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>> we bought them. i have them in my hand and we did not pay $60 for those. to see how les got him to go and learn how to do it yourself, go to our blog at cnn.com/yourmoney. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. great to have you with us on this sunday. it is 4:00 p.m. in the east. i'm pamela brown in for fredericka whitfield. these stories are topping this hour. swift water rescues save live in north carolina. not everyone is able to escape. we have an update on the victims. fears realized in new york. the body of a man involved a deadly wedding party boating accident is found. we'll bring you the latest developments. and a remarkable scene in brazil. millions of people crowd the beach. all of them there to celebrate mass with the pope. in new york, this afternoon, officials say they have found
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the body of the best man missing after a pre-wedding party boat crash. >> a jet skier did observe what he thought was a body in the water today one mile south of here. our communications section of the sheriff's office was conducted. our marine unit with the fire department was dispatched and we did recover a body. that body has been turned over to our medical examiner for a positive identification. but we do believe that that is the victim, our second victim in this tragic incident, mark lennon. >> the friend is charged with first-degree vehicular manslaughter. the young bride to be's body's body was recovered yesterday. alino cho has the details. >> reporter: lindsey stewart and brian bond were the picture perfect couple. they were set to wed on august
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10th. until they decided to take a boat ride friday night up the hudson river. just minutes after leaving the marina, around 10:00 p.m., the small speedboat carrying six people struck a barge. the bride to be and best man were ejected. the groom to be was among the four survivors. knockeden conscious. he immediately called for help. >> there was a body recovered of a female who basically fit the description of the person missing. >> reporter: lindsay stewart, the 30-year-old bride to be. here she is on facebook showing off the engagement ring and this one with her sister. her mother spoke to reporters hours earlier when there was still hope her daughter was alive. >> she's supposed to be married two weeks from today. which is -- it just can't end like this. >> reporter: what's worse, authorities say, it appears the driver of the boat, a 35-year-old man, a friend of the couple, was intoxicated.
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he's been charged with ve lick harman slaughter and vehicular assault. a horrific ending to what was supposed to be a great night on the eve of a wedding. >> horrible. we met with the families today. devastating. absolutely devastating. >> used to go to church together and been friends the whole time and they got -- fell in love three and a half years ago. >> she was excited? >> she did all the plans herself. that's something -- nightmare i don't wish on any parent. >> alino cho joins me now from new york. the groom still in the hospital with head injuries. your heart really goes out to him as he finds out that his bride to be has been killed. any update on his condition? >> reporter: well, i just got off the phone with the sheriff, pamela, and all indications are that the groom is still in the hospital at this hour. recovering from head injuries, severe ones. but imagine trying to recover physically from those injuries while also dealing with the
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emotional loss of losing his bride to be and his best man. that is brian bond's reality now. i can, however, tell you that one of the three remaining injured has been released and is said to be recovering outside of the hospital. pamela? >> you're right. physical and emotional wounds there. thank you for the latest on that report. now to north carolina where torrential downpours put towns under water and a 48-year-old man who was swept away just been found. that's according to a spokeswoman for caldwell county. a 10-year-old little girl also drowned yesterday. emergency crews had to rescue people from their cars and homes and we have been following this story. we were just talking, nick, how rapidly it happened yesterday. came out of nowhere. the rapid flooding. seems like it's little better today. right? >> yeah. the rain stopped but the three hard-hit counties still under a state of emergency and some towns saying stay away from the
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flooded areas and we mentioned good news is that the rain let up for now. residents in the hard-hit areas are going to be having to deal with cleanup for weeks. >> i am in shock, really, to be honest with you. i don't know what to say. this is -- i just don't know -- we were going to retire next year. i guess that ain't going to happen now. >> this is the worst i've seen it in 40 years i've lived here. >> local officials say this is the worst storm they have seen since 2004 in recent memory. just a terrible situation for them. earlier i spoke to the department of emergency management in north carolina and explained why it got so bad so quickly. >> it's probably the worst flooding that we have had in western north carolina since 2004. and that was really -- that was tropical storm francis and ivan that resulted in that 2004. of course, since then we have been in, you know, a large drought area and now with the
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amount of rain we have seen and flash floods and landslides and, you know, taken a toll on the emergency services as well as the residents of this area, of north carolina. >> the rain was constant. it was heavy. the rain was deadly, pamela. now the death toll at two. 10-year-old and 48-yearold among the victims. >> tragic story there. but thankfully they're getting a little bit of a break before more bad weather. >> sweeps through there, yeah. >> thank you. >> you bet. the driver of the train that crashed in spain last week is in court right now. the death toll from wednesday's accident is up to 79 after another person died in the hospital this morning. police accused the driver of reckless homicide. the judge will decide whether to press formal charges against him. police identified the gunman in hialeah, florida. 43-year-old pedro vargas set the apartment on fire, fatally shot six people and took two hostages. he died in the shootout with police.
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authorities say vargas may have had a dispute with building managers among the victims and police added that an initial check showed that he had no criminal history. well, there's a surprise guest at a music festival in cleveland this weekend. >> i want to bring out a family that you probably know. recognize the woman there in the shades and black t-shirt? that is amanda berry, one of the three women held kapt nif a cleveland home for a decade. she appeared on stage with her family. nice to see her smiling there. berry did not address the crowd but appeared later in the day. her captor agreed to a plea deal last week to life without parole. plus 1,000 years in prison for kidnapping the women. well, for some people july and august is vacation time.
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but for president obama, it's more like campaign season. the engines of marine one and air force one will once again be running tuesday. this after the president hit the road for three speeches last week. we talk a little bit more about this sudden presidential push, including some action today. so what's going on, lisa? >> think of this, pamela, as sort of a two-minute offense for president obama. he's like a quarterback trying to move the ball with just a couple of minutes left in the half. he's doing this now because congress leaves for the month-long break at the end of this week and returning in september things are harder. the federal government is poised to again run out of money. you're going to look at the president's calendar in a second. let's start with something rare from today. mr. obama gave a 40-minute interview to "the new york times" just published this weekend. listen to the clip asserting his authority and pushing back at congress. >> there's not an action that i
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take that you don't have some folks in congress who say that i'm usurping my authority. some of those folks think i usurp my authority by having the gal to win the presidency. and i don't think that's a secret. >> okay. that was published last night. then today, obama's financial lieutenant treasury secretary lew spoke on the economy on four different sunday talk shows. now let's look at the rest of the week. tuesday, the president himself gets back on the road speaking at a facility in tennessee. it is not just about the voters, though. wednesday, the president will make a rare visit to capitol hill huddling with his own democrats. that will be the last chance for that to happen for a month because thursday and friday the house and senate recess. lawmakers will head back to their districts for august. now, listen. i know that this feels like the usual president says this, republicans say that. but this is a critical moment.
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republicans are pushing back. they do say that the president's words are all sizzle and no steak. that he's just kind of rewarming things he's done before. meanwhile, republicans have their own offense going here. they want to talk about obama care and their efforts to try to defund it. pamela? >> trying to squeeze this in before thing a recess. thank you so much. >> you got it. senator john mccain is honoring the passing of a man he says he owes his life. senator bud day died in florida. he was a highly decorated war hero who shared a cell with mccain as a prisoner of war in vietnam. mccain said i owe my life to bud and much of what i know about character and patriotism. his fierce resistance and resolute leadership set the example for us in prison of how to return home with honor. colonel day was hailed for showing maximum resistance during his five and a half years
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in captivity. senator mccain says he'll remember colonel day as the bravest man he ever knew. you know throughout history,
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welcome back to "newsroom," everyone. california senator feinstein is calling on san diego mayor to resign. he's been accused of sexual harassment and last week he said he would take a two-week hiatus
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and senator feinstein said that's not enough. >> of all people, bob fillner knows what public life is like. he served a time in the house. being mayor of a big city, you're a role model for people. you're either inspiration to people or you aren't. it's a very tough job and i don't think that somebody who is lacking a moral compass really sets a role model or really will provide the kind of leadership that san diego wants. this is up to them. this kind of absence of a moral compass is subject to recall. i suspect there will be recalls and the people will be judge. >> you think he should make it easier and resign? >> that's right. >> as pressure mounts on the mayor, seven women accuse him of inappropriate behavior. one woman, laura fink, spoke to
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suzanne malveaux about what happened to her. >> i worked for bob filner in 2005 and i was at a fund raising dinner where i was required to escort him from table to table between courses and i stood behind him and a guest waiting far pause in the conversation, one of the guests said, you should be nice to this girl because she's worked her behind off for you. he then proceeded to tell me to turn around which i did and he then patted me on the behind, laughed and said, nope. it's still there. >> was this a kind of thing he would do repeatedly? >> you know, this was a one-time occurrence. i think that it stopped because i documented it immediately. i wrote an e-mail to the congressman directly and i cc'd his chief of staff and proceeded to describe the events and asked that it wouldn't -- i asked for an apology and that it wouldn't happen to me or any other member of his female staff. >> what was the response? >> his chief of staff called me
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the next day and asked me what i wanted to do. he mumbled an apology and told me that, but i just really didn't understand. >> i want to get reaction here. the news conference on friday and what he says he believes will make amends here. >> i apologize to my staff. i apologize to the citizens and staff members who have supported me over many years. i apologize to the people of san diego. and most of all, i apologize to the women that i have offended. so i'm beginning on august 5th i will be entering a behavior counseling clinic to under go two weeks of intensive therapy to begin addressing the behavior. >> a couple questions. of course, do you accept his apology? does he seem sincere, first? >> you know, i think where you can detect whether he's sincere or not is in the commitment to
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action and right now he is committing to only two weeks of therapy to address years of reprehencible behavior and i think he would step aside and dedicate the time and the energy that it requires to make a full -- to make a recovery or to address this behavior. he -- that's clearly not the case. new york mayoral candidate anthony weiner is struggling to put his sexting controversy behind him. coming up, we'll talk to a journist who's covered many scandals right after this break. ♪ [ male announcer ] you wait all year for summer. ♪ this summer was definitely worth the wait. ♪
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the latest revelations against former congressman anthony weiner dealt him a setback. new polls show support dropping significantly in the race for mayor of new york and confirmed that the campaign manager now quit. let's talk about this. i want to bring in sally quinn, a columnist for "the washington post." good to see you. >> hi. glad to see you. >> all right. so where to begin with this? i guess we can start with, do you think this is the beginning of the end for anthony weiner? >> i do. but you know, we keep thinking it's the end for everybody and it never is the end. i think this second go-round given the fact they have been out publicly in the last year giving interviews first to "people" magazine and then "the wonderful couple they were and the baby and how he's done everything to be the perfect father and husband, and then i think that her complicity in all
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of this may be hurting him, as well as her. because i think that most people thought, poor woman, she is pregnant. the guy did this awful thing. he resigned. now they're off having a little family life and then we now learn that she found out he was doing it and sending pictures of private parts and offering an apartment to this other woman and still she agreed and this is like elizabeth edwards, agreeing for john edwards to run for president when she knew that the mistress was pregnant with his child. it's insanity. she agrees to go through the whole thing again knowing that the story would come out and so i can't help even though -- i mean, i think he's a narcissi narcissistic creep and everybody sort of agrees on that but houma is beautiful, intelligent,
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charming and smart. the idea that she would put herself through this and put her child through this, because the child will read about it at some point is so baffling to me i can't -- i just can't give her a pass on this one. i think this is so difficult for women to see her. i thought after silda spitzer stood by her husband's side in that hideously embarrassing press conference where he resigned after having been with a prostitute, i thought that's the long we'd see of the long-suffering woman sikt good wife character. but when houma did this, it was sort of beyond the pale and i think it made everybody sort of say, what's wrong with her? why is she doing this? and i have some ideas. >> but to be fair, sally, you know, he's the one that behaved in that way. he's the one that's running for mayor, not her. why does the wife of these
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embattled politicians take so much heat? do you think she made it worse going up to the podium and talking? >> i think it was terrible. i think that first of all she had never -- should never have said -- allowed him to run again. just because she knew that this would happen. and not only bring up the old stories but the new old stories and that she was -- as a role model for women, particularly in this century at this time when women are making such strides for her to put herself back in this completely retro position is just appalling. i think she's hurting women everywhere when she stands up and acts this way and only reason i can think that she's doing this is because she wants the power as much as he does. i really think that she -- you know, with all those years being hillary's assistant or associate with the flags and the limos and the private planes and "hail to the chief" and whatever, i think
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she got a taste of it and thought when she married him she was marrying another bill clinton, of course, he was not another bill clinton. he was really very disliked on capitol hill. he was an ambitious guy but i think she put in for that getting used to that kind of life and i think she wanted it and wants it as much as he does. that is the only possible explanation i can come up with for why she would do this. and why she would herself through this. >> i think her own political aspirations might be behind this? >> i do. >> i want to read something from today and quoting a friend saying as soon as she stood up to the words, she changed from a sophisticated mysterious guiding beauty next to hillary clinton to the wife of tarnished anthony weiner. do you think that goes too far? do you agree with that statement? >> no! i think that's what she is. that is an actual fact. and i think that the best thing for her to do if i were giving
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hermie advice is if she want that is kind of a life is to dump him and run for office herself. i mean, that's the only way i can see that she can reinvent herself and get out of this horrible mess and the only way to see she is going to make this okay for her children. >> i have to -- i have to ask very quickly, sally, in light of what you said, you know, we've heard anthony weiner come clean about the fact more pictures could surface and not the time line here and the scope of his actions. in light of that, do you think that his donors should feel duped? >> i can't imagine having giving him money in the first place but as karen tumulti wrote in "the washington post" this week, she's trying to raise money from hillary's donors and putting, you know, putting a lot of pressure on them and they don't want to alienate hillary knowing that she is so close and giving money to anthony weiner to stay in good with hillary.
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houma obviously knows that and taking advantage of that. so, i mean, she's savvy. she's politically savvy. >> she is and to be fair, relationships, marriages are complex. especially when you have a child involved so it's easy to judge and we'll see how this all plays out. salary quinn, thank you for offering your opinions. we appreciate it. >> thank you. well, a tense standoff in egy egypt. supporters of the country's ousted president refuse to leave the streets after a day of deadly clashes with police. we'll have a live report of cairo coming up. all business purchases. so you can capture your receipts, and manage them online with jot, the latest app from ink. so you can spend less time doing paperwork.
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top story this is afternoon, a major jewelry heist in france. a bold move straight out of a movie. an armed robber held up an exhibition today. police say the robber took off with $53 million worth of stolen jewels. the robbery comes after two major heists at events at the cannes film festival earlier this year. one of the original lists up for auction on ebay and starts at $3 million. no one has bid yet but the auction management business says a few people are interested in this. the auction closes in just a few hours. schindler was a nazi and hired jewish workers in the factories to save them from dying in concentration camps.
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and the israeli government votes to release 104 palestinian prisoners. this move comes as representatives prepare to meet in washington for new talks that the state department now says will start monday. despite some opposition, prime minister benjamin netanyahu called it a tough decision for the good of the country. the first of four releases will come after the washington talks get under way. and turning to egypt now, political tension across the country is boiling over. a medical official says 72 people are dead after clashes broke out between police and supporters of president morsi in cairo. senior international correspondent ben wedeman is live from cairo at this hour. what can you tell us about how the violence started? >> reporter: well, the violence started according to -- it's very difficult to really sort out what happened. the government say that is protesters loyal to the deposed egyptian president mohammed
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morsi tried to block a major thorou thoroughfare in northern egypt. the police and army trying to intervene but according to the their testify of the government, the police and the army were fired upon by the pro-morsi demonstrators. the demonstrators for their part say that they were peacefully protesting when they came under deadly fire from the police. and the army. but what is important is that the situation in cairo this -- the events that happened early on saturday morning have left cairo a very tense place. the government says that they want that demonstration cleared out as quickly as possible. they say they will do it very soon. the muslim brotherhood continues to insist that mohammed morsi, who is being held somewhere in cairo by the army, be released and reinstated as president of
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egypt. there isn't really a lot of room for compromise between these two positions. >> tumultuous situation there. doesn't seem like violence will let up any time soon. what do you think, ben? >> reporter: well, actually, today, sunday has been relatively quiet in cairo. although there have been clashes, deadly clashes along the suez canal in which two people were killed. really, the real question is when or if the government forces will go in to clear out those demonstrations. all indications is they're going to do it. but nobody knows when. >> all right. we'll be monitoring that situation. ben, thank you for the latest there in egypt. and now turning to brazil and something no one has ever seen before at a papal gathering. a flash mob started to dance to a song just before celebrating
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mass in rio de janeiro. millions gathered at the final mass. they were in the country to celebrate world youth day. i'm joined now from rio de janeiro and the pope is greeted by huge crowds there wherever he goes in brazil, actually. what's the reason for the huge popularity there, especially among the youth? >> well, pamela, from the very beginning we expected it to be a successful trip. this is the first latin american pope and some ways of the a homecoming for him but despite the very high expectations, this is just blown everything out of the water. we have never seen crowds like this for an event here on the beach and i have covered a lot of events here. they're talking about more than 3 million people. many of them spent the night last night. it looked like a can of sardines in the morning with people lined up in their sleeping bags. and basically, this is a man who
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everyone, of course, calls the people's pope. the slum pope. but the fact is he reaches out and touches people in a way we haven't seen in recent years so that the young people here feel that he's really talking to them the same going in to the shantytown here in rio de janeiro. he really connected with people in a way that gets them out on the street and wanting to see more. they line the route. they hold up babies for him to kiss. just a really high energy atmosphere, pamela. >> thank you so much. all right. moving along now to other news today. the late actor paul newman created a summer camp for children to escape to. well, now, newman's friend alec baldwin is carrying on with his mission and making an impact for these kids. >> hi, i'm alec baldwin and we can make an impact on children's cancer.
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i've been involved with the hole in the wall gang camp in connecticut 20 years now and a friend of mine introduced many e to paul newman. >> i got a fish! >> when you come to the camp, what's interesting is you see the joy in the kids' faces. they're having an experience here that would likely only have here. the parents you spend most of the time talking to discuss what they have been going through and they've been going through a lot because there's nothing more vexing i think than to have a child who's got a grave illness and you're powerless to do something about it. >> what's the deal? let's go. >> these kids have an excess of the difficult things this life. it robs them of their childhood. at the camp, they have a childhood on so many levels. hole in the wall is something where we have to keep it going and it has to expand. probably the greatest cause i have ever seen in my life. join the movement. impact your wall. cnn.com/impact.
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president obama has a big budget fight on his hands as political editor paul steinhauser explains. the president is ready to rack up frequent flyer miles to get his version through congress. it's all in this week's political look ahead. >> hey, pamela. with big budget show downs looming, president obama takes his case directly to the american people this week. as he delivers a speech on the economy in chattanooga, tennessee, thes the fourth in a series of addresses and so far
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his tone's been sharper and more partisan than some expected. >> if the republicans don't agree with me, lay out their ideas. repealing obama care and slashing our budgets in education and research and infrastructure, that's not an economic plan. >> congressional republicans are pushing back. >> the speech turned out to be all sizzle and no steak. that's assuming that there is any sizzle left after you've reheated this thing so many times. >> well, it may end up being the marquee senate battle. >> what rhymes with mitch? it's time to switch. >> kentucky's secretary of state officially rolls out the democrat to mitch mcconnell. when's running next year for a sixth term in office. >> senator mcconnell is the biggest part of the problem. >> keep an eye on this race. it's already getting nasty. pamela? >> all right, paul. thank you. boston red sox slugger ortiz did not like a call last night
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and let the whole world know it. wait until you see what big papi did after the ump called him out. that's right after this break.
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welcome back. take a look at the stories trending online right now. syndicated radio host david kidd kraddick died yesterday. he was 53 years old.
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a judge is delaying a request by the parents of amanda bynes. she is held by authorities in california for psychiatric evaluation. the judge said because she is in custody, a conservativeship is not needed. see this, red sox star ortiz got mad last night. how mad? have a look. here. yeah. lost his temper after that. and as you see, well, the telephone got the brunt end of it. no word yet on the fate of that telephone. all right. turning now to another story that we're looking at today. sea world's killer whale program is under fire. former trainers accuse the park of being profits ahead of well being and safety. they say they have a video that proves their case up next.
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sea world is famous for its killer whales, tragically, though, tilakum may be the most famous. it is linked to the death of three people. what made it snap? a chilling new documentary that will air on cnn called "black fish" searches for answers. here's cnn's tori dunan. >> we need a code to respond for a dead person at sea world. a whale has eaten one of the trainers. >> it hinted at the horror. sea world orlando, february 2010. a 12,000-pound killer whale zrags a trainer under water and
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dismembers her. >> he never let go of the arm. >> the arm? >> swallowed it? >> swallowed it. >> after the incident, a new documentary looks in to the death and questions sea world operations. >> what happened to her really could have happened to anyone. >> black fish claims the death wasn't a us lated incident. that it was involved in the deaths of two other people before her. one prior to sea world owning the whale. and documents other flightening moments including different orcas. >> dragging her under the water. it shows how dangerous it is. >> john hargrove and jeff entry are among those that speak out in the film accused sea world of putting profit ahead of trainer safety and believe confining killer whales for a lifetime is cruel. >> it increases the stress level of these animals and stress
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leads to frustration, frustration leads to aggression. >> we now know that they live in nuclear families to pull them out of that environment for human entertainment is basically old school. >> reporter: the film contains what it says is ark ooifl video of orcas captures to populate sea world. >> it tears your heart out. >> reporter: it shows what it says are images of whales born in captivity separated from their mothers. ex-trainer carol ray said she saw it happen once and can't forget the mother's reaction. >> the screaming and crying by herself in the pool that night, i cried on my way home. >> reporter: the filmmakers say sea world declined repeated requests for an on-camera interview. same for us at cnn. but in a lengthy statement provided, sea world blasting the film as dishonest, misleading and scientifically inaccurate.
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it goes on to say, quote, sea world is proud of its legacy of supporting marine science and environmental awareness in general and the cause of killer whales in particular. >> killer whales are -- >> the director spent two years working on "black fish." she believes it's time sea world evolves their parks. >> turn them in to rehabilitation release centers, make sea pens where you can kind of cordon part of the ocean koefl cove and release them in to that. they can play a heroic role in the future. >> reporter: cnn films purchased the rights for the documentary. cnn, los angeles. turning to a little bit more of an uplifting animal story, a favorite video of the day. check this out. this is the march of the penguins at the san francisco zoo. it's celebration of the chicks getting a little order and
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that's borrowing better. man convicted of killing young washington intern chandra levy keeps trying to have that
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conviction overturned. omar is serving a sentence. she disappeared while jogging in rock creek park in washington. he says he is innocent. the lawyers are trying to win him a new trial. president obama takes the message to tennessee. he says it's time for politicians to focus on policies that help the middle class. he made the three speeches last week with the same theme. on wednesday, we find out if the fed plans to raise interest rates and analysts watching for signs to scale back the massive bond buying program. on wednesday, in new york, the man charged with murder in the 1979 disappearance of 56-year-old etan patz is due in court. the missing child case was an enduring mystery until last may when police say hernandez confessed.
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and then on thursday, wedding bells will be ringing in minnesota and rhode island. same-sex marriage laws take effect that day. and finally, a story that made all of us smile at our meeting this morning. this right here, this is hunter mahan and this weekend he was leading the canadian open and he got a call that his wife was in labor. she wasn't due for a couple of weeks. what did he do? well, instead of continuing to play, he packed up the golf bag and went to be with his wife. oh, by the way, he was in contention to take home a check for more than $1 million. and we're told mom and brand new baby are doing just fine tonight. all right. that is it for me. i'm pamela brown in atlanta. been a pleasure filling in for fredericka whitfield. the next hour begins with don lemon in new york. take it away.
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hi, pamela. thank you very much. nice show today. you're in the cnn "newsroom." i'm don lemon. we have the biggest stories of the week, weekend and week ahead. let's talk about this. the driver in the deadly indianapolis bus crash tells witnesses the brakes went out. millions upon millions greet the new pope in brazil. live to rio as the pontiff says good-bye. i'll make it -- >> that's quite all right. >> as a former new york city -- >> she made headlines dressing down anthony weiner. why did she do it? she is coming up. i'll ask her live. and this -- >> don, i think your comments of a conservative preacher on a sunday. >> a lot of people got riled up about my no-talking points on black america. why all the fuss? you can judge for yourself. we have got it in its entirety. plus more coming up. we'll begin this hour in indianapolis with new