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good morning and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, april 16th. i had to be reminded of that just a few minutes ago. im aymara walker. im victor blackwell. she was talking about yesterday on sunday. and im thinking we do the weekend. so clearly yesterday wasnt sunday . i thought today was monday is with us. all right. thanks for spending good morning with us. heres what were watching for you. at least 56 people are dead. excuse me in sudan. there were explosions repping night c...

These individuals that come across. they dump their garbage and ids. >> the pakistanis, indians. the wholed world knows come on down. its open. >> sandra, this is the evidence that i picked up here this morning. these are airline tickets from amsterdam, from mexico city. visas from mexico, money from venezuela. more tickets from cancun all going to mexico. they take a taxi here and jump over the border. takes about an hour and then theyre here in the u.s. back to you. >> sandra: remarkable repor...

Theres no housing, so that is really the biggest crisis facing this community for the next several months. >> ed lavandera, remarkable reporting, thank you. just before airtime, i spoke with people from neighboring states who are helping with search and rescue. indiana activated its task force 1 search and rescue team. division chief tom neil is leading it. chief neil, can you walk me through what you and your team are doing right now in the search at the candle factory? >> sure. were up doing...

Reporter: seven children were among the dead. members of african -- young minds with dreams and desires gone. his brother lost all three of his children along with other family members. inside the house recalls the horrifying moment after the strike. >> iran to the car to take my nephew and my wife told me to take my other nephew and i saw the car burning in a management dollars and she was totally burned. everything was burned. reporter: its always gutwrenching to interview parents who lost a c...

The hospital that i saw, which has an emergency room thats collecting water and trash cans thats dripping from the ceiling, its hard to treat anybody there. >> jeremy peters, remarkable reporting, adam fox, thank you so much for your expertise on this as well. >> weve got a little bit more from that presidential reunion we told you about at the top of the show. three former presidents at liber liberty golf club, thats just across the river. here they are standing for the national anthem at the g...

Terrorism charges. and whether or not this is true, morocco police claim part of the reason that the french found out about the alleged ringleader was in paris itself is because his brother from the morocco prison cell who his brother is being called the master mind of the attacks he wasnt in syria like everyone was saying, he was in france. the story the moroccan police are saying is that the brother narced him out from his moroccan jail cell and thats part of how they found abdelhamid abaaoud....

Muslims is deeply troubling. or this one from the american jewish council. what mr. trump proposes in this case targeting all muslims its a horror movie that we jews are familiar with. hes deep into blaming the media for the whole scandal. blachling the media -- blaming the media for us reporting hes campaigning on watch lists and databases to register american muslims. i know its fashionable and politically smart to blame the media, but this is important. and somebodys got to report this out. s...

Of him on their website asking the public for information. but the defectors that we talked to spoke of at least two others including one whos kind of behind the scenes working in the production facilities. and responsible for doing a lot of the editing. then more recently the islamic state has started to do daily radio broadcasts in multiple languages. one of those is in english. the voice of that broadcast is distinctly american or at least north american. >> greg miller, national security cor...

Quasi-government. that tells us how isis sees itself and sees as the most important components. thats brand new to us. its thanks to the new incredible reporting in "the washington post" today. joining us is greg miller, from "the washington post." he co-authored this article. and mr. miller, congratulations on this reporting. it was really eye opening. thanks for being here tonight. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> what struck me as most surprising was the degree to which isis privileges, th...

One of the more memorable names and famous international terrorist circles. hes also got a face thats hard to forget. you can tell from looking at him talk whats got one eye. he was wounded while fighting in algeria in the 1990s. he is one of the most notorious international jihadists in the world. hes been based in north africa. he was credited/blamed with that massive attack on that algerian gas plant in january. as the french were mounting this massive military campaign just over the border i...