social security. he said, not for people approaching it now but the younger generation. >> the young people. >> he talked a little bit about the ryan plan for medicare, which is kind of turning into a litmus test for republicans on the campaign trail. he said he would have his own plan for how to overhaul medicare. he is calling it a truth tour. he said any dufus can go to washington and run up the deficit. i have never heard a presidential candidate use the word dufus. >> thanks for joining us. i'm carol costello, sitting in for kyra phillips. later this morning, they will release an official list from joplin, missouri with the people still missing. gas prices have dropped another half penny overnight to a national average of $3.81 a gallon. that's far short of the $5

benchmark that many analysts had predicted for this memorial day weekend. the so-called butcher of bosnia may face a haig tribunal. they said he was suffering psychological problems and should not be extradited. this morning, a serbian judge seems to have rejected that. >> if you paid taxes to uncle sam, you have also helped send billions of dollars to pakistan. ever since the navy's secret raid killed osama bin laden, the relationship between the two countries have been fiercely strained. today, secretary of state, hillary clinton, arrived in pakistan's capital to deliver a stern message. >> america cannot and should not solve pakistan's problems. that's up to pakistan. but, in solving its problems, pakistan should understand that anti-americanism and conspiracy theorys will not make problems disappear. >> cnn's stan grant is in

islamabad. stan, secretary of state clinton's visit was really short. should we read anything into that? >> reporter: well, it didn't take a long visit here, carol, to deliver the message she wanted to deliver, quite frankly. this was a very frank and candid meeting. for that, you can read it. her message was very simple as you heard there. a lot of money is pumped into pakistan by the united states. they are expecting more in return. now, what she effectively says here is to right this relationship, she wants to cpac stan commit more in the fight against the insurgency, particularly clamping down on the border area between afghanistan and pakistan, stopping the militants crossing that border to assist in the united states effort in afghanistan and all of that, of course, would help the u.s. draw down its troop level in afghanistan. but, from pakistan's side, there is a lot of miss trust and a lot of suspicion and hatred toward the united states. you heard hillary clinton saying that pakistan should solve its own problems.

for people in pakistan, they say the cause of their problems is the united states, the u.s. war in afghanistan has forced militants back across the border. they say by the u.s. pressuring pakistan into going harder after the insurgents despite the thakt that their military is stretched, that causes a blowback from the militants and that's killing tens of thousands of pakistanis. secretary clinton acknowledged the sacrifice of pakistan nis, that many have been killed in the war against the militants. she says it is in both countries' interest to work together and cooperate and get the relationship back on track. >> stan grant, live in islamabad, thank you. americans will be returning to osama bin laden compound for the first time since navy s.e.a.l.s raced out with the body and a treasure trove of intelligence. they believe more documents may be hidden. chris lawrence is at the pentagon. >> reporter: carol, this is the cia's chance toens athe question, what did we miss, if anything?

remember, the s.e.a.l. assault team was only in that compound for about 40 minutes. searching the inside grounds. still, they were able to haul away what officials are calling probably the biggest haul of intelligence day that that's ever been collected. now, the cia gets a chance to go back in. what are they looking for? well, it could be things that were embedded in some walls of the compound. it could be something that was buried outside, things the s.e.a.l.s could not have picked up on in such a short amount of time. the cia has special equipment, infrared cameras that can look behind the walls but not damage any of the information that may be placed there. also, we know for a fact that u.s. officials said osama bin laden and the people who live there burned their trash. well, the cia has equipment that can pull information, even from burned fragments of paper. that could be another avenue

that they could be looking into. remember, they pull thumb drives, cds, thousands of pages of paper out of there. so now they get a chance to go back in and see if there is anything more or any intelligence left there that could help them make better sense of what they already have. in the bigger picture, what this signifies is some level of cooperation again between the cia and pakistan's intelligence services. again, tensions are still high but this at least shows that there may be a willingness to work together going forward. carol? >> chris lawrence, live at the pentagon today. another echo of the nation's war on terror. the controversial patriot act lives on. president obama signed it minutes before it was set to expire at midnight. the provisions, which include wiretaps and electronic eavesdropping are too invasive and tram believe civil liberties. >> president obama is in the air after wrapping up the g-8 summit

in france. the leaders of eight super powers voiced support for the democratic uprisings in a number of arab countries but stopped short of pledging money. president due to arrive in poland later this hour. the last stop of his six-day, four nation trip to europe. one of the ugliest uprisings has been smoldering in yemen. this rng month, the government unleashed its air force bombers on tribal forces opposed to the embattled president. it has left dozens of people dead. the united states is urging any americans in yemen to get out now. zain verjee live in london with a look at the international headlines. zane? >> hi, carol. let's take a look at the independent here in the uk. this is the headline today. hundreds flee as yemen's tribal king makers step up offensive. it goes on to say there are worries that yemen already teetering on the brink of financial ruin could become a

failed state and that would undermine regional security. the international headline tribune has this headline, yemeni vexes and foe. in the united arab emirates, in yemen, one man's obstinacy threatens war. >> this is a guy that has said he will do that and at the last minute he doesn't. he says he will sign a deal and then he doesn't. can anyone trust him? >> that is a big problem. what is the united states saying about yemen? >> the u.s. is really worried about the political vacuum right now in yemen. the rain reason is that al qaeda operates in the place and has a full run-around of the country. if it continues this kind of

level of instability. the u.s. has pumped in millions of dollars, given it to president saleh's government. the u.s. doesn't have that much leverage against a president that thinks he can outsmarter the opposition. who does have leverage? saudi arabia. how will they use it. >> we will see if they do at all. zain verjee, reporting live from london, thank you. let's talk american politics. the road to the white house is marked by signs of signs to come. mitt romney has announced it will officially announce he is running for president on june 2nd. rick santorum will do the same on june 6th. then, there are candidates that appear to be running but are just kind of running, like sarah palin. this is sarahpack.com. that is the bus she will use to travel across the country as, quote, part of our new campaign

to educate and energize our nation about our nation's founding principles. is it a stealth run or something else? to washington and paul steinhauser. >> what does it mean? >> a lot has changed in the last couple days. maybe a week ago, we weren't talking about sarah palin with the race for the white house. all these signals in the last couple of days. we have talked about them over the last few days. recently, she was asked if she would still want to run for the white house. she still said, she still has "fire in her belly." that was signal number one. we learned a movie she launched, that was filmed by a conservative filmmaker. it is going to premier in iowa. she has rehired political staffers. she has reportedly bought a home in arizona. it is a loz easier to campaign around the u.s. from arizona than alaska and now this bus tour we just learned about yesterday. but, carol, what about the flip side? she still hasn't make any moves

hiring staff or building up staff and advisers in the key crucial early states and another thing. fox news says they are not changing the status of her contract. she is a paid contributor. they did do that for gingrich and santorum or is she just running or trying to get attention. who knows? >> let's say she does run. wouldn't that affect michele bachmann's would-be presidential aspirations? >> you would think it could. michele bachmann, a congresswoman, who is a darling of many in the tea party. she told people in iowa, she will make an announcement in waterloo, iowa, where she was born. she says, she will make it next month about her presidential ambitions. listen to what she said to john king about sarah palin. >> my decision will be independent of whichever candidate gets in. i have great respect for governor palin. i consider her a friend. if she gets in, she gets in. that won't impact whether or not

i get in or not. >> if she does get in and if palin does run, you would think they may be going for the same kind of social conservative crowd and tea party activists. this is getting more interesting by the day. >> paul steinhauser, many thanks. a reminder for all the latest political news, go to our website, cnnpolitics.com. we are talking about a republican candidate you might not have heard of, herman cane. he has a nicely radio show in atlanta. this is what he sounds like through the speakers. >> if you are still driving out there, please be careful. there are some nuts on the road. >> you got that right. herman cain, the hermanator who would be president. >> also ahead, bad speed kren source lead to a deadly stall.

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herman cain, the hermanator, fast becoming a republican party favorite. former ceo of godfather's pizza, first made waves when he skewered then president clinton about health care reform. >> this man is raising a very important question in terms of

employment. what if all your competitors were just like you, wouldn't you be able to do it then? >> first of all, mr. president, with all due respect, your calculation on what the impact would do quite honestly is incorrect? >> fast forward 17 years, cain is practically tied for third among this list of republican candidates or potential candidates and he doesn't have near their name recognition. herman cain joins us live. welcome. >> did you look much younger to yourself in that flip? >> i didn't like the hair-do i had back then. today, a lot has changed. >> it certainly has. the poll we just showed, that's a pretty impressive poll showing plus gallup says you have the most appeal among any of those republicans. so how have you managed to do that? >> well, for months, i have been working hard to get acquainted with people in our new

hampshire, south carolina, florida, georgia, texas, i have been on the road a lot, speaking at small house parties u big ral i wills, you name it. i have been speaking at tea party rallies before tea parties became cool way back in april of 2009. the bottom line is, we have worked to build a ground game. >> when people hear my message of common sense solutions, they graph tad gravitate to it. as people get to know me, they will be able to drive the name i.d. what we have been doing is, you have to earn positive intensity. you can buy name i.d. we believe eventually to do that. i am still going to be out on the ground getting acquainted with people. >> gotcha. you do have your detract tors. some republicans are kind of dismissive of you. karl rove says he doesn't think you have the background to be a serious candidate. >> then, there was your appearance over the weekend on

fox news. let's listen to that. >> where do you stand on right of return? >> the right of return. >> the right of return? >> the palestinian right of return. >> that's something that should be negotiated. >> some republicans say that kind of shows a lack of foreign policy experience. can you address that? sure, i would have been happy to. if chris wallace would have said palestinian right of return when he asked the question, it would have triggered what he was talking about? he asked me about right of return and it didn't register. he caught me off guard. look, how do people define foreign policy experience? do you define it based upon what president obama had when he became president? how do you define it? here is what's important. how i would go about getting my hands around and establishing some real clear policies for

every nation, friend and foe. that's what's important. >> some people might say that you lack -- you have never held elective office. you don't have experience in the workings of government and certainly not in foreign policy. that was a big criticism against president obama even though he served in the senate. how do you respond to those that say you have absolutely no background to become president of the united states? >> well, my question is president obama didn't either. why is it, a double standard. >> you say he is not a good president. >> he whyes, i have said that h not been a good president. here is what i have that he did not have and that is problem-solving experience. i have led large organizations, taken over companies that were looking bankruptcy right between the eyes and was able to turn them around. i have taken organizations that were troubled financially and made them very successful. those comparisons are apples and

oranges. it appears as if some people want to give president obama a pass for lack of experience but yet they don't want to acknowledge my problem-solving experience. there is a huge difference in what i have done with my business career. >> something else i would like to ask you about. you have said you would not feel comfortable putting a muslim in your cabinet or on the federal bench. this is a quote from you. you said, there is -- this attempt to gradually ease sharia law and the muslim faith into our government. it does not belong in our government. i get upset when the muslims, some of them try to force their sharia law on the rest of us. >> do you really believe that? >> carol, yes, i do. here is why. people who are denying that there is an attempt to put sharia laws in american laws, they are in denial. i believe in american laws. >> give me an ex many am. let me finish. american laws. here is an example, okay,

oklahoma in the last election, the people of oklahoma voted 70% to 30% to not allow sharia law in oklahoma courts. >> who was the muslim trying to insert sharia law in oklahoma? who was it? give me a name. >> carol, carol, you won't let me finish answering your question. now, my point is, even though the people of oklahoma, they voted 70% for no sharia law. that particular chapter of share got an injunction to stop enforcing what the people had said. that's a very concrete example. now, let me go back. first of all, to the question that you asked me. if you look at my career. i have always hired the best people regardless of race, creed, religion, preference, et cetera. i am going to have the best people. >> what if that person happens to be a muslim? >> the question was, would i be comfortable? i was honest.

no. that doesn't totally exclude that possibly could be a muslim in my administration. >> mr. cain, there are extremists in every religion, not just the muslim faith. will you employ the same tactics if you come to find some other extremist groups wants to enforce their will on our government? >> yes, carol, i would, any type of extremist that gets away from the constitution of the united states of america, i have a problem with that. it is not just muslim religion, it is the -- the question was asked. i answered it. any other type of extremist, i would also be uncomfortable having them in my administration. >> just a final question. who do you think provides you the strongest competition in the republican field? >> i think the entire field is a

good field, tim pawlenty, newt gingrich, they are all going to be formidable. i believe in, the more the, the merrier. we get an opportunity to drive these conservative solutions to the top in terms of helping to inform better inform the american people. >> herman cain, thank you for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you, carol. >> sure. lost speed leads to a 3 1/2 minute free-fall in the deadliest crash in air france history. we will have details of a preliminary investigation into the mystery 2009 crash of flight 447. that's next. in life, you're either the gas™...

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imagine falling three and a half minutes before crashing into the ocean, falling at 10,000 feet every minute. that's what happened to the people on air france flight 447, all 228 people on board were killed. zain verjee live in london. this preliminary investigation is out. what more can you tell us? >> basically, the headline from this report is that it was likely the pilot's decision in the matter in which he responded to the problems with speed on the aircraft that ultimately caused the crash. what happens is, when you are in the plane, for it to move forward, you have air that goes over the wing and then that's what gifts it the lift.

whenever there is a stall situation, typically, the pilots are told to go down first, because that creates air again over the wing and it gives the plane speed. what happened, carol, in this air france flight is that the pilot went nose up. what that meant is that there was no air to go over the wing and help push it up. what happened was that it stalled and then it just fell, basically. it fell at a 35-degree angle. it was like 123 miles an hour and it crashed, as you say, at 10,000 feet a minute. it dropped. everybody died. when they did the analyses of the bodies, pelvises were crushed, there was a total fractured bones if people's bodies that gives you a sense of the impact. these are early findings but they do give us a sense of what happened on board. >> it is just so awful. did the pilot say anything. i no he they found the black

boxes. >> yes, they did. that was what was eery to read some of the stuff in the report, that the pilots were saying to each other. these black boxes have been under water for two years. what she said, just to give you a flavor. one pilot said, i don't have any more valid indications. there was another quote that repeated that. we have no valid indications. that was just moments before. a little bit earlier, one said, it will move about a bit more than at the moment. you should watch out. i'll call you back as soon as we're out of it. that's what we got from the black boxes. we are going to get more information. it seems as though it was pilot error here. >> just such a sad story. i guess the mystery almost solved now. at least the families can be at peace knowing. i would want to know. awful. zain verjee, live in london, thank you.

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less the 232 still missing as to the grief tornado victims in joplin are feeling. cnn's jacqui jeras is there. we are expecting a new updated list on the missing. when will that come our way? >> reporter: that's coming in later this morning, 11:00 eastern time. the 232 missing and unaccounted for is expected to shrink down a little bit. officials are now letting some of the family members into the morgue to help identify these bodies. that has been a very slow process. one of the reasons for that is that some of the bodies are in such poor condition that they are having to use fingerprints, dna testing, medical records and even tattoos to help identify them. the federal government has also taken over that task. they have brought in $2 million worth of equipment to help ex pet di expedite it. they are hoping to identify some of the people and locating the

missing. we are hearing a little bit of chatter that maybe the numbers will be going down later today. i also took a look at the list of all the names too, carol, by the way. i noticed there was one name on the list that was on there twice but two different addresses, just a south as opposed to a north listing address. so we do thing those numbers will go down. >> jacqui jeras reporting live from joplin. thanks so much. the missouri department of public safety will have an update on the missing. we will monitor and bring you the latest developments. to find out how you can help those devastated by the tornadoes, go to cnn.com/impact. secretary of state, hillary clinton, was in pakistan today pushing for a greater counter terrorism effort. the united states is looking for the pakistani's to show they are willing to go after senior al qaeda targets and shut down factories producing ieds that target u.s. troops. >> the pakistani government has given a cia team permission to

visit the compound where osama bin laden was killed. the forensic specialist will search for hidden or buried documents. the experts got this one wrong. some analysts said a gallon of gas would go for $5 this memorial day weekend. the national average today is $3.81, still high, better than 5 doltz. getting your driver's license, a right of passage as a teenager. would you be able to pass it today? a new study says we would not. alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. >> i hope you don't ask me if he questions. >> oh, come on. 37 million americans, if they were given a written driving test, 37 million americans would fail the test. 20% of all licensed drivers on the road. gmac insurance, they put out this test, and on this test,

carol, they said a full 85%, they don't know what to do at a steady, yellow light. do you have the answer? i wi i will answer this one for youment. >> a steady yellow light, you slow down. >> stop if it is safe to do so. >> oh. >> i'm going to let you make up for it. i will ask you a few more from the actual driving test. here is the question. when you tail gate other drivers, do you, a, frustrate other drivers and make them angry. b, your actions can't result in a traffic citation or c, you help reduce traffic congestion. >> clearly, b, that was not on my driver's test. >> no, you frustrate other drivers. >> but you could get a citation for aggressive driving, allison. >> it says you cannot. you probably didn't hear me. i will let that slide.

t let me ask you one more. the best way to keep from hydroplaning is, a, turn to avoid the puddles, b, apply the breaks firmly or, c, slow down on wet roads. >> i know you don't apply the brakes. that would be bad. the a seems like a dah answer to me. of course, you would avoid puddles. so i'm going to say c. >> good. that means you are right and i will go ahead and take that road trip with you after all. here is what's really interesting. i threw this out there on twitter and got a lot of the wrong answers. who are the rs wouworst drivers carol? >> men. >> no. this surprised me. women are the worst drivers, can you believe it? that doesn't include me, of course. i'm one of the best. yeah, right. i have a lead foot. >> it showed women are the worst drivers. so the stereotype is. >> they did the worst on the test. in washington, d.c., that's

actually the place where just utmost worst drivers are. look out if you are in washington, d.c. look out on the roads. >> i will, because that's where i work. i'll be going back there soon. so i will be watching out. thank you, allison. i would say it has been fun but maybe not today. thanks. in sports, extra inning baseball from camden yards, the orioles hosting camden city and vladimir guerrero at bat for the os. he hits a bouncing ball over second base. he has an 11-game hitting streak and the os win their fifth straight. a member of the chicago white sox has a kind of wardrobe malfunction. we will show you in sports in 20 minutes. is newt gingrich taking advice from sarah palin these days? she suggests avoiding the lame

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we are heading into the holiday weekend. is it a holiday for you? if it is not, that may be the fault of your employer or maybe it is your own fault. france mandates its workers get 30 days off every year. germans get more than four weeks of vacation. the united states, there is no mandate. typically, though, americans get two or three weeks off per year, yet barely half of us take all of that vacation time. nearly 90% of french workers take every single day. psychologist, jeff gardere, is here. he is going to put us on the couch this morning. >> were you surprised by the results of that poll, that more than half of americans didn't take their vacation time, all of it, anyway? >> no, not at all. because i see it at the different places, the hospitals that i work. my patients come in and they lament about how they are afraid to take vacation. this is nothing new. this is something that we all know. it is really interesting. i point out all the days that

the european takes off. the south americans take off. i think the point to be made there, that american companies will give you the two, the three weeks off more as a hiring incentive or to retain you where as these other countries, they give their people the six weeks or the 30 days and so on as a form of mental health, because they know that if they take that vacation, they will be better workers in the long-run. in other words, they need the rest. >> i think if you talk to every american, they would say, i totally get this. i don't do it. do they not take all of their vacation time because they fear they will loose their job? is it because some of them love their job? >> well, i think it is a combination of all those things. it is the reality that we are in a recovery. experts such as myself will tell you, hey, you are lucky to have your job. if it is no the a great job, it is all about perception and being the cockeyed optimist.

people are afraid of losing enter jobs. they are happy to have a job. we have a workaholic mentality. we seem to believe, the harder we work, the more money we will have to take care of our kids, to buy our electronic toys, to be able to do more things. >> you mean that is not true? >> well, the studies tend to show that the harder you work, sometimes, the more you will get financially but for some people, the harder they work, they are still stuck in that same position but at least they are able to hold on to their job. all of those things are there. the other thing is the guilt that we feel. we feel we are letting our colleagues down. we are afraid of the work that's waiting for us when we get back from vacation. that guilt will make us not take the days off that we really need. >> man, i haven't taken all of my vacation time in seven years. you are right. it is because i feel guilty. >> see what i'm talking about. >> i know. either i feel guilt tr oi i'm really stupid, one of the two. the advice you would have for

people. >> you are very successful. >> and i love my job. >> the advice that i have is, yes, of course, and you do it well. my advice that i have for people out there, the studies show that you need to take the mental health days. you need to take vacations, because they rejuvenate you. if for some reason, you cannot take a vacation and you have the staycation. at least try to take a friday off or take off early on a friday and utilize the whole weekend and turn off your darn cell phones. >> amen, jeff gardere, thank you so much. i'm talking next friday off. >> great to see you. newt gingrich didn't have a whole lot to say to the media during a recept campaign stop. he might be running a play from the sarah palin playbook. the one that says to avoid the mainstream or lamestream media. we will talk more about that strategy in just a few minutes. negotiator: you must be the new kid.

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is it possible that voters could elect a presidential candidate without ever hearing that candidate answer a tough questions. sarah palin's disdain for the so-called lamestream media is well-known. she says they forced newt

gingrich for complaining about paul ryan's budget plan. now, he seems to be clamming up around reporters. we want to talk more about that with howard of cnn and the daily beast. are we headed toward a time when democratic candidates will appear on msnbc and republicans candidates will appear on fox news? >> i don't think that newt gingrich is genetically capable of not talking to journalists for more than a day. he apologized for his comments on "meet the pres." conservative pundits were hammering him. he website on "face the nation." just this past monday, i had breakfast with him along with 20 other reporters and we got to question him for an hour. i think the footage of him

walking away from the reporters didn't look terribly good. >> in "the washington post," gingrich was asked in new hampshire if he would take questions. >> he said, i will chat with the news media individually. that's where that is coming from. >> do you know how many days i spent on the campaign trail in barack obama where he didn't take questions from the press. every presidential candidate tries to have a certain message discipline, which is, we have the theme of the day. here is what we want the reporters to write. they know if they open up to questions, they might get questions about tiffany purchases and other things. if he continues to clam up on the trail, he will be taking a page out of the book. sarah palin basically talks to fox news and nobody else these days. i am not convinced that newt can

keep his lips shut. let's talk about sarah palin. >> why not. everybody else is. >> she will soon be on a bus tour and probably won't be talking to the media. >> this is a woman who can make news with a single tweet, with a single facebook posting. she has proven that she can get her message out without dealing with journalists. at the moment, she is not running for anything. she is just a private citizen, celebrity, fox news commentator, who is going ton a bus tour that happens to go up the east coast and is going to end up in new hampshire. what she wants is exactly what we are doing now. i am sure i will do it on my show sunday. we are all speculating and talking about whether she is going to run for president. after all, trump bailed on us. we don't have mike huckabee to kick around anymore. all the other candidates aren't running. that doesn't mean she is going to run. it does mean she is a genius as finding way toss stay in the public eye. >> she does it by not talking to most media, which i find intriguing.

let's say she does declare and she is going to run for president and she still follows that imsa shall the rules in her playbook. does she have a chance? >> well, she probably has a chance say in sort of a closed environment of the iowa caucuses. over the long haul, during the republican primaries and certainly in a you know, sarah palin, if she runs, i'm not convinced she's going to, but since we're talking about it, is going to have to sit down for interviews with some of the big television networks and some of the big newspapers and magazines. the truth is she handles herself quite well. she didn't handle herself very well in the famous katie couric interview but she was a novice then. she's much more of a seasoned figure now. remember, she won't have the fox news platform anymore, just through facebook, twitter and public appearances but i'm not sure if we're going to find out because i think she's having a good time making a lot of money, being a celebrity and not exposing herself to the annoying questions of the mainstream

media. >> do you think people by and large have grown tired of that argument that, you know, reporters only ask gotcha questions and it really is the lamestream media? is that a tired argument? >> i think a lot of republicans believe that, and i think there is some truth to the notion that the kinds of questions that reporters ask, you can call them gotcha, you can call them comparing what somebody is saying today to what their record was three years ago. that's part of what we do, we hold politicians accountable. i think the questions you get from reporters tend to be different from the questions you get at a town hall from ordinary citizens, and we do tend to obsess on the tiffany type questions in the case of gingrich to sometimes overshadowing things people want to know, jobs, health care, medicare, the bread and butter issues that probably will end up driving this election in the end. >> howard kurtz, thanks for joining us this morning. we appreciate. >> it thank you. a high school basketball is so good at basketball he's getting a $750,000 offer to turn

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jeras who's in joplin. >> reporter: well, carol, we'll tell you the progress that authorities of making in trying to identify the victims and account for the missing persons here in joplin, missouri, plus we'll share a positive story with you about a young woman we met yesterday who was searching for her grandmother. that's coming up at the top of the hour. and i'm rob marciano. another rough night, this time on the east coast. over 600 severe weather reports with flooding and wind damage. now the table is set for more severe weather across the plains. plus the memorial day weekend forecast in the next hour. and i'm alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. if you're in the market for a new vehicle, better get moving. new cars could be hard to come by this summer and prices of used ones are rising. i'll have details in the next hour. also ahead, the death of a former marine and iraq war veteran at the hands of s.w.a.t. team officers. in the next hour we'll have the startling results of a sheriff's department investigation into what turned out to be a botched drug raid.

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they really needed to. well, last night lebron was clutch and miami is going to the finals. game five of the eastern conference finals, the heat was down 12 with 3:00 left but lebron james hit three big shots. he led miami in points, rebounds, assists, steals, and then this shot right here gave miami the lead. they wouldn't give it up. chicago's derrick rose beat out lebron for league mvp. rose needed a three at the buzzer to tie it. no! the heat wins the series. lebron will take a shot at the title over another mvp trophy. dallas and miami, game one, tuesday night. some baseball, the chicago white sox were wearing their black uniforms for last night's game against toronto but pitcher edwin jackson didn't get the memo. he had the gray top on. the teammates were laughing. fortunately this happened before the game started. remember, always bet on black. duke's kyle singler is

headed to the nba draft, but before leaving campus he took a few quick trick shots, first from the diving board. score and the splash. then a bigger challenge. kyle goes to the top of duke's famous duke chapel. we're talking 210 feet high. that's a long way down. keep an eye on the ball. it's going to come all the way down, bounce and it's in the hole. there's the shot of the year, i would say. >> that is fake. >> kyle singler, he can shoot. >> thanks, jeff, it was fun. >> we've got to go. >> 10:00 a.m. on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west, i'm carol costello. cia forensic experts will return to osama bin laden's compound to search for hidden intelligence. pakistani officials gave approval, a sign that tensions might be easing after that secret raid. in fact secretary of state hillary clinton made an unannounced visit to pakistan earlier this morning. more on both stories in a

minute. the controversial patriot act lives on, president obama signing the extension just minutes before its midnight deadline. the post-9/11 law is too invasive critics say. the butcher of bosnia may face a hague tribunal. lawyers for the bosnian serb said he was suffering from psychological problems. this morning a judge seems to have rejected that. we begin this hour with a return to bin laden's compound. it's been less than four weeks since navy s.e.a.l.s raced out of there with his body and a treasure trove of intelligence, but the cia believes more documents may be idhidden and i so their forensic experts have the gadgets to find them. chris lawrence is at the pentagon. you would think pakistani officials have been through the compound a million times and cleared everything out. will there be anything left of value to see? >> reporter: well, that's the big question, carol. that's what the cia wants to find out. you've got to think of this almost like a csi investigation

but on a grander, more important international scale. again, the s.e.a.l. team that was on the ground there, they were only in that compound for about 40 minutes in the dark and only maybe half that time was spent actually searching the compound. still, they were able to get out what officials tell us is probably the biggest stash of intelligence that has ever been recovered by the united states. then the pakistanis went in. but the key here is that the pakistanis have agreed to share some of the information that they found as well, and now they're allowing the cia to go in. so what could they find? they may be looking for things that maybe were embedded in the wall, maybe something that was buried outside. the cia may have the kind of equipment that pakistan may not be able to bring to bear. things like some infrared cameras that can look inside walls without damaging anything inside of it. we know for a fact that u.s. officials said that osama bin laden and the people who lived

in this compound burned their trash instead of taking it out to the street like the other residents. the cia may be able to go in there and use some equipment to even pull information off fragments that have been burned. so even though maybe to the naked eye it doesn't look like there's anything in there, investigators want to get in there and see what they can find. >> fascinating stuff. chris lawrence at the pentagon, many thanks. if you pay taxes to uncle sam you've also helped send billions of dollars to pakistan. but ever since the navy's secret raid killed osama bin laden, the relations between the two countries have been fiercely strained. well, today hillary clinton arrived in pakistan's capital. the secretary of state delivered a stern message. she said pakistan needs to step up its efforts to fight terrorism. >> america cannot and should not solve pakistan's problems. that's up to pakistan. but in solving its problems, pakistan should understand that

anti-americanism and conspiracy theories will not make problems disappear. >> secretary clinton also repeated an earlier claim about a government conspiracy in pakistan. she says there is no evidence that any high-ranking officials knew bin laden was hiding out in the country. former massachusetts governor mitt romney heads to iowa today. it is his first visit there this year. the likely gop presidential candidate will speak at the state historical building. his campaign said it will officially announce he is running for president on june 2nd. minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann says she is not waiting for sarah palin to make her decision about a gop presidential run. the tea party favorite has all but announced her 2012 bid. bachman says her decision will be made independent of what palin does. and sarah palin might not be hitting the campaign trail, but she is hitting the road.

she launches a bus tour this sunday and will visit historical sites up the east coast. first stop, a rolling thunder motorcycle rally in washington, d.c. some are calling it the kickoff to a presidential campaign. palin's staff calls it a learning tour. despite the presidential speculation, palin will stay on the air as a paid contributor for the fox news channel. stay with us, because coming up i'll talk with tea party conservative dana loesh about what sarah palin's possible run, will she run? we'll talk about that. also ahead, severe weather outbreaks across the united states. more tornado confirmations. we'll tell you why we're seeing so much severe weather and when it will end. that's coming up way next. s.w.a.t. team officers stormed the home of a former marine. it was a botched drug raid that left the iraq war veteran dead. coming up next, more startling

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trees. those trees fell smack on top of the house. actually that's old hat for timothy hood. last month a tornado destroyed his previous home. and the national weather service is confirming four tornados touched down wednesday as severe weather smacked the buckeye state, ohio. the twisters ripping up a few barns, homes and businesses. no serious injuries here, but it does bring up the question, rob marciano, i mean is there a definite season for tornados? if there is, when is it over? >> well, we're in primetime right now, so we've got a month, month and a half before it really starts to be over. but honestly, tornados can happen just about any time of year. the past couple of years they have actually been touching down in odd places and odd times of year, so that's certainly a note of interest. these are the number of severe weather reports we had yesterday alone. over 600 of them. yes, we had a handful of tornados in ohio, but the bulk of the damage was anywhere from georgia and up through upstate new york, pennsylvania and

vermont where winds were gusting over 60, 70 miles an hour, downing trees and fatalities because of that. so it's not just tornados that do the damage. by the way, we're setting the stage again for the potential of seeing some severe weather across the plains. this is the area, that's tornado alley. so that's the area this time of year. may is primetime through the beginning of june where tornados really are a threat, two, three, sometimes four days a week. so it's not unusual to see that sort of activity. what happens as we turn towards the seasons and look ahead and try to see when this may come to an end or at least slow down, the jetstream, which does this deal, moves a little farther to the north, that's what it sdoes in the summertime and begins to weaken, then we start to move the tornados from the end of winter towards the beginning of spring across the southeast, then they get into tornado alley where we are right now, may, june especially, and then up across the upper midwest as we get towards the end of summer. of course by the time that

happens, our numbers begin to drop off. an average may is 322 tornados. we had over 1,000 in april. this year we had over a thousand. the average is 185 so it's amazing how we blew that out of the water. of course we've had 500 fatalities. we'll look for this to drop off, obviously. by the time that happens, we get into hurricane season. just one notice to why so many fatalities. cities and towns, carol, are just a little point on the map. if you get ef-4, ef-5 tornados to hit one of these or two of these head on like that, that's just plain ole bad luck and this year has been horrible in that regard. >> it certainly has. rob marciano, thank you. awful bad luck. the pain staking process of identifying 126 dead. they're still grappling with that in joplin, missouri. jacqui jeras is there. authorities are going to release a new list very soon, but what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: well, they're

hoping that that number will be smaller, less than the 232, as they continue to make progress in terms of identifying some of these victims as well as finding some of the missing. they are allowing some family members today to go to the morgue to help in that identification process. it's been very slow and very difficult. part of the reason is because some of the bodies are in such poor condition that you're going to have to use things like fingerprints, tattoos, medical records and dna testing in order to be able to identify some of them. the federal government has taken over that task and they have also brought in $2 million worth of equipment to help expedite the process. still, it's little relief for those who are still left wondering. >> i was told that there was no body found in the rubble and that they had seen an elderly woman digging through the rubble. but they don't know where she went, you know. i can't locate her anywhere.

>> reporter: that's tabitha freeman and she's been searching for her grandmother, ellen, for four days. she lives in oklahoma and decided to drive in her truck and come here herself to try to find some answers. we ran into her and spoke with her about it and i had also met somebody else up the street who said he knew everyone in this neighborhood. he was able to tell us that her grandmother was okay and sent to the hospital, so tabitha and i called the hospital together yesterday. we found her in rogers, arkansas, and she was okay but sleeping at the time. tabitha hadn't seen her grandmother in years and she was very relieved to get that information. so, carol, that kind of gives you an idea of what people are going through. you know, they can't communicate with each other because cell phones are out and problems on the internet. and the chaos after the tornado, there were three different reports of three different hospitals of where the woman was taken. >> and you can certainly tell by that story why that list, you know, the list that officials are putting out changes and the number changes so drastically

over time. >> reporter: yeah, it absolutely does. and they do know that some people on that list are deceased, so as they continue to identify more bodies, it will continue to go down hopefully. carol. >> jacqui jeras reporting live from joplin. just a reminder, missouri's department of public safety will have that update on the missing at 11:00 a.m. eastern. we'll follow the news conference and bring you the latest numbers. the death of a former marine and iraq war veteran at the hands of s.w.a.t. team officers. we'll have the startling results of a sheriff's department investigation into a botched drug raid. that's just ahead. yoo-hoo. hello. it's water from the drinking fountain at the mall. [ male announcer ] great tasting tap water can now come from any faucet anywhere. introducing the brita bottle with the filter inside. and more. if you replace 3 tablespoons of sugar a day with splenda®

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checking stories cross country now, a wisconsin judge has struck down the state's controversial anti-union law. the republican-sponsored measure strips most public workers of their collective bargaining rights. the judge ruled the legislation violates the state's open meetings law. in atlanta, hundreds of patients and staff at emory university hospital may have been exposed to tuberculosis. wsb-tv reports the georgia

department of community health notified 680 patients of the possible exposure by an emory worker. testing now under way. and seaworld has band its killer whale trainers from touching the animals. trainers can no longer jump into the water with orcas to interact and perform stunts. the no-touch shows begin just weeks after a six-ton orca that dragged a trainer to her death last year returned to orlando seaworld. after an iraq war veteran -- an iraqi war veteran was killed, rather, after s.w.a.t. team officers stormed his tucson, arizona, home in a drug raid that turned up no drugs. now a sheriff's department report reveals that the former u.s. marine never fired on the officers who shot him. here's more. >> this is it right here on our left. >> reporter: it began the morning of may 5th with a raid of four houses near tucson, arizona, where investigators suspected a violent drug smuggling operation was being run. within minutes it ended with a

s.w.a.t. team killing, now sparking community outrage. 26-year-old iraqi war veteran jose guerena, who investigators now say grabbed but never fired his semiautomatic rifle, was shot 22 times with paramedics kept away while police say they secured the home. also inside, his young son and wife who called 911. >> i don't know what. he's bleeding. >> questions have since mounted about whether deadly force was justified and whether the guerenas understood it was police, not invaders storming their home. >> i saw this guy pointing me at the window so i got scared and i got like, please don't shoot. i have a baby. >> reporter: now the sheriff's department has released this video of the crucial minutes when they say warnings were sounded. the general counsel for the police union describes what s.w.a.t. team members say happened next. >> guerena makes eye contact with these officers, who are in

gear that says police, the shield says police, their helmets say police. they have patches that say police. he makes eye contact with them, raises his weapon and points it right at these officers. >> reporter: also just released, hundreds of pages of investigation documents which detail what officers say they ultimately found inside the home. body armor and a large number of weapons, but no huge cache of drugs or money. guerena family attorney released this statement in response, saying we just learned that the sheriff's department has released voluminous amounts of information in regard to this incident. we will review the documents and cds and will make ourselves available for comment in the near future. guerena's wife says he was not involved with drug dealing. the attorney says the sheriff's department has tried to defame guerena and paints a different picture of a man with no criminal record, who had worked for a mining company since

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checking our top stories now, the pakistani government has ginven a cia team foermgs visit where osama bin laden was killed. they will search for hidden or buried documents. secretary of state hillary clinton was in pakistan today pushing for a greater counterterrorism effort. the u.s. is looking for the pakistanis to show they're willing to go after senior al qaeda targets and shut down factories producing ieds that target u.s. troops. and president obama took time from the g-8 summit to sign an extension of the patriot act. the provisions that would have expired included roving wire taps, the tracking of alleged lone wolf terrorists. two months after an earthquake and tsunami devastated japan, the effects are still rippling around the world. here at home dealers say a car

shortage is coming. alison kosik has more. >> reporter: two car dealerships, one problem. >> i've never seen anything like this. >> i've never experienced this before. >> reporter: the devastating earthquake struck japan more than two months ago, but some of the effects are just now hitting american soil. automakers aren't operating at full speed and that means we could see a car shortage this summer. >> we're probably going to get about in round numbers 70 cars a month. it will be about 30% down off of the normal number that say we normally get this time of year. so it's not great. >> in a typical month you could be earning between 140 to 200 vehicles per month, right? so now we're in a situation where we are seeing that we are earning anywhere between 40 vehicles a month. that's a drastic reduction. >> reporter: the auto industry has been through tough times before, but what makes this situation so unique is that dealers don't know when things will get back to normal. >> there is still a little bit

of uncertainty as far as exactly when we're going to get cars, what we're going to get, what the numbers may bow. there's really not a real good forecast, where normally you could forecast what you're going to get. >> why is it a problem businesswise to not be able to forecast. >> because you have to be able to know whether or not you can pay your bills. >> reporter: and ultimately paying the bills is the issue. >> we have a huge responsibility. we're responsible for people. you know, we're also responsible for making sure that people's needs are met. so, yeah, if you're asking -- let's put it this way. i don't sleep very well. >> reporter: unfortunately, there's not much these business owners can do. they don't make the cars and can't change what's available, so they're literally watching business walk out the door. >> a woman walked in, she wanted a specific model. you know, unfortunately -- and that's -- it's fine when people want what they want. we didn't have it. i just -- i didn't have it. i tried my best. >> reporter: this is a supply and demand business, so with fewer cars available, prices are

rising. edmunds.com says overall car prices are up $350 since the earthquake. so if you want options and lower prices -- >> you really, really need to come out and start looking now if you want to get something. >> if you're thinking about buying a vehicle this calendar year, now is the time. as we've all experienced, we just can't predict what may or may not happen. >> alison kosik joins us now from new york. you spoke to toyota and subaru. what about other automakers. >> reporter: we're seek honda, acura, infiniti with higher prices for cars on the lots. in the case of honda, cars are as much as $1,000 more. as far as supply, we're seeing that chrysler is making 100,000 fewer vehicles this year. honda says you'll have fewer civics to choose from as well. carol. >> let's just talk a little bit about gas prices because the memorial day weekend is coming up. analysts said that prices were going to be $5 a gallon.

they couldn't be more wrong. >> well, you know what, let's say, yay, they were wrong, right? you want to know why? because oil prices fell. you know, when oil was at $114 a barrel, we were all talking about that $5 gas. today oil prices sit at around $100 a barrel and that's because we're seeing this sluggish recovery in the global economy. we've got weak reports here in the u.s., lingering debt fears in europe. so we have oil prices down, gas prices are down. in fact gas prices down for 15 straight days. but for a comparison, they're still $1 a gallon more than a year ago. keep in mind, gas prices typically follow oil with a lag of one to two weeks, so it is going to be a bit before we really see it at the pump. but keep in mind, carol, oil and gas prices, they fluctuate all the time, so my advice is take this forecast with a grain of salt because it could turn on a dime. carol. >> as we've seen. alison kosik, many thanks. the miami heat make an incredible comeback to win their game with the bulls and advance to the nba finals. sports coming your way next.

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anti-americanism and conspiracy theories will not make problems disappear. >> cnn's stan grant is live in islamabad. so, stan, secretary clinton's visit was short. should we read anything into that? >> reporter: short is all that she needed really, carol. this was a fairly simple message. that is that they expect pakistan to do a lot more. the united states, as you mentioned, pumps billions of dollars in pakistan, about $20 billion the last few years and wants to see a return on that investment, particularly a commitment to going harder after the insurgents and clamping down on the pakistan-afghanistan border. as you know, the united states is looking at trying to draw down the number of troops in afghanistan. it wants to stabilize that country. pakistan is absolutely essential to that. pakistan, though, still very concerned about the secret raid that killed osama bin laden, saying it violated pakistan's

sovereignty. they're dealing with this wave of anti-american feeling. you heard secretary clinton mention it there. this is a very, very strong feeling right across the country. many people here simply blame the united states for all of their problems. they say the u.s. is bringing more terror attacks, as the militants retaliate, back onto civilian pakistanis. secretary clinton also acknowledged that and said, yes, there is a real sacrifice among pakistanis, but said this relationship is strategically important and what they really need to do in the interests of both countries is to get it back on track, but she wants to see action rather than words, carol. >> stan grant, live in islamabad, pakistan. many thanks. herman cane is fast becoming a republican party favorite. the radio show host and former ceo of godfather's pizza is running for president. he's tied for third among the list of gop candidates or potential candidates and can't

have anywhere near their name recognition. plus guallup said respondents liked cain the most. earlier i asked him if he's qualified to be president. >> you've never held elective office, don't have experience in the workings of government and foreign policy. that was a big criticism against president obama, even though he served in the senate. so how do you respond to those who say you have absolutely no background to become president of the united states? >> well, then my question is president obama didn't either, so why is it -- it's a double standard. >> but you said he has not been a good president. >> yes, i have said that because here's what i have that he did not have, carol, and that is problem-solving experience. i have led large organizations. i have taken over companies that were looking bankruptcy right between the eyes and was able to turn them around. i have taken organizations that were troubled financially and made them very successful.

so that's -- those comparisons are apples and oranges. it appears as if some people want to give president obama a pass for lack of experience but yet they don't want to acknowledge my problem-solving experience. there's a huge difference in terms of what i have done with my business career. >> herman cain. it is time for political buzz. each of our brilliant political observers get 20 seconds to answer three probing questions. robert zimmerman is a member of the democratic national committee. pete dominic is back and dana loesch is a tea party supporter and conservative. welcome to all of you. let's get right to our first question, shall we. if sarah palin runs, will she be the new donald trump as we're enamored for three months and then, poof, she's gone? dana? >> no. i think that society and media has been enamored with her for a long time, ever since she was announced as john mccain's running mate in 2008. there's a huge difference

between her and trump. she's actually come out with some solid policy ideas, she's discussed quantity, i don't think it's gimmick, i think it's the real thing. >> robert. >> look, she launched her tour like she's the lady gaga of the radical right wing in america, only without the talent. when it's over, she'll be lucky if trump books her as an atlantic city lounge act for the right wing. she's not running for president, she's running to save her brand. >> ouch, pete? >> well, sarah palin can't be the new donald trump because donald trump was the new sarah palin. this new version of sarah palin, she'll be a lot more informed, but she's sure to get -- to be ready for questions like what do you read. but i'm interested in seeing the difference between her and michele bachmann who's going to announce. i want to see them argue about how different they are. that should be good. >> question number two, dick cheney says he worships the ground congressman paul ryan walks on. join the club.

should paul ryan and his medicare plan run? robert? >> look, there are a lot of democrats who are worshipping the ground paul ryan walks on because his plan to end medicare as we know it really defines the difference between the two parties. and of course dick cheney, who as vice president destroyed our surplus and doubled our debt speaks to the hypocrisy of the right wing today. >> medicare is already in the hole trillions of dollars. paul ryan's plan was just something to reform that. no, i think it's too soon for him to run. first of all, he's in the house of representatives. no one goes from the house of representatives and jumps into the white house. it's statistically a huge hurdle. i like him where he is. maybe 2016. >> pete. >> well, it's good to know that dick cheney worships somebody because a lot of people think he's the dark overlord. but the irony is someone with dan dick cheney's medical history and age under the ryan plan, they might go bankrupt or get very, very sick really quickly. but dick cheney has a lot of money so he would be all right.

>> okay. question number three. president obama will visit joplin, missouri, on sunday. is he a week too late? dana? >> i don't think so. what is he going to do, run down there and stop the tornados? this is the same stuff that was thrown at chris christie when he went to florida and there was a blizzard that hit new jersey and the left freaked out over that. i think that they shouldn't have freaked out over that. i don't think anyone should freak out over this. at the same time, i think the president needs to give it a little more attention. it happened in my state. a lot of people suffering here. >> robert? >> there are some issues that should be above partisan politics. our prayers should be with the victims of that terrible tragedy and we should also give great gratitude to our federal workers who are doing such a great job there. >> pete? >> let me channel kanye west carol and say the reason he's not there is because president obama hates white people. he should have been there, he could have stopped these tornados with his giant ping pong paddle. this is ridiculous.

i think we all agree president obama is going sunday and so are cnn cameras and everybody else and give more attention to the people who need it the most. it's ridiculous and it's a good thing he's going to be there on sunday. >> thanks to robert, dana and pete. as always, political buzz will be back on monday. a rookie catcher makes a big impression in his major league debut. sports is next. [ female announcer ] together at last. introducing new stouffer's farmers' harvest with sides of lightly sauteed farm-picked vegetables. find more ways to get to the table at letsfixdinner.com. he was all like "oh no, i cannot do investing." next thing you know he's got a stunning portfolio. shhhh, you're welcome. [ male announcer ] e-trade. investing unleashed.

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checking stories cross country now, readying for memorial day at arlington national cemetery. members of the third u.s. infant reunit placed flags on the grave stones of fallen service members, more than a quarter million flags. a soldier from east texas comes home 60 years after going to war. the remains of floyd coker are set to arrive in paris, texas, this morning. he died in a korean prisoner of war camp. his funeral is set for sunday. a 38-year-old mother of five had one big order to fill before enlisting in the u.s. army, lose 70 pounds. that's exactly what june madrid did. following the lead of her son who serves in afghanistan and a daughter who was in the army reserves. in georgia, a hospital employee has exposed hundreds of people to tuberculosis. officials at atlanta's emory university hospital say nearly 700 former patients will begin testing next week, along with 100 employees.

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checking our top stories now, american cia forensic experts will return to osama bin laden's compound to search for hidden intelligence. pakistani officials gave approval in a sign that tensions may be easing after that secret

raid. in fact secretary of state hillary clinton made an unannounced visit to pakistan earlier today. more on both stories in a minute. a controversial patriot act lives on. president obama signed the extension just minutes before its midnight deadline. critics say the post-9/11 law is too invasive. the so-called butcher of bosnia may face a hague tribunal. lawyers for the one-time bosnian serb said he was suffering psychological problems and should not be extradited. this morning a serbian judge seems to have rejected that. imagine falling three and a half minutes before crashing into the ocean, falling at 10,000 feet every minute. that is what happened to the people on air france flight 447. all 228 passengers and crew members were killed. earlier i spoke with zane in london about a preliminary report released. >> reporter: the headline from this report was that it was likely the pilot's decision and the manner in which he responded to problems with speed on the aircraft that ultimately caused

the crash. you see what happens is when you're in the plane, for it to move forward you have air that goes over the wing and then that's what gives it the lift. whenever there's a stall situation, typically the pilots are told to go down first because that creates air, again, over the wing and gives the plane speed. what happened, carol, in this air france flight is that the pilot went nose up. what that meant is that there was no air to go over the wing and help push it up. what happened was that it stalled and then it just fell basically. it fell at a 35-degree angle and it was like 123 miles an hour and it crashed. as you say at 10,000 feet a minute it dropped and everybody died. when they did the analyses of the bodies, pelvises were crushed, there was total fractured bones in people's bodies that just gives you a sense of the impact. these are early findings, but

they do give us a sense of what happened on board. >> oh, it's just so awful. did the pilot say anything? i know they found the black boxes. >> reporter: yeah, they did. that was what was eerie to read some of the stuff in the report that the pilots were saying to each other. these black boxes have been underwater for two years. one pilot said i don't have any more valid indications. there's another quote that repeated that. we have no valid indications. that was just moments before. and then a little bit earlier, one said it'll move around a little bit more than at the moment. you should watch out. i'll call you back when we're out of it. and that was in reference to the cabin crew was what the co-pilot had been saying. so that's what we got from the black boxes. we're going to get more information. it seems as though it was pilot error here.

>> here are a few stories we're keeping an eye on n an hour or so president obama arrives in warsaw, poland. here at home presidential candidate mitt romney is set to touch down in des moines, iowa, around 1:30 p.m. eastern. at 2:30 eastern harrah's today seena in tune today -- tunica, mississippi, honors first respondes with a big balloon release. remember the sound and fury over union rights? how could you forget? a wisconsin judge, though, has now struck down the law that stripped teachers and most other public workers of their collective bargaining rights. similar battles are raging around the country. eliot spitzer is host of cnn's "in the arena" and he joins us with this and a primetime preview of what he's working on tonight. let's start with the wisconsin case, elliott. so the judge struck down the law but what does that really mean? >> what it means is for now the law will not go into effect, but

the judge struck it down based on a procedural failure. remember, if you really followed this carefully when the law was passed, the republican majority in the wisconsin senate rushed it through the committee, rushed it onto the floor and passed it, violating a judge has now found the open meetings law that required that there be notice given to everybody for 24 hours or so. they didn't give the notice and, therefore, the process was wrong. now, the question is why have the republicans who still have the votes to pass this law again not gone back and done it the right way, because the judge didn't say the law was unconstitutional. the judge merely said the way they passed it didn't satisfy the process that they were supposed to follow. now, why the republicans haven't gone back to pass it again, maybe because the politics of the moment right now is very different than what it felt like a couple months ago. >> you really think that's it? because scott walker, i mean he was adamant about the law being important to the economy of his state. >> well, here's the interesting

thing, carol. there are now recall movements for three of the republican state senators. they are reading the tea leaves. the upstate vote in new york state, the congressional race, which is saying to the republican party back off a little bit, you misunderstood perhaps the results of last november's election. the anti-union vote that this triggered in the state senate has -- the response has been overwhelmingly negative within the state of wisconsin. and people are saying, frankly, as i asked of the republican senators on our show over and over again, i said, look, they have given you all the money back that you want. why are you taking away their right to negotiate? so the issue of their negotiating rights is a very different issue than the issue of whether or not they should be paid a lot or a little or how big their pension should be. and so the political dynamic in wisconsin is different. rick scott is nowhere near as popular as he was when he had just been elected. so it may be that the republican party in wisconsin is having a few second thoughts about the wisdom of pushing this quite as

hard as they had. >> it's fascinating stuff and could have repercussions nationwide, as you said. what are you following tonight, eliot? >> we are going to have two fascinating stories. a pulitzer prize-winning reporter has just come out with a new book with the financial crisis and why people have not been held accountable. great conversation with gretchen and her co-author. also jeff to obin who wrote abot the owner of the mets. was he a sucker or was it part of the ponzi scheme. you know, the better story for him is he was a sucker, he was fooled, he lost a ton of money. what does this mean for the mets? what does that mean for the bernie madoff ponzi scheme. fascinating conversation with our own colleague here at cnn. >> the showes at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. >> thanks, carol. great to be here. violent prisoners are accidentally released, all due

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tuesday night. we showed you the orioles game-winning hit last hour but the play of the game was all about the leather. catcher craig tatum makes the diving stop in foul territory. tatum was just called up from the minors and it was his very first game of the year. several candidates are making moves or appear to be making moves in the campaign for the gop nomination, including sarah palin. we'll talk about palin in a minute with our mark preston. first, mark, bring us up to date on the others. >> sure. look, if the republican field, carol, is finally coming together, mitt romney the front runner right now, according to early polls, will make it official. he'll do that in new hampshire on june 2nd. he will announce that he is running for president. rick santorum will head to southwestern pennsylvania on june 6th. he will make it official that he is running for president. and get this, michele bachmann let it slip last night when she

was talking to reporters out in iowa, bachman wasn't in iowa, she was doing a teleconference with reporters and she said that she will make an announcement in waterloo, iowa, sometime in june. of course that announcement will be that she is running for president. so people are finally starting to fall into line, carol, as we prepare for the 2012 presidential election. >> including maybe sarah palin? because that's what the buzz is all about today. >> it really is, carol. you're absolutely right. look, sarah palin made big news yesterday by saying that she will go on this national tour. she'll go up the eastern seaboard. she'll go all the way up to new hampshire. she'll be looking at some historical sites. but the fact of the matter is we're looking at this as some kind of coming out tour, maybe a listening tour as she considers running for president. there's a couple of other things she's done. reportedly she has purchased a house in arizona which would make a lot of sense if she's running for president because it's hard to campaign and go home to wasilla way up in alaska. she also has a fa