saturday morning, may 11th, good morning. i'm brianna keele. cleveland kidnapping victim michelle knight is out of the hospital but her family doesn't know where she is. and that's apparently the way she wants it. and russia did not tell the u.s. everything they knew about boston bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev. hear about his sinister text to his mother, plus the controversy over his burial continues even after he's laid to rest. taking a walk in space, two nasa astronauts are outside the

international space station making a crucial repair. making a crucial repair. the man accused -- -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com here in cleveland, the man accused of imprisoning three women is locked up in a 9 by 9 jail cell right now. one of his alleged captors is choosing to have no contacts with her family. joining me to talk about the latest developments in a possible legal hiccup is cnn's pamley brown. first off, i should say, you just came from the dejesus house. what's going on there? you said there's more activity. >> there's more activity than i've seen there. we've been hearing reports that michelle knight went there after she was released from the hospital. we saw several of gina's family members, we saw her mom, her aunt, her sister out there. we saw more guardian angels that have been out there monitoring the house outside of the house than i had seen there before. and also police officers that the family was talking to, we don't know exactly what is going on. but again, we have been hearing

those reports. i spoke to the stepbrother of michelle knight earlier, and he said he had been hearing the same thing, but the family's still in the dark, that no one, including the authorities, have told them where michelle knight is. he said that the mother is actively trying to find her, make contact with her. so far, we're hearing that she hasn't talked to her daughter at all, that she misses her, loves her, hopes to hear from her on mother's day, tomorrow, cording to the stepbrother. but again, he said authorities know where she is, but they're not sharing that information. we don't know if michelle told them not to, or what the deal is there. >> it really does raise a lot of questions. i think there's also something that might make you wonder as well. that has to do with the missing persons list that the fbi maintains. cleveland officials actually, when it comes to michelle knight, while the other women were on the list, after a pretty short time, about a year or so, right? michelle knight is taken off the list. why was that? >> yeah. 15 months after she disappeared, she was taken off that list. and we reached out to cleveland

police to ask why. and they say that basically they were just following protocol, that they were unable to reach a family member that was able to give a definitive answer that she was still missing. in that case, they we moved her name. but the case remained open with cleveland police. and it shows, cording to the missing persons report we obtained, that they tried 12 times over the years to reach out to family members, and find her, even as recently as last november. but what's interesting here, brianna, is that last january, it says that it was validated that -- it seems like perhaps a family member was reached, and was able to validate she was still missing. we're still waiting to hear from cleveland police on that. >> all interesting details. pam brown for us here in cleveland, thank you very much. let's go to washington for a little story there. this morning everyone in the west wing of the white house was evacuated because officials ordered them to get out after smoke was seen coming out of a mechanical closet. five fire trucks responded to the scene.

turns out it was an overheated piece of equipment that was the source of all that smoke. and people were allowed back in after a short time. meantime, s.w.a.t. teams are at the scene of a tense and lengthy standoff at a home in trenton, new jersey. this is an ordeal that began yesterday afternoon. authorities say a gunman barricaded himself and three kids inside of the house. we don't know the children's conditions. local reports suggest the gunman is believed to have killed his wife. and a task force in newtown, connecticut, has taken a vote on the future of the sandy hook elementary school building. the decision is unanimous, all 28 members of the panel are recommending the building be torn down, and rebuilt at the same site. this recommendation must be approved by the newtown school board, and then it would be put up for a popular vote. ominous texts from boston bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev to his mother. russia had them but did not tell the u.s. paula newton joining us live

from boston. paula, what did these texts say? >> well, apparently they said, and definitively, that he, tamerlan, was interested in joining extremist groups in russia. brianna, if that's true, that goes completely against what the fbi said when they concluded their investigation in 2007 saying, he doesn't seem to pose a threat, even though the russians had flagged him to us. what's interesting here is that you have the chairman of the house intelligence committee, mike rogers, saying this means somewhere somebody dropped the ball, that the russians weren't giving us all the information. some are saying, that intelligence sharing is too detailed. the russians flagged tamerlan tsarnaev to the united states twice. so whether or not this information was there, but it could have been critical information, because it certainly shows that tamerlan tsarnaev was in search of that kind of radical thinking, of those kinds of militants in the area of russia, months before the boston bombings. brianna? >> the other thing, paula, is

that tamerlan tsarnaev we now know was buried this week in a muslim cemetery in doswell, virginia, rural virginia, very far from boston. what has reaction been like in that town? and why was he buried there? >> well, he was buried there, can you believe it, brianna, he was in limbo at a funeral home, with nowhere to go, no cemetery with take him for almost eight days. and this coalition came together in rural virginia, of all places, saying every human deserves a burial plot. no one gave the warning to the officials there. i was on the phone with the mayor yesterday talking to town officials and everyone was kind of stunned. i want you to listen to one of those county officials talking about how they feel about tamerlan tsarnaev being buried in rural virginia. take a listen. >> 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.

>> and, you know, you can understand the feelings, many can understand their feelings on these. and some here in boston say, we need to quit talking about this. his remains are laid to rest, it's time to get on with rebuilding and recovery. brianna? >> time to move on. a lot of people feel that way. paula, thank you so much. now, in space, nasa astronauts are busy this morning at the international space station. we have live pictures to show you, coming to us from nasa. these are -- you can see from the helmet, almost like you're the astronaut, that these are astronauts who are conducting an emergency space walk to fix a leak at the station. it looks like a very light falling of snow that you may have seen at some point. when they were actually detecting ammonia leaking. john zarrella is covering the space walk from miami. how big of a deal is this, john? most of the time i talk to you, and we're all excited they're

doing something kind of standard, that has been on the schedule. but this one kind of feels like maybe of more concern. >> yeah, no question about it. it's a leak in the cools system. ammonia is used to cool the space station's components. it literally draws the heat out of the components, and then that heat is transferred to radiators, that radiate the heat out into space. they've got a lot of redundancies, brianna, but you don't want to rely on those redundancies and all of those other cooling systems, you want all of them functioning. this is a priority item. what you're looking at there is through the helmet cam of astronaut chris cassidy. what they're doing is removing the spare pump that they have up there. they've already removed the one that was in place, where they thought that they were going to find the leak, or might find the leak. they did not find it. they're saying this ask a vexing problem now. they're not having any joy, they're not seeing the same

flakes they saw a couple of days ago. but they decided to go ahead and put the spare pump in, and then they'll move forward with more troubleshooting. it may end up at the end of the day, when they're finished with this 6 1/2-hour space walk, that it's just going to require another space walk by another team down the road, before they actually can isolate the problem. real quickly, brianna, what they were trying to do is get out there as quickly as they could, while that ammonia, the flakes of ammonia were still coming out of that suspect area. but they don't see them now. that may mean there's no more ammonia in the system there. that's why they're not seeing them, which does make it all the more difficult for them to isolate where the leak is. brianna? >> john zarrella keeping an eye on this for us from miami. thank you. now, there is some startling new information on the benghazi controversy, this time in the form of e-mails discussing the attacks. we'll tell you what those

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let's take a look at an event happening right now at the white house. you see president obama there, he is honoring some of the nation's top police officers. you can see that he's flanked by them right there. the 43 so-called top cops were selected by the national association of police organizations. they represent departments from across the nation. and they're being honored there in the east room of the white house. we will monitor that, of course. also, the deadly attack on the u.s. compound in benghazi has opened up the field for a host of attacks on the obama administration. cnn sources say e-mails show the white house and the state department were actually more involved than they first said they were, in that decision to remove an initial cia assessment that said a group with ties to al qaeda was involved. our athena jones is live for us at the white house. athena, tell us a little more about the e-mails, and what did

they tell us that we didn't know before? >> as you mentioned, we know now that there were multiple discussions going on between the white house, the cia, the fbi, the state department, and the justice department over just what should be revealed. first, to congress, this came from a request from congress in terms of these talking points. but ultimately they were the talking points given to u.n. ambassador susan rice who went on five sunday talk shows just days after the attacks and blamed them on violence over a video that offended islam. now, republican critics are alleging this is political, that these talking points left out this initial cia assessment that a group linked to al qaeda may have been involved. and also left out the fact that the cia had given several warnings about the potential for a terrorist attack taking place in that region, in benghazi, libya. those two things were left out of the talking points that susan rice was given. and republican critics allege this was done politically to

give the white house cover, because here you have a president who was just a few months away from an election, someone had had touted the killing of osama bin laden. and an administration that said they had al qaeda decimated and on the run. then you have this attack in benghazi, libya. and on september 11th, that looked as though it had some extremist ties to it, brianna. this is the politics that are going on right now. republicans demanding more answers. and these e-mails emerging that the white house and the state department may have had more to do with changing those talking points, that susan rice was given. and ultimately shared with the public on those sunday talk shows. >> that's right, athena. at the time some wondered, you heard about the october surprise, some wonder if this may have been the september surprise that would have been bad news for president obama at the time. i know the story isn't going away. athena jones there at the white house. the story we're following out of texas, police have

arrested one of the emergency responders in last month's fertilizer plant explosion there. he's actually charged with having bomb-making materials. investigators still haven't figured out what caused that deadly blast. let's go now to david mattingly. he's following the story from waco. this is the confusing part here, david. we talked about this. there are all these kind of different dots, and it's hard to know if they are connected at all, or if we should think that maybe they should be connected. does this man have anything to do potentially with this explosion, or is this just some kind of big coincidence? >> all obvious questions, exactly. and these dots you referred to cannot be connected to right now, may not be connected when all is said and done. authorities right now, however, have brought bryce reed into federal court. they claim he had bomb-making materials, including a metal pipe, fuses, materials,

chemicals that could be made into a pipe bomb. they were tipped off to this by a resident who claims that they received this inadvertently from -- or unsuspectingly from bryce reed himself. in the court documents, they say that reed admitted that he possessed these materials. why, and what he was doing with them, however, were not answered in those court documents. federal officials, attorneys in this case are saying that there is even no speculation at this point of what this man, this first responder, might have to do with that explosion. again, no connection, even no speculation on the part of federal prosecutors who are heading up this case. >> and david, it's interesting, because bryce reed is someone you might have seen following the explosion. he's someone who did television interviews. he was very visible, wasn't he? >> that's right. he was very high-profile. in fact, the night after the explosion, he actually gave a

live interview on cnn, talking about how difficult this was for everybody in the community, trying to respond to this disaster, how devastated everyone was by the loss of life. and later on, he was also high-profile again, appeared very emotional at a public memorial service, actually delivering the eulogy for one of the fallen firefighters. so again, a very high-profile in this case. also, yesterday, state and local officials announced that they were launching a criminal investigation, saying, again, that they have no information to link him and this bomb device to the explosion that occurred at the plant, addressing this along the lines of public confidence, saying they were going to leave no stone unturned, and to make sure that the confidence that -- that the public has confidence that they've asked all the questions and gotten all the answers in this case. at the same time, being very clear, brianna, that they have no information linking this man to the explosion that night in

west, texas. >> an unusual twist. david mattingly, following that for us in waco, texas. thanks, david. now, in jail, here in cleveland, and under watch, friends and family of ariel castro, they tell us that the man they knew, they tell us about him and what they think now that he stands accused of these unspeakable crimes. i'm on expert on softball. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations

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welcome back to our special coverage here in cleveland, ohio. people in this community are trying to wrap their minds around the just unspeakable acts

that allegedly happened inside the barricaded house belonging to ariel castro here on this street. for any hope of understanding, we must first take a closer look at the man police say led a secret, sinister life for more than a decade. cnn's martin savidge has that. >> why are you covering your face? what do you have to say to those women? how could you do that? what kind of monster does this? >> it is the question that haunts everyone. victims, police, an entire city. how did 52-year-old ariel castro become the monster that's horrified america? i found some of the answers on the back shelves of a corner grocery. here ariel's uncle, tells the castro family story. castro wa born in puerto rico. his family came to cleveland when he was 6. he grew up on the city's near west side, a working class neighborhood where work was

getting harder and harder to find. relatives say ariel was raised by his mother and didn't get along with his father. he dropped out of school in the 10th grade. ariel taught himself to play bass and he joined a band playing salsa around town. he was popular with band mates and their families. that's where bianca cruz met him when she was just a child. >> actually, i remember a lot of things. i remember always going to the concerts, and spending time with the band backstage. >> friends say they saw two very different ariel castros. the one who came alive on stage, and the other shy, and caring offstage. >> it was always him playing with my hair, him being super nice to me. you just wouldn't picture it, you wouldn't imagine he would do something like this. >> but he could be incredibly violent say court documents. in 2005, castro was accused of savagely beating his wife, breaking her wrist, nose, and triggering a blood clot on the brain, all the while threatening to kill her and her daughter.

shocking to many now,alas a sch. but eventually lost that job after officials say he left a child on a bus, and another time used the bus to go grocery shopping. but those problems gave no hint of the horrors going on behind closed doors to the kidnapping, rape and ten years of torture castro's accused of carrying out on amanda berry, gina dejesus and michelle night. neighbors wonder how they missed it. and now, so does ariel castro's daughter, forever haunted by the missed clues in her father's house and his bizarre behavior. >> he would disappear for an hour or so, and come back, and there would be no explanation where he went. everything is making sense now. and i'm disgusted, horrified. >> back in the grocery, ariel's uncle says he has the answer to the question we started with. ariel, he said, are two people in one body. the monster, and our sweet

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morning" live from cleveland. fbi agents have been here this morning boarding up an abandoned home next door to a house where three women were allegedly abused for more than a decade. family of michelle knight has been desperate to talk to her. a source close to the investigation tells cnn knight, quote, is in a safe place and very comfortable. amanda berry was the woman who finally broke free from that house on monday after more than a decade in captivity. but knight and dejesus initially stayed behind. i asked criminologist casey jordan and jeff gardere why they would have done that. >> i think what may have been going on is amanda berry not only had to save herself, but also had to save her daughter. so there were two lives at stake as far as she was concerned. everyone has a different psychological makeup, a

different personality. so she may have had that kind of personality, where she had reached her breaking point and was willing to take the chance and go out. the other two are heroes just like she is, and perhaps they may have been more intimidated, maybe a little bit more fearful. but it could have been coordinated where she was the one who was the catalyst, who got them out, knowing that eventually they would follow her. >> before i turn to casey, jeff, i want to ask you about amanda berry's daughter. because the difference here is, we're talking about a child who's only known one reality, in these circumstances, unlike her mother and the other two women here. what kind of damage might she have experienced, and especially now we're learning that her father is indeed, cording to dna evidence, the allege kidnapper, ariel castro? >> well, what we certainly can surmise is that this little girl

saw a lot of the horrors that were taking place, never became part of society, had a very skewed view as to what life would be, and certainly saw her mother and these other women being tortured. so at this critical moment, of her maturation, she got to see the most horrific things. so it will take a very long time to get her into society, but also to try to get her to understand what normal relationships are all about. >> casey, can you talk to us a little bit about the suspect, ariel castro, and some of his behavior? it seems he treated these women differently. he threatened michelle knight to assure the birth of amanda's baby. there are reports that he beat her and caused multiple miscarriages. also, that he handled this 6-year-old girl as a daughter. there were trips outdoors in the public. how unusual is it for kidnappers to bond with their victims, and is it unusual for them to treat multiple victims differently?

>> well, let's point out that we have almost no precedence for exactly this sort of situation. the bottom line is that we've seen sexually motivated captors take captives before. but not so many at once, and not for such a long duration. so we don't have a lot to compare this to. but it would appear castro had favorites. why he did not allow michelle to get pregnant and amanda to have a child. perhaps michelle, he had grown tired of her. we know he was replacing these girls almost once every three years. he got a new girl. and you have to wonder, since he admits he had no exit plan, if he actually developed favorites. the stockholm syndrome that jeff talked about appears to be most heavily experienced by gina and michelle who didn't flee. but my concern, of course, is for the 6-year-old child. when she fled the house with her mother, charles ramsey said the little girl was asking for her father. so it's her psychological

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let's turn now to the latest twists and turns in the jodi arias murder case. this week, the jury convicted her of first-degree murder. the sentencing phase will start next week. but most people are talking

about the interview she granted to a local tv station immediately after her conviction. my colleague, victor blackwell, asked hln's jane velez-mitchell how arias was able to do it, and more importantly, why. >> well, she took proactive action, cording 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, for some reason 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 it comes down, she proceeds to say blankly, oh, i want death. i don't want life in prison.

give me death. bring it on. it will be the ultimate freedom. and with that, the sheriff's department, sheriff joe arpaio, of course, controversially known as the toughest sheriff in america, is saying, you want death? that means you're a potential 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. but what did she do the entire time? she's saying, i'm the victim here. that's what she's doing again, pulling focus and getting attention and 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. >> well, this is what we all showed up to see, was the aggravation phase. we were expecting prosecutor juan martinez, who has done a masterful job, to present his case that this killing was cruel. it seems like a slam-dunk. he was stabbed 29 times and his throat was slit ear to ear, 6 inches across. but we didn't get a chance to have that happen because of all the hullabaloo, this mystery cancellation, which was, i believe, probably about the interview she gave, and the fact that she was put on suicide watch. there's got to be, i believe, some connection to that. so essentially, the defense attorneys are now 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. >> jane, 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 her family won't bible to make money off the story. good move here? >> yeah. 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. and we will stay with you for the next phase. thank you, jane. >> thank you, victor. sentencing in the jodi arias trial begins next week, and for everything arias, you can watch

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linked to accounts that had been hiked by cyber thieves thousands of miles away. the thieves had withdrawal limits. >> a card that might have had $200 on it literally has $20,000 on it. or $2 million on it. >> the prosecutor describes how it worked. hackers first targeted a credit card processor in the united arab emirates in december. a second and larger attack in february in oman. p.i.n. numbers were stolen and sent to teams, including one in new york. those teams would then head to atms with plastic cards, even hotel key cards with the stolen information. authorities say here in new york, eight men were able to withdraw $2.4 million within a ten-hour period. some 3,000 atm withdrawals were said to be made that day as part of the heist, with these gift cards. prosecutors recovered cash and rolex watches. cashers are given about 20% of

the money, and the rest is sent to the ringleaders. but what's unclear in this case is who those leaders are, specifically, the hackers. sean henry, a former executive assistant director of the fbi said they typically come from one area. >> my time in the fbi, many of these cases emanated out of eastern europe. out of russia, ukraine, romania, throughout eastern europe. although now they're starting to spread into other areas like asia and latin america, but primarily historically they've been in eastern europe. >> catching the hackers is a constant cat-and-mouse game law enforcement plays. seven suspects in new york pled not guilty to the charges against them. an eighth suspect considered the ringleader was found murdered in the dominican republic in april. mary snow, cnn, new york. this week, anthony bourdain heads to morocco. it's about the food, music, and of course, the atmosphere.

>> i feel like elton john at home. there are some countries you go to, as soon as a you get off the plane, the place smells like some place you want to be, right away. that's true, but for me, part of this part of the world that really does it for me should be happening any minute now. it's magic. it's when the other ones start to come in that it get really good. so beautiful. get three of those going, you know you're not in liam, new jersey. you know you're some place. >> you can see anthony's entire trip to morocco tomorrow night

here on cnn at 9:00 p.m. eastern. that's anthony bourdain "parts unknown" sunday night.

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to guard u.s. embassies around the world. the mission? protect diplomats against attack. a mission more crucial since those four americans were killed on september 11th in benghazi, libya. >> ready, strike. ready, strike. you go ahead and do the three strikes. now, it's my turn on the mat. >> your whole body weight against me. >> i'm going to wrap up your arm because i want to control your arm and i grab right above the elbow at the tricep because now i have your arm controlled. if you try to pull away, i have your arm now. >> reporter: marines stand guard in 137,000 countries since benghazi where the state department did not have marines assigned, there are changes. the current 1,200 strong marine guard force will nearly double. there will be more marines at embassies with higher threat levels and 100 marine guards are now in a special unit able to

deploy on a moment's notice. >> what we're doing now is putting more marines out there and also providing a force that can go in and reinforce embassy or consulate. >> deep breath in. close your eyes. >> reporter: if rioting occurs, marines train to keep going, even if hit with pepper spray. you think you take down an intruder, an attacker? >> we learn defensive tactics. >> reporter: making these marines ready for the next benghazi. if and when it happens. but what if there is another benghazi-type incident, an all-out attack? there are now 500 combat equipped marines in southern spain ready to move in and rescue americans, if it comes to that. barbara star, cnn, the pentagon. there's much more on cnn at the top of the hour. and alison kosik will be leading the charge when i go.

alison, what's on tap? >> we'll talk to john walsh about the cleveland kidnappings and thow this brutal case compares with so many cases he's seen. walsh's own son was kidnapped and murdered. how it responded to the u.s. consulate attack in benghazi, libya. some are alleging a cover up. we have the latest on this developing story. did a heavy metal christian star try to hire a hitman to kill his wife? all the buzz on the internet. we'll have the latest on that case, as well. >> alison, thank you for that. we'll be watching. look out below. an incredible hail storm that caused quite a bit of damage in the south. we have more on those unbelievable images, also your mother's day forecast, right ahead.

can you believe that hail? some of those hail stones the size of baseballs. this video taken from tracey yanez in san antonio. this is her backyard. the storm ripping through that area knocking down trees and causing power outages. more storms are brewing for this mother's day weekend. meteorologist karen maginnis is in the weather center with today's forecast. karen, i will tell you, it has taken a dip here in the temperatures in cleveland. we're expecting colder air, too.

>> it may be record setting cold that we see across the midwest into the great lakes. but the big storms rumbling along the coastal regions of texas and also into ohio. into louisiana. ohio is picking up some showers all along the eastern seaboard. this is where we are watching a frontal system move through. as it moves through, that colder air is going to dip towards the south. but along the gulf coast regions from galveston into the hill country of texas, they saw large-size hail, very heavy downpours and in some instances as much as eight inches of rainfall. low ceilings of visibility are producing delays at jfk and philadelphia and in newark. up to hour and a half delays being reported there. if you're watching us because of the reduced visibility maybe sitting at another airport, but they're not going to jfk because visibility is so low. back-to-back frontal systems, this one a little sluggish. that chilly air moves in behind it and not chilly into the

northwest and yakima they did see a record high temperature yesterday of 97. briana? >> i used to live in yakima and it does get warm there. thank you. "cnn newsroom" continues with alison kosik in for fredricka whitfield. >> hello to everybody. welcome to "cnn newsroom" here are the stories we are watching. areas close to ariel castro's home in cleveland are searched and sealed off. this as one of the kidnapping victims goes mia. russia knew about sinister texts from tamerlan tsarnaev, details coming up. houston we have a problem, for real. an emergency spacewalk is happening right now as astronauts try to fix a leak at the international space station. the man accused of ims

prisoning three women for about a decade is spending his first weekend locked up in a 9 by 9 jail cell. one of his captors is in seclusion choosing to have no contact with her family. susan candiotti spoke with one of michelle knight's family members. what can you tell us about that? >> well, first of all, it must be a glorious first day of complete freedom outside of a hospital for michelle knight. the eldest of the three young women who have been held captive for more than ten years. but for her family members who have been wanting to speak with her since she got out of the hospital, well, they haven't had any luck. i spoke with michelle knight's grandmother who actually went over to gina dejesus' home yesterday on hopes of following up on a rumor that she might be there, but she wasn't and she didn't get to talk to michelle. here's what she told me.

>> that she was released and he she was coming over here. we wanted to come over here and show our support for her because we haven't seen her. >> now, a family spokesperson says that michelle's mother also would very much like to speak with her daughter, but on this mother's day, it's not clear that will happen. i can tell you this, however, alison. a source close to the investigation tells me that while they are not revealing michelle knight's whereabouts because of her privacy concerns, we can, the source did tell me that she is in a very safe place and that she is very comfortable where she is. alison? >> that's certainly good to hear, susan. one question for you. authorities have dna results from ariel castro now, what exactly are they hoping to dowith those results? >> as you know, those dna preliminary results do prove, as everyone had expected, that he is the father of amanda berry's 6-year-old daughter. now, they're taking those dna

samples and have also run them against computers here in the state of ohio to see whether he matched any open, unsolved cases. no match found. however, the fbi is taking the extra step to run that same dna in its computers to see whether he links up to any other unsolved crimes throughout the country, alison. >> susan candiotti in cleveland, thanks. s.w.a.t teams are still at the scene of a tense and lengthy standoff at a home in trenton, new jersey. the ordeal began yesterday afternoon. authorities say a gunman barricaded himself and three children inside the house. we don't know the children's conditions right now. local reports are suggesting that the gunman is believed to have killed his wife. now, to boston, the bombing investigation there and a big red flag the u.s. didn't know about, a law enforcement official tells cnn that russia withheld details about ominous texts between suspect tamerlan

tsarnaev and his mother. in those texts he told his mother he was interested in joining a group. the controversy surrounding tsarnaev's grave site. he was buried in an unmarked grave in doswell, virginia. some residents say he shouldn't have been buried there. a cemetery official says, and i'm quoting here. it's not a political thing, but tsarnaev can't bury himself. we now take you to outer space. look at these live pictures of the international space station. nasa astronauts are conducting an emergency spacewalk to fix an ammonia leak. the spacewalk started three hours ago and it could take six hours to fix the leak. let's bring in our resident space expert john zarrella. six hours to fix the leak. is that a long time or a short

time? >> they're way ahead of schedule. about an hour ahead of the time line. did they fix the leak? they don't really know. here's what they had to do. a couple days ago, you recall, you're looking there through the helmet cam of i guess that's chris cassidy's helmet cam as they're finishing up work on a replacement pump. two days ago they saw all these white flakes coming off an area of the international space station. they determined it was ammonia. they use it as a coolant. it removes heat of a lot of the equipment on the station and then it is removed and pumped through and out to radiators that radiate it off into space. it's a critical component. they wanted to get out there to that site really quickly because if it was leaking, if they couldn't, if the ammonia all tra drained out of the system and they stopped dropping the flakes and low and behold they get out there and don't see any flakes. they've gone ahead and replaced the pump that they believe is a

suspect pump. you can see a great shot of the two astronauts working there. rasdy has the red bands on his legs and mashburn is the other astronaut to his left there. and i want to give the viewers a sense of where they're working. so, if you look at our space station here. these are the solar arrays. these are those radiators i was talking about and the astronauts are working in this area where they took the pump, the cooling pump out, got another replacement pump that was stored up here, put that one in and then put the one they took out in the spot where the replacement was. so, that has all been done now. what they're going to do, nasa ground controllers. they're starting to pump up this replacement to see if, indeed, it is working. if it's working, then they're going to say, well, maybe we fixed the problem. if they don't see any ammonia leaking from the replacement pump. that's where they are right now. great shots of the two astronauts out there finishing up their work and, again, way

ahead of the timeline right now. so, they should be done for sure by about 3:00 eastern time at the latest. alison? >> although this looks like dangerous work. they're not in any danger. why was nasa calling this an emergency repair? >> you know, it's called an emergency repair because it is a cooling system. and you have to be able to keep the space station cool. now, there are several other systems also cooling systems, but they want all of them working. any one down means they have to reroute power and do things that they don't like to do. perhaps even shut some systems down. so, this was it. this was clearly the need was there to do it and do it quickly. >> ojay, john zarrella in miami, thank you. >> sure. charles ramsey did that and became a hero in the process. helping to rescue three women missing for a decade. he talks about that heartstopping escape, next. the father of elizabeth smart talks to us about the

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cnn was exclusively invited to join them in the station. listen to ramsey describing the moments after he helped a man amanda berry and her daughter get out of suspect ariel castro's home. >> were you like super nervous at this point? this is a lot of drama going on. >> why this was going on and i sent her across the street and she, she used my neighbor's phone. she used somebody's phone now and she called 911. i called 911. so, when she finally get through, i finally get through and that's when you hear my 911 call and i could even be sarcastic with it. i'm going to act a certain way. come to me -- she is still got this baby in her arm and on the

phone and, naturally a bunch of women at the time because it was 80 degrees outside. people are still looking at this -- with the baby. they know me, i'm the boss of that street. >> let me ask. there are reports that said that the baby had on a diaper. >> that's right. >> 6-year-old child. >> that child was screaming for her daddy and i say, who is her daddy? amanda said ariel. you have to listen where i am coming from. this child is only 6, ariel is 52. that's right. he kidnapped you and had his way with you and that's the result of it. >> this is your thinking as this is going on now? >> dna tests have confirmed that castro is, indeed, the father of amanda berry's 6-year-old daughter. it's going to be a challenging journey towards recovery for the three women who

police say were held prisoner. elizabeth smart knows that all too well. she survived her own kidnapping ordeal and she's been able to move forward with the help of her faith and her family. earlier, victor blackwell spoke to elizabeth's father about their family's joyous reunion, the challenges that followed and what may be ahead for the victims in ohio. >> ed smart joins us now and it's good to have this conversation with you because you know more than, you know, 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, you know, 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

and she has to kind of understand what is going to happen in the future. and, certainly have been through as much as she had been more than likely she'll be going through, you know, forensic interview or debriefing by law enforcement. and certainly that can be very difficult. i know as elizabeth, you know, basically debriefed these two forensic psychiatrists, you know, she had to go into detail about what happened to her. and, you know, certainly that isn't easy and is very difficult and, 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, you know, it just is offensive. >> and as more and more details come out about what suspect ariel castro may have done to these three women will make you

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this is such a chilling thought. the man accused of holding three women captive in his ohio home, he was a school bus driver and this only makes it worse. ariel castro had been suspended for allegedly leaving a child alone on the bus for two hours while he went to get fast food. but, guess what, he was back on the job two months later. what? the president of the national school safety and security services ken is with me now. you are also from cleveland and went to the same middle school

that gina dejesus went to. should ariel castro been allowed to drive this school bus as long as he did? >> it's amazing, internal school district documents show on his final termination it said that he had, "a fourth demonstration of a lack of judgment." he was suspended for 60 days for intentionally leaving a kid on a school bus. another 60 days for illegal u-turn with kids on board and, again, another suspension for driving the school bus to go grocery shopping while on duty. should beg the question for cleveland parents who put their children on school buses during those eight or nine years of this misconduct, why did the school district continue to allow their children to be exposed to someone with these lapses of judgement. >> a disconnect for any parent across the country who puts their kids on a school bus and you don't have a close relationship with the bus driver

and you don't know who they are except to say hello in the morning and afternoon. what should parent do? should we conduct our own background checks on these school bus drivers? how can we feel more confident on who is taking our kids to school? >> the vast majority of school bus drivers in cleveland and across the country are background checked and qualified and doing an exceptional job with children. the number one parents need to do is talk with their kids about what is going on on the bus and make sure the school principal has connections to deal with disciplinary incidents and understand from your kid what kind of conduct is going on on the bus and is there something to be addressed. most of the problems on our bus are bullying and other types of misconduct. but i think that the question what type of background checks they need to do, but during the course of their employment with the recognition that criminal history checks may not show anything.

in this case or others, i just think that there is a part of a responsibility on the end of the school district here to say, how many times did you allow somebody to have gross misconduct that results in suspicions and you continue to put that person in front of children. and i think the children were unnecessarily exposed in this case. >> what can you tell us about the neighborhood, this neighborhood in cleveland. is it very dangerous? >> well, i will say, i actually worked as an investigator and supervised a youth gang unit in this neighborhood and others many years ago. i attended the school where gina dejesus went before she went missing and cleveland is a very tight knit community, very tight and i think that they feel very betrayed. i talked to people as recently as last night that knew the family and grew up, had dinner with the family and for many years and felt very betrayed by this. there are no secrets in many tight communities like this and i think the fact that if it was

kept a secret that long is leaving many people feeling betrayed. wondering why, why somebody didn't know and shaking their heads. somebody told me last night during conversations we looked at cases like jeffrey dahmer and we wondered how could the person next door not know and now he said i'm that person. we need to make sure we probe a little bit and know what is going on in our neighborhood. my mother-in-law is very active in her part of this neighborhood part of town. i think the community as a whole feels betrayed. they're raising questions of how did we not know, especially since it's that tight. we have our prime problems and have our challenges to safety. but as parents, i think we need to step up and know what our kids are doing and as a father myself, we drop kids off. we see people dropping off kindergarten kids at a party and signing their name on a sheet.

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style of beer and also one in atlanta called hog a s and hops. >> reporter: beer festivals also showcase live music, arts and crafts, shopping and don't forget plenty of beer to try. >> some advice for attending a beer festival. one is stay hydrated. drink plenty of water and eat plenty of food. car services are starting to partner up with beer festivals and offer discounted rides if you attend that festival. that's what is really important. get there safe, get home safe and have fun. >> very good. >> for more on beer festivals go to cnn.com/travel.

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administration. cnn sources say e-mails show the white house and state department were more involved than they first said in a decision to remove an initial cia assessment that a group with ties to al qaeda was involved. in pakistan, today's election has been marked by violence. across the country, 18 people were killed in balmiombings, mo around karachi. turnout is estimated between 60 and 80%. long lines prompted the country's election commission extended voting by an hour. let's look at the stories trending now online. police have arrested one of the emergency responders at last month's deadly fertilizer plant explosion in west, texas. there's still no word on what caused the blast, which claimed

14 lives. the lead singer of the metal band as i lay dying has pleaded not guilty to hiring a hitman to kill his wife. a judge set the bond for him at $20 million saying he was a flight risk and danger to his wife. he gave an undercover detective $1,000 and information on where to find her. one world trade center has become the tallest building in the western hemisphere. it's also the world's third tallest building. workers bolted on the last pieces of a huge spire. the chairman of the port authority a national symbol of hope and strejt ngth in the facf tragedy. the building is set to open in 2014. now, to an incredible story of survival. rescuers pulled a 19-year-old survivor out from a building. the survivor identified said she

ate biscuits and water to stay alive. rescuers had stopped searching for survivors in that collapse that killed more than 1,000 people. cnn sanjay gupta explains how it is possible to survive more than two weeks after being buried alive. >> well, alison, i tell you, extraordinary no matter how you think about it. the basics do apply here when talking about survival stories like this. we know the 19-year-old was trapped in this air pocket, obviously, very important. but also trapped in a pool of water. we don't know where the water came from, whether it was from the rains or from firefighters hoses from a recent fire in that area, but whatever it was, that water so crucial to her. and, also, she had no obvious wounds, which is remarkable when you look at these images. no broken bones or rushed limbs and no gaping wounds and that's important because it would have taken energy to try to treat those wounds as opposed to actually trying to survive

herself. so, in some ways, lots of luck and just a remarkable sort of situation overall. i will tell you, i have seen things like this in other places around the world. in haiti, for example, back in 2010, we saw this man, evan muncie nearly a month he was trapped under the rubble. the building was a rice plant, so he probably had access to some food there and water and air, again, as we mentioned. his family told me he lost 30 pounds in those nearly 30 days. just remarkable stories of survival. the body does a remarkable job of sort of trying to preserve itself. for example, if there is not enough food, it will start a condition known as starvation ketosis. you don't need to remember the name, but what it is is the body looks for any source of energy within the body, within the body itself. tries to break down muscle to provide a source of protein and additional calories. the kidneys will do anything to preserve fluid. if there is not enough to drink. but, again, the 19-year-old has

a road in front of her. will be in critical condition, but very much looks like she is going to survive. back to you. >> don't miss your appointment with sanjay this weekend. he will have the latest on this incredible rescue in bangladesh on the three young women freed from captivity in cleveland, plus, chris christie's weight loss surgery. that is all coming up on "sanjay gupta md." job numbers are looking better. the markets are hitting record highs. what should you be doing with your investment dollars? especially your 401(k). find out next.

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there's been a lot of positive economic news this week. the stock market is hitting record highs and we got a better than expected jobs report and the number of americans filing

first-time claims for unemployment benefits is at a five-year low. i asked money expert clark howard for his take on these reports. >> we're in a slow, steady. things are getting slightly better step by step, but completely different than any recovery in my lifetime where after a recession, especially a deep one like we had, jobs roared back. this time they're crawling back. which is why when you ask so many consumers, even though things are better, they don't really express that when they're asked how they feel things are doing. >> and this is an issue for the economy, obviously. especially since a lot of these jobs aren't high paying ones, right? >> that's true. a lot of jobs that hollowed out during the great recession, the jobs that people have replaced them with don't pay as much, but i don't want to paint too negative a picture because things are significantly better in the country. i mean, we're not roaring great,

but things definitely are better. >> all right, let's switch gears and talk about markets. we're seeing record highs on the dow and s&p 500. where should we put our money? should we put our money in stocks or has the train already left the station when you see levels like we're seeing now? >> well, the bast time always to go in the stock market is when everybody is afraid of it, which is, obviously, back when things hit their trough four years ago. but the whole thing i feel about the stock market is how long is it until you need your money? if you stayed out of it because you were afraid now you're thinking maybe is the time for me to get in, as long as it's money you're not going to need for a long, long time, ten years or mow, don't worry that you might be getting in at what feels like the high. you don't fret about that. you just have to get in the game and my favorite way is little dribs and drabs, widely diversified, month by month, maybe even through a plan at your place of work. >> all right, so, if someone wants to get into investing, how

much money do they really need and where is the best place to really start? is it stocks or bonds? where is it? >> i like for somebody starting from scratch to do something simple where they buy one fund that handles diversifying their money for them. in fact, one of my favorites for somebody starting out from scratch is a fund called the vanguard start that requires $1,000 to open an account and diversifies your money across the world and across all different kinds of types of investments. so, that when with that first $1,000, you've invested, essentially, worldwide capitalism. >> some great advice. thanks, clark howard. >> thank you. he's accused of keeping three ohio girls captive in a house of horrors. now the prosecutor wants to try ariel castro. the legal case, coming up. ♪

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rape. now facing aggravated murder charges. he may seek those charges related to charges that ariel castro starved and punched one of his captives to produce miscarriages. could those be death penalty charges? avery, let me start with you. >> what's going to happen here is if you're prosecuting the most hated man in america you're going to load it up, whether you charge somebody and ultimately prove it are two different issues. at the end of the day, look this week, alison, for no less than hundreds of counts involving the charges against astro. something no one is really talking about in detail, including aggravated murder charges, which is provided for under ohio law. expect to see that happen. >> richard, does this sort of bring up that debate of when life begins? >> alison, absolutely. but, apparently, in this jurisdiction life began for

these fetuses. now, as avery said, more charges will be coming, alison. these were the initial charges filed. the case will go to the grand jury and government present all their evidence to the grand jury and try to bring the charges for aggravated murder for the killing of those fetuses and the question here, again, is, it's not what you know but what you can prove. can they really prove that? any cooperation for that or just the young woman's testimony and will that be enough? they just can't bring charges unless they have a good faith belief that they can get a conviction in those charges. so, a lot is going to come down the pipe here. >> sure they can. >> go ahead, avery. >> sure they can. i mean, i think, i think alison, the question you raise about, you know, when does life start. is it a conception, one week of pregnancy, is it near child birth? i mean, the statute says unlawful termination of a pregnancy, but it doesn't really explain it. that's a relatively recent amendment to ohio law. so, it's untested and been used

before, but in this case, where is the prosecutor going? if i'm charging at this point, i'm putting it in there and let's see if we can ultimately prove it. good faith or not. >> let me ask you about this. eyewitness testimony from these three victims. it will play a huge part in the prosecution's case. >> it will play a huge part. but, again, you have to look at the ages of the children and the conditions they were under and you have to assess each one of them individually. they have to be interviewed separately, not in a group. you can get the straight story from each one of those. you can get a conviction in this case. the worst thing that would happen is if charges were brought and the stories of the children were all over the place and not sufficient to get a conviction. as avery said, this guy is probably the most hated guy in the united states right now. prosecutor has to tie up their case nice and neat and have to be able to prove and have some cooperation for the crimes that they're going to charge this guy with, in addition to the kidnapping, if they really want

to go for a death penalty. >> remember, also, this guy is singing like a canary. once he was picked up, sat down with the police, we don't know what he's saying. but what we do know is that there have been confessions. we don't know, alison, to what extent. that's the issue right now. >> avery, i'll keep you talking with this question. the cleveland said he took one of the victims michelle knight off the database 15 months after her family reported her missing in 2002. how significant is this? could the family take legal action against the police? >> well, you know, technically, of course. there are civil claims. but that is the last thing anyone is going to be talking about right now. as soon as a defense lawyers find out there are several lawyers involved, it will impact on credibility. while there is value in having legal counsel to help the victims get through this. the last thing anyone should be

talking about is civil liability against ariel castro. >> this guy had a history of domestic abuse. there was a history of this. when these children went missing, why this house was not raided and taken apart piece by piece, i don't know. it's right in the community. you know, it wreaks of some of these other cases, the mark lunsford where the kid is right next door. just incredible. the intelligence that was out there and the lack of the investigation -- >> you can't blame, richard, it's unfair to blame the police, certainly, at this juncture. i don't think that's fair. we have a long way to go to find out what all the facts are. >> avery and richard, don't know anywhere. we still have to talk about jodi arias who is on 24-hour supervision. why she is there and why she would prefer the death penalty after being convicted of murder. hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol

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jodi arias is on suicide watch in the psychiatric ward with doctors and nurses watching over her 24/7. our legal guys are back, avery and richard. first degree murder case is on hold until next week. she was convicted wednesday and shortly after that she said she would rather die than be sentenced to life in prison. listen. >> i said years ago that i would rather get death than life and that is still true today. i believe death is the ultimate freedom, so i would rather just have my freedom as soon as i can get it. >> so, you're saying you actually prefer getting the death penalty to being in prison for life? >> yes. >> so, the next step is what is called the aggravation phase of

the case. richard, what happens in that part? >> alison, as if everyone is not aggravated enough with this case. what is going to happen now is on wednesday we're going to come to court, very brief, one day maybe to put on evidence to show that the manner of which the murder was committed was a cruel and heinous type of situation. now, all you have to do is remember the summation of the prosecutor who, i thought, bullied and had his shining moment in summation when he told the jury what happened when travis was killed and how he was knifed and he struggled and he went to the sink and she kept sticking him with knives and then she shot him. it's a no brainer. there is going to be a conviction and the jury is going to agree it was aggravated and then move on to the death penalty phase. >> after that comes, the penalty phrase when recommending life in prison or death. avery, we just heard from arias

about her preference. will the jurors know about that? >> well, you know what's stunning on this, alison, how in the world does a defendant who has just been convicted of a capital crime get access to the media? where the heck are the lawyers? that's actually admissible evidence when it comes to aggravati aggravation. and i actually, i hate to do it, but i agree that it seems like a no brainer. i think that's what's going to happen and, oh, my goodness. why on earth is she getting access to the media without counsel? >> her attorney asked anyone giving victim impact statement that they do it on video, not in court. what is this all about, richard? >> what happens is the family gets to get up there and say what the impact of travis alexander's death has had on them. it is devastating, alison. absolutely devastating and as a defense attorney, you sit there and you're paralyzed and the

judge, you just see the judge getting upset and the jury is going to get upset. it's just horrible. it's just horrible. it's not going to be on video. this case will be live on tv, hln will be covering it and we're going to be watching it. it's very -- it looks bleak for her. >> and, and evidence that gets, evidence that gets in there does not have anything to do with relevancy. anything that anyone wants gets into this and that's what we're going to see. it is a legal free for all, alison. that's what's happening here. >> let's talk about the boston bombing investigation. lives were lost, a lot of people were hurt so badly. if that turns out intelligence failures either in the u.s. or russia and that the attacks could have been prevented, could the victim sue? richard? >> first of all, alison, if that turns out, how are they ever going to prove that? never be able to be proved. so, it's not going to be litigation about that. but, you know, when russia tells us about some surveillance they

want to report to us, all the bells and whistles have to go off at that point in time. why are they getting this information? and the information they gave is that he was looking to blow up sites in russia, not the united states. whether they could have prevented this, we know the finish line was a target area. i think boston police knew that in advance, as well. what could they have done? i don't know. seems they could do everything they could do. >> we don't know that. we don't know that. the idea of attaching some form of responsibility because the russians didn't turn evidence over to the justice department. i think is just far fetched. there is absolutely no basis for liability. as sad as it is for the loss of life and injury, i just see nothing, alison, that attaches lirblt to any of this. >> i think what alison is referring to is the fact that information was turned over to the fbi by russia and that information was not turned over to the boston police department,

so, that's the issue that's being discussed these days. why didn't the fbi turn it over to boston? would it have helped? >> even with joint terrorism task force, the fact that was it shared or not, still results in no liability. i understand intelligence gaps, but on civil liability issues, i just don't buy it. i just don't buy it. >> any recourse for people who are upset about where tamerlan tsarnaev was buried? >> none at all. >> no. >> all right. thanks, guys. the legal guys are here every saturday at this time to give us their take on the most intriguing legal cases of the day. thanks for being with us. >> happy mother's day. >> that's right, happy mother's day to everyone. >> thanks very much. one more legal story to tell you about. a high schoolteacher who lost his job after stomping on an american flag gets an $85,000

settlement. south carolina's newspaper "the state" got its hand on documents that shows scott compton is being paid a settlement by the school district. he stomped on the flag during a classroom discussion about freedom last december. stay with us in the "cnn newsroom" for all the latest headlines. plus, in the next hour i'll talk with john walsh and he'll join us to weigh in on the cleveland kidnapping kidnapping.

hello, i'm alison kosik. here are the top stories we're following in the "cnn newsroom." the man accused of unspeakable crimes against three women as fbi teams seal his cleveland street. people in that neighborhood are shocked to the point of tears that this happened just yards away from their homes. the emotional reaction from one man who can't believe the charges his neighbor faces. prince harry is in colorado today. he'll be talking to wounded servicemen and women competing

in the para lilympic games. fbi investigators are back out on seymour avenue hunting for clues into a decade of horror. susan candiotti is following developments from the scene. susan, what is happening there today? >> hi, alison. well, for the past couple of days, the fbi and other authorities have been working to seal up this house, to board it up, to put a fence around it sealed in cement so that no one can get inside and bother this area, bother this house. keep it from anyone who wants to try to get inside, for example. it's important for them to maintain that site. of course, if they later need it if this case should come to trial. that's what they've been working on for the past couple of days as ariel castro sits in a jail cell measuring about 9 foot 9. in