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pizza to go on the copter to your door. >> people will snatch it out of the air. >> yeah, i could be one of those people. we have much more ahead on "cnn saturday morning," and it starts right now. >> good morning, everybody. i am pamela brown. >> i am victor blackwell. it's 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. glad to have you. we are starting in california where we are still waiting to learn the name of the man that went on the shooting rampage in the ocean front city of santa monica. the man killed five people and wounded five others before police killed him. the shooting spree started at a home near the college and spilled on to campus, just ten minutes from where president
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obama was holding a fund-raiser. the shooter was between 25 and 35 years old and wore black tactical gear, and was armed with pistols and a rifle with extra clips. >> miguel is in santa monica this morning. what is the latest in the investigation? >> reporter: we are out here in front of the university, santa monica college where investigators say they have taken away a number of bodies, a huge number of coroner vehicles and gear. they are continuing to investigate the college here to get to the very bottom of what happened here. a deadly rampage rolling through the streets of santa monica. 11:52 a.m., the first 911 call, a man wearing all black clothing and tactical gear leaves this house. inside, two victims believed to
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be the shooter's father and brother. >> he was coming out of the house, the gate of the house across the street, and then i noticed that house was on fire. and i thought he had been firing into the house. >> the gunman jumped into a car forcing the driver with him, and minutes later he opened fire on a santa monica city bus, and no deaths thanks to a quick-thinking bus driver. >> it happened in front of me. i was in my car and a guy on the left side of the street jumped out of the car with a big, black gun and started blasting rounds at the cars and buildings and bus. >> reporter: after that the gunman shot up a building at an intersection in santa monica and then forced the driver to take him to the santa monica college where the shooting spree continued. >> i ran into the hallway and when i got out there, i saw a gentleman dressed in all black. >> reporter: the incident cut a
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mile-long deadly path through the heart of santa monica, from the house that was set on fire to the library at santa monica college, packed with students studying for finals. >> he just looked like he was standing there posing for the cover of a ammo magazine or something. it was very bizarre. very calm and not running around or yelling, just looking around for targets casually. >> reporter: less than 15 minutes after it started it was over. four victims and the gunman, dead. >> the officers came in and directly even gauged the suspect and he was killed at the scene. >> reporter: his body was taken to a sidewalk where he was finally pronounced dead. we know the officials say they know who the suspect is. they may have served warrants on different locations last night -- as early as last night, and that may be going on today as well. but they are moving full steam ahead with the investigation.
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and they also believe he had more than just a couple weapons. we had reports of the ar-15-like weapon and the handgun as well, and he had a bag filled with ammunition and possibly other weapons and so that will be part of the investigation as well to figure out whether or not those are all owned legally and what set him off at the house with presumably the relatives and why did he end up here at the college. back to you guys. >> thank you so much. you mentioned there, miguel, the shooter may have been related to the two people killed inside the home. we are getting new details this morning and we want to check in with "los angeles times" reporter, andrew. what you have learned about the investigation this morning? you have new information for us. >> caller: in terms of the suspect and the first two victims northbound shot in the burning house, the suspect is
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related -- the victims are his brother and his father. >> his brother and father. >> the two bodies found inside the burning house are the suspect's brother and father. the call is a bit muffled if the people at home couldn't hear that. what is the possible motive? if you know information about that, we would, of course, like that, but why he went to this house and even if going to the campus next was planned? >> that's the big question. one of the things that sources are saying that it appeared it started at some sort of possible domestic case, but they are cautioning us very early in the investigation, and motive obviously is one of the most difficult things when you get an incident like this, you know. some things, you can't explain on the surface, and gathering evidence you get a clearer
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picture and that's what they are trying to do here. people did caution me away from saying this is domestically related, although on the surface, that's what it appears. in terms of they are not saying what they recovered, and there were multiple search warrants executed yesterday. so i would imagine in the next couple days you will really start to get a focus on it. and obviously, listening to some of the interviews that you were playing, you look at somebody that does, you know, seems to be doing something like this, and it's pretty harrowing. and i have done a lot of stories like this, and each has their own unique set of facts. this was pretty unbelievable, a mile, ten minutes, and it's just a trail of destruction, and endsing up in the library where kids on a campus where studying
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for their final. >> yeah, almost methodical in the way he carried out the shooting. andrew, any word about the suspect's mother? there was a divorce we are hearing, is that right? >> this is a report out there, and it's not really clear in terms of, again, whether this was motive and what the situation was, the relationship with the son, you know, and it still -- this is still part of what they are going to be focusing on, and i definitely talked to sources that said this is the starting point, but, again, the suspect was described to be in his 30s, and this apparently took place a while ago, so what does that mean? you are talking about adult son as opposed to a teen or early 20s.
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it may have something to do with it but not entirely. >> thank you for sharing your reporting with us this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> one question we were hoping to get the answer to was, was the attack on the campus planned? you would imagine if somebody was planning to go to the campus he would not rely on just carjacking somebody that was driving by and he would have planned for that. maybe spontaneous and maybe not. we are hoping to get more information from the authorities there in santa monica about the timeline and motive. an actress in texas is accused of sending ricin-laced letters to president obama and new york mayor, michael bloomberg. shannon richardson admitted to sending the letters, but says her husband forced her to do it. he now filed for divorce, and richardson is pregnant and faces ten years if convicted.
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the 94-year-old mandela former south african leader was rushed to the hospital overnight because of a reoccurring lung infection. a spokesperson says mandela is now breathing on his own. his wife is at his bedside. we will take you live to south africa later to see how mandela is doing. if you are flying today, good luck. andrea moves up the coast all day, and anybody flying should check with their airline to make sure their flight is on time. that leads me to the next question, what is in store for the northeast? >> hopefully not too bad. >> it's improving. that's for sure. it's post tropical andrea, if you did not know. it lost some of its tropical characteristics, but despite the semantics in some regard, it has
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left behind rain and destruction as well. it's speeding northeast at 35 miles per hour, and maximum sustained winds are still at 45 but they are well off the coast. other than being in nantucket where we have high speed and high winds expected there today, really won't feel those kinds of winds inland. record rain, between 3 and 5 inches of rain, and kennedy and new york, 4 inches, and 3.3 in laguardia, so plenty of rain. and they were talking about the airport delays. plenty yesterday. things will be better at the airports today. the rain is moving to the north and east and taking the center of circulation with it, which is good news. further south, south of washington, d.c. and in west virginia and north carolina, heavy rain coming down. to the west, believe it or not we got much drier air. we are seeing the clash of the
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air masses and today there is another threat of severe weather. from nebraska and kansas, what we are expecting, large hail and damaging winds and possible tornados as well, from omaha and wichita, and a clash of the air masses are setting up. it doesn't look like a widespread severe event. again, there is the dry air, and all the warm and moist air, and along the front, guys, that's where we have the potential for a tornado. keep an eye to the sky, and listen to the weather radios and across the tv screens, you will hear the warnings coming. we have much more ahead this hour. >> here is what is coming up. >> he is accused of holding three women captive for ten years, but he is facing his own imprisonment for a lot longer. there are now 329 counts against ariel castro, and they only
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de-jesus and knight in his home for at least ten years. the indictment describes brutal assaults. one charges accuses the 52-year-old castro of aggravated murder for purposely causing the end of one pregnancy. and 139 counts of rape, 177 counts of kidnapping, and 7 counts of gross sexual impossession, and 3 counts of felonious assault, and one count of possession of criminal tools. and they want to make sure castro stays behind bars the rest of his life, and 329 charges, and this is the type of indictment you expected here? >> i am a little surprised. this is a case of staggering brutality and cruelty, and it defies the imagine the charges
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here, and we are used to criminals that impulsively commit a crime, but this is rape and kidnapping of these women over a ten year period, and because of the amount of cruelty the prosecutor had to send a message this would be punished to the full extent of the law, and i know you have been covering the story closely from cleveland and it only covers half the years involved, and they probably could have charged over 600 counts or may in the future if they want to, but in the end i am not sure it's such a great idea, because it's one thing to charge these things, but you have to go into court some day and prove each and every one of these allegations. now, that's where i think you will get some problems, technical problems down the road. >> on that note, i want to talk about this aggravated murder charge that castro is facing. i can imagine this would be very difficult to prove because first you have to prove pregnancy of
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one of the women, and then you have to prove that he actually forced the miscarriage, is that right? >> absolutely. and that like the other charges where the prosecutor will have to go back in time and say to one of the victims, do you remember being raped in april of 2005 and how is she going to be remembering a particular day in april. with this charge, you will have to prove there was a pregnant and a real pregnancy and the termination of the pregnancy happened as a result of beatings and a fetus was present. these women were never treated medically. they were held captive for all of these years, and so there is no medical of the pregnancy and there is no autopsy on a fetus, so how do you prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the pregnancy was treated by his action. you would have to prove that beyond a reasonable doubt. it's called a fetal homicide
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law. they almost never impose a death penalty in a situation like this. it's usually when somebody murdered a pregnant mother and then you see the charge, but here you have a strange fact pattern and i think it will be tough for prosecutors to prove. >> there is no legal precedent for this in ohio essentially as far as the death penalty for killing a fetus, and it's been when the mother was killed as well, is that right? is that what you are saying? >> there is precedent for it. and i will add one complicating factor, the supreme court ruled you can only impose the death penalty where a person has been killed. how would you prove a fetus was a person under u.s. law, because we don't even know what the stage of development was? was this a fetus that could have lived outside of the womb or not? if it could not have lived outside the womb, it would not
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be defined a person under u.s. law and would be an unconstitutional application of the death penalty. i don't think you will see the death penalty there, but with 329 counts, he could get 3,000 years if you impose consecutive sentences and life, and prosecutors have plenty of punishment to work with within the confines of what has already been charged. >> thank you for your analysis. we appreciate it. we will be right back. stay with us. every time you wear it. neutrogena® healthy skin liquid makeup. 98% of women saw improvement in their skin's natural texture, tone or clarity. it's healthier for your skin than wearing no makeup at all. does your makeup do that? healthy skin liquid makeup. from neutrogena® cosmetics.
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we really do tweet. we don't have our phones and stuff around us but -- >> i do a lot of re-tweeting. and we will be tweeting about this, possible contributing factors here. the possible cost of health care reform for spending cuts and europe's troubled economy. 175,000 jobs were added. that was better than expected. but some economists call the numbers, quote, unremarkable. what will they think of next. a handcuff key sold in a zipper on amazon, and it has police concerned. look at this thing. it can be hooked on to any jacket or pants, and it's a handcuff key. less than 11 bucks, actually.
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it's invisible. you can't even see it. it's under plastic covering. the police commissioner send internal memos about this. >> i have to say i went to amazon and read the comments, and i was curious, and are people going to admit people use the key, and sure enough people said they did and it works. >> they had handcuffs for their own recreational issues. >> they were not detailed about it. >> are you a pizza lover? >> i like black olives and an cho srae. >> forget the delivery man, it's about the domi copter. it launched the pie into the air
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in this promotional spot that you see here. domino's corporate confirmed the video and they said it was the brainchild of one of the franchises in the uk, and it delivered in a heat wave bag and arrived at your door in ten minutes, but don't expect the drones to take the place of your pizza driver anytime soon, the faa working out commercial use of the drones in the u.s. >> it drops the pizza on the hood of your car and you have no idea what the thump is. and then you are happy it's a black olive -- >> no, straight cheese. >> not even extra cheese? >> okay, extra cheese. >> let's talk about breakfast now.
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dunkin' donuts introduces this new item, one fried egg and smoked bacon served between two blazed donuts. we had this yesterday. i had cheese. did you have cheese? >> i didn't. >> but you had the bacon? >> yes. >> 360 calories. >> i don't know about that one. it will be a permanent menu item. >> i liked it. i finished it off. that's a good sign, right? >> i took one bite and i heard paper crumpling up behind me. >> i ate it in a record 10 seconds. 360 calories, 100 calories less with the bangle sandwich. >> even with the doughnut. >> i thought donuts were worse for you than bangles. >> i took a bite, the flavor of the egg and the sweetness of the doughnut did not work for me.
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>> savory and sweet is not your thing. >> i am not doing baking now, but maybe i will go back to it, i don't know, and that with a doughnut, maybe, but egg, cheese and a glazed doughnut, it didn't work. >> we agree to disagree. >> yes. coming up, more live coverage on the shooting in california right after this break. stay with us. capella university understands businesses are trying to come back from rough economic times.
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now for an update on mortgages. rates climbed higher again this week. let's take a look.

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