Floods Kill 178 in India
ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back to our viewers here in the states and those of you watching from around the world. I'm Errol Barnett. An hour and a half to go with me. Let update our top stories. International officials will meet in France on Tuesday to discuss the airplane part that may have come from Malaysia Airlines flight 370. A flaperon was found in reunion island last week. 21 wildfires are burning in California state. The largest is the Rocky Fire which at last report was only 12 percent contained. In India, 11 people are dead and seven more hurt after a residential building collapsed in Mumbai. The search effort is underway but officials don't believe that anyone is trapped in the rubble. Official says the 56-year-old building was declared unsafe and residents were notified. In India, a government spokesman says that flooding has killed 178 people there in recent days. Monsoon rains have inundated other parts of southeast Asia, including Myanmar and Vietnam. CNN's Anna Coren has more.</s>ANNA COREN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Myanmar is no stranger to severe flooding during the monsoon season, but this year, the waters are extraordinary. Dozens have been killed with more than 200,000 families displaced. And U.N. teams on the ground fear this is just the beginning of a humanitarian disaster. The full extent is unknown, with many of the worst-hit areas cut off and inaccessible.</s>EAMONN MURPHY, U.N. MYANMAR: It's affected by landslides and rivers choked with debris, and that makes it that much more difficult in areas that are difficult to access in the best of conditions.</s>COREN: To demonstrate how much water there is, a local news reporter filed his report from the middle of what should have been a busy street. Four areas in central and western Myanmar have been declared natural disaster zones by the government, which mobilized the army to lead rescue efforts. But torrential rain and flooding, as a result of the Asian monsoon, has also affected India and Bangladesh, claiming dozens of lives. Vietnam also hit by the worst flooding in 40 years. While international aid is starting to arrive to some of Myanmar's desperate communities, humanitarian organizations are pleading for more help. The government has been criticized for a slow and inadequate response, failing to learn from the natural disaster in 2008 caused by a cyclone that left 140,000 people dead.</s>MURPHY: We've got to prevent more loss of life and get supplies to the people now that are immediately affected by then help them in rebuilding not just stop after the first part of the crisis but it's we have to help them rebuild their own lives.</s>COREN: An enormous challenge for an impoverished country that knows the worst isn't over. Anna Coren, CNN, Hong Kong.</s>BARNETT: And our Meteorologist Ivan Cabrera joins us now. What's so interesting is these monsoonal rains are seasonal but they seem to be stronger or causing more damage.</s>IVAN CABRERA, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes. And in this case, over the last several days, what complicated things and made it worse was a tropical cyclone that parked itself over the Bay of Bengal and did not move. Let's take you over to the wall. We can show folks at home what has been happening here. Look at this low. The clock now on Wednesday as I put this into motion you will be able to see not much happens. It stays in the same position. We have these downpours off the bay and into Myanmar with very heavy rainfall upwards over a meter of rainfall in just a few days. The low is now over in India. You will see heavy rain there. We will not talk about the low centered and stuck and not moving here. Typical monsoonal rains are what we're back into. But the damage is done and the flood waters that you saw, that is going to take a very long time for the waters to recede. Look at this thunderstorm complex that put down 300 millimeters of water. I want to show you what that did to portions of that province there. Incredible scenes coming out of the region. Look at this. Gone. Those cars and you can see folks trying to get into the cars. I'm hoping and thinking they were trying to rescue folks in there. We understand that no one suffered any serious injuries there. So that is an incredible feat just when you think about what could have happened with all those cars just giving way as the road just collapsed as result of the heavy rain and the cars went into the river along with the road. I want to leave you with what is happening in the Western pacific. This is the strongest tropical cyclone in the planet in the entire 2015 here. 285 kilometer per hour winds. That is 180-mile-an-hour winds. That is a category 35 and it is headed toward Taiwan and it doesn't weaken that much. By 72 hours, it's going to clip the northern part of Taiwan. And if the center stays just north of the island that would be worse because the winds would be stronger. Still a ways away but this could be a bad one for them.</s>BARNETT: And there is no expectation that it will be weaken. Nothing between that storm and land.</s>CABRERA: A little bit but not much. We'll have to watch it, yeah.</s>BARNETT: Ivan, thank you very much. We'll see you next hour. Now, in Zimbabwe, officials are pushing for the extradition an American man accused of killing an African lion named Cecil. Now they say a second U.S. man was involved in a separate illegal hunt. Our David McKenzie reports.</s>DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Zimbabwe officials have named a second American they say was involved in an illegal hunt earlier this year. They've pulled in the safari owner and arrested him and put him in for questioning and they say a Pennsylvania doctor was involved in this hunt but haven't accused him of anything directly. Of course, they're still trying to extradite Dr. Walt Palmer for killing Cecil the lion. It's probably unlikely they'll manage to do that. And there is some sense that politics is playing a role here. Zimbabwean and U.S. relations are in a tense period. There are questions about why they are naming a second American now so many months after this event allegedly took place. David McKenzie, CNN, Johannesburg.</s>BARNETT: For so many migrants, the dangerous journey to a new land is worth the risk. CNN wanted to understand the challenge that migrants face during their charges. In part one of this report, Arwa Damon introduces you to a man trying to escape war-torn Syria with the hope of reaching Greece and ultimately Germany.</s>YILMAZ PASHA, SYRIA IMMIGRANT: They see you as a Euro, not a human.</s>ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): 23- year-old Yilmaz Pasha, a Syrian media activist, is wanted by the Syrian regime and ISIS. Like tens of thousands of others, his journey began on a beach in Turkey.</s>PASHA: When you cross at sea, you know, somebody, they didn't even wear the life jackets and they didn't know -- they don't know how to swim.</s>DAMON: The transit from here cost $900 per person. The smugglers gave them a boat, pointed to a Greek island and asked, who wants to be the captain.</s>PASHA: My friend was the captain.</s>DAMON (on camera): Had he driven a boat before?</s>PASHA: No. The smugglers said it's so easy.</s>DAMON: Were you scared in the boat?</s>PASHA: The boat start, I don't know, left and goes right. So it was so scary.</s>DAMON (voice-over): And the relief of being back on land evident on everyone's faces.</s>PASHA: Local people met us there. They are lovely people. They give to us food, a sandwich, and water, and they say to us, you are saved now.</s>DAMON: First, they need to register with the Greek authorities. There is a large crowd waiting. Once that is accomplished, he receives this, permission to travel in specific areas in Greece for six months. We meet up with Yilmaz in Athens where he is planning the trek across Europe on his own to save smuggling fees. Social media will be his guide.</s>PASHA: There are Facebook groups for the whole journey. And it's like marketing. Numbers of smugglers, maps.</s>DAMON: Germany is his goal. (on camera): What are you taking with you?</s>PASHA: A bag, some clothes, maybe two t-shirts, one pants and one short. You need to buy boots because you will walk -- you will need to walk across --</s>DAMON: So out of everything you could take?</s>PASHA: It's a gift from my girlfriend.</s>DAMON (voice-over): As for mementos, this scarf, and something he won't ever lose.</s>PASHA: I have shrapnel here. When I touch it, it reminds me of Syria.</s>DAMON: Arwa Damon, CNN, Athens.</s>BARNETT: Stay right where you are for part two of Arwa's report. See if Yilmaz Pasha makes it to Germany and what happens when he is caught by police in Serbia and Hungary, after this short break.