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suzanne malveaux. a bus heading to oklahoma hit an impact buffer. at least 36 people have been taken to area hospitals, three with critical injuries. want to bring in bud gillette of our dallas affiliate ktvt joining us live from the scene of the crash. first of all, how did this happen? >> reporter: well, suzanne, this is a turnpike, the george h.w. bush turnpike. and it's a feeder road if you will to a straight line to oklahoma. it's believed that's where the bus was headed this morning. i can stand back here and zoom in. still a very active scene. you hear helicopters overhead. what we're told the bus headed in the direction you're looking at northbound hit what's called a rubber impact and that is essentially a rubberized barrier to keep people in the highway. well, it hit that rubber barrier, went across that lane of traffic, the next lane of traffic and then hit a concrete barrier that separates the lanes. and at that time it flipped

over. we had actually pointed out two people dead here at the scene. they're still trying to determine how many folks were on the bus. at last count there were 45. it can hold 49 but it's theorized not everybody was on it and picking some folks up to go again to oklahoma. we had 36 people gone to a number of area hospitals including nine to a major trauma center, parkland hospital, which on a good day and without a lot of traffic you can get there in 15 or so minutes. they're used to handling this kind of thing. there was a mass casualty put into place here just almost automatically. we're told from the irving police department that several agencies just started sending people when they heard. didn't wait for a plan to be called or anything. they just started throwing police officers to help direct traffic, fire and ambulances and things like that. >> yeah. >> reporter: and they had people swarming on the scene almost immediately. this is a major intersection. and this is going to be closed down for several more hours as the texas department of public safety will do the

investigation, this is a state highway. >> bud, we are looking at very dramatic pictures. do we have any idea at all what happened with the bus driver here? do we know what happened on that bus? >> reporter: we don't know. we can probably find out because he survived the accident. he's in the hospital according to the medical director for the irving fire department here. and they'll be able to get specifics from him when he is available to talk to them. again, we don't know what his situation is. we don't know how injured he was, for instance, whether he's in surgery. a lot of people in surgery now we're told. at least nine for this particular hospital, this trauma hospital, parkland hospital. but, again, he hit this rubber barrier, this rubber impact attenuator it's called and bounced across a couple lanes of traffic before hitting the concrete barrier and flipping on its side. >> wow. bud, if you have any more information, we'll get back to you on that. we appreciate the update. we've been following this story as well, the senate voting just

in the last hour to break a republican filibuster move towards debate on new gun control proposals. the president called the families of the shooting victims of newtown, connecticut after that vote happened. yesterday we saw the first lady michelle obama making an emotional appeal in chicago to stop the gun violence. and she talked about hidya pendleton shot and killed just days after performing at the inauguration. >> and as i visited with the pendleton family at hydiya's funeral, i couldn't get over how familiar they felt to me because what i realized was her family was just like my family. hydiya pendleton was me and i was her. but i got to grow up and go to princeton and harvard law school and have a career and a family and the most blessed life i

could ever imagine. and hydiya we know that story. >> an emotional first lady. that was just blocks away from her home. it really does hit her home. she grew up there on the south side of chicago. this has turned into something very personal for the white house and also those families who were there inside the senate chamber from newtown who were watching that vote. what was it like? i mean, this is really extraordinarily different than what we normally see. >> it really is. you know, so much of the debate around here can be done with sort of nameless, faceless people that they're talking about when it comes to legislation and how it would affect them. not in this case and not at all, suzanne. i was in the senate chamber when the senate voted. it's a procedural measure but a critical one that allows them to get to the point where they can start debate. i saw the newtown families

sitting there watching. and there's no question that the presence of these families, these parents of these little children who have been here for three days now, you see them in the hallways, it's palpable. now, at the end of the vote you still had 31 senators who voted against moving forward. and, you know, to be fair those people have very serious policy concerns about anything that has to do with curbing or putting new gun restrictions on the law books. so there really is a big policy difference. and we have to be true to that. but there's no question that there really is a different feel here in the capitol about this debate than we have had about so many others in the recent past. >> dana, i know you'll be following it very closely obviously in the next couple of weeks they'll be putting out new proposals as well. of course any gun control proposal's going to have to also be approved by the house. we're actually going to see what speaker john boehner has to say about the gun control debate. his weekly news conference going to happen in a couple minutes or

so. we'll be listening in for any comments he makes, developments and of course we'll dip into it live as we're monitoring that there. stocks edging higher today. both the dow, s&p 500 at record highs. alison kosik on the floor of the new york stock exchange. alison, i'm going to turn off my phone here and let you talk. >> okay. everybody wapts to know what's driving this market hire e higher. there are two things driving it higher. for one, the federal reserve is pumping billions into treasuries and mortgage-backed securities pushing interest rates lower and sending investors the best game in town, and that's stocks. the other part of it is actually a slowly improving u.s. economy. especially with housing. in fact, today we got some new numbers that first-time jobless claims fell more than expected last week. but the interesting thing is you're trying to point to one reason why you're seeing the market jet so high, there's no major reason for this. retail sales numbers are coming in today, they're not so great.

the jobs market is really, really weak. so this is a big momentum play at this point. it looks like investors are sort of not even looking at the information and instead you're seeing let's see the s&p 500 rocket higher up 12% so far this year. the path of least resistance really is higher. investors see this moving train and they want to jump on before it leaves the station. guess what we're watching for now, suzanne? dow 15,000. did you notice, we're getting close? >> wow, i know, right? that's pretty exciting. this is a good thing. >> oh, sure. it's a good thing. but also putting it in perspective, you know, some people are saying is this too much, too fast? and it really isn't. because if you sort of factor in inflation, the dow is still actually below its record highs. also, you have to look at the time period we're in. it's not unusual to see a rally this time of year meaning from november through april. we are actually at the tail end of the best months for the stock market. if you look back in history since 1950 during that best

month -- those best months for stocks during november through april the s&p 500 has accumulated 1,400 points. the worst months of course are from may through october. that's why you know the old saying, sell in may, go away. one analyst a chief equity strategist at snp capital iq. >> alison, appreciate it. the prank is called s.w.a.t.ing, and "american idol" host ryan seacrest is the latest. a 911 call reported armed men shooting their way inside his home. when officers arrived they found seacrest at home but no armed men. the dangerous expensive prank has now come to be known as s.w.a.t.ing because police s.w.a.t. teams are often dispatched. seacrest joins a growing list of s.w.a.t.ed stars. celebrity reporter harvey levin

of tmz, you've been covering this. i imagine this is pretty frustrating for a lot of celebrities and the police as well. what do they tell you? >> well, we know a fair amount about this now. initially it seemed like there was a 12-year-old boy who was behind the first cases of s.w.a.t.ing involving justin timberlake, miley cyrus, a couple others. he got caught. and as soon as he got caught, we know that there was a group that took over. and they are responsible for this spade of s.w.a.t.ing incidents over the last couple of weeks. you will recall, suzanne, i'm sure that there was a hackers group that was getting into financial information from, you know, michelle obama on down. it is that group, we know, that is taking -- that is laying claim to doing all of these recent s.w.a.t.ing incidents including ryan seacrest,

p-diddy, kim kardashian, paris hilton, russell brand, selena gomez, that this group is claiming responsibility for doing all of this. it is really frustrating the police departments in this area. and every time it happens they send a dozen or more police cars out, helicopters. and the probability of somebody getting hurt in something like this is really pretty high. >> and so, harvey, i mean this seems to be growing here. you say there's this one group in particular in that area. do you think this is something that's becoming more popular as people get attention and they see, wow, we can get the police to come, we can get the s.w.a.t. team to come and actually respond to these prank calls? >> you would think so. and i guess the predicate of the question is, are there a lot of copycats doing this? based on what we know, the answer so far is no, that this particular hacker's group is the one that seems to be doing all of them. and if you look at it, a couple of times we've seen three in a

day. but they're taking almost glee in doing this. and they're basically picking a list of people that they think will get a lot of attention. and so far they've succeeded in that. >> yeah. and harvey, i know the other story we've all been following of course beyonce and jay-z's recent trip to cuba. i want you to listen to this, this was just released moments ago. ♪ i done turn havana to atlanta" "fine, let me commit a real crime ♪ ♪ i'm in cuba, i love cubans ♪ communist talk is so confus g confusing ♪ >> so we just heard from jay carney at the white house. he said, no, he hasn't talked to

the president. and the president hasn't talked to him about his cuba trip but u.s. officials do say it was sanctioned. what do you know? any back story about jay-z or beyonce on this trip? >> it's interesting. look, when this happened we put some posts up on our website and so did a lot of other people asking, you know, what exactly are they doing there? the pictures that came out were all pictures of them sightseeing. and you can't go to cuba for purely tourism. >> right. >> you're not allowed to do it. so it raised questions. we called lots and lots of people including jay-z and beyonce. they were mum. they wouldn't say whether they got a cultural exchange license or whatever. everybody was not talking about it. when this song came out early this morning, we were on the phone immediately. i will tell you this, suzanne, we called -- we called ten offices of either senators or congressmen within ten minutes or so of the time that the song actually came out. and we put it up on the site. they all knew about it.

i mean, it was so interesting. every single one not only knew about it, they had already heard it. it was like they were sitting at the computer waiting for the release of a song. and they were all trying to find out as well. i have never seen anything like this where congress was so, you know -- >> engaged. >> -- poised. it was amazing. and they all wanted to know based on the lyric whether obama in some way sanctioned the trip and felt that he might be in trouble for doing it. >> yeah. amazing, huh, when you got that moment all members of congress united on this one thing, what's jay-z going to say about this trip? >> what's jay-z up to? >> anything juicy you're working on that we should be aware of? >> yeah. there is a report out about a -- an athlete, somebody in the nfl where they're insinuating that this may be the first openly gay player. we have some information that we're about to put up on the website. this has gotten a lot of news in

the -- made a lot of news in the last 24 hours. and probably within ten minutes we're going to put something up on it. but this has become a real issue especially an interview with magic johnson a week ago after his son came out and magic was saying i want somebody to come out. so this is kind of the next step. >> can you tell us who it is? >> i will in ten minutes. >> oh, ten minutes. all right. we'll check it out. ten minutes. we're going to call you back, ten minutes. all right. harvey, good to see you as always. thank you. appreciate it. here's what else we're working on for this hour. the president had republicans over to eat last night. can his dinner diplomacy bring together both sides over some tough issues? plus, we wanted to know how hard or easy is it to buy a gun at a gun show. so we sent a crew to three different states. the seller is legally required to check id like a driver's license to make sure the buyer is not from out of state. in this case, no identification asked for, no paperwork, not even a question like, what are

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guess who's coming to dinner? well, the republicans. the president hosting a dinner for a group of republicans that happened last night. wolf blitzer is joining us to talk about the outreach. wolf, i want to talk about that but also about what's developed here in the last couple hours the brouhaha over jay-z and beyonce going to cuba and u.s. officials saying they did have permission to do so and then jay-z releasing this rap if you will defending the trip and saying -- eluding to the fact he might have spoken to the president about it. jay carney just weighed in on this in the white house briefing and i want you to listen to this. >> well, it's certainly not for show in the president's mind. the president believes both and all of his engagements with republicans have been useful. he is very much of the mind that exploring the possibility of finding common ground is in the interest of the american people and the american economy.

and it's in the interest of trying to find bipartisan solutions to a whole range of issues, not just our budget and fiscal challenges but immigration reform, reducing gun violence. >> all right. so, wolf, that was obviously the bit of sound about the republican dinner. but essentially what jay carney did say was that it's just a song. the president did not talk to jay-z. what do you make of the fact that so many lawmakers, we just talked to harvey levin of tmz saying they were waiting if there was any kind of fallout here if in fact it was true what jay-z rapped about he had talked to the president about his trip. it's pretty odd, don't you think, so mitch attention being paid over this relationship between the president and jay-z? >> and beyonce for that matter. i guess people are very interested, obviously, in jay-z and beyonce and their trip to cuba which we now know did have approval from the u.s. treasury

department which is to approve nonjournalistic if you will visits to cuba. in this case they did. there are a lot of american tourists who go and have this opportunity for a cultural exchange if you will. so what they really did was not all that extraordinary. a lot of americans visit cuba nowadays. and the obama administration as you well know, suzanne, they've made it clear they'd like to improve this dialogue, this openness if you will between cuba and the united states hoping it will lead to easing of the problems within cuba itself that have caused so many decades of disruption with the united states and maybe it will improve it down the road. they did let these -- they did return to the united states the parents of these two kids who abducted their children to cuba. and they're now back in florida. that would certainly seem like the state department and obama administration as a constructive gesture on the part of the havana government. so there's always something going on between the united states and cuba. and now all of a sudden jay-z and beyonce are in the middle of

it. so that always makes it fun too. >> yeah, you know, keeps it fresh. >> by the way, i think the new song is pretty good, the new rap by jay-z. i've actually listened to it. >> yes, yes, we've listened to it numerous times. you've got to bleep out certain moments though. >> yeah. i keep waiting for alicia keys to join in a little bit and start singing a little bit as well. >> we'll see if she does. tell us about that dinner last night, the republicans there. how did that go over? >> i think it went over well based on what johnnyi isaacson, the president called him and said can you bring over a dozen or so republican senators, the second kind of dinner the president's had. the first one he had at the jefferson hotel, a swanky place, a nice restaurant here in washington. but this one was in the private family dining room over at the white house. and, look, they spent about two and a half, almost three hours talking about mostly budget and economic issues but a little bit

on guns, little bit on immigration. my own sense is, look, the more you talk with each other, maybe something positive could emerge. doesn't hurt to talk. and i think that this so-called charm offensive that the president is engaged in is helping ease this dialogue, ease this little nonwashington con fron -- this typical washington confrontation. the more you talk with each other, you have a meal, i think it might not necessarily help but certainly can't hurt. >> all right. good. wolf, good to see you as always. appreciate it. >> thank you. this place looks like a war zone. that is what one person said after tornadoes left a path of destruction. the storms not even over. that up next. ♪ beep beep what? ♪if you set your phone to vibrate ♪ ♪ then it might alert your button flies all the ♪ ♪ girls and the guys wanna keep that credit score ♪ ♪ high like a private jet free-credit-score-dot-com ♪ ♪ don't forget! narrator: offer applies with enrollment in freecreditscore.com

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we've seen some severe weather across parts of louisiana. travel you up the line. some schools in alabama are already releasing children because they remember the last time there was a situation like this and what happened to tuscaloosa. there's the tornado. this is what i've been watching near macon the background is black, columbus, mississippi, a very large town, this storm right here as it's travels close to macon, mississippi, that's the violent there. and may get close to columbus or just to the east. we'll keep watching it here. if it does approach a major city, i will break in right away, suzanne. >> we will keep an eye on that. thank you very much, chad. the gun debate on capitol hill has many people looking at gun shows. coming up, how a cnn crew was able to buy an arsenal of guns with just a pocket full of cash. - that could be a question of blood flow.

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senate voted just last hour to break a republican filibuster move towards debate on gun control. it was 68-31 vote clearing the way for lawmakers to take up proposals on new gun regulations. that includes a compromise plan by democratic and republican senators for expanded background checks. it would expand them to include internet sales and close the loophole over buying weapons at gun shows. so, what exactly is a so-called gun show loophole? well, martin savidge and cnn crew went to five gun shows to find out exactly what this is. wound up leaving with more than just information. watch. >> reporter: it's a simple idea, just how easily can you buy a gun at a gun show? so a cnn crew took a weekend drive 600 miles with a pocket full of cash hitting five gun shows in three states, tennessee, south carolina and georgia. first up, north georgia, the

venue is small and the selection limited. >> there weren't a lot of vendors. there wasn't a lot of product out there for people to buy. >> reporter: next, the crew went to saturday morning local gun show held in a convention center. it was a smith and wesson semiautomatic that first caught our producer's eye. asking price $625. >> it's a nice one. it's not brand spanking new. >> reporter: but it's early. and the team opts to keep looking. ten to 20 minutes later they circle back to the same table negotiating for the same gun. >> this one. >> reporter: it's a deal. no background check, it's not needed for a private sale. but the seller is legally

required to check id, like a driver's license to make sure the buyer is not from out of state. in this case, no identification asked for, no paperwork, not even a question like what are you going to do with it. in fact, neither the seller nor buyer even used a first name. and if that's not surprising enough, listen to what the seller said he got the gun. >> i got that off of a police officer yesterday. >> really? >> yes. >> reporter: that's right. he got it from a police officer. it was so easy, the next time the team decided to up the ante. >> that one right there's very, very new. >> reporter: this time they see two 9-millimeter semiautomatic handguns, glock 17s. asking price for the pair is $1,100. the producer offers a flat $1,000. that's rejected. the next bid of $1050 prompts a phone call. >> one of them is his, one is

mine. >> reporter: in fact, in all of the deals the team paid less than the asking price. >> all right. we can do 1050. >> reporter: the producer boxes the guns in their carrying cases and heads for the door. again, no names, no id, no paperwork, not even a receipt. total time at the gun show 45 minutes. $1,650 spent. three semiautomatic handguns purchased. incidentally because there's no paper trail none of these weapons can be traced to the buyer. later the same day in greenville, south carolina, it's the biggest show of the five our team attended. after wandering the floor our producer spots this gentleman with a semiautomatic on his shoulder. >> strap doesn't come with it. that's my .22. i just moved it over.

>> reporter: the bushmaster xm 15 as its known is a semiautomatic only civilian version of the m-16 u.s. military rifle first introduced in the vietnam war and still used by u.s. troops today. >> it's out in the car. i just didn't want to carry it all around. i brought it to a gun show a couple weeks ago in columbia and the case this big and bulky and there were so many people in there i kept banging people and that's why i didn't bring it with me. yeah. either one. the 223 or 5.56. >> any way you'd go down 50 bucks? >> yeah. i can go down 50. >> all right. you want to walk out and i'll pay you? >> sure. let's do it. >> reporter: the seller takes our offer $1,150 from first

conversation to settling a price takes just 70 seconds. out in front of the convention center the money is exchanged and rifle complete with case is handed over. our team walks away with a variation of the same weapon used in the deadly sandy hook shooting. again, no questions asked. >> there's the case. and there's the gun. and there's the clip. okay. thank you very much. >> appreciate it. >> thank you. >> reporter: we should make clear that there were three instances, one in each state where the team was asked for id including during this potential sale in tennessee. >> where are you from? >> georgia. >> you have to have a tennessee

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it's been a really violent reaction online to a witness who has been on the stand all week. this is the jodi arias trial. and arias of course she's on trial in phoenix accused of murdering her boyfriend. well, there's been a domestic violence expert on the stand. i want to bring in our legal analyst joey jackson to talk about who is this woman and why are people so angry with what she is saying. >> alyce laviolette.

people are vested in this trial. they have been following closely. the defendant testified for 18 days. people know what's going on here. and when you have an expert witness that number one says things that are counterintuitive, people seem to get the sense that she's making jodi arias the victim. i think people in general have the sense that travis alexander's the one dead here. so when you have an expert saying something you disagree with, that creates a reaction. number two, there's an issue of whether there's any bias here. i think the prosecutor's been really going after her to demonstrate, hey, why are you apologizing to jodi arias upon meeting her? why were you sending her a book? three and most importantly is the argument that she's having with juan martinez. answer the question. sdp a lot of what she's been saying is, well, do you want the truth or yes or no? i would put you on a time-out, mr. martinez, that's not appropriate. >> arguing with the prosecutor on the stand. >> correct. that's not appropriate. you're there as an expert witness. some things are going to favor your side, other things are

going to hurt you. give admissions to it. yes or no. i think the affect is not appropriate and i think people at home are having a hard time finding out why on re-direct and direct are you answering questions so nicely, so fluidly, but on cross you're evasive? that's a problem. and i think it's causing massive disturbance among the public. >> now, jodi arias is a woman who stabbed her boyfriend 26 times, shot him, the whole bit. so could it be that people don't believe she actually is a victim in this case of domestic violence? that's why they're having a harsh reaction to this woman? >> that's the whole point. remember, this expert witness you don't need in trials many times an expert to tell you what your eyes see, right? and what you're hearing. >> some of the tweets coming in here, this one, i hope selling your soul to the devil was worth it. your career is over. this one saying retweet if you believe alyce is a fraud and embarrassment to the mental health profession. why the vi tril.

>> it's every assessment to do the best they can in any case. but when you're arguing with the prosecutor, evading answering questions and giving testimony that many people think is really not correct based upon forgetting about an expert we've seen the trial, we know what's going on says the public who's really glued to this at home. and we think, madame expert, that your assessment differs from what they're seeing. whenever we say something, the tweets come in, we're all held accountable for what we say and what we do. she's being held accountable by the public who's riveted on this. >> we're going to see more of you after dark. you want to give us shameless -- >> sure, the shameless pitch hln after dark where we give our bold accusations is jodi a stalker or not a stalker? it will be a lot of fun. >> thank you, joey. appreciate it. police say they were abducted by their parents and

taken to cuba. now the parents are behind bars, the boys are back with the grandparents in florida. many of us wanted to know of course were the kids okay, but was it appropriate for the grandparents to put them in front of the cameras this morning? tell us what you think. we're going to have a conversation about that up next. n come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day after day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn.

so this story two young florida boys allegedly taken by their parents to cuba in a kidnapping, well, they are now back home reunited with the

grandparents. so these are the grandparents. they talked about the children's ordeal and they held this news conference that was on the front lawn, brought out the boys. so this one is 2, chase, 4-year-old cole there you see them before the cameras. the grandparents said they were not aware that they were allegedly abducted. so listen to this. >> they have been told everyone heard about their sailboat trip to cuba, another country as they called it. and their airplane ride back to america. and that everyone wants to take their picture. we ask that there be no mention of any events of the past week. >> so we're bringing in kyra phillips to talk about this. she has an hln show "raising america." so, kyra, honestly, this caused so much debate when we watched this live. a lot of us and the team were like, wow, look at those kids, they're so cute and adorable. everyone wanted to know were they okay because the parents obviously had some trouble with the law.

they're now back with the grandparents. and others, some moms, were really angry and upset with the grandparents. do you think it was appropriate how the grandparents managed handled this? >> we talk about the news story through the parents' perspective. for me, was furious. i mean i was there on the set anchoring the elliott gonzalez story. i remember what the little boy went through. it was like sheer panic. he could have been smiling. hi was played like such a political pawn and you saw what it did to them. you know, i look at these two little boys and they're so adorable, waving, holding hands. that's a lock to take at 2 and 4 with all these cameras and not for a second do these kids thing they were on sum adventure. let's be real. their parents talked openly about being on an armageddon. police were called in. there were narcotics, weapons.

>> what do you think thb? they're in the grandparents' custody. should they be in the grandparents' custody? do you think they're so irresponsible they need to be talked to? >> that's a great point. they seem like a sweet elderly couple who love the kids. they're funny, entertaining. the grand paints are probably sweet as pie and they're going crazy because their kids are not all together. so think that there's not really a clear understanding about what -- they're not getting good advice. >> how should they have handled this? is there any way the grandparents could have protected them from the media? let's be honest. there's going to be crews, media getting shots of them. the kids are okay. we see the children. what should they have done do, you think? >> put out a photo where they're

all together. they're fine. don't parade them in front of the cameras. they're going to grow up learning about their parents and it's going to be heart-wrenching. they're going to see this and say, grandma and grandpa, why didn't you protect us? now that they gave them a little, they're going to want more. let's see. they brought them out, let's see what else they do. it's over. let the kids try to get back to a normal life. >> kyra, thank you. the boys' parents appeared in court for the first time. josh and sharyn hakken. they're charged with kidnapping and child neglect. they say he tied up their grandmother in their home and then snatched the boys. he claims he then met up with

his wife, sailed to cuba as we mentioned and today this judge appointed a public defender to represent this couple after they said they could not afford a lawyer. and, oskf course, kyra tackles l things "raising america" on hln. you've got to watch that. and he hoped that the fish would be biting. whoa. he got a lot more than that. yeah, a shark crashing his party. up next. ó? ??çó

condoleezza rice wearing the historic green jacket at the masters today. she joins as the first female members of the augusta national members golf club. president bill payne welcomed them to the exclusive club calling their membership awesome. and you're about to see what happens when mother nature throws you a wild card. check it out. an extreme fisherman suddenly wishes he had a much bigger boat. watch. >> whoa! >> we're talking about a shark. a shark that was right behind the guy. he kind of freaked out a little bit. he said he was about to actually stick his hands into the water, and he's pretty thankful he

didn't. >> the shark made a circle, came around, and ate the kawakawa under my boat, hit my kayak, and then it kind of hit me what happened and then i had a reaction to all of that. >> holy cow. oh. yeah, you get the shivers a bit on it just to hear about the whole thing. >> the shivers. i'd be a little more than shivery. he said the shark actually let him keep two more fish he caught in the same spot. the guy stuck around, was still fishing. unbelievable. that's it for me. brooke baldwin is up next. she's going to have the latest on the weather including a tornado in mississippi. up next.

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