new town. it's been barely a hundred days since 20 innocent children and six brave educators were taken from us by gun violence including grace macdonald and loren russo and jessie lewis whose families are here today. that agony burns deep in the families of thousands. thousands of americans stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun over these last hundred days, including adia pendleton who was killed on her way to school less than two months ago and whose mom is also here today. everything they lived for and hoped for taken away in an instant. we have moms on this stage whose children were killed as recently as 35 days ago. i don't think any of us who are parents can hear their stories and not think about our own daughters and our own sons and our own grandchildren. we all feel that it is our first

impulse as parents to do everything we can to protect our children from harm, to make any sacrifice to keep them safe. to do what we have to do to give them a future where they can grow up and learn and explore and become the amazing people they're destined to be. that's why in january joe biden, leading a task force, came up with and i put forward a series of common sense proposals to reduce the epidemic of gun violence and keep our kids safe. in my state of the union address i called on congress to give these proposals a vote. and in just a couple of weeks they will. earlier this month the senate advanced some of the most important reforms designed to reduce gun violence. all of them are consistent with the second amendment. none of them will infringe on the rights of responsible gun

owners. what they will do is keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people who put others at risk. this is our best chance in more than a decade to take common sense steps that will save lives. as i said, when i visited newtown just over three months ago, if there is a step we can take that will save just one child, just one parent, just another town from experiencing the same grief that some of the moms and dads who are here have endured, then we should be doing it. we have an obligation to try. in the coming weeks members of congress will vote on whether we should require universal background checks for anyone who wants to buy a gun so that criminals or people with severe mental illnesses can't get their hands on one. they'll vote on tough new penalties for anyone who buys

guns only to turn around and sell them to criminals. they'll vote on a measure that would keep weapons of war and high capacity ammunition magazines that facilitate these mass killings off our streets. they'll get to vote on legislation that would help schools become safer and help people struggling with mental health problems to get the treatment that they need. none of these ideas should be controversial. why wouldn't we want to make it more difficult for a dangerous person to get his or her hand on a gun? why wouldn't we want to close the loophole that allows us to make 40% of all gun purchases take place without a background check? why wouldn't we do that? if you ask most americans outside of washington, including many gun owners, some of these ideas, they don't consider them controversial. right now 90% of americans -- 90% -- support background checks that would keep criminals and

people found to be a danger to themselves or others from buying a gun. more than 80% of republicans agree. more than 80% of gun owners agree. think about that. how often do 90% of americans agree on anything? it never happens. many other reforms are supported by clear majorities of americans. i ask every american to find out where your member of congress stands on these ideas. if they're not part of that 90% who agree that we should make it harder for a criminal or somebody with a severe mental illness to buy a gun then you should ask them. why not? why are you part of the 10%? there is absolutely no reason why we can't get this done. but the reason we're talking about it here today is because it's not done until it's done and there are some powerful voices on the other side

interested in running out the clock, changing the subject, or drowning out the majority of the american people to prevent any of these reforms from happening at all. they're doing everything they can to make all our progress collapse under the weight of fear and frustration or their assumption is people will just forget about it. i read an article in the news just the other day wondering, has washington missed its opportunity because as time goes on after newtown somehow people start moving on and forgetting. let me tell you. when people hear they don't forget. grace's dad is not forgetting. adida's mom hasn't forgotten. the notion that two months or three months after something as horrific as what happened in

newtown happens and we've warmed on to other things? that's not who we are. that's not who we are. i want to make sure every american is listening today. less than a hundred days ago that happened. the entire country was shocked. the entire country pledged we would do something about it than time it would be different. shame on us if we've forgotten. i haven't forgotten those kids. shame on us if we've forgotten. there is one thing i've said consistently since i first ran for this office.

nothing is more powerful than millions of voices calling for change. that's why it's so important that all these moms and dads are here today but that's also why it's important that we've got grass roots groups out there that got started and are out there mobilizing and organizing and keeping up the fight. that's what it's going to take to make this country safer. it's going to take moms and dads and hunters and sportsmen and clergy and local officials like the mayors here today standing up and saying, this time really is different. we're not just going to sit back and wait until the next newtown or the next blacksburg or the next innocent, beautiful child is gunned down in a playground in chicago or philadelphia or los angeles before we summon the will to act. right now members of congress are back home in their districts and many are holding event where they can hear from their constituents so i want everybody who is listening to make yourself heard right now.

if you think that check iing oua background before selling at a gun show is common sense you have to make yourself heard. if you are a responsible, law-abiding gun owner who wants to keep irresponsible, law breaking individuals from aboougs the right to bear arms by inflicting harm on a massive scale, speak up. we need your voices in this debate. if you're a mom like katarina who wants to make this country safer, a safer place for our children to learn and grow up, get together with other moms like the ones here today and raise your voices and make yourself unmistakably heard. we need everybody to remember how we felt a hundred days ago and make sure that what we said at that time wasn't just a bunch of platitudes. that we meant it.

and the desire to make a difference is what brought cory thornblat here today. cory grew up in oklahoma where her dad sold firearms at gun shows. today she's a mom and a teacher. cory said after newtown she cried for days. for the students who could have been her students, for the teachers who go to work every single day and love their kids and want them to succeed. cory said, my heart was broken and i decided now was the time to act. to march, the time to petition, the time to make phone calls. because tears were no longer enough. that's my attitude. tears aren't enough. expressions of sympathy aren't enough. speeches aren't enough.

we've cried enough. we've known enough heart break. what we're proposing is not radic radical, not taking away anybody's gun rights. something that if we are serious we will do it. now is the time to turn that heart break into something real. it won't solve every problem. there will still be gun deaths. there will still be tragedies. there will still be violence. there will still be evil. we can make a difference if, not just the activists here on this stage but the general public including responsible gun owners say, you know what? we can do better than this. we can do better than to make sure fewer parents have to endure the pain of losing a child to an act of violence.

that's what this is about. and enough people like katarina and cory and the rest of the parents who are here today get involved, and if enough members of congress take a stand for cooperation and common sense and lead and don't get squishy because time has passed and maybe it's not on the news every single day, if that's who we are, if that's our character that we're willing to follow through on commitments that we say are important, commitments to each other and to our kids, then i'm confident we can make this country a safer place for all of them. so thank you very much, everybody. god bless you.

>> president obama in the east room wrapping up really trying to motivate those in congress to move forward with some sort of reform when it comes to legislation involving gun control having a really tough time and saying just a hundred days before a lot of people are feeling the pain of newtown. now the latest survey showed that some of that sense of urgency for gun control legislation no longer there. >> it's tragic in a way how it just moves on. people sort of forget about it, it reduces -- the impact is reduced over time and now what was an urgent issue a hundred days ago is less so and he is really battling congress to get anything meaningful done. >> trying to use those people and their stories to essentially push them if he can. welcome to "around the world." i'm suzanne malveaux. >> i'm michael holmes. thanks for being here. our viewers in the u.s. indeed around the world as well. today marking the end of the best first quarter of the dow since 1998. >> wow. have a look at the big board. been keeping an eye on it.

you can see that it is up well over a quarter of a percent. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. dow up, up, and i noticed earlier too the s&p hitting an intraday high. what's behind it all? >> you know, part of the reason you're seeing stocks, this trend moving higher is because some pockets are improving. you're seeing improvement in consumer spending, the housing market. not so much in the jobs market. what is really moving the markets higher is sheer momentum. it's getting a big push from the continued flow of fed stimulus money pushing down interest rates and sending investors to the best investment out there and that's stocks. that's really what's created this stellar first quarter. look at the returns that have come out of the first quarter. the dow is up 11%. the nasdaq is higher. the s&p 500 has climbed almost 10% higher and the s&p 500 just broke through its all time high and is making history today. it broke through the all time high set in october of 2007.

that is just sheer momentum helping this trend of stocks moving higher as well. but remember, this is a market that moves on economic news and any bad news could set the market back. even though when bad news has come out lately the market seems to have shrugged it off. >> what a run it's been. good to see you. alison kosik in new york. >> ahead to the mediterranean island of cyprus where banks opened for business today after a 12-day shutdown. people waiting in lines for hours to withdraw their money from their accounts but there is a limit on how much cash they can get out. >> the government trying to prevent by doing that a run on the banks and also complying with the massive bailout deal with the european union. joining us from london, richard, no funding of cypriots these days but where does this go from here around the world? >> let's deal with cyprus first. the president of the country

tweeted after the banks opened gratitude to the people of cyprus for what he described. it was much more orderly than people thought. there were of course security guards on hand and those restrictions, they say they are temporary, lasting seven days. i've not met one person or analyst or economist who thinks they won't be in place for many weeks if not months. i'll buy you coffee if they are up in just a week or so. as for con teenage tagion if ev believes tiny little cyprus can't really cause that much damage on its own, it's the principle. currency controls, depositors having money taken out of their accounts. that is really what is worrying people elsewhere in the union.

>> richard, we are seeing u.s. markets doing pretty well. the economy here recovering. how does that compare to what is taking place in europe and as well as china? >> there is no question that the u.s. is a sparkling diamond in an otherwise sea of excrement from the european union. the u.s. will grow roughly 1.5% to 2%. all right? 2.2% perhaps. the european union is madly in resaengs likely to remain that way. the oecd came out with a report today pointing out that the u.s. was doing rather well. the european union and the eurozone is the worry. and the interesting thing, i'm now going to pour water all over you, michael, and alison's discussion of the markets. the oect also said today that markets are getting ahead of

themselves. they said markets are not representing fundamentals. let me tell you what that means. it either means fundamentals rise or markets -- >> yeah, yeah. i just can't wait for the day when we hear the fed use that colorful term that you used, the rising sea of -- we'll leave it there. >> richard puts it only as richard can. he gets away with it, too. >> exactly. good to see you. >> see you, richard. here is more of what we're working on for this hour. around the world he is a hip hop pioneer of course involved in just about everything. that's right. we'll talk to russell simmons about his plea to stop people from buying diamonds that are mined in war zones. >> plus he has a youth project up his sleeve. we'll have a chat. it is a ghost town in japan. we'll show you brand new pictures from inside the evacuation zone this is two years after the fukushima nuclear power plant disaster.

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russell simmons is also an ambassador for world peace. >> he does it all. earlier i talked to him this year about his trip to israel as part of a program to promote peace through spiritual dialogue. take a look. here's what he said. a pioneer in the hip hop industry, simmons has been actively involved in resolving what he has described as rap beefs between artists for 30 years. the conflict in the middle east he suggests could be handled in a similar fashion. >> you work out something that's fair. you start making the saudi plan work. you have all of the support systems from all these arab nations. you feel somewhat more comfortable in your space. you isolate hamas. you create relationship, a good dialogue with abbas. possible. it's possible. i don't have to be a genius or political analyst or expert. >> russell simmons joins us here in atlanta. good to see you. >> nice to see you. >> as always. tell us why this is so important

to you about your latest trip to israel and what you hope you bring to the table after i spoke to you, the idea of going to israel and creating these programs, i have programs in 36 countries. we exchange pull pits. in israel we see the chief rabbi and the palestinian people and we find there are a loft the same ideas about what peace can be. how you can forge a peaceful process. and so we have these programs, hundreds of programs around the world, and they're very effective. it's not only that the programs promote dialogue and where people find the sameness in religion and ideology. it's where they fight for the rights of the others. where the -- the board of imams not the american board of imams wrote so many letters to hamas or at least the israeli soldiers. it's where the rabbis rally. we had i muslim for a day. that rally was on the cover of the papers.

they stopped the peter king hearings. the israeli population and the palestinian population can live in peace. i think the president going there is good. pushing them to have dialogue is good. and i think that if the chief raabi and grand leader can be in agreement so there can be dialogue at least between netanyahu and abbas. i think it is our job to push for that dialogue. >> you can solve the israeli-palestinian peace process on the back of a cocktail napkin if you were going to get serious about it. >> right. it is not about religion. it's about land and you can have the religious leaders on your side. you can have the people on your side. >> the land is based in religion. if you have religious leaders that agree -- people's protection of it is at least right? that is why people keep it going. so this dialogue can ensue and can promote peace. >> why hasn't it? it's been years. >> you know, it doesn't matter how long a room has been dark. strike a match, it gets light

just the same, right? so we don't care about what happened in the past. i know that people are wounded and hurt people are hurt people and that process continues to cycle but it has to stop somewhere doesn't it? and so the president's trip we hope is inspiring and the dialogue between imams and rabbis. we have now 20 programs in israel as well. not only around the world but in israel. we've been invited to have the chief rabbi go to the number one mosque in the palestinian territory. abbas made that invitation. so this dialogue with exchanging pulp pulpits, you'd be amazed at sophisticated people, educated, sweet, spiritual people don't trust the other. and when they meet the other they find that, well all they thought about them is wrong. >> you're in atlanta for a very important cause but you are trying to use your own business and sense of entrepreneurship to educate and encourage others.

>> yes. >> tell us about that. >> well, my experience is, you know, as an entrepreneur, are ones that i like to share or i can. this green project is one that speaking at it is inspiring to me as it does inspire the people who come to the convention. so i'm happy to do that. that's why i'm here in atlanta. >> okay. >> there is also something else. we'll talk about that some other time we were going to mention just briefly because we mentioned it before the break about the diamonds. this is something you also continue -- one of my foundations. i am the chairman of the diamond empowerment fund. we underwrite education in places where diamonds are a natural resource and the diamond industry had been very supportive of that and especially since the blood diamond movie. they were very spofive and millions made going back to education and benefiting the people in the countries where the diamonds are a natural resource. so that is one thing we do. >> ongoing problem. >> you do a little bit of everything. >> a lot of smart people around

me. >> absolutely. of course we'll talk to you more as well in the next hour. russell simmons outspoken on major social issues of the day including the same sex marriage debate playing out before the supreme court. russell simmons, thanks so much for joining us. appreciate it. >> my pleasure. well, nelson mandela meanwhile is in the hospital for the second time this month. we've got a live report from south africa up next. t's lots o. all waking up. connecting to the global phenomenon we call the internet of everything. ♪ it's going to be amazing. and exciting. and maybe, most remarkably, not that far away. we're going to wake the world up. and watch, with eyes wide, as it gets to work. cisco. tomorrow starts here. [ female announcer ] neutrogena® pore refining cleanser. alpha-hydroxy and exfoliating beads work to clean and tighten pores so they can look half their size.

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welcome back to "around the world." we'll take you now to south africa the country's beloved former president nelson mandela in hospital for the second time in a month. >> he was admitted overnight because of a reoccurring lung infection. the office of south african president jacob zuma put out a statement asking for the world to pray for him.

we're following developments from johannesburg. last time i was there it was in october. a lot of people were very worried about his health because he had been in the hospital before. what do we know about this go round? >> reporter: absolutely. nelson mandela's health has been steadily declining. many south africans acutely aware of it. they're worrying mainly because officials here are saying he was taken to hospital late wednesday night. effectively he was rushed to hospital with this reoccurring lung infection. now, i spoke to medical experts who said basically a lung infection is pneumonia. he is probably being treated with antibiotics with therapy and we did hear in a latest statement he is responding to treatment. that is good news. he still remains under observation in hospital. >> what was interesting here, and getting you to read the tea

leaves, is the statement by the presidency was asking for prayer. i mean, that's kind of significant. they sound more concerned this go round. tell us about that. >> they do. because we don't get a lot of information about mandela's health. we get these sort of three-line statements from the presidency. the fact they admitted he had been rushed to hospital, asking for prayers, did indicate that they were concerned. previous statements have spoken about, you no need to panic. there was reassurance that these were just routine tests, etcetera, so i think there has been a sense of concern about mandela's health. i know from my own sources close to mandela that doctors have been concerned about him picking up an infection in the previous few weeks because of the change of seasons.

autumn is coming. it has been getting chillier at night. there have been quite warm days. the doctors felt he was vulnerable to infection. they basically said limit the amount of visitors. they haven't let him go downstairs. he's been kept inside his room. i must say his room inside his home here in johannesburg is a bit like a high care hospital unit, very sterile. so the fact that he is still under those circumstances than 24-hour monitoring he is getting from medical staff and still got the inspection sort of adds to the fact that he was rushed to the hospital in the middle of the night and indicates doctors were very concerned. >> keep us up to date. thank you. >> he is 94 years old after all. anything that happens after that age is a rather serious situation. olympian and accused murderer oscar pistorius can now leave south africa under certain conditions. we'll have a live report up next. [ male announcer ] the chevrolet cruze eco has active aero grille shutters to improve aerodynamics. so it can offer an epa estimated 42 miles per gallon,

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welcome back to around the world. two u.s. b-2 stealth bombers flew from missouri in the united states to south korea. that is a nonstop, 6500-mile flight. >> the u.s. military officials say the bombers dropped nonexplosive munitions there. this is part of an annual joint military exercise with seoul. it happened during the week when north korea issued several new threats against the u.s. as well as south korea. >> perhaps a message. let's go to china and have a look at this terrifying video. you'll see the moment a security guard was swallowed up by a sinkhole. he was, sadly, killed when this happened. >> chinese media report the sinkhole is more than 16 feet in diameter. four floors deep. officials are now investigating what happened there. residents have been complaining about tremors from a construction site that is pretty close by. >> tragic story. to south africa a judge

easing bail restrictions on oscar pistorius. the olympic track star of course charged in the murder in the killing of his girlfriend. >> miss tore yous npistorius wio travel outside the country. it was first argued that pistorius was a flight risk so the judge reverses himself and decides to lift the travel ban? why? >> reporter: well, i think in the first 15 to 20 minutes of the hearing it was very, very clear that this judge was uncomfortable with the decisions that were made by the lower court that granted oscar pistorius bail you'll remember late in february. the state at that time failed to prove that oscar pistorius was a flight risk, so the judge was

asking why is it that thist state agreed that oscar pistorius is an international star, he is recognized all over the world, he needs this, he has property here. he has no inclination or plan to relocate from south africa but yet so many strict laws were included in his bail condition. he couldn't travel overseas. and the judge also had a problem with some of the other conditions that were placed on oscar pistorius saying they had absolutely nothing to do with the merits of the case. so when he did rule, he specified six of these conditions, saying to him they were unreasonable. so it was basically because the state first and foremost failed to prove that oscar pistorius was a flight risk but then didn't want him to travel. now he has said oscar pistorius is free to travel. he must, however, let

authorities know a week before he leaves where he is going and when he returns he needs to hand over his passport to his lawyer. those are the new restrictions. everything else that oscar pistorius couldn't drink, couldn't go back to his home which is of course the crime scene, couldn't be charged with a crime that related to violence against women. all of those were set aside by the court today. >> okay. >> all right. thank you. >> thanks for that. it's interesting, too. because the sporting -- the international association of athletics federation say he is now free to go and compete. he had some paid events coming up. whether those will still take him now is going to be very interesting to see. if he qualifies for international competition they'll let him run because innocent until proven guilty. >> it will be interesting to see if he has invitations and what that means. he has really been sequestered for the most part. >> yes. he had a couple outstanding ones. it will be interesting whether they'll pick him up again and pay him.

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welcome back to around the world. to japan where more than two years after the fukushima nuclear power plant disaster tens of thousands of people still can't go home. >> so the mayor of one contaminated town invited google to capture what his city looks like today. these images, quite eerie. chad meyers is telling us a little bit. how did google get the pictures in the first place? >> reporter: it is a grim reminder of what happened there a couple years ago. we have a car. google drives around in his car and sometimes you may see it in your neighborhood with a big bubble on top taking 3d or 360-degree pictures. for the first time golg was allowed to drive its car, not unmanned, through the streets of niamey, japan. fukushima not that far away where the disaster happened. all the blue lines now you can

look to see what the town looks like. i'll give you an idea, an unfortunate idea of what the town is. right there, this is a mirror. i found it on the street. this is a mirror to help drivers know if cars are coming but there is the top of the car. here's the google car itself and there is the ball that does take all of the pictures. so we'll get to some of these devastating pictures. you have to understand that this was a town with bustling streets, people living through this, and all of a sudden there's just nothing here. the town a complete disaster. just an empty area. even coke still in the coke machine here. i've seen a couple pictures where there are still areas where people were selling clothes and the clothes are still hanging on the racks in the middle of the parking lot. that was two years ago. now you get closer to the ocean and this is where the devastation really occurs. this is where the wave came in. this honestly looks like wave land after katrina. this is what the area looks like. all of the buildings completely knocked down and the same story no matter where you go closer to

the ocean. this is almost a half mile inland. that boat or ship was pushed by the wave all the way through here. if you notice, there are foundations of homes here, here, here, and here. just a grim reminder. you can go online to google maps as a reminder of what happened in japan on that day. a devastating earthquake to start with and the tsunami that knocked all of this stuff down. >> chilling stuff. >> yes. >> when they went back to chernobyl. >> exactly. >> all deserted but still intact. >> he says katrina. that's the first thing i thought of. post katrina. >> horrible. chad, thanks for that. >> you're welcome. >> so this is kind of a strange story. >> the pictures are amazing. >> an invasion of locusts threatening a food supply in madagascar. when you have diabetes... your doctor will say get smart about your weight. i tried weight loss plans... but their shakes aren't always made for people with diabetes. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes.

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fashion designer vera wang opens her first bridal store in china earlier this year, but she is getting some criticism now. >> indeed she is. why? because she was charging women almost $500 to just try one on. yeah. this was a shanghai store. that was the only one that actually did charge the fee. >> well, so now she is announcing she is dropping the charge and a company spokeswoman says the fee was an attempt to prevent counterfeiters from

knocking off her prize dresses. >> that'll do it. check this out. the island nation of madagascar, they are dealing with a plague of, well, biblical proportions some are saying. >> almost can't believe this really. this is locusts, billions of them, devouring crops. the land as well where animals are grazing. the u.n. is warning that there could be a humanitarian disaster that is going to happen. >> officials say if nothing is done the locust plague could spread across two-thirds of the country. nearly half the country right now. extraordinary. >> hard to believe that is actually happening. and of course congratulations to madonna, the material girl now a billionaire. yep. reportedly a member of the exclusive club pushing her over the top. her record breaking tour last year made more than $305 million. >> made a bit more too in merchandise sales and business investments as well. pretty impressive stuff. now in china, just weeks after the discovery of dead pigs in a river, you remember this story,

what happens? a thousand dead ducks have been found. >> yeah. this is pretty scary stuff. chinese officials are saying that there is no safety threat to the food. >> just like they said last time. >> reporter: this is one of the most popular food markets here in beijing. it's got a pretty good reputation. but there's a whole series of scandals breaking here in china on food safety issues. the latest is this. a thousand dead ducks found in the szechwan province in this river. authorities don't know what caused it but they say people are safe. it's perhaps because of the feed or the drastic temperature fluctuation in the area under our jurisdiction and even the whole szechwan province there is no major epidemic. in other words the possibility of an epidemic is preliminarily ruled out. >> reporter: comes off the back of more than 10,000 pigs found in a river near shanghai. now, in both cases they don't know what exactly caused these

mass deaths. they are saying to the public they shouldn't worry but there is a growing sense of fear in china about food safety issues. >> yeah. don't worry. >> i'd be concerned. >> they're pigs. dead ducks. locusts. everything is all right, folk. everything's fine. >> terrible. a brazilian doctor, this is really bizarre, is accused of killing patients. that is right. to free up hospital beds. >> that was the reason they say. investigators are also looking into hundreds of other deaths to see if there is a link. to breathe, but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can be in the scene. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than twice a day.

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a very sad story. the brazilian city where a doctor is accused of an unspeakable crime. police say she killed patients. why? to free up hospital beds. >> she has been charged with seven deaths but officials are now looking into the deaths of hundreds, possibly hundreds of other patients. how did this doctor manage to do this? what was the reasoning? >> it is a very gruesome story, suzanne. this woman, dr. virginia suarez desosa was the director of the

intensive care unit at this hospital for seven years. and so while she has only been formally charged with the murder of seven people, they believe she cob responsible for the deaths of up to 3 hyphen patients. and basically the investigate oz have already found a pattern with those patients that she is charged with their murder. they believe she and a team of three doctors and three nurses administered muscle relaxants to the terminally ill patients and at the same time cut off or reduced their supply of oxygen so they couldn't breathe. very gruesome stuff. as you mentioned they believe that she did this in order to free up hospital beds. this is according to wiretaps that have been leaked to the press and you hear her saying things like, well we got rid of two today so let's put the other one off until tomorrow. this is just sending shock waves through brazil. because she was the head of the intensive care unit for seven years hundreds and hundreds of families are wondering what if my loved one wouldn't have died

if she hadn't been there. >> an awful, awful story. unbelievable. can't even imagine that is possible. >> they are now looking back into hundreds of other deaths to see if there is any link. and other staff involved. >> i understand some were conscious at the time as well. >> yes. well, it is against the law but a russian managed to sneak to the top of egypt's great pyramid just to take some pictures. that is what is trending. >> check it out when we come back. [ male announcer ] this is kevin.

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let's take a look at what is trending right now around the world. this photo of the egyptian pyramids might be spectacular but the photographer is now apologizing for it. the reason? you're not supposed to climb the pyramids. they could be damaged. when people saw the photos online many were outraged. >> the russian photographer says i didn't mean to offend anyone. he just wanted to capture the beauty of this one of a kind place. >> several stories catching our attention today the photos as well. take a look at this. in london an artist expressed strong feelings towards former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn in this gallery portrait, the piece made up of small badges showing pornographic images and photos of, yeah, piglets. the piece is called "la pig." >> okay. to the philippines now some filipinos commemorating