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. >> a victim of the boston bombings didn't know the woman

who saved her life until now. do not miss this reunion. and -- >> why? >> his show hasn't even started but george strombolopolous is already making headlines. we'll get personal and have a little fun. and here we go. good to see you on this thursday. i'm brooke baldwin. you guessed it right. big brother is keeping files, apparently every single phone call handled by verizon and possibly every phone call, period, is being funneled into these files of the top secret uber technical data mining service known as the national security agency or nsa. this is the headquarters there. this is ft. meade, maryland. so if you called granny

yesterday to wish her a happy birthday, chances are pretty darn good there's a record of that call in the nsa's massive computers. and you ask, good question, how do we know this? well, here is the order itself. formerly top secret approved april 25th by a court that issues warrants in the fight against terror. now we're learning this snooping started seven years ago. how about this? two highly connected senators speaking just a short time ago say it is legal, totally legal under the patriot act enacted shortly after 9/11. take a listen for yourself. >> this is just metta data. there is no content involved. in other words, no content of a communication. >> all of these numbers are basically ferreted out by computer but if there's a number that matches a terrorist number that has been dialed by u.s. number or dialed from a terrorist to a u.s. number, then

that may be flagged. >> terrorists will come after us if they can, and the only thing that we have to deter this is good intelligence. to understand that a plot is shall hatched and to get there before they get to us. >> and let me just add to that. a short time ago we got this from congressman mike rogers, the chair of the house intelligence committee. he tells us that this phone data, this meta data program was used to thwart a planned terror attack on the homeland within this past year. he went on to say he hopes to declassify some of the details to further the point of why this might be necessary. but, still, a lot of folks are very upset about this. joining me now from dallas, ben ferguson, host of the ben ferguson radio talk show. he is a conservative. and from washington we have julie myers wood, former assistant secretary of homeland security. she served in the bush

administration. so, ben and julie, welcome. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us. >> before we get going, let me show you this one thing. this is what al gore said. he tweeted about this. this is his tweet about the surveillance program. obscenely outrageous, he says. is it me or is it secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous. ben, i want to begin with you. you are a conservative who we love to have on this show. am i hearing this correctly, you're agreeing with al goere. >> yeah. the reason they're expanding this is the opposite of what they're intended to do. if a number is being dialed from outside the u.s. coming in from a known terrorist number, i think it's okay to monitor that phone call or that information, but to go to verizon or any other american carrier, there's probably going to be more than verizon we find out about, and say give us all the information on every human being without there being any basis for looking at my phone records or where i'm calling from or the data i'm sending, i think it's

absurd. even more importantly than that, the hypocrisy from barack obama. he was at dartmouth in 2008 on one of the last days of the campaign. he said, let me make it clear, if you vote forme, we will not allow this to happen. we will not go forward. >> julie, i'm going to get to you. ben, this has been going on in seven years. this happened under the bush administration. i just have to ask, are you upset about this because you want to pick a fight with barack obama? >> no. i'm upset the fact that it's blanketed and not using common sense at targeting individual numbers and then seeing who that person is calling. there's a difference between saying we have a real threat or a possible threat coming in from this number and we're going to look at every number they're talking to and connect dots and just going to verizon saying, hey, we want everybody's number and everybody's information for no reason. >> that's right. you're right. >> julie, as we read this reporting, you know, it is phone calls within the you states, it's phone calls from here abroad. you served in the bush

administration department of homeland security. do you see some good in this? >> i absolutely do. i think the government has a responsibility to look at this meta data and to try to connect all the dots. we've got to be targeted, just as mr. ferguson said. we also have to look at the meta data. meta data follows you when you get on the internet, when you go into target, anything. the idea that the government would ignore meta data is really irresponsible. i would say those that are concerned about these calls and the nsa having these calls, they have a point in that there is some lack of trust in the government. do we know, are there appropriate controls in place? is the fbi and the nsa, are they doing what they need to do to protect snem can we trust them? or do we have another irs scenario on our hands? >> i know. we've heard from both senators udall and widen ringing alarm bells for the last couple of years. this isn't new but it's another example according to them. hang on both of you. let me give an example for

viewers. let's say i call my mom, want to wish her a happy birthday. somewhere in the bowels of the nsa there is a record of the phone call. it's not what i said, not even my name but, ben, you said it, it's your phone number. >> yeah. >> it's my mom's number. it was when the call was placed, how long it lasted. ben, my question then to you is what do i have to fear? if there is nothing nefarious about this phone call, a little happy birthday, what's the big deal? >> brooke, i have a right to not have to be treated as if i'm not a suspect from the united states government -- >> even if i have nothing to hide? >> i shouldn't have -- the burp burden of proof is on me. the government should have the burden. so we have a government not obsessed with controlling the people to be able to say, you should be able to make a phone call in the united states of america to grandmother to wish her happy birthday without the government keeping the data on that phone calling and the fact that i'm even having to defend it tells me how warped this whole conversation is. >> so then --

>> more important than that -- let me say this. >> go. >> do we trust the government? i don't. look at how they've been monitoring the associated president and other news organizations. look at how the irs used information to target americans. so why then all of a sudden would i trust the government with my cell phone records to not abuse that power and target individuals maybe they don't like. >> julie -- go ahead. jump in. also answer this, then what should our expectation of privacy be? >> well, i certainly think the government, you know, should use all these things responsibly. we've got to make sure, i think that's one positive thing from these lawsuits, we've got to make sure that the government is following its own protocols and doing things appropriately. i think we want the government to be running these sophisticated algorithms and doing this data mining and making sure that for the patterns that are not apparent immediately on, we don't have to wait for a terrorist attack to come, to go back and look at it. that we can actually actively look at it. >> brooke, when we had -- >> go ahead.

>> when we had actual data and the fbi went and talked to the people they ended up doing the boston bombing and we had warnings from slaush to go interview someone and we didn't act on it fully? if they can't even get that right with solid proof and warnings then why should i expect them to be able to do the same thing with my phone calls when they don't even get it right when there is terrorists involved and there is terrorist information given from other countries? >> they've got to get it right. part of getting it right is looking at new technology and new ways toablelize patterns that might not seem obvious up front. i think boston is the perfect example of why we've got to have these sort of things in place with appropriate controls to make sure that if there are not obvious patterns, we catch them. we get that meta data and be use it for law enforcement and not just for the commercial sector. >> great conversation. guys, i appreciate both your questions. valid questions. we're going to talk to a lawyer next hour about what really is legal when it comes to big brother. ben ferguson. thank you. julie myers wood, thank you so

much to both of you. speaking of maybe saying no to the government, chrysler is voluntarily recalling. different story today. they are now voluntarily recalling 630,000 newer jeeps. these are not the jeeps we talked about yesterday. possible airbag here and seat belt problems are behind the recall of some 2010 and 2012 jeep patriot and compass suvs. chrysler says seat belts and airbags may not function properly during rollovers. problems with transmission fluid leaks are behind the recall for some of the 2012 and 2013 jeep wrangler suvs. chrysler still refusing to recall nearly 3 million older jeeps that federal safety regulators have said are unsafe. they're saying no to the federal government. the feds say some older jeep cherokees and liberties have a defective gas tank design that could result in fires if the jeeps are hit from behind.

and to the world of severe weather here. the first named storm of the atlantic hurricane season is mere hours from landfall. look at this. the center of tropical storm andrea will hit near clearwater, florida, three hours from now. it is not likely to become a hurricane between now and then but at least two small tornadoes were reported today as the rain bands move inland. along the gulf beaches one of the biggest threats have been dangerous rip currents. all of a sudden like my feet, i wasn't touching the ground anymore. and i was like -- i couldn't see any of my friends anymore. >> i definitely thought i was going to drowned. like i have anxiety and i started freaking out because my sister was in front of me. >> you helped save lives today. >> i guess it's a good feeling. again, i'm just very glad that we got all of them back safely and nothing happened to them. >> we were just swimming. we didn't think we were that far

out until like we couldn't get our bodies back in, we couldn't touch. we were all freaking out. scary stuff. this was gulf shores, alabama. the story was that six swimmers suddenly found themselves in trouble as the undertoe dragged them away from shore yesterday. life guards raced out to the swimmers, rounded everyone up and brought them back to safety. our alina muchado is in clear water, florida, right now. looks pretty windy where you are now. tell me about conditions there. >> reporter: brooke, you mentioned it's windy. we've felt like the wind has started to really pick up for some reason in the last half hour. i've been pelted with sand here while i've been standing here. now this is nothing though compared to what we saw a few hours ago. heavy downpours on clearwater beach. that's what caused the flooding here. this water is six inches deep. this is very, very minor.

now we have been seeing people coming out here enjoying the day because the rain has pretty much stopped and conditions have improved despite the wind. as you can see behind me, there is some pretty rough surf but there's also a lot of people out here. there are families out here with their children going for a swim. we've also seen a lot of surfers who have been out here enjoying the rough surf. this is not very common for this part of the area. typically the water here is very calm. you can see there's plenty of waves and people are enjoying that. we've received new information from a spokesperson from pinilis county. a tornado was reported in gulfport, 25 miles south of clearwater. she told us the damage caused by this reported tornado was very minor, downed trees and power lines. no major issues there. conditions here at clearwater beach, fine. things are getting better. >> alina machado.

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conrad murray is reaching out to paris jackson in the wake of her attempted suicide. conrad murray, that's right, a doctor who is doing time for involuntary manslaughter. murray recorded this open letter to paris jackson assuring her that he's there for her. he gave it to celeb gossip site tmz. in this letter murray tells the 15-year-old, quote, i don't know if there's anything i can do to solve your pain or help you with your problem, but i wanted you to know that i am here for you. i have never been gone. alan duke, let me come to you here in los angeles because my question, number one, when i heard this is, how can he even -- you talked to conrad murray's lawyer. how can he reach out behind bars to her over the phone? >> he has a phone in his jail cell. another form of a cell phone, i suppose. he's had it for some months. and he constantly calls people. you have to accept a collect call and set yourself up on the

jail system to do that and it's not cheap but conrad murray has free use of af telephone pretty much 24 hours a day 7 days a week. i've gotten calls from him. so, there you go. >> wow. okay. so he has a phone. he uses it. we also know he used the title of the jackson's song "you are not alone." other song references in this letter to paris. a couple of words ago he serenaded anderson cooper during an interview from prison ♪ she's a little boy that santa claus forgot ♪ ♪ and goodness knows he did not want a lot ♪ ♪ he wrote a note to santa for some plans and a toy ♪ ♪ it broke his little heart when he found santa hadn't come ♪ >> you see the expression on anderson's face there.

tell me what is conrad's relationship with michael jackson's kids? >> well, they've not seen him since the hospital on june 25th, 2009. nearly four years ago when michael jackson died. they were all there together at the emergency room. that's the last time. conrad murray has reached out at times to try to meet with the members of the family but they've declined. he was their doctor for three years. he practically lived with them for a couple of months leading up to the father's death, and there was an affectionate relationship between conrad murray and michael's kids, blanket, prince and paris. i think that they have some fond memories of him because they believe that their father trusted him. actually, i think we're going to hear in this trial, they don't think -- they believe that the people responsible for michael jackson's death was not conrad murray but was -- were aeg exec zblifs perhaps that sense of affection that his kids, including paris, had all of

those years leading up to their dad's death you're saying still remains? >> i think some of it does. i think that's going to come out. i've been told by people in the jackson household that they don't -- that the kids themselves, they didn't sue conrad murray. they chose to sue aeg live. >> alan duke you have great sources within the jackson family. thank you so much. we appreciate it there in los angeles. coming up, we will take you live to philadelphia where the mayor has promised, and i'm quoting him here, a wide ranging investigation into what caused that building collapse from yesterday. some eye witnesses say they knew the building was going to collapse. our question is, how did they know that? that's next. mom, dad told me that cheerios is good for your heart,

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a chicago couple on a trip to cambodia never planned for their vacation to become a mission to educate two young girls. we're calling it girl rising which airs june 16th. i want you to watch this preview because it tells how their sightseeing tour ended up

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the hour. you are watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. it's been 24 hours for grief and joy. firefighters working through the night pulling the bodies of six people from the rubble. but they also rescued one person, a 61-year-old woman who had been trapped for more than 12 hours. she is the 14th person to make it out alive. at this hour crews continue to search for survivors. as they work, there are new details today on what happened right before the collapse. a wall in the building set for demolition fell into this adjacent salvation army thrift store there on the corner which had customers inside. city officials today said demolition crews are not scrutinized like other trades. >> well, what are those requirements? does somebody have to demonstrate proficiency at demolition? >> yes, in terms of electrical contractor and plumbing contractor but not specifically to demolition, no.

>> so this particular contractor did not have to show any proficiency or history of doing a job like this successfully? >> the code doesn't require it, no. >> want to go straight to the scene to don lemon who's there for day two. don, tell me what's going on behind you. >> reporter: brooke, can you believe if you want to demolish a building you don't have to show any proficiency in demolishing a building? i mean, especially when you -- you can demolish a building when it's occupied. >> frightening. >> reporter: another structure that's occupied. when he said that everyone in the reporter scrum gasped like, oh, my gosh, i didn't know that. behind me, the excavator. you see the front of the building, exterior of the thrift store. >> gone. >> completely gone. they knocked it down five minutes ago, brooke. they were looking for people in the back of the building because that's the part that the 25% that the mayor mentioned that they didn't get to search. that's the part they didn't get to search. it appears they have gone

through that now. they thought there might be someone in there even though everyone had been accounted for. they weren't sure and so so far fingers crossed nothing, no one. >> i understand that the owner of that building fell into the thrift store, has made a statement? that's? >> reporter: okay. he did make a statement. i want to read that statement. i want to talk to you a little bit about the investigation. the owner of the bulk, sbt investments put out a statement saying our heart felt thoughts and prayers go out to the people affected by this trajs beginning event. please know that we are committed to working with the city of philadelphia and other authorities to determine what happened yesterday. here's the thing, you remember when we were on the air yesterday, the mayor, you know, had made the statement and he said there were, you know, no violations, it seems that nothing was out of the ordinary, all the permits were in place, right? well, apparently that was for 2134. the building that was -- had

been demolished was 2136, which fell on to 2138 which was a thrift store. so the city -- so the city, the mayor's office and the inspectors are now saying, hey, listen, the contractor is supposed to notify the city when they're about to start demolition. it looks like the contractor didn't do that. and we also saw, i think we have some video of it, crime scene investigators here as well as the district attorney for the city of philadelphia and the assistant district attorney, the district attorney jennifer silver and then also ed. ed cameron who prosecuted kermit gossing, the abortion doctor. so this appears to be going into a criminal investigation. they came to tour the scene today and they weren't just out for a walk. >> no, they weren't. they have some questions, don't they, don lemon. thank you so much for us in philadelphia. we'll stay on it with you. meantime, two self-help coaches apparently committed suicide together in their brooklyn apartment.

this video shows psychotherapist lynn rosen and her common law husband, john littig co-hosting this show. they couldn't follow their advice for leading fulfilling lives. >> that's -- that's -- that's exactly right. stepping out of your comfort zone is very important or, you start to get comfortable with change. >> yeah, i like that. >> so their apartment building manager said that he started smelling a strong odor coming from their apartment monday. breaks down the door and what did he find, their bodies? holding hands on the sofa. police say plastic bags kovd the couples heads. a tube attached to a helium canister was nearby. littig also worked as a musician. we're told. here's a clip of a recent youtube video. ♪ ♪

♪ the sound of the night is our song ♪ ♪ the sound of the night is the sound of the night ♪ >> two suicide notes were found in the apartment. the man's note read, quote, i can't take it anymore. my wife is in too much pain. the couple ran a life coaching company promoting personal growth and inner happiness. within this past hour new jersey governor chris christie named his state's attorney general to hold the seat. it came as the body of the late senator frank lautenberg arrived on capitol hill. he served nearly 30 years in the senate until his death this week at age 89. with me now from washington, cnn's wolf blitzer. wolf, if you would, tell me about this new interim senator here. totally -- >> yeah, jeffrey chiesa, the

governor announcing that he would be the interim senator until the special election that's now scheduled for, what, october 16th, a couple weeks before the general election. there's going to be a primary election for the democratic candidate and the republican candidate on august 13th. the special election on october 16th. now this attorney general, the outgoing attorney general of new jersey, jeffrey chiesa, he's not going to run in the special election. he will be the united states senator, a republican from new jersey, between now and the time of the special election when there will be a new senator elected. we don't know who that new s senator is going to be. it shifts the balance of power. the two independents who a liends with the democrats have 54 seats. the majority for the democrats. it will go from 54 to 53. 47. there will be a republican senator from new jersey. there will be some important votes between now and october

that one vote could make a difference in some of these key issues. for example, comprehensive immigration reform and this new interim senator from new jersey, jeffrey chiesa, did not say where he stands on some of these issues. he says he's going to look and study and he'll make up his mind. it's a slight shift but important. >> slight shift for a finite period of time, until that special election in october. wolf blitzer, thank you, sir. >> thank you. coming up next, his show hasn't even premiered yet but george is already making headlines. he's cnn's late night host famous with interviews with key anna reeves and -- strombo, may i go there? >> you may. >> we're going to have a little surprise for you. uh-oh. n

okay. before we get to our newest host, mr. stroumbou, want to get you breaking news here from the u.k. we are following the health of prince philip, the husband of queen elizabeth, duke of edinboro.

has been admitted to a london for an exploratory operation on his abdomen. we're hearing he's expected to remain in hospital for two weeks. this is according to british media reports. i was covering the diamond jubilee last summer and he fell ill after a very cold and long boat ride on river thames, went to the hospital. back in the hospital for an exploratory operation on his abdomen. wish him well. we'll make phone calls. we'll bring it to you on cnn. now to this. you may not be able to spell his name. i'm sure he's so sick of these jokes. you will remember it friday nights this summer. stroumboulopoulos is cnn's new late night show hosted by george stroumboulopoulos. he is our import from the north as a broadcaster in canada. he has interviewed all kinds of people. i'm talking jodie foster, richard branson, deepak chopra.

his show debuts this sunday night. set your dvrs. 10:00 eastern. regular time slot is friday night 11:00 eastern. george stroumboulopoulos. it's funny, let me be real. it's funny looking at his name in the teleprompter because it takes up the whole line. how are you, my friend? >> i'm well. how are you today? my name's bananas, i get it. >> did i hear correctly that it took you until the fifth grade to spell your name correctly? >> yeah. i had to go to the back and i would tell the teacher, i'll pull out my driver's license and spell it from there. she said, you won't have a driver's license for a long time. i had to sit in the back of the class and figure it out. >> i've watched so many interviews with you because as you do your homework i'm trying to do mine here. i appreciate your use of the word rad. tell me, how many piercings do you have? >> i'll tell you, brooke, you can see three and that's all i'm

going to say. >> we'll stay with that. three. to your show on cnn, i love this that you're doing no other cnn show does regularly and that is have a live audience. that's what you did back home with the red chairs. you're doing it here. why is that? what do you get from that? >> i think you get a couple of things. you get energy in the room which is nice and oftentimes when you sit down in every situation, the host is disconnected from the audience. there are people that are watching this. as you know, brooke, the camera is kind of a black hole that can suck your soul if you're not paying attention. >> it's quiet in the studio. people don't realize that, right? >> you bring that audience in. it's far more human. that's what i try to do and you do it quite well. you want to have this human connection with people. sometimes you want to surround yourself with others to do it. i'm excited to see how it goes. >> i am, too. let's talk about the first show. you have a couple of people, one is rapper with a little clip. >> when you think about it,

hindsight being what it is, the fact that you are going through this. your mother was in the war. >> yeah. >> that's quite a thing. it works for masculine knit at this. you get to see how gender roles work and things are very different today. >> yeah, man. paris put it out on the line. when you put it in that perspective. >> i wake up every day and i have to do my job. i would love to spend all the time in the world with my son. i can't. stay at home and look at him all day like i want to. i actually have to go to work. my mom having to go to war with me being a baby. she didn't want to have to leave me for any amount of time so, you know, i think we just earn our stripes and we just go with the flow. whatever is presented, you've just got to make the best of it. >> you know, stroumbou, i appreciate your lean in, real style of questioning. yes, let me practice my stroumbou lean. i appreciate your questions. who would have thought to ask him about his mother away from

war and being a dad. just tell me, how do you prep for these interviews? how do you do your homework? >> you know, you try to do as much as you can in terms of researching. i try to spend a lot of time, like a lot of interviewers, trying to understand where they're coming from. when you go home for a family dinner everybody reverts back to the same role they've always had in their family. it's the same idea. we are who we were when we were 12 or 13. i try to create some sort of environmental portrait of who they are. i don't think about it that much. i kind of lose myself in the person. >> in the moment. >> i forget that i'm on television. >> that's the best compliment i feel like can you get when somebody is sitting with you and they tell you through the interview they've totally forgot there were cameras on you. to something we like to do here for new folks. >> okay. >> so we're going to do a little word association. ready to roll? >> listen. there's no delay, is there? >> no do lay. >> oh, boy. >> keep the four-letter words for the commercial break. first one, canada. >> home. >> cnn. >> news.

>> anthony bore dane. >> he hates vegans but i love him. >> because you're a vegan, right? i'm asking this because of your philanthropy work. world hug ger. >> health and justice issue. >> bob dylan. >> the greatest. well, him and neil young. >> red chair. >> comfortable. >> justin bieber. >> slightly worried but optimistic. >> interesting. gay marriage. >> yes. marriage equality, justice. >> jodi arias. >> sensational. >> sigh. >> sensational. >> final one. the perfect interview. >> do you mean with a person or what it's like? >> i'm leaving it open on purpose. >> the perfect interview. one with no ego. >> george stroumboulopoulos, welcome. it is a pleasure.

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now to the hottest videos of the day. hit play. >> reporter: this is what they mean by don't try this at home. nicki was injured. her mom wanted to help her pay bills so she uploaded the jump to a crowd funding website and the video went viral. reaction against mom was vicious so nikki found a more willing benefactor. >> if tv wants to make fun of me, then they're going to make fun of me. at least i get a little something out of it for bills. >> reporter: who would want to do this to a mother goose. the goose didn't seem to notice the arrow, but someone visiting the cemetery did. game wardens caught the goose and removed the arrow. >> being field tip it went through the breast plate.

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she has reached this level of play despite having a severely curved spine. >> reporter: at age 28 stacy lewis is living the life. >> it's been fun. you know, i just play golf every day. for a job, that's not too bad. >> reporter: she's been golfing since she was eight years old. mostly for the love of the game. >> was there a point in your life when you knew you were really, really good at golf. >> probably in college was the time i said i could maybe do this as a professional, you know? >> reporter: but it wouldn't come easily. in middle school stacy was diagnosed with scoliosis, a major curvature of her spine. her doctors hoped it would correct itself. >> i wore a back brace 6 1/2 years 18 hours a day. >> reporter: she only took it off to sleep. >> i thought i was done playing golf. they had took out one of the ribs to do a fusion. going up the side, had to remove

all the organs, lungs, had a chest tube. all of that stuff. >> reporter: it took doctors five hours to insert a rod and screws and then several months of rehab. >> i couldn't bend or twist for six months so the doctor let me chip and putt a little bit. >> reporter: slowly but surely her game came back. her swing got a little better. >> when your hands are low you hit it left. so when my hands got high i started to hit a little fade to the right which i think is a better shot for golf. it worked out pretty well. >> reporter: today she's at the top of her game. >> it's strange. i definitely as a kid didn't aspire to be in this position but it's cool just to see the hard work pay off. >> reporter: it has paid off, indeed. she has reportedly made close to $5 million in winnings. lewis knows it's not forever. >> i don't know how long i'll be

able to play. i'm happy to do what i'm doing. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. your phone records in the hands of the government. is it necessary to protect america? we're about to tell you what big brother can get away with legally. i'm brooke baldwin. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. www.vitac.com breaking today, we now know what killed those five women in the bridle party. >> are you nervous to go inside? >> i am. it's a strange thing. in a way she's a stranger to me. >> a survivor of the boston bombings didn't know the woman who saved her until now. you will see the reunion. plus, he is the teenager found dead inside a gym mat. as his parents demand answers, a major development involving their son's body. and -- >> the homemade peanut butter is not bad.

i could eat that all day long. you don't want peanut butter? >> i love peanut butter. >> dig it, girl. >> nancy grace talks to me about her trip behind bars. hour two. thanks for staying with me. i'm brooke baldwin. a lot of folks very upset this afternoon about a new revelation about government spying. a lot of folks defending this. a new report suggests records of phone calls handled by verizon and possibly every phone calling, period, are being funneled into the files of the top secret government data mining service known as the national security agency, the nsa. people briefed on the program are saying it's just the phone numbers. there's nothing about the conversations, just how long the conversation lasted. now you have the head of the house intelligence committee, here he is, mike rogers, saying that their phone data program was used to thwart a terrorist

attack within this past year. still, as i said, a lot of folks, including some of you, steamed about this. take a listen, if you would, to this exchange just last hour. >> i'm upset the fact that it's blanketed and not using common sense at targeting individual numbers and then seeing who that number is calling. there's a difference between saying we have a real threat or a possible threat coming in from this number and we're going to look at every number they're talking to and connect dots and going to verizon saying, hey, we want everybody's number and everybody's information for no reason. >> that's right. no, you're right. >> julie, you know, as we read this reporting, you know, it is phone calls within the united states, its a states, it's a phone call from here and abroad. you see some good in this? >> i absolutely do. i think the government has a responsibility to look at the meta data to connect the dots.

we have to be targeted but we have to look at the meta data. meta data follows you when you get on the internet, when you go to target, go and do anything. the idea that the government would ignore meta data is really irresponsible. >> so a lot of smoke there. you see both sides. let me see if we can lend some clarity to the issue. dana bash with us from capitol hill and also jonathan turley, professor, george washington university. dana, beginning with you. news of the government's snooping program started trickling out last night. today we learned it has been going on for seven years. congress knows all about it. what are they saying up there today? >> that's right. it's not news to them at all. many people here who have known about it are not happy that it leaked out because this is something that those who have been briefed insist, as you mentioned about the house intelligence chairman, that it is very helpful. in fact, listen to what this bipartisan team, the democratic chair woman and the ranking republican on the senate

intelligence committee said about this. >> this is just meta data. there is no content involved. in other words, no content of a communication. >> all of these numbers are basically ferreted out by computer, but if there's a number that matches a terrorist number that has been dialed by a u.s. number or dialed from a terrorist to a u.s. number, then that may be flagged. >> terrorists will come after us if they can, and the only thing that we have to deter this is good intelligence. to understand that a plot is being held and to get there before they get to us. >> reporter: brooke, people on capitol hill strongly disagree with that. bernie sanders, the independent senator from vermont put out a press release basically saying,

i told you so. he was against the patriot act from the start, against this provision saying it was way too broad. it wasn't right for the american people to be invaded this way by the government, but it seems to be at least in the hallways that kind of anger and grumbling is at a minimum. >> jonathan turley, professor of law at george washington. two questions. i'm thinking, here you have the federal government. federal government calls up verizon says, verizon business communications, we want every phone call. if i'm verizon, can i legally say no? >> the administration has forced them to comply and there are many that have great reservations and opposition to this type of effort is ludicrous to say this is just a telephone number, it doesn't tell you much. they want it because it does tell them a great deal. it tells them about the duration of your call, who you were

calling, where you were calling. there's a lot of information here. civil libertarians are pretty a gas. this isn't the first of these surveillance programs that have been viewed as excessive. what is really the problem here is that the supreme court in a case called maryland versus smith said pen registers, things that register phone numbers, are not protected the same as the content of your conversations but the administration's taken that to a farther iks treem than we've ever seen where they are demanding basically information on all calls of all citizens even those just within the united states. that's a fundamentally different question than we've dealt with before. >> we know this sort of information gathering has been happening for seven years and, dana bash, hearing from the chairman of the house intell committee, mike rogers, not only is he saying this helped thwart a terrorist attack, isn't he trying to say, hopefully we can

declassify some information to prove to the american people that this is absolutely warranted? >> you know, they might try to do that. it's very difficult because the nature of this is such that it only works if it is kept secret. having said that, i think that definitely what this has done, obviously, is stirred the debate again. we hadn't talked a lot about at the top of the list about civil liberties versus these kinds of government tactics and it is stirring the debate. there are members of congress who want to put a sunset provision into this law so forcing the debate every so often and not just allowing this to be the law forever. whether or not this is going to allow that to happen or push that to happen, it really is unclear because the fact of the matter is you are hearing in a bipartisan way from the people who have the information, the intelligence at their fingertips that they think that's necessary. it is hard, as jonathan will

tell you, for civil libertarians to beat back against that, especially since you're talking about a democratic president. >> is it possible, jonathan turley? in your columns you've been critical. thanks to the guardian, a u.k. paper. >> yeah. the problem is, of course, every administration, every politician will say we're getting something from this. you can make that argument to remove all civil liberties. civil libertarians are trying to reach out to the public to say where's the tipping point? recently we saw the investigation of journalists and an attack on the free press of the united states. now we have the administration admitting they took the calls of every single citizen from verizon. at what point do citizens stands up and say, this is the tipping point. we're getting towards authoritarian power. it's not enough to say we used it to nail one plot. we're here to protect something that defines us, which is the constitution. >> again, senators say though

like your mike rogers and dianne feinstein we heard from and others, this absolutely helps in thwarting a terrorist attack. this is what we dojt know about that's helping keep america safer. clearly two sides. issue. dman bash and jonathan turley, thank you. >> thank you. tropical storm andre a. might not be a hurricane but it is still dangerous. >> we were just swimming and we didn't think we were that far out until like we couldn't get our bodies back in and we couldn't touch and we were all freaking out. >> freaking out because life guards were busy yesterday. this is gulf shores, alabama. group of swimmers suddenly got caught in the rip current. were being dragged away from the shore. fortunately everyone made it back safely. this storm is due to make landfall along florida's coast. could impact the entire eastern

seaboard. chad myers tracking the storm for us. eastern seaboard today? >> no question. even by tomorrow night you could be as close to boston making three to four inches of rain there in the berkshires, upper elevations. you start to push this rain up into the elevations in charlotte, wilmington, raleigh, all of that will eventually wash out. here's what we have right now. the storm is off shore. it missed tampa, clearwater. move up to the big bend area of texas -- of florida. not much here. clearwater. all the way over to panama city. other than saint marks, i spent hurricane dennis here. this will go up into georgia and make significant rape fall. that will be the story. this could be a 70-mile-per-hour storm because the aircraft has found that wind up there. four to six inches of locally heavy rainfall. they have seen significant rain already. west of washington, dc, that's six to ten inches of rainfall there. here it goes.

right on up the east coast. by friday night, tomorrow night, not that farr from richmond, virginia. 30 to 40-mile-per-hour storm. if you have very wet soil, 40 to 50-mile-per-hour wind gusts could topple those trees. be careful. >> chad myers, thank you. rescuers in philadelphia are nearly finished searching the site of that deadly building collapse. firefighters did recover the bodies of six people after a wall of a partially demolished building felled onto the salvation army store yesterday morning with customers inside. 14 people caught in the collapse were able to make it out. the final person, 61-year-old woman who had been trapped in the rubble more than 12 hours, latest word here, she is in critical condition at the hospital. coming up next. a major development in the case of a georgia teenager found dead at his school wrapped in a gym mat. police say it was an accident, that he suffocated, but his

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santa claus forgot ♪ ♪ and goodness knows he did not want a lot ♪ ♪ he wrote a note to santa for some crayons and a toy ♪ ♪ it broke his little heart when he found santa hadn't come ♪ >> conrad murray set to be released from prison in october. now to this major development in the case of the student athlete's bizarre death at his high school in valdesta georgia. he was found dead. his face battered in a rolled up gym mat at his high school in january. police said that kendrick suffocated trying to grab a shoe but his parents didn't buy that. they said there was no way that this is a coverup, that they have the pictures to prove it. and the justice department recently confirmed it is taking a second look at the case here. now we have gotten word that johnson's body will be exhumed

for a second autopsy. cnn's victor blackwell has been all over this story for us. first want to warn you you obtained this photo of kendrick johnson's face after his death. it is included in your report that we're about to run for you. so just a heads up. it is very graphic so please be advised. here's the story. >> i wish this on no one. >> reporter: kenneth and jaclyn johnson want to know who killed their son. a judge has now given them permission to exhume the body of their child. the johnsons think the official explanation of how 17-year-old kendrick johnson died is a cover up. >> we examined all the alternatives that were presented to us and the only one that fit the physical evidence and the forensic evidence and the testimonial evidence we received was this is an accident. >> reporter: in january kendrick was found upside down in a rolled gym mat like these. in statements released by the sheriff's office students wrote,

we always leave our shoes inside the mats during class but to retrieve the shoes we tilt the mats over and get the shoes from the bottom. this is kendrick inside the matt. his family's attorney gave us this photo. detectives think kendrick reached for a black gym shoe from the top of the six foot matt, slipped into the center and got stuck while no one was around and a relative says the shoes in this picture are his, too. the official cause of death is positional asphyxia. in other words, he was smothered by his own body weight. >> no foul play. he had no bruises, no nothing. >> reporter: did you believe that? >> no. >> reporter: and you still don't believe is it? >> no, i don't. >> reporter: this picture of kendrick's face reinforced their suspicious. >> as handsome as my son was, then you see him like that is -- is un -- it's crazy.

>> according to the paramedics report, there was bruising noted to right side jaw although there was no mention of bruising in the state's autopsy report. >> i don't know what to think. >> reporter: coroner bill watson was called to the scene five hours after detectives had arrived although georgia law requires investigators to call the coroner as soon as a body is found. >> the body had been moved. the scene, in my opinion, had been compromised. >> that's a very time consuming process to basically work your way from the outside in. once our investigators got to the deceased, the coroner was contacted immediately. >> reporter: in may when we asked watson about his concerns, he told us that he and the sheriff had taken care of the discrepancy internally. at least two students told detectives there had been a dispute over a girl and on the day kendrick's body was found, when you start messing the goons, bodies start showing up,

and soon after that facebook account had been deactivated. detectives questioned a student about a facebook posting but did not connect him to kendrick's death. hundreds have rallied for a federal investigation and the department of justice is reviewing the case. >> no matter who you are, how much money your parents have, the color of your skin, everyone deserve justice, everyone. >> reporter: the sheriff's office stands behind its investigation. johnson says he won't stop until he finds out who killed his son. >> wow. victor blackwell joins me here. thank you for staying on the story. >> sure. >> two questions, when we saw the photo you could see his feet and his socks and those were shoes next to his feet. >> yes. his shoes, those gray and orange shoes. that's the question the family asks. if he dove into this matt, how did the shoes end up in the mat after him next to him? they are mentioned in this report as part of the narrative but the sheriff's office and the

crime lab, they don't mention those shoes as part of the theory of how he died. >> interesting. what about the department of justice case review? where are we on that? >> the u.s. attorney in georgia, michael moore has been reviewing this for almost two weeks. he's at the point where he wants to speak with the family but the family's attorney says, wait a minute, that autopsy you're reviewing, the statements you're reviewing, those reports, they say they have questions to -- questions about the credibility of those reports. they now want to speak with those students, get their own statements and it's part of the reason they want to exhume kendrick's body. they want their own forensic pathologist in florida to conduct an autopsy to find out if there's anything that leads them to an end that he was killed or there was some type of foul play. >> let us know where to go with that. thank you. >> sure. just in, a british royal hospitalized. prince philip, t husband of queen elizabeth could be in the hospital for weeks.

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a british royal has been admitted to a hospital in london. prince philip, the husband of queen elizabeth could be there for two weeks. let me go straight to max foster who follows all things royal. max, what's wrong? >> reporter: well, it looks relatively serious if you get -- as you know, brooke, from covering these events itself. this is all in the terminology of the statements, but what

we've been told is the duke of edinburg has been admitted to the private hospital in london for exploratory operations following abdominal investigations. he's expected to stay in hospital for two weeks which is interesting because to say two weeks and not talk about, you know, let's see how it goes, let's talk about number of days. two weeks is a long time so there's a sense of importance over it. then i got more information, brooke, from a royal source saying this is the best hospital for this type of operation. he will go under general anesthetic. he's over 90 years old. that's serious for someone of his age and a concern in itself. they imagine the operation will be carried out as soon as possible. so the plan is at the moment that he'll have the operation tomorrow morning. but what happened, brooke, was he had some tests done earlier this week, about a week ago, actually, and those tests came in and then he was taken to hospital. not rushed to hospital. but it looks serious. certainly much more serious than

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getting information here from the boston police department. here's what they're telling us, security is being tightened after a dozen schools received suspicious letters. the letters contained threatening language but did not target any specific individuals. they were postmarked from texas but do not believe there is any credible threat. that's the latest from boston public schools. speaking of boston. from tragedy to tears of joy, a bombing victim finally meets the stranger who helped save her life after the explosions happened on that marathon monday. erica brannack was in agony, crumpled near the finish line. a woman knelt down to help her. she used her own belt as a turn

any cut to stop the bleeding. erica didn't know who this was, didn't know her name. cnn tracked down this woman who saved her life and this is the emotional reunion thanks to randi kaye. >> reporter: this is what someone looks like waiting to meet the person, a stranger, who saved their life. >> yeah. i told my cousin last night that it's kind of like the night before christmas where you're so excited but nervous at the same time and you can't sleep. >> reporter: her name is erica brannock. two days ago she left a hospital in boston, the last victim of the boston bombings to be discharged. they were two strangers who met in a moment of terror. erica was gravely wounded losing one leg and breaking another. as xilai on the sidewalk in agony, she remembers this woman in the yellow sweater with the brown hair coming out of nowhere to help her. her name is amanda north but erica didn't know that at the

time. >> i do remember moving over and crawling over and reaching out to her because she was conscious. >> reporter: amanda was the first to hear erica's screams. she saw erica's lower left leg had been blown off and yelled for help. amanda took off her belt, which was used as a turn any cut. a photographer for the "boston globe" captured the moment. when we visited with erica on monday, the day she was released from the hospital in boston, we showed her the photo of the woman she so desperately wanted to find. erica thought she had said her name was joan and she was from california. >> that's joan right there. and then she's holding my hand right there. and then this is my right leg. >> reporter: monday night after our story aired on ac 360 we found erica's joan who we now know is amanda north. we arranged for her to fly from california to meet erica in baltimore where she's in rehab. what did erica think when her mom told her the good news?

>> she had said, do you want to meet joan tomorrow? i just -- i started crying. >> reporter: within 24 hours the two were set to meet. >> i really just want to thank her for helping me and, you know, being there for me and holding my hand the whole time. >> are you a little nervous as we head inside? >> i really am. it's a strange thing. in a way she's a stranger to me but when you share things like this, you feel like you've known someone your entire life so it's -- i'm looking forward to meeting her but i'm a little nervous. >> reporter: moments later, raw emotion. >> oh, my god. look at you. look at you. >> so glad we found you. >> i have thought about you

every moment. >> thank you. >> since the marathon. i didn't know thousand get ahold of you, what had thoopd you. >> reporter: like old friends, the two exchanged gifts. erica gave amanda a neck class with a dragonfly on it to match hers. >> i wanted you to have one, too. >> reporter: amanda brought erica her favorite scarf. >> i want you to just think of me whenever you wear this and know that i'm always there for you. this never goes away. we're friends for life. >> we are. we're always going to be connected. >> yeah, we will. never going to stop holding your hand no matter what happens. >> reporter: both suffered serious injuries. >> they started wrapping my leg so they have it wrapped up really tight. >> reporter: including perforated eardrums, but today they laughed about getting each other's names wrong. >> you thought my name was joan and i thought your name was irene. >> i know. >> i don't know how we could have gotten them so wrong but it was so loud. >> reporter: finally together

they relived that terrible day. >> i had this horrible feeling that i was going to die, like i could sense that something was really wrong. right away you came right up to me and you grabbed my hand and you told me that you weren't going to let go. and you didn't. >> i felt like there was a reason i was there. i just felt this compulsion to go over to you. >> reporter: erica's extended family all thanked amanda for helping save erica that day, but it was this moment between amanda and erica's mother who had been given erica's belongings at the hospital that said so much. >> i was thinking i could be holding these and she wouldn't be here and i'm so thankful for you that she's here. >> reporter: to erica and her family, amanda is a hero, but amanda just wants to be known as a friend, a new friend for life. randi kaye, cnn, baltimore.

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samsung takes a few more bites out of apple. i'm alison kosik. this is your money. samsung little by little is grabbing more of the spotlight. the new samsung galaxy s-4 was the new top selling phone beating out the apple iphone 5. it's a victory for samsung which put a huge marketing effort behind the s-iv. apple shouldn't be too worried for a few reasons. first, monthly numbers tend to be volatile. we'll need to see what happens in the coming months to call it a trend. also, the report only counted sales at verizon, at&t, sprint, and t-mobile stores so it doesn't factor in sales at other locations, including the apple stores. finally, apple still holds the

biggest portion of the smartphone market in the u.s. as of the end of april 39% of smartphone subscribers had an iphone in their market. 22% had a samsung. apple increased that share from january to april. so why is it that investors won't give apple a break. shares are down about 1.5% now today. down more than 16% for the year as it fights battles on multiple front including pressure from investors and consumers. scrutiny from congress on corporate talks and an ongoing patent war with samsung. samsung scored a small victory in that war earlier this week when the international trade commission blocked all imports and sales for at&t models of the iphone 4, iphone 3gs and the at&t versions of the ipad and ipad 2. don't expect devices to come off the shelves. apple has vowed to fight it in court. president obama has also the power to veto the ruling before

apple appeals and apple may find the president on its side for this one. on tuesday the white house proposed changes to itc standards for obtaining injunctions like the one against apple, an effort to reduce the role of the trade commission in settling patent disputes. apple would surely welcome a win. that's it for me. brooke is coming back after the break. "your money" is sponsored by capella university. take your education to the next level and become a leader in your field. capella university. you'll have the knowledge to make an impact in your company and take your career to an even greater place. let's get started at capella.edu.

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his announcement came as lautenberg's body arrived on capitol hill. with us now from washington, chief washington correspondent and host of "the lead" jake tapper. tapper, i heard you talking earlier and i know you said you were shocked that the news wasn't leaked earlier. i'm sure you were trying to get the goods, but let me ask you this. was the pick a surprise? >> no. i mean, looking in retrospect, it makes perfect sense. here is a career prosecutor who is pretty much stayed out of politics. it's somebody who does not want to run for the seat. it's pretty much in the christie mold. i was surprised, jeff chiesa, the attorney general appointed to that position by governor christie had not appeared on any of the short lists in the new jersey and new york media when people discussed who governor

christie might a point. that was why i was surprised when they talked about a lot of other individuals who might have wanted to run for the seat for the special election in october. attorney general soon to be senator chiesa is someone who does not want to run for the seat. >> it shakes up the balance of power just a smidge before the special election in october. you also today, tapper, on your show were talking with someone whose name you were being pra tissing in the commercial break. care to share? stroumboulopoulos. >> are you referring to our new colleague, george stroumboulopoulos? >> very nice. >> first of all, i had a decade working with george steve if a n steve if a nop poe lis. >> no, it rolls off the tongue. tin tin and the bad guy's name was -- >> it's easy, stroumboulopoulos,

stroumboulopoulos, stroumboulopoulos. these are all words that were flowing so easily off your tongue like no problem? >> right. i mean, spain, falls mainly in the stroumboulopoulos. >> paparopoulos, look for you on the lead. seems like a nice guy. vladimir putin is a single man. he says his marriage is over. just a short while ago he and his ex-wife appeared together to announce their divorce. they were married for nearly 30 years. the former mrs. putin said, quote, we have different lives. they have two grown children. the putins say the split is amicable. tonight nancy grace goes behind bars and she is talking to these inmates here about everything from life in prison to the food they eat. hear what they told her and the one thing she actually liked about her time behind bars. that is next. with angie's list, i save time, money, and i avoid frustration.

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prosecuted, i would never engage with a defendant. because i did not want to get to know them or become attached to them, i didn't want to be their friend or know anything about them. because we often see lady justice depicted as a female holding the scales of justice with a blindfold over her eyes. and i did not want it to matter to me what their circumstances were. i wanted to simply seek the truth in ever prosecution, every case, all of them violent felonies, of course, that i took to trial. this was really, other than going to a jailhouse to look for rats, let me say, informants, i would never engage in conversation with defendants. >> so this was eye opening for you? >> well, it was in the acceptance that i let myself be opened to them. i've never done that before. simply not that i don't care.

it's not that at all. it's that my job was to secure a verdict that spoke the truth regardless of the defendant's position in life, whether they were rich or poor, had a good childhood, got an education. it didn't matter. all that mattered was the truth of that crime. so, yes, this was the first time that i really spoke to defendants behind bars openly and allowed my defenses to go down to find out their story. >> i want to hear the stories. what did they say to you about jody arias? >> jody arias. believe it or not, she had spread her story far and wide, different stories, i might add. >> to different people? >> yes. and i wondered -- i toyed with the idea of passing that on to the prosecution. she told different stories behind bars to different people. which at trial indicates that they can't keep their stories straight or their stories

changes. we already new she gave all of these different interviews to various outlets and every story was different. she did the same thing behind bars. they believed her. they thought she was nice. but they also made it very clear that they thought arias was presenting to them what she wanted them to know, which, of course, was not the truth. >> what about the women yourself? i understand you talked to a bunch of mommed. one woman was pregnant. and i hear you ate some of the food. >> oh, the foot. let me tell you something that hoe made peanut butter is not bad. i could eat that all day long. they bake their own -- you don't like peanut butter? >> i love it. >> dig it, girl. home made peanut butter. it's cheaper to make it than to buy it. they bake their own bread.

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all right. watch the clock with me. we are hours away from tipoff, game one, nba finals. san antonio spurs taking on the miami heat. and this is bringing back some stinging memories for the world's best player, lebron james, anyone? because the spurs handedly beat him in 2007. now he says he's out for revenge. cnn ports rachel anymore kolz is in miami. office going to get dirty

tonight. >> certainly when they have more at stake even than just getting the ring. i remember 2007. i was there at those finals. that was tim duncan's fourth nba title and that team just man handed delawn james who was 22-year-old and his cavaliers team. it was ugly. it was a 4-0 sweep. they joke that they really won it in three. and it was a bad scene. and afterward, lebron james and tim duncan met in a hallway and they hugged. and duncan said thank you for letting us get this one this year because this is going to be your league soon. and they both laughed. and lebron has gone on to have this great career and tim duncan hasn't been back in the finals since them. they're meeting tonight. and duncan, if he wins this,

everybody thinks he'll shuffle off into retirement. it's going to be a good matchup tonight. >> no hallway hugging today or for the next couple of days. with this series here, how could that impact the legacy that lebron james is trying to create? >> and you say hey, the spurs are trying to do their thing, but we're trying to build our legacy here, and with lebron, it is about the rings at this point. but this is about the hardware in the nba. people count after you retire. and lebron wants them to count multiple championships for him. he's got to win multiple rings. number two could be this year. but he's got a very talented team in his way. >> we'll look for you tonight in miami. spurs versus the heat.

check out the brooke blog for all interviews you missed or just want to see again. thanks for being with me. see you back here in tomorrow. in the meantime, let's go to washington, james tapper and "the lead" starts right now. >> if you have verizon you're in a file at the national security industry. our government snooping on its own citizens on a monumental scale. the nsa is watching who you're calling. we'll have the very first interview with the reporter who broke the story. the world lead. if china's first lady is waiting a visit with our first lady, she'll have to wait. the politics lead. an exclusive interview with mitt and n