welcome back. we're following breaking news. a passenger aircraft diverted on its way overseas from paris to charlotte and never getting to charlotte, diverted, instead, to the runway that you're looking at right now. that is a boeing 767. it was diverted to bangor, maine, where it sits with about 179 passengers, nine crew members on board. the original word came to us from usairways that there was a security issue. that was it. somewhere over the atlantic, something went wrong and they diverted that plane here. but later the tsa gave us a further date death tail saying not just a security issue, this was a passenger behaving suspiciously. not only was that plane brought to where it was, but it was brought there by escorts. i'm talking the f-15 kind. let me bring in lizzie o'leary, our aviation and regulation correspondent based in

washington. this is very serious. they're not telling us where these jets were scrambled from but you know it is serious when they scramble two aircraft to bring in a civilian passenger jet. >> reporter: yeah. the two f-15s for scrambled about 40 minutes before this plane landed in bangor. there are a couple nearby bases that could do that, but norad confirmed they did use two f-15s to accompany this plane, which is a boeing 767. us airways flight 787 onto the ground in bangor, maine. buses look like they could be there for deplaining those 179 passengers. y you mentioned the tsa did say they had reports of a passenger exhibiting suspicious behavior on the flight. out of an abundance of caution, it was diverted. we know from local law enforcement that the fbi is the lead agency on this issue right now. we still don't know what

happened on board the plane. there are a couple obviously different scenarios. i should point out if this is interfering with the flight crew, that is a federal crime and would be certainly something that could be anyone on board the plane who interfered with the flight crew could be charged with, ashleigh. it looks like we're watching those buss to see if anyone is coming off that flight right now. >> yeah. and also watching for law enforcement vehicles, too, because that's something else the tsa confirmed so us, that this plane was met by law enforcement. clearly that would be obvious given the fact that f-15s had to be brought in. chad myers, i am always concerned when i hear about a transatlantic flight that gets far enough into the flight that it has to complete its pond hopping. that's the case with this particular flight. it did not go back to paris. >> completed over 3,000 miles of its journey from charles de gaul gaulle. you would expect they would go straight to charlotte, but that's not the way planes fly

across the atlantic. it's called the great arc, part of the great circle. here's france, the middle of the atlantic ocean, mid-atlantic ridge, green land, over the bay of fundi. that's where the dergs took place. it turned to the right, made a slight angle diversion, when we assume the f-15s caught up. earlier we didn't know anything about the f-15s. now this seems slight hi more sinister in the base. they wouldn't just take with this out for some person that had too much to drink in first class. there's a little bit mor going on here now. >> more to it. you and i were talking a while ago about the the fact it would have flown i think over newfoundland, a place where often times in a crisis a lot of flights will land. in 9/11, that place was packed. there were so many international flights that landed there. that would tell me, and i'm trying to squint at your map to see if it would have been within the flight path or if this

diversion or whatever made them aware was a problem happened almost over landmass. >> yeah. probably did. it seems to me like -- you know, your point of no return would be somewhere here over the mid-atlantic ridge, about that far from greenland where you would turn and. you're talking about fuel at this point in time. how much fuel do we have? we only have enough fuel to get to charlotte and maybe another hour of flight time in case something is going on in charlotte. as it came town here, the diversion took place over newfoundla newfoundland, not over that. the route change did not take place earlier than that. we don't know where anything happened. we'll get obviously information from the tsa, from usair, and from the passengers that were on board. we'll have more as the hours go by. >> good thing we have an aviation and regulation correspondent, lizzie o'leary, standing by and watching these breaking details for us. we're getting a lot of them. something new about the air traffic control. >> reporter: we do monitor air traffic control and there are a

lot of ways to do that, be but one thing i want to point out, as it was landing, communication between the plane and the tower was ordinary, nothing out of the ordinary. they weren't asking for emergency assistance either from law enforcement or from the airport nap's just sort of another detail to note here. yes, we had an f-15 escort, two fighter jets, but at the same time, the air traffic communications between the plane and the tower were not anything particularly out of the ordinary, ashleigh. >> just watching that picture to the right of you, as well, on the right of your screen where we saw a short time ago a number of buseses that had been brought in presumably for the passengers who were on board, as lizzie has been reporting, 179 passengers, nine crew members on board, and at least one of them causing enough problems to scramble two f-15 fighter aircraft as norad has confirmed to cnn, to bring

that plane to bangor, maine, instead of charlotte, where it was destined. we'll continue to watch this. few and far between. this is a tricky one. we do know law enforcement officials met that plane. as soon as we know why we'll bring it to you. in the meantime, another story from the law books. in north carolina, jurors in the john edwards trial looking for a second shot at some of that evidence. they wanted to see some of the evidence a second time, this on their third day of deliberations in the federal corruption trial. that former presidential candidate walking into the courtroom is charged with illegally using almost a million bucks in campaign contributions to cover up an affair. but were they campaign donations or just gifts? our legal contributor, paul callan, is here with me. tea leaf reading when the jury is doing its work and we're all on verdict watch. it can be fun, telling, and can tell us nothing at all. at least we know what they wanted to see. what was it? >> for the last couple days they've been focused on the

bunny melon counts in the indictment. she's the heiress, i think she's 101 years old now, who contributed $725,000 to the edwards campaign. >> the bulk of the money in question. >> yes. and much of that money, some of that money was used to support rielle hunter. of course the edwards defense attorney say a lot of it was diverted to andrew young, and he used it illegally and john edwards knew nothing about it. they're focused on that money and whether that's personal money or whether that money was intended to be a campaign contribution that was misused by the edwards campaign. >> actual copies of checks and that sort of -- would they want to see the actual copies of checks to see if she signed them or wrote notes on them, that kind of thing? >> that would be not at all unusual. but frankly i don't think there's much dispute about the fact she made the contributions. the harder question for this jury is was it intended to be a personal gift to john edwards or was it intended to help his

presidential campaign. one of the notes that they asked for was a note about john edwards' famous $400 haircut. she basically, when she started contributing, she expressed concern about the fact that john edwards had been criticized for getting a $400 haircut. she said if the press is going to criticize him, i'll pay for the haircut. is that a campaign contribution or is that personal? this is what this jury is trying to decide. it could mean prison for john edwards if they decide it's -- >> there's a big difference between someone who really has a crush on a person or a candidate and wants to do nice things for that candidate and somebody who wants to go through the official channels of giving campaign contributions. they are very different, aren't they? >> they are different. but what's interesting about this case is no one has been prosecuted criminally for misuse of campaign funds like this. and this doctrine has never been tested before. you -- >> i find that shocking, though.

i find that part of it all shocking. >> believe it or not, it reminds me of richard nixon and the famous checkers speech. i don't know if you remember that. >> going back to richard nixon? >> we're talking history because this is what led to all these laws. nixon had a group of supporters who set up a little fund for him because he didn't have a lot of money. it was a big problem in the eisenhower administration. he gave speech saying i'll give all the money back, but some of the money was used to buy a dog named checkers. my kids love that dog. we're not giving the dog back. the public so liked nixon as a result of that, he was elected vice president of the united states. fast forward to the present where we're more sophisticated about money. if you use a campaign contribution to get a haircut, buy a nice car, a mercedes or an electric-powered car, is that a campaign contribution or personal? i think it's pretty hard to decide. >> tricky. >> should you send somebody to

jail if they make a mistake. >> let's remind everybody watching that those jurors are average people like you and me. they're not expert lawyers. they're not politicians. they just have that stuff in front of them and have to rely on their memories. >> eight men, four women, and the other big question is how are the women going to react in the case. >> day three, day three of deliberations in a four-week trial. paul callan, thank you. >> nice being with you. >> bringing up nixon. look at you. i love it. other things we're working on for you at this hour. they are moms and steaming mad pap small army of mothers storming capitol hill and bringing their strollers with them. also, an island of garbage. yes. garbage. it is said to be bigger than the state of texas. it's floating out in the middle of nowhere and it's not the only one either. the pacific ocean poisoned by plastic and guess what, the tsunami has not made things any better. you inspired a ron howard production.

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stroller brigade and they descended upon capitol hill today to protest the use of toxic chemicals that are used in everyday products. >> we are the people! >> we are the people! >> the mighty, mighty people! >> the mighty, mighty people! >> fighting for children! >> fighting for children! >> so this is a group that's made up mostly of moms but also a couple of dads. they're calling for more information and some tighter regulations on chemicals. dana bash has been talking to the demonstrators. she joins us live now. so the story here as i get it is that there is legislation but that it is woefully outdated. what do they want to see happen? >> reporter: that's exactly right. the last time there was legislation on this, ashleigh, was 1976. what they want to see happen is they want, they say, information, really basic information on the chemicals that are out there in everything that we use, particularly chemicals that are in products that affect children and

pregnant women. if it is for this particular demonstration was a "chicago tribune" investigation showing that flame retardant chemicals in particular put in by the tobacco industry actually hurts people, babies and mothers and so forth because of the chemicals. listen to what the senator from illinois, the number-two democrat, said about this issue. >> it happens every time you sit down on the couch. you know what happens? that couch has two pounds of flame-retardant chemicals packed into those cushions. and when you sit down, you release this fine spray of toxic chemicals right in if face of your baby. that isn't right. >> reporter: now, there were mom who is came in from all over the country. some certainly are activists locally in their home, but one who i talked to said she just wrote a letter as a concerned mom to a local paper and that's how the larger industry group found her. take a listen. >> you can't read a label on this pillow and know anything

other than it's supposed to confer with, you know, rules for fire retardants. that makes you feel like you're doing something safe for your family. it just turns out that the exact opposite may be happening. so until the labels mean something, we are powerless to make good choices. >> reporter: that particular woman, ashleigh, is heading to see her senator in about an hour. her senator is from idaho. >> so, dana, a lot of us hear fire retardant, we think it is a good word, like she mentioned. >> reporter: exactly. >> if there's an issue with the fire retardant, ice not safe, yet not having it is not safe, how likely is it this regulation goes through? >> reporter: it's unclear at this point. right now there are just democrats on board. let me show you the gist of what this legislation would do, ashleigh. it would require basic information on health hazards about all chemicals. it would also immediately --

action against bad chemicals, it would have to be action against taking them out, and also make the industry responsible for demonstrating the chemical safety. what's interesting and fascinating to me as i learn this is that everybody knows, for example, in the pharmaceutical industry, the fda has to make sure that they are safe before they enter the marketplace. the epa has control over chemicals, but there's no such process for chemicals at all. so this is trying to impose some kind of process similar to what we have on pharmaceuticals. >> dana bash live from capitol hill. thank you, my friend. as we continue to look at the breaking news of this plane that was diverted from paris, there it is. holding down the fort while you're out catching a movie. [ growls ] lucky for me, your friends showed up with this awesome bone. hey! you guys are great. and if you got your home insurance where you got your cut rate car insurance,

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following bracking news in bangor, maine, and it shouldn't be in bangor, maine. that plane on the runway in bangor, maine, should be in charlotte but it was diverted and it took a couple of f-15 fighter jets to get it diverted tho this airport, as well. the plane was on its way from paris, took off from charles de gaulle airport, but something

happened midflight and it caused a problem. in fact, the tsa tells us that there was a passenger who was behaving in a suspicious manner. us airways told us it was a security issue, which was the reason for the diverted flight. we can tell you that the tsa told us that this plane was set to be met by law enforcement. we have seen on this runway so far a couple of buses that have approached this plane. we don't know if that's for the 179 passengers who were on board this boeing 767 and nine crew members. that's almost a full flight, too, for that kind of an aircraft. that aircraft can hold about 200 people. so obviously not a good day for the people on board that plane. we don't know yet just how severe this security issue was, this passenger behaving in a suspicious manner. you can bet your bottom dollar when norad gets involved and scrambles two f-15s and won't tell us where they scrambled them from it is serious, indeed. we're keeping an eye on that. but it's safe on the ground at this point. switching gears now, time

for what we like to call "bookmarks," our look at the big ideas, bestsellers driving the national conversation. think about this -- where do you think all of your greatest ideas have come from? think about it. you might remember that they came out of nowhere when you weren't even thinking about it. boom, light bulb went on. apparently not thinking too hard about something is one factor in trying to nurture the creative process. jonah lehrer has written a book about that. contributing editor at "wired" magazine, he joins me live from los angeles. jonah, this is marvelous news for a bunch of us who think we're a bunch of left thumbs, have no creativity whatsoever. you're here to tell us it's something we can work on, we all have the propensity to be creative, just have to put our noses to the grindstone? >> absolutely. creativity is a universal facet of human nature. it doesn't mean we're all equally good at it, but it does mean we can all learn to get better at it.

>> what are some of the things i need to do to perk up my creative juices? >> well, so let's say you need a moment of insight, you need an epiphany that's going to be a big breakthrough, what the science suggests is of course you have to put in the work, you've got to put your nose to the grindstone, but then at some point you're probably going to hit the wall, feel stuck and stumped. the problem is going to feel impossible. that's your brain telling you you need a moment of insight. what the science suggests is when you need one of those moments of insights, a big breakthrough, that what you need so do is find a way to relax yourself, to go on vacation, to take a long shower, take a bubble bath, have a beer on the couch, do whatever it is you need to do to stop searching for the answer, because only then will the answer arrive. there's a wonderful quote from einstein that creativity is the residue of wasted time. when you need a moment of insight, you need to make time to waste time. >> we've all been in that

predict m. i remember working on a paper, getting writer's block, going down to the fridge or having a joke with my siblings, and, boom, there it is. you have to release it with easy behavior. >> absolutely. it is a little counterintuitive. most people assume what you need to do when you are stuck and stumped, when your boss gives you a tough problem, is to drink more coffee, stay late at the office, chain yourself to your desk and focus, focus, focus. but this research suggests when you need a big breakthrough, that's the exact wrong thing to do. it's not an accident that companies like google have ping-pong tables in the lobby. you have to give people a chance to relax because that's when they have some of their best ideas. >> some of those folks in silicon valley have been doing that for a while, getting fun activities at work, even bars, serving drinks to their workers in those places.

channel your inner 7-year-old. what does that mean? >> yeah. so this is a very clever study that basically had people pretend they were 7 years old. they wrote a short essay from the perspective of themselves as a 7-year-old. they gave these same people a bunch of various creative tasks. people who imagined themselves to be 7 years old scored much higher on just about every single creative task you could give them. that's when we can recover creativity. there's a wonderful quote from pablo picasso that every child is born an artist. the problems begin when we start to grow up. that is true from the perspective of your brain. you can become more creative if you simply pretend you're a little kid, pretend you're a 7-year-old. >> it is called "imagine: how creativity works." jonah lehrer, i feel more creative just for having spoke on the you. how about that? >> thanks very much. >> good luck with the book. an update on this flight. every so often we get a little nugget of information, but not a

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the fbi joint terrorism task force is investigating but that is, we should stress, something that happens as a matter of routine. there does not appear to be -- doesn't mean there was a terror-related component to this incident. some other slightly more specific information coming out from a member of congress, peter king, chairman of the house homeland security committee, and he's saying a french citizen on board handed a note to the flight attendant indicating she had some sort of surgically implanted device inside her. doctors on the flight checked her out, found no evidence of any recent scars. some indication that she may have been detained. she was traveling alone. this according to peter king that she was born in cameroon and was visiting the u.s. for ten days and had no checked baggage. it is important to find out this is being investigated by the fbi, but that is also something they do as a matter of routine when there is a situation like this and a flight has been diverted, ashleigh. >> did you say she passed the flight attendant a note suggesting that this was her condition? >> reporter: that is according

to a member of congress, pete caine, the chairman of the house homeland security committee, that information coming from our team on capitol hill. yes. >> and that also he suggesting that there were doctors on board this plane who were able to do a quick examination to find out if there was any scarring, that it could have been possible she might have surgically implanted a device in her body? >> reporter: it sounds like there were doctors on board who checked her out and didn't see evidence of recent scars which would, of course, be something you would need to do that. >> yeah. but lizzie, this all comes on the heels of reports in the last few weeks that this is a strategy that terrorists are considering, surgically implanting undetectable plastic explosives in their body that can't be detected by the kind of detection equipment that we currently employ in -- at least in the united states and many ports around the world. >> reporter: well, that's certainly something that we've known ever since there was a somewhat similar attempt on a

member of the saudi intelligence. this is something that has been considered and has been talked about in the broader law enforcement community. it's important to put it into perspective, though, that this is on a practical level very, very hard to do. explosives can be unstable and obviously the human body is very unstable and doing that freshly after surgery would be a fairly difficult thing to do and, indeed, would be pretty apparent to anyone, certainly any doctor on an immediate examination. so that information which came from congressman pete caine is that this woman handled a note to the flight attendant and doctors checked her out and found no evidence of that, ashleigh. >> lizzie, just repeat for me, if you will, because of the gravity of this situation, the preliminary information that's coming from your law enforcement, the federal law enforcement source, that this is likely not something as serious as it sounds. >> reporter: well, they are indicating -- a senior federal law enforcement official -- that they are investigating, the

joint terrorism task force, is investigating this as a matter of routine but this does not mean the this was a terrorism-related incident. preliminary indication basically says there was no such threat, this woman indicated she was some sort of a threat to the plane but not in a specific way and not in a way that they felt was potentially terrorism related, ashleigh. >> in the meantime, lizzie, do we know anything more -- you and i are probably watching the same live picture -- about the passengers on that plane, how long they're going to be detained, if they can get off on those buses we saw originally circling in that tarmac area? >> reporter: no, that's not something we know right now. the airport has said they do intend to try to release a statement soon. that should give us some better indication of what's going on with those passengers. as you've noted, 179 passengers on board that plane, nine crew members on that boeing 767. that's almost up to capacity. that's an almost full flight, ashleigh. >> all right, lizzie o'leary, keep an eye on that for us, especially if we hear about any

kind of charges now that we know this woman has been arrested. thank goodness that everything seems to be safe and calm, at least on that tarmac now in bangor, maine. it is a massive floating island in the pacific, and it is said to be the size of texas. and it's made of nothing but toxic garbage. we'll talk with one journalist about an up close and personal look at what is polluting our ocean and why you need to be concerned right here.

we've been telling you about a wave of debris from the japanese tsunami a year ago that's already starting to hit the coast of the united states and alaska. there's junk all over the shores and it's a problem, stuff that's not easy to clean up, you know, all sorts of material, building materials and styrofoam and the it is causing a real problem. but did you know that researchers say there's already an island of garbage that's polluting the northern pacific ocean and it has been there for

years? talking about millions and millions of pieces of plastic, things that we throw away every day. and guess where it ends up? you're looking at it. in our beautifully clean oceans. well, once upon a time, anyway. thomas morton is a cribbing editor for vice magazine and a video correspondent for vice tv and has seen this garbage island. is it fair to call it garbage island first hand? >> it's not very far to call it an island, but, i mean, whatever gets the news out. i think the going term right now is the great eastern garbage patch. >> garbage patch. >> it's basically a big polluted section of ocean. it's not a contiguous landmass. >> in lay people's terms, give me the science as to why it is in this particular area and why it stays there. >> well, the currents in the north pacific go on-in kind of a clockwise fashion. that's why traffic picks up from japan right now. it gets blown around that way. slowly it circles and there is a spot in the middle called the north pacific subtroll cap gyre

where it all builds up, kind of the middle of the toil bowl you flush, but instead of going down, it just sits there. it's a natural accumulation point for waste. up until the 20th century, that was fine because waste was in barrels. it would break down. >> now it's plastic. >> now it's choked with plastic. when you get there, you're a dit l d little disappointed not to see an actual island. >> but when you jump in the water, you know you're in it. >> it's confetti effect. it takes a long time for the trash to get there. a lot of it comes from land. the majority comes out of japan, the united states, anywhere that borders the ocean, and just over the course of years slowly makes its way there and breaks down into little pieces but never fully breaks down. >> these are the things you pulled out? ly rally reached overboard? >> we do samples. take a jar and run it under the

water and what would come up in the most polluted areas looked like a snow globe of just like broken-down pieces of coke bottles and -- >> it's that thick. >> yeah. anytime we'd go into the water in, like, the patch proper, we'd come up, it would look like we were wearing body glitter. little pieces in our mouths, caked on our chests and stuff like that. >> this is not small, tom. this is -- well, some people say the size of texas. other people say it is impossible to know how big it is. >> estimates vary. it's usually measured in either a texas or two. >> a texas or two. >> we were seeing pollution -- we sailed there. it took three weeks from california to hawaii, and starting like a few days into our trip we started seeing the pollution. where it's thickest, where you get the snow globe effect, is one of the farthest points from human contact. so it's basically in the middle of nowhere and completely saturated with our trash. >> a dear old friend of mine did a documentary on this as well, and what he did is he went

swimming through this and did the same things you did, got the samples but also got some of the marine life. scientists cut open that marine life only to find these tiny shards of plastic inside. i mean, literally this is breaking down into pieces so small but it's entering our food chain. >> right. there's a point which you stop seeing kind of pieces of particulate plastic of a certain size and that's because they can eaten by the floating feeders -- i'm sorry, filler feeders that kind of suck in whatever. they don't think anything. they just eat it. what's scary about that, they get eaten by fish, and they get eaten by bigger fish. it makes its way up the food chain and eventually we eat it. >> discovery had a statistic that there is six times the shards of plastic than there is plankton. >> the ratio of plastic to like actual sea life there -- we saw in part where is our samples

were 1,000 to 1. it's fully saturated. it completely dwarfs what sea life there should be there. >> it's rargable that so many people don't know that this exists out there. and now we have this added issue of the debris from the tsunami that is already washing up on our shores. and we're told that this is just the tip of the iceberg. >> well, that wouldn't be surprising. i mean, when we decided to go out there, we'd been reading for close to 20 years stories about this. it was kind of a mythical thing. that's where the island thing came from, too, that there was this landmass. but nobody, like -- it was surprising that it was something, a, supposedly that big and remarkable but also such a major event of pollution, like maybe one of the worst polluted areas on the planet had gone completely not only undetected but undocumented after its detebs. and so hopefully -- i mean, this will lead to a little -- >> last quick question. this thing is apparently, again, really hard to measure bibby

some estimates 100 feet deep. if it's out there and that is next to impossible to clean, how do we equate that with the garbage that's going to be washing up on the rugged shores of the remotest parts of alaska in terps of the efforts to clean that up? >> i think what's showing up in alaska is just going to be a symptom of what will end up in the middle of the sea itself. the problem with the whole patch is that it's kind of -- it really evades easy solutions. you can't go there and just, like, skim the ocean nld and get all this out. ice a real issue. the solution is to do stuff based on land, to kind of have -- >> be more careful with our garbage. >> that, yeah. have better policies about throwing away stuff and not letting it end up out in the ocean. >> thomas martin, great of you to come. good of you to share your video with us, too. enlight tong a lot of people. >> thank you very much. how do you like free wi-fi? details on thousands of wi-fi hotspots that are coming to cities across the country. and guess what? you and your cable bill all play

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if you're like a lot of people and get your internet access through your cable company, i've got news for you. your access is about to get a whole lot more mobile because the country's five biggest cable companies have decided they're going to agree to share access to wi-fi hotspots. how about that.

allison kosi skshgs is here to explain why. always good when you get a little bit more of it. >> you have to still pay your cable bill, but this wi-fi idea is free, meaning wherever you are, if you are a customer of comcast, cablevision, brighthouse, cox or time warner cable. they're all joining hands in this kumbaya moment. they're teaming up. if you're a customer of those companies, your eel be able to tap into each other's wi-fi hotspots for free. say you're a cox customer and you live in cleveland but travel to philadelphia. what that means is you can use comcast wi-fi hotspot in philly for free. now, this is all going to roll out over the next few months. they're going to have 50,000 hotspots open up across the country in great places like parks, beaches, malls, sporting arenas, right where you want them. ashleigh? >> does that mean -- i love carrying my ipad and smartphone, but i'm freaked about my data limit because that's coming to an end, too. does this help in that little

quandary? >> it does. that's what makes this so terrific because it gives you more flexibility. instead of using the data plan you have, you can turn it off and tap into these hotspots instead for free. for cable companies it's a great thing, too, because it's a way to continue attracting your business and keep your business, because you have to remember these cable companies are dealing with some tough competition. more and more people are watching tvs and movies on the internet and renting movies through netflix. a lot of people these days are seeing less of a need for keeping their cable service spop what this is doing is boosting these cable companies, their wi-fi offerings, you know, to try to woo you in. ashleigh? >> you are just full of good news today. better real estate markets, improved wi-fi. you can come back any time, allison. >> thanks, ashleigh. >> nice to see you. thank you, my friend. brand-new guidelines for you. if you are thinking about getting one of those prostate tests, those screenings, find out why the experts are now saying maybe you should not.

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from a government panel and, yes, it does sound like the opposite of what we've been told for years. so, that's why we call in the experts. alina cho with some kind of explanation for this. alina. >> hey, ashleigh. this goes against something we know about it, cancer screening. get tested because early detection can save your life. not so fast. the united states preventive services task force recommend that men not get tested for prostate cancer. the screening is commonly referred to as the psa test, which is really a simple blood test. but the task force is saying at best psa screening may help just 1 in 1,000 men avoid death from prostate cancer and the dest may actually do more harm than good because most prostate cancers, if you believe it, that are found by screening are slow growing. they're not life-threatening, and will not cause a man any harm during his lifetime. now, what can be harmful is the treatment. most men who are in the words of

some doctors overdiagnosed can suffer serious side effects from treatment. side effects like impotence, incontinence and possibly even death. now, obviously, this is very controversial. remember, this is the same panel that made waves when it recommended that women in their 40s should skip routine mammograms. now, as for the psa test, well the american cancer society has not recommended that routine psa screenings happen and go on since the late 1990s. the american neurological association condemned the findings saying, "it is inappropriate and irresponsible to issue a blanket statement against psa testing, particularly for at-risk populations." they go on to say that what could happen as a result is that many men will no longer get tested because they think they don't need to. they have now officially been told that and that prostate cancer that a psa test could have caught may go unnoticed until it's too late. the bottom line, ashleigh, when

in doubt, talk to your doctor. >> alina cho, boy, confusing, as always. but good information. thank you for that. getting an education in afghanistan, not been easy up till now and now proving even more difficult. >> to be open here at the beginning of the school year because we wanted them to change. >> we're going to take a look at how the taliban are targeting the next generation of students in rural afghan schools. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. your doctor will say get smart about your weight.

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now that nato is preparing its exit from afghanistan, it's power struggle is intensifying between the government there and the taliban and no one seems to be exempt, not even the kids there. nick payton walsh reports. >> reporter: in parts of rural afghanistan the battlefield is everywhere, even in the schools. the next generation is hostage to a power struggle between the taliban and government. recently, the taliban demanded the closure of some schools in two eastern provinces. in realiation for motor bikes often used by the insurgents. we recently filmed an afghan. but locals say the taliban are more compromises. our cameraman visited one school in which we won't identify people for their safety where

the taliban forced the school term to start late this year with one big condition. they had to have the taliban oversee the syllabus, the schoolteacher says. >> translator: they tell us what to teach and what not to. if we don't xwoo what they say, they have a representative checking things. they increased the number of hours we teach religious subjects and decrease other subjects like english. it would threaten teachers and very possible they would close the school down. >> reporter: a deputy education minister told cnn that in area wheres the taliban had more control, sometimes the government let them influence the subjects taught to keep the schools open and even check student attend nsz. he said this wasn't a deal, just flexibility that kept schools running. our cameraman met this man who said he was the taliban school's representative. one of many across afghanistan, he said, implementing

instructions from taliban leader omar. >> translator: we didn't allow to to be open here at the beginning of the school year because we wanted them to change and then we had a big meeting and, but it should be according to principal and islamic principprinc principles. so even when a person become an engineer, he should have enough knowledge in islam. >> reporter: whatever exactly happened is symptomic of broader fears. girls' education, but the fact they let the school open at all was before they insisted on religious education shows a curious kind of evolution in the taliban, sometimes they choose moderation. they didn't want to shut the school entirely because that would be unpopular with locals. they just wanted to remind everybody who's in control of it. how long this moderation lasts

and how far it extends is uncertain. but what is clear is as nato eyes the exits after a decade here, how far from its original promises so much of afghanistan has fallen. nick peyton walsh, cnn, kabul. "cnn newsroom" continues right now live with brooke baldw baldwin. >> top of the hour, more on our breaking news. the military and here's what we know at this hour, the flight, heading from paris to charlotte when word broke of a supicious passenger onboard. the plane landed safely in bangor, maine. so, lizzy, we are now hearing that this passenger on this flight made some sort of threat, what more do you know? >> we can tell you that a senior federal law enforcement official

determined that there was no evidence of a bomb involved in the incident that prompted all of this. according to this official, a female passenger handed a note to the flight crew indicating that she had some kind of devicidevic devicism planted inside her body but didn't say it was a bomb. or that she was threatening the flight. she was traveling alone. little unclear as to what happened to this woman. the passengers are now off this flight. 179 people were on this flight in paris to charlotte, north carolina. they diverted to bangor maine. you can see pictures there of the plane. the plane was on a remote runway. now, separately peter king who is chairman of the house homeland security committee told cnn our capitol hill team that doctors onboard the flight checked this woman out and did not see any evidence of recent scars on her body and the fbi led joint terrorism task force is coordinating some of this. they are looking into it but

that is essentially a matter of routine procedure when something like this happens. it doesn't necessarily mean that there was any terror-related incident on this flight and certainly as the details come out, it seems to point that way, brooke. >> i have to ask and i know it's fresh and you probably don't have an answer. do we know why? why this woman handed this note to this flight attendant saying she had some sort of device implanted in her body? >> we don't know why yet and that's certainly what law enforcement will be looking at and what was going on on a transatlantic flight and a lot of things that one wants to be aware of. when you look at the flight path of this flight, bangor isn't that far of a diversion to make. it would have come over from paris and down the eastern seaboard. we do know that law enforcement met the plane and presumably they will be questioning the woman as to why she did that. i would point out that if she did in any way interfere with

the flight crew, that is a federal crime. there will be a number of things that they're looking at, brooke. >> possible karncharges for her hopefully everyone on that flight gets on that flight. lizzy, thank you so much. if you learn any more, let us know. a rush to save lives in the hearts of the gulf of mexico. halted, six people right now believed to be missing after abandoning their fishing boat. a boat that had been reported sinking near galveston, texas. but, this story is becoming an even bigger mystery. this all started with this distress call and the sound we have just gotten in. this is from sunday afternoon. take a listen. >> we have an onboard emergency. we are taking on water. >> how many persons onboard and i need a description of your vessel. >> and nothing. that was it. the transmission cut off before the captain could answer.

but, here's the thing, search crews, they haven't found any debris whatsoever. i want to bring in lieutenant julio gonzalez. my first question is, first off, i know you just called off this search. can you tell me why? >> yes, brooke, the search was actually suspended at 11:50 local time this morning. and the reason for that is that since the initial call came in on sunday afternoon, we have kurkted an extensive search off shore galveston and galveston bay and overall we have covered 2,855 square nautical miles in the gulf. we have conducted 21 searches and 10 of those were conduct would aircrafts, 11 of thoem were surface assets and we haven't found any indication that a vessel was actually, that

actually went under the water. >> how rare is that? if you mention 2,855 square nautical miles, that's a tremendous area. the fact that you haven't seen anything. no debris, no wreckage, no life boats. how rare is that? >> it is pretty rare. normally with this type of case and the event that a vessel actually sinks, we normally find debris, fishing gear or find oil in the water that comes off the vessel when it goes down. at this point, i mean, our search area and taken a range from our towers, our communication towers and from the description, geographical description able to pass over the radio to us and it was very rare that we haven't found an indication.

>> and, thus, obviously, you have found no one. the fact that the search is halted that it is suspended. is that basically you telling me that there is no way anyone could be clinging on to life anywhere? that this is essentially going to be a recovery? >> well, at this point, we're not sure. the information we have right now -- with the information that we have, we have done everything we could do at this point. this cishas been out in the media for two days now, since yesterday morning. and we have not received any information, additional information from the public from family members. the name of the fishing vessel was, it's either the fishing vessel skylark and we have been, local media has been putting the name of the vessel out there to see if we can get to provide us information. we don't know the vessel, how

big it is, who were the people onboard. what they were doing, were they engaging in commercial fishing or did they call them selves a fishing vessel recreational type. >> let me ask you this, this could be a crazy thought, i'll throw it at you anyway. might this possibly be a hoax since you have found nothing and you've been searching for days. is that at all in the realm of possibilities? >> because we take all distress calls very seriously, at this time, we're not considering this case a hoax. there is a possibility that this case is real. but right now with the information that we have and all the efforts that we have conducted over the last two days, there's nothing else we can do at this point. any further information, any developments and any family members coming forward and saying, hey, yes, i know one of the first onboard and --

>> until then, you have nothing. you have searched and searched. lieutenant julio gonzalez, thank you. we'll stay on it. got a lot more for you in the next two hours. watch. the bellagio in las vegas, really one of the toughest places to rob in the whole country and a bunch of geniuses botched a heist using pepper spray and blackjack. i'm brooke baldwin, the news is now. if you ever dreamed of going to space without working for nasa, this could be the first step. behind the launch of space x. plus, the taliban tortured her and cut off her nose. now, a young woman is in the united states and life in america isn't exactly what she thought. uff happening with progressive mobile. great! tyler here will show you everything. check out our new mobile app. now you can use your phone to scan your car's vin

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just a quick update for you we were just talking at the top of the show about that flight that was diverted. it went from paris and diverted to bangor, maine, instead of heading to charlotte. she talked about this woman who, apparently, offered up this note to a flight attendant saying she

had something inserted in her body and, basically, now what we're hearing from this federal loss or i'm just going to read this for you. the incident does not appear to be terror related. that's the headline there, according to the source briefed on the situation, "there is no national security threat and basically no threat." we're on it, we're making calls and trying to find out why this woman would have handed this note to the flight attendant in the first place and we'll get that to you as soon as we get that news. meantime, when it comes to robbing a las vegas casino, there are these guys. >> this place houses a security system that rivals most nuclear missiles. >> smash and grab. >> slightly more complicated than that. >> oh, yeah. >> and then there's the opposite. look at the picture. you see the guy kissing the floor in the picture, yeah, that's michael belten. belten tried to rip off $115,000 in chips from, of all places, the bellagio. what was this brilliant plan you

ask? according to investigators he was walking in wearing a wig and sunglasses and then an accomplice sprayed a blackjack dealer in the face with some kind of chemical and got as far as the floor. want to bring in david schwartz. he is the director of the gaming research at the university of nevada, las vegas. welcome back. as we talk about another thwarted heist. let me ask you this. what kind of security was the suspect up against at the bellagio. i imagine there are cameras everywhere. >> number one, there are cameras everywhere and also uniform security on the floor and undercover people out there, too. you have a lot of the employees who are also standing guard for this kind of thing. it's definitely long odds. >> the guy who allegedly sprayed this dealer, he actually did get away. how did security let that happen? do more casino robbers get away than we actually hear about it. >> i think most of them get

caught, the number one priority is going to be the safety of the guests and the safety of the employees. after that recovering property. i think once that guy had done the thing, it was no longer an immediate threat and more focused on getting the chips back, which is why detechives were there. >> with the long odds, why in the world do you think people even try to walk into places like the bellagio and get away with money or chips. why are they thinking they're going to pool it off? >> i think you see people doing it in movies "oceans 11" and they think, hey, that looks pretty glamorous and pretty easy. so much money lying around, it would be easy to grab it. a little bit of it is the fact that the last guy who tried it messed up, i think i'll try something different. >> i'm no glambambler but i kno this. you'll try to grab a bunch of chips and walk away. don't those chips have veserial numbers or something on it to

identify it and when wow walk back in they'll bust you. >> many do have serial numbers or chips embedded in them and also only a select number of people who will be playing $5,000 chips. if you imagine a bunch of them start coming back in, security will look at that. >> the last time i remember we talked, david, that was two years ago and that guy ran off with $1.5 million in chips. again, it was the bellagio. i remember the video, he had that motorcycle helmet on and he was heading out to his motorcycle. they did catch him, here he was. they caught him something like two months later. has anyone, movies aside, actually pulled something like this off and not gotten caught. >> there's been a couple of cases where people held up changed booths and just grabbed money and ran out and they might have gotten away a couple times but they get caught. in general, if you do this, there's so much surveillance and so many people around, you'll probably get caught. >> come on, now, "oceans 11" was

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more news and polling roeth now. rapid fire. roll it. a vaccine may one day help people with pancreatic cancer hopefully live longer. doctors at this conference in san diego presented their findings on the study of the vaccine and involved 70 patients and here's what they say. this vaccine is designed to trigger the own immune system to kill the capser cells. doctors believe the vaccine involves the pancreatic cancer survival rate when used with a regular treatment. now, some video that is just downright frightening. watch this with me. see the little boy on his motor bike right in the middle of traffic zigzagging through busy

traffic. this is china yesterday and you watch this and you can't help but wonder, why are they stopping? don't they see him? fortunately, a police officer sees this little boy and helps him to the other side of the street. the boy's grandfather was apparently looking for him and finally found him safe and sound. >> we are the people. >> fighting for children! hundreds of moms and their strollers along with nurses and cancer survivors demonstrating in washington today. they say toxic chemicals are used in everyday items they have bedding, pajamas, furniture. they are supporting the safe chemicals act which would discontinue the use of toxic cellical ica chemicals in products. nuclear talks with iran, although no definite agreement has been reached for iran to allow nuke inspections and iran

state-run tv is reporting that the iaea talks will have a "positive impact" on negotiations with world powers. meet with the five members of plus germany this coming wednesday. a 13-year-old boy had to hold on for dear life as he was norly swept away over this waterfall 270 feet, by the way. this is washington state. huddled there on the right, here, crouched in the narrow steep ledbarely above wallace falls. the trouble started during a hiking adventure when he decided to test the waters. >> i was pretty determined and i noticed the water levels rising and that scared me. so, i was able to twist my body and crawl up there. >> several hours later, rescuers were able to drop that ladder down and bring william up to safety and in the next hour here on this show, we'll talk to william and one of those

rescuers when they join us live at 3:00 p.m. a man tries killing himself but fails. now, he is just the third person to ever survive a jump over niagara falls without a safety device. that is 200 feet in frigid waters. he wouldn't grab on to the harness and they eventually got close enough to grab him. a couple witnesses they saw and they couldn't believe it. >> he went over the falls. i assumed that he was on the back of the falls tour and just left the group and slipped on the rocks. >> we're told that jumper is now in the hospital with hypothermia. and take a look at this view of tokyo. we are looking down. this is nearly 2,100 feet from sky tree. it is the world's tallest tower. for now, it took nearly four years to build. it's twice as tall as the eiffel tower.

besides this jaw-dropping view it will provide broadcast transmissions inside this tower there are shops, restaurants and aquarium, as well. with the launch in the middle of the night, america's space program gets a huge boost from the private sector. i'll talk to a man who once worked with this company, whether this was now just setting off a race within private enterprise. plus, cory booker fire storm is over. nope. he is not only livid at republicans, but now the obama campaign is sending out messages. d@ [ male announcer ] if you stash tissues

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flawless. >> two, one, zero. liftoff falcon 9. >> now, keep in mind that the u.s. has to rely right now on russian space teams to send astronauts up to the iss and also cargo. remember, that's one of the results of shutting down these space shuttle program that happened last summer. now, the private company, spacex will do the work. that is, if all goes well as planned. we're paying a lot for it to make it happen. so far spacex has received more than $380 million from nasa and nasa's head, chief administrator said today is not just a day for private industry, but he says also for american independence. >> the united states will, once again, be in the lead, will be providing our own vehicles to take our own astronauts and cargo to the international space station. it's fine to rely on partners,

but that's not where the greatest naestion wants to be. >> that was nasa's perspective. lawrence williams strategic relations for spacex. lawrence, good it see you, welcome. we just heard how huge this is for independence and i talked to charlie bolden recently and nasa could think further out and meantime spacex could end up carrying astronauts. today, this morning, seeing this rocket go up, what was that like for you. why is this so significant for spacex? >> well, i think it was a huge moment both for the united states, as well as for the industry and i definitely. i was holding my breath, like a lot of people at spacex. >> it was quite exciting. >> breath holding moment.

i want to play video of several spacex employees this morning at the launch. take a look. once that rocket launch was successful. here's my question. i was down covering "atlantis" launch last summer and i talked to a lot of tearful nasa employees because a lot of folks along the coast were frustrated, they were losing jobs and i was just curious how many are absorbed by private enterprise like spacex? >> i think increasingly a number of private companies are picking up the former nasa employees. a few things have been lost in the wake of the space shuttle. first of all the impression that nasa was getting out of the space transportation is incorrect and secondly that it was the private sector wasn't heavily involved as it was in the space shuttle. it is a transition. i think it's an exciting time

and i think we stand on the verge of opening up space for a lot of new enterprises. i have been working with a number of companies that are being enabled and i really think it, you know, it is like the early days of the internet or the cellular telephone and with lower cost access we'll really see tremendous amount of job creation and new opportunities across the board. >> what about, ultimately, in space looking into the future. what will private enterprise be able to accomplish. spacex would like to not rely on the russian suz. lower cost, more access to the space station and a lot of companies i just got back from silicone vallke

sillcon and the manufacturing and to develop new drugs and medicine and biomedical devices. so, it's really, we don't yet know at this point all the things it will enable, but quite an exciting opportunity. >> lawrence williams. you mention entrepreneurs, we will be talking to richard branson coming up next hour. who is making it pretty much his mission to get you to space, if you can fork over 200 grand, it is. he is the chairman of virgin group and we're going to talk space and space tourism coming up next hour. cory booker is fuming. the mayor of new york/new jersey says republicans are twisting his words to attack the obama campaign. in fact, here is what he told msnbc. >> i am upset and this is why i'm on your show that i've been taken out of context. so, here they are plucking sound

bites out of that interview to be, to manipulate them in a cynical manner and to use them for their own purposes. >> now, this all started when booker was on "meet the press" this past sunday and criticized the attack strategies of both the obama and romney campaigns. >> this kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides. it's nauseating to the american public. enough is enough. stop attacking private equity and jeremiah wright. this stuff has got to stop. >> but booker is a surrogate for the obama campaign and just hours after he was on "meet the press" he released a four-minute video explaining his comments further. >> i was very frustrated this past week when i saw people dredging up the reverend wright and already discuss ee eed issum many, many years ago as a way to undermine and attack our president. i also expressed some frustration of attacks in other areas, as well. >> those other areas he

mentioned, booker claims republicans are now cherry picking that part it make it look like he just went after the president. republicans, i.e., sarah palin on fox news. >> dog gone it, it was a shame to see cory kind of back down from what his answer was, which was so candid. he was the anito tis ths. >> here he was. >> they never pressured me to do anything. they've done nothing but encourage me and in this case, in particular, i certainly did talk with campaign officials, but they didn't force me to do anything. they had a good conversations with me. >> now, you just heard him and he said he did talk to campaign officials and does that line-up with what the campaign is saying. the press secretary for obama 2012 told me that no one from

the white house campaign contacted booker after his appearance. >> these are his own views in the video, as he made absolutely clear, that a discussion of mitt romney's private sector tenure was legitimate. >> you are telling me that no one within the obama 2012 campaign in any way reached out to cory booker to fix this? >> he, he released that video of his own volition. >> just yes or no. >> did not ask him to do so. >> so, did they talk to him or not? ben lebolt issued this statement today. cory booker said the campaign did not reach out and ask him to record a video. campaign officials also had not reached out directly to mayor booker yesterday. he spoke with a dnc official who also did not ask him to record a video. so, will that put all this to bed? don't bet on it. a young woman seeks refuge in the united states after her husband cuts off her nose and her ears.

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hers is the face of tragedy and struggle, but it's also one of incredible inspiration. 22-year-old aesha's nose and ears were cut off by her taliban husband and his family. all of this happened after she tried to escape after years of abuse endured by her in-laws. her story became an awakening and her picture seen across the globe on this cover of "time" magazine. cnn's jessica rabbit spoke with her exclusively. >> translator: i think all the time, why this thing happens to

me and why they cut my ears and nose. if i had my nose, i could have my life now. >> reporter: born in a village in southern afghanistan, aesha was forced to marriage at a young age. she was given as pay back for a crime committed by someone else in her family. after years of abuse from her in-laws, aesha ran away, but was caught. she spent months in prison. her father-in-law retrieved her and with her taliban husband and others, brutally cut off her nose and ears. she appeared on the cover of "time" and was brought to the u.s. for reconstructive surgery. but she was deemed too emotionally fragile to under go the procedures. almost two years later, she has settled with an afghan family who wants to give her the life she never had and the tools to become independent.

>> she wants to be a police officer. that's what she wants to be. >> she loves justice and she thinks she found it by police and the officers and soldiers. >> i love police officer. >> aesha had arrived in america more traumatized than anyone had anticipated. >> somebody wants to kill me or somebody following me. every second night she has this kind of dreams. >> reporter: for more than a year, a strong support system of women surrounded her. but, still, aesha struggled to find a sense of belonging. >> i want to bring in jessica, i want it commend you, incredible

reporting and the fact that you have worked for many, many month to have access to aesha. talk to me about that because i know oprah hasn't been able to do that. >> well, everyone had heard that she had gone to california for reconstructive surgery and as far as everyone knew, the story ended there. but we found out that she hadn't had the surgery and had ended up in new york and i knew she was under the care of an organization called women for afghan women and kind of on a lark and fishing expedition i went to their offices to speak to the head of the organization and shockingly she just literally blew into the office where i was sitting and in seeing her for five minutes and her behavior in those five minutes, it was just clear that this story was just so much deeper and so much more complex and profound and it became this journey of just trying to speak to aesha but i couldn't do that for a year. >> you finally got this access and several pieces that are on cnn.com. you can see how she lives now

with parents she calls her mom. how did she find this family and, also, what is she doing now? she's learning english and going to school. >> so, for a year, she was -- they didn't allow me to talk to her, but observe her and talk to people who were caring for her. kind of this field work where i was watching aesha and then what happened was last summer she met this afghan family and she was away for a week just they thought it would be good for her to get out of queens for a week. so, she was with a woman that they have known for a long time and she took her to visit her relatives in maryland. and aesha just fell in love with this couple and so she started her own personal campaign where she was calling them every other night in the middle of the night for months asking to come live with them. and it was just a very interesting move and it was really a lot of people described it as, you know, a sign of progress for her because it was

the first time she was going after something on her own and she did it. >> you write about the progress in your piece and how the media wants this nice, happy ending and it's not there yet. clearly this family wants her to have her independence but she has this night terrors who could blame her after everything happened to her. she can't get the surgery until they deem her psychologically ready for it. >> that's right. and she's come a long way. it used to be that she would have these violent tantrums and seizures and there was no way in the world she was going to be able to withstand this process, which will be really long. >> two years. >> up to two years. multiple procedures and she's going to look a lot worse before she looks better. and, so, but she's getting there and the family that has her now has her meeting with the team of surgeons and they actually think they might be able to stop the process this summer. >> her story is tremendous and that of this mother and father who have taken her in with their own family.

jessica ravitz, thank you so much. you can read the story and see more of the video, just go to cnn.com. now, coming up next, we have just gotten a hold of someone on this plane that was diverted from paris and now going to charlotte and sitting in banger, maine. he is about to tell me exactly what he saw. ordinary sunblock drips and whitens. neutrogena® wet skin cuts through water. forms a broad spectrum barrier for full strength sun protection. wet skin. neutrogena®. the key is to have a good strategy. the same goes for my retirement. with the plan my financial advisor and i put together, a quick check and i know my retirement is on course. [ male announcer ] with wells fargo advisor's envision plan, you always know where you stand. in fact, 93 percent of envision plan holders say they will retire on their own terms. get started on the plan you need today --

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passenger onboard. i want to bring in someone who was not too far from that suspicious passenger. he joins me by phone and, andrew, first things first. let me just ask you. are you in bangor and in the airport? >> we are just back on the plane and we're just waiting to get back off. >> okay, take me back. i don't know how many hours ago it was. i understand this suspicious passenger was about five rows behind you? >> yeah. about five row busines behind m. i want to say this has probably been about two hours since we got the -- we're probably 5 1/2 and 6 hours into the flight and make an onschedule landing due to unexpected, unprecedented head wind. then we landed very shortly

after, maybe ten minutes thereafter and authorities and border patrol got aboard the plane and very quickly got this woman and took her off the back of the plane. >> you mentioned somebody got on the loud speaker and there was fuel or head wind issue and that's why you had to divert to bangor, maine, when you said, in fact, it was because of this suspicious passenger. what did you see onboard? what we understand from our reporting, she had handed a note to a flight attendant and this note basically said that she had some sort of device implanted in her. did you -- what did you see? >> i mean, all that i saw of the woman was, i mean, this was a couple rows bemihind me and i s a woman sitting by herself looking nervous and jittery, but, i just kind of accounted that to a person being very

nervous and jittery and flying, flying by themselves. i did not see her and anybody i know. it seemed like not many people had any awareness of the actual situation when the announcement was made to land. >> so, when the announcement was made, you were landing and the announcement said something about fuel and head wind issues. there was no panic on the plane and everyone believed that announcement? >> there was, you know, there was some grumbling. my girlfriend sitting next to me, said, is there something it be worried about that they didn't take caution to properly fuel the plane to which i just kind of shrug and said these things happen. it was slightly strange, but certainly didn't seem out of the ordinary. throughout the entire thing, people did not need to be

panicking. people just seemed to be, this is interesting on what's going on. it was, even when the authorities got on the plane, it was like it was very quick and it was very quiet. >> i would imagine that is precisely what usairways would want, no panic and now we know this woman is in custody being questioned and they're going to try to figure out why in the world she would have handed this note to the flight attendant in the first place and possibly could face charges here. glad you are a okay and safe travels to you and girlfriend for whatever that final destination is. we appreciate it. it has taken a year, but all that debris from japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami is reaching america and cnn is there seeing containers, styrofoam, much more washing up on shore.

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more, some believe is churning up on american shores. some 4,000 to 5,000 miles away. noaa has even created a model just to track this debris. people fear the toxic chemicals the trash may bring. cnn's casey wians is now in alaska where some of this debris has landed. casey, what are you seeing and how can they tell it is definitely from japan? >> yeah, good question, brooke. where i am is just outside the remote alaskan fishing village and across this waterway here is what is known as the black sand spit and we took a trip over there the other day to get a sense of what the debris is like. and this beach over there faces the pacific ocean and look what we found in a relatively short period of time. a lot of various kinds of debris. now, the question you asked, how do we know whether this debris is from the japanese tsunami or regular debris that has been

washing up here for years. here's what the locals tell us, things like this. these big black buoys they've never seen before. they say they're being used by oyster farms in japan or were being used by oyster farms in japan. this kind of stuff. it's foam insulation that is used in construction industry and construction of buildings that they say have collapsed. it is very light weight and blown over here by the wind. big concern. this is a piece of a styrofoam buoy and you can see probably these little pieces that have broken off and this is a real concern and a real danger to the wildlife in this area. we spoke with a couple of experts about what the impact is going to be. >> birds are going to consume it, filter feeders, fish are going to consume it. >> the birds mistake it for feed or something they can ingest and they feel full and they don't eat and we are on a major fly away in the spring and they just run out of energy and also makes

them easier prey for raptors. >> so you can see why there's a real rush to try and get this stuff cleaned up. there's volunteers going out to do it. this is a very sparsely populated area and very remote area. they haven't quite figured out how they're going to get all of this stuff that is just beginning to show up on these beaches out of here, brooke. >> look at that pile you have. of course, one question would be, might there be any radio active material because of what happened at the fukushimau nuke ler power plant? richard branson will join me live. plus, why the heck is he cutting off people's neck ties? ♪ [music plays] ♪ [music plays]

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