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CNNW CNN Newsroom Live August 16, 2015

We begin in tianjin, china, where the grim numbers are rising. Is 12 112 people are now dead in last weeks devastating chemical explosion. Government officials fear the numbers will go up. They are combing the debris for any survivors. Miraculously, a 56yearold man was rescued earlier. He was found barely conscious and rushed to the hospital, reported in critical condition. Our will ripley is live for us in tianjin. Weve seen the aerial shots of this of the scope for this. You are up close and right there in the thick of things. Whats the latest . Reporter thats right, natalie. You can look at all of the destruction but behind a lot of this devastation are thousands of people who are going through a very difficult time right now. One of them is this man who i met just a short time ago and he gave me a tour of his building, it was a condo. He and his wife and her parents and his parents have been saving up for years so that they could have a home together. This newlywed couple and you saw it for the first time. He doesnt speak much english. How are you feeling seeing that . Very bad, very bad. Its very bad. Very sad you too yeah . Yeah. To see the window blown in and to see everything that youve saved up for and what he was telling me is that nobody has given him any answers, the government hasnt reached out to them. They were supposed to move in less than two months. Now they dont know whats going to happen, and so he is not homeless at the moment but he has made plans to be moving and certainly now you see the damage of the building and its even worse when you step inside the hallways. Some of the ceilings are caving in. Its going to take a long time to repair all of this and when you step outside, you can see the scope of the destruction here. This was a complex that they were almost finished with. Now every window is blown out and inside the hallways of all of these buildings, it be looks as if a bomb went off and it goes to show you and well show you the video later today when we get back in just how powerful this blast was and you have to feel in a sense grateful that there werent People Living in this building because its really badly damaged and imagine there were families and children sleeping in their rooms a few hundred meters that way. I wanted to ask you how are you able to be to close to this. How do you know that the atmosphere is safe . Is that the area that you are in is not kamted in some way . We have to trust what the government officials are telling us. There was a press conference earlier today, where they say they are monitoring the air. Even at the actual blast site itself, they say the air is for the most part safe, except for heightened ammonia levels. There are workers there in hazmat substitutes. There are 2,000 soldiers searching for the missing. There are 95 people still missing. They dont expect to find anybody alive at this point. Its been too long, the condition of the remains that they are finding indicates the explosion was just too powerful. There have been two, 19yearold firefighter and a 56yearold man were found. Its little consolation for people who are wondering if theres going to be another batch of chemicals. Are we still going to be safe . The government is trying to reassure them. You can understand why they would be uneasy. Will is live from tianjin. Days after the blast, theres still a lot we dont know about what caused it, what dangers could be ahead. The manager director of the cooperative Research Center for contamination assessment and remediation of the environment. Thank you for being with us first of all. We just saw a reporter walking through that area and the Chinese Government can already said it was safe. How can they know that when they dont know yet what happened . Good evening from new castle australia. Thats a really good question. Why the government officials believe that it is quite safe there are a number of issues that we still need to take into consideration. On the one hand, china does have very strong team working on pollutants and therefore they might have had a look at the presence of par tick cue lat matter and having said and what i have read, it seems there was a cocktail of a number of very toxic substances and therefore if i was one of the officials, i would go back and reconsider monitoring the areas water and air and soil as well. Thats a lot to think about. The soil, the buildings, animals, people, organisms, and as you say theres a cocktail of chemicals. We dont really know all of the chemicals that were involved here. Yes. There are a couple of things here. One it is apparent from the blast that you are dealing with very, very high temperatures and, therefore, you might also convert these hazardous chemicals into forms that may not be toxic anymore. For example, you might convert cyanide into nitrogen gas. You could still have residues present in the environment and the soil as well. The concentration of these may vary. This is why i suggest the monitoring of the environment would begin. Short term risks and certainly some longterm risks to the environment as well. The type of chemicals, lets just take one for example, sodium cyanide, what is that and how dangerous is that . Sodium cyanide is an extremely toxic chemical, often used for processing gold and in tinyist of concentration, a mix of it it can be quite toxic and quite fatal, so thats the kind of chemicals that worry people and i would be quite concerned. We appreciate your expertise. Theres much more to learn here and its a very frightening thought to think what they might be dealing with in tianjin. Thank you so much, robby nadu. We appreciate it. The death toll in the Mediterranean Sea keeps rising. At least 40 migrants were found dead in the hold of a fishing boat on saturday. 300 were rescue and taken to a nearby supply ship in the area. An italian official tells us they died inhaling exhaust gases while attempting to cross the sea to europe. They approached a fishing boat that was 25 miles off the coast of libya and they boarded the ship and they started rescuing people. They saved over 300 people who were on the deck, but when they went down into the hold of the ship, they found it waterlogged and they found about 40 people who had died presumably from sufficient foe indication suffocation in the hold. We are shocked how many people are losing their lives in this way, trying to find safety in europe. Thats from italy. This is greece. Tempers are flaring amid lack of food and water. They are all desperate to reach mainland europe. Iraqi police are investigating a deadly car bombing. The explosion killed at least 10 people and wounded 70. The blast targeted a busy area filled with cars for sale. Theres no claim for responsibility yet but isis said it carried out another bombing on thursday that kill 3 dozen people at a market. Commanders who abandoned their posts in ramadi i will will face courtmartial. Todays iraqs Prime Minister approved their recommendation for courtmartial. Ramadi fell to isis in may in a huge setback for iraqi forces. Israeli Authorities Say an officer was stabbed south of of the west bank on saturday and the palestinians President Office is couldnt telling me the killing of the suspect. Israeli troops shot and wounded a palestinian suspect. In that case, hes now under arrest. Hillary clinton and several other u. S. President ial hopefuls spent their saturday meeting and greeting voters at the iowa state fair. That is a tradition on the campaign trail. The democratic frontrunner told reporter, partisan supporters are causing controversy with about the email campaign. Donald trump is making the most noise about this. Its a criminal problem. Its going to be a very serious problem for her, jeff, its going to be as serious as it gets. When you look at general pe t y trayio trayious, it was much less. Any worry that republicans could overplay their hand on this email controversy . It is what it is. It is a terrible thing that she did. It was a foolish thing, theres no reason to do it and shes got a big problem. The question over these emails is were they classified when secretary clinton was actually using them. Donald trump compared it to david petraeus, its a bit of an old story. Not quite the same thing at all. Donald trump has been trying to conflate these. Secretary clinton said she did not any emails were classified. They only became classified later on. Questions is democrats believe that republicans are on a fishi fishing expedition. Thats why i asked him if its possible republicans will overreach on this. He said simply it was a foolish thing to do. The real question is whether democrats find any concern about this, whether democrats believe this is a vulnerability for her in a general election. Well find out all that in the coming months here, but its one of issues on the top of peoples minds here at the iowa state fair. And along with the email controversy, Hillary Clinton could face another snag in her bid for the nomination. Theres speculation Vice President joe biden may jump into the race. Hes been personally calling supporters. Meantime in tennessee, saturday, biden attended a Memorial Service for four marines guntd down last month. He called their killer a perverted jihadist. We have a message for those perverted cowards around the world. America never yields, never bends, never cowers, never stands down. Endures, responds, and always overcomes. For we are americans. And never, never underestimate us. Its always been a bad, bad bet to do that. The gunman died in the attack in a shootout with police. It was anything but normal on the eastern satisfy sea board. At least 640 flights were canceled. The glitch has been fixed but thousands of travelers were left stranded at airports. Thousands of protesters are expected to flood into the streets of brazil within hours. Many want this woman, the president , to step down. Well tell you how brazil got to this point, next. Plus have volcanos on opposite sides of the ring of fire are threatening two countries. Well have the latest. Wish your skin could bounce back like it used to . New neutrogena hydro boost water gel. With hyaluronic acid it plumps skin cells with intense hydration and locks it in. For supple, hydrated skin. Hydro boost. From neutrogena. Bills got a very tough 13lie here. Looks like we have some sort of sea monster in the water hazard here. I believe thats a kraken, bruce. It looks like hes going to go with a nine iron. That may not be enough club. Well hes definitely going to lose a stroke on this hole. If youre a golf commentator, you whisper. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. This golf course is electric. Just in case you were wondering what cheerios are made of whole. Grain. Oats. Welcome back. Iran has met a deadline to deliver a written description and other documents on its Nuclear Program to the International Atomic energy agency. The two parties struck an agreement july 14th that required iran to provide material by saturday to clarify outstanding detail issues regarding its nuclear work. The iaea will analyze the documents over the next month. Brazil is bracing for huge protests later today. Thousands of people are expected to hit the streets of rio de you cant narrow and other cities. Right now, the president has an Approval Rating of just 8 . Brazils economy is in recession, its currency in free fall. How did the host nation of the next summer olympics get to this point . Cnns shasta darling ton takes a look. A booming brazil is surpassed britain as a booming economy. Last october, the president won reelection in a tight runoff race. So why have thousands of people now vowed to take to the streets in protest while the president s Approval Rating sinks below 25 . For critics, the answer is economic recession and political corruption. No, we are not in a good moment. Inflation is up. Everything is more expensive, like petrol and even food, no. Brazil is bracing for a protracted recession and high inflation that many blame on mismanagement during the president s first term. At the same time, the state run oil company is hammered by a massive corruption scandal. The highest court is investigating dozens of politicians, most of them from the Ruling Coalition as part of an alleged bribery scheme where Construction Companies paid millions under the table for lucrative contracts. The president was not implicated but she was president of the company when the corruption took place. Now Many Brazilians say they will march to demand her impeachment. Concerns are growing we could see a repeat of the massive demonstrations of 2013. Translator we have to treat protests in brazil with complete calm. Everyone has the right to protest and criticize whoever it may be. Theres one thing that we cannot accept, that this turns into violence against other people or anyones property be it public or private. Government supporters held their own marches on friday. I think the president was elected democratically, and the country is under crisis at the moment and people are mixing them up. Shasta darlington, cnn new york. A volcano in japan that sits 50 kilometers from a newly reak at this at this vatd plant could erupt any moment. In ecuador, a volcano not far from quito, Officials Say theres a small chance of a major eruption there. Weve been talking about this and Derek Van Damme is joining us. This is all on the ring of fire, and the ring of fire is this, quite literally, a kind of a half arc shape moving from the western pacific to the eastern pacific thats where 75 of the worlds active volcanoes survive. These folks are used to volcano evacuations like we are with hurricanes. Theres one in ecuador, one in mexico, and the other in japan. And you look kind of busy because you are also monitoring that right there. Thats right. Two different tropical storms that have the potential to become super typhoons. Double trouble in the western pacific. Let me explain. Well zoom in a little bit closer you can see where they are. These storms continue to strengthen and they are deepen very quickly and its a great indication to meteorologists that these storms have the potential Going Forward over the next three days to become super typhoons. Were talking about sustained winds of 240 Kilometers Per Hour or higher. Heres a look at their projected paths. Remember just about a week ago or just over a week, taiwan in southeast china were dealing with the effects of a tropical storm. Look, another typhoon is charging that way. Were going to continue monitor the latest updates as we go forward in time this week. Heres the two storm systems barely fitting on my Television Screen behind me. However, they are lining up one after another. This is all in the warm pacific waters. Were in our strong el nino season. Tropical storm goni 110 Kilometers Per Hour winds. This one too, actually another 20 Kilometers Per Hour with the sustained wind. Satellite loop is clearly identifying these things are strengthening. Look at the rotation center of this storm. You can see both of them charging west ward. Itsides does appear one will veer slightly away from southeast asia. And look at this, six and a half million acres of burnt forest and then shrubs. You are looking at one of the largest fires in the u. S. At the moment, larger than new york city. Thats amazing, that the west has been taking it hard. Its a very difficult season and they are exhausting all of their resources too. Very tough on the firefighters. Hillary clinton is trying to lighten the mood when it comes to her developing email scandals, critics arent laughing. The state of new york spends over 60 million in overtime to catch those two prison escapees. More about that. Some neighbors are Energy Saving superstars. How do you become a superstar . With pg es free Online Home Energy checkup. 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The two parties struck an agreement last month that stipulated iran must provide scplagses of its past nuclear war by work by saturday. Indian arrives in the United Arab Emirates. The uae is home to 2. 6 million indians. In the u. S. , democratic president ial frontrunner Hillary Clinton spent her saturday meeting and greeting voters at the iowa state fair. She told supporters partisan supporters are making an issue of the email. She loves that the messages disappear within seconds on snapchat. The allegations against clinton are no laughing matter. He spoke with cnns jonathan mann. It means a lot to me. You dont get any more secret than that, tk is tal enlt key hole. It relates to classified satellite photograph, si special intelligence which could relate to code breaking. The be National Security agency. Even snowden didnt get into that. If this were a private server, you and i would get jailed. The information did get to her, but she is saying as secretary of state she didnt see any reason for alarm. Should we believe it . If this was on her server and i

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