some saying it received zero stars. can't get less than zero. >> that's to starti ining point. newsroom begins right now. hatchippening now, deadly c. >> hold on, brothers. >> storm veterans caught and crushed by the vit lent storms that struck oklahoma. this morning new questions about the risks these scientists take. plus, caught on tape. >> this is their story. >> the irs two step. $50 million of your money spent on conferences. this new team building dance tape released and remember star trek? or "gilligan's island"?

>> hey, everybody. i saw a ship. >> these people handle your money. and this morning the agency heads to capitol hill to defend itself over targeting the tea party. >> this is a problem that was coordinated in all likelihood right out of washington headquarters. >> also, a fire powerhouse. >> the whole canyon is going blow up. we'll be screwed. >> california on alert and on fire. a massive unpredictable blaze doubles in size over the weekend. we're live from the front lines and you're live in the cnn newsroom. good morning. thank you so much for being with me. i'm carol costello. six people still missing after another wave of violent storms in oklahoma. this time el reno. 39 miles from moore. in the bull's-eye. a look inside the storm.

this semi no match for friday's tornado. neither were the hope hopes, schools and churches in its path. now many forced to start over. >> there is really nothing left much of anything. >> and despite the much weaker than the storm that hit moore, this one was just as deadly, already 16 died in the state of oklahoma including a family of lee from guatemala who tried to wait out the tornado in a storm drain. three storm chasers also among the victims. tim and paul samaras along with carl young, the truck they were chasing the storm in now smashed to pieces. meteorologist chad myers joins us from el reno, oklahoma.

chad, you were chasing the storm yourself. this has to leave you -- this has to have you kind of scared? >> reporter: i was crying yesterday morning. i just couldn't believe we lost these men because they were the safest guys out there. there were searchers yesterday in the fields. we went back to the location searching for the camera because there is some circumstance, there is something out there that we don't know about why they got themselves in trouble. did they stop for another crew, was there a problem with the car. they should not have been where they were. they should not have been caught up. they were plenty far ahead of the storm. so were we. we were six miles ahead of the storm. it changed direction. it went left and then it went right. so people could have been caught out. and for a while with this tornado, it was wrapped in rain. hard to see just a tornado in the middle of a big rain shower. think about you standing in a shower with a curtain all around you. you can't see the person in the

shower. it's like a rain curtain around the tornado. this tech center is a mess. the kids were going washing on this plane, work on planes over here, as well. not going to happen now. a lot more work i'm afraid. we talked about how this plane has really no chance because it has wings, it will fly and how cars have no chance, as well. my friend and person that i live in the same condo complex with, mike bettes, got caught in the storm. and here is what he thought about when they asked him are you going to do this again. >> what is it that you thought about when you were up there?

>> reporter: mike was asked what did did you think about. and he said i thought about my wife and i don't think i'm going to do this anymore. he said i think i'm going to retire. that's a veteran of dozens if not hundreds of tornadoes. in fact mike was one of the first people on the scene of the joplin tornado years ago. he has a dog from that storm named joplin that he brought home from the storm as a rescue dog. mike's a good man. and he got shaken up by this very difficult storm. >> of course you guys are meteorologists. you do it in the name of science. but if you go online, chad, there are a number of companies who actually invite people to go storm chasing with them for a price. >> reporter: yes. >> i was stunned because it's not something people should do. >> reporter: it's not something you should do near a major metropolitan area. we chased tuesday, wednesday, thursday and we were miles -- in western oklahoma, you can see 50 miles down the road. you can see them coming. they're dry out there. there is not as much rain.

they don't wrap in rain like they do lear. plus all of a sudden you have an interstate with cars that are stopping. stoplights. you can't chase through a city. we see the vans they lit literally are vans that drive down the highway with 10 or 15 people taking pictures out the window of the tornadoes. and a van is toppy. you get a good gust of wrend in the same thing will happen that do to the semitrailers. people do it for the thrill, the shot, some people do it for money. it's not something you should take whitely. we stay plenty far away. 7, 10 miles away from the storm when we can. and then you have to have somebody navigating, too, because you can't get yourself on a dirt road. dirt roads turn to mud roads. mud roads turn to nothing. you can't get anywhere. and you don't want to be on a mud road when all of a sudden the tornado is coming to you. a lot more to it than a pickup and noaa weather radio. >> you come on home. you're my friend. just come home now. thanks, chad. >> i'm trying.

as the sunrises over california, we're getting a clearer picture of the dangerous wildfire burning out of control. the fire exploded in size yesterday reaching a massive 25,000 acres taking six homes with it and threatening thousands more. what's worse, firefighters aren't even close to getting it under control. it's only 20% contained. meaning it could rage on for another week. stephanie elam is live in palmdale. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. yeah, they're estimating they will be able to get full containment a week from today because as you can see there is a lot of wind out here. and the crews are still coming in as you can see right here trying to get a hold of this angle of the fire which is still very active. >> two, one -- >> reporter: by air and land, a full scale assault ons massi ma wildfires raging out west. more than 1,000 are battling the

powerhouse fire about an hour northeast of los angeles. the unpredictable fire doubled in size over the weekend forcing the mandatory evacuation of nearly 3,000 people and leaving about 1,000 homes in danger. >> we have 15 homes that were damaged, six destroyed. >> reporter: but the los angeles county fire department says these numbers could have been worse if not for their around the clock air assault. >> we have put everything that we have into this, including night air attack from the forest service, three l.a. county fire helicopters dropping water at night. and one l.a. city fire helicopter dropping at night. >> we are the only region in the world that does that. >> reporter: and in new mexico, firefighters are working to contain two raging wildfires fueled by historic drought conditions. it's chaired more than 7400 vague e acres and forced evacuation of

summer homes, campgrounds and hiking trails. >> the smoke has never been this close and never been that big. >> the whole canyon will blow up. literally the local canyon will blow up. we'll be screwed. >> reporter: back in california, firefighters hope mother nature whether le will lend a helping hand. >> we're supposed to see a decrease of the winds and increase of relative humidity. >> reporter: and now that we have the light of day, we can see that the fire is burning right across the road, is still burning on this side here. and just to put it in perspective how old some of the brush is, they said in some of these areas, it has not burned since 1929. >> wow. stephanie elam reporting live in palmdale. learning the cupid shuffle on your dime. the scandal rocking the irs just got bigger. at the center of the latest controversy, excess spending on hundreds of conferences to the tune of millions and millions of taxpayer dollars.

♪ >> their dream, to become the next great dance sensation. this is their story. >> yeah, this newly released video shows some irs employees learning how to do a dance called the could you pupid shuf. it was one of two videos that cost about $50,000 a piece to produce. they were used in a 2010 conference in anaheim, california. here is the other one. it shows irs workers spoofing star trek. that one came to light a few month back. and a third video parodies gilly began's island. dan lothian is at the white house. and the acting irs commissioner makes his first appearance before congress today. won't he have fun. >> reporter: i know. he certainly will face a grilling. and that's only one of three hearings expected here in washington this week on the irs

verse zl ci controvers controversy. this is not letting up and driving a lot of the criticism is darrell issa who believes the trail leads right back here to washington. for the first time we're hearing what irs workers in cincinnati are telling congressional investigators about why they targeted conservative groups. republican darrell issa on cnn state of the union. >> as late as last week, the administration's still trying to say there's a few rogue agents in cincinnati when in fact the indication is they were directly being ordered from washington. >> reporter: issa released just partial transcripts citing and ongoing investigation. so the full context isn't clear. in one excerpt, one worker quotes a supervisor, he told me that washington, d.c. wanted some cases. and when asked about take your getting tea party applications and whether those directions emanated from washington, the

worker replaies i believe so. >> "i believe so." totally not definitivdefinitive. >> that one isn't. >> reporter: the top democrat on issa's house overitem committee called his claims reckless saying so far no witnesses who have appeared before the committee have identified any irs official in washington, d.c.. issa says more interviews and transcripts are coming. >> this is a problem that was coordinated in all likelihood right out of washington headquarters and we're getting to proving it. >> reporter: but two democratic sources complain issa released the excerpts before making them available to democrats, what they say is supposed to be a bipartisan investigation. the sources tell cnn the excerpts are taken out of context and issa's claim they indicate direction from washington is misleading. they say their impression was the workers were talking about consulting with tax attorney specialists in washington about

how much political activity is acceptable for tax exempt status. ♪ >> to the left. three, four. >> reporter: issa is also going after irs spending saying the agency wasted $50,000 on training videos like this newly released cupid love shuffle. >> i'm receiving incoming report there is the landing party. >> reporter: and on an already notorious star trek spoof. the videos shown at one of 225 irs conferences between 2010 and 2012 costing $50 million. including $17,000 for a speaker on leadership through art at a 2010 conference in anaheim. issa says one worker stayed in a two bedroom presidential suite that normally runs $1500 a night. representative issa also took a shot at white house spokesman jay carney referring to him as, quote, their paid liar, accusing him of making up things that happen at the irs.

carney had no comment. >> but david plouffe did one of the president's men. he sent out a tweet, strong words from mr. grand theft auto and suspected arsonist. and he's talking about issa. >> reporter: this goes back many years. again, i should investigation just accusations that he stole a couple of cars, that he burned down a building. so it's gotten quite nasty. white house itself not getting involved in this, but plouffe who once ran the president's campaign was a top adviser here at the white house, no longer here at the white house, but what he says does carry a lot of weight. so i think everyone is paying attention to these comments that he made in a tweet. >> getting a little childish now, isn't it? i mean, complaint an't we just what happened some ? no, that would be too simple and logical. >> that's what they're doing with the hearings.

a lot of lawmakers in general who still have many, many questions and they're hoping that these hearings can produce some answers. >> we hope so, too, because they're also using taxpayer dollars. new week and new month on wall street, but investors are hoping for some of the same results. al wlis siclisoison kosik is on the new york stonck exchange. >> historically stocks tend to go lower in may and continue through the summer. but that didn't happen. you look at the track record, s&p 500 and the dow for the month of may, they're up 2%. the nasdaq doing even better. up 4% in may. and the dow is on a six month winning streak. it looks like investors didn't want to miss ut on the rally. looks like the same spirit going to happen today in about 20 minutes, dow futures are up about 70 points. as for this week, the focus will be on jobs. several jobs reports are coming

out. and then the biggie, the government jobs report comes out on friday. the expectation is that employers added 164,000 jobs in may. that's in contrast to the 165,000 added in april. so even if those numbers meet, it still means the labor market is still moving along at a sluggish pace. >> all right. actress angelina jolie said she is happy to see the discussion expanded about women's health sparked by her decision to undergo a gubl mastectomy. the oscar winning mom of six hit the red carpet for the premiere of brat pit's new film world war z. it was her first public appearance since telling the world last month about her potentially life saving move. jolie says she feels great. wonderful. and moved by all the support she's received. she looks great, too. just ahead in the newsroom, a teenager on a church trip is

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park rangers will continue their search for it a teen swept over a waterfall at yosemite. alec was swimming near the nearly 800-foot high fall when he went over the edge. miguel marquez joins us live from yosemite. how did this happen? >> reporter: well, it seems he did not heed the warnings. there are signs up in that area where he was. i can show you a little bit here. it's just breath taking here. these are the yosemite falls. he was at the nevada falls. the big one you're looking at is about 1400 feet, twice as big as what he fell over. officials believe that half of that is just a very, very long fall, they don't believe he was able to survive. we do have a bit better idea how this happened. the river up where he fell which is about a three hour hike from here is only about 12 to 15 feet wide they say.

and he got out to the middle of it, to a rock in the center of it, when he tried to get back, though, to the same shore that he had started on, the same current that he got through before, swept him. it is the spring runoff right now. you usually have that much water coming down even yosemite falls. and even though we didn't have a huge though pack this year, the water still runs very quickly and even though it may look placid on top, it will just rip you right down. pee people saw him go over the precipice and they don't believe he survived. >> so there were warning signs posted. will more be done now to keep people out of that water? >> reporter: it's hard to do. it's a massive park. it does get hot during the day. but they have very strict warnings in that area. the rangers have stressed that to us over and over again.

they have seen this sort of thing happen before. they have put up as many warnings as they can. but they can't control people at all times when they're enjoying that. it's stunning out here and i think people want to dive in. >> and i just don't think they realize the power of mother nature. you can't beat her. you just can't. she's beautiful, but dangerous, too. miguel marquez -- >> reporter: deceptively so. >> true. ly gmiguel, thank you. still ahead -- police fire on protesters in turkey as a demonstration over a city park blows up into a nationwide move against turkey's prime minister. [ female announcer ] doctors trust calcium plus vitamin d to support strong bones. and the brand most recommended by... my doctor. my gynecologist. my pharmacist. citracal. citracal. [ female announcer ] you trust your doctor. doctors trust citracal.

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anti-government row tests are severally exploding across turkey. police fired water cannons and tear gas dispersing protesters. the demonstrations began last week over a plan to demolish a park in istanbul, but have grown

to encompass the largest demonstrations against turkey's prime minister in his can decade in office. e ivan was in the middle of the overnight violence in istanbul. >> reporter: the unrest is far from over here in istanbul. thousands of people are about to get gassed now, facing off against riot police. we have to move because this is just too painful when it starts. let's go. >> the tear gas, we're trying to break through riot police. >> we're defending.

>> reporter: demonstrate it tor bringing people who have been wounded in to this mosque for treatment. that boy is clearly bleeding from the head. there are medics here taking care of the wounded. people are getting hurt out here. and every person that gets hurt it seems to make the crowd even more angry at their government. >> ivan watson joins us live now. so this whole thing started over a city park? >> reporter: it's really hard to believe. the park is about 200 yards from where i'm standing and last monday, there were about 40, 50 protesters staging a peaceful sit-in. they didn't want the government for bull doze the park to make a shopping mall. and that protest was repeatedly attacked by riot police who would pepper spray and blast the

people in the park with water cannons and tear gas. and it only caused the protests and sit-into grow. until friday finally, the reaction, something just broke here. and it has triggered now the fourth day of clashes and they have spread not only from the biggest city istanbul to at least four or five other cities around the country where riot police continue to use the same methods against demonstrators. my colleague in the turkish capital, nick paton walsh, is witnessing water cannons and tear gas as we speak. and the demonstrators still control what i call the times square of istanbul, they have barricaded the entrances. riot police are not here and they're holding protests against their democratically elected prime minister here now for the third straight day. >> so they think their civil rights are threatened and that's i guess what exploded after the

government tried to break up the protest in the city park, right? >> reporter: absolutely. what you have is the prime minister has been democratically elected. his party does very well at the polls. but many people here concerned that their rights have graduatedly diminished as he has assumed more and more power and there are very few checks and balances right now in the turkish political system. the tear gas we're seeing this week is not something new. this is something that's been increasingly used by the police over the course of the last year. anytime somebody tries to come out and gather and protest against the government. there is incredible government pressure on the media here as well with people getting fired from their jobs if they become too critical of the turkish government and the prime minister. so this has become a very personal battle, a test of wills because between the spontaneous uprising that has emerged in the streets and the turkish prime

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thank you so much for being with me. i'm carol costello. all together, the five tornadoes that tore a path of destruction through oklahoma for the second time in nearly two weeks is blamed for 13 deaths. today the focus turns to finding six people who are still missing including four who hidden in out

in storm drains. ed lavendera is in el reno, oklahoma. >> reporter: good morning. well, that search r those still missing has already started again here this morning in the oklahoma city area. so that will continue. we'll monitor that. but it's interesting, this tornado 245 struck on friday night wasn't as strong as the tornado that struck moore, oklahoma just two weeks ago. but that doesn't mean that the havoc wasn't any less destructive. the search for six missing people swept away in flash floodwaters will continue monday morning. the bodies of three children and two adults were found sunday, they drowned as they tried to hide in storm drains from friday night's stores. three storm chasers were also killed by the ferocious tornado, their car mangled and shredded by the storm's force found on a back country road. around oklahoma city, again people are staring at their homes and piles of rubble and for dana, it's not first time.

>> when you look at all of that, where in the world do you begin? >> well, if it hadn't been for the other time, you know, i probably would have been more devastated than i am now. but i'm used to it now. >> reporter: used to it because as crazy as this might sound, just two years ago, another tornado destroyed his house. >> do you feel uncredincredibly unlucky? >> assigns. t sometimes. the more i see the stuff, it's hard. this is basically you're looking at everything i owned. >> reporter: the only they think he wants to find is an old pekt of his little boy with a cast on his arm running around in daddy's shoes. >> i'm just afternoon trade it's gone. i don't think it's possible. as much as it rained, even if

it's there, it's more than likely ruined. >> there is really nothing left much of anything. >> reporter: the acres of angels farm is a refuse for abuseden mals. the farmhouse had endured countless storm, but not this one. >> it was special because we really had our fingers planted pretty deep in caring for the animals. it was just like a simple country life kind of home. you're away from the city and i loved it. >> reporter: this weekend one of the things, constant themes we've heard over and over as we've heard from people, they say this has been a tornado

season for the ages. but you they are kind of at the edge of their nerves and so many tornado warnings and so many close calls with these storms. and they can't wait for this tornado season to simply be over. >> i bet. ed lavendera reporting live from oklahoma this morning. coming up, a day before a court hearing for accused killeder oscar pistorius. cnn's found rare and never before seen photos of reeva steenkamp, the model girlfriend pistorius is accused of murdering. we'll talk about that and crime scene photos released to the public.

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steenkamp, but prosecutors want to postpone the case so they can investigate further what happened that night. it will be one of pistorius' first and only public appearances since february. will this is exclusive cnn footage of pistorius' uncle house where he's been living since getting out on bail. pistorius says he's not left the house spending most of his time in a room surrounded by photos of reeva. and we've seen rare and never before seen modeling photos taken just months before her death. here is robyn curnow. >> reporter: it was on the beaches of this south african seaside town that a young law student aspired to be a model posing for these amateur snapshots. that young wannabee model was reeva steenkamp. just a few years later, she had

transformed herself into a cover girl. she might have looked different, but she didn't change inside said her friend, carrie smith, who took those pictures on the beach. >> if anything, that's her natural by theity. not a stitch of make upon, hair blowing in the wind. >> another one from the shoot. >> reporter: she was a confident professional model ambitious, too. pistorius says it was a tragic accident, that he thought she was an intruder. the state says it was murder. for now, it's just images of reree vch re reeva left to explain the kind of person she was. >> they're unedited. just how she is. skin was always great.

beautiful eyes. beautiful features. >> reporter: reeva asked help on take this photo of the tattoo etched on her neck. >> for her it was very personal to her. she never really spoke about it. she just wanted a personal al photo of it. >> reporter: the tattoo said only god will judge me in italian. do you know why that specific tattoo? >> it was something that her grandfather had always said and was very close to her own heart. >> reporter: words she felt defined her. while oscar pistorius will eventually be judged in a south african court. >> rob biyn curnow is live for . we'll talk about the crime scene photos that were released to the public. how is reeva's family taking this? >> reporter: well, her family have spoken of their grief in a recent interview, her mother gave quite an emotional account saying he shot her until she was

dead, he shot her until she was dead, i want to know why. a question any mother would want to know. and of course there is also the other side of the story, i was inside oscar pistorius' uncle home, we saw oscar and his uncle telling me he can't imagine the grief the steenkamps are going through. he says no doubt they must be feeling utter sad ths, but also anger. so this is a story, a tragedy that is not just polarized two families, but also reverberated across the country because oscar pistorius was such a hero here. >> around the world, too. robyn curnow, many thanks. this is one of the images, leaked to the media last week. purportedly shows the blood splattered bathroom. you can see a trail of blood leading from a bathroom and there is also blood on the walls and the toilet. and what appears to be two bullet holes in the door. criminal defense attorney page

payton joins me now. how harmful to the case is the release of the photos? we're just showing you one. the rest are really graphic. >> right. it can be harmful, but remember, south africa is very different than the united states. he's not going to have a jury trial over there. so we don't have to worry about pretrial publicity affect the jury. in south africa, he'll be judged by a judge. so the type of prejudice sham eviden prejudicial evidence we see, graphic photo, itment would be as detrimental to the defense. >> but there are other problems in the case. for example, the lead investigator is now gone from the police department because he himself was accused of killing someone. so i'm just not clear how this will be a fair trial all around. >> well, south africa has apparently always had problems with police corruption and mismanagement and incompetence in their police force.

so i think it will be interesting to see how the police force goes forward with this case, how the prosecution overcomes these credibility problems that they have with their lead investigator. because credibility of the law enforcement officer is critical in a case like this. >> the hearing starts tomorrow. thank you so much for coming in. still ahead in the newsroom, the cdc lea krchlc links a frozx to a hepatitis outre.

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you see the empty podium there. in just a few minutes, president obama will speak about mental health issues. this is in response of last year's shooting massacre at new town elementary school. if you want to watch more about the president's speech, head to cnn.com. we are streaming the vent live for you. also, this morning, angelina jolie on the red carpet looking happy and healthy. her husband, partner, i should say, brad pitt was by her side both in london to promote pitt's latest movie. at times, both were emotional. >> i feel great. i feel wonderful. >> and she looked great, too. as you know, jolie decided to have her mastectomy after going to a company myriad. she found out she had the breast

cancer gene. she chose this company, myriad, to do the test because she like every other woman in the united states had no choice. this company retains exclusive rights to all testing and research for this breast cancer gene. that's right a. company holds a patent on your genes and today the u.s. supreme court could decide on whether it should have that right. george washington university professor and constitutional lawyer jonathan turley is here. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. >> at the crux of this case, could human genes be patentt? the. >> reporter: the reading of this case has extreme patent laws. the supreme court says you can patent everything under the sun man makes. genes are made by man t. company said they spent a lot of money isolating this gene sequence to allow people like jolie to get the benefits from it.

but the supreme court is dealing with a very fundamental question, as you know. but it's also a part of a broader question that's been raised by many people, including myself, in the last couple years, which is the extent to which people can now claim property ownership through copywrite, trademark, patent law, it seems like everything under the sun literally has someone's property mark on it. the supreme court will render this decision and it could be transformtive, at least for the patent field. >> okay. the other thing the u.s. supreme court may rule on this month, this week, even today, we are expecting an opinion on the voting right act of 1965. in a nutshell, that law prohibits some states from implementing voter laws without the approval of the government. they include alabama, georgia, louisiana, how is the court likely to rule? >> reporter: well, the odds are that they could strike down section 5. a couple years ago, chief

justice roberts stated that he had serious questions about section 5, which is the thumping heart of this law. it's the thing that requires pre-clearance approval for 16 states and a number of the justice, including chief justice roberts asked whether this was really outdated, asked, what does it take for these 16 states to be treated like the oer states for the purposes of this law? they probably have the votes to strike down section 5. now, if they do that, it could impact the mid-term elections, but how significant an impact is hard to say? i expect that congress would get busy on coming up with a new form la for the legislation. >> okay. in the other cases at issue, same sex marriage, right, those are biggys, the supreme court is supposed to release their decisions this month and we hope they do, right? >> yes, but they tend to have a

theatre in holding off major decisions like same-sex marriage, affirmative action. they tend to hold one or two to the very end. many people felt that would be the same-sex marriage decisions. there is two of them. would not apply if they go for an out, if they decide to dismiss the case on standing or technical grounds. so we're watching that closely. >> you can stick around. hour.uld happen in the next >> reporter: absolutely. >> we appreciate it. jonathan turley, thanks. we are back in a minute.

and cnn has just confirmed some sad news that democratic senator frank lawsuiten berg of new jersey has -- lautenberg from new jersey has died. he was 89-years-old, he was the oldest member of the senate. he had been struggling with health issues in recent weeks. dana mash, are you on capitol hill. that's sad. but he missed some senate sessions because of illness, right? >> reporter: he did. he was absent for many, many votes at the beginning of this year, the end of last year because he was ill. i have to stay say, frank

lautenberg is someone who will universally be missed. he was in the senate for a very long time. he actually just reminded me not too recently that he had been the last serving world war ii vet. he mentioned he was 89. he certainly until recently was a very sprie 89. let also was somebody who was unabashedly liberal. he was a leader on more gun restriction, even at a time when that was certainly not what was appropriate for democrats politically. he really fought to help consumers. that was a big passion of his, to try to push for better safety, for children, for mothers in the products that they used. he also had served for a very long time as a bear knuckled hard knuckle democratic senator from new jersey. in fact, he was in the senate two separate times. he had retired back in 2000.

then he came back. he was appointed after another senator bob toricelli left in disgrace. he is somebody that has a lot of experience in the senate. i will also say in the past couple of month, he had a little bit of a public spat with the mayor of newark, new jersey, cory booker, who announced he wanted his see. frank lautenberg was not shy about saying he was not happy with that. he really made it clear that he wanted to sort of go and retire on his own terms and he had already announced he was going to retire. so now, obviously, everybody is shocked at the news. they are going to mourn him, also going to look ahead to see what happens in the senate when it comes to new jersey, because the fwof is, of course, chris christie, a republican. he is going to have to decide who he appoint to fill out frank lautenberg's term. >> frank lautenberg decide he was going to retire, not run

aside him, why did he decide that? >> reporter: i got the sense he had the sense he was going to retire. he hadn't been well. again, he had served in the senate five terms. he kind of had had enough. i think the only reason he delayed announcing his retirement is because he was so unhappy with the fact that cory booker, a fellow democrat announced he was going to challenge him in a primary. he didn't think that was respectful. eventually, he announced he would retire. he did so with some sarcastic and, frankly, some biting words for cory booker. we'll see what happens with that. i think it goes without saying for myself and other reporters who covered frank lautenberg, he was always a gentleman, carol. he was always very polite. always had a joke, even when it came to something that was really made him mad, like the cory booker six. he tried to make light of i. he was just a very pleasant man to deal with.

he will be missed. >> oh, dana bash, thanks so much. the next hour of cnn "newsroom" starts now. happening now in the "newsroom," deadly chase. >> we're going to die! >> hold on, brother. >> storm veterans caught in the violent storms that struck oklahoma. this morning, new questions about the risks these scientists take. plus, caught on tape. >> this is their story. >> the irs two-step. $50 million of your money spent on conferences. this new team building dance tape released. remember "star trek?" >> that's right, sir, pennies on the dollar. >> or "gilligan's island?" these people handle your money.

this morning the agency heads to capitol hill over targeting the tea party. >> this is a problem that was coordinated in all likelihood right out of washington headquarters. >> also, a fire powerhouse. >> the whole thing what is going to blow up. we're going to be screwed. >> california on alert and on fire. a massive unpredictable blaze doubling in size over the weekend. we are live from the front lines and you are live in cnn "newsroom." ♪ >> good morning, thank you so much for joining me. i'm carol costello. as the sun rises in california, we are getting a picture of this dangerous fire blowing out of control t. fire exploded reaching a massive 25,000 acres, taking six homes wit and threat -- with it and threatening thousands more. >> the flames were 200-feet

high. it was horrible. we couldn't breathe. it was nothing but smoke. seeing the pictures of the house above on the ridge gone. it's really scary. i just want to, i keep looking alt the news wanting to see a picture of my house. >> stefanie is live in palmville, california. she has the latest. stefanie, you good news? >> reporter: i do have good news. we are actually in lake hughs. this area has been active throughout the night. we have good news from the los angeles county fire department. they say this fire is 40% contained and 49 acres burned. fire officials are cautiously optimistic that number will not grow any more as long as the winds stay on their side. is very good news. they are saying if things

continue in this way, they are likely going to allow people evacuated back to their homes. 15 homes we do know. 15 homes damaged, 6 completely destroyed. we do know that already at this point, carol. >> new mexico is also dealing with wildfire, tell us about that. >> reporter: right, there is a couple wildfires burning in new mexico. at last check the main one, 0% containment. people there obviously very concerned. they're saying it normally doesn't come this close. so that fire having burned some 7,200 acres is something they are keeping an eye on here in the western region. >> all right, stefanie elam reporting live for us this morning. now for the latest in tornado alley, two people are missing after two days since the tornadoes ripped through oklahoma city, rather, in el reno. this morning, we have learned 13 people in all died in oklahoma. number has now been revised. those deaths include a family of three from gautemala who tried

to wait out the tornado in a storm drain t. damage of these storms extensive, homes, schools, church, reduced to rubble. the seduction not just limited to oklahoma. in. mo, a family is lucky to be alive after a gas station canopy collapsed on top of their car as they waited for the storm to pass. mooerlt meteorologist cad myers joins us from el reno. good morning, chad. >> reporter: good morning, carol. how are you? >> good. i see the damage behind you. so folks in oklahoma aren't doing so good this morning? >> reporter: you know, we are picking up the pieces now, this was an ef-3, maybe an ef-4 tornado. this is a wild path. i tell you what, i am surprised the death toll is only 13, considering it went over i-40 for quite some time. you have to understand people are really driving there, driving all back and forth. >> i'm just looking at this

incredible picture an thinking of those storm chasers who died. of course, you personally knew them. it just makes you wonder why, why, why, people do that? >> reporter: well, there are storm spotters and they are official people that will send the data to the national weather service, phone calls directly to them saying i am a tornado on the ground. here's where it is, that gets the warning out southeastern, gets the direction better. makes the warnings safer, people out here safer. then there are people that want to do it for scientific reasons. there are maybe 90% of the people are out here in hill little cars driving around not so much getting in the way but getting themselves in the way and fought really knowing the direction of the path of the storm, where it's rotating. some people are sitting look straight up at the tornado, coming down at them, having to get out of the way. that's what happened this week. so many people, because it was close to oklahoma city, i believe this had a big thing to do with it. it was 30 miles away, they can

go 30 miles. probably only seen in the storm shelter. the problem is as the tornado moved to the east, all these highway roads turned into city streets an everybody came to a standstill, those people were caught in their cars. we are lucky this wasn't an f-3 going downtown oklahoma city on those people parked on i-35, i-40. they were stopped. they couldn't move as well. the cars in front were stopped as well. >> chad myers, thank you so much. let's talk about the storm chasers, this morning on "starting point," fellow chaser reed timer says this was not something these storm chasers could have predicted. >> it's a freak incident. this tornado had an erratic path, moved east-southeast, took a sharp turn to the left. i think, i just hope it never happens again. no storm chaser has ever lost

their life directly from the storm chasing before. but this was a weird storm. it was a powerful tornado, it had an erratic path as we said, something like, i never saw it coming. i can't believe we're talking about this? >> timer says, tim samaras has a well earned record for safety. his vehicle is destroyed, it's in bits and pieces. learn can cuban skuf shuffle -- learning the cuban shuffle on your dime. they are learning dances to the tune of millions of dollars. >> their dream, to become the next great dance sensation. this is their story. >> this newly released video shows some irs employees learning how to dance the cuban shuffle. it was one of two videos that cost about $50,000 to produce.

they were used in a 2010 conference in anaheim, california. as for that other controversy, the irs targeting conservative groups, republican congressman darrell issa is pointing the finger directly at washington. >> the reason that lois lerner tried to take the fifth is not because there is a rogue in cincinnati. it's because this is a problem that was coordinated in all likelihood right out of washington headquarters and we're getting to proving it. we have 18 more transcribed interviews to do. >> and by washington, headquarters, i assume, dana bash that, he means the white house. of course, that has got an reaction on its own. >> reporter: that's right. i think he was very careful to say coordinated by washington and not the white house. >> but everybody knew what he meant, intimating. >> reporter: that's a key, key question, carol. are you right, because what democrats are saying is that that suggestion is insinuating

it was the odama white house or the obama administration. i just talked to his office this morning. they said, no, he was careful in saying washington. here's why this matters. the reason this matters is talking to -- by the way, this is a bipart san investigation, democrats and republicans are in on these interviews. they have done two already with cincinnati irs employees. the way the democrats i talked to see it is, yes, there was direction from walk. so far, what they, their take-away is that the direction was from a unit that answers questions, they're tax attorneys in washington, that answers questions about how to apply the law, lou to decide whether or not a group such as tea party is involved politically, should get tax exempt status? so the question of washington being involved still could have been more bureaucrats and not administration officials. the key question to who first

decide to do this, who first decided to target, who first decided to lump these groups together, which everybody now says is inappropriate. they still don't know the answer to that, democrats and republicans can see they will continue to try to find out. >> there will be a couple more hearings on capitol hill this morning. back to that cupid dance idea that we showed viewers a couple of minutes ago, you broke this story. you got the first video for cnn. so what kind of reaction is this getting? >> reporter: it's just, you know, the hits keep coming for the irs. this is going to be a part of an inspector general report we pect to come out tomorrow about excess spending. this is back in 2010. it's not recently. but, still, what this inspector general report is going to talk about is spending close to 50 million taxpayer dollars on 225 conference between 2010 and 2012. also, sort of reminiscent. remember the gsa conferences in

las vegas, they had clowns and mime readers. it doesn't go that far. even though they have "star trek" characters in this video. this i.g. report will talk about irs employees staying in presidential suites that cost people between $1,500 and $3,000 a night. we expect the irs director, he will be on capitol hill for the first time. we do expect if he does address this to say that this is the past. there are now guidelines and rules and regulations that make sure that this kind of excess doesn't happen, and has been for the past couple of years. will be an interesting hearing to watch. this and, of course the tea party targeting now on his plate. >> dana bash, thanks so much. also this morning, we are learning about the death of veteran senator fwrampg lautenberg. they zell tell cnn he passed

away sunday night. one of his big passions was fighting for consumers and the products they use t. world war ii vet was 89-years-old. he was the oldest member of the senate. about a half an hour to the first trading day in june. investors hope a six-month winning streak continues. alison kosic is live at the new york stock exchange. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, june looks like it is starting off on a high note. we see all the averages in the green. what a marvelous may t. dow and s&p 500 each gaining about 2% in may t. nasdaq jumped 4%. investors have been buying in, because they don't want to miss out on the rally. now the big focus this week, though, carol is going ob on jobs. several employment reports are coming out this week. the biggy happening on friday, that's the monthly jobs report from the government. the expectation is that employers have added 164,000 jobs in may. not much more in april. it would still mean another sluggish month for the labor

market. carol. >> speaking of jobs, positive news from the housing market helped the stockmarket. some builders, they say they can't find the right workers. >> reporter: yeah, this is an interesting twist. it's a part of the housing recovery you don't hear very often. it seems the market for new homes are booming. builders can't fine enough workers to keep up with the demand. the national home builders did a survey in march. it found almost half of homeowners have fallen behind schedule only provenlths 15% of them had to turn down jobs and not bill. 9% have lost or cancelled sales because they can't find enough workers. see the problem with this new phenomenon is with fewer houses going up, it means it will create tighter inventories, with the demand, it is growing to buy homes now, tighter enventories, that means higher prices, so if you are a seller, that's good news. it could make it tougher if you are the buyer to get what you want. carol. >> alison kosic, reporting live. just ahead in the newsroom,

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. 17 minutes past the hour. time to check our top stories. president obama says he wants to reduce the stigma of mental illness. he made the comment moments ago as the white house held a conference on mental health. >> the main goal is not to start a conversation. so many of you have spent decades waging long an lonely battles to be hurt. instead, it's elevating that conversation to a national level and bring mental illness out of the shadows. >> this meeting is in response to last year's shooting massacre at sandy hook elementary school in newtown. a new controversial hiring of athletic director julie hermann for rutgers. the new york star says hermann was scheduled to attend campus this tweak has been postponed. they were firt first to report her 1996 women's volleyball team accused her of verbal abecause.

in chosen, rescue crews are looking for people trapped inside a burning poult try facility. more than one-third of the workers are feared dead. the cause of the fire is still uns under investigation. anti-government protests are simply exploding across turkey. police fired water cannons and tear gas in ankara today. the demonstrations began last week over a plan to demolish a city park in istanbul. they have the largest demonstrations against the prime minister in his decade in office. cnn's ivan watts is in istanbul. things appear to have calmed down behind you. >> reporter: well, yes, during the day the pattern here has been since saturday people kind of mill around. they have protests. it gets bigger in the evening with speeches and stages set up

here in istanbul's taksim square. before dawn this morning, i was out covering pretty nasty ugly clashes, where i would estimate there were more than 10 million young ozturk, half of them women i might add hurling themselves at riot police. they were determined to brick through to the office here in istanbul of the turkish prime minister and chanting for him to resign, our cnn correspondent in the turkish capital ankara has witnessed within the last few hours turkish riot police firing tear gas and water cannons at high school kids who come out into the streets there to also protest against the government and the repeated use of excess police force, of tear gas that has been a daily occurrence here, i've certainly gotten my share of it in the last three to four days is part of what is driving the anger even further. people say why is the police

attacking us, just because we're trying to go out in the streets an say we don't agree with our elected prime minister. >> we don't agree with them demolishing a city park. it seems like a small thing for the government to come in with strong arm tactics. i'm wondering, though the prime minister there is democratically elected. i know people are calling him a dictator in these protests. why? >> reporter: well, he is democratically elected. he got more than 50% of the vote in the last elections. he has been saying, how dare you call me a dictator? i have supporters. let's see if you guys can beat me in the elections in ten month's time. he think he's also had some bis big successes in his ten years in power. he's gotten some generals in the army. he's basically broken their strangle hold on politics. i think one of the criticisms is it seems he has amassed too much

power over the past decade, there are very few checks and balances, which means when it comes to an issue like this park, i mean, could you imagine president obama speaking daily about the construction of aing mall in new york city. gives you a sense of how much he is micromanaging turkey's largest city. how he really does not like criticism in anyway, shape, or form. that's part of what has gotten all of these young ozturks out into the streets. carol. >> ivan watson reporting from istanbul, turkey. the world health organization kautz kaulz it a -- calls it a threat to the entire world. is it? we'll talk about that next. la's known definitely for its traffic,

congestion, for it's smog. but there are a lot of people that do ride the bus. and now that the busses are running on natural gas, they don't throw out as much pollution to the earth. so i feel good. i feel like i'm doing my part to help out the environment.

>> good morning, i'm carol costello, thank you for being with me tray talking about the coronavirus or mers for short. 30 people have died since december. some areas affected a tunisia and three italian patients were discovered. at this point scientists don't know how the virus is spread. joining me to talk more about this is dr. anthony fouchi from the national institutes of health. welcome. >> good to be here. >> this sound scary. really, is it a threat to the entire planet?

>> well, whenever you have a new emerging infection where you are not really sure about what its origin is, how it is transmitted. some people interpret it as imminent dom. that's not the case. this one has shown it has lethal potential because 53 individuals affected. 30 have died. so it's very serious. it does not spread readily at all between person to person. there has been a couple of -- well, more than a couple, about five or six clusters where close family members with very close contact and some health care workers in saudi arabia who are closely involved with the person in health care got infected. but it's an infection that spreads readily like seasonal flu does, it is not doing that right now.

we are carefully keeping our eye on it. the w.h.o. and cdc and others are looking at it carefully. >> that's really fascinating. we don't know how it spreads, whether you breathe it in from another person or if it's a fluid exchange? how do you determine that? >> well, since since it's a respiratory infection the people that have gotten sick have gotten pneumonia and respiratory systems systems. it is spread by the root in rare cases from one person to another in a close family cluster. this virus is a corona viempts it's the same class as sars that we faced if 2003, but it is very different from sars. it is very similar to corona viruses you see in bats. so bats are a suspect. whether or not it's b.c.

directly transmitted from exposure from a bat to a human or if there is a secondary host where the bat infects a mammal, for example, and then a human comes into contact with that secondary host. that itself the big unknown. we don't know how it's getting originally to the human. when have you the cluster in the family, very likely that is spread through res respiratory. >> so there is no way to determine how to keep yourself safe from this virus? >> well, for example, people in the united states right now should not be concerned about right now about getting it from somebody who is their neighbor because it isn't in the united states. there have been case, all of which have originated in the middle east countries, saudi arabia, jordan, qatar, the united emirates, who have then gone from the middle east to european countries, such as the u.k., germany, france, most recently italy who have gotten infected in the middle east and gone to a european country and

then in those situations, for example, there has been very, very close family contact that is spread. but for a person right now in the united states should not be concerned. however, if someone travels to the middle east and comes back with respiratory symptoms the fact that you have been in an area where there is a risk, you should report that to the physician and the centres for disease control and prevention can do the appropriate tests to determine if, in fact, you have been exposed. in fact, individuals that have come from the middle east with respiratory infections and checked out. there is no evidence they have this new mers virus. >> that's good news. dr. fauci, thank you so much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> you are quite welcome. coming up in the newsroom, the supreme court makes a ruling on sexual assaults and when police can ask for your dna. [ male announcer ] this is bob, a regular guy with an irregular heartbeat.

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. all right this just into cnn, one of the new u.s. supreme court ruling, moments ago, the justices ruled felony criminal suspects can be subjected to a police dna test after arrest. that's before trial and conviction. cnn crime an justice correspondent joe johns is live in washington. so that means if i'm arrested for a felony crime, they can just takepy dna -- take my dna, i have no say in it? >> reporter: serious crime, carol. this is a state out of the case of maryland. it's called maryland vs. king. king was a guy arrested in 2009 on charges of assault. police took a dna swab from him then later connected him to a crime that happened in 2003. a rape. so the question, of course, is whether the authorities have the right to take that dna sample and later use it for another case t. answer is yes as long as

it's a serious crime. the next question down the road will be about those government entity, including the federal government that take these swab, what constitutes a serious crime? of course, the big concern here in these 4th amendment cases has always been water called suspicionless searchs. and among the people in the dissent, this was a very close 5-4 decision. just since the antonin scalia called this a terrifying principle. this is something that will be continued to be fought out around the country. for now, according to supreme court, can you take a dna swab for a serious crime and later use that evidence in a crime the suspect was not arrested for, carol. >> you just said the scary part, like what is a serious crime and who decides that and you haven't been convicted of anything. you are an innocent person being arrested on a felony charge t.

police can keep your dna forever. let's say you are totally innocent of the crime. >> reporter: no, according to court and what has been going on in maryland, if the individual who god the dna swab is later exonerated of that crime, then they have to destroy that dna evidence. so, it's not a complete open book, but it opens the door a little bit more and civil libbertarians certainly will be raising some issues as we go forward on this, carol. >> so i have to trust the police to destroy my dna if, down the lean, you know, sometimes it staik takes years to get to trial. that's kind of scary, too. >> reporter: well, they have to keep it within the law. as long as they stay within the law, it's okay. the issue is if the law says, destroy that dna when the individual is exonerated. they got to do that or in all likelihood, they'd have no case. >> joe johns, thanks so much, reporting live from the sprooet supreme court this morning. later, a teenager is swept

away by a large waterfall in yosemite national park. maxwell is not. .

. >> park rangers will continue their search today for a california teenager swept over a waterfall at yosemite national park. the 19-year-old was swimming in the river with a 600-foot high nevada fall when he went over the edge. miguel marquez is live at yosemite national park. mikel miguel, what happened? >> reporter: well, we are learning a lot more about exactly how this happenedch he was at nevada fall as you say. i want to show you this is yosemite falls here. it gives you an idea of how rough an beautiful tease falls are. this is about 1,400 feet the one he went off ouf was half this

size. the rescuers in the first couple days to about 5 today. they don't believe he survived. we spoke to a ranger a short time ago who gave ace better idea of how this young man got swept down the river. >> they saw him swim out into the river. he went out into the middle of the river where there was a large boulder, having fun. when it was time to swim back. he got back, started swimming back. as he was coming out of the river onto the shore the current caught him again, swept him. he was unable to recover. >> reporter: now, he was in a part of the river about sfern 20-feet wide, it quickly funneled to 10 or 15, by that time the water had been moving so fast it had been very difficult to get out of it. it is the spring runoff at the moment and in those very narrow channels, it is almost impossible to swim out of them. clearly, he had gotten past the

current once, onto the rock, on his way back in, got caught by a same current or a different current he hadn't caught before. it just swept him. carol. >> so there were warning signs posted, right? will any more be done to keep people out of the water? >> reporter: there was. he was a part of three different church groups that were up here. about 85 people total. they went up a very popular trail, a mistrail. you pass by several different water falls. you feel the waterfalls. you can hear them. they are very, very powerful. about a half mile, a quarter meal away. we can hear it from from. you guys can there. there are incredible signs, science where he was swimt i swimming, you are 19, you want to have fun, you are hot. it's aer have, very difficult lesson to learn, obviously. his parents are going to have a very difficult time for some

days to come. they hope to find the body soon. they say it may take some time because if you get hung up in the rocks there, it can take until the water goes down significantly into the summer before they can get in there and search, carol. >> miguel marquez reporting live for us this morning. have you heard about this? it could be one huge break through for science, liquid blood found in a 10,000-year-old woolly mammoth. could they clone them now? we'll ask the scientists next. the great outdoors... ...and a great deal. thanks to dad. (gasp) nope. aw! guys! grrrr let's leave the deals to hotels.com. (nice bear!) ooo! that one! nice! got it! oh my gosh this is so cool! awesome! perfect! yep, and no angry bears. the perfect place is on sale now.

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>> it has been thousands of years since the woolly mammoth walked against the earth. it could soon return. i can guarantee the woolly mammoth if it came back would be nothing like thatment we are talking about the real thing here, a well preserved woolly mammoth was recently found buried in ice in siberia and there is the possibility that frozen plood from that animal could eventually lead to the cloning of that extinct spreeshs, bringing with it many exciting possibilities. welcome. you are helping with the program. >> hello. >> thank you for being with us.

>> my pleasure. >> this is just so fascinating to me. we have some pictures, thanks to you, of this like frozen -- was it a cave where they found this woolly mammoth car cuss. distribute what we are seeing. >> the samp ple -- sample, themself, were out below. they were eaten by scavengers. >> so somebody poked a needle through the ice into the part of the woolly mammoth that was inside of this big ice cube? >> well, it was actually entombed in ice. so they're dig around the animal to try to get underneath it. inside one of the cavities just below the body when they poked, out carriages well, blood. >> and it was liquid blood, right?

>> that's really strange, yeah, the temperature there was about-10 degrees centigrade. it was well below freezing. the sample was still fluid. >> that is so strange. so what could you do with the blood? >> so i study hemoglobin. a few years ago, we actually synthesized mammoth hemoglobin in the lab using mammoth dna and bacteria e. coli. we studied it. we're interested on getting our hand on the real thing. >> a lot of people are thinking, would it be possible there would be intact dna in that blood? >> well, mammalian blood is unusual in that it has very little dna. their blood cells don't have a nuke cleious -- nucleus, the fact that the blood is so well preserved, leads to the suggestion the muscle is still

well preserved. it's pink. it looks for example if in the muscle or the 16 or the ovaries of this individual, it was a 60-year-old female about, that, you know, perhaps we can get some pretty god dna out of that sample. >> so there are people out there who say that once you get a good enough sample, you might be able to clone a woolly mammoth? >> you know, i know the group is working towards that. there is a lot of technological hurdles. getting the dna is definitely a step in the right direction. but even beyond that, they wrof to take an egg, of course, out of an elephant. nobody has done that yet. they would have to fertilize this egg and implant it and wait at least 20 months, which is the gestation for an elephant. >> what are the dangers associated with that? woolly mammoths are big mammals,

right? >> they are definitely big animals. they're also pack animals. they live in a group. they're very social animals. my focus is not so much on cloning but, you know, we'll leave that to the ethicists. i'm a scientist. right. >> it's a scary proposition. we look forward to talking to you again to see what you found out from this incredible discovery. kevin campbell, thank you so much. >> my pleasure. just ahead in the newsroom, who knew? fed chair ben bernanke cracks the audience at princeton commencementsch .

this story. the federal reserve chair ben bernanke, he can be a really funny guy. just ask those at the commencement address at princeton. here's a sample. >> reporter: the poet robert burns once said something about the best laid plans of mice an men laying a glay. whatever a glay mean, a for contemporary philosopher for rest gump said something similar about a box of chocolates, you never know who you are going to

get. look at me, i was teaching 101 in alexander hall and thinking of god excuses for avoiding faculty meetings. then i got a phone call. >> you know who that phone call was from, it wasn't from alison kosic. >> reporter: hey, look, he was funny, he may not be ready for stoond-up. the chairman of the feds is a funny guy. >> only you would think he is funny. >> reporter: of course, i do. after the stuff we had to listen to at those fed meeting, this stuff is hillary young, carol, compared to that. he did have great advice for the graduates of princeton university in this speech. he used to teach there. after congratulating the students, he gave credit to the parent talking about how tough it is to put your child through college these days. listen to this. >> some years ago i had a colleague who sent three kids through prince tovnt my colleague used to say from a financial perspective, the experience was kind of like buying a if you cadillac every

year and driefrth off a cliff. >> reporter: his speech was kind of peppered throughout with that kind of humor along with deeper pieces of advice. he focused on becoming a better human being. he talked about how money isn't everything and to remember it's a means not an end. up with of the pieces of advice, call your mom and dad wint in a while, were, he said, they paid your tuition to princeton. also, carol, big ben has love advice saying he's offered broou beauty, romance, sexual attraction. those aroundt the only things to look in a partner. he has been married 35 years. he says, quote, i can't imagine any krois than a traveling companion, asset lending facility itself, not the only stuff he can talk about, carol. >> he values his wife because she's a good traveling companion. >> reporter: yeah, she's been down the road with him, i guess. >> i'd still like my husband to

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expression of everybody's bad day. >> reporter: an expression that has inspired artists to do their own versions of grumpy cat for charity. this is so grumps a lot. her grouchy mug ended up on clothing, and and unhappy birthday card. she has a book coming out t. "wall street journal" reports there is now a report for grumpy cat coffee in cans. >> a lot of people are grumpy until they have their coffee. >> reporter: grumpy cat has already earned them somewhere in the low six physicals. that's a lot of cat food. she just one the 2013 award to have a web by award, let's add that to my while of who gives a -- her real name is tartar sauce based on a misspelling of the word by the daughter, she thought the fur looked like

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