cheney. air fear, one out of control passenger said he was poisoned. his fellow fliers had to tie him down. amazing rescue, two teams stranded on a cliff, the daring airlift that brought them to safety. >> your "new day" starts right now. this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela perei pereira. >> good morning and welcome to "new day" day two. thank you for joining us. i'm kate bolduan. >> i'm chris cuomo, it is june 18th, 6:00 in the east. president obama on his heels but fighting back a day after his approval rating took an eight-point plunge the president is insisting anyone outraged by the top secret surveillance programs doesn't get it. brianna keilar is traveling with the president for the g-8

summit. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, chris. this was an interview that president obama gave a 50-minute interview extraordinarily long before heading to europe. he discussed syria which is certainly the top of his agenda here at the g-8 summit and he also talked about the nsa programs that garnered his administration. so much criticism. in a candid and unusually long interview with pbs's charlie rose, president obama revealed how defending the homeland weighs on him, even as he discussed his goal of helping the middle class. >> and that is the thing that i'm going to be focused on for the remainder of my presidency, along with the basics like making sure nobody blows us up. >> reporter: obama stood by newly revealed nsa programs that gather vast amounts of phone and online data from millions of americans. >> should this be transparent in some way? >> it is transparent. that's why we set up the fisa

court. >> reporter: at suggestions his administration has been heavy handed obama bristled. >> some say he was a raving liberal before. now he's dick cheney. my concern has been not that we shouldn't do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism but rather are we setting up a system of checks and balances. >> reporter: obama's administration said the government crossed a red line using chemical weapons on rebels. long overdue says senator john mccain. >> the note there was some professional military inside of syria for us to immediately support. >> reporter: in northern ireland obama met with vladimir putin whose government is supplying arms to syria. no breakthrough, though obama and putin said they will push both sides to negotiate a peace.

and the obama administration has also announced new aid to syria, $300 million more in humanitarian aid bringing the total to $800 million. chris? >> what is the word from there, his team on the ground. do you feel this is fair criticism or feel the president is being a victim of a larger administration issue? what's their word? >> on the nsa, no, i don't think that's the case. i think that certainly the administration is actually buoyed in a way when it comes to the issues of the nsa because they feel like they have some backup from democrats and from republicans, certainly in congress and also top democrats and republicans on key committees so when i think when it comes to this issue of the nsa and personal privacy, i think they actually feel like they have some good backup. the interesting thing, though, chris, is europeans are not in favor of this. this raises a lot of red flags

for them and the next stop for president obama will be berlin, germany where angela merkel will raise this issue with him. that's what we'll be looking for there and it could be interesting. >> good point. brianna keilar thank you very much. >> it was interesting, 50-minute interview he did. the president doesn't have a lot of extra time on his hands. >> true but this is important. >> it is an important issue and good to hear him speaking out on it. details and new pictures on the midair scare. passenger has been hospitalized after he started screaming nine hours into a 15-hour flight, think if you were on that flight. cnn's rene marsh is in washington. what are you learning? >> reporter: good morning, kate. can you imagine, well this is what we know as far as the latest goes, the fbi tells us no charges have been filed against this man who created that raucous mid flight, not only did passengers jump in but they recorded part of the drama on board, too. take a look.

>> i'm dead. i'm dead. i'm dead. >> reporter: dramatic cell phone audio captures a man screaming after he claims he was poisoned on board united flight 116 from hong kong to newark, new jersey, stunned passengers forced to step in. >> i got up along with a few other passengers and at one point he reached out for something in his pocket in his jacket and that's when about three or four of us basically tackled him to the ground. >> reporter: jacques roizen has one of the passengers who held him down while the flight attendants used plastic cuffs. the passenger was described as paranoid and claimed to have information about nsa leaker edward snowden. >> he said he worked with the u.s. embassy in abu dhabi and he was being detained by the cia and being transferred and his life was in danger and so he

repeated that over and over and over again. >> reporter: this mid flight drama is just the latest in a string of midair scares. man on board a frontier airlines flight from knoxville to denver claimed he had a bomb in his bag. no bomb found, the man taken into custody and a passenger on board egypt flight from chi to rejfk airport found a note inside the bathroom saying "i'll set this plane on fire." >> so kate, the good news in this latest incident, the plane landed safely and passengers were deplaned at the gate. kate? >> rene marsh, thanks so much. >> three passengers in three days. we'll go deeper into the story later on in the show. something else new this morning, afghan forces now completely in control of their own security. president hamid karzai making an announcement at an official handover ceremony with nato officials in kabul.

at about the same time a roadside bomb killed three people and injured 30 others just a short distance away. rezha saya, is there reason to believe the afghans are ready to believe their own security? >> reporter: if you listen to coalition officials they say they've made leaps and bounds and a lot of improvements but critics say there's no way the national army is ready to take on the taliban. ready or not they're leading the charge in a ceremony in kabul coalition forces transferred over the lead role for security in afghanistan to afghan security forces. that means the coming 18 months coalition forces, american forces will still be here but only in a support role. in the driver's seat will be afghan security forces, and we got a glimpse this morning of some of the challenges ahead,

when we saw another suicide attack in the city of kabul. politician was targeted, he was unhurt but three people killed. again the big story today, a milestone day, afghan security forces now in the driver's seat in the months and years ahead. chris? >> reza, thank you very much. stay safe over there. kate? some 65,000 u.s. troops stale there, the combat levels are going down and will be done, the combat mission in 2014. >> that's the hope. >> that's right, we'll be watching that closely. another big story for the pentagon in a few hours the pentagon will unveil its own plan for moving women into the front lines of combat roles. barbara starr has been tracking this. from the beginning we've talked about this many times since the announcement has been made. what are the details you're learning this morning. >> good morning, kate. if you're a young woman and want to become an army ranger or navy s.e.a.l., you'll be able to compete for those jobs,

according to the pentagon. they are going to announce today the how, the when, the precise details of how this last effort is going to be made to open all front line combat jobs to women, armor, artillery, special forces, the most dangerous, hazardous intensive combat job. these are the jobs, kate, that are all bluntly about killing the enemy so this announcement has been waited for a long time by the military. it's going to be something that young women will be looking forward to, many of them who want to join the military. kate? >> absolutely, barbara. some will look at this and say there are good elements and bad elements of the plan. it's a victory for women when leon pa net ta announced their full integration. are there frustration levels it's taking too long to implement the plan? >> it might be another two years before all the jobs are open. think of this, more than 100 american women have been killed in the combat zone in the last

decade or so, so from military women they believe strongly of course they are already in combat. they want the reality to catch up with what's been going on in their lives. >> absolutely, they're many of the same wounds and facing the same dangers out there. good to see this move happening even if it is a little slowly. barbara starr thanks so much. very busy news morning. let's get to michaela. >> good morning, kate and chris. making news a brand new cnn/orc poll shows a growing number of americans think the white house had a direct hand in targeting conservative group's tax exempt applications. the ten-point jump makes it an even split, 49% believe, agents acted on their own without direct orders from washington. a single solitary man defies police in turkey simply by standing still, he becomes a new symbol for the movement. for more than five hours that man now identified as erdo

erdom gunduz stood. police moved in to arrest many people who joined him. we don't know if he is in custody at this hour. to the trial james whitey mob boss a friend turned foe turns to the government. john martarano casually describes murders he committed claiming bulger joined him for several and testified about the moment he learned bulger was an fbi informant, saying "it broke my heart. it broke all loyalties." bulger is charged in the deaths of 19 people. a 15-year-old boy bitten in the leg by a shark beat that animal with his bare hands in order to get loose. it happened at surfside beach along the texas gulf coast as he fought the shark off, one of his hands was bitten. police officer who was there as well as kids from his church group came to his aid. the young man flown to a houston

hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. a 50-foot-wide, 15-ton magnet will be on the move, going five miles an hour, traveling on a barge and truck tour from long island down the east coast of florida and back up north to its destination, department of energy facility in chicago. scientists hope to use it to measure the properties of subatomic particles that last just 2.2 millionths of a second. this geeks me out. >> way over my head. >> i respect it but why is everything getting smaller except magnets? >> you can never have too much magnets. >> incredible power and quite a feat. >> i'm sure it's safe but i would be nervous if i was the car driving past the truck. >> i'm hoping they turned it off otherwise all kinds of stuff -- >> that would be funny.

what does this switch do? >> did you turn the magnet off? >> i knew i was forgetting something. >> it's time to turn away from the toothbrush for this next story, a terrifying rescue caught on tape, in california two teens stuck on a cliff's narrow shelf, 8,600 feet up, 30-mile-an-hour gusts swirling around them. the situation seemed ill fated but miguel marquez has the story of how they made it home. rescue like none other, 8,600 feet up, two boys trapped on the rocky spine of a ridge only a few feet wide. >> as we went up there, we made decisions to get up that ended up making it so we couldn't get back. >> reporter: bad decisions they will never forget, in gorgeous but unforgiving nature biting off more than one can chew all too easy. >> we thought we could walk across the ridge. when we saw the other side it

was heartbreaking, when we realized we were in trouble. >> reporter: serious trouble, high winds, gusts up to 30 miles per hour buffeting the helicopter's california highway patrol made four passes before with the precision of the surgeon plucking the boys to safety. >> it was the most challenging i've done in the 12 years i've been in air operations. >> reporter: the challenge lowering the haar nepss the boys had to put on and coming back around to have them hook up to be safely carried to a landing zone miles away. >> the wind would blow us out of position and we'd have to go back to try again. >> reporter: the harnesses have to be on correctly other wiles it's a fall. father looking below, heartstopping. >> it's my oldest son and that doesn't come back, right? you don't recover from something like that. >> reporter: thankfully only a frightening lesson learned. miguel marquez, cnn, los

angeles. >> it's clearly terrifying for this boy but think about his father. >> i'm always impressed by the helicopter pilots and the rescue crews battling the winds right up against the cliff, these are two kids, families worried about them. they are heroes as far as i'm concerned. >> the picture of the kid being success spended up there, i can't imagine what was going through his mind. you talk to rescuers, you'd think i can't believe these kids are up there, but they are never that way. >> they're never judgmental. >> they say you can't control people's choices. we just do our job and that's why we heroize them because they're the best. >> amazing. thank goodness it all ended okay. lots coming up on "new day" lucky seven, how seven heroes helped the father of seven escape a brush with death on father's day. and one not so much, chad johnson out of jail and dare we say humbled this morning. i want to make things more secure.

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chrysler has until midnight to decide whether it will recall 2.7 million jeeps. the government asked them to recall because of problems in the fuel tank that could cause a fire in rear end crashes. chrysler says we're not going to. tonight is the deadline. if chrysler does not agree to the recall the government then has to have public hearings and they can try this involuntary recall route and eventually has to take chrysler to court. >> can you explain that to me briefly. why is that a good pr move? is it a financial move? sounds bad. >> some watchdogs say it would be millions of dlafrz for them to have to recall all of these things, some of these model years are a little bit older but chrysler is determined not to recall these jeeps. they say that if there's a crash it's because the speed of the crash, not the design of the fuel tank. the government disagrees. >> that's the key. christine just told you they don't believe the text. >> when you have the government saying to a company bailed out by the u.s. government no we're not going to do, you know --

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bay man crashed into another car. neighbors say they heard what sounded like an explosion so loud it shook windows. it took seven police officers to pull the unconscious man out of the car. here's the good news. he escaped with only minor injuries because of their heroism. they're calling them the magnificent seven, these officers because of what they did pulling him out. they said they were so afraid it was going to go up in flames, they said we would all burn before we let him burn. >> and i'm also -- you're always struck because there are these amazing stories of heroism, people are able to lift up moments. >> and it's first instinct, they quickly do it. it clearly wasn't this man's time. his number was not up. >> the hand of fate in the sets of seven strong and capable officers. >> talking about them being in the right place at the right time. >> what else? the nfl may be close to getting its first permanent woman on an officiating crew. sarah thomas with conference usa spent three days at the colts --

yeah, go colts -- official development program. she could be eligible for a full time spot as soon as 2014. i would say about time, people! >> i love it. one of the interslews i wanted to do with violet palmer, the female referee in the nba, it's fascinating a woman would be in a role that is completely male and she kepz up with them. >> that one is harder because it's a more intimate relationship that the players and the refs have. in basketball it seems like it's much more of an intimate relationship, always talking and yelling to each other. in football there's a little bit more of a distance. >> no comment, cuomo, what's up? >> it's a no brainer. one of the things you're sad there has to be a first. you think it would have happened already. we didn't have a woman in the league last year.

>> she was one of the replacement refs. >> moving on then. indra, save us quickly what's going on in weather? >> i'm told if i don't bring good news it's bad. lot of the country not liking me. the next 48 hours a huge chunk of the country talking about wet weather and unfortunately where they want the rain they're not getting it, still dry again so we have the drought conditions obviously on the west coast and for that reason we're still worried about the fire threat. temperatures are expected to soar in by tomorrow, temperatures and winds going up and the fire danger increasing as well. remember, local weather. >> i can't even make that noise that you do but i try. thanks, indra. taking a quick break. coming up on "new day" digging up the past, where is jimmy

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bass. welcome back everybody to "new day." i'm chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. has jimmy hoffa's body been found? plus kids fighting over a foul ball, not yet, not yet, wait for it, there it is, fighting over it, not acting well but it's going to become priceless, i promise you that. great moment for you to see this morning. lot of news as well so let's get

to mikia for your top stories going on right now. >> good morning, thank you, making news this new day, president obama insists a top a. jury selection resumes in a few hours in the george zimmerman murder trial. 32 prospects made the first cut. unclear if the eventual jury will hear a crucial piece of evidence. the 911 call from the night trayvon martin was killed, zimmerman says he could be heard screaming but the defense expert says the sound quality is not good enough to tell for sure. in san francisco an arraignment today for an acrobat who gives new meaning to the term flipping out. cops there say the man ditched his clothes, ran wild last month

inside a b.a.r.t. subway station. 'tacked people, performing wild stunts including backflips. he's naked. the scary scene was caught on camera and it indeed went viral. another crazy viral video results in a guilty verdict and possible prison time for an amateur filmmaker. you may remember this arizona teenager seen dressed in a sheet pointing a fake grenade launcher at cars in a busy intersection, his uncle put him up to the stunt and was convicted of endangerment and terrorism hoax charges. that man could face up to five years in prison when he's sentenced. chad johnson waking up a free man today. ochocinco, the former nfl star learned the hard way sometimes you just have to say you're sorry. judge agreed to reduce his 30-day sentence after johnson apologized for not taking a recent court appearance serious enough. >> reporter: chad johnson walked into the courtroom monday

morning humbled. >> good morning, mr. johnson. >> good morning, your honor. >> reporter: wearing a beige prison jumpsuit and handcuffs. the former envelope star apologized for slapping his attorney on the backside in court last week. >> i had no intent to disrespect you or the people in the courtroom. i apologize. i think my time locked up left me with time to reflect. >> reporter: this was in a domestic violence case. >> everybody in the courtroom was laughing. >> reporter: and initially landed him a 3 o-day stint in jail. >> i don't think you're taking this seriously. i saw you slap your attorney on the backside. >> reporter: after the apology she cut johnson's sentence to seven days he had served behind bars. >> mr. johnson you appear to be

contrite and sincere in your apology. i accept your apology. >> reporter: a newly freed johnson was anxious to address the public. >> chad, how was your stay? >> reporter: and it had warm regards for the judge. >> little does she know it, what she's been is a blessing in disguise. i thank her, everything she did was justifiable. >> total contrition it would seem although chris cuomo not agreeing. why do you agree he should have gone to jail in the first place? >> he slapped his attorney on the butt when she said you must be very grateful to your attorney and he did it which is customary for a jock to do. it was a man. >> well in sports but not in the courtroom. >> 30 days? i'm saying he may have been out of line, contempt of court is real, i served the bar, i'm a licensed attorney but 30 days in jail, you go to jail because a judge is a little upset? i thought it was severe but chad doesn't agree so good for you.

>> i think the judge needed to keep control of the courtroom and did the right thing. i'm not one to say you're a bad person you touched someone's tushy. no, it was a matter she needed to get control of the courtroom. >> that deserves five days in jail. >> do i need to know parameters on "the new day" set here. kate, really? >> this is like a sport so it works there, yes it does. >> there it is. what do you think? please go to the website, what tea called again? >> newdaycnn.com. investigators prepare for a second day of digging in the new search for jimmy hoffa's remains. tipster says he knows where the teamster boss has been buried. there have been lots of dead end searches since 1975, the disappearance of jimmy hoffa and after a meeting at the hands of a mob boss. we bring in susan candiotti in detroit with why this time it could be different. susan, you've seen this play out in the past. what feels different this time,

if anything? >> reporter: i'll tell you, chris, good morning, i've been out here for hoffa digs before, including 2006 and just last year but this time the fbi may have its best chance of success because of the credibility of the sipster this time a retired mobster who was super connected and he writes in a manuscript he knows that jimmy hoffa was whacked in the head with a shovel and buried alive beneath a concrete slab on this property. could this be jimmy hoffa's grave? the fbi once again digging for answers, uprooting waist-high grass and weeds on private property in suburban detroit. >> why do we care? i don't know. we do. >> reporter: this time the tip is more credible than most, it comes from tony zarilla, an underboss who did time. >> he would have known if anybody would have known exactly

what happened to mr. hoffa. >> reporter: when zerilla got out of prison in 2008, he was told of hoffa's fate. after the former teamster boss was lured to a restaurant he was taken to this property, killed and buried. >> what happened to hoffa was very simple, he got picked up over there, he was bury ied. >> reporter: sources tell cnn it's several pages long and based on "credible information." >> if it didn't rise to that level we wouldn't be out here because the judge has to moved forward. >> reporter: other searches were duds. last year soil samples were taken from beneath a shed outside detroit but the tip went nowhere. in 2006, agents dug up a horse farm but found nothing. in 004 they tested floorboards for blood and no hoffa. that 2006 search reportedly cost

the fbi $225,000 to excavate a horse farm, compared to last year, cnn learned local police only paid $45 to replace a broken padlock. zerilli's motive is simple, he's writing a book and needs the money. >> if they find the remains i'm in a position to make myself a few dollars. >> reporter: so zerilli has a lot riding on this. if the tip pans out it stands to make a lot of money, if it doesn't, probably not. chris? >> susan, thank you very much for that. >> amazing story to track. it's always popping up. see if it's for real this time. next, the man who brought you the memorable footage of a double rainbow in yosemite has his camera rolling again, this time he's preparing for a fire headed straight for his home. i want to make things more secure.

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welcome back to "new day." the news happening across the globe starting in syria this

morning, fred pleitgen with the latest on u.s. decision to arm rebels there. fred? >> reporter: syrian president bashar al assad said in a newspaper interview if europe and america give weapons to america they are creating terrorists that will haunt them. the u.s. thinking it's providing weapons to moderate opposition groups. the fighting in syria and here in the damascus area continues. we were able to go to the front lines, where palestinian fighters were fighting for the assad regime. it goes on every day here but the government says it's still winning ground. back to you. >> fred pleitgen thank you. to turkey and the showdown between police and protesters, demonstrators who want the prime minister to go are letting their silence speak for them. >> reporter: anti-government protesters in turkey are switching tactics after riot police ejected them from the

park. first they drew up barricades and now reorganizing by social media and popping back up in istanbul square in ones and twos. the tactic is to stand quiet and defia defiant. it's no longer just about saving a park from development. some want the prime minister to quit. this protester may look peaceful but he's running the risk of arrest, right now in turkey it's a crime just to stand up in silence. kate? >> amazing, carl, thanks for that report. in france the planes of tomorrow are on display today. richard quest is at the paris air show where aircraftmakers show off their latest innovations. >> reporter: in the battle to sell planes the europeans have the edge at the beginning. they took in more orders than boeing, but the americans will fight back on day two. boeing will announce the launch of the 787 ten dreamliner, a

stretch version that will carry more passengers and put boeing back in the game. kate? >> dreamliner has had its own issues but we'll see if they can fix those problems and move on. >> stretched, richard quest, there's no better, sold the whole story with one arm movement. listen to this one, boston strong puts the bruins over the chicago blackhawks last night to take a 2-1 lead in the stanley cup finals. let's bring in andy scholes joining us with more in "the bleacher report." what a game. tell me about it. >> good morning, guys. you didn't have to stay up too late to catch the end of this one. the bruins made an early game thursday, beat the blackhawks in regulation. boston took the lead in the second period on a goal from daniel paille and another one on the power play. jaromir jagr nice pass to patrice bergeron. boston goes on to win by 2-0. nine seconds left, things get a little chippy, good old fight

breaks out before the end of the game. >> i think that was beyond the chippy definition. that's a lot chippy, andy. >> so andy, the nba finals, it's been a tough spot for you, pal. you're in the business of being right about this. >> he keeps coming on and you keep making fun of him. >> what do you see tonight, can the heat come back or is it over? >> it's over. >> i think it's do or die tonight. >> you think? you think? >> they got to win this game. i'm picking them to win the game so that means they're not going to win. the spurs, they're just one win away from their fifth nba title. odds are against the heat, trying to come just the fourth team in the last 18 years to come back from a 3-2 deficit in the finals. good news for miami, guys, they haven't lost back-to-back games since mid-january. the bad news is they haven't won back-to-back games in nearly a month. we'll have to see what happens tonight, game six tips off at 9:00 eastern.

>> statistical inconsistency. give us this great moment in the making we've been teasing up with the kids and the foul ball. >> college baseball world series last night, nothing quite like getting a foul ball especially if you're a kid. check out this girl in the stands last night. she's the lucky one of all her friends that gets this ball and she definitely lets them know about it. look how excited she is. >> she's excited. >> bad news, guys, look at this poor little boy with the cup while she's celebrating he gets a facefull of fruit punches. >> oh! not only does he not get a ball he gets a face full of fruit punch. >> they're so cute. it's so cute. >> john berman says he celebrates just like that when he gets a foul ball. >> fruit punch and everything. >> we see him like that if we give him a cookie on set. >> my favorite one the father catches the ball, gives it to

the kids in his lap and the kid's like thanks and throws it back. >> yes. >> i loved that one. andy thanks so much. >> you're welcome. >> very good stuff. coming up next on "new day" air scare, dramatic audio and pictures from inside that flight where one out of control passenger said he was poisoned. his fellow flyers tie him down. a woman wakes up from a serious car accident speaking with a french accent but she's not french. how is this possible? copd makes it hard to breathe... but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can help make this a great block party. ♪ [ male announcer ] advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator

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edward snowden, he's in big trouble, they can't find the guy, he had a 90-minute press conference today and yet they can't find the guy. cheney says he believes that ed snowden is working for the chinese and i said come on, dick, aren't we all working for the chinese really when you think about it? isn't that the way this is going? >> now, folks, this secret program's name, prism, is an acronym for planning tool for resource integration

synchronization and management. incidentally for revealing prism, snowden may soon be in prison or probably regretting identitying self on national tv. >> he's a good one. >> well done. >> it's an interesting easterny. >> they said just yesterday they don't know where he is. >> always comforting. how about 30 minutes of commercial free news, we'll give you that right now some of the stories everyone will be talking about today. we begin with homes under a wildfire threat. already 150 homes have been evacuated along the main route in yosemite park in california. more evacuations are possible. fire which started sunday burned about 1,600 acres and is just 15% contained. here is one of the reasons we're telling you story, remember the guy who became a viral sensation

for this? the double rainbow. he's now bracing for a fight on that same mountainside dealing with another spectacular but far more dangerous scene. take a listen. >> whoa, geez, that thing is, oh my god. those are 100-foot tall ponderosa pine trees and those flames are crisp. >> he is right in the path of that marching blaze. the man's name is joe semitybear vas yosemitebear vasquez and he says he's not leaving, he has water and hoses and ready to go. yosemitebear be safe. we love your pictures but be safe. >> it's sad and scary. the way he describes pictures i'd love him to describe any video on the show. >> like a bufferinger. >> just his name alone, yosemitebear. >> i love that one. this is fascinating.

i probably think i've suffered from this myself, a woman who doesn't speak french woke up from a serious car accident with a french accent, an accent she just can't get rid of and has been stuck with it for eight years. listen to this. >> it makes me so angry because i am australian. i am not french. >> her doctors say she suffers from foreign accent syndrome, an extremely rare condition that experts estimate has affected only 60 people worldwide since -- >> the brain is a fascinating, fascinating thing. >> i saw a story on it once, it's real. >> everything you see on tv you believe? >> yes, if i say it with my voice like this. i've got one, too, and i know chris has some thoughts. new york man comes home, finds four kids vandalizing the home, absolutely trashing it. he grabs the kids, throws them in a closet, waits for police but now he is facing charges. police say the parents of the kids demand child endangerment

charges claiming the man shoved the kids, by the way, who were 8 and 10 years old, grabbed them by the neck and threatened them with the hammer. he said he was trying to detain the children, they're between 8 and 10, for police. >> this is a tough one. >> chris, your opinion? >> i was ready to huff and puff, this is political correctness gone crazy. you killed me with the 8 and 10-year-old fact. >> that's the point. >> you come home the kids have broken in your home, if that's what happened, if the kids broke into his home he has every right to manhandle them and get them into a situation where the authorities can come. yes they're kids, it would be different if they were teenagers but for the parents to get upset, they should be upset with themselves, why were their kids been in the house? >> the kids were on atvs in the neighborhood causing problems, they'd been asked to stay away so this isn't the if, time they've had a run-in. >> this is something he's been dealing with in the community. >> parents should deal with the

kids first but pc gone too far there. >> hopefully it's a teaching moment for all involved. especially the kids. >> that's a teaching moment. all right, we want to hear your thoughts obviously because we have enough of our own but we'd like to hear yours. check us out on twitter and facebook or go to our website newdaycnn.com. chris will remember it in the next week of our show. quick tour of the interesting headlines topping the morning papers from the web, health, science and business and everything in between. >> in "the washington post" the susan g. komen foundation named ju disalerno replacing founder nancy brinker, a year after the planned parenthood funding controversy. in "usa today" the sweet smell of science, an english study says those with a rare form of a sweat gene are wasting

their money. they have no odor. miss utah didn't win miss usa but she upstaged the winner. marissa fowl has a visit to jimmy kimmel. >> all press is good press. >> agreed. good morning, well we have yahoo! saying it received 12,000 to 13,000 requests on user data for the government, most criminal investigations, this revealed from apple, microsoft and facebook. nasa selecting its next generation of space explorers, half of them, four are women. the highest percentage of female astronauts drawn from a pool of 6,000. home builders say house something back. home builder confidence hit its highest level in seven years. 8:30 eastern a new report on housing starts for may expected to show an 8% increase and more evidence the housing recovery is

real, folks. >> good news, thank you, christine. housing back, finally, good news. indra petersons in the weather center with what you need to know. >> we're talking about rain all over the country which is not good news. we know i'm always bringing the bad news in the morning and looks like the next 48 hours a huge chunk of you will be talking about bad, rainy weather. where the heaviest rain is expected the carolinas, about two to four inches around the coastal sections, one to two inches around tallahassee and three to five inches possible around eastern portions of texas near austin, unfortunately, where they need the rain they are not getting it right around texas. still dry and only getting worse as we go through tomorrow. california, colorado, not looking good. >> a lot to keep an eye on as the day progresses. indra, thank you so much. top of the hour, time for the top news.

my job is to protect the american people and the american way of life which includes our privacy. >> breaking overnight the president comes out swinging strongly defending the controversial nsa surveillance program and defending his shift on syria. flight risk, an out of control passenger screaming claiming he was poisoned, his fellow fliers restraining him, the third incident in three days. celebrity chef nigella lawson, photos that look like she's being choked by her husband, on the front page. the police response this morning. >> your "new day" starts right now. we have approximately 730 individuals, 99 of which are women. >> what you just have to see. this is "new day" with chris

cuo cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >> good morning, good morning, welcome to ngs new day." >> it's great to be here with you, tuesday, june 18th, 7:00 in the east and we are in the middle of 30 minutes of commercial free news. we begin right now president barack obama attempting to bounce back after the awful poll numbers and the day after his approval ratings took an eight-point plunge the president is insisting anyone outraged by the top secret surveillance programs just doesn't get it. brianna keilar is in ireland traveling with the president for the g-8 summit. what is the latest from there, brianna? >> reporter: the latest this morning is an interview that president obama gave over the weekend before departing for the g-8 summit. he talked about syria, and he also talked about the nsa programs that have garnered his administration so much criticism. in a candid and unusually long

interview with pbs's charlie rose, president obama revealed how defending the homeland weighs on him, even as he discussed his goal of helping the middle class. >> and that is the thing that i'm going to be focused on for the remainder of my presidency, along with the basics like making sure nobody blows us up. >> reporter: obama stood by newly revealed nsa programs that gather vast amounts of phone and online data from millions of americans. >> should this be transparent in some way? >> it is transparent. that's why we set up the fisa court. >> reporter: that's the secret court that rules on warrants for surveillance. at suggestions his administration has been heavy handed obama bristled. >> some say obama was a raving liberal before. now he's dick cheney. my concern has been not that we shouldn't do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism but rather are we setting up a system of checks and balances. >> reporter: obama discussed the

bloody civil war in syria, where his administration said the government crossed a red line using chemical weapons on rebels. long overdue says senator john mccain. >> these aren't professional fighters. the notion there was some professional military inside of syria for us to immediately support. >> reporter: in northern ireland obama met with russian president vladimir putin whose government is supplying arms to syria. >> we share in reducing the violence. >> reporter: no breakthrough, thgh obama and putin said they will push both sides to negotiate a peace. the obama administration used the g-8 summit to announce additional humanitarian aid to the serial rebels and countries around syria taking in refugees. $300 million more in humanitarian aid bringing the total to $800 million. chris? >> big money, brianna thank you for the report from there. the president coming out

stronger. the question is are his answers compelling. >> let's dig more with cnn's chief national correspondent john king joining us again this morning. john we have new polls released in the last hour i want to get to but first let's talk about the president and this interview the president did, a lengthy interview. here's a little bit more of what he said about syria. >> unless you've been involved in those conversations then it's kind of hard for you to understand the complexity of the situation and how we have to not rush into one more war in the middle east. >> these are his first public comments really since deciding that the red line and publicly coming out to say the red line had been crossed and the white house and administration would take further steps in syria. he's clearly trying to answer critics in this interview and get out there in front of some of the criticism he's facing. do you think he made a strong enough case, though?

>> well, kate he also sounds like he's trying to convince himself. this president has been skeptical in part because he's been in that situation. that's what he's trying to tell charlie rose. unless you've gotten the intelligence briefing, mr. president it would take 20,000 troops to secure the side. if we have a no fly zone we're likely to have the government shut down. many oppose help to the rebels, and in congress he's been pushed by john mccain and others to be more muscular. here's how this will turn out, whether or not it works is whether or not his answer is good enough. they'll give some military and humanitarian aid. the president is hoping to change the facts on the ground. assad is winning. for months the president said it's not if assad will go, it's when he'll go. assad is winning, the president is trying to turn the facts on the ground so if you can get to some peace conference the opposition has some momentum and energy. at the moment it doesn't. >> he's stuck between the critics who say it's going to be too little too late and other

folks saying don't go in at all. we're already overextended in the middle east. let's turn to the new polls we just released in the last hour. walk us through this. these take on the big scandals facing the president on the home front. the irs scandal and the polling on that. >> look at this number because it is stunning. in our new poll did white house officials order the irs to target conservative political groups? 47% say yes, up ten points from last month. 47% of the american people say top white house officials ordered this. there is zero evidence of that, even the republicans investigating the white house say they have zero evidence any top white house officials ordered this to happen and nearly half the american people think that. it tells you the american people are angry and disgusted about this and tells you the administration still has some explaining to do. this will encourage the republicans in the house to continue the aggressive oversight because they think even though there's no evidence of that, this is hurting the president. >> in combination with the polls

released yesterday about the dropping level of trust, the belief that the president's honest and trustworthy that's a difficult trend, these numbers and those numbers combined from yesterday. >> if you look at the middle the president is losing the middle. he's keeping most of his democratic report. republican opposition has gone higher. independents are moving away from the president. it's hard to govern when you lose the middle of america. it tells conservative democrats they don't have to be with the president, and tells republicans they don't have to bend with the president. the immigration question a path to citizenship or border security, the president wants a path to citizenship be the hallmark of the immigration bill. only half of democrats think that should be the priority. independents and republicans think the border comes first. to hold their ground, before we give you any path to citizenship, mr. president, we want more border security and it's going to convince them we don't have to give president -- this is republican opponents

they don't have to give the president as generous a path to citizenship. the president has lost the middle which makes it hard to go. >> that poll shows exactly the tough spot that congress and the white house is in, because the american people are split down ideological lines with independents moving with republicans on this, how difficult it will be to push anything through because the american people aren't speaking with one voice on this. >> it's an incredibly complicated issue. do you want a guest worker program? who should be involved? is that just for agricultural jonz? you have different opinions in california in a farm state than you might have in an urban place and then the issue of a path to citizenship. the president will have a lot of salesmanship to do. the president's best friend in that debate is the fact that the republicans got shellacked in the last two national elections in the latino vote so republicans believe they need to do something so the president has some solace there. >> we hear that from senator graham quite a bit.

john king thank you so much. for the third time in three days another out of control airline passenger, this time a man who starts screaming at 30,000 feet claiming he'd been poisoned, ranting about the cia. cnn's rene marsh is in washington with more. >> good morning. the fbi tells us no charges have been filed against the man who created this raucous mid flight. not only did passengers jump in but they recorded part of the drama on board, too. take a look. >> i'm dead. i'm dead. i'm dead. >> reporter: dramatic cell phone audio captures a man screaming after he claims he was poisoned on board united flight 116 from hong kong to newark, new jersey, stunned passengers forced to step in. >> i got up along with a few other passengers and at one point he reached out for something in his pocket in his jacket and that's when about three or four of us basically

tackled him to the ground. >> reporter: jacques roizen was one of the passengers who held him down while the flight attendants supplied plastic cuffs to restrain him. roizen snapped these shots of the passenger was described as paranoid and claimed to have information about nsa leaker edward snowden. >> he said he worked for the u.s. embassy in abu dhabi and he was being detained by the cia and being transferred and his life was in danger and so he repeated that over and over and over again. >> reporter: this mid flight drama is just the latest in a string of midair scares. a man on board a frontier airlines flight from knoxville to denver claimed he had a bomb in his bag. no bomb found, the man taken into custody and a passenger on board an egypt air flight from kay row to new york's jfk airport found a note inside the bathroom saying "i'll set this plane on fire."

the good news in this latest incident, the plane landed safely and passengers were deplaned at the gate. we have reached out to the state department after the claim this man worked at the u.s. embassy in abu dhabi. so far, no word back as yet. chris? >> rene, that was the key because that's what he was saying so we were talking earlier about how we wanted to get deeper into this. rene thanks for the reporting. three passengers, three days, what does this mean? we bring in national security analyst and former homeland security secretary assistant, juliet cayenne. if i hadn't said assistant you would have been all over me. thanks for joining us live from boston. the obvious question do we have a problem with safety up in the air, three passengers, three days? >> well a problem, yes. these things are occurring. they are very scary but it's not a systemic issue. these planes are not going down. these are not successful attacks, if you even want to call them. chris how i often think about it

on any given day there are 1.5 million people boarding flights across the world. two of these three flights began abroad. that's a lot of people. you are going to have issues, you're going to have crazy people boarding flights and we have to view passengers as we've seen in a lot of these cases as a last line of defense. it may not be ideal but just given the number of people who are on airplanes, it is going to happen. >> all right but it's the exception that gets you, right, juliette, so what do you know about safeguards in place we may not recognize moving through the airlines that are keeping us safe? >> it's called a layered defense system and this is what tsa has been focusing on the last couple years, focusing on the biggest risk is bringing the airplane down so you have a pilot secure, you have locked cockpit doors, you have the whole process of reviewing passengers when they are making their flight reservations. that's why we put that

information in upline. once you're on the flight on some lights you have air marshals and we have every expectation as a security apparatus passengers will notice things and may have to get involved. it is part of what this layered defense is, passengers have to be aware, it's called see something, say something, it's part of the planning of that layered defense so there's stuff going on at the moment of reservations to secure the airplane, check of the luggage, secure the cockpit and then of course whatever's going on with the passengers, and what we've seen in the last couple days, there are crazy people who fly. >> in your opinion is there something more that needs to be done? >> it's hard to say at this stage. i think that there is probably too much being done in some regards in terms of the passenger entry onto the plane. if our biggest fear is bringing down a plane with explosives or getting into the cockpit, those should be our biggest fears. then we have done a lot in terms

of luggage security as well as securing the pilots. that's the most important thing. lot of the passenger security that's going through tsa, and this is why you're seeing changes to what passengers go through at airports, whether it's the proposal to end the knife ban which i was for, although the department has retracted from it for now or even stopping the checking of liquid, it is because we have so many other layered defenses, some of the more public things will begin to disband and we have to be prepared for it. security is not static. it's changing all the time depending on the risk, depending on the flights, and as we've seen in these cases two of these flights began abroad, so we are completely dependent also on other nations, so it's a constantly fluid process and i'll never say security is perfect, but we have to constantly be ssessing it given the millions of people on planes each day. >> there are inconveniences but

we have to be tolerant because the risks are big. juliette kayyem, thank you. let's get over to michaela with more news. >> in the headlines, afghan forces formally take over security from nato-led troops. deadly explosion rocking that country's capital. the intended target? one of the country's senior shia muslim clerics. reza sayah, this is highlighting, are troops being up for the task? >> reporter: it's a reminder of what's in store for them and this was a milestone day and moment of truth for afghan security forces, in many ways a moment of truth for the u.s. and nato mission in afghanistan. in a ceremony this morning nato officials transferring the lead security role to afghan security forces, that means for the coming 18 months, nato forces,

u.s. forces will still be here in afghanistan but only as a backup role, leading the charge will be afghan security forces. this is an army that certainly improved over the past few years according to officials, critics say they're poorly trained and there's no way they can defend this country against the taliban. earlier this morning as you mentioned they got a reminder of the challenges ahead with the suicide attack in kabul. another big development this morning, president karzai announcing that an office is going to be opened in qatar for peace talks with the taliban. we'll keep a close eye on that in the coming weeks as well. michaela? >> reza, thank you, we appreciate your report. today the pentagon is expected to announce plans that will put more women in combat including elite special forces like the army rangers and navy s.e.a.l.s. today's announcement will place another 6,000 women into combat positions in the u.s. army. the plan could put women in training for elite special

operations units by 2015. full implementation of women into combat positions including infantry and army units is to be completed by january of 2016. for the first time in this year's stanley cup finals, boston and chicago didn't need any overtime periods to determine a winner. bruins goalie tukka rask had 2 saves, the bruins have a 2-1 series lead. game four taking place in boston tomorrow night, we're heading back to chicago for game five. i got a note right before i did that from berman saying you better bring the energy for the bruins. >> boston strong. >> boston strong. >> the guys on the floor love to see a good hockey fight. they say it's interactive. >> guys like to see any fight. >> i guess that's a really good fight. here is a video you have to see, two teenage boys being air lifted off an 8,600 foot cliff.

it happened in california monday. the boys getting stranded when they tried to hike over a ridge. miguel marquez is live in los angeles with more on this amazing story. miguel? >> it is amazing. goonk to you. we all do pretty dumb things when we are young, for these two california boys, this is the summer we hope of live and learn. rescue like none other, 8,600 feet up, two boys trapped on the rocky spine of a ridge only a few feet wide. >> as we went up there, we made decisions to get up that ended up making it so we couldn't get back. >> reporter: bad decisions 16-year-old austin dreschler and a friend on a camping trip they will never forget, in gorgeous but unforgiving nature biting off more than one can chew all too easy. >> we thought we could walk across the ridge. when we got up there and saw the other side, it was

heartbreaking. that's when we realized, we're in trouble. >> reporter: serious trouble, high winds, gusts up to 30 miles per hour buffeting the helicopter's california highway patrol made four passes before with the precision of the surgeon plucking the boys to safety. >> it was the most challenging i've done in the 12 years i've been in air operations. >> reporter: the challenge lowering harnesses the boys themselves had to put on, and coming back around to have them hook up to be safely carried to a landing zone miles away. >> we lowered the hook a couple of times but the wind would blow out of position and we'd have to again. >> reporter: the harnesses have to be correctly otherwise it's a long fall. father looking below, heartstopping. >> it's my oldest son and that doesn't come back, right? you don't recover from something like that. >> reporter: thankfully only a frightening lesson learned. and that lesson, says austin

dreschler is always stay on the trail. kate back to you. >> that is exactly the lesson to learn from that. miguel marquez, thanks so much miguel. that's a summer they'll never forget. >> unfortunately it seems this happens all too often. people don't pay attention to the signs that are posted you think i want to get a little closer, i want to get that nice shot. you see it on mountains and in hikes, it happens all too often. it won't happen twice with these guys. >> no. they will stay on the path. >> skafry for the kids but imagine the dad, nothing worse than being a parent and not being able to help your kids and seeing them suspended in the air and you hear them saying it was the most challenging thing they had done. when you talk to people in that line of work, and say you must be upset they did something so reckless. they said their job is to get them out of the situation they're in. >> they put all of that aside and look at what needs to be done in the moment.

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neutrogena® ultra sheer. welcome back to "new day." disturbing photos of chef nigella lawson. british police warned an unnamed man in the case. pamela brown is tracking the story. >> we're learning the husband, charles saatchi volunteered to

go to the police station, stunning pictures on the front page of british tabloids showing nigella lawson in a public argument that some witnesses say escalated to physical violence. her husband says it's not what it looks like but according to some domestic violence experts the pictures tell a different story. she's a celebrity chef well-known author and tv star. >> the weekend brunch of my dreams. >> reporter: he is a multimillionaire marketing mogul and art dealer. >> she's portrayed as a powerful woman, the woman in control, so for her to be subservient is a rather telling story. >> reporter: nigella lawson and husband charles saatchi are making ed had lines like "choke attack" and "nigella's tears" after seeing his hands around his wife's neck after an argument at the restaurant. >> you see a woman who is distressed and i believe a man

who is very much in control. >> reporter: cnn caught up with saatchi tuesday morning as he was leaving his london town house. he offered no comment but in an earlier statement he said there was no grip. it was a playful tiff. nigellas tears were because we both hate arguing, not because she had been hurt. that's not how it looked by some activists against domestic violence. >> it is typical of batterers that they blame the victim and others and excuse themselves, if you weren't such a bad wife, so worthless, so useless, i wouldn't have to do this to you. >> reporter: lawson says she's since left the family's home with her two children. other celebrity couples like chris brown and rihanna, ike and tina turner and the late whitney houston and bobby brown have all been at the center of domestic violence allegations. >> it can happen to anyone and people feel so much shame, that's one reason victims don't

sometimes reach out for help. >> if it can happen to super rich mega people who seemingly have no problems than normal average people have got t can affect anyone. >> why didn't anyone intervene? the restaurant says it did not see the alleged incident nor was anybody alerted to it at time. lawson hasn't pressed charges but scotland yard is investigating and police said a 70-year-old man was officially cautioned in regards to the incident but they haven't identified him as saatchi. saatchi is opening an art exhibition in london this week. the couple is expected to make an appearance together so it will be very telling if one or both of them do not attend that exhibition. we'll see what happens. >> it's a strange story. there's more questions than answers, and there's a lot of differing opinions about what exactly was happening there. but isn't that always how it is. >> now all of this around it,

unsubstantiated allegations, it doesn't necessarily mean he was choking her. >> they did have a tempestuous marriage. it might look perfect to the public but they've had their own issues. we don't know the full story but people waiting for nigella to say something. people taking to twitter saying she needs to come out and address this, that she's this powerful figure and this makes her look weak according to some people that she's not -- >> she needs to come out in her own time. >> what happens between couples is private. that is their private life. thanks so much. let's go to indra petersons with a look at today's forecast. indra? >> the whole eastern portion of the country again today dealing with all of this rain, in the

west coast where they need the rain they're not getting it. i focus in on california, yesterday firefighters mentioned they're afraid this could be the worst fire season in 100 years. look at the amount of rain below average,.19 inches we low average in eureka. typically you get rain in the summertime and things dry out, that's when you see it through the fall. we could see this throughout the summer in addition to the fall, that's why the concern exists so early on. typical situation throughout the entire west coast, as this continues seeing temperatures, by tomorrow the ridge of high pressure building again. any conditions are exasperated over the next several days. there is rain unfortunately not in that area but talking about in the carolinas, two to four inches along the coastal sections and florida, one to two

inches and the heaviest rain looks to be around texas. >> indra thanks so much. now this is a pretty unexpected story. singer melissa etheridge criticizing angelina jolie for jolie's decision to undergo a double mastectomy. jolie says her decision, she decided to have the surgery after learning she carried the breast cancer gene which put her at high risk of developing breast cancer but etheridge is taking issue with that. nischelle turner has been tracking all of this. it's a very interesting twist in this story. jolie had so much support when she came out with that op-ed in the "new york times" about why she made her decision. >> indeed and this is the first real kind of backlash that we're hearing from her decision. i don't know if i'd call it backlash. melissa etheridge is a breast cancer survivor. she has a little bit of a different view so maybe this is the first time we're hearing a different view to the decision that angelina jolie was making

but melissa etheridge was given an interview to "washington blade" an lgbt newspaper and she said "angelina's decision is not something i can believe in for myself." she went on to say she thinks this is the most fearful choice when confronting anything with cancer. she believes so much of cancer has to do with the environment of your body. she says a lot of people have the gene but it never turns into cancer and like we said melissa etheridge is a breast cancer survivor, she's been cancer free for nine years. last night i got the chance to catch up with angelina jolie's fiance, brad pitt, at the premiere of "world war z" in times square and i asked him about angelina and your decision. you can bet he had a different take than melissa etheridge. how is angelina doing? >> she's doing great, prepping for refugee day and she's minding the little ones right now. >> reporter: one of the things she said when she announced that her health crisis was that she

wanted to expand the conversation about health and women and she didn't want women to feel any less feminine if they made the decision. >> yes. >> reporter: how do you feel about her as a woman, now that she has made this decision? >> well she's brave, bold individual and i fell for her in the beginning and sexy as ever, that's what i tell you. >> i like to hear that. sexy as ever. i want to be clear, what melissa etheridge said it was a fearful choice, she believes angelina was fearful of getting cancer, not because she was a cowardly or fearful person. she thinks a mastectomy is the last option a woman should take. >> i was reading through etheridges comments, she was saying her big point is she wanted to encourage women to seek out medical expert advice and make the decision that's best for them. >> and more than one opinion. she says really weigh your options here, and if you're

going to go the route angelina jolie went, make sure it's the last option, that you've gone through every other option you can go through. >> i thought it fascinating. jolie made that same point in her op-ed, she said this is a decision for me. but you should make the best decision for yourself. >> in that point they're on the same wavelength. >> here enlies the danger in giving too much power to celebrity. i think just because angelina did that doesn't mean it's right for me or for you. it does point to the fact this is an option available and thank goodness she shined a light on this very controversial method of dealing with breast cancer and letting us know this is an option out there. >> we have to be a smart patient. >> the one good point we're talking about it. i don't care if there are contrarian opposing views.

people haven't been talking about this enough. >> i'm one of the women who have always been scared i don't want to have a mammogram, don't want to do this but listening to the discussion and the increased discussion i'm like nischelle, get on it. >> i have to myself. >> i'll go with you because i'm scared. >> you don't need to be. you really do not need to be afraid. >> the worst cancer story is people who didn't catch it as soon as they could. >> nischelle thanks so much. >> good story. coming up on "new day" the first lady exploring the obama family roots in ireland. guess what she discovered. why on earth is fabio carry ing men? >> and why aren't i one of them in. >> it's earned the "new day" award of the day. [ male announcer ] research suggests cell health

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♪ it's coming around, it's coming around. here we are. now it's bigger, now it's bigger, welcome back. thanks for joining us here on "new day." i'm chris cue woe ma, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >> it's tuesday, june 18th. ahead in this half hour the first lady gets a history lesson as she explores the obama family heritage in ireland. and the story i wanted to talk about most this morning, why is fabio carrying men through grocery stores and why am i not one of them? this pressing concern. >> so many thoughts. >> a lot of news, look at my man. >> i didn't know that was on your bucket list. >> we learn more about each other every day. michaela what do you have? >> good morning to the two of you. in the news at the g-8

summit president obama talks about what he calls a strange taboo in the international community, how to spont to weapons of mass destruction including chemical weapons. the president says in terms of syria his goal is a stable nonsectarian representative government that addresses the needs of its people. he also made it clear he's not taking sides in a religious war between sheena and sunni groups. moment ago hamid karzai announcing his country will participate in peace talks with the taliban, this as afghanistan takes control of its own security. u.s.-led nato forces made it official at a handover ceremony in kabul this morning at the same time a bomb blast was going off in the western part of the city, killing three, injuring 30 others. today the pentagon is expected to announce plans to place more women in combat. today's announcement also setting a timetable to place women in elite special operations forces like the army rangers and the navy s.e.a.l.s. cnn's barbara starr is live in the pentagon, some voices saying

it has been slow to happen. >> well some do but this is a huge leap forward and just as you say, this is it. young women who want to become army rangers or navy s.e.a.l.s may be able to do that, michaela. pardon me, the pentagon will unveil its implementation plan today, setting the timetable when, if and how women can finally join all these front line combat units, armor, artillery, special forces, that may be the last one, but indeed it is now going to have women in the front line combat units they have banned from. >> barbara i wanted to offer you water from my "new day" mug to clear your throat. thanks for that report. are we closer to finding former teamster's boss jimmy hoffa's remains. an aging mobster wants to end the intrigue and find piece. he says hoffa was kidnapped from a restaurant, hit way shovel and

buryed alife. agents digging in waist-high grass in a detroit area field. hoffa last seen alive back in 1975. if you don't believe in the internet and social media revolution, look now at the newest entries to the oxford english diction yeah, crowd sourcing, e-reader, flash mob and so is the word tweet which apparently breaks the rules. no words normally have to be in use for at least ten years. as you might know, twitter only seven years young so they broke the rules to allow tweet in verb and noun definitions, variations of the word twitter. >> i promise you, it will be around for ten years. i don't think twitter is going anywhere. >> also shows things happen fast throughout the time. >> lightning speed now. >> ten years , seven years it's

the new ten. the president visits with world leaders at the g-8 summit in ireland, his wife the first lady and daughters are exploring their irish roots that date back to the 1600s. er erin mclaughlin, what are you learning about their genealogy search? >> reporter: it's a trip of history and culture. it's safe to say ireland and its heritage holds a special place in michelle obama's heart. the emerald isle is a kickoff to the obama family summer vacation, while the president was hard at work in belfast, northern island, first lady and her daughters and hundreds of children were treated to river dance in dublin. >> with all the dancing and singing and energy it is a perfect representation of ireland itself. >> reporter: the administration is mutual. it's no secret ireland seems to adore the obamas.

crowds of thousands greeted the president and mrs. obama during their visit in 2011, fond memories that the first lady says she now wants to share with her girls. >> when we left, we knew that our girls had to experience all of the warmth and beauty of this place for themselves. >> reporter: sasha and malia also had a chance to explore their irish heritage at trinity college. they pored over manuscripts tracing their ancestry back to the 1600s to the tiny village of moneygall, where the great, great grandfather was born. >> that is powerful for me as their mother and hopefully something they cherish for the rest of their lives. >> reporter: it might not have been a dream teenager's holiday. the girls at times appeared bored but the trip offered up a powerful lesson. >> you never forget home and my girls every day their home gets

bigger and bigger. it's no longer the south side of chicago or washington, d.c., but it is moneygall, it is dublin. it is the world. >> reporter: they continue their trip with a visit to wicklow mountain national park, home to some of ireland's earliest history, tombs and rock art and they'll rejoin the president before traveling to germany. kate? >> erin mclaughlin thanks so much. you watch the girls growing up in the public eye and it's never easy for any president's daughter but they get to see and experience some amazing things. >> you saw how tall malia is? >> both the president and first lady are very tall. when i've stood next to them i'm quickly reminded i need to wear much higher heels. >> i see them and i think i'm getting old. >> they're growing fast. coming up on "new day" much more on the terrifying moments at 35,000 feet, how an out of control passenger on a flight bound for the u.s. was finally subdued. the day's biggest mystery,

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♪ it's not about the money, money ♪ it is about the money. christine romans has all the business news you need to know. >> good morning, a rally on wall street yesterday, stock futures are looking up a little bit today, the dow yesterday jumped more than 100 points. the blue chips posted a triple-digit move in ten of the past 11 sessions. that guy here, what happens to your 401(k) this week will depend on what he says about interest rates, stimulus and the economy, when the fed meets. big important meeting today and tomorrow. health care costs are going up 6.5% next year, a new forecast from price water house coopers, including doctor visits to prescription drugs.

the growth year is slowing, this year's prices rose 7.5%. general electric is hiring thousands of engineers, the hiring spree comes at a software center near calls the new venture the industrial internet. that's where the action is in the job market, stem, stem, stem, ge is hiring thousands of engineers. >> appreciate it, christine. stem, stem, stem. it is that time of the morning. john berman is here to give us his "new day" award of the day. >> we have an impressive streak going. i want to keep it alive. today our award focuses on the art of selling, because there's one man taking this art, selling to just an unbelievable level. that man, fabio. he's more than a man really. >> he is more than a man. >> he's a force of nature. >> he's a mood.

>> i have no idea what fabio does or is. what is fabio? sites have noticed these photos of mr. fabio cradling dudes in whole foods supermarkets like he's on cover of a romance novel. he's picking up dudes at whole foods. he'll also thumb wrestle with you, by the way. we have some pictures of thumb wrestling with guys at whole foods. he's a full service operation, apparently. >> what is going on? >> that is a fantastic question. mr. fabio is selling a line of protein powders called healthy planet nutrition and he's on tour going to whole foods and he'll thumb wrestle you. he'll do anything to sell, which i frankly am impressed by. there's no question there's selling power in this guy. remember this? >> how could you forget? seems ageless and timeless. >> i forget what he's selling here. >> but i want to buy. >> not butter, is it? >> of course, he did also sell

the not better. >> i can't believe it's not butter. >> i can't believe it's not butter. >> the taste you love without the cholesterol. >> the whole foods thing is even funnier than the not butter and other stuff. the pictures to me, they're hilarious. i decided to create a whole new award today for fabio. so today's award is outstanding achievement in fabio and it goes to fabio. >> would you like him to come on "new day" and carry you in. >> anyone can pick me up. if you can book fabio -- he's busy selling in whole foods right now. >> he's one of my people. >> we'll see if we can get him on. >> a man in the studio who is

larger than chris cuomo. that should be how you enter the day. >> he picks me up more times. who can do more reps? >> we'll toss you to each other. >> this just got super real. >> all right, john, i don't know how we're going to top that one tomorrow. >> but we will try. coming up next on "new day," much more on president obama's brand-new interview, what he says in defense of the national security agency's secret surveillance operations. lots to discuss there. >> and a new study that says it is okay for pregnant moms to drink. is that really safe? we're going to have what moms need to know. >> you want cake? i made it. mmm. we're having so much fun. all the time. the funnest nights that we have. yeah.

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♪ cross my heart and i hope to die ♪ >> do you hear that muse snick it means one, my 7-year-old is very happy because he loves this song. it also means it's time for a quick tour of the thought-provoking headlines topping the morning papers in health, science, business, and

beyond. take it away. >> all right, chris. here we go. "the wall street journal" major u.s. airlines getting high marks from customers. jetblue ranked first. for a second year straight. followed by southwest. >> "usa today," the u.s. government's deadline for chrysler to voluntarily recall 2.7 jeeps. the placement of gas tanks behind the rear axel can lead to fires during a rear end collision. the newsobserver.com says people apparently have a need for speed. they're talking about increasing the speed limit on some roads to 75 miles an hour. >> that's what i'm talking about. let it breathe. >> i've been to north carolina. i like that. can handle it. please take us to pop news. >> i will, thank you. keep this train moving. the trailer for leonardo dicaprio's new movie "the wolf of wall street" is trending big time. it looks at wall street excess

in the '90s. wedding bells will soon be ringing for this olympian. he's getting married this fall to his partner johnny shiloh. he hails from smallville, kansas. clark kent is being inducted into the hall of fame on friday. superman has been around since 1932, so you might say what's been taking so long? this honor is long overdue. >> we have found a way to talk about superman almost every show. which would be two. >> that's two in a row. >> got a good record, guys. >> let's get the latest with the weather. >> bring on the rain. the entire east coast pretty much seeing the rain today. the midwest, too. look how much rain is expected. we're not seeing any where we need it. some heavy rain will be up there. three to five inches in eastern portions of texas and on the west coast where we need that rain, we still have that fire threat. looks like it's only worsening as we go through tomorrow. bad news all around.

>> we'll keep watching it. thanks so much. we're at the top of the hour, which means it's time for the top news. the nsa cannot listen to your telephone calls. they cannot and have not. >> breaking overnight, the president says he's no dick cheney, as he gets his strongest defense yet of that controversial nsa surveillance program. danger in air. another out-of-control passenger onboard a plane, this one tied down by fellow fliers. we have the dramatic audio and pictures. and is it safe? a new study just out suggests that pregnant women can have a glass of wine every day. what you need to know. >> your "new day" starts right now. >> what you need to know. >> the choice to have this story appear is the journalists and

editors at "the guardian." >> i will bite one of the squid. >> how much do i bite? >> i don't think you'll do it. >> i'm going to do it. >> this is "new day." >> this is where i say don't do it, kate, don't do it! >> good morning, welcome to "new day." >> it is tuesday, june 18th, 8:00 in the east. up first, two things. president obama would like you to know. the nsa is not eavesdropping on you, and also, he hates being compared to dick cheney. white house correspondent brianna keeler is traveling with the president. she joins us live. good morning, brianna. >> reporter: good morning to you, chris. that's right. president obama gave this interview before departing for northern ireland to go to the g8. 50 minutes, so a long interview

and pretty wide ranging on the nsa programs both involving phone records and online activity being monitored. millions of americans. he said that they are transparent, he stood behind them. he also talked about syria, and as you know, a lot of hope had been pinned on the fact that the u.s. and russia, powerful allies to the syrian rebels had agreed to a new round of peace talks. president obama kind of tampied down some expectations down there in the interview. we saw this as well yesterday when he met with russian president vladimir putin. they're still very much at odds over whether bashar al asaad should stay or go. at this point, it's no breakthrough on the involvement of those two countries and a peace process between syrian rebels and the syrian

government. >> thank you very much. >> let's discuss more on all these topics. the president, syria, all of that with two of our favorite people, stephanie cutter, and kevin latch. and my least favorite person, kevin madden. let's start with something the president said in an interview with charlie rose. take a listen to this. >> i stood up a privacy and civil liberties oversight board made up of independent citizens, including fierce civil libertarians. i'll be meeting with them. i want to set up and structure a national conversation. >> everyone can understand that that's big machine, this nsa surveillance program, to change and change quickly. but when you hear the president say that i'm setting up a board to try to figure it out, is that

going to be enough to satisfy the american people who are scared that their rights are being violated? >> well, i think that what he's trying to do is have that national conversation that he said that he wanted to have. this is a good way to begin it. the interview last night was a step forward, for him to talk to the american people about the balance that he's trying to strike between civil liberties on one hand and security on the other. this is just the first step. i think we're going to see a lot more. >> what did you take from that interview? he hit on a lot of topics. it was a very long interview. as john king said earlier, it almost sounded like the president was trying to convince himself. >> even as a partisan, i thought he offered a strong defense of the nsa program. i don't know if it's enough, but it is a good start. i think where a lot of people have been frustrated is, particularly those that are supportive of these national security policies, is that the president hasn't done more of it sooner. the last two weeks we've seen edward snowden as the one that's been talking the most about this program. i know john peters said this,

that he wants the president to make a forceful defense on this. >> snowden comes out with the information. now the president comes out and other people on his team, they all say it's okay, it's okay. but each day there's something else. oh, and we should make more unclassified. oh, and we should have a dialogue about this. if everything's okay, why do you need all these changes? it seems to suggest through the remedy that you have a problem. >> that's the big challenge that the president has because so much of this is classified and he has to work and pressure folks, or at least make a case internally that a lot of this has to be declassified so he can make a pretty robust case to the american public. >> sometimes an excuse, though. tell us what you do, tell us why it's okay. >> well, yes, but you have to strike that balance of not giving away too much information to your enemies. i think the other thing that the president said last night that's worth repeating is that no american has their phones being listened to or their internet being tapped. just like anything else in this

country, you have to go to a court to get a warrant in order to do that. that was what i wanted to hear. i think that's what most americans wanted to hear. >> i liked that he said he wasn't dick cheney right after he said a whole bunch of statements that would have sounded just like dick cheney. >> it really does put him in a very interesting situation. >> i'm not going to comment on that. >> and they also say until you walk in my views, it's difficult to judge from the outside. >> and that is something that i've been struck by, too, which is that the president said he was a skeptic, but when he was a candidate, he was an absolute critic of these programs. now we're seeing a whole different type of rhetoric coming from the president. but that's, again, when you walk in the president's shoes and you get that personal daily briefing every single day, you have a whole new perspective. >> i think that's absolutely right. >> i'm going to talk about the very big issue that's been going on for two years now, more than 9

90,000 people have been killed in syria. the president has been talking about that fine line he's been trying to walk, how to get involved, how not to get involved, when to get involved. let's listen to a little bit of the interview. >> if you haven't been in the situation room and poring through intelligence, then it's kind of hard for you to understand the complexities of the situation and how we have to not rush into one more war in the middle east. >> now, he -- the president all along, i mean the defense hawks, we're talking about john mccain, we're talking about lindsey graham. these are people who are very strong in terms of military involvement. they have been really giving him heat for not getting involved in that line, leading from behind. but when you listen to what he says in that interview, do you think republicans need to give him a little more room on this

issue? getting involved in syria, it's got to be a tough call. >> it's very complex. i think there are very few very good options with regards to syria. i think where the criticism is most valid is that the president hasn't set out a clear objective and hasn't set out a clear goal from what our policy in syria is. and look, this is not partisan criticism. i think president clinton recently behind closed doors said that the president's lack of focus or at least his lack of a clear directive here could harm our interest in the regime. could harm the policymaking that comes along with it. >> think they've been clear enough that we're not going to have boots on the ground there, american families don't have to worry if you have servicemen or women? you think they have been clear enough? >> i think they've been clear. i'd like to see the president speak about it a little bit more. i think as kevin said, there really are no good options of how to deal with syria. taking a little time to get it right i think is worth it if we're protecting american lives. i think that's what the president was trying to do. >> i do want to ask you real quick, there are new polls out yesterday and today, and one of

them that was very interesting is regarding this irs scandal. the question was asking americans, do they think the white house was involved in the irs giving more scrutiny to conservative groups. you have the poll up right here. back in may, it was split 37-55. more people leading towards no, the white house is not involved. and now it looks like the american people are completely split on if the white house is involved or not. even though they keep saying we have no involvement. is that a pr problem? or is that something more? >> i think it's a pr problem. i think when you have the chairman of the investigatory committee in the house selectively releasing transcripts to make it look like the white house is involved, that that eventually has an impact. there's not one piece of evidence that anybody has seen that the white house or anybody involved with the white house was involved with the irs scandal. now, that investigation -- >> certainly the controlling of it, right? the talking points and the memo, how do we control the information, they were involved there. >> after the news struck, yes.

but that's not what people are trying to get to the bottom of. whether or not the white house had anything to do with the investigation, the irs investigations of conservative groups. there's not one piece of information that that's true. and i think what we're seeing in this poll is a result of republicans coming out and making allegations that just don't hold up. i think that there could be more forceful pushback. >> i think you're right to look at the trend line. i think the trend line shows there's been an erosion of public trust. less of a pr problem, more of a trust problem. the more the white house talks, the less the american people are believing it. >> one last point on the poll. it is a problem when you ask the american people how is the president doing on surveillance of phone calls, and then the next question, do you trust him. so when you ask questions like that, you know what answer you're going to get. >> all good polls are accurate, all bad polls are wrong. >> a little reminder of the 2012 campaign.

thank you, both. a lot of other news to get to. >> in the news today, afghan forces taking over security from nato-led troops, but the occasion marred by violence. a bomb detonated in the country's capital. the intended target, one of the country's senior shia muslim clerics. what's the latest? >> reporter: a stark reminder of the challenges ahead for the afghan security forces who took over the lead in defending the country today. this was a milestone event in the ceremony this morning. nato officials transferring the lead role for security to afghan security forces. this was a process that started back in 2011 and officially ended today. what this means is for the next 18 months, u.s. forces, nato forces will still be here, but only in a backup role, leading

the charge in the driver's seat will be afghan security forces. officials say they've made a lot of improvements over the past few years, but critics say they're poorly trained and there's no way that they're going to be able to defend this country on their own. so lots of huge tests for them and a lot riding for what nato accomplished here, what u.s. accomplished over here over the past 12 years. another big development today, president karzai announcing that he has approved the taliban opening an office in qatar. that's where the afghanistan government is planning to hold peace talks with the taliban moving forward. a lot of unknowns in that process as well. >> challenges ahead to be sure. thank you so much. today, protests in brazil. many brazilians upset about a fare increase. the price of a bus ticket from $1.38 to $1.47, which is a large fee based on the average income in that nation.

the move has outraged demonstrators. protesters say the government has plenty of money when it comes to high profile projects, like the world cup and the 2016 olympics. cell phone recording capturing part of a rant by a marge midway through a united airlines flight from hong kong to newark. >> i'm dead! i'm dead! i'm dead! >> that man screaming about being poisoned, having cia secrets and information about the nsa leakers. passengers and crew managed to subdue the man, placing him in plastic handcuffs. he was arrested and is now undergoing mental evaluation. here's something that might make you wake up a little bit easier at 3:00 a.m. or maybe that's just us. here's the deal. it's an alarm clock that actually sledshreds a dollar bif you let it go off too long.

>> that's pretty fabulous. >> but i think it's also illegal to destroy -- >> great point. >> do i need to cite the section? section 18, article whatever. it's illegal. the u.s. department and treasury would not be happy. >> you can't destroy money. >> my goodness. >> a much better looking chris cuomo in case. >> first of all, burning money, what's the chance you ever wake up happy? >> definitely is not going to contribute to a happy morning. >> you know what does make you wake up happy? working with you guys. >> oh, very nice. every day is a "new day." >> yeah, right. an admitted hit man is back on the stand today in boston to testify in the trial of accused mob boss james "whitey" bulger. they were once said to be very close friends, but in court monday they couldn't even look at each other. cnn's deb feyerick is live in boston.

what do we expect? >> reporter: well, chris, what we can tell you is this the government's star witness. he actually objected to being called a hit man, because he said he wasn't paid to kill people. and he confessed killing about 20 of them. he was part of whitey bulger's gang who terrorized not only the law-abiding citizens of the city of boston, but also terrorized the criminal underworld itself. describing one murder after another, confessed killer john monarano displayed little emotion. but when he said whitey bulger was an fbi informant, he said "it broke my heart, it broke all loyalties", a way to explain why he was testifying. bulger stared straight ahead while his former friend described how they would carry out their hits. motarano in one man was the trigger man armed with a machine gun. bulger made sure the hit was successful. in one case, so close, he felt

the bullets flying over his head. "we would follow that car when when we pulled up, we pulled upside and did what you dade broad side, both guns shooting at once." >> that was quick. >> reporter: it's the kind of cold-blooded brutality like that shown by jack nicholson in "the beparted." under his plea deal, he served 12 years in exchange for fully testifying against bulger and rogue fbi agent john connelly, who promised bulger's powerful brother and later senate president billy bulger that it would keep bulger out of trouble. they met and not long after, bulger began giving the rogue agent money and gifts, including diamonds. the relationship went on for years, resulting in several murders.

without protection from these rogue fbi agents and state police, many say that whitey bulger's reign of terror would not have lasted as long as it did. but he was protected and he was also tipped off. he knew instantly when his headquarters were basically wiretapped and that allowed him to elude detection for a very long time. this trial is very important to the city of boston because it really deals with a period of time from the mid 70s to the mid 90s in which there was corruption, there was crime. there was also so many people who were involved. and prosecutors have been preparing this case for decades. now they are sitting and they are having their witnesses come one after another to testify against whitey bulger, a man who is said to have made the streets of boston shake. chris? >> all right, deb, thank you. many people there believe they're closing this chapter on a dark part of their history. coming up next on "new day," we've long heard don't drink if you're pregnant. but new research is turning that advice on its head. what does this mean for you, and more importantly your baby?

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the brain development of babies in the womb. interesting. cnn's elizabeth cohen is in atlanta with more on this. a lot of women paying attention to this very segment this morning. >> reporter: absolutely, kate. i know when i was pregnant, i thought to myself of course i'm not going to drink. but there was always that question in the back of my mind, what exactly does the science say? so here it is. for most pregnant ladies, enjoying a drink at the local bar is not an option. or is it? susan, a mother of three girls, says she drank wine in moderation during her pregnancy to relax. >> at the advice of my doctor, i was able to drink during my pregnancies. i had three girls. they have been perfectly fine. >> reporter: a study just released in the british medical journal found that when mom consumed a moderate amount of alcohol, it had no adverse affect on her child's balance years later, and balance is a marker for brain development.

so what's a moderate amount? three to seven glasses of alcohol a week. this isn't the first time the study has found that a little bit of alcohol might be okay for pregnant women. which makes the question, to drink or not to drink, confusing. >> you okay? >> oh, yes. thank you very much. >> in britain, for example, doctors tell women if they have a drink or two once or twice a week, there's no evidence of any harm to their unborn baby. but don't expect that same recommendation on the other side of the pond. the american college of obstetricians and gynecologists say studies have consistently shown even a little bit of alcohol is risky. their advice, don't chance it. >> some women are more sensitive. some fetuses are more sensitive or vulnerable to the effects of alcohol than others. so you really can't be sure.

we don't know a safe level, so the smartest advice is what the american college of ob/gyn says, don't drink. if i were pregnant, i wouldn't drink. >> so even with this new study, pregnant ladies aren't supposed to be raising their glasses any time soon, unless they're filled with water. and so this new study in some ways brings up more questions than answers. but the bottom line from u.s. obstetricians is just don't drink. >> but still, now you've got this new study and you've got women talking about it all over the country. clearly opinions divide on this. so should pregnant women change their behavior based on these results or are you thinking there needs to be research or still you need to decide what's best for you? >> i'm going to use a tech any ta -- technical term. the science on this is smushy.

some doctors are convinced you shouldn't drink at all. other doctors will say look, a glass of wine a day or maybe every other day, it's probably not going to do anything. the decision i know i made when i was pregnant was i can go without a drink for nine months. it's not a big deal. why would i want to risk it? but this is certainly something that you can talk to your doctor and make your own decision about. but i will tell you if your doctor is in the united states, 99% chance they're going to tell you not to drink. >> it's interesting that they talk about the question of balance. is that enough of an indicator? it seems like that would be just one minor aspect. >> right. that's an excellent question. it is just one indicator. it's a pretty good one. a balance does tell you quite a bit about a child's brain development. but you're right, it's not everything. they can't test absolutely everything, but just for the sake of study, that was the metric that they chose. >> interesting. had all of us talking this morning. christopher? >> the issue of science. is it scaring us? is it just scaring us? we never really know.

these stories all over the place. a good unintended segue. you know sometimes you're like oh, the news is so dark all about bad things. that's why here on "new day", every day we'll be featuring stories about some of the good news that's out there, stories about people doing the right thing. so in today's edition of "the good stuff," we have eric in the dog house. why selling his wife's $23,000 engagement ring. his pregnant wife raquel had taken off the ring before heading to the hospital to give birth to the couple's fourth child. she hid it in an old watch box. what happens? her husband inadvertently sells the watch box at a garage sale for $5. how is this good news? the story has a happy ending. good is good is a m good samaritons.

they gave it back. >> that was subpoena's ring and we did everything we could to get it back. >> good for them. >> i see a lot of bad things, and a lot of bad things actually happened to me in my past a few years ago. i just lost faith in people. when the ring came back, i was a little bit surprised. >> renewed his faith. >> that's what it's all about. happens all the time, all over the country, all over the world. we want to bring it to you. so this is beautiful stuff. we'd like to hear about your good stuff. send it our way. how? you can tweet us. or you can post it on facebook with the #newday. >> i'm like holding on to my ring just imagining -- your heart would be in your stomach if that happened. and even more good stuff for you this morning in this morning's "human factor."

a renowned cancer survivor driven by her own analysis. dr. sanjay gupta has her story. >> her research got national attention. >> advanced breast cancer in younger women are actually on the rise, that is the alarming headline. >> but it was dr. rebecca johnson's own diagnosis of breast cancer at age 27 that motivated her to conduct the study in the first place. >> when i was diagnosed and read the medical literature, i really was trying to figure out how common breast cancer was in young women and it was hard to do because all the articles i read at that time, back in the late '90s, said breast cancer is rare in young women. >> dr. johnson was a medical resident in 1995 when she discovered a lump in her chest. a biopsy confirmed it was a malignant tumor. >> i look at the surgeon and his eyes were huge and stricken looking. and he said i think this is cancer. >> a mastectomy and four rounds

of chemo therapy followed and that put dr. johnson in the unique position of being a patient in the same hospital where she worked as a doctor. today dr. johnson heads the adolescent and young adult oncology program at seattle children's hospital. her parents are typically in their teens to mid 20s. when she's not at the hospital, he's conducting research, focused on studying cancer in younger people. she wants to be able to give her patients vital information that she didn't have when she was in treatment. >> how are you doing today? >> good. >> the chance to be able to do something for these patients that are having a hard time in a way that i understand very well, it's a tremendous opportunity, a tremendous gift to be able to help. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. >> she's a tremendous gift to all those people. >> what a healer. that story got me even more than the last one. coming up on "new day," they say a team that plays together

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♪ so i'd like to know where you got the notion ♪ >> welcome back, everybody. >> it's tuesday, june 18th. coming up on this half-hour, we'll show you how we, the anchors, have been bonding, beginning with chris's favorite pastime, he loves to kiss fish. >> that's what i do. it was weird. i said it was fishing, but it wasn't. plus, john berman is here with what he has learned on the internets. it's definitely rough if you ship something lately. first, a lot of news. the five things you need to know, only micayla knows them now. >> at number one, keith alexander scheduled to testify before the house intelligence committee at 10:00 a.m.

should shed light on the scope of the nsa's secret surveillance programs. number two, women will soon be allowed to train in the elite special forces, that includes navy seals and army rangers. it says the pentagon will announce today that women will be allowed to train for the front lines as soon as 2015. jury selection in the george zimmerman trial. a group of potential jurors will return for more questioning, and a critical issue remains undecided by their 911 calls will be allowed as evidence. at number four, you'll remember this bizarre video, the naked man running wild in the san francisco subway station. he's facing charges today connected with the incident. game six of the nba finals is scheduled for south beach tonight. the miami heat down three games to two against the san antonio spurs. spurs in six. and for everything you need to know for your new day, go to

newdaycnn.com. >> it's not easy. >> i was watching it in awe. also, now time to go to the weather center for what you need to know before you head out the door. >> we're talking about a lot of rain. look at the eastern portions of texas. some heavy thunderstorms could bring three to five inches of rain. watching out for flooding there. one and two inches along the gulf there. two to four inches in the carolinas. as far as where the thunderstorms are, we're talking about the slight risk areas. no surprise. we're talking about right along the plains, a little bit in montana and in the ohio valleys and scattered showers for you. a ridge of high pressure building in. and by tomorrow, it looks like the temperatures only going to get hotter, drier and windier. a tiny chance for thunderstorms, so it's the last chance they have to get a little bit of game on those fires. >> a little insight.

when she's doing the weather, this is what i do. >> i'm like sweating right now. oh, my god. we've got ourselves together. so, get to know me. that's what we're doing here a little bit, the anchor bonding process. we each have our own story. mine probably the least interesting. so we'll begin with it. i love fishing. i love my friends. and to put the two together was beautiful. so that's what we did. take a look and a listen. we all have a happy place. mine is the sea. specifically fishing in the ocean. it is at once exciting and relaxing. and for me, it's all about family. my brother, he taught me all about this growing up, about respecting the water and understanding how to catch fish. now i'm passing it on to my son. it's just such a great way to just get away from things.

and so it was deep sea fishing that i decided to share with my new sisters. the day was perfect. the sun in our faces. the wind at our backs. at one with nature. >> tide lines. that's what we say when we're fishing. >> we talked about family. >> have i told you the story about my baby sister? >> fun was being had by all. >> that's period. >> that's fantastic. >> everything seemed exciting. even birds. >> they're like those whatever sea birds. >> then we got down to the business of fishing. starting with bait. want to do what they call match the hatch. you want to use what is coming into an area at that time. >> the good news if we don't catch anything, lovely for a little lemon juice. >> not eating our bait. >> the highest quality calamari

you've ever seen in your life. >> before we knew it, whammo, tightlines. >> oh, my gosh, two fish! >> i want to hang on to it. touch it, grab it. what's that? it's so beautiful! >> it's called a fish. >> red snapper? >> are the eyes really supposed to do that? >> it's not a very big fish, though. >> we were anchored in a hot spot. little tugs kept coming, lighting up her facing. >> do you have another fish? for crying out loud. not that we're keeping score or anything, but that's five. it's my lucky number. >> this is where it got a little salty. we're all competitive. >> you want this fish, kate? she can fish in the bucket. >> the happy tide started to turn. >> people who catch fish. we'll make something up.

>> wow, i got another one. >> everybody's catching fish. everybody, that is, except -- "i always win, that's what i do." so i pulled an old fishing trick out of my bag. >> as a superstition when i'm fishing with squid, i will bite one of the squid in half. >> no, you can't. >> i'm just going to bite it for the novelty of it. i do it every time. >> that's a lie. i never bite into raw squid. but i will bite into a cheese stick pretending that it is. >> ew, you did it! >> you don't have what it takes, do you? >> how much do i bite? i'm going to do it. what do i do? just bite a little of it? did you really do it or are you just making me do it? >> what do you think that is, my tooth? >> i can't overthink this. how gross is it? >> you don't have to do it. no, i don't want you to do it.

>> who knew kate was so tough? so i had to fess up. imagine if you had done it. >> i hate you so much! >> maybe it was kate's bravery on the high seas or a complete disregard for her health. whatever it was, the sea god finally smiled on her. and then, the fish threw up on her. >> get thauf my hat off my hand. get that off my hand. >> a perfect end to a perfect day. >> did you ever determine what that was? >> it was sea lice. it was two inches long. it was white. it looked like a cockroach. >> it was alive. >> it was definitely alive. i don't freak out over anything. >> no, you don't. that is an embarrassing piece for me. >> you threw my fish back in the water before i could even take a picture of it. >> it slid right through. i got right to it in the piece.

>> i am a sucker. >> that was so good, kate. >> you were going to. >> it was tough. >> first of all, you were like tiger tough, which i respect. >> you know what i was thinking throughout that piece? what's cheney's first name? >> nice. i'll let that part go. i love that you guys tried so hard to enjoy something because it was important to me. >> it was a beautiful day. a day on the water. >> it was nice with the raw bait and sitting there with the waves. >> but the good thing is now we're going to get a chance to see some of the things you and i do. far more adventurous than mine. >> not that much. so chris took us fishing. you also see -- this is my pastime that i enjoy doing. be very afraid. >> well, i had a chance to introduce you to one of the programs that i love. an after school program in los angeles called l.a.'s best. we'll meet some of the kids. some of them have their front teeth. >> very few of them had their

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this is the late r&b star alliyah. she is actings a chris brown's backup dancer. this hologram, it's crazy. the songstress is featured heavily. brown actually pay s transcribe to her. is it creepy or cool? i think the tupac hologram they did, i didn't love that. >> there was a lot of strong reaction to the tupac thing. it's honoring her, but it's also -- >> i don't know why. >> me neither. >> advances in technology, i guess. i know you guys love this. he may have walked away from a reported $50 million contract in 2005. dave chappelle is back and it's our number three story. the former "chappelle show" host has been confirmed as headliner

for funny or die's fest. it is a return to the spotlight for him. he's kept a relatively low profile since leaving the chappelle show eight years ago. >> it's been that long? >> can we all just have a collective -- that he comes back to television. please. so funny. >> come on "new day," chappelle. >> put that out there one more time, please. >> come on "new day," chappelle. >> we would love that. and i need him back on television. we need chappelle back. the number story today guys, last night, i headed to the "world war z p" premiere. snagged myself a little face time with the one and only brad pitt. we talked about it being a big blockbuster. look at that. we talked about the fact that this was a summer blockbuster. he is not a superhero, though. and i have to tell you guys,

brad pitt and i are almost family. >> really? how's that? >> well, we're both proud missourians. both journalism students at the university of missouri. my name could be michelle pitt. >> it could be. i'm just saying. >> you have to pick superman or brad, though. you can't pick both. >> i think brad has more staying power. and he's got all those children. i love kids. michelle loves the kids. i'm picking brad pitt. johnny depp getting trampled by a horse? i mean, look at this. taking a nasty fall. this is during the filming of "lone ranger." he wasn't seriously injured so we can show this over and over again, but it's a tense moment on the set. he walked away with real bruises. this could have been a lot worse. but i sat down with armie hammer who plays the lone ranger and jerry bruckheimer. i asked goreight there, how

far would th hard was this movie to make? they said an 11. i'm anxious to see. it starts on july 3rd. there were a couple times where armie said he was really afraid for his life. >> looking forward to seeing it. michelle turner, always good to see you. coming back, what john berman learned on the internets. a scandal involving captain crunch. oh no. say it ain't so. i want to make things more secure. [ whirring ] [ dog barks ] i want to treat more dogs. ♪ our business needs more cases. [ male announcer ] where do you want to take your business?

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♪ it's a great new world >> a professional singer. doesn't he sound great? it's that time of the morning. john berman here to tell us what

he learned on the internet. >> this morning, i bring you scandal on the internet. hold on to your breakfast, ladies and gentlemen. call it cap'n crunch gate. uncovering the truth about cap'n crunch. go ahead and take a look. take a look at the captain here. you notice anything very, very wrong? >> missing a finger. >> let's do a close-up here. according to u.s. navy's ranking system, three stripes indicate the ranking of a commander. that's a lower rank than a captain, which you see on the left there. that is four stripes. he's been calling himself a captain, he's just a commander. >> commander crunch doesn't have the same ring. >> this is such a serious matter that cap'n crunch had a response. regarding today's rumors, of course i'm a cap'n.

it's the crunch, not the man. paying my dues. if you want more scandal, i'm going to take you to russia right now. what's the best way to get around traffic in russia? >> a barka lounger. >> that's china, guys. come on. look at this. >> see, i've wanted to do this on the 405 in los angeles. >> listen one second. >> it's like the partridge family. it's really amazing. >> pretty calm about it. >> just as they're about to say, you hear him say -- >> you know so many languages. >> i have more scandal for you right now. look at china. work ethic. this is a man after my own heart. his job, by the way, is to put boxes on the conveyer belt.

this has actually been online for a year, if you can believe it. but it just exploded virally right now for some reason. >> this has got to be a joke. >> maybe his job is not to load, it's just to get them off. >> the conveyer belt has to be there. it's an extra added benefit. >> finally on the subject of scandal. i have this. really, this takes no explanation. these are women surfing in high heels. you know what i really like about this? >> it's like ginger rogers. >> this is an actual surfing competition in bali. these are apparently russian surfers. >> further proof, women can do everything men do, but we do it in heels. >> and lipstick. >> russian surfers. >> whoa! hold on. >> that's it for "new day"

today. >> thanks for joining us today. >> let's bring you carol costello. >> they were going surfing in high heels. they were surfing in other stuff, too. >> exactly. >> how you guys feeling? >> good. >> we're feeling great. >> day two. feels good. >> feels strong. feels strong. >> thanks, guys. have a great day. >> thank you. >> "newsroom" starts now. breaking this morning, your freedom is on the line and obama on the defense. >> obama is dick cheney. >> the president insisting he's not bush and cheney-like when it comes to spying on you. >> the nsa cannot listen to your telephone calls or target your e-mails. also, shock