carroll cost te carroll. >> have a great day, "newsroom" >> have a great day, "newsroom" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com a search for snowden and a problem for the president. >> what can you tell us about edward snowden's whereabouts? a high school dropout vanishes but he's still front and center. the big question this morning, why can't america find this guy? >> is the white house working under the assumption he's still in russia? also, boston bakes and the south sizzles. >> it's so hot out here. look at the huge chunk of the country dealing with temperatures this hot. >> haze and humidity firing up severe weather in the midwest, 40 million americans on alert. plus, fireworks in florida. >> [ bleep ] punks. these [ bleep ]. >> george zimmerman and the tale of the two opening statements, the f-bombs, the surveillance

tape, and the knock-knock joke everyone's talking about this morning. >> knock, knock. who's there? we're live outside the courthouse. and blackhawks bash. the stanley cup now home in chicago. "newsroom" starts now. good morning, i'm carol costello, thanks so much for being with me. this morning, the united states blusters, other nations bristle, and edward snowden remains very much invisible. the man who exposed a secret u.s. surveillance program is still in hiding a full two days after leaving hong kong. the u.s. believes he may be hunkered down at a transit area of the moscow airport. that leaves him in diplomatic limbo and without a deadline to come forward. it would also allow wiggle room for this angry response from

russia's foreign minister. >> translator: he independently chose his route and we learned, as did everyone else, from the mass media. he did not cross the russian border and we think all of the attempts we are now witnessing, attempts to accuse the russian side of violating u.s. law and almost conspireing, accompanied by threats towards us are unfounded and unacceptable. >> ecuador also brushing off washington's call to block asylum in that country. ecuador's president tweeting, we will make with absolute sovereignty the decision we believe is most appropriate. he ended his tweet, oddly, with this, a big hug to everyone and happy week. the u.s. says snowden's betrayal should not be taken lightly. >> people may die as a consequence of what this man did. it is possible the united states will be attacked because terrorists may now know how to protect themselves in some way

or another that they didn't know before. >> mirrthe correspondent for th newspaper snowden entrusted with one of the biggest intelligence scandals in recent history. welcome. >> hi. >> thanks for being here. not many people know where snowden is, why play this game? >> actually, russia has this strange approach to its politics. it does like to be sneaky and play games, but it is kind of honest and does like to stick to the letter of the law. when he says snowden didn't enter russian territory, my inclination is to believe him. my question, was he whisked away from the airport without touching foot on russian soil, that's the question. >> how could snowden elude all these journalists following him and many countries following him, as well? >> that's the question, was he ever in the airport, really, for as long as we wanted him to be? we thought he would be there for 20 hours and was supposedly

planning to get on the flight to cuba and nobody saw him and the russians didn't take any photos and leak them to their press, which would have been an expected thing to do. >> yeah, i was going to ask you, if snowden is, indeed, in the airport, you would expect the kgb to question him. if a similar guy was in the united states, the american cia would probably be pretty interested in him. >> right. i was in the airport for a couple of days and the only time we saw some really sort of strange activity was on sunday evening. there were really a lot of fsb officials milling about, blocking access particularly to one corridor. there are up to ten of them at one time, so it's very possible that if he did, in fact, make it into the airport without passing through passport control, that he was questioned by the russians, but it is all speculation right now. >> i would suppose many, many journalists have gone back to russia, back to moscow's airport

to play a waiting game again today. >> exactly. there are many people there checking out the flights to havana, flights to other destinations, checking the hallways and the duty free, but nobody's seen him. >> we'll see, thank you for joining us this morning. of course, the hunt for edward snowden has cost a bit of embarrassment for "the independent." this was the front page yesterday which declared, quote, a red shirted edward snowden arrived in moscow after flying in from hong kong. there's a problem, that guy is not snowden. they later admitted the gaffe and the image was changed for later editions. for some it brought to mind the error by "the new york post," which printed this front page, those men recently filed a defamation lawsuit against "the post," claiming it accused them of the crime. "post" denied the charge and says it stands by the story.

after opening with fireworks, including four-letter words from the prosecutor and a bizarre knock-knock joke by the defense, the trial of george zimmerman has now entered day two, the jury seeing images of trayvon martin caught on a 7-eleven surveillance camera buying iced tea and skittles shortly before the 17-year-old heads back to his father's neighborhood. jurors also heard the chilling 911 call, the call that captured the confrontation that ended in martin's death. >> 911, do you need police for medical? >> maybe both, there's someone screaming outside. >> what's the address that they are near? in sanford? >> yes. >> is it a male or female? >> it sounds like a male. >> you don't know why? >> i don't know why. i think they are yelling "help," but i don't know. send someone quick, fast. >> does he look hurt to you? >> i can't see him.

i don't want to go out there, i don't know what's going on. they are sending. >> keep yelling "help"? >> yes. >> what is your -- >> there's gunshots. >> you just heard gunshots? >> yes. >> how many? >> just one. >> cnn legal analyst sunny hostin is in sanfor florida. good morning, sunny. >> good morning, carol. >> the judge has ruled voice analysts can't testify in regards to the tape we just heard. so why introduce it at all? because we don't know whose voice that is yelling for help. >> we don't know whose voice that is yelling for help, but it's a crucial and critical piece of evidence, because you do hear someone screaming for help and then you hear those screams silenced after this gunshot. i've got to tell you, i think it sort of tees up a quite dramatic moment that will likely happen

in the courtroom. my understanding is members of trayvon martin's family, perhaps even sabrina fulton will get on the stand and identify those screams as those of her son. my understanding, then, is someone from george zimmerman's family may also testify identifying those screams as the voice of george zimmerman. and so you will see rather than experts talking about those voices, you will hear family members talking about those voices. and i think that will be very significant for this jury. >> other 911 calls will be introduced -- i guess the prosecution will try to introduce other 911 calls -- the prosecution will try to introduce other 911 calls into evidence today, and these 911 calls all done by george zimmerman, but they have nothing to do with this particular case, so why introduce those calls? >> yeah, that's right. i mean, i was just in the courtroom right before coming out to speak with you, carol, and the lawyers are making those

arguments. there are a lot of nonemergency calls actually that were made by george zimmerman to the sanford police department, and he's reporting burglaries in and around his neighborhood. and so the prosecution is saying, well, this goes to a state of mind when he profiled trayvon martin. they are saying, of course, in his mind he profiled him, because he was sort of assuming trayvon martin was another one of these burglars up to criminal activity, so they say it's completely relevant, but, of course, the defense team says, no, not relevant at all. these have nothing to do with the case, but they are arguing about that very point right now. >> all right. sunny hostin live in sanford, florida, this morning. thank you. sources in nelson mandela's family say there are no plans for the ailing former south african president to meet with president obama. president obama leaves for the african continent tomorrow. the white house has not officially said one way or another if a visit with mandela was planned. as you know, mandela's health

took a turn for the worse over the weekend. and this morning well wishers released doves outside the pretoria hospital where he remains in critical condition. the doves represent the freedom mandela brought to their country. in new hampshire, 23 boy scouts and three scout leaders are rushed to a hospital after lightning strikes a tree near their camp. several scouts complained of a tingling sensation. no one was seriously hurt. crews in iowa race to save a man after his pickup truck is swallowed by rising flood waters. the rising water caught many people by surprise. this happened in lowden, iowa, no one was seriously hurt. apple stock is tanking. it opens this morning around $400 a share. awful since it soared past $700 a share in late september, but never fear, the new steve jobs biopick is about to polish the

apple, at least that's what stockholders hope. here's the trailer. >> we're making apple cool again. here's to the crazy ones. the misfits. the rebels. because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. >> the movie starring ashton kutcher portrays jobs as a saintly apple genius, something many say apple sorely needs right now. cnn business anchor christine romans live in new york. so, what's going on with apple? >> well, that picture, that trailer is the past. what's the future, what have you done for me lately, apple, that's what shareholders are asking. they are also looking at competition from samsung, some patent losses there and some analysts are now asking is there low morale at apple and are they

rolling out new products fast enough? analysts watching all the supply chains to see what's going to happen. yesterday you had one analyst cut a price target of apple. but apple shares are down 30% over the past year. they had been more than $700 a share back in september. if you are one of the many, many people who own apple shares, you have been watching this company go down as the share price go down as the stock prices are going up. i want to show you smartphone sales, here's one reason why. you can see how samsung has been an amazing story. it has 30% now of the first quarter market share of cell phone sales. declining in market share, not gaining, so this is a company criticized by some analysts who say it's not doing enough, but remember, it is pouring out all kinds of ipads, iphones, mac

book computers, all kinds of things so quickly, they are still selling briskly, but high expectations for apple, even as consumers are looking to other things. >> you're a smart investor. should i buy if i could afford $400 a share, should i buy apple stock? >> if you want the dividend this company gives. if you think the company has a brighter future, if you think in the fall it will be transformative, if you think that coming up with a maybe lower end iphone is not going to eat into its overall market share. if you believe these things, yes, you should. essentially, you buy a stock if you think it will go up. there are analysts saying we thought it would have a $450 price tag, right now we think a $400 price target. that's where it's sitting right now. >> never know, if you bought $10,000 worth of apple stock back in september, it's worth half that now? >> yeah, yeah. if you bought it five years ago,

you're rich. >> true. that's why playing the stock market is like playing the lottery sometimes. christine romans, thank you. >> you're welcome. opening bell just a few minutes away. futures are flat and christine will be back to see how stocks are faring this morning. everybody thought the stanley cup finals were going back to chicago for game seven, everybody except the chicago blackhawks, that is. blackhawks score two goals within 17 seconds at the end of game six to stop the boston bruins 3-2. chicago takes the series four games to two, winning the stanley cup for the second time in four years. the blackhawks' patrick kane is the postseason mvp. >> hopefully, we can stay together a long time, because that's two cups in four years, and we seem to only be getting better and better as players and time goes on here. it's unbelievable to be in this situation.

>> blackhawk fans watching the game from chicago may have been as surprised as anyone by the late game turn of events. fire trucks shot water in the air as the plane arrived early this morning. blackhawks center carried the cup off the plane. you see him there. congratulations, guys. just ahead in the newsroom, paula deen's sons speak out in an exclusive interview with cnn, and they talk about their mother and bigotry. >> mom has admitted and she has apologized, and as a person, what more can you do? more of chris cuomo's interview with jamie and bobby deen next. spokesman i have to look my so bbest on camera.sing whether i'm telling people about how they could save money on car insurance with geico... yeah, a little bit more of the lime green love yeah...

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and it means everything. checking our top stories at 18 minutes past the hour, wild story in orlando. while giving an interview about a string of robberies in his supermarket, a store manager actually recognized one of the alleged thieves and took the law into his own hands. check out the dramatic citizen's

arrest. >> i just -- give me one second. this is the guy that stole the other thing. come with me. this is the guy that stole the other thing. no, no, no. you're going in. you're going on the floor. tell my brother to call the police. i don't care. i don't care. i got your face when you take the meat and the eggs. don't worry. don't worry. >> apparently, this wasn't the first time the manager has taken down a suspect. last wednesday he held another man until police arrived. a mega heist at jfk, $1.2 million vanishes into thin air from a swiss air flight. the new york post is reporting the cash was in a cargo container, but it wouldn't have been hard to sneak off with the money, it only weighs 22 pounds. sound familiar? it is if you've seen "good fellas." >> what do i tell you, don't buy anything, you hear me? don't buy anything. >> i'm sorry.

>> i can't believe this. stupid or what? excuse me, excuse me. >> of course, "good fellas" based off a $5 million stolen off a flight in 1978. in massachusetts, a public bus slams into a home, injuring eight people, including a mother and three young children inside the home at the time. one of the kids was watching tv just feet away from the crash. all four people onboard the bus, including the driver, were sent to the hospital. cause of the crash still under investigation. one person is dead after a grain elevator exploded in indiana. la porte county police have yet to determine the cause of the explosion. the man was on top of the grain elevator tower and may have been knocked off by the blast.

you will be relieved to know the little red panda is back home safe and sound. rusty the red panda went missing from the national zoo in washington, d.c. yesterday. he was eventually spotted by a family in a nearby neighborhood. the family then said, oh, i think we found rusty. zoo officials came out and rusty's back at home this morning. paula deen's sons are coming to her defense in an exclusive interview with cnn's "new day," bobby and jamie dean told chris cuomo their mother is not a racist. >> we were raised in a family with love and of faith and a house where god lived, and neither one of our parents ever taught us to be bigoted towards any other person for any reason. this is so saddening to me, because our mother is one of the

most compassionate, good hearted, empathetic people you would ever meet, and these accusations are very hurtful to her and it's very sad. >> this environment of racism that's been spoken about is -- could not be further from the truth. >> but the fallout for the southern cooking queen shows no signs of slowing down, at least for now. she just lost another big endorsement deal after admitting to using the "n" word in the past. pamela brown has more for you. >> i'm going to wrap it in bacon and we're going to deep fry it. >> reporter: celebrity chef paula deen is now bringing home a lot less bacon. first the food network announced it would not renew her contract, now her lucrative endorsement deal with smithfield foods has been canned. >> i want to apologize to everybody. >> reporter: deen issued back-to-back video apologies last friday after admitting to using the "n" word in a past,

stemming from a racial and sexual lawsuit by a former employee. under oath, asked if she had ever used the n-word, yes, of course. she admitted to describing a black man that robbed her at gunpoint in the 1980s when she worked at a bank. she is sure she used it on other occasions in the past but doesn't remember the context. the suit also claims deen wanted to plan a southern plantation themed party with black waiters. speaking at a new york times event last year. >> black folks played such an integral part in our lives. they were like our family, and we didn't see ourselves as being prejudiced. i think, well, prejudiced against one something or another, and i think black people feel the same prejudice, you know, that white people

feel. >> reporter: but another comment from that event about a black employee has raised some eyebrows. >> i have a young man in my life, and his name is hollice johnson and he's black as that board. come here, we can't see you, stand against that dark board. >> reporter: support for the southern chef is flowing in from fans. several flock to her restaurants over the weekend, some have threatened to boycott the food network over her firing. >> she has apologized. i think maybe we ought to take that for what it's worth. >> reporter: will her public apologies be enough to keep her products on store shelves? >> already risks that qvc may be dropping, walmart is another big one on the line. it seems that the food network may have started some sort of domino effect for paula. >> reporter: the editor i spoke with says deen has lost $2.5 million from the food network alone and stands to lose another

$5.5 million if other companies sever relationships with deen. according to forbes, she's the fourth highest earning chef. if she is able to repair her image, they wouldn't be surprised if the food network or another food channel picks her back up, after all, she does have a very loyal fan base. carol? >> that she does. pamela brown reporting. of course, deen is taking a beating, not only in the mainstream press, but from late night comedians. >> over the weekend, fans, big fans of paula deen, staged a protest against her firing. yeah. deen's fans were so upset, they held a hunger strike for eight secos. they took out their emergency butter. has it been eight seconds? it's been eight seconds. paula deen is also -- charges

are coming out of the woodwork. paula deen's also accused of paying some of her employees in beer. yeah. after hearing this, andy richter asked, is she hiring? >> paula deen is having a difficult week. paula deen was deposed as part of a discrimination lawsuit filed against her. an attorney asked if she's used the n-word, yes, of course. just an fyi, only you can say yes is, yes, of course. duh. on friday, the food network announced they would not renew paula's contract, and today smithfield, a company for whom she endorsed pork products also severed ties with deen. even the other white meat is turning on her. that's big. pork severing ties with paula deen is like spinach cutting ties with popeye.

>> too many, though, the deen saga is not funny. by the way, deen is set to appear on the "today" show tomorrow to stand up for herself. should be interesting. still ahead in the newsroom, opening bell minutes away. we're heading live to the new york stock exchange where stocks, we hope, are set for a rebound.

opening bell just about to ring on wall street, if it hasn't already. investors are hoping for a rebound today after stocks finished in the red yesterday. there it rang. let's go back to cnn business anchor christine romans live in new york. nice to see the plus signs. >> we need a bounce, please, it's starting to get ugly. dow down 140 points yesterday, futures were up before the opening bell. volatility is the story. the dow has moved, carol, 100 points at least one way or another for 9 of the past 10

days. this whiplash, i know how you love it, it's probably going to continue. i want to talk about housing. if you're not in the stock market, maybe you have exposure to the housing market. carol, an amazing number on home prices, an amazing number on home prices. home prices in april up 12.1% from this year compared with last year. if you look just from march to april, up 2.5%, just over one month. this is the biggest jump in seven years. you saw those cities, any of your colleagues living in atlanta saw 20% price jump in home prices in atlanta over the last year. san francisco, look at some of these. here's something interesting about this number. these home prices are jumping because there's not a lot of inventory on the market. those out there saying, oh, interest rates are low, i want to buy a house. you're complaining you can't find a lot of inventory. that seems to be one of the things driving up home prices, people in the market to buy a house are not finding a lot of choices out there. this is a strong, strong housing number, i want to be clear, strong housing number, tight

inventory, stocks rebounding, carol. >> up over 100 points already. on that very good news, christine romans, thanks so much. coming up next in the newsroom, jim carrey slamming violence in hollywood, including his own movie. it's amazing. we'll tell you about it next. but i feel skinnier, you know? not really. aaah! jessica! whoa! your friend's a rate sucker. her bad driving makes car insurance more expensive for the rest of us.

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play a baseball bat wielding mass crime fighter who maims and kills, you know, standard stuff in hollywood, then sandy hook, murdered kids, gun control, guess what, if you're jim carrey, you renounce your own movie. nichelle turner is in new york to tell us more. good morning. >> good morning, it's not the first time we've heard jim carrey come out against violence. after sandy hook, he did do a song back in march called "cold, dead hands," which was a mark against gun violence, but it was a surprising move when he kick started this controversy and it does have people wondering just what was he expecting when he took this role? >> colonel stars and stripes reporting for duty. >> "kiss ass 2" finds itself in the cross hairs of public controversy, the film's star, jim carrey, says the movie is too violent, tweeting i did "kiss ass" a month before sandy hook and now cannot support that

level of violence. my apologies to others involved in the film. i am not ashamed of it, but recent events have caused a change in my heart. some critics are confused. >> the whole thing is surprising. the name of the movie is "kiss ass," this is "kiss ass 2," in case you didn't get the message from the first "kiss ass," surprising that's what this movie does, it kicks butt. >> carrey came out against gun violence after the sandy hook massacre, some called hollywood hypocritical for making billions of dollars on movies with gratuitous gun fights. this summer's slate of blockbusters with a body count certainly seems to be more of the same, something mark millar, the creator of "kiss ass" defends. he responds to carrey on his blog saying our job as storytellers to entertain and our tool box can't be sabotaged in an action movie.

carrey missed an opportunity to make a point about violence. >> in this instance, he's called attention to the film by stepping away, but he didn't use the opportunity and the platform to educate an audience why he stepped away and the importance of gun violence. >> you know, there is another question being raised here, carol. carrey is taking the stand, but is he still taking a salary for the movie? some say it's one thing to promote it, but it's another thing if you're going to profit off it. i did ask reps to clarify, but they have not yet responded to that. >> no comment yet. thanks so much. still ahead in "the news room," it's a tough day for rafael nadal, one of the world's premier tennis players bounced in the first round at wimbledon. hey, it's michelle bernstein. here to take your lettuce from drab to fab with new lean cuisine salad additions. just byol. first, thaw your dressing. next, steam your grilled chicken and veggies.

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side of the story starts to come out. his lawyer says there's no warrant for the nfl's players arrest and criticizes the media. hernandez's friend was found murdered less than a mile away from his home. police have searched hernandez's house twice, spent hours in nearby woods on monday. here's cnn's susan candiotti. >> for the first time since last week, lawyers for aaron hernandez are breaking their silence in writing. in a new statement saying hernandez is being subjected to, quote, a relentless flood of rumors, misinformation, and false reports, including that an arrest warrant has been issued. cnn has not reported this. a law enforcement source tells cnn, quote, there is no arrest warrant, it wasn't true last week, and it isn't true today. in response to hernandez's attorney, the d.a. did not address the arrest question. police are not calling hernandez a suspect. on monday, investigators

equipped with metal detectors trudged through woods just outside the upscale community where new england patriot aaron hernandez lives. no word on what they were looking for or what, if anything, they found. no hernandez sightings during the day on monday. he remains the focus on a murder investigation into the shooting death of a friend, oden lloyd, whez body was found less than a mile from hernandez's home. the tight end has had brushes with the law before, but nothing like this. he's being sued by a man who claims hernandez shut out his right eye in february after leaving a miami strip club, but alexander bradley, seen here in april in a hartford, connecticut, mugshot from an unrelated incident did not press charges or identify hernandez. in his hometown of bristol, connecticut, hernandez is remembered as a high school football phenom. >> he's, like, the hero of our school. >> never in a million years would i think of anything like that happening to him. >> the patriots saw a bright

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it's 46 minutes past the hour. time to check our top stories. this morning, edward snowden remains very much invisible. the man who exposed a secret u.s. surveillance program still in hiding a full two days after leaving hong kong. the u.s. believes he may be hunkered down possibly in a transit area of the moscow airport. arizona senator john mccain is calling out russian president vladimir putin for taking advantage of the situation. >> have known about vladimir putin for a long, long time. as i said, he's an old kgb colonel that has disdain for democracy and the things we stand for and believe in, and if he sees a situation, he'll take advantage of it. i mean, anybody that takes somebody's super bowl ring has got to be not exactly like us.

>> of course, john mccain is referring to the allegation by the new england patriots owner robert kraft who joked at an event earlier this month putin stole his 2005 championship ring. four years after michael jackson's death, his son is preparing to take the stand in the family's wrongful death lawsuit. attorneys say prince jackson, now 16 years old, will testify after a doctor completes his testimony. michael jackson's children and his mother are suing aeg live, claiming the concert promotor hired and supervised dr. conrad murray. aeg disputes the claim. >> you okay? west, texas, is suing a fertilizer supplier over that april explosion. the suit claims the company blindly sold amoan yum nitrate to a firm that didn't handle it properly. the explosion killed 13 people,

damaged homes and leveled two schools and a nursing home. cleanup under way across chicago after a powerful storm. more than 200,000 customers lost power as a result. about a fourth are still waiting for electricity to come back on. firefighters also had to rescue a woman who got trapped inside her garage after a tree fell on top of her house. a mystery at a museum in britain. curators at the manchester museum say an ancient egyptian statue spins all on its own. they event set up time lapse footage. possible explanations include vibrations from visitors with clunky feet or perhaps vibrations from the traffic from the roads outside. or perhaps supernatural, who knows? on the loose, one red panda. where? washington, d.c. and the search for rusty quickly became the talk of the town in the nation's capital, but now

rusty is safe and sound. the big question now is how rusty managed to run away. >> reporter: captured, crated, on the way home. rusty the red panda, not even a year old, missing from washington's national zoo for several hours. he made his way into a busy neighborhood off zoo grounds before being captured safely. brandi smith, a senior zoo curator involved in the capture. >> we were able to walk up to him. we sent the keepers, with which he's most familiar, so the keepers called his name, he was familiar to him, they calmed him down. we were able to capture him in a net, transfer him to a crate and took him to our veterinary hospital. >> reporter: red pandas are listed as vulnerable with 10,000 or less in the world. rusty was born in captivity. could he have survived on his own? we asked smith what dangers he faced outside the zoo.

>> the biggest danger is if he ate inappropriate food. >> reporter: bamboo or treats prepared by his keepers. for the moment, rusty has no visible signs of injury or illness. we pressed a zoo spokeswoman on another key question. how in the world do you lose a red panda, how did it happen? >> we don't know right now, complete honesty, we do not know. that habitat has housed red pandas several years. no one has escaped before. the habitat is constructed to keep red pandas in and people out. >> reporter: a possible clue, red pandas are called natural climbers, tree dwellers. could rusty have used a tree to climb out of the exhibit behind me? the team came here after he escaped and found no obvious route out, but they are not ruling it out as a possibility and one possibility could be here, the electric fence, there is a tree up there on one side of the electric fence that kind of hangs over. that could have been one of the escape routes. zoo zo officials say they'll

look at surveillance cameras, do the best they can to trace his movements to trace his steps between 3:00 and 7:00 the next morning. >> we will not let this happen again. >> even though rusty shows no visible sign of illness, zoo officials say they'll keep him in the vet nair hospital for at least a few days and monitor him before placing him back in the exhibit with his female partner. >> rusty is safe and sound this morning. still ahead, rounds from wimbledon. rafael nadal is likely sul canning today. we'll get you a report, next. [ male announcer ] this store knows how to handle a saturday crowd.

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a stunning finish to the stanley cup finals last night in boston. the chicago blackhawks snatched victory from the jaws of defeat to win the series. >> good morning, carol. the blackhawks were less than two minutes away from having to go back to chicago for a winner take all game seven with the bruins. but everything changed in a matter of 17 seconds. boston was up 2-11 late in the third period last night when the blackhawks came back. this goal ties the game. 17 seconds later, off the rebound, dave bolland finds the

back of the net. blackhawks shocked the bruins, 3-the. they win the series, four games to two. patrick kane was named the mvp as chicago wins their second cup in the last four years. >> hopefully we can stay together a long time because that's two cup necessary four years and we seem to only be getting better and better as players as time goes on here. so it's unbelievable to be in this situation. >> there's a huge upset the first day at wimbledon. french open champion and fifth seeded rafael nadal lost in straight sets to the 135th ranked player in the world. it's the first time he's been ousted in the first round of a grand slam evenings. here is a bad combination. double decker buses, tall basketball players and low overpasses. check this out. lebron nearly decapitated during the heat's victory parade

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lachg now in the news room, right now, george zimmerman's trial is starting up again. people would say they saw the confrontation between zimmerman and trayvon martin may take the stand. edward snowden still on the run from the u.s. government. how is a high school dropout outsmarting, oh, just about everyone? this is cnn newsroom now. we are following breaking news out of los angeles where two detectives, two police officers have been shot in what

officials say was an ambush. an l.a.pd demander said someone shot at them from behind. three possible suspects have been detained. while police actively continue their search for others. the officers who managed to return five have now been released from the hospital after suffering minor injuries. when we get more information on this story, we'll take you live to los angeles. now we turn to the state of florida versus george zimmerman as that trial begins its second day. it follows a dramatic set of opening statements where prosecutors used profanity while the defense told a knock-knock joke met with stunned silence from the jury. george howell is in sandford, florida. george, what is on tap for today? >> well, carol, right now, we are in a brief recess. the debate right now is over 9111 calls that george zimmerman made before this alleged crime. and we heard a few of those

calls. he made several of them. i want you to listen to one right now. >> yeah, our neighborhood got burglarized or robbed today and my wife saw one of the kids that did it. and we see someone that matches his description in the neighborhood right now again. >> okay. and what's your address out there? >> i'd rather not give out my address because he's obviously in the neighborhood, but it's retreat view circle. you can use 1111, which is the clubhouse. . >> the defense basically wants to stop these calles from being admitted into the trial because they're concerned that prosecutors want to use them to show a pattern, to show that frustration was building and the result of that frustration ended in the death of trayvon martin on february 26th, 2012.

calling in suspicious activity, carol, when you hear him make these calls, when he's asked about description, he either says black or african-american. he says that he has been called in before. he admits that in a couple of these calls. in many cases, he gives his first name and will only give a second name, zimmerman, if asked. and he always sends police to the same address. so it seems like he has called several times before and has a pattern, has a plan of calling when he does so. >> george howell reporting live from sanford, florida, this morning. more news about paula deen and the big controversy surrounding her use of the "n" word. her sons are now coming to their mom's defense. bobby and jamie gave an exclusive interview about the fallout over their mother's admission that she used that

word in the past. the news come a day after the news that she lost another major endorsement field, this time with smithfield foods. good morning, chris. >> hi, carol. how are you? this is a layered situation, right? because most of it grows out of a lawsuit, a deposition which is where you sit down with your counsel and opposing counsel and they start to ask you questions under oath. during that time, paula deen told the truth, which is that she did use the "n" word in the past and there was also in this lawsuit reference to a party that she said she wanted to have where the waiters would be dressed in a specifically offensive way. there's several different things that now she's been forced to answer for, so are her sons. not that they're being painted with the same brurn, but they want to defend their mother. take a look and a listen to a little bit of her interview. >> here it is. let's deal with this head on, okay? what do you say to people who believe that your mother is a

racist? >> that's simply not true. our mother was under oath asked in a deposition if she -- to pore over her entire life and to admit whether she had ever heard or used this word. and it broke her heart to have to answer truthfully and say yes, she had. but the important thing here is for people to know that that is not her heart, it is certainly not the home that we were raised in. we were raised in a family with love and of faith and a house where god lived. and neither one of our parents ever taught us to be bigoted towards any other person for any reason. and this is so saddening to me because our motion is one of the most compassionat, good hearted,

em pathetic people that you'd ever meet. these accusations are very hurtful to her and it's very sad. frankly, i'm disgusted by the entire thi because it -- it began as extortion and it has become character assassination. our mother is not the picture being painted of her. >> when i was a young man in 1975 before i had my tonsils taken out, henry aaron was my first sports hero growing up. in 1974, he broke babe ruth's home run record by sitting 715 home runs. before i had my tonsils taken out, i was obviously -- i was 7 years old. he was very nervous. my parents gave me hank aaron pajamas. when they gave me these pa jam maes, my mom and dad told me the story that aaron faced in this, they told me he was a man of

character and what he overcame because of his color. it's a lesson that i've carried throughout my lye of inclusion and to treat everyone by their character and of their own merit. under no circumstances should you ever judge anybody for any other reason. >> jamie, in the deposition, your mother says that she taught you that there can be acceptable uses of the "n" word, not to use it in a mean way, but you can use it sometimes. is that true? >> that's completely false. i've never heard that before in my life. the first time i'd ever heard that was just now, chris. my mother would never teach bobby and i anything other -- we're obviously a product of our environment. we care very much about our community. i'm raising two boys right now. this is ridiculous. it's completely absurd to think that there's an environment of racism in our business. and it's respect disrespectful to the people we work with. we have strong, educated men and women of character that have been with us for five, ten, 15,

20 years. to be in this position is simply baloney. it's just ridiculous. >> bobby, what do you think your mother meant when she said that in the deposition? >> i have no idea, chris. i have never -- she has never said those words to me. my mother has never taught to me that it was acceptable to say terrible things or use vile language against other people to to use words as a weapon. i've never heard that. so i have no idea. >> but you know where i'm getting it from. i'm giving you a chance to deal with what is in this lawsuit essentially in the deposition that came out of it. one of the reasons this has become so difficult for your mom is these are her own words. these are her own admissions that she's making here that yes, she used the "n" word inappropriately, yes, this story

about the wedding and how people should be dressed there that is slave reminiscent, these are her words. doesn't it make it more difficult to apologize and back away from? >> well, let me say this. these depositions were all given separately. mine was separate from my mother's and separate from my brother's. we were not sitting in on each other's deposition is. i did not hear my mother give this deposition and i don't know exactly what she may have meant. >> these are her words and not for bobby and i, but i can tell you we do not have lies in us. the number one thing that we cannot stand is someone that is deceitful. that's why when people ask us the truth, we tell the truth. you know, regardless of the outcome. truth is big in our family and -- >> i can tell you this. that word, that horrifying, terrible word that exists and i abhore it come from any person is not in my vocabulary. it's definitely not in my

brother's vocabulary. it's not in my mother's vocabulary. we were not raised in a home that that was used. that's not who we are. that's not the home that we were raised in. >> so there you have it, carol. a very difficult situation for the boys to be in. i know them both. they have good reputations for themselves, but this is their mother and they're going to come out for her. and what makes this situation very difficult, is it's not one situation that's been exposed. these are paula deen's own words, her own admissions. makes it more complex. >> and thegy the next step, paula deen herself is going to come out tomorrow morning and talk about these allegations and i guess it all depends on what she says and how she explains these remarks. >> yeah, i guess. that's the pr angle, what this means for her reputation. but, you know, when you cover these stories, we get caught up in that because that's the immediate dynamic. i really do wish there would be something else in these

situations. the ugliness is obvious. we know the word is unacceptable. we're trying to teach our kids, trying to strip it out of us as a culture, but it's hard. .you have to try and find a way in these moments to do something positive with it. nos not that there's any good in what was said and what was felt, but that in how you move forward to it, what you teach, you know, what we often call teachable moments. that's what i hope happens here because at the end of the day, the only way to report it is on the facts involved in the context. but what we really need here, carol, is for paula deen if she wants to say she's sorry to demonstrate that in an emotional way that shows bagz in what came wrup what she said and did and what behaviors we want to reinforce. so i hope it gets to that, this story, i hope it's not just about endorsements and what the public feels about her levels of genuineness in an apology. also new this morning, the

u.s. blustered other nations' bristle and edward snowden remains very much visible. the u.s. believes he's hunkered down in a transit area of the moscow airport. that leaves him in diplomatic limbo and without any deadline to come forward. the u.s. says snowden's betrayal should not be taken lightly. >> people may die as a consequence of what this man did. it is possible the united states will be attacked because terrorists may now know how to protect themselves in some way or another that they didn't know before. >> joining me on the phone is phil mud, a former cia dpupt deputy director. good morning, phil. >> good morning from washington. how are you? >> i'm good. thanks for being with us. your specialty is counterterrorism. do you believe snowden is in the moscow airport? >> i'm not certain 37 my guess

is he is and that the russians like the hong kong government before him are trying to figure out what to do. they don't want to help the americans, but they also don't want to keep this guy around forever. >> would it be reasonable to believe that maybe the kgb is there talking to him? >> i think there's a strong likelihood that two things have happen. you used the word talking. i don't think he's being intir gated, but i have a hard time believing that nobody has asked him if he has anything to say. the second is the exploitation of digital media. i have to believe somebody has looked into whatever he's carrying and downloaded whatever he has. >> and you're talking about these four laptops he supposedly has with them. i mean, if he's holed up in this airport, might russian authorities look at that laptop? is that what you're saying? >> absolutely. i wouldn't look at it. if i were in their shoes, i'm just copy the whole thing,

download whatever is on it. >> what can the united states do if indeed snowden is in that airport? i mean, what can it do? >> the dirty secret here is there's not much to be done. he's violated a federal law and the department of justice and diplomatic officials will say, look, you have to hand him over. but in truth, this is not hollywood. you're not going to swoop down with black hawk helicopters and pick this guy up. you go and knock on the door and say, you've got to give over somebody who has violated our laws. but at the end of the day, there's not much leverage you have to full here. >> as a former deputy director, edward snowden, is he making a mockery out of governments all over the world? is he embarrassing the united states? >> i don't think he is. i've seen the debates on this on tv. i have to tell you, i disagree with him. if you've got hundreds or thousands or millions of people with security clearances, in your measure did any one of them ever take a thumb drive out and

sgif it to a foreign government or expose it to the media, if your bar is nobody would ever do that, i would say that's absurd. it's going to happen in a country with so many people with security clearances. i think he's embarrassing himself. he started with an interesting proposition. what is freedom and openness in the 21st century. now he's make a mockery of himself by traveling around to dictatorships and talking about not just what's happening to american but looking at the chinese government and how we attack their systems. >> phil mudd, thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> my pleasure. thank you. this is cnn breaking news. >> this just into us, the u.s. supreme court just handed down a ruling on voting rights. at issue, certain provisions from the landmark voting rights act of 1965. it's a complicated case and one of the most significant civil rights law necessary our country's history. jake tapper and jeff tubin are at the court. we'll get right to them when we have all the details on that ruling.

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[ male announcer ] now get 50% off brake pads and shoes at meineke. the u.s. supreme court has ruled on a voting rights case. it's a historical case. let's head to washington and check in with jake tapper. >> thanks, carol. that's right. the ruling has been expected for some time in this very -- in this week where the justices are going to be issuing rulings on a whole number of controversial sublths. this has to do with a key provision of the voting rights act. the voting rights act which was passed into law in 1965 requiring that some states and counties be supervised by the federal government because of histories of discrimination in voting in those states and counties. let's go now to my colleague, jeff tubin who is here to talk about what exactly was struck down in this important piece of legislation. >> the voting rights act of 1965 said that nine states and a

handful of counties outside the south have to be supervised, as you said. and there was a formula in there based on voting patterns in the 1960s. what the supreme court said today by a vote of 5-4 is that times have changed. sometimes have changed so much that that formula is invalid. and we, the united states, cannot use that formula any more to determine which states skr discrimina discriminate, so that part of the law is invalid. what that means in practice is that the other part of the law, section five, which says those states have to be in supervision, that is dormant. that doesn't matter any more until and unless congress goes back and comes one a modern formula. so section 4 and section 5 are out for now. but now it's up to congress and the president to determine if there are going to be any parts of the country any more that are

still under this kind of supervision, which is known in the legal jargon as preclearance. >> i want to brick you and my colleagues who are at cnn washington, d.c. headquarters. wolf, a lot of people expected that the supreme court would strike down section five. that is not actually the section that was struck down by this ruling. section four, which lists the states and counties that until today had to submit their voting processes to the federal government for approval, that is what struck down. it's conceivable that congress would come up with a new list of states and counties, although i don't think that's very likely. wolf. >> yeah, politically, i think it's unlikely, that given the current make up of the house of representatives, for example, it's unlikely they would go ahead and reinstate some of these provisions from the 1965 voting rights act that were struck down today. but let's get the opinions of

gloria and john who are here. gloria, what do you think millie the fallout from this major u.s. supreme court decision? >> i think that you can expect democrats to, of course, read the decision and then push for some kind of reauthorization, depending on what the court's opinion says. and i also think it's obvious that this becomes a political question again. because if you -- otherwise you're going to see things like voter i.d. laws and those kinds of things that we don't want passed. so i think this puts it right back in the political arena and it could in the south, for example, become a real issue in the midterm elections. >> and you will sigh now this political divide not only playing out in washington, but it's a very important point. for the most part, elections are up to a state. the constitution says the state runs its elections. these states are put early

federal guidance because of past discrimination. now the court is saying, the test you had in place is outdated. it goes back to 1965. so much has changed. other discrimination law ves changed. hopefully these states have made substantial progress. if you're going to do this, you have to rewrite the test, if you will. if you look at the politics of the moment, if you look at the states that are affected, most of them have republican governors. so this is a debate that's going to play out. >> and not only in voter i.d. law wes bub also in redistricting. we're going to see how states handle this in terms of how they draw their congressional districts. that could wind up in court. >> the bottom line is that these southern states, largely southern states that had these special requirements that the federal government imposed in 1965, a voting viets act, they are no longer going to have to deal with that, at least for the time being, unless congress staits takes special action. as i said, i don't anticipate that special action anytime soon.

>> that's right, wolf. what's interesting is, of course, the 1965 voting rights act was renewed in 2006 for 25 years. it was an overwhelming vote by a very divided congress. the vote was 390 to 33 in the house and 98-0 in the senate. i want to bring in professor jonathan turley. what's interesting is even though there was an overwhelming vote in favor of continuing the voting rights act, chief justice john roberts made no secret about his skepticism that it was still required. >> this is very much a long-term project for chief justice roberts. he stated years ago that he was highly critical of section five particularly, although as jeff mentioned, taking out section four effectively takes section five off-line. but roberts has been gunning for this for some time. what's different about this is the lack of deference to congress. during the oral argument, both robert and scalia chided congress and basically said no

member of congress has the guts to vote against a bill like this because you don't want to be viewed at favoring racism or interfering with the rights of minorities. and so what you have here is a clear rejection of congress examine frankly a degree of contempt for congress that came out of the oral argument. now, what's ironic about that is that congress is now going to be in a much more difficult position because to change this law, you're going to have to talk about specific states. and before, you simply reupped. you voted on the whole law. now you're going to have to target individual states and those delegations may find it very troubling to have their state put on that list and other states not. and to give you an example, chief justice roberts say massachusetts was worse than mississippi when it comes to these calculations. now, that produced a lot of controversy and challenge no doubt from the governor of massachusetts. but that is the type of passion

you're likely to see if they try to do this. >> carrie and leah are standing by, as well. carrie. >> hi, yeah. today's decision brings the voting rights act into the 21st century. the court is just saying, if you want to make distinctions between the states, they have to be based on can think current facts. not 40-year-old data. our government is under a time where we have a lot of financial stress. we are having the voting rights division looking through upwards of 20,000 different voting changes every year in states, including alaska. just because of some differences in the voter registration in the 1960s. if we want to continue this preclearance and using our time to look through voting changes before they happen, we should be doing that based on current problems and current election years, not what happened in 1964. >> leah. >> well, i do agree that by eliminating section four this really is striking at a

significant part of the voting rights act. but to be clear, while it was passed in 1965, as was discussed earlier, it was reauthorized in 2006 and at that time, there were more than 15,000 pages of evidence that congress reviewed about continuing entractble repetitive and adaptive forms of racial discrimination in voting that continued today. so, in other words, what has been examined is not really ancient history. it's about problems that continue to exist and persist. so i think the reality is that at this point it is incumbent upon congress in a by-pat san fashion as it did overwhelmingly in 2006 to look at the places where this is very much an issue and very necessary. so i think it's clear and important to make the distinction that what section five of the voting rights act does, which is essentially really the heart of the voting rights act and serves as a real checkpoint for discrimination before it happens is something

that is used for continued present day examples of real barriers to exercising a constitutional right to vote. it's not something that is ancient history. >> all right, leah, thank you so much. we're going to throw it back to you now, carol, back in atlanta. it's a big decision, one we'll be talking about here all day on cnn. >> no doubt. jake tapper, thanks. la's known definitely for its traffic, congestion, for it's smog.

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released doves outside the hospital where mandela remains in critical condition. george zimmerman back in court for a second day as a judge's ruling previous 911 calls and more witness testimony expected today. zimmerman has pleaded not guilty to second degree murder in the shooting of trayvon martin. edward snowden, the man who leaked details about u.s. surveillance programs is still nowhere to be found two days after he left hong kong. the united states believes he may be in hiding someone in the moscow airport. on monday, journalists spent most of the day trying to figure out if snowden boarded a plane from moscow to cuba. russia denies playing any role to snowden's movements. there's new controversy over the irs targeting tea party groups and other groups. we've learned other political

interests were flagged for special scrutiny by the irs. and those groups include liberal groups who helped elect the president to a second term. dana bash is on capitol hill to tell us more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. there are a lot of democrats saying i told you so here on capitol hill and probably over at the white house, as well. the i told you so is them saying that these groups -- no groups were targeted for any political reason. there was no political motivation here. delivered to capitol hill yesterday, that showed that there were what's called be on the lookout memos, memos within the irs to screeners looking at applications for tax exempt status that had terms to sift through and screen specifically liberal groups. let me show you some of the terms that we saw in this bolo. progressive, medical marijuana, occupied territory advocacy. now, democratic congressman

sandra levin, the top democrat on the house ways and means committee is really, really upset. he send out a blistering statement about the inspector general of the irs saying he simply didn't do a good enough job when he issued his report about these group and about irs targeting because he did mention conservative groups, tea party and other like-minded gripes, but didn't talk about progressives and the defense over at the ig's office was their mission was to look at conservative groups, but democrats are saying, come on, that's polling the letter of the law, not the spirit of the law effectively. >> and although no liberal groups haven't come forward and loudly complained. i haven't heard any progressive group come forward and saying they were targeted by the irs. >> excellent point, carol. republicans are saying this is not case closed by any means because they argue if you look at these documents and you look at these dshg when a effectively

memos that went out internally mostly back in 2010 at the irs, the way it went after our screened out tea party groups, those groups were found and then they were separated out, they say, and put in a separate pile and maybe in some cases sent to washington for real scrutiny and in some cases tea party groups say they felt harassed. with regard to this new information we have based on these memos, the progressive groups, the liberal groups were simply screened and they were told to give it an extra once over. it was a different kind of treatment. i talked to a democratic source with this investigation who actually agreed there is a difference. although progressive groups clearly were screened that there seems to be a difference at least in what they found so far about the treatment of these groups. believe it or not, congress and both sides of the capital say they must do more before they could make a conclusion in these

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probably noticed something a bit different. they just started posting how many calorie res in your favorite drinks on their menu board. it's something all restaurant chains will soon be required to do by the federal government. i'm jound now by marta leutin. welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> so was the point of posting these calorie counts? >> well, eating out isn't the big splurge it once was. people are now eating out on a regular basis, accounting for a third of their calories. it's important to know what your options are so you can make your own decisions about how many calories you really want to eat. >> so do you think people will really look at the calorie count? seriously? >> not everybody is going to look at it, but a lot of times they will. things that you like don't have as many calories as you think

and other things have less. starbucks, the cappuccino latte wes a good choice. >> new york has been doing this for quite some time. the new york city health officials did this study. they say one in six people change their orders based on the number of calories in food items. >> from a public health standpoint, one in six is really a good result. some people know and are making good choices. some people are pretty helpless, they're never going to change. what they found in both new york city and seattle, is that over time, most people go ahead used to the calories, they say them and they use them. more people use them.

>> it takes a long time to sink in. >> it does. for decadeses, we've been eating out without any calorie information. and we're not even used to seeing it. i know myself, i worked on many labelling laws and i didn't even see them when i first went into the restaurant. over time, not only do people change, but also the restaurants change, they start to reform utah late their items and can bring down their calories. so they start cutting back on the cheese or use lighter dressing or make the bread a little thinner. >> well, we'll see. but if i'm going in for a big, juicy burger at wendy's and i see the calorie count b, i'm still going to order that big juicy burger at wendy's because that's what i want to eat. >> maybe go for the double instead of the triple and you

could save a lot of calories. >> true. thank you so much for joining us, margo. >> nice to be here. >> you're welcome. as you know, the u.s. supreme court has now issued a ruling in a key voting rights case regarding the voting rights act of 19635. the supreme court ruled that federal oversight of elections will continue in states with a past history of discrimination. but there are caveats to that. so let's get to joe johns. >> carol, i was inside for this decision and essentially what it says is there are two provisions of the voting rights act which were in question, section four, section five. essentially what happened is we're throwing out section four. this is effectively for many guts the entire voting rights act. so watching the justs, which is

what i did, i just got a real sense of struggle on this court. the five justices who were in the majority, the conservatives reading the opinion along with chief justice roberts as he read it, the four justices in the minority, the liberals, staring stone faced out into the audience in the supreme court. so just a sense of sadness there, of struggle on this very hard fought case. and it was interesting, also, watching the chief justice as he sort odd tipped his hand saying, the voting rights act has done so much good to elimination discrimination in this country, but its time has come. he also really issued a huge rebuke to the united states congress for not changing this built four years ago when they had the opportunity the last time the supreme court took a long look at it. in sum, a real struggle here on

the supreme court today as this closely fought 5-4 decision is now released to the public. the next step, of course, is for congress to attempt to change the voting rights act. but, carol, i can tell you, given the configuration of the united states congress with republicans controlling the house, democrats controlling the senate, it doesn't look very likely that this part of the voting rights act will be restored anytime soon. so a lot of people who work on voting rights issues are going to have to resort to other means. carol. >> and just to make it clear for our viewers, some of the states affected by the voting rights act of 1965, southern, mostly southern states, including alabama, georgia, south carolina, virginia and mississippi. and what this ruling says is these states can no longer be singled out. >> that's right. >> this he no longer have to have the federal government's approval to change their voting laws. >> right. yeah. that's the effective result of this decision. that this voting rights act,

which was targeted since 1965 towards certain states, many of them in the south, but some counties in a handful of other states are also covered. no longer can this coverage formula work. and if congress wants to do this, they have to go back to the drawing board, start all over again. i think you can say this is a home run for conservatives who said this law shouldn't be in place and this is a big loss for those civil rights advocates who have been fight to go sustain this law year after year for decades. carol. >> joe johns reporting live from the u.s. supreme court. thank you. "newsroom" is back in a moment. with premium service like one of the best on-time delivery records and a low claims ratio, we do whatever it takes to make your business our business.

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the man who exposed a u.s. secret surveillance program is still in hiding. the u.s. believes he's hunkered down, possibly in a transit area of the moscow airport. >> i've known about vladimir putin for a long, long time. as i said, he's an old kgb colonel that has disdain for democracy and the things we stand for and believe in. and if he sees a situation, he'll take advantage of it. i mean, anybody that takes somebody's super bowl ring has got to be not exactly like us. >> mccain is referring to the allegation by robert kraft who claims putin stole his 2005 championship ring. a house washed away in the flood waters in canada, barry

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edward scissor hands to captain jack sparrow and pirates of the caribbean, it's his latest role that has depp in a bit of controversy. he's playing tonto. and now some are asking why a white guy is portraying an american indian. michelle turner joins us along with professor hanea giglemah. she's director of the american indian studies at ucla. hi, michelle. >> hi, carol. how are we? >> do we see henae? oh, she's on the phone. hi, henae. and is you're a guy. >> hello, hello. >> thank you. >> hi, henae. >> welcome. i want to start with you, michelle. so johnny depp claims he's part cherokee indian, or maybe -- but he's not sure which. tell us what he said about this role of ton toe. >> it's interesting, carol. one of the things you said was people are asking the question why a white guy would be playing

tonto. i think donny depp might take a bit of umbrage with that. this is a movie he pushed for. he wanted to give himself the opportunity to play tonto. he wantsed to make sure this film treated native americans with respect and dignity and that focus was one of the things they talked about from the very beginning of the film process. in that vane, when they decided this, the filmmakers reached out to the navajo indians to get permission to film on their territory. they worked closely enough with the comanche tribe that depp was actually adopted into a comanche family. he has said his great grandmother was a native american. he wasn't clear if she was of cherokee descent. he directed and starred in a movie called "the brave" back in 1997 the. he said in that film, what he was trying to do was make a

point about how most of society viewed americans as disposable. he's been outspoken about he sees the lone ranger as a chance to change that view. he said he used to watch "lone ranger" as a kid and got mad because tonto was always being told what to do. this film will tell the story from tonto's point of view. >> henae, is it okay that johnny depp is playing this role? is the controversy overblown nur yo mind? >> i think johnny depp would have been better advised to do since he was in control of this film a lot from the beginning was to play the lone ranger himself and to see that a capable, experienced, good native american actor would have played tonto alongside him. that would have been the best thing to have done from the beginning. but that didn't happen. so what i think everything that your other guest just said, what

i see is -- here is that johnny depp is portraying a very exotic, reimagining of the tonto character. this -- tonto was always controversial because he was so subservient to the lone ranger. he was his side kick, he did so many things and this was criticized by a lot of people because it put him in a subservient position. and a side kick kind of person. but now with tonto being, quote, in charge, he's in charge, but he's in charge in a very exotic imagine. and the image here is also as important as him being in charge. the image is gothic, it's not realistic, it's way over the top. it doesn't represent anything in

indian culture, in indian spirituality regardless of what the advisers to the film have said. it's a brazen reimaging of tonto bringing him into the 21st century in a highly, highly exoticphied image that will do month damage to the narve american imagery than tonto being in charge of the film. it's not a good situation. and there's no way that anyone can explain it that might say aye he's native merp. a real native american would not have done what's happening in this film. >> we have to end tlit. thank you for being with us. michelle turner and professor hanay, director of native american culture at ucl hay. [ female announcer ] a classic macaroni & cheese from stouffer's

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imagine being held hostage at work. a u.s. businessman says he's been held at his chinese factory for five days now. over what else? a paid dispute with his employees. the employees claim he's free to leave. he says no. >> american executive chip stands with a brave face that he's being held captive in his own medical supply factory in china. so are you being held hostage now? >> the answer is yes, po or 40

of them ran sacked my office, came in there for three histories hours, standing on my desk staring at my. 1:00 in the morning, my gm and i finally got hem out, laid down for the next two hours it was banging on the doors, windows and lights and stuff. so a lot of sleep deafry vacation the first 48 hours. >> his family back in florida say they're in constant contact, worried sick. he says he just wants to leave. they won't let him. >> and so if you were to try and leave now, you couldn't leave? >> i -- it would be interesting to try. that's definitely crossed my mind. >> in a bizarre twist, we're let in to view the factory. stan says he's been investing in china for more than a decade. he wants to move some manufacturing to mumbai, india. you and i are talking here and you're still being held hostage, it's kind of surreal. >> it is surreal. i don't think i've been back here in three days or so. so, yeah, it actually is.

the whole thing saddens me greatly. >> now he's meeting with workers, trying to negotiate his way out of the factory. >> this is not how to accomplish something. i'm at the point now, we're at a stand still. i deserve the right to go back to my hotel room and i deserve the right to come back and we can address things professionally. >> the workers say they're owed two months back pay and stoeld us he's not a hostage, that he can't leave. cnn, beijing. >> thanks for joining me today. cnn "newsroom" continues right now. into good morning, everyone. we have a very busy news day ahead. all the day's main views and always always, our take on daytime justice, as well. day two, it is drama in george