i think it is appalling. >> house speaker john boehner speaking in regards to president obama's health care law. that's it for us. thanks for so much for watching. around the world starts right now. millions of americans sweat out the heat in the northeast and midwest and others around the world are suffering with you. that's right. from canada and great britain to japan. >> they couldn't silenc her with a bullet so now the taliban have written a rather bizarre letter reaching out to the pakistani school girl that a gunman tried to kill. >> and antiapartheid icon nelson mandela marks a huge milestone. >> thanks for your company let's start off with this, the northeast, the midwest and the u.s. getting hotter today. tens of millions of people heat

advisories. >> we're not alone. we're not the only part of the world suffering. eastern canada from toronto to montreal all reaching the 90s yesterday which is way above ravage. a new report finds 85 people have died from this extreme heat this summer in japan. >> and going to britain in the grips of a heat wave as well. chad myers, let's start with the u.s. and canada. what can folks expect today? >> heat index 105, 110 and all of these numbers we talk about, we have, it is will your body when it per spierz, will the perspiration evaporate? when it does you get cooled down like a shot at the doctor. that's what your body is hoping to do, hoping to evaporate some of the heat it is believe up inside of it and unable to do that when it is your body

temperature. canada has been very hot all week long. new york city 101. washington, d.c. today will go to 104. that's what it feels like outside. there is relief coming. there is relief coming by sunday into monday. still, tomorrow could be i agree or two warmer than today itself. finally, montreal, you're going to cool down, 73 on sunday. that will feel real good compared to where you have been. >> chad, tell us about japan. i understand that people are dying from heat stroke, most of them elderly people and u.k. dealing with this as well. >> the u.k. and japan and parts of asia. i know it is summertime but this is a particularly brutal summer with the heat and humidity and then it rains. when it rains and the rain evaporates, that's what increases the humidity. you can see the heat there just in the picture coming off the ground there. that's what they have been dealing with with air temperatures well above 90, 95 degrees in japan where they really don't expect it many times. in london, london is well up into the 80s and 90s the past couple days and even the past couple weeks, and if you're going to go and look at the

british open, and i have been calling it the open championship, temperatures up there way up north edinburg around 72, 73. it should be like in the 60s and raining. it is beautiful in some spots and in london where all of those people all packed together you have 86, 90, 90, hot for people that don't have a.c. there is not a lot of air conditioning in london. >> i lived there for many years and no ac. when it is in the 70s the media calls it the sizzling 70s. everybody just starts complaining about the weather. talking to alex about the british open and i don't know what the forecast is up there. sun in scotland? i am sorry, they're not used to that. >> unheard of. the scores may be ridiculous. >> they're all going to start collapsing because it is sunny. good to see you. stay cool out there. >> nice to see the pictures. a lot of the brits had ice cream or a pop sickle. nice. >> to a far more serious story,

a deadly story, the poisoning of nearly two dozen school children in india and they're searching for the head mistress. >> they want to question her about how the free lunching became contaminated with insecticide. that's right. this poison was so toxic that some of the children actually died in their parents arms on the way to the hospital. you see those heartbreaking pictures there. many other students survived, but remain hospitalized. >> so nima takes us to the ward where some of the kids are being treated. >> 22 children have died of after heating free lunch in school and all the children that fell ill have been brought to this government hospital. there are two dozen children here. doctors say all of them are now out of danger. when they arrived here, though, many were vomiting and feeling dizzy and many even fainted. doctors suspect it is a case of phosphorus poisoning which is an insecticide commonly used by farmers in this part of india.

>> yesterday there was a lot of talk about the cooking oil which was supplied by grocery store run by the head mistress's husband. the husband has disappeared. the head mistress disappeared. what are they saying? >> reporter: the local police here, they're still looking for the principle and her husband for questioning and that she has been on the run since that happened here and we were actually at the village earlier in the day and they say the principal disappeared as soon as she saw a young student die after eating the meal. they said what happened and they said these children, as soon as they ate their meal they went to the water pump to wash their plate and some started throwing up right there. some of them fainted right there, and then the principal disappeared. it is unclear what the principal's involvement was. the cook of the meal had initially told the local media

she questioned the quality of the oil and the principal told her to use the oil anyway and we actually spoke to the cook as well. she is now being treated at the hospital there, and she said she didn't notice anything odd about the oil. a lot of questions remain about whether or not that meal was accidently or deliberately poisoned. it is still a bit of a mystery. >> and tell us about the free lunch program. it is the biggest in the world, feeds more than 100 million people here but some people see it as being very uneven if you will, inconsistencies in safety and the quality of the food depending on where you live and what state you live in. >> reporter: that's right. it really depends from state to state. the authorities are in shock. while there have been minor issues with the meals in the past they have never seen anything of this scale. human resources minister is setting up a committee to look specifically into the quality

aspect of the meal in all of the schools across the country. again, this is in one of india's most successful programs and the largest school feeding program in the world. they feed about 120 million children every single day for free and for many of these children it is the only warm and nutritious meal they get and it encourages many children to come to school and children who perhaps otherwise may stay at home and help their parents in the fields and many of them of course are children of farmers and in this particular village as well, it isn't just the children from that village in that school and ate the meal. the children had brought their brothers and sisters and cousins from other districts as well because they were given this free meal in this school. >> just terrible. thank you so much. summima is on the spot reporting for us. >> we saw the pictures of the protests. sometimes the frustration of a

lot of people, they feel like it is the only thing they can do, just to lash out. >> powerless. yes. a huge problem in india, the malnutrition side of things. tens of millions of children that rely on that food program and look what happens. in russia today a man is facing a five year prison term for corruption, but you have to know who this man is and who would love for him to be out of the picture. >> very suspicious. we are talking about alexei navali. it is not a household name in the united states. he is very well known in russia and a major headache for vladimir putin. he is an outspoken politician, against just about everything that president putin stands for. >> now he has been tried and found guilty of something that he is accused russian officials of doing for years and that is embezzling money. u.s. officials say his trial was a sham, european officials calling it a joke, and even mchale gorbachev is upset saying

it is nothing but dirty politics. phil black is in moscow. >> reporter: this is a more hopeful time leading tens of thousands protesting against vladimir putin. his passion, charisma, fierce language and commitment to fighting corruption inspired many to join him on the streets on the brutally cold winter days. that was more than a year ago. a lot has changed. new laws considered by many to be repressive, crush the protesters' enthusiasm and the movements most popular figure became the target of a criminal investigation. >> translator: it has finally come. i expected it. >> reporter: why do you believe this is happening. >> translator: i have been investigating corruption in state-run companies by government officials for the last six years. these people steal billions. they understand my anticorruption work is a threat.

>> reporter: the corruption fighter accused of corruption. he was prosecuted for allegedly stealing $500,000 worth of timber from the state when he was an adviser to a provincial governor. he has always said that the charge is ridiculous. do you think you have any chance of case to allow that. it obviously means going to be a guilty verdict. >> reporter: he also has political ambitions. he wants to be president. russian law forbids convicted criminals running for office. >> translator: it is through one of goals in this trial is stop me from being involved in politics. this law only exists in putin's system and our goal is to destroy putin's system. >> reporter: he said they didn't follow the trial. he is not the first opponent to be sent to jail.

russia's richest man was convicted in a case widely seen as punishment for trying to promote democracy in russia and navannee was in court last week to see women sentenced to two years for the anti-putin prayer in a months cow cathedral. are you ready to go to jail? is your family ready. >> translator: i always understood right from the start you can go to jail in russia for any independent political activity. you shouldn't do it if you are not ready to go to jail. >> reporter: russian authorities always insisted the prosecution is not political but a senior investigator recently admitted his colleagues had fast tracked their work in the case because of his criticism of russia's political system. >> phil black is live in moscow. now, the risk here of course from the perspective of russia's power brokers is they can turn this guy into a legal martyr if you like. what is his level of support?

>> reporter: it is considerable, michael, especially within the cities of russia, major cities like moscow and urbanized and middle class, well educated people who travel and spend a lot of time online and these are the people that are angry about many aspects of russian society and a lack of democracy and continued domination of politics by vladimir putin and what they believe is an intolerable level of corruption. these are the people he spoke for. these are the people who support him. outside of these major cities he is less well known, and less supported. the people who know him and support him feel very strongly, he was potentially a future leader of this country. >> and tell us about what the situation is with president putin and clearly seems like he is very challenged if you will and insecure about his opponents. do they see this as an act desperation. >> reporter: i think certainly some of his opponents would interpret it that way.

it does very much fit a trend. those who oppose president putin know that they run the risk of the system in some way targeting them, and certainly that's what the supporters believe. they are no doubt whatsoever he is paying the price for his opposition to the government, to the political status quo, to president putin in particular. they view this very clearly as political payback. the case was always flimsy and dropped once because of lack of evidence and authorities ordered it resume. the russian courts there notorious ly lacking independene and they have a high conviction rate. he was no no doubt whatsoever it would end with a guilty verdict. he knew he would be convicted. he hoped he would not receive a jail sentence. today he was led from the court in handcuffs to begin a five year prison term. >> you don't want to be opposition leader in russia these days.

phil, good to see you. he is running for mayor, too, and that's not going to happen. >> and obviously the united states here, the european union saying it is a sham. >> exactly. >> doesn't mean anything. here is more of what we're working on or arnd the world this hour. shocked and stunned, how the parents of trayvon martin describe their reaction to the zimmerman verdict. they're now speaking out. >> remember the young pakistani teenager shot by the taliban? she received a letter from a senior taliban leader. you won't believe what he says in it. >> and cnn was there when pann main an authorities opened the containers of the seized north korean ship. will you see what was inside. and drop offs pis begins with arthritis pain... and a choice. take up to 6 tylenol in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. all aboard. ♪

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home for justice for trayvon martin. >> that includes the lyrics you can get killed just for a living in your american skin. we're following another development in the aftermath of the george zimmerman trial, trayvon martin's parents speaking out for the first same since a jury acquitted zimmerman of killing their son. >> they say they were shocked by the outcome of the trial and the grieving parents who say they don't understand how someone could argue self-defense for shooting an unarmed teenager. in an interview this morning sybrina fulton talked about her initial reaction to the verdict. >> i was in a bit of shock. i thought surely that he would be found guilty of second degree murder, manslaughter at the least, but i just knew that they would see that this was a teenager just trying to get home. this was no burglar.

this was sobody's son trying to get home. >> you were stunned by the verdict. >> i was stunned. absolutely. i couldn't believe it. >> florida's so-called stand your ground law has now come under fire in the aftermath of the acquittal of zimmerman. >> zimmerman's lawyers didn't use the stand grur ground law in his defense but it was instructions to the jury. victor blackwell joins us from tallahassee. victor, give us an update on the protests targeting the stand your ground law and the florida government by the way. >> they have now been waiting in the office of the florida governor rick scott for 50 hours, a group called dream defende defenders. this is how they're spending day three. >> justice. >> when do we want it, now? >> for a third day student activists refused to leave the office of florida governor rick

scott until they meet with him. >> we would like the repeal of stand your ground or holding people responsible to a revel they expect. >> i took advice from the president. we had great people on that. they went around the state and listened about the strand your ground laws and said we shouldn't change it and i agree with them. >> justice for trayvon rallies are scheduled in 100 cities saturday to urge civil rights charges against george zimmerman. >> i think george got in a little bit too deep. >> one of the juror who is spoke exclusively with anderson cooper now says in a statement to cnn there will be no other interviews. as for her literary agent and a rumored book deal she writes there is not one at this time and the relationship with the agent ceased the moment i realized what was occurring in the world during the weeks of my sequestration and we're learning

month are about how the jury spent the 22 days sequestered when they weren't in court. they occasionally left the hotel with court approval going bowling, shopping, and to the movies. seminole county officials estimate sequestration costs to the county $33,000, all to isolate them from the controversy surrounding the trial. >> we have asked the governor's communications director will he meet with the protesters. no direct answers over the last several days. we have checked the schedule. on tuesday he was in new york. yesterday he was in other parts of the state. today he is in tampa and these protesters thus far are not on the schedule. they say they're prepared to wait for weeks. >> i was going to ask you, are they really prepared to wait for weeks here? how long will they keep this going? do they have people to support them to do something like that? >> they do have the support. they are a group of college students, also with some support

from grad students and also some attorneys and there are members of the florida house who are here supporting them, local churches, student groups from across the state, and they're sitting in shifts, so right now they're about two or three dozen there and some come over night and they switch out the next day. while the same people may not be sitting there, they do, they tell me, have enough people to wait as long as it takes. >> all right. victor, thank you. appreciate that. >> and trayvon martin's parents, sybrina fulton and tracy martin do sit down with anderson cooper to talk about how their family is moving forward. don't miss it. it is all new tonight at 8 eastern. we're also looking at this young pakistani teenager survived a taliban attack and now she is hearing directly from the leader of the group, the taliban, about why she was shot. up ahead. #%tia[

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more so after the attack on the school girl malala. militants tried to kill her because she spoke out against the taliban ban on girls getting educated in traditional schools. >> now a senior taliban commander has written kind of a bizarre letter to her. it is part threat, part apology. itn's kylie morris has the story. >> a dear malala letter from her taliban attackers written by a senior regional commander sent via e-mail from a trusted source to this program. intended as a response to the pakistan school girl's em passioned speech to the u.n. >> on the 9th of october, 2012, the taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead. they shot my friends, too. they thought that the bullet would silence us.

they failed. >> not only did the attack fail to silence a girl who has become a global superstar, it cost the taliban key support at home in pakistan. they seek to win back friends as well as keeping those they still have. the author is a notorious taliban commander. >> you can see this death squad around me. we want to you surrender to us. >> he was sentenced to death for his part in a plot to asass nas the president musharraf and escaped in a mass jail break and now he is trying to restore the taliban's reputation by writing letters. he wreets to malala, when you were attacked it was shocking for me. i wished it would never have happened. >> rasheed was in prison when malala was shot at close range by fighter that is board frd her school bus and asked for her by name. he repeats the taliban claimed that she was not targeted because she was going to school but because she had spoken out against their campaign in her

home region. he writes that the taliban never attacked you because of going to school. >> the taliban are not against the education of any men or women or girls. taliban believe that you are intentionally writing against them and running a smear campaign. >> he admits fighters are prone to blowing up schools and says the pakistan army is doing it, too, since both sides are in the habit of turning -- >> into hideouts and transit camps. >> that revelation fails to explain the violent campaign against teachers and school students waged across the country. pakistan has a new government and the taliban seem to want to send a message theng be reasonable. >> sensible members of the taliban are rattled by some of the bad p.r. they have been getting by the assassination attempt against malala. he wouldn't be saying all of this unless he felt that he had some kind of case to answer in pakistani public opinion. >> playing to that opinion, the commander poses a question for

malala to ponder. >> i ask you and be honest in your reply, if you were shot by americans in a drone attack, would the world ever have heard updates on your medical status? >> then he finishes his letter with some advice. >> i advise you to come back home, adopt the islamic culture and join any female in islamic dress in your hometown and study and learn the book. >> it is not aan invitation her family will be taking up. they refused to comment but say they never received their own copy. >> all right. that was kylie morris reporting there. we have news >> we do have the massachusetts district attorney's office investigating the death of steven rakes. this is a man who was prepared to testify in the trial of the reputed boston mob boss james whitey boulder. he has been found dead. >> this is in lincoln, massachusetts, discovered at about 1:30 p.m. wednesday. he was on the prosecution list and testified and then was

apparently taken off the list and some reports suggesting he was upset about that. he wanted to testify. important to note here no cause of death at the moment. we don't know what happened to him. he was 59 years old. >> and the district attorney's office is saying at least for now there are no signs of trauma, but of course they're going to be conducting an autopsy to figure out how it was that he died, but we have been following this trial. it has been absolutely fascinating here. >> that's bulger just getting off that chopper there and back in june to be taken into custody. of course he was on the lam for years, wasn't he, and finally caught up with by the long arm of the law and that trial is just extraordinary at the moment. >> the details are amazing. bulger has been charged in the deaths of 19 people. this is over the course of two decades when prosecutors say, look, he was ahead of the irish mob in boston and very powerful figure and notorious figure and

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encourage community service. this morning former president bill clinton, the reverend jesse jackson and the actor harry bellefonte all speak at the u.n. praising mandela's impact on racial justice and reconciliation in his country and in fact right around the world. >> they also wished him a happy birthday. mandela turns 95 today. he is still in the hospital suffering from a severe lung infection, but both south africa's press and nelson mandela's daughter say he is getting better. >> robin is live outside the hospital. robin, it is rather pleasant to be talking to you on a happy birthday here and people having a celebration unlike the conversations we have had over the last couple weeks. what is happening there and what is his condition like? >> reporter: absolutely. i think everybody here in south africa is focusing on the positive. you can hear the singing behind me. a lot have balloons and wear party hats.

it is a festive atmosphere. even though they know nerlson mandela is critically ill, they're not just celebrating his liech but paying tribute to him and it is a happy and joyful nation and they have come together in a spirit that mandela created, this democracy. >> they don't like to talk about specifics but we spent weeks hearing reports that he was on life support. do we have any idea, a real sense of how he is doing at this time? >> you know, we don't. as you know, there hasn't been a lot of information over these weeks. it has been 41 days since he was admitted here. and all we got from the presidency today was, you know, thanks for all of the support and doctors say he is steadily improving. what that means, we just don't know. he is critical. he is stable. he hasn't been able to breathe on his own and been on dialysis

and the fact that he is steadily improving in terms of what that means medically, i just frankly don't know. i don't think anybody here in this country knows. i think it is the way the family and the government want that. they want that sense of distance between his medical condition and the realities of the fact they need to celebrate him for what he was and what he means to people, and no matter whether he is here or whether he is not. >> and, robin, the celebration, can you tell us about the events taking place. >> reporter: when i think you mentioned the top of our report that it is mandela day and if that isn't a way mandating saying go out and help somebody, spend 67 minutes doing something for somebody else because that's what he did. he spent 67 years in public service giving of himself. he said you don't have to go to prison for 27 years. you don't have to lead the country. it is the small things that matter. what we have seen across the nation are people making

sandwiches for other people. a lot of people have been visiting or going to play with abandoned children or hiv and aids orphans. it is those kinds of things, planting trees, and they say it is simple, that you can be like nelson mandela if you just give a little bit of yourself. >> robin, thank you so much. appreciate it. nice to see celebrations in south africa. >> it is. still not a great situation for him but improving. a relative term. one man meanwhile causing a great deal of friction between the u.s. and russia. >> we're talking about edward snowden holed up in a moscow airport asking for asylum but if granted it could impact the winter olympics. we'll explain. ordinary rubs don't always work on my arthritis.

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still no movement in moscow as far as edward snowden is concerned. we're watching like everybody else to see if and when he makes a break for it or walks out of

the airport with russia's protection. >> that is the scenario that he has asked for, the walking out part. he hand wrote that asylum request you see on the screen to the russian government this week. the united states of course would like snowden to pop back home so they can charge him over spying for leaking u.s. government secrets. >> whatever russia skieds to do about edward snowden, it will be remembered long after this airport standoff is over. right, snowden factor is actually at the top of things to talk about when president obama goes to russia in just a couple of weeks >> reporter: the white house is downplaying the suggestion that the u.s. should boycott the winter olympics in russia, but what we were expecting to be a one-on-one meeting between president obama and president putin in russia in september is more in doubt. a warning to moscow as it considers edward snowden's request for temporary asylum.

it could be a high profile, high-stakes showdown between the u.s. and russia. the future of nsa leaker edward snowden could impact a planned summit between president obama and president putin in september or even russia's 2014 olympics. >> would i accept an invitation by putin, no. i don't want to boycott the olympics, but i want a policy that will get the russians attention. >> reporter: lindsey graham has indeed gotten attention for his suggestion the u.s. boycott the up coming winter olympics in sochi, russia, but the white house isn't playing. >> i won't engage in speculation. you aren't jumping to a superficial headline, are you. >> reporter: while not speculating on an olympic boycott jay carney seemed to be deliberately vague about his plans to travel to a powwow in moscow tried to the g20 summit in st. petersburg.

>> the president intends to go to russia. >> you won't say months cow. >> deliberately vague. >> that's for you to decide. >> last month the president was firm he didn't want russia's refusal to extradite snow deb den to adversely affect relations with the u.s. >> i won't have one case of a suspect who we're trying to extradite suddenly being elevated to the point where i have to start doing we'll wheeling and dealing. >> putin seems to agree saying he wants the snowden situation resolved. >> translator: we have warned mr. snowden that any harm he might do to russian-u.s. relations is unacceptable. >> reporter: president obama made clear he has bigger issues with moscow than edward snowden. russia has thwarted u.s. attempts to put more pressure on syria and on iran. snowden being in russia and possibly even working there under temporary asylum, that is not the back drop this white house wants as president obama

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john kerry got a firsthand look at how syrians are suffering. >> a refugee camp in jordan, he is doing a lot of meetings there, it is home to about 120,000 syrians, most of them women and children who have of course been escaping the civil war. >> some of the refugees pleaded with kerry for international action. one woman said if no help comes from the outside they will return to fight government troops with knives. >> 93,000 people have been killed in syria since the violence erupted in march of last year and by all accounts mr. kerry did get an earful from some of those refugees desperate for help. >> and the secretary is also focusing on middle east peace. he met with mahmoud a bass and with the leaders of the arab league and there are reports that israelis and palestinians may be close to resuming the stalled peace talking. this is kerry's sixth trip to the middle east since he took over as secretary of state.

>> in panama, a north korean ship at the center of what is playing out like an international spy novel and sports want to know what the united nations is going to do about the ship and its crew all because of what it was carrying. >> the boat was seized and headed from cue ba and north korea loaded with weapons found hidden under the bags of sugar. mae ley went along. >> twith each day, new alarming discoveries. inside the port of cologne heavily armed military troops stand guard acutely aware of the cargo on board the north korean vessel. >> they just opened up two containers removed from the ship today and you have to take a look at. this both containers are full of

weaponry. there are inspectors inside each container taking a look at what the items are and trying to figure out obviously. >> for us it is important to finish this operation, wait for the united nations to come, and they will decide. panama is completely -- we have no experience in dealing with this kind of problem. >> reporter: right now what's happening is inspectors are inside each container. as you can see with their flashlights really taking a look at what they found. who knows what this is. i think it is anybody's guess at this point. it is pretty extraordinary that they found these two containers and as you can see, the top of the container is bowed and it is because the bags of sugar that were hiding all of these containers were on top, and they

were so heavy, that they actually crushed the container down. >> may lee, cnn, panama. >> it wouldn't be our views without talking about the baby watch. it is in over time now. >> we want this to happen. >> the duchess of cambridge well past the due date. i will have the latest from london and hear why her clothes are getting almost as much attention as the pregnancy. >> quite frugal, you know. the middle of this special moment and i need to run off to the bathroom. ♪ i'm fed up with always having to put my bladder's needs ahead of my daughter. ♪ so today, i'm finally talking to my doctor about overactive bladder symptoms. [ female announcer ] know that gotta go feeling? ask your doctor about prescription toviaz. one toviaz pill a day significantly reduces sudden urges and accidents, for 24 hours.

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right now the world's eyes faced on st. mary's hospital in london waiting for signs of the royal baby on the way. >> i bet she is saying get this thing out of me. the duchess of cambridge, and prince william expecting their first nipper as we say in my country and anticipation growing every day since the baby's official due date which was five days ago. >> five days ago. let's make this happen. >> it willing over done. yeah. >> throughout her pregnancy the duchess has been in the spotlight of course but also the wardrobe as well making a splash. >> an interesting aspect of her. >> it has been nine months of watching the royal baby bump bloom and to the delight of

fashionistas everywhere the duchess of cambridge has made mom to be the look to have. >> how did it feel when you were hand delivering these dresses to the palace? >> it was a pretty exciting moment for us as well and a real accomplishme accomplishment. >> the duchess has brought about a dozen dresses but this is no high priced designer label, the hop is one of many on the high street and most dresses cost less than $100 including this rail favorite. >> it works really well. it drapes really beautifully at the beginning of the pregnancy and as the bump grows it accommodates the bump. >> mixing designer labels with high street fashion, making her both glamorous and accessible. >> her hem lines became shorter and i think it is really great. i think you don't need to hide away when you are pregnant. show off the best bits. everybody loves her. they think i could be her, too. it is kind of this feeling of

being inspired but not intimidated by her. >> always a style icon the duchess of cambridge made even her royal bump a boon for fashion. >> the royal bump. >> the royal bump. >> love it. >> okay. tune in tonight. cnn has a special will and kate plus one, and you will hear from the royal couple's family members and friends. >> 10 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. also, this artwork can turn up in the strangest of places here. this is something you have to see this. it is really amazing. a tribute to the american icon. e and man, you know how that feels. copd includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. spiriva is a once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that helps open my obstructed airways for a full 24 hours. you know, spiriva helps me breathe easier. spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalation powder does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms.

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just when you think you have seen it all there is something else that will get you buzzing. >> we said buzzing. in britain a tiny bumblebee that seems to be high-fiving a man who may be drunk but is excited. >> hello. >> he went high five. yeah. high five. yeah. do it again. high five. he did it again. >> i like that. >> little. >> i think he was saying leave me alone. this being the era that it is, it has gone viral. >> it is viral. we want to he show you this, too, elaborate artwork in turning up in all places. this is a rice field in japan.

>> have a look at the pictures. imagine creating enormous murals like that and getting it all in perspective and the like just using colored race plants. that's what happened. >> it is rice patty, one and a half times bigger than a football field, so you can look at this and you see the design and there is an american movie icon, marilyn monroe and huge crowds are showing up to see what they have actually created, these pictures. >> you have to be up high to see it. >> byo helicopter to get the full effect. amazing stuff. that will do it from us. thanks for being with us today. >> appreciate you watching "around the world." newsroom continues after this. trayvon martin's parents now speaking out. they say they're stunned by the verdict. they also say it sends a