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The country everybody keeps talking about my momma still lives there. i think the answer really is to connect the fight of the people in mcdowell, county, west virginia, for example with the plight of people in chicago, illinois. i think the rhetoric of this general election campaign has made us feel like the people in those areas have two separate issues but we really have more in common than that divides us. so its really about, i mean and -- to talk about this, about taking a page out of jess...

For so many people just a few weeks ago. and when you talk to those who remain theyre absolutely terrified of what might be coming next. >> and just a few weeks ago, you spoke with a mother and her young daughter who had been using twitter to send out tweets relaying to the world her harrowing experiences particularly this young girl in eastern aleppo. we see this image now of her. bring us up to date on the situation, this little girl and her family. >> reporter: this is 7-year-old abana. her m...

Identified on surveillance footage. taylors family blames police for not arresting him sooner. >> if they had done their job properly, jack would still be here. they just as responsible. >> reporter: scotland yard referred itself to independent investigators for review. erin mclaughlin, cnn london. >> you are watching cnn newsroom. still to come, the plight of myanmars muslims. we hear from families fleeing a military crackdown.

Neighboring jordan and i just have to warn you, what youre about to see may be disturbing to some viewers. >> reporter: with no end in sight to the plight of the more than quarter of a million residents in eastern aleppo who have been living under constant bombardment, who barely have functioning hospitals left and who according to the united nations are facing the real possibility of mass starvation because of the months long siege. the people of eastern aleppo have been trying to get the world...

Done to stay in that boat. >> i was in the current and things happened so fast, that i dont remember exactly the sequence of things. but i grabbed on to that tree. >> grateful to be alive, mike clambers into the tree and considers his options. >> the current was so strong that i couldnt even move a couple of yards upstream. it was very dangerous and i just stayed where i was. >> further down the river, ed has found something to hang on to. >> i grabbed on to that tree and pulled myself up. i was...

I didnt really know what to compare it with. >> despite the boiling current, the group launches their boats. within moments, everything goes wrong. >> we saw that tree coming right in front of us and then we hit it head-on. there was nothing that could be done to stay in that boat. >> i was in the current and things happened so fast, that i dont remember exactly the sequence of things. but i grabbed on to that tree. >> grateful to be alive, mike clambers into the tree and considers his options. ...

And lets bring in a member of trumps advisory counsel. is donald trump going to deport the dreamers? should they worry? >> i dont believe he is going to at all. you dont have to rely on my opinion, and he told us as much. i am very impathetic this group is worried, because most people that came here illegally are adults that did so knowingly, and the dreamers were brought as young children and they did not have a choice so i am impathetic to their plight, if if he took an honest look at what he ...

>> i mean, thats my part of my self-reflection is i wish i had done that more. and ill just say this. if you can afford me this minute. i think its important to know two things. one, there is another side to this coin. the empathy that reporters and people on tv need to feel toward the trump voters to understand their plight, when the next, you know, year and a half come about and there are attempts to take away peoples health insurance or to uproot immigrant communits or to potentially go into ...

African-americans. is he missing the opportunity here to say something real? >> you know, he is missing an opportunity. there is actually one of his good surrogates rudy giuliani helped turn around new york city in the early 90 when there were 2,000 murders a year. when you had terrible inner city plight where it does affect african-american and latino communities. >> absolutely. >> a couple things he could have done. he could make a policy or argument for urban renewal and he often also doesnt ...

I know that he is doing extremely well with mean orts in florida and some of the other key swing states. he is talking about the things people care about. people who have been locked out of the system. they are used for their votes every time an election circles around and then theyre forgotten about right after the election. you can look night city run by democrat rule for decades. everyone of those cities. the plight of minorities is worse than any other cities. so i think mr. trumps free mark...