it. investigators are in the unusual position of trying to prove that hernandez did what he said he did. susan, there are so many people, and i was surprised by this, who confess to crimes they don't commit for one reason or another. so with no physical evidence in this case and no motive, at least no stated one, why did police believe they had their man finally after all this time? >> good question. police insist his three and a half hour long videotaped confession was very credible and they are also convinced by family members that they spoke with as well as others who said that pedro hernandez also confessed to him. but, look, in the past people have indeed admitted to crimes that they didn't commit. i covered the case of jonbenet ramsey when a man by the name of john mark carr said that he killed that little girl. and at the time police sources told me absolutely this man is very credible. in the end his story fell apart. so sometimes that does happen. >> and remember, and i think we

should remind our viewers, there was another man who actually confessed to this crime and was found in civil court to be responsible. there was a $2 million fine, which he never paid, but nonetheless, it makes this case very complicated. i talked about that physical evidence. there's a big problem if there is no body. if it is true that etan patz's body was thrown in the trash, one person said this renders the haystack too big and the needle probably no good, they'll probably never find the body. having said that is it possible the police have key evidence or information they're not telling us about? >> it's entirely possible. we don't know exactly what hernandez said to police during his alleged confession to them when he made claims he lured the little boy into the basement of that convenience store when hernandez himself was only 19 years old. police might be holding something back. we don't know exactly what he

said so it's far too early to say whether this will really go to trial. >> i think we need to remind people that at this juncture, the confession really is the beginning of what is now a new investigation into the case. now, what i found interesting is that hernandez has no criminal record. his own attorney of course is raising a lot of questions now about his mental health given that he was at bellevue hospital. how does this complicate matters? >> well, it certainly does. he was put on suicide watch on friday at that hospital, and also his defense attorney acknowledged in court that his client has a long history of mental illness, that he is bipolar, is schizophrenic and suffers from hallucinations, and that is why a judge has ordered a full psychiatric evaluation to see whether hernandez is competent to stand trial. and also, as you indicated, there's that 2001 civil ruling that said that another man unrelated to this case is

responsible for the death of etan patz. so if this actually goes to trial these are a lot of matters that could complicate this case for a jury trying to decide his guilt or innocence. >> thank you very much. >> in pore land oregon, police have not filed charges against a mother who they say abandoned her three children in a shed. the kid were found on thursday behind an abandoned home. an intense search for mom followed and sure enough police tracked her down but they've not arrested her. the kid all under the age of 3 are healthy, said to be doing well tonight, are in protect of custody and will be the focus of a custody hearing on tuesday. >> united nations observers unarmed and working in syria made a horrific discovery today. the bodies of 85 people, civilian men, women and

children, witness essay syrian forces shelled the village of hula and afterwards began killing dozens of people, entire families and children. they called it a massacre. we spoke with a reporter from making lebanon. >> reporter: a syrian opposition activist told us today they are begging the international community for their help, for their intervention after this barbaric massacre, that's what they're calling it that happened yesterday in the homz province. they described intense shelling, mortars raining down on the town and they the militia went in and indiscriminately started slaughtering men, women and children. we've seen horrific, very gruesome videos but what we've heard cooperates what we've seen on these individuvideos, women

children on the floor in blankets in houses, in which children's head have been bashed and their lifeless bodies strewn across floors. it's horrifying. the u.n. monitors in syria, some of them are in the town, they are gathering information. we've seen video of one of them looking at some the bodies there. we heard a little earlier from the head of the syrian mission in syria, he spoke about that massacre. here's more of what he had to say. >> the death of 32 innocent children, also women and men but in particular the children, that is unacceptable attack on the aspirations of the syrian people. >> top u.n. officials called the massacre a brutal violation of international law.

british diplomats want an emergency session of the u.n. security council and a full account of what happened. to italy now. the butler did it. that's what italian police believe happened after the pope's butler was arrested for alleged live leaking can secret documents to the media. pablo gabriela is one of a few in the pope's inner sicircle. the documents were leaked to a journalist and are in a book which is now a best seller. this is a huge embarrassment for the vatican. >> the problem for the vatican isn't so much the content for the vatican. the problem is these are all high lie confidential documents which apparently have been leaked by somebody who has the closest access possible to the right hand of the hope. >> something you don't see to t hand of the pope. >> he's worked as the pope's

butler to 2006 and is one of only a few to have access of the pope's desk. it appears that mohammed morsy on the left there will be in a run-off against the man on the right, a member of the old regime. he was once prime minister. the rultsd from an egyptian men's ter where 60% of the vote said to be in. jimmy carter has been in cairo to observe the two-day election. >> i'm thinking it's been okay. the people and all of the opposition candidates seem to agree that the election has been orderly. and that the people's will has not been -- by any outside forces. >> the official count is expected next week. the run-off by the way is scheduled for june 16th and

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as you and your immediate predecessors came of age, 2 million 800 thousands. disagreements over politics are as american as baseball and apple pie. so what better place to talk about the 2012 presidential race than at a ball game. >> welcome to the cats. thank you all for coming. >> it's opening night at la grave field. home of the minor league fort

worth cats. this is where young ball players come chasing big league dreams and big league castoffs try to hold on a last bit of baseball growerry. it's a fitting place to talk about the hopes and dreams of americans. ♪ >> reporter: and to talk politics. in the first inning i find michael kelly to talk politics. >> we're six months away from the next presidential election. why does that make you laugh. >> you have to ruin my night. >> he's on mel leave, worries about social security and health care issues the most but don't think politicians can fix either. >> you've got the republicans, you've got the democrats. they're not working together. they're like those two wheels on

the road, one's pulling this way, one's pulling that way. united we need to be. >> is that frustrating for a guy like you? >> very, yeah. >> by the time we finished, the cats are tied 2-2. we stumble across carmela row and rocks an olsen. >> reporter: this is just about to get interesting are they talking about the things that you hand to hear. >> no. they're talking about stupd bleep that doesn't marry that gets votes. >> reporter: she graes and says obama is the worst violator. >> he's talking about gay marriage and he's a christian of the so tell me about bending rules. >> and i'm gay. >> i'm your friend so i doend mind. >> does that make me a non-christian. >> i would break with my church before i break with you. >> way to break up a friendship.

>> reporter: i feel like dr. phil. now you have something to talk about for the next six innings. >> the fort worth cats are now up and we're going to leave these two alone. >> reporter: in the top of the seventh, bob and his family are enjoying their night. he works in the energy industry and he's not a fan of obama. >> reporter: are you a romney guy? >> i'm a conservative guy. i wish we were stronger but i like my choices. one question weighs on him the most. >> reporter: do you think you were better off four years ago? >> absolutely i was. and the big thing four years ago, i wasn't worried about tomorrow. i wasn't worried about me

gettiget getting laid off. >> reporter: as we hit the seventh inning stretch, the cats are holding on to their lead and we found drag and john see. >> reporter: do you feel like politicians are paying enough attention or have the right answers for education. >> no because most politicians have never been in education. >> reporter: so if it's romney and obama in november, who are you picking? >> it's unfortunate there's only two, but -- >> i'll go for obama. >> i guess i would have to. >> reporter: but you don't sound gang busters about that choice. >> would it be nice to say that he's the lesser of two evils? i guess it's sad, cthe state of our politics. you want to pick the person who will do the least amount of

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all right. something that really got my attention lately. the world's fashion bible. we're talking about "vogue" got very serious about world politics and put a 67-year-old man where you would normally see a model or celebrity. i'm talking about the italian

version of "vogue" magazine. many people thought it was a joke. i did at first and i wondered why he did it, so i asked him. >> reporter: lady gaga, uma thurman, nicole kidman. wait a minute, is that the u. new secretary general on the cover of men's vogue? it is. >> as you can see, i don't have much passion for fashion, but i have a passion for africa. >> he has made africa his number one priority with the goal of saven 16 million lives by 2015. vogue devoted its entire may/june issue to rebranding africa. inside, a lengthy interview and

a full spread of photos, including ones with his wife and granddaughter, many of them taken at his home. the photo shoot was quite intense. >> that's right. >> tell me what this was like. >> i'm not accustomed to this kind of photo shoot. >> in his words, important. >> magazines like "vogue," they have great reaching power, global reaching power. >> reporter: were you happy with the photos? >> yes, i'm very much honored. >> reporter: secretary general ban is not the first. editor in chief. she says the magazine is about much more than fashion. she interviewed the secretary general and admits she was nervous. >> i really prepare myself. i couldn't come and just say

hello, here is vogue, good quality, fantastic image, you be on the cover. it's a different approach. >> reporter: secretary general ban said he would do it again. that cast on his left hand, a soccer injury. yes, he plays soccer, too. he's on the road more than a week a month and is serving out his second and final five-year term. >> reporter: and then what? >> retirement. >> reporter: who knows. he could have a future in fashion. >> you never know. stranger things have happened. so are we seeing a softer side of ban-ki moon? maybe. there's a big conference in rio next month on global advancement and he thought this would be a great way to highlight what he hopes to accomplish in africa. i asked when he would be back on the soccer field again and when i said in a month?

he said, well, maybe two. far from home. debris from year's tsunami in japan is washing ashore in alaska and it's raising fears of contamination and radiation. but first, the cb skrsmt says one in ten children in the united states is diagnosed adhd. education contributor steve perry weighs in. >> reporter: parents, when a teacher comes to you and says that they think your child has add or adhd, you must ask questions. for instance, ask questions about the child's behavior. what exactly is he or she doing that makes you feel this way? and make sure that they explain it to you in full. ask questions about the strategies that are being used in the classroom. what are you doing when he does this or when she does that.

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half past the hour. time to get a look at the headlines. u. new monitors now confirm that 85 people, 34 of them children were killed overnight in one syrian villages. they were killed by artillery fire and by soldiers who went house to house targeting entire families. all of those killed were under the age of ten.

a huge embarrassment. paolo gabriella in the pope's inner circle leaked documents to an italian journalist. he is one of a handful to have access to the pope's private zesk. for the first time ever a private space craft has linked up with the interspace station. astronauts have entered the dragon, that's the name of the space capsule. dragon is delivering 1,000 pounds of flies over the next few days. the space craft was unmanned but of course the hope was to send astronauts in the future. evakulations are in effect in colorado because of wild fires. california, nevada, arizona and new mexico all battling blazes

tonight. thousands upon thousands of acres were scorched. we have a live look in jacksonville florida tonight. it's been just a day at the beach for some surfers and swimmers there, but some tense moments in the surf today. a lot of people had to be rescued, didn't they? >> yeah, they did. it's a hidden danger out there. but we've got a subtropical system off the coast and that's creating strong rip currents. look at the video from our affiliate in jacksonville and at lease 30 people were rescued off the coast of georgia and more than a dozen others that were rescued off the florida coast voe loo. the storm is more than 2 hundred

t miles away from the coast. the maximum winds are 45 miles per hour. you won't feel the impacts until it starts to pick up forward speed and we think we could see land fall late tomorrow and into monday. but it's going to slow down doif back up to the right. it means that the rain is going to be heavy. so can see anywhere between 3 and 6 inches of rainfall, but this part of the country needs that rainfall. it's a relatively weak storm, play it safe. go to the pool instead of the ocean. we also have severe thunderstorms we're tracking apart across the northeast. we've got delays of over an hour at newark and philadelphia as well because of those thunderstorms. and keep in mind that we'll see a few more storms tomorrow, but

primarily the upper midwest will be our focus for wide spreed severe storms. that will be your case through your memorial day as well. >> i landed in atlanta last night about 9:30, it felt like 90 degrees. >> weather you can wear we call it. so humid. >> it's humid in new york, too. it looks like japan's earthquake and tsunami is making quite an impact on american shores. debris from the catastrophe is showing up in alaska. >> reporter: we're going to cross the middle of the island across the alaska coast and that's where a great deal of debris has already come up. >> reporter: nearly 4 thousand miles from fukushima, japan is

alaska reachable by only helicopter or boat. >> we're sitting in a landful in the middle of wilderness. this shore is facing away from japan, but the way the currents and the winds work, it swirls it around and dumps it in here. the influx the tsunami debris really concerns us about of the amount of styrofoam and all the toxic chemicals. we think they're going to have a detrimental impact on the environment out here. >> reporter: he's been cleaning debris for 15 years. now it's becoming next to impossible. >> this is building foam and we just never got much of that before. now if you walk up and down this beach, you can see big chunks. that came out of crushed building structures. i've seen pictures in japan,

huge yards, acres of these things stacked up before the tsunami, those yards are empty now and this is where they are now. i've never seen a big yellow one like this. pretty big. little bits of styrofoam all up and down this beach. billions of pieces of it. the other thing is, al ba tros and sea birds all this stuff like crazy and it's killing them. a big chunk of styrofoam first came in. >> reporter: kefts on the first wave of debris have found no abnormal levels of radiation. still, much of it is toxic. >> i have know idea what was in this. that's not something you would want to dump in your herring or salmon spawning area. this is going to take years to clean this up. >> i think this is the leading edge without a date. it's all the lightweight stuff that blew across the pacific quickly. i think we're looking at heavier

stuff coming progressively later. >> reporter: we're in a slightly less remote village in alaska. near here across this channel of water, you can see some of the debris that we've collected very similar to what's on mont ta gu island. at this point no one knows for certain how it's going to get cleaned off these beaches, where it is going to go and who's going to pay for it. and most importantly, no one else knows what else lurks out there that's heading this way. and then there's this. a rather personal item from japan has washed up on the shores of british columbia. its owner was tracked down but he doesn't want it back. how it's being preserved, right after this.

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all right. right before the break we were showing you all of the debris from the japan tsunami that's washing ashore. included in that debris is a find that's just jaw-dropping. take a look at this. it's a harley davidson that washed ashore in before it i can columbia. it turns out it belonged to a man in japan. harley contacted the owner and he lives in a shelter so he doesn't feel he could use the bike so he wants it to be preserved. now that bike will head to the museum in milwaukee as a memorial to all those who died in the tsunami disaster. they have made the ultimate sacrifice. their loved one gave their lives for their country and now the families have to cope with the loss. an annual camp aims to help

those who are grieving. athena jones reports. >> reporter: this is the good grief champ. 11 year old caleb lost his father in a helicopter accident in italy four years ago. he's joining other families. -- the family looks forward to it each year. >> i brought my kids because i wanted them to know they were not the only kids who had lost a parent in the military. and i wanted them to know that there's a place they could go where they can feel normal and where they don't have to talk about what happened. >> taps has been bringling

survivors together since 1994. >> grief is not a mental illness, it's not a physical injury. it's a wound of the hard and an absolute physical comfort is to talk with another young widow who was pregnant at the time of the loss, a mom who is grieving the loss of her only child. >> what does this weekend mean to you? >> what does it mean to you? >> that even though your parent or your husband or wife died, you can still have fun. and that's i think that's what this camp is for. >> reporter: caleb is paired with mentor louis i ver son for the second year. >> just because they've lost a loved one doesn't mean the military has for gotten about them. caleb first met his friend hunter four years ago. for families like the durhams, this weekend is an important reminder, they're not alone.

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well, the words themselves are enough to give you the chills. death flights. throwing prisoners who are still alive from an airplane into the ocean. and as one woman just learned, it's how her father was killed. >> reporter: it took more than 3 1/2 decades, but victoria finally knows where the remains of her father are. she was raised by a military couple, not knowing they weren't her biological family. >> translator: it took me several years to find out about my true background. the man who raised me told me about the shoot out that happened in 1976. >> reporter: her father was 20

years old when he went missing. it was 1976. the so-called dirty war in argentina was only beginning and liberals like her parents were the primary targets of the new military regime. she has learned that her father was held for several months by the military as a political prisoner. >> translator: the only truth the one i found out after the investigation conducted by the forensic team which confirmed that my parents were held captive for several months and that my father was the victim of the death flights. >> reporter: the so-called death flights involve throwing prisoners into the sea from airplanes. the body probably washed ashore. >> translator: it is true that we won't be able to identify

many people. like victoria said, miracles do happen and there could be other miracles. >> reporter: thousands upon thousands of people whose relatives went missing during the dirty war are still waiting for an answer. at least 13,000 people went missing an organization has been working for decades to help children whose parents disappeared, learned the truth about their past. montenegro was one of those children. >> translator: she feels mixed emotions. at lease now she know where he is, but her mother is still missing. >> reporter: victoria says seeking the truth has been a slow and painful process, but she still hopes to learn one day would truly happened to her

mother. well, this is the kind every story we wish could bring you every day. a young girl who lost her hearing as an infant, breaks down and cries when she's finally able to hear again. watch. >> it's okay. you can cry. it's okay. >> can you imagine? for sammy hix, it was just overwhelming. we're going to bring and we want all of you viewers to stay connected to cnn even when you're on the go. so grab your mobile phone and go to cnn.com/tv. or if you're on a desktop or a laptop you can also watch cnn live. [ bell ringing ]

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and suddenly able to hear again. that's exactly what happened to a 10-year-old girl. and you just won't believe her reaction. you have to see it to believe it. sammy hicks was born with a genetic mutation in her ears. her hearing faded away when she was just a toddler. but recently she got a cochlear implant and the cameras were rolling at the exact moment she could hear. jason whitely from our dallas affiliate wfaa has her incredible story. >> reporter: it is a noisy world we live in. >> because i'm taking it! >> reporter: one sammy hicks is slowly getting used to hearing. >> she doesn't want anything, anything to hold her back, which is great. >> reporter: sammie was born with a genetic mutation in her ears. fitted with hearing aids at 19 months. then learned to read lips after what was left of her hearing finally faded.

>> i hope they learn that just because you're different, you can't go and do it like most of the other deaf people. >> reporter: that's one reason sammie started a video diary. when insurance agreed to buy her a cochlear implant, a bionic ear of sorts. she wanted friends and family to understand her struggle firsthand. >> i'm excited for it. still nervous. >> reporter: surgery was simple. what happened next, though, was heartbreaking. watch sammie jump when the awed yologist activates the implant. then the first thing she hears? herself. breathing. >> hey, i sound -- >> you're hearing yourself better. >> exciting. >> she's hearing herself breathing and i don't think she

realize -- >> reporter: yet emotional. >> okay. you can cry. it's okay. >> i started to cry. because it was overwhelming. i had no idea what the sounds were. >> my heart just stopped. i just -- it's -- i can't really put it into words, what it felt like, watching her hear those little things that we never thought she'd be able to hear. >> i asked her why she cried. and she said, well, it was overwhelming. but the reason i really cried is because i can't believe all the stuff i was missing. >> reporter: no one really knows what sammie's life sounds like now. >> the teacher sounded like a robot. like every voice does. >> reporter: but it is louder than ever before. >> ah. >> reporter: cochlear implants are not cheap. the device is about $27,000. but add surgery and therapy, and it can cost more than $120,000.

just to provide access to sound. each patient will then progress differently with the devices. >> this is what she has. inside of this portion of it -- >> reporter: it does what her ears cannot. >> inside of your inner ear there are millions of little microscopic hairs that turn the nerves on and off in very simple form. and what a cochlear implant is trying to do is it's replacing those hairs. >> what kind of hearing -- >> reporter: absorbing so many sounds now is exhausting for it 10-year-old. but already sammie has adapted, improved her speech, and still adds to that video diary. >> it's not what i was expecting. >> reporter: hoping it helps others appreciate. >> that's what i have to say. >> reporter: what so many have to say. >> bye-bye. >> what a great story. one of the biggest adjustments sammie's parents have had to make, they say they now have to go to another room when they want to talk about her. sammie's younger brother jacob,

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