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denied that there was an attack by israel into syria and they haven't said anything about what may or may not have been hit. what we do have is coming from a senior defense official who i spoke with earlier in the day who said, "we are watching everything going on as far as the transfer of weapons in syria. we are watching it closely and we have the means to do that." that is from a senior defense official here in the capital. i want to talk about what happened in the past. we heard from u.s. officials sources telling us somewhere thursday night or friday there was an attack and they believe it was israeli warplanes that attacked inside of syria but attacked from lebanon air space trying to knock out a convoy that may have been either

attempting to or about to transfer weapons, not chemical weapons per se, but weapons, very dangerous weapons game-changing weapons into the hands of hezbollah which is in leban lebanon, an organization the u.s. considers a terrorist. we have heard publicly and off the record, as well, from israeli officials. time and again we heard the same statements that israel will not allow the transfer of dangerous weapons or chemical weapons. weapons of mass destruction into the hands of hezbollah, which is its enemy. they believe is a front group for iran and they just absolutely have been adamant if they see weapons being transferred they will act. christi? >> any gauge at this point, sara, how far this thing could go when you mention lebanon and warplanes flying overhead there? any gauge at all how incendiary

this may get? >> here's the great concern from israel's perspective in the region. that is, they believe if there is going to be something that happens. for example, that comes into israel where israel is attacked that it will likely be coming from hezbollah. that has been said in the past that they believe hezbollah would be the first to make a move there on the lebanese border. which is not of concern, which is interesting, they don't think syria is going to necessary turn around and attack because the syrian regime has its own problems. it is dealing with this war that went on for two years and the situation where it's having trouble to try to keep itself in power. what we may see over the next coming days a response. we may not see a response because from the response from hezbollah and israel and the united states will have to back israel up, as well.

not necessarily certain that s hezbollah will take any action. >> thank you, we appreciate it. we're being joined right now, he is actually in damascus. i understand you just left the office of the foreign minister in damascus. what did he say? >> he was, obviously, very angry about this attack, christi. he said this was a work done by israelis to support islamist terrorists here that were fighting against the government. the opposition fighting are all terrorists. he said this was an alliance between terrorists and the israeli military. he called this and a quote "declaration of war against israel." he witnessed the explosions after these initial hits and they were going on for hours after the initial hits took place. they were lighting up the sky in damascus and fire going on and

apparently troops on the ground were so confused by the explosions that they started firing into the air and firing machine guns because they didn't know what was going on. some people were speculating one of these hits might have been on an ammunition dump and you heard explosions for a very long time. the syrian capital last night was absloutly rocked by explosions for hours and sounded like full-on war for a very long time, christi. >> in terms of tryishing to fin people and people who were injured and killed, is there a death toll? what do we know? >> one thing we have to keep in mind is that we're probably not going to find out how many people were actually killed. what was hit last night was one of the most secretive places in this country. it is a place that has a lot of guard units of the syrian

military and that research facility that is off limits to everyone. it is very difficult to get details. i asked the deputy foreign minister if he could tell me what was hit, anything else hit except that alleged research facility and all he was willing to say it was assets of syria's defense department that was hit. in mountains around damascus that are hard to access. a lot of checkpoints and you don't get very close to there because it is a very militarized zone. but, clearly, something very big was hit there last night, judging boy the explosions. we'll probably never find out how many people actually killed. i can tell you from peope speak people around that area felt the pressure waves outside of that military area, christi. >> fred, thank you so much for bringing us the latest. we appreciate it.

talk about boston. officials are scrambling to find a final resting place for one of the suspected boston bombers. officials at three cemeteries we know have refused to bury tamerlan tsarnaev saying they fear a backlash from the public. the funeral home holding his body tells cnn, it's just not right. >> this is what we do in this country. with medical treatment for the terrorists. i brought up mcveigh, somebody was driving it. it w the funeral drivers should be commended not criticized for what we do. >> meanwhile, investigators are still pressing tamerlan's wife for information about bombs made in her own home. erin, i'm wondering if you've

seen much of her the past few days. >> we have. we saw her here at her attorney's office where she was meeting with investigators but yesterday we saw her leave at least for several hours and also outside in her parents' backyard playing with her daughter who is almost 3 and one of their friend. she has been getting out and outside of the house quite a bit more than in the past week where she didn't leave that house for three days in a row, christi. >> and i'm wondering, does that make it harder for her to argue that she didn't know anything about the bomb plot? >> not necessarily, christi. the reason is from the very beginning. katherine russell's attorneys have been saying she was very busy. she was spending 75 to 80 hours outside the house where she was working as a home health care aid. and on top of that, the couple was raising their very young

daughter, 3-year-old. she may not have known, christi. >> what do neighbors say about having the widow of a suspected bomber so close to home? what are they saying about their neighborhood? >> more than anything, christi, this has been a very big disruption for them. they don't like the national attention. it's just getting in their way and so many of these neighbors think very highly of the russell family and knew katie when she was growing up there and they would like to see her be less alone and they can say, again and again -- >> erin, thank you for bringing us the latest. now, you know the fate of tamer tamerlan's remains. here, in fact, is what some of you are tweeting. "certain individuals that are such vermin and slime they that they don't deserve a proper

burial or cremation." and then wandering minds 2 wrote "we buried nazis, we can bury these guys. we do what is decent, distinguishes us from them." tweet me, we'll read some of your answers later and thank you for doing so. let's get to southern california now. firefighters are hoping to make more progress today against that huge wildfire. look at some of these pictures coming in. the springs fire is now nearly 60% contained. that's the good news. blackened 28,000 ache aers in ventura county outside of l.a. since it roared to life three days ago on thursday. one young resident said he's never seen anything like it. >> it's been kind of scary because we were getting packed up to be ready for evacuation and then when we got dismissed from school there were ashes

coming down and the sun is all different color from the pollution. it's been crazy. >> alexandria steele at the severe weather center. i know there is rain on the way. please, tell me that is for southern california specifically. >> it is. we've seen such a dramatic change in the weather, that has changed the dynamics of fighting this fire. this is the catalyst for this change. this area of low pressure changing it completely. what we have now moisture off the ocean, calmer winds and a big cool down from the 90s on thursday and friday to the 60s this weekend. also also, again, the normal damp flow off the pacific. here's future cast. here's saturday, sunday into monday. look at the change. moisture there. clouds and showers. not a daluge of rain. allowing it to be completely out of control thursday, friday and 60% containment this morning. 50% chance, we're seeing the

clouds, showers, monday and tuesday and, christi, really through dramatic change in the temperatures and the moisture levels and increased humidity that made the dynamics of fighting this so much different today than it was. >> thank you so much. heroism and controversy in boston. a boston strong bruins fan, well, he makes a surprise appearance to rev up his favorite team before a game. also, it might be time to prepare for another round of debates. yesterday nra executive wayne lapierre brought up boston in his speech. we'll have more on that. stay close. hoo-hoo hoo. sir... i'll get it together i promise... heeheehee. jimmy: ronny, how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico? ronny: i'd say happier than the pillsbury doughboy

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16 minutes past the hour right now. this is the weekend nra is hosting the 142nd annual meeting in downtown houston and more than 70,000 people expected to attend gun shows, rallies, seminars there. yesterday nra executive vice president wayne lapierre evoked controversy saying how many bostonians wished they had a gun two weeks ago. >> how many bostonians had a gun

two weeks ago. no rose garden speech will ever change that inescapable fact that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> lapierre and sarah palin criticized the administration. the woman who took the gun magazine from jared loughner called these claims insulting. >> what do you make of those remarks yesterday that the supporters of tougher gun laws see opportunity what chris cox said and sarah palin blasted the president for practicing the politics of emotion. this exploitation of people like you. what do you think about that? >> how insulting. it's just unbelievable that they should say that.

nobody's manufacturing reasons to use these horrible tragedies in political ways. they're in need of being changed. these laws are needing to be changed. obviously, none of them have felt the pain or watched six people die on the sidewalk to say that we're using them as props. it's very insulting and disen n disingenuo disingenuous. >> endorse a new strategy to bring the people who were affected by gun violence. gabby giffords to the rose garden and take the daughter of the principal at sandy hook to a town hall meeting and state of new hampshire. would you admit this is a new up close and personal strategy? >> you know, i don't know the political, political aspects of

doing that. people tell me i'm being used and i say that is a form of the word used ask useful. if i could be useful in changing the laws and making the public safer, then use me. >> so, you're in houston with this nra a annual meeting is happening this weekend. what's the goal for you? >> well, you know, i've been to the nra meeting in 2011 in pittsburgh and i went to the last year in st. louis and my mantra then was, we don't want your guns, we want your help. this year we obviously know that's beyond their moral fortitude to be helpful in this cause. in my opinion, not in my opinion. there is a survey after survey that 74% of the nra rank and file membership believes

stronger background checks is important and that it can be done and preserve second amendment rights. i believe that the leadership of the nra, the gun manufacturers and the gun lobby are saturated in the blood of these innocent people and that some of our legislatures have blood on their hands. and they hope that we will go away, it's not going to happen this time. there's a grassroots movement and this is not going to go away. the nra is not going to win this battle. >> and, you know, we were speaking about that tragic shooting in tucson. survivor former congresswoman gabby giffords is being honored with the john f. kennedy courage award. the personal and physical courage she aimed at reducing gun violence. caroline kennedy, by the way,

will present the award to giffords a little bit later this afternoon. all righty. those big hats came in handy at this year's kentucky derby. people strut through the rain to see their favorite horses strut through to the title.

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honorary captain, as a you see. the black and gold flag waved boston strong. it was an incredible comeback at the kentucky derby. jeff fischel is here with the bleacher report and it was a career crowning achievement, but a pretty messy one. >> christi, it really was. it started with lots of rain and tears and joy, lots of them. 139th kentucky derby was so rainy and muddy they were having woodstock flash backs. at the halfway point of the race, orb was fourth from last and then he took off and blew away the field to win for legendary trainer mcgaughey couldn't hold back the tears and r r rosario can't believe the year

he's having. >> win the kentucky derby, it is like a dream. >> because i've worried about it for a while and i might not let anybody know that but inside, inside that was always there. >> of course, the kentucky derby, you cannot miss the collection of best and worst hats at the derby that we have for you at bleacherreport.com. floyd mayweather won his first fight. fans actually booed at times because they wanted more action. the champ admitted he hurt his hand during the fight. he is now 40-4-0. he certainly earned his nickname. mayweather made $32 million last night. the minor league baseball team and your hometown, christi, felt a disturbance in the force

yesterday. star wars day. yes, may the force be with you. celebrated with special chewbacca-inspired uniforms. they will wear those again today because it has really become "star wars" weekend. it has a sequel. today is "revenge of the fifth." i'm just telling you, that is fact, that is true. people are calling it "revenge of the fifth." they're going to serve yoda soda. >> that can't be a comfortable costume. that chewbacca costume. >> brings out a growl. i'm guessing. you start yelling. >> the kids had fun. isn't that all that matters? jeff fischel, thank you so much. appreciate it. hey, you know, they do not call him the oracle of omaha for nothing. when warren buffett speaks, everybody listens. what is he saying about the economy now? we'll tell you.

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good to you so far. we want to send a special welcome to our troops watching on the american forces network. half past the hour. let's get you right to it because syria is accusing israel of launching its second air strike on a war-torn country in three days. syrian state television says israeli rockets hit a government research site in a damascus suburb. there's no official response from israel at this point, but syria's foreign minister calls the declaration of war. israel will do what is necessary to stop the syrian government from transporting weapons from fighters. a roadside bomb that killed five u.s. troops in kandahar in southern afghanistan. separately two members of the nato-led coalition were shot dead by a soldier. their nationalities haven't been released. a shocking arrest in britain.

the deputy speaker of brib's house of commons was arrested for alleged rape and sexual salt. police searched evans' homes from allegations of two men in their 20s. he is a a gay rights activist in england. president obama is traveling to columbus, ohio, to give the commencement address at osu, ohio state university. more than 10,000 students will get their diplomas. might be no surprise he's speaking at osu. exactly one year ago he kicked off his re-election campaign at the university and later won ohio in november's election, of course. cooler temperatures are help hadding firefighters get the aupper hand on the wildfire that raced to the specific ocean at this point in ventura county, california. the spring fire and now nearly 60% contained. fire officials say rain forecast for later today could certainly be a big help to them. since thursday, 28,000 ache aers

have gone up and 35 homes and other buildings have been damaged. wishing them the best there. you know, the mom who disappeared for 11 years and resurfaced this week is a in florida jail right now. brenda heist turned herself into authorities on friday. accused of violating probation, forgery and giving a false name to police. earlier this week, though, she told police that she was a missing person. that she had left her husband, son and daughter back in pennsylvania in 2002 and she did so because she was stressed. she claimed that she lived mostly as a homeless person since then. anderson cooper talked to a person who employed her and let her acatually motually move in . >> when she moved in, she had belongings. she called me up and said, are you serious about that offer? it took her a couple weeks to get all her stuff packed up and moved in. >> did she have a cell phone and facebook page?

>> she was on the computer a lot. she had her cell phone. on her cell phone texting and what not. she had her facebook page. she was on internet dating page. she had friends outside of me. >> i don't know if you saw the recent picture of her, the one we were showing of the way she looked when she turned herself into police just last week. was that the way she looked to you? she looks very worn down. >> she really does. no, i was absolutely shocked when i saw that photo. no, she didn't look like that. >> she deteriorated since 2010/2011 time frame when you knew her? >> she has deteriorated significantly since the last time she was seen around here, the end of 2012. that's not been very long. seven months or so. >> do you suspect of her using drugs? >> i do not. i would have never allowed her around my family or my kids.

well wishers have been flocking to boston's copley square since it reopened more than a week and susan candiotti was there and ran into a very special visitor, too. >> for the second weekend in a row as people pour into copley plaza to pay their respects to those who lost their lives and those whose lives were changed forever by the bombing. something we didn't expect to see. a professional dance instructor who lost part of her leg in the bombing. for the first time in 18 days after leaving the rehab hospital she and her mother were outside and came upon this memorial. >> we were just out walking around and doing some errands and just trying to kind of find some sort of normalcy and we just happened upon it. >> what did you think of what you saw? >> the outpouring of support i've already known before seeing

the memorial was huge. but after seeing the memorial and seeing people there and just paying their respects and hearing people tell me that i was an inspiration and all of them, all the victims were an inspiration. i wish the other people that were still in recovery could be here right now seeing it with me. they deserve to see it. >> did anything in particular stand out in your mind as you looked at the mementos that people left behind and the signatures. >> it isn't one in particular, it is the amount of people that really stands out. the amount of people who had an a outpouring of support and love and just encouragement all around is what really stood out to me. >> one thing that stood out to me, how many people came up to you and wanted to be photographed with you and wanted to congratulate you and touch your hand. >> yeah, yeah, they did. i think it's, it's very sweet, first of all, that they would

want to give me their support, but i think it's also for them it's important to see that all of us that were affected are moving on and trying to find, again, some sort of normalcy. and i think it's important for them to be able to see that and for them to be able to kind of have that knowledge that it goes on. life goes on after such a horrible tragedy. >> you are an inspiration. thank you. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate that. >> for those who recognized her, it was a special moment. it was for us, too. susan candiotti, cnn, boston. >> she has such a sweet spirit. thank you for susan candiotti for the report there. a factory building collapses in beng ludash. companies a often get their labor cheaper overseas, but at what expense? we're looking at the human cost of the clothes we wear, coming up. resources they need.

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i always look forward to getting your tweets. let me know what you're thinking. the oracle from omaha speaks. tens of thousands of investors have descended upon to hear from buffett. that includes poppy harlow who spoke with him. >> i spoke with him here in omaha, nebraska, where tens of thousands of investors flock to

hear from the oracle of omaha himself. i talked to buffett specifically about the stock market because we've seen a record high for the stock market recently. big question people have is our stocks overvalued given the effects that it has. warren buffett being a long-term investor says he doesn't look at what the market will do in a week, a month, a year, given the low interest rates all assets across the board, including stocks, are being driven up. we also talked about immigration reform and jobs. >> is there any policy, anything that can be done on the policy side that would increase job creation at a more rapid rate? >> we could apply more fiscal stimulus. there isn't much to do on the monetary side. >> would you support more stimulus? >> what the down side of that stimulus would be, greater than the needed benefits. you don't want to take something that makes you feel good just because of that fact without

considering consequences. so, i really have no great recommendations in terms of change of policy. >> immigration reform is front and center right now in washington and i wonder, do you think that immigration reform is critical to the economy? what is the impact on this economy if we see immigration reform derailed, does it matter? >> i think immigration reform is derailed, i think people will continue to have great doubts about washington. but i think there is great sentiment for it and i think it probably will pass. exactly in what form, i don't know. >> anything specific that you think needs to be included in immigration reform in this country for the economy? >> i think net immigration over the lifetime of the country has been, you can fight problems with it. but this is a country of immigrants and i think we should be a lot smarter in terms of the

quotas we establish. i think it's crazy not to encourage all kinds of people who can benefit this country by bringing them over. >> we also touched on the issue of income and equality. warren buffett says incoming ewallty in this country bothers him and the growing gap between rich and poor is having a negative impact on the u.s. economy. at 82 years old, the big question is, who will succeed warren buffett to run berkshire hathaway. people ask that question here and still no answers from buffett on who he has tapped to be his successor. christi? >> thank you very much. some of you have seen the images of the deadly building collapse in beng bangladesh. do you know a connection may be found a few feet away from you right now in your closet. nadia is here to explain. first of all, what is this connection to bangladesh.

>> just look in your closet and anybody watching today look at your shirts, your pajamas probably made in china, maybe vietnam, maybe bangladesh. 98% of all american clothes are manufactured overseas and they do it quick and they do it cheap. and if you want to know just how cheap, the institute for global labor did a study. they took an american company and a company in bangladesh and said we want to see how much you could make the same demen shirt for. exactly the same. absolutely everything. and the u.s. company said, $13.22. >> that is what it would cost to make that one shirt. >> the one shirt in the u.s. and the bangladesh company, wait for this, $3.72. >> and that's because of the labor conditions? >> and that's because of how cheap the labor is. so, if you just want to look at labor, the labor on that shirt in the u.s. would be $7.47.

the labor on that shirt, now, wait for this one, in bangladesh would be 22 cents. >> so, out of that 22 cents, what does that tell us about what people in bangladesh make? >> a factory worker in bangladesh would make $38 a month where an american worker would be around $1,300 a month. you are looking at a huge discrepancy in the amount that people earn. for bangladesh, this is 77% of their exports come from garment industry. it's a $20 billion industry. and factories like this, which is the capital of bangladesh, there are 100,000 factories like this in and around and only 18 inspectors. >> and there's no way that they can keep up with that then. >> it's the working conditions,

the buildings. the pope himself said that not paying fairly is against god. >> wow. >> of course, the question remains now, what gets done? we had shock, we had horror and we had some companies get together this week, global companies and look at the conditions. what will actually be done remains to be seen. >> some people might be sitting at home thinking, i'm not comfortable with this. is there anything i can personally do? >> you can look at the label of my clothes and say i'm not going to buy clothes from certain places. there does look like there's associations and groups getting together. disney as a company have chosen to pull out of countries like bangladesh, belarus, pakistan. let's take a look and i'd like to know where the dress you wear is made. >> you'd have to look, because i'm not sure. let's take a look.

nadia might make me feel bad when this is over. thank you, we appreciate it. have you heard a prince harry u.s. tour? leonardo dicaprio in theaters. mother's day, we're looking at what's going on in the week ahead to give you a heads up.

we want to make sure you know what's going on in the week ahead. a big day for the boston bombing victims. they're expected to hear how

that $28 million fund plans to distribute money including, "well over 1 million to families of victims who died who lost a limb." prince harry is headed to the states for a week. a special visit he will make to hurricane sandy victims. it was a year ago last may in 2012 was his last visit. also on thursday, by the way, washington is going to hold its first congressional hearing on the boston bombing and eduard davis is expected to testify in that. let's move on here to friday. just need a little get away. maybe you need to go to the movies. the 3d adapitation stars leonardo dicaprio, toby mcgwire. i would think the atmosphere would be terrific.

you don't want to forget mother's day. if mama's not happy, nobody's happy. here is cnn political editor paul stein houhauser, too, with look at the week in politics. >> a governor whose life was side tracks by an affair. and there sister of comedy central host stephen colbert and you get a race that has captured national attention. head to the polls to fill a vacant house seat. their choices republican mark sanford and seeking political redemption with his bid for the office that he once held. >> just tremendously humbled to find ourselves in this spot. >> elizabeth colbert bush, his political opponent. >> my only pledge and special interest are to the people of south carolina district one. >> thanks to sanford's political

baggage, she has a good shot at winning. later this week, presidential politics. two republicans who may want to run for the white house head to the states to kick off the primary and caucus calendar. senator rand paul of kentucky heads to iowa to keynote a gop dinner and bobby jindal headlines an event for local republicans in new hampshire. it's only may 2013, but in some ways it feel like 2016. christi? >> not already. paul, thank you so much. a funeral director met with outraged and rejection over the possible burial of a boston bombing suspect. what is going to happen to tamerlan tsarnaev's body and what do you think about it? coming up, stay close.

a decision to charge admission at new york's 9/11 memorial. not everybody is too happy. the museum board said the museum is going to charge somewhere between $20 to $25 when the site opens next year. families of 9/11 victims say the museum should be free. one of the best free museums in new york, at least until tuesday. when the arts of work go up for auction in christy's. they include picasso and other works of art. some celebrities could be at the auction, maybe even leonardo dicaprio as well as some of new york's billionaires. so, if you like the art, you might like the people watching there. a florida teenager is recovering after a shark took a

bite out of his leg. this happened along the atlantic coast. he and his friends didn't notice any trouble in the water, although black shark have been spotted in that area recently. he told cnn affiliate the bite left 20 teeth mark in his foot but didn't hurt too badly and now he thinks the whole story is kind of cool. a 16-year-old would think that, wouldn't he? he's okay, that's all that matters. so much more ahead on "cnn sunday morning" which starts right now. happy sunday to you. let's get you caught up if you haven't looked at the clock. 7:00 on the east coast and early 4:00 for all of you out west. are you just getting home or waking up? thank you, regardless, for spending some time with us here. i want to tell you about syria's deputy foreign minister issuing a declaration of war. this after huge