Cairo Streets Explode with Violence; Life Plus 1,000 Years for Ariel Castro; San Diego Mayor Seeks Counseling; Storms Sputter in Atlantic & Pacific
SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: New violence explodes in Egypt as police fight with Morsy supporters in the streets. One thousand injured and at least 75 dead. We're going to take you live to Cairo.</s>BILL FILNER, SAN DIEGO MAYOR: The behavior I have engaged in over many years is wrong.</s>POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: Another day, another apology. But this San Diego mayor facing sexual harassment charges says he's not stepping down. You're going to hear his solution and you're going to hear directly from one of his accusers.</s>MALVEAUX: And look who's celebrating a birthday. Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger may have reached a milestone, but still has those famous moves.</s>HARLOW: Good morning, everyone. I'm Poppy Harlow. Thanks so much for starting your day with us.</s>MALVEAUX: Got to love Mick Jagger, huh?</s>HARLOW: Got to love him.</s>MALVEAUX: I'm Suzanne Malveaux. It's 6:00 in the morning and this is NEW DAY SATURDAY. We begin this morning, however, with some bad news in Cairo. This is where violence exploded on the streets. It happened overnight. It was over dozens of people who were killed.</s>HARLOW: Supporters of Egypt's deposed president claim that security forces gunned down protesters. Our senior international correspondent, Ben Wedeman, is in Cairo. Hello to you, Ben. Just dramatic developments overnight. Tell us what happened, because the latest we're hearing is the death toll has jumped to 75 from these clashes.</s>BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, I'll get to the death toll in a minute because there seems to be some confusion over that at the time - at the moment. But what we understand is that out at the sit-in in northern Cairo, in Nassr City, where the supporters of the deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsy have been for weeks now, apparently late past midnight, they tried to block a major road through Cairo, the October 6th overpass, and there they clashed with security forces and, according to eyewitnesses, local residents as well. A battle ensued. Now, the Middle East news agency is quoting medical sources as saying that at this point the death toll is 29 with 649 injured. Now, earlier, there were claims by -- from the field hospital of the supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood of as many as 75 or more dead, but those numbers have yet to be confirmed. And we understand that the health ministry doesn't report on bodies until they actually arrive at a state hospital. So those numbers still very unclear. But what is as clear as day is that following these massive demonstrations, both before - for and against the Muslim Brotherhood, that the tensions have spilled into blood, that the call by the defense minister, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, for a public mandate to crack down on what he calls terrorism, that they're obviously now starting to make good on their threats against the Muslim Brotherhood.</s>MALVEAUX: Ben, this is just what we had feared, really the worse in this situation here, those two sides not being able to keep them apart. In the meantime, you have Morsy who's still in custody, I believe, with the military holding him there during a criminal investigation. What is his status?</s>WEDEMAN: Well, his status is really unclear. Nobody seems to know where he is, how he is being held. The military insists or has insisted until now that it was for his own safety. Now, he is being held - now he's going to be officially held for 15 days while charges are investigated into the possibility that he conspired with Hamas during the 2011 revolution to stage a prison break. He was being held at the time at a prison north of Cairo. During that break, some of the prison guards were killed, all of the prisoners escaped, and, therefore, that's -- those are the charges that he's being investigated for.</s>HARLOW: All right, Ben Wedeman in Cairo. Ben, appreciate the reporting. Thank you very much.</s>MALVEAUX: Today is the 60 anniversary of the truce that ended fighting in Korea. Well, the war killed more than 36,000 American forces. President Obama is going to mark the anniversary with an address at the Korean War Veterans Memorial. CNN plans live coverage from the National Mall in Washington. That is at 10:00 this morning.</s>HARLOW: And the man who held three women captive inside his Cleveland home for a decade will never be set free again. Aerial Castro has agreed to a plea deal of life in prison plus 1,000 years, no chance of parole. He is going to be locked up behind bars for the rest of his life, just like those women were for 10 years. Lawyers say this deal is what his victims wanted. You know, it's interesting, Suzanne, I was out there covering this and, you know, we've heard from the three women in this that were just girls when they were abducted.</s>MALVEAUX: Sure.</s>HARLOW: And they talked about the fact when they put out that YouTube video that, you know, we are - we are -- this is -- we are making our own path now and they didn't want to talk about him, but about their future. And they didn't want to get on the stand and testify. And they may have had to do that if that went to trial. So the fact that this comes to a plea deal means they're not going to have to get up there and tell their horrifying story. But our Gary Tuchman has more. Listen.</s>GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With glasses on his nose, a shuffling Aerial Castro walked into a Cleveland courtroom, shackles on his legs, handcuffs on his wrists and with plea agreement details in his head.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you fully aware of the terms and the consent to that plea agreement?</s>ARIEL CASTRO: I am fully aware and I do consent to it.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you understand that by virtue of a plea, you will not be having a trial?</s>CASTRO: I am aware of that.</s>TUCHMAN: One of Castro's victims, Amanda Berry, gave birth to a daughter while in captivity. Castro stunned the courtroom when he stated this during the hearing.</s>CASTRO: I'd like to state that I'm - I miss my daughter very much.</s>TUCHMAN: That daughter, named Jocelyn, is now six years old. The three women Castro victimized, Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, wanted to avoid testifying at the trial, scheduled to start a week from Monday. After the plea deal was reached, they issued a statement saying that they "are relieved by today's plea and are looking forward to having these legal proceedings draw to a final close in the near future." The official sentencing will take place next Thursday.</s>CASTRO: I don't necessarily --</s>TUCHMAN: But on this day, Castro was fairly talkative and appeared uninterested, nonchalant and downright strange at times.</s>CASTRO: When I first got arrested and interviewed, I told Mr. Dave (ph), I said - I said to Dave that I was willing to work with the FBI and I would tell them everything. I knew I was going to get pretty much the book thrown at me. There's some things that I have to - I don't comprehend because of my sexual problem throughout my whole years. I would like to state that I was also a victim as a child and it just kept</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, well those are issues - that's certainly something you can bring up at your sentencing hearing.</s>HARLOW: Wow, our Gary Tuchman there. You know, Suzanne, that's the first time we've heard from him. He didn't speak in his other court appearances.</s>MALVEAUX: And he sounds like he makes himself into a victim here.</s>HARLOW: A victim. He says I was victimized as a child.</s>MALVEAUX: I mean it seems like the judge is getting annoyed with him because he keeps talking about the fact that he's the victim in this situation.</s>HARLOW: Right. But it's -- he's not. It's all about these girls. And now he's going to be in prison for the rest of his life. So I hope that brings them some solace and some comfort to their families. All right. Well, let's talk about the mayor of San Diego because he says he'll get intense counseling, but he's not stepping down from his post.</s>MALVEAUX: There are plenty of women who want Bob Filner to take a walk, as you can imagine.</s>HARLOW: Yes.</s>MALVEAUX: Several women accusing him of outrageous behavior. CNN's Casey Wian is in San Diego with more on that one.</s>CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Poppy, Suzanne, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner still disappointing his critics by again refusing to resign.</s>WIAN (voice-over): Right after attending a routine city planning meeting, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner arrived at a hastily called news conference to address allegations by seven women who claim he subjected them to unwanted, aggressive sexual advances.</s>BOB FILNER, SAN DIEGO MAYOR: I apologize to my staff. I apologize to the citizens and staff members who have supported me over many years. I apologize to the people of San Diego. And, most of all, I apologize to the women that I have offended.</s>WIAN: He acknowledged inexcusable and intimidating conduct and says he will enter rehab.</s>FILNER: I'm beginning, on August 5th, I will be entering a behavior counseling clinic to undergo two weeks of intensify therapy to begin the process of addressing my behavior.</s>WIAN: Alleged victims say the apology and rehab are not enough.</s>MORGAN ROSE, PSYCHOLOGIST, SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: That, to me, is a very bogus way of handling this. By not resigning and doing what we thinks we will all buy as, oh, he's really sincere, he's going to go to rehab, is just insulting.</s>WIAN: Minutes before Filner's news conference, a citizens group delivered a letter to the mayor's office demanding he resign by Monday evening or else face a recall campaign. Several powerful members of the mayor's own Democratic Party have also demanded he resign, but Filner's only talking about his future on the job.</s>FILNER: But when I return on August 19th, my focus will be on making sure that I'm doing right by this city in terms of being the best mayor I can be and the best person I must be. Thank you.</s>WIAN (on camera): What about all of the people who have called for you to resign, mayor? Do you think this is enough to be enough to satisfy them?</s>WIAN (voice-over): As Filner again refused to answer questions about the allegations, the big question remains, can he hold on to his job?</s>WIAN: Just before his announcement, the San Diego city attorney's office says it served a subpoena on Filner, requiring him to testify at a lawsuit filed by his former spokeswoman, the first alleged victim to come forward. That testimony is expected to take place four days into the mayor's rehab. Poppy, Suzanne.</s>HARLOW: All right, Casey, thank you. Appreciate it. And, folks, in just a few minutes, we're going to talk with a woman that you heard from in Casey's report, Morgan Rose, right there. A long conversation with her. Wait until you hear what she says happened to her by Filner in a San Diego restaurant. All right, two storms, one in the Atlantic, one in the Pacific, sputtering up and bringing a little bit of sigh of relief to Hawaii and to the Caribbean. So let's bring in meteorologist Jennifer Delgado in the CNN Weather Center. How are these looking? Not too bad?</s>JENNIFER DELGADO, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Not too bad at all, actually. They are actually looking pretty bad if you want to talk about it technically, Poppy. As we show you Tropical Storm Dorian right now. And it's well off the coast. You can see, not effecting land. Roughly about 800 miles away from the Leeward Islands. Well, not a lot of convection with it. You can see the maximum winds right now at 40 miles per hour. Again, this is a tropical storm. And what we're going to be looking at is this system getting into more convection. And as it does, it's just really going to fizzle out. By 36 hours tomorrow, we're going to be talking about this just being an area of low pressure. So, really, this is going to be a storm that's much ado about nothing. Now as we hop over towards the Pacific, we have another storm there. Tropical Storm Flossie. I must say, I do like that name. But the winds right now, just under hurricane strength at 70 miles per hour. And there is Hawaii all the way over towards the west. Now, briefly, we could see this becoming a hurricane. But, again, we're expecting this to pass to the mainland of Hawaii as we move into Monday. And with those winds weakening down to 40 miles per hour, this will be a tropical storm. Again, bringing with it some rain, of course, some rough currents. As we move closer to home, here is our cold front that's bringing some rain through parts of the upper Midwest and the Ohio Valley, even down towards the south. What this is going to do, it's going to cool things off. We'll get to that in just a moment. But rain for the southwest as well as the southeast. You can see for areas like Mexico, we do have a flood threat. But as I said to you, with the cold weather moving from the north, this is going to bring some relief with some of those typical summertime temperatures. Look at the highs for Chicago. Today, 71 degrees. Almost 15 degrees below average. And then for Detroit, high today of 71. You should be at 83. And the same for the Northeast. Guys, we're going to send it back over to you.</s>HARLOW: Last weekend we're sitting here complaining about how boiling it was.</s>DELGADO: It was hot and steamy and this time, hey, it's cool.</s>MALVEAUX: I'm happy. I'm happy. But I love the heat too.</s>HARLOW: Where is the sun?</s>DELGADO: I love it too.</s>MALVEAUX: I know. Hot in the summer. I enjoy the summer.</s>HARLOW: All right. Thanks. True. Jennifer, thanks.</s>DELGADO: You're welcome.</s>MALVEAUX: All right. We're learning more about the investigation of this deadly train crash. This was in Spain. Why police have detained the driver now. What they're saying about the crime that he might have committed.