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>> it certainly did. ouch. that will do it for me. thanks for watching "around the world." you're not done yet. >> not done yet. "cnn newsroom" starts now. i can't fathom what happened in jim's head, what happened. obviously just lost it. >> the desperate search for two missing children in california, a father speaks to cnn about the man wanted in connection with their kidnapping. and this is how some commuters started their day. this is in nashville. their bus gets stuck in flood waters, but this isn't the only trouble spot. we'll take a look at the areas hardest hit, and following the near death of their son in a pool accident, usher's ex-wife says she wants custody. we'll take a closer look at public celebrity battles over children.
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>> this is c"cnn newsroom." just a couple hours ago we heard from the father of a girl police believed was abducted in southern california after they believe her mother was killed. police are doing dna test on remains to figure out if the man's 8-year-old son was killed. anderson says the alleged kidnapper was his goods friend, a man that looked out for his family while he was working in another state. >> he and i had a very close relationship over the years, and we have done many, many things throughout the years together, and he is basically became like part of our family. he was always around, and we always did stuff together as a family, and he sometimes he took the kids camping and we were just very good friends. >> this is your buddy. you know him. was there ever anything about him that you found suspicious? i know the easy answer is no because you wouldn't have had him around your family but
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searching your history now, was there anything there? >> you know, i have come up blank. i have been through every scenario in my brain. there was nothing ever to show any indication of this. everybody you can even talk to loved him. he would give you the shirt off his back. he was there to help at any time you called, and nothing ever like this indicated anything. i am hearing different stories, but nothing to me ever indicated anything like this. >> so piecing this back together, your kids and their mother going up to his cabin, not unusual, happened all the time and can't read into it. >> that is correct. i can't say it happened all the time, but a lot of times he was down at our place, and every once in a while the kids, even myself when i was in san diego would go up there and stay the night and we would ride a go cart or do whatever, you know,
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and there was just being like camping out because of his cabin. >> now, we have heard these rumors as have you that your 16-year-old daughter hannah had become uncomfortable around him. he expressed that he had a crush. we don't know the context. we don't know what really happened. had you heard anything about that until now? >> i have not heard anything about that. if i had heard and about that or my wife had heard something about that, it would have been cut off. >> no question about it? >> no question about it. >> we will bring you the rest of the powerful interview with brett anderson later in the show. first paul in san diego to tell us more about the search for this guy, this alleged abductor and i mean the police have put out this amber alert. i imagine that they have gotten a lot of tips on where james dimaggio could be. are they any closer to finding
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him? >> right now, no, suzanne, and the most credible tips they had came yesterday afternoon out of extreme northeastern california. apparently a business owner seeing a license plate that possibly matched that of the blue versa, same make of car, they say one problem with the tip is the person that reported this saw multiple possibly four people in that car and that wouldn't add up. later also it crossed the border in oregon, another possible sighting. i spoke with the oregon state place and nothing about that car since then and something to think about. because dimaggio is an avid outdoorsman, they say he would be well familiar with driving country roads and interestingly enough back in 18 years ago he was cited for a misdemeanor in texas, found guilty, and he fleed from an officer and was speeding down a country road at 60, 70 miles per hour, suzanne. >> and we have also heard, too,
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last night we heard from the abducted girls, the best friend, a young man that told nancy grace that dimaggio told this young girl that he had romantic feelings for her. do we know how that even plays into all of this? >> that is a lead of course that police are pursuing and a neighbor had also said dimaggio had taken the girl to hollywood at one point. now, dimaggio has an ex-wife and they quizzed her as well. perhaps they have always joked that ex-wives will tell all and she said if anything dimaggio was great around her son. take a listen. >> he was very, very nice. he was great to my son. i had a son, and my son was about five years old, and he was just an all around nice guy, and there was no -- he gave me no reason to have any -- there was
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no red flags whatsoever. >> and again, suzanne, all of those close to the family, absolutely stunned by what happened here. >> it is stunning. please give us updates when you know where he could possibly be. a very disturbing story and want to find those children. thanks, paul. we're going to actually hear the rest of chris cuomo's emotional, very powerful interview he has with the father, brett anderson later in the show, 1:30 eastern. will you want to listen to the rest of the interview. in florida detectives are now investigating the death of a teenager after police tasered him. that's right. friends told our failed wsvn that israel hernandez was spray painting a building when police stopped him, spotted him, he ran, they chased him down. when it was all over this young man was dead. i want to bring nick valencia following the story for us and explain this to us, how this actually happened. >> his friends are very angry about what happened, about 5 a.m. israel is spray painting an
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abandoned building when the cops came and confronted him and he took off. he went running. when he went running, that's when police -- he led police on a chase. they cornered him and said they had to taze him in order to arrest him. it is the friends and family outraged about how police handled this. two of the friends with him say that the police stood over hernandez's body and high fived each other and say the life of a very talented graffiti artist was taken too soon and the actions were not without criticism. there are some people voicing criticism of hernandez saying he was a vandal and that he should have stopped when police told him to stop. i spoke with his girlfriend earlier this morning, and i asked her to respond to those criticisms. >> you know, israel, he ran because he was scared and he only weighs 140 pounds, and he
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is just a child in so many ways and so he is such a pure, innocent person, and he never would do. >> police have released a statement that says in part that they had to taze him in order to arrest him. toxicology and autopsy are pending. we did ask his girlfriend, he went by the name reefa, alluding to drug use and we asked if he was a drug addict and she said he was straight edged, straight laced kid and pure and innocent person. >> did the police explain, was he violent in any way? first of all, they felt they needed to taze him and secondly while he was there in their custody, i mean, if he was undergoing some sort of stressor medical duress, why didn't they actually help him out or get some sort of medical help. >> they called the ambulance and he was taken to a local hospital, nearby hospital and pronounced dead within the hour. the police report that we read doesn't go into detail aboutused they say they had to do it in
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order to arrest him. we reached out to the florida department of law enforcement that often gets involved in deadly force cases and in south florida they tell us south florida police departments usually like to take the lead on their own use of deadly force investigations, so right now we're not sure in an outside party will get involved or if the miami beach police department is just going to take the lead on this. >> keep us posted. >> absolutely. >> thank you. here is also what we're working on for this hour. honda tops the test in safety ratings and nissan and kia not so much. the new crash test report is out and we have the list. and roads have turned into rivers. this is in nashville. while flooding plagues part of the u.s., fires roaring out of control in another part. we'll have live reports from both areas up next. and drop ofs begins with arthritis pain... and a choice. take up to 6 tylenol in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. all aboard. ♪ these chevys are moving fast. i'll take that malibu.
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we are watching extreme weather. this is from coast-to-coast from fires to flooding, millions of people are worried about their safety. in southern california a wildfire exploded in size, many people are evacuating homes while they still can. in the south flooding is a threat there. more than a dozen people in missouri were rescued last night from roofs and trees and other dramatic rescues, this in
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tennessee, including a newborn baby rescued, several other states also in some trouble today. chad myers at the cnn weather center and stef any elam is in riverside county, california. chad, let's start with you. let's talk about the flooding. obviously a lot of people very, very worried about their homes and their safety. >> we could see pictures that we just showed you like that in atlanta, georgia, or very close to that. new flash flood warning for the city of atlanta right now. just issued. about five minutes ago. there has been rainfall, day after day after day. this is 72 hours worth of rain, added up by the radar, from kansas with 6, 10 inches of rain across parts of missouri and 6, 10, 12 inches, not that far from branson and springfield, missouri and down into tennessee and now even into north georgia where there is flooding going on now. branson picked up 8 inches of rainfall in 12 hours. this is what we are looking for adros parts of nashville,
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atlanta, huntsville, maybe chattanooga. what's wrong with the storms today and the past couple days is their speed. we just got warned from the national weather service here in atlanta that these storms will move at 5 miles per hour today. so when it rains, and it starts to rain hard, it is going to rain for a long time. all the way from gwinnett county to alabama, that's where the line of weather is right now. it isn't going to move. if it is raining where you are, it will be raining. here is a live shot outside the studios, not raining here and you go three miles to the north, there is already water in the streets. so that's what you have to watch out for, storms that will not move. >> thank you, chad. want to go to stephanie out of southern california. opposite problem we're having here, a wildfire threatening several communities, so tell us what people are dealing with here. >> we have some updates for you, suzanne. we can tell you that this fire is now burned 10,000 acres. keep in mind this started at 2 p.m. local time yesterday. so this really is just a racing
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fire. a major reason why as you can probably see here is the wind. the wind is just pushing through here and it is pushing the flames along in this direction and which would be heading towards palm springs which is about 20 minutes to the east of where we are now. four fire fighters have been hurt and we know one civilian was hurt and possibly bad burns throughout the whole body. we're still working to confirm that information here. a lot of people evacuating when they could. take a listen to what one woman told us about her ordeal getting out of her house. >> the firemen helped me bring up pictures of stuff and then i couldn't think of my purse and my medication in the back room in the bedroom and they wouldn't let me back in. they wouldn't let me go get it. i told them please, let me, i can make it and they said, no, just five minutes and we'll take care of everything. get in the car. get in the car. >> we know that there are 13 helicopters out here dropping
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water and just as we were coming live, is u zan, i can tell you we saw the return of the dc 10 now that the sun is out and continuing to drop water from the skies while there are 1,000 fire fighters inside on the fire lines working to get this fire right now 0% contained. >> stephanie, you talk about the powerful winds. we can actually hear the winds in your live shot, stephanie. thank you very much. appreciate it. we're also following this, a question about how safe is your car? there is a new report raising questions about some small vehicles. we will tell you which models did well and which failed the test. hmm...fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. yep, everybody knows that. well, did you know some owls aren't that wise? don't forget i'm having brunch with meghan tomorrow. who? meghan, my coworker. who? seriously? you've met her like three times. who? (sighs) geico.
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some optimistic news for you, especially if you drive a certain model of a compact car. there is a major insurance group that smashed autopsy lup a lot and found the safest. watch this. 12 new compact cars got the crash and smash treatment. you see it there. the insurance institute for highway safety scored the honda civic best in terms of passenger
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safety. here are the model that is got a good or acceptable safety rating. the civic is the only car that ranks good when it hit in a small area about 40 miles per hour. here is the other end of the spectrum. the cars that did not farewell in the same crash test, the nissan centra and two models of keye a here is rene marsh with more details. >> it is this type of crash that happens on u.s. roads thousands of times per year. watch closely. not quite a head on, but what the insurance institute for highway safety calls overlap frontal crashes where part of the car's front end strikes an object. the group says some popular small cars on the road don't make the grade in overlap crashes. 12 small cars put to the test, the honda civic received the top grade. the head and chest of the test dummy was directed and the air
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bag released on time and the structure of the car did not cave in on the driver's side. the kia forte performed the worst. >> the structure collapsed. we have the restraints not doing a good job of controlling the motion of the occupant. >> the group says manufacturers have built cars to best absorb impact in the center. take a look. a more head-on impact on the left and overlap crash on the right. the damage much worse in the overlap crash. >> as manufacturers redesign their cars, they need to try to figure out ways to provide better protection for the people inside. >> along with the honda civic, the dodge dart, ford focus, hyundai elantra and scion ct passed the test. the chevrolet sonic, voekz wag ebb beatle, nissan centra, kia soul and forte all performed poorly. >> back to another story. you heard the first part of chris's interview with brett
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anderson at the hop of the hour. just ahead we'll bring you the rest of what anderson told us about his missing kids and the man wanted in connection with their kidnapping.
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brett anderson, the man whose wife was killed and two children are now missing spoke out about what he is going through with our chris cuomo this morning. more than 100 tips have been called into police to find the suspect, the suspect, james dimaggio. anderson's wife's body was found in their burnt out home east of san diego and a body that might be of his 8-year-old son. police say the remains are so burnt that the dna test is proving now difficult. i want to bring you the rest of anderson's emotional interview. >> my cousin called me and said did you hear about jim's house?
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so i just googled it and found the pictures and they said there was one body which at the point i thought was jim, and so i was very upset for jim, and then things just downward spiralled from there. >> tell me about your kids, mr. anderson. tell me about hannah. tell me about ethan. >> give me a second. >> i know this is difficult. i cannot imagine talking about my kids in this kind of situation but we want people to feel connected to what's at stake here and who may be lost. tell us about what made these kids so special to you. >> ethan wore his heart on his sleeve. he would give -- do anything for anybody, loved everybody, and he was just my buddy. we spoke quite often since i have been in nashville and he
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would tell me his daily routine and he was just getting back into football for a second year. hannah was just a beautiful, beautiful girl. very good student. hundreds and hundreds of friends, and there was nothing bad to say about my kids. they never did anything to anybody. they were always wonderful. we were pretty tight niched even though i was a couple thousand miles away. i don't know what to say. it is surreal to me right now. >> when you found out they found your wife in the house, and that she is gone, could you believe it? >> no. i could not believe it. i can't fathom what happened in jim's head, what happened. he obviously just lost it. >> tell us about her. tell us about your wife. >> my wife and i, you know, we
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had been together for many years. we got -- we have been married for about the last going on 11 years. i have taken a job in nashville, my job here in san diego went under, and we still spoke at least a couple times a week, and we were working things out. she was a very lovely lady, very friendly to everybody. she has good friends, loved by her family, and she wouldn't hurt a fly. for this to happen to her was just uncalled for. >> and this guy dimaggio was one of the people you thought you could depend on in your absence to make sure your wife and your kids were okay, is that true? >> absolutely. i spoke to him often, and he would help get my son to football practice on days that hannah had dance or whatever,
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and he was constantly there for me. >> they are going through this very difficult forensic analysis of what happened inside the house, they know they found your wife there. there is another body they're trying to figure out. is not knowing the most difficult part for you right now? >> i know that they're looking for dna and everything, but i wish that -- i hope that's not my boy. i have to think that it is. that's kind of my mindset right now. so right now a lot of focus is on trying to get my daughter back alive. >> 16 years old. she is smart. she is strong. she is with an adult male. do you have any idea where he would think he could go, what he would think he could do in a situation like this?
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>> i have no idea. he is into camping. he could be anywhere. that's why people that are going out to different camp spots, please keep your eyes open. i don't care where it is. i just have no clue. like i said, it is surreal to me. i can't imagine this happening and just kind of taking it day by day and hoping for the best. >> what is the hardest thing for you emotionally in this dealing with having your wife, your daughter, and your son all in some type of not being with you anymore? what's the hardest thing emotionally in dealing with this? >> i believe the hardest thing emotionally is still to come when i have to go and start cleaning out their apartments and rooms.
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i have a lot of support here with me and we'll try to get through it. >> we are here for you as well. we want to get the word out that everybody is looking for dimaggio, that they're looking for han a and, yes, that we have ethan's face out there just in case. what do you want to say to this man if he is monitoring the news? >> like i said before, have you taken everything, the damage is done, just let my daughter go. let her employ home safe. let her with be me and try to mend things from there. >> that's all that matters to you right now is getting her back. what happens to him is secondary. >> that's correct. >> look, it must be impossible for you to stay strong like this. i give you all the respect in the world for coming on and talking about this and keeping the fight up. i know to you it is the only thing you can do because all that matters to you in the world is missing right now. anything we can do to help we
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will. and we know that there has been a fund set up, yes? >> yes, there has. i don't have a whole lot of information but it is called the anderson family memorial fund, and it is set up through wells fargo out of the sparks, nevada, wells fargo, and it was done very quickly by a friend of mine and some amazing people named andrew and michelle st. pierre. i can't thank them enough. we will try to get more information with how this works as time moves on. >> what are you going to do with the fund? >> well, i am not a rich guy. i am going to most likely use whatever i can to help with any up coming expenses and the most likely then if there is anything left over i will donate that for somewhere for exploited children. >> very noble. please know that as information
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develops and things that you want us to get out, we are a phone call away from you. okay? >> i appreciate that. >> i am very sorry to meet you this way. we will keep hope alive that hannah can be found and that she is safe. >> thank you very much. >> that is just so heartbreaking. there is an arrest warrant for a murder that has been issued for dimaggio. a judge signed off on a $1 million bond once he is taken into custody. this, it could be a bitter custody battle for their son who almost drowned. usher's ex-wife says she wants her kids back. we have the story up next. distribution systems," "and one of the most efficient trucking networks," "with safe, experienced drivers." "we work directly with manufacturers," "eliminating costly markups," "and buy directly from local farmers in every region of the country." "when you see our low prices, remember the wheels turning behind the scenes, delivering for millions
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i miss you. usher's ex-wife is fighting to get custody of their two sons, a court hearing that will happen tomorrow after their 5-year-old got stuck in a swimming pool drain. tamika foster filed an emergency motion saying the boy almost drowned because he was not properly supervised. well, he is now doing much better in a hospital, but foster says that usher is away from his children 85% of the time, on tour, on recording shows for "the voice." usher won primary custody of the children last year after a bitter court fight. the public celebrity battles over children nothing new really, but it does leave these children caught in the middle. from alec baldwin and kim
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bastinger's nasty custody battle for their child when she was just six years old to britney spears and kevin federline's fight for custody of their boys. we'll bring in wendi walsh that joins us from los angeles and you have down an selled many people getting divorces here and it is really about the kids caught in the middle of all of this and especially these kids in the limelight of their parents who are celebrities. what do you think these kids are going to go through? what kind of unique experience are they going to have? >> well, the sad thing is when i do counsel people i am always saying look through your life, through the lens of your children, think about what they are seeing and feeling here. put the kids first. the problem with celebrities is so many suffer from their own brand of narcissism it is all about them and not the kids. my concern are the attachment issues. they're very young children, suzanne, and if he is traveling 85% of the time and he has primary custody, who is this revolving door of paid
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caregivers and really are they emotional safe. we know she is saying they're not physically safe. i am wondering how emotionally safe they are. >> talk about the fact they have to go through this in front of all of us. they have no privacy, no sense, everybody is talking about it here. what specifically or uniquely will they have to deal with and how can they be protected? >> the good news now of course is that they are small and hopefully not sitting in front of cnn right now, four and five years old and as they get older this will all be available on the internet to them. you know, i think they're going to go through a lot of trauma. they're going through it now. they're having attachment injuries as they're being thrown back and forth and wondering how safe they are and if the adults around them, that's their world, can protect them, if the world is safe or not. >> what they're wondering. >> it is not unique to celebriti celebrities. there are so many couples getting divorced and have kids and have i to work it out and it doesn't and how can they make it
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easier for the kids? >> you know, i have to quote my colleague dr. drew here that we are really in a culture of narcissism everywhere, suzanne, and so more and more parents need to stop thinking about their own needs and start instead thinking about the needs of their genetic line which are the children that they have given birth to. >> what does that look like? >> yes, tell us what that looks like. what do they need to do to protect their kids? >> what i ask parents to do and none of them ever do it by the way, i have only known one case of parents that did it, why don't you keep the family home in tact and you trade houses of week and see how that feels. i know one family lasted one year doing that. yet they expect kids to last their entire childhood and they wonder how the children of divorce start having affairs and separate relationships. they only know the two household life. we're training them for love. we're training them for
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attachment. we have to be their primary caregiver and be in their lives as much as possible. that means not taking a job 3,000 miles away because it is a great job opportunity. it may mean making less money but living a few block from your kids if you will be divorced. >> all right. good advice as always and we wish usher and his family the best if they can work it all out clearly and them and many other children going through the similar experience. thank you. appreciate it. this family, they chose prayer instead of medical care for their kids. now a philadelphia couple faces murder charges in the death of their infant son. this is not the first time that one of their children has died. that story up ahead. at a these chevys are moving fast. i'll take that malibu. yeah excuse me, the equinox in atlantis blue is mine! i was here first, it's mine. i called about that one, it's mine. mine! mine. it's mine. it's mine. mine. mine. mine. mine. it's mine! no it's not, it's mine! better get going, it's chevy model year-end event.
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doctors are in the business of saving lives but a michigan doctor allegedly scammed patients and the government. today a judge will decide if dr. fadaah will be released from jail on bond. he is accused of giving chemotherapy to healthy patients and getting $35 million from false medicare claims. our affiliate wxyz got video of the fbi collecting boxes of evidence from the oncologist's home and offices. he faces 20 years in prison if convicted. a judge in philadelphia is refusing to dismiss murder charges against a fundamentalist christian couple whose eight
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month old son died of pneumonia. herbert and katherine did not seek medical care for their baby. instead they prayed. as gary tuchman reports it has happened before. >> at this north philadelphia cemetery most of the graves are marked, but not this spot where two small children are buried. two children who would be alive today say authorities if their parents gave them medical care. herbert and katherine shibol are charged with third degree murder following the death of their eight month old son brandon this spring. >> instead of caring and nurturing him, they ultimately caused his death by praying over his body instead of taking him to the doctor. >> unbelievably, this isn't the first time this has happened to them. in 2009 their 2-year-old son kent died. the parents did not seek medical care to treat him. >> i tried the previous case two sand a half years ago and the
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circumstances that case to this case are early similar. >> if the first case they were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of kent. the prosecutor asked for prison time. the judge instead opted for probation and allowed the couple to move back to their home in their seven other children. the judge did order them to seek medical care for their children in the future. joanne pascatori prosecuted them and will prosecute this as well. >> when the judge gave probation you must have been very upset. >> i was upset. i was upset at that and i was upset because i felt that they just didn't get it, and they weren't going to get it, and now here we are standing here again two-and-a-half years later and another one of their children is dead and they still don't get it. >> whiches why they have been charged with a more serious count of third degree murder this time around for the death of their baby brandon. what's with the parents, authorities point to philadelphia's first century gospel church where they belong. a church that declares its trust in god alone for physical
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healing. >> this church lists many of its core philosophies on its website. relevant to this case is one particular belief that i will quote in part. if we are trusting in prescription or medication, satan is able to hinder or vuk toer from god. >> why is this type of faith healing preached? we wanted to talk to the church's pastors. >> hi. i am gary tuchman with cnn. >> the daughter of the chief pastor said he did not want to speak with us. >> how are you? is the pastor home? >> the wife of the assistant pastor said the same thing. herbert remains in jail. katherine has been released to live with her parents. the remaining children are in state custody. >> do you feel you did right by god? >> no comment. >> this is herbert's attorney. >> he is sad. he is in a grieving mode. i looked at him this morning and he seemed have lost weight. in terms of a holding up, he is a stand-up guy. >> certainly that's a most
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controversial characterization. we wanted to show you pictures of herbert and katherine's two boys. the lawyers on both sides say they don't know if any pictures of them in life. all they have are the autopsy photos taken shortly before they were buried in their unmarked graves. >> a lot of people say you have no love for your child because you let two children die without medical help. >> no comments. >> gary tuchman, cnn, philadelphia. >> what a tragic story. a priest appears at a crash site and says a prayer and then it has an extremely powerful impact. hear why some are calling this mysterious priest a real life angel. that's up next. i help support bones... [ ding! ] ...the immune system... [ ding! ] ...heart health... [ ding! ] ...and muscles. [ ding! ] that can only be ensure complete! [ female announcer ] the four-in-one nutrition of ensure complete. a simple choice to help you eat right. [ major nutrition ] nutrition in charge.
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people in a small missouri community are crediting a catholic priest with pulling off a miraculous rescue with the power of prayer. the priest appeared at the site of a serious car wreck on sunday. as soon as he said a prayer rescue workers were able to do what they could not do before. pull a pinned woman out of her crushed car. the priest disappeared as quickly as he appeared. now no one can find him. our affiliate khka has the details. >> reporter: new london fire chief raymond reed says rescue crews spent the first 45 minutes after the accident trying to get
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katie lins out of this car to no avail. the metal on this older metal mer say deese dulled the department's equipment. >> the materials it was constructed of were probably better than how cars were constructed today. it was a very well built car. when you compact materials like that one was compacted, they become even stronger. because you're cutting through multiple things instead of just one layer. >> reporter: about an hour into the rescue, katie told rescue workers she'd like to pray out loud with them. that's when a priest appeared out of nowhere. >> he came up and approached the patient and did offer a prayer. it was a catholic priest. and he had anointing oil with him. in the sense of calmness come over her then even more so than what she had been already. it does us as well. i can't be for certain what who said or how it was said or where it come from. but myself and one of the other firefighters that was beside me,
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we very plainly heard that -- that we should remain calm. that our tools would now work. and that we would get her out of that vehicle. >> the fire department showed up right after that prayer with fresh equipment and was able to finish the extrication. after getting katie safely into the helicopter, at least a dozen other rescue workers turned around to thank the priest who was nowhere in sight. the highway had been blocked for a quarter of a mile during the hour and a half rescue leaving no bystanders or no parked cars nearby. lins's family and friends are amazed by the story. >> where did this guy come from? we're looking for a priest. whether it was a priest serving as an angel or actually angel that came in wearing the priestly attire. he was an angel to all those and to katie. >> we just would like to find this gentleman. and be able to thank him.
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as a first responder, you don't know what you're going to run into. everything is a case by case basis. everything that we come across. we have a lot of tools that allow us to do many things. we have extensive training. in this particular case, it is my -- my feeling that it was nothing more than sheer faith. >> good for them. katie lins has had several surgeries, but friends and family say that she is in good spirits. nowadays there's a tv channel for just about everybody, right? now there's even a channel for man's best friend. we're going to test it out on one f of our furry friends, up next. [ engine revving ] ♪ [ male announcer ] it's a golden opportunity to discover the heart-pounding exhilaration beyond the engineering. ♪ come to the golden opportunity sales event to experience the precision handling
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all right. if your dog is home alone, needs to be entertained, there is actually a channel for that. i kid you not.
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it is called dog tv. how this actually started and whether or not it could help your pet. watch. >> reporter: who would sit and watch three minutes of a dog running through a corn field. not ginger. look! it looks just like you. look! just like you. no wonder it's just like her. it's dog tv. the first television network for dogs has just gone national on directv. what's the target demo? >> wherever there's a dog who's home alone we feel this is the perfect babysitter. >> been there, done that. been there, done that. >> don't let your dog get lonely. dog tv. >> reporter: the creators say they did three years of research onning to behavior, watching video from surveillance cameras set up in 38 apartments to see what dogs do when they're alone. and how they react to tv. >> we learned a lot of dogs were not too happy with the barking noises. some of them got irritated and
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angry and anxious or whatever. >> reporter: romeo, for instance, gets so excited husband owners can't even watch shows on animal planet. so dog tv features almost no barking. just the occasional squeaky toy. they've enhanced certain colors to make them more visible to dogs since canines don't see as many colors as humans. there are three types of doggy programming. stimulation. >> good boy! >> relaxation. and exposure to get dogs used to things like car rides and babies and thunderstorms. dog tv costs five bucks a month. at least your dog won't have to sit through erectile dysfunction ads. are there commercials? >> it's commercial free. ad free. 24/7. >> reporter: forget channel surfing. some trainers think dog tv is silly. it makes dogs hyper trying to make sense of stuff coming out of a box. but the humane society recommends leaving a tv on if
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your dog has separation anxiety. dog tv is even being tested in veterinary clinics and shelters. >> immediately the dog sat down and watched it. >> reporter: dog tv's creators say some dogs are mesmerized. while others can't be bothered. >> nope. nope. tay. ginger. try to stay awake for this. huh? ginger, want the remote? >> we don't expect dogs to sit all day and become canine couch potato potato potatoes. >> reporter: ginger became a couch potato without even showing the remotest interest in dog tv. unless she's dreaming of leaping through that cornfield. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> couch potatoes. but they're dogs now. that's it for me. brooke baldwin takes it from here. have a good afternoon. a newborn kidnapped for two years, returned to his parents. or so he thought. turns out decades later, he has
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now discovered a stunning mystery. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. in music city, the race to save babies and families as floodwaters rush in. one moment he was apparently spraying graffiti. the next, he dies. after being tasered by police. we're on the case. come and take it, [ bleep ]! [ gunfire ] cnn talks to the police chief who's leading his own militia. >> some people showed up with firearms, and i encouraged that. and, sanjay's big confession. >> i think it's irresponsible of the medical community not to offer this as an alternative. >> why he changed his mind about >> why he changed his mind about marijuana. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com great to be with you on this thursday. i'm brooke baldwin. top of the