Wife Of Israel Prime Minister Charged With Fraud; Koko Dies In Her Sleep At Age 46
HOWELL: More than 2000 children are now trapped inside the U.S. immigration system with no clear way to get out. These thanks to President Trump's policy that separated them from their families at the Southern U.S. border. CNN visited one facility in the State of New York now taking care of some of these children. Our Jason Carroll filed this report.</s>JEREMY KOHOMBAN, PRESIDENT, CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: I am hurt by this policy because I know we are greater than this.</s>JASON CARROLL, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Jeremy Kohomban runs the Children's Village in Westchester. It's one of several facilities in and around New York City tasked with caring for children separated from their parents at the border, and it was the only facility in the area willing to open its doors to us.</s>KOHOMBAN: This kind of forced separation has permanent damage both on --</s>KOHOMBAN: -- psychological, the fear, the anxiety, the fear of the unknown, right? If this could happen to me, what else could happen to me?</s>CARROLL: He's talking about the 20 children he and his staff have been caring for since they arrived a few days ago. The youngest is 9 years old. The oldest is 17.</s>KOHOMBAN: Actually, the biggest concern that our children have had recently is about for their parents. It's not even about themselves. They're like is my mom OK, is my dad going to be OK? Where are they? What's happening? That's the anxiety.</s>CARROLL: Kohomban says he isn't able to give more details about the children in his care, but he was still able to give us a sense of what happens when children arrive here.</s>KOHOMBAN: They come in here. We have nurses 24/7 and we have a team of doctors.</s>CARROLL: First up is medical exam. Many arrive with conditions such as lice and chickenpox. But the doctor here says it's their emotional damage that can be the toughest to treat.</s>DOUG WAITE, MEDICAL DOCTOR, CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: Believe me, it was just as indignant and outraged by our recent policies that hopefully are shifting removing kids from their parents because we know that this causes permanent trauma to the child and can affect their brain development especially the younger kids.</s>CARROLL: The children here stay in rooms that look much this. There is also a recreation center where play is encouraged.</s>EDWIN DALEON, ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: Children will cry, but if you bring fun to them, a fun spirits, sports, stuff that it just takes their mind off what's really going on in their lives. That's what we try to do best.</s>CARROLL: Most importantly, this facility has helped some of the children contact their parents.</s>KOHOMBAN: Their elated. They're relieved, and it's our first step to building trust. The begin to trust us. You know, I said we'll find your mom. We know where she is. Now, trust us for the next step. It's a difficult work to do when kids don't trust you. It's impossible to do.</s>CARROLL: For Kohomban, this is also personal. He's a first generation American from Sri Lanka. His goal now is to reunite these children with their families quickly. Do you think it could be weeks, months? Any sort of --</s>KOHOMBAN: It depends on, you know, it's hard to answer that question, but it's -- I believe the word I could use to best describe it is expediency is what it's all about. We don't want to keep kids away from families one minute longer than they already have been.</s>CARROLL: Jason Carroll, CNN, Westchester, New York.</s>HOWELL: Jason, thanks. When news came out on Thursday that the First Lady of the United States Melania Trump was making a spontaneous trip to an immigration detention center in Texas, the message that someone in the president's inner circle cared about the fate of people, it was well received. But then the question came why did Ms. Trump decide to wear this jacket? Well, her office said that it's just a jacket saying that there was no hidden message, but it did raised questions. Listen to the exchange had with my colleague Anderson Cooper.</s>DANA BASH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This was no question intended to send a message. And the irony of this is that the message was -- had a code that has been so hard to crack that even the staff in the West Wing and I guess the East Wing, the first lady's staff have had mixed messages about what the coded message on her jacket could be. I mean it would actually be comical if it weren't about the first lady completely stepping on the message that was supposed to be the one of the day, her going down and being the only person at the senior level from the Trump administration to see first-hand what is happening with some of the children. No, it wasn't one of the most, you know, one of the tender age facilities. But it certainly was and is one where there are children who are in need, illegal immigrants who were brought over. Many of them came -- most of them came over unaccompanied, but some of them about a handful of them were separated from their parents. So one of the point I want to make is that just by way of knowing that this was a big deal inside the West Wing among the president and his staff, Melania Trump when she came back wearing that jacket again knowing on the plane full well that this was a big thing, came back and walked to the president's office, to the Oval Office along the colonnade which by all accounts does not happen. She doesn't go and visit the Oval Office when she get -- when she gets back. And Jeff Zeleny, our White House correspondent reports that she -- he heard from a source who saw her in the Oval Office right upon arrival with Kellyanne Conway and Mercedes Schlapp, and she was still wearing the jacket having a discussion.</s>ANDERSON COOPER, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Here's -- I mean it's -- the crisis management 101 to not distract from your core mission. I mean if you're on a journey of care, a visit to show you care to where a giant sign that says I don't care, it's -- I do not -- I mean I literally thought it was a joke. I thought someone had, you know, put that up on Twitter and sort of, you know, doctored it or photoshopped it.</s>KIRSTEN POWERS, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Right. But I think this is their core message that they don't care. That she would go down there and do this, it tells us everything that we need to know. I mean, she's officially the Marie Antoinette of this administration. It should just say, "Let them eat cake." That they literally the message she is sending that they just don't care about what's happening there. And yes, it was -- it was -- I was in Washington this morning. Nobody's wearing jackets, first of all. Second of all, this is a woman who spends a lot of time very carefully picking out what she's going to wear. She's very fashionable, this was not an accident this was intentional. So, I think, then the president tweets out well, it was all about the fake news which also just again shows that they don't care if that's what it was about because -- I'm sorry but it's a much bigger deal what's happening there on the border with people who really haven't broken the law, contrary to what we're being told they're seeking asylum that's not illegal. There's no reason to be locking them up without their children. This is not how was handled in the past. So, I'm just going to take it at face value and just say, Melania doesn't care.</s>HOWELL: All right. Now, to Israel. The wife of the prime minister of that nation, Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted, Thursday on charges of fraud and breach of trust. Prosecutors alleged Sara Netanyahu, misused state funds spending more than $100,000 on meals and private chefs. CNN's Ian Lee is following the story live in Jerusalem. This case, Ian, being called the meals ordering affair, tell us more.</s>IAN JAMES LEE, CNN FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, and just to break it down further, George. You have a $100,000 this is for private meals between 2009 and 2013. And in during that time, prosecutors also pointed it to two months in particularly. One, December 2011 when she spent over 65 -- $6500. In January 2012, where she spent over $7100. I also saying that during this time, she spent allegedly of around $10,000 on private chefs also hired illegally. Wait service -- wait servers to work in the prime minister's residence trying to cover up what their real purpose is. This is some serious charges it could -- she could serve up to eight years in prison, although, that is unlikely we are told. But the prime minister's wife, Sara Netanyahu is defending herself. She is saying through her lawyer that this is all false, this is hallucinatory that, that this food wasn't even for to her or her husband, that it was for staff working at the prime minister's office at the time. And you may ask -- you know, why is all this illegal in the first place? Well, that's because according to Israeli law, if there isn't a cook at the residence that's when they can order outside food a lot of this food coming from some of the most expensive restaurants in Jerusalem. But the prosecution is saying that a cook was available at that time, and that's why this is illegal using state funds in this manner. George.</s>HOWELL: So again, the wife of the Israeli prime minister indicted, Thursday on these charges of fraud and breach of trust. We will, of course, continue to keep in touch with you, Ian, as you follow the story. Thank you. Koko the gorilla famous for using sign language has died. There were skeptics, but her trainers say Koko understood 2,000 words in English. She was born in and trained at a zoo in San Francisco, eventually, becoming a celebrity. With an unforgettable photo on the cover of National Geographic including her pet kitten. The Gorilla Foundation says Koko taught the world about emotional and -- emotional capacity and cognitive abilities of gorillas. She died in her sleep was 46 years old. Still to come, we asked the Russian journalists and a British fan attending the World Cup. How well Russia is hosting the event? What we found may surprise you.