they set up a trayvon martin foundation, one word, trayvon martin foundation.org. tonight at 10:00 eastern we'll continue the conversation with a 360 special town hall at 10:00 eastern time. that's it for us. thanks for watching. trayvon martin could have been me. >> president obama breaks his silence, what he says about trayvon martin and his thoughts on stand your ground. >> that's the real face of terror. >> the rolling stone cover featuring tsarnaev infuriated a lot of people and prompted a national dialogue. now a police officer has risked his career. so here's the question, is it harmless or is it irresponsible? and now, a week after the royal due date, the wait is still on. the world is on edge for kate's

baby. we're still on royal baby watch. good morning, everyone. so glad you're with us. 6:00 here on the east coast. welcome to "your new day." >> protesters gearing up for a day filled with rallies across the nation. it is being called justice for trayvon. we'll have more on that in just a moment. we begin this new day with 17 really extraordinary minutes from president obama. >> yeah, speaking from the heart. they were his most extensive and personal comments on race as a president. here's white house correspondent jessica yellen. >> reporter: white house officials tell me that president obama has been watching the reaction to the verdict in african-american community and other communities across the nation all week. they say he's talked to his family about it and then to his team, finally thursday night he decided he would like to speak to the american people. and together they decided that

the white house press briefing room would be the best venue because he can speak there at length and in personal terms. so he surprised the press on friday by stepping behind the podium right before jay carney's daily press briefing. president obama broke his silence offering his own experiences as a window into frustrations and sadness in the african-american community. >> when trayvon martin was first shot, i said that this could have been my son. another way of saying that is trayvon martin could have been me 35 years ago. >> reporter: he spoke in uncharacteristically blunt and personal terms. >> there are very few african-american men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping a department store. that includes me. there are very few african-american men who haven't

had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. that happens to me, at least before i was a senator. those sets of experiences inform how the african-american community interprets what happened one night in florida. and it's enescapable for people to bring those experiences to bear. >> reporter: for a president who often offers color blind answers to questions about race -- >> and the best thing that i can do for the african-american community or the latino community or asian community, whatever community is to get the economy as a whole moving. >> reporter: his comments were a striking departure. >> there's a lot of pain around what happened here. >> reporter: president obama said his team is weighing a number of policy responses to trayvon martin's death.

training state and local officials to avoid racial profiling, encouraging states to reconsider stand your ground laws, backing new programs that support young black men. >> is there more we can do to give them a sense that their country cares about them and values them and is willing to invest in them? >> reporter: the president made clear he respects the jury's decision. >> they rendered a verdict. and once the jury spoken, that's how our system works. >> reporter: but says he believes the reaction to the verdict has to do with something larger. >> and that all contributes, i think, to a sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario that from top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath might

have been different. i just ask people to consider if trayvon martin was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk? and do we actually think that he would have been justified in shoot ping mr. zimmerman who followed him in a car because he felt threatened? and if the answer to that question is at least ambiguous, then et seems to me that we might want to examine those kinds of laws. >> reporter: sources tell me president obama has not spoken with trayvon martin's parents. although he did acknowledge them in his remarks in the press briefing room also in his comments the president suggested that he believes race relations in america are improving with every generation. victor? poppy? >> jessica, thank you. you know, we were watching the daily briefing yesterday as we do every day and when the president came in, the newsroom

went silent. when he started to speak about this, it was surprising. >> it was very surprising. he listed off a few things that jay carney is ready to answer all your questions. we're going to tackle immigration but first, this. and then you could hear the silence. it's interesting. sabrina fulton, trayvon martin's mom put out this statement and tracy martin, trayvon's father said we're deeply honored and moved that president obama took the time to speak publicly and at length about our son. so as you heard jessica say, the president hasn't talked directly to the parents but the parents did put out this statement. >> the question is, will this just be something we talk about for a couple days or will this statement have a place in history, much like his 2008 campaign speech on race, much like kennedy on catholicism and johnson on civil rights? will this have a place in history? we'll have discussion coming up. across the country, as we told you at the top of the show, protesters are getting ready for what they're calling national

justice for trayvon day. they want the justice department to bring a federal civil rights case against george zimmerman. of course, you know he was acquitted a week ago today of killing trayvon martin. nick valencia has that story. >> reporter: while trayvon martin supporters protest florida's gun laws at the governor's office friday, other supporters are planning a day of rallies. >> not only here but around the country and express their ang better this verdict. >> reporter: calling it justice for trayvon day, vigils are being planned in 100 cities, often seen side by side, organizers say the father of trayvon martin will be at a rally in miami and his mother will be at one in new york. >> my son was unarmed. and the person that shot and killed him got away with murder. >> reporter: many of the demonstrations are scheduled to take place outside federal courthouses like this one in atlanta. the message to the man that george zimmerman be charged by federal prosecutors. >> we believe that his civil

rights were violated. >> reporter: some protests last weekend turned violent, civil rights leaders are calling for calm, as is the president. >> if i see any violence, then i will mind folks that that dishonors what happened to trayvon martin and his family. >> reporter: siding with martin's family, protesters are demanding a repeal of the stand your ground law that permits deadly force and self-defense with no duty to retreat. after occupying the governor's office, rick scott met with the group. he, too, mourns the death of trayvon martin but he supports the law and won't push to change it. >> i'm not going to call a special session. >> reporter: refusing to take no for an answer, protesters vow to keep up the pressure on lawmakers. >> nick valencia joins us now from miami. nick, these are scheduled to start at noon eastern. how would the preps go, the preparations there in miami at least? >> hey, good morning.

we're standing here on the frinfri fringes of the u.s. courthouse. there is not much going on right now. but as the morning goes on and as the sun comes up, we're expecting a very large crowd to turn out here as we talked about in that piece, the justice department has already pledged a full investigation. but here today, protesters will be pressing for something a little bit more concrete. and the goal, of course, here in florida anyway as these rallies go on across the nation, here in florida, the goal is try to get attention on this controversial stand your ground law. they want the governor to amend it at the very least. victor? >> all right. nick, thank you. let's take a trip around the world now. first to san francisco. the coroner now confirming what was suspected. one of the three people killed in the crash landing two weeks ago was thrown into the runway alive but she died when she was hit by a rescue vehicle. san francisco's fire chief called it a tragic accident. she apologized to the family of

victim, the 16-year-old girl from china. i want to take you to libya now. news there. the former head of u.s. forces in africa is speaking out about that september 11th attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi that, of course, killed ambassador chris stevens and three other americans. former general carter hamm says it was quickly clear to him that the assault on the 9/11 anniversary was the work of terrorists. he made those remarks at the security forum on friday, five days after that attack you'll remember then u.s. ambassador to the united nations susan rice went on the sunday talk shows and said that it was the belief that this was a result of a spontaneous demonstration, not an act of terrorism. critics still pressing the white house for answers on what happened in benghazi. >> now colombia. the rebel group is offering to release a kidnapped american soldier as a gesture gf will to advance peace talks with the

colombian government. they captured kevin scott last month, he is an african war veteran. in the middle east, there is new hope that long stalled peace talks will resume in washington, maybe within days. secretary of state john kerry says the israelis and palestinians may be ready to return to the table. he has been meeting with the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abbas in the west bank on this trip and there are reports israel agreed to palestinian demands to release some palestinian prisoners to ease negotiations. canadian investigators say not enough breaking force was applied to a runway train that slammed into the center of a quebec town and ignited an intern yoe. the unmanned train got out of control because it wasn't fully immobilized. it was carrying oil tankers that exploded in the july 6th crash. at least 38 people were killed. and a top secret court now says that the government can

keep collecting data about our phone calls. the surveillance program is the same one exposed by nsa leaker edward snowden. that program has been renewed before but in an unprecedented move, officials are now acknowledging the renewal for the first time publicly in an attempt to be more transparent after all the criticism the administration received. more southern california residents may have to pick up and leave because of that raging wildfire. the mountain fire has already destroyed several homes, burned 25,000 acres. firefighters are trying to protect the home -- the town about 6,000 people have been told to leave. the fire which started monday is only about 15% contained. all right. it is hot. you are feeling it across the country. the eastern half of this nation where temperatures are expected to soar once again today into the 90s. but relief may finally be in sight. let's bring in our meteorologist, jennifer delgado. >> you got lucky today.

typically you're in new york and mentioning earlier how hot it is in new york. of course, when you get into the subways. but here in atlanta, we're a little cooler than new york. right now we're looking at excessive heat warnings in place from anywhere you can see from washington, d.c., all the way up to areas including massachusetts. that means we're going to see heat index values around 107 degrees. still today alone. the good news is today is the last day of this heat wave. now as i show you the temperatures out there, it is still very steamy. 81 in new york. 81 in boston. 77 in scranton. relief already hid the midwest. you can see the temperatures are actually cooler this hour in the mid 70s for areas like chicago as well as st. louis. it's all because of this frontal system that's making its way over to the northeast and that is what's going to be providing the relief. here ce the negative. we do have a chance for severe storms to pop-up later on this afternoon for areas like ohio all the way up into the northeastern part of new england

and that includes areas of maine and boston, massachusetts. so the main threat today is going to be large hail as well as damaging winds. let me show you high temperatures for today, tomorrow to show you the cooldown on the way for new york today, high of 93 degrees. by monday, you drop down to 84. that is even below average in the same for areas like washington, d.c. so today is the last day of the bad news. poppy? >> last day of the bad news and heat. did you say large hail? >> yes, chance for hail out there, yeah. >> hey, you know what? just watch the skies. make sure your car is in the garage if you have one. >> what i want you to take notice of is she started by saying atlanta is a little cooler than new york. >> just like last weekend. >> i'm just saying, it's every weekend. >> but where are you going next weekend? >> next weekend, new york. all right. just ahead on "new day," revealing the other side of the accused boston bomber. she got me there. we'll tell you why a boston police officer risked his career to release images of a bloody

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a new york woman accused of defrauding the fund for boston bombing victims is under arrest this morning. massachusetts attorney general says andrea gouse was awarded half a million dollars after claiming to have suffered a traumatic brain injury in that attack but acting on a tip officials discovered that she wasn't even in boston on the day of the bombings. >> there is more backlash following the release of that controversial "rolling stone" cover. a police sergeant released thez images of dzhokhar tsarnaev to counter the one shown in the "rolling stone" story. >> that officer is now face ag hearing next week to determine whether he can remain on the police force. jason carroll has been looking into these developments. good morning, jason. >> reporter: poppy, victor, the police sergeant felt conflicted about releasing the photos. he also felt strongly the "rolling stone" cover was insult and hurtful to survivors so this

was his way of helping. these new photos showing a much different picture of joe har tsarnaev, captured by police. a bloody face, his hands up, the laser from a sniper rifle trained on his forehead. a vastly different image from the one depicted in the "rolling stone" cover. massachusetts state police sergeant shawn mervy says he was so angry with rolling stone's cover he released these new photographs to "boston" magazine. the police tactical photographer told the magazine, "what "rolling stone" did is wrong. the guy is evil. this is the real boston bomber, not someone fluffed and buffed for the cover of "rolling stone." >> i think that is the real face of terror. >> reporter: "boston" magazine's editor thought the cover sent the wrong message. >> i am genuinely worried about the impact on the families of the victims and i think he was also worried that certain impressionable people might be

lured to replicate that by the glamorous looking photo that was on the "rolling stone" cover. >> reporter: tsarnaev's first public appearance was in court last week. he pleaded not guilty to 30 federal charges including four killings while images like these are already having an impact, some say the focus is all wrong. >> i think they should focus the attention on the brave people and the people who lost their lives, not the monster who caused it all. >> reporter: apparently murphy didn't want "rolling stone" to have the last say so he released the photos himself. he said the release of the photos was not authorized by the massachusetts state police. murphy was suspended for a day and now faces a hearing next week to determine his status. poppy? victor? >> jason carroll in new york, thank you. quick break. we'll be back.

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we have more now on this morning's bleacher report. i didn't realize it had been that long. >> me either. >> it has been a while. we'll see if he can make the chase this weekend. age is just a number at this year's open championship. as a 49-year-old leads after two rounds. maybe the more impressive number might be 22. that is how many golfers after saturday within five shots off the pace. in scotland, tiger woods is among those very much in contention. on 18, tiger's only birdie on the back nine, par for the day, two under for the championship. tiger chasing a griz willed veteran, miguel jimenez. he broke his leg earlier in the year. now he enters the weekend poised to be the oldest major champ ever. him inhe is tees off at 10:20 a.m. eastern. today, ten minutes after tiger woods. you'd have to be an eternal optimist to find a positive about the houston astros these

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he spoke friday about being followed in a department store as a young black man, also hearing car doors lock as he crossed the street. that is before he was a senator, the president said. his remarks came six days after the not guilty verdict in the george zimmerman trial. number three, police in houston freed four men from a home where they were being held captive, possibly for years. they're all adults and may have been homeless. police say they were lured to the home with the promise of food and cigarettes and then were locked up. and may have been forced to turn over their disability checks to their captor. we'll have much more on this next hour. number four, relief, finally, from a week of scorching heat across much of the country. that relief is in sight. storms already cooling off the upper midwest. now they're pushing east where the heat index in washington to boston has been topping 100 degrees. get this, in pennsylvania, it was so hot that amtrak officials slowed down the trains in case the heat had warped the tracks.

>> wow. and number five, a woman -- this is tragic. a woman has died after falling out of a rollinger coster in texas. this happened yesterday. witnesses say she came out of her seat on the steep turn. >> one of the witnesses was next in line for the ride when the cart showed up with an empty seat. that man, gabe flores, joins us by phone. you say the victim's son was sitting next to her. when the ride pulled up, he said let me out, my mom fell off. what else did you see and hear? take us to that moment. >> right. and actually, the man was sitting next to a woman and they were both saying let me out. let me out. my mom fell off. my mom fell off. i need to go find her. and the park workers were kind of taken aback by it and didn't really know if he was serious. once they realize he was being serious, they rushed to go assist her. >> and i know, gabe, i was

reading about this more. it sounds like this man was somewhere in his 30s, it sounds like. she may have been an older woman. is that right? >> right. yes. that's correct. >> and park officials actually blocked him because he started to sort of try to run around to try to find his mother. >> right. he was pretty broken up as you would imagine. so he was doing whatever he could to try to get to where she was. and they had to kind of keep him in one area and make sure he didn't go down there and injure himself. >> tell us about this ride. people have ridden roller coasters and feel the moment where you leave the seat and feel your thighs hit the bar. what was the harnest situation here? >> the harness, it wasn't anything that came over your shoulder. it is a lap bar. just a bar that went over your lap. and i haven't ridden the texas giant since they remade it. they redid it a couple years ago. it used to be all wood enand enw

there are steel tracks on it. you definitely get air time on that ride. there are parts where you're leaving your seat. it's very possible that that lap bar did release when she lifted on the turn like that. >> take us through what happened to you. you were standing at the gate next to get on the roller coaster when it pulled up. we know they closed down the ride. they're investigating. but the rest of the park is open. but what happened to you? did they just say sorry. everyone has to leave now? >> well, initially, they were still kind of confused and didn't really know what was going on. and me and my girlfriend, we were at the front of the gate. we still wanted to ride. but we didn't know if this man was joking or not. and after a very short period of time we realized he wasn't joking. and the workers, we asked if the ride is going to be shut down? he said i really don't know right now. i'm trying to assess the

situation. and we're just trying to figure out what all the facts are. and so just from standing there for a couple minutes, we realized this is going to be something very serious and after a while, we decided it will be best for us to leave the area and let the medical staff and the six flags staff just take care of everything. >> yeah. traumatic, i'm sure, especially for the people waiting to get on that ride and the son of the woman would was lost. gabe flores, thank you for talking with us. we all ride roller coasters and know that moment, that feeling when you leave the seat and you think am i safe? >> i'm terrified, i've always been terrified of them. and i don't think i'll be getting on another one. it is not something i enjoy and it really scares me. >> this investigation continues into exactly what happened. >> it is rare. >> yeah, very rare. >> this is very rare. >> so one year ago today a gunman shot dozens of people during a showing of the dark knight rises. it was at a theater in aurora, colorado. >> yeah, i was there. it was a tragedy. last night family, friends, and

actors gathered to remember the victims of that tragedy and other recent gun violence. they read the names of the shooting victims from aurora, newtown and across the country and called for stricter gun control. >> ted rollins spoke to a victim from aurora. >> the movie theater shooting was so emotional for everybody here in the city after roara and those emotions are coming back as they mark the one-year anniversary. >> somebody is shooting in an auditorium. >> reporter: the chaos and fear inside the aurora century 16 theater is what 23-year-old steve barton remembers a year after getting shot in the neck and chest. >> i remember landing in the center. as that detonated, there was this flash of light, the front right emergency exit and this

huge booming noise was echoing off the walls. it looked and smelled and seemed like fireworks. and i thought someone was playing a prafrpg nk. i couldn't really see the figure behind the gun. suddenly i felt this immense pressure against my body and my neck in particular. i knew in that incident i had been shot. >> reporter: a lot has changed. the theater where 12 people died and 70 others were injured has reopened. the accuse ed shooter is claimi insanity. the national debate over guns which grew after aurora and then exploded after newtown continues. steve barton joined other victims of gun violence friday to remember the aurora victims and called for stiffer gun laws. tom sullivan lost his son during the shootings. he'd like to see restrictions on high capacity magazines. >> a guy walked into a movie theater with 100 round drum and one second my son was watching a movie and the next second he was

dead. >> she died shielding her students from the gunman. >> reporter: carly soto's sister was a first grade teacher killed in the newtown massacre. she came to aurora to honor the victims who died in the theater shooting. >> from a movie theater to an elementary school to a church, it's all different, folks. we all share the same grief and we all share, you know, the wanting to change our gun laws. >> reporter: a handful of gun rights advocates were also there peacefully protesting the event. police kept the two sides apart. >> why come to their event on this day? >> well, it's an event for all coloradans to remember that tragedy. it's also a tragedy that a fire arm was not allowed to be used in the theater that may have prevented that tragedy. >> grace mcdonald, age 7. >> reporter: for more than ten hours, volunteers took turns naming thousands of names of gun

violence victims ending with a moment of silence at 12:28 a.m., the moment the shootings started in the theater changing lives forever. there are a couple other events planned for this weekend to commemorate the one-year anniversary. one couple inside the theater during the shooting has chosen this weekend to get married. poppy? victor? >> ted, thank you for that. the motor city, stalling out. we're going to talk about the city's beleaguered finances and the tens of thousands of city workers and retirees caught in the middle. how can i help you? oh, you're real? you know i'm real! at discover, we're always here to talk.

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17 minutes before the top of the hour. let's take a look at your money now. the dow ticked down just at tin bit on friday. it marked a fourth straight week of gains. reassurance from fed chief ben bernanke regarding the government's stimulus program helped push the stocks up. >> the motor city is running out of gas. big story this week. just a day after declaring bankruptcy on thursday, a judge actually ordered the city to withdraw the bankruptcy filing declaring it unconstitutional but michigan's attorney general says he'll immediately try to appeal that decision. meantime, a significant part of what drove detroit into bankruptcy is pensions that the city just can't afford. tens of thousands of current and retired city workers could see significant cuts to the pensions that they were promised.

>> i did everything i could. i did my part. and now this is their part in the bargain. >> promises made to city workers. now those promises can't be kept because detroit is more than $18 billion in debt. >> we paid a percentage of our wages every year into that. it's not something being given to us. it's our money. >> reporter: detroit emergency manager filed for bankruptcy and he's proposed cutting the city's debt by 83%. that will hit city workers and retirees. is it likely that they'll have to see concessions made? >> there are going to have to be some concessions. >> reporter: government officials say it's gotten this bad, 78,000 abandoned buildings, 40% of the street lights don't work, and average police response time is 58 minutes. >> you call the police now, you wonder if they're coming. >> reporter: michael wells and

januar janet witson worked for the public library for 30 years. what will this mean for you? >> it will mean reduction in the monthly pension check. >> i believe at this point it would mean i would lose my home. >> reporter: they're willing to take cuts if the city improves. >> if i've given up something, okay, and i now have a police department that responds on a 911 call, if i have ems when i'm having an emergency, if the lights are turned on in the city, but if it's simply to pay off the bond holders and the insurers and all of these other issues are still there, then not only has my city not improved but i've gone down through as well. >> what would happen if we didn't declare bankruptcy? detroit would continue to go down hill. and down hill to what point? so while people say this will

probably be the lowest day in detroit's history, isn't that a good thing instead of having a lower day tomorrow? >> reporter: the enormity of detroit's bankruptcy hit washington friday. >> can we help detroit? we are now going through exactly in detail the question is we don't know at this point. >> that's the anxiety. that's what a lot us are concerned about is the unknown. >> okay. >> you know, there are a lot of unknowns about detroit, as you saw. we were there just yesterday reporting on this bankruptcy. a lot of unknowns. and we all hope that there are brighter days ahead for detroit. right now this city is facing the stigma of bankruptcy and also millions and millions in legal fees to try to fight this out in court. and exit bankruptcy. so we want to show you the images. you heard in that piece, we talked about the 78,000 abandoned structures. just in the city of detroit. 78,000. that is part of the real problem here. we want to show you pictures of the city, how it has changed.

these were taken by a photographer for an online site. >> this is st. luke's hospital. it was abandoned and then later ravaged by fire. okay. so we got pictures here. these are the offices in 2009. and then take a look at the offices now. and this building just sits in the city. former kitchen in 2009. we have that picture again. the kitchen. and then take another look here. you know, it's sad. i've got a lot of really good friends from detroit. and i got a tweet yesterday from a good friend from the d, as she calls it. she said, be gentle. >> i think i spent years, the past five years reporting there a lot. it's this wonderful city of people with great determination and hope. and i do not think that this is the end for detroit or detroit is down-and-out thement have a long road ahead for them. but these are the images you see. it's right to show them because you do have all these band ond structures blight. it is really holding the city

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it is the royal birth that everyone is waiting for including the queen. britain's queen elizabeth said this week she would very much like to see the baby arrive because she's going on holiday. >> i love that. hey, kid, i have things to do. come on. we're talking about, of course, the duke and duchess of cambridge. much anticipated, the addition to their family. let's go to katie nichol in london. so we're a week late, or are we? did the media confuse the due date here, katie? >> well, that's a good point. are we actually late? possibly not. there were reports that yesterday was the due date, not last saturday. you know what i think it comes down to? no one really knows. apart from the couple. one thing is for sure, this baby is making an appearance and i will say it will be in the next couple day that's people speculate it may not be until august if yesterday was the

correct due date. first baby, she could be two weeks overdue. i'm told they won't let her go past ten days. they will, at that point, induce the baby. you have to remember we've had incredibly hot weather over here. it doesn't look like it at the moment. but we've had a heat wave. it will be uncomfortable for her carrying around that big of a bump at this time. >> yeah, but she's not sitting in front of the window in a box fan getting a hot breeze. >> maybe she is. >> okay. >> who knows? well, let me tell you, if she is in london and, of course, we don't know whether she's in london at the moment. i think she is in another town. they're living in a small two bedroom cottage without air conditioning. so the box fan might be a very likely commodity. >> can we go over the names that are getting the most odds put on them right now? and also the fact that

apparently everyone gets a special minted coin. >> if your baby is lucky enough to be born on the future heir's birthday, you'll be sent a beautiful silver one pound coin. if your baby is not born and you still want that coin, you have to pay 60 pounds for it. so any expectant mother, try to coincide your birth date with catherine and you'll be lucky. top of the list, it hasn't changed much. top of the list is elizabeth, alexandra, charlotte is one of the most popular names, and for a boy, george and jam. i would expect to see philip in there with the reference to the duke. the royals tend to name their children with ancestors in mind. >> we're waiting and watching. this is victor's favorite story. we're on baby watch here. katie nichol, you're on top of it for us. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> and some serious news here back state side. more than 100 cities it's national justice for trayvon

day. and our next hour, we'll take you to miami where trayvon martin's father is set to join demonstrators in demanding new charges against the man who killed his son. la's known definitely for its traffic, congestion, for it's smog. but there are a lot of people that do ride the bus. and now that the busses are running on natural gas, they don't throw out as much pollution to the earth. so i feel good.

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good morning, everyone. i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm victor blackwell. this is "new day saturday." we're starting this morning as demonstrators in more than 100 cities prepare for what's being called national justice for trayvon day. >> they want the justice department to bring a federal civil rights case against george zimmerman, the man acquitted a week ago today of murdering trayvon martin. joining us now from miami, our nick valencia. nick, thank you for being with us. you've been covering this. i understand tracy martin, trayvon's dad, is planning to be there today? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. he'll be one person among the dozens and dozens of people that show up here at the rally. it is expected to start at 10:00 a.m. now it's been one week to the day since george zimmerman was found not guilty. as we mentioned, poppy, trayvon martin supporters in protest of that decision have found out across the country and more than 100 cities to protest. it's a two-pronged approach

nationwide. they'll be trying to get the department of justice to intervene in the george zimmerman case and here in florida, activists are trying to get a clafrhange to that controversial stand your ground law. in tallahassee, protesters have been camped out at the capitol for days trying to get the governor to amend that stand your ground law. he said he's not budging. >> victor, you were there in tallahassee reporting on this all week. >> and they're still there. they say they had that meeting. but what they want is an overturn of the law. they want the end to zero tolerance policies. and they want to have a real conversation about racial profiling. protesters want the charges taking this outside of florida. i want our viewers to listen to what the president said about that yesterday. >> i know that eric holder is reviewing what happened down there. but i think it's important for people to have some clear expectations here.

traditionally, these are issues of state and local government. the criminal code and law enforcement is traditionally done at the state and local levels, not at the federal levels. >> no hard yes or no if those charges will be filed. but, nick, does this discourage the organizers? >> absolutely not. in fact, we spoke to the producer who is still in tallahassee yesterday. he said 5:00 p.m. that building at the capitol, it closed. but the protesters were allowed to stay throughout the weekend. the deal was that if they left any time during the weekend they wouldn't ab loud back in until 8:00 a.m. but even though the governor has already said he's not going to budge on the stand your ground law, protesters don't seem to be all that discouraged. >> all right. nick valencia for us in miami. and we'll take a look at other protests across the country. nick, thank you. a little bit of everything

on twitter from a simple thank you to accusations of race baiting after president obama's deeply personal remarks on race. the president speaking on the not guilty verdict in the death of trayvon martin over the accused murder of trayvon martin, the not guilty verdict. he recalled being followed while shopping in a department store as a young man. his words were his most extensive on race as a president. listen. >> trayvon's parents released a statement through their attorney. it says, in part, president obama sees himself in trayvon. this is a beautiful trip unite to our boy. they go on to thank the president and first lady for those words yesterday. >> also today, this marks the

one-year mark since the deadly rampage at that movie theater in aurora, colorado. that is where 12 people were killed, 58 others were wounded when a gunman barged into a screening of "the dark knight rises" and just shot up in the crowd all over the place. volunteers marked the anniversary by reediading the ns of thousands of gun violence victims for ten hours. they started yesterday and finished at 12:28 this morning, the exact time the aurora shootings started. james holmes, the man accused in the shooting, he has plead not guilty by reason of insanity. now to houston. police freed four men who were held captive at a house possibly for years. >> yeah. this is a very troubling story, especially after what happened to those three girls in cleveland. cnn's reporter is in houston with the latest. ed? >> reporter: it is a bizarre story that houston police detectives are investigating. on friday, houston police were called out to a neighborhood on

the north side of the city. when they arrived in this neighborhood and looked inside this house, they say they discovered four men who were being held against their will in a garage area of this house. now authorities say that inside there were four men ranging in the age between 50 and 80 years old. they were malnourished and had to be taken to the hospital for treatment and checkups. now authorities say that they are still trying to unravel what exactly has been going on here, especially trying to figure out how long these men had been held against their will. they say that it is possibly more than weeks, possibly months at least that they were held inside this house. now detectives say that they were lured into this house by someone, a suspect that has been taken into custody and they were lured into the house with the promise of receiving cigarettes and possibly beer. >> they said they were lured there with the promise of cigarettes and food and once they arrived at the address, they were not allowed to leave and were kept in these

conditions. >> reporter: houston police say they do have a suspect in custody but aren't releasing the person's name because that person has not been charged. those charges could come as early as saturday morning. we saw on friday afternoon the person being put in the back of a police car. now police detectives also do say they suspect that some of the men were telling them that their government welfare checks possibly social security checks or veterans checks had been taken from them by the suspect. so that is one of the avenues and one of the things that investigators here are taking a much closer look at as a possible motive. victor, back to you. >> all right. ed, thanks. another story in texas for you this morning. this is very sad story. a roller coaster at six flags over in arlington, texas, will remain closed today after a woman was thrown from the roller coaster and died. witnesses say the victim came out of her seat on a steep turn yesterday on the texas giant. that's what the roller coaster is called. last hour we spoke with a man

who was right next in line to get on that ride. he tells us what he learned, how it happened. he also told us that he saw the victim's son who tried to get his mother. listen. >> he was pretty broken up as, i mean, you would imagine. so he was doing whatever he could to try to get to where she was. and they had to kind of keep him in one area and make sure he didn't go down there and injure >> very disturbing. our thoughts for him and that whole family. >> and thank him for sharing the story this morning. first, authorities feared this happened. >> the coroner says this teenager from china, see her right there, she was alive when she was flung out of the plane that crashed in san francisco two weeks ago. >> live on the runway only to be run over and killed by a rescue vehicle. the girl may have been covered in this fire fighting foam that you see in all the video and no

one could see her. san francisco's fire chief has apologized for the teenager's family. the story of two african-american men, one climbed to the top becoming the other fell to the ground s,- losing his life to a gunshot. and, you know, i said african-american man, we must remember that trayvon martin was not a man. he was a boy. he was 17 years old. we'll discuss the president's remarks on martin and race relations with our panel. that's coming up next. [ female announcer ] waiting, waiting... feel like you're growing older... waiting to look younger? don't wait. [ female announcer ] get younger looking skin fast. with new olay regenerist micro-sculpting cream. the next generation

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welcome back. 12 minutes after the hour. the president of the united states describing the pain of being followed in a department store simply because of his skin

color. >> president obama's 17-minute remarks on race are certain the most personal and extensive of his presidency. we want to bring in two folks to talk about it. >> we have a syndicated opinion columnist. he joins us from san diego. earl lewis is a politics director from new york. gentlemen, thank you for joining us. i want to start with you, earl. we want to start with a bit of what the president said yesterday and then come to you after that. let's listen. >> there are very few african-american men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping a department store. that includes me. there are very few african-american men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. that happens to me, at least before i was a senator. >> now the president released

the statement after the verdict a week ago. why, earl, do you think he made these comments at this time? >> well, a couple things are going on. first and foremost, i think when people are organizing rallies in 100 cities as they are for later today, asking for federal involvement in this case, the president naturally politically wants to get out ahead of it. i think also he saw a week of conversations in which it's been remarkable. you know, half the country is talking past the other half of the country. and so part of what this president wanted to do and frankly part of what he promised implicitly and explicitly when he ran for office is a conversation on race would be something that he would try to help the country have so that instead of shouting past each other a lot of the noise and anger of the past week, he wanted to do something more rational. there are a bunch of protesters occupying the governor's office in tallahassee. this is not over for a lot of

people. >> i read something you wrote in the daily beast before the president's comments. you mention this idea of being color mute. that we don't talk about race and then you write here, "we mostly avoid talking about race publicly until it's unavoidable at which time we have a maximum of misunderstanding thanks to the long years of silence and guaranteed to talk past one another." did the president yesterday talk past most of the country or portion of the country or was the delivery helping to really reach some people? >> i think he was trying to sort of recover some balance in the conversation. i've already seen enough commentary to know that there are people who were really turned off by what he said. he was trying to bring things forward and try to sort of make sure that we don't lose sight of the fact that there are real people with real pain who need to be part of this conversation. so many cases you'll hear a run

of statistics. people say, well, young black men are more statistically likely to do x, y and z. in his point this is a 17-year-old kid. he had a future. he had a family who loved him. he had, you know, no reason to be treated the way that he was treated. and whether it's a tragedy or something we can maybe deal with through law and a change in attitudes and policies, we should at least acknowledge that. and the president said several times yesterday, the mere fact it wasn't even acknowledged is what has got a lot of people upset. i think that is really universal. >> i want to bring you in on this. we were talking. you said, you know, this is not just something many people wanted to see from president obama in terms of getting personal and talking about his own personal experiences. but what they want to see from every president. frankly, a lot of folks think they wouldn't have heard this from president obama in a first term. >> absolutely. this is something we expect from our presidents now. if you look back to when this

really changed in our politics, it was bill clinton in 1992 and for the eight years when he was in office he moted so much. he told us so much about his background, you know, told so much about stories in college and law school and growing up and the like. and coming on the heels of bush 41 who didn't do any of that, americans are accustom to that. this is simply the way we want our presidents to deal with us. we want to know more about you. we want you to open up and so when the president went off and talked about the i, me, my, that was golden. that was perfect. that was probably the best part of it for me. the problem, though, is the lead was buried in the lack of justice department involvement in this. and another quality of the president has is he tends to substitute words for actions. we see it in the immigration debate and other places where he thinks what do you want from me? i said something nice the other day. i gave a great speech. are african-americans and others who want justice in this case, are they going to be satisfied

with those pretty words and all those is, mes and mys? >> the lead buried here is what you're saying is he is pointing to probably less likelihood of charges brought, civil rights charges. >> right. people want that. people who want some sort of justice to be in this case. tend of the day, it's just nice words. it's just some sense that he empathizes with folks that are frustrated. unless you use the power of your office -- i'm not sure that the justice department shouldn't pursue charges in this case. at the end of the day, the president has shown time and again a willingness to substitute words for actions. pretty words for solid actions. i don't think in this case african-americans are going to buy it. >> the president yesterday was very clear about saying he doesn't trust politicians to have this conversation. you're saying that politicians should have this conversation. i want to take you back to

something, i'm glad we're having this conversation, back to something you wrote in april of 2012 right after george zimmerman was charged. you wrote this case, cries out for clarity and resolution is only in a courtroom. whatever the verdict turns out to be, let's hope both camps are mature enough to accept it. you ended by saying, "i'm not hopeful." we had this conversation many times over the years. after the rodney king verdict, after o.j., now after trayvon, will we ever be able to get to a point where we see the facts, accept the verdict and move on beyond color or should people in these jury rooms be allowed to consider the long history of race's role in america? >> well, i think the latter. i think there is nothing wrong with considering addition to the facts of the case and the law, the context in which this took place. it was prosecutors and both sets of lawyers and the judge in this case that did everything they could to keep race out of it. that is the strongest argument

for why you won't see charges from the justice department. it's difficult to create a civil rights case when the entire case we saw in florida, they went out of the ways to keep race out of it. context is important and people should be able to consider those things as well. pointing back to the column, i was right about some of that and wrong, too. i thought we would get clarity and fi nalt from going to court. boy did we not. you know, we have gone to court. we had a trial. now we have a verdict. and we still don't have clarity as to what happened that night or a sense of resolution and a sense of comfort around the country with the verdict. >> at least we have discussion and we don't have violence. that is something to be pretty proud of. >> earl and rubin, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. coming up, we're not only talking about the royal baby this weekend, we're also talking about royal treatment. how one airline is rolling out the red carpet for its most frequent flyers. plus, kanye west making

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yesterday. she died at a six flags in texas. witnesses say they came out of her seat on a steep turn. her family was riding with her. the parks ride at six flags over texas is closed pending an investigation. three, now just a day after detroit declared bankruptcy, a judge ordered the city to withdraw the filing declaring it unconstitutional. michigan's attorney general says he'll appeal that decision. the motor city has a total of $18.5 billion in debt. now a major contributor to that number is unfunded pensions for city workers. number four, the tv hit "glee" delayed the production of the next season after the tragic death of one of its stars, corey montief. he was found dead in his hotel room last week from heroin and alcohol overdose. production will now start early next month. number five, the world is waiting for britain's royal baby to arrive including the media.

everybody is camped outside st. mary's hospital in london. but now there is speculation that the duchess of cambridge might give birth to a hospital closer to her parents. queen elizabeth says she doesn't mind if it's a boy or girl am she just wants the baby to arrive soon. >> yeah, because she's going on vacation. >> going on holiday, she says. >> very important, possibly historic speech from the president yesterday. his deeply personal remarks on race igniting a mixed reaction on social media today. many applauding the president for the personal remarks. others calling them inflamatory. >> yeah, no matter how you view them, president obama's comments made against the backdrop of the trayvon martin case were his most extensive on race as president. here is jessica yellen. >> poppy? victor? white house officials tell me president obama has been watching the reaction to the verdict both in the african-american community and in other communities across the nation all week. they say he's talked to his family about it and then to his

team. finally thursday night he decided he would like to speak to the american people. and together they decided that the white house press briefing room would be the best venue because he can speak there at some length and in personal terms. so he surprised the press on friday by stepping behind the podium right before jay carney's daily press briefing. president obama broke his silence offering his own experiences as a window into frustrations and sadness in the african-american community. >> when trayvon martin was first shot, i said that this could have been my son. another way of saying that is trayvon martin could have been me 35 years ago. >> reporter: he spoke in uncharacteristically blunt and personal terms. >> there are very few african-american men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping a

department store. that includes me. there are very few african-american men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. that happens to me, at least before i was a senator. those sets of experiences inform how the african-american community interprets what happened one night in florida. and it's inescapable for people to bring those experiences to bear. >> reporter: for a president who often offers color blind answers to questions about race -- >> and the best thing that i can do for the african-american community or the latino community or asian community, whatever community is to get the economy as a whole moving. >> reporter: his comments were a striking departure. >> there's a lot of pain around what happened here.

>> reporter: president obama said his team is weighing a number of policy responses to trayvon martin's death. training state and local officials to avoid racial profiling, encouraging states to reconsider stand your ground laws, backing new programs that support young black men. >> is there more we can do to give them a sense that their country cares about them and values them and is willing to invest in them? >> reporter: the president made clear he respects the jury's decision. >> they rendered a verdict. and once the jury spoken, that's how our system works. >> reporter: but says he believes the reaction to the verdict has to do with something larger. >> and that all contributes, i

think, to a sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario that from top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different. i just ask people to consider if trayvon martin was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk? and do we actually think that he would have been justified in shooting mr. zimmerman who followed him in a car because he felt threatened? and if the answer to that question is at least ambiguous, then et seems to me that we might want to examine those kinds of laws. >> reporter: sources tell me president obama has not spoken with trayvon martin's parents. although he did acknowledge them in his remarks in the press briefing room also in his comments the president suggested that he believes race relations in america are improving with every generation. victor? poppy?

all right. thanks. breaking news just in to cnn. we're learning a loud explosion happened today in terminal three of the beijing international airport. that is according to the chinese state news agency. >> what we know, it's not a lot yet, this is what we know from this report, that a man set off a homemade explosive. some sort of homemade explosive inside the arrivals terminal, arrival's area of terminal three. the man is injured but at this point there are no other casualties. of course, we're working our sources on the ground. we'll get you more information as soon as we have it. >> all right. we'll stay on top of that breaking news. back here at home, on the lighter side, the emmys. turns out you can win a television award even if you're not on television. we'll tell you about it next. and some paula deen fans are buttering up the naysayers,

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announced this week for the prime time emmy awards. here's the big shocker this year. not a single show on a major tv network was nominated for best dram what. >> so who got a nod? this is a bigger shocker, netflix. yes, the same netflix you rank the dvds from, they produce their own content, too, and it's pretty good. the program "house of cards" picked up nine nominations including best drama. is this a real game changer? let's talk about this. ebony steel joins us. we also have jen hobby. thanks for being with us, guys. >> my pleasure. >> the nominations come out and there is not one on there. let me get this off my chest first. i'm a scandal fan. the idea that that got nominated for best drama really shocks me. >> well, i just think that one of the things that netflix did, it is ingenious to say so many

people are doing binge watching. they took regular shows and put it on where you can rent them from netflix. i think that is awesome. >> one after the next. >> they're getting awards. i feel like, hey, if this tv thing doesn't work out for me, i'm going to audition. i'm cancelling tv. >> is this a game changer? >> yes. it is great news for hollywood. they're coming up with new ways for us to see great programming. and they're realizing that consumers aren't just going to the regular networks anymore. they're going to follow those shows that they love no matter where they have to go to get it. it was a big risk for them, $100 million that they spent to do it. and big rewards. so it's nice to get those accolades like the emmy nomination. >> and i love "house of cards." and do it binge watching. >> you just order it and watch it and get your popcorn ready. >> stream it right down. >> one of the questions is if this is going to broaden out.

youtube has a lot of original content. so that is a big question. >> hey, butter wrappers. who ever thought this would be a protest. paula deen fans think so. so the fans of this butter loving chef, we love that she loves butter, they're sending cleaned butter wrappers to companies like food network, qvc, walmart, it's a protest for dropping deen. the butter itself is paula. and these wrappers are void of butter just like the companies avoided paula. >> you know, obviously there's been a lot of controversy over her. apparently it was an auditor who is behind the campaign. he also created a facebook page we support paula deen. i guess it already has more than 600,000 likes. >> yes. >> what do you make of this protest? >> i think, you know, i read somewhere they called this the lamest protest ever. people that support paula deen, guess what it is called? we support paula deen. that has a ring to it. then you have to think the people getting the letters

because they're the wrappers, i know the people working in the mail room are like, can they just send the whole meal? >> really. >> i'm not sure it's really going to catch on. it seems like a lot of work just for supporting somebody had a that you like to watch on tv. >> you know what does catch on? posting on the facebook pages. we've seen a lot of those since this controversy blew up. >> so who is the highest paid actor in hollywood outside of victor blackburn? >> well, first -- who would you guess? >> well, i already know. >> yeah, i would have guessed tom hanks or will smith. >> i would have said will smith. >> robert downey jr., he is the person making the most money. he earned $75 million last year. okay, you're asking how? well, think of this. "avengers," "iron man 3." they each earned more than $1

billion. >> he is followed by channing tatem, $60 million. he is a relatively new superstar. he brought in $60 million. >> i think those are his tips from "magic mike." i don't know. >> get ready for the butter wrappers. third on the list, $55 million. that's what he brought in. >> mark walberg is at number four. the lesson here is get yourself an action flick series. >> robert downey jr., he is the ultimate come back kid. at one point in the '80s, nobody would bank on him. he was almost uninsurable. and now at the top of the story. >> where are the women? >> you know, i thought about that, too. and i just -- when you by this this whole super hero thing that everybody is in love with, yes, you have zoey and then you just wonder where are they on this? especially when you think about the top five? i would have thought at least a sandra bullock or one person would have been on this list.

>> this is the top five actors. i think it's a good point. where are the women in the super hero movies? >> that's right. >> there is always a love interest. >> why can't they just be the super hero all the time and not the love interest? >> tell them why you're mad. listen, the idea that we have these series and we don't have enough women, i think we're going to talk about that in the future. >> all right. >> ebony and jen, as always, thank you. we appreciate it. >> we'll be right back. you deserve more than justo flexibility and convenience. so here are a few reasons to choose university of phoenix. our average class size is only 14 students.

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in place anywhere you see in orange and red. the temperatures will feel like 106 degrees. that includes washington, d.c., "the new york times," even into boston. but today is the last day of the bad weather and that is the good news. as we take you over and show you what we are going to be dealing with now. keep in mind what we are going to look at is actually some temperatures cooling down courtesy of some rain and that is good news because that means we will send temperatures back where they should be for this time of the year. right now it's 81 degrees in philadelphia and 81 in new york and speaking of new york, let's go live out there so we can get an idea what it looks like out there. yes, you're waking up to kind of a cloudy day out there but guess what, new york? that's hudson river. the showers and thunderstorms will be coming on later this afternoon. and then tomorrow, back into the 80s. right now, as we take you over to our temperatures, we have the 70s right now in parts of the midwest. they were struggling with it yesterday but they are already seeing the cool down. as this is going to happen the

frontal system is making its way to the heat and hovering parts of cleveland and a chance for severe storms to pop up later this afternoon and that chs fins ohio and maine. some storms could produce hail and strong winds. certainly pay close attention to the weather today. but here is the good news, guys. the temperatures are going down. for saturday, new york, 93 degrees. 86 on sunday. and then monday, 84 degrees. you're finally right at average. boston, hello! 78 degrees. that is actual below where they has should be this time of the year. i told you i had good news coming out of the weather center. it just comes tomorrow. >> we will wait. jennifer, thank you. dad is back in the driver's seat as classic ride made possible by a classy son. we got the good stuff next on "new day." to hide. my bill's due today and i haven't paid yet. you can pay up 'til midnight online

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that he missed him so much! >> thanks so much for starting your morning with us. >> "new day" saturday continues right now. trayvon martin could have been me. >> the parents. the lawyers. the president himself have spoken out on the trayvon martin case. now, we're just hours away from rallies across the nation protesting the zimmerman verdict. i do think big brother has gone too far because i have not been charged with, i'm not suspected of committing any crime. >> if you're worried about your privacy, consider this. police may be tracking your can and you probably won't like what they are doing with the information. and now a week after the royal due date, the kate wait has the world on edge. we are still on royal baby watch.

♪ good morning, i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm victor blackwell. demonstrators in more than hundred cities are starting rallies and calling it national trayvon day. >> they are asking charges be against george zimmerman. cnn reporters are on the ground in several cities where protests are planned out today. let's start in miami with our nick valencia. good morning, nick. i understand that tracy martin, trayvon martin's father, is expected to be there at the protest today. >> reporter: yes. he will be here outside the courthouse along with dozens and dozens of others. in fact, the first demonstrator showed up here two hours ago,

two hours ahead of the rally that is supposed to start at 10:00 am here. what they are looking for is a couple of things. here in florida, they want a change to that controversial stand your ground law. they do not agree with it and they also don't agree with the verdict, that not guilty verdict which was given to george zimmerman one week ago today. they are also looking for federal civil rights charges to be brought against george zimmerman. they ver unhappy with with the verdict. more than 100 cities across the united states that will be holding rallies. our alina cho is in new york with the latest there with what is expected to transpire in new york. >> reporter: nick, good morning to you. the headliner in today's rally in new york city will be trayvon martin's mother sybrina fulton and her surviving son jahvaris fulton. the rallies are organized by the reverend al sharpton who is expected to lead today's protest

at one police plaza. there is no telling how big the crowds will be today but one bit of good news is that the weather is dramatically cooler here in one caveat, after an hour after the rally is due to start at noon eastern time, the rain is expected to come down in new york city and that could affect turnout. now i turn to my colleague, athina jones with another protest in the nation's capital, washington, d.c. >> good morning. we are here outside the federal courthouse in washington, d.c. the rally here isn't set to begin for another four hours. i should mention that it looks like it could rain here. we don't know what kind of impact that will have on turnout but, of course, people are gathering here as part of this plan across a hundred cities in the country. there are other rallies going on in wshashington, d.c. but other rallies in support of trayvon martin's family.

we stand by here waiting for this rally here to get under way. back to you guys. >> thank you. stick around for us. folks, as you probably have heard by now, president obama making the deeply personal remarks yesterday at the white house and something that stood out saying that 35 years ago, he could have been trayvon martin. so let's talk about that. let's talk about the remarks on race and the remarks on trayvon martin and the discussion that's been happening in this country all week. those remarks certainly the most personal on race of the president's term thus far. >> reporter: that's right, poppy. these are the most significant remarks i've ever heard him speak on race and on being black in america in such personal terms. i covered the president during his campaign to be president and, yes, he did give a big speech on race in philadelphia during that campaign but we haven't really heard him speak in this personal of terms, using words like i and like me, showing that he personally

relates to this issue of profiling and looks at this case or understands the view that african-americans have when looking at this case. let's listen to some what he had to say yesterday when he spoke. >> very few african-american men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. that happens to me, at least before i was a senator. there are very few african-americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a women clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. that happens often. and i don't want to exaggerate this, but those sets of experiences in form how the african-american community

interprets what happened one night in florida. >> reporter: so there you heard some of what the president said on this i am promimpromptu. the press didn't know the president would show up in the briefing room and deliver about 20 minutes pretty much off the cuff unscripted remarks. he was speaking from the heart with very few notes. no teleprompter and the significant remarks, i had a chance to go out and get some reaction from folks who heard some of those speech. the african-americans especially i spoke to were happy to hear the president speak in this way and use the power of his position in precisely this way. >> i think it's interesting for people on to know the back story here. tell us about how the president made the decision over the past few days to make these public remarks. >> reporter: well, we know from the white house that the president saw -- was watching the coverage and thinking about this verdict over the past seven days, talking to family and friends about their

interpretation of what happened in this case and that he decided on the night before. he decided thursday night that he was going to come out. the white house didn't want to make a big announcement and put it on his schedule. they wanted it to be a moment where he could come out and speak off the cuff in this way and not giving any warning to the press so that is what happened. that's what we saw happen yesterday and it was a pretty lengthy speech to have him speaking with not very much notes but, of course, the president is a black man. he grew up in america. he has a lifetime of experience to draw on and it's clear that he really wanted to come out and speak to this case and also to the larger issue about the way the african-american community interprets this case and other issues of profiling. poppy? >> athena, appreciate the reporting. thank you very much. trayvon martin's parents issued a statement after the president made those remarks saying, in part, that it was a, quote, beautiful tribute to our boy. also saying president obama

sees himself in trayvon. going on to say this is a beautiful tribute to our boy. that from the parents of trayvon martin. this is cnn breaking news. breaking news into cnn. israel says it will release a number of palestinian prisoners. no hard number yet but it calls the move a goodwill gesture. it's believed it's aimed at getting long stalled middle east peace talks back on track. secretary of state john kerry has been crisscrossing the middle east. he says an agreement has been reached that could get israelis and palestinians back to the bargaining table. a palestinian news agency says talks could get under way in washington within days. again, israel is releasing some palestinian prisoners. no names, no hard numbers, but heavyweight prisoners we are hearing. >> and very significant, given the fact that secretary kerry is over there and we are hearing that there could be some progress made. >> and he has been working on

this for months now, trying to get the two sides to the table and this is that goodwill gesture from israel. more breaking news. new information on that explosion earlier today that rattled beijing capital international airport. according to the chinese state news agency, a man set off homemade explosives inside terminal three. >> the man reportedly was hurt but no other injuries have been reported. there's also no word yet on why, why he may have set off those explosiv explosives. it's important to report that there are some reports out there said this was in the arrivals terminal so you think how could he get past security but there are reports saying this is in the arrivals terminal and we are working to determine more details for you. one man injured and no others at this point. >> we are stay on top of those breaking stories for you this morning. now to houston where police have freed four men who were held captive possibly for years. the men were likely homeless. police satisfy they were lured into the house with promise of

food and cigarettes and then they were locked up and fed only scraps. now police have a suspect. cnn's ed lavandera is in houston. ed, what do we know about what happened to these men? the facts we know thus far are really dramatic. >> reporter: good morning, victor. investigators are trying to unravel what went on in this house behind me. the purple wall was once a garage. investigators say it was converted into the space where these four men were found yesterday. they got a call yesterday morning from about a welfare check when they arrived at the scene, police say they found four men being held against their will inside this house. now, authorities are trying to unravel exactly what was going on. was this some sort of home care situation, a group living situation that clearly unregulated and they are trying to figure out if that is what is going on here. there were also four women inside the house that were found. one of them, a caretaker to

these three women. the police consider those four witnesses in all of this and they are spending a lot of time talking to them as well. as you mentioned, police also say these four men had been telling investigators that they were lured to this house with the promise of cigarettes and then forced to turn over government benefit checks like veteran checks and those sort of things. that is another issue that investigators are taking a closer look at. neighbors say when the four men emerged from the home, they looked awful. >> i was in my yard when i seen them coming out in the ambulance and it didn't look good at all. man, they looked like malnutrition. oh, lord. >> oh, my god, it just touched my heart. i feel for them. i don't know. it just really got me hurt. >> reporter: investigators did take one person into custody yesterday afternoon and we saw that person put in the back of a police car yesterday. for now, official charges have

not been filed and because of that, authorities say they are not relievieasing that person'se just yet. >> ed lavandera, thank you so much. another story in texas. sad story. roller coaster over six flags in arlington will remain closed today after a woman was thrown from the roller coaster and died. witnesses say the woman came out of the turn on that roller coaster yesterday that is called the texas giant. earlier we spoke with a man who was next on line to get on the ride when he learned what happened. he actually saw the victim's son who had been on the ride right next to his mother. listen. >> the man was sitting next to a woman and they were both saying, let me out, let me out, my mom fell off, my mom fell off. i need to go find her! and the park workers were kind of taken back by it and didn't really know if he was being serious or not and then they

realized he was being serious so they rushed to go assist her. >> that ride remains closed pending an investigation. the rest of the park we are hearing is open. a tragedy for that woman and her family. in the meantime, las vegas and sin city looked like it had been hit with a hurricane. a powerful storm last night flooded streets and toppled trees and even trapped some tourists. wow! look at that! some tourists inside casinos. i'm seeing this for the first time. some of the water sprayed through this bar. a deejay shot this video and said the pressure on top of the building nearly collapsed the roof. you don't expect to see something like that in vegas. >> unless it's part of the show. sometimes they design it that way. >> which it's not. wow. to the eastern half of this country now. the heat index is expected to soar? once again today past a hundred degrees but relief may finally be in sight.

>> there is a cool light at the end of the tunnel. >> there is. >> let's bring in meteorologist jennifer delgado in the severe weather center. >> we will see the cool weather in part of the northeast tomorrow. we will have the answer to tell you how much rain vegas got at the end of this weather hit. some parts are dealing with cooler weather courtesy of a cold front. we have heat watches and warnings in place across the northeast and including new england. we will see the heat index value up to 106. that is what happens when you add in the humidity. what we are looking at this morning 82 degrees in new york. 83 degrees in atlantic city. it certainly feels very steamy out there. much warmer than that. as we go through the rest of the afternoon, we're going to see ruffle right around temperatures feeling 100 degrees in atlantic city. 96 in new york. and 102 in washington, d.c. of course, this could potentially lead to more problems with heat and

exhaustion as well as heat stroke. people are really running these air-conditioners. we have some video and this is going to show you what crews are doing there. this is that of coned, the energy department there. they are trying to restore power because so many people are using these air-conditionings and cranking it down. that's not what you want to do. you want to use a fan and conserve the energy because your neighbors need energy as well. you can't hog it all over yourself. back to the graphic. today a threat for severe weather for areas including ohio up towards new england and then high temperatures over the next couple of days. they really start to dip. can you see for washington, d.c., you drop down to 86 degrees. on monday, boston, you're the big winner. temperature 78 degrees on monday. i think we found out how much rainfall vegas picked up over there, but maybe we can update you throughout the day. >> wow that vegas video was awesome. >> monsoon season and that is what happens every year. we talk about the monsoon season like in india. you see the images of flooding

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boy or girl, britain's royal baby will be third in line to the throne. >> but, first, he or she has to get here. come on, kid. will today be the day? maximum foster is outside st. mary's hospital. there is speculation that kate might give birth somewhere else else. how about that? >> this is the big question. where is kate?

the issue she keeps going back to her mother's house and then might move back up to london. where is she? it makes sense for her to be near the hospital if she is overdue but psychologist we are speaking to say she should be somebody to avoid all of us and be relaxed and being down there is the best idea. if she goes into early labor and the sensible thing is go to the local hospital which is only half an hour away. we just don't know where she is but it's still an option. >> max, thanks. there are a lot of people who think they watch the prince grow up and then marry and now he is soon to be a father. let's talk about the concerns here for the betting, the excitement. are people in london, the average londoners, are they as excited as reporters appear to be? >> reporter: well, it's interesting.

i think a lot of people here are excited. there is eager anticipation, but also there is a genuine respect for the royal family and they want to give the royal family space. after all this is a very personal event. they are going on with their daily lives and a normal saturday here but a lot of questions which is this going to happen? when was the real due date and how much longer is it going to be? there is a sense of anticipation. >> the queen wl be the first to know, of course, right? and that official announcement outside of buckingham palace? >> yes. actually it's a little unusual in this. as soon as kate goes into labor there will be one announcement to say she has been in the hospital and then we won't have any official announcements until the baby is born. the queen will be the first to know and the parents will be notified shortly if they are not already there. in keeping in traditions, the doctors sign a petition proclaiming the birth of the

baby and they will be brought here with a special car and police escort and placed on the easels behind me in at buckingham palace. we are in the age of social media, after that, a twitter message is likely to come as well. >> twitter message! victor is already following the royal baby. >> i am so excited! >> atika, appreciate it. thank you. all right. some questions here. than an end to mandatory education? the president needs a spanking? really? some of the most interesting flash controversial words of the week from politicians. what politicians think straight ahead. "i'm part of an american success story,"

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let's take a look at political headlines. eliot spitzer is trying for a political comeback. in the early polls it seems voters may be willing to look past his prostitution scandal but when it comes to forgiveness, he says he is not ready to take that for granted just yet. here he is with cnn's alina cho. >> i hope there is forgiveness. i think that is part and parcel and whether that forgiveness extends to me is the question. i'm thrilled to see where the polls are but my focus is on having a message i think will resonate with the public is that i worked very hard as attorney general, as governor, as a prosecutor years back. >> reporter: i know you struggled a lot with this decision. why did you think this was the right time to come back? >> i thought it was a position which was suited to the skills

that i think i have and i hope the public will feel that i have. >> you can catch the rest of alina's spuf with eliot spitzer on new day sunday including his reaction to this new york magazine cover. it's a matchup of spitzer and anthony weiner, another scandal plagued senator in new york. he is rung for mayor. they say education is suffering in this country and we need to dedicate more money and time to educating our children. >> the and we do. >> yes, it is and we do. one state senator is calling for an end to mandatory schooling in his state. utah's state senator osmond says schools and teachers have been forced to take on the roles of parents. here's is a quote. on na country founded on the personal freedoms and unaleanable rights, no parent should be forced by the government to send their child to school under threats of fines and jail time.

>> all right. and next up, representative michele bachmann thinks that president obama needs a spanking. her words, not mine. a spanking from congress. listen. >> he has a per spet wall magic wand and nobody has given him a spanking yet and taken it out of his hand. that what congress needs to do. give the president a major wake-up call and the way we spank the president is we do it through the checkbook. >> so this is a bigger conversation she is having. she is talking about ways to defeat a possible democratic takeover during the next elections and she talks about how the president wants, she said, more people to get amnesty so they can vote for a democrat. >> she says the president's ears should be pinched back. when she says they are the power of the purse they can cut off funding to the executive branch and we will see if congress does anything. so far no response from the obama administration on the call for a spanking. >> certainly not. this is a story we have been

following here on cnn. the mayor of san diego, he's basing allegations of sexual harassment, allegations of groping and fondling female staffers and many are calling for him to step down but he says i'm a hugger and demonstratively. >> he says he plans to stay in office. as far as the harassment claims, one of his female staffers said he made some pretty uncomfortable comments to her in an elevator some time ago. this is her attorney explaining what happened. listen to this. >> there is no circumstance under which it would be appropriate for the mayor to enter into an elevator with my client, or any person who he employs, and to tell them that they would do a better job on that floor if they worked without their panties on. >> i don't even know what to say

after that. >> yeah. very serious allegations he is facing and he completely denies them so this is certainly going to play out out and unfold. we are going to switch gears here. a sad day for a lot of families. today is the one year naerves of tragedy striking aurora, colorado. people are remembering the ones they lost and hearing their emotional stories next. but, first -- ♪ we know it's your videoconference of the day. hi! hi, buddy! that's why the free wifi and hot breakfast are something to smile about. book a great getaway now and feel the hamptonality

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up first, demonstrators in more than 100 cities are preparing for national justice for trayvon day. they want the justice department to bring civil rights charges against george zimmerman who was acquitted a week ago in the murder trial of killing trayvon martin. trayvon martin's parents are expected to be on hand in miami and in new york. >> number two. social media abuzz after president obama's deeply personal remarks on race yesterday. he spoke about being followed in a department store as a young man and about hearing car door locks click as he crossed the street before he was a senator. the president's remarks came six days after the not guilty verdict in the george zimmerman trial. three now. four men have been free fred a home in philadelphia where they have been captive for years. they are all adults and may have been homeless. officials say the victims were lured to the home with the promise of food and cigarettes and then locked up. they may have been forced to turn over their disability

checks to their captor. number four. a woman fell out of a roller coaster yesterday and she died. it happened at six flags in texas. witnesses say she came out of her seat on that ride on the roller coaster. her family was actually ridinging with her. her son next to her. the ride is closed pending an investigation. number five. a day after detroit declared bankruptcy on thursday, a judge has ordered that the city withdraw its filing, declaring it unconstitutional but michigan's attorney general says he is going to immediately try to appeal that decision. what drove detroit to bankruptcy? more than $18 billion of debt. a major contributor to that unfunded pensions for city workers. one year ago today, july 20th, 12 people were murdered, 58 others were wounded in a senseless act of violence. we are talking about the shooting in aurora, colorado movie theater. today we are remembering the

victims. the victims like jessica ghawi had so much of her life ahead of her and only 24 years owned and aspiring sportscaster. i sat down with her mother and her father. >> reporter: a personal as magnetic as her smile. sqesk ghawi lit up not only the room she entered but the lives of those who loved her. >> it was this effort -- ever investence about her. this bigger than life personality. this go for gusto. she had reached for that gold ring and one horrible evening, her dreams, our dreams, so many other people's dreams, were taken. >> reporter: taken at just 24 by a gunman in one of several horrific mass shootings over the past year.

she was shot six times. >> jessi was my world. >> reporter: jessica ghawi was sandy's daughter and this was her favorite picture with her stepfather lonnie. her love of sports came from her dear friend john patrick who said jessie reminded him to live every day. >> jessie would say get up the couch and get out there and have fun and enjoy the time you have for the phillips this past year has been about fighting for gun education. >> if we don't do something in this country about the gun issue, we're doomed to see the same thing that happened in aurora and the same thing that happened in newtown happen again and again and again and again. >> reporter: they have been gun owners for decades and still are, believers in their second amendment right. after jessica died they began working for the brady campaign to prevent gun violence.

>> the bullet from an ar-15 went flying through the seat but should have protected her, and hit her in her head. >> they are going to saened ben. it's going to arrive in aurora. we are not trying to control guns. we are priting promote gun safety. it gives us something that she could die in vain. >> reporter: what do you want to see happen? >> i don't want to see another mother have to walk in my shoes. >> reporter: their biggest push is for universal background checks. >> it's difficult to think about any day without jessi in it and now we are here without her in it. >> reporter: six weeks before she was killed, jessica nearly escaped a shooting in canada. she blogged saying i was reminded that we don't know when or where our time on earth will end. when or where we will breathe our last breath. every moment we have to live our life is a blessing. is there one message you want to send? >> don't think that this can't

happen to you. >> reporter: yeah, my thoughts are certainly with her parents, with sandy and lonnie today, with the family members of all of those who died and who were injured in aurora and all of the shootings that we have seen too many in the last year. her mother sandy told me you lose the future. you lose their hopes and their trems. you lose all of that. >> i was reading online some of the people who were not injured and, obviously, the people who trifed w survived and just happened to be in there. one said everything from the popcorn smell to the concrete on the floor can send people to a tailspin. >> aoung girl, a 13-year-old girl i interviewed covering that tragedy. you're looking at pictures of the vigil that was held last night for the victims and for everyone there in aurora. it was held last night. that is what you're seeing. one of the young girls in the theater 13-year-old indicakate

can't hear the popcorn smell. >> we will keep them in our thoughts today. also happening today in more than 100 cities, protesters demanding justice for trayvon. we are going tell you what they want the federal government to do after last saturday's acquittal of george zimmerman. also, act res lucy liu is on a mission to help syrian children in her role as a unicef ambassador. it is this week's "impact your world." >> hi, i'm lucy liu and we can make an impact for syrian children. syria is in a terrible situation right now. there's civil war going on that is creating absolute pandemonium and people are fleeing into lebanon, into jordan and iraq. 6 million people have been displaced and half are children. the children are suffering. they have lost family. they can't go to school and they

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15 minutes till the top of the hour. it's a week now since the jury cleared george zimbabmerman the death of trayvon martin. demonstrations are playing in 100 cities across the country. they are demanding the department of justice charge george zimmerman. eric holder is asking the public to e-mail feedback on whether to thil those charges. joining me are vanderbilt law professor carol swain and marc morial. >> good to be with you, victor. >> i want to start with you, sir. this is a letter that i have in my hand that you sent to attorney general holder signed by yourself and reverend

sharpton and ben jealous of the naacp. you write here and i want to put up on the screen, we firmly believe that evidence will point to an egregious violation of the most fundamental of civil rights. the right of life. anyone who takes another life for any reason then would be open to federal civil rights charges. >> well, you know, the letter wasn't meant to frame the legal arguments that the justice department might use in bringing a case, but to point to the fact that trayvon martin had every right to be where he was. he was an unarmed teen. he was in the neighborhood where his father lived, where he was staying. he was going to the store to buy skittles and ice tea. and he was stalked. he was hunted down. and he lost his life. and we think that we have got a point to the fact, continue to point to what happened on that night, because i think when the

public understands that, they will recognize why there's such an outrage that this not only occurred, but that in effect the tables got turned and the aggressor claimed self-defense and, in effect, was exonerated. now, today with the vigils that are taking place across the nation, we want to focus people on the need to repeal stand your ground laws all across the nation. these laws will return us to a vigilante america that we need to get beyond in the 21st century. we want to point to the need to participate around the 50 anniversary of the historic 1963 civil rights march and those activities had taken on a new significance because of the trayvon martin case and also because of the supreme court's decision in the recent voting rights case. there's a sense of a need for us to express ourselves, to use our

first amendment rights to thefuthe fuls fullest and say to the nation we must get beyond this and it's important to have a conversation but it's also important that we think about what action steps we need to take. >> let's take about the action steps. professor, what do you think about the protests today and was justice served in the criminal court? >> i think the protests are misguided and that the letter to the attorney general and the politics around this takes our nation backwards. one of the problems with the civil rights community and even with the speech that the president gave yesterday is that blacks are still using the tactics and strategies of the 1960s and we do need a racial conversation. there are changes that need to take place in the black communities and the naacp and the other race leaders ought to be focusing on jobs and crime

and unwed motherhood and abortion. a number of issues decimating the black community and they are silent for 0 those issues. they have time for ga marriage and political correctness but they are not doing anything to serve the needs of the black community or the needs of america as a whole and, as a consequence, we are suffering. we need to move beyond all of that and be struckive. there is lots of opportunity in america that could be more opportunity. we need jobs and this is something the president hasn't been focused on. the black caucus not doing enough. we need to get rid of the naacp and the black caucus and the race of leaders and come together as americans and solve our problems. >> so you think that the naacp should end? i mean the organization? >> yes. i think they have served their purpose. we are in the 1960s. we don't need these kind will rallies. we need conversations that include everyone. >> would that include the usurb

league that marc morial serves? >> i think the urban league used to serve a purpose. they had a rich history. there was a time for the naacp. >> should it stay or should it go? i'll press you on that. >> let me just say. i would invite her to come down to philadelphia next week where the national urban league's conference is themed around jobs in america. i'd invite her -- no, you have enough money. you could afford to come. >> no. i'm not a -- -- race hustler. >> professor swain? >> yes. there is going to be a shakedown that follows these rallies and it will not benefit the black community and these kind of efforts hurt race relations. they hurt is and don't bring us together. >> what should be -- >> all of us should be a part of the conversation. political correctness. >> madam, i'm not going to argue with you but i do want to get

the question in. if the naacp goes and the urban league goes and national action network goes, who is going to lead on these conversations? you may not like the characters but should these -- race hustlers is your term. i'll leave it up to you, mr. morial, and your reaction to that. >> the race -- >> i'm an american. >> please let him finish, mad am. let him finish. we are doing this one at a time. go ahead, sir. >> the work that we all do today and what we are focusing on here now is not only the importance of a conversation, but the importance of americans expressing themselves in the traditions of the first amendment and the traditions of the sill rights movement. the right to assemble. the right to express ourselves is a time honored tradition in this nation. it's not a tactic of the past. it's a tactic of the past and present and indeed the future. we need to repeal the stand your

ground legislation. we want to focus people on the need to have a great showing of support on august 24th in washington, d.c., and we do want to focus people on all of the underlying important issues. that's why in philadelphia next week, when the urban league conference takes place, we will be talking about jobs, we will be talking about education, health care and voting rights. it will be a rich conversation and it will be a multicultural conversation. it's the kind of conversation that we urge people to participate in all across the nation, but we are not going to be distracted by those who want to attack us as opposed to dealing with the issue. we have a dead teenager. we have got grieving parents. we have got a nation that needs to be brought together and we are going to participate in that that is what this is all about. >> carol swain, mark morial, lively conversation. hopefully, the conversation continues. thank you so much. >> absolutely fascinating interview, victor. folks, coming up, we have some great video of a soldier surprising his family in a way you just may never have seen

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. good morning, i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm victor blackwell. 9:00 on the east coast and 6:00 out west. this is "new day saturday." demonstrators in more than 100 cities are gearing up what they call national justice for trayvon day. protesters want the justice department to bring federal civil rights charges against george zimmerman, the man

acquitted in the murder of the killing of trayvon martin. we have reporters on the ground in several cities across the country. we start with nick valencia who is in miami this morning. good morning, nick. i know tracy martin, trayvon martin's father, is going to be there in miami today, right? >> reporter: yeah. he is the headliner. beyond that plaza here behind me dozens of protesters are trickling throughout the morning. the rally is expected to get under way at 10:00 a.m. a short time ago, i spoke to one of the organizers who predicts that more than a thousand demonstrators will be out here in miami. those are loose predictions. this much is clear. they want a change to stand your ground here in florida. they believe that law should be amended and nationally nationwide activists want civil rights charges brought against george zimmerman who one week

ago today was found not guilty in the killing of trayvon martin. but let's for now throw it to alina cho who is in new york where there is another headliner from the martin family. what do you have, alina? >> reporter: that's right, nick. good morning. you're right. the headliner at today's rally in new york city will be sybrina fulton, trayvon manner's mother, and her surviving son jahvaris fulton. these rallies around the country are being organized by the national action network led by the reverend al sharpton and is expected to lead today's rally in new york city at one police plaza. due to start at noon eastern time. really no telling how big turnout will be here in new york city. but one bit of good news, it is, dare i say, a beautiful morning here in new york city. about ten degrees cooler than yesterday. that is a big relief, but one caveat, just an hour after the rally is due to start in new york, the rain is expected to fall and that could affect turnout here in the city.

i turn now to athena jones in washington, d.c. >> reporter: hi there. the rally here in washington outside the federal courthouse is set to get under way at about noon. they are setting up microphone speakers. we had a chance to speak to one of the rally organizers who said this will be a peaceful rally and not an angry protest. folks are disappointed in the verdict of george zimmerman' want the justice department to bring federal charges against george zimmerman. they are contributing this flyer to people that they want to come out that says bring your hood s hoodies, your signs he and ice tea and skittles. the whole idea is to have a peaceful demonstration to show that public opinion and public pressure is on the justice department to act in this case. we know the civil rights charges are not a foregone conclusion and many legal experts say they might be unlikely. poppy? >> thank you. appreciate it. this is cnn breaking news.

>> this breaking news is out of the middle east. israel says that it will release a limited number of palestinian prisoners. no hard number. they are just saying heavyweight prisoners and calls the move a goodwill gesture, aimed at getting long stalled middle east peace talks back on track. secretary of state john kerry has been crisscrossing the middle east and says an agreement has been reached to get the israels and palestinians back to the bargaining table. he has been working on this for months. a palestinian news agency says talks could get under way in washington in the next few days. also this morning a roller coaster at six flags over texas in arlington remains closed this morning after a woman was thrown from the coaster and died. witnesses say the victim came out of her seat on a steep turn on the texas giant. earlier we spoke with a man who was next in line to get on that ride when he learned what happened. he saw the victim's son who had been on the coaster with his mother. listen. >> the man was sitting next to a

woman and they were both saying, let me out, let me out! my mom fell off! my mom fell off! i need to go find her. the park workers were kind of taken back by it and didn't really know if he was being serious or not and then they realized that he was being serious, then they rushed to go assist her. >> that ride will remain closed pending an investigation. our thoughts, of course, with that woman's family. in detroit a day after the city declared bankruptcy on thursday, a judge has order the city to withdraw its filing tlarg declaring is unconstitutional but michigan's attorney general says he'll appeal that stigs. the motor city has 18 billion in debt and a major contributor to that number is the unfunded pensions for city workers. let's go to houston now. police have freed four men who were held captive at a house maybe for years. the men may have been homeless and police say they were lured into that house with a promise of food and cigarettes.

but then they were locked up. and only fed scraps. police have a suspect now. cnn's ed lavandera is in houston. ed, tell us what we have learned about what happened to these men and that home behind you. >> reporter: good morning, victor. well, you mentioned that suspect. we have just heard from houston police just a few seconds ago that there have been official charges that no have now been filed in this case against a man i'm told of walter jones. he is the grandson of the woman who owns the house that you see behind me. according to houston police, he has been charged with two felony counts of injury to the elderly by act and injured to the elderly by omission. this comes one day after a call brought houston police here to this home and what they discovered inside was four men inside this converted garage area locked up and houston police say those men said they had been held against their will for some time. they are still trying to figure out just how long they had been

kept inside this house. but investigators say that their investigators that look into group home and boarding home situations are a part of the team that is looking at the story right now. one of the allegations that these men made is their government benefit checks, either social security checks had been taken by this suspect and had been cashed and investigators are trying to figure out how long that had been taking place and what was used or what was done with that money. so investigators say those four men were taken to the hospital and three of them were being checked out. we are told they are in stable condition. but neighbors tell us that when they saw the men come out of the house, they looked awful. >> i was in my yard when i seen them coming out in the ambulance and they didn't look good at all. they looked like malnutrition. oh, lord. >> oh, my god. it just touched my heart. i mean, i feel for them. i don't know.

it just really got me hurt. >> reporter: a bizarre situation here to say the least here, victor. try to piece together what was going on inside this house and more importantly for how long it was going on. it's been very hard to figure out just how long these men had been kept in here. some neighbors had said they had seen the men. others had no idea. so investigators, at this point, are still trying to unravel all of that. we mentioned off the top one man by the name of walter jones is charged with two felony criminal accounts. >> still so many questions. ed lavandera in houston, thank you. the president and race. the president gave a pretty remarkable talk yesterday. our panel will weigh in on this new day. ♪ with diabetes, it's tough to keep life balanced. i don't always have time to eat like i should.

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it was truly a remarkable moment. the president of the united states describing the racism he experienced as a young man. >> president obama speaking about the trayvon martin case. but making his comments very, very personal. here's a sample. >> very few african-american men who haven't had the experience of being followed when they are walking in a department store. that was me. very few african-american men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. that happens to me, at least before i was a senator. >> we put together an amazing panel to talk about the president's remarks this morning. >> we have van jones who is a new host on cnn of our upcoming program "cross fire" that a starts this fall.

he joins us from los angeles and thanks for getting up super early for us. a prefer at union theological sem marry and let me start this. i'll start with you, dr. west. there was something that really stood out. a look at stood out to me in the president's remarks but he referred back to comments of dr. martin luther king jr. talking about judging people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. he obviously chose those words for specific reasons. what is your overall tag on the president's remarks? >> i thought wonderful words attributed to sister sybrina and tracy. i thought they were wonderful. i lean on the same jesus they do. it's going to be actions is the cruel thing. when you acknowledge a racial criminal justice system has nearly two generations of

precious young black brothers, especially poor black brothers, we finally get a word. first black president says a word. let's see what kind of action on the ground. when you saw about ray kelly maybe the new head of homeland security he is the poster child of racial profiling. many of us went to jail so actions under mine words here, we have to see. >> we don't know who ray kelly if he is the next head of homeland security. we can talk about the action issue. >> i want to talk about that with van. van, the president was very specific yesterday when he said he doesn't trust politicians to have this conversation. you have analyzed and i have covered as a reporter these round tables where people come and say a lot of things about the people that they have had as friends over the years and then go home and nothing changes. specifically on action, should the president do something specific or is he right, politicians should stay out of

it? >> no, he should do something specific. first of all, i think it's good. the president of the united states is supposed to be the educator in chief on key issues facing the american people and he did that yesterday. also political leaders always rely on their personal biography and talk about how they grew up if they are irish or catholic. no reason in the world an african-american president shouldn't be able to do the same thing so i applaud him for that. we got to go beyond talking about this now. the conversation has been joined but we had a criminal justice system in which black kids and white kids are doing illegal drugs at the same level but black kids are ten times more likely to wind up in prison. that's a matter of law and not a the behavior of young people. there are things he can and should do. >> the president said it's important for all of us to do some soul searching. first your take on his remarks. then your response in terms of what action you think is appropriate from politicians

right now. >> poppy, i'm going to be frank with you. when i first heard that he had weigh inside on this, i didn't like it, because i think the last thing we need is for politics to be inserted in what is already a very divisive and inflammatory and national debate. when i saw the video i didn't find any thing wrong. i thought it was respectful of the judicial and legal process and it was also a call to nonviolence. and it was a sharing by the president of the united states of his very personal perspective as an african-american man. he the first african-american president and is a president for all but that includes being a president for african-americans and i thought what he was trying to do was tell all of us that we have to be understanding of each other. we have to be more listening. listen to each other.

learn each other's stories and put that into the life experiences. as far as action, i didn't hear anything about him talking about action, if anything. he had no reference to stand your ground. he had no reference to the process, the investigation going on at doj, at the department of justice. i think that is the way it's got to be. i think the only way we have a legal system that works and that all of us can respect is that we look at the cold hard facts and he hope that the department of justice does what it said that it is going to retain the evidence, has asked the state attorney in the state of florida to keep the evidence and they are going to take a look at all of that and make a educated decision based on the facts on whether there is reason to proceed or not. that's how that decision needs to be made. >> this is good. i want to continue this conversation at break. we have van jones and dr. west and ana navarro. after the break i want to talk about the response to the

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let's continue our conversation on president obama and his remarks on race yesterday. >> we are joined by van jones, cnn cross fire host and prefer dr. cornell west and ana navarro. thank you all for being with us this morning. i want to talk quickly about stand your ground, because the president did address stand your ground and i want to go with you, dr. west. he talked at length about it but i want to read you some. he said if we are send ago message as a society in our communities that someone who is armed and potentially has the right to use those firearms even if there is a way for them to exit from a situation, is that really going to be contributing to the kind of peace and security and order we would like

to see? he got some backlash from some on that and others praising him. dr. west what is your reaction to him bringing that into this conversation, this talk on race? >> i was glad to see him bring it in. he said we must never rationalize killing people in the name of self-defense. i thought about our drone policy and makes george zimmerman of the world in killing innocent folk in the same of self-defense. he is right self-defense may never be used as a way of downplaying the precious lives of innocent people, but it was only at the state level. i was very dissatisfied because he didn't talk about the federal level. i support the rallies around the country. it must be at the federal level. he gave the impression that he is pulling back even as he gave his very -- very powerful personal story. the personal will not be enough. we need policy and we need some serious truth telling about a racist criminal justice system if you're going to be a father, you don't respond to the death of your son in a murder walking

away by talking about the nation of laws and talking about the jury is right. it's a racist verdict. where is the moral indignation? i don't want political calculation. it's a combination of both, i think, at this moment. i plaued his words but i-- appl words but i am still waiting for action. >> ana, after and during the president's comments the response i saw on twitter was quick and it was emotional and it was varied. some people said this was race baiting. you're a republican strategist. if you had to advise a candidate or a politician on how to respond to this, what would your advice be? >> i would say, you know, don't respond and i would say you got to read the transcript and listen to his words before responding. i think a lot of people may have had a knee-jerk reaction to the fact he was weighing in and whenever a president of the united states weighs in on something, it immediately becomes political. but i think he parsed his words

very carefully. i think he was measured and tried not to infer politics. he did not refer to stand your ground as the term. he referred to what you said. he also said it is going to be the legal heads and the talking heads that work this out. there is going to be legal issues that come out of this. i'm not going to weigh in on this. he called for nonviolence and let me tell you this. any family who has ever had to bury a child knows what a difficult experience this is. i thought he was very human in expressing his condolences and sympathy to the martin family. i think we all need to let tempers tamp down a little bit and take a good, hard look at some of these laws, at some of the context of it. and let it be on logic, not emotion which i know is not an easy thing to do in light of all the circumstances. >> van, i want you to put this in historical context for us. the president of the united states standing in the briefing room talking at length on race.

is this something that we will remember a generation from now? is this kennedy on alcoholikcat? is this something we will talk about a week or a generation? >> i think we are going to talk about this for a very long time. when you look at the past spring supreme court coming form eviscerating voting rights and affirmative action to help kids into school. you have the trayvon martin situation. you have this new movie that opened up, the fruit bell station movie about another death of an innocent black kid. i think we have hit a tipping point. post-obama you couldn't talk about race. you got a black president, you're supposed to be quiet. i think the pain point has been hit and this conversation has now been joined. i think conservatives and liberals are very concerned about the level of pain and

among these young black kids, the violence of deprivation of opportunity. i think we come together now. i think on another republican could say, listen, you guys want to have a conversation about opportunity? we want to be a part of that conversation. i think this could bring liberals and conservatives together but i don't think any way going bab. i think we've had a tipping point about this race and constructive could come together. >> we will see how this plays about. appreciate the commentary from all of you this morning. >> thanks for watching today. i'll see you back here at the top of the hour. >> don't go away. some say there is racial inequality in america's economy but why? reverend jesse jackson joins us. a fascinating part of the show is coming up after break. ♪ [ crashing ]

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