like february. take a look at these live pictures. unbelievable. >> and then check out this picture. >> yeah, it's may 1st but it feels like the middle of winter. snow is falling in colorado. >> jim spellman with the bad snowfall toss. and check out this video, venezuela parliament erupts in violent. imagine if our congress did this. we will tell you how this happened. >> and she's a singer on a mission. sheryl crow is here live with her fight to end hunger in america. it is wednesday, may 1st, "starting point" begins right now. we'll begin with new developments in the boston bombing investigation. a law enforcement official says investigators have lifted at least one fingerprint from bomb debris. meanwhile the tsarnaev carjackers victim known only as danny is speaking out describing in detail the fear he felt, his

bold get away and the 911 call he made that helped take out two suspected terrorists. pamela brown is in boston with all the details this morning. good morning, pamela. >> good morning to you, john. that's right. i spoke to the carjacking victim, danny, in person, in an off-camera conversation, and he told me that he is still recovering from the nightmare of being carjacked by dzhokhar and tamerlan tsarnaev. he also gave us a detailed account insight into the two brothers. for days after the boston marathon bombing, tamerlan and dzhokhar tsarnaev hit in plain sight, until investigators say they killed m.i.t. police officer sean collier, and then carjacked a mercedes suv. the man inside that suv, a chinese immigrant who had moved back to cambridge only two months earlier. he wants to remain anonymous and is calling himself danny. he describes his terrifying minutes with the two alleged bombers in a taped interview

with cbs news. >> they asked me a question like, do you know the boston explosion on monday? i said, yes. and then, you know, i did that. and i just killed a policeman in cambridge. >> reporter: danny told me that face-to-face conversation off camera that the older brother was talkative, outgoing, but also threatening. at one point warning him, don't be stupid. if you're cooperative, i won't kill you. danny finally found his chance to make a run for it when they pulled over for gas. >> i was counting one, two, three, four. and i just do it. and i did it. and i can feel tamerlan trying to grab me. i was running. i was just running as fast as i can and i never, i never looked back. >> reporter: this as investigators continue painstaking forensic work. sources say they found a fingerprint on the remnants of one of the bombs. but as of yet, no match. scrutiny of a different sort as critics question the fbi

handling of intelligence received from russia about the older brother. the president staunchly defending the agency's handling. >> the fbi investigated that older brother. it's not as if the fbi did nothing. they not only investigated the older brother, they interviewed the older brother. >> reporter: and for the first time we're hearing tamerlan talk, introducing himself in this boxing video that aired on "entertainment tonight." >> are you excited? >> yes. why not? you know. >> reporter: meanwhile tamerlan's widow has given the medical examiner's office consent to release his body to his family. back to that carjacking victim, danny, he says that during the 90 minutes in the car with the two brothers they talked about manhattan, and as it turns out, they had made spontaneous plans to go to new york and set off explosives in times square, according to authorities. so, had danny not escaped and set off a massive manhunt there could have been more lives lost. i asked danny if he feels like a hero. he said no, that he was just

trying to save his own life. john? >> pamela, you sat down with the carjacking victim, you said over an hour you spent with him. what was striking to you about what he revealed to you? >> well, zoraida, what was most striking is his description of the dynamic between tamerlan and his brother. essentially he said that tamerlan was the leader and dzhokhar was the follower. he said tamerlan was very talkative, very outgoing, kept asking questions. at one point, tamerlan turned to him and said, this is like something you see at a movie, isn't it? and dzhokhar was very quiet. he sat in the back seat, didn't ask many questions. he did whatever tamerlan asked him to do, like go to the atm and withdraw cash. so, danny told me that there was a clear dynamic at play. what i also thought was interesting here is how danny played up his status as an outsider. he talked about his chinese heritage. he knew that tamerlan hated americans, he made that clear, so danny did his best to

humanize himself, and according to a criminology professor we spoke with that could have helped save his life. zoraida, and john? >> all right, pamela brown for us at the site of the memorial in boston. thanks so much, pamela. some newly released poll numbers suggest americans are divided about whether u.s. intelligence did enough to prevent the boston bombings. a cbs news/"new york times" poll shows that 45% say intelligence agencies did not have information that could have prevented the attack. 41% say agencies had information that could have prevented it. polling also shows that a majority of americans think the tsarnaev brothers were connected to a larger terror group. and in a few moments we'll talk about these developments with former cia and nsa director general michael hayden. the calendar says may but look at this. a powerful winterlike storm with the potential to drop significant snow. it is barreling through the rockies and high plains this morning. our jim spellman is live in boulder weathering all the elements. two days ago it was nearly 80

degrees. what a difference? you said you were wearing flip-flops then, right? >> i was wearing flip-flops, shorts, it was great. look at it today. snow is sticking to the grass here. maybe an inch already on the ground, in the trees here is really beautiful. really a lovely snow. not sticking to the roads yet. that's good. the plows are ready to go. but that won't be as big of an issue. about 35 planes have been canceled so far. denver international airport. those are just mostly small commuter planes. hopefully it won't cause too much of those kind of hassles that usually come with snow but we'll get the moisture that we need so much for the drought and to help with wildfires. so, if we could deal with putting the shorts away, the flip-flops for a day or two, the snow is a good thing. we might as well enjoy it. >> hopefully the flip-flops don't have to be away for too long. >> our camera man is very safe.

>> the safest cameraman in america right now. jim spellman our thanks to you. so conditions have to be just right this late in the season or should i say just wrong for a storm to dump this type of significant snow. jennifer delgado live in the cnn weather center to explain what we can expect now. >> more snow, john. more snow, zoraida. and it's not just colorado. we're talking that snow moving off towards the north in parts of the upper midwest. yes, it's coming down in boulder, denver you can see in the northern part of colorado, as well as into nebraska, wyoming. the snow in some of these parts, say for colorado and the front rage, 6 to 12 inches of snowfall for areas like nebraska, we're also going to see more of that snow working in. as that moisture spreads to the north you can start to see it changing over for areas like minnesota, so for minneapolis, we're talking 6 to 9 inches for you. but as i said for areas right alone the front rage, 6 to 12 inches of snowfall. yes it's been warm so a lot of that is not going to be sticking early on but the snow will accumulate just like in minneapolis, as i said, 6 to 9

inches, parts of wisconsin, 3 to 6. as we go through the next 24 to 48 hours, we will continue to see those winter storm warnings in place. some of those through friday, potentially look at those high temperatures, much cooler out forwards the west. high 33, salt lake city 57. but ahead of that frontal system, you can see where all the warm air is. it's going to be nice and warm in the northeast, but out west, well, you know, a little bit of that wintry mix. back over to you guys. >> crazy day. jennifer delgado, thanks so much. >> it is eight minutes past the hour. new developments in the murder of 8-year-old leila fowler. an emotional coming together in valley springs california. the third grader was found stabbed to death in her home on saturday and mourners gathered yesterday at her elementary school where they held candles and wore purple and pink, leila's favorite colors. leila fowler's mother and brother addressed the crowd. >> i just want to thank the entire community and all our family and frentzs for the

overwhelming amount of support that you've given my family. it will never be forgotten. >> i'm not saying good-bye to leila. i'm going to say, i'll see you later. there's no good-byes. -- take care of my sister. >> the sheriff's department is interviewing registered sex offenders who live in that area but they are not saying whether leila was sexually assaulted when she was killed. >> new developments to tell you about in the mississippi ricin investigation and the arrest of suspect james everett dutschke. he's accused of sending those letters tainted with the deadly substance ricin to president obama and two others. an fbi affidavit says items recovered from dutschke's former martial arts studio tested positive for ricin, and that traces of the poison were found on the floor of the studio, also inside drains. the affidavit also says a witness told agents that dutschke claimed to know how to make ricin. still, no mention of a possible motive. new this morning in just about 90 minutes, new york city police are planning to remove a plane

part just discovered near ground zero. the part from one of the jets that crashed into the world trade center on september 11th, 2001, the rusted chunk of wing flap support was found last week in a narrow alley between buildings. crews are expected to begin hauling it away at about 8:30 a.m. eastern this morning. and in venezuela, life after hugo chavez is proving to be very chaotic. that country's disputed election leading to a free for all in parliament. that is amateur video and it captured some of the mayhem. opposition leaders trading punches with members of the united socialist party. the opposition is angry that they were not allowed to speak unless they first agreed to recognize nichololas maduro as chavez's rightful successor. he won the election with just 51% of the vote. the opposition is protesting the results. >> remember these pictures the next time you claim tweer too partisan in congress. new revelations for amanda knox who is speaking out for the

first time about her long, legal ordeal in italy. the american exchange student spent four years in prison for the murder of her roommate. that conviction was overturned but knox now faces another legal challenge, after italy's highest court ordered a retrial. cnn's nick valencia says knox is out to set the record straight. >> i was in the courtroom when nay were calling me a devil. i mean, it's one thing to be called certain things in the media, and then it's another thing to be sitting in a courtroom, fighting for your life, while people are calling you a devil. it's not true. for all intents and purposes, i was a murderer. whether i was or not. >> reporter: in an exclusive interview with abc news, amanda knox opened up for the first time in years about her murder conviction and ordeal through italian courts and prison. speaking to diane sawyer, knox

talked about her roommate meredith kercher, the girl she was convicted of murdering, and what happened the day in 2007 that would change her life. >> it bothers me when people suggest that she wasn't my friend. i was stunned by her death. she was my friend. >> reporter: but that's not how much of the media saw it at the time. as prosecutors painted a picture of a kinky sex game gone wrong, the media played it up. at the crime scene and immediate aftermath of her roommate's death it was actions like this, kissing her then-boyfriend who would eventually be convicted along with knox in kercher's death that made her critics question her innocence. >> people kept saying where is the anguish? where is what we think we would do if this happened to our friend? >> i have seen the same picture, and like the kissing just can't stop and that's not what that was. i want the truth to come out.

i'd like to be reconsidered as a person. >> reporter: which is why she agreed to the interview, and released a memoir. she hopes it will help clear her name. >> did you kill meredith kercher? >> no. >> were you there that night? >> no. >> do you know anything you have not told police, that you have not said in this book, do you know anything? >> no. i don't. i wasn't there. >> amanda knox's freedom is now back on the line. an italian court has ordered a retrial of her repealed conviction and knox may once again find herself pleading her case in an italian court, proclaiming her innocence. john, zoraida? >> people are going to have to watch her video, watch this revelation and judge for themselves what they think about her. >> her demeanor and disposition. that's what everybody is questioning. you judge for yourself. >> ahead on "starting point," president obama standing by the fbi over accusations that they missed intelligence before the boston bombings.

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ó? returning now to our top story. president obama says there will be an investigation into how information flowed or didn't in the case of accused boston marathon bomber tamerlan tsarnaev. so joining us now is general michael hayden, the former director of the cia and the nsa. he is currently a principle with the chertoff group, a global consulting firm. yesterday we heard president obama defend the fbi's investigation into tamerlan tsarnaev in 2011.

he said it is not as if the fbi did nothing. how do you respond to that? >> i think the president tried. now look, zoraida, we may find some things that could have been done better, should have been done better. but on the face of it, i'm not prepared to conclude right now that anyone did anything wrong. look. these are very difficult problems, and something i said more than ten years ago, even if our security services, and intelligence services are at the top of their game, that doesn't mean that bad things won't happen. this is a very hard problem for us. >> i suppose there's an issue of between whether something was done wrong, or whether more could have been done. senator lindsey graham, who has been extremely vocal about this, tweeted out yesterday after the president's speech, he said if boston is not an example of pre-9/11 stovepiping mentality, what would be? stovepiping, of course, not sharing information between agencies. what do you make of his response? >> no, no. i understand the senator's concern. we're always on guard for what

happened in this case, which is stovepiping, but it's a complex problem. this may not be so much about hiding the ball from one agency to another. it may be a question of how many balls there were, and how many balls any agency is able to catch. i mean, there has to be a threshold at which information is pushed from one agency to another. if you don't have that threshold. if you're just throwing everything you have at everyone else who is on the team, it becomes very hard to connect the dots, because you've got so many dots that the page is black. >> general hayden you said there are some fundamental problems in the way the fbi is able to gather intelligence and handle domestic surveillance. could you explain that? >> sure. now look, again, i'm not prepared to conclude that the bureau didn't do all it was required to do in this case. but we've got a problem within our political culture here in the united states. i mean the 2004 intelligence

reform act emphasized the role of the fbi as a domestic intelligence agency. even that phrase would cause many americans to double clutch. domestic intelligence agency. our western allied friends, canada, great britain, have domestic intelligence services. but only we have decided how to put that domestic intelligence activity inside of our federal police forces. and that creates tension. look, the domestic intelligence service is designed to work the spaces between cases. it's designed to gather information in the absence of a criminal predicate. well, that's not the overall culture of the fbi. so this is just very challenging for us because of the way we would decide to keep ourselves safe, and protect our civil liberties. >> general, quickly the russians, you know, they tipped off the fbi in 2011, and they had concerns about tamerlan tsarnaev, but they did not tell the fbi about that phone call

that they apparently knew about from wiretaps between the mother and tamerlan, and also another person. you think the russians have been completely frank with us from 2011? and should they be doing more here? >> no, i don't think they were completely frank. but look, i mean, i head an intelligence service. sometimes you don't give an allied service, even one that you want to help you, all of the information that you have. i think the russians here were far more than a brick shy of a load. and let me just add, when the russians come to you complaining about chechens, i mean, there are a lot of chechens that the russians are mad at. not all of them are terrorists. and even fewer of them are threats to the united states. so i understand that the bureau and cia did their duty here. but, the counterterrorism relationship with the russians isn't all that intimate. >> general michael hayden, former cia director, former nsa director and principle with the chertoff group we appreciate your insight this morning. >> general hayden seems to be offering restraint is the best policy right now.

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next on "starting point" just in to cnn we are hearing from paula broadwell for the first time. you'll remember she was the woman who had an affair with former cia director david petrae petraeus. what she is saying about life after the scandal just ahead. >> then, sheryl crow has joined the fight against hunger. she is here live with her nutrition mission. and we'll get an early listen to her new single, as well. that's a treat. "starting point" back in a moment. [ female announcer ] what does the anti-aging power of olay total effects

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any depth about what has happened to her since this scandal erupted. what she is doing now. she was at a ymca prayer breakfast in charlotte, north carolina. her hometown. when afterwards she stopped and talked. have a listen to what she had to say. >> i've made some mistakes in the past but i'm trying to move forward with my family. this whole breakfast is a reminder of what should be first in one's life and i'm thankful to have that reminder. i've been involved in a number of wounded warrior organizations and veterans support initiatives in our communities, and back to work on my doctoral pursuits. i count my blessings, and being in this wonderful country, and our wonderful community and having such a wonderful family and opportunities and the opportunities to rebuild. >> she was apparently somewhat anonymously attending this breakfast when reporters, as you see, stopped and spoke to her. miss broadwell still has a bit of a road ahead of her that she's not talking about. an investigation by the fbi in to whether she inappropriately

had classified information in her home. and as for general petraeus, the retired cia director, the retired general, he, too, still under review by the cia for his activities, whether anything inappropriate may have taken place, still the question being asked how and where she got that classified material, because she was so close to petraeus for so long. both of them apparently seeking a somewhat road to recovery, if you will, by getting involved with wounded warrior organizations. petraeus also doing the same thing. it's something we've seen many times before, people reaching out, looking to affiliate themselves with wounded warriors as they try and rehabilitate their image. >> we're seeing general petraeus a little more publicly than we have in a long time, too. barbara starr at the pentagon. thank you so much for that report. >> we have new developments in the boston terror investigation. danny, the man who was carjacked by the tsarnaev brothers, is now speaking publicly about his 90 minutes of terror.

listen to what he told the cbs evening news about his harrowing encounter with the suspected terrorists just days after the boston marathon bombing. >> so he took out his gun, pointed to me, he told me like, you know i am serious. don't be stupid. he asked me a question like, do you know the boston explosion on monday? i said, yes. he said, he did that and i just killed a policeman in cambridge. >> also new this morning tamerlan tsarnaev's widow declining to claim her husband's body. she has given medical examiner's office consent to release the body to his family. and also investigators have uncovered a new piece of evidence in the case, lifting at least one fingerprint from the debris. graphic testimony in the michael jackson wrongful death trial, just too much for his mother katherine jackson to take. she had to leave the courtroom. first full day of testimony in the jackson civil case against concert giant aeg live provided new details about the night the

pop star died. we're going to get more now from cnn's casey wian in los angeles. >> reporter: one of the paramedics who responded to michael jackson's home the day the superstar died in 2009 took the stand as the first witness in the jackson family's wrongful death lawsuit against entertainment giant aeg. he said he first thought jackson looked like a hospice patient, like someone at the end of a long disease process. he described seeing the 50-year-old singer, who suffered an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol, in this bedroom, pale, not breathing, and apparently dead. at the heart of the case, did aeg live employ and supervise dr. conrad murray? the physician convicted of involuntary manslaughter for administering the fatal dose of propofol. the jackson family contends e-mails show the concert promoter pressured murray to push jackson to perform at all costs. >> the gist of the plaintiff's

claim against aeg is that you've controlled dr. murray, and you used your control over dr. murray to pressure him in to taking unnecessary and excessive risk with his patient, michael jackson, leading to michael jackson's death. >> aeg says it never paid murray, nor was there a contract, and that he worked only for michael jackson. >> aeg does not control what happened with michael's doctor. >> reporter: an lapd detective testified he suspected jackson's death could be related to financial troubles, that the dr. would do whatever he had to to make sure he got paid. before testimony began, aeg attorney marvin putnam asked the judge to bar jackson's siblings from the tiny courtroom because they may be called as witnesses in the case. jackson family attorney argued 82-year-old matriarch katherine jackson, who is the plaintiff in the case, needed one of her children by her side. the judge allowed that, but only one jackson sibling at a time. >> what do you think about the

judge's ruling? >> reporter: jackson siblings would not comment on the decision. katherine jackson and michael's three children are seeking billions of dollars in damages. money they say the singer could have earned had he lived. casey wian, cnn, los angeles. >> more legal news to tell you. george zimmerman will not use a stand your ground defense at his murder trial next month. instead his lawyers plan to claim he shot and killed trayvon martin in self-defense. zimmerman has reportedly gained more than 100 pounds since he was first arrested. he is facing second degree murder charges when he goes on trial at the end of next month. an alleged customer at a california starbucks is being credited with spotting a woman who left two bottles of poisoned orange juice on a store shelf. the unidentified hero alerted starbucks employees, and also had the presence of mind to actually write down the suspect's license plate number, helping police make an arrest here. she is charged with attempted murder because the juice contained a lethal dose of rubbing alcohol. so far, there is no apparent

motive. >> we're still very much in investigative mode in this case just because she is, you know, off the streets, doesn't mean that we're still not trying to double-check and make sure there are no threats to the public. >> nearby starbucks stores were notified of this incident and told to check all their juice bottles. no other tainted products have been found. 37 minutes pa the hour. it was a case that catapulted the world's attention. the trial of amanda knox. millions watched for four years as foxy knoxy as she was called and her italian boyfriend were tried for the murder of knox's roommate meredith kercher. italian media had a field day with knox printing leaks from her private writings and branding her a sex-crazed drug-fueled she devil. >> in an interview on abc last night amanda was confronted by some of those headlines that filled the papers during her trial. >> she devil with an angel face, heartless manipulator.

sphinx of perugia. >> haven't heard those. i mean, i've heard the gist of them. and they're wrong. i mean, i was in the courtroom when they were calling me a devil. i mean, it's one thing to be called certain things in the media, and then it's another thing to be sitting in a courtroom, fighting for your life while people are calling you a devil. >> criminal defense attorney knows the knox case intimately. he is here to share his perspective. and the reason you know it intimately, for full disclosure, you worked as an unpaid consultant for the knox family during the first trial. so i'm sure you watched. what was your impression of amanda knox? >> my impression was that this is a young girl who after four

years of being incarcerated for a crime she didn't commit was sort of letting it out a little bit. you know, people were quick to criticize her, her reactions, her, you know, her emoticons, all these different things. here was someone who was in jail for four years as a young teenager, having things happen to her that she wouldn't wish on our worst enemy. you have to understand, this girl in my opinion, i said this from day one, i was there early, was stone-cold innocent. >> and you mentioned letting it out. that's one of the things that she's kind of criticized for, is her lack of emotion, and her demeanor the way in which she carries herself. do you think that this is just going to be, you know, more opportunity for fodder as she's -- she was pretty stone cold. >> well, again, she was pretty stone cold, but not one of us have spent the day in jail for something we didn't do. imagine spending four years, four formative years, by the way. her life is forever, you know,

tainted by this. she'll never be the same. she doesn't get those four years back. the fact that she's angry, because i did see anger, you know, in that interview, and i don't blame her. i mean, can anyone really blame her for being angry for going through this process, and have ing aspersions cast at her that were baseless? >> let me tell you, there was talk about drug use. reportedly a lot of marijuana she smoked when she was in italy. let's listen to that. >> high how were you? >> i smoked a joint with raffaele, and what that did to my memory was it made them less concrete. but it didn't black them out, and didn't change them. >> you remember with clarity that you did not go out that night? you stayed in the whole night. >> we stayed in the whole night. >> again, most people were looking for was the body language there. was the lack on her face and how she sounded. but were there any legal

revelations here? >> absolutely not. i mean this is all known. i mean to me the revelations were that some of the things that happened to her while she was in jail. being told falsely that she had aids by a doctor, to create this reaction on her part. but you know, anyone who looks and says well, she's guilty, we know she's guilty. i ask them, just intellectually give me one piece of evidence that proves she's guilty. there is not one piece -- matter of fact she has to be the luckiest human being in the world to not have one stitch of dna in that crime scene if she were involved. just impossible. and she really had nothing to do with this. >> the dna actually positioned somebody else there, right? >> yeah, the guy -- >> points the finger directly to someone else. >> the guy who was convicted and the guy who did it, yeah. >> joe tacopina, thank you so much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> still fascinating to many people. ahead on "starting point," unsealed affidavit shedding now light on the mississippi ricin investigation. what we know about how and where the deadly poison was allegedly processed, that's coming up.

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welcome back to "starting point," everyone. new developments to tell you about in the ricin investigation in mississippi. we're getting new details about this case from the fbi affidavit that has just been unsealed. alina machado is live. what have we learned about this? >> well, good morning, john. we've learned that investigators say they found ricin at the former martial arts studio belonging to james everett dutschke. but the document does not say much about a possible motive in this case. we now know what led federal prosecutors to charge james everett dutschke in the ricin letters investigation. in an eight-page affidavit fbi agents say their surveillance team saw dutschke remove items from the former martial arts studio he owned in tupelo and dump them in a public trash bin. one of those items a dust mask tested positive for ricin. ricin was also later found inside the martial arts studio in sink drains and on the floor. the investigators say dutschke

ordered 100 castor bean seeds late last year through ebay. they're used in the production of ricin which can be deadly and has no known antidote. dutschke denied to investigators he purchased the beans. the fbi found publications on how to safely handle ricin, and how to detect it, on his computer. also agents say they spoke with a witness who told them dutschke said he knows how to make a poison that could be sent to elected officials and, quote, whoever opens these envelopes containing the poison would die. dutschke denied any involvement in this youtube video posted prior to his arrest. >> i met with the fbi. i consented to a search, signed a paper saying go ahead and search the house. i don't have anything at all to do with this. >> reporter: his lawyers have not yet commented on the information in the affidavit. the fbi says dutschke filed a civil lawsuit against the same person the fbi identified as its witness. but it was dismissed by a mississippi judge.

that judge, sadie holland, received one of the ricin-laced letters. we spoke with judge holland's son, who beat dutschke in a race for a seat in the mississippi state house a year later. >> i've about decided that actually i might have been the target, not my mother. but, i'm a momma's baby of extraordinary proportions, and maybe he just said what the heck, if i get his momma, i've got him. >> reporter: the affidavit also mentions a series of texts sent from two cell phones registered to dutschke's wife, saying get the fire going, and, we're coming over to burn some things. later identified as, quote, my paperwork and personal things. the fbi has not said whether any more arrests are likely in the case. now dutschke is expected to be back here in federal court first thing tomorrow morning for a preliminary hearing and also for a bond hearing. john, zoraida? >> this case just keeps getting stranger. alina machado, thanks so much.

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sheryl crow here to tell us about how to feed americans going hungry. tell us about this program. >> i teamed up with one a day women's and feeding america. we are on a campaign where if you buy a bottle of one a day women's they will donate two meals. i was shocked that there are 50 million people here living with food insecurity. i take my little boy to school and i've gone with him a few times where i have stayed the whole morning. by 9:30 i am starving. you can imagine -- >> 16 million are children. as a mom that's got to tear at your heart. it tears at mine. >> it does. this is such a great campaign because it is such a great

product. i think people want to feel like when they are buying a product they are doing something great. this year we are giving away four grants. if you tell your story about an experience about volunteering in a food bank, whatever your story is or how you have been helped by feeding america it is possible to get a grant and a chance to come to new york city and meet me. >> often times we are talking about feeding the hungry in other countries and we don't focus on what is happening here. is that part of the reason why you decided to do this? >> i think about america being such a wealthy country where we are invested in our communities but there is so much more work to be done. that is one of the reasons why i love this campaign. i have taken my kids to the food bank in nashville around holiday time so they have a sense of what it is like to not take

meals for granted. >> congratulations to you. i found out that you are coming out. she is in people magazine and it is a fantastic ppicture. can i tell your age? she is 51. and it is five radiance stars reveal secrets. when we walked in what you said was look at her. you look amazing. we were talking about you as you walked in. you just are amazingly beautiful. you look way beyond half your age. what is that secret? >> i have great jeans. my mom and dad are super youthful looking. i keep saying i'm going to go

get -- i haven't done anything. i think part of aging gracefully is keeping your youthful expressions by allowing your face to have expressions. and being happy. and i have two little kids. >> my kids give me gray hair. your kids are keeping you young? >> i feel like they are. we spend a lot of time on the road. we go to the museum or the zoo. i am queen of water slides. >> you workout a lot don't you? >> i don't. in the past i have. i have always been a runnerer. i am not a big workout queen. i love sports. i'm a sporty person. i'm super active. >> you look fantastic. we are delighted to have you. we wish you a lot of luck with the campaign and thank you for sharing the information. we need to be aware. ahead on "starting point" a boston motorest's terrifying

ordeal. we will hear from the man carjacked at gun point by the tsarnaev brothers and lived to tell about it. that looks like a winter wonderland. >> that is a picture from now in america. snowing. and the original hot lips here in studio. you are watching "starting point." ath. so you have the courage to jump in... ♪ or make sparks fly. it's the only toothpaste that combines the freshness of scope with the cleaning power of crest. life opens up when you do.

good morning everyone. the man carjacked by the boston bombing suspects telling detail by detail what happened on camera. mystery surrounds the disappearance of a young mother who went missing after a trip to the gas station. it is may but for the midwest it feels like winter. >> reporter: calendar says may 1 but it is snowing like the middle of winter. >> jim spellman. we are hearing from paula

broad well who had an affair with david petraeus. what she is saying this morning about life after the scandal. it is wednesday may 1 and "starting point" begins right now. we do begin with new developments in the boston marathon bombing investigation and what could be a key piece of new evidence. investigators have lifted at least one fingerprint from bomb debris. the tsarnaev brothers carjacking victim known as danny is speaking out describing in detail the fear that he felt, his bold get away and the 911 call that helped take out the two suspected terrorists. pamela brown is live in boston. >> reporter: the carjacking victim gave me a detailed account of what happened in

person. in anoff camera conversation we had he said tamerlan tsarnaev was the leader and was a bad guy. for days after the boston marathon bombings tamerlan and dzhokhar tsarnaev hid until police officers say they killed sean collier and hijacked an suv. he wants to remain anonymous and is calling himself danny. he describes his terrifying minutes in a taped interview with cbs news. >> asked me a question like do you know the boston explosion on monday? i said yes. he said i did that and i just killed a policeman. >> reporter: danny told me that the older brother was talkative,

outgoing and threatening, at one point warning don't be stupid. if you are cooperative i won't kill you. >> i was counting. and i just do it and i did it. and i can feel tamerlan trying to grab me. i was running. i was just running as fast as i can and never look back. >> reporter: this as investigators continue pain staking forensic work. as of yet no match. scrutiny of a different sort as critics question the handling of intelligence received from russia about the older brotherer. >> the fbi investigatedold er brother. they not only investigated the older brother, they interviewed the older brother. >> reporter: and we are hearing

tamerlan talk introducing himself in this boxing video. >> yeah, why not? you know? >> reporter: tamerlan's widow has given the medical examiner's office consent to release his body to his family. and in my talk with danny he said he heard the two brothers talk about manhattan. it turns out according to authorities that the brothers had allegedly made spontaneous plans to go to times square and set off more explosives. so had danny not escaped there could have been more lives lost. danny tells me he does not consider himself a hero. he was just trying to save his own life. >> this guy danny had a view of the brothers that no one else had. you had a chance to speak with danny. what did he tell you about that night? >> it is interesting. danny tells me there was a clear contrast between the two brothers. as i mentioned tamerlan was the

leader. dzhokhar tsarnaev was the quiet one. danny tells me tamerlan was very talkative and outgoing and kept asking questions aboutt his chinese heritage. at one point he said this feels like something out of a movie. you look at dzhokhar tsarnaev and he was quiet. he sat in the back seat. the only question danny could remember that was a personal question was how much he paid for his car. there was a clear contrast whenever tamerlan want something dzhokhar tsarnaev would do it like get money out of the atm. he still had a choice in this matter. i talked to a criminology professional about this. he said the brothers were emboldined by allegedly setting off the bombs at the boston marathon and the secret between them only solidified their bond and brought them closer together. >> pamela brown in boston.

let's bring in cnn's law enforcement analyst and former fbi assistant director. thanks for being with us, tom. there is a lot of finger pointing going on and questioning about who dropped the ball? the president has ordered a review of intelligence gathering to the leadup to boston. what do you think specifically he is looking for. >> he wants to see how thorough was the investigation based on the information provided by the russians. that is a critical factor. by appearances right now most everybody i have talked to has said it looks like they conducted a thorough investigation based on what the russians provided. again, they did not provide any information that they had the mother under electronic surveillance and wire tapping her. in fairness nor would we have told them if the opposite was true. it appears that what the russians were doing was basically causing the fbi to do

an investigation to see if tamerlan was fundraising or putting together a team to go to russia and kill russians. i think that was their concern. so when the fbi discovers that he is not in touch with anybody in the u.s. that appears to be a terrorist, any calls overseas are to his mother and father so that is not suspicious and doesn't appear that he can put two nickels together so the fundraising aspect isn't going too well. when the fbi says this is what we found, if you want more we will do more. give us more. and twice the fbi asked for more and does not get it. it would appear to me that under the circumstances the russians were satisfied that if he comes to russia he is coming alone. and that is mainly all they wanted to know. >> there seems to be a lot of activity surrounding the wife of tamerlan tsarnaev. she spent about 3 1/2 hours with her attorneys and federal officials.

there was the news that female dna was found on one of the explosive devices. what do you think is going on? >> the fbi wants to be able to ask her a number of questions and verify much of the information that has been provided from other aspects of the investigation and from what statements she has made. under her rights she does not have to talk to the fbi not one word. they cannot compel her to talk. they can issue subpoenas for dna samples or do other investigative activities with her. she is not obligated to talk in any way. she is obligated if she does talk that it be the truth. she would be charged with with lying to the fbi in an official investigation. she doesn't have to. that is a big part of this is whether the physical evidence and other aspects of the investigation link her to a bigger involvement or greater knowledge of what tamerlan may have been up to during the time that they were together.

>> does the fact that she has representation cause law enforcement officials to be suspicious? >> not necessarily. i think she is intelligent enough to know that they will be looking at her because she should know what her husband is up to or you would expect her to know. that is a logical step on her part to say i don't know what is going to happen next so i need a lawyer to advise me. >> thank you for joining us. >> you're welcome. the center at the center of the affair that triggered the down fall of david petraeus is speaking publicly for the first time. paula broadwell discussing her life after the scandal at a prayer breakfast in charlotte. >> good morning. really fascinating to listen to paula broadwell. she was apparently in the audience at the prayer breakfast

when she was approached by a reporter and we are hearing from paula broadwell and what her life is all about now. >> i have made some mistakes in the past. i am trying to look forward with my family. this breakfast is a reminder of what should be first. i have been involved in a number of wounded veterans missions. i count my blessings. being in this wonderful country and wonderful community and having such a wonderful family and opportunities and the opportunity to rebuild. >> broadwell indicating she is trying to rebuild her life. she has a few legal challenges ahead of her. the federal government still looking at her and why and how she had classified material. it is alleged in her home that was unauthorized. also, as for petraeus, retired general, retired cia director still being looked at by the cia

internally for any potential wrong doing associated with all of this. really interesting both of them saying they are affiliating themselves with wounded warrior organizations as they try to rebuild their lives. that is a strategy we have seen so many times before. >> and worthy, too. great to see you this morning. it is ten minutes past the hour. it is may 1. there is a powerful winter blast dropping snow in parts of the rockies. it is a very rare occurrence for this time of year. our jim spellman is live in boulder, colorado where two years ago it was 80 degrees. >> reporter: it is really beautiful. the sun is starting to come up here. it's really nice. you can see that it is sticking to the grass about maybe two inches or so. not sticking too much on the pavement here. it is causing problems in the mountains our affiliate reports that i-70 is closed.

this is the main thoroughfare that crosses the rocky mountains. hereupon only about one school district in northern colorado is closed. they are trying to be ready for if this starts sticking. they have plows out. 35 flights cancelled at the airport. but this really is good news. we need the water for the drought. we need it to help abate wild fires that come every summer. it is good if we can make it through this. it is so jarring to go from wearing flip-flops to wearing winter boots and snow outfits. everybody here will be glad when it goes. it is beautiful. why not enjoy it? i'm going to hit this camera at some point. >> 0 for 20 for the morning. >> reporter: you don't think so? >> keep trying. >> you have horrible aim. >> take it off the poor guy. he is embarrassing himself. the conditions have to be

just right this late in the season for a storm like this. who is getting the worst of this? >> jim is getting the worst of it. jim, work ont that. you have no game. let's talk about the snow that is coming down and what we are going to see. 6 to 12 inches on the front ranges in parts of colorado and wyoming. as we head up towards the upper midwest regions like minneapolis you could see six to nine inches of snowfall. there is denver. boulder to the north. and we are going to continue to see this cold air moving up towards the northeast. it is going to be changing the rain that you are seeing. this is going to be going over to snow for parts like sioux falls and minneapolis. and a lot of the snow is going to be melting early on but then

it starts to accumulate and that is why we are talking six to 12 inches of snowfall. more weather fun facts. on this day, may day they picked up 8.3 inches of snowfall in denver in 1944. may 11, one inch of snowfall. it is not unusual just a rare treat. >> thank you so much. the u.s. is stepping up aid to syria rebels in the wake of suspected chemical weapons use by the assad regime. officials announcing we are doubling our commitment of nonlethal aid to $250 million. the obama administration is saying all options are on the table including providing arms to the rebels. the u.s. senate will hold hearings at a deadly explosion. california senator barbara boxer announced the public works committee will conduct the

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it's amanda knox in her own words and she wants the world to know she is not a murderer. >> knox is speaking publicly for the first time about her long legal nightmare in italy. >> i was in the courtroom when they were calling me a devil. i mean, it's one thing to be called certain things in the media and then another thing to be sitting in a courtroom fighting for your life while people are calling you a devil.

it's not true. for all intents and purposes i was a murderer whether i was or not. >> in an exclusive interview with abc news amanda knox opened up for the first time in years about her murder conviction and ordeal. speaking to diane sawyer knox talked about her room mate that she was accused of murdering. >> it bothers me when people suggest that she wasn't my friend. i was stunned by her death. she was my friend. >> reporter: but that is not how much of the media saw it at the time as prosecutors painted a picture of a kinky sex game gone wrong. at the crime scene and immediate after math of her room mates

death it was actions like kissing her then boyfriend who would be convicted along with knox that made her critics question her innocence. >> people kept saying where is the anguish? where is what we think we would do if this happened to our friend? >> i have seen the same picture like the kissing just can't stop. and that's not what that was. i want the truth to come out. i would like to be reconsidered as a person. >> reporter: which is why she agreed to the interview. >> did you kill meredith kercher? >> no. >> were you there that night? >> no. >> do you know anything you did not tell police? >> no, i don't. i wasn't there. >> amanda knox's freedom is now back on the line.

an italian court has ordered a retrial of her repealed conviction. her claiming her innocence. >> a lot of people taking a look at that interview at what she says at her expressions. ahead on "starting point" take a look at this. does she look fat to you? that cheerleader? a blogger received major back lash after commenting on this woman's weight. now she has learned her fate. that is what is trending. [ jackie ] it's just so frustrating...

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point." >> updating you on new developments on the boston terror investigation. danny, the man carjacked by the tsarnaev brothers is speaking publicly about his 90 minutes of terror. listen what he told cbs about his encounter days after the bombing. >> he took out his gun, pointed to me and said i'm serious. don't be stupid. he asked me a question like do you know the boston explosion on monday. i said yes. he said i did that and i just killed a policeman. >> also new this morning tamerlan tsarnaev's widow giving the medical examiner's office consent to release his body to his family. among the more than 26 0 people injured three feet away

from the second bomb. he says he remembers being flown into the street, losing his hearing and then being approached by a first responder. >> says you are going to be okay. i tell him you tell anybody that. and he says believe me when i tell you. there's worse out here than you. that is when i remembered my friends. and i said my friends are all dead. >> so much confusion in those minutes and hours. his four friends did survive. three of them lost limbs when the second bomb came off. he leaves the hospital today for a rehab facility. just in to cnn president obama expected to make a personal announcement this afternoon at 2:15 eastern from the state dining room. details have not been provided we know the president is expected to name tom wheeler as

the next chairman of the federal communications commission sometime today. an emotional gathering in valley springs california where mourners hold a vigil for 8-year-old leila fowler found stabbed to death in her home saturday. >> leila was beautiful and strong. she was kind. i remembered that leila liked purple. >> reporter: hundreds turned out to remember the 8-year-old girl stabbed to death in her northern california home on saturday. the motive for her killing is still a mystery. >> it does not happen to a person you know much less a child you know. and this cannot happen to a child in your very own class. she will be carried in my heart

forever. >> reporter: her family stood front and center arm in arm before moving to the stage. the family also spoke for the first time. >> i just want to thank the entire community and all of our family and friends for the overwhelming support you have given my family. it will never be forgotten. >> i am not saying good bye to leila. i am going to see you later. there is no good byes. just take care of my sisterer. >> madison was friends with leila for three years. >> she is very kind to everybody. she helped everybody. and she made everybody feel good. >> reporter: her mother says she is having a hard time understanding that her friend is gone. >> thinks she is going to be here the next day. she is going to be here.

no, we have a play date on friday. it's like, no, baby i don't know what to say. >> reporter: she sobbed uncontrollably during the vigil. >> she would always sleep over at my house. she said she would sleep over for one day and she would sleep over for like a week. >> her and my daughter became friends and leila spent every summer with us. we were just talking about what we are going to do. our summers have changed forever. >> so difficult to watch. new developments in the arrest of james in the mississippi ricin investigation. an fbi affidavit says items recovered from dutschke's former

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a dangerous bacteria has been found at ground turkey purchased at grocery stores. of the 257 samples tested more than half were found have fecal bacteria. so the request, an airman from afghanistan wanted to escort his sister to the prom. the school board said absolutely no so she had to wait at the end of the red carpett until his sister walked into the prom. >> he thought it was a great way to honor me and send me off to a really great night. so he was disappointed that he probably accepted the decision better than anybody else apparently did. he was really respectful about it. >> the kansas school district cited a policy that no one over

21 is allowed to go to the prom or walk students on to the promenade. jason collins former fiance. herself a formerer player in the w nba had an 8 year relationship with collins. she said they spoke a number of times over the last several days and it is still a bit overwhelming. >> i did invest eight years in our relationship with a shared dream and vision with him. i had to rewrite the script. i still am rewriting it. it has been challenging. >> she goes on to say she hopes collins can be more comfortable with himself. 37 minutes past the hour. authorities still searching for 25-year-old jessica heeringa. police believe she may have been

abducted from her job at a gas station. her last sale was 11:00 at night. >> i just walked inside. there's nobody. there's a car here. there's another car out front but it's very suspicious why there's nobody here. >> police are now looking for a van a witness saw shortly before jessica disappeared. it may be this fan in footage from a nearby security camera. police have released this sketch of a potential suspect. with us from grand rapids are jessica's mother and fiance and father of her 3-year-old son. thank you for being with us. yen this has to be a hard time for both of you. let me ask you how you are holding up? >> we have to take it day by day. you go to sleep thinking about jesse. you wake up thinking about

jesse. she's in our thoughts every minute. >> we were just talking about the police releasing some materials to the public, a composite sketch of the suspect, footage of a van driving past a nearby business. is there anything new on the investigation that they have told you? >> no, not really. i know they have another security camera that might have a better view of the van. >> dakota -- >> i'm not sure when they are going to release that. >> i understood you spoke to jessica an hour before she disappeared. was there any sense in that conversation that something was wrong? what did you talk about? >> i was just calling to see how work was going and seeing how fast she was going to be out of there. she said i was closing up quick and i'll see you soon, babe.

that was it. there was no -- nothing saying she was worried about anything. she was very happy. >> can you tell us a little bit about the work that she did and if you ever felt that because she worked there alone, did you ever fear for her safety or did she? >> i did. when i knew she was working there, when i knew he had no security cameras and she was going to be by herself i expressed my concern about it all the time to her how worried i was. but jess, you know, she is only 5'1" but her feistiness makes her about 6 foot. and she thought she could handle everything. >> have you heard from the gas station owner yet? >> he -- i talked to him saturday morning. and he seemed concerned and

everything but since then he's been having a lot of problems because of not having any security cameras and letting these girls work by themselves. >> you say girls but on this particular night your daughter was working by herself. >> they always work by themselves at nighttime. >> tell me about the t shirts that you are wearing and the help you have received in your community. i understand there was a vigil with people coming together to offer their support to you. >> yeah. that was wonderful. you want to tell them about the t shirts. >> my mom and dad made these for us and handed them out for the immediate family so we can just kind of distinguish who was who there so that people know. >> and the vigil was great. so many people came out. so many people are trying to help us to find jesse.

it's been wonderful. family, friends, people who had just stopped in there to get a newspaper or stopped at that gas station all the time that spoke to jess were coming up to us telling us how wonderful she was, how sweet. they always had conversations with her. she is just a great girl. >> i have another question for you because police say there was no sign of a struggle that happened. is it like your daughter to walk out and offer assistance? do you think somebody lured her out? >> yeah. i think whoever did this had been in the gas station before and maybe jesse knew him as someone coming in or even a regular maybe. and he probably lured her out by saying he needed help. jesse would have helped anybody. that was probably her down fall. >> we are so sorry.

i just don't know what to say. we wish you all the luck in the world. we hope she is found and she is found quickly. thank you so much. i know there is a 3-year-old boy here, as well. we wish you luck with that, as well. that has to be tough for mim. >> yes. it is. he is starting to miss his mom right now. >> i bet he is. we thank you so much. we will post on our website where you can call for tips with information about this. we'll be right back. [ female announcer ] what if the next big thing, isn't a thing at all?

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actress sally kellerman has been entertaining audiences for five decades including her role in the 1970 film "mash." >> you are what we call a regular army clown. >> i wonder how a degenerated person like that could have reached a position of responsibility in the army medcorps. >> he was drafted.

>> she is sharing memories from that film as well as her life in hollywood. sally kellerman is with us this morning. there is so much in this book, so many stories and characters. let me start with "mash" because that was a role that a lot of us saw you in. you almost refused that role. >> i didn't -- rob said to me i'll give you the best part in the picture. and i went to read the script i couldn't find it. i said you have to go back and i read it again and i said i'm not just a whack i am a woman and why can't she do this and that and he leaned back. end up with something or nothing. i'm like who is this man. i did several pictures with him and turned out other ones, it was such a thrill to work with bob. it was like going to summer camp

with a genius standing beside me. >> i want to dive into the book. you talk about your relationships with a number of stars both romances and friendships. jack nickelson you say this. jack's personality sucked you in the moment you met him. he was from new jersey but to talk to him and listen you would have thought he was from somewhere like texas. i thought he was so cute with his dark brown hair and bright eyes. the two of us were such friends. >> we were pals. i invited him to a beach party. it was so clear we were not going to be a romance. i thought he is going to be my best friend. >> why was it clear you were not going to be a romance? >> it was clear. what can i say? he was great. he was always magical. we were in acting class together

for years. just darling. just so many things you have seen on the screen and so unique and wonderful. >> you had a lot of run ins with marlon brando including one where he took you for a ride and touched you arm. >> i love that beginning story. that was just the beginning. i loved him. he was my hero. the minute i saw him my life changed. i saw him and it was like it was all over. brilliant talent. he changed the face of acting. he had always been my hero. one day i end up sitting next to him in this rock and roll coffee house and i didn't move a muscle for two sets. and then the lights came on. i said good bye. i never looked straight ahead

and he goes so what are you -- >> i said i don't think it is funny. >> he said would you like to go for a ride and i said yes i would. i get in the car. we drove about a fourth of a block and he reached over and touched my arm. i was so scared because i was so in love. he said i wouldn't want to spoil this beautiful friendship and turned around and dropped me off. i couldn't wait to run and tell my best friend i was in marlon brando's car which was an old beat up white car. >> how come he is not in a limo. >> a different time in hollywood. it is a very different time. >> we were so lucky we had great adventures working as a waitress in a coffee house.

steve mcqueen came in and marlin came in. you will have to read the book for that. >> read my lips. you will want to read her lips and the book. >> thank you for having me, really. still ahead not even doppler radar could help this texas weather man. his forecast 70 p% chance of scattered hiccups. you're watching "starting point." but i wondered what a customer thought? describe the first time you met. you brought the flex in... as soon as i met fiona and i was describing the problem we were having with our rear brakes, she immediately triaged the situation, knew exactly what was wrong with it, the car was diagnosed properly, it was fixed correctly i have confidence knowing that if i take to ford it's going to be done correctly with the right parts and the right people. get a free brake inspection and

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hookups -- the hiccups don't mix. the story of the texas meteorologist who weathered the worse. >> reporter: talk about high pressure. there is never a good time for hiccups but this was a bad one. when meteorologist david paul started his forecast for the houston area he hoped it was just a passing hiccup. >> it is really highway 6. >> reporter: but the involuntary contractions continued. david told us he had been having bouts of hiccups all day but usually they stop when the red light on the camera comes on. >> redevelopment of thunderstorms right here. >> it was the most helpless feeling i have ever had on live tv. that was a mess. >> reporter: sure other meteorologists have suffered a single hiccup. >> close to 60. excuse me. that is what dr. pepper does to

you cht. >> reporter: we have seen talents sneeze on air. we have seen an australian weatherman pass out pulling 8 gs in a stunt plane. >> rain shower developing, as well. i did put a storm track on this. >> reporter: we need a hiccup tracker. in a forecast that lasted about three minutes we counted a total of 14 hiccups and seven excuse mes. david did try one last ditched trick. >> i slowed down and i thought, well, i'm just going to try to speak slowly and swallow. >> at least street flooding so i am monitoring that carefully. here is the big picture. >> reporter: even a drink of water didn't help. at least he is getting praise for soldiering through and maintaining his dignity. all of those hiccups are nothing

to sneeze at. >> there we go. >> that was a first. >> all i have heard today is hey, it's the hiccupping weatherman. >> reporter: forecasting a 70% chance of scattered hiccups. >> here is your extended forecast. >> even with the hiccups he is better than i am half the time. >> in order to get rid of hick is you drink like that and it goes away. >> "starting point" back in a moment. (cat purring)

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