if it's really on that flight. opening statements begin in the long awaited trial of trayvon martin's killer. you'll hear why the prosecutor used offensive language from the very beginning. the u.s. supreme court rules on affirmative action cases involving race based admission to universities. it wasn't the sweeping decision some had expected. this is the cnn newsroom. i'm wolf blitzer in washington. the house says edward snowden is probably in russia right now and they are pretty irritated at hong kong and china for letting him go there. snow d snowden is wanted on espionage charges. he's been hiding out there since leaking classified information. hiding out in hong kong but now apparently in moscow. he's already applied for asylum

in ecuador and also in iceland and other countries. the wikileakss founder praise snowden a couple of hours ago. listen to this. >> this morning the u.s. secretary of state called edward snowden a traitor. he's not a traitor. he's not a spy. he is a whistle blower who was told the public very important truth. >> what do we know about wikileaks's involvement in snowden's global odyssey to try to avoid prosecution? >> he wouldn't say when wikilea wikileaks got involved but snowden requested their

expertise on gaining asylum and what he described as the persecution of him as a whistle blower. assange made it clear they are providing help and legal counsel and put forward some of those applications to iceland and other countries. it's clear julian assange knows where edward snowden is but he's not saying at this point. what he did say in that presser was snowden was healthy and safe in contact with a legal team and in high spirits. he didn't want to say where he is. >> he's not saying publicly where he is, but how connected is julian assange to snowden's case based on everything we're hearing? >> assange's case is very different but he does have

experience in terms of actually getting asylum from ecuador. what we know is the foreign minister said they have received snowden's application for asylum and considering it at this point. they have not granted it yet. it's something they are considering. we know apparently, according to assange that ecuador issued a travel document to snowden. it's not clear whether or not this is the document he used instead of his u.s. passport that was revoked on saturday. >> watching the story. we'll have a lot more in the coming hours. we'll devote the full 6:00 p.m. eastern hour later today to this global odyssey, this hunt for edward snowden. other stories we're

following. signs whether race can be used as a factor in college admissions. they are ended to assure dive e diversity on campuses. abigail sued after her application was rejected back in 2008. she says because she was white she was treated differently than some less qualified minority students who were accepted. fisher argued the program violates the equal protection rights of some white applicants. joe johns is joining us with more on what happened. explain what the supreme court justices decided too in this case. >> reporter: this is probably more than many civil rights advocates were hoping for the 7 to 1 decision. the decision levaves affirmativ

action in place. the court kicked it back down to a lower court to decide. the court said fifth circuit did not apply this standard of strict scrutiny. now they have to do that. it's a standard that the court has always applied to race based policies. this is nothing new but they did sharpen the standard a bit. abigail fisher is the plaintiff in the case. she was denied admission and said it was because of race. she's holding a news conference this afternoon. her legal team is seeing this as a win because they believe the court has laid the ground work for striking down race based admission. >> the justices, the nine justices as you well know and you were over at the supreme

court all morning are set to make three more mayor case decisions. explain what's going on. >> reporter: that's right. yet to be decided among the top tier cases, as we call them, is an issue relating to the voting rights act of 1965. the question is whether section 5 is constitutional in way that congress reauthorized it in 2 6 2006. then there's the two gay marriage cases. one relates to proposition 8 in california. that was the state initiative determining that marriage is between a man and a woman. the other is about the defense of marriage act or doma as it's called and whether individuals in same sex marriage cases ought to get the same federal benefits as straight couples. still a lot for this court to decide. still potentially a historic end of the term. wolf.

>> we'll see what they decide. this is supposedly the last week. we should know tomorrow, wednesday or thursday how they decide these critically important issues. thanks very much for that. 70, that's how much senate votes for supporters of the border security administration reform bill is hoping for today. senators are scheduled to vote today around 5:30 p.m. eastern or so. it would add 20,000 officers to patrol 700 miles of border fencing. they believe they need 70 votes to pressure a yes vote on the amendment in the house of representatives. let's go to south africa where nelson mandela is listed in critical condition. he's been in the hospital for the past couple of weeks. his condition was downgraded from stable yesterday.

>> reporter: a significant shift in former prisoner nelson mandela. he was admitted to this hospital behind me 17 days ago with what the presidency described as a recurrent lung infection. since then we've been told his condition is serious but stable. on sunday evening south africans were told that the beloved international icon condition has deteriorated and it's now a critical. the current president visited nelson mandela at this hospital and he said doctors are doing every single thing they can to try to improver their condition but we get a sense that the government may be trying to prepare south africans.

there's a need to be somber. there's a need here in south africa to come to terms with reality and the reality is that nelson mandela is 94 years old. he's been in and out of hospital four times since december and he cannot possibly live forever. >> we wish nelson mandela only the best. a great, great man indeed. here is what else we're working on this hour. dare devil nick wallenda goes where no man has gone before and lives to tell us about it. six women, none of them african-american make up the jury in the george zimmerman trial. we'll speak about how that could impact the outcome. paula deen faces more fall out after admitting using the n

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the dare devil nick wallenda kissed ground after becoming first person to walk across the colorado gorge. he prayed at one point. the walk took almost 23 minutes. amazing. it's being called a ground breaking case for transgender case. coy mathis was discriminated against. he was born a boy but identifies as being a girl. in making a ruling the child would be subject to harassment if forced to use the boys bathroom. the first grader has opinion home schooled during the legal proceedings. her mom says she's happy to get back to school. sounds like a nightmare, a

family hiking on vacation and their son vanishes. the family was hiking in ecuador. his dad says they are baffled and their con is nson is not th kind of kid to do crazy stuff. 150 volunteers have joined the search. the family has been going from village to village to show people photos of reiger. he's been named valedictorian of his graduating class. more heat for paula deen now. qvc is looking whether to change its relationships. the food network is dropping her show. she's been embroiled in scandal after admitting she used the n word and tolerated racial jokes

at more. >> i want to apologize to everybody. >> reporter: paula deen's fans are standing by the butter loving chef and threatening to boycott the food network for sticking a fork in her shows. at her restaurant the line was around the block this weekend as patrons showed support. >> she has apologized and i think maybe she ought to take that for what it's worth. >> i think it's a learning lesson for her and a learning lesson for the people that do forgive. >> reporter: she stirred up controversy for comments she made while being questioned under oath as part o a lawsuit against her and her brother filed by a former employee. >> please forgive me for the mistakes that i've made. >> reporter: friday she issued back to back video apologies online after admitting to using the n word in the past. >> your color of your skin, your religion, your sexual preference does not matter to me.

i am here to say i am so sorry. >> reporter: deen is accused in lawsuit of wanting to plan a southern plantation theme party with black waiters. last year she spoke about race relgss in the south. >> black folks played such a part in our lives. we didn't see ourselves being prejudice. i think we're all prejudice against one something or another and i think black people feel the same prejudice that white people feel. >> reporter: shortly after her public apology the food network said it was not renewing her contract putting an end to her three shows. the scandal has whipped up more than 13,000 comments on the food network facebook page. i'm firing you. good-b good-bye. others applaud the decision to

dump dean. great move. it had to be done. disrespectful slurs will not be tolerated. the fall out could continue. listen to which qvc told cnn. >> we're watching those developments closely and reviewing our business relationship. >> deen and her brother are being sued for sexual and racial harassment by a former manager at her restaurant. police have searched the home of aaron hernandez. in their investigation into their killing of one of his friends. police were spotted leaving carrying several brown bags of evidence. the body of 27-year-old odin lloyd was found a half a mile from hernandez's house. he's being sued in south florida by a plan who said he shot him

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opening statements got under way about three and a half hours ago. prosecutor did not mince words as they spell out what happened the night 29-year-old zimmerman shot and killed the unarmed 17-year-old trayvon martin. zimmerman's parents were asked to leave the courtroom because they might be asked to testify lat later. martin's parents are there. his mom fought back tears as she delivered a statement before entering the courtroom. i didn't hear that. i don't know if you did. we'll try to fix that. george howell is standing by. first, george, to you the prosecution, they came out swinging today, didn't they? >> wolf, absolutely. prosecutor john guy compared to

don west, two different attorneys, two very different styles. mr. guy took 30 minutes. it was forceful. it was direct. he took time to knock down and really challenge a lot of what george zimmerman said what happened on the night of february 26th. i want you to listen to exactly how he opened with these statements. i want you to listen to the first words he told the jury. let's listen. >> [ bleep ] punks. these [ bleep ]. they always get away. those were the words in that man's chest when he got out of his car armed with a fully loaded semiautomatic pistol and two flashlights to follow on foot trayvon benjamin martin who was walking home from a 7-eleven armed with 23 ounces of arizona brand fruit juice and a small bag of skitts candies.

>> his counterpart, his challenger had a different style. he took more than an hour. we're expecting his opening statements to take another hour. he's going from start to finish explaining every detail and he opened in a different way with a knock-knock joke. listen. >> knock-knock. who's there? george zimmerman. george zimmerman who? all right. good. you're on the jury. nothing. >> how the jury interpreted that knock-knock joke is anybody's guess. fair to say that don west is taking his time going detail by detail explaining as much as he can to show his claim that george zimmerman was confronted and then attacked by an aggressive trayvon martin and

again we're expecting to hear more of his testimony here over the next hour. >> you had chance to watch and listen to these opening statements. who do you think was more effective? >> i think there's no question in anyone's view and in mine that the state won that battle this morning, wolf. it was a textbook opening statement given by a very sharp prosecutor, john guy. he's also very attractive. he sort of reminds me of a young kevin costner. this is a six all female jury. they were riveted by him. they did not look away. i used to teach law school. i would take that opening statement and say this is how it's done. it was that good. in contrast, i think the defense has so much to work with and didn't work with any of it. it has been just a complete disaster.

he started with an inappropriate knock-knock joke. it fell flat and now continues to almost bore the jury. remember the opening statement by the defense was 32 minutes. it was so impactful. we're going on maybe two hours for the defense and i still don't get it. >> this is a serious matter and to open up with a knock-knock joke, as an outsider, sounded ridiculous. five white women, one black/hispanic woman a member of the jury. what do you make of this jury? >> i've never seen an all female panel. i've tried a few cases in my time and covered many more. i've never seen anything like that. i thought this would be a good thing for the state as opposed to the prosecution. what's very important out of those six women five are mothers. the one black hispanic woman has

eight children. today just this morning sybrina fulton when the defense was playing the tape that she maintains are her sons screams. she got up and left the scream and each one of those women followed her out of courtroom. i think while many people were saying this is a defense jury because they are women, i'm not so sure about that. >> pretty extraordinary that all the members, there's only six, but all of them are women. how unusual is this? >> i have never seen it. i don't know if you have. >> no. >> i've never seen it. this is a noncapital case and we're in florida there's only six jurors on the panel. perhaps if there were 12, you'd have more of a mix but it's quite rare. >> absolutely. >> do we have any idea how long this will go on? has the judge given any indication? >> we've heard estimates this

could go two to three weeks. there's question as to whether there will be saturday court. that's still unclear. two to three weeks and when you see how this judge moves things along it's moving at a pretty rapid pace. >> looks like the judge has the situation under control. thanks very much. we'll have much more on this story throughout the day. later tonight, 10:00 p.m. eastern anderson cooper will host a special on zimmerman's second-degree murder trial. that's tonight on "ac 360." . the man who exposed the nsa surveillance program is on the run and seeming asylum in several places. why the u.s. feels slighted by some of those countries. find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust.

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snowden needs to come back to the united states and face justice. secretary kerry is traveling in india right now. he weighed in a little white ago on the fugitive. snowden has been trying to avoid prosecution in the united states on espionage charges. he said snowden broke the oath to be loyal to the united states. >> by his own admission stood up on television and announced to people that he was the person who did this and broke faith with the oath he took to serve his nation, to protect it, defend the constitution and to keep faith with his fellow workers. >> secretary kerry said he put americans at risk with his actions. the secretary isn't the only high ranking official who is mad about the snowden case.

there are others angry as well. we heard from the president last hour. jessica yellin was there. the white house press secretary seemed prettying aggravated whee spoke about snowden. tell us what happened. >> reporter: this is a tricky dance for the white house. they are working this behind the scenes but not sounding terribly optimistic that any of the countries named as the potential place of harbor for snowden will turn him over. in the briefing jay carney blamed china for letting snowden leave hong kong and said that china's relationship with the u.s. is going to be strained as a result of it and he flipped that to pressure russia into turning snowden over. i asked has president obama gotten on the phone with russia's president and called him and said he like him back. do what we can to get him back to the u.s. here is what jay carney had to

say. >> there's no reason why given international law, given the relationships that we have with countries in question that this will require a communication from the president. again, i'm not reading out presidential communications. there are communications at all the appropriate levels. we note, as i just did, that he with have a strong cooperative relationship with the russians and we expect them to examine the options available to them to expel mr. snowden for his return to the united states. >> he isn't returned. >> i think when it comes to our relations with hong kong and china we see this as a setback in their efforts to build mutual trust and our concerns are pretty clearly stated. >> reporter: he said clearly that the white house believes snowden is in russia and one of

the reasons that the president, this is not what jay said, this is one of the reasons the president would not put himself out and go on television is you wouldn't want the u.s. president to put his own name and prestige on the line in case like this where it seems so unlikely it would get results. it's unlikely that snowden would come back. from russia's perspective is this is a political crime and a crime of conscience and if snowden is seen as a dissident and not a criminal, there's no history of them returning. >> why the u.s. waited until sat to actually revoke his passport? >> reporter: he did. he said only in felony cases do

they trigger an immediate process where it's pulled but made it clear hong kong authorities were told he should not be allowed to travel. it was made clear to authorities in hong kong that it was, his passport was probably revoked even though they hadn't officially done it and it's the view of the white house authorities that they didn't follow what the u.s. advice was in this instance. >> the u.s. didn't dot the is and cross the ts. i raise the question and it's a sensitive matter because the say that snowden was bragging about leaking all this information revealing it, a former assistant fbi director was on cnn and he

said the u.s. needs to revoke his passport immediately in order to force the government in hong kong to hand him over to the united states. that's why it's so perplexing why everyone waited. i know the white house was watching what tom was saying on cnn. that's why it's so extraordinary that they waited till saturday to go ahead and do it. i suspect there's more to come on this part of the story as well. we'll be digging deeper. our entire 6 clo:00 p.m. hour w be devoted to this story. 65,000 people ahead home in calgary but the flooding danger isn't over for towns nearby. we'll have the latest on the deadly canadian floods. [ nurse ] i'm a hospice nurse.

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in western canada flood waters are receding in calgary and tens of thousands of people are moving back into their home. another alberta city is bracing for flooding today. thousands of sand bags have been stacked as the city reprepares for the river to overflow. officials expect the water to be higher than the flood of 1995. this a potentially important day pr comprehensive immigration reform. they will vote on a bill that will boost border security. how much purcharessure would th house speaker john boehner will under if the senate votes in favor of the amendment? >> i think he would be under an awful lot of pressure from the senate and also internally from

his own republican caucus but i might tell you that caucus is divided. what he has said is that he won't bring a bill to the floor unless he has a majority of his own majority behind it. that could be really problematic for him. a lot of these republicans that came in 2010, tea party conservatives, call them what you will are opposed to immigration reform because they don't trust the government to do the border enforcement that the senate will vote on. it's going to be a huge issue for him. it splits the republican party down the middle. >> no doubt it's going to pass in the senate. this amendment that will come up. it could be an issue. why are house and senate

republicans on this sensitive issue? >> reporter: i think senate republicans look at this as a more national issue for the republican party and they understand that the party lost hispanics by over 40 points during the last presidential election year. they understand that party wants to be a national party, ie regain the presidency. it has to do something on immigration reform. if you look at it and you're a house republican from a conservative district and you run every two years, what you're really concerned about is not so much the next presidential election but you're concerned about whether you're going to be challenged by a more conservative republican in a primary. they are looking at it very locally, if you will and in the senate republicans tend to look at it more nationally although there are a handful of republican senators who agree with those house republicans and say we don't trust the

government to do the border enforcement that they are promising to do in this bill. >> i suspect comprehensive immigration reform will pass the senate but the question remains what happens in the house of representatives. thanks very much. after last week's nose diver markets down today. we're going live to the new york stock exchange to find out when the slide might stop. humans. we are beautifully imperfect creatures living in an imperfect world. that's why liberty mutual insurance has your back, offering exclusive products like optional better car replacement, where if your car is totaled, we give you the money to buy one a model year newer. call... and ask an insurance expert about all our benefits today, like our 24/7 support and service, because at liberty mutual insurance, we believe our customers do their best out there in the world, so we do

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let's get into a check of the markets. the dow down 100 or so points. alison, seems there's two major factors at work. there was a big drop in china's markets and worries over the federal reserve since last week. what happened in china? >> what happened in china is the people's bank of china did was told the country's biggest banks there to get it together meaning to stop handing out loans so freely. now that it said that is there could be a crash crunch that could hurt china because when banks aren't lending that creates a credit freeze. it's like what we had here during our recession. it has a potential to take a big bite out of global economic

growth. it makes it difficult to borrow and have access to credit. then you have worries about our own central bank. investors are still on edge about when the fed will pull back on the billions of dollars it's pumping into our economy each month. that's the carryover from last week when the fed had its meeting. the dow is down in the triple digits, 117 points it's off the lows of the session at one point today the dow is down as much as 250 points. >> over the past few days it's down 800 or almost a thousands points, right? >> not almost a thousands points. you're not looking at a correction. it's not into correction territory yet. many people are just calling this a pull back. >> a lot ofthanks very much. the school year is over and the final report cards are out but what about a grade for the u.s. economy. the grade you'd give it depends

on your personal situation in this week's senator is the new rich. >> how would you grade the economy? if you don't have a job you might give it an f. if you're in the stock market you might give it an a. the recovery is forreal. growing percentage say economic conditions are good. 35%. a number that's been rising since the end of 2012. that's how you're feeling. i've been conducting a poll of my own. school is out for summer and the report card is in. summer is here and stocks are in turmoil after a 13% gain this year. unemployment still too high. investors are making a fortune in housing but nearly ten million people owe more on their mortgage than their home is worth. let's give it a good old fashion letter grade. starting with a man whose firm manages $2 trillion. >> i would give our economy a b

to a b plus. it's getting better but not that's must have. >> he buys and sells bonds. these guys are real estate tycoo tycoons. >> c plus. >> here is a harvard professor. >> i think the u.s. is a b plus. we should be creating more jobs. >> a few from the stock market. >> a b minus has held up well, maybe a c. >> he's talking about washington belt tightening. belt tightening at the wrong time these this former clinton advisor. >> fiscal policy from the congress i'm afraid i would not give a passing grade. >> critic of the obama administration. >> i'd give it a b minus but i'm optimistic about the future. you have the low interest rates and the housing recovery. we may it it turn into a b plus. >> finally the former chair of president obama's economic team doesn't give a grade but nails

how many americans are feeling about the economy. >> i don't know. are the economic conditions >> what about china? that grade is a b plus. but it is slipping. the u.s. is doing pretty welcome paired with the rest of the world. these grades matter less than how you grade your personal economy. right? here are five ways you can improve your marks. these were all pass/fail. spend less than your earn. cut your date. save for college and retirement. rebalance your investments. do it now. and refinance your mortgage. >> christine romans, good advice as usual. high winds, slippery shoes, even dust in his eyes. none of it was enough to stop nik wallenda's latest high wire stunt. we're going to show you more. everyone's retirement dream is different;

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there were certainly some tense moments 15,000 feet over hellhole bend. that's daredevil nik wallenda making history on a hire wire walk near the grand canyon. if you're a wallenda, doing stuff like this is in your blood. miguel marquez takes us on a harrowing thrill ride. >> shoes feel slippery. there's dust on this cable. >> reporter: it didn't start well. >> just need to relax more. kind of hard to relax when you're 1,500 feet above the canyon. >> reporter: 22 minutes and 54 seconds of death defying were vertigo inducing, thrill. >> that's a view there, buddy. >> reporter: a two-inch thick cable stretches a quarter mile across the little colorado river. >> i'm not liking it. >> reporter: the most hair raising part of the discovery channel feat. >> help this cable to calm down. >> reporter: when the seventh generation daredevil's balance pole began swinging. teetering higher and higher. >> winds are way worse than i expected.

>> reporter: was he losing control? >> you don't have to tell me how long i'm on the wire. >> reporter: twice he stopped. kneeling to regain his composure and steady the wire quivering under his feet. over hellhole bend and without a tether or safety harness, the 34-year-old thrill seeker sounding more like a preacher. >> thank you, lord. >> reporter: high wires and high tension, a wallenda family trait. our own kate bolduan recently had a lesson with him. >> you just make nervous into focus? is that how you -- >> yeah. once it's time to go, it's time to go. after that first step, there's no turning back. >> reporter: no turning back. another family trait. nik's great grandfather karl wallenda put the flying wallendas together in 1922. in 1978 in puerto rico, he fell ten stories to his death. that was ten months before nik was born. >> my great-grandfather karl wallenda said life is on the wire.

everything else is just waiting. this is life. >> reporter: life on a wire cheating death one more day. >> on a scale from one to ten, what he did tonight was unbelievable. i mean, i'd give it a ten. >> reporter: for the finale, nik wallenda ran to the finish. miguel marquez, cnn, cameron, arizona. >> that was truly, truly amazing. it's a dinosaur from a past computer era. you're going to find out how much this apple computer is expected to go for at auction today. i'll just press this, and you'll save on both. ding! ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, llllet's get ready to bundlllllle... [ holding final syllable ] oh, yeah, sorry! let's get ready to bundle and save. now, that's progressive. oh, i think i broke my spleen!

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predicting it will sell, get this, for between $300,000 and $500,000. wow. got some old computers in my basement. let's see what they're worth. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern with the situation room. brooke baldwin picks up our coverage right now. wolf blitzer, thank you so much. good to see all of you on this monday. i'm brooke baldwin. it is turning out to be the best kept secret for the man known for spilling secrets. his location. edward snowden charged with espionage is the target of this worldwide man hunt that is crossing hemispheres and tangling diplomatic ties. as the u.s. authorities search for snowden, snowden is searching for asylum. first he fled to hong kong from