coming up, the evidence that set her free. and three killed in syria, one a woman, how she reportedly became a rebel fighter. a live report coming up. and could the murder case against the "blade runner" but e be in jeopardy? leaked photos from oscar pistorius's home are now posted online. welcome to "around the world." i'm suzanne malveaux. >> and i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company this friday. an arizona mother on her way home after more than a week in a mexican jail, what a story this has been, yanira maldonado, she walked out of jail in nogales, mexico, overnight a free woman. >> this was on charges of smuggling marijuana. her family insisted from the very beginning that she was innocent. rafael romo, he is in nogales, arizona, just across the mexican border. rafael, tell us, she is free, but the legal process is not completely over. what happens for her next?

>> that's true, suzanne. i had a conversation this morning with her defense attorney. what he was tellinge is that even though the judge ruled in her favor and set her free, the prosecution still has under mexican law the possibility of appealing the judge's ruling. and the defense attorney told me that he expects the prosecution to do so. now, it is going to be very difficult for a higher court to take a case where the prosecution's evidence was really not that strong, as far as we could see during the proceedings this week. so it remains to be seen. now, it was an incredible moment last night just before midnight when we witnessed this woman who had been behind bars for nine days to see her -- hug her

husband whom believed for a moment that his wife might spend years and years in prison for a crime that she did not commit. one of the first questions that we wanted to ask her was after everything that she's been through, would she ever go back to mexico? this is what she had to say. >> i love mexico. my family's still there. so mexico -- it's not mexico's fault. it's a few people who, you know, do this to me and probably to other people, who knows, you know? so i probably will go back. mexico is a beautiful country. >> and, michael and suzanne, yanira has been through a lot in the last two weeks. just think about it. first, her aunt in mexico dies. this is a woman that she loved

very much and helped raise her. on their way back from the funeral, that's when she gets stopped at the military checkpoint and accused of smuggling drugs. last saturday it was their first wedding anniversary. they had plans to celebrate that. instead of doing that, she spent the day behind bars. but the good news is that she's back home, she's on the american side and very glad to be back with her family. back to you. >> all right. rafael romo, thank you so much. you were mentioning the video that was critical. >> that was key. they got the surveillance. she was accused of having sixz kilos, 12 pounds of marijuana in the seat under her bus seat. and the video shows her and her husband getting on with like a handbag and a couple of handkerchieves and they're like she wasn't carrying that much marijuana. >> two bottles of wine and a blanket. that's pretty much looked like she was on vacation, not smuggling marijuana. >> exactly. goodness. coming up later this hour, how you can protect yourself

when traveling abroad. that's in about 20 minutes. i want you to stick arpd for that as well. >> that will be a fascinating chat. now, authorities meanwhile questioning someone in texas about those threatening letters we've been reporting on that was sent to president obama and the mayor of new york. >> early tests are showing that the letter sent to mayor michael bloomberg contained a small amount of poison ricin. final results are expected today. and tests for ricin also being carried out on the letter that was sent to the president. an official says that letter looks similar to the ones sent to bloomberg. >> all of the letters were postmarked from shreveport, louisiana. the letters to bloomberg threatened to kill anyone who tries to take away their guns. >> and the heart of turkey's biggest city looked more like a war zone today. it was police versus protesters. this is on the streets of istanbul. >> yeah, the fight was intense. have a listen. [ gunfire ]

>> what you're hearing are police firing teargas and water cannons at the protesters. they've been staging a sit-in. this is at a park just the last couple of days, four days or so, many of those protesters fighting back. >> this is a place ivan watson tells us it's like times square for istanbul. they want to turn this park into a shopping mall. ivan watson reports on it. >> you can see here how the turkish riot police are going after gatherings of people here in istanbul's square in the heart of the city. come on over here. ordinary civilians being caught up in what's taking place here. an old lady knocked on the ground by the water cannon. downtown istanbul, the commercial capital of turkey,

the largest city in this country, has really turned into a place of unrest. an explosion of anger that started with demonstrators who tried to hold a sit-in four days ago. they didn't want the park over there to be demolished and turned into a shopping mall. now, this place is turned into a riot zone. and it's catching an awful lot of ordinary citizens and tourists in the midst of all of this teargas and water cannons and violence. >> and ivan now joins us live from istanbul. i mean, ivan, i started my day seeing a tweet from you saying you were gassed on the way to work. it looks like it hasn't improved. this is not about the park anymore, is it? this is about a government that's showing an increasing intolerance to any kind of dissent. >> you're right. we just got gassed here, so i may have to put this back on. it's been all day here in our

office like this. i think part of the frustration that you're hearing from many urban young turks who live in istanbul, the largest city here, is anger. you can hear them banging on metal around us. anger that the government just won't let them express themselves, protest. and that it is using teargas on a weekly if not daily basis to break up demonstrations. this is, as you mentioned and i've mentioned before, the times square of istanbul. and any time you get more than a hundred people gathering here, the riot police hit them with water cannons and with teargas. and this has become so frequent and prevalent in turkey, michael, that people now joke that if you can't get your kids to eat their vegetables at night at dinner, the cops will show up and offer to hit them with teargas or pepper spray. that has really triggered a lot of anger. so demonstrators here saying this isn't about a park getting

turned into a shopping mall anymore. this is about our government refusing to let us express ourselves. michael. >> real quickly here, what has it been like for you? we see in some ways struggling. i know when you're exposed to teargas, that can be pretty difficult. >> well, i mean, just imagine we're in an area of banks and airline ticketing agencies and wig shops of all things. and people are afraid, they're hiding in their homes, they're getting gassed while going through the biggest transit hub in turkey's largest city just trying to get to work or get to their classes or go, you know, go about their daily business. and the teargas has even gotten into the subway system. that's an enclosed area where people describe to us being overwhelmed by the fumes, by the chemicals in tunnels underneath the ground. and this is not the first time that i've seen scenes like this in istanbul, may day, international labor protest day,

there was a war zone here as well when the government refused to allow people from the labor movement to gather in this very square. a lot of young people we're talking to are saying they're just going to pick up the intensity of the clashes with the police this evening. >> all right. ivan, please be safe. ivan watson out of istanbul. amazing when you think about trying to get through the streets, get to home, get to work and having to deal with that kind of gas. >> it's probably going to get worse as ivan was saying, this is not about the park anymore. this is about something far bigger and broader. coming up on "around the world," toronto's mayor is accused of smoking crack cocaine. >> and there's reportedly video to prove it. so where is it? how the scandal could take a sinister turn. then, in the u.s., jodi arias' sex life all over tv, so are texts and photos from trayvon martin's cell phone. >> but in other countries, the media can't show you things considered evidence once someone is charged with a crime.

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american woman is dead in syria's civil war and there are questions now about whether or not she was actually fighting alongside the rebels there. >> we're told that we're going to show it to you. that is the woman's passport. it was shown on state syrian television. you can see that's her driver's license. it identifies her as nicole lynn mansfield from flint, michigan. >> her family members talked to the fbi saying they came to her home and told them about the reported death in syria. let's bring in nick paton walsh, nick, what more do we know about this american woman? and what was she doing in syria? >> we don't know what she was doing there. we do know what syrian state tv say she was doing there. they released pictures, some of them gruesome, of her corpse, they say of a british man who they found alongside her. when they ambushed the volkswagen they were traveling in. they produced the driving license and u.s. passport of

miss mansfield as well. it's unclear who these people and what they are doing there, but what is clear is saying they're part of the foreign-fueled insurgency they've been fighting. the government very much trying to play down the idea that they're facing domestic discontent in this past two years of conflict, suzanne. >> nick, changing gears slightly. of course we talked yesterday about bashar al assad going on television, the hezbollah television network, and talking about all kinds of issues. what was your take from that? what is he saying of particular note? >> well, the overall tone was fascinating because this was clearly an address to the constituency of hezbollah, the large political and militant group that's fighting here in lebanon declared last weekend they would fight alongside assad all the way. a controversial decision given they already found to fight israel, but he phrased the whole conflict there in that syrian city and generally it's not

about syria's civil war, but it's about bolstering what they refer to as the resistance against israel in this part of the world. a logic that many will find hard to follow in the arab world, but here's what he had to say. >> translator: what's happening is closely tied with israel cutting out the oxygen from the resistance forces. it has nothing to do with defending the state of syria. the times for the battle is tied to israel's strike. they want to suffocate the resistance. >> but trying to phrase it like that is basically trying to justify hezbollah's role alongside him, distance that from the sectarian strife that's clearly at the heart of the war now, but really the central thrust of assad's message was trying to exude confidence, trying to suggest hezbollah being on his side bought him a bit of breathing space, a bit of time. he was saying he was going to get some decent russia missiles fairly soon, talking about perhaps staying on until 2014 and sounding like he'd attend

peace talks, but not accept opposition pre-conditions. trying to look relaxed, jovial almost at times. everyone thought everyone in damascus and the regime have really had their backs against the wall, suzanne. >> seems like there's no breakthrough there. still questions about this american woman because they say she had weapons at her side when she died. we don't really know if she was fighting with the rebels on their side. >> no, and libya's an area going back and forth between the rebels and regime. ammunition in the vehicle, her id, a british guy there and another westerner who they're not identifying the country of origin. certainly a very suspicious situation. nobody knows for sure what she was doing there. apparently a recent convert to islam reportedly. more to come out of that. could the murder case, we're talking about against the blade runner, be in jeopardy? the investigation is now in question after photos of oscar pistorius' home are leaked and posted online. >> yeah, his family speaks exclusively to our robyn kurnow. you're watching "around the world." we'll be right back.

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now, in the united states of course you are innocent until proven guilty. that's a basic tenant of justice. >> but the details of jodi arias's sex life and murderous rampage were aired on television long before her trial began. and check this out, the george zimmerman trial hasn't even started, yet we've heard every incriminating detail on both sides of the case in the shooting death of trayvon martin. >> yeah. and it can make it pretty tough to pick an impartial jury when you think about it if they've already heard all the evidence. in much the rest of the world the rules are very different. the united kingdom for example, people are no longer allowed to see that video there. one of the suspects accused of hacking to death that british soldier. the video of course shows the man's hands covered in blood and he's holding a weapon. >> so i want to bring in our legal analyst paul callan to join us here and talk a little about how the rules are different for different countries. you've got the uk and some other western nations trying to protect the jury from

prejudices. i guess it's the law of subprejudice. explain that for us. >> well, i think our international viewers will be very, very surprised to see what an enormous difference there is between the way these things are handled in the united states and other places. in the u.s. because of the first amendment to the u.s. constitution, which has to do with free speech, we're very open about trials. and presumptively all trials are open to scrutiny by the press, they can be reported. and the press, frankly, is almost never punished for writing something about an ongoing trial. contrast that with other free countries, mostly the united kingdom countries for instance. in those countries the thought is that publication of these facts will prejudice a person's right to a fair trial. and so you can get a publication ban in advance of trial. and any publication then that reveals information will be held in contempt of court. now, that would never happen in the united states. we don't go after newspapers in the united states. you might go after the person

who leaked the information. that person could be held in contempt. but, frankly, a newspaper has not been held in contempt -- you'd probably have to go back as far as the vietnam war to find an example. >> i guess that's the thing and i'm speaking as an australian and as a reporter i had to subject to the laws of -- it's not even about covering the trial. it's about before it even gets to trial. there's been these discussions on whether these potentially incriminating texts would be used in the trial -- the zimmerman trial. well, those texts have now been run. they're out there. so the chances of prejudicing a jury when they might see evidence that might not even come up in trial or may not be admissible in trial, is it a good way to go? is that free speech, or is that potentially hurting a defendant? >> it's a tough question, michael. you know, in the united states the decision has ultimately been that you want to have an open system so people don't think that the rich and powerful are getting special privileges, that

things are taking place behind closed doors that the public doesn't know about. and i think there is an open system in the united states. and that end to serve. but you certainly raised a legitimate point. lawyers in the u.s. worry about this when they represent clients. in this case, this trayvon martin case and george zimmerman case, the jury's going to know what was said in those text messages even if it may affect the fairness of the trial. so this is a very legitimate argument. fair trial versus free press. and u.s. society deals with it in a way that's very different than united kingdom countries. >> and, paul, is there any evidence however that in the united kingdom or australia that there is a fair system? that there is justice that's served? where in this country there is not? is there anything to back that up really? >> suzanne, i think in the end statistically there are so few high profile cases, the vast majority of cases are tried in courtrooms where a reporter wouldn't know the location of the courtroom. so statistically it happens in a very small number of cases.

and having been involved in some high profile cases like myself like the o.j. simpson case, you can always find jurors who don't know about the case. frankly, it's a longer jury selection process, but in the end you do get jurors who say i might have heard something, but i'm going to base my decision on the evidence, not vague rumors or things i read about in the newspaper. so i don't think in the end it effects the fairness in any kind of radical way in the united states. >> all right. paul, thanks so much. paul callan. in countries like australia, the basic rule is if someone is charged or you have a reasonable belief they are about to be charged, you can no longer say anything about the case, the history of the defendant or whatever, only report what is said in court. >> and how do they control that though? seems like that would be something very, very difficult to control. >> if you did it, you would be holed up in court on contempt of court and quite likely arrested. you pull up somebody's prior past, girlfriends or whatever and that gets into a jury's

mind, that's seen as being prejudicial. >> it's very murky because they don't allow the video of the guy with the meat cleaver overseas, but it's not to say they can't see it on some sort of american television station that is pumped into their country. >> true, the internet changed all that. that's a good point. the job market in the united states might be struggling, but unemployment in the european union actually hitting a record high. spain one of those countries that is facing the highest unemployment, however along with greece. >> the rate in both of those countries is about 27%. among the youth it's over 50%. the average in the 17 countries that use the euro as a currency, 12.2%. >> more than 19 million people in the eurozone were unemployed last month. >> wow. this is a woman who's going to be the mayor of paris for the very first time. we're talking about 2,000 years of history, not a single female mayor there. >> what's up, paris? the question is of course who?

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burglar. the state says it was murder. a trial date has not yet been set. >> he was the guy that's been spending many years with oscar -- >> for the first time pistorius's agent talks about the tragic events of february 14th. >> one phone call to me at 4:00 in the morning, everything changed, yeah. >> i mean, what was your reaction? who phoned you? what did they say? >> it was daughter phoned me, i picked upped phone and saw it was oscar's number and thought it was him phoning me. and just had this voice frantically and on the other side shouted, you have to come to oscar's house. trying to make sense of what's wrong. someone's shot, someone's shot. so i immediately thought it was oscar that had been shot. no, no, no, reeva's been shot. >> he called pistorius' athletic coach. >> when i arrived at the house and see all the police cars and

lights, i was standing outside me and peet, and the lawyer came, but his sister came and oscar was inside. i could hear him crying in the garage. and reeva was at the entrance. so that was terrible for me. >> since then, for the past three months pistorius has been living here, at his uncle arnold's home in pretoria. when we were chatting earlier, he said he had a lot of photos for reeva and that he was still pining for her. >> yes, he's got photos in his room. he's got photos all over the place. and what can you say if the person you love the most die and you were the instrument? how would you feel? it's unthinkable. >> also unthinkable is the grief reeva's family and friends must have. they also miss her, yearn for

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an arizona mother spent more than a week locked up in a mexican jail. we know this story. but what can you do to avoid getting locked up in a foreign

slammer? >> yanira maldonado, she was released in mexico, that happened late last night. her attorney was able to show the drug smuggling allegations against her were not true. while she was still behind bars, maldonado said she really had second thoughts on travm traveling to mexico. >> i used to tell people, come to mexico, it's not true what they're saying. i go every year to visit my family. and look what's happening to me now. >> our legal expert and a spokesman for the show "locked up abroad" which is on the national geographic channel, dick, good to see you. how common is it for someone to get detained in a place like mexico? >> it's very frequent. however, there are so many people, millions of people traveling there that the percentage is infinitesimal, but because there are so many people, there are hundreds of people who are arrested who are americans every year. and not all of them get out so quickly as this woman did.

>> so how many are locked up in foreign countries right now? what did they get locked up for? are they guilty or innocent or no? >> that's a lot of questions. there are probably about 7,000 who get locked up every year. and there are usually about 2,500 who are remaining in jail at any given time. and they get locked up for a variety of things. the most popular one, most frequent one is drug possession or drug smuggling. and even in mexico where they have made it legal or decriminalized the small possession, the small amounts of drugs including marijuana, cocaine and heroin, anything having to do with a larger amount or what in this woman's case, trafficking, that is a serious crime. and it's one of the big things people get arrested for. >> all right. so what advice -- and this is we're showing a clip there of the show "locked up abroad"

while we're disu cussing. so what's your advice? what simple things should people not do? >> first thing, they should not have anything to do with drugs. this was an aberration the fact drugs were put under this woman's seat. it happens hardly ever. this is the first time i've seen something like that. they should not be drunk and disorderly because so many people are arrested because of stupid activities when they are drunk in public. and the other things they should do is don't have anything to do with guns or ammunition, especially in mexico because there are hundreds of americans locked up at any given time in mexico often because they forget that they have a couple bullets leftover from legal shooting in the united states in their suitcase. those are three important things not to do. >> and, dick, you know, you have this show here. and you say locked up around the world, what are some of the worst places that you could possibly be incarcerated or

behind bars? >> i have the hardest time of people behind bars in north korea or iran. they're impossible. and you're taking a great chance -- incredible that people would still go there under these circumstances, but they do. and those are two of the countries. saudi arabia is a terrible place to be arrested in. that can bring about a lot of problems. the countries in central africa and west africa, the prisons are absolutely terrible. and peru is another country where terrible prisons. and mexico is bad enough. >> yeah. i was going to ask too, one of the other things people make mistakes and this happens a lot in the gulf nations too is perhaps ignorantly offending local custom. >> that's one of the biggest things. when you say how many are really innocent? the answer is truly innocent maybe one-sixth. but if you add in those who don't realize the customs, it's more. i've had a bunch of cases where people in thailand disrespect

the king either by ripping up money -- major, major offense because it has the king's photo on it or other member of the royal family. and again, antiquitieantiquitie buy things that turn out to be an antiquity, particularly in turkey, and they are arrested. it can be a very serious crime. there are other things like that which are violations of local laws and customs that really get people locked up abroad and without any hope unless they have a good lawyer. >> all right. dick atkins, just excellent information there. and good advice. i want to remind our viewers "locked up abroad" is on wednesday at 10:00 p.m. eastern on national geographic. you can get more tips on that show. >> i see some people say too, the lady in mexico, if she had not been a religious respectable mother of seven, she might not have gotten the headlines. and a lot of people aren't

religious mothers of seven and don't get the publicity she got. which obviously puts some pressure on it. >> one thing dick brings up is sometimes people just do stupid things and don't realize how deep in trouble they can get. here a very different set of laws and than other countries. toronto's mayor accused of smoking crack cocaine. reportedly there is a video out to prove this. >> so where is it? how this scandal could take a somewhat sinister turn. that's coming up. [ female announcer ] yoplait greek 100. 100% greek. 100% mmm... wow, that is mmm... it's so mmm you might not believe it's a hundred calories. yoplait greek 100. it is so good.

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all right. let's go north of the border now. canada, where the mayor of toronto doing all he can to steer attention away from a pretty serious accusation. rumors that he smoked crack. >> and there are a few reporters that say they've actually seen the video of the mayor, rob ford, using a crack pipe. nobody's sure if the video really exists. paula newton has the details. >> he just can't shake it, that video. the one that allegedly shows toronto mayor rob ford smoking crack cocaine. the one he says doesn't exist and is no threat to his job. >> i'm not stepping aside. >> have you tried to obtain the video, sir? >> anything else? >> you bet there is. for days now the "toronto star" newspaper has claimed drug dealers have video of the mayor

smoking cocaine. rob ford says no way. >> i do not use crack cocaine nor am i an addict of crack cocaine. >> but his words have only fired up his critics and the "toronto star" which now claims the mayor knows there's a video and knows who has it. counselor doug ford is the mayor's brother and defender in chief. >> i spoke to the mayor, i spoke to his staff, they said these allegations are completely false. >> but thursday two more of the mayor's staffers quit over the controversy. he's lost five in one week. >> do you think he can survive this? >> anything's possible. >> although the jokes do write themselves. >> hey, hey, don't judge him. maybe he's cleaning up the city by smoking all the crack in it. you're next prostitution rings. >> well, to be fair, it's not a lot to do with toronto. >> toronto, boring no longer

thanks to rob ford. but this scandal could yet take a sinister turn. toronto police tell cnn they are monitoring the situation closely. and ford admits he has known drug dealers including one who was recently murdered and is allegedly linked to this scandal. even so, he says he won't quit. he's running again. former washington mayor marion berry did it and he admitted to drug use, even served time. critics are waiting for the video to surface, but until this does this mayor is putting new meaning to the words you can't fight city hall. cnn, ottawa. >> and coming up, has world famous navigator amelia earhart's plane been found? >> and it's been a long year for justin bieber.

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all right. it's been kind of a bizarre year for international pop star justin bieber. >> it has. police have even launched an investigation into alleged reckless driving in his ferrari. let's have a quick snapshot of his recent troubles. >> in march the 19-year-old

ended up in a hospital after a london concert where he stumbled, almost fainted on stage. >> and then in april swedish police seized drugs from his tour bus. >> and then bieber left a bizarre note, this was in the guest book at the anne frank house saying the holocaust victim would have been a belieber, the name used for his fans. >> and who would forget the pet monkey that was seized and quarantined in germany. and then the fights with the paparazzi. here's sara sidner. >> justin bieber, pop star turned party king, or just rebellious teen? the 19-year-old's clean-cut image seeing another stain after he was spotted club hopping around new york city wednesday night. raising more questions about his recent offstage antics. do you think that justin bieber is on this path of a slow destruction, or just a meltdown? >> i think some of the things he's done recently have crossed over from acting out into, you

know, meltdown status. >> she spent time with bieber and his inner circle writing his cover story for "rolling stone" magazine. bouncing between new york city clubs by night and by day reportedly racing through his california neighborhood, the l.a. sheriff's department is all but begging bieber to speak with deputies, sent to investigate reports of reckless driving. >> please talk to us, tell us what you believe occurred. >> this week, bieber's neighbors accuse the singer of barrelling through their gated neighborhood at breakneck speed. >> we got a couple of calls from two witnesses that said that they saw justin bieber driving recklessly in his white ferrari. some even estimated maybe freeway rates of speed. and this is in a 25-mile-per-hour zone. >> bieber's neighbors tell cnn this wasn't the first time they saw the singer driving recklessly. a neighbor who confronted bieber about it back in march accused the singer of spitting on him and making threats in response. the l.a. district attorney says

that case is under review. last summer, bieber got a speeding ticket while trying to outrun the paparazzi. he called 9-1-1 when photographers continued to follow him. >> they're the ones that are driving recklessly. i'm the one that's, you know, i'm trying to like not have them being on my tail. >> if that weren't enough car trouble for the bieber, wednesday an l.a. county sheriff deputy pulled over his ferrari because it didn't have a front license plate. bieber wasn't driving, however his friend lil twist reportedly was. at least the second time twist has been pulled over in bieber's car. as for bieber's legions of young and impressionable fans, they don't seem to care what he's up to off stage, that is as long as he keeps performing on stage. sarah sidner, cnn, hollywood. >> nice car though. >> the house is too big. >> yeah. some other stars like beyonce, j-lo, they're coming together for a great idea. it's a charity concert in london

tomorrow. >> the time for change concert raising money for dozens of projects that help girls and women. now, the charity's focus on education, health or employment. and here's how it works. concert go es, they buy tickets and get vouchers to use toward any of the 160 projects. >> yeah, they've got a month to choose a charity and donate. gucci is sponsoring tomorrow's event. >> nice. a decade's long search for aviator amelia earhart churning up new clues in the south pacific. >> always something popping up about her. researchers say that grainy image there taken hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface, well, it could be a piece of earhart's plane. >> they say it's the right size and shape and in part of the south pacific where her plain #plane disappeared in 1937. earhart, she was attempting to fly around the world. and the international group for historic aircraft recovery wants to get to the site to investigate it further. >> like every six months there's

something about amelia earhart's plane. >> it's fascinating. got to find her. >> go down and have a look. see if that's it. all right. new video of the boston bombing suspects, have you seen this? a look at what they were doing just days before police say they blew up that cooker at the finish line at the boston marathon. >> that up ahead, but first. new video, this is of antarctic ice. take a look at this rather stunning part of the world, a rare treat to see, up next.

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all right. take a look at this. this is pretty amazing stuff. this is a stunning view of the antarctic. look at this. >> scientists went on a two-month study expedition to study the unique ecosystem. and they took video the whole way. >> so these images, they've now been condensed into remarkable time lapse pictures. and they capture really a world of extremes. this is where very few people can go and get to. you have huge blocks of ice threaten to trap the ship at times. >> and temperatures of course go down to minus 40. in the summer the sun was out 24/7. that's got to ruin your day, doesn't it? >> a little. >> what was that movie? anyway, the plankton blooms got so large you can see that from outer space. a lot of worries about a lot of this ice melting more and more every year. >> and you can see just a few of

the wildlife there. it's a fascinating view of this. you can see more of it on our website cnn.com. and check out mainsail as well. >> beautiful stuff. thanks for watching. >> one day. >> they'll send us out there. >> yeah, right. >> cnn will pay the bill. >> have a great weekend everyone. i've got to go. suzanne's sticking around. >> all right. see you monday. free at last, this mom of seven is back in the u.s. after a week in a mexican jail. the emotional reunion with her family straight ahead. plus, new surveillance video showing the tsarnaev brothers working out at a boston gym just three days before those blasts went off. and battered by severe weather, some states just can't catch a break. today, may even look worse with possibly intense