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>> excellent interview as usual. thanks for doing that. remember you can always follow what's going on here in "the situation room" on twitter, you can tweet me@wolf blitzer. you can like us on facebook. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." the news can'ts next on cnn. oan. . . cnn. uan'ts next on cnn. esan'ts next on cnn. n'ts next on cnn. 'ts next on cnn. ts next on cnn. s next on cnn. . oim don lemon. we're going to begin with new information on the deadly shooting in california. they've identified the suspect. they're not releasing his name yet because his next of kin are believed to be out f the country. we also have new surveillance pictures of a suspect seen entering the library on the campus of the college. the suspect would have been 24 years old today. santa monica's police chef says
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the deadly shooting that left four people dead were almost certainly planned. i want to go live outside the police station. what are we hearing about the suspect's weapons? >> reporter: what we know about the suspect, even though we don't know his name, police are identifying him as quote a cowardly murderer. he was 23 years old. would have been 24 had he survived that deadly shoot outout with the police. what we also know is he was heavily armed. take a look at this arsenal that the police showed off to the media today. this is just a portion of what he had on him. it was all in a duffel bag, what you're looking at. you can see the large number of magazine clips, those gooden bullets sticking out of the clips as well as a .44 caliber handgun and the upper receiver of a prnt 223 rifle found on the suspect. he was drezed in all black wearing kneepads.
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they're saying he was also carrying a fully ready .223 semiautomatic rifle that he used to hurt so many people here in santa monica. he had an additional ability to fire off 1300 rounds. that's just an estimate from the police. that's why they are saying that he was heavily armed and ready for battle. the police department did say that they did have additional contact, that they knew they had contact with this man, the suspect, the gunman back in 2006 but he was a juvenile then so they can't legally tell us what that contact was about. and as far as his connection to santa monica college, don, we know now from the police that he did attend there in 2010. >> pretty frightening photo we're just getting in. i want to ask you something said in the news conference. they talked about a safe room inside the library. what do you know about that? >> reporter: you know, the police really credit their training, their quick response for all of this but they're
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certainly not discounting luck and the quick thinking of some of the students here. these were people in the library. they either had a room they could run to or they created this room. they ran into the little room, stack as much as they could against the door but then through the plaster what police told us they could see and hear the bullets coming in. they dodged them by laying down. they say they simply do not know how those students survived inside that safe room but they are certainly thankful that they did. >> thank you very much. i want to go to new orleans where myself found a car belonging to a woman who has been missing for more than three months. heart breaking. there is something else. a body is inside that car. police diver found the car. no word in the body is tera mo net. i talked with her mother a
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little while ago. >> it's very hard, it's very difficult. as you know, i've been coming down here since my daughter has gone missing and, you know, i just, i can't believe that it has taken them this long to find this car. i'm just in shock right now. i'm in shock. >> terry lin mo net was a teacher. lots of volunteers have been searching the city since mo net was last scene. now we go to philadelphia in the arrest of a man police have been searching and seeking in connection with this week's deadly build collapse. shane ben shop was operating some heavy equipment at a demolition site when the collapse occurred. he was drug tested and found to have marijuana and ore drugs in his system.
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six people died when that four-story building crumbled on wednesday. our susan candiotti has more now. >> don, here's what we can tell you about the man who has now been arrested. h his name is sean ben shop. he is 32 years old. he was wearing a soft arm cast on one of his arms at the time of the collapse. he don't know what caused that injury. immediately after the building came crumb bling down police did a preliminary blood test on him and the results show he had traces of marijuana in his bloodstream as well as prescription drug medication. now, as they were preparing the warrant for him, police went looking for him but they weren't able to find him until saturday amp when he eventually turned himself in. he is going to be charged now with six counts of involuntary manslaughter. that covers of course the six people who were killed when this building came tumbling down on top of a salvation army thrift
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store. he's being charged with 13 counts of recklessly endanger the life of another person. that involves the 13 people injured as a ult result of this and one count of risking a ka tas trophy. two victims have filed a civil lawsuit against the property owner of this area and the demolition company he had hired accusing both of them of gross negligence. the spokesman for the district attorney's office says she hopes the arrest will bring some comfort to the victims and their families. >> thank you very much, susan? what may have been an attempt to frame her husband, the fbi says a texas actress now admits she sent ricin laced letters to president obama and michael bloomberg. still shannon richardson says her husband made her do it. if convicted she could spend ten years in prison. it remains to be seen if two
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days of talks helped president an hen china counter part form a relationship. president obama and xi jinping talked a range of topic ranging from knot korea to cyber security. he described the meeting with the chinese leader as terrific. >> it's hard to pick up a daily newspaper and not to feel somewhat skeptical about washington, d.c. and her federal government. but i tell you today that i reject that attitude. >> that's cory booker and he wants to go to washington to help change that image. new york's mayor announced his cad dancy for the u.s. senate today. he' running to finish the term of late democrat senator frank lautenberg. right now his only opponent is josh holt. the special election is set for october. with his wife by his side and prayers around the world,
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nelson mandela is in a hospital battling a recurring lung condition. he's in stabilized condition. it's the four time in a year he's been hospitalized. this time the government isn't down playing it. his health has been slipping for some time. >> south after cans walk woke up this morning to the news that nelson mandela was back in the hospital. this is the fourth time he's been treated for a lounge infection pneumonia this year. what is different this time? the use of the word serious. they're coming out early this morning say he was in a serious by stable condition. for a government that's used to down playing nelson mandela's health, this quite frank assessment has many south after cans worried. >> these are the latest photos of nelson mandela taken in april
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of this year at hiss home surrounded by his doctors and some of his grandchildren. he looked bewildered and didn't smile. reacting with discomfort as a flash goes off as he grandson takes his picture. so different to the vigorous man who fought so hard and endured so much. the former south after can president has seemed frail and unsteady for some years now. public appearances has become rare. too much effort for a man in his 90s. mandela sometimes dosed off during speeches and seemed confused. his last appearance was in 2010 at the closing ceremony of the world cup. he has been treated here for a recurring lung infection. now he's back in the hospital, rushed there in the mittelstadt of the night again suffering from a lung infoex. >> lung infections can spread very fast. i'm not a specialist in the matter but it does affect
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person's breathing, can be very serious and life threatening. and i think the drrs would be very careful when they're dealing with a man of his age and he auz a history of this infection. it is containable but it has to be located in the context of his ainge and frailty. >> they've told south after cans to pray for him. >> as they now go to sleep they're left with a fa mill yar situation, a lot of anxiety, a lot of worry about a much loved icon but also not a lot of answers about just how grave is hi illness. george zimmerman was in court today. experts testified about screams heard on the 911 call after zimmerman shot 17-year-old trayvon martin. hear how today's hearing might affect his trial that starts on monday. camera. whether i'm telling people about how they could save
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they say they still need more time. but the judge does not seem to be in any mood to listen to that. we've gone through three days of testimony pertaining to the 911 call in which the fatal shot is captured in which there are screams before that final shot is fired. is key here is there a way to determine who is screaming and what they're saying. we believe it's someone screaming help. the prosecution contends it wasn't george zimmerman, it was trayvon martin that was screaming. the analysis of that is what's key here. and the defense has brought on some experts that have refuted the prosecution that claim they know who's screaming. here's the defense expert that finished up the testimony today, george tottington. >> there are no worthy judgments or decisions that can be made on this data. this is the worst of the -- this is the worst possible forensic
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example. >> the defense does not want anyone to come on the stand and make a claim that it is in fact trayvon martin screaming for help because, of course, that would absclutly destroy or throw great harm towards the george zimmerman defense of self-defense which is what she says. >> we'll be watching. thank you. appreciate that. a grand jury has indicted aerial castro on 329 charges. the former cleveland school bus driver is accused of holding three women hostage in his home for ten years. diermt describes brutal treatment. he punched one of his hostages in the stomach until he lost her baby. just how much is big brother watching you. the government admits it gathers personal data without warrants. how deep does the government dig? that's next. t hard to breathe...
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i want to tell you about some new developments tonight concerning the government collecting phone records on americans. a request has been made for a criminal investigation into the leaks that led to stories disclosing the data mining process. tonight the white house is weighing in. jessica yellin is traveling with the president. she joins us live from palm spring. i understand that one of the president's advisers has something to say about all of this now. what is he saying? >> reporter: hi, don. president obama has wrapped up his meeting here in palm springs with china's president where they talked about cyber threats. in the briefing about those meetings, they took a moment, some of his advisers took a moment to also answer questions about these nsa surveillance
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programs and pointedly said there will not only be investigations of who leaked awe all of the information but we should also know that they have harmed our national security. this is one of the president's top national security advisers. >> what we're focused on doing now is frankly doing an assessment of the damage that is being done to u.s. national security by the revelation of this information, which is necessarily secret because the united states needs to be able to conduct intelligence issues without the methods being revealed to the world. >> reporter: i think this statement leaves for questions unanswered than it addresses because we actually don't know what kind of damage has been done. there's so much that's unknown to us. the administration says these things are classified so we can't know enough information to
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ask the kinds of questions we want to ask. >> that's a good point. i saw an interview today a james clapper speaking out saying the same thing. can we assume, and maybe it's too early, that the information has harmed intelligence ir rev kaably in the country? >> my understanding is the claim really is they're worried that people who would like to do us harm now have insight into however to work around our intelligence gathering. so let's say some al qaeda operative now knows not to use the internet in a certain way. they can go around it and use the internet in a different way based on the reports that they've read. that's the kind of thing it tips off bad actor to the tools of the trade and gives them clues so they can invade our intelligence services. but the problem is we don't, you know, they raised the national security flag, saying we're all
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in danger, but we don't know how true or untrue it is. one of the big unknowns also is how did somebody get this information? how did they leak it? does that pose a real threat too? is there a hole at the nsa that aloied somebody to download the classified documents and get them out to the public. >> we're going the talk a little more about this now. now that americans are aware of what's going on, the data mining an the catalogs of phone records by intelligence agencies. it has started a fierce debate. what rights are americans willing to compromise in the name of national security. jim harper has written about the danger of collecting mass amount of information on americans and by skype from london is ron bextra who is a cyber analyst. it's a good thing. >> you're not concerned about
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the big brother aspect to all of that? >> i wouldn't go that far. i mean i think the government needs to have intelligence function that help to protect the country but of course any function like that, any programs have got to comply with the constitution of the united states of america. so i think that you know these revelations raise a lot of questions that you said anmentioned, this is going to be debated an torn open between capitol hill and the white house and other places. it's the start of a very parent national dialogue and we've got to take it siriusry in terms of how a proper balance can be perceived that supports the u.s. constitution. >> jim, i have a couple of questions for you. i want to ask both of you gentlemen this question. jim, first to you. i think many americans have already assumed that their information at least had the possibility of being looked at if you worked for any corporation if they can read your e-mails, they can look at
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your devices, monitor your phone calls. what is so surprising about this information. >> well we certainly share a lot of information online these days, a lot of information with loved one more an more all the time. none of that gives the government the right to access this information, much less store it for long period of time. we're talking about as much as seven years in dianne feinstein is correct records of all of our phone calls. this document four page double spaced is the released document that americans haven't seen in something like 230 years. it's a general warrant. a general warrant, something that the revolutionary war was fouth about because king george issued those. this allows the national security agency to access information about every american's calls and catalog that information keeping it essentially forever, very revealing information with very little security benefit and i think that's the important thing we need to talk about. the balance is not struck by collecting all information about
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all americans calls. heaven knows that the vast majority of americans are good people who do nothing wrong an don't deserve to end up in databases like this. >> having said that, then what's wrong with looking at the information if you have nothing to hide then? >> well, in the united states of america one hopes a free country, you should have privacy for any run or no reason. we have a fourth amendment that restricts the government's access to information because the framers knew about the unique powers of the government. we want government to have pow tore investigate criminal tearism but we must do so in a particular way. they have to state with particularity what they're looking for to get a warrant. this general warrant is the opposite of that. it allows the government to collect all information about all people's calls. >> the same questions to you. after 911 most people just sort of assumed that much of our
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information was being looked at any way. geb the same question that i asked before. >> i got to side a little bit with jim here. i think if these allegations are true and there's, you know even with the white house confirming in some way they are getting these records through verizon, that's extremely broad sweeping and concerning. and i think even for some of those that help to shape the patriot act, even the author had some comments yesterday saying he didn't anticipate it would be used like this. that's the risk of legislation like the patriot act that some of us were concerned at the time. so i think, you know, don, the internet has ripped the world open and everyone's data is vurnable including the government's. that's what we're seeing right now. the government's secret data is being released.
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we're moving into a transparent world and we're going to have to change our structures to deal with that. intelligence organizations are going to have to realize that the activities they're doing is going to be put under much more scrutiny than they have in the past. i think people thought some more things might have been happening after 99/11 but i think some people are surprised about the breadth of the day that is spoken about in the warrant an the allegations. >> this is indeed overreaching. thank you so much, gentlemen. coming up, a new orleans mystery may may have been solved. the police found a car belonging to a teacher who went missing in march. we'll take you live to the scene next. ♪
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>> half past the hour, a look at the headlines now on cnn. at least 1 people killed and dozens injured in benghazi libya today. it happened after demonstrators attack the headquarters of the libya shield bra gad. it's been nearly two years since the overthrow of moammar ga daffy. two american soldiers were killed in afghanistan. a gunman wearing a uniform
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opened fires r fire on the americans. the gunman was killed. in a separate attack an mesh soldier was killed and several others wounded in western afghanistan. >> what used to be topical storm andrea is causing problems along the east coast today and flood warnings are out for new jersey, connecticut, rhode island even as water levels are dropping right now. three to four inches of rain fell on boston an new york, especially long island. look at the mess there. threw are high surf advisories for new york which could be hit with 3 to 6 foot waves. >> a three month mystery in new orleans may have an answer tonight. the honda accord was pulled pulled out of the bayou. she is a teacher who disappeared in early march. the car is hers and there was a
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body inside. we want to get to monica hernandez. she is down in new orleans. do you have any idea when we're going to get an idea on the body found in this car? >> reporter: the coroner's office took the body away just hours ago. it could take a few days because of the condition the body was in after being inside the buy you for more than three months now. >> tell us about the long serge for terrilynn monette. police working in their spare time, why were so many people dedicated, why did they dedicate so much time to finding her? it did take a while. >> reporter: i have covered this story sinisterry lin monette first went missing and i can tell you this has been a story that touched the heart of the community from day one. pi would go out open people would tell me i'm a mother, i can relate to this hurting mother if my daughter ever went missing. i don't know what i would do and
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i just want to help. volunteers would come out every weekend searching for her in the woods, in the city park near the last part where she was seen and there was crews volunteering to serge out in the buy you behind me. the crews had been out here searching before. but today a volunteer divers with the sly dell police department came in, used so nra and was able to find terrilynn monette's car an positively identify it and make sure that in fact there was a body inside. help give this grieving family a sense of closure. >> i spoke with her mother today, and as you were speaking we're looking at pictures of the family and friends who are there and the media there and they certainly appear to be taking this hard. the family is at the scene. tell us how they're dealing with this today, the discovery of
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this car. >> reporter: the family said they're holding out hope for so long, that they believed they would find their loved one alive. so today they looked on as hoer honda was pulled out of the biowith a body in the front seat. you could see them tearing up, embracing each other. it was an emotional day. there was a lot of community support here. dozens of people, total strangers who never met terrilynn monette who gathered on the buy you to watch the car being pulled out of the buy ou. her father told me we are very upset right now. we're too distraught to speak on camera and they walked off and went to grieve on their own. >> reporting to us live from new orleans, thank you monica. >> not long after they found her
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car i spoke with her mother tony and at the time the new orleans police were being very cautious of what to tell her. here's your conversation. actually to be honest with you i only know that her car has been extracted. as of yet i do not know the contents of the vehicle. >> they don't know the contents of the vehicle? >> no, i don't. >> we're looking at video of the family members and people who knew your daughter in the median and it appears that everyone is just stunned and devastated. how are you guys dealing with this? >> well, it's very hard. it's very difficult. you know, as you know, i've been coming down here every month since my daughter has gone missing and, you know, i just, i
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can't believe that it has taken them this long to find this car. i'm just, i'm in shock right now. i'm in shock. >> how far is it, this is bay ou st. jones. she went missing in new orleans. this is sly dell. how far away is this. >> what? >> from where she went missing to where she sfound the car, the city park where -- this is city park where we're looking at the people who are gather in the median here. how far from where he went missing to where they found the car. >> from her apartment or from which location? where she was last seen at? >> yes, ma'am. >> i would say that's about, what, maybe no more than five minutes. no more than five minutes from where she left from. >> why are you surprised that it took so long to find the car.
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>> i'm surprised because they've had several departments that have been out there searching and, you know, i just don't see why it took them three month to locate this car. i just, i just don't. i just don't. and i think the more frustrating thing than anything is to know that she was there, possibly could have been there for three months. >> did police tell you when you can expect to hear more from them on an identification? >> no. as of yet, no, they haven't. they vnd told me when i can hear more. >> you know, i asked you this question the last time and i have to ask you again. have you prepared yourself for the worst? >> you know what, to be honest with you, i can't, i can't even begin to go there right now. i'm in shock. i can't believe this.
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i can't believe this. i can't believe this. >> our thanks to any enclave we're hoping it's not her daughter and they do find her alive but the possibility seems to be pretty remote that that's going to happen. we'll keep you updated. to self-help radio hosts who are dedicated to help others take their own lives. up next the chilling video of their advice to listeners. but one thing you don't want to lose is any more teeth. if you wear a partial, you are almost twice as likely to lose your supporting teeth. new poligrip and polident for partials 'seal and protect' helps minimize stress, which may damage supporting teeth, by stabilizing your partial. and 'clean and protect' kills odor-causing bacteria. care for your partial. help protect your natural teeth. care for your partial. i tthan probablycare moreanyone else.and we've had this farm for 30 years. we raise black and red angus cattle.
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. i want you to pay attention to this story. it's very interesting. to self-help coaches apparently committed suicide together in their brooklyn parent. this is video of the couple, psychiatrist lynne ros enand john littig. they spept their live promoting self-growth and internal happiness. >> that's exactly right. stepping out of your comfort
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zone is very important or you know alternatively you can start to get comfortable with change. >> yeah, i like that. that's great. >> so on monday their building manager says she smelled a strong odor coming from their apartment, broke down the door found the couple's bodies holding hands on the coach. plastic bags covered their heads. a tube attached to a heel yum canister was attached. the man's note read i can't take it anymore. my wife is in too much pain. wendy walsh joins me now. what a sad story. all the people who take lives, take their own lives, these two people you would probable least expect. why these two people? >> well, you know, don, we often teach best what we most need to learn. that doesn't mean they were not very helpful to lots of people but obviously there was a piece of their own pain and suffering and in her case depression and i
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might remind you, yes, she was a psychiatrist and there are therapists out there that suffer from thing. just becausy ear a medical doctor doesn't mean you can't get cancer. so i think the other piece of course is that they had probably what i would cause a fused relationship, the pop psych term is codependent meaning no one can remember whose problem is whose. he went down with her ship. very tragic. >> we often teach best what we often need to learn. truer words have never been spoken. it's difficult to fathom what could have caused this. this couple dedicated their lives to help others so why couldn't they help themselves. >> i think they were from time to time. i think they sort of rebounded from each other an bounced off of each other and used the teaching and the general public. but it sounds like she went through a bout of depression. they were probably so fused that it caused depression in him. if one partner can stay solid
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open separate they can reach out for help. >> so you're a human behavior expert, you're a therapist. but therapists need therapists, you need to bounce something off other people, correct. >> of course. i tell my exercise girls you go do exercise, she has her own pill latties girl. whether you go to your church and talk to you pastor we all need to contact and talk. >> there is a statistic that is really quite startling suicidings now kill more americans than car accidents. that is huge. i find it surprising. do you? >> absolutely surprising and shocking to think. we always think car accidents are the big danger here in america and now to think killing ourself rs of our own devices. i have to say that i think one of our problems in the country is the definition of happiness. we have way too much focus on
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fame and money and if we don't have those thix we're feeling unhappy where there are plenty of cultures around the world where they have far less money and they report greater levels of happiness, costa rica and denmark. their definition of happen myness has to do with family and safety and security. >> let's talk about that. let's have some self-therapy here on the air. it's thing, owning things having all these things. i'm going through a purging process, getting rid of lots of thing. i've never been happier. i was interviewing one of our new hosts here on cnn, george stroumboulopoulos and he said, don i got rid of so many thing, i don't even have a couch in my apartment. i never have been happier in my life. >> well, i would keep the couch but i do think purging can help because we give an unfair attachment to the things in our life. but don, research is pretty
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clear that money doesn't buy you happiness unless that money takes you just out of poverty into mittelstadt class. after that more money is not associated with happy nns. the things that can affect your happiness are exercise, al truism feel really good and good see cure family relationships. in the last 50 yours our society has been all about individual rights an freedoms, a mobile workforce that has torn people away from their extended families. now with that technology the isolation that's happening. people alone with their computers in places. it's contributing to unhappiness. >> good stuff. thank you wendy. >> thanks, don. good to see you. >> we'll be right back. ♪ let me play among the stars ♪ and let me see what spring is like ♪ ♪ on jupiter and mars
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becoming a world class model. this shows her posing for the cover of fhm, a hot magazine. t >> she has beauty and when they were law school classmates. those pictures of her when you knew her, she does look different to the reva that, you know, i think oscar fell in love with. >> i think it's the whole modelling industry. you have to weigh a certain amount and it's very superficial. people see this glossy blond haired beautiful woman and that's what they think she is as well. they don't realize what a fantastic woman she is. she's not a dumb blond that stares at a camera all day. very cliched saying.
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beautiful on the outside as you are on the inside. that's reva. she was more beautiful on the inside. really, she was. >> smith took these photographs of the aspiring model at a local beach. in those days, it was more of a hobby for her. >> she would always say modelling is not a career because your beauty only lasts so long. you have to do something. you have to have something. >> when smith was in a relationship that became abusive steenkamp was there pushing her to get out. >> she said get out. you can't sit and accept being treated like that. she was incredibly patient. >> reeva -- a woman is killed by her husband or partner every
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eight hours in south africa. steenkamp and smith talked about helping these women. >> we always say we want to do it. >> it is no mystery who killed reeva steenkamp but was it murder or an accident. stay tuned as we talk about what happened that night including the interview with friends and relatives. it airs tonight in about ten minutes on cnn. next, a cnn exclusive. the mother of this sick little boy talks about her battle to save his life. she's trying to get him a lung transplant. she describes the race against time. not. he's on geico.com setting up an appointment
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a cnn exclusive. an interview with a mother fighting to get new lungs for her sick little boy. a judge ruled her son and another boy are exempt from a rule that keeps young kids getting adult transplants. she lost another son to cystic fibrosis. she talks about her emotional journey. >> this is like watching a movie that you have seen before and you want a different ending, basically. so, you are inclined to do whatever it takes to change that. it was very difficult dealing with that. my son was 11. he was a month shy of his 12th birthday when he passed. but i'm very grateful all this has come about. it gives him the opportunity to change the ending of that movie, you know what i mean? this is a different outcome, hopefully, should this come into effect. you know, and it will be a wonderful thing for him.
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late night hosts have always had an uncertain, unnatural i should say with brian williams. the latest, jimmy fallon's show, his team put together pieces of the newscast so it looks like he is singing or rather, rapping. look at brian williams performing "straight out of compton." ♪ crazy mother [ bleep ] from ice cube gang sawed off and hauled off in your neighborhood ice cube is crazy as i believe
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i'm stopping, when i say come straight out of compton ♪ >> one of the guys posted that song and this reaction on twitter. he liked it. i'm don lemon in atlanta. oscar pistorius brutal murder or fatal mistake airs now. good evening, i'm anderson cooper. who killed south african beauty reeva steenkamp is no mystery. the question is, was it cold-blooded murder? olympic hero oscar pistorius, the so-called blade runner, says he pulled the trigger but that it was a fatal mistake. tonight what he says happened that valentine's day and what the police say. also, exclusive interviews with friends and relatives. what they say about him and the young woman he killed. cnn has more on the story tonight. oscar pistorius, brutal murder or grave mistake? oscar pistorius, disabled athlete who sprinted io