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and i have police officers in my family, i work with police officers every day. i know better and it's just unacceptable. >> reporter: when asked about what she learned from the incident, reese wrapped up her damage control interview with a touch of humor. >> when a police officer tells you to stay in the car you stay in the car. i learned that for sure. >> reporter: nischelle turner, cnn, hollywood. good morning, everyone and welcome back to our continuing coverage of the boston bombings. i'm randi kaye coming to you live from boston. it is 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. out west, where the spring wildfire continues to rage in southern california. 4,000 homes threatened, 28,000 acres burned and firefighters are racing to contain the fire before the winds pick up. now back here in boston a new discovery inside the home of boston bombing southbound tamerlan tsarnaev gives
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investigators new clues into the plot. what does this mean how much tsarnaev's widow knew? and friday's jobs report is not just good for the unemployment, it's great for your nest egg but is wall street lulling us into a false sense of security? our business expert breaks it down. now to the boston bombings, the death certificate confirms the violent final moments of tamerlan tsarnaev's life. the owner of the funeral home handling the suspected bomber's burial read the document to cnn and says it shows tsarnaev died from gunshot wounds of torso and extremities and blunt trauma to head and torso. as we know what led to his death it's still not clear what will happen to tsarnaev now. his body sits in this worcester funeral harbor. several newspapers report four cemeteries refused to take the suspected bomber. "the new york daily news" says
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in new jersey, connecticut and massachusetts. his younger brother is revealing new details about their plan. we turn to cnn national correspondent susan candiotti on this. dzhokhar has been talking. >> reporter: he was talking after he was initially arrested and in the hospital. he's not talking anymore now, now that he had his rights read to him, but investigators got a lot of information from him including him telling them that the bomb was constructed right there in his older brother's apartment where his older brother lived with his wife and young child and they didn't just take his word for us. sources tell us as well that they found bomb residue on the kitchen sink, on the kitchen table and in the bathtub. it's hard to picture how the widow, his wife at the time, might not have noticed that, but she was away during the day working, a lot of questions surrounding all of this, randi. >> reporter: certainly, to know
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it was built there in the apartments. what about the boston marathon itself? that wasn't really, we're learning, the initial target here. >> reporter: that's right, our sources are telling that according to the suspect, dzhokhar, he told investigators that they were initially talking about the july 4th celebration here and that's a huge celebration as we all know in boston, a lot of us watch it on tv, culminates with outdoor concerts and fireworks and the like. because the bomb was ready earlier than they expected they decided to move up the date but our sources also tell us that they apparently just made that decision within a few days of the marathon. when you talk about planning you really have to wonder they might have known what they were doing with the bomb, obviously they did but the planning that went into it and apparently lack of a getaway plan is stunning. >> reporter: right. you mentioned the widow of tamerlan tsarnaev. she has been talking to investigators. is she cooperating? >> her lawyer says she is.
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her lawyer says that she had no idea what was happening about this bomb plot and learned about it when it happened as well but one of the key things our sources tell us they're looking at is a phone call that she made to her husband after the bombing. the nature of the phone call we don't know. after he had been identified so did she warn him they were coming, did she say hey, what's going on, we don't know yet. investigators are asking her to identify people in photographs, we don't know who, but that is a key part of the investigation obviously right now. >> certainly going to go on for a while as they seek answers. susan thank you. we'll check back with you later on. families of those killed in the bombings could get more than $1 million each from a charity fund set up after the attack. some amputees also could receive about that much, according to "the boston globe." attorney ken feinberg vowed to
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issue checks by the end of june, the fund raised more than $28 million. an upcoming benefit concert aims to raise even more among the headliners for the may 30th event, arrow smith, new kids on the block, james taylor and carol king. to your money a surprise jump sent markets soaring, the dow reached 15,000. if you invested $10,000 when the market bottomed out in 2009 the money would be worth nearly $24,000 today. 165,000 jobs were added last month and the unemployment rate ticked down a notch to 7.5%. we'll have more on the jobs numbers and what it means for your 401(k) at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. now to los angeles where thousands of homeowners are hoping their homes will still be standing tonight. in just two days a raging
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wildfire has nearly tripled in size and burned dozens of buildings. the smoke and flames have chased residents out of parts of ventura county. firefighters struggling to get it under control. cnn's kyanug lah. >> reporter: firefighters have gotten the upper hand on the northern flank of the fire. you can see all this charred hillside. this was the scene of a very tough fight for firefighters, this was all once on fire, just on the other side of this hill, and what's known as the spring fire, very much an active fight going on. this fire is proven to be unpredictable, very dangerous. what kept it contained, helicopter water drops and merciless work from the ground crews, firefighters have been going house by house trying to save thousands of homes which are still under threat. it has been a hot fight so far.
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is it better today versus yesterday in. >> what's better today we'll have more forces in place to combat the fire with. what's probably going to be worse today is the weather. >> reporter: you're going to let this burn right into the ocean. >> that's the plan when we have this wind behind it that's all we can do. get on the side of it and try to run it into the pacific ocean. >> reporter: the good news is that there is an improvement in the weather forecast as soon as sunday there may, just may be some rain. randi? >> kyung lah thank you very much. let's find out more about that rain. cnn meteorologist alexandra steele is tracking the weather for us this morning. alexandra, what about the rain, is it coming to l.a.? >> it's coming but not much. we are going to see big time improving for the fire fighting
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efforts. we're seeing good news and bad news. let me delineate the day. we're seeing hot, dry, strong offshore winds we've seen have now changed direction, cooler, more humid onshore flow bringing the moisture in off the watt sore that is good news. we've got the increased humidity, change in the wind direction and we have some rain showers. again, sunday through tuesday. best chance for the rain really coming on monday. already so with the showers, only going to bring some very light rain so places like los angeles have only had about under two inches of rain this entire year. while places elsewhere around the country have had two inches of rain in two days so poultry amounts of rain and 17% of the snowpack so incredibly dry conditions. so thundershowers they could see will produce sop lightning and that could spark a fire with the tinder dry conditions and also the shifting of the winds that we've seen which has been so
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problematic for the firefighters. boy, it is certainly going to be a long, hot summer for the firefighters if this is a harbinger of things to come in terms of this fire season. looks like it will be. saturday, tomorrow, today in the 70s, tomorrow only in the 60s. yesterday the temperatures were in the 90s. so a dramatic improvement in terms of the forecast, increased humidity as well. when the best chance for some rain is through the day today and tomorrow, but it's really monday morning that's kind of the bull's eye for some rain, you can see that around the c camarillo and los angeles area. just the overall pattern has changed dramatically which we'll see major improving conditions. look at this swathe of moisture, a lot of the country east of the mississippi seeing incredibly flooded conditions where places like st. louis seeing two inches of rain in two days. >> alexandra steele thank you
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very much. overseas now, and israel has confirmed that it did conduct an air strike friday in syria, an israeli official tells reuters it targeted a shipment of missiles bound for hezbollah in lebanon. the attack was authorized in a security cabinet meeting. seven acres of guns, gear and controversy, the nra's big annual meeting is off and running but joining tens of thousands of gun lovers are supporters of tougher gun laws, the plan to challenge the nra this weekend. i'll talk to one of them who believe it or not is an nra member, next. can acne cleansers be tough on breakouts
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notably michael bloomberg's mayors against illegal guns who are bringing their message to houston with a new ad. we want to you take a look at it. >> gina was a beautiful person who loved life. >> he hunted down xena and opened fire on her. >> she had a restraining order against her husband, prohibits him from buying a gun. had there been a background check she would still be alive. i'm an nra member. >> el vin daniel joins me now, also in houston. elvin, good morning to you. we have spoken about your exister xena, is the fact the man who killed her had a restraining order against him and should not have been able to get a gun which he bought
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online? >> good morning. randi, how are you? >> i'm well, thank you. i'm just curious, is that what made you take part? >> yes, it is. i truly believe had there been background checks on back then there is a very good possibility that my sister xena would still be with us this day and i truly believe that by doing a background check we can save a lot of lives. i was listening to mr. david keene yesterday and one thing i agree with him about, he said guns are not the problem, and i do agree with that, but 40% of guns that are bought from gun shows and are bought on the internet, does anybody know how many criminals get their hands on those guns? nobody talks about that. and i think that is a problem.
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which doing a background check we may prevent criminals from getting their hands on guns. >> reporter: so you think it would make a difference and it's interesting, as an nra member that you're saying that, but is there a new strategy as we look at that ad to make the reality of gun violence more up close and personal? because there you are a family member taking part in this ad. >> absolutely, you know what? before the tragedy happened to xena and my family, i was with the same mental thought that, leave me and my guns alone, but once a tragedy like that hits home, the thinking totally changes. and you know, maybe people think that this couldn't happen to them. this could happen to them, this could happen to anybody. >> and you've heard the rebuttal i'm sure about background checks. you have jared lougner, wade
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michael page, and james holmes would pass a background check. when you say that what do you hear about pushback. >> it's not a cure for all. there's no, i hate to use the term bulletproof method but if it could save one life, i think we're possibly gaited to do the background check. and i tell the nra members there are exemptions as far as background checks, in between family members, exchanging guns, you don't have to do a background check between friends, the background check will be done only at public places, such as gun shows or on the internet gun sales. >> elvin daniel thank you for
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your time and my best to your family. >> reporter: thank you, randi. >> we want to tell you you know the kentucky derby is taking place today. we're going to be taking you to churchill downs where one jockey isn't just trying to win the kentucky derby. he's also trying to make history. hear why rosie neprovnik says being a woman is working to her advantage. (now arriving: city hospital) which is why we're proud to help connect our students with leading employers across the nation. (next stop: financial center) let's get to work.
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to see and a warning it is disturbing. wow. middlefield police in ohio released dash cam video from a patrol unit, look at that windshield. investigators say james gilkerson shot at two officers in march, they're recovering from injuries but he was killed. police still do not know why he started shooting. today is derby day, the kentucky derby, pour a mint julep, grab your hat and place your bets. rick pinto has been on a role. joe carter is live at churchill downs, excellent assignment. joe, things are looking good for
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pinto, pettino, sorry. >> reporter: no problem, i got you. he co-owns a horse golden cents, who gets a lot of connection because of the casino, and because of the jockey as well, kevin krieger, the only african-american jockey running in today's race. if he wins he'd be the first african-american jockey to win since 1902. he says he's always knew he wanted to be a jockey since he was 5 years old. >> i was born to become a jockey. i don't know how i had that in skill in me but i always wanted to be a jockey when i was in kindergarten i told my mom that was what i wanted to do and she thought i was kidding but look at what i'm at today. >> reporter: what a month for rick pitino winning the college
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basketball championship, elected into the basketball hall of fame and potentially golden cents winning the kentucky derby. another horse is mylute and her jockie rosie napravnik. she is a contender here because of what she's been able to accomplish over the last year. she's ridden several horses, won numerous races and her horses collected over $12 million in purses. she was in the race back in 2011, she finished ninth which is the best finish for a female jockey ever so when she takes today's race, a lot of eyeballs and a lot of money are going to be on her husband in mylute. couple of favorites for today real quick, horse named orb is a favorite and a horse named verrazano is a favorite but don't think the favorites are where your money should go because for the last four years it's been a long shot that's won
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this race, a couple of long shots, track daddy, one of my favorite names and oxbow, and the jockey is gary stevens, 50 years old, he was a legend in the racing game years ago, retired for seven years and came back and now he's here trying to win another kentucky derby and victor, my favorite name, a lot of people pick horses based on the names, my favorite name, charming kitten. charming kitten, victor. >> great name. if my nearly last placed brackets from the ncaa didn't tell you enough about how i don't follow college basketball, calling him rick pinto did. what's ahead, randi? >> good morning, here in boston new details continue to emerge in the boston bombing investigation, including how the suspects planned their terror attacks. details after the break.
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we know what led to his death but it's not clear what will happen to him now. his body sits in the worcester funeral parlor. four cemeteries refused to take the suspected bomber. in the meantime investigators found explosive residue inside the older tsarnaev's cambridge, massachusetts, apartment, and his younger brother reveals their initial target was boston's independence day celebration, not originally the boston marathon. while investigators figure out what the suspected bombers did, other government officials are taking a look at what failures in the system helped them do it and some are pointing to student visas. dzhokhar's friend, one of three arrested this week was charged with allegedly throwing away evidence. the friend entered the country on an expired visa. joe johns has been looking into the government's reaction. joe? >> randi, this was bound to have a ripple effect, just the fact that one of the men from kazhakstan charged with
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conspiracy in the alleged coverup was able to get into the country on an expired student vi visa, but the government is making the case this change was already under consideration. federal source tells cnn the department of homeland security has put in place a policy that requires customs officials to verify that foreign students have a valid visa before they're allowed to enter the united states. the new policy is being viewed as a reaction to the boston bombing case and the discovery that azamat charged with trying to coverup for dzhokhar tsarnaev had been allowed to enter the united states in january without a volume id student visa but the federal source says the tightening on visa policy is part of a number of forms under development by the government for several months. the timing of the policy and the intense focus on foreign students generally is raising questions about whether people who come here from other countries will get singled out for special scrutiny because of
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what happened in boston. supreme court justice sonya sotomayor brought up the boston bombing suspects on her own at a speaking engagement in colorado. she was asked a question about racial profiling. >> if you've been following the news about the boston bombing, and about criticisms, whether they're justified or not, about following up on the activities of the two young men who were involved, is that profiling? could be. is it something that you just can't ignore, maybe sometimes not. it's a fine line that society walks in trying to be fair. >> reporter: and as a potentially volatile issue as well. the discovery that one of the students charged in the coverup got into the u.s. on a visa that wasn't valid has already attracted attention on capitol hill and is expected to come up in future hearings. it's not just about the crime, it's also about immigration reforms being debated in the congress.
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senator charles grassley of iowa authored a three-page letter to the secretary of homeland security asking questions about the visa issues in boston. randi? >> joe johns, thank you very much. let's go to my colleague in atlanta for other stories making headline this is morning, victor? >> thank you. president obama is wrapping up his three-day visit to mexico and costa rica and is urging increased trade and economic cooperation between the u.s. and its southern neighbors. mr. obama says it is time to put old mind-sets aside and recognize new realities. he'll address business leaders at a forum in san jose later today. diminishing winds could help firefighters as they battle a waging wildfire in southern california. this is the springs fire it scorched 28,000 acres in ventura county since thursday. 4,000 homes are under threat. let's talk about your money now the april jobs report is better than some expected and
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friday stocks surged both the dow and the s&p 500 set new records, that's good news for your retirement account. joining me to discuss this is nayla richardson, from bloomberg llp. good to have you with us this morning. we get excited in the frenzy when we see the numbers on wall street. should there also be a level of let's say concern? >> absolutely, victor, good morning. you know, for the top 7% of american households it's great to be in the stock market for now but for many americans who had to withdraw money from retirement accounts that cushioned the financial crisis they're not experiencing this boom and for most people their wealth is tied to their houses and not the stock market so we're seeing a vast block of american population not really experiencing this boom on the stock market. >> let's talk about some of the losses because a lot of people lost a lot of money in the great recession, as it's known now,
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but how much of that has been recovered? >> some of it has been. some of the retirement accounts for the top wealthiest individuals, those making over $500,000, they're experiencing huge returns from this boom but for a lot of us who own our wealth through our homes we haven't seen house prices recover, and until that occurs, we're not going to see this general wealth distribution improve for most people. >> is there any direct relationship between what we see on wall street and the housing market? >> there is. there is. you know, the overall economy is still struggling to rebound, and while corporate earnings have been records, corporations have figured out how to make money while reducing hours for workers, and so there is a disconnect between corporate america and the labor market and that needs the housing market. the housing market cannot stay strong in its recovery without a
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strong labor market as well. >> a lot of words people don't want to hear. i want to get your reaction to it. bubble. >> bubble, right. so right now we have a federal reserve that's basically subsidizing the economy, buffering it, and in doing so, buying a lot of bonds every month, they're pushing up prices in the stock market which raises the concern of bubbles, bubbles that are not, because the stock market is not solely supported by the real economy. i'm less concerned about bubbles. i'm more concerned that not enough americans are finding full time work with great benefits and you saw that actually in the latest jobs report. >> let's go into the report and talk about that. there are a lot of people who have this part-time work and don't have the job with the benefits, maybe working a few part-time jobs. what else stuck out for you? >> that was a huge indicator of what i think is a dire structural trend going forward. too many people want a full time job and can't find one and you
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see that the industries that were booming in the report on friday were industries like retail, temporary services, professional services, health care, where it's easier to work part-time, but i'd like to see the return of full time jobs with great benefits and careers that people can work over the long haul. >> you and a whole lot of people. nela richardson thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you for having me. let's go back to randi kaye in boston for more on what's ahead. randi? >> victor, phone conversations between a man and wife usually nobody's business, but when the couple are at the center of a terror investigation, well, that is a whole nother story. we'll look at legal consequences being faced now by tamerlan tsarnaev's widow. i'm andrew zimmer. we can make an impact on providing housing and special services for those most in need. getting ready for the first
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part of the feds' investigation into the boston bombing included phone conversations between suspect tamerlan tsarnaev and his wife, katherine russell. former fbi investigators mentioned they have ways of retrieving past phone conversations, even if she doesn't cooperate, which raises some legal questions of course. joining me now is cnn legal
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analyst paul callan. good morning. so investigators are retrieving past phone conversations, that can be a scary thought really for all of us, but can anything they learn be used in court? >> well, you know, the technology appears to be there to retrieve a lot of information including probably cell phone, telephone conversations. we've seen reports that this stuff is monitored all over the world by u.s. intelligence agencies but when you get to the united states, admissibility in court it's a different issue. in a criminal case generally a warrant has to be issued by a judge to permit the monitoring of a cell phone conversation or a telephone conversation of any kind, and you have to have probable cause to do that. now, they may have gone to a judge and the judge may have issued such a warrant. her connection to a husband who was involved in this bombing would provide probable cause for
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a warrant. the bigger question, can they do this without a warrant because possibly she's connected to a foreign agency or a foreign power like al qaeda or a muslim terrorist group that intends to do harm to the united states and the president, president bush at least initially felt that you could monitor american citizens who were communicating with foreigners, so this is a big controversial issue. >> we know that certainly katherine russell may not have had anything to do with the bombings, that's at least what her lawyer is saying but where is the legal fine line between what a spouse may know especially if the bombs were built in that apartment and there was residue found and incrimination. where is that line drawn? >> well she has got two areas of protection, number one, let's say hypothetically she was involved in preparing the bomb. there had been some reports the bomb may have been prepared at her home or parts of it were
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built in the home. if she was talking to her husband about it and involved in that process the fifth amendment of the constitution is available to her and she has the right to remain silent and not reveal anything. the second thing is called the spousal privilege, and here if you're married and there's a communication between you and your spouse in the context of the marriage that's intended to be confidential, you can't be compelled to reveal that in court, even if a subpoena is issued. now, there's a big exception to that, though. if you reveal the communication to somebody else and if your husband says we're going to make a bomb and we're going to blow something else and then he tells his fellow bombmaker that he discussed it with you, it's not confidential anymore and she can be compelled to reveal it. that's what we don't know here and my bet is she's not going to have this spousal privilege because obviously he was communicating with his brother about the bomb and the making of the bomb, so i don't see how
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anybody could say that was a confidential communication with his wife. >> right. what about the laptop? the feds are focusing on the laptop they retrieved from the younger suspect. how can information from that be of any legal use? >> well, that would be valuable. the laptops have become a treasure trove of information because even when you try to erase things on laptops, forensic investigators can retrieve the material and particularly the younger generation does pretty much all of their communications by laptops so i think that's going to be a valuable source of intelligence, and evidence in subsequent criminal cases arising out of this matter. that's a big thing they were able to locate that. >> paul callan, nice to see you as always. thank you very much. >> thank you, randi. turning to a wildlife mystery now, there is a scary looking fish lurking beneath the
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this is like something out of a prehistoric nightmare and it could very well be in central park right now. look at this thing on paper this is called the northern snake head fish but plenty of people call it the frankenfish. check out this video from "national geographic." they're invasive, they have pointy teeth. we've seen fish that are invasive with pointy teeth but this one can breathe air. look at this, it can live outside of water and crawl. environmental managers are worried they're in a lake in central new york. steve kastenbaum is with us. >> it looked leak a dorsal fin on top of the water, slowly flipping back and forth. i didn't really know what it was, i thought it could be a big catfish but when i checked it out online it didn't seem to have any fish like that. >> reporter: now what do you think? >> the lochness monster, i don't know, could be anything. >> mary snow was up there with us investigating whether this invasive predator is actually in the waters or whether it was somebody thinking they saw it but it was something else. >> you know what makes this fish so different, we've seen invasive fish, fish with sharp teeth but this one jumps out of
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the water, breathes outside of water for days and can move on land. explain this to us. >> this frightens me and in new york we don't scare easily. this fish can actually breathe out of water, it has to leave water as part of its life cycle from time to time to breathe air and it eats anything and everything in its path, that's what has people so worried because it can really upset the ecosystem at the harlem mir, home to turtles and carp, it can eat frogs and known to statute, get this, a small duck once in a while. >> does it also mean it could be a danger for pets then? >> you want to be careful if you're around with your little dog, yes. >> so this species came from korea, china, russia, clearly places far from new york. how does it get into central park? >> that's a good question. actually it's illegal to own a northern snakehead alive
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anywhere in new york state so how did it get here? well it's a very popular food source in parts of china and russia, and when i spoke to some fishermen around here if you know the right people you can still get one alive even though you're not supposed to be able to and the leading theory is that somebody from a region where this fish is native to the waters there may have put a pair in the lake in hopes it would breed and then they'd be able to fish it regularly and have a bountiful food source for their family. there was one sighting and the warning signs went up, just one so that tells you how worried environmentalists and the department of environmental conservation is about this fish. >> so they're worried. we saw the signs pop up. how worried are people in central park, they taking this seriously? >> a lot of local fly fishermen are concerned because it's a popular place to go, there are schools of carp there.
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it's a manmade lake about the size of three or four football fields, they stocked it with fish for the purpose of recreational fishing and if the northern snakehead fish gains a foothold, you can forget about fishing anything else in this lake and pretty much the turtles might disappear as well so they are really concerned. >> cnn's steve kastenbaum, thank you. >> thank you for having me. new clues, a live report on what investigators discovered inside the home of one of the suspects. dry cleaning done. gift for your aunt... done. a
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>> a man on his way to sobriety class crashed his car into a north dakota county jail. he went right through the front doors. police say they don't know if this was an accident or if he meant to do it. possibility. and they are trying to determine if alcohol was involved. good news here, no one inside the building was hurt. a woman who was brutally attacked by a dog in iowa is now about to undergo surgery to repair her nose. karen henry's injuries might have been worse if her husband, lane, had not jumped in to save her. he first put his hand into the dog's mouth and tried something a bit unusual. >> i had to do something so i bit him on the nose. important to me is getting the dog off of the street. i mean, to where he doesn't injure anybody again. >> for now that dog is quarn
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tee teened. in minnesota a teenage boy was driving on the highway, came upon this 400 pound black bear. the kyler burggrff hit the bear. he was okay, except for whiplash. the car totalled but he already has a new one and he says he plans to turn this bear into a rug. wow, that ended kind of sadly. good to have you with us. more on "cnn saturday morning". let's go back to randi in boston. >> good morning, everyone, i'm randi kaye in boston. it is 9:00 on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. thank you for starting your morning with us. now to the boston bombings, the death certificate confirms the
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violent final moments of tamerlan tsarnaev's life. the owner of the funeral home handling the suspected bomber's burial read the documents to cnn and it shows tsarnaev died from gunshot wounds of toro and extremities and blunt trauma to head and torso. he died during a shoot-out and police say his brother ran him over before escaping. tamerlan's body is in a worcester funeral parlor outside bost boston. four cemeteries have refused to take the suspected bomber. the "new york daily news" says they're in new jersey, connecticut and massachusetts. let's check with cnn national correspondent susan candiotti who is joining me this morning here in boston, so there's been a lot of controversy about the burial of tamerlan tsarnaev. what is his family saying about this? >> we know that the family is now in charge at least on the tsarnaev side with trying to make funeral arrangements. the only thing they're telling us is this, we don't know when
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this is going to happen, but they are protesting themselves burying him right now. they want their own independent autopsy, they don't trust the medical examiner's office and want their own results. there's that to consider. some people in the area don't want him buried at all in boston or in this community. although others disagree. listen. >> send him back to russia. >> too sad for words. it's too sad. he shouldn't be here. he should never have come. if he had never come none of this would have happened. he had every advantage he could have here. he shouldn't be buried here. >> i don't really care where he's buried. to me he's dead already. how much more can you punish him? i just, to me, it's too petty. >> there's even controversy about a funeral service at his
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own mosque. >> that's right, both tamerlan and his younger brother attended a mosque in the boston area and the imam does not want to preside over any funeral services if they're asked to hold them there, it would have to be a layperson or perhaps their own family member should have a private service because he said that what happened here at the marathon is just so terrible, they don't want anyone to be left with the impression that they condone the violence here in any way, shape or form. >> the university of massachusetts dartmouth back in the news where the younger tsarnaev went, bring us up to date on that. >> yesterday there was a search in the area of the campus, investigators fanning out there. what we understand from our sources is that there were some people, some leads they were checking out that thought they heard loud explosions in the recent past and they wanted to check that out. we don't know whether they came
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up with anything but we know that the search ended yesterday. again its conclusion we don't know. >> i was curious. >> so they might have been testing something there, they wanted to follow all the leads through to the end. >> makes sense, susan thank you very much. we'll check back with you later on president the funeral director handling tsarnaev's burial says that he will help to pay the cost if the family needs it. joining me next hour i speak live with the man himself, peter steen to figure out how difficult that task is, here at 10:00 a.m. eastern. in southern california, hundreds of firefighters are trying to gain ground against a fast moving wildfire. thousands of acres have gone up in smoke in ventura county and thousands of homes are under threat, let's find out more about when rain could give firefighters a helping hand. cnn meteorologist alexandra steele is tracking the weather for us. good morning.
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is there going to be enough rainfall to help at all? >> it might be negligible in scope in terms of the amount of rain but the biggest change and certainly the good news, we've seen a switch in the wind direction to the hot dry offshore winds have been replaced by cooler onshore winds, bringing in the moisture, temperatures dropped from 93 yesterday to the 70s and then to the 60s, and we are going to see some light showers come in so anything is beneficial. the bad news, the thundershowers could have some lightning with them which may even start a fire with this tinder brown dry vegetation and also a change in the wind direction. so today and tomorrow, 70s and 60s, certainly temperature is down, that is the good news, the humidity is up. there's monday's chance for rain, so overall the conditions have certainly improved. los angeles this year alone
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beginning in january to now has seen only 1.9 inches of rain. conversely, st. louis, two inches of rain in only two days. we're talking about flooding problems and incredibly robust system, record snow in three states here from maine, also all the way from minneapolis down and record cold temperatures with this system and arkansas look at this on the map, northwestern arkansas, snow for the first time since records began in 1819, as arkansas had snow in may so historic in nature, no question about it, a lot of rain, of course if you're watching the derby, 60s today and a sloppy track, we're going to see because a lot of rain coming in. it's just moving in to louisville and it will stay there all day. >> all right, alexandra steele thank you for the update. cnn's stephanie elam is live in newberry park, california for us this morning. what is the latest on the situation with the fire?
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how much of it is contained at this point? >> reporter: well randi that's one thing everyone's looking for information on. the last update from officials came last night, 28,000 acres were burned and that it was 20% contained. we should be getting an update now that day has finally made its way to the west coast. if you look behind me, there are some fires that are burning. those are controlled fires, burning them to make sure they don't come close to the residential areas like the fire has done in the last couple of days. they want to make sure this area burns out, a trail behind me and they want to make sure it doesn't threaten the homes here, randi. >> the fire erupted on thursday, it certainly has made up a lot of ground pretty faths, hasn't it? >> reporter: it raced out of the gates on thursday. it burned up 6,500 acres in just five hours on thursday and it ran over to the hills and to the
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pacific ocean. we saw embers jumping across the pacific coast highway and running out of real estate because the pacific ocean was there. fast moving fire. it came closer to homes but while there was a little bit of damage on 15 homes, no homes were destroyed with the fire and another fire east of here only one home was destroyed. >> what about evacuations in order in friday in ventura county. is it still a mandatory evacuation now? >> reporter: there were 4,000 people told to evacuate and part of the issue they were concerned about were winds. the winds are very much calm now so people are waiting to hear, i see some people are back in their homes, also i can tell you where we're staying the hotel was booked up with people who had been pushed out of their homes because of the fire, i noticed last night there were a lot less foot traffic, a lot more people going back home because they feel it's safe now,
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randi. >> stephanie elam, thank you very much. stay safe out there as well. today is the kentucky derby, we want to show you some live aerials of churchill downs from our affiliate wave, we're expecting big crowds and lots of media coverage and in the wake of the boston bombings we're also seeing extra security, plenty of it. pamela brown takes a closer look at the precautions. >> reporter: kentucky derby weekend is usually ball the big hats and the mint juleps. and of course the horse races. but nearly three weeks after this sporting event ended in tragedy, folks here are thinking about more than just waging their bets. is what happened in boston on your mind today? >> yes. definitely is on my mind, more of the fact it's such a large crowd and you never know how people's intentions are. >> absolutely, me and my buddy
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we're coming from chicago taken we're talking today about how are you scared at all about it and obviously it was on the forefront of his and my mind coming in today. zbld secure has been tight at the derby since 9/11 but officials are cracking down more. >> the first thing you do after an event is get everybody back together and you say what's the plan, do we need to make any adjustments. >> reporter: among the adjustments a ban on coolers, cans, even large purses which came as a surprise to some. 100 additional officers from federal, state and local agencies were brought in to conduct more thorough searches, on the estimated 150,000 spectators pouring into churchill downs. most racing fans take the increased safety measures in stride. >> i was happy to hear they had increased security. it means less makeup and goodies we can bring in but it's worth it to just be more comfortable and to know that we're going to
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look after each other today. >> reporter: one change had some women racing to the store. >> only thing we had to shop for different cards this year. every three women there was a ruler. >> reporter: pamela brown kentucky native joins us right now. are things going smoothly with the new security measures in place? >> reporter: good morning to you, randi. yes, so far so good as far as that goes. we were here yesterday at the oaks race and there were more than 100,000 people here, but it seemed like things were going smoothly. officials only had a few weeks to put these new measures into place and get the word out to the public and seems like they did a pretty good job with the purse size limit. lot of women had smaller purses and made last-minute trips to the department stores and it
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seemed like it helped at the security lines. the lines weren't that backed up and that's because according to some of the officials we spoke with because they don't have to spend the extra time going through the big bags, going through coolers, things like that, but today is the big test, randi, we're expecting 60,000 more people to pour into churchill downs for the derby so we'll see how it goes. >> pam brown, thank you very much. we'll keep an eye on it as well. turning to entertainment headlines, reese witherspoon's arrest has gone from unfortunate to downright embarrassing. conversation about repairing her image as well as other celebs with blunders of their own, that's coming next. she isn't ready.
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against an atlanta police officer the dash cam video of the episode goes viral. >> i'm a u.s. citizen and i'm allowed to ask any question i want to arrest. you better not arrest me. are you kidding me? i'm an american citizen. >> i told to you stay in the car. >> this is beyond. this is beyond. >> joining me is joey ryman. good to have you with us. >> thanks, victor. >> reese witherspoon is said to be one of the good ones in hollywood. how wad will this hurt her? >> i think it will help her. we loved her in "legally blond" and now we lovel her in legally blame. she stepped forward in a moral and ethical sense. >> how does at poll gee tour help? she went on "good morning america" and really candid, i didn't know what i was saying. >> my favorite line was, you
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don't know who i am. what she needs to do now is get in a squad car with some of the policemen and have the policemen say, you don't know who i am. do you know who i am, and tell their story and have her support that. she perhaps might want to do the 200 hours that she didn't get of public service to show a meaningful action. she's got to come forth now and apologize but words are not deed. deeds are important. >> she's got to do something. >> she's got to do something. >> let's talk about another, pepsico and mt. dew, pepsi doing damage control over what's called arguably the most racist commercial in history and i've intentionally not watched this commercial until this moment so we can talk about this, let's take a look. >> just point to it. >> you better not mess on the player. >> he's wearing the dew right. >> stitches, boom.
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>> that is bad. raprehab.com, says he blew the whistle on the mt. dew ad. paul i hadn't seen that. what did you think when you first saw it? >> well you expect shock these days, and i was shocked and made a phone call and tried to get some things started. >> why would a company think that this would be a good way to sell soda, and that wouldn't be offensive? >> well, to their credit i have to say that they made a quick decision to get rid of it and to be honest, we're playing it now and it was dead on tuesday, so you know, i commend pepsi for taking it off as quick as possible. i guess when you're so large, you can't catch everything, but everybody makes mistakes and luckily they got rid of this mistake. >> let's talk about pepsi and
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possibly mistakes they announced cutting ties with wrapper lil wayne over reference to slain civil rights icon emmitt till. right move? >> it was a great move for them. yesterday i was in tears, i'm a first time uncle of twins alex and porter, and i said maybe corporate america is changing and doing the right thing, and a little more sensitive. and i think they made a great move and some of the images in the things that he said with emmitt till it's unfortunate, it's a beverage company but maybe next the broadcasters and the record labels will do the same thing and start thinking about making changes in terms of content. >> when do you make the change, when do you make the announcement, you've got to be quick on it and it doesn't hold that all publicity is good publicity. >> no, actually all publicity is
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fabulous in the beginning but what happens afterwards determines the outcome. and what we've got here is someone trying to be edgy and went over the edge, this is marketing gone mad, and you know, the bench companies customers are milennials, kids born from the '80s to the 2000s and they only want one thing, they want meaning. they're born with b.s. meters so when they see something like this, they're just going to walk away were pepsico and that's where the damage is done. we need to come up with mountain do's and mountain don'ts. >> is this the end for the fallout from lil wayne, we heard about rick ross and his loss of endorsement with reebok. is it an example to other rappers? >> i think it's a great example. you know, the market has changed in music, and we went from lyricists and hip-hop and rap to the lyrically challenged so i think people are going to start having to be concerned with some of the artists and the labels of the product that they deliver
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and what they say because it's going to affect them 24/7 in their whole lifestyle. branding is where all the money is these days so financially it hurts and other people will take notice and that's a real good thing. >> paul porter from raprehab.com joining from us orlando. joey? >> tyler, the creator, created this in his head in five minutes,s they' not the way we do marketing. marketing has to be more meaningful. back to the 1940s it was created as a beverage mixer, something that created harmony, not bigotry. >> thank you so much. check this out, the first ever manned solar airplane, solar airplane here, soared into the history book after a cross-country journey. full story ahead. the old rules don't apply. so the investments she thinks are safe...
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it can fly by day or night with nothing more than energy from the sun. how cool is that? it's making an historic trip across the country. it just completed the first part of a five-leg trip traveling from los angeles to phoenix. i'll see you back here at the top of the hour. thanks for watching. a recovery, yes, but is it enough for the millions of americans still reeling from the recession? i'm clps clhristine romans, welo "your money." 165,000 jobs added in april. enough to bring the unemployment rate down to 7.5% in april. that's the lowest it's been since december 2008. most months we see the unemployment rate fall because people are falling out of the labor force. not the case in april. for the first time in a long time the unemployment rate fell because people went back to work. monthly revisions reveal more than 100,000 more jobs were added in the
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