from cnn world head quarters in atlanta. >> this is "cnn saturday morning". here's what's ahead this hour. >> all of a sudden we just hear, boom, and then we saw like smoke everywhere. >> a train collision and derailment along one of the most traveled routes in the northeast. 70 people injured, some in critical condition, and now a major investigation. ten-second daydream alert, what would you do with $600 million? that's the powerball jackpot right now, just think about all the money, but that money will be nothing compared to what it could be if no one wins tonight. >> wait until we tell you that

number. o.j. versus his former lawyer, simpson former attorney in court friday not to defend o.j. wait until you hear what he said about the disgraced superstar. >> good morning. it is saturday, may 18th. i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm poppy harlow. thank you for starting your saturday with us. >> it is 8:00 on the east coast. we'll start with the collision between two commuter trains in connecticut. people were tossed over seats. one man says immediately the lights went out in his car as the two trains slammed into each other. now it's time for investigators to get a closer look. cnn national correspondent susan candiotti joins me on the phone. we just had a conversation with the chairman of the national transportation safety board. she said there was one representative who left d.c. last night, more are on their way there now. what can you add for us, susan?

>> reporter: of course the key question as i'm sure she indicated, how did it happen? you have the two commuter trains carrying about 250 people in all, one heading to new york city, one the opposite direction. the northbound train derails plowing near the southbound train. it's unclear how fast the trains were going but as you could imagine passengers were terrified. >> all of a sudden we just hear boom, and then we saw like smoke everywhere. and i was just with my two kids hugging them, embracing them. >> people almost flew over the seat. i held on but i'm okay. there's people that's hurt though. >> we went to the front of the train, kicked out windows. >> it will take a while to investigate and determine what happened, how fast they were going and to determine the cause. so it's going to take quite some

time. >> reporter: scores of people were injured, 46 of 70 who were hospitalized have now been released from the hospital. however, we're told that five people remain in critical condition. connecticut's governor dannel malloy will be there with the ntsb trying to figure out what happened here, how this could have occurred and how long these trains, this line will be out of service, a major line, the only one really between new york headed northbound to boston so a big investigation lies ahead. we'll be reporting from the scene as the morning goes on, victor? >> susan candiotti covering this for us. we know that one person in very critical condition, we're learning from official there is in connecticut. susan, thank you. $600 million, that is how much today's powerball jackpot is worth. it is the biggest powerball

prize in history and the second largest jackpot ever in the united states. lisa desjardins is in washington. you look at this, i've been talking about what would you do with even a tenth of that. this is powerball mania. >> this is craziness and as a lot of our people watching who follow powerball know we have not had a powerball winner since october, that's why the jackpot is so large so we know that a lot of folks are going to be going today hoping that tonight is the night for them. i want to tell you, poppy, about the odds that are involved here. they are not good, folks. now it's $2 to buy a powerball ticket. it use toed to be $1 so if you haven't bought a ticket in a year or so. the odds are you winning tonight are 1 in 175 million. i'm not sure if that number means anything to people so here's some quick context.

you are three times more likely if you are a woman to give bi i you are to win the lottery tonight. you can buy a ticket in 43 states and the district of columbia sell powerball now. it's easier to say where you can't buy them. you cannot buy them in a few states out west, nevada, utah, wyoming, a couple in the south, mississippi and alabama, and hawaii and alaska folks are plum out of luck, they have to call people stateside to buy tickets for them. >> you know what i find more fascinating about this is that if no one wins tonight's drawing, that number goes way up, meteoric levels, right? >> at that point we're just talking really insane money, another number that i am not

sure anyone can understand, as you say if no one wins tonight, poppy, the jackpot goes up to, everybody sit back, $950 million. that's the estimate, but almost $1 million if no one wins tonight, and to give some perspective, $950 million is about the total gdp, all of the economic output for the u.s. virgin islands, where, by the way, you can buy a powerball ticket. >> where, by the way, you can. i think i'm going to be in the u.s. virgin islands. >> you might be able to buy a few of the u.s. virgin islands if you win the powerball ticket. >> great perspective. go get your ticket. we're going after the show. thank you. what would you do if you won $600 million or closer to $1 billion? some of you have been sharing your dreams with me on twitter. here's one from susan mitchell

saying i'd give most of it away. i don't need a lot, just enough to buy some land and adopt a whole bunch of shelter animals. this from robert, i'd open up many food banks. one in six americans will go hungry today. other people said they'd buy a lot of stuff. tweet me @poppyharlowcnn. gas prices are being driven to record highs, minnesota $4.15 for a gallon of regular unleaded, it's higher in california. midwestern states saw a price spike of 40 cents a gallon in one week. industry analysts say it's because of outages and long maintenance at refineries in four states

>> it the s&p, nasdaq finishing the fourth straight week a record high. investors thrilled with the u.s. economy continuing to improve and consumer sentiment is at a "360" year high, thsix-year hig. to north korea now, any time you talk about north korean missiles there is uncertainty about the intentions. while you were asleep north korea fired off three missiles into the water off the south korean peninsula. there is no real danger. it is believed to be a test. south korea says the missiles were pointed away from the country and there has been a cooling off of tension since things heated up significantly in march. going to texas and the devastation left behind from the killer tornadoes wednesday night. this is what is left of the ramplgo brazos neighborhood,

this was hit by as many as 16 tornadoes across north texas and six people died in this community alone from the storm. the rest are already thinking about what is next. nick valencia is in granbury, texas, this morning. i know the people have been kept out of that area up to this point. are they now being allowed back into their homes? >> reporter: when i spoke to the hood county sheriff he said the plan was to start letting people back in at 8:00 a.m. local, that's about an hour away from now. if you look behind me the road is blocked, one of two ways to get into and out of the community. some have little, if anything at all to go back to. >> debris is everywhere. everybody was trying to find a way out. >> reporter: even though his family lost their home and nearly all of their possessions francisco gomes says he was one

of the lucky one. they received food from volunteers on the side of a highway. they had nowhere else to go, no matter, they say, they're just thankful to be alive. >> when the sirens went off for the tornado, i mean, the tornado was already there. >> reporter: wasn't enough time in. >> there wasn't enough time. >> reporter: at a press conference the hood county sheriff responded to the claim. >> there's never enough time when it comes to tornadoes. thunderstorms they move in so fast, when we knew we had rotation and the national weather service confirmed it, we put the warnings out. >> that is destruction that is almost incomprehensible. >> reporter: survivors told cnn haunting stories of moments when they weren't sure they were going to make it. >> this is it. we're gone. we thought we were gone. i thought i just seen myself just, i don't know, i just came into that point. i just gave up. >> reporter: texas governor rick perry said it's too early to

request assistance from the president but he's confident residents will get much needed support. >> i'm pretty sure we'll get the help we need. it just won't be the same. >> reporter: and it will be a bittersweet homecoming for so many like gomes. it's going to take a among time for them to put together their lives again. >> nick, the governor says it's too early to request federal assistance. is he giving any time line on when that fema assistance will start to come in? >> reporter: we asked the governor that yesterday at a press conference he had, the media was given a tour of the ranchos brazos neighborhood. it was obliterated, wiped off the map. he didn't give a time line when or if we'd see federal assistance coming into fwranberry. he's certain president obama is watching the developments in granbury and expecting to hear more about assistance but the hood county sheriff's office says they're doing as much as they can.

local first responders seem to have things under control so far. >> nick valencia live for us this morning, thank you. after this week it doesn't feel like a quiet tornado season at all but as chad myers explains we are overdue for this terrible weather and more could be on the way. chad? >> poppy, although most kids are hoping for summer vacation to start any time soon it is still spring, a time where cold air and warm air clash. that clash will create severe weather. we haven't had a lot of severe weather. people are getting complacent, a year without a hurricane you don't expect a big hurricane to come late in the season. it's been a drought for tornadoes, we've only had 250, by now we should have had 500 but this weekend will be violent in parts of kansas, nebraska, and by tomorrow moving into parts of iowa, eastern kansas and oklahoma, we could see baseball-sized hail, tornadoes on the ground for many, many minutes and miles as well. the progress goes from saturday, nebraska, south dakota, back into probably even pratt,

kansas, sioux city, omaha, and monday, chicago, st. louis into arkansas a couple of days of severe weather charging to the east, these could be storms that develop quickly, maybe five minutes notice. tornadoes already on the ground by the warnings came out, that's how quickly they begin and develop and how quickly they they can put down a radio. if you don't have a noaa radio, go buy one. in their own words you're going to hear from three cleveland police officers who responded to amanda berry's 911 call. >> this is really amazing and the process they helped free michelle knight and gina dejesus from years of captivity in that house. thank you.ou called. we're not in london, are we? no. why? apparently my debit card is. what? i know. don't worry, we have cancelled your old card.

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>> we see a crowd like on the porch. we see this girl, she's like raising her hand, holding a child. i'm looking at my partner, you know, is it her? >> i don't know, before i can stop, the people approach the vehicle carrying a small child waving at us, before we to stop she's at the window i look up at her and carter looks up at her, we look at each other, i think that's amanda berry. i think that's amanda berry. >> when i pulled up i didn't see amanda. i just saw officer tracy running across the street towards the house and i got in my car and i ran right over there right behind him and officer kept

yelling out cleveland police and kind of seems like an eternity but it was so quick, at the same time. >> we got out of the car, i'm like is that you? just like on the tape she's frantic, she's frantic with us, it's pretty chaotic. she's telling us who she is, she's been captive. the little child at the time we didn't know was hers is screaming and crying so it was just crazy what was going on. >> just the emotion from that point of him confirming it was amanda, it was overwhelming. >> i'm looking at her face and i can't believe what i'm seeing in front of me, nervous, her child is screaming and i'm thinking wow, we got her right here. she's safe, her child is safe. and then you know, we don't know what's going on in the house, we don't know anybody for a suspect. i asked her is there anybody else in the house? she says gina dejesus and another girl. it was like what? >> it was like another bombshell with overwhelming force just hit

me. i believe i broadcasted that gina might still be in the house. >> adam, you got a box coming? this cannot be for real. >> there might be others in the house. gina dejesus may also be in the house. >> possibly that she would be in the house and we immediately started running towards the house, as we were going up the steps, it was so quiet, like peaceful, almost as if, you know, i started thinking okay, we're going to clear this top floor, nobody's going to be there and just leave, and then you hear this scuffling, you know, something going on in this room and i'm looking that way, just waiting to see what's going to happen and it was michelle,

she kind of popped out into the doorway and paused there for a second. within moments she came charging at me, she jumped onto me, she's like "you saved us, you saved us," and i'm holding onto her so tight, and then within a few seconds i see another girl come out of the bedroom, i just look at her. you can immediately tell who it is, just thinner and again, i just needed confirmation and i asked her what's your name? she said my name is georgina dejesus. >> we saw the final outcome but to be there at the moment and see gina walk out of there. >> a lot of the officers have been looking for them for a decade. good for them.

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this weekend, angelina jolie stunned the world when she revealed she had a representative double mastectomy after a genetic test revealed she had a high risk for breast and ovarian cancer. her announcement inspired a lot of women and gave a lot of strength and certainly fired up this conversation. her revelation put a biotech

company in the spotlight, that company is in the midst of a supreme court case right now. her announcement made headlines around the world. angelina jolie underwent a double mastectomy after a genetic test told she had a mutated gene giving her an 87% chance of getting breast cancer. her news put this company, myriad genetics, front and center. it's not a big player in the big picture of big biotech companies but it has patents on the brca1 and 2 genes. when mutated they're linked to an increased risk for breast and ovarian cancer. because of those patents, myriad has a monopoly on the tests to find the mutations. >> we believe that gene patents of this nature decrease access to testing for our patients and the lack of competition in testing increases costs, decreases quality.

>> reporter: dr. roger klein represents the association for molecular pathology, which is challenging myriad all the way to the supreme court. >> the problem with patenting the human gene that you're patenting a fundamental property of an individual. >> reporter: myriad genetics declined our request for an on camera interview but told us what it patented are synthetic molecules that do not exist in the human body. the question at the heart of the case before the supreme court is this. can genes or synthetic genes be patented or are they products of nature that shouldn't be owned by anyone? >> this case is such a big deal because so many people think the future of medicine is genetics, and how the law regards genes and synthetic genes will dictate how and whether companies invest to find new cures. >> reporter: myriad says it invested $500 million over 17 years in the project, that

investment is paying off. its analysis tests cost up to $4,000, often covered by insurance and made up 82% of the company's revenue in fiscal 2012, the company's profit $112 million. biotech analyst steve brozak has followed myriad for another decade. >> are they going to stop researchers from using their work, no. the idea is someone else tries to do what they're doing commercially they have to be protected. >> reporter: myriad argues patenting genes encourages innovation and investment and hasn't prevented research. others disagree. >> we're at the cusp of the introduction of new technologies and certainly these patents can do nothing but obstruct the introduction of those technologies. >> reporter: now we should have a decision from the supreme court by the end of june. it's important to note here that experts say only 5% to 10% of women have this gene mutation, only 5% to 10%.

the company myriad tells us it does about 250,000 of these tests every year. it also told me that for those that are uninsured or cannot afford the test, if they qualify for it, the company will either cover the entire cost of the test or greatly reduce it. o.j. simpson says his ex-lawyer blew his defense. he's asking a las vegas judge to give him a new trial, throw out his convictions for armed robbery and kidnapping. will it work? we'll tack a closer look, next. we used to live with a bear. [growl] we'd always have to go everywhere with it. get in the front. we drive. it was so embarrasing that we just wanted to say, well, go away. shoo bear. but we can't really tell bears what to do. moooooommmmmm!!! then one day, it was just gone. mom!

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back, everyone. i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm victor blackwell. five stories we are watching this morning. number one is the commuter train collision in connecticut, investigators are expected to be on site next hour. we spoke with the chair of the ntsb, one person there overnight, more on the way. they'll try to determine what caused a crowded train to jump the tracks into the path of another train. as many as 70 people were sent to the hospital, most were treated and released but three are in critical condition right now. number two, the outgoing head of the irs insists his agency was not playing politics when it allegedly targeted conservative groups applying for non-profit status. steve miller told members of congress friday that giving those applicants extra scrutiny was a "mistake." he said irs employees were just trying to be more efficient in handling what he called a crush of applications after the supreme court's citizens united

decision on campaign spending. miller also denied misleading congress about the problem. number three, a louisiana woman is headed to prison for nearly five years after impersonating a federal safety official following the 2010 deepwater horizon oil deal. connie knight was busted after posting fraudulent hazardous safety training after the spill. she was sentenced to 57 months and ordered to pay more than $25,000 in fines. four, a volcano is shooting ash and steam and gas thousands of feet into the air. look at this, the pavlov volcano is one of alaska's most active, started erupting monday. authorities have issued an orange alert for aircraft, that's the second most serious of four levels and the ash cloud extends 60 miles from this volcano. and five, e-mails from michael jackson's manager could become important evidence in the

wrongful death trial against aeg live. those e-mails were thought to be lost but were found after what the judge called a lot of red tape. aeg lawyers argue jackson was responsible for his own death and that an addiction to drugs led to his bad decisions. o.j. simpson's fate is in the hands of a las vegas judge right now. she will decide whether the former football star turned convicted felon gets a new trial. simpson says his former defense attorney botched his 2008 trial for armed robbery and kidnapping and ended up landing him in prison. at a court hearing yesterday simpson's ex-lawyer yale galanter testified that he "put every ounce of blood, sweat and soul into the case." there's no date yet for the judge's ruling. i bring in paul callan, our legal expert in new york, a defense attorney, former prosecutor and cnn legal analyst and represented the estate of nicole brown simpson in the

wrongful death suit that followed o.j.'s acquittal in the murder trial. full disclosure you've been following o.j. and the cases for quite some time. simpson is asking the judge to basically toss out his conviction, grant him a new trial. what is the likelihood of that? >> i don't think there's much of a chance here and i'll tell you why, poppy. simpson got convicted of this robbery/kidnapping charge in vegas and he took an appeal that went all the way to the nevada supreme court. they upheld the conviction. they found it was a legitimate conviction, and this sort of is a last-minute plea saying you know, my attorney gave me bad advice, take a second look at it. so the court said we'll give you a hearing on it. i don't think he has much of a chance. >> he's saying galanter didn't notify him of a plea deal and galanter testified yesterday he did inform o.j. of that. this is a he said/he said

battle. >> there's an interesting backer toy with galanter. he's his personal attorney, he met him in florida, they're friends, sort of involved in some business ventures together, apparently this is what o.j. says and galanter gives very emotional testimony. he says as you quoted him, he said "i poured my blood and my sweat and my soul into the defense of o.j." but it just wasn't there. he also said o.j. told him that he, o.j., knew that these guys were going in with guns to take back the property, which makes that a robbery charge. so this really destroys completely any o.j. simpson defense. >> what i find so fascinating about this is that it's rare to see a lawyer testifying against his former client to take the stand but when that happens, the attorney/client privilege totally goes away. >> it's very rare and you know, galanter when they were first starting to question him he said i just feel really uncomfortable

doing this. for lawyers the attorney/client privilege is absolutely sacred, but when you claim your lawyer was incompetent and you ask for a hearing on the issue and you attack his integrity, all bets are off. he can get on the stand and tell the judge everything you told him. this was a high-risk maneuver by simpson. he didn't have a reputation to begin with but the robbery was a very bad tactic because ultim e ultimately galanter said he knew him about the guns, i told him about the plea, he's a liar, that's essentially what he's saying, simpson is a liar. >> what credibility is key in this judge's decision whether or not to give him a new trial? what about the fact simpson didn't take the witness stand in the original criminal trial. there's some argument that could backfire. does that play in here at all? >> that's a very important fact and it's important because the law says that one of the key

things that is reserved to the client in terms of decision-making about how a case is tried is whether to take the witness stand or not. the lawyer can decide which witnesses to call and how, what questions to ask, but whether you testify or not, that's up to the defendant, and simpson says i wanted to testify, galanter wouldn't let me testify. galanter says that's a complete lie, not true at all. simpson couldn't have been testified because he would have been destroyed on cross-examination. >> where is simpson getting all the money to pay his attorneys? i think the fine in that civil trial in the murder case was over $33 million. >> boy, you know, poppy, i'd love to know because the lawyers who are involved in that case and the litigants in that case, $33.5 million verdict, very little of it has ever been collected and then you hear he's got $500,000 he's paying lawyers. where is he getting the money? a lot of his money is protected because he's got a pension from the nfl that's protected by federal, you know, pension law

but other than that, i don't know where o.j. gets the money and i'm sure the goldmans, who lost a son and the brown family, who lost a daughter, would like to know an answer to that question. >> paul callan joining us this morning thank you. actress and u.n. goodwill ambassador mira sorvino is partners with cnn freedom project to shine light on the horrors of modern day slavery around the world. it's still happening. she is our spotlight today for "impact your world." >> a lot of what i've learned about human trafficking has been through direct conversations with victims. i've interviewed many, many victims in several different countries in different situations and different age ranges. almost all the victims i've spoken to have been women and most of them have been in sexual exploitation. some of it is so shocking it almost like ruins you for a few weeks. like you can't actually escape the horrendousness of what people are telling you and the

pain that they have lived through. i met a little girl at a shelter and she was showing me her homework and her addition and subtraction and she was very proud and then they took me aside and they said her father murdered her mother in front of her and he dropped her off with some relatives in cancun and they sold her to a brothel at age 4. 4 to 7 she was working in a brothel doing things she did not even know how to describe except she knew they were incorrectos, incorrect, wrong, and somehow she was liberated and ended up in this shelter. to think there's a sex tourism demand for children of the age of 4, it's one of the most stomach turning things i could possibly imagine as a mother. if all of us rise up and all of us fight this, it will end. this is going to change because it morally intolerable.

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a 21-year-old hofstra university jr. shot dead early on friday at an offcampus apartment. an treeia rebello was killed when bullets flew between a suspected home invader and police who responded to a call for help. scary moments at the canes film festival in france. no one was injured but

investigators say he had a fake grenade and the bullets he fired were blanks. in another incident police are on hunt for thieves who made off with $1 million in jewels, they were stolen from a hotel room safe in canes thursday and a hitchhiker who became an internet sensation after he claimed he use aid hatchet to rescue two people from a crazed driver is in jail this morning, caleb mcgillvary known as kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker is accused of killing a lawyer in new jersey, the victim 73 years old found bludgeoned to death in his home. pretty bad week for the obama administration, huh? i'm sure they're happy this week is almost over. it's been brutal with no less than three scandals coming at the president but is this historically bad? our lisa desjardins takes a look. >> reporter: the irs, benghazi, the ap phone records, you know it's been a bad week when you

get this question. >> how do you feel about comparisons by some of your critics of this week's scandals to those that happened under the nixon administration? >> reporter: in historic terms how bad of a week was this? >> it was a bad week for obama. >> reporter: we asked historian allan lichtmann how the president's problems compare. as bad as watergate? >> i neither took part in nor knew any of the subsequent coverup activities. >> reporter: iran-contra? >> an old saying that nothing spreads so quickly as a rumor. >> reporter: how about monica lewinsky. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. >> reporter: okay so obviously there have been plenty of presidential scandals in the past but you already knew that. let's get past this 101 and dig a little bit deeper. it is rare but president obama is not the only president to have faced three or more scandals at once. >> late in his term, truman had a quadruple whammy affecting

him. he had scandals involving bribery, among white house officials, he had scandals involving corruption in the tax bureau, in the treasury. >> reporter: within just a few months in 1951 and 1952 all of this happened, the korean war went south, harry truman's top aide was caught trying to buy influence. the president fired a popular general, and a massive bribery scandal engulfed the irs. yes, the irs. his approval numbers plummeted but none of that is remembered about truman today. >> scandals are way overblown in their political effects. everyone thinks oh my god, it's going to be another watergate, it's going to bring down the president. it's going to damage his party permanently. almost no scandals do that. >> reporter: what does make a scandal permanent? lichtmann says two things, when there's proof a president is directly involved and when his own party starts speaking against him. lisa desjardins, cnn, washington.

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back on earth, monday he and two other astronauts landed in kazhakstan aboard the soyuz. thursday he spoke with reporters via webcast about how he's recovering from his five months in space. >> it feels like i played a hard game of rugby yesterday or played full contact hockey yesterday and i haven't played in a while. my body's just sore and i'm dizzy. >> reporter: while hadfield is dealing with the difficulties of readjusting to gravity he's extremely upbeat about the time he spent in orbit. >> this space station is a wonderful example of how people can do things right. there's beautiful imagery. there's poetry in what's happening. there's purpose in what's happening. there's a beauty to it. there's hope in it. >> reporter: hadfield posted dozens of photos and videos online from from space, some amazing shots of earth to what it's like to try and brush your teeth in zero gravity and while he's not the first astronaut to use twitter with nearly 1 million followers he may be the

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guy. he said i'm not worried about this. i got two words that will put an end to this nonsense. i said what? he said president biden. >> the mayor is in the spotlight because there's a rumor there's a video of him smoking crack. it's crazy, or as our mayor put it hey at least it's not a large soda. not that crazy. >> tomorrow's powerball draw something going to be huge, bigger than the mayor of toronto even. it could become the biggest lottery jackpot, up to $600 million, the record is $650 million. people are lined up outside convenience stores all over the united states to buy tickets. this is a good time if you don't want to wait in line you can recreate the experience of playing powerball at home by flushing $1 down the toilet. >> that's $2 for flushing down the toilet, two bucks a ticket. thanks for starting your morning with us. we've got much more ahead on

"cnn saturday morning" which starts right now. good morning everyone. i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to have you with us this morning. we start this hour with the commuter train collision in connecticut. two trains heading in opposite directions slammed into each other after one of them jumped the tracks, as many as 70 people were taken to area hospitals, around two dozen people are still in the hospital this morning at this hour, a federal investigation is on. the go team expected to get to the scene any moment. our national correspondent susan candiotti joins me now by phone. susan, thank you for being with us. what can you tell us? >> reporter: hi, poppy. here is the scene now, we're waiting for a press conference to begin pretty soon with connecticut's governor, and members of the national transportation safety board. you can see one of the trains that was involved in the crash on a bridge viaduct that i'm

looking at as well. this happened on a train from new haven to new york city, went off the tracks during the height of rush hour about 6:00 friday night when a train going in the opposite direction struck the train heading from new haven to new york city so they slammed together, it's unclear how fast they were going, about 250 passengers all totalled between the two trains and as you can imagine the impact was terrifying. >> absolutely, and this is the height of rush hour friday, 6:00 hour. do we have any indications, susan, on the extent of the injuries of those injured right now? >> reporter: at last count we understand that 46 of the 70 people treated at area hospitals had been released. however, five remain in critical condition so the main thing is to of course take care of them but also to figure out what they're going to do about this major line of course between new york and boston, all service has

been suspended until two very important things happen, number one, they got to try to figure out what caused this accident, and then make of course needed repairs to the tracks which are totally out of service, badly damaged, so it's unclear how long it will take before that service can resume. >> absolutely, susan. i know deborah hersman the head of the ntsb said earlier it's very important to talk to the conductors, the staff, the people working on the train and the people that were riding, passengers. obvious i had they live all over because they were commuting. have you had a chance to talk to anyone on the ground that either witnessed this or was on the train? what's the word from them? >> reporter: people on board the train are talking about all of a sudden feeling an impact, no warning, as you can imagine, feeling the crash, feeling the impact, all the power going out, hearing on the intercom for people calling all doctors to go to the front of the train.

cars destroyed in some instances, luggage flying everywhere and of course panic as you can understand but you're right, national transportation safety board has to look at the condition of the tracks, it has to discuss this with the engineers, the crew aboard the train, talk about the human factors involved here to see whether this was a mechanical failure or some other kind of failure so a lot of areas to cover and it will take time. >> absolutely, and the head of the ntsb telling us earlier today that they are at this point treating this like an accident but still doing a full investigation. susan candiotti thank you. $600 million. that's how much today's powerball jackpot is. it's the biggest prize in the game's history and the second largest lotto jackpot ever in the u.s.. people are lining up and standing in line for a very long time to buy those tickets. >> they're coming in $2 $10,

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conservative opponents filed a last ditch challenge to that legally but the country's top court ruled the bill constitutional and france is now the ninth country in europe to allow same-sex marriage. back here at home in arkansas, a u.s. district judge has granted a motion on behalf of the aclu that temporarily blocks the enforcement of a state law that limits abortion at the 12th week. that's from a court official who could not be named per department policy. the arkansas abortion law was passed back in march, it was scheduled to take if ekt in august. refinery troubles in the midwest are driving gas prices to record highs. in minnesota, prices hit an all-time high of $4.15 a gallon for regular unleaded, higher than california and it's not just minnesota. midwestern states saw a price spike of 40 cents a gallon. it's because of outages and

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a beloved medical school professor and his wife were found dead, murdered in their home. the killing has rocked omaha, nebraska, and creighton university, from the professor taught. new link to a 6-year-old cold case may help investigators solve not one but two double murders. cnn's stephanie elam is in omaha. stephanie, what do we know about the latest crime? >> reporter: we can tell you this one crime happened on tuesday where dr. brumback, back in march of 2008 another faculty member dr. william hunter his 11-year-old son and family housekeeper were found murdered in their house, a case that's

never been involved and because it involves the pathology department from the one university police are looking into it but staying very closed lipped about what the circumstances of the brumback murders have been so far simply because they're trying to make progress in this investigation. >> they're saying because of the location and the pairs of these double cold case murders. >> reporter: keep in mind the pathology department is said to be just 12 people and so to have this many murders connected to this one department is why they're looking for any connection but they do not at least they have not told us any suspects that they may have in this case at this time, and when you look at it, today should be a very happy day for the creighton university community because today is graduation day, people are flooding in for these happy moments but obviously there's so much sadness because of this one event. in fact we talked to some people we heard from some people related to the campus and this

is what they had to say. >> he definitely embodies what it means to be a physician, somebody that's dedicated to not only the patient in front of them but to the science behind it and to educating upcoming physicians. >> why would anyone want to harm them? >> reporter: now the other thing to keep in mind is that just a month ago dr. brumback announced that he was going to retire in a month and that he and his wife were going to move to west virginia so all of this very sad. police also saying they've stepped up security on the university campus. victor? >> never made it. certainly he will be remembered at the graduation today. stephanie elam in omaha for us, thanks. another crime news, convicted murderer jodi arias returns to court on monday, she is expected to address the jury. this is the jury that is deciding whether she lives or dies. the jury found on wednesday that arias was exceptionally cruel when she murdered her

ex-boyfriend, travis alexander. that makes her eligible for the death penalty. alexandra's brother and sister addressed the court. >> i cannot sleep alone in the dark anymore. i've had dreams of my brother all curled up in the shower, thrown in there, left to rot for days. >> i'm so glad he talked to me into taking this picture. i will cherish it for the rest of my life. >> powerful statements, the family still certainly grieving. hln's jane velez-mitchell has been covering the trial throughout and she has a rare look inside the jail where arias is awaiting her fate. jane? >> reporter: well, poppy, i am outside the jail in phoenix, arizona, this is where behind the barbed wires jodi arias sits

in closed custody. i was able to take a tour of the facility with the controversial sheriff joe arpaio and jodi has been here for quite a long period of time. this crime occurred in 2008, and she was awaiting trial for years, when she was in the general population, she had managed to make friends, have supporters. she was socializing. she was making a life for herself in a matter of speaking. well now all that has changed. she is in closed custody, which means she is kept in her tiny cell for 23 hours a day. only allowed out for one hour a day, and she is checked on by authorities every 15 minutes to make sure she's not doing anything untoward to herself, especially. now, what's so fascinating is that i was able to peek inside jodi arias' actual jail cell. they roped it up with yellow tape for the purposes of allowing us to look in but we can still see and it's a bunk

bed situation so there would be room for somebody else but she can't, she's essentially in solitary. she sleeps on the bottom bunk and turned the top bunk into some kind of desk where she's got a lot of documents and other food stuffs. i noticed that on the ground there was a magazine that said "the optimist." well i don't know if she's optimistic about her chances at this phase of her trial. they're getting into the mitigation phase. we heard from her attorney that jodi arias is going to take the stand and try to plead for her life and she's got to be wondering what on earth can i say, given the horrific nature of the killing, in which i've admitted i've carried out. what can i say to convince this jury to spare my life? food for thought. back to you, poppy. >> jane velez-mitchell, thank you. you can see jane's show each weeknight on our sister station hln. a judge in las vegas is deciding if o.j. simpson will

get a new trial. at a hearing that turned combative at times, simpson's current attorneys argued his former lawyers were so incompetent he blew simpson's defense in his 2008 trial and simpson is serving up to 33 years in prison for armed robbery and kidnapping. the challenge to his former lawyer and once close friend is just the latest strange chapter in o.j.'s tumultuous story. here's cnn's brian todd. >> reporter: victor and poppy, o.j. simpson has captivated america for better or worse for about four decades now. that's why this past wednesday afternoon and evening when we had breaking news all around on the white house e-mails on benghazi, the president's statement on the irs, and a crucial moment in the jodi arias trial, we still found time to tell viewers about o.j. simpson's court appearance. we were riveted to the screen this week, seeing him in court, talking about how he grabbed his memorabilia back from dealers in las vegas. the first time we'd heard him speak publicly in years. >> and that's what i told

everybody about that if they don't give it to me i'm going to get the police in there. >> reporter: why would we take such an interest in a puffy, shackled 65-year-old o.j. simpson? michael o'keefe of "the new york daily news" says it's the o.j. simpson story that pulls us in. >> we're drawn to o.j. because he's been in the public eye for going on 40 years now and we've really seen a spectacular rise and a spectacular fall in his life. >> reporter: america first took widespread notice of simpson when he sprang into the nfl in 1969, the heisman trophy winner out of usc with an electric smile and catchy name who would later be nicknamed juice. playing on bad buffalo bills teams didn't diminish the attraction. he became the first running back to gain 2,000 yards in a season. then he became david beckham before beckham, a sports and marketing icon. the ads from the '70s live on, on youtube.

>> go, o.j., go. >> hertz, the superstar in rent-a-car. >> we want to be like o.j., we did the o.j. run through the crowded airport like he did in the hertz commercials. >> reporter: he crossed seamlessly into hollywood with roles in "the towering inferno" and "the naked gun" trilogy. >> oh, no. >> reporter: on screens big and small as an actor, pitchman, network football analyst o.j. simpson observers say had a charm, that smile, that guy next door vibe that made whites and african-americans equally comfortable with him, but in june, 1994, a much more ominous and bizarre chant of "go, o.j., go," pockets of small crowds in l.a. cheered him as he led police on the notorious white bronco chase. simpson's trial for the murder of his ex-wife nicole and ron

goldman marked the first time america had been transfixed on tv for a court case. eventually he was acquitted but just as compellingly as he'd brought americans of all races together for admiring him in the '70s and '80s his trial cast the deepest and most disturbing divides. >> pitted black against white, rich against poor. no one didn't is have an opinion. you either thought he was guilty or thought he was the victim of racist police and incompetent prosecution. >> reporter: o'keefe says it was one of the cultural moments where america was shaken out of his habit of fawning over celebrities. after the simpson murder trial we were never shocked that michael jackson and lance armstrong weren't quite what we thought. >> fascinating. up next she is serving up second chances to young offenders, meet this week's cnn hero that's straight ahead. ♪ ♪ fly me to the moon

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