campaign would work. assange remains holed up in the ecuadorian assembly in london where he's been given asylum to avoid extradition to sweden on sexual assault charges. that's it for me. have a wonderful afternoon. brooke baldwin takes it from here. there's no sound, no warning, just a terrifying image. as crews search the rubble of a deadly derailment, the question we're asking, how safe are america's trains? i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. a 6-year-old found murdered. the manhunt for her killer takes a dramatic turn when police approach her neighbor's home, the home of a teenager. the pope's security team on high alert as he kisses babies, shakes hands, and walks right out in the open. plus who's the woman at the center of the anthony weiner

scandal? >> she fell in love with him because of a guiding light vision she had of him was not true. >> inside sydney lether's conversations with carlos danger. and women at merrill lynch claim they were given a book urging them to, quote, unquote, stroke men's egos in order to advance. we're on the case. here we go. good to see you on this thursday. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. another day and more news. we have some more details today about the anthony weiner sexting scandal, including this bit we've learned, as far as how many women anthony weiner says he was involved with, why his wife decided to stay with him, and what one of his sexting partners was thinking. all of this as a brand new poll taken yesterday after the whole scandal broke shows weiner

following out of the top spot in the democratic mayor's race in new york. you see him nine points now, nine points behind leader christine quinn. this morning weiner volunteered at a soup kitchen. there he is in brooklyn. afterward, he held a brief news conference and was asked a lot of questions. one of them, he was asked point blank about his sexting partners. here he was. >> how many conversations did you have with women after you resigned that were sexual in nature? >> i don't believe i had any more than three. >> friends of his wife, huma abedin, tell cnn she was this close, quoting them, this close to leaving weiner last fall when he confessed to sexting again, but they say she thought about it. she ultimately decided to stay to work on the marriage for the sake of the couple's very young son. cnn has identified one of weiner's sexting partners.

she is 23-year-old sydney elaine lethers of indiana. her confidant spoke exclusively to laurie siegel of cnn money, who joins me now from new york. laurie, first of all, what was the crux of your conversation with this man, this confidant? >> he showed us all the chats he had with her about the relationship with anthony weiner, and essentially these conversations date back, and he told us this has been going on for a long time. he also said that she had told him they spoke all day for months. so a long time. and essentially, what was the nature of those chats? that was my question to him. listen to what he had to say, brooke. you don't know if they ever met, but from these chat logs and from what she showed you, do you know if they had any kind of sex? >> oh, absolutely, there was tawdry phone sex that went on between these two for months on end. you can see from some of the chat logs, the descriptions, anthony weiner apparently has a

shoe fetish, and he also apparently has a domination fetish. that was the basis of their relationship. sydney thought the basis of the relationship was going to be some sort of mutual respect, loving, as idealistic as that would have been. >> reporter: we've spoken to many of sydney's friends, and a lot of them describe her as very -- as a political activist. she's very active on these online forums, and to a degree, many say, including lou, that she really idolized anthony weiner, to some degree. >> going back to your point, laurie, that it was a longer relationship. was he specific about how many months? i've read something like six, maybe it was longer, and let's be chris cal clerystal clear. nothing was ever physical, correct? >> reporter: that's what i asked him. and he said he wasn't sure on the timeline, and he said it was about six months. that's the answer he gave me. in these chat logs i was reading through, you see her describe this as almost like "house of

cards." you almost get the idea that there was a little -- she could have been a little bit naive about this. she is, she's very active on social networks, on twitter, on facebook, on instagram. you get the idea she really is in her early 20s. >> how did the whole thing end? who ended it? >> reporter: i asked lou this, and he said, there wasn't a specific point, but she had idolized him, and to a certain degree, that had faded away. they started talking about, okay, what could we do next? could we potentially make money from this story? could we put it out there in a way we could actually make money? and those were the conversations we started having. >> laurie segall, great interview. we have just gotten word that an american died in that horrible train crash in spain. we do not have the name. the driver is being questioned. the death toll continues to rise. look at this with me.

here it is, rounding the curve. the train nearing the end of a six-hour trip. it goes flying off the rails at 8:41 last evening. 281 passengers, crew of around 30. at last word, 80 people are dead. 178 injured, including at least 5 americans. we slowed down the tape, giving you a couple different vantage points, a couple different looks. if it you would, i want you to look very closely at this. as the train tries to negotiate this curve here, it appears as though the cars maybe have separated from the engine right nothing definitive there, potentially a clue. do you see that? karl penhaul is at the scene of the crash. what's the latest on this speculation, this theory that the train might have been going too fast? >> reporter: really at this stage, those comments came from

spain's minister of development, speculating there may be excessive speed on a very tight curve was one of the factors here, but then the prime minister, mariano rahoi came along and said we're still looking at all factors to see what caused this tragedy. spain ruled out a terrorist act but said that all other factors are at play. you mentioned the video, and that's something that crash investigators take a keen interest in. yes, you see the front locomotive appear to slide off toward the back end and smash into the concrete pillar, but if you look just a fraction of a second before this happens, about midway along the length of the train, you see a puff of something. is it smoke? is it dust? there's kind of a little explosion of something before then you see the derailment going into full effect. so that is something also that investigators are going to be look at to get to the bottom of exactly what happened, brooke. >> i'm sure they're going through this video we're looking

at frame by frame by frame. karl, i also wanted to ask, in reading about this, i read that one of the workers described the crash scene as hell. what more can you tell us about the seconds, the minutes, the hours after the crash and the chaos? >> reporter: i think you could use a lot of comparisons here -- and i think that all those comparisons would fall pretty much short. i just look at the facts on the ground, and it makes me shudder. right now a full one-third of the passengers on board this train are dead. one of the carriages from that train flew up 18 feet into the air. it was tossed into the air and landed 45 feet from the track. when we saw some of these wagons being lifted off the tracks and sent away on loaders, the whole side of a carriage had simply been ripped away. inside you see blood spotters and blood marks inside. it really is consistent with

passengers being thrown around at high speed and ejected into the walls of those carriages. and, of course, we know that some of those carriages were split in half, some came on fire. if there is any hope in this, perhaps it was residents who lived alongside this track that raced down there and tried to pull the survivors from the wreckage, brooke. >> a harrowing scene there. karl penhaul, thank you so much. i want to bring in richard biehl in miami, a railroad and safety operation expert. really, i just want to go back to the video. to karl's point, investigators are going through this. i'm sure you've seen this, and we're watching it again. does what you're seeing support the idea that the train was going way too fast as it's going around this curve? >> so far, that's my understanding. we'll have to wait for further details on it, but it certainly looks like, if there was a 50 mile an hour speed limit on that curve, it seems to be doing much faster than that. >> and if you are the engineer

or the driver, as they say in europe, of this train and you're rounding this curve, if speed ask is an issue, at what point is it too late to slow down? >> it is too late. you don't know what's going on in the cabin of the locomotive, whether he fell asleep or got distracted or whatever. it's obviously so far too fast that something had to have happened there. once you're into the curve, you can hit the brakes as hard as you want. it's going to take you a little while to get down to the point where the stress on the outside of that high rail tension just would be too much. >> what else? as you look as these pictures, you heard karl describe one of the carriages, one of the cars flying up 18 feet into the air. if you're an investigator, what are you looking at? what are you honing in on? >> it's going to take a lot more further study, but i saw the same thing. my initial viewing of the

accident, and it's so rare to have a camera in place like that camera was, is that, wow, look at that. it looks like two or three or four cars behind the engine is where it first took place. and i watched it several more times, and it almost looks as if something happened, something almost jackknifed, but you never know. it could have been caused by the lead engine with so much stress on the rail going around, starting to turn the rail over, and it actually stayed on, and the other ones at that point, the rail was turning over and coming off. we just won't know until they finish their investigation. >> and i'm just curious, sort of relating this to us back home. i used to live in washington, d.c. i have hopped on the acela express many a time, traveling up to, say, new york city. maybe this is apples and oranges, but is this something that could happen here or not at all? >> oh, it could certainly happen here.

i was on the acela a few months ago myself, and those trains can do 150 miles an hour up there. but for the most part, trains are safe. you don't have to worry. you don't have to stop taking the train. in 99.99% of the time, everything's competent, everything's fine. there's always going to be a human error or a track defect or some sort of defect on the train itself that would cause the problem. >> richard, thank you. >> you're welcome. coming up next, a suspected killer tells police good thing he got me because i was about to kill again. this news after he and his wife allegedly target and murder a sex offender. find out what clues his tattoos may offer. plus surreal images today out of rio. look at this. the pope's security crews once again on high alert as he steps out kissing babies, shaking hands, mingling with the crowds.

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suspect in south carolina that you have to see that tells the story. you see skinhead in ink on this guy's neck. this is jeremy moody, and the union county sheriff says moody admits he is a white supremacist. another tattoo on his temple reads "made in america." in fact, the police report says moody has 30 tattoos in all, but it turns out the true marked man in this story is this individual. this is charles parker. the sheriff says moody targeted and killed parker because parker is a registered sex offender. parker's wife gretchen was also shot and stabbed to death. their bodies found in their own home. now moody and his wife christine are under arrest for the murders, and more charges are coming. nick valencia is working this one for us today. there's a lot to it. let's begin with the fact that apparently -- so this guy confesses to this murder and says, you know what, i wasn't done. >> there's a lot to this case, very scandalous case. let's start from the beginning. the victim and the suspect, we

know at the very least they were acquaintances. the local sheriff's office told us that at some point the victim worked on the suspect's car within the course of the last year. that's actually, brooke, how he was able to gain access into the home. he shows up with his wife. this is the suspect, saying he needs his car worked on, gets into the home, and actually once he got into the home, he had some very choice words for the victim. >> the night that we arrested him, or the morning we arrested him about 3:40 in the morning, he told us that it's a good thing we arrested him before wednesday because he had a target and was planning to kill another sex offender yesterday. >> now, moody has admitted to investigators that he is a white supremacist. right now the sheriff's office is saying there's no ties between his white supremacist group and this murder, but it is, brooke, like you said, we're glad you caught me now. that's sort of why this has turned into a really big case.

he had others on his list he was going to target who were sex offenders as well. >> i know, also according to the sheriff and what i've read, that other sex offenders in the area have called into the sheriff's department because they're fearful of their own lives because of what this guy has done. tell me about the vic. >> the victim has -- i wouldn't say extensive, but he has multiple charges of sex offenses against minors. these are some of them. he's been charged in north carolina and south carolina both. so he's not all together, i would say, a good person. let's get back to the suspect. the way he got this victim, not only were they acquaintances, but also he was going through sex registries and looking for other sex offenders, and that's how he picked out what would have been his second victim. >> you had more sound. this is also from the sheriff? >> this is also from the sheriff, another sound bite we have to play you about what the suspect told investigators. >> he told our investigators in his statement that the deceased, mr. parker, told him he thought he was there to rob him, and he

says, i'm not here to rob you, i'm here to kill you because you're a child molester. and those were his words to our investigators. >> so now there are other investigations into whether or not he's been involved in other murders, and there are other charges coming forward. i think you have the sheriff booked next hour. we may hear more charges coming forward. >> we do. nick valencia, thank you very much. at the top of the hour, i'll be talking to the union county sheriff david taylor, who nick talked to. we'll ask whether this case will have impact on the sex offender registry. coming up next, we'll take you live to brazil, where pope francis has been meeting the people face to face, kissing babies. here goes one. with security for the pope raised to high risk. later today, the pope will celebrate his biggest mass yet before more than 1 million people. incredible images coming out of rio. we will take you live to brazil next. ♪ hooking up the country helping business run ♪

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the pope visited one of rio de janeiro's crowds, kissed

the babies. i want to show you pictures. you're going to see this area once run by drug lords. large swaths of this area are still in ruins. pope francis walked the favela's narrow streets, reportedly repaved just in time for his visit. look at the joy on one little boy's face. he reaches out to touch him. the pope touching, shaking hands, giving these little ones hugs. shasta darlington, what an incredible trip to be covering of the pope in rio. the favelas in rio, incredibly dangerous places. why go there? >> you know, brooke, he really didn't have any choice. this is the people's pope, the pope of the poor. this is where he wants to be. i think in some ways these kinds of visits that are the most important for him.

you can see him light up when he walks through the crowds, when he's in the back of the popemobile and people hand him well. babies, he lights up as this is very important for him. you could hear also he had a message, a very strong message for the poor, saying that he and the church were with them, that authorities and people with resources should give more to help the poor. this was obviously a bit of a nightmare for the security detail. we saw hundreds of police lining the route that he walked down. there were military helicopters overhead. just at least trying to keep as many people around him as they can even though they obviously cannot control his movements, brooke. >> i cannot imagine security for this man out and about in the streets, hanging out at what looks like an open air back of a jeep. we know, shasta, in just a couple of hours, the pope will bless up to 1 million people on the beautiful cope copa cabana

beach for world news day. where are you? >> reporter: i'm going to ask miguel to swing the camera around. i'm next to already hundreds of thousands of people getting ready right here on copa cabana beach for the pope to arrive. they've got live music for them, some of the most catholic rock groups and pop groups from around the world are playing for them. and this despite a very cold weather actually. it's been raining all day. people are just packing the beach and excited about this trip. >> shasta darlington for us in rio. shasta, thank you very much. coming up, women at a top financial firm filing a lawsuit claiming bias. they say they were given books ordering them to, quote, unquote, stroke men's egos at the company in order to get ahead in the world.

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a lawsuit accuses merrill lynch of gender bias. a lawsuit says the company told the women of the office to kiss up, not to bosses, but to co-workers, specifically their male co-workers. a supervisor told them to read this book, the name "seducing the boys club," and then attend a talk with its author. let me quote the lawsuit. "the author encouraged women to stroke the men's egos with flattery and manipulation in order to succeed in a male dominated environment such as merrill lynch. plaintiffs, each considered the message of the book to be highly offensive." let's talk about this and get a little reporting from cnn's alison kosik and from reaction from ashley merryman, an

attorney who co-authored the book "top dog, the science of winning and losing." we know that these women, they filed a civil suit at the federal level, and the judge ruled against them recently. what exactly are they accusing merrill lynch of doing? >> what these three women are doing is sexual discrimination and that men at merrill lynch got preferential treatment. they're saying the company even handed out the book that you just showed seducing the boys' club book, and actually they were required to join in with a talk with the author. the suit also makes claims against a male branch manager. he allegedly told one of the plaintiffs to, quote, stick to her knitting when she brought a business opportunity to him. he told her to just stick to her knitting, according to the lawsuit. when you're a merrill lynch trainee, you typically get a mentor that's assigned to you, but the plaintiffs are saying, hey, we weren't assigned a mentor for months even though male trainees got mentors within weeks, and we had to speak up

and ask for a mentor. the suit does say the branch manager in question was fired, brooke. >> ashley, i know that you wrote a book -- you wrote this book on winning and losing on gender roles in the workplace, and you say, if women do try to act more -- and i hate, i don't know, girly, more flirtatious -- it works against them. >> yes. actually, our researcher at u.c. berkeley has done studies of negotiations, and she's instructed women to be flirtatious, and she finds they're rated as more likable, but they aren't any better in the negotiation. they don't get more work done. so not only was this offensive, the idea we should have them be girly, it doesn't even work. >> so this book -- i have to admit i've never heard of it. it's called "seducing the boys club," this book these women were required to read. we hopped on amazon.com. this is how amazon describes the book. shows you that s&m seduction and

manipulation is the key to winning over the big guys. women need to meld their female characteristics with male traits to expand their professional horizon. so that's amazon talking about the book. you reached out to the author. what did she say? >> that's any sa disesa, she's the author of this book. she says, hey, ip surpri'm surp was brought up in this lawsuit. she said her speech she gave to the employees in 2008 says her speech was light hearted. the book is a memoir. it's not a how-to book. she found she was more successful when she was nice and made people feel good about themselves, kind of catch more flies with honey than vinegar thinking. >> brooke, what's your advice? there are a lot of men in tip top firms? what's your advice to women to break through? >> first of all, i think we need to understand that we have to -- there is discrimination.

that does still exist. it would be easy to say, well, women should just act like the men, but that's not going to work because the men are expecting women to be nicer, to be coalition builders. there are small things we need to do. women in conversation tend to take turns. in a meeting, they may raise their hands. guys don't do that. if you have an idea in a meeting, just yell it out. seriously, i've had that conversation at meetings where women sort of dove under the table with embarrassment. oh, my god, i did that. >> that's so funny. >> we also need for women to be more comfortable in group settings. the sort of old boys club, boys grow up in groups. girls grow up in pairs. and 6-year-olds spend about 74% of their time, boys, in groups. girls, it's about 16% of the time. so the idea, hey, let's all go to the bar after work and talk about what we're doing or go to the golf club, those are actually natural activities for men to do in groups, and women

need to find more sports activities, more group settings, so they can become more involved in that environment. >> no one raises their hand in my morning meeting, i'll tell you that. guys and gals, they jump in and get lively. quickly, alison, back to you, no word from merrill lynch reaction-wise? >> merrill is pointing back to the 2010 case, noting that these allegations were made before and thrown out by a federal judge earlier this year. now the same women are suing in a state court. so what they're basically trying to do is find a new way to move this case forward. merrill is standing its ground, also saying diversity and inclusion are a part of our culture and core values. we actively promote an environment where all employees have the opportunity to succeed. no doubt about it, as i sit here at the new york stock exchange, it's clear, if you do a quick look around the stock exchange here, the finance industry, brooke, it is a male dominated feel. women are slowly coming in a little bit more, but it is a male dominated field. >> alison, you bring it every day, and we appreciate it. alison kosik and ashley

merryman, ladies, thank you so much for the conversation. i appreciate that. coming up, ten former "american idol" contestants file a lawsuit charging racism. they want $25 million each. that story after the break. the. ...and a great deal. thanks to dad. nope eeeeh... oh, guys let's leave the deals to hotels.com. ooh that one! nice. got it! oh my gosh this is so cool... awesome! perfect! yep, and no angry bears. the perfect place is on sale now. up to 40% off. only at hotels.com

now to that exclusive lawsuit, the hit singing sensation show "american idol," the suit claims the show is

racist. all ten of these former contestants want $25 million apiece from the show and its producer. a lawyer for the group says his clients were kicked off the show because of their race. and that is just the beginning of the story. let me bring in our entertainment correspondent a nischelle turner. what specifics are they raising? >> this suit claims the producers discriminated against black contestants. the suit is being filed by the former ten contestants you talked about. they were kicked off of idol over various seasons, and they claim producers exploited them for ratings by illegally using arrest records to kick them off the show. we have reached out to the attorney who filed this lawsuit for comment. we haven't been able to speak with him today, but we did talk to him back in january when these accusations first surfaced. that's when he filed the letter with the equal opportunity employment commission, saying the discrimination wasn't just that these men were disqualified

from idol after their arrest records surfaced, but he alleges there were actually also white contestants with convictions, actual convictions, who were allowed to compete on the show. we, of course, reached out to fox and fremantle 19, they produce the show, and they simply told us no comment. >> the show, there are -- let me look at my list. four different african-american winners, fantasia, jordin sparks, ruben studdard, and just last week candice glover. racist? >> 4 of the top 10 this season were african-american, two men and two women. it's not just that idol has had african-american winners, but also runners-up, i.e. jennifer hudson, who have gone on to super stardom. fox would counter with we've got a very diverse show and a very diverse audience, and we try to represent that. >> nischelle turner, good to see you up and at 'em in the

afternoon hours. coming up next, a high end cruise ship experience, guess what, does not live up to the price tag. you have meat stored in the sinks? food stacked in the hallway. and cheese hidden from inspectors in crew members' rooms. cnn's drew griffin joins me live next with the health inspection report from the cdc you don't want to miss. i think farmers care more about the land than probably anyone else. we've had this farm for 30 years. we raise black and red angus cattle. we also produce natural gas. that's how we make our living and that's how we can pass the land and water back to future generations. people should make up their own mind what's best for them. all i can say is it has worked well for us.

the memories linger from the carnival triumph cruise when the ship was stranded for days and days. remember this one? inadequate toilet facilities for thousands of those passengers. listen. >> i have been assured repeatedly by the industry that things will get better. take a look at the events over the past 16 months and tell me if this is what you think better looks like. >> we really seriously put our guests in an uncomfortable position, and that bothers us a great deal. >> meanwhile, we just learned about a luxury cruise ship, one of the most expensive in the world actually, flunked a surprise health inspection by the cdc. drew griffin with cnn's special investigations unit has the story. >> reporter: the silversea cruise line bills itself as ultraexclusive, small ships, personalized service, and an intimate, luxurious setting. a high end experience that comes

with a very high end price. on average, the company says, a little more than $5,000 per week per passenger. the all-inclusive tab comes with endless free drinks, sophisticated entertainment, and a culinary experience the cruise line calls world class. >> every silversea voyage is a feast for the senses. >> reporter: but passengers didn't know that feast might include this. look at these. pictures taken by crew members showing meat stored in crew cabin sinks. pots and pans in crew hallways. rat food stashed everywhere except in the galley, where it belonged. why? it's all spelled out in this damning report from u.s. health inspectors from the centers for disease control. it writes an organized effort was made to physically remove over 15 full trolleys of food, including milk, raw meats,

pasturized eggs, cheeses of all types, all hidden in individual cabins shared by two or three galley crew members in order to avoid inspection. the surprise inspection took place after the cdc was tipped off. adriana collona, an italian pastry chef, said he had a 40-day contract on board the silver shadow, and said night after night he and others were ordered to hide food in his cabin in case of an inspection. it was so bad, this chef wouldn't eat the food served to passengers. >> absolutely, sir. that's why i didn't even eat. i used to make a little pizza for myself on a daily basis, and that was all because, if you think about it, you know that, you gotta eat an omelet with the eggs that have been in a temperature high of almost 70 degrees, that would make everybody sick. >> and you personally had to sleep with some of this food in

your very cabin quarters? >> yes, sir, with three crew cabin members. >> so it was you, two other crew cabin members, and a trolley full of salami? >> and two trolleys full of blue cheese. >> and blue cheese? >> yes. >> the cdc finally figured out what was happening when a crew member sent these photos to federal health inspectors and maritime attorney jim walker. walker, whose law firm represents cruise ship employees in wrongful termination and injury cases says he's been told what you're seeing here is a common game. >> that's right. there's typically a scramble that takes place. this is what we learned from the crew members. >> reporter: what is different this time is the cdc was tipped off, and on june 17th staged a surprise inspection as the silver shadow docked in skagway, alaska. the federal health inspection shows a dismal grade of 82. >> i believe they were caught essentially playing a game.

the cdc was alerted by crew members who were concerned about the hygiene on the ship, and they went in and verified their complaints. >> reporter: silversea, the cruise company based here in ft. lauderdale, florida, wouldn't give cnn any interview on this topic but did send a statement, saying it's deeply disappointed by this specific and only unsatisfactory score. the company cited its long track record with the cdc of good scores, some of them 90%, some as high as 100%, and said in this case, it's taking action to fix the problems. >> they called it an anomaly, basically. this ship scores 97 to 100. >> reporter: do we really think this was the one time, the one time where they played hide and seek and ran everything out in trolleys from the ga l galley,e just happened to catch them one time? >> reporter: according to the cdc report, inspectors poured chlorine liquid on board all the

discarded food on the silver shadow to prevent any of it from being reused. it may surprise you that that is all the federal health inspectors could do. no fines. the ship was not shut down. instead, the cruise line filed a record of the corrective actions taken to fix the problems. among them, the cruise line reminded its crew that hiding meat and eggs in nonrefrigerated crew cabins was not allowed. >> drew, watching this piece, and you're talking to the chef, and he says, i'm not eating this stuff. sleeping with the blue cheese and a trolley full of salami. a lot of people love cruising, though. >> they do. >> despite all the bad press. what do you tell people? what is the advice? >> i mean, go and see if people are hiding food in the galley. go to the cdc, which is powerless in these hearings,

they post the scores online. you can look up your specific boat that you're about to cruise on, look at its latest inspection, and read the inspection to feel comfortable or to maybe not feel so comfortable. it's really buyer beware type of situation, but there is information out there. what is troubling about this is they were actually hiding the health problems from the health inspector. it's not just that they had health problems. they were hiding it deliberaty. >> that's the scary part. educate yourself. educate before you cruise. drew griffin, eye-opening. thank you very much. great, great story. just into cnn here, the mayor accused of sexual harassment by three women so far has just now spoken to reporters. heerd wh hear what he told our own correspondent casey wian about all these accusations. like shrimp tacos and grilled shrimp salad with soup. all just $7.99. come in today for rlunch and sea food differently.

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next, in san diego the mayor there has called himself a hugger. and bob philner has responded to accusations of sexual harassment by not one, not two, but three women. casey wian is live in san diego where he has just heard from the mayor. casey, what did he say? >> reporter: not much, brooke, it was a bizarre situation. there was an opening for a new trolley station, a redesigned trolley station, and the mayor actually showed up at this event, apparently not completely prepared for the throng of

reporters, including me, who were going to be asking him questions about these allegations of sexual harassment. it was really a bizarre situation. as we shouted questions and asked questions of the mayor, he walked around sort of in circles, basically aimlessly, refusing to really even acknowledge us, refusing to answer any questions. finally, after several minutes of this, here's what he had to say. >> there is a legal process by which all this will be decided, and that's what we'll be dealing with. there will be no other statements regarding it except for the legal process. >> reporter: so very clear that the mayor is not going to say anything at this time about the allegations that have been made public by three women so far who accuse him of highly inappropriate behavior. some of those women actually work for the mayor, brooke. >> quickest sound bite ever. i know you were trying. casey wian for us in san diego. casey, appreciate it. coming up, more on the suspect arrested in the chilling murder. police say this man here killed

at least once. was about to kill again. he was allegedly targeting sex offenders, and in just a matter of minutes. we'll talk live to the sheriff investigating this case. -baby powder. -hand lotion. nothing stopped the rash from my bladder leakage. until now. [ female announcer ] new balmex adult care has activguard to soothe, protect, and relieve. finally, adult rash relief.

is that true? says here that cheerios has whole grain oats that can help remove some cholesterol, and that's heart healthy. ♪ [ dad ] jan? this is the situation room, which three nights a week also doubles as my bedroom. >> the saturday night live actor who played our very own, our beloved wolf blitzer, is sadly not returning to the show.

jason sedakis joining a long line of cast members leaving. he is famous for playing joe biden, howard dean, and, of course, wolf, who by the way tweeted, with sedakis leaving, who should play me next? got to watch, "situation room," 5:00 eastern to hear wolf's thoughts. it is a miracle l that an infantry sergeant came home from vietnam alive, and he has started a program designed to help other vets. dr. sanjay gupta has his story in this week's "human factor." >> reporter: it was 1968. infantry platoon sergeant irvin ramirez was on patrol in vietnam. >> as we were going out, going by the rice paddies in the delta, i hear mortar shells going off and machine guns going off. next thing i know i found myself falling face first into a rice paddy. that's it. two days later, i woke up in a saigon military hospital. they told me i was lucky.

they found me in a body bag. >> you heard that right. he was put in a body bag presumed dead because he was found unconscious. an astute medic had found him still breathing. >> the diagnosis was diabetes. >> he hadn't been hit by the mortar shells. he passed out from the effects of the disease. >> if it hadn't been for diabetes, i probably wouldn't be here. >> urban has been legally blind since the '70s. he lost most of his hearing. he needed a kidney transplant. but one thing, sailing, that kept him afloat. >> when i went to vietnam and came back so sick and especially with the eyesight loss, i never thought i'd get into sailing again until i met two gentlemen in wheelchairs, vietnam era veterans. >> the three of them together started challenged america. it's a therapeutic sailing program for people with disabilities, primarily veterans. >> sailing is therapy. there's nothing like being on the water, being with nature.

>> the program now has 27 modified sailboats based in san diego. urban's goal is to help the world see people with disabilities as equals. >> it's nice. you get front of the line privileges, as i like to say. that's not what we're doing here. we want to be equal with you. give us a chance to prove that we can do it, and you may be surprised. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. there's no sound, no warning, just a terrifying image. as crewses search the rubble. a deadly derailment, we're asking, how safe are america's trains? i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. police say a man targeted a random sex offender and killed him in cold blood. and apparently he wasn't done. the pope's security team on high alert as he kisses babies,

shakes hands, and walks right out in the open. plus a mysterious stomach bug spreading across america. is fruit to blame? and lance armstrong's lawyer tells the postal service to drop the lawsuit against his client. why? because they should have known he was doping. we're on the case. thanks for staying with me. i'm brooke baldwin. top of the hour. we begin with that chilling quote. i'm here to kill you. those are the words. this white supremacist reportedly uttered before shooting and stabbing his victim to death. this is according to the union county sheriff in south carolina. his name is jeremy moody. he is accuseded of murdering someone, not because of the color of his skin, but for a crime in his past. moody told investigators that he and his wife christine murdered

this man because he is a registered sex offender. charles parker was convicted of eight sex crimes. latest offense was in 2003. the moodys allegedly murdered parker's wife as well. deputies discovered their bodies monday in their home, and there's more. the sheriff said another sex offender was on moody's hit list. joining me now by phone is union county sheriff, david taylor. sheriff taylor, thanks for calling in. i appreciate it. let me just get straight to this. moody, i know, has admitted to killing charles parker because he was a registered sex offender, but why? why him exactly? >> well, right now we don't know that information for sure. we've still been in contact with him and still talking to him. other than what he has originally told us, that's all we know right now. >> remind me, what did he

originally tell you? has he been cooperative? >> yes, he has. he originally told us in his statement that mr. parker thought he was there to kill him for robbery, and he said, i'm not here to rob you. i'm here to kill you because you're a child molester. >> and not only that, but did he share more with you in terms of plans to kill others? >> well, we took him into custody wednesday morning about 3:40 a.m. he told us that, if we had not arrested him and we'd waited until the next day, there would have been another victim. >> can i ask the tone he took with you? was it rather matter of fact admission? >> yes, ma'am, pretty much. >> i understand that there are other sex offenders who have seen this story, they're calling you, they're afraid. what are they saying? >> well, they've been afraid

for, calling our office. yesterday especially we were busy answering calls from sex offenders who are on our sex offender registry in our county. today, to my knowledge, we have not received any calls. and i think, once the story broke and they heard that was the reason, they were worried about their safety. we're just trying to tell them that the suspect is in custody. we think he was operating alone. they're secure and safe. >> finally, sir, we're looking at pictures of moody. he has some 30 tattoos, i understand. tell me a little bit about -- we see skinhead around his neck, his chin. what groups -- is he affiliated with certain groups? does he have a criminal history? >> we're still trying to figure that out right now.

i was on the phone with an agency just before i got on the phone with you. we're still trying to figure out that information. >> sheriff david taylor, thank you so much, calling us from union county, south carolina. also today, an american died in that train crash in spain. we're working to get that individual's name, but we can tell you the driver is being questioned. the death toll at this hour still stands at 80. look at this because you'll see the fatal crash at this next hour, the train safety expert telling us it looks to him the train was going way too fast to make it around the curve safely. the camera is positioned caught this whole thing, watch, and there it went. 8:48 last night. the train was nearing the end of a six-hour trip. 281 passengers, crew of about 30. you see it. it is an absolute catastrophe. as we said, 80 people are dead.

plus 178 americans. karl penhaul is at the site of the crash. karl, where's the driver? is he in custody or no? >> reporter: he's being questioned. that much we do know. he also, we understand, seemed very shocked after that crash and was found wandering along the tracks. as i say, he spent most of the afternoon being questioned by authorities. certainly, at this stage, nobody has come out and given any definitive statement on what he has told crash investigators, brooke. >> what about -- we're hearing these harrowing accounts of the crash happening. can you tell us about the effort, the frantic effort to get people out of these crushed and mangled cars. >> certainly, the first effort was led by residents that lived very close to the crash site. they said they heard what sounded to them like an explosion as the train crashed

into the concrete pillar of a bridge and that they themselves at great personal risk ran down onto the tracks and began trying to help rescue survivors, dragging them through broken windows, pulling them out of wreckage. that even before the emergency services were on site. and, of course, at the same time, we saw some of those wagons had been split in two. we saw some of them had even caught fire. but as i say, residents determined to do their bit to try and rescue those who had managed to survive this deadly crash, but, of course, as we know, more than one-third of the passengers on board did die, brooke. >> karl penhaul for us in spain. awful. karl, thank you very much. just into us here at cnn, in the aaron hernandez case, prosecutors are now publicly revealing a more detailed motive here for the murder of owe dodi

lloyd back in june. susan candiotti is all over this. susan, what are you learning? >> reporter: the prosecutor for the first time saying that aaron hernandez allegedly killed odin lloyd just last month, and the body was dumped about a mile away from hernandez's home, after odin lloyd, according to the prosecutor, allegedly got information linking aaron hernandez allegedly to an unsolved double murder drive-by shooting in boston just last summer about a year ago. now, again, this is being reported as a possible motive, coming from a prosecutor, about what led to a double murder in boston back in 2012. remember you've got two investigations going on here. one into the death of odin lloyd and a separate grand jury investigation in boston looking into solving that double murder in boston last july. so this is an important new development that we're hearing from prosecutor in the case,

brooke. >> and we know bill belichick, he was caught, we know, hernandez was cut from the new england patriots the second hernandez was arrested. susan candiotti. >> reporter: if i may, hernandez has pleaded not guilty to the first degree murder charge in this case. >> susan, thank you very much for us in massachusetts. a mystery stomach bug is spreading. the cdc says nearly 300 people in 11 states have been infected. health officials are investigating the intestinal outbreak. at least 18 people have been hospitalized so far in three states. the bug is caused by a parasite. the cdc has not been able to nail down the source, which is frustrating, i'm sure, for a lot of people wondering what the heck is this stuff? senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen here. what are the symptoms of this thing? >> it's pretty unpleasant. it's watery, diarrhea, vomiting, fever, all that. >> all the yucky stuff. >> and the thing is it goes on

for a while. it can go on for weeks and weeks and weeks. so usually, when you see that, you think you're sick for a day or two. this actually goes on for a while. >> i don't want to get this. you don't want to get this. what do we do to avoid it? >> that's the problem. you don't know what's causing it. usually with these things, don't eat this brand of meat, don't eat spinach. >> wash your fruit. >> here they don't know what's causing it, so they can't tell you what not to eat. it's cyclospora, that's the name of the parasite that's implicated here. it's usually on produce in other outbreaks. that's what they're really kind of honing in on, but they don't know what produce it's going to be. you can't stop eating produce. i just had a peach for lunch. i'm not eating produce, but it makes you think. >> fruits and veggies, scrub them all for now. >> i'm not going to tell you it's a guarantee. it's sticky. research describes it as sticky. so you might wash it, and it might still be there.

just being honest. >> we appreciate the honesty. elizabeth cohen, thank you very much. coming up next, the startling admission by anthony weiner. this afternoon, he was asked point blank by a reporter, how many relationships he had that were sexual since his resignation from congress, his answer? well, i can tell you it's not one. we'll hear exactly what he said. plus the first polls released hours ago and how the scandal has impacted voters in new york. also, look at this. i cannot get over these pope pictures out of rio. the pope keeping his word, one with the people, kissing babies, shaking hands. and you know that has to make his security folks very nervous, scrambling to keep them safe. we'll take you live to brazil. just by talking to a helmet. it grabbed the patient's record before we even picked him up. it found out the doctor we needed was at st. anne's. wiggle your toes. [ driver ] and it got his okay on treatment from miles away.

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you have with women after you resigned that were sexual in nature? >> i don't believe i had any more than three. >> he doesn't believe he had any more than three. so this news today comes at the same time we now have new poll numbers. so this is a poll that was conducted yesterday after the whole scandal broke. take a look at the numbers with me. you can see him at number two there. these are the democrats running for mayor in new york city, but he's nine points behind the leader there, christine quinn. that is a complete reversal from some june polling when weiner was leading in those polls. you can see the differences there. on the right side, june, versus now. clearly a drop. chief political analyst gloria borger is in washington. i know. i see you shaking your head. >> any time you have to answer a question that starts with how many women did you have inappropriate exchanges with is not a good day for your candidacy. let's put it that way. >> it's not a good day.

all these reporters were following him into soup kitchens outside of brooklyn, 47 days from the primary. the opinion has clearly dropped. there are more polls, you can see. as he continues to talk here and there, is he digging himself out of any holes? you're hearing all this. >> well, look, he's certainly in a deep hole. if you were to ask me the first day, i would say, this is somebody who's clearly going to leave this race. clearly, he decided not to. his wife huma abedin decided to rally around him. and now i think he's in it until the primary. and you see his poll numbers dropping precipitously. i'm not saying he couldn't at some moment, if she and he both decide together that he ought to get out of the race, he would, but i think she's the only one who could tell him to do that, by the way. i don't think anybody else has any credibility with him. nobody big has endorsed him. she's the only one who could do that. i think that he severely

diminished his chances of becoming the next mayor of new york city, shall we say, at the very least. >> there is many a scandal in politics, and we have seen politicians blaze through, and we love a good comeback story. here we have him doubling down on a scandal. can you think of another politician who has pulled through? >> politicians come back from scandals. voters love the political redemption story, but they like to believe you've actually redeemed yourself and that they haven't been lied to. they're willing to give you a second chance. if you look at bill clinton, of course, we know he came back from the lewinsky scandal. there was distance between his affair, his extramarital affair, and when he did run for congress again and succeeded. this, however, is kind of in the heat of the moment, and he does have the support of his wife, but new yorkers are looking at this in realtime, and, again,

he's got to make this race about his opponents. >> about the issues. >> and about the issues and about new york. and now this race is all about himself, and you just heard the question. how many inappropriate exchanges did you have with women? that does not help a campaign. >> then still there's all these polls. we're all looking at polls, and there's another one showing new york democrats, whether they want him in or out, and that's pretty close when you look at that, 47 versus 43. trust is key, isn't it? >> sure. look, trust is key. judgment is key. he was asked a question about whether the voters should trust you. he did not answer. he did not answer that question. voters have to decide that for themselves. the interesting, larger question is here, do people have so little trust in their elected officials that they really don't care? i am not so cynical as to let you know they don't care.

i believe they do care. i don't want to believe they've been toyed with or fooled to or lied to. i believe that voters still want to cast their vote for the person they believe is most able, qualified, to do the job, and that's not what anthony weiner is talking about right now. >> we will see. >> that's his problem. >> when they go to the polls. gloria borger, thank you. >> sure. catholics say he is the holiest man in the world, and that is what makes scenes like this one so incredibly unusual. the pope in the middle of the mobs of people today. security for the pontiff on high alert with even more events planned for his trip to brazil. that's next. chantix... it's a non-nicotine pill. i didn't want nicotine to give up nicotine. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. [ mike ] when i was taking the chantix, it reduced the urge to smoke. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these,

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now to show you some of these live pictures. just take a listen, rn. rio de janeiro. ♪ >> thank you, father. the pope is in rio de janeiro there, as we have been watching these pictures. the crowds have grown and grown.

my goodness, the scenes, as we've been watching the pope the last couple of days, before he blesses all these possibly up to 1 million people, music. they're in rio. we saw the pope in one of the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods earlier today, pope francis. he shrugged off security concerns. he waded into crowds, kissing babies. he walked the streets of the flavela once run by drug lords reportedly. large swaths of the area still in ruins. pope francis walked the favela's narrow streets, reportedly paved just in time for this. and the joy on the little children's faces, look at this little boy, thrilled to be meeting the pope. giving him a hug, shaking hands. shasta darlington is live in rio for us. shasta, let me just begin with where you are, the music, the scene, the crowds.

set it up for me. >> it's amazing, brooke. the pope hasn't even arrived here on copacabana beach, but i'm standing in front of the stage where he'll lead hundreds of thousands, maybe even 1 million people, many of them young pilgrims from around the world. he's going to lead them in prayer tonight, and you can hear other pop groups and rock groups from around the world, getting other groups warmed up. they just brought the cross on the stage that's the symbol of world youth day. it travels from each city that hosts the event. it was in madrid two years ago. now it's here in rio de janeiro. let me get actually miguel to swing around here. you can see the crowds already lining the beach, holding the flags of their different countries. it's been a pretty cold, rainy, miserable day, but you just wouldn't know it to look at the faces here. these people are just thrilled. of course, waiting for the

moment -- and it won't be very far from now, when pope francis arrives here on the beach in copacabana, brooke. >> and the faces, shasta, of all the people he has greeted. mine was glued to the live router this morning seeing the faces as he walks through the favelas, the shanty towns, the poorest of the poor, very dangerous. why go there? i can only imagine the security nightmare for his people. >> reporter: absolutely, brooke, but you have to remember this is a man who said from the day he was elected that he was gog make serving the poor the cornerstone of his papacy. he's a franciscan, and he has said that he will walk among the poor. he will remind everyone that that's what jesus christ did and that's what he's here to do. so he has to go to the favelas, and even though they've stepped up security, there were hundreds of police, he's not going to let them keep him from the people, brooke. >> shasta darlington in the middle of the party for the pope at copacabana in rio.

shasta, thank you very much. coming up next, we're going to learn more about this tragic case, the shocking twists and turns. a 6-year-old girl murdered. her parents still dealing with the tragedy. they then were targeted with another crime. and when police go to arrest the suspect, they were ambushed. the whole story next. ♪ [ male announcer ] some question physics. some question gravity. and some... even have the audacity to question improbability. with best-in-class towing and best-in-class torque these are some of the bold, new ram commercial trucks -- built to blow your imagination. guts. glory. ram.

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near the bottom of the hour, i'm brooke baldwin. a 17-year-old accuseded of sexually assaulting and killing a 6-year-old girl. now he's in critical condition after getting into a shootout with police trying to arrest him, and neighbors told our affiliate in dallas, wfaa, they saw the accused teen at this little girl's vigil, and they say he was wearing a t-shirt with one word across his chest, wanted. sarah gannon has the back story. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> we've got a dead body on the corner. i think it's a little girl. it's in a plastic bag. someone dropped it off. >> reporter: with a killer on the loose for 23 days, the ft. worth suburb of saginaw, texas, was on edge. >> i'd see her a lot just walking around, trying to find somebody to play with. >> reporter: 6-year-old alana gallagher, a redhead with a

pixie haircut found july 1st, the same day she went missing, bound and lifeless, with plastic bags over her head. she suffocated. >> open all the way up. i can see the legs and everything. >> reporter: her father did what many parents do in desperately tragic situations. he asked for help. >> we urge anyone with information about her to contact the police. >> reporter: and help came. tips poured in, but the family was also targeted. alana had a mom and two dads all living in the same house. last week someone torched her father's car in their driveway, a teddy bear memorial in her honor, also up in flames. >> scared. boggled. i just don't understand people who can do this kind of thing. >> reporter: police quickly ruled out any family member as a suspect in the murder, but it was 23 days before the community got answers. >> i can assure the community of

saginaw and all surrounding areas that you're perfectly safe in this community. i believe this is going to be an isolated case. >> reporter: this week police got their break from dna test results. alana had been sexually assaulted, and dna found on her body was a match for a 17-year-old neighbor, tyler holder, someone police had questioned early on. when police moved in for an arrest, holder opened fire, injuring officer charles lodato from nearby arlington, texas. holder himself was shot in the head during the shootout. he's in critical condition. saginaw police told cnn he is being charged as an adult with capital murder. >> sarah gannon now joins me live. sarah, a couple of questions live. first, tell me about the reports of this suspect appearing at this little girl's vigil. >> reporter: right, yeah. one of our affiliates, wfaa, some people who were at that

vigil told them he showed up in this t-shirt asking questions but didn't appear nervous. he was wearing this t-shirt that said the word "wanted." i have to say also the court documents cnn got a hold of yesterday show the reason that he was initially on the radar of police at all in the first place was because he was in the neighborhood the night her body was found saying, this is alana gallagher that was found, that body is alana gallagher, and that information hadn't been made public by police. immediately, that was a red flag. >> and then you reported about the shootout between the police and the 17-year-old. how is the police officer who was shot? >> reporter: the police officer who was shot is expected to be fine. it was a nonlife-threatening injury. thanks to quick thinking by medics on the scene. and tyler holder, i can report today, is also going to be charged with attempted murder of that police officer. >> sarah, thank you. a terrifying face to face

meeting with reputed south boston mob boss whitey bulger described in horrifying detail today by the man who lived it. cnn's deborah feyerick was inside that courtroom for the fist pounding testimony in this trial. fist pounding? tell me what happened. >> reporter: absolute fist pounding. that fist pounding got everyone's attention. this is a real estate developer who essentially was called in to offer an opinion about a fence that was along the property line of someone of an associate of james bulger's. the real estate developer did not give an opinion that bulger liked. so bulger called him into a meeting, and during that meeting, whitey bulger pounded on the table and said, he should have learned and known when to keep his mouth shut. the real estate developer that testified that bulger took a shotgun off the table and then stuck it in his mouth. then he pulled the gun out, punched him in the shoulder, said, rich, you're a stand-up guy. then he took out another gun, put it to the man's head, and basically said that he could

make amends by cutting him a check for $200,000. which is exactly what the real estate developer did. that check was cashed within a couple of days. really this reinstituted the rage and the terror that bulger had during his reign. the shotgun was put in this man's mouth and the gun put to his head really shows exactly what everyone at the time was dealing with. it's also, brooke, the testimony from a victim who lived, somebody who witnessed it firsthand. he said he was terrified of bulger, always was. brooke? >> bulger loomed large, it seems like his fury loomed large. deborah feyerick for us. deborah, thank you. in boston. from athletes to actors and politicians and performers, we've had our fair share of cheaters over the past couple of months. what's behind these people in powerful positions not telling the truth? john berman, hello, my friend.

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has been a summer of scandals. sounds scandalous. >> it's great to be here with you, brooke, and i mean that, that's the truth, and that might be the only true thing you hear all summer because it seems like we're in this season of lies. it's actually more like an era of lies with some big-time lies for some pretty big-time liars. check this out. ryan braun, former mvp baseball player, he's suspended now. he was telling some big lies about performance-enhancing drugs. alex rodriguez, he's back in the spotlight for having some truth issues. james clapper, the director of national intelligence had to apologize for some statements that were not completely true. and, of course, mr. anthony weiner. just listen to some of the things some of these men have said over the last few years. >> have you ever used steroids, human growth hormone, or any other performance-enhancing substance? >> no. >> does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. >> someone got access to my

account. that's bad. they sent a picture that makes fun of the name weiner. >> ah, the wolf interview. >> problem with all those statements, they turned out to be a lot less than true, as in completely false. so we are in this era of lies, brooke, and all we can hope is the x-files, as they say, the truth is out there somewhere. >> i loved watching you all week in for tapper. how's my truthiness meter? >> your truthiness ranking is very high. this is the place to go for truth because there's a lot of less than truth out there. >> i can't wait to see it. john berman, we'll look for you at the top of the hour. the lead starting in just a couple of minutes. before i go, something you have probably never seen a president do on purpose, at least here. look at this. former president george h.w. bush with no hair, shaved his head, in solidarity with this 2-year-old cancer patient he is holding there in his lap, has leukem leukemia. the 2-year-old is the son of a member of his security detail. and it's not just the former

president. look at this picture. i love this. other members of the detail have also shaved their heads as they raise money to help pay for that little boy's treatment. most parents want their kids to go to college but would probably prefer not to pay or at least as much as tuition seems to be lately. listen to this. nothing in american life has risen in price so quickly as the cost of college. christine romans takes a look at exactly how expensive it's gotten and what american families are doing in response.

if you are packing up to head off to college or your child is, you probably just got a bill for fall tuition fees. did you faint? last night in missouri, president obama said he is looking for a solution. >> i asked my team to shake the trees all across the country for some of the best ideas out there for keeping college costs down. >> well, a lot of parents are out there shaking the trees as well. cnn's christine romans has the bottom line on the rising cost of college. >> reporter: brooke, nothing in

american life has risen so quickly as the price of college. two-thirds of college graduates have loan debt in average of $26,000 each. those huge, huge numbers not lost on the country's most famous student loan recipient. >> we'll never have enough loan money. we'll never have enough grant money to keep up with costs that are going up five, six, seven percent a year. we've got to get more out of what we pay for. >> reporter: cost up, job prospects down. 36% of recent grads are working in jobs that do not require a college degree. it can't go on. americans can't just keep borrowing more money to pay for something that isn't returning more on the investment. already, behavior is changing. parents are shelling out less of their own money for a kid's college tuition. students rely now on grants and scholarships for 30% of their college cost but have to find or borrow money for the rest. so a stunning 67% of families are crossing off schools from

their wish list because they cost too much. more students are living at home in college to save money. even in families with earnings of $1,000,000 or higher. even in high income households, 48% live at home while in college. five years in college to find yourself. brooke, that was the bubble. those days are over. a college degree still critical. the unemployment rates are super low in engineering, physical therapy, accounting, technology fields, all kinds of places. that's why finding ways to make college more affordable in the first place is so imperative. brooke? >> christine, thank you. now some of the hottest stories in a flash. rapid fire. roll it. closing arguments in the bradley manning trial under way today. you know the story, manning accused of disclosing information to wikileaks in the largest leak of classified documents in u.s. history. the 25-year-old soldier was court martialed more than three years ago. if convicted of the most serious charge, aiding the enemy, he

faces life in prison. and for the very first time in at least 20 years, "consumer reports" has named an american car as best new sedan. drum roll. the honor goes to the newly e. designed chevrolet impala. that's a huge turnaround for the impala, which for years has scored at the bottom in testing by consumer reports. and the tape you have to see yourself. watch the trooper. semi truck sideswipes this wisconsin state trooper's car during a traffic stop nearly hitting the trooper. trooper just pulled someone over for speeding. he was heading back to his cruiser. when you see it, again, the 18-wheeler comes screaming by, actually rips off part of the front end of the cruiser. the driver was cited for the crash. now this, lance armstrong denied rumors that he was doping for years and years. he has since come clean, faces this huge lawsuit from his sponsor. but you know what he's saying now? he's saying he should not pay up. his reason, they should have

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former cyclist lance armstrong is telling his lawyers to drop a lawsuit against him. armstrong's lawyers say the postal service who sponsored him for years and years knew about the allegations of his doping going all the way back to 2000. but instead of investigating those claims, they say the postal service reaped the benefits from his stardom. armstrong admitted to oprah to years of doping and he was also stripped of his seven titles. janet johnson, is that a good defense for armstrong? >> i like, it brooke.

i mean, the defense is basically not only did you know that france was investigating me and we all heard about this for years, but you gave me a new contract knowing that france was v investigating me. the law is called the false claims act and i guess he did falsely claim not to be doping but he also defends himself by saying everybody else was doing it, so you knew, it you profited and you're outside the statute of limitations. >> because they're past the statute of limitations, what kind of case does the government have against them? >> the motion is really good. usually the motion is one that you think is a hail mary, it's never going to work but this one is really well taken. what his lawyers say is it was six years and six days before landis, who is the person who initially find the lawsuit, who was also doping, before he filed his lawsuit and the statute of limitations is six years, so

they be six days too late, which is one of the things that lawyers have nightmares about. >> six days too late. we'll follow it through. janet johnson, thank you so much. >> thanks, brooke. >> and this a story we have been wanting to tell here. you leave the cash, credit cards, even your whole wallet, leave it at home. you soon may be able to pay with your face. yup. we'll look at the new technology next. ♪ [ male announcer ] the distances aren't getting shorter.

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president ronald reagan wasn't bpolitics, he was trying to get the attention of jody foster. on this week's "crimes of the century." >> reporter: in the summer of 1980, hinckley read a story about jody foster, the 18-year-old who was taking a

sabbatical from hollywood to attend yale university. so he told his parents he was going back to college, to yale. >> he made up a story about how he was going to yale for a writing class that didn't exist. and the whole time he's on the phone with jody foster, he taped these calls. >> who is this? oh, no. who is this? who is this? >> it's john. >> john who? >> oh, no, not you again! look, i really can't talk to you, okay? do me a really big favor. you understand why i can't stay on these conversations with people i don't know. you understand it's dangerous and it's not done, it's not fair and it's rude, all right? >> well, i'm not done with this. >> well, i understand that but it's the same sentence okay.

>> you can catch the rest of the story on "crimes of the century" this sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >> forget cash, credit card, google wallet, there will soon be a way to spend your money that is so low maintenance. i'm talking about paying with your face. zane asher is here. i have read about this. explain it to me. >> reporter: it's crazy. it's a new technology that allows your face to act like a credit card. all you'll have to do is put your face into a camera. the program has a program that takes all your biodata to what you look like. it's a european company that

claims it can even distinguish between identical twins. it also claims it can reduce transaction times from 30 seconds to about 5 seconds. you think about how many seconds it takes to swipe your card, type in your pin, confirm the amount that, kind of thing. with this technology, the cameras start recognizing you as you're standing in line. by the time you get to the counter, it already knows who you are. if there is any uncertainty about your identity it, will ask you about a backup plan. customers would have to pay about $2.50 a month. >> call me old fashioned. i'm a credit card and cash kind of gal and i'm a little worried about privacy. what about those concerns? >> reporter: i did speak to someone and they said their main concern was hacking. imagine if someone links into the database and alongs their face with your account.

they say it's a lot more secure than credit cards, which can be stolen and obviously your face cannot be stolen. >> before we go, you recognize this anchor? >> this is "the situation room," which three nights a week also doubles as my bedroom. >> so this is "saturday night live" imitating our one and only wolf blitzer. he now says he is not returning to the show. >> me, no, i'm definitely done. >> you're leaving? >> i'm not coming back in the fall. >> jason sudekis, in a line number of people who are leaving. he says with sudeikis leaving, who will play me next? and wolf's very into this. i will say, wolf blitzer, you

have been e-mailing me about this. this is very exciting so i cannot tune in on the sit room to see who you will be say about that. in the meantime, jake tapper is up with "the lead" right now. >> george zimmerman got away with murder says one of the very jurors who acquitted him. this is the national lead. the only minority member of the zimmerman jury goes public and what she has to say puts this trial in a whole new light. she believes that zimmerman is a murderer. so why did she vote not guilty? the politics lead. anthony weiner's 23-year-old sexting partner speaking out, telling the world she's disgusted by him. we're going to hear from her for the very first time this hour. and the world lead. the moment of impact. the terrifying