the defense may call its own witnesses and offer the jury reason to spare jodi's life. stay tuned to cnn for the latest developments. i'm randi kaye, thanks for watching. good morning, everyone. i'm brianna keilar, and you're watching our special edition of "early start weekend." it is 6:00, and we're coming to you live from cleveland, ohio. thanks for being with us. all of the cleveland victims are now out of the hospital, but michelle knight's family has yet to see her. we'll be explaining why. plus new information about what suspect ariel castro's dna test revealed. >> elizabeth is happy. she is well. and we are so happy to have her back in our arms. i hate even leaving her. i'm just always sitting there hugging her the whole time. it's real.

>> that was ed smart back in 2003, when his daughter elizabeth was found nine months after being abducted. he joins us to talk about the long road to recovery and how a family rebuilds when the unthinkable happens. and an incredible story of survival. a woman pulled out of the rubble in bangladesh 17 days after the building collapsed. we'll tell you how she stayed alive so long. good morning. it is saturday, may 11th. the man accused of holding three women captive for almost a decade is now confined to a 9 by 9 foot cell. officials say tests of ariel castro's dna confirms he is the father of the 6-year-old girl born to kidnapping survivor amanda berry. prosecutors have boarded up castro's home to preserve the crime scene. meantime, the prosecutor handling the case says he plans to charge castro for, quote,

each day of kidnapping he allegedly carried out. castro also could face murder charges related to claims he starved and punched michelle knight to induce at least five miscarriages. and this morning, while relatives of berry and gina dejesus continue to celebrate their safe return, knight's family doesn't know where she is. the 32-year-old woman has been releaseded from the hospital, but a family spokesman says police won't tell them where she went. let's bring in cnn's pam brown. pam, you have a source that is telling cnn that michelle knight is in a, quote, safe place and is very comfortable. what's going on here? >> our susan candiotti spoke to the source and was told that, and i spoke to the spokesperson for knight's family, and we're learning they don't know where she is. they simply don't know where she is, and they want to know. if you know where she is, please tell us. the mom has been trying to make

contact with her. she's been trying to make contact since she left the hospital. the spokesperson tells me she loves her daughter very much. she misses her. she hopes for a call on mother's day, which, of course, is tomorrow. it is clear here the family is actively trying to make contact. the grandmother of michelle knight went to the house of gina dejesus yesterday after finding out she was released from the hospital. she had heard that michelle would go to that house. she arrived with balloons in the car, and michelle won't there. it clearly was disappointing for the family. here's what the grandmother had to say. >> i was told she had been released and that she was coming over here. so we kind of wanted to come over here and show our support for her because we haven't seen her. and gina's parents have been wanting to meet us.

>> so, again, the family still trying to find out where their daughter is. as the spokesperson said last night, the police know where she is, but the police aren't telling us. we're hearing from a source that she is in a safe place and is comfortable. >> i'm assuming we will learn over time why that is that she hasn't been reunited with her family. pam, cleveland police took michelle knight off the fbi missing persons list. this is something that happened not too long after she disappeared. why did they do that? >> 15 months after she disappeared, her name was taken off the missing persons database. we reached out to cleveland police, and they sent us a missing persons report. essentially, they tried contacting a parent, a gauardia, and couldn't reach a response. according to protocol, you're supposed to take a person's name off the list. according to the missing persons report we have, in january last year, it was validated.

so we're trying to learn, did they reach someone who said she was still missing, and was her name put back on that database? we're still looking into that. >> let's bring you up to date on this morning's other top news. victor blackwell is in atlanta. russia apparently did not tell the u.s. everything it knew about the older boston many bom suspect. moscow did warn washington two years ago that tamerlan tsarnaev could be an extremist. a law enforcement source tells cnn that russians held important details like texts he sent his mother, telling her he wanted to join a militant group and attack the caucuses area. at least one member of the house intelligence committee says, if the u.s. had known about those texts, the fbi could have done a better job tracking tsarnaev. but russia probably did not want to reveal its sources and spy

methods, and the u.s. probably would have done the same thing. tsarnaev is now buried in a muslim cemetery between washington and virginia. remember his body was unclaimed for almost two weeks, and cambridge, massachusetts, where he lived refused to bury him. the islamic group that owns the cemetery says a christian woman actually led this effort. county officials say no one asked them. >> this was a horrific act. this was a terrible crime. we don't want the county to be remembered as the resting place of the remains for someone who committed a terrible crime. >> the islamic group that handled the burial says it's not a political thing, but tsarnaev can't bury himself, of course. there's now a criminal investigation into the fertilizer plant disaster in west, texas. you remember this video. 14 people were killed when the plant caught fire and exploded last month. the state fire marshal's office has ruled out several causes, but it's still trying to figure

out the spot where the fire started. one of the first responders is under arrest. bryce reed is accused of having materials to make a pipe bomb, but authorities are not linking him to the explosion investigation. about two hours from now, nasa astronauts will begin an emergency space walk to fix an ammonia leak at the international space station. this ammonia is used to cool the power systems. you can see it here. see these little flecks near the bottom of your screen. that's the ammonia. it falls like snow because of the environment. they noticed the leak on thursday. if the leak is not fixed, nasa says it could shut down cooling systems in a matter of walk. this emergency space walk is scheduled for two hours from now, 8:15 eastern, and of course we'll show it when the hatch opens and the repair begins. let's go back to brianna keilar in cleveland. >> thank you. we'll be watching that as well as other headlines, including the obama administration which

is opn defensive over a deadly attack which killed the ambassador and three other americans in libya. apparently, officials are more involved than they first let on in tweaking those talking points the white house used to describe last september's attack. cnn white house correspondent jim acosta is at the white house. jim? >> reporter: white house and state department officials are trying to make the case that they made the adjustments to those talking points in order to preserve the integrity of the investigation into the benghazi attack. that does not answer all of the questions about what the white house has said in the past about those talking points. three days after the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, obama administration officials were firing e-mails back and forth to each other, discussing just how to explain to congress what happened. according to a congressional source who viewed the e-mail exchange, those administration officials agreed to a key cia

assessme assessment. a version of those talking points made their way to u.n. ambassador susan rice, who went on five sunday talk shows and said protesters on an anti-islamic video in benghazi as well as a separate siege in the u.s. embassy in cairo. >> our current assessment is what happened in benghazi is, in fact, a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in cairo. almost a copy cat of the demonstrations against our facility in cairo, which were prompted, of course, by the video. >> reporter: what rice did not disclose is investigators suspected an al qaeda connected group, ansar al sharia was behind the attack. in an e-mail, state department spokesman wrote, "why do we want the hill fingering ansar al sharia when we aren't doing that ourselves. and the penultimate point could be abuseded to beat the state

department for not paying attention to agency warnings." nuland chimed in again, "these don't resolve all of my issues or those of my building's leadership. they are consulting with nss." then they warn the talking points shouldn't jeopardize the investigation and that the matter will be dealt with at a white house meeting the next day, when it appears the decision was made to drop the reference to the terror group. the end result, this e-mail to rice, "you are doing the sunday morning shows and need to be aware of the final posture these points took." the big changes to the talking points run counter to what jay carney told reporters last december. >> the single adjustment made to those talking points by these two institutions were changing the word consulate to diplomatic facility. >> reporter: carney's

explanation now, that officials were concerned about protecting the integrity of the investigation, but that took a while, after the briefing was originally scheduled for 12:30, then moved to 1:45, then again to 3:15. >> that is not a stylistic edit. that is not a single adjustment as you said back in november, that is a major dramatic change in the information. >> i appreciate the question and the opportunity again to make clear that the cia produced talking points. it was the result of an interagency process on the morning of -- that saturday morning. >> when you say these talking points -- >> let me just finish this, and then you can follow up. i accept that stylistic may not precisely describe the change of one word to another. >> reporter: earlier this week, the number two diplomat in libya at the time of the attack say the administration's explanations don't add up. >> she blamed this attack on the video. in fact, she did it five different times. what was your reaction to that? >> i was stunned. my jaw dropped.

and i was embarrassed. >> reporter: house speaker john boehner accused the administration of stonewalling. >> i would call on the president to release these unclassified interagency e-mails so that the american people can see them. >> reporter: the white house says it's all politics. on the same day the e-mail surfaced, a new web video from a gop super pac zeroed in on clinton's testimony on benghazi. >> was it because of protests, or was it because of guys out for a walk at night and decided they'd go kill some americans? what difference at this point does it make? >> reporter: also as the briefing, white house press secretary jay carney indicated the administration will not be turning over those e-mails made by secretary baker. when asked if the white house may have handled things differently looking back, carney said no. >> jim acosta for us at the white house. now here back in cleveland, here's what we'll be bringing you ahead. the daughter of the man accused

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back here in cleveland. the daughter of rape and kidnapping suspect, ariel castro, said she was horrified to learn in the home where she grew up. angie gregg spoke exclusively to cnn's lori siegel and she says she never knew what was going on. >> my husband and i are in complete belief that the caring, doting man i knew as my daddy was, in fact, the most evil, vile, demonic criminal that i have met or heard of over the past ten years. >> reporter: this is part of a letter angie gregg wrote after learning her father was allegedly behind the brutal kidnappings in cleveland, ohio. now she's speaking out. >> and to go to the vigils, to show these girls the footage of their parents' pleas for their returns, to rape, starve, and beat innocent human beings, i'm

disgusted. >> reporter: you've learned your father wasn't the guy you thought he was. >> no. >> reporter: what is it like? is >> it's like a horror movie. it's like watching a bad movie. >> only you're in it? >> only we're in it. we're the main characters, and i never suspected anything was going on, but the more i sit and dwell on it, i think of things that make a whole lot of sense now. >> you look back, and you say, okay, you can piece together -- you're beginning to piece together a puzzle. where were the signs? >> he never wanted to leave the house more than a day at a time. he was adamant in the fact that he wanted to leave home early morning, and he had to be back by evening. >> reporter: were there certain areas in the home that were just off limits? >> ever since my mom lived in that house, the basement was always kept locked. i've never been upstairs in the house, and i never had reason to be. i asked him if i could see my

room for old time's sake, and he said, oh, honey, there's so much junk up there. you don't want to go up there. >> reporter: when you think about what might have been, what was behind those doors, how do you cope with that? >> it all makes sense now. now i know. it's hard, but i have no sympathy for the man. i have no sympathy. he was just another person who's lied and deceived and manipulating people. i could never forgive him. i could never forgive him. if you would have asked me this last week, i would have told you he's the best dad and the best grandpa. >> reporter: now angie realizes ariel castro may have fathered a daughter with one of the women he allegedly held captive, meaning she may have a sister. >> he showed me a picture that was in his cell phone randomly, and he said, look at this cute

little girl. it was a face shot, and i says, she's cute. who is that? and he said, this is my girlfriend's child. and i said, dad, that girl looks like emily. emily is my younger sister. and he said, no, that's not my child. this is my girlfriend's child by somebody else. >> reporter: cnn has since learned the results of ariel castro's dna test, and he is the father of amanda berry's 6-year-old daughter who was born in captivity. as we continue to follow a number of stories, let's head back to atlanta and victor blackwell. i want you to imagine this, a woman trapped in cement and steel and darkness for more than two weeks. she had nothing to eat, just a few biscuits and water. find out how this young woman managed to survive a real life nightmare.

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thanks for staying with us. this story is incredible. it's in bangladesh. a young woman is alive and recovering in the hospital after being buried alive for 16 days. a nine-story factory collapsed on top of her, and she is trapped. more than 9,000 people died in that building. let's go down to cnn in neighboring new delhi. an incredible story. how did this young woman survive for so long? >> reporter: victor, it's really quite an amazing story. people in bangladesh overjoyed and overwhelmed by the news. after days and days of recovering dead, decomposed bodi bodies, rescue workers weren't expecting to find anyone alive,

especially for 16 days. for the past 10 days, they haven't been able to pull out anyone alive either. rescue workers say, as they were pulling out rubble from the lower lowers, they saw something move and heard something, a rod hit another metal rod or something like that. then they heard -- you can imagine how stunned they were when they heard a voice crying out for help, a woman's voice saying, please rescue me. i'm alive. i'm alive. as you can imagine, it's very, very unusual to find anyone alive underneath that kind of rubble in those kinds of temperatures. it's about 99 degrees fahrenheit there, very, very humid. the rescue workers say she was able to find a pocket, if you will, a gap, amid the rubble where she had enough oxygen and room, and also she had a little bit of water. sheers what she told reporters when she was in the hospital. >> translator: i had nothing to eat. i found water and nothing else.

i couldn't breathe. for an hour i looked for water and found it. every so often i'd look for water, and i found a little bit and drank it. then i didn't find anymore. with a lot of painful effort, i climbed down stairs by using a stick to break through tiny spaces. i called for help, but no one heard me. i'd hear sounds, but no one heard me. >> reporter: they did eventually find her. of course, it was a one-hour ordeal, and she is recovering now in the hospital. victor? >> i read that she had just enough room to stand and sit but not enough space to lie down. clearly, she, as we saw in that video, has a lot of recovery ahead. what's her condition now? >> reporter: doctors say she's actually doing very, very well. she's in stable condition. all her vital organs are functioning. she's eating. she's talking to doctors. she's even talking to reporters. what's amazing is the condition

that she was found in even then. she actually had suffered from no severe injuries, no severe bleeding either. rescue workers say she was dehydrated and crying, but that's about it. >> wow. sumina udas reporting for us in new delhi. it's hard to imagine what's next for the women pulled from the house of horrors in cleveland. the smart family knows, the family of elizabeth smart. you'll hear from her father next. it's strange, i'm getting gray,

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it is half past the hour. welcome back. i'm brianna keilar live from cleveland with the latest developments in the kidnapping investigation. first, here's some other stories that we're watching this morning. at least one law maker says russia dropped the ball on the boston bombing suspect. a law enforcement source tells cnn that moscow withheld key details about tamerlan tsarnaev, like texts that he sent his mother telling her he wanted to join a militant group. a member of the house intelligence committee told "the wall street journal" the intel could have changed everything. but sources tell the paper the u.s. probably would have withheld that information too. tsarnaev is now buried in a muslim cemetery between washington and richmond,

virginia. cambridge, massachusetts, where he lived, refused to allow his burial there. it is election day in pakistan, and it has been a deadly one. bombs targeting voters have gone off in several cities. more than a dozen people have been killed and many more hurt despite heavy security there. pakistanis are voting on the first transition between civilian governments in the country's history. sandy hook elementary school should be demolished, and the new school should be built in its place. that is the unanimous recommendation coming from the sandy hook task force. they say that tearing it down will help the community erase some of the emotional scars left behind after last year's mass shooting. 26 people were killed in that shooting in december. and now we return to atlanta and victor blackwell.

as we talk about these three women who were released as amanda berry went to that door and screamed for help. as we talk about their future, a few people know what's coming next. we talk about elizabeth smart, the young woman kidnapped from a home in utah in 2002. she was rescued a few months later. her father, ed smart, as she was released, he was obviously elated. listen to this. >> elizabeth is happy. she is well. and we are so happy to have her back in our arms. i hate even leaving her. i'm just always sitting there hugging her the whole time. it's real. >> i spoke with elizabeth's father about the road ahead, for not only the survivors in cleveland, but also their families. ed smart joins us now. it's good to have this conversation with you because you know more than anyone, better than anyone, what these families, what these women are going through right now.

give us an idea. the first few days after reuniting, what is happening for this family? >> well, the first day was just so full of joy. i mean, having her back and reconnecting with her and enjoying things that we enjoyed previously together as a family. following that, of course, the prosecution and all of the potentials of the trial come up. she has to kind of understand what's going to happen in the future. certainly, having been through as much as she has been, she'll be going through forensic interview or debriefing by law enforcement. certainly, that can be very difficult. i know, as elizabeth basically debriefed these two forensic psychiatrists, she had to go into detail about what happened to her.

certainly, that isn't easy, and it's very difficult. certainly, as parents, you don't want to see your child go through the nightmare of having to relive things and be in such detail that it just is offensive. >> and i'd like to ask you, elizabeth was kidnapped from your home. did her kidnapping change your view of the world? >> certainly. i had remembered hearing about instances such as what happened to elizabeth, but i just always thought, well, that will never happen to me. we loved just being kind of in the background, never being up front, certainly never being in the media.

because of what happened, the importance of parents learning what can happen -- that doesn't mean you should feel scared, but you should be prepared, and you certainly should prepare your children. the bottom line is kids don't understand, when adults cross the line, they need to be able to do something, and know what to do. whether it's screaming, yelling, running, giving him a good knee in the groin, all of these things are really important to know and to know that what has happened to these women, what happened to elizabeth was not their fault. there are so many -- there are so many victims and the number of survivors that feel a personal guilt and a responsibility about similar acts that happened to them. they need to know that is not their fault. they don't need to carry any guilt on this matter, and it's a matter of stopping these

predators from doing it again. to think that this happened three times on -- those are huge. a kidnapping is a huge issue that certainly doesn't happen frequently in our communities, fortunately. and the one great thing that i got out of this is, yes, there are some really bad people out there, but it's amazing the wonderful people that are there in our communities and help and care. >> ed smart, father of elizabeth smart, reunited back in 2003 after elizabeth had been with her captor for nine months. it's so good to talk with you about this. thank you for your time. >> thank you. i appreciate being with you. >> we'll have more from cleveland a little later in the show. next an emergency in space. as astronauts prepare to leave the space station to make some repairs.

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later this morning, president obama will honor 43 law enforcement officials who have shown bravery and valor in the line of duty. the rose garden ceremony at 9:00 eastern recognizes recipients of the national association of police organizations top cops awards. winners come from ten states. they include officers who responded to last year's shooting at a sikh temple in wisconsin. this evening michelle obama is scheduled to deliver the commencement speech at eastern kentucky university. she'll be addressing graduates of the college of education and the college of business and technology. next week the first lady is

slated to speak to graduate the as bowie state university in maryland and martin luther king jr. high school in nashville. prince harry is in denver making another stop on his tour of america. the british royal will be attending the warrior games as sports competition for those who have been injured in combat. athletes at the events represent troops from the americas as well as the british armed forces. prince harry, as you may recall, served with nato troops in afghanistan. later this morning, nasa astronauts leave the international space station for an emergency space walk. they're trying to fix an ammonia leak. this is something they noticed on thursday. this ammonia is important. it's used to cool the power systems. if this leak is not fixed, nasa says it could shut down cooling systems in a matter of hours. that emergency space walk scheduled for 8:15 eastern. we'll show it to you when it happens. meantime, we're keeping an eye on some weather and a powerful storm that dropped

baseball-sized hail on top of homes in texas. check it out. unbelievable. tracy ynez from san antonio, texas, shot that video in her backyard. you can see it going right into her swimming pool. this storm ripped out trees and knocked out power in some places. meteorologist karen mccbegcguins in the cnn weather center. >> look at that.

it looks like someone is throwing it. the strong storms are prevailing across texas right now. take a look at this. right now in coastal sections of louisiana extending on down towards galveston, some high winds also seen in this area as a frontal system makes its way towards the east. the storms are expected to make their way this afternoon as a frontal system continues to make its way toward the eastern seaboard. as it does, we're looking at much cooler air on the back side of this, and that cooler air is expected to linger into sunday as well. with temperatures in the 50s or 60s across this region. it looks like that will be over the next several days, but as we go towards the middle of next week, some of these regions in the central united states can expect temperatures in the 90s, places like bismarck and fargo and minneapolis, readings that have been about 20 degrees below

where they should be. they'll jump up into the 90s again. look for a couple of showers expected also across the pacific northwest and a few isolated showers in southern california as well. we start the morning out with showers and storms in new york, also for boston. and for cleveland those temperatures still remain on the cool side as well with mostly 60s, but watch for those temperatures to really rebound as we go into the next several days. brianna, back to you. >> karen, thank you for that. let's check out some of the other stories ahead with victor blackwell back in atlanta. hi, victor. >> brianna, thank you. this weekend, jodi arias is on suicide watch after telling a reporter she wants the death penalty, and she wants it soon. now some people say she's just doing this for attention. that's neck. [ indistinct conversations ] [ pizza dodging man's mouth ] ♪ ♪

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we'll get back to our special coverage in cleveland in just a moment. first more things we're following. michael jackson's longtime makeup artist testified at the trial this week that the singer was acting paranoid. fay said he looked like a person i didn't recognize. fay also expressed concern that the tour schedule she was ignored. jackson's family is suing concert promoter aeg live over his death. moviegoers are outraged over a publicity stunt that went horribly wrong. during a screening of "ironman 3" in jefferson city, i man walked into the theater in full

tactical gear carrying a fake gun. he was only an actor promoting the film. several people called 911. the theater has apologized on its facebook page. for more than 12 hours, new jersey police have been negotiating with a gunman who has taken three children hostage. he barricaded himself in his trenton home. so far, he is still communicating with police. authorities say the incident began on friday, but they are not sure why. it's also not clear what relationship the children have to the man who is holding them. we'll be keeping you updated as we get more details on that developing story. victor, back to you in atlanta. >> brianna, thanks. let's turn now to the latest twists and turns in the jodi arias murder case. this week she was convicted of first degree murder. the sentencing phase will begin next week. most people are talking about the interview she granted to a local television station immediately after her conviction. i asked hln's jane velez

mitchell, first, how was arias able to do this? but more importantly, why? >> she took proactive action, according to the sheriff's department. i was told -- and we actually have a voice recording of this -- that she called the reporter, troy hayden, on sunday, several days before the verdict. remember, the verdict comes in on wednesday, and she says, troy, hey, listen, if for some reason -- and that's a direct quote -- it comes back first degree murder guilty, i want you to come over to the jail right away so i can give you the interview. so she arranged this. she masterminded it, as it were, and that's one of the reasons why right now she is in the psych ward because, when he comes down, she proceeds to say very politely, oh, i want death. i don't want life in prison. i want death. bring it on. it will be the ultimate freedom. with that, the sheriff's

department, sheriff joe arpaio, controversially known as the toughest sheriff in america, you say you want death. that means you're a danger to yourself. i'm going to put you on suicide watch. >> is this for her manipulating the system? do you think she really believes that? is it remorse? what do you think? >> i think it's a very passive aggressive move. it's her trying to play the victim again, which she has done throughout this entire case. remember she's the one who viciously killed travis alexander. now we can say murdered travis alexander, slit his throat ear to ear, 3 1/2 inches deep, stabbed him 29 times, shot him in the face. what did she do the entire time? she said, i'm the victim here. that's what she's doing again. she's pulling focus, getting the attention, and she's saying look at me. i'm a martyr. now i'm going to die. >> the prosecutors will have a chance to present additional evidence, and jurors have to decide whether arias was cruel when she killed alexander and if

his death was caused in a cruel manner. explain the next process here. >> this is what we all showed up to see was the aggravation phase. we're expecting prosecutor juan martinez, who's done a masterful job to present his case that this killing was cruel. seems like a slam dunk. he was stabbed 29 times, and his throat was slit ear to ear six inches across, but we didn't get a chance to have that happen because of all the hullabaloo and this cancellation, this mystery cancellation, which i believe is about the interview she gave and was put on suicide watch. there's got to be, i believe, some connection to that. essentially, the defense attorneys are in a quandary. how do you defend somebody and try to save the life of jodi arias when she has said flat out on television, i don't want anybody to save my life. i want the death penalty. what is the defense team going to do? they're between a rock and a

hard place, victor. >> jay, quickly, i want to ask you about the talk about the alexander family possibly filing this civil suit against arias so she won't be able to make money off her story or family won't be able to make money off her story. good move here? >> in these mega cases, we always see civil action after the criminal case, and i think it's very appropriate because she has been doing artwork, and she has tried to sell the artwork, and indeed i believe has sold some of the artwork online. so they have the right to try to recoup every last cent. they lost a human being. >> jane velez mitchell, covering this trial like no one else. we will stay with you for the next phase. thank you, jane. >> thank you, victor. a >> and the next phase, the sentencing phase starts next week. for everything arias, watch jane velez-mitchell every weekday on our sister network hln. do you know psychic silvia brown? she's been on a few infomercials

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that could do to a mother's head. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> thank you for starting your day with us. we've got so much more ahead here on "cnn saturday morning," which starts right now. good morning, everyone. i'm brianna keilar in cleveland. it is 7:00. thank you so much for joining us. we may know who, but of course we're struggling with why. an fbi profiler and a psychologist piece together what we know about alleged kidnapper ariel castro and what perhaps may have driven him to the heinous crimes that he is charged with committing. plus the texas explosion that was at first thought to be an accident, but new information there may tell us that a crime has been involved. we have the details about what investigators are uncovering. and later we are taking you live to space. an ammonia leak at the international space station is prompting a very urgent space walk. 'l