keeps opening the door with a wave of his hand. the students didn't have no idea going on. >> an accomplice is outside pressing the elevator button to keep the doors open and you see the people not that impressed. the video has been viewed 800,000 times. >> it's pretty cool. reminds you of the commercial with the little boy. >> that will do it for me. have a great weekend. >> i'll see you on monday. >> you're not off yet. you have another hour. cnn newsroom starts now. celebrity chef paula dean is in damage control after making rational comments. the autopsy report is in. james gandolfini died from a

heart attack. those details plus what his family is saying. the jury is picked. six women were selected to hear their case against george zimmerman. could this help or hurt him. this is cnn newsroom. we begin with that close call. this is over the skies of the new york. the faa is now trying to figure out how a delta flight arriving at jfk airport almost collided with the plane leaving la guardia. we are filled in on what happens. >> reporter: the incident happened near at new york's jfk airport. a shuttle america was taking off just as a delta 747 was preparing the land. that 747 peeled out of its landing in a standard procedure called a missed approach. the two planes then came way too close. the faa will not confirm just how close. in statement it said the two airports were turning away from each other at the point where

they lost the required separation. both aircraft landed safely. it's the latest in a string of near misses akros the nation's airports in the past few years. last year in washington, d.c. at reagan national airport three planes barely avoided slamming into one another after a control tower miscommunication. a frightening near multiple politician in denver. >> traffic alert. >> reporter: the passenger plane caught on radar steering directly into the line of several aircrafts. in 2010 a pilot at boston low can airport takes a wrong turn right into the path of another aircraft. an air traffic controller works to avoid a disaster. >> jet blue hold right there. hold. >> reporter: thankfully the pilot hears him just in time. crisis averted.

>> renee marsh is joining us from washington. what are we hearing about the close call? do we have anymore information about how this happened? >> we know from the faa at the point these two aircrafts were very close, they were about a half a mile apart horizontally. keep in mind they are supposed to be no less than three miles apart. they were also 200 feet apart vertically. also keep in mind they should be at the very least 1,000 feet apart. that gives you a better idea as to how close these planes came. they were turning away from each other when they were at their closest point. we did pull in some audio, portion of audio between the delta 747 and the control tower. what you're about to hear is the control tower telling the pilot the direction and attitude of another plane coming his way.

take a listen. >> 172 heavy are you turn something. >> yes, sir, we're almost at zero four internow. >> delta 172 heavy traffic. 12:00, 1400 foot. >> we got him on the fish finder. we're turning right. >> all right. that was the heart of it all. you heard the air traffic controller telling him this plane is coming your way. be aware. luckily both of those planes were able to land safely. >> luckily. those passengers must have been terrified. : we're looking at damage control today. this is for the celebrity chef paula deen. >> i've probably got about four pounds of bulleter. >> she's known for a lot of butter.

this is the queen of comfort food. she's been under fire this week after admitting she used a rational slur in a video tape testimony. it's going viral. it's created quite the backlash for her. i understand she might have something to say about this. >> we were on her official twitter page. she tweeted about an hour and a half ago that there will be a video statement released shortly. she didn't say much else beyond that. she tweeted just a while ago a picture of herself. it looks like she is sitting there for an interview. that's the picture we saw al teasing that a video statement from her will be released shortly. we can only assume this is going controversy that's been fueling this week. this all started on wednesday. news of a deposition that was

taken in may surfaced. it was a transcript of that deposition. it was a video taped deposition but we only got ahold of the transcript. she admitted to having used a racial slur in a conversation with her husband that happened years ago. >> was she apologetic about using that? >> the deposition is related to a lawsuit. it's an ongoing civil lawsuit. she didn't really go into that. she was discussing her history and what she may have said. it was in response to those allegations. that lawsuit was filed by a former employee and that person is looking for damages. right after that broke all we heard was statement from her attorney saying that his client does not condone or find the use of racial epithets responsible.

we also talked to some experts. we talked to a man named david johnson. he spent more than ten years helping celebrities deal with controversies. he said the first 48 hours are critical in terms of how the public responds and the person responds. he felt deen would be able to bounce back but because this involved a racial issue it might be a little trickier. we're just waiting to see what happens. >> we'll see what she says. i want to bring in a guest to talk about how could she repair her image. what does she need to do? >> i'm looking at this as a critic not an image consultant. i think given the best thing is to actually be sorry which we'll have to see what her statement says but i think it needs to be

more than simply i'm sorry if such and such was offended or the sort of more general i deplore racism. it's more notion that i did something wrong and i understand why it was wrong. beyond that it just seems like damage control. >> she's already faced quite a bit of criticism before with the eating and the diabetes and the controversy around that and knowledging she was diabetic herself. this on top of that, how difficult is it for her to win back some of the people who were loyal fans. >> it's funny because on the one hand you can say they are two very different things. one is diet which i don't think that anybody really saw her as a health food cook to begin with and to some extent that's between her and her doctor and those of the people who follow

her and this is a series in a different way but one could say a thing like this could compounds and create a sense of phoniness and lack of trust. while they are initially unrelated, i think having those two things happen in concession could have a tendency to pile on each other and hurt her fan's relationship with her. >> thanks for joining us. we appreciate it as always. we'll see if she has a statement. coming up, he leaked details about the government surveillance program. now his background check is being questioned. did he slip through the cracks? how much does he really know? the latest, up next. an expert in the michael

jackson's trial says he went two months without real sleep. we'll tell you how the lack of sleep can damage your brain. for 18 days jodi arias spilled out how she killed her boyfriend. now a made for tv movie is reenacting it. >> let me see those big, broad shoulders. that's it. you look good, travis. >> we're going to talk with the actress playing jodi arias this hour on cnn newsroom. okay team!

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the question of the senate has been how big a number can they pile up because what they want is to return up the score so it has big moment going to the house. i think you have a deal that's likely to pass the u.s. senate although you never want to say anything absolute. the problem is when it goes over to the house. it's just a very different dynamic on the house side. you have people who look another this on a national political basis who believe the republicans have got to have some form of immigration reform because it's a path way to the white house. there are those republican who is say my district doesn't want this. they want different penalties for folks without documents. no matter what you do it's rewarding someone who did something that's not according

to the law. it's just a different prism there which you republicans look at on the conservative side and many of the republicans in the senate so we'll see as we saw it. the left of the democrats and the right of the republicans and. >> i want to talk about the farm bill because a lot of people were not paying attention to that. that failed because it was a surprising setback for some of the house republican leaders. how did that play out? >> reporter: that played out because you had a bill. i think you can look at this as is this the template for immigration. you had a bill that was in large part the fight was over food stamps. there were major cuts. many democrats were major cuts in the food stamp program and that caused a lot of democrats to fall off and say i'm not voting for this thing.

on the other hand you had conservative republicans who said it doesn't cut enough. they fell off and what you have was a middle that's not big enough. >> that is the problem in washington these days. candy, thank you so much. appreciate it. going to be looking forward to your show on sunday. she's going to be talking with senators rand paul. that's on sunday. a child, this is amazing born, hears for the first time. his parents explain how he's learning to hear.

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edward snowden might be out of sight but he's not out of mind. he tore the lid off a secret telephone surveillance program. nobody has tried to make him surrender yet but the company who hired him is another story. government inspectors want to know who is doing the background checks on contractors. here is chris lawrence. >> reporter: a congressional hearing produced a stunning admission. a private contracting firm may not have done a thorough

background check on admitted leaker edward snowden. >> are there any concerns his background investigation may not have been carried out in an appropriate or thorough manner? >> yes, we do believe that there may be some problems. >> reporter: the company in question is now under investigation for repeatedly failing to conduct quality background check pps. >> do you believe you're catching most of the fraud or do you believe there's more? >> i believe there may be more. >> reporter: alarming when 18 employees have been convicted of falsifying which he. she faked 1600 credit checks that she never completed. her background check was faked by another investigator. >> it's a clear threat to the national security.

if a background investigation is not conducted properly all other steps taken when issuing a security clearance are called into question. >> the background investigation process is broken. >> reporter: former defense department official filled out a standard government form for his top secret clearance. the investigator spent hours asking the most basic questions. >> is your wife really julie? did you really go to school? did you really live at this address? they read the form to me and i simply said it was true. >> reporter: with the personal information online a computer could do the same background check for $100. >> instead we're spending $4,000 to have people conduct investigations that aren't revealing anything. >> i want to bring in chris lawrence. tell us more about the vetting procedure. who is in charge of this?

>> reporter: it's an office called the office of personnel managemen management, a central agency. they farm the job out to contractors like a lot of work done. this company was the one that handled edward snowden's background check. in about 70% of the people who do this work are contractors. now opm says they don't have the resources to do the oversight that program this important requires but it's more matter of how they are managing money and the fact they are locked in a lot of these old practices left over from the 1950s and '60s that don't reflect how people live today. spending all this time on neighbors and things like that when a lot of people's lives are lived online. he said about 90% of this could be done by a computer and the money that's freed up you could take the people and really get them out there in the field and

do some digging to make these investigations more thorough. >> point well taken. thanks. coming up, the jury is now picked. we're talk about six women who will hear the case against george zimmerman. could this help or hurt him? an autopsy reveals james gandolfini died of heart take. he was found by his son. now his family is talking. we have what they are saying up next. [ female announcer ] doctors trust calcium plus vitamin d

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that killed james gandolfin. the family friend held a press conference earlier today in rome saying nothing out of ordinary was found during that autopsy. he says gandolfini was happy enjoying her italian vacation. earlier he took his son michael to the vatican before eating dinner with him at the hotel. after that michael was worried about how long his father had been in the bathroom and because he didn't answer his knocking he alerted the hotel staff who knocked down the door and called emergency services. doctors attempted to resuscitate him but was unable to restart his heart. his wife and 8-month-old daughter was traveling with the family. at this point the family is focusing on getting his body back to the u.s. >> the body has been turned over to the funeral director who will be performing whatever he does.

in italy it can take up to ten days to get all the necessary documents and paper work to repatriot the body. we are looking forward to working with the italian government and officials to shorten that process. looks like they are doing everything on their end which is wonderful so we can get jim's body back sooner. once we have the clearance we will put him on a flight to america. >> the family hopes the funeral will be held either thursday, friday or saturday in new york. this will depend on how long that process takes in italy. >> i understand he was supposed to be heading to the film festival today to get an award. i assume they have a memorial or recognition for him today? >> reporter: they are saying they are going to hold a tribute

to his lifetime achievements. that will happen in place of the award ceremony. still marking the life of an actor so well loved and appreciated. >> thank you so much. for more on his life visit our website, cnn.com. now opening statements in george zimmerman's murder trial that starts monday. turns out the jury of peers all women and almost all white. they're going to have to try to set aside personal feelings about weapons and what they have heard about this highly publicized shooting of trayvon martin which happened last year in sanford, florida. we have more on the jurors. >> reporter: most of the six women who will be deciding george zimmerman's fate have had some connection to firearms. it's a common thread shared among half the 40 perspective jurors in the pool. >> my husband had a .9 mm. >> my brother-in-law has hunting

rifles. >> i fired a gun one time in my life. >> i have two handguns. >> do you have any acknowledge of shooting a gun? >> ki shoot a gun. >> reporter: those answers are not surprising to people familiar with florida, a state where there are a more than a million concealed weapon permit holders he's spent more than 150 years handling cases. he says having an all female jury could help zirmmmmerman's defense. >> anyone can use a firearm to defend themselves against a larger, stronger assailant. i don't think -- i think the women will understand the self-defense aspect of this case. >> reporter: also important the level of comfort jurors may have with firearms. we saw defense attorney mark o'mara gauge that on thursday. >> firearm. >> yeah.

>> i have a firearm. how about now? it's in my pocket. who is concerned? why. >> i don't know you. i don't know how responsible you are with that. >> what the defense is wanting to do is make sure that jurors are not alarmed or bothered by the fact that the defendant zimmerman was carrying a gun in a public place. >> reporter: factors that will play a role as the jury tries to weigh zimmerman's guilt or innocence. >> i want to go live to sanford, florida. jean casarez joining us. what do you make of the fact you have this very interesting jury here. six women almost all white and a lot of people very familiar, comfortable even with guns. >> reporter: i think a lot of people are really surprised arrange here. the fact is there was going to be a man on the jury. it was an african-american male and it was the prosecution that

struck him. that's the reason why it's an all female jury. i think what people believe is these mothers could actually help either side because they are going to be two mothers in the courtroom. benjamin crump said trayvon martin's mother will take the stand. what about george zimmerman's mother. she will be in the courtroom too. these mothers have daughters. they have sons. some are around the age of trayvon martin. some are around the age of george zimmerman. this is case not only of the evidence but of mothers in the courtroom. >> jean, what do they think of the fact that a lot of people were very familiar and comfortable with guns? do they have any sense of how that will play out? >> reporter: one juror by the way used to have a concealed weapons permit herself but she said during individual questioning she doesn't have it anymore but her husband has a

concealed weapons permit. they do come from gun families. gun owners act responsibly. that's one thing you learn as a gun owner and the issue will be did george zimmerman act responsibly. >> what about the racial make up? are people talking about the fact they think it will go either way when shp has been case that's brought up a lot of debate. not only gun laws but the fact the shooter was hispanic and the victim was african-american. >> reporter: we have seen them in court. on the questionnaire is where it says what the race is and those are sealed. the prosecution defense will not say we heard the prosecutor say in court that four of them are white. five of them are white and one is black or hispanic. that's all we know. >> jean, you've got that tape. the tapes that were played before we heard them. are they going to be submitted

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a sleep expert testifying in michael jackson's wrongful death trial says that jackson may be the first person ever to get no rem sleep for two whole months. this expert says he is basing his opinion on prior testimony that jackson was given the drug propofol for 60 days. that drug does not allow a person to get real sleep. what's real sleep? >> it means you're getting stages of sleep including rem sleep. you can watch someone's eyes moving under their eyelids. it's kind of freaky. you can see their little eyeballs moving. they are dreaming. this is really an important part of the full sleep cycle. you need rem sleep. this doctor says he wasn't getting rem sleep. i want to be clear about this. it's a drug you take when you're

getting a colonoscopy. you're not supposed to use it. he wasn't getting rem sleep. you're supposed to get all of the cycles of sleep. you're not supposed to lose rem sleep. it's important. >> what happens if you're lose it? how does it impact you? >> you are sleeping. it's in some ways the most wakeful part of the sleep cycle. you're not getting rem sleep. rem sleep is important. you need it so the next day you can learn. if you don't get enough rem sleep you can become paranoid or anxious or lose your balance. all sorts of bad things can happen. >> people who don't get it and try to fall asleep, how do you do that? here you have michael jackson who according to the story he wasn't able to sleep? what's the proper way to make sure you can get real sleep? >> he wasn't getting enough of the right kind of sleep.

that was his problem. i want to state this. taking propofol is beyond the panel. it was out rageous what hefrs doing. let's talk about some things you can do. one of the things you can do is create your own sleep sanctuary. make your bedroom a place to get a good night sleep. the other thing is exercise. exercise during the day. not right before bedtime but during the day can make your sleep better. also tune technology out. do not look at your ipad, phone, your whatever before you go to sleep. the bright lights will confuse you and create a sleep schedule so you're going to bed and waking up at the same time. for more you can go to cnn.com/empoweredpatient. you can read more. >> there's a couple of things on your list that i do. >> not all of them. >> the blackberry and cell phone by the bed.

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this just in. we're looking at the birth certificate op kim kardashian and kanye west's daughter. the baby's name northwest. the document was filed in los angeles county. congratulations to them. convicted murder jodi arias will have to wait a month to find out what a new jury thinks her fate should be. she was wearing prison stripes and shackled when she appeared in court. last month the jury found her guilty of stabbing travis alexander five years ago. the jury was unable to decide whether or not she should be executed. a new jury will be seated july 18th to decide whether or not she gets life in prison or the

death penalty. this sensational case made headlines around the world. everybody was following it. now it's the subject of a new lifetime movie. watch. >> let me see those big broad shoulders. yeah. that's it. you look good travis. >> you know you don't have to sweet talk me if you want to get some of this. >> i'm done talking. >> tanya ramon has the lead role. it airs tomorrow. thank you for joining us. jodi arias one of most hated, vilified women in the country and you had to play her. how did you do that? >> it was very challenging. the challenge was that i had to portray someone that was

potentially, obviously very much in love with this man to the point where she would do anything for him but at the same time was capable of obviously going all the way and committing the ultimate sin. that was probably one of most challenging things for her. >> how did you do that? did you study? were you following the trial like so many other people? >> i wasn't like a die hard jodi arias follower in the beginning. i was aware of who she was because i had seen her on tv. it wasn't until i only started working on the movie that i got to know her more and as the filming progressed i became more and more interested in developments in the trial and what would happen to her and travis's family reaction. i became much more interested in her fate. >> some actors say they really kind of turn into the character. they have to get into the character as they play that role. did you ever feel like you were

morphing into who this woman was? >> it was a very difficult nut to crack, but absolutely. my job is to try to immerse myself into the character as much as i could. it was difficult because i know the gravity of what she did and i would watch travis' family in the courtroom mourning the loss of their child. at the same time i was sympathetic to the character i was playing. i tried to play her as objectively as i could. i consider here as a human being and my job the to portray her accurately. >> i want our viewers to take a look at another trip. >> sure. >> who is marie? >> a girl that i know. >> how well do you know her? >> well enough that she text me from time to time. this is crazy. you're acting crazy. this is like insane jealousy.

>> i look like a prostitute travis. a piece of toilet paper. >> it's way too soon to be discussing this. >> is it more about the relationship or are a lot of people focused on the murder? >> the movie explores their relationship and how kind of intense and passionate their affair was and navigates their story together and shows how obsessed jodi became as a result. that's the majority of the movie. it's really truly about these two people meeting and falling in love. everyone knows how the story ends but that's the gist of the movie. >> we don't know whether or not she lives or dies. how does your story end? >> well, the movie takes us like all throughout their relationship and ends with the

trial and the verdict. the sentencing is not included in the film. the movie really just spans that whole part. >> finally, have you gotten any black lash? do people look at you or you resemble her in some ways? do you think people will harass you because they might identify you as jodi arias? >> i don't worry about it too much. at the end of the day i'm only an actor and i was doing my job. if people recognize some of jodi in my performance i feel like i've done my job the right way. >> i think a lot of people will be watching. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we'll be watching. >> it airs tomorrow on lifetime. thanks again. coming up, the space shuttle atlantis now in its new home. we'll take you there, up next. tt begins with a surprise twinge of back pain... and a choice.

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two, one, zero and liftoff. the final liftoff of "atlantis" on the shoulders of the space shuttle. >> awesome. this is the closest people ever get to seeing a space shuttle. but in t minus eight days the shuttle "atlantis" is going to be put on public display at the kennedy space center in florida. john zarrella got a sneak peek at the shuttle's new home.

watch. >> reporter: up close. nearly close enough to touch it. but still it begs the question, is it real? >> you don't realize the size when you're living in the cabin up front. >> reporter: tom jones flew four shuttle missions, one on "atlantis." but one of the last times he saw it, it was wrapped in shrink wrap as the museum was being built around it. now even he, an astronaut, is in awe of it. >> to really see the spaceship up close was a rare event. it was always cloaked in scaffolding in the hangar. you saw bits and pieces like the elephant as a blind man. you never got this close to the vehicle fully revealed until right after landing. even then it was just a glimpse. >> reporter: when the exhibit opens this is how everyone will see it. a flying machine like none ever built. >> were we ever that audacious to go build spacecraft to do things like that? i think we're going to look back and it's going to be as if it was something out of a science fiction movie. >> atlantis and the other

orbiters now retired are reminders of both the past and the present. for two years since "atlantis" touched down at the kennedy space center, the u.s. has been without its own means to put astronauts in space. >> we call it a gap. not sure how long it's going to last. that's dependent upon these future commercial providers. >> reporter: commercial companies have taken over ferrying cargo to the international space station. but not people. that was supposed to happen by 2015. now the gap has widened. it's a very iffy 2017. target dates are etched in sand, not stone. not enough money from congress, nasa says. so astronauts fly on russian rockets. jones believes a new generation of space explorers will find their inspiration right here. >> a young person can come in here and say, i want to fly something like this. i want to help design something like this. it can be a part of their future. and that's a very bright future for america in the 21st century if we capitalize on the experience we have here. >> reporter: nasa is also

working on a rocket for deep space missions. that, too, is years away. so for now, the inspiration gap is being filled by vehicles, not on the launch pad, but in museums. john zarrella, cnn, at the kennedy space center. >> cool stuff. thanks, john. in boston today, james "whitey" bulger was not the most recognizable person at his murder trial. courtroom witnesses actually say oscar winning actor robert devall was sitting in the back of the room watching the trial, the judge, the lawyers, soaking in the atmosphere. duvall is in boston filming a movie called "the judge." he wouldn't tell a reporter for sure if he was there for work reasons. only that he found the trial interesting. and this. a story we've been following. a child born deaf hears for the first time. you're going to hear from his parents, up next. >> daddy loves you. daddy loves you. daddy loves you.

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daddy loves you. daddy loves you. daddy loves you. can you hear daddy? >> it's an update to a story you just can't turn away from. this is amazing. a north carolina boy who was able to hear for the first time

just soaking in the sounds around him. taking it all in. we showed you this video yesterday. this is when grayson clamp heard his dad's voice for the very first time. the 3-year-old, he is the first child in the united states to receive an auditory brain stem implant. he was born without a nerve that connects the brain stem to audio waves. his parents, they're absolutely thrilled. as you can imagine. with all of his progress. this morning they were on cnn's "new day." we learned little grayson loves music. watch. >> i don't know that there's any that he doesn't like. >> he likes it all. >> yeah, yeah. >> i love it all. >> we've had a few times where there's been live music he's really been drawn to. >> i'm curious about the relationship between the boys, too. i imagine they have their own way of communicating as siblings often do, right? >> yeah. >> have things changed? are you seeing how they're discovering new things together? >> i don't think -- yeah. they like to communicate through wrestling moves. >> that's a very important way to communicate. >> breaking various things.

>> that was just great to see him this morning. grayson's mom and dad say they really -- there are no words to describe how excited they are about their son's progress. we are so excited for them. that's it for me. don lemon takes it from here. don lemon takes it from here. "cnn newsroom" continues. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com > good afternoon, everyone. top of the hour. i'm don lemon. in today for brooke. momore questions than answers today in the homicide of a young man in boston and the star new england patriots player entangled in an investigation. aaron hernandez spent much of yesterday trying to avoid the media horde which swarmed him after police searched his home and questioned him over the death of 27-year-old odin lloyd. a law enforcement source says lloyd was shot to death on monday. his body was found in an industrial park less than a mile from hernandez's home. hernandez has notd