India Bridge Collapse Latest; Brussels Terrorism Investigation; Newest Trump Controversy
IVAN WATSON, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Ivan Watson in Hong Kong. Welcome to News Stream. Police target the company building this overpass in India that collapsed. We have a live report from Kolkata with details. Over a hundred thousand people paid to reserved to this car before they didn't even seen it. We'll look at the massive demand for Tesla's new Model 3. And the leaders of U.S. and China meet in Washington dispute over the South China Sea where high on the agenda. The construction company building the bridge in Kolkata, India that collapsed now faces criminal charges at lease 24 people died when a section of the over the pass came crushing to the street below. More than 24 hours later search and rescue efforts there are winding down. Joining me from the scene of that disaster in Kolkata is CNN's Sumnima Udas. Thank you for joining us there. You're right there in the thick of things Sumnima. Just 24 hours after the disaster took place, already the construction company facing charges of attempted murder. Have we heard any explanation for how this happened either from the company of from the government?</s>SUMNIMA UDAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right Ivan. And according to local reports some of those officials from that construction company have also been detained. But we have not been able to confirm that are solve at the moment. We have not been able to get in touch with the company there. In fact unreachable at the moment but the police have thought (ph) and official charge the against this company charges of culpable homicide, which include attempt to murder and that because they say this flyover over here. Well, what used to a two kilometer long flyover. And what you see over here is empty space because a hundred meter long roughly 100 meter long chuck just came crushing down. This has been on the construction for the past five to seven years at least. This should not have taken so long. And a local government had been pressuring this company to get ahead with it and to inaugurate this flyover for quite sometime. It appears according to locals here there were putting in some flag in this area complete just the morning before this flyover just collapse. Again, we don't know exactly, you know, what the cause of it is, but a lot of people here blaming it right now on solid (ph) construction and faulty engineering. Ivan.</s>WATSON: Sumnima, I understand let say a densely populated area, very, very congested as well. One of the worst places you could have it manmade disaster like this taking place. What are the people there telling you about this?</s>UDAS: To be honest a lot of people here are still in the state of shock. It's been, you know, complete scene of chaos here until this morning. There was pile and piles of concrete and rubbles. The people are still trying to make sense of what's happened. But people are starting to question as well as to who is responsible for what's happened here. Now we've been talking to families as well, a family who lost their love ones a family -- two sons in fact who lost their father and mother. They were just in this exact area where I'm standing in one of the handheld wretches (ph) trying to get to a hospital nearby when that overpass came crushing down. We spoke to the son and he -- here's what he have to say.</s>ABHISKEK KANIO, SON OF VICTIM: Condition was very bad. There were not any person to see and (inaudible) who protecting this. The reason (inaudible) was want -- but the food take action something on deck that something should not happen included from -- for any of their families. Such kind of this happened with me. Just have a place to go (inaudible) please take action incident so that no further -- this kind of accident happened.</s>UDAS: . stay to talk that much. But saying that hope is this something like this never happens again. But a lot of people here say sadly a something like this can happen again given India's record in terms of infrastructure develop. Ivan.</s>WATSON: Let's hope the authorities there start to adopt perhaps some new procedures to prevent a repeat of this terrible accident. All right Sumnima Udas live there from the scene of the bridge collapse in Kolkata. Thank you very much for your update Sumnima. For more in-depth coverage, head to CNN.com that's where you'll find Ravi Agrawal first person report from Kolkata. He's our bureau chief in New Delhi. And he describes what it's like to return to the city that is so different from the one he knew as a child. It's word of read. All right, let's take a look now at news in Europe. A Belgian court has ruled that Paris terror attack suspect Salah Abdeslam can be extradited to France. It's not yet known when the transfer will happen. Abdelslam became the most wanted in Europe after the November attacks that killed 130 people. People captured him two weeks ago in Belgium after a shootout. Abdeslam is also suspected of having role in this months terror attacks in the Belgian capital, despite being in custody at the time. So we're going to go straight to Brussels that's where CNN's Alexandra Field is standing by. What more can you tell us about this extradition. Again, of man who was the most wanted man in Europe.</s>ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, we can certainly doesn't come as surprise but French authorities him back and now we're going to get him back. He's been held here on the European arrest warrant. The transfer will happen at you lay out we're just not sure when. What's interesting though is that after he was taken into custody, he was cooperating with investigators we're told. He was talking. That ended however, after the Brussels bombing and at that point he decided that he would willingly be extradited to France. He had previously tried to fight extradition according to his attorneys. So there's a lot of information that authorities are still hoping to get from him not only about the Paris attacks but also about the attacks in Brussels. And there's very little that the public actually knows about Salah Abdeslam at this point. We do know that he was able to sneak his way out of Paris in the hours after the attacks. He was able to cross the boarder heading into Belgium undetected because police at that point didn't yet know who they were looking for. But ultimately Ivan he is bound in Molenbeek, this neighborhood in Brussels that was quite familiar to him. The question now is how long was able to hide out there without being flag for authorities.</s>WATSON: You know, I've been to that neighborhood. It's not very far where you standing right now. Are going to get sense of what the reaction is to Salah Abdeslam his upcoming extradition. Are there people who perhaps sympathize with him in neighborhoods like that where he was effectively hiding out until he was captured after that shoot out.</s>FIELD: That idea of sympathy is the problem that you hear address the police by local officials in my federal officials all the time. You know, in the aftermath of the Paris attacks. When we got to spend a little bit of time in that Molenbeek neighborhood, people seem very reluctant to speak to members of media and certainty on Camera, they were very reluctant to contact authorities. And this was at the time where there were sweeping raids in that community and he has authorities tried to track down anyone who could have been connected to that Paris attack. So, whether or not you're talking distinctly about people in that community and others that may actually support Salah Abdeslam. There is certainly a more pervasive problem here where you have people who are not willing to go forward stick their neck out, contact authorities if they suspect that someone is hiding out in their myths. And frankly he seemed been hiding out at this point close in plain site. He was in Molenbeek. There was a similar situation in Paris where one of the ring leaders was also found in a Paris apartment. People had not reported that he was there. And we now know that the Laachraoui brothers who investigator says responsible for the attack at the metro and the airport were also in Brussels prior to that attack even though authorities looking for him internationally, Ivan.</s>WATSON: I can only just begin to imagine what the security will be like when they transfer Salah Abdeslam from Belgium across the boarder to France. All right, Alexandra Field. Thank you very much for that update live from Brussels. Now let's move to the U.S. now where there some news involving Turkey on the sidelines of a nuclear summit underway in Washington. U.S. President Barack Obama promised Turkish President Recep Tayyipo Erdogan, that America would help keep it's NATO allied Turkey secure. But elsewhere in Washington there was very polarized view of unclear (ph). This was the scene where the Turkish president was delivering a speech a think tank. The Brooking Institution Mr. Erdogan entourage was mounts by a small group of protesters scuffles broke out between the president security guard and protesters. Caught in the chaos journalist covering the event, one was physically removed by Turkish security. Another claimed who have been kicked by Turkish bodyguards One ongoing criticism of Mr. Erdogan is his track record on press freedom. Let's turn now to the U.S. race for the White House. Donald Trump says he's ready to bring his party together following talks with Republican leaders. But otherwise we aren't hearing very much from Trump following his latest controversial comments. CNN's Field Phil Mattingly is live in Hershey, Pennsylvania with the latest development. Good to see you Phil. Trump, is he right now making piece with the Republican national community?</s>PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: He is trying Ivan. And for good reason right now you have to look at this kind of through two pathways. The first is, Donald Trump needs to figure out to get the requisite -- how to get the requisite delegates to secure the nomination. Now there is 2,000 plus delegates in play. You need 1,237 to actually secure the nomination. Donald Trump is very aware of the fact that Ted Cruz is operating behind the scenes to try undercut those efforts right now. So that was a primary reason he had that close door meeting with the Republican National Committee yesterday. But the other reason is should Donald Trump secure that nomination. He's going to have to go in a general election with the support of the Republican Party. A Republican party on the establishment side, that is very uneasy about Donald Trumps features. Now Donald Trump calling for unity.</s>MATTINGLY: Donald Trump now trying to make nice with party leaders a mid fallout from yet another political firestorm. The Republican frontrunner in Washington for a meeting with the chairman of the Republican National Committee Reince Priebus. Behind close doors sources say discussion focused on delegate rules ahead of the convention. Just days after Trump and the other GOP hopefuls backout of their pledge to support the nominee.</s>DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: A very good meeting. We met with Reince Priebus and the staff and they're very good people, very -- actually a terrific meeting, I think. And it's really a unity meeting.</s>MATTINGLY: Trump also huddling with foreign policy advisors at the site of his new hotel for a two hour private meeting. And his comments on nuclear proliferation continued to rile American allies.</s>ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: But if you said, Japan, yes, it's fine, you get nuclear weapons, South Korea, you as well, and Saudi Arabia says we want them, too?</s>TRUMP: Can I be honest with you? It's going to happen, anyway.</s>MATTINGLY: Trumps camp uncharacteristically quite Thursday. One day after his abortion comment with the New York billionaires campaign on defensive.</s>CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNCB: Do you believe in punishment for abortion. Yes or no. It's a principle.</s>TRUMP: The answer is that it has to be some formal punishment.</s>MATTHEW: For the women.</s>TRUMP: Yeah, it has to be some form.</s>MATTHEWS: His rivals seizing on the controversy claiming forcefully he's not qualified for the Oval Office.</s>JOHN KASICH, U.S. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: And I have to tell you that as commander-in-chief and leader of the free world. You don't get do- overs.</s>MATTINGLY: Ohio Governor John Kasich unleashing appointed n specific attack on the front runner.</s>KASICH: The abortion controversy using nukes in the Middle East and in Europe. Get rid of the Geneva Convention, getting rid of NATO and having a Supreme Court justice who's going to investigate Hillary's e-mails. I don't even know what's he's talking about there.</s>MATTINGLY: Ted Cruz sending out his wide Heidi in top surrogate former presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, attempting to underscore Trumps continue difficulty with women voters.</s>MATTINGLY: Now Ivan, all of this is coming just a few days before the ever important Wisconsin primary. Donald Trump trailing now in consecutive polls by double digits to Ted Cruz, he will head back there this weekend to really try and earnest to makeup some ground. But then you have to focus here in Pennsylvania where I am today. Ted Cruz will be here. John Kasich will be here. And Ivan, sources with John Kasich's campaign said what we saw yesterday his attacks on Donald Trump which really haven't happened over the course of this campaign over the course of this campaign are just the start. Expect him to go after Donald Trump in earnest for the next coupe of weeks, really a shift and the tone of this campaign. Ivan.</s>WATSON: Let's take a look at the Democratic race now, Phil. The next major contest will be taken place in New York. Does Bernie Sanders really think he stands a chance in that state against the former senator from New York Hillary Clinton?</s>MATTINGLY: It's almost amazing that we'd even be having the discussion about this, right Ivan. So Wisconsin comes on Tuesday and then really all eyes on New York. Bernie Sanders is in New York today and that's because his campaign seems phase to grow. Just a few months ago Hillary Clinton was up by 30, 40, 50 points in that state. The state she represented as U.S. senator before becoming secretary of state. Now Bernie Sanders campaign is now confident and his standing in Wisconsin Tuesdays primary. That's where the focus is starting to shift over to New York. Hillary Clinton's campaign advisor tell me that they feel very good about where they are in New York, still with the double digit lead there. But Bernie Sanders thinks they make up ground. And again Ivan, it's all about delegates and both of these races right now. And if Bernie Sanders can make up ground maybe not make it look like a huge defeat, that means he's pulling delegates and once again, this race that I think a lot of people never thought would get this far or get to this point continues forward. A bit of long slab one that Hillary Clinton certainly doesn't appreciate at this point, Ivan.</s>WATSON: Right. Thanks Phil. And I just notice you're standing there in front of giant Hershey's kisses. You're in Hershey, Pennsylvania, so one of the bonuses of these assignment lots of chocolate, all right. Now, if you're a fan of automobile. You want go stick around for this next report. The wait is over for the Tesla. The model 3 Tesla it's known as the electric for the masses. And we'll have more on the big reveal. Also ahead, the FBI is keeping quiet about who help crack the San Bernardino killers iPhone. But we'll tell you why all signs are pointing an Israeli company as the expert third party. Stay with us.