all coronations since have taken place at the abbey, the building we see today having been constructed over centuries. the famous coronation chair, however, wasn't constructed until the 14th century under king edward i. and i thought my chair was old. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i'll see you next week. hello, i'm miguel marquez in for fredricka whitfield. these are the stories we're following this hour. storm chasers trying to follow a deadly tornado end up victims of it. more details about the fatal toll the twisters took in oklahoma. this guy must have some contact lists around the world. we'll tell you what action hero steven seagal did to help out u.s. lawmakers on a fact finding trip to russia. >> a policy is keeping this dying little girl from getting a

much needed lung transplant. why her parents are shocked the obama administration hasn't mandated a change. three storm chasers are among the nine people who were killed in tornadoes in oklahoma. tim samaras, son paul, and carl young were following a twister in el reno. his brother wrote they died doing what they love. they said they gave vital information to the public. >> a lot of these individuals have dedicated many years of their lives to going out and assisting and tracking storms and getting footage and putting themselves in harm's way so they can educate the public to the destructive power of these storms. so we want to honor them and their loss and we want to think about their families who are going to be dealing with this. it's more than a news story to them. they lost loved ones. >> those storm chasers may have ended up like other victims, stuck in their cars right in the path of the storm. see this line of lights?

that's traffic on the highway on friday night. we are also seeing the damage the twisters left behind. governor mary fallin toured the destruction in el reno this morning. the severe weather threat now moves to the east coast. karen mcginnis joins us in the weather center. what's the good news out there? >> well, we've got some pretty warm temperatures and thunderstorms. warm temperatures, thunderstorms, that doesn't make for very good news, as you counter the northeast because the temperatures are in the upper 80s. even some readings well up into the 90s in some instances. but what we can expect for the afternoon, plenty of thunderstorms. this is all part of that same system that wreaked havoc from the midwest down across the south central united states and indeed, there is a severe thunderstorm watch, which is currently in effect. for much of eastern new york, extending up towards maine, and indeed, some of these thunderstorms have really quite the signature and are capable of

producing some hail as well as heavy downpours. that goes until 8:00 tonight. you're under the threat of severe weather for the next six hours or so, and the tennessee valley, thunderstorms firing up just to the west and north of atlanta, also to the tricity areas of north carolina and along the gulf coast, boy, can you really see some of the thunderstorms producing heavy downpours. that's exactly what we see, but we don't see severe levels there just yet. and because of this weather system, if you remember, on may 31st, it produced tremendous amounts of rainfall. in some cases, we were looking at 11 inches of rain. well, now the mississippi, which previously couldn't get barges down the mississippi, is filling up rather rapidly. by tuesday or wednesday, we could see it at its fourth highest level, which means some areas around st. louis, alton in particular, could see some flooding as early as tomorrow. but at 36.8 feet, that is well above flood stage.

major flooding is possible there. right now at moderate flooding and we'll keep you updated on that. >> thank you very much, karen. not very good news at all. >> a congressional dellication is in russia looking for information about the boston marathon bombers. the grume, two republicans and four democrats includes congresswoman michele bachmann. they also got an unlikely boost from an action star, steven seagal. phil black picks up the story in moscow. >> miguel, the congressional delegation has spent much of the last week here, meeting with russian officials trying to learn what lessons could be learned on intelligence cooperation after the boston marathon attack. it was led by a republican, a chairman of the house foreign affairs subcommittee. his conclusion, there was no one specific failure that prevented the authorities from identifying this threat sooner. but he believes there was a chance the attack could have been averted if russia and the united states had worked more closely together.

>> not some specific, oh, we didn't pay attention to this detail or that detail, but instead, they didn't pay attention to the big picture. the big picture was all screwed up, and then in that our people were not cooperating as they should have, and vice versa. >> republican steve king said the delegation received new analysis on the boston bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev and his mother in a briefing with russia's federal security service, the fsb. >> their opinion that tamerlan and his mother were both of radical attitude before they came to the united states, and i think that adjusts much of the conventional thinking within the united states. >> members of the delegation thanked an unusual voice for the access they received during their visit, action movie star steven seagal, and he said he deserved credit for setting up a meeting with a russian deputy prime minister and the country's security service. >> i asked him for that meeting, and i knew about that meeting before they did. that's the truth.

>> the last 18 months has been a very difficult time for russian/u.s. relations, but members of the delegation say they will now return to washington, arguing these two countries must not let over differences detergreater cooperation in the fight against mutual terrorism. miguel. >> thank you, phils. the streets of turkey's major cities are a little calmer this morning, but it was a different scene in the past few days. anti-government protesters clashed with police who sprayed them with water cannons and tear gas. our senior international correspondent ivan watson is in istanbul. things seem a little calmer now, but the clean-up is going on. do you think these things could spark again and who exactly is coming out against the government? >> reporter: miguel, i think these are predominantly urban secular turks who are out here. people who have been chafing at the government of the elected

prime min sister whose party ha been in power for more than ten years. his riot police, after fighting to keep this square for 36 hours from the demonstrators, basically attacking any gathering of more than 50 people with water cannons and tear gas during that period, they withdrew last saturday and now it is the protesters who control the square. they have been cleaning up some. volunteering to clean up. working with city municipal workers as well and demanding that the democratically elected prime minister resign. as far as clashes go, they are still going on. moments ago, we heard that about a mile from where i'm standing, there was a fog of tear gas, presumably fired by riot police. housewives caught in their cars in traffic coming home from grocery shopping. if you could imagine, and before dawn this morning, our cameraman caught some scenes of some of the clashes at that same location. take a look.

miguel, that gives you a sense of the not only in istanbul's largest city, but it has spread to the capitol city and several cities where we're getting reports of clashes between protesters and police. this is the biggest public show of dissent i have seen against the government in years. >> this really caught the government unaware, it seems. it's a very close ally, obviously, of the u.s. is the prime minister really in trouble out of all of this? >> reporter: well, i would say that this is a pretty serious challenge to his image. miguel, prime minister is a close u.s. ally. turkey is a member of the nato military alliance. what's more, he has been modeling his country and his government as a kind of model muslim democracy to nearby arab countries that have seen a lot of uprisings against arab

dictatorships over the course of the last two years. now at home, he's got people calling him a dictator and we have scenes of ryed police arresting people for trying to come out into the streets and disagree with their president. so there's a real disconnect here. he has been out on state tv, on turkish tv throughout the day, basically calling the demonstrators marginal groups. and escalating the rhetoric, that's not going to help matters when people have basically resorted to throwing rocks at police to make their voices heard. >> ivan watson, thank you very much. you guys stay safe out there. surveillance video captures the boston bombing suspects just 72 hours before the attacks. it shows them at a gym, but reveals much more than just their workout routine. there's a reason no one says "easy like monday morning." sundays are the warrior's day to unplug and recharge.

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marshal art center showed them arriving with a friend just before 2:45 friday afternoon. we spoke to the manager who asked we only use his first name, michael. he says tamerlan, who you see in the hat, looked different. noticeably missing, tamerlan's full, bushy religious beard, which he had for about two years. the manager described tamerlan as extremely opinionated and outspoking about his muslim religion and he said he didn't ask him why he shaved because he didabili abilitn't want to enga, heated debate. >> it might have been a way to blend in, not to attract scrutiny from security in carrying out the boston attacks. >> reporter: tamerlan trained there for free, a professional courtesy to the nationally ranked golden gloves boxer. dzhokhar rarely came, showing up two or three times in roughly two years. >> we have seen with western militants, a real emphasis on

physical training, physical fitness, wanting to be prepared for jihad. >> reporter: almost immediately, the manager, who is off screen to the right, asked the men to follow posted gym rules and take off their shoes. younger brother dzhokhar complies right away. tamerlan does not. arguing instead. not giving any ground. the manager later e-mails the owner asking him to ban tamerlan, calling him arrogant, selfish, never helping anyone else. the argument doesn't seem to phase tamerlan, who is the first one in the ring. his years of training are evident. watch how skillfully he handles the jump rope. dzhokhar has more difficulty, less stamina as he struggled to hold up the oversized shorts. the manager said the man in the middle was introduced as a friend. we blurred his face. he was later questioned and released by the fbi. tamerlan remains focused, barely missing or breaking stride. it's right here that the brothers interact. they seem relaxed.

dzhokhar resting at times. tamerlan moving, moving. working out 72 hours before two bombs exploded near the finish line of the boston marathon. the manager tells us that soon after the attack, fbi agents came to the gym, looked at the security video, and took some gre screen grabs like still photos, they asked for other militants who may have trained there. one name that came up, ibragim todashev. he was being questioned in cession with a grisly triple murder just outside boston two years ago. one of the victims was tamerlan tsarnaev's sparring partner at the gym. >> the family of the chechen immigrant shot and killed by the fbi in his connection to the boston bombing suspects is speaking out. they say he was no threat to the fbi and they're now demanding justice. cnn's elena machado reports. >> reporter: holding photos of

his son's body, he had harsh words for the fbi. >> translator: at the moment, i want justice and i want there to be an investigation so these people are tried under american law. these are not fbi agents but bandits, i cannot call them anything else and they must be tried. >> it's been more than a week since he was shot and killed in his orlando home while being questioned about his relationship with dead boster marathon bomber tamerlan tsarnaev. >> he didn't pose any threat to them. even if he threatened them with his fist, couldn't they shoot his leg. my son couldn't attack them. he wasn't crazy. >> reporter: a u.s. official tells cnn two massachusetts state detectives and a boston fbi agent were interviewing him in a room where there was a samurai sward. according to the official, tad ashev, who was trained in mixed martial arts flipped the table, knocking the fbi agent into a

wall. the official said he then pulled out a long-handled object and came at the agent, prompting the shooting. his family, as well as an attorney for the counsel on american/islamic relations, believe he was not armed. >> we received confirmation he was in fact unarmed when he was shot seven times, once in the head. the best claim they have is that there was a decorative sword in the room somewhere, and my question is if they really thought that sword was a threat, why would they interrogate a suspect they thought committed a murder in a room with a weapon. >> they said he implicated tamerlan tsarnaev in a 2011 triple homicide in massachusetts during the questioning. that source also says he confessed to having a direct role in the crime. >> this is absolutely not true because they can even check the phones and everything. they were not in conversation. they were not texting 24/7 to each other. maybe once in a couple months they shoot text messages how

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administration wants to know if the president will address claims that china is sealing u.s. weapons secrets, and the report says hackers have compromised advanced u.s. weapons systems. we see what is in the report and why it has the defense department worried. >> reporter: they're america's most advanced combat weapons and defense systems. the fa-18 fighter jet, the ballistic missile defense system. according to a new report, the designed for these and other high-tech weapons have been breached by chinese hackers. a confidential version of the report from the defense science board made up of government and civilian experts was given to the washington post. the report doesn't accuse china of stealing entire designed, but if they didn't steal them, how did they compromise them. we spoke with kevin, a top cybersecurity expert who did a separate report this year on chinese military hackers. >> bits and pieces of things will be taken from many

different sources, different laptops, different computer systems that have been compromised, but it's hard to take a lot of the pieces and gel them into one comprehensive picture of what might be being built or what the designs are. >> reporter: cnn could not independently verify the latest report's findings. several members of the defense science board who we contacted declined to speak to us. u.s. defense and other officials downplay the report, saying some of the information is dated, but they have taken steps to address the concerns. one saying, quote, the idea that somehow whoever the intruders were got the keys to the weapons kingdom is a stretch. but the pentagon has recently accused china of trying to extract information from u.s. government computers, including military ones. if the chinese even got into parts of a combat or missile defense system, how could they have gotten past the safe guards. >> there's a lot of engineering that gets done in an academic setting, at defense and industrial base, and a lot of these places have been compromised for over ten years.

>> china's military ambition has been off the charts in recent years. they have launched a satellite killer missile into space. just over the past two years, they have deployed their first aircraft carrier and they have test flown their first stealth fighter jet. one expert told me the technology for that was taken from the u.s., and china's alleged hacking could be deadly for u.s. forces on the battlefield. i asked one expert about the publicly released part of the latest report on the consequences of the cybersnatching of weapons technology. >> if you mess with that software, the airplane won't fly, the missile will miss its target and the ship might not get to where it was intended to go. >> china's embassy in washington did not respond to our calls and e-mails about the latest report. china's government has insisted it does not conduct espionage on u.s. agencies or companies. >> so with that as a backdrop, will the meeting between the american and chinese president be cordial or cold? let's bring in analyst bob bair

for some perspective. you were a case officer for the cia and spent many jeers in the hot zones in many places around the world. it seems cyberespionage is the game. if the chinese have all of the stuff that brian todd just reported on, is the united states losing this high-stakes game? >> absolutely. the chinese have been at this longer than ten years. back in the '90s, we were watching where they test their nuclear weapons and they had this miniature nuclear warhead that exploded. we could see it was a w-88, a u.s. design. they picked it up somehow, either hacking or agents in the country. they have been in portals ever since, all over the defense industry, the pentagon, everywhere. they're very good at it, and they have turned this to a good advantage in designing their own weapons. >> how will all this -- that's a very serious claim, obviously. how does this affect the relations between the u.s. and china, especially with this big summit coming up?

>> well, i think we need the chinese. we need them for north korea, clearly. we need them in the middle east. we need them to stop shippg weapons to iran, for instance. there's a whole host of issues that are more important than cyberhacking, but i think in the end, we have to do something about this. we have to tighten up security. i mean, i don't think they're going to be stopped at this summit. they're going to continue. they'll spin this off to proprietaries to private companies, harder to track. but it is so beneficial to the chinese that i'm not sure what it would take to get them to stop. >> and this summit this week, do you expect any progress out of it on this front? >> well, i think the chinese will back off. in one sense, they're still an ally in so many conflicts, and they don't want to be caught. we have so many common interests. they'll slow down, yes. it will be cut back a bit. but at the end of the day, will it stop entirely?

no, i don't think so. but it will not stop this summit. >> all right, bob, thank you very much for being with us. she captured the hearts of millions of americans, playing edith on "all in the family." the unforgettable career of actress jean stapleton just ahead.

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bruno mars. a representative for the star says the star's mother bernadette hernandez has died of a brain aneurysm at a hospital in hawaii. she was just 55 years old. mars' mother is credited with encouraging her son's love of music. a major loss for those of us who grew up with her work. jean stapleton has died at her home in new york. she was 90 years old. many of you knew her for her role as archie bunker's wife in the sitcom "all in the family." it was the show that tackled social issues like racism, sexuality and more. her children tell us she passed away peacefully of natural causes. here's a look back at her life and extraordinary career. ♪ like the way glen miller played ♪ ♪ songs that made the hit parade ♪ ♪ guys like us we had it made ♪ those were the days >> that familiar tune from the

1970s. >> where's your mother? edith, edith! >> archie, how was your day? >> jean stapleton played the lovable and daffy edith, the wife of archie bunker on the ground breaking 1970s sitcom "all in the family." >> supper on the table. >> we're going to eat out tonight. >> we're not going to eat out tonight. >> here she tells larry king that she took a buy-out and never made residuals on the show. >> why should i dwell on that? i benefitted daily by having done that role. and basking in its success. and everything i do is because i gained recognition and some understanding of what i do from that experience. >> stapleton won many fans, three emmys, and two golden globes for that role. the show took chances that no one else did at the time, like

having the sound of a toilet flush and addressing touchy topics like racism. >> archie said he never thought he would see the day when colored and whites would be hugging and kissing coast to coast. >> stapleton was a new yorker through and through, born in the city and she died otnatural coss at her home there on friday. stapleton was a stage veteran before she got into tv. her mother was an opera singer and she also sang, playing next to barbra streisand in funny girl. >> i tell you, it's the most rewarding experience every single night to hear that laughter and to respond to it as an actor. >> stapleton had two children who both have their own careers in television. ♪ those were the days >> joining me now from syracuse, new york, professor of

television at syracuse university and former president of the national popular culture associate, robert. what impacted jean stapleton's role as edith bunker have on american culture? >> well, first of all, i think so many people really came to just meld these two characters. jean stapleton the human being and edith bunker the character. of all the people i talked to since this news broke that she passed, i'm surprised how many people said, oh, but she died a long time ago. and what they're thinking of is that as you recall, back on archie bunker's place, the spin-off of all in the family, they actually wrote that edith has a stroke and dies. it was one of the most shocking deaths in television fictional history, and i think so many people sort of mourned that character back in november of 1980, and now that they have heard that she's died in 2013, they're kind of repeating that mourning. so i think first of all, we

really came to -- that became one of the most beloved characters in the history of american television. >> and what will we remember most about that role or her career? >> well, certainly of her career, it is the edith bunker role. and i think there is -- i would say whatever the most influential television shows, entertainment tv shows of all time, "all in the family" was it. tv was one way before january of 1971 when it debuted, and it became something entirely different. i think people forget that before we first met archie and edith and the two kids, you know, american television was flying nuns and genies and talking horses and talking cars. the '60s, in spite of the fact we were fighting in this very contested war, we had all of these civil rights issues happening. a decade of complete social and political turmoil, television

entertainment reflected that with nuns who could fly around and save orphans in, you know, the convent and that kind of thing. all of a sudden, in one fell swoop, "all in the family" comes on and it's dealing with racism, bigotry of all different kinds, menopau menopause, edith in one of her great episodes, jean stapleton's great episodes, goes through menopause. this, remember, on a network that not that long ago wouldn't even let lucy say the word pregnant when she was pregnant on the program. and it still had robin laura pettrey sleeping in separate beds even though they were happily married. >> professor, thank you very much for being with us today. great insight. >> thank you. three storm chasers are killed by a powerful tornado. we'll take a look at why this weekend's storm in oklahoma was particularly dangerous and what you need to do if you're in a car when a tornado closes in.

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breaking news now near green valley, california. thousands of firefighters have been called in to fight the powerhouse fire in soufrl california. just look at the smoke and flames in the mountains there. officials say the fire exploded, doubling in size to nearly 20,000 acres today. at least six houses have been destroyed in one neighborhood alone. three storm chasers are among the nine people who were killed in tornadoes in oklahoma. tim samaras and carl young were following a twister in el reno. tim's son paul was also with them. they were featured on the discovery channel storm chasers. they shared this pictures with them, and the spokeswoman said their thoughts and prayers are with their families. we got this video in of the car

the storm chasers were in. as you can see, it is absolutely crushed. many of the nine victims were in their cars when the cornados hit. they heard sirens on friday night, and then they tried to get away, but they ended up stuck in their cars in traffic right in the path of tornadoes. ted meyers is live for us in el reno, oklahoma, at the moment. this storm may have surprised people even used to tornadoes because it took such a big turn or series of turns, yeah? >> a series of turns and typically a big storm, a big tornado like this won't do that. it will continue on its path straight ahead, but at the beginning part, think about a top that hasn't started to spin yet, doesn't have good gyro, it will wobble one way and another. that's what it did. here's a graphic, the left side of the screen, the left part, the initial touchdown, tracking to the southeast, also tracking to our south where we were here in el reno looking at it, and

all of a sudden, it's got to be a seco60 degree left turn and driving itself up here to where we are right here, the canadian tech center, and it changes direction, and this is a wide circulation. i just went down there, the damage is at least a mile wide. there are circulations, trees down, houses down a mile from each other, completely destroyed. this may actually be bigger than an ef-3. they may see more things now that there's so much more daylight, and yes, there was a lot of traffic out there, a lot of chasers out there, casual chasers, amateur chasers, if you will, but tim was a professional, doing it for so many years. he's a scientific, not even a chaser, the scientist guy who collects data, uses it to make better warnings, gives it to the national weather service, to the community, and for him to be caught in that storm like that, that storm was doing strange in thes. >> ted, thank you for being with us. >> you're welcome. time is running out for a 10-year-old girl who is in

desperate need of a lung transplant. why her parents say the organ donor system has essential left their daughter to die. pleading

administration to change a policy that could save their daughter's life. this is sarah murnaghan. she's just 10 years old. her ability to breathe is

rapidly deterioratindeteriorati. she's had cystic fibrosis since birth. she could die in weeks without a lung transplant. one of her parents -- her parents are trying to desperately get a lung for her, but a federal policy is stopping that from happening. susan candiotti is covering this for us in new york. susan, sarah's parents are not only pleading with the obama administration but they're fed up as well, i imagine. >> they are. you know, the parents of sarah marne agan are more than fed up with health and human services secretary cath ln suioybillious they say she has left her to die. sarah is 10 and desperately needs a lung transplant. she's in a philadelphia intensive care unit, but current guidelines require a child to be 12 years old before they can get an adult lung. the pool for childrens' lungs is much smaller.

secretary sebelius ordered the guidelines to be reviewed. sarah's mom called it a good first step but too late to help her daughter. >> i have a lot of faith that we have affected great change for children in the future. but for children today, they're still dying. and secretary sebelius is going to allow that to continue. it is in her authority, but she has chosen to let my daughter die. >> sarah's mother is now making a direct plea for anyone to donate a lung in sarah's name. >> the law cannot oversee direct donation. if you directly donate your loved one's lungs to sarah, the law cannot change that. and sarah will use them and create a positive, wonderful life and legacy for your loved one. >> it's such a difficult case. it's very sad, miguel. >> did sarah's mom try to talk directly to secretary sebelius

after she declined to interview on sarah's behalf. >> she did. when sarah's mom got the e-mail on friday from the secretary to tell her of her decision and she told her she was very sorry, all she could do was review the policy, she asked for a phone call, and the secretary did offer to speak with her but not until tomorrow. >> what's the family's next step? can they do anything else at this point? >> of course, sarah is not the only child in this predicament, but she is at the very top of the list in her region, and that's how it works. to get a child donor lung. so the family is appealing for anyone, you heard that, anywhere, to name sarah as a recipient. and they do plan to make an announcement soon, as soon as today or tomorrow, from new lawyers that are working for the family, arguing discrimination against sarah and other children because of their age. disqualifying them from receiving adult donors. so sarah's parents, you know, miguel, you can understand, call her a fighter. and you'll hear more from sarah

tonight on cnn. >> susan, these are always such tough situations. >> they are. >> is it -- is it a sense that they're going broader and not just in their region, that there might be good news ahead? >> it's really hard to say. and you know, they're playing their cards close to their vest now, but by perhaps getting more attention to this problem, they hope to not only help their daughter but certainly to help other children who are in the same situation. >> susan candiotti in new york, thank you very much. more than one and a half million americans are expected to get cancer this year. in a minute, we talk to author judy blume. she opens up about her own fight with cancer and reacts to angelina jolie's decision to have preventative surgery. hey america, even though she doesn't need them, cheryl burke is cha-cha-ing in depend silhouette briefs for charity, to prove that with soft fabric and waistband, the best protection looks, fits, and feels just like underwear.

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today is national. >> reporter: cancer survivor day, the american cancer society predicts about 1.6 million new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in 2013 and almost 600,000 people are expected to die of cancer this year alone. that's almost 1600 people a day. that makes cancer the second most common cause of death in the united states. angelina jolie, who refused to be a statistic, was back on the red carpet today. it was the actress's first public appearance since announcing she had a double m t mastectomy in february. she had she had a mutation of the gene linked to breast and ovarian cancer. today, she talked about her health. >> i feel great, i feel wolf wonderful and i'm grateful for the support. i have been happy to see the discussion about women's health expanded, and that means the

world to me. after losing my mom to these issues, i'm very grateful for it and i have been moved by the kind support from people. really very grateful for it. >> jolie was joining her fiance brad pitt who is promoting his new film "world war z" in london. >> beloved children's author judy blume is also a cancer survivor. you probably know her classics "are you there god, it's me margaret" and "blubber." now she's back in the spotlight as her 1981 book "tiger eyes" is made into a movie. her son lawrence directed it. when they talked to our own fredricka whitfield, blume also told her her cancer story. >> how about your health? how are you doing after announcing your breast cancer diagnosis in 2012? and you also blogged about it quite a bit. >> i'm fine. you know, i had surgery, but i was incredibly lucky. i didn't need any other treatment, so i feel guilty even

talking about it because i know what other people go through. and i did not have to go through any of that. so it was a very quick recovery. and i'm lucky. so far, you never know what's coming, but so far, i feel fine. >> but you have been through a lot, too. this comes after cervical cancer, right? 17 years ago. and a hysterectomy. do you feel like your story can kind of serve as an inspiration, especially as people are also digesting ang leelina jolie's n about her preventive surgery because of the brca-1 gene? >> yeah, yeah, i think she was very brave in going public. i'm very glad that she did go public. i think it's a good thing. the more we can talk about it, the more open we are, the better. and the more information we can share. the cervical cancer, i didn't know i had cervical cancer.

you know, i had to have a hysterectomy because something was wrong. i never -- it was insitue. there was never any other treatment. ia know, i don't really spend time thinking about it. >> you just move on. >> love that judy blume. her new movie "tiger eyes" comes out this friday, june 7th. she and her son lawrence told fredricka it was a special project for them both and it also came with challenges. we'll have much more on that interview next weekend here on cnn. 36 hours of violent protests in the streets of istanbul. a weekend of water cannons and tear case. we'll show you what the scene looks like now, just ahead. ll a have hail damage to their cars. ted is trying to get a hold of his insurance agent. maxwell is not. he's on geico.com setting up an appointment with an adjuster. ted is now on hold with his insurance company. maxwell is not and just confirmed a 5:30 time for tuesday.

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gas. it began as a protest against a movement to tear down a park. it became a bigger protest against turkey's prime minister. >> it's a royal anniversary in britain today. queen elizabeth was formally crowned monarch on this date 60 years ago. she was just 27 years old when she became queen. elizabeth is the oldest daughter of king george vi. >> we're just about a week away from the start of george zimmerman's murder trial. hear why things may heat up in the courtroom before the jury is seated. that's coming up at 4:00 p.m. eastern. and then at 5:00, the acting irs chief will be in the hot seat this week on capitol hill. lawmakers get ready to grill him on why the agency tarcted conservative groups. we'll have the details at 5:00 eastern. i'll see you back in the "cnn newsroom" in an hour. up next, republicans hope the

economy would sink president obama in the last year's election, but the economy is making a comeback, and is the president immune to the controversy swirling around the obama administration? "your money" starts now. in 2012, republicans attacked the so-called obama economy. but now the economy is rewriting that script. i'm christine romans. this is "your money." a.p. phone records, irs targeting conservative groups, bengha benghazi. but the economy is stronger than the d.c. talk is letting on. >> there's a lot of reasons for us to feel optimistic about where we're headed as a country. >> obama's economy, the sequel. today, stocks are soaring to record highs. home prices are rising. the unemployment rate is falling. and your confidence in this economy is the highest it's been in five years. but none of that was in the republicans' script for this