Bangkok Police Seek Help From Public To Finding Bombing Suspect
ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Police need help finding this man who may be responsible for deadly bombing in central Bangkok.</s>ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR: Plus a new CNN poll suggest that despite all the controversies, Donald Trump's popularity shows no sign of slowing down.</s>CHURCH: And regulators in U.S. sign off on a new drug described as Viagra for women.</s>BARNETT: We'll all hear it at this hour. Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the U.S. and all around the world, I'm Errol Barnett.</s>CHURCH: And I'm Rosemary Church. This is "CNN Newsroom." And we begin this hour in Bangkok where police are working to identify the prime suspect in Monday's bombing at a Hindu shrine. Authorities say surveillance video shows a man in a yellow T-shirt leave his backpack at that shrine. It exploded minutes later, killing 22 people and injuring more than 100.</s>BARNETT: Now that shrine is open to the public once again at this hour. You can see, the golden statue bears visible scars from Monday's bombing. Police and the prime minister say it was a deliberate attack meant to hurt Bangkok's tourism industry.</s>CHURCH: All right. We do want to go to live now to Bangkok where CNN is following developments. And we understand authorities held a news conference (inaudible).</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Announced a 1 million beat or $30,000 reward to anyone who leads them to that suspect. They are still working hard to track that man who led to the do the bombing or was involved with the bombing. But they believe this is a suspect connected to the bombing. Is he is a lone wolf? We don't know. Was he working with other people? We don't know that. But police are working hard to confirm that as far as the press conference is concerned. They've also told us they are looking at the second bomb location as well, Rosemary, just the next morning, at a close to a bridge by the river. There are riverboats Rosemary that run up and down the river in Bangkok taking people, ferrying them around like taxis on the river. Now, people were waiting to board a boat when someone threw down a bomb. It bounced off the pierce and went thankfully into the water. There were no injuries. Police divers are in the water there and have used sandbags, at least 3,000, I believe, something to that number, to block off an area to clear the water and go down and see if they can find more clues and evidence. What they have said initially, speaking to local Thai TV, the police spokesman had said he believes it is also a pipe bomb and used ball bearings which is what they believe was used at the shrine here across the road from me. They believe they have a lot of similarities and could be connected. Rosemary.</s>CHURCH: And significantly of course still no claim of responsibility here. And presumably the police have no doubt that this man that was caught on the surveillance camera is indeed the bomber, presumably they have done some assessment as to the epicenter of that explosion. Are they saying anything about that?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, in terms of who is behind it and claims of responsibility as you rightly say there have been no claim of responsibility so far which is unusual if it was a major terrorist attack by a major organization. As we've seen in the past, organizations are very quick to claim responsibility. They want that glory. They want to claim it. They want the world to know and fear their organization and to announce their arrival in any place that they are attacking. That hasn't happened here. Of course, there has been discussion about the insurgency in the south Rosemary and that is largely always been contained in the south it's never really ventured out, certainly not this magnitude in the heart of Bangkok. So as to this person and this suspect, as you say, as they discussed the CCTV shows him going in wearing a backpack and leaving it there. So by a process of elimination they are saying that they believe this man is connected to this bombing. And, Rosemary, the place in which he leaves that rucksack, that black backpack is where the bomb went off. It's where it was surrounded by people on both sides. You know, this really is right in the heart of the center of Bangkok and represents the heart of Bangkok in so many ways, Rosemary. It is a religious shrine. Yes it's dedicated to a Hindu God but is it a religious shrine that all religions venture too, the Buddhist community, Sikhs, Hindus and people go there to be at peace and admire it. It does not have any walls around it. That is symbolic as well, Rosemary. It's inviting and that is why there are so many people. It has a railing but you can see into it and there are people on both sides, flower sellers, store holders and people inside as well. And where the bomb was placed it was placed to cause maximum damage and death as we seen it, Rosemary.</s>CHURCH: Let's hope with the incentive of this $30,000 reward that someone can come forward of course having that surveillance camera footage is helpful. Once they can get closer, hopefully someone will recognize this suspect. That news conference ongoing and we'll get any new information that comes to hand.</s>BARNETT: Want to bring you developments into CNN from Indonesia. A government official says more than $470,000 was on the Trigana Air flight that crashed over the weekend. The crash was being - the cash was being brought by Indonesian post officers to distribute to poor families. Six bodies have arrived at a hospital in Papua province for identification. None of the 54 people on board survived. The plane's black boxes have been sent to Indonesia's transportation safety commission for analysis. The flight lost contact with local air traffic control on Sunday shortly before it was scheduled to land.</s>CHURCH: China says it is investigating the director of the country's safe agency following last week's deadly chemical explosion in Tianjin.</s>BARNETT: Authorities are working to cleanup the toxins left behind. Our Will Ripley reports on the many challenges (inaudible).</s>WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: He street from thousands of apartments where people are supposed to be moving in in less than two months. A state reporter who travelled to the center of the blast site which is heavily restricted. There is not any access to the general public but this reporter was embedded with the crews, as they got closer to the center of the blast site, the levels of sodium cyanide and neurotoxins exceed the measuring capacity of their testing meters. That shows you just how heavily concentrated these chemicals are. And it's made worse on the ground here by the fact it has been raining today. So the rain, while it clears some of the pollution in the air it makes things more complicated on the ground because the water can interact with the chemicals that these folks here, the Hazmat workers here are working to detect. The cleanup effort continues and so does the process of identifying the bodies. The death toll is holding steady and more and more families are getting confirmation that their loved ones were killed in this disaster a week ago. There are dozens missing a full week after the explosion and the ensuing disaster that this city and this country is still coming to terms with. Will Ripley, Tianjin, China.</s>CHURCH: Greece has seen a 400 percent increase of the number of migrants arriving in the country year-on-year. That is according to a U.N. refugee spokesman.</s>BARNETT: Now, almost 21,000 migrants in Greece in 2015 is 160,000. The total number in 2014 was more than 43,000.</s>CHURCH: Thousands of desperate immigrants are hoping to find shelter on a cruise ship the Greek government has set aside to house migrants.</s>BARNETT: Media are not allowed on the ship. But we have exclusive footage.</s>ATIKA SHUBETT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is the Greek solution to the immigrant crisis on the Island of Kos, a cruise ship. The refugees can live aboard the ship while they are getting registered. That should only take a few days. Once they have their papers they can move off the Island and for many here that is the doorway to Europe. But will it work? Greek officials won't let media on board. But these pictures taken from inside by one of the refugees shows good conditions and hot meals provided. Not without problems, though, backed up toilets and the boat is filling up fast. This man says he is happy to be on board, though.</s>FAWAZ FAOUR, SYRIAN REFUGEE: This is good solution. It's better to say to stay than on the street.</s>SHUBETT: But this man warns that the boat is getting crowded. Now it's getting full, he tells us and it's better to process our registration quickly. There will be too many people inside I told my neighbor this morning there must be 2,000 people just inside this cafeteria, he said. The number camped out on the streets has diminished but this is only a partial solution. The boat is for refugees fleeing the war in Syria and Iraq only. For thousands of others from Pakistan to Nigeria, the wait is much more, weeks or longer. They crowd outside the police station to register in the baking sun, ramped in squalid conditions. The cruise ship is only scheduled to be here until the end of the month and with thousands arriving every day, Kos may find it needs more than a boat.</s>CHURCH: Right now, Germany is parliament is getting set to vote on a bailout package for Greece. These are pictures of the German finance minister there. The bailout package worth up to $95 billion would help Greece avoid an outright financial collapse.</s>BARNETT: Let's bring in Isa Suarez. Some have said there has been a rebellion ahead of the vote.</s>ISA SUAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning Errol, good morning Rosemary, it will pass, that is the expectation. But the bailout has been much contended in Germany where a lot of uproar was Germany has to pay up for a third bailout, really for Greece, something they wanted to avoid but what we're seeing now is a beginning of the vote. Where debating starts and you're looking at live pictures there from Berlin and that's the German finance minister. We are expecting the vote to pass, but you know there, is some sort of dissent within the ranks. Initially we were hearing reports of up to 120 MPs who were really going to rebel against this vote. But yesterday there was a test vote. It doesn't mean anything, but just to see which way people would vote. It was about 60 dissenting voices. Worth noting this is a parliament of 631 seats. Merkel has around 317. And although there are some dissenting voices within the CDU, the center right party, many social democrats, the minority government and the green party say they will vote. What they worry about and this is the crux of it people saying they shouldn't be backing a third bailout for Greece. Germany is the one contributing the most to this bailout. Second, many are saying, look, we don't know exactly the terms in detail this bailout. A majority of MPs have been on holiday and called back for the second time now to vote on this and haven't had time to go through the 600 pages retailing this and many think there would be debt relief which they don't want to see because it simply means that a lot of their own Germans will have to pay up. And another big concern which is something that chancellor Merkel has well is this idea of the IMF. Is the IMF behind this deal and support it? Which is something they wanted.</s>BARNETT: Many of the issues being considered right now and we should consider at what political cost will all of this have on the leadership of Angela Merkel and Germany in general ahead of this important vote on this Greek bailout.</s>CHURCH: Britain's Sebastian Coe has been elected as the new president of the International Association of Athletics Federations. That is the world governing body for track and field events. He beat out a Ukrainian for the post. Coe is a four-time Olympic medalist and one of the greatest middle distance runners in history. The election was held three days before the 2015 world championships in Beijing and in the midst of a series of doping accusations against some of the athletes an alleged cover-up by the organization.</s>BARNETT: Still to come here on "CNN Newsroom," U.S. republicans are not laughing over a joke Hillary Clinton made about the e-mail scandal surrounding her campaign.</s>CHURCH: Plus, Donald Trump is soaring in the latest CNN poll. How is he winning so many hearts and minds? We want to find that out. That's coming up.