done in the medical world. that's wednesday through friday, 1:00 p.m. eastern, right here on cnn. that's it for me. "cnn newsroom" continues. have a great afternoon. brooke baldwin takes it from brooke baldwin takes it from here. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com when he speaks, people listen. what ben bernanke announces in just moments will impact everything from your 401(k), your mortgage, your cash. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. tragedy at a pool party. someone pours liquid nitrogen into the water. what happens next is horrifying. >> we put a camera on the hood of our car and drove through the neighborhood at night. >> re-enacting the scene when trayvon martin was killed. plus, serena williams being accused of blaming the victim after her remarks about the steubenville rape case. and -- >> i really don't know why. that's my question.

i don't know why. >> a teenager kills his sister after practicing wwe wrestling moves on her. now he's charged with murder. we're on the case. and here we go. top of the hour. good to see all of you. i'm brooke baldwin. we begin with breaking news. huge, huge hour of news including this as we mentioned breaking right thousannow. the federal reserve just wrapped up this highly anticipated meeting on the economy. and the result of that meeting could affect your retirement savings, your ability to sell your home, buy a home, your 401(k), your cash. the list goes on and on. as we know, everyone sits with bateed brea bated breath waiting for the voice of ben bernanke. christine roman, good to see you. we're hoping you can translate

some of the fed speak in language we can all digest. i know this is your beat. tell me, we're awaiting this statement. what will you be listening for? >> what we know is we have seen the statement. we know there's no change in the amount of bonds the fed is going to keep buying, that stimulus into the economy. no change in its interest rate target. really i would say overall no change from the fed right now. and that is what so many people wanted to know. will the fed chief, will ben bernanke, continue to stimulate the economy. they're putting $85 billion every single month right into the economy by making these bond purchases. what we can tell you, the statement from the fed, that's going to stay the same. they are not announcing how, when, why, if and how much they're going to pull back on that. at least just not right now. >> i was listening in. we're all listening sort of for the two "t" words. tapering and tightening. hang tight, christine. let me bring in cnn's global economics analyst at "time" magazine. assistant managing editor.

i read your piece that came out an hour ago on time.com. you mentioned one of the questions you were looking for, will the fed taper? will the fed tighten? i think it's important to point out to the viewer, when we talk tapering, that's tapering of the bond buying specifically. thus far as christine is saying, no change. are you surprised? >> right. i'm not surprised. i think the fed is really tiptoeing their way out of quantitative easing. this program of asset buying they've been in for many years now. that's because it's been of an unprecedented size. there are a lot o worries about what this has done to the economy. we know that in part it helped bring us out of recession, helped bolster the stock market, helped increase consumer confidence. there are a lot of worries within the fed, even, it's also created asset bubbles in the market. we've seen a correction in emerging markets and japan's nikkei other the past couple of weeks. they're worried about what it could do to corporate bonds and even the housing recovery. that's one reason why i think we're going to see very, very gentle tiptoeing away from quantitative easing in the next

few months. >> watching the markets down 60 points upon this news. christine romans, back to you. i hear you have the precise statement. >> the first three lines of this are exactly what they were in may when they had their last statement. the fed is telling us that the economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace. that means the recovery is happening but not as quickly as they would like. labor market is improving. jobs market is improving. the unemployment rate is still too high. look, we've seen a lot of this. we've heard this song before from the fed. what ben bernanke is concerned about is taking the training wheels off the economy too quickly. there are hawks. there are people within the fed, though, who would like to see the economy start to do it on its own. would like to start to pull back some of this money they've been putting in, into the system. you're seeing there has been a brisk discussion, i think, within the fed. for right now we're seeing no change in what the fed has been doing. what i do, brooke, i try to explain what this -- this is like ben bernanke with a big fire hose spraying money into

the economy every single month. everything we've seen from the economy -- >> people are enjoying the water. >> yes, they are. what would it look like if they weren't doing that? when will we be ready for them to stop? that is the biggest question on wall street right now. >> didn't he tell congress may 22nd, right, it was in the next few meetings, we saw volatility with the markets just based upon the word "few." what does few mean? when might that be, when does the tapering happen? rana, you, me, the rest of the americans are wondering how does this affect me? we did the cnn poll. one of the questions we posed, how would you rate the economic conditions in the country today. look at the results. 35% of the people we polled said good. 65%, basically two-thirds saying poor. christine is talking sort of main street versus wall street. rana, who's right? >> well, both of them. that's the rub. that's the pressure the fed is under right now. stock markets have been up because this money hose that

christine's talking about has worked very, very well in terms of inflating the markets. if you own stocks, which a lot of middle class and wealthier people do in america, you are feeling that. but housing recoveries have just begun. most americans are still really feeling compressed with the job market. unemployment is higher than the fed would like to see it. if you remember the fed said they would like to see unemployment at 6.5%. that's before they stop the program, really pull back that money hose and start to raise rates. we are not there yet. >> what about, christine, though, you know, you talk about recently there's been a consumer confidence boost. you know, housing market seems who should people be listening to? people who are trying to save for their kid to go to college, people who are trying to save for their retirement. >> that's such a good question. because the only economics that matter are your personal economics. are you spending a little less than you make? putting money away for your kids' college. first putting money away for

retireme retirement. are you under water on your do you hav six to nin livingpenk or sho assets s you can about repairing your personal balance sheet. even if the fed is putting all this money into the system, things are getting a little bit better for getting a job. things are getting a little bit on aer in the housing rket family toamily to family. i think some families are still very nervous. people, brooke, who have money and want to take risks are doing great right now. people who are not secure at their job, don't have money or are underwater in their home loans, they're saying, look, i feel the same today as i did last year. >> i'll keep coming back to you two ladies as we're going to be watching these markets. money matter. that big fire hose matters for all of us right now. thank you so, so much. we'll check back in with you. of course, we'll check in on the markets as they respond to the news from the fed today. meantime, after all of the revelations about the government getting into your private data, this next disclosure m not surprise you.

the fbi uses drones to watch americans. that detail coming out today from fbi director robert mueller who testified before the senate judiciary committee. >> does the fbi use drones for surveillance on u.s. soil? >> yes. very, very minimal way. and very seldom. >> mueller alsoepeated much of what was heard yesterday on the hill. that surveillance by the national security agency helped thwart those terror plots. stay with me. because at the top of next hour ll talk w ntyercizens. now, once upon a time you had the berlin wall. west side, doonhe eastside, wal ears. police state. whatever you want to call it. today is an uncomfortable irony. barack obama, now the leader of the free world, a man germans once adored, found himself ogtosnthere.is owne

jessica, about this speech. >> hi, brooke. you put it really well. the president probably would have liked to give a speech today that was entirely about big things. following in the footsteps of kennedy and reagan who also spoke at the iconic brandenburg gate. the president had to pivot away from messages about freedom and equality to explain why he has continued some of president bush's practices from the war on terror, including nsa surveillance. listen to this. >> real dangers, and they keep people safe here in the united states and here in europe. but we must accept the challenge that all of us in democratic governments face. to listen to the voices who disagree with us. to have an open debate about how we use our powers. and how we must constrain them. and to always remember that

government exists to serve the power of the individual and not the other way around. that's what makes us who we are, and that's what makes us different from those on the other side of the wall. >> brooke, this was such an important issue to the germans, as you point out, that he also addressed this in a press conference with german's chancellor, angela merkel, earlier in the day. as you point out they have a history with surveillance. the president assured germans that nothing's being done without a warrant, nothing's being done without a court. nobody's listening to their phone calls. clearly, though, this is a theme that doesn't rest easy with the people here in germany, brooke. >> in germany you think of berlin. this is where american presidents give these history making speeches. just months before his death, john f. kennedy, for example, brought the germans to tears by saying all free people are

berliners. ronald reagan, '87, imploring the soviet union to scrap the berlin wall. big picture, jessica. how did the president do? >> reporter: you know, it is hard to point to a single memorable line from this speech that will go down in history the way kennedy had eic bin ie nirks berliner. or reagan had mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. each of those firmly etched in our memories. i'm not sure that mr. obama had one of those lines in this speech. what we can remember this speech for is the fact that it happened on the east side of the brandenburg gate. each of the prior presidents spoke on the west side because there was still a wall dividing the city. mr. obama is historically now the first u.s. president to speak on the east side of that gate. and it's the first time he has been able to speak there. last time he was in this city, he spoke five years ago as a candidate somewhere else. he had a crowd of 200,000 this

time. a much, much smaller crowd, brooke, i'd point out, perhaps because people are so upset with him about some of those practices he's continued. 200,000 last time. somewhere around 4,500 turned out to see him this time, brooke. >> chief white house correspondent jessica yellin in berlin. jessica, thank you so much. coming up next, this new documentary raises all kinds of questions about what really took down twa flight 800. and i'm about to talk with one of our cnn producers, pulitzer prize winning producers, who's been all over this case. he's going to cut through the muck for us. plus, obesity now considered a disease that one in three americans have. critics are pretty upset over this declaration. we'll talk to dr. sanjay gupta. he'll explain what this means, next. i dbefore i dosearch any projects on my home. i love my contractor, and i am so thankful to angie's list for bringing us together.

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an ama board member says this, quote. recognizing obesity as a disease will help change the way the medical community tackles this complex issue that affects approximately one in three americans. but many do not agree with this move. i want you to listen to this. this is a comment from a reader on l.a. times website. quote, this is bad. obesity causes disease. it may be considered a food addiction. if the ama calls it a disease the next step will be disability being caused by obesity. let's go to our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta for just some context and understanding how significant this is. i know a lot of people, sanjay, were under the impression, obesity, including myself, was already a disease. but apparently it's not. >> yeah. some of this may be se mant you cans semantics a little bit. a couple things are are important. first of all this idea if you call something a disease, it may

change people's attitudes toward it both inside and outside the medical community. change funding in terms of insurance and research funding. there's a little bit more to it than that as well. when people have a lot of fat cells in their body, we know more than ever that those fat cells do more than just add weight. they can release these various types of chemicals. that can lead to other sorts of problems. the question, is obesity in and of itself a disease. i think there's actually pretty good evidence that it is. it can lead to diseases. in and of itself a disease as well. >> when you look at the numbers that came out of this ama report, one-third of americans are not just overweight but obese. what does this mean for them? >> well, i mean, i think that probably in terms of immediate things, if doctors are actually treating this as a disease and there's more funding, insurance is reimbursing doctors, for example, for counseling patients on obesity. getting types of treatments that might work for them. could be counseling. could be medications.

sometimes surgery. as we've talked about before, i think they're going to have more options possibly as a result of this. you know, the complaint that i hear a lot is that patients who are either very overweight or obese don't get enough guidance from their trs on what they can specifically do about it. even if they want to. this may empower some of that to happen. i should point out we're talking about the ama here, brooke. this is not an official organization. obesity is now not an official disease. this is a group of doctors, organized group of doctors, who say we think it should be a disease. it's going to change attitudes. this isn't a formal thing here, brooke. >> dr. gupta, thank you so much. do not miss your appointment with the good doctor this weekend. bullying, alternative medicine, morgan spurlock and more. san ja gupta m.d. airs saturday and sunday at 7:30 in the morning right here on cnn. coming up next, twa flight 800 crashed shortly after takeoff back in 1996 over new york city, killing all 230

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i want to take you back some 17 years to an airline disaster. flight 800, twa flight 800. what you see right there is the eerie nighttime glow atop long island sound cast by flaming wreckage of the ill fated 747. flight 800 exploded and crashed minutes after takeoff from jfk, killing 230 people. every single soul onboard that plane. they had an exhaustive investigation. they pieced this plane together. and identified faulty wiring as the cause of the blast. but for whatever reason, all these conspiracy theories abounded. now comes this guy. this film maker who claims he has built a case that the fatal

explosion was caused by something that actually happened outside of the plane. a missile, perhaps. >> we have inside investigators who handled the wreckage directly that are saying this. these aren't people just on the street. this isn't just me. i have investigators behind me backing up everything we say in this documentary. they're saying it themselves as you said in the leadup to this show. there was an external detonation, external the aircraft. the person who said that actually laid out the reconstruction of the aircraft and oversaw the entire reconstruction of the inside of that aircraft. senior ntsb investigator hank hughes. >> so another theory surrounding flight 800 here. pulitzer prize winning jim polk, investigative reporter, led our coverage of the 800 crash back so many years ago. you're here with me now. tell me, what did you find? >> this is not really a new theory. we've been hearing stalcup for a decade now. the ntsb's finding was it was an internal explosion in the center

fuel tank. the wreckage from the 747 has been reconstructed. it's in a hangar in northern virginia. a correspondent got an opportunity to go inside that fuel tank a few years ago with ntsb investigators. >> let's look. >> reporter: the explosion was here. in the center fuel tank. i'm really struck by the size. you really could park a couple of cars in here. >> the fuel tank is the size of about a two-car garage. >> reporter: the center tank just below the passenger area is rarely used. how much fuel was in here at the time of the flight? >> the fuel tank was basically empty. i think it was 50 gallons is what they calculate was the residual amount. >> reporter: only a thin layer of fuel on the bottom. but the fumes were more than enough to bring down the plane. that's the stuff that can ignite and burn -- rapidly burn. >> that comes from a 2006 cnn documentary which david and i did together. we were told the explosion

ripped upwards boo tinto the passenger cabin. in other words, from inside out. the controversy has always been what the radar may or may not show. there were dozens of radar readouts from around long island that night. a retired pilot had a bootleg copy of one of them. here again is david mattingly with retired pilot richard russell. >> if this is a missile, we're about 30 seconds away from the explosion. >> that's right. >> reporter: how does it take a missile 30 seconds to reach that aircraft when it's so close. >> well, i have no explanation for that. >> reporter: we never actually see it cross the path of flight 800. >> you don't. >> in fact, brooke, that blip was moving in a different direction behind and away from the twa flight. i've talked to tom over the years a number of times. he first contacted us back in 2006 to argue about that documentary. as i recall, it was a disappearing blip. that disappearing blip could

have been -- stalcup has been asking the ntsb to reopen this investigation as far back as 2002. one radar return seems to show a piece of wreckage flying away from the pilot twice the speed of sound. that, he thinks, may be a piece of a missile. the ntsb thinks it was merely an anomaly on the radar. >> so, then, there are dozens of people, though, eyewitnesses, who said they saw something streaking toward this plane before this explosion. how do you explain that? >> actually, a number of them saw a red streak going across the sky. and it's still unexplained. what it may be and what the ntsb thinks it was was when the plane fell apart, the cockpit and first class separated from the rest of the airplane. the rest of the airplane kept flying. then it plunged, too. as it plunged the fuel in the wing exploded. a large explosion burning,

plunging. that's what the ntsb thinks the witnesses may have seen. there was one really good witness who had a front closeup view. here's his account with david mattingly. i'm sorry. apparently the clip is not in the system. what i can tell you, david maclaine was a pilot on a flight from new england to trenton. the explosion happened right in front of his eyes. he saw two red things. but he didn't see anything else. nothing approaching the plane. just the explosion. >> if you've talked to this documentary, you know, filmmaker multiple times, just quickly, because you are so intrenched in this story, what's the likelihood the ntsb finally listens to this fwi and says, all right, we'll reopen. >> my guess on a scale of 1 to 100, zero. they've looked at this before. they haven't found anything. if he has any new evidence it certainly was not in that clip, the trailer from the movie that

was made public to cnn today. >> pulitzer prize winning reporter jim polk. a pleasure, my friend. thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thank you as always. coming up next, this. >> hln after dark, a rare nighttime tour. >> walking in the footsteps of george zimmerman, the man accused of killing trayvon martin. hln's vinnie politan gives us a step by step look at the path zimmerman took. it takes you to the spot where everything began. that's next. all business purchases. so you can capture your receipts, and manage them online with jot, the latest app from ink. so you can spend less time doing paperwork. and more time doing paperwork. ink from chase. so you can.

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degree murder for the shooting 16 months ago. attorneys are in the second phase of jury selection. zimmerman says he was acting in self-defense. now we retrace his steps from a detailing he did retracing his steps that deadly fight. vinnie politan from our sister network, hln. >> we put a camera on the hood of our car and drove through the neighborhood at night. the same drive that george zimmerman said he made. he told police he was on his way to target. >> on the sidewalk or in the gr grassy -- >> in the grassy area. >> in the grassy area. all right. about right in front of where the car is? >> yes, sir. >> you just -- >> i drove past him. i went to the clubhouse. on the right hand side. >> this is where everything starts. >> yes. >> this is your front yard. >> yep. right here. >> this is where trayvon martin is and this is is the street where george zimmerman sees him

for the first time. so what would this look like at night? in this re-enactment we stood in the same spot where george zimmerman said trayvon martin stood in the front lawn in the dark. zimmerman says he doesn't call police just yet. he continues down the street. all the way down. until he gets to his subdivision's clubhouse. he parked there and made that infamous, nonemergency call to police. >> do you know what the -- he's near the clubhouse right now? >> yeah. he's coming towards me. >> okay. on the left hand side from the clubhouse? >> [ bleep ]. he's running. >> which way is he running? >> down towards the other entrance of the neighborhood. >> then he walked past me. he kept looking at my car. still looking around at the houses and stuff. then dispatcher said where tdid he go, what direction did he go? i said, i don't know. i lost -- he cut down here and made a right.

>> that's when george zimmerman says he lost sight of trayvon martin. so he says he pulls his vehicle out and gets back on the road. >> so i backed out. and i parked right about where that sign is in the yard. >> in front of the ford truck? >> yes. and i saw him walking back that way. and then cut through the back of the houses. >> now, this is where george zimmerman says he gets out of his vehicle, looking for an address. >> and then i thought to get out and look for a street sign. >> right. >> i got to about here. and i had a flashlight with me. >> okay. >> the flashlight was dead, though. i looked around. i didn't see anybody. >> zimmerman says he kept walking down the sidewalk towards the front of those homes to get an address. on the way back -- >> i was walking back to my truck, and then when i got to right about here, he yelled from behind me, to the side of me. he said, yo, you got a problem? i turned around, i said, no, i

don't have a problem, man. >> i'm going to be the kid. what the [ bleep ] is your problem? you say what you said. >> i don't have a problem. >> at that point nothing was said. think. what did you say the first time he hit you? there was no conversation prior. okay. we're good. open up your eyes. nothing at all. >> this right here is where george zimmerman says he shot trayvon martin. there are no street lamps here. the only light is what comes from the windows of these homes beside him. >> somebody's yelling for help, but i don't know. >> do you think he's yelling help? all right. what is your -- [ gunshot ]. >> straight to sanford florida to hln legal correspondent jean casarez who is covering all of this for us. jean, let's just begin with race. obviously race plays a role here. you're an attorney on either side, whether you're the

prosecutor or defense, how do they consider race when selecting jurors? >> reporter: well, you know, i spoke with mark o'mara on camera on the eve of jury selection. i asked him that very question. he said, i don't care what color the juror is. i care about a preconceived notion, someone who's already taken a position that they can't move away from and will not listen to the evidence. i think that's what this individual questioning has really brought out. because i've seen it in some. and also, though, remember, the probable cause affidavit that is -- was attached to the information, the charging document, it says that george zimmerman profiled trayvon martin. that is from the prosecution. they didn't define it. i think we're going to need to listen to the opening statements. because was -- did he profile him because of the hoodie he was wearing? because he was walking at night by himself on the complex? or because he was black? i think that's a very important part of this case, to see where the prosecutor is going to go. because the elephant in the room, it is racial profiling. >> and then here as we mentioned

in the same room for the first time you have both the parents of george zimmerman and the parents of trayvon martin. what's it like with them in this one room together? >> you know, they don't cross paths. they're in one room, but it seems that they are in separae rooms. this is the first time we've ever seen george zimmerman's mother. she has never shown herself publicly. what i have been told by the family is that robert stimzimme, the brother of george, he is at home because their grandmother has alzheimer's. they don't believe because of the past threats they can bring someone from the outside to take care of her. she requires 24-hour care. he's at home so the parents can be in court. they'll probably be alternating so someone is always with their grandmother. >> jean casarez for us in sanford. jean, thank you. now let's talk about tennis great serena williams who may have been guilty of putting her foot in her mouth here. do you remember this rape trial? we covered it. steubenville, ohio, involving

members of the high school football team. two players were convicted of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl while she was drunk. well, after serena and an interviewer for "rolling stone" magazine saw a segment about it on television, the interviewer asked serena williams what she thought about the ruling. let me just read a bit of what she said here. i'm not blaming the girl, but if you're a 16-year-old and you're drunk like that, your parents should teach you, don't take drinks from other people. she's lucky. obviously i don't know. maybe she wasn't a virgin. but she shouldn't have put herself in that position unless they slipped her something. then that's different. words of serena williams here. just a short time ago after getting blasted by thousands on twitter, williams has now released this statement sawing this. what happened in steubenville was a real shock for me. i was deeply saddened. i am currently reaching out to the girl's family to let her know that i'm deeply sorry for what was written in the "rolling stone" article. what was written, what i supposedly said, is insensitive and hurtful and i by no means

would say or insinuate that she was at all to blame. it goes on, i have fought all of my career for women's equality, women's equal rights, respect in their fields, anything i could do to support women, i have done. serena williams. coming up, take a look at this video. we're going to see some smoke. look at all the smoke. that is actually a swimming pool. it's a huge party in mexico. someone poured liquid nitrogen into the pool water. what happened next, not at all cool. that story is next. [ nurse ] i'm a hospice nurse. britta olsen is my patient. i spend long hours with her checking her heart rate, administering her medication, and just making her comfortable. one night britta told me about a tradition in denmark, "when a person dies," she said, "someone must open the window so the soul can depart." i smiled and squeezed her hand. "not tonight, britta. not tonight." [ female announcer ] to nurses everywhere, thank you, from johnson & johnson.

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pool because the staff reportedly poured liquid nitrogen into the water creating all this fog you're looking at. maybe it looks like fun if this is the kind of thing you like. after just a couple of min uute the party turned into panic. people started passing out. somebody actually jumped in to pull others out of the water. so much liquid nitrogen had been used, as it evaporated it created an atmosphere almost devoid of oxygen. you see these people trying to get out. you can't smell it. they couldn't taste it. their brains simply were not getting oxygen. the result, seven partygoers were hospitalized. cnn espanol has been looking into this. we're hearing a criminal investigation has been launched. >> that's correct. i spoke with assistant for the state attorney general in the state in which this party happened. he told me that initially there had been an event in a bar. the local bar.

they handed out invitations to this pool party. the people moved there. they had this showing of whatever chemicals, he thinks, they used. they haven't been able to confirm exactly how many or which chemicals they used. people started to pass out. i spoke with the georgia poison control people here in atlanta. they tell me when you mix liquid nitrogen with any acid it creating a reaction that can make people nauseous. also what you said. there's that void of oxygen. people start to pass out. seven people were taken to private hospitals. one of them still in critical condition. >> critical condition. >> this morning, somebody at the hospital told me that they are trying to keep it in a private section and the family has limited contact with them. five people have already filed criminal lawsuits against the organizers. >> the other question is why one would want to pour liquid nitrogen into a pool. we don't have that answer yet. there has been talk the drink maker yjaegermeister was involvd

with the pool party. is that the case? >> i reached out to the u.s. base of jaegermeister. they haven't returned e-mails. we don't know to what extent they might have been associated with this. the report says it was a jaegermeister sponsored eevent. we don't know if somebody from the brand itself was involved in the decision. what we know is that seven people hospitalized. >> we'll follow up and see why. thank you. coming up next, a woman and her child allegedly held captive for two years. she told the feds she was even threatened with dogs and snakes and forced to live in, quote, subhuman living conditions. but the mother of one of the suspects here says this is completely false. we will take you there live, next. avoid frustration. you'll find reviews on home repair to healthcare,

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the good they did inspires us, prepares us and guides us. at new york life, everything we do is to help you keep good going. one prosecutor has called this case modern day slavery. we first broke the story yesterday on this show. it was this woman and her child held captive inside this home in ashland, ohio. she was forced to eat food, do manual labor according to these allegations. threatened with pit bulls and pythons. the u.s. attorney says living conditions were subhuman. now we have three suspects, here they are, charged with forced labor and stealing the woman's

government benefits to get money to buy drugs. one suspect's mother, though, says the accusations are absolutely false. she talked to piers morgan. >> are you disputing that your son along with the other suspects kept this woman who is, we know, mentally disabled, and her child, captive for two years? >> yes. that's wrong. she's not -- >> what is -- >> she's not mentally tis abdis >> what is wrong about it? >> everything is wrong about it. the girl, supposedly victim, went where she wanted to go wherever she wanted to go. >> let me bring in ted rowlands. he is there standing in front of that suspect's home in ashland, ohio. ted, you have learned some pretty disturbing new details about this case. what is that? >> reporter: well, brooke, here's the bottom line. the more this unravels, as you just alluded to, it is

complicated. it's not black and white. the federal government says they have an ironclad case. the depiction they give you is absolutely disgusting. according to a source she was given dog food at one point. they treated her and her daughter worse than they did the animals. pit bulls, snakes, iguanas. this is the house. it's divided into three separate living quarters. they were living first in the back one, then the middle one. someone else living up top. there are neighbors all around. it's in a back alleyway. you talk to neighbors. they say, yes, she was able to come and go because they'd see her coming and going. but they never saw the daughter. whether she was told you go and you better come back or something's going to happen to your daughter, who knows. the other thing that's interesting, they said, even the ones who never talked to her said she was clearly disabled. clearly mentally disabled. what the federal government is accusing these three of doing is basically absolutely taking advantage of someone who's mentally ill and turning her into a slave. >> i know you're also hearing the u.s. attorney's office in

cleveland says another arrest may be imminent. ted rowlands for us in ashland, ohio. ted, thank you. coming up, the executive chairman and the co-founder of men's warehouse. you know, he's the i guarantee it guy. well, today he was fired by the company's board. that's ahead. [ female announcer ] a classic macaroni & cheese from stouffer's starts with freshly-made pasta, and 100% real cheddar cheese. but what makes stouffer's mac n' cheese best of all. that moment you enjoy it at home. stouffer's. made with care for you or your family. tony used priceline to book this 4 star hfree breakfast why. with express deals, you can save big and find a hotel with free breakfast without bidding. don't you just love those little cereal boxes? priceline savings without the bidding.

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to limit profiling. and -- >> i really don't know why. that's my question. i don't know why. >> a teenager kills his sister after practicing wwe wrestling moves on her. and now he's charged with murder. murder. we're on the case. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com here we go. hour two. top of the hour. i'm brooke baldwin. big brother's eyes aren't just watching online but from the air. today the fbi director told senators that the fbi uses drones on americans. here he is. robert mueller stating the facts himself today. >> does the fbi use drones for surveillance on u.s. soil? >> yes. very, very minimal way. and very seldom. >> mike baker is a former covert operations officer at the cia. mike baker, let's talk about this. because, listen, no matter how you cut it, this is a big deal.

this could open up a lot of possibilities, using drones in the u.s. what's your reaction? >> well, i think this is obviously coming on the heels of the disclosures about the nsa surveillance programs. it's coming on the heels of irs actions. so you can understand the -- sort of the overreaching big brother concept that's starting to get fed here into almost near hysteria. the drones themselves here in the u.s., they've been used by dhs for border security. they've been used by local law enforcement. so using drones on -- inside the u.s. is not something new necessarily. but the fact that, you know, the fbi now has said, okay, we've used them for 10, maybe 12 operations in very targeted investigations, that, again, it kind of -- right at this moment, collectively, all these stories, really start to feed this concern that maybe what we've got is an overreaching

government. >> let me just play a little bit more of what mueller said in front of the senate judiciary committee today. again, about the fbi saying, yes, very seldom, but yes, we use drones on u.s. citizens. here he was. >> very seldom used, and generally used in a particular incident. where you need the capability. i would have to go back and check in terms of what we keep in terms of the images and the like. but it is very narrowly focused on particularized cases and particularized needs and particularized cases. >> so particular needs, particular cases, mike. you pointed out, you know, the usage for border security. what other uses might you need drones for? >> well, i mean, setting aside the commercial value of drones which is significant in a variety of ways, for government activity, for investigations, protection of your personnel

that are on the ground during the course of operations. i mean, they can be very, very effective. obviously, you know, armed drones overseas in the counterterrorism operations have proven to be very efficient, very effective, and an important part of what we do. here in the u.s. we are talking about surveillance capabilities. you can imagine during the course of a hostage situation on a large facility, maybe a campus, having the ability to have that surveillance coverage realtime, feeding down to those personnel, the s.w.a.t. teams and whoever else might be on the ground, trying to resolve the situation, that is invaluable. in terms of drone for maybe a long-term chase scenario. you never know what the investigation may require. but i think it's a technology that, you know, it's already here. the cat's out of the bag. a lot of it was driven by the commercial sector. but, you know, then again, fwor border security. it's already here. i'm surprised -- i will say, i'm surprised the fbi hasn't already

created sort of a set of standard procedures. >> right. they said they're working on that. the rules, the policies. >> right, right. that should have been done years ago. because we've been dealing with this technology and this concern for years. >> mike baker, as always, a pleasure. thank you so much. >> thank you. once upon a time you had the berlin wall. west side, freedom. east side, walls have ears. police state, surveillance state, whatever you want to call it. today, we found an uncomfortable irony here. here you have barack obama, now the leader of the free world, a man germans once adored, found himself explaining his own surveillance programs to the germans. he said they're legal. he said that they help keep us safe, americans and germans alike. >> our current programs are bound by the rule of law, and they're focused on threats to our security, not the kmun ka communications of ordinary persons. they help confront real dangers, and they keep people safe here

in the united states and here in europe. >> in that speech the president also proposed new nuclear arms talks with the russians, with the goal of reducing arsenals by one-third. now to the news affecting your retirement account. what a new mortgage will cost you. the federal reserve decides to leave interest rates right where they are. no change there. they'll continue to pump money into the economy by buying billions of dollars in bonds each and every month. christine romans hosts your money on cnn. rana is assistant managing editor for "time" magazine. ladies, welcome back. christine, we begin with you. you know, you heard -- you read the statement, paraphrasing it basically last hour. headline really seemed to me not a lot of change. do you hear optimism here? >> i do. i do. when i look at what the fed says, i mean, it's more of the same. a recovering economy. the jobless rate's still too high. but this is a fed that's a little bit more upbeat that sees fewer risks to the economy right

now than they saw the last time they met. ironically because things are better, that's why stocks are down. because it means the fed eventually will begin to do this thing called taper. it will have to stop this practice of putting so much money into the economy every month. $85 billion the fed is throwing to the economy every month to keep it, you know, to keep it steady. at some point they're going to have to pull that back. the stronger the economy is, that means the sooner they'll be able to do that. the fed, to be clear, is saying now, we are going to continue this stimulus. we are not going to stop it right now. but at some point, they will have to. that's what markets are anticipating. >> rana, we talk about tapering with the bond buying. tightening of the interest rates. not seeing that quite yet. when you talk to someone living, eating, breathing here in this country it's still talk. despite the consumer confidence seemingly bounceback, despite the improving housing market, a lot of people say it doesn't feel normal to me. when does the economy fgo back o normal? >> if the fed's right the

economy should start going back to normal within the next year, year and a half. one of the most interesting things we saw in this statement are the expectations for unemployment. the fed announced a while back that it would like to see unemployment go down to 6.5% which is a full percentage point below where it is now before they really start pulling back the big guns. and this time around, they're expecting that to happen as soon as the end of 2014 or maybe early '15. that's sooner than the last time they made an announcement. so they are sort of whispering that america is coming back. that the economy is starting to come back. you might not feel it yet, but you should in the next year. >> i think so many people are ready for more than whisper. we are trying to be patient. christine romans and rana, thank you both so much. coming up, a chilling case that has one community in shock. and a family torn apart. a 5-year-old girl, 5, found dead. police say her brother practiced wrestling moves on her, jumping on her, elbowing her. he is now charged with second

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girl who was allegedly murdered by her half brother who says he was merely practicing wrestling moves on her little body. lewis died sunday. her half brother says he body slammed, punched, elbowed her. he told police he was imitating wwe style wrestling moves. his mom wasn't home. she was at a nearby store. she left him in charge of babysitting. >> i don't know what is in his mind. i don't know if he did it on purpose or not. even that, you know, i really don't know why. that's my question. i don't know why. >> legal analyst sunny hostin joins us from new york. welcome to both of you. let me read a statement from the wwe. quote, the at the time of viloude louis is a tragedy and we express our heartfelt con dole senses. authorities have already charged the accused with a educational background degree murder and

determined that this was not an accident death due to a wrestling move. the facts of this case clearly point to a lack of parental supervision. it is illogical to conclude the repeated, brutal and ultimately fatal beating of a 5-year-old little girl by a teenager could be confused with imitation of wwe action seen on the television. i want to begin with you. they point out parental supervision in this statement. here as we mentioned the mom, away at the store. how much responsibility should lie with her? >> well, unless she knew that her son had a propensity to beat his sister before she left and left them alone that day, none. it's completely legal to allow a 13-year-old sibling to babysit his sister. unless she knew that he had this -- that he wanted to abuse her or had previously abused her while no parent was present, then i don't see how she has any legal culpability in this case. >> sunny, do you agree. >> you know, i don't.

i think certainly there is a case that could be made for neglect. i hear this all the time about people that leave their younger children. let's remember this is a 5-year-old with a 13-year-old. these are two children. the fact that a mother would just leave her children alone like that, i -- i yus don't get it. i mean, i'm a mom. you know that, brooke. i have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old. i would never leave my 13-year-old who has no propensity for violence alone to watch a 10-year-old. i just think it's inappropriate. it's improper. i suspect authorities are looking at whether or not this is child endangerment, child neglect. >> you're shaking your head. >> yes. ask any parent with a young child who pays the neighborhood babysitter who's a 13-year-old. that happens all the time. are you calling all these parents irresponsible for allowing a 13-year-old -- >> i am. >> really? >> i am. >> okay. i'm one of them. i allow my 13-year-old to babysit her two brothers, 12 and 9. >> i think it's too young. >> let me ask this.

here we have this 13-year-old. this little boy is now charged with second degree murder. he is a juvenile. sunny, do you think that's unusual? >> well, it's not unusual if the police really think this wasn't an accident. they think that this was an intentional murder. that's what second degree murder is. it's sort of you get into someone's mind and you have to show that they intended to cause a murder or bodily harm. that's what this charge is about. i will say this. i mean, wow, 13 years old in louisiana. my understanding, brooke, that could lead to life imprisonment when you get convicted of second degree murder. i'm surprised that this early in the investigation the charge is second degree murder and not something less. >> you don't know that he's been charged as an adult. you can charge a child with murder or second degree murder in juvenile court as you could charge an tult. we don't know if a decision has been made. i hope a decision has not been made and they take into account this child's maturity level. whether this child has ever

suffered from any mental illness. if he's ever been in trouble before. all these factors need to be taken into account before you expose a 13-year-old to life in prison. >> esther panich and sunny hostin. thank you, ladies. i appreciate it. just into us at cnn. the discovery at the home of a real life mobster. police say they found, quote, material, material, whatever that may mean, at the home of jimmy "the gent" burk. one of the characters in the "good fellas" movie. could that mean human remains? a live report next.

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no dice in the latest search for the body of jimmy half offa. it is over. a two-day excavation based on this tip from former mobster tony zarilli. even though authorities expanded the search site today, they went away empty handed once again. now, the jimmy hoffa search may have gotten nowhere. but that is not the case for another mobster mystery. this one in new york. just into us here at cnn, a law enforcement source says investigators have come across a lead after searching the former home of the late jimmy "the gent" burke. you may not know the name. you may know this. he was the real life inspiration for the robert de niro's unforgettable character in the

great movie "good fellas." >> here's your graduation present. >> what for, the pinch. >> everybody gets pinched. you did it right. you told them nothing. they got nothing. >> i thought you'd be mad. >> i'm not mad at you. i'm proud of you. you took your first pinch like a man. you learned the two greatist things in life. >> huh? >> look at me. never rat on your friends. and always keep your mouth shut. >> cnn's jason carroll is following this one for us today. so, jason, what is this material that's been uncovered here? >> well, that is the big question, brooke. one that we're all trying to find out now. the law enforcement source that i spoke to simply described it this way, saying the material that was found may be human remains. more testing obviously needs to be done before anyone can be sure of this. whatever material was found was sent to a lab for more analysis. so waiting for the result of that, those lab tests, which are under way. in the meantime the search at

the former home of james burke, jimmy the gent, continues in queens. fbi agents began searching burke's former home in queens on monday. it's now owned by his daughter. a law enforcement source says investigators are looking into a case that occurred before 1996. it is widely speculated that burke was involved in the now infamous lutanza heist back in 1978 and he may have killed other people associated with the heist. it should also be noted, brooke, investigators say burke was also allegedly involved in a number of other illegal activities. so this search that -- that is under way right now at the former queens home may have nothing to do with the l lufthansa heist. he was suspected of killing many but eventually was only convicted of killing one man, a street hustler back in 1985. burke, as you know, was sentenced to life in prison and eventually died in prison back in 1996.

this was what could be a promising lead. we'll have to see where it takes investigators. >> so maybe. emphasis on may be human remains. jason carroll, i know you're on it. thank you so much. let me take you back 17 years to an airline disaster. flight 800, twa flight 800. look at this. this w the eerie nighttime glow atop long island sound cast by flaming wreckage of the ill-fated 747. flight 800 exploded and crashed minutes after taking off from jfk airport killing 230 people, every single soul onboard. they had an exhaustive investigation. they pieced it together. you see it here, this plane, and identified faulty wiring as a cause of the blast. for whatever reason conspiracy theories abounded. now comes this guy, this filmmaker, who claims he has bimt a case that the fatal explosion was caused by something that occurred outside the plane like maybe a missile.

>> we have inside investigators who handled the wreckage directly that are saying this. these aren't people swrus on the street. this isn't just me. i have investigators behind me backing up everything we say in this documentary. they're saying it themselves. as you said in the leadup to this show, there was an external detonation, external the aircraft. the person who said that actually laid out the reconstruction of the aircraft and oversaw the entire reconstruction of the inside of that aircraft. senior ntsb investigator hank hughes. >> that aside, it's unclear what new evidence this filmmaker has. he says he is petitioning the federal government to reopen the probe into that deadly crash. coming up, suspects, profiling, and the new york police department. city leaders are considering this proposal that would limit suspect descriptions to little more than the color of their clothes. officers are fired up. look at this ad. releasing this. saying how effective is is a police officer with a blindfold on? we'll talk about this proposal, next. but first, in this week's "impact your world" singing

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near the bottom of the hour. i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for staying with us. i want to talk about this controversial ad from the new york city police union. shows this blindfolded police officer. this here is the union's response to a proposed bill that it says would effectively blindfold people and hamper them from doing their job day in and day out. so this bill would reportedly let people sue new york police officers personally. we're fwgetting to you in a

minute, mike brooks. if they felt they were victims of racial profiling. alina cho is reporting out of new york. hln law enforcement analyst mike brooks fired up sitting next to me in the studio. brooks, we're going to get to you. alina, first to you. you have been tracking this, this tcontroversial bill. walk us through why some of these officers are so frustrated. >> they basically say, brooke, that they can -- this would embolden krms. and result in a spike in crime. really all you have to do is look at the cover of the "new york post" today and you will see as part of it drops why this story is getting so much attention. you showed it right there. this provocative ad was released today by one of the city's police unions. the ad asks, how effective is a police officer with a blindfold on? the union says the city council is essentially trying to ban officers from using race, gender or age to identify suspects. now, that is not necessarily the

case. listen carefully. the new proposal which was introduced by some members of the council would essentially allow people to sue not only the city, but police officers personally, if they feel they were the victim of racial profiling. it is a little confusing. but it comes down to those words. it wouldn't ban the officers from necessarily using race or gender or age to profile. but if the wrong person is chosen, they could sue. >> give me an example. >> all right. so i'm going to give you this example. a murder is committed in new york city. the dispatcher says the suspect who fled the scene is, say, i'm throwing it out there, a latino male in his 20s wearing a hoodie. police officer stops a man who essentially fits that description. turns out it's the wrong guy. if this measure passes that wrong guy can now sue the city and the police officer who stopped him. and according to a legal analyst we just spoke to, and who took a good look at this, they can sue for what's called injunctive

relief and attorneys fees. they can get money. the police union held a news conference today in the city within the past hour. here's the crux of their argument. take a listen. >> racial profiling is already illegal and should be. what this does is handcuff the police officer on the street. when a description comes over, rather than saying a male white wearing jeans and a t-shirt, now it comes over jeans and a t-shirt. you'll stop a male white, a male black, a male asian and a woman. now you're stopping everyone. then it fwgives them the right they feel like they should not have been stopped, let's sue. where does that put the police officer? where does that put that man or woman wearing the uniform now? they make their job more difficult. almost impossible to do. >> sound like a strong argument? guess what, city council members today came out with their own statement.

they came out swinging. i'm going to read part of it for you. take a look at your screen. the propaganda campaign being waged by opponents of the community safety act, as it's called, is irresponsible to the public discourse. our men and women of new york's finest who risk their lives protecting our neighborhoods deserve better from their union leaders than demagoguery and lies. the statement goes on to say there is absolutely nothing in this bill that would prevent officers from using race, gender, age or other factors in suspect descriptions. now, the bottom line, brooke, is is this. this could come to a vote as early as next week. but the speaker of the city council, christine quinn, who you know is the leading democratic candidate for mayor of this city, does not support this measure. neither does the current mayor, mike bloomberg. so this measure by all accounts, brooke, has very, very little chance of passing. >> given that fact, alina, thank you, still i'm watching you watch alina, you know, in all of

this. i hear you champing at the bit to jump in. >> listen, if what pat lynch, the pba president says, if what he says is true, it does handcuff cops. i think the ad they have out there, you know, with the blindfolded cop, that's what it is. if all you can say is a description of the clothing, if that's how specific it is, then no. cops aren't going to be able to do their job. >> what are you going to do? how many years did you work the streets? >> 26. >> 26 years. all allegations of racial profiling, how do you find that middle ground? >> let's say you're robbed on the street. you've been a victim of robbery before here in atlanta. what if you saw somebody and said, oh, it was a black male, white male, hispanic male, asian male. we don't -- you don't know. might be a light skinned male, black male. might be a white guy. might be puerto rican. we don't know. you got to be able to give the description to the officers on the street.

more so than just clothing. can you not say if that person has a beard? what if that beard is part of someone's religion. can they come back and sue you for that? what about tattoos? are you allowed not to say if they might have a tattoo, identifying mark? any kind of disability? oh, the subject walked with a limp. is that opening you up to a lawsuit also? >> ultimately you want to catch the guy. >> that's the bottom line. >> you want to give the best description possible. as alina said, not a big chance of passing. mike brooks fired up today. >> absolutely. >> thank you. appreciate it. now chris christie, the new jersey governor's approval rating pretty high amongst both democrats and republicans in his state. but what he said today may anger people on both sides of the aisle. that is next. plus, here we go. everyone is talking about the head band that mysteriously fell off lebron james during his major victory last night. what happened? rachel nichols has the scoop, next.

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let's talk sports, shall we? the question a lot of people are asking after one of the most amazing games in nba history here, nope, it's not who will win game seven in the nba championship and get the rings, but will lebron james wear the headband thursday night. more on that in just a second. very pressing stuff today, clearly. the ridiculous ending to the game. spurs/heat. game six, miami. let's pick it up. end of the fourth quarter. heat down three. lebron for the try. doesn't make it in. no good. heat track down the rebound. ray allen hits a corner three. look at the crowd. five seconds remaining. and he hits it. sends the game to overtime. now to the end of overtime. there you go. san antonio is down three with a chance to tie. the shot was blocked. miami wins, forcing game seven. woo! rachel nichols live in miami. you were there. talk about a comeback.

at one point you see the pictures of these miami fans walking out of the stands. they're giving up on their team. my, oh, my, how things can change. >> reporter: yeah. you know, this team was down five points to the spurs with less than 30 seconds to go. we did see people streaming for the exits. we actually also saw nba security officials circle the court with yellow tape and start wheeling the championship trophy out for the spurs. pretty much everyone in the building thought that san antonio was going to win. except the thing is, lebron james, dwyane wade and the rest of the heat saw that. they said that yellow tape got them motivated to even an extra level. they just turned it on. ray allen hit that amazing shot. they go into overtime. then i'm standing here on this plaza in front of the arena, brooke, where all the fans who left early heard on the radio or saw on their phones that it got into overtime. they rushed back up here. start banging on this glass behind me trying to get back in.

were pretty much unsuccessful. heat successful. game seven here should be fantastic. >> wawa for them. you got to hang in there for the very end of these games. my goodness, it's game six. here you have this as you mentioned lebron leading. didn't like the yellow tape. wanted this comeback. they got it. can we talk about the headband? everyone's talking about the headband. what's up with this? >> reporter: you mean this? this headband, brooke? >> that one. >> reporter: this is lebron james' headband. it fell off as he was going to the basket in the middle of the fourth quarter. i have procured it for you. he and i were actually sitting down and talking this afternoon. he said that he called it his little friend. he said his friend the headband has been with him for a long time. that he, of course, noticed it had fallen off but he was just charging ahead. then he realized he was playing better without it so he just kept it off. he said he is superstitious. he said this little guy is how he referred to him, he said he's been with me a long time, he said. this little guy, he said, will start game seven with him. that's the answer to your

burning question. he will start with the headband in game seven. but he said he realized he played a little bit better without it in game six. so if he's not playing well, you can expect the little friend to maybe take a trip somewhere else. >> rachel nichols with the scoop and the lebron headband. you're good, girl. you're good. thank you. we'll be looking at that. >> reporter: i told you. >> game seven. thank you, rachel. semisports related here. governor chris christie revealed something today that simply shocked his audience. what was it? alas, it was the nfl team he roots for. his audience? the crowd of elementary school students. this is in new jersey. the governor fielded some questions from them. one of these little guys wanted to know, governor christie, who is your favorite football team? but before we reveal his answer, what do you think? here are the possible options. think about it. governor of new jersey. could it be the new york giants, dallas cowboys, philadelphia eagles, new york jets? which one has his support? you know, one might think this

is an easy answer. one might have to think again. here was the governor. >> because my favorite football team is not the new york giants. it's -- it's not the new york jets. and it's not the philadelphia eagles. get ready now. my favorite football team are the dallas cowboys. which, by the way, is not the smartest thing for the governor of new jersey to want to be is a fan of the dallas cowboys. >> i feel like i saw some fist pumps from some of those kids. also you could hear the boos, some shock among the elementary kids. the new jersey governor has always been a cowboys fan. christie first publicly said he supported america's team back in 2010. there you have it. the dallas cowboys. coming up, a chaotic scene at a pool party. organizers wanted to have this

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what happens when you mix liquid nitrogen and a pool party. the answer is a chemistry lesson that nearly turned tragic. look at this. this was tuesday in leon, mexico. it's a huge pool party. it's hard to see the pool here because of all this fog, this smoke.

apparently the staff threw liquid nitrogen into the water creating the fog you see. maybe they thought this would be fun. it wasn't. because after a couple of minutes the party turned into panic. people were passing out. some jumped in to pull others out of the water. you can see here. so much liquid nitrogen had been used, as it evaporated it created this atmosphere that was almost devoid of oxygen. these people couldn't smell it, they couldn't taste it. their brains simply were not getting oxygen. the result was this. seven people were hospitalized. one, we're told, is in critical condition. cnn has also learned a criminal investigation has been opened against the event's organizers. any minute now the state department is expected to announce a new study that shows the impact of modern day slavery all around the world. and the u.s. is no exception. in fact, a story about human slavery was breaking during our show yesterday. this three suspects now in ohio are accused of forcing a woman

and her child to do work, starving them. the allegations are pretty gruesome here. cnn's jake tapper is is looking at this growing problem on "the lead" today. jake tapper, what do you got? >> hi, brooke. actually, we're taking a look at a part of the slavery story, the global human trafficking story, that probably a lot of people don't expect. when you think of slavery taking place, you probably think of it taking place outside the united states. within the u.s., you maybe think of it taking place in underground forced prostitution rings, at factories or farms far away from big cities and big populated areas. we today are going to be taking a look at when foreign diplomats here in the united states, here in washington, d.c., and in new york have slaves. it is a growing problem. one that the state department is taking steps to trying to prevent. and, of course, the complication is that when these accusations come forward, often the

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heard for the very first time in the michael jackson wrongful death trial, two of michael jackson's children. lawyers for the pop superstar's last concert promoter aeg live played short clips from both prince and paris jackson's depositions. paris jackson looks healthy. here she was. she was even jokinging with lawyers. keep in mind her deposition was recorded in late march, two and a half months before she tried to commit suicide. in the clip she talks about the former nanny fired two months before michael jackson died. here she was. >> one time -- this is going to freak you out. one time, i think it was when me

and my brother were really young before blanket was born. you're going to get creeped out, no joke. the doctor, like, i don't know. like when he would stay in a hotel or whatever, like, she would call, like, the hotel and say she was his wife. like she was obsessed with him. say she was his wife and they let her in and he'd wake up and she'd be like in his bed. >> hmm. alan duke is covering the trial in los angeles. why did the lawyers play this particular testimony about this former nanny? >> well, on the surface it was to counter something chef kai chase said yesterday concerning the dismissal of grace, the nanny. maybe more of the effect was to

put grace on notice that when she testifies on behalf of the jacksons that she will be questioned. that could have been it. it was landmark testimony. it was the first time the jurors got to see paris jackson. it also officially confirms paris jackson in the court with her testimony. she will not be there physically. only through this videotape. she is in a hospital now being treated three weeks after she was taken by ambulance from her home after a suicide attempt. aeg live lawyers made the decision that they are going to use her testimony that they compelled several hours of deposition testimony over two days. >> let me ask you more about paris. from what we read from the chef's testimony, jackson's children devastated by the loss of their father. being daddy's little girl, she was devastated and lost. there was so much love between her and her father. she's lost. she's searching. she's sad. how is she doing right now?

>> well, you know kai chase, when she testified, she's probably one of the best sources you can ask that question. because she was there. she's been feeding prince, paris and blanket for the last year. she was re-hired as the jackson's chef in july of last year and is in the home and knows this child very well. she says she's very sad and devastated, as the quote said. we're going to hear more when testimony resumes in half an hour. >> alan duke in los angeles. appreciate it. coming up next, more than a dozen mayors across the country want congress to ban the use of food stamps for one particular item at the fwroesry store. kno. at angie's list, you'll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare grocery store. so you can trust what you're reading. angie's list is like having thousands of close neighbors, where i can go ask for personal recommendations. that's the idea.

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earlier we talked about obesity in america today. i want to tell you what more than a dozen u.s. mayors want congress to do about it when it comes to food stamps. if you see them on this list your mayor believes people with food stamps shouldn't be allowed to buy soda or sugary drinks with them. athe that, trying to ban soda, we have heard of it before. why are the mayors going after it again? >> hi. they are concerned about the obesity epidemic. they don't believe the government should be subsidizinging people's

unhealthy choices like buying soda or sugary drinks that are high in calories. i spoke to one of the mayors who signed onto the letter. she leads the city where a quarter of the children are living in poverty. more than 200,000 residents get these snap benefits which is the government term for food stamps. let's listen to what she says about it. >> in baltimore we have done a lot to create incentives for healthy eating. when you go to a farmer's market and buy produce we give you more money for your snap benefits. as mayors we have the to look for ways to create a disincentive for the unhealthy eating habits contributing to the epidemic of childhood obesity and reducing the subsidy for sugary drinks is a way to create a disincentive. >> i also asked the mayor about the idea that some may say this is a slippery slope. she said, you can't use food stamps for everything. you can't buy alcohol,

cigarettes. this is one more way the government could help make people make better choices. >> 30 seconds here. what are critics saying? >> you wouldn't be surprised that the american beverage association says obesity is a problem that affects people of all income levels and targeting people who get snap benefits isn't a way to make people healthier or reduce government spending. it's one of the responses from critics. >> athena jones in washington. thank you very much. let's take a look at the big board. we heard the announcement that the fed meetings the last few days, no major changes was the headline at least so far in terms of quantitative easing but the market is definitely reacting down almost 200 points as we are just about in time for the closing bell. "the lead with jake tapper" starts right now. is president obama still

enjoying hasselhoff levels of love in germany? i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." our politics lead -- president obama trying to ease german fears of the nsa spying program. back at home the tea party regroups over another controversy he left behind -- the irs seeming to target conservatives. secretary of state john kerry revealing today the dirty secrets of modern day slavery around the world. you might be shocked to learn it's going on in kerry's backyard among diplomats, the world's power players right here in washington, d.c. in national news, a fuel tank explosion brought down twa flight 800 back in 1996 or at least that's what the government told us. a new documentary claims solid proof that it was