hurricane force winds, heavy rain and possible flooding, tropical storm andrea takes aim at florida. we're going to take you there live. and, pulled out alive. rescuers found this woman under the rubble of a building collapse after being trapped for more than 12 hours. plus, a u.s. spy agency could be tracking your phone calls. that is right.

it's legal. this is "cnn newsroom" and i'm suzanne malveaux. we start with this, right now the first named storm of the hurricane season bearing down on florida. tropical storm andrea expected to make landfall over the big bend area in the next few hours. it's already bringing high winds, a lot of rain, some damage to florida's west coast. alina is standing by in clearwater, florida. what are you seeing? >> suzanne, some good news to start off with. it's amazing what a difference just a couple of hours makes. as you can see it is still pretty windy, but the sun is out. things have calmed down considerably. earlier today when we came out to survey, there were heavy downpours. those heavy downpours caused some localized flooding, which i'm standing in. this is about half a foot of water near the shoreline. you can see behind me people are out here enjoying the rough surf. there is very rough surf.

we've seen families, children out here, people with their surfboards out here. this is very unusual for this beach. typically this beach the water here is very, very calm. but as you can see it's rough right now. the beach is open. there is a lifeguard at the lifeguard station. there is a warning flag up, but so far they feel like conditions are improving and the beach is remaining open. suzanne. >> stay safe. we'll be keeping a close eye on you there. you got your cnn gear on ready to go. we'll bring you back in a little bit. thanks. so check this out. if you're a verizon customer, right, the federal government might actually have your number and the numbers of the people you have been talking to. that is according to "the guardian" newspaper, the government asked for and got a secret order requiring verizon to turn over millions of phone records. so, a lot of people upset about this, privacy advocates simply outraged. but lawmakers from both sides of the aisle say this is a legal tool that is used to track

terrorists. >> as far as i know, this is the exact three-month renewal of what has been the case for the past seven years. this renewal is carried out by the fiza court under the business record section of the patriot act. therefore, it is lawful. it has been briefed to congress. >> it is simply what we call metadata that is never utilized by any governmental agency unless they go back to the fiza court and show that there's real cause as to why something within the metadata should be looked at. so that's, i think, been very clear all along for the use of this program. it is proved meritorious because

we have gathered significant information on bad guys, but only on bad guys, over the years. >> i want to bring in our dan lothian at the white house. dan, there are some people who are very angry about this. they're using words like blanket surveillance of all of our phone calls here if you use verizon. this is not the kind of thing we saw under president bush where it was calls to and from overseas to the united states. but this is just between folks here in this country. how does the administration kind of explain this expanse, if you will? >> right. some would say the reason for that is because we've seen sort of home grown terror network, lone operators like what we saw happening in boston recently. and so there is a need some would argue for this kind of effort to deal with this homeland threat as opposed to in the past where it was looking in or listening in on conversations that were perhaps originating in the united states but headed

overseas. the administration very careful in how they're responding to this. i should point out that josh earnest, principle deputy spokesman will be gagling, giving a background briefing with reporters a short time from now aboard air force one as the president heads out to north carolina. but earlier a senior administration official not confirming, not denying the existence of this order but pointing out in a statement that "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." making the case what we're talking about here is not listening into any private conversation, but metadata where it's location or a phone number but not the actual conversation that's taking place. as for verizon, they have not officially yet commented on what is going on here in this operation, this order. but there was an internal memo that cnn did get ahold of. and in this memo verizon saying they continually take steps to

safeguard its customers privacy, nevertheless the law authorizes the federal court to order a company to provide information in certain circumstances. and in verizon were to receive such an order, we would be required to comply. what's a little fuzzy there is according to the fiza guidelines, they have a process of which they could appeal the legality. so still more questions surrounding what they did. >> people surprised that the government is actually legal to do this kind of thing. dan, thank you so much. we appreciate it. we actually had a chance to talk to some verizon customers, get their reaction. what do they think about what's happening here? the government tracking their phone calls. here's how they responded. >> i guess i would just want to know, you know, what the purpose of it is. you know. and then once i could know what the purpose of it is, then maybe i would be okay with it. >> i think it's a huge invasion of privacy. and i think it's very scary because, you know, what will that lead to next? >> it's helping them to find

terrorists or to prevent things from happening, absolutely, i would be willing to give that information. but i think it should be requested. >> who knows what they're going to do with it or whose hands it will get into. no. i don't agree with that at all. >> and verizon released this statement to its employees saying that they cannot comment on whether or not "the guardian"'s report is accurate. that coming from verizon. we're following this, rescuers now in philadelphia they are hoping that they can finish up this search for survivors. yeah, survivors of that collapsed building. they hope that this happens this afternoon. right now they're still looking for any signs of life amid the rubble. the mayor, michael nutter, says that crews have searched about 75% of the site where you see there it was the site of a four-story building toppled on to the adjacent salvation army store. what happened? we saw this unfold yesterday. six people died from that collapse. 14 were rescued.

many of them pulled from the rubble by witnesses immediately after the collapse. watch this. >> we were on top of the roof pulling them out. they were on an angle where there was such a narrow space to climb in because when we got there all you could hear was help and maybe see a hand or something through the rubble. and that's when the guys kicked in, they ran straight up, jumped and started moving. >> that's real heroics there. the mayor, michael nutter, he is promising a wide range investigation of course. don lemon, he is in philadelphia. and, don, it was really extraordinary. i mean, you've been covering this for the last 12 to 24 hours here. and there was somebody at midnight, right, who was pulled out alive? is that right? >> that's right. 12 hours after. 12 hours after a 61-year-old woman pulled out of this rubble and then taken to the hospital at the university of pennsylvania. she is in critical condition right now. amazingly though she was the only person who was not able to

walk away to get up and walk on their own vu ligs. they need to search 25% more. they've searched a bit more than that since he had the press conference earlier. we are seeing firefighters on the scene here. and we are hearing that, you know, they're hoping that everyone is out of there. but they may -- there may still be other people in there. as a matter of fact, they are searching now for another possible person, another possible body sadly inside of all this rubble. but there it is going on. and i'm wearing the glasses not because i'm reading anything here. these are my reading glasses. because there's so much dust in the area. pretty much everyone around here is either covering their eyes or put on glasses or sunglasses to keep the dust out. that's what the firefighters and the rescuers are up against here. and, again, searching the back part of that building and that wall that you see still standing, the south wall, suzanne, they're concerned about that. they're trying to shore that up

because they think it's in jeopardy of collapsing as well. >> don, real quickly here, you said they're still searching. do they believe they could find someone who has survived? >> they do believe that they may be able to find, hopefully, someone who survived. they think everyone is accounted for, but they're not sure. you've heard the mayor say it, they're not sure how many people were inside the building because this happened on a public street, people were walking by, there's traffic, there were customers in the store. don't know how many. there were employees in the store as well. they're not sure, they think everyone is accounted for. but they just want to, you know, double check and recheck about that. and then also interesting news on the investigation that susan candiotti will follow-up later on for "the situation room" here on cnn. >> okay. don, thank you. appreciate it. this is interesting. just after announcing it would fight a request to recall almost three million of its jeep -- rather grand cherokee libber fi suvs, chrysler now announcing a recall of other jeep models. the company says now more than

400,000 jeep patriot and compass suvs from model years 2010 to 2012 are being recalled over sensor activated restraint systems. the seat belts and air bags might not work properly during slow rollovers. chrysler is not aware of any injuries or accidents caused by that issue. the company is also recalling more than 200,000 2012 and 2013 suvs over the problem with power steering component and premature wear. all that happening with chrysler. here's what else we're workin on for this hour, racial profiling. learn why george zimmerman's lawyers want those and several others banned from the trial. and he was of course one of the most watched men in the world. what is it like now for mitt romney now that he's out of the spotlight? we're going to hear from him

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people in the world, and then the next day wake up in the morning and you're off to the costco, you know, loading the groceries in the trunk of your car. can you describe what that's like? that sudden shift? >> we lived our entire life, if you will, in privacy, like most people do. and then there was this extraordinary period of a year or so when we were highly visible and there's a secret service around you and people are getting everything you want, you're in your hotel room, you can't even leave your hotel room. they put exercise equipment in my hotel room so i could exercise because i couldn't go down to the regular exercise room without being photographed. so you're in that kind of a very public bubble for a while. and then when it disappears, and it disappears overnight. when you lose the election, it's just gone. snap, it's gone. and it's back to where you were before. and that feels right. >> fascinating interview. you can see more of this today on "the lead" with jake tapper beginning at 4:00 p.m. eastern and on "the situation room" with wolf blitzer starting at 5:00.

americans not sure whether or not obama care is the right prescription for the nation's health care system. this is just months before the program is expected to fully kick in. so in a cnn/orc poll, 43% say they favor the health care law while 54% oppose it. but, got to understand the context here, a big chunk of the opposition is from people who say the law does not go far enough, that it's not liberal enough. i want to bring in candy crowley, anchor of cnn's "state of the union," candy, good to see you as always. give me a sense of these poll numbers. what do you think about that? >> people are still not sure whether this is going to be a good or bad thing. as we know, the implementation of kind of the negative side of this if you will, and that is the how to pay for it side, is beginning to kick in. i mean, it's a 2014 is the big year it should be fully implemented. the rubber's going to hit the

road here. does this work or doesn't it? in general people, americans, have been pretty split about whether they like or don't like and as you mentioned there's a sizable chunk that thinks we should just have more -- and lots of times when you talk to those people what they would like sort of is federal health care, a sort of one-payer plan. i think it is the uncertainty of it. but the unsirnty can go either way. once this is fully implemented, if it does not do as envisioned, i think you'll see those numbers obviously get worse as to who likes it and who doesn't. if on the other hand it proves to be a success, it brings down numbers, people feel satisfied with the health care plans they're getting, well, i think you'll see the numbers change. >> there's a big surprise in all this, candy, as you know. unexpected person who is coming to the defense of obama care, that's arizona's republican governor jan brewer who had that moment with the president on the tarmac. a change of heart here? what's behind this?

>> money. and she's not fully behind all of the elements of obama care, but these states have a choice. and this came -- it was sort of part of the health care ruling from the supreme court that didn't get as much notice. what the supreme court said was that the administration could not punish states which did not expand their medicaid, that is health care plan for the poor. and what the administration visioned was that states would expand their medicaid plans, include more people in it, sort of raise the amount of income you could have and still get medicaid from the state. and in that way expand some of the coverage and jan brewer and other republican governors have said okay. and one of the reasons is that the federal government says we'll pick up the tab until 2020 of those that you add. right now it's split depending on a formula that goes state by

state, but the federal government has said if you expand your medicaid to include more people in your state, we will pick up the tab for the extras until 2020. and then states start having to pick it up. so if you can include more people in your state under a health care plan. >> right. >> and the federal government's going to pay for it, it sounds pretty good to some of these republican governors. >> money talks. all right. candy, thank you. good to see you as always. we'll be tuning in on sunday. paris jackson has been hospitalized as she waits to testify in her father's wrongful death trial. she talked about his loss a couple of years ago. watch this. >> we've adjusted over the past years. >> it is a tough, tough time. has she really adjusted? we've got a live report up ahead. she's still the one for you -

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paris jackson, the 15-year-old daughter of michael jackson, is said to be fine. this is a day after a possible suicide attempt. a lawyer for the family says she is physically okay and is

getting appropriate medical care. but what about her emotional state? miguel marquez has her story. >> a cry for help is how some family sources are describing a possible suicide attempt by paris jackson. paramedics rushing to the jackson family home, a suicide hot line counselor called 9-1-1 after getting a call from paris. frightening moments captured in this dispatch transmission played by "entertainment tonight". >> female 15 on mote rin and cut her arm with a kitchen knife. >> 9-1-1 responded to jackson's home at 1:27 a.m. wednesday morning for the possible overdose and a cut to one wrist. >> hello. this is my face. it's kind of a shocker, but, yes, this is what i look like. >> a week ago jackson released this how-to makeup video on youtube. in it she's funny, even silly. >> what is she doing there? what?

oh, oh, what? >> the 15-year-old with great natural beauty at times acts like any other teenager, unsure of herself. >> yes, i'm pink in the face. yes, i have acne. i'm so incredibly weird. i need serious help. i'm crazy. i am crazy. >> hours before the 9-1-1 call jackson tweeted, i wonder why tears are salty. and quoted the beatles, yesterday all my troubles seem so far away, now it looks as though they're here to stay. >> paris is a very sensitive and dramatic child, teenager 15 years old, the emotions that come with that. >> jackson along with her grandmother, kathrine, and her siblings, are suing concert promoter aeg for the wrongful death of her father. twice she's been questioned. >> paris was asked intimate details about her father and her father's death. it was a tough situation. >> tough situation for any kid, tougher yet for one who has spent so much of her life in the

spotlight. >> miguel marquez is joining us live from los angeles. we're all wishing paris the very best here and her healing, i can't imagine what she's actually going through. but i understand that there is even more that she's gotten a message from michael jackson's doctor, dr. conrad murray recently? >> well, it's not clear that she received the message herself, but cnn has confirmed through a lawyer of dr. murray that he did indeed send an audio message to paris jackson. in it he basically wanted to know what was eating away at her, asking her if there's anything that could ease her pain and that he was there for her. he also quoted songs, one of michael jackson's songs, "you are not alone," also other songs like "ain't no mountain high enough" and "you've got a friend." he ended the audiotape according to the website tmz by saying paris was there for him at his darkest moments. suzanne. >> so is the understanding that

he sent this after she was hospitalized? did it happen that recently? >> it sounds as though she was hospitalized when he heard what was going on and used the phone in the jail in the prison where he is in order to send this audio message. where exactly it went and whether or not paris' own ear haves heard it isn't clear. >> do we know how she's doing today? >> well, it's the same as yesterday. the family's saying that she is getting the medical help that she needs. as i understand she was put on a 51-50 or psychiatric care charge so they can hold her for 72 hours and take care of her. certainly the family has all of the means available to do this. it's just been a very rough time for that family. hopefully they will work it out. >> all right. miguel, thanks. we certainly wish her the very best. later this hour we're going to talk with jackson's former spokeswoman. she's known paris jackson since she was just a little baby. we're going to talk to her in about 15 minutes or so.

and this weekend cnn launching a new talk show, george stroumboulopoulos, he is hosting. he kicks off the show with martin short and keanu reeves sunday night 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. if you don't know who he is already, you might want to check out tomorrow's "around the world," at noon we'll be talking to him live. can words be banned at a trial? well, that's what george zimmerman's lawyers want. they think things like saying profiled, vigilante, could actually taint the jury.

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that keeps children younger than 12 from being prioritized to get adult lungs. the injunction is valid for just ten days. sarah's parents have said their daughter may only have a few weeks to live if she did you want get new lungs. the father says it's only fair those with the most severe problems should have access. and he's pretty excited about this. watch. >> if there's another adult who is more severe who has a higher lung allocation score, they will still get their lungs first. it's just now sarah will have an opportunity to not have to wait for every adult no matter what their score is to pass the lung and then it be offered to the pediatric patients. >> a spokeswoman for the group that oversees transplant rules says that the group is now waiting for clarification from the court. and they can this out, george zimmerman due back in court any minute now for a key hearing, this is before his murder trial starts on monday. so what happened this morning?

the judge denied a defense request to let a handful of witnesses testify anonymously during the trial. the defense argued it was for safety reasons. zimmerman is pleading not guilty to second-degree murder charges in the killing of trayvon martin. that happened february of last year. now, he says he shot trayvon martin, the unarmed teenager, in self-defense. former new york prosecutor dan schorr joins us from new york. first of all, dan, what was interesting about this is the defense wants certain terms now to be banned during the trial, nobody can use these terms. i want to give our audience a couple examples here that there was someone who was profiled for any variation of that term, profile as in racial profiling. vigilante. they don't want that used at all. self-appointed neighborhood watch cap pain. and wannabe cop. so what is the thinking behind this? >> it's pretty common before a

criminal trial you have pretrial hearings about terms that will come into evidence. in this case these terms are more emotionally charged and maybe more important korlgt the outcome of the defense. the judge will have to weigh any prejudicial effect or probative to the fact goes to the self-defense claim of the defendant. usually want facts properly admitted to court not just conclusion prejudicial terms. the judge will have to weigh those factors. >> explain to us here why do they care about these words? >> the defense doesn't want terms that might inflame the passions of the jury that they might hear the term racial profiling and automatically think less of the defendant and maybe be more likely to convict him. the prosecution will probably have to if they want to show some type of racial profiling history prove that through evidence, show other people he's followed and whether or not he's followed people based on race.

that's probably how the evidence will have to come in. in the end in the closing argument the prosecutor can make what's called fair comment on the evidence, but the defense wants to stop specific words they feel are too prejudicial. >> how do they even control this, dan? i don't understand -- i'm going to leave that there. new jersey governor chris christie is making an announcement who will replace -- at least temporarily, the interim replacement of senator frank lautenberg's position. let's listen in. [ technical difficulties ] i am not hearing sound. -- >> notre dame and catholic american university of law school, an outstanding private practice attorney, assistant united states attorney rising two leadership positions in the united states attorney's office, chief counsel to the governor, my first two years as governor, and now new jersey's attorney

general. i said on monday that i was going to select the person who i thought would be the best person to represent new jersey between now and october 16th when all new jersey gets an opportunity to elect the person to succeed the late-senator frank lautenberg. during the last few days as i've gotten to deliberate on this decision, it became clear to me that attorney general -- would be the best person to represent the people of new jersey in the united states senate. so i intend to execute all the appropriate documents to effectuate his appointment effective this monday june 10 9. and i want to thank jeff and his family for their willingness to once again step in and serve the public in the state of new

jersey. so it is my honor to introduce and then i will come back for questions. it's my hon noer to introduce new jersey's newest united states senator senator jeff chiesa. >> good afternoon everybody. this is an incredible honor for my family and i. the governor has given me some extraordinary chances to serve in public life. none other than than i expected, this probably least of all, but to have this chance to continue to serve in public life is a wonderful opportunity for anybody. i'll use my best judgment and the skill that i have to conduct myself in a way i hope will make everybody in new jersey proud and to do everything i can to advance the interests of the people that live here as i've tried to do in all the positions i've had the honor to have. i want to thank governor christie for again placing his trust and confidence in me. it really is extraordinary to me that i'm standing here today,

again, with his confidence and his support. and i really want to thank my family because you can't have the chances that i've had, and you can't do the things i've had a chance to do without the support of your family. and my wife, jenny, and my children, al and hannah, have been incredibly supportive. and i'm incredibly thankful to them for all that they've done for me. and i look forward to doing my best in this job over the next few months. thank you. >> questions? >> governor. >> michael. [ inaudible question ] >> general chiesa has decided not to seek the office -- he will not be a candidate in the primary or general election. that's his decision. he's decided not to run, seek the office. and i'm perfectly comfortable with that decision.

yeah. [ inaudible question ] well, i went to jeff and jenny's house on monday evening to sit and talk with them about this. and we talked for about an hour and a half on monday night. and they both asked for the overnight to think about whether or not this was something they were willing to do. jeff called me on tuesday morning and told me that -- in fact, he didn't call me. he texted me. and he said, i'm in. and that's the way i got the news back from jeff. and the window into my thinking, jen jenna, as i said all along, i said on monday, i knew this day might come. senator lautenberg might be ill. i didn't just start thinking about this on monday. i've been thinking about it on and off for some period of time.

but in earnest, i started obviously on monday morning after i got the news of senator lautenberg's death. >> i want to go to jake tapper here. jake, first of all, tell us about this individual who's going to be the interim senator for new jersey. >> first of all, let me just remark, suzanne, that it's incredible that governor christie and his team were able to keep such a close hold on this information as almost never happens in something like this is announced. it doesn't even leak out five or ten minutes before the announcement. we did not know that senator-to-be was the one senator christie was picking until the moment he stepped out. just some basic background on this man who is currently the attorney general of the state of new jersey appointed to that position by governor christie, he served with governor christie

when he was a u.s. attorney. he was an executive assistant u.s. attorney. he served as council to the u.s. attorney and chief of the public protection unit. keep in mind that governor christie before he ran for governor of new jersey four years ago he was a u.s. attorney appointed during the bush administration. he went to notre dame. he went to catholic university law school. and he's basically served his life as a litigator serving in law enforcement, supervising a group of assistant u.s. attorneys, he was a partner at the law firm where he litigated civil matters including the representation of medical professionals and hospitals. basically somebody who's been part of the new jersey legal community for many years serving on the transition team for governor christie. and governor christie, as you just heard him announce, suzanne, announced that the new senator from the state of new jersey will not seek the office. there of course will be a primary. and then of course a general

election in october. i want to now turn to our chief congressional correspondent on capitol hill, dana bash. dana, you were telling us earlier that not many republicans if any on capitol hill had any idea what governor christie was going to do. are you getting any reaction to his pick of jeff chiesa to be the next senator for new jersey? >> so far not more than a shoulder shrug. as you said so well, jake, nobody knew about this. and there is a lot of frustration that i've gotten from a lot of republicans here in the senate and around the senate, people who deal with trying to get republicans elected because of the fact that there was radio silence from chris christie. never mind they were already upset about the fact he set this special election and didn't allow a republican to be in this traditionally democratic seat through november of 2014. i just want to actually point out something that is very

poignant, even poetic. as chris christie was speaking about senator lautenberg's replacement, senator lautenberg's body is actually coming into the capital. it is here now. it is part of the memorial service. something that his family requested. it is certainly given to senators especially those who have served for a very long time here in the senate and their country in general. he was a world war ii veteran. he is going to lie in repose on the floor of the united states senate starting very shortly through this evening. and the senators will be able to go and give their respects to him. so that was happening, as i said, he was coming up the steps just as chris christie was announcing his replacement, at least temporary replacement. >> and, dana bash, explain to those who are watching the video right now from not long ago, just a few minutes ago, of the late-senator lautenberg's casket being brought in to lie in repose so those his colleagues and others can pay their

respects to the late senator, is the fact that he has the representation of members of the military of all the branches of the military carrying his casket in, is that what is done for all late members of the house and senate when they go through this and their bodies come in and lie in repose? or is this something special for lautenberg because he was a veteran of world war ii? >> this is something that is done when they choose -- the family chooses, to have the senator lie in repose on the senate floor. this is a ceremony that kind of kicks in when that happens. we saw virtually the same thing happen almost exactly three years ago when senator robert c. byrd died when he was serving at the time. >> dana, i'm going to rudely interrupt you for one second because the new senator from new jersey just announced he was appointed, he's speaking right now. we're going to go so we can hear from him for the first time. oh, never mind. he stepped away.

he was there for a few seconds. there he is standing there with governor christie. i suppose they're taking questions from reporters. there he is. >> as i said, this is something that's new for me. and my first concern though is the border security. again, that's because of the frame of reference that i come from both as a federal prosecutor earlier in my career and now as the attorney general. and as to the other issues that i need to take care of, those will be part of discussions i'll have as i get to learn about my new job. as i said earlier, this is all pretty new. and i need to learn about the issues in a way before i can make any meaningful judgments on some of the specifics. >> questions? yeah, heather. [ inaudible question ] >> yes, i'm a registered republican, i believe 2000. [ inaudible question ]

>> well, i don't know what the result would have been, paul. i know that we would have been sued for 2014. the democrats have made that clear publicly before i even made any announcement. and i think, you know, it's the fault of the legislature for setting up, you know, less than clear statutory guidance on this. and i think as a new jersey republican, what i know is these kind of things should not be left to the courts to decide. we typically don't do too well in that regard. so i can't certainly predict the result. i am a student of history, as are you, and i thought the idea of making a decision that was in the best interest of the people of the state to give them a voice and a choice for the united states senate and to do the best i could to keep it out of the courts would serve the

best interest of the people of the state. [ inaudible question ] >> because of the unclear statutory construction, there was no perfect decision to be made here. and so i went to what my core principles are, which are that i believe people should have the right to make a choice if that's available. and so that's why i made the decision i made. as far as the ramifications politically, you know, that's for everybody else to decide. my decision was i had imperfect statutory construction, a history of an activist court in election matters and a limited set of choices. and i made the choice that i think is in the best interest of the people of new jersey. and everyone will debate the

political effects until we actually see what they are. and then everybody will be a genius in hindsight. it's the way it goes. it wasn't what part of my consideration, terry. my consideration was to look at what my options were and to make the best and most legally defensible choice that i could make. [ inaudible question ] >> anybody who thinks they want to run for statewide office and get a thousand people to sign a petition in five days don't belong running for state office. you think it's hard to get a thousand signatures? wait until you try to get a million votes. it will be a lot harder. yes? >> is this completely out of left field? >> it was unexpected for sure.

but i knew when the governor called pretty late on monday and asked to come meet with jenny and i, i had an inkling what we might be talking about. but there was no arm twisting. the decision is one for my wife and my family to make. he's always respected that. he understands that. it's an extraordinary opportunity. and so for some disruption for my family life, some time i'll be spending in washington, but it's an incredible chance to serve. all of the chances i've had have been incredible chances to serve, and i'm incredibly honored to have this one. but there is no arm twisting, i'm incredibly honored and thankfully i have my family's support in doing it. >> john? [ inaudible question ] >> you're listening right now to new jersey governor chris christie and the any senator from the state of new jersey, senator to-be, jeff chiesa, republican, he's currently the attorney general from the garden

state. he's a close friend and ally of governor christie. it's already been said that jeff chiesa who has been serving in the new jersey legal community and before that within the prosecutor's offices there there will, of course, be a primary in august and a 1yer7b8 election, a special election in october to replace the late senator frank lautenberg who passed away on monday. jeff chiesa said he is honored to serve in the seat but he does not intend to run for it. there is no shortage of individuals who are seeking that seat. we know democratic congressman rush holt will run. we're expecting that the mayor of newark, new jersey, cory booker will run. dana bash, now that there's been a little bit of time that has passed with the announcement of senator jeff chiesa, chiesa in

italian means church, he's a notre dame graduate and catholic university law school graduate. republicans were not happy with the way governor christie handled this announcement. they wanted him to name a republican to fill that seat for a year and a half to fill the seat in 2014. somebody who could keep the seat in republican hands. what has been the reaction? republicans can be happy that a named republican has been named to fill the seat until december or january when the person elected in october takes office. >> that's exactly right. there is, i'm sure, a little bit of concern that if he is a republican in the mold of chris christie, he won't be reliable for republicans. one thing we should be watching and one thing that the newly appointed, i guess, senator from new jersey was talking about was the issue of immigration because that is going to be the very

first thing that he is going to have to deal with. a huge issue. it's on the senate floor next week. that is something that i think traditionally any republican from new jersey will be more willing to go along can compromise on but you never know. and then another issue they're going to have to deal with is judges. that is something that is usually very, very partisan. again, a republican who's a place holder for a late democratic senator from a blue state, again, they never know. but one thing i also just want to quickly point out is that this is, as i said, a very democratic state, a democratic seat. republicans i talked to say they're certainly happy they have a republican now. they would have liked to have had it longer. they don't expect to run anybody who they think can actually win in the special election in november of 2013. they're going to look ahead to the general election in 2014. they simply don't think they can get anybody up and running to get the signatures to be on the ballot. that's needed by monday afternoon. >> of course, new jersey a very democratic leaning state.

no republican has been elected to represent the state in the u.s. senate for more than 40 years. dana bash, thank you very much. we're going to take a quick break. when we come back, suzanne malveaux and "newsroom" will return. [ female announcer ] everything that goes into a lennox system is engineered for comfort. like parts that create your perfect temperature and humidity or the parts that purify the air. together, these parts can cut your heating and cooling bills in half. which is quite comforting. and here's the best part... call now to get up to

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paris jackson, the 15-year-old daughter of michael jackson is in a southern california hospital. this is a day after possibly attempting suicide. a former jackson family

spokesperson has known paris since she was a toddler. ramon, thank you for being here. you have known her and the jackson family for many, many years. describe for us a little bit about who this 15-year-old is and what she's like and whether or not this really surprised you in any way that she's in this state. >> well, as michael jackson's personal spokesperson and general manager, i've been around paris for a long time. michael introduced me to her in 2002 when i believe she was four. she was very articulate, very personal, very courteous. she was the apple of his eye and he was the apple of her eye. when i traveled around the world with them she became protective of her father. many of us in the michael jackson company yesterday discussed whether or not she felt some responsibility as to

whether it was something she probably could have done to protect her father even more. we're still trying to digest this because we're a bit paralyzed after hearing the news. she's a wonderful, i say baby. even though she's 15, she's still a baby. and our prayers go out to her and the jackson family because this is never -- to hear about a suicide attempt, bullying, any of those things that are prevalent now in the u.s. is never good news to hear, but i'd like her to know that her father loved her very much. she has an extended family, and i just think that she needs to know that he had a plan for her. michael jackson would sit down and talk to me for hours about his children and his vision for his children, and here was a little girl who a doered her father to the point that, as i said earlier in an interview,

we'd be out and as michael would be purchasing music from around the world, paris would bring about $100 worth of michael jackson cds and videos for him to purchase because she said, well, daddy, i don't see anything in here i want. you are my favorite performer. >> was there any indication, any hint at all that she was sad or depressed or do you think that this was a reaction to clearly losing her dad early on? >> i think it was losing her dad and being thrust into a whole new environment. here is a baby, along with her two brothers, who were home schooled. they were around their father 24 hours a day even though there were sufficient housekeepers, nannys, tutors. michael jackson was an excellent hands-on father, and he spent his entire life protecting her and her brothers. and for him to have gone the way

he did, unexpectedly, i'm still in shock. those people who were around him and his employees and consultants are shocked. so can you imagine if we are what a little 15-year-old would feel like right now? >> does she have the support she needs, raymone? who is taking care of her? who are the people who are rallying around her at this time? >> her entire family and her extended family. and i tell you something, her grandmother, katherine jackson, and her grand dad and her aunts and uncles, they care about her. katherine jackson has so much love for these kids. i sat down with mrs. jackson a couple of years ago, and when she talked about paris, prince, and blanket she talked about them as if they were her own children. >> all right. >> she had the same kind of love and admiration and desires as their father had.

>> raymone, we have to leave it there. i appreciate your coming and obviously we're going to be following her care and her well-being. we wish her and the whole family the very best in her healing. thanks. appreciate it. >> thanks, suzanne. >> that's it for me. brooke baldwin takes it from brooke baldwin takes it from here. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com your phone records in the hands of america. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. tropical storm andrea on the move. we'll take you to the action live. he is the teenager found dead inside a gym mat as his parents are demanding answers, a major development today involving their son's body. plus. >> are you a little nervous as we head inside? >> i really am. it's a strange thing because in a way she's a stranger to me. bo a victim of the boston