they want to keep everything under the nfl's umbrella. >> interesting, but i bet he's still not attending that first new england patriots/steelers game. >> that's right. he said he's going to be in chicago to watch them play the green bay. he wants to keep the distraction away from him and let the focus be on the game. >> coy wire, many thanks. president obama has tackled issues on capitol hill, survived criticism and fished for support, so how did america's leading man do in the alaskan wilderness? president obama recently had the adventure of a lifetime alongside bear grylls. nbc "today" show leaking this exclusive sneak peek of the pair's upcoming episode. >> i have seen some of the things bear eats, and it's got to be something that doesn't still have its legs and eyes on it. you know, i want it not to be too recognizable. what do we got? >> well, alaska is a land of bear and salmon. we haven't got bear -- >> oh, look at this. look at this. >> this is for real. i found this on the riverbank, okay? so don't freak out too much, but this is half eaten by a bear. >> why wouldn't the bear finish this sucker? it looks like a nice looking piece of fish. >> if you notice what they've had is all the high fat content, the eggs, a bit of the skin. they will often take the brain as well if there's a lot of fish in the river they will leave the meat because they want the high density calorie value fat. >> interesting. so a bear has chewed on this sucker. >> yeah. we're going to cook it up so it's going to be good. >> all right. >> so i think the president looked a little surprised when i pulled out this bloody carcass of half eaten salmon. >> hear a little sizzle there. >> yeah. >> i think a piece of salmon, that will work just fine. it would have been nice if we had had a cracker to go with it. >> should we try a little bit of this? >> let's try that. that's tas tasty. >> that's proper alaskan salmon for you. >> the bear is a mediocre cook but the fact we ate something recognizable was encouraging. now, the fact that he told me that this was a leftover fish from a bear, i don't know if that was necessary. he could have just left that out. >> you should have brought along the white house chef, president obama. why didn't someone tell you that? the next hour of cnn "newsroom" starts now. happening now in the "newsroom," mike huckabee to the rescue. a presidential candidate visits kim davis in jail. his rally for religious liberty so big area schools are shut down. and countries on the brink as migrants continue to flood in. but the welcome signs are coming down as hungarian police use pepper spray to keep migrants at bay. plus, colbert's big debut. forget punchlines. get ready for jebro and a new voice in election 2016. let's talk live in the cnn "newsroom." and good morning, i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. in just a few hours that jailed kentucky clerk who refuses to issue same-sex marriage licenses gets a high-profile visitor, that would be mike huckabee. the presidential candidate will step behind bars to meet with davis and he's been tweeting up a storm about it. nearly every new message on the white house hopeful's twitter account is about this controversy and a rally he will be leading this afternoon outside of her detention center, a rally that could get so big five schools have already called off classes for more than 1,000 students over traffic congestion fears. last hour i asked one of davis' attorneys if he thinks this will help get davis out of jail. >> it certainly can't hurt. kim davis has been overwhelmed by the amount of support she's receiving, and the fact that a presidential candidate will take time out of a busy campaign schedule to come not only visit kim but then to lead a rally on her behalf, it can only help raise awareness about the injustice of kim davis sitting in jail for no more than believing that marriage should be between a man and a woman. >> cnn's martin savidge is live on the scene where that meeting and rally will go down. good morning, martin. >> reporter: good morning, carol. yeah, people have been showing up here actually for hours now, and you're still hours away from that rally which is scheduled for 3:00 this afternoon. the stage is set or maybe i should say the truck is set. you can see that red cab truck and then the flat bed that's behind it. that's actually where mike huckabee is going to be speaking and addressing this rally. it's not just huckabee, there are a number of other speakers lined up as well. and it's expected there's going to be a pretty big crowd. this is not that big a town, hence the reason why they decided to put school off for one more day. there was concern about traffic jams and people getting around. also fire trucks and emergency equipment standing around because it's going to be a very hot day on top of everything else emotionally. so i think they're just erring on the side of precaution and making sure that the scene is set. the other thing that's quite clear is miss davis is going to be able to hear all of this because she's right inside the building there. the rally is right up to the front door of that facility. so it's pretty clear that it's tacitly got the endorsement of county officials and law enforcement as well. almost every here is in support of kim davis. caroli carol? >> martin savidge is reporting live. michael joins me now. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> so madonna's brother has weighed in. his name is michael -- wait a minute -- let me get my quote here. madonna's brother weighed in, i have to read it off the prompter. on friday he wrote the following and madonna's brother is gay. once again the gay community feels the need to be sore winners. is it so difficult to allow this woman her religion or must we destroy her in order for her to debray her faith? no matter how we judge, it's truth. the rights we have fought for mean nothing if we deny her hers. does he have a point? >> well, i think he doesn't have an understanding of american law and the rule of law, and the separation of church and state. this woman, kim davis, is a public servant, and she took an oath to serve the constitution and the supreme court regularly interprets the constitution and has said that gay and lesbian people have the right to marry. she has the power to walk out of that jail right now. the judge said as long as she allowed her deputies to give out the licenses, she doesn't have to sign a license, but she doesn't even want to give them the power to do that. so she's being very unreasonable. she could walk out right now. >> i think she wants the governor of kentucky to give all clerks the exemption if they want it based on their religious beliefs. >> well, she's the county clerk, the head of the office, and she still has to have her name on the license, and in north carolina they've done that and a lot of civil libertarians are very concerned about it, exem exempting the deputy clerks, but ultimately the actual clerk of the office has to have their name on it. they're an elected official and they have to uphold the government's rules and orders. >> so what would be so wrong if they changed the law that, you know, it wasn't required to have the head clerk on the marriage license? would that be okay? would that be a compromise? >> i don't know that they could do that. i don't know how it works constitutionally, but i think once you start with exemptions, where does it end? if she decided she didn't want to serve or marry a jewish couple or give them a license or a couple she knew had premarital sex because it goes against her religion, do we allow that exemption? where do we end? where do we say, okay, we're just accommodating you? she can have another job. she doesn't have to be a government official if it conflicts with her religious faith. >> chris christie actually did suggest that the governor could say, hey, miss davis, you can have this job instead of being the county clerk. mike huckabee it's a whole different story, right? he wants her to be reinstated. he wants her to have her religious liberty and he's going to jail to demonstrate his support of her. so just your feelings on a presidential candidate visiting kim davis in jail. >> well, i think we knew -- i certainly knew that this issue and what happened here would galvanize a certain base of the republican party and republican candidates would feel they had to champion her, and we've seen some, though not all. i think conservatives are very split on this. some of them supporting her, but i think it's going to backfire in a general election because i think the american people not only we know the majority support equality, but definitely support the rule of law. this story is no longer about marriage or religious liberty. it's about the rule of law. >> i don't know. a part of me says this is like the last gasp, right? 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"the new york times" says she could soon be coming to a campaign stop near you. as team clinton looks to retool in the face of sagging poll numbers and an e-mail controversy that will just not go away. senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny joins me now with more. good morning. >> good morning, carol. anytime you see a headline in a newspaper saying campaign reboot, you have to ask yourself why is this happening? who is this intended to send a message to? and certainly that's the case with the clinton campaign coming the day after labor day as this next phase of the campaign sort of opens here, but the clinton advisers i have talked to this morning and throughout the weekend when i was on the campaign trail with her in iowa said that hillary clinton believes that the real her is not coming out. they believe she's not showing her humor enough. she's not showing her humanity enough, and they want to try and take those small conversations that she's been having with voters across the country into a bigger setting to try more of who she is. but let me translate that for you here into english. they want to put the e-mail controversy aside, at least try to, and try and show why she wants to be president, why she's running. so they're going to put her in more presidential settings. she's giving a big speech on iran tomorrow. she's going to be giving policy speeches week by week. they're trying to kind of counter this narrative that she's lost a bit of control of her campaign, but, carol, when i was talking to voters out in iowa over the weekend, over the last several days, i was struck by bernie sanders supporters. i would ask them why are you drawn to bernie sanders and not hillary clinton, and they would say we like what bernie sanders is saying. this isn't anti-clinton, this is pro-bernie sanders. there might be a more complicated issue going on among some democrats. it's not necessarily a no vote against hillary clinton. they like what bernie sanders is saying. that's why we're also going to see some message changing from the clinton campaign. she's out this morning calling for new campaign finance restrictions. so we're going to see a bit more of a liberal message and more of a presidential side of these speeches trying to get in the sense that she could be the next president, trying to get beyond all this controversy. we'll see if it works. >> at the same time she's going to be warm and fuzzy, too. we'll see how that goes. jeff zeleny, many thanks to you. i appreciate it. donald trump and ben carson may be the most famous outsiders but a third republican hopeful carly fiorina is also gaining traction, enough to make it on the debate stage at the next republican face-off right here on cnn. fiorina thanked her grassroots supporter for the change in debate roles but voters aren't the only ones taking notice. as politico notes, so is the republican party. in an article politico rights in part, carly fiorina is the only presidential candidate with the advantage of two campaigns, the one she's running herself and the one the rest of the republican party is conducting on her behalf. the party being accused of waging a war on women and facing a likely general election campaign against hillary clinton has gotten wise to the advantages of having fiorina stay in the race. so let's talk about this. noelle is a republican strategist and mindy finn a republican political consultant. what do you make of this notion that the republican party is actually not only supporting carly fiorina but pushing money her way? >> you know what? this is the best thing for the republican brand as far as a woman is concerned. and we're about to see if she can bring back and make popular conservative feminism. this is going to be very, very interesting how she plays out. look, she has -- her story is great. she has come from a secretary to a ceo. she is smart. she's articulate. she looks great. this is something that we have been needing, especially when a lot of people have identified the gop female brand with sarah palin. you know, this is something that really looks strong, and a lot of women can get behind and a lot of women that are on the fence and they want a woman president but they're looking at hillary clinton and they're going not so much. >> mindy, shouldn't carly fiorina be like good enough to raise money herself? should the rnc really be pushing money her way to keep her in the race for the sole reason of making the republican party look more inclusive? >> look, i mean, one of the primary barriers for women entering politics is they're afraid they won't be able to raise the money. historically they have faced challenges. in this case carly has been raising the money on her own, on her own merit. after the first debate and her knockout performance. her fund-raising started flooding in. i don't think it's too surprising some donors are supporting carly as well as supporting another candidate just like voters, they might like a couple candidates and they're kind of waiting to see how it shakes out but they want to make sure that their favorite candidates have a platform. carly's gender is an asset, no doubt, but it's on a list of about ten other things and many of those certainly trump her gender where she showed grit, courage, and a long resume to boot. >> isn't there the smell of hypocrisy in the air? you don't want her in because she's a woman, you want her in because she's good. >> you're totally right on that but let's look at this. when she entered the race, she was the only woman and she was the last in the heat. she did so well on her own merit be it female or not female on that second tier debate that she actually, she rose to the top by just being a good debater and being able to attack hillary. when a guy attacks a woman, it's kind of a fine line. but carly can attack hillary and she can do it with grace and not come off as a bully, you know. >> actually, i must say mindy i'm excited about her taking on donald trump because i just think that, a, a woman needs to do that, and, b, i think carly fiorina is tough enough to make him uncomfortable. >> i don't think you're alone in looking forward to that debate moment for. i agree carly is where she is today based on her own merit. if some people are giving her extra money because of her gender, so be it. but she's here she aced the first debate. she's done the hard work on the ground. she's one of the best communicators in the race and to your point not only as a woman but generally she's been willing to face tough issues, to take the fight to hillary, to trump, and to anybody else she thinks is necessary in this race. >> all right. mindy finn, noelle nikpor, thank you. a bit of breaking news. i want to take you to the hungary/serbian border where tensions are rising. we told you the hungarian authorities, they tear gassed these migrants and now they've been chasing them through cornfields and down railroad tracks. arwa damon joins us with more on this. hi, arwa. >> reporter: hi, and we've stopped now on these railroad tracks. you can see everyone -- most of them seated and then surrounded by the police force. now, these people broke out of the holding area that is where they report to when they first cross into hungary. they broke out because they were absolutely fed up with the length of the wait and the conditions that they were having to wait and it was not an organized effort. they just made a run for it, and then one group made it through the police lines. everyone else immediately followed and they bolted, ran as fast as they possibly could for the longest time, especially difficult for the children. some of them actually even lost their shoes like this faenl that's over here. i don't know if you can see them, but those two little kids right there, brother and sister, both of them losing their shoes as they did try to make that run for it. everyone eventually forced to slow down, especially with everything that they were carrying, especially those that had kids. a lot of them tried to throw away their bags, their few belongings they had so they could run faster but eventually they were rounded by the police. what we can't really tell at this point is if they were leading the way or if the police are trying to shepherd them in one direction or another. so far they have stopped them here. they tried to push through this location. they stopped them here. but they said to them, please wait ten minutes. we're going to bring food and water for the children. just wait ten minutes. people very wary because they don't trust the police at all, so we're just going to have to wait and see what happens here at this point, but this is just really an indication of how desperate these people have become that they would take such extreme measures and how exhausted people are. they are emotionally, mentally, physically absolutely exhausted and they just want to keep going. they just want to get to whatever their final destination is, germany for most. a place where they can finally relax and feel that weight that they've been carrying, that stress, that fear, that agony, they just want to be able to relax and start what they hope will be a new future. >> all right. arwa damon reporting live for us this morning. thank you. too i'll be right back. ♪ i built my business with passion. but i keep it growing by making every dollar count. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy for my studio. ♪ and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business... that's huge for my bottom line. what's in your wallet? 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kim jong-il didn't kill people in his inner circle but kim jong-un killed many of his own. purging close advisers like his own uncle, his former right hand man executioned. after that i thought i need to hurry up and leave this hell on earth. is that what it feels like in north korea? hell on earth? yes, of course. you see these krucrowds cheerin and crying as he approaches. it's blind worship. they're programmed to clap and cheer. in my personal opinion upper class elites don't believe it. this number a quite high. seoul national university interviewed north koreans that defected in 2014. the most recent research conducted. the defectors perceive internal support was highest in 2012 but they believe the support has steadily dropped during his reign. can the new leader earn trust from his elites after the purges, he asks? they could be feeling anxious. their loyalty weakened. it's already happening, believes this defector. i can tell you for sure upper class north koreans don't trust kim jong-un. do you see the regime lasting? 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ask your hep c specialist if harvoni is right for you. frustrated and fed up with authorities as arwa damon showed us earlier, hundreds of migrants breaking past security along the serbia/hungary border. you can see families gripping their children as they run past officials. heartbreaking images as europe struggles to deal with this crisis. for these families, enormous danger still exists. cnn's senior international correspondent teekah shatia sch live in germany to tell us more. >> reporter: i'm at a temporary shelter that's actually still being built. it's shipping containers actually bolted together and made into one bedroom apartments. you can see it's still being bill here but there is also a playground. there is a communal kitchen inside, communal showers as well. each one bedroom apartment has its own kitchenette and toilet. it's the kind of clean and safe temporary home that will welcome refugees when they get here and german chancellor angela merkel says she wants to build 150,000 of these. unfortunately, even though many refugees have had a warm welcome here there, is a small segment of the population here that is not happy with the situation and it was actually a shelter like this that was burned down yesterday morning. police believe by right wing extremists. in fact, the ministry of interior has given us some data. there have been more than 340 attacks like this, everything from vandalism to hate speech to arson attacks and that's a huge jump from last year and the fear in the german government is that the more refugees come in, the more of this tension will continue to rise. so it is a big concern for them, carol. >> but as of right now, germany is still going to accept some 20,000 migrants or refugees, right? >> reporter: yeah. in fact, over the last few days they have accepted 20,000 people coming in from their borders. what germany has said is that it will take in 800,000 people who are seeking asylum. they will then process that and not everybody will get refugee status. some will have to be returned home, but that those from syria and iraq will have their applications sped up so that they'll have a better and quicker chance of settling here in germany. >> all right. atika shubert reporting live from berlin, germany. other top stories at 40 minutes past the hour, another sign that pope francis is trying to create a more welcoming catholic church, the vatican announced reforms making it easier and cheaper for catholics to get a marriage annulments. annulments will be free except for some small administrative fees and they will take fewer than 45 days. four mexican officials are facing charges following drug lord el chapo's lelaborate escae this past july. arrest warrants have been issued for two security guards and two intelligence officials. the charges come after this tweet angered authorities. el chapo's son posting this tweet. the virginia tech football team used their season opener against ohio state to honor the victims of last month's deadly shooting on live television. the two teams wore stickers with the number seven. wdbj's handle number on their helmets in memory of adam ward and alison parker. the buckeyes won the game 42-24. still to come in the "newsroom," an nfl rookie walking away before his very first game. why he says i quit. 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>> that's a great question, carol. some players have said that they would not have played the game. some players say that they won't let their chairman play the game now knowing some of the long-term adverse effects that playing the game can have on the body. i have had damage done to almost every major joint in my body. take a look at this photo. this is a picture of the tay tan yum plate and four screws in my neck right now. i see the scars in the mirror every day. i feel the pain every day that was caused by the game, but looking back on it, i certainly had concussions as well, and the only thing i would change, carol, and this would be my message to current players and parents who have children playing the game is that when you do have an injury, allow your body the proper time to heal because without question i was encouraged and pressured back onto the field to play too soon after injuries, and i now know that that wasn't wise, carol. >> no. and they say they're not doing that anymore and let's hope they're telling the truth. before you go, i wanted to ask you about roger goodell, too. he broke his silence about deflategate and i wondered what he said. >> well, first of all, he said he was glad football is back as many fans are, but the most intriguing thing that jumped out to me is he is now open to having someone else be the judge and jury when it comes to the nfl's discipline process. remember, he has been the judge and jury for several years now, and people were not happy about that. he almost received relieved to say i am open to changing. maybe there can be a discipline officer who can handle the appeals process. he seems to be wanting to get out of this. he said he's already talked to the owners about it over the past couple years. >> all right. coy wire reporting live for us this morning. thank you. this just in out of baltimore. the city has just reached a $6.4 million settlement with the freddie gray family. gray died in police custody, as you know, back in april after the 25-year-old suffered a grave injury to his neck. the wrongful death settlement will have to be approved by the city's official spending board, and remember the officers involved have yet to go to criminal trial. still to come in the "newsroom," stephen colbert poised to take over "the late show" with a little help from some high profile politicians. a live report next. ugh! heartburn! no one burns on my watch! try alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmm...amazing. i have heartburn. alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. everywhere you look, it strategy is now business strategy.? 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well, he talked to another cbs show, "cbs sunday morning" about what it is like to be retiring the character. look. >> i worked really hard to be that other guy for ten years, but thank god, you know who i am, i hope they'll find out pretty quickly that the guy they saw for ten years was my sense of humor the whole time. it is i guess flattering that people thought i was an actual pundit for a newsman eventually over the years, but it's really nice to not have to pretend it anymore. >> yes, the real colbert making his premiere tonight. there will be a couple pieces of memorabilia from his old show on the stage however. pretty much everything else is being kept a tightly guarded secret but we do know george clooney and jeb bush will be the big first guests tonight, carol. >> and there will be a host of politicians to follow, right? >> there will. most interestingly joe biden on thursday. lots of speculation that maybe he will drop some hints about a presidential bid on thursday night. next week he actually has a sitting supreme court justice, stephen breyer. when is the last time you saw a supreme court justice on a late night show? the two most interesting guests are from the business world. he has the ceos of uber and tesla on the show, two silicon valley stars. again, not people you normally see in late night. so i think it shows that colbert wants to bring a somewhat more serious sensibility to the show the same way david letterman did decades ago. >> it's interesting because jimmy fallon is still to happy-go-lucky. there's no stress at all in his show. there's no edge. i guess stephen colbert -- he's not as acerbic as david letterman so he's somewhere in between, right? >> i think that's exactly right. you think of fallon, lip srng b sink battles and slow jamming the news. jimmy kimmel, a lot of the same. maybe colbert wants to be the more serious late night show. maybe also stealing some viewers from comedy central now that jon stewart has stepped down from requesting the daily show." what we're seeing is sort of the completing of the changing of the guard in late night. a whole lot of new faces on at 11:00 and 11:30 p.m. and colbert is going to show us what his version of that will be tonight. >> lots to keep track of if you're brian stelter. thank you so much, brian. i appreciate it. thanks for joining me today. i'm carol costello. 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a fair trial? >> that would not bring that boy back. >> on the heels of a imagimajor out by the city the officers say change the video. will they get what they want? let's talk. live in the cnn "newsroom." and good morning i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. there is no stopping the trump train. it is annihilating the republican field. donald trump tops 30% support in a brand new cnn poll. his support among republican women is soaring despite what some call sexist taunts. trump said, quote, look at that face. would anyone vote for that? carly fiorina had this response on fox news's megyn kelly show. >> what do you take that to mean, look at that face, would anyone vote for that? >> i have no idea. you know, honestly, i'm not going to spend a single cycle wondering what donald trump means. maybe, just maybe, i'm getting under his skin a little bit because i am climbing in the polls. >> trump on cnn's "new day" is, as always, unapologetic. >> you had a there he goes again moment. first it was rosie, then it was megyn. now it's carly fiorina. they've got you in rolling stone making fun of the way she looks. >> i'm talking about persona. >> you said look at that face. >> i'll say some nice things about you at least. >> i'll take it. >> the fact is that carly fiorina has had a terrible past. she was fired viciously from hewlett-packard. >> then you should say that. >> a highly respected man wrote a paper that was one of the worst papers on ceos. she goes down as one of the worst ever. >> then say that. >> excuse me, chris. wait. thousands of jobs gone, stock price gone. still hasn't recovered. they're trying hard, but she was a disaster ceo. she had a company before that called lucent, which in my opinion and my memory was even a worse catastrophe than hewlett-packard. she gets fired from hewlett-packard, runs for the senate. she loses in a landslide and now he's running for president. now, when i said that and the rolling stone article had moments of beauty and greatness and i did like the pictures, actually. one of the few magazines where i did like the pictures. so the photographer was good. they added a lot of stuff, a lot of garish stuff that i think is disgusting. excuse me. wait. but carly, i'm talking about her persona. she is not going to be president. she had a terrible, terrible, failed time at -- >> i don't know about that. i hear everything you're saying about the record. they're all legitimate basis for criticism. i'm reading the quote, look at that face. why would anyone vote for that? really, folks, come on are we serious? >> i'm talking persona. when she makes fun of my hair, i know that's okay. and my hair, i think you know me well enough it is my hair. >> when someone comes on and makes fun about your hair, i'm going to tell them to shut up and move on. let's talk about something else. >> you don't have to defend me. i'm just saying when she and other people hit me on things, nobody ever comes to my defense. >> you come to your defense. >> carly had a terrible time in business. she destroyed a company. you have to get the report from jeffrey sonenfeld of yale. check out lucent beforehand. these are two people who will not be president. >> wow. okay. so if you look at the latest polls carly fiorina only garners 3% support. so take from all of that what you will. trump doesn't just have her in his sites, he's taking aim at his closest competitor and that would be ben carson. sarah, first take us deeper inside the numbers, will you? >> sure. let's take another look at that top line. like you said trump is now the first candidate to break through that 30% mark, polling 32% in our latest poll. that's a big number. it sort of gives you an idea that his dealing is much higher than we original thought. now, the other thing we want to talk about is where trump is drawing this support from. and partly that's women and college graduates. you can see now he's pulling 33% support among women. that's a 13-point jump from the prove month. he's also improving with college garag graduates, that's a 12-point jump from last month. he's actually broadening the support from different parts of the party. and that's really interesting. >> so ben, why does trump continue to surge when he really hasn't outlined, you know, any complete policies and he says stuff like that about his fellow competitors. why? >> it's because it makes you feel like someone's fighting for you. this goes back to a lot of what happened even with a completely different candidate, with a complete lly different set of values in barack obama. when he kept talking about hope and change, people liked it. it felt good. they were saying, yeah, i want hope. i hate washington. i hate politicians. in many ways what donald trump has been doing is exactly the same campaign strategy that you saw from barack obama the first time around. it was i'm different, i'm new, i'm not the normal. but i also don't understand why he takes these risks when he talks about carly fiorina. saying ben carson is an average doctor. he's not a great doctor. at some point those things are going -- >> let's pause there. i want our audience to hear what trump had to say. ben carson criticized donald trump saying come on his favorite book is not exactly the bible. >> ben carson is making a lot of traction. he's feeling good enough about himself that he's coming at you. he is a plan man of faith. >> i didn't know that. i hadn't heard that. i never heard faith was a big thing in the just recently. >> it's something he talks about a lot. >> all of a sudden he become this is great religious figure. i don't think he's a great religious figure and i saw him yet quoting something on humility. and it looked like he had just memorized it about two minutes before he made the quote. >> ben carson is coming at you too. >> i only hit back when i get hit. i'm a great counter puncher. excuse me chris. go back and look at his past. go back and look at his views on abortion and see where he stands. you talk about abortion. go back and look at his views about abortion. now all of a sudden he makes bush look like the energizer bunny. >> strong words. >> ben carson, you look at his faith and i think you're not going to find so much. and you look at his views on abortion which were horrendous. that's why i'm leading with all of the evangelicals. i'm leading ben carson be a lot. i'm almost double his numbers. >> absolutely. i'm saying he came out of nowhere. he's not a big celebrity. people didn't know about him. he doesn't get anywhere near the attention that you get. >> i only bring it up because i saw him hitting me yesterday questioning my faith. i happen to be a great believer in god, a great believer in the bible. who is he to question my faith? he doesn't even know me. i've met him a few times, but i don't know ben carson. he was a doctor, perhaps an okay doctor by the way. you can check that out too. we are not talking about a great -- he was an okay doctor. >> i don't know about okay doctor. he was the first man to separate conjoined twins. >> because he's a doctor and he hired one nurse he's going to end up being the president of the united states? for him to criticize me on my faith is absolutely -- and for him to read from the bible in his memory, it looked like he memorized it about two minutes before he went on stage. >> do you think you're more a man of faith than ben carson is? >> i can't quote him. i can only say i am a man of faith. i don't know enough about ben carson. but if you look at his past, which i've done, he wasn't a big man of faith. all of a sudden he's become this man of faith. he was heavy into the world of abortion and he was a doctor. take a look at the hospitals where he worked. he was a doctor. check out the past and see. he's totally antiabortion, well, if you look back, you will find he's a very much different ben carson. >> okay. sarah, that was a lot. i'm still getting over the line that, you know, about jeb bush looking like the energizer bunny next to carson. i just want toe focus on b focu carson being a man of faith. he rose to prominence among republicans because he spoke at a prayer breakfast and dissed president obama. >> this is an area where ben carson is really challenging trump. when you go out to these early states, especially a place like iowa and you talk to voters, these are two guys, neither is a politician and they shoot from the hip and speak their mind. that's the kind of thing that could become a problem for donald trump. i think that's why especially in a state like iowa that's why you see him hitting back. >> name one other politician that's ever become famous because they spoke at a prayer breakfast and then you say the guy's not a man of faith. the most famous video of ben carson still to date is him speaking at a prayer breakfast. you have an individual that was able to take and allow twins to live that were conjoined. and donald trump says he's an okay doctor. if that's his definition of okay, what is his definition of great? because these are the attacks i don't get. >> i don't either. >> it doesn't seem to be hurting him. he's at 32% in the polls. >> i think at some point, though, it probably will start. this is a big risk. when you start coming after people and saying they're not people of faith and they're average doctors, no one out there in the medical profession has come out and said anything towards ben carson being average. he has been talked about as being an incredible leader in research and development and doing unbelievable things. in fact, some people even criticize him saying how could he run a country when he was so focused solely on medicine and break-through medicine. now donald trump says you're average at best? again, i don't understand the risk he's taking here, why it would work. >> at least he didn't say anything about ben carson's face, because apparently ben carson is good looking enough. thanks to both of you. i enjoyed it. tune into the big republican debate right here on cnn wednesday, september 16th at 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. eastern. and tonight on ac36 0 find out which candidates will be on the main debate stage. it's just as unusual on the democratic side of the aisle. bernie sanders, a democratic socialist is now tied with hillary clinton in iowa. that's according to a new quinnipiac poll. insiders are becoming nervous. they call a sanders primary win disastero disasterous. >> so we have seen essentially a summer slide for hillary clinton in iowa and a summer surge for bernie sanders. she is now behind him 40%. he's at 41%. essentially a tie in iowa. here's the thing. you have a situation i think where initially people thought that sanders would sort of hit a ceiling, maybe even sort of flame out. and he seems to be surging. if you look deeply into these poll numbers he's doing well among a couple of groups, one of which is younger people. if you look in these poll numbers 66% of young people are backing him, versus 19% for hillary clinton. if you look at how hillary clinton is doing, her strengths are really among older people. 53% of people 65 and over back hillary clinton. that is her strength. i was on the phone yesterday with three sanders' advisors who say they feel good about where they are and they want to take this thing nationwide. he'll be in south carolina. african-american voters will be very prominent in south carolina and in southern states more broadly. sanders is ready. they are building infrastructure in all these states. >> make sure to stay with us. bernie sanders will join wolf blitzer on cnn for a live interview that airs at 1:00 p.m. eastern. raging flood waters and concerns about nuclear safety. the latest on the disaster happening right now in japan. if i want to go up... hello. if i want to go down... nooo... but, then if i want to come back again... yes. it's perfect. and there you have it. 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they shouldn't be having children. let them all go back home. there is a shocking lack of empathy in his messages. i think for me personally and i know for a lot of my sclecollea as well, this story in particular is very controversial. but this one in particular, we've seen a lot of intense hate messaging coming out as a reaction. but you also do see a lot of compassion, especially on the ground as the crisis has been escalating. just look at what's happening around us. the conditions, if they could get any more miserable for these people. it's raining, it's bitterly cold. many of them, the children, soaked all the way down to the bone. a lot of children, the babies arriving absolutely drenched. but they are getting some assistance here. not from the hungarian government, not from any sort of organized ngo or nonprofit, but rather volunteers who are bringing things like clothing so needed at this point. especially when you arrive cold and wet. you see people sifting through some of it there. there's vans around here that are packed with clothing as well. those makeshift flimsy tents also set up by volunteers. and you have people all the way from germany who are cooking up a warm meal. this really does help to counter balance a lot of that negative hate messaging and that very aggressive attitude that one does see in some of these countries, especially in hungary towards these people. you do get a lot of both. but it has been fairly disturbing for a lot of us covering this to see how vile some of those messages we've been receiving have been and how much there is such this lack of compassion among some people as if they seem to forget this notion that we're all human. and frankly this could be anyone of us. >> arwa damon, thoank you so much. i'm glad you reminded us too there are wonderful people in the world who are willing to open their hearts. it's good to hear. raging floodwaters in japan ripping this home right off its foundation. the country is bearing the brunt of a massive typhoon right now. nearly two feet of rain falling just this week. the situation so dire, military helicopters are now plucking people off of their rooftops. will ripley is in tokyo with the latest. >> reporter: we're on our way to where 65,000 people have been evacuated, part of a larger evacuation order affecting 170,000 in eastern japan. this is a very scary situation for these folks, because the floodwaters you're seeing, they came up in just matter of moments. people did not have time to leave their homes in many cases. that's why we saw people running up their rooftops or their balconies. at least 121 people have been rescued so far. but the authorities in the self-defense force, the japanese military that's on the scene right now, they believe there are potentially many more trapped in flooded out buildings right now. at this late hour, the sun has gone down, but now they're conducting boat rescues and they're walking through areas where the water isn't too high and dangerous, going door to door to try to find people who may be stuck. also in fukushima prefecture we're following that plant. the rain overwhelmed the plant's system causing a leak for several hours yesterday much larger than the normal slow leak that has been observed at that plant since the melt down in 2011. power company said they have the situation under control for now. but there is a lot of concern with drenched ground, more than a month of consistent rain here in japan and more rain in the forecast. but the flooding could be a problem affecting many many people in the days to come. >> will ripley reporting live from tokyo this morning. thank you. still to come we take you to baltimore. there had bewill be a hearing t. you can see the show of force because protesters are expected to be out in force. we'll take you there next. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like mute buttons equal danger. ...that sound good? 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>> well, you see the protesters right there. we figure there are about a dozen of them. and the whole issue is they know this is a pivotal decision. this community wants this trial here in baltimore. this is their case. this is what happened to them. but the defense is saying, and they have said it through motions, they don't believe that the six police officer defendants can get a fair and impartial trial in baltimore. why? because it's everything that we watched on television, they experienced it live here in may. the burning, the looting, the violent crimes, the property damage, all of that was in the name of freddie gray, for justice for freddie gray. in addition to that, schools were closed and everybody in the city had to comply with the c f curfew. the defense is saying that it is true, that they cannot get a fair and impartial trial or that there are reasonable grounds they cannot get a fair trial. if the judge determines that, he has to change venue for these trials. the defense is also relying upon the supreme court of the united states, saying that if there is a presumption of prejudice -- and they will show that by everything that happened here, they believe -- that the trial must be moved. the prosecution is saying, wait a minute, this is wrong. you are making an assumption that the people of this community cannot be fair and impartial. and that's not right. we need to talk to potential jurors. we need to see what their state of mind is. and it's antiquated and old fashioned to change venue without trying to get a jury here in baltimore. 15 minutes for each side. and that civil settlement yesterday that was agreed upon by the city of baltimore, $6.4 million to the family of freddie gray. the mayor said the money was no issue. they had it through other recoveries and settlements, that it will go within ten days. no civil suit was filed by the family of freddie gray. and the defense is going to say that 6$6.4 million really confirmed to this community that these officers are guilty. >> awhen miguel marquez was in baltimore questioned, he talked with penal on tople on the stre. let's listen. >> it's not as much as they should get. they should get much more. >> reporter: why? >> because of what he went through. >> reporter: do you think it's a measure of justice for the family? >> i do, i do, yeah. but that will not bring that boy back. life is worth more than money. >> all right. so there's a lot of that kind of sentiment out there. is it possible to have a fair trial, to seat an impartial jury? >> you know, the criminal trial jury is said to be the cradle of american little bberty. it is literally what stand between the presumption of innocence and the government that is trying to send them to prison. the last thing they need is for there to be this question. is the jury sitting in the jury box wondering about this settlement? does it mean the mayor has already decided they're guilty. and if i'm a taxpayer in baltimore, why am i having to pay it? i think the judge really probably has no choice but to move it. i think it's probably a mistake for the prosecution to challenge this, because in the event of a conviction they do not want this to be an issue on appeal that could possibly lead to having to do this twice or multiple times in the event the trials. >> reporter: -- >> some legal analysts say that's kind of weird. >> well, it's within the judge's discretion. and i think it's designed -- that ruling was designed, carol, to make sure that each officer gets a fair trial. some evidence that might be admissible to one defendant may not be admissible as to another. you want to make sure that each individual defendant has all of their rights protected. so that even adds to the argument that the venue needs to be changed. picking one fair jury out of the population of baltimore is one thing. but picking six is quite another. checking some other top stories at 36 minutes past the hour, a new york city police officer is on modified assignment this morning after slamming a former tennis star to the ground. james blake, who is obviously african-american, says he was forced to the ground outside of his hotel, handcuffed by officers who had mistaken him for a suspect in an identify theft case. make says the incident was scary and crazy and he believes race was involved. blake was on his way to the u.s. open at the time. opening bell on wall street rang just moments ago. the douw is slightly up. following disappointing numbers coming out of japan and china, traders hoping that conditions stabilize, creating an environment where the fed could comfortably raise rates for the first time in nine years. a historic visit by pope francis. you will not believe how fast tickets sold to see him in philadelphia. plus, women in the catholic church, is there still a disconnect? we'll talk think about. a. b. o. u. . . . . . ♪"once there was a hushpuppy" by dan romis man kind?eitlin ♪ are we good? go see. go look through their windows so you can understand their views. go find out just how kind the hes and shes of this mankind are. . 30 seconds, 30 second, that's all it took for 10,000 tickets to see pope francis to get scooped up. later this month the pope arrives in the united states for an historic visit. the tickets, which were free, were made available online last night and they were first come first served. if you weren't one of the lucky ones and are still trying to get a ticket, buyer beware. there are reports of bogus tickets popping up online. and they're going for hundreds of dollars. so, yes, go pope francis, right? the pope will visit three great american cities when he comes to the united states. he's expected to talk about immigration, the poor, climate change and hopefully the role of women in the catholic church. when pope francis said women in the church were more important than bishops and priests, it blew my mind. since then, as a catholic woman, i've been waiting to see if the pope follows up his words with action. i sat down with the president of catholic charities, sister donna markham to talk about it. >> i know i wasn't selected to be president of catholic charities because i was a woman. i think i was asked to do it because people trusted my ability. ♪ >> pope francis can be confusing. one moment he's talking girl power and the next he's not. i'm not the only one confused. when the pope said women in the church are more important than bishops and priests, just like mary is more important than the apostl apostles, i think a lot of people were astounded by that remark. do you think he meant it? >> i couldn't quite get my head around exactly what he was saying between the line there is. is it snicignificant? i think it's vesignificant becae he's raising women's profile in the church and society. >> but then the pope goes on to say other things that are confusing. for example in 2013 he told a group of nones the consecrated woman as a mother must be ra motha mother. in december of last year, he told a group of women they were strawberries on the cake. >> or is it an expression of someone from another culture who's not using the language a north america would know what to make of. i was baffled by that as well. >> maybe the pope is talking like a 73-year-old man or maybe he's trying to appease women in an effort to keep the church intact. when it comes to young women, words matter and deeds matter more. according to a study just 16% of american women between 18 and 29 identify as catholic. for the first time in history, she says, young catholic women are more disengaged than their male counter parts. that is a huge shift. if you don't have women, you lose the children. >> there is a disconnect, because as women have assumed roles of equality throughout our north american culture, the catholic church has more and more of a problem with those same young women who can be and do anything they want in civil society and then questioning, well, if i can do that everywhere else, what happens in the church? >> that's not to say there aren't bright spots. sister donna is the first female president of catholic charities in its history. keep in mind, catholic charities served 10,000. >> i wasn't expecting it. but the good news story in that is that we now have in the united states the three largest catholic service organizations, catholic health association, catholic relievf services and catholic charities are all led by women. >> catholic charities and sister donna will figure prominently into the pope's visit to the united states. it's not only a chance to bring attention to the poorest among us, but it's also the chance to point to the powerful women who do important work. what is the one thing the pope can communicate to young women? >> i think his ability to speak to women and the importance of women and their capability, their contribution to the life of the church over and over again. the more he can draw attention to that and the value that's placed on women, the better off we will be. but it's going to take a long time, because i think we have a big terrain to traverse there. >> if you want to continue the conversation, check out my op ed on cnn.com/opinion. by the way, i will be covering the pope's visit at the end of the month for all of you. still to come in the "newsroom," count down to kickoff. just a few hours the defending champions host the pittsburgh steelers. well, we have 30 years of customer records. our cloud can keep them safe and accessible anywhere. my drivers don't have time to fill out forms. tablets. keep it all digital. we're looking to double our deliveries. our fleet apps will find the fastest route. oh, and your boysenberry apple scones smell about done. ahh, you're good. i like to bake. add new business services with at&t and get up to $500 in total savings. only glucerna has carbsteady, diabetes, steady is exciting. clinically proven to help minimize blood sugar spikes. so you stay steady ahead. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like shopping hungry equals overshopping. real milk vs. almond milk protein show down milk wins. 8 times the protein, less bathroom breaks. flrelieve nasal congestion andly otc itchy, watery eyes.d to most allergy pills only control one inflammatory substance, flonase controls six. see the world in a whole new light. flonase, this changes everything. everyone is looking for ways while to cut expenses.s unique, and that's where pg&e's online business energy checkup tool can really help. you can use it to track your actual energy use. find rebates that make equipment upgrades more affordable. even develop a customized energy plan for your company. think of it as a way to take more control over your operating costs. and yet another energy saving opportunity from pg&e. find new ways to save energy and money with pg&e's business energy check-up. if you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life. i don't buy that. i think if you love what you do, you're going to work all day, every day, harder than everyone else until they shut the lights off because it's not going to be -- >> oh, are you pumped up? that was the unofficial -- well, i guess they unofficially call it the hype video for the philadelphia eagles. philly fans are certainly pu pumped. the defending champion, the new england patriots, will host the pittsburgh steelers. that will happen at 8:30 p.m. eastern time. of course, tonight's kickoff comes on the heels of the deflategate decision. rachel nichols is live inside foxborough -- she's live in foxborough inside the stadium, home of the patriots. what should we expect? >> reporter: well, if you like parties, carol, this is the place to be tonight. look, the nfl has hyped up the beginning of the season so much in recent years that it's almost started to feel like a national holiday. usually in the home of the super bowl champion, as it is tonight, and they reveal the super bowl banner. it's always kind of crazy, but, of course, this year especially with the new england patriots, look, there are plenty of people around the country who still feel like they're cheaters or are against the patriots, but here in new england they have felt persecuted for the past seven or eight months especially as the deflategate controversy has gone on. they see the court decision as a huge vindication and this will be an enormous victory party, and, remember, tom brady wasn't going to be allowed in the building here. they were going to have to reveal that banner without him. now all ever a sudden they're going to have tom brady on the field to cheer and roger goodell who was supposed to be here, well, he's decided to skip the festivities. the first time in his near decade as commissioner. >> will this controversy just slowly fade out and nobody will pay attention any longer? >> reporter: well, look, a decision is being appealed. they do expect it to take anywhere from six months to two years, so we don't expect it to come to the fore again during this season. tom brady will, of course, be allowed to play. as each group goes forward, you have the nfl as much as there are people who feel they have egg on their faces, i have to tell you, the cash register, carol, is still ringing. they're expected to make $12 billion this year. their sponsorship revenues after this, quote, terrible year, they are up 15% according to "the wall street journal." so they're still making money. they're fine. as for the patriots, well, they've got a lot of people taking shots at them over the past year. just last week there was some new report being the spygate controversy, then videotaping opponents' snignals. the coach says he doesn't pay attention to that stuff. he says you guys know i don't have facebook or the instaface. >> i love that. >> doesn't have the twitter or the instaface. that's what bill says. >> that's funny. at least he said something. rachel nichols, thanks so much. i appreciate it. the next hour of cnn "newsroom" after a break. i'll never stop worrying about my kids ... even though they're not kids anymore. i know today will be noisy, chaotic, and messy. and that i'll have to be both a grandpa and a referee. but no matter what happens, i'll love seeing the family we raised together being together. and i'll wish she was still here to be part of it. we may not have done everything perfectly, but i think we did pretty well. i always tried to set a good example. now, i need to set one that stays with them forever. so even though i don't have a lot of extra money, and even though the last few years haven't been too healthy, i'm going to keep my promise to protect them - even after i'm gone. i may not be the perfect candidate for life insurance. but they're the perfect reason to get it. if you're age 50-75, it's easier than ever to get reliable coverage at an affordable price. call massmutual today for guaranteed acceptance life insurance. with no medical questions or exams, you cannot be turned down. with one phone call, you can get coverage ranging from $2,000-$25,000, and premiums can start at less than $10 per month. guaranteed acceptance life insurance can help your loved ones cover expenses such as funeral costs, remaining medical expenses and credit card bills. we have several payment options, and benefits are paid quickly and directly to your beneficiaries. they can use it for any expense they choose. for more than 160 years, our policyowners have mattered most to us. massmutual's ratings are among the highest of any company in any industry. you can feel confident we can help you protect the people who matter most to you with guaranteed acceptance life insurance. call us today at this number. call now. happening now in the "newsroom," leader of the pack. >> we will have so much winning if i get elected that you may get bored with winning. >> trump troupesnces the competition in a new cnn poll. and in just hours we find out who he will face off with in wednesday's big debate. also, raging floodwaters, dramatic rescues from above, and now major flooding in japan leading to concerns about a radioactive leak. plus, meet a distant member of your family tree. >> this is like opening up king tut's tomb. >> how researchers discovered a new human-like species and how it could change the way we think about our ancestors. let's talk live in the cnn "newsroom." and good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we begin with the race for the white house, and today for hillary clinton the race winds through the state of ohio where a women for hillary event is the latest ston p on the campaign trail. clinton is expected to speak to a crowd in just about a half hour. cnn will monitor that event, but we're also keeping an eye on the other front runner the 2016 campaign, and that would be donald trump. a new cnn poll showing trump pulling away from the pack with 32% of the vote. ben carson coming in second but still trailing by double digits. cnn's sara murray joins me now. what's behind the surge? we keep asking that same question. >> reporter: you're right. we keep thinking he's definitely hit his ceiling. he can't go any higher. donald trump at 32% support. the first candidate to cross through the 30% mark. the interesting thing is he's not just getting more support from the same groups he was drawing support from. he's now getting more support from women. he's getting more support from college graduates. if you take a look at the numbers for women, that in particular is striking. donald trump now drawing 33% support from women, a 13-point jump from a month ago. he saw a similar jump with college graduates now drawing 28% support. a 12-point jump from a month ago. it's clear he's broadening the case he's appealing to, carol. >> well, his support from republican women is kind of surprising because he went ahead and he kind of dissed another republican woman and that would be carly fiorina. in a "rolling stone" interview he mocked her look saying, look at that face. would anyone vote for that? can you imagine that, the face of our next president? trump again slammed fiorina on "new day." let's listen. >> you had a there he goes again moment. first it was rosie, then megyn, then carly fiorina. why do you talk about the way women looks so much. you know it's not presidential. >> i'm not talking about how she looks -- >> look at that face. >> i will say some nice things about you so they say he says nice things about some people. the fact is carly fiorina has had a terrible past. she was fired viciously from hewlett-packard. >> but then you should say that. >> the yale business school, jeffrey sonnenfeld wrote a paper that was one of the worst papers on ceos -- she goes down as one of the worst ever. the company practically cratered. >> then say that. >> wait. thousands of jobs gone, stock price gone, still hasn't recovered. it's a total disaster. they're trying hard but she was a disaster as a ceo. she had a company before that called lucent which in my opinion and in my opinion was even a worse catastrophe than hewlett-packard. she again gets fired from hewlett-packard, she runs for the senate against somebody that could have been beaten easily, she loses in a landslide and now she's running for president. now, when i said that, and the "rolling stone" article had moments of beauty and greatness and i did like the pictures actually, one of the few magazines where i like the pictures, so the photographer was good, the writer actually called me and said i'm so upset. i wrote this great story and jan winter screwed it up. they added a lot of stuff, a lot of garish stuff i think is disgusting but they added it. excuse me, wait. but carly, i'm talking about her persona. her persona is going to be -- she's not going to be president -- >> but i don't know about that -- >> she had a terrible, terrible -- >> i don't know about that. i'll tell you why. i hear everything you're saying about the record. legitimate bases for criticism. i'd reading the quote for what it is. look at that face. why would anyone vote for that? can you imagine that's the face of our next president. she's a woman. i'm not supposed to say anything. but really, are we serious? >> by the way, i think you know me well enough, it is my hair. >> somebody comes on my show and make fun of my hair i will tell them to shut up and move on to somebody else. if somebody does that to you on may air and they say the reason he shouldn't be president is because of his hair, i will say shut up. >> i'm not looking for anybody to defend me. when she and other people hit me on things, nobody ever comes to my defense. so i'm just saying this -- >> you come to your defense. >> carly had a terrible time in business. she destroyed a company. you have to get the report from jeffrey sonnenfeld of yale. he's the expert on carly. it's a disaster. and check out lucent before hand. so you have ben saying what he said. you have carly saying -- these are two people that will not be president. >> that was exhausting, right? but it was kind of fun to listen to, which i think is the main factor here, right? but on a serious note, carly fiorina, everybody says she's rising in the polls but in the latest cnn poll she's only at 3%, so why is mr. trump even bothering? >> reporter: well, i think the reason he's bothering is because she sort of punched at him, and we remember this from the last debate, the so-called happy hour debate that she was in. she was one of the people who was toughest on donald trump, and that was so interesting because they were on different stages, and i think people kind of forget that. they were in two separate debates. we're still waiting on the final word for who is going to be on the debate stage for our cnn debate but it looks like carly has a very good shot of ending up on stage with donald trump, and that i think will be really fascinating to see the dynamic between the two of them. if they're both on the same stage together. and i can't imagine that you hear donald trump going after her looks when it's actually face-to-face, when the cameras are actually rolling. you see there he's not doubling down on the attacks. the idea he was talking about her persona versus her face is a little difficult to believe and i can't imagine he goes after her looks when he's on, you know, a presidential debate stage. >> oh, i don't know, sara. i don't know. all i can say is i can't wait to watch. thank you so much. and you can watch along with me that big republican debate. it will be right here on cnn, wednesday september 16th, 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. eastern. also tonight at 8:00 eastern on ac 360 find out which candidates will be on that main debate stage. will carly fiorina be on the debate stage along with donald trump? but before that be sure to check out jeb bush today as well. he talks with cnn's jake tapper on "the lead" at 4:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. it's not just republican voters who are in search of outsiders. a new quinnipiac poll shows bernie sanders, the self-described democratic socialist, he's now in a tie with hillary clinton among likely iowa democratic caucusgoers. of course, that's according to a new quinnipiac poll and it represents an eight-point jump for sanders since july. nia-malika henderson joins me to talk about this poll. good morning. >> good morning. bad news there for hillary clinton. she's seen something of a dip in her sort of appeal there among iowa caucusgoers, democratic ones. she was at 52% in july. she is at 40% now. neck and neck with sanders, and biden is there at 12%. he has also seen something of a bump up and this is amid a swirl of speculation that he's at least thinking about joining this race, and it looks like he's got some support there. if you look at sort of favorability ratings, there's good news there for clinton because she's essentially in a three-way tie with sanders and biden. biden comes in at about 79%. sanders is at 76%. clint -- 78%. clinton is at 76%. i think in the coming days and even today she's really going to try to highlight that aspect, that unique aspect of her candidacy, women for hillary groups meeting around the country, and it's something i think she will continue to hit on because it gives her an edge over biden and over sanders. she's the one, if there is such a thing as sort of the war on women that we've seen from democrats, this rhetoric against republicans, she's probably the most capable of playing that sort of strategy that has worked so well for democrats in the past. >> so just a question, so are democratic insiders really worried about hillary clinton's slipping poll numbers? are they pushing joe biden to get into the race? >> yeah, i think it depends on what you mean by democratic insiders. i think certainly there is a contain geco contingent of biden supporters, people who are loyal to him in states like south carolina and iowa, and his friends who want to see good things for someone they think has been a very good vice president. so those folks do want to see biden get in there, and they are sort of chattering with us, chattering among themselves and donors certainly want to see him get in there, some of his -- some people who backed obama and are on biden's team now, but there isn't a real push like you saw in 2008, real top democrats asking that obama get in that race in 2008, and, of course, he had sort of a grassroots appeal. you don't see that yet with biden. other names being floated around, people like al gore, people like elizabeth warren. i will say this, democrats are always a nervous bunch, so that is no surprise here, but i think if you look internally at the poll numbers, clinton still has some real strength among democratic voters, but she has had some stumbles this summer and i'm sure she's trying to right that ship now. >> absolutely. nia-malika henderson thanks so much. stay with us. bernie sanders will join blitzer on cnn for a live interview airing at 1:00 p.m. eastern. protesters have gathered outside of a baltimore courthouse gellinyelling, chant and demanding justice in the death of freddie gray. inside the courthouse, lawyers for both sides are meeting in front of a judge arguing where a yir can be impartial. jean casarez is live in baltimore with more. >> reporter: good morning. that hearing is going on right now. it's gone on for 40 minutes. we don't know what's being argued at the moment though. we know it's change of venue for this trial. should it be here in baltimore or not, but the judge is not allowing any type of e-mail transmission. we don't know where they are. each side gets 15 minutes to argue their point, but outside the protesters are very visibly there, peaceful protesting taking place. one protester has a mega horn. we do know that one was handcuffed probably 30, 40 minutesing a. we don't really know why at this point, but there are some police vans ready to go. and they are chanting what many in this community believe, keep the trial here in baltimore, and it's trials because the judge has determined each one of those police officers is going to get an individual trial. the defense has brought this motion because they say what this community lived through, what these potential jurors went through in may taints them, and, therefore, the defendants cannot get a fair and impartial trial here in baltimore and the trials need to be moved to other locations in the state. the prosecution is saying you can't make an assumption like that. you have to believe in the people in this community, therefore we should try to get the jury right here in baltimore city. >> thanks so much. still to come, a world class athlete slammed to the ground by new york city police. was james blake a vibl. victim of mistaken identity or excessive police force? 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talking about -- he was an okay doctor. >> i don't know about okay doctor. he was the first man to separate conjoined twins. >> because he's a doctor and i hired one nurse he's going to end up being the president of the united states? but for him to criticize me on my faith is absolutely -- and for him to read from the bible in his memory, it looked like he memorized it two minutes before he went on stage. >> do you think you're more a man of faith than he is. >> ben carson is not going to be the next president, that i can tell pu. >> do you you're more a man of faith than ben carson. >> i can't quote him. all i can say is i am a man of faith. i don't know enough about ben carson, but if you look at his past, which i have done, he wasn't a big man of faith. all of a sudden he's become this man of faith. >> all righty then. so ben carson has responded to the donald trump "new day" i don't want to get into a gladiator fight with donald trump. he wasn't trying to criticize trump's faith in any way in his comments. let's talk about some of this. senior analyst and editorial director ron brownstein is here and also republican strategist cheri jacobus. i don't know what to make of this. ben carson became famous for speaking at a national prayer breakfast where he dissed president obama. he put religion front and center from the time i've known he's been in the public eye, ron. >> yeah, no, look, this is kind of a daily -- almost daily oc r occurrence with donald trump lashing out at a rival in this fire hose style of campaign criticism. he's obviously struck a nerve. he's running at roughly one-third of republican primary voters in your new cnn poll. an incredible number in a field this big, but ultimately i think, you know, between now and between the voters -- voting starts in february, his rivals are going to have to figure out a way to make these questions about his temperament more relevant than they are today for more republican voters. i mean, the question of whether they want him to be the face of the party much less the president is something that i think ultimately if they are going to dent this machine that trump has going, his rivals are going to have to kind of force front and center. >> so cheri, you're a republican strategist. ben carson just kind of blew off donald trump's comments. is that the right move? that's what many of the other candidates have done and, look, they're at 3%, 2%, 1%. >> a couple things are going on here. first of all, ben carson said what he needed to say and what trump said in response is ridiculous. a couple things will change the dynamic of this poll. first of all, according to nate silver of 538, arguably one of the best election prognosticators in the business, he said tremp is probably not going to be the nominee for many reasons. first of all, the media has helped trump. good for chris this morning for pushing back and doing his job when you have any candidate talking like that, and the media has covered trump more than all of the other candidates combined. i think that has a lot to do with his numbers because -- >> but still nobody thought he would garner 32%. nobody did. >> but it was feeding itself throughout the summer. we're now post-labor day and here is another thing to change the dynamic. trump has gone after carly fiorina on her looks, gone after ben carson, and these are the two candidates who are not part of the so-called, quote, establishment, so i don't think that's going to go over very well. >> carol -- >> and also he covers only one issue that he cares about, the illegal immigration issue. he does not want his core voters to know some of the other things he's said and supposedly stands for because they won't agree. >> one thing about carly fiorina and, ron, maybe you can address this. you say his comments about women will matter. carly fiorina got 3%. she's not rising like a rocket in the polls. >> well, look, first thing that came to mind is just to underscore that point, at this point in 2007 rudy giuliani was leading in the national polls. at the point in 2011 rick perry was leading in the national polls. >> do they have 32%? >> rudy giuliani got to 50% at points in 2007. yes, and rick perry was right around 30% or maybe even high 30s. and neither of them ended up winning a single primary. there's a lot that has to happen between iowa and new hampshire in february, but i think the clear message of this poll is really to the other republican candidates that donald trump is not going to deflate on his own. and that if they are going to get past him, they are going to have to figure out a way to raise questions about his temperament, his ideology. you know, coming at him from the right on son-in-law of the positi -- some of the positions he's taken before. it's not temperaturesimply a qu donald trump going away. they have to find a way to flank him. . trying to mobilize the center right republican coalition that has usually picked the nominee. >> i will say the only public figure out there that's gotten trumpy in fronting to trump has been the guy from r.e.m. because they were mad trump played their song. not only michael stipe, but who is miller? i think he's also in the band. he called donald trump an orange clown. is that what we have -- is that what the candidates have to sink to? >> i don't think that's what they have to do, but they have to hold his feet to the fire. the media has to cover this stuff rather than just yawning and i think that chris cuomo did an excellent job of that. when a candidate of any party uses the type of language and has that hype of temperament, that should be run on a loop and reporters and anchors need to call him on it rather than just saying, hey, voters, what do you think? as john avlon said on cnn sitting there chewing their cud -- >> did you see dana bash's interview, she was excellent. >> he's great for rating. a lot of mainstream media love donald trump because it hurts the republican party and helps hillary but at some point it's time to get serious. we're in the post-labor day mode, people paying attention -- >> ron, last word. >> i don't know if it's that but the temperament issue is already there. the quinnipiac poll only 50% of republicans and a third of the country overall said they ble he had the temperament to handle an international crisis. this is a campaign calling out for a 3:00 a.m. phone call ad. do you want donald trump at the other end of the phone in an international crisis? i think ultimately as i said the other republican candidates are the ones who have to raise doubts about him because this poll i think underscores ears not simply going to go away. >> there's a lot of fodder for a lot of ads and i think the 3:00 a.m. call is just one of them but i think donald trump has put it all out there and i think that's what the media likes because this can come back to haunt republicans. so, yeah, trump is -- i don't think he'll be the nominee 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>> it's going on right now. the judge said at 10:45 he believed he would make that decision. so they're all in court right now. but we do know a little bit about the argument this morning. it was 15 minutes for both sides. the defense as expected really argued strongly about that $6.4 million civil settlement to the family of freddie gray which was authorized by the city yesterday saying it, in fact, was an admission of guilt by the leaders of this community that the police officers had engaged in criminal wrongdoing coupled with the leaders of this community from the state attorney to the mayor who spoke out in may when this all happened against the police officers. from what i understand, the judge really didn't seem to have any reaction to that. the prosecutor said that in regard to that civil settlement you need to have the voir dire, the jury selection right here in baltimore city to see if it influenced the people of this community. that it was widely said yesterday that it had nothing to do with the criminal charges against these police officers. we also know that the defense said that baltimore was under siege in may. that is how they termed it. that this entire jury pool has been tainted, and the judge, carol, can make three decisions. he can decide that the trials, and, yes, it's plural, it's six trials, one for each police officer, all of them can be moved out of baltimore city. we also know that the judge can determine that all of them will remain in baltimore city, or the judge can say you know what? maybe we can't get a jury here, but we've got to try. we've got to give the respect to this community that owns this case that we can try to get a jury right here in this city. so the decision right now, carol, most likely is being announced by the judge. as soon as we get that decision, we will let you know. >> i know, i'm waiting. i can't wait to hear the decision. i just want to check in just briefly with you, paul callan. what do you think the judge will say? >> i have never seen a stronger argument for changing venue. you had a city that was, you know, destroyed in some areas, very substantially by riots. you have public opinion that's terribly against the police officers. and you have the city admitting guilt in essence by settling the case against the cops for $6.4 million. and you know something? i don't think the judge is going to grant the change of venue yet. i think he'll probably take a more conservative road of saying, we're going to continue with discovery proceedings, pretrial proceedings, and we'll make a decision farther down the road when maybe public sentiment has calmed down and then you can really find out whether the prejudice has lasted, the anti-cop feeling has lasted an will impact on the trial. if you look at high-profile trials, o.j. simpson, case of the century, tried in l.a. boston bombing case tried in boston. so it's not unusual to keep them. >> the reason i'm hurrying you along is because there's a live news conference going on from the new york city police commissioner bill bratton. he's talking about james blake, the tennis player being arrested wrongly in a credit fraud case. >> -- to ahettend the u.s. open events in queens. i have attempted this morning after obtaining the cell phone number of mr. blake to reach mr. blake. mayor de blasio has also sought to reach out to him. we have not been able to contact him through that voice mail. i am dealing with an intermediary also to let mr. blake know that i would be very interested as well as the mayor to talk with him to extend my apologies for the incident in which he found himself involved in yesterday around noontime in front of the grand hyatt. our chief of the detectives will give you some of the specific details of that event, but, again, we have determined as a result of the investigation over these last now almost 24 hours that mr. blake had no role of involvement in the criminal investigation that we were conducting and was totally innocent of any involvement, and as a result of this morning being able to view a videotape of the incident, that i am in support of a decision by the chief of internal affairs, commissioner resnick, yesterday who viewed the video last evening to place the involved officer, a police officer with this department, on modified assignment. modified assignment, as you are aware in new york city means his gun and badge have been removed, and he's been placed on administrative duties pending the investigation by internal affairs going forward. concerns i have about what i witnessed on the video as well as briefings i have received by chief resnick, the inappropriateness of the amount of force that was used during the arrest, the investigation will attempt to determine was that use of force appropriate. we have not yet talk eed with t involved officer. we have interviewed the other five officers who were with him at the time of the incident. we have also concerned administratively with the failure to make any notification of the arrest and detention of mr. blake. mr. blake was inappropriately arrested and detained in handcuffs for a period of time, five to ten minutes my understanding based on -- >> we're going to break away. we're continuing to monitor commissioner bratton's statements, but i got to wrap up my show for the day. thank you so much for joining me today. i'm carol costello. 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>> addiction is the only cell where the key is on the inside. and i don't live -- i don't live in that cell anymore. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, new york. top of the hour. 6:00 p.m. eastern, 3:00 pacific. i'm poppy harlow in new york. we begin with severe weather across the nation right now. about 15 million people under the threat of severe possibly deadly weather today large parts of the deep south recovering from tornado damage and now more heavy flooding could also be coming. also, for people in the southern rockies and the southern plains, winter about to hit there in a major way. karen is monitoring it all. she joins me now. we started out today talking about that tornado that had touched down in texas. you've got this dangerous weather across the country. where is the most danger right now? >> right now the most imminent threat is across the south central united states. texas, oklahoma. we're seeing what are referred to as discrete cells. these little isolated supercells that pop up. and in those you can get some rotation. because we've seen very warm, moist, unstable air is. coing up from the south. we have this tornado watch that goes until 8:00 p.m. local time. central time. this means we are looking at the potential for severe weather across this region. as it looks like, as we go into the afternoon and evening hours, about 10 million people all the way from right around little rock and into oklahoma city towards dallas and austin, you're looking at the threat, the potential for some isolated tornadoes. and some very gusty winds. now, because this is a very stagnant or somewhat stagnant system it's only going to shift a little bit as we go into sunday. so all of the way around that arklatex region to houston. another 7, 8 million people looking at the potential for severe weather. damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. what is triggering this event? deep area of low pressure will move into the central plains. that jet stream across the west takes a deep dive. but out ahead of it, temperatures have been running 10 to 20 degrees above where they should be this time of year. on the back side of this, blizzard conditions. el paso, albuquerque, into the panhandles of texas and oklahoma. poppy, it is going to be very dangerous for people who are trying to get back home after their long holiday and it is going to be very dangerous. >> give yourself time and take all precautions. that is for sure. karen maginnis, thank you for that p now i want to take you to southern california where incredibly high winds are fuelling a fast-moving wildfire there. this is new video showing a family driving home as the plains whip the edge of the road. just listen. that is what they drove through today. officials have ordered mandatory evacuations. the flames already charring 1200 acres of california. our sarah has the latest. >> poppy, this brush fire isn't something that firefighters think they can knock down in a few hours. they actually think kit take a few days. the holiday interrupted by a sudden ferocious brush fire. within hours it turned into an inferno saturday in the hills of ventura valley, california. firefighters jumping into the action from the sky and land to deal with terrible combination, drought-stricken land, strong winds, and brittle, burning brush. fire intense it closed down a section of one of the most picturesque highway in the state, the pacific coast highway. it also closed down a portion of u.s. 101, a workhorse of a highway. >> these homes are right along the seashore. i mean, if you step out the backyard, your feet are wet. but this fire just happened to blow down right at the area, in alignment with the wind. there was a fuel bed long enough to carry it toward those homes. we were fortunate. we recognized the threat immediately and deployed engines into that area successfully defended those structures. >> reporter: the fires burning hundreds of acres in ventura county which lies between santa barbara to the north and malibu to the south. population, nearly 850,000. and an even worsen their you looms. ventura county is home to an oil field. it's conceivable the fire could make its way there. >> this is a very dynamic, if you look up on the hillside you can see a lot of smoke. whether we open something up is still a dynamic situation. and it could change or could even if we do open up the roadways, is that it's still not a contained fire. so i just want to caution you that any openings that do happen is at a subject to being closed again if the fire changes direction. >> reporter: firefighters are working to head off disaster. unfortunately, after the worse drought in 100 years, this is a scene that is sure to be repeated far too many times in 2016. the big push now is try to create a fire line, stop the fire, try to contain the fire. that is the first thing, and try to get 101 and the pacific coast highway reopened because those are very important thorough fairs as people start getting ready to go back to work. poppy? >> sara, thank you very much for that. also, a brand new terror warning about possible attacks before new year's eve. it has europe on edge. that's for sure. police in vienna today telling cnn an unnamed friendly intelligence service warned several european p european cities of possible attacks involving explosives or guns. the warnings listed the names of several of the possible attackers. so far though the investigation into those names has not turned up anything concrete. also, important to note this warning does not specify which european cities might be the target. right now you know security is ramping up across europe. police this vienna, other key cities watching public venues and high traffic areas. they're on the lookout for any possible big bags or suitcases. let's talk more about this threat. former cia operate ter bob bare is with me. this is a vague, vague warning p and there's not even a specificity mentioned in it. can you talk about to me about the value of issuing a warning like this to the public? you don't want a fearmonger so why put this out there without a lot of details? >> poppy, i think it's the threat hanging over europe. it's clearly there. the paris attack was not the last of them. somebody's going to try something. so with the intelligence communities across europe and united states do even when a vague threat comes up they have a duty to warn citizens, whether it's americans traveling to europe or europeans. and because of that duty to warn they cannot keep this intelligence, you know, within the services. they've got to get it out there. and intelligence officers are very reluctant to take something that isn't particularly well sourced or specific but none the less they do have that duty and i think that's probably what we're seeing here. >> at the same time today, bob, just a few hours ago we learned of this new audio recording purportedly from al baghdadi, the leader of isis. what's interesting about it, i think, is that it doesn't have any specifics in it. it threatens the west to not sending ground troops. it threatens israel. but it doesn't even mention the paris attack or what happened in san bernardino. you've got isis that is so acutely aware of its pr, has such a strong propaganda machine. do you read this audio message, the first one we've heard from him in six months as more of an effort internally to sort of reassure isis supporters rather than to talk to the outside? >> well, i think there's two things. one is to say he is still there in command of baghdadi and, two, appealing to potential lone wolfes to launch attacks. i think the islamic state has misgoverned its areas under its control. i think it's probably losing influence, at least in syria and iraq. and what the taking of ramadi it's going to be a symbolic setback. so i think el baghdadi is making an appeal to believers and it's hard to tell whether he will get at all.ernardino response or not but i think as we've talked about the islamic state is not long for this world. it's so irrational, so violent, it cannot govern 20 million people for very long. and i think it's a message of desperation. >> yet it has now risen to the biggest concern for u.s. law enforcement in a pace of federal investigations unseen in this country since 9/11. all right. we'll see where 2016 brings. thank you. >> thank you. coming up next, their story riveted the nation for 444 days. now, a group ofern manies once held hostage in iran finally being compensated for their ordeal. how much will they receive and what made it possible after 36 long years? 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>> she helps everybody. if somebody is in need she's the first one to be there. like my foster sisters. >> i get a phone call that said, we have no placement anywhere in the state for these girls. can you take them? i had had the girls in my class. having a teacher relationship is one thing. having them live with me is different. so i really eased in to it at their comfort level. it was really only supposed to be for 48 hours but almost a year later we're still all together. how did i get so lucky? how did i get picked to be a part of their lives? it's the best experience. i wouldn't change it. it has been an interesting year in politics, to say the least. and it is not over yet. in our top ten of 2015 series, our chief political correspondent dana bash takes a look back at the most memorable campaign moments of 2015. >> in politics 2015 was the year of one liners, insult, interrupti interruptions, and controversy. it was the escalator ride that changed the republican race. donald trump kicked his campaign off full-on trump style, up ending the field and pretty much all traditional political rules. >> when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some i assume are good people. >> reporter: those comments caused a huge backlash, especially in the latino community. but rocketed trump to the top of the gop field. and the provocative statements continued on the campaign trail. at an early ecvent in iowa, trup sparked another criticism about this p.o.w. john mccain. >> he's a war hero. >> he's a war hero. >> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people whoer not captured. >> it turns out they were the first of many so-called blunders that failed to knock him from his person at the top of the polls. on the democratic side, questions about e-mails and the ben gas zi attack plagued front-runner hillary clinton's early campaign. culminating in a contentious 11-hour congressional hearing that backfired on republicans and gave clinton a boost. >> who else was at your home? were you alone? >> i was alone, yes. >> the whole night? >> well, yes, the whole night. >> i don't know why that's funny. i mean, did you have any in-person briefings? i don't find it funny at all. >> i'm sorry. a little note of levity at 7:15. >> reporter: and after months of fielding questions about her e-mails, clinton got an unexpected assist from her opponent, senator bernie sanders at cnn's democratic debate. >> that is that the american people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails. >> thank you. me, too. me, too. >> reporter: that moment may have hurt sanders campaign but it was great material for st. night live. >> the american people are sick and tired about hearing object your damn e-mails. >> reporter: the black lives matter movement was an important campaign story line. shaping the national conversation and b eveven shutt down a sanders campaign event in seattle. the most defining moment on the democratic side may be one that never happened. after months of speculation, vice president joe biden decided not to run for president. solidifying clinton's spot as the expected democratic nominee. >> while i will not be a candidate, i will not be silent. i intend to speak out clearly and forcefully. >> reporter: in the republican race, friends turned rifle riva display as jeb bush looking to find some campaign mojo took on his former protege marco rubio. >> marco, when you signed up for this this was a six-year term. literally, the senate, a everything from workweek? >> someone con vipsed you that attacking me is going to help you. >> bush is endsing the year with poll numbers stuck in the single digi digitses. while some gop candidates shied away from taking on trump, former hbo ceo, carly fiorina. >> i think women all over this country heard very clearly what mr. trump said. >> reporter: from fiorina to trump to neurosurgeon ben carson, 2015 was the year of the outsider candidate. carson who has no political experience briefly topped the republican polls this fall but his inspiring personal theirive of a violent past and spiritual redemption was called into question by a cnn investigation. >> you know when i was 14 another youngster angered me and i had a large camping knife and i tried to stab him in the abdomen with it. fortunately he had a large metal buck blelt and it broke. >> reporter: making great campaign material for donald trump. >> somebody hits me with a belt is going in because the belt moves this way. it moves this way. >> reporter: and the year ends back at the beginning with a donald trump shocker. after terror attacks in paris and san bernardino, trump gave this policy prescription. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. >> reporter: once again, those controversial comments did nothing to stop trump's rise but the real test for trump is going to be on february 1st, in 2016, when voters first go to the polls. >> it absolutely will be. dana, thank you very much for that. presidential campaigns took christmas off from campaigning for the most part. coming up next, we're going to play a little game of naughty and nice in 2016 with mark and ben. stay with me. made with hydrogenated oil... ...but real joyful moments are shared over the real cream in reddi-wip. ♪ reddi-wip. (flourish spray noise) share the joy. share the joy. wheall i can think abouthit, is getting relief. only nicorette mini has a patented fast-dissolving formula. it starts to relieve sudden cravings fast. i never know when i'll need relief. that's why i only choose nicorette mini. all right. let's have a little fun tonight with politics. twas the night after christmas and all through our show political pundits are stirring, oh the zingers they'll throw. after this wild political year our pundits now join us with holiday jeers. let's bring them in. our dynamic duo, mark and ben. did you like it? >> i do. >> i didn't write it. our writers are smart and they wrote it but i like it, too. let's begin with a game of who is naughty and who is nice in 2015. mark, i want to start with you. which politician, which candidate gets a lump of coal in their stocking this year? >> without a question, donald trump. he was so mean to everybody. >> that's so unoriginal. >> come on. you gave me the easiest job on earth. to give a lump of coal to somebody, even republicans would. he was terrible person. >> you did steal who i was going to say, so now right now i'm racking my brain of who should dmom second. >> moving on then. ben, to you. who is like a holiday ornament? eye catching on the tree but too fragile to make it all the way through? >> too fragile to make it all of the way through. i got to say it's probably, oh, gosh, i'm going to get in trouble for this one. mike huckabee. really nice guy. i really think it's fun. if people around him. always enjoy his company. he doesn't really throw bombs at people. he's not going to make it to the end unfortunately. >> mark, what do you think? who is too fragile? >> totally jeb bush. every time he gets on the debate stage next to donald trump i think trump is -- i think trump is going to give him a noogi eks. humiliating jeb bush every time. he's totally the guy too fragile to take it to the end. >> you're going to have to start naming democrats here because there are two parties we're talking about here. >> two democrats. two democrats. >> mark, who is like rudolph the red-nosed reindeer? unappreciated now but could save the day for their party ahead? >> i wish i could pick a democrat for this but i think it's marco rubio. i think marco rubio is a guy that right now is under appreciated, he's not ted cruz or donald trump or ben carson but he's moving up in the polls. at the end of the day when they want a serious candidate and can win a general election they may find him at the top of the ticket or as a great vp person. >> ben, who is your rudolph? >> chris christie no doubt. i think if you would have run four years ago he would have been an amazing competitor against obama. some people think this maybe he missed his shot at it with timing. i think the more people look at him sand how tough he is and how he understands the issues, i think he could be that guy that people are going, man, maybe i should have voted for him. >> mark, who is like frosty the snowman, strong in december but will melt away in the spring? and by december i do not mean december on the east coast where it is 60 degrees outside. >> fair enough. i'll go with my man bernie sanders. i think he's smart. i think he's capable. i think he is the closest person to the political vision of me and many other progressives. like ron paul like the last three election cycles, the college students who swarm for him. when it's time to pull the lever in the booth, i'm not sure he will. bernie may melt. >> ben, who is frosty? >> no doubt, it is bernie sanders. the best second place candidate eve ever seen. he had multiple opportunities to go after hillary. never did it. he's like literally your favorite wing man because he's not going to challenge you and he is going to melt away and it's going to be this guy that we just talk about one day going, remember that bernie sanders, it's going to be like dr. rand paul. >> i don't know. he trounces. this new quinnipiac poll on tuesday came out. he trounces trump like 50%, more than 50% at 38%. so i don't know if you can count your chickens yet on that one. we'll see. mark to you. one year from now, one year from now who is going to celebrate christmas while planning their first 100 days in the white house? >> oh, wow. >> yeah. >> it will be hillary rodham clinton. not because i want her to be because i frankly don't. i can't see anyone else winning the democratic nomination and i don't see anyone on the republican side of the aisle beating hillary in a general election right now unless something extraordinary happens. >> ben? >> i'm going to say a guy by the name of ted cruz. i think everyone has underestimated him. i think he's going to come back strong. i think he would abs loot uteal whip up on hillary in the debates if they go head to head. i think he could easily be the shocker of the year that everyone is paying attention to donald trump when in we areality he is getting things done. >> mark laughs but, wait, mark laughs but ted cruz, his favorability ratings are up like 22 points since september. he is resonating. that's for sure. >> you think ted cruz is going to be president of america? >> why are you laughing, mark? >> because it's absurd. >> i'm glad we have this on tape. a year from now we're going to play this on and we're going to see who is right and who is wrong. >> you can play it every week for the next four years. ben, you're like the kid who wanted a pony for christmas. every christmas you were ticked off that you just got some socks. wanting ted cruz is like wanting a pony for christmas. it ain't going to happen. >> i wish we had mark in, i think it was august, saying on this show that we wouldn't be talking about donald trump 90 days from now. >> fine. >> we have that on tape. we'll play that for you soon. before i let you go, let's turn from, you know, all of this to the big game tonight. mark, you are in philadelphia. tonight no one is a fan of washington there tonight. your philadelphia eagles taking on washington in a huge game. prediction from both of you. mark first. >> oh, this is easy. the philadelphia eagles have struggled all year. at the end of the year the redskins were always red skin, by that i mean they're going to lose big when they are supposed to. >> i am solely picking the redskins just to give my good friend a little bit of crap. >> you're a terrible person. >> all he does is tormen me all year long since tony romo has been out and the cowboys have been losing. so all i'm saying is i'm literally the nation's biggest fair weather redskins fan tonight for about 3 1/2 hours. >> my team -- guys, my minnesota vikings are having a decent year as well. let's not forget about them, right? >> they got a shot. >> they're around. they're still around. >> they got a better shot than ted cruz. >> at least you've got your main quarterback still playing. that for me is just like amazing right now. >> that helps. >> ben around mark, thank you both. merry christmas. happy new year to you both. let's continue to fun a little bit. ugly sweaters becoming the style statement of the season. now one group has organized an ugly sweater run, seriously, in multiple cities across the country, proceeds go to benefit children. atlanta's piedmont park is where this race took place. thousands turned out in support in their ugly sweaters. >> five, four, three, two, one. ♪ >> ugly sweaters, it's trending right now. i think just the whole concept and idea of it has just really taken off in the last couple of years. it's fun. we'll have a party just themed around ugly sweaters. so we're taking that to a whole new level. >> we get together and decorate. then we come and do this. >> it started with an employee who went to a lot of ugly sweater parties and thought, oh, my gosh, we should make a run out of this. people would really, really enjoy it during the holidays. we have over 20 cities that participant across the united states. >> it's really fun. it's something that, you know, you don't realize you're exercises. mile one and two were done before you knew it because it was fun. it's a good way to have exercise and have fun, too. >> i dug through all of my old christmas ornaments. went to the dollar store and just had a good time. >> we're trying to make it a family tradition for the holidays. anywhere from little kids to people in their 60s, 70s, older. it's all over the place. it's just a lot of fun for everyone. >> it's like kids and dogs and people and old people and young people. they are in crazy sweaters. it does make christmas merry. it's really fun. >> yeah. >> everybody's outfits were fun. you could tell everybody had a lot of fun making them and enjoying their day. it's awesome. >> i've seen wrapping paper suit, jingle bells. you name it. people just go crazy and craft away making their ugly sweaters. >> we've got the ugliest sweater. we're very confident we've got the ugliest sweater. >> well, the sweater is ugly as is so i wanted to add a ll bit of extra. i've got my lights and have some other stuffed animals. put together. >> this is a homemade sweater. i literally put it together last night. picked up a little bird. santa. >> flower in the back. >> makes everyone smile. it's awesome. you get to see everyone dressed up and kind of brings christmas a little early. >> a little holiday cheer. >> yes. ho-ho-ho, merry christmas, everyone. the flu virus hits big. with aches, chills, and fever, there's no such thing as a little flu. and it needs a big solution: an antiviral. so when the flu hits, call your doctor right away and up the ante with antiviral tamiflu. prescription tamiflu is an antiviral that attacks the flu virus at its source and helps stop it from spreading in the body. tamiflu is fda approved to treat the flu in people two weeks of age and older whose flu symptoms started within the last two days. before taking tamiflu, tell your doctor if you're pregnant, nursing, have serious health conditions, or take other medicines. if you develop an allergic reaction, a severe rash, or signs of unusual behavior, stop taking tamiflu and call your doctor immediately. children and adolescents in particular may be at an increased risk of seizures, confusion, or abnormal behavior. the most common side effects are mild to moderate nausea and vomiting. anti-flu? 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a dominican nun caring for christian children at this refugee camp. the connection was tenuous but we managed. >> sister, how do you explain isis to the children? >> they understand that isis is very, very dangerous. so they say we would like to be as a soldier to fight isis and we can't go back to our home. >> so even the smallest children want to fight isis as soldiers? >> yes. i'm talking about the first to five years children. >> reporter: millions of people of various religions from fled. among them hundreds of thousands of christians from syria and iraq. sister donna markham is president of catholics of usa. >> august of 2014, ug 6th, to be precise, isis came in and all of the christians were essentially evict fred from their homes. so their convent, their school, their hospitals, everything, their mother house, everything was lost. so they left with the clothes on their back and ran for their lives. >> reporter: they ran from happy lives, from their middle class homes. the nuns ran from their convent to this, a refugee camp. they now live in shipping containers. electricity goes in and out. food is scarce. but they have no choice. so did isis use the usual tactic, you know, you either convert -- >> convert, pay a tax, yeah. >> so what did the nuns tell them? >> they left with the christian community because the sisters wouldn't -- certainly never convert and they didn't have money to be paying taxes. so -- but they fled with the christians. and their desire which is really courageous from my vantage point their people. ill not abandon - >> do you want to leave the country or do you want to go back home? >> of course we would like to go back home because every single day our first half hour with the children we start with a prayer. so we ask the children what would you like to share with god in your prayer. and first off they say we would like to go back home. >> people in the united states want to know how they can help. how can they help the christians in syria, in iraq, and other places? >> first we are asking for your prayer because your prayer supports us. we would like to live our life normally, like others in this world. we would like to live our life as -- in peace because we haven't seen peace since we born. and we would like to live in dignity because we lost our dignity. >> carol costello, cnn, new >> carol costello, cnn, new york. ay! over. aw. aw. ♪ thirsty? 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>> we'll be watching very closely. thank you for that. the ceo of america's biggest bank jamie dimon sat down for a rare one-on-one interview with my colleague. he is bullish on the state of the u.s. economy and you'll also hear him give his take on the income inequality debate. >> in the short term, okay, u.s. economy is broad based, going 2%, 2 1/2%. consumers are in better shape. how much income goes to service debt is back where it was in 1985. household formation is going up as prices are going up, 401(k)s are going up. small business middle market, large companies are in very good shape. look at america in the long term we have exceptional universities. we have the best military in the planet, we will for a long period of time. best businesses. medium, large, and small. unbelievable innovation from the steve jobs to the factory floor with ve a great work ethic. very low corruption. greatest military barriers ever built called the atlantic and the pacific. all the food, water, and energy we ever want. we're in we're in pretty good shape. out of respect, china does have energy. they are surrounded by russia, vietnam, north korea, philippines. it's a tough part of the world. since world war ii, we had squish issues with the nations. they don't have food, water, energy. we're in really good shape. >> now, you said you don't see weakness. you don't see a dark spot in the american economy? some people will point to income in equality. do you think that is a real issue? >> early in recovery, often the 1% is asset prices go up. what are the solutions to it? what should we do about it? i have three very basic ones. grow the economy more. focus on growing the economy. get wage pressure. then we will all be complaining about too much wage pressure. both the education in schools and the kids graduate school, they have a despite that leads to a job and/or college. and i love the idea. i heard from the republican and democrat of a better income tax credit. so being paid to work. it is an incentive. working is a good thing to do. and there are a bunch of other ideas. i would love people to sit down and talk about fixing this. the point is not to yell at them and think they are to blame. >> when you started in the business in the 1980s, 60% of americans had a favorable view of the industry. today that number is 37%. why so low? >> i know we're not near the bottom. >> it is not that much different. the disaster happened in '09. the american public was hurt. and, you know, i think in general they would look at the culprits on of being some combination of washington in wall street. not that every bank was that bad. everyone made some kind of mistake. and i think it hurt everyone. one of the things that happened in society today is we do this to everybody. way back when, doctors, lawyers, police, stock brokers were up here. now they are all down here. media. we have all lost trust in each other, which i don't think it is a good thing. i can only try to win it back. large corporations like us. the countries that we do business with like us. i want to satisfy my customer and be a great participant. hopefully we will earn back some of the respect and trust we lost. >> as the leader of the biggest bank in the u.s., do you feel personally responsible to revive the perception of bankers in this country, to make it better, to make sure people like bankers more? >> i can only do my part to earn our trust and respect every day, both with our client and the communities we do business. with our regulators, we have a lot of business i can only do my point. >> you stress test for every day. you said that. the greek exit. >> 100 a week. all the time. reinvent new ones. >> how about bernie sanders? have you stressed test for that? >> i don't think bernie is going to win. i'm not that worried about that. >> why? >> well, i think it's a far more complicated subject. jpmorgan, i'm really proud of this company. i travel around the world. saudi arabia, mumbai, hong kong. we help their countries, their people, their companies. they want us. they want our capital, brain power. we help american multinationals in 30, 40 countries. we raised $2 trillion for big business, small business, hospitals, governments. that's what we do. you know, you need to be a big bank to do some of that stuff. >> so you think you can convince him -- >> i would hope so, yeah. >> there is more than being a big bank. >> you need them. if you break them up, someone else will do it. that will be the chinese. if you think that is good for the future of america, i disagree. >> you contributed in hillary in 2006 and 2007. why not recently? >> i am not getting involved in politics right now. >> at all? >> at all. >> after the results come through? >> no. if and when i feel like it, i'll do it. >> why? are you going to run for office? >> no. the public should know jpmorgan does not support anyone. nor has it ever. when we tell our people here, by the way, listen to both candidates. if you're a democrat, listen to some of the really smart republicans. if you're republican, listen to some of the smart democrats. don't have a knee-jerk reaction. >> you brought up policy. so the tax policy has been something that's been debated. and you've admitted that it needs to be addressed, right? >> yes. >> trump was one of the candidates. actually, he was the first republican candidate to bring up the fact that wall street should pay higher taxes. do you agree? >> look. when you say that, we pay -- i was actually in hong kong, they were talking to a bunch of our clients. they said that you can for the taxes you pay. we pay a lot of taxes. we pay about 30% in cash every year. so we pay a lot of taxes. we pay the fdic -- >> your effective tax rate? >> yes. cash. they are about the same. 30%. it changes year by year. we actually pay that in cash taxes. forget banks. the issues with corporations, our tax rate is the highest of all developed nations. we are driving indexes at the margin, i told people in washington, by the time you figure it out, the only question is how much damage has been done? you can't have taxes 10% higher than everyone else and think it is good for the country. it can't be good for the country. you know, here, people say, listen, you're not patriotic. it has nothing to do with patriotism. we should fix that. it doesn't mean that i don't think we shouldn't fix personal taxes too. i want to eliminate a whole bunch. i do a whole bunch of things too. >> so you would be willing to pay more, you personally? >> yes. i would. the american public, if you give more money, they just suck it down the viaduct. we open it to say if we spend your money, we'll spend it wisely. >> fascinating interview from jamie dimon. thank you for that. coming up next, tonight's number. sure, tv has evolved over the years. it's gotten squarer. brighter. bigger. thinner. even curvier. but what's next? for all binge watchers. movie geeks. sports freaks. x1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. and finally tonight, the number. it is 21. as we kick off the new year fortune magazine reports there will only be 21 female ceos running fortune 500 companies in the new year. that is down from 2014 when there were 24. when you look at the s&p 500, fortune notes one new female ceo is added every two years. also, they have a shorter tenure overall, holding the top spot in their corporations an average of just four years, two years less than their male ceo counterparts. something to think about as we head into the new year. 500 top companies in the united states and just 21 female ceos. up next here on cnn, the sixties marathon. television comes of age. then at 8:00, sex, drugs, and rock and roll. at 9:00, the british invasion. i'm poppy harlow in new york. i'll see you back here tomorrow night. stand by. here we go. >> take one. >> the average time spent watching television is five to six hours per day.

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