>> a new wide screen tv to fit all that. >> that's it for "starting point." i'm christine romans. >> and i'm john berman. >> cnn newsroom with christi paul begins right now. happening now in the newsroom. sounds like one of george orwell's worst nightmares, a u.s. spy agency tracking phone calls of millions of americans. it may be legal under the patriot act. found alive. rescue workers rescue a woman that spent 12 hours trapped under several tons of debris after a building demolition debac debacle. rains, already starting, as tropical storm andrea takes aim at florida gulf coast. and michael jackson's only daughter rushed to the hospital after an apparent suicide attempt, among the jackson

family's latest lawsuit. see the video where paris jackson says she's crazy and needs help. "newsroom" starts now. happy friday eve. i'm christi paul in for carol costello. thank you for keeping me company. the white house reacting to the report that the white house is monitoring your phone calls. a secret court order obtained by a british newspaper that forces verizon to hand over telephone records to the national security agency. that includes domestic calls, foreign calls, telephone numbers, and the location, time and duration of your calls. now, some people are outraged as you can imagine and say this is the broadest surveillance order ever issued. look at the reaction online too. the huffington post headline today, they are watching.

and the drudge report, a snarky angle. can you hear me now? not everyone is so upset and conservative newt gingrich told piers morgan he's okay with it. >> if -- if the necessity for tracking down terrorists in the united states is that the national security agency limited only to counterterrorism, is gathering information, then i would support it. >> cnn's white house correspondent briana keel keilar has more. this is the first time we are seeing something so large in the obama administration. >> reporter: it is, christi. getting a lot of attention in washington today. let me give you a snippet of the top secret order published by britain's gurdian newspaper. it is hereby ordered that verizon shall produce and continue production on a daily basis, all call detail records

or meta data created by verizon for calls in the u.s. or internationally. in the bush administration, a lot of questions about surveillance, generally involving a party in a foreign country. this is not just this. this extends to phone calls that would originate and end here in the u.s. as well. the -- a senior administration official responding to in this morning and this is kin of interesting, because since this is a top-secret order at the request of the fbi, the fbi is not confirming that this is happening, not commenting, and the senior administration official sort of weaving through this. not confirming that this is necessarily going on, but talking about this document, saying information of the sort described in the guardian article has been a critical cool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats to the united states it allows count

counterterrorism to fund out if whether known suspected terrorists have been in contact with other persons who may be in engaged in terrorist activities, particularly people located in the united states. >> i want to bring in fran townsend. a homeland security adviser under george w. bush. a member of the cia and george w. bush external advisory committees. fran, good to see you again. we know we need surveillance. that isn't something that is new. but who decides where that line is? you know, where you draw it? is it a dotted line? >> chrissti, people will recall the controversy. the president did it by a presidential order directing the telephone companies. now, after the reauthorization of the patriot act passed by congress and with congress' approval and understanding, there is the ability to go to

the foreign intelligence surveillance court, something i worked with and supervised attorneys in the justice department when i there was and have to do a court order and request from the court which reviews your reasons for it and the legal basis for it, what it is you want. let's be clear, your honunder tt order, all they are getting is the meta data, who called you, the numbers, the duration of the phones, not authorized to collect the content or listen to the content of that phone call, and, in fact, for some reason they develop additional probable cause, they have to go back to the court and seek the court's permission to use the content. they use the tell phony data and meta data to identify affiliations. that's why you hear the senior administration official say it's played a critical role in count every terrorism operations. that shouldn't be a surprise. >> do they have a responsibility

i guess on some level to tell us? we know it's secret in the sense that they are looking for terrorism. but when you look at this broadness as a whole, and is verizon the only -- is verizon the only company that is giving this? should we assume that maybith even broader? >> yeah, i mean, look, we haven't confirmed -- because the u.s. government is not confirming the court order, we don't know for sure, but certainly if they are doing this with verizon, you have to presume they are doing it more broadly. and the other thing, just because the order -- this one order has leaked now, this was a program going back to the time of the bush administration, there was the reauthorization of the patriot act, and frankly, i have -- we should have no reason to believe that there was any interruption in this critical program, including from the time of president obama's election.

this has been -- i think based on everything we do know, we understand that this is a critical tool, but i think you are right. people must understand that this is likely broader than the guardian story reports. >> all right. fran townsend, so good to have you with us. thank you for taking the time. more than 12 hours after being trapped in a philadelphia building collapse, a 61-year-old woman is pulled out alive. kudos to the guys you see there who were working fearlessly to try to fin people there. talking about myra plekam. she was found just before midnight. we know six people were trapped inside when this wall fell on the thrift store. it was jarring to see the damage. >> i heard this great big crack, and i look ed, and i seen the building crumble. oh, it was painful. oh, my goodness.

and i thought about all of the people in there, they couldn't get out of there. and i screamed and hollered. >> 14 people did survive that collapse. and, again, thanks to the crews that worked so hard. tropical storm andrea bearing down on florida, poised to make landfall. storms pounding the coastline. take a look at latest video we've been getting in. heavy rain that spawned one tornado we know. cnn's george howell joins us on the phone from clearwater beach, florida. give us some semblance of what it's like. how are you doing? >> christi, we see winds pick up, anywhere from 60 miles per hour to gust up to 70 miles per hour what wean according to the national hurricane center, the storm will not get up to hurricane strength. mainly what we're seeing here, it's a rainmaker, torrential rainfall. comes and goes. bands come across the area a few hours back. a big heavy band that had

tornadic activity. keep in mind, talking about tornadoes a lot. especially in oklahoma. these tornadoes are not nearly as strong. but definitely tornadoes associated with the bands, another big band right now here in the tampa area, and it will stay like this for some time. for the next selseveral hours. a lot of rain, localized flooding. but a lot of rain today. >> okay. hope it continues to be nothing major. we know the folks down there know how to handle it. thank you so much. stay safe to you and your crew there. you heard about michael jackson's only daughter, recovering this morning after an apparent suicide attempt. cnn's miguel marquez following this from los angeles. miguel, how is she doing this morning? do you know? >> that's the bottom line, christie. a family spokesperson says paris jackson, doing fine, and at the moment getting the help she needs. a cry for help is how some family sources are describing a

possible suicide attempt by paris jackson. paramed uks rushing to the jackson family home, after getting a call from paris to a suicide hotline. >> 20 motrin and cut her arm with kachen knife. >> reporter: 911 responded at 1:27 for the possible overdose and cut to one wrist. >> hello. this is my face. it's kind of a shocker, but, yes this is what i look like. >> reporter: a week ago, jackson released this how to makeup video she's funny, even silly. >> what is she doing there? what, what? >> reporter: the 15-year-old with great natural beauty at times act like any other teenager. unsure of hersel

>> i have pink in the face, accident kn acne. i am crazy. >> i wonder why tears are salty and quoted the beatles. yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away, now it looks as though they are here to stay. >> paris is sensitive and dramatic child. teenager, 15 years old. >> reporter: jackson with her grandmother and siblings are suing concert promoter aeg for the wrongful death of her father. twice, she's been questioned. >> paris jackson asked intimate details about her father and father's death. >> reporter: a tough situation for any kid, tougher yet for a kid who spent much of her life in the spotlight. >> reporter: the 15-year-old is very sensitive. tough to be a 15-year-old for any kid, particularly tough when you lose the person closest to

you, michael jackson. christi. >> no doubt. miguel, thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> you got it. just ahead in the "newsroom," technology may be the way forward, right? some schools being left behind because of their internet connection. the secretary of education joins me next with the problem to fix the problem. the question? who is going to pay for it?

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today's top stories. mechanical afailure is believed to have started the deadly limo fire. air springs ruptured and set in motion a chain reaction that led to the fire. five women died in that car. remember, they were headed to a bridal shower. six people suffered minor injuries when a woman crashed her minivan through the front window of a westchester ohio

taco bell. look at that thing. this happened on tuesday afternoon. the 36-year-old woman driving the minivan may have been experiencing a medical emergency. a thunderstorm ripped through lubbock, texas, wednesday, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. winds so strong, knocked down power lines, threw a mobile home into the road. and a local hospital with part of its roof torn off. parent had to be moved quickly. no report of injuries. talk about a retirement plan. yeah, 84 well florida woman came forward yesterday as the record-breaking 5$590 million powerball jackpot. gloria mackenz sfwlooe has opted for the lump sum payment, which means she will take home $2270 million in cash. that after taxes, but congratulations to her. all right. let's face it. things have changed, right, since we went to grade school.

now kids have computers, e-books, can take classes via skype. but a lot of schools have a big problem. they don't have high speed broadband or wireless, which limits the possibility for these kuds. the white house unveiling a new program called connect ed, which wants to upgrade connectivity for schools and library. they say it will help teachers and student take advantage of e-books and upgraded software. for more, the u.s. secretary of education, arne duncan, who joins us from the white house lawn. thank you so much. i want to talk to you about the fact that we know less than 20% of educators say that the school's internet connection meet their teaching needs. what will it take? >> first of all, good morning, christi. an amazing opportunity for the nation's schoolchildren. and the president challenged all of us to work together and figure out how we get broadband

access. high speed to virtually every school across the country. this is fantastic for students, we want everyone to have access to advanced placement classes, foreign language classes. a great way to engage students in their own learning. we want to empower teachers. hard work afterward us, we along with the fcc have to take a look at what we're doing. think of the opportunities for students and teachers if we can get this right over the next four, five years. >> people listening to you will say, yeah, that sounds great. here is the question. who will pay for this? there are a lot of rural schools. i went to a little rural school who can't afford this. where will the money come from? >> schools can't begin to do this by themselves. a fantastic program, called e-rate. which has funded a lot of that over the past 15, 17 years. we think there are some deficiency there. the fcc will take a close look

and if we need to make small additional investments as we move forward, the right thing to do for children, for our country and economic competitiveness. no stone unterned and get this right as phat fast fast as we c. are we going to be a lead every or laggard? country like south korea ahead of us, we need to catch up, catch up as fast as we can. >> when you talk about the economics of this and ask that question, where are we going to prioritize? prioritize education, you mentioned one place where money will come from. but certainly that can't cover the cost? >> we think it could. real efficiencies with the e-rate program, and slight increase in fees for a short period of time, we're prepared to look at that. but this is the best investment we can make. we want to keep good jobs in the country and we think our children are smart, talented, and creative as children anywhere in the world. we need to level the playing

field for student and teachers as well. >> hoping that people in the private sector, that companies might step up and help either monday t monetarily with product. >> we need great public/private partnerships. a huge opportunity for the private sector to step up. we want to make sure every child in the inner city, remote community, native american reservation, they have access to knowledge and the chance to learn 24/7. you sit in your desk six hours a day, five days a week, that simply doesn't make sense anymore. >> arne duncan, thank you for taking the time to be with us. >> thanks for the opportunity. >> appreciate it, secretary. still ahead, renewed hope for sarah murngahan, the 10-year-old with cystic fibrosis. she could get the lungs she so desperately needs now.

this is just one of those

stories that kind of rips at you. 10 well girl with cystic fibrosis, happy to tell you, she is one step closer to getting the new lungs her family says she so desperately needs to live. a federal judge has blocked a rule that keeps sarah murngahan and other children a chance to be on the transplant list. how is she doing? >> a rough last night and the night before, but sarah's parents said as soon as she got the news, literally everyone in the hospital room there, they were thrilled, jumping for joy. you know, her parents say, christi, all they ever wanted was a fair chance for their daughter and they say now they finally have it. >> whoo! >> reporter: this was sarah murngahan's reaction after

getting word a federal judge has temporarily helped her within vaktry in a battle to save her life. ♪ twinkle, twinkle little star >> reporter: in the late stages of cystic fibrosis, she desperately needs a lung transplant. having been on the children's donor list for 18 months, her parents filed a lawsuit against the department of health and human services to get her included on the adult list. current policy prevents children under 12 from being on the list. late wednesday, a judge issued a ten-day restraining order, directing the department to immediately cease the under 12 rule for sarah murnaghan so that she can be considered for receipt of donated lungs from adults. >> this is allowing her to be on equal grounds with other folks, the adults. >> as sarah became sicker over the past few weeks, the

murnaghans appealed to kathleen sebelius, department of health and human services. >> the worst of all mind is to have some individual pick who lis and who dies. you want a process guided by medical science and medical experts. >> reporter: secretary sebelius says 40 adults in murngahan's regi region. federal guidelines have to assure fairness for children and adults. >> you have to be able to work within the rules, but also to make the case when you believe that children could be adversely impacted by a policy. >> i lost two teeth. >> reporter: time for sarah, still running out, but the murngahan's now believe she has a fighting chance.

christi, we continue to reach out to secretary sebelius late last night. she is not available for an interview at this time. her parents feel confident she will be at the top or near the top of the donor list and time is really of essence here to try and fin some sort of match within the ten-day period. the family spokeswoman telling me this morning that sarah has not been doing well. chr christi. >> this story is one that just rips me up. sarah is not the only one. other families. >> reporter: right. >> the question is, i know this court order injunction pertains only to sarah and we're hoping the very best for this family. i'm wondering if you've heard reaction from other family who's are waiting as well, and maybe hoping the same thing could happen for them? >> reporter: i think a lot of people out there are waiting to see what happens with this particular case, with sarah

murngahan's case. no guarantee now that she's been moving to the adult list, that she will get this transplant in time. a lot of variables at work here during this ten-day period, trying to find a match, blood type. all sorts of factors weigh in here. as you heard secretary sebelius point out, 40 other adults in the same region. sarah murngahan in a six-state region in the northeast, also waiting for a lung transplant as well. and the main point here, there simply aren't enough organs to go around for anyone, whether you are an adult or child. >> boy, this one really hits home, certainly keeping that family in our thoughts and prayers. thank you so much, jason carroll. >> you bet. >> we are grateful. up next. racial profiling, want to be cop, learn why george

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well, i hope thursday morning is treating you well so far. i'm christi paul. thank you for keeping me company. i'm in for carol costello. the new york stock exchange. stock has a rebound after taking a bit of a tumble. alison kosik with more. do you have good news for us? >> no, i don't. no rebound as of yet. there definitely has been, christ chris christi, a change in momentum. yesterday put the average of the dow below 15,000 for the first time in a month not much of a

reund, despite the european central bank leaving interest rates unchanged. what that does do is quiet worries that our own federal reserve will pull back efforts to keep interest rates low and those low interest rates have helped to fuel the stock market rally this year, but that rally running out of steam for now. traders saying we're probably in the middle of a 5% pullback, maybe even 10% correction. i want to mention, first-time claims for unemployment benefits, the number of people claiming benefits fell by 11,000 last week. $346,000 but the trend moved higher and so did the number of people continuing to collect benefits. a mixed back heading into tomorrow's big jobs report. christie. >> allison, thank you so much. in just five days, george zimmerman is going to go on trial for the murder of trayvon martin. today, his attorneys are getting one final shot to disqualify some of the evidence that could be used against him. martin savidge outside the

courthouse in sanford, florida, where the hearing under way about whether voice analysis technology can be admitted. martin, i wanted to ask you real quickly, this involves this 911 call which some people say is the most crucial evidence in the case. but regardless of what happens today, the 911 call coming in as evidence, yes? >> correct, right. the 911 call. a couple of 911 calls. the first one, george zimmerman makes when he identifies trayvon martin, that begins the tragic train of events, but then the other calls that come from people that lived in the area of condominium complex when they begin to hear an altercation between trayvon martin and george zimmerman. one of the key witnesses all of this is not a person, but a machine or recording, because during one of the. >> nick: calls, it's when a woman calls and talking to the operator, that you hear what is believed to be that fateful shot

that killed 17-year-old trayvon martin. prior to that you hear screaming, and that is the key debate who is screaming and what are they saying? and you see the prosecution has brought in an expert to analyze those tapes. four of them, but one of them specifically has said the person screaming for help is not george zimmerman as defense has maintained, but 17-year-old trayvon martin and other claims made that the defense says is absolutely debt mental to their case. that's why they are arguing these experts should not be allowed to admit testimony into the courtroom. >> okay, one of the things i found really interesting was this list of verbiage that george zimmerman wants banned from the trial. do we have the full screen? what we are talking about. racial profiling, they don't want that in there. vigilante. okay. but what about this self-appointed neighborhood watch captain and wannabe cop?

how probable is it that all of these terms will be banned from this trial? >> you know, if they were to ban, say, those -- and by the way, a request being made by george zimmerman, through his attorney, defense attorney mark o'mara, if you ban those terms, you will take out a lot of conversation in this particular court case, in the leadup to this, those words have been used over and over, especially by the prosecution to describe actions of george zimmerman. the defense maintaining that kin of -- those worst specifically are in no, ma'am tore, or they carry a certain amount of baggage that unfairly depicts george zimmerman or portrays him in a negative way and not just words. phrases too, for instance, here is a phrase that the defense is trying to stop. he got out of the car after police told him not to. the defense is arguing, well, the police officer on the 911 call says are you following

george zimmerman? and he said yes. and the 911 operator said we don't need you to do that. and george zimmerman said okay. it's not that the operator said don't get out of your car. these are the points the defense is arguing shade their case against them if you allow that kin of phrasing to be used in a courtroom. >> all right. martin, thank you for walking us through it. so grateful. i want to let you know, we'll talk more about that phrase, that he got out of the car after the police dispatcher told him not to. he wants that banned. is that a phrase or fact? the decision could have major implications in this case. we're talking about that with criminal defense attorney danny savalos, next.

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case in front of the judge. george zimmerman's lawyers on the right-hand side of the screen with zimmerman himself. in the florida courtroom to argue about the final details about the start of this trial, which is on monday. whatever the judge decides today could play a big role. a criminal defense attorney. i wanted to start kind of piggy backing that conversation that we were having with martin savidge there. the list of words or phrases the defense wants banned. one of the things they don't want anybody to say during court, he got out of the car after the police dispatcher told him not to. referring to the fact that george zimmerman did get out of the car and the conversation with the 911 operator when she said you don't have to follow him is that a phrase or fact? because it seems to me that it's a fact that can't be withheld.

it will force the judge to decide whether this is a fact or phrasing that the prosecution has liked to use so far. so this is what we call a motion in limine. a limine motion, asking the judge for them to not use that phrase. now we decide whether or nottith a fact and it appears from all of the evidence produced so far, this is not -- this is not a fact. the -- if you listen to the transcript, george zimmerman gets out of the car, tells the police what he's doing and then they say, yeah, well, we don't need to you do that, and he says okay. when you use a simple balancing test, is the probative value, does it go to any fact, or is that outweighed by the possibility of prejudice? it seems like a simple one here. the prejudicial affect of that characterization of the facts is highly prejudicial, not very

probative. i think the judge should exclude it. >> you do? you are saying when he said okay to that 911 operator, saying you don't have to do that, we don't know if he continued to follow or not? is that what you are saying? >> because we don't know, it -- because it's belied by the actual statement on the 911 call, that makes it really not a statement of fact, and i think the defense has a pretty good motion here to ask them to limit that phrase, because it is a mischaracterizations of the facts that they have available. they can try to pro-that through other circumstantial means, though. >> what about the voice analy as technology? how sketchy is the voice analysis itself. we have used this in cases before, haven't we? >> a couple of ways to attack experts. the expert not well trained enough. the other way is to attack the

underlying science in the case. this is called a fry hearing in florida. whether the evidence is generally accepted in the scientific community. when it comes to voice identification technology, courts differ on this technology. proponents say it's a hard and fast science and detractors will say there are courts that found it to be unreliable, or generally accepted in the scientific community. however, as we said before, the call is still going to come in, and there is nothing to prevent lay witnesses from coming in and testifying. i know george zimmerman, that's george zimmerman. >> all right. danny, thank you for getting us through that. so wean better what's happening today in court. good to see you. >> thank you. by now, i know we've all heard about the irs parody video.

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on irs spending, called collected and wasted. the treasury department inspector general will testify. his eye opening report detailed $50 million in spending on employee conferences from 2010 to 2012. what do we expect to hear today? >> the star witness will be the star of the video, the now infamous star trek video. and the star was spock. turns out spock, the real man who played him, his name is ferris fink, a pretty senior guy at irs. commissioner of the small business and self-employed division, where they had the key conference where they spent $4 million in anaheim in 2010. sitting there now, will be grilled in a very bipartisan way. in fact, christi, the top democrat was talking about how he stayed up until 3:00 a.m., watching these videos, trying to find redeeming value in why they

spent so much money on these. the irs isn't sure how much they spent, because they didn't receive receipts and documents to prove how much they spent. we'll look at bigger picture, whole question about why the irs was able to spend so frivolously here and simply didn't have the resources in an area which we now know to get to expedited tax exempt status for tea party groups, which some of whom have been waiting for years to get that status. >> oh my goodness. dana thank you for bringing charles pistaniment i know you started asking questions of the irs and the tea party about two years ago. of course, this week, we have the hearings, first of all, what do you hope is going to be accomplished with these hearings? >> first of all, we need to get to the facts on all these

issues. we need to understand what happened, why would these conservative groups targeted? why was private, personal taxpayer information leaked? and also on a broader note, why is the irs wasting all this money, yet claiming they need more resources. navrkt in fact, secretary jack 'lew, i specifically asked him, is there any other area you can cut over at the irs? they're asking for another billion dollars in the fiscal year, aen additional billion dollars. he, of course, said no. well, the fact of the matter is, we've seen compelling evidence of waste with the star trek video the gilligan's island video and the conference. all this conference spending, this lavish spending. so we're going to get to the bottom of all of this, through there's hearings andinterviews we're conducting. >> we mentioned two irs employees have been placed on leave. do you anticipate no more

dismissals? >> i anticipate more as the new acting commissioner reviews things from top to bottom. we're going to continue our congressional investigations. we have been told we will abide the acting commissioner, we will have a full and tely cooperation in this. we're going to hold him to it. >> you know, people who have been, you know, you drive down any roadway, you see fair tax on the back of some people's trucks. are they getting some good ammunition from this scandal, do you think? >> well, i think will is a public outcry now for tax simplification. that can take on many different forms t. house ways and means committee has been working well over two years now on a complete rewrite of the tax code, starting from scratch, making the tax code fairer for the individual, getting the irs out of everybody's business, keeping it simple so that the irs plays mohr of an ad men straf role an not an intrusive role and i think this is critical. if we can simplify the tax code

and lower rates, i think we'll see better compliance, we'll see, you know, happier taxpayer in the long run. we can lower rates and actually help this economy. >> you know, though, there are americans watching this who had been audited. people who are meticulous with their receipts. wp they hear that irs representatives and employees haven't kept their own receipts, that is enraging to so many people. what can you say to americans watching this right now that would help give them any faith in our system? >> well, first of all, it's absolutely astounding that the irs would have such a glaring double standard. wen any of us knows if are you odd ied, you have to -- audited, you have to make your case. they have refused releite petedly to come clean before our committee. we are going to hold them to a much higher level of accountably now. we're not going to stop. we will be relentless in this

pursuit of finding out what is going on with every single dollar they pay. we are also looking to why certain taxpayers were particularly targeted for audits. >> all right. representative, thank you for taking the time to talk with us. >> great to be with you, thank you. >> we are back? just a moment. stay close. . twenty-five thousand mornings, give or take, is all we humans get.

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rodriguez before he struck a deal. joe carter has more in the bleacher report. hey, joe. >> hi, christy, yeah, this report is according to new york daily news, they're saying that bosch tried to get hundreds of thousands of dollars from alex road guess. rodriguez never gave him money. major league baseball became concerned bosch may turn to other plooi players seeking more money. they decided to step in and struck a deal. he is expected to present them with evidence for 20 baseball, inturn, dropped their lawsuit against bosch. this video is from tampa, florida yesterday where a-rod has been for the past five weeks rehabbing from left hip surgery. now, after this rehab session, a-rod did not speak to the media orphans after his workout. the walks and the mariners, boy, they played a mayor on the game yesterday. 16 innings, lasted six hours,

seattle's kyle seerg made baseball history in the 14th ink. he is the 4th player ever to tie a game with a grand slam in extra innings. you think that hit was enough to win the game? it wasn't. chicago scored twice in the 16th inning to win 7-5. this game was scoreless for 13 endings. then the two teams combined to score 12 runs in the last two innings. tonight, the nba finals start. miami and san antonio have never played each other in the finals, it feels like a rematch for lebron james. in 2007, when lebron played for the cleveland cavaliers the spur, many of the same spurs swept those cavs right out of the finals. >> you know, in '07, they beat us on our home floor, celebrated us on our home floor. i won't forget that. you shouldn't as a competitor, you should never forget that. so, you know, it's the same group of guys for the most part t. same big three and coach pop. >> take it for what you will,

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>> now in the newsroom, walls crumble, building collapse, several people trapped inside. >> when we got there, all you could hear was "help" and maybe see a hasn't. >> rescue crews were able to, though, to save 14 people from the concrete and glass. we are waiting for a press conference. we will bring it to you as soon as it starts. also, why is the government snooping in your phone records? if you are a verizon customer, you know they have access? how did this happen and can you stop it? plus, you will meet a woman who watched her friend die in a fiery car crash. >> the whole thing had gone up in flames and we watched them, those people burn to death. >> well, she is now leading an effort to get some jeep cherokees off the road. the company said, no, they're safe the company is refusing to

recall them. plus, finally, tears of joy in boston. a young woman injured and the woman who helped her. they meet for the first time, nearly two months after the attack. you are live in the cnn "newsroom." we are glad to have you here. i want to wish you a happy friday eve. that's what i like to call thursday. it sound a little better. i'm christy paul in for carolyn costello. they are already feeling the effects in florida. at least two tornado, that's been upped in the last hour. it was just one. now two tornadoes touched down in the tampa bay area, take a look at what's left here. there was some scattered damage as well, downed power lines, thankfully, no injuries at this point. andrea has been pounding the coastline with heavy rain, cnn's

george howl has that story from clearwater beach, florida, where he is. it looks like, is the rain getting worse? how have you seen it progress in the last say hour or so, george? >> reporter: christy, you know the torrential rainfall comes and goes. definitely, we're in it right now. a lot of rain coming down. the winds have picked up here substantially. we've seen the wind gusts pick up. they can go anywhere from 60 to sometimes 70 miles per hour. as we are closer now to that centre of circulation. you can see it out here in this inland bay. you can see, the whitecaps out there the winds have churched up -- churned up the water. this will continue as the storm system remains over the tampa area. again, there was a real threat earlier. the threat remains of these tornadoes. these are not nearly as strong tornadoes as we saw in oklahoma a few days ago, but tornadoes associated with this system. also, there is a threat of flooding. keep in mind they could see anywhere from three to six inches of rainfall from all the

rain coming down. we are seeing minor flooding on the roads, christy. also the storm surge. they're expecting that to be 21 to three feet higher than the average high tide, so some coastal flooding as well, just a storm that as long as it remains over this part of florida, it's going to cause some flooding and some problems. >> all right. hey, george, thank you so much. we certainly are wirk you and the crew back there, do stay safe. i want to get to you philadelphia in a little bit here as we're waiting for a press release or a press conference, rather from the mayor there about this building collapse. 14 people, remember, were saved, but we're waiting to hear from mayor michael future who is going to address the media. these are some live pictures as they try desperately to get all of that cleaned up. tropical storm andrea, though, i want to get back to that real quickly, is going to be affecting other states besides florida. meteorologist andrea petersens is looking at the projected path. so what do you fine in the trajectory?

>> definitely looks like a heavy rain for the eastern seaboard. a lot are saying where did tropical storm andrea come from? it starts early in the pacific. originally, this was hurricane bar brachlt it dissipated and let that moisture reform. now we have the first tropical storm of the atlantic season and, of course, this is andrea. that's where we are watching it strengthen. it's not expected to strengthen into a hurricane. current winds are at 16 miles per hour. what is it expected to do? it's expected to bring large amounts of rainfall, it will affect southern portions of georgia, going to the carolina, all the way up to new york. so a lot of heavy rain expected. storm surge 2 to 4 feet t. biggest concern has been the isolated threats. we had them around palm beach. they actually showed recently a little of that damage. it's a neefrtly quadrant that does that, the reason is the water is smoother than the land. once those wednesday go over the land, you get the friction.

spauns up these minute tornadoes. nothing as strongly as last week. therefore, they're very dangerous. again, we childrentally have a tornado warning around the tampa area. so we will be monitoring that. okay the heavier band is starting to pull in. with that stronger wind as well. kind of projected rainfall. florida has already had almost a foot of rain. the flooding concerns are high. this is the last thing they need. four to six inches of rain projected. now, the sun continues up the eastern seaboard, we are talking one to two, two to four inch, very heavy rainfall exmixed expected here over the next several days. it's the last thing they need at this point in time. >> thank you, we appreciate it. two irs employees are on administrative leaf for their involvement in a 2010 conference in anaheim that cost millions of tax dollars. this comes as a house hearing is under way on the agency spending. this hearing is titled collected

and wasted. and we know jay russell of georgia is going to be testifying. he's the treasury inspector general whose report detailed $50 million on employee conference spent from 2010 to 2012. and i want to take you back to florida real li quickly, to the florida courtroom. a judge in the george zimmerman trial hearing this on whether to alou voice analysis of the crucial 911 call. the judge we know also has to rule on a proposed list of terms that the defense wants banned from the trial. we'll talk more about that in just a bit. attorney general eric holder is preparing to tefg testify in front of a senate committee. that's supposed to start in about 30 minutes t. hearing was originally called to discuss budgets for next year, but holder, you know, will likely have to answer questions about his role on the investigation of leaks involving reporters. well, this morning, the white house is reacting to the

report that a u.s. spy agency is monitoring millions of your phone calls and they're defending it calling it, look, this is a counterterrorism tool, they say. we're talking about a secret court order obtained by a british newspaper that forces verizon to hand over telephone records to if national security agency. includes domestic calls, telephone numbers and the location, time and duration of your calls. some people are outraged now, though. they say this is the broadest under surveillance order ever issued. so take a look at the reaction online. if you have seen it yet the huffington post head lines, they're watching. the drudge report, well, it's not the angle, can you hear me now? not everyone is so upset, though, conservative newt gingrich told cnn's piers morgan he's okay with this. >> yes. if the cause, if the necessity for tracking down terrorists in the united states is that the national security agency limited

only to counterterrorism is gathering information, then i would support it. >> ynn's white house correspondent brianna keeler is in washington. i know this is the first time we have seen a under surveillance order that has been this large in scope from the obama administration. what is the talk there this morning? >> reporter: well, the reaction from the administration, christy, as you mentioned, they are reacting to this without conif i recalling that it's going on, the fbi is not commenting. verizon is not commenting. but the white house or i should say a senior administration official put out a statement saying information of the sort described in the guardian article has been a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats to the united states, as it allows counterterrorism personnel to discover whether known or suspected terrorists had been in contact with other persons who may have been edge gauged in terrorist activities, particularly people located inside the united states, inside the united states, christy, because this is sort of the

unprecedented domestic under surveillance. we definitely heard under the bush administration a lot about phone calls and certainly information of phone calls being monitored when one party was in a foreign country. but in this case are you talking about a phone call originating and ending in the united states. so here the administration is also trying to emphasize, this isn't eavesdropping. this is meta data gathering. getting information about what the phone number is, the length of the call, maybe being able to group some of these calls that could be suspicious, christy. >> you know, when you look at the dates here as i understand it, the order started april 25th. a lot of people say that was quite near the boston bombing, april 15th. is there any relation here? >> reporter: you know, we don't know at this point. there are many outstanding questions. we don't know if this is perhaps somewhat regular and we're see this one order, maybe there are other orders. we don't know if it extends

beyond verizon. but in this case, certainly it is large in scope just involving verizon. you are talking about millions of customers. so because of that, millions upon millions of phone calls, the information of which would be monitored by the nsa in this fbi requested top secret order. >> some people might look at this and say if the under surveillance allowed them to the put a act, to the patriot october, why is it terrorist related? o. >> reporter: well, the law provided for this fisa court, foreign intelligence act court. it's a top process establish and reviewed under the bush administration because there were privacy concerns. what it does, it allows there to be some judicial oversight of exactly tease requests, wire tanks that kind of thing, but it allows for there to be a judge that can have input in it but also keep it quiet because it is a matter of national security.

so, yeah, this is top secret. it is something that at least we're trying to figure out whether this is legal. whether it's legal or not, though, christy, this is something that's upsetting a lot of people and creating a lot of privacy issues. >> hey, thanks for walking us through i it. good to see you this morning. next in the "newsroom," michael jackson's only daughter rushed to the hospital after an apparent suicide attempt. now, see the video where paris jackson herself says she's crazy and need help. let's take a look at the do you, it's up, slightly, in fact, 14 points. wreak. ike we'll be right back. .we'll be right back. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. ready?

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certainly down a bit. it looks like some cars are on the road there. we do know this tropical storm could drench florida with up to six inches of rain. forecasters don't expect it to become a hurricane. that's the good news, of course. it's packing winds of 60 miles an hour as it moves up the eastern coastline and further inland. we'll keep you posted on that. michael jackson's only daughter recovering this morning after an apparent suicide attempt. sources say paris jackson slit her own wrists. sources say, physically, she's fine, which is good news. one source described it as a cry for help. a week ago, she released this video. >> i need serious help. i am crazy. i am crazy. anyways -- >> the jackson family is in the midst of a civil lawsuit. okay, there are pictures there posing with her father. she has been interviewed several times for that lawsuit that's

going on right now. so just wondering if that took a toll on her. let's hope she recovers. investigators believe a mechanical failure sparked a deadly fire on a bridge last month. officials say air sprengs in the back of that limo ruptured and that's what set in motion a chain reaction that led to the fire. were, five women died in that car. they were headed to a bridal shower. it's a sign of hope for rescue workers at the site of a building collapse in philadelphia. overnight, a 61-year-old woman was found alive after spending more than 12 hours trapped in the rubble. a building being demolished came crumbling down wednesday morning. we do know six people were killed. i want to show you what's going on there right now as we wait for the mayor of philadelphia to address the media again. a giant breck wall, more than 100-feet long, four stories

high, came down with a boom on to a busy salvation army thrift store. >> i heard this great big crack. >> claude davis was just across the street watching from his apartment. >> i looked and seen the building crumble. oh, it was panful. oh, my goodness. and i thought about all them people in there that couldn't get out of there and i screamed and hollered. >> reporter: those people who couldn't get out include those who died and at least a dozen customers and workers at the thrift store in philadelphia centre city. jordan mclaughlin saw it happened and rushed in to help. >> people actually fell over. people were screaming. they ran across the street. there was people inside the building, you heard them scream. >> another rescuer, hail corbin standing on the rubble helped pull four people out. >> we were on top of the roof pulling them out. when we got there, all you called hear is help and maybe

see a hand or something through the rubble. >> the philadelphia mayor says they don't know how many were in the thrift store at the time. so to prevent any further collapse, he ordered all traffic and trains stopped for blocks, sent in dogs to smell human cent and ored a full investigation. >> thfgs an active demolition site, no violation, no complaints that we are aware of and all permits were valid. >> reporter: also searching for answers, those who saw the tragedy up close who describe independent as a war zone. >> you had tar, you had sheet rock. you name it, a bunch of dust. you heard a bunch of cries, help, help, help, help. >> reporter: you can see back in full force here the rescuers and the people who are trying to clean up the debris here. you also see city officials gathering. we are awaiting the mayor. we are told the mayor will be here shortly to update people. the latest, christy, a 61-year-old woman removed from this debris 12 hours after the

collapse. she is being treated at the hospital at the university of pennsylvania. so far, we know 14 people were taken out of here. we know six people have died. they believe at this point, at least they hope everyone is accounted for. but they're being very careful to make sure that they look for everyone. the basement in this building was not compromised. they were able to get into the basement. dwlats they believe most of the -- that's why they believe most of the people are accounted for. as i look to my left the mayor is making his way down here. self people will be joining the press conference. >> okay. good to know. are we expecting to hear from him anything about a cause? i think that's the biggest question people have right now. >> reporter: well, yeah, the investigation is ongoing and overnight, we learned some interesting things about the construction site t. manager, the other than, and also the person who is driving the crane. but again, we're waiting to get more information on that. they're looking into everything,

city permit, were there inspectors on the scene. was it inspected on time enough to get the right permits? so far the mayor said there were no violation no, permits at last check, but they were digging into more about the construction site owner, the building owner. when we spoke to a young man who was here, just happened to be on the corner, if you can pan over here, he happened to be to my right. about to pick up the phone to call his mom when he saw the wall wobbling back and forth and he said what he thought was it looked like the wall was going to fall back into the demolition site, which would be to the left of your screen, but then it wobld back and forth and then it fell to the right on top of the thrift store, a huge cloud of smoke. he said people were just running out of there and those who weren't running away the people who saw it started running in to help the people who were trapped inside. >> isn't that something? just like we saw at the boston

bombing, we talk about people who run towards it as opposed to running away. obviously, they were running away to get away from it. you think about what these people saw the emotions. what are people telling you gone about -- i mean, we heard from the one person, she looked like she was broken up talking about what she witnessed. >> reporter: well, people are, obviously, they can't believe it. there is a senior home just over my left shoulder, an apartment building where many of the people who witnessed it live. some of them in wheelchairs. we spoke to some of them. they were about therapy day trying to get sunshine, the weather was fairly good yesterday and they heard the boom him when they heard, they looked towards this thrift store and then they saw the wall collapse. it's horrifying and the family, imagine being a family member of the people who died and that 61-year-old woman not knowing, you know, if your family member is in that rubble or not. again, we are awaiting the press

conference for the mayor. as soon as it happens, christy, we will get back to you. >> i know you said you saw him coming down the street. we will, obviously, await you to give us the green light. thank you so much. we appreciate it. right now, though, i want to tell you, we're hearing that chrysler is going to be recalling jom of its jeeps. but, apparently, it's not the ones we have been hearing about so much over the past couple of days. allisons soic is at the new york stock exchange. fill us in on this, what is going on? >> reporter: this can be a little confusion over what we reported yesterday. let me lay it out here. after chrysler refused to recall some of the older vehicles we talked about yesterday, it had been encouraged to or requested to recall from the government, actually, chrysler is coming out today and saying it will voluntarily recall 630,000 different vehicles in two separate recalls. the first is for newer model suvs, the jeep compass and jeep

patriot from model tweers 2010 and 2012. they are recalled because there is a delay with the side airbag, that there is a rollover, also a problem with the seatbelts. now the second recall is for the jeep wrangler, suvs for the transmission line. this is for model years 2012 and 2013. now, chrysler is not aware of any injuries, it says, or accidents caused by these issues. both of theerls, chrysler said the customers will be notified and repairs done at no cost. this is coming off chrysler refused a request by u.s. regulators to recall another 2.7 older model jeep suvs, this is after the center for auto safety said hundreds of fires and deaths occurred in these cher keys and libertys. chrysler said they were overstated. those were the 1993 through 2004 jeep grand cherokees and the 2002, 2007 libertys. now, chrysler says

conclusions by u.s. regulators are based on incomplete data, which is why they refused to recall those vehicles. >> thank you for clarifying, for everyone watching, theerls have nothing to do with gas tanks. is still something, some people say is up in the air. allison, thank you for the clarification. and stay with us. we just showed you some of the latest pictures, like pictures from philadelphia as crews are there cleaning up a very delicate situation hoping that they've gotten everybody out. six people are dead, but 14 were rescued after that building collapse there. we are waiting to hear from philadelphia mayor michael nutter, who is going to talk to us more. hopefully about the cause the response the victims, we are back in just a moment. . goodnight.

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>> all right let's take you out to philadelphia. is mayor nutter walk up to the mic, hopefully, giving us answers on that building collapse if philadelphia. >> sorry, we are running behind. what i'd like to do is, i'm going to give you every possible piece of information that i have right now about a number of different things. i will preface that by staying we are still in an active search and rescue mode, so unfortunately there may be something that i can't either comment on or literally just don't have information about. so, obviously, i can't tell you what i don't know. having said that, let me give you a little bit of a recap of where we are. as you all well know, the first report about the incident at 2136 market street came in at

10:43 a.m. yesterday morning. firefighters and first responders were on the scene at 10:45 a.m. yesterday morning. we are now nearly 24 hours into this tragic event. search and rescue operations continued overnight. there was some apparently concerned that efforts had been suspended. is not correct. as you can see, work is actively going on behind us right now. what will happen over the course of the next few hours is that a very large crane is being brought in. will, or is onsite now. it was onsite when i was briefed. 75% of the site has been searched, obviously, that means that 25% yet still remains, part

of which is to the actual structure that you see heevend you with the theft store sign on i. there is also a wall to the south of the building that needs to be taken down. firefighters and search and rescue folks are very concerned about that particular wall. work will extend probably easily into the afternoon. in the meantime, the perimiter has further been reduced. it is now from 21st treat to 23rd street, from market to arch and 22nd street is still closed from chestnut to arch. all other streets have been released and are opened. with regard to the victim, as i said to many of you who are here

last night about 11:00 p.m., we have asked that we have some amount of, call it humanity time through the course of at least this day, we still have families that are trying to notify other family members and i would just ask in your, all of us, away from our regular daytime jobs in the sense of respect and humanity for those family, we would like to try to prevent family members from learning the fate of one of their loved ones from fuse media as opposed to another family member. we do plan to release the names of the victims pretty much at the close of business today. we have not yet figured out if we are having a full briefing, although we very well may. if we do, we will release those

names towards the tail end of today. i would just ask if you can hold on for a little while to try not to, i pine, whatever is out there is already out there. i understand that. if you can hold off for the rest of the day, we'll give that you information and then you'll have it, but i know for a fact that some of the families have not been able to contact all of their members. with regard to a question that came up yesterday involving inspections and what happens in a demolition situation, the basics, having nothing specifically to do with this particular dem will situation that an entity, a company applies for a permit. the permit is issued. and one inexis required prior to the start of the work.

so that's a standard process and procedure. in this particular incident, a couple things, one, we received a citizen complaint in early may about the property located at 2134 market street. the property in question, the building that fell, the wall of the building that fell yesterday is at 2136 market street. a few days later, an inspector went to the property that had been complained about, which was 2134 market street, found that there were no violations at that time. the property 2136 commonly known as the hoagie city building, that demolition had not yet started. building was fully intact.

the sign was in place and was no work had been done yet on that particular building. so the building was fully ining the and the structure there at that time. is all the information i have about that, that particular situation, be you there is one inspection required between the time of issuance and the start of the demolition activity. those are the facts on that. i'm going to ask commissioner atories give you a little information about a little more deail about what will take place today in terms of personnel and apparatus. then i think pretty much after he has completed, i will be able to answer any questions you may have. mr. ayers. >> currently, the operation that's gone on right now is the

making safe the search area. we have an area that we will continue to search approximately 20% of the entire area left in the rear, where behind me, you can see the wall is being taken down. there's a small area inside the store that has a, inside the theft shov shop area that's still standing, that will be searched as well, a very small percentage. we want to go in there. we have already planned overnight for the next 12-hour period, which it should extend us into the afternoon, hopefully, we'll be done at that point. but if not, we'll continue to let you know a little later in the day. but outside of that, as you know, last night, we stayed the course. our members did pull out one female live and that's why we stayed the course. that's what this rescue effort

is all about. and in all of the despair with the people who were deceased, that american being pulled out alive is what every rescue is all about and what a technical rescue is all about. some place there is an opportunity for a void and we keep that same spirit and faith moving forward reit now as we move into this afternoon period. so we still have approximately 42 of our members on scene right now. question have our technical rescue contingency still on scene. as soon as they're finished, they will be right back on those areas taking care of that. so -- >> all right. so three or four big take-aways from this press conference with pair nutter who you see -- with mayor nutter who you see there at the mic. first of all, they are in search and rescue mode. still 24 hours later, they are

still optimistic if anybody is trapped, they are going to be able to get to them. so they have been working and will continue do so. no. 2, there sha wall to the south of this bhilding that still needs to be torn down. they are concerned about that. clearly, they have some concerns about whether that may fall again or may fall for the first time and what they might do, so they're watching specifically that side that, south side of the building. thirdly, there are still families who need to be notified of the six victims who died. so they are holding on to that information and those identities until the end of today. they believe by the end of today, they will be able to release the names of those people who perished and lastly, they were talking about an inspection that happened in a building right next door back in may and at that point, the mayor says there was a complaint, they had an inspector go in, everything was fine in may. the building right next to this building that collapsed.

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because of problems with the airbags and the seatbelts. heres the kicker, those are not the cherokees that carries the fire risk. it's that fire risk that has jeep drivers worried for their safety at this point. i want to introduce you to janelle embry. she never drove a jeep. she knows all too well the tragedy that can come from one of these fires you are seeing the picture of here. she witnessed this jeep fire after a highway accident and since then has devoted herself to advocacy if launching an online petition to recall the jeep. janelle is joining us now. thank you, janelle, nor take figure time to be with us. can you, first of all, so we know, give us a sense of what happened the night of that accident. >> sure. my dad and i had decided to go out for a drive on this lovely perfect weather fall evening of the 3-day holiday weekend and we, he lives relatively close to

a highway ramp, so we went right up to the ramp, got onion, was going to go one exit and come home. and we found ourselves in the back of a traffic jam and as we stopped our vehicle, then we felt like the world had exploded. something awful was happening. we were spinning. there was crashing. there was glass flying. we thought we were going to die and as that ended and we crawled out of our vehicles after the most horrific experience of our entire live, we noticed that there was also a jeep that had been behind us and a tractor-trailer had hit us and we saw a sainte-paul fire at the back of that vehicles which quickly grew at which point we saw the people struggling. my father ran to assist them. i was frozen in tears standing there crying. i really wasn't much use at the

accident, because i knew that somebody was going to burn to death right in front of us. it was just unbelievable that my dad actually broke a window out with his bare hands and pulled the first person in his reach out, which was a teen-aged boy. unfortunately, he was just in time for him to observe his mother and his best friend, a college roommate, i'm sorry, a college mate, i don't know if they were roommates burn to death in front of all of us. >> okay. so my goodness, how is your dad do something how are you doing after seeing that? >> you know, compared to the other folks and their families, we feel like we are doing fantastic. >> well, you are also, i know, doing a lot to try to make changes happen, after you witnessed this, you were wondering, what is your reaction today to the news that chrysler is refusing this recall that are you fighting for? >> well, i am fighting back

tears, because when i initially heard it, i thought maybe they had finally done the right thing and, you know, although i was awaiting confirmation, i was really starting to get excited and happy that the line of destiny that folks are standing in, their dis tinned to die in a jeep fire was going to be closed down. but, unfortunately, they, you know, recalled minor things, they recalled things that aren't controversial. they won't cost a lot of money. if something costs a lot of money, it seems that people burning to death are okay with chrysler. that's okay with them. >> have you heard from them at all? i mean, you have taken such steps online to get the word out here. have you gotten any response from the government or from chrysler? >> i am in touch with david strickland's office at the national highway safety

administration. we are going to meet very soon. it will be this month. they are dealing with their own piece of this defiance by chrysler and they, chrysler has a few more days to put up, to officially respond is what i'm trying to say. we're just still hopeful that they're going to do the right thing. >> it almost made you speechless there, didn't it? what was it that you were thinking about that you just couldn't get out there? is it the fact that you haven't heard from chrysler, that they haven't made a move yet? >> well, unfortunately, we have heard and every, every public statement and every, you know, every response that they give has been complete defiance. it has been lies. i don't hesitate to say that they are lying to the public with their one in a million years usage information.

they are playing with calculations and, i'm sorry, i'm not a physicist or a statustician. but i have had it explained to me by a couple of those folks, there are a different ways you can do these calculations to come up with the numbers. if you want to come up with a certain number. they're playing with those numbers to make themselves look favorable to the public. >> okay. just so everybody know, and we have not spoken to chrysler, heard how they calculate those numbers in all fairs in. you actually paid for an ad, a bill billboard, is that right, in your area? this is it. we're showing it on the screen right now. i'm wondering, what was your intent with that ad, was it to make people aware? was it to get jeep to do something? were there dual intents? >> dual intent, definitely. of course, i figured that at the very least i would at least make people in my own area aware of

this horrible, horrible danger and at the most i was hoping that this would help people find my petition and get enough signatures at change.org to make something happen and after nitsa has received, they've received 125,000 e-mails from concerned citizens using the platform to have change.org and i think that had to have had an impact on their decision to finally make a conclusion in this investigation. >> well, janelle, we appreciate you sharing your story with us. we are so sorry for what you and your father went through and that family, but we're so grateful that you took some time to tell us your story and thank you very much. >> thank you so much. >> now, i do want to let you know, earlier, chrysler did respond to this issue again as we said.

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that take place here the last chance for the attorneys and the prosecution to lay down the basic foundation, the rules. one of the things they are debateing is pretty serious. is the allegation made by the defense that the prosecution in this case has not handed over all the evidence it has against george zimmerman or all the evidence it has collected. specifically, mark o'mara is saying there is photographs and that there were text messages on trayvon martin's cell phone that were not handed over to the defense and under the rules of prosecution or sorry under the rules of discovery the prosecution must hand over everything. the allegations are actually initially being made by an attorney wesley white. he represents a gentleman who had access, apparently, as part of the official investigation of trayvon martin's cell phone. it is the attorney saying his client implies there were these photographs and these delete messages that apparently were

not given over to the defense. if that's true, that would be an extremely serious matter and what the defense is asking for is sanctions against the prosecutor. we are waiting to hear how this comes out. but it was a very contentious cross examination between bernie d'alendara and white. >> it's like asking. let me put it this way, sir, if you were engaged in misconduct, i think i would be the last person to disclose that to. if i can do it with a simple phone call with mr. o'mara and he would could say, yes, we got those photographs, we wouldn't be here, if i contacted you, if you had purposely misled this court, i i don't expect that i would have gotten a straight forward answer from you. so that's why i didn't contact you. >> now, you know, i get a little out of the ways their what is

going on, that attorney, mr. white, has a tistory with the prosecutor. he has a history with the prosecutor's office, in part, that's what he is saying the reason you are bringing this information out is to simply make us to look bad in white says no. >> martin savidge, thank you for letting us know what's happening there. boy, we're in the 11th hour here. so we'll see what the judge decides. also, i want to tell you about this man, after being shot in the head, people thought he'd never walk again. but this senior class president, he not only defied the odds, he is taking centre field. at od, whatever business you're in, that's the business we're in with premium service like one of the best on-time delivery records and a low claims ratio, we do whatever it takes to make your business our business.

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talk or even stand. in april he was shot in the head while trying to break up a fight at a party. at northwestern high school, holdings was an honor student, football star, senior class president. he was excelling until the bullet that struck him in the head threatened to take everything away. instead of finishing out his senior year, he spent weeks in the hospital fighting for his life. miraculously, he walked on stage at the ceremony surprising his classmates. >> first of all, i want to thank god, it is so good to be alive! [ cheers ] >> i have fully rehabilitated. >> now, fully rehabl tatd is working on his pitching arm. last night, he was invited to throw out the first ceremonial pitch atco america park in oo atcoamerica park full of fans.

>> i want to show i got shot in the head, i'm still myself. i hope people get inspired by my story and know that you can make it through anything if you have faith in god. >> even those holdings missed the last few months of school, he had enough credits to graduate. he wasn't well enough to be able walk at the graduation. he wasn't going to let a shooting keep him from missing his high school graduation. >> taik take that inspiration with you today. thank you so much for spending time with us. go make some great memories. cnn "newsroom" continues right now. hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield. we have a busy show ahead t. day's news and always our take on daytime justice. right this moment, the government secretly collecting phone records of tens of millions of us. attorney general eric holder being grilled on what he knows about t