that is it for "new day," everyone. "cnn newsroom" with carol costello begins right now. >> i'm ready to take it away. have a great day. have a great day. "newsroom" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com happening now in the "newsroom," breaking overnight, dramatic new details of hannah anderson's rescue. >> all of a sudden there was a glimmer of blue in the trees. >> the u.s. marshal who spotted her from above speaking out this morning. >> at that point we knew we had something extremely valuable. >> ahead, the crucial moment-by-moment decisions that saved the 16 year old's life. also, deen cleared. >> we're going to poach our

lobster tails. >> the sassy tv cook and a big legal ruling, the racial discrimination lawsuit against her dropped. should deen's empire still be cooked? plus, the queen of talk telling cnn she's sorry. >> i'm really sorry it got blown up, sorry i said it was switzerland. >> the fallout from oprah's run-in at a swiss store. and the sequel to "finding nemo," "finding dori." film maker giant pixar rewriting the ending after the controversy over the ending. you're live in the "cnn newsroom." oh, still laughing over dory talking whale. good morning to you, thank you so much for joining me, i'm carol costello. this morning, amazing new images

of the florida sinkhole swallowing a resort villa and new appreciation for the security guard who evacuated tourists with no time to spare. watch this. isn't that amazing? earlier this morning we heard from that security guard. he's brushing off praise he's a hero, but not denying he probably saved some lives. cnn's martin savidge is in clermont with more. good morning, martin. >> reporter: good morning, carol. you really ought to be here, it's only when you're right up near the building when you realize how remarkable, even miraculous that this wasn't a tragedy. it's certainly a disaster, don't get me wrong, but not a tragedy, because everybody inside of that condominium complex were able to get out in time. when you look at the devastation

behind us, that's building 104, it was 10:30, 11:00 sunday night when they began to hear a popping and cracking noise and the windows began blowing out in sequence, then you mention the security guard. what an amazing story he is, because he'd been two months on the job, only five minutes working that night, when he has someone running up to him saying there's a problem inside. when he went inside that building, he didn't know really what was going on, but he went door-to-door to get everybody out. take a listen. >> one lady had a child they couldn't get out of the room. they had to bust the window to get him out because the door had twisted when the building started to cave in on itself. they busted a window, got everybody out. >> reporter: these are people panicked, emotionally upset. >> they are on vacation, didn't expect this at all. neither did i. distraught takes over. we got to get our stuff and get out. don't worry about your stuff, we'll take care of it later, get

out. i'm more worried about your safety than your property. >> reporter: it's estimated the window of opportunity, carol, for people to get out alive is ten to 15 minutes and they did it. now take a look at this whole story from the viewpoint of somebody watching it through a lens. dramatic moment caught on tape. as a condominium at the summer bay resort collapsed into a sink hole. not long before it had been packed with vacationers. ben warrick of des moines, iowa, started rolling at just the right time. >> i turned to film the guys talking to the fire department and heard a crack and quickly switched over and the roof came down. >> reporter: from the more than 100 guests to see the land of the magic kingdom suddenly they were gripped in terror in the middle of the night. those watching nearby couldn't believe their eyes. >> i saw it, crazy, how is that happening? >> miraculously, no one was killed, not even injured. some even crediting a security

guard who rushed to spread the alarm. in florida, most sinkholes occur when the acidic water table eats away at the limestone rock. the resort has hired a firm to look for more possible holes. warrick is looking for a little less excitement. all this happened just hours after he arrived for a one-week getaway. >> we're going to be fine, power's back, got air conditioning. hopefully still going to have a great vacation. >> reporter: we should point out, carol, this is just a small section of a very large property. they could handle 4,000 guests here. most of which have not been impacted at all. they want to stress summer bay is open for business and still inviting people to come on down. carol? >> good luck with that. martin savidge reporting live from clermont, florida, this morning. a baseball game turns tragic in atlanta. a man falls 65 feet to his death at turner field. it happened while the braves and the philadelphia phillies were

in a rain delay during last night's game. police say the 29-year-old man fell from an upper level into a parking lot. one woman said her friend heard it. >> she was walking her kids to the bathroom and heard him smack the pavement. it was -- it's terrible. >> just seeing how far the drop was -- i didn't think he was going to make it when i saw the drop. >> cnn's alina machado is outside turner field. are the atlanta braves commenting at all? >> reporter: not yet, carol. we know from the medical examiner's office the 29-year-old man who died here is ronald homer from georgia, about 25 miles east of atlanta. a baseball fan dies not long after a fall at atlanta's turner field. >> he fell from an upper level platform to a secured lot below. the fall was approximately 65

feet. >> reporter: police believe the man fell from a balcony such as this one behind the field where the atlanta braves and philadelphia phillies were in a nearly two-hour rain delay. police say it is too early to tell if alcohol played a factor in what they say appears to have been an accident. >> i'm not sure who he was here with. there were several witnesses, but i'm not sure they were the people he was with. >> reporter: the man landed in a secured parking area. he was taken to a local hospital where he later died. a similar death happened last year at the georgia dome, home to the atlanta falcons. on august 31st, a 20-year-old tennessee volunteers fan fell about 45 feet and later died. monday's death also isn't the first for major league baseball. in 2011, a texas rangers fan fell about 20 feet to his death, going over the balcony trying to catch a ball tossed to him by outfielder josh hamilton. now this is believed to be the second time a fan falls to his death here at turner field.

the incident that happened before this one happened in may of 2008. carol? >> alina machado reporting live in atlanta. thanks so much. a big win for paula deen, but certainly not for her empire. a former employee has no standing to sue the embattled chef for race discrimination because she's white. you probably remember how deen's career went into a tail spin after her deposition in the lawsuit was released and she admitted, deen admitted, to using a racial slur in the past and then posted a couple of awkward apologies online. >> i want to apologize to everybody for the wrong that i've done. i want to learn and grow from this. >> on the heels of it all, deen lost her food network cooking show and a number of lucrative endorsements, from walmart, to sears, to target. cnn correspondent nischelle

turner live in new york with more for us, good morning, nischelle. >> good morning, carol. the first thing we should point out is this case hasn't been dismissed entirely, it's just the racial discrimination part of it. she's still being sued for sexual harassment and abusive treatment and the judge didn't determine one way or another if paula deen actually engaged in racist behavior, he just said this particular person suing didn't have the standing to sue, but her family is always denied paula deen is a racist. you might remember the deen family closed ranks when these allegations surfaced. her sons appeared together on cnn's "new day" and let's take a listen to what they said. >> our mother is one of the most compassionate, good hearted, empathetic people you would ever meet. >> it's completely absurd to think there's an environment of racism in our business. >> you know, one of the things that the judge also said was that if anything, the plaintiff was an accidental victim of this

alleged racial discrimination. and also we have heard from paula deen's side on this, her representatives released a statement to cnn saying we are pleased with the court's ruling today that lisa jackson's claims that race discrimination should be dismissed. as ms. deen stated before, she's confident those know she believes in equal opportunity, kindness, and fairness for everyone. but while you're right, carol, this is a win for paula deen, the battle's not over, because she's got a couple other things to battle in this lawsuit still. >> she sure does, nischelle turner reporting live from new york this morning. here's other top stories we're following this morning at ten minutes past the hour, we begin with a massive pipeline explosion, flames shot in the sky after a large gas line ruptured late last night, forcing the evacuation of at least 80 homes. fire crews have been able to shut off the line, but flames are expected to burn for the next 24 to 48 hours. the cause of the fire still

under investigation. a produce supplier in mexico voluntarily halts production and shipment of bagged salads to the united states. taylor farms has been lipged to an outbreak in two states. nationwide, 500 people have been infected. the company will not resume production until it gets fda approval. it's going to get easier to book saturday night dinner reservations. you can now make reservations directly through a restaurant's facebook page. alison kosik joins us live from the new york stock exchange. good-bye, open table? >> i couldn't hear you, carol, sorry. >> just take it away. how can you make reservations through facebook? >> first of all, you have to look at what facebook is doing and why it's doing this. when you hear the word mobile, it's like the magic word for facebook because it means revenue. what facebook is doing, carol, is going deeper in that direction because facebook's got 800 million mobile users, so, yes, what it's doing at this point is it's teaming up with

open table, that's the reservation website. we'll essentially be able to book a reservation through the restaurant's facebook page, meaning you don't have to go to another site or app, you can just stay right on facebook's page and keep clicking through it. this is really key for mobile users only and it puts facebook more in competition with yelp. yelp and open table are already integrated, but the way investors see this is optimistic because facebook's partnership is, you know, has the potential for many more revenue dollars because it has so many users. we did see how investors reacted, shares of open table jumped almost 8%, hitting a 52-week high when news broke about this. carol? >> alison kosik reporting live from new york. thanks so much. just ahead in the "newsroom," oprah winfrey now apologizing for that switzerland purse mess. >> just had on a donna karen

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. i'm carol costello. checking our top stories at 15 minutes past the hour, we're expecting a court hearing later today for the two friends of the boston bombing suspect. the men are seen here in a photo with the suspect in new york city's time kwaur. they are accused of obstructing justice. the friends removed a backpack and laptop from dzhokhar tsarnaev's dorm room after the attack. they are also accused of making false statements to authorities. vandalism at the iowa state -- can you believe someone did this to the butter cow? someone doused the fair's butter cow with red paint over the weekend. turned out to be a group called iowans for animal liberation. yes, that group claims responsibility. it was hoping to draw attention to the slaughter of animals. the paint was removed, the butter cow was cleaned up and put back on display.

the butter cow has been a tradition at the iowa state fair since 1911. i guess the group's against dairy, too, right? take a look at this. these are the faces of the lucky new jersey workers who hit it big during last week's powerball drawing. the 16 employees won a portion of the $448 million jackpot. we'll hear from them in just a few hours at a news conference. the ocean's 16, as they are called, pooled their money and bought what turned out to be one of three winning tickets. each worker will get nearly $4 million after taxes. she said she was the victim of a racist incident, but now oprah winfrey herself is apologizing. last month oprah was not allowed to see an expensive purse in a luxury shop in switzerland. the sales clerk told oprah she couldn't afford it. now oprah on the red carpet for her new movie is apologizing, too.

>> i think that incident in switzerland was just an incident in switzerland. i'm really sorry that it got blown up. i purposely did not name the store. i'm sorry i said it was switzerland. i was just referencing it as an example of being in a place where people don't expect that you would be able to be there. it's not an indictment against the country or even that store. it just was, you know, one person who didn't want to offer me the opportunity to see the bag, so no apologies necessary from the country of switzerland. if somebody makes a mistake in the united states, are we apologizing for the whole country? no! >> of course, not. of course, the oprah purse fiasco continues to provide fantastic fodder for comedians like conan o'brian. >> oprah was shopping in switzerland recently, a swiss clerk refused to show her a

$38,000 purse because she didn't think oprah could afford it. to prove a point, oprah bought switzerland. one swipe. yeah. she bought it. she bought it with her gas card. >> maybe i'm cheap, but i can't imagine buying a purse that cost $38,000. oh, my. still to come in the "newsroom," we saw long voting lines like this in florida last year, well now concerns north carolina voters could see the same thing because of the state's new sweeping voter i.d. law. coming up, you'll hear from someone who calls that law a disaster. hey love.

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two lawsuits have already been filed and another one is expected today over north carolina's new voter i.d. law. the law, signed by republican governor pat mccory, is one of

the most restrictive in the nation. in addition to requiring a valid photo i.d. at the polls, it also cuts the early voting period from 17 to 10 days, abolishes same-day voter registration, ends straight-party voting and eliminates a program that allows 16 and 17-year-olds to preregister to vote if they would be 18 years old on election day. the governor says the new law, which takes effect in 2016, is a safeguard against voter fraud. >> you need a photo i.d. to board an airplane, to cash a check, or even apply for most government benefits. in fact, just recently both democrats and republicans joined together to require a valid government-issued photo i.d. to buy sudafed at your local corner drugstore. our voter right deserves the same protection. >> joining me now, dale with the

aclu voting rights project. welcome. >> hi, thanks for having me on. >> thanks for being with us. you heard what the mayor said, it sounds reasonable, but you call this law disaster, why? >> well, with respect to the voter i.d. component, there were over 100,000 voters in north carolina in 2012, registered voters who voted in previous elections who don't have a government-issued photo i.d. a lot of these people are older people, young people who don't drive, but it goes well beyond voter i.d. the governor and the north carolina legislature have hacked off a week of the early voting period in north carolina. it's an absolute disaster. there are 2.5 million voters in north carolina who use the early voting period in 2012. that's more than half of the electorate. for a lot of people who don't have flexible schedules to wait in line on election day, the choice is either early voting or not voting at all. and for the rest of us, we know what happens when a state eliminates a week of early

voting. florida did exactly that before the 2012 election. >> we have some pictures of that actually. it was a nightmare, right? the north carolina governor says we're going to extend hours at polling places so people shouldn't have the same problem. here's florida's. that was really bad. people waited in line for hours and hours and hours to vote. and the same thing happened, i think, in ohio, at some polling places at least. again, the governor of north carolina says, hey, we're extending the hours at these polling places so there shouldn't be this polling problem. >> florida has the same option, counties in florida had the same option of extending their hours during the early voting period and it still resulted in massive congestion at the polls. the problem is when you eliminate the whole week of the early voting period, doesn't matter if you tack on a few extra hours here and there on the remaining days, when you lose an entire week of early voting, that's going to affect a lot of people. that's what we had in florida, people casting their ballots

after the president had given his acceptance speech. that's not how democracy is supposed to work. we should be making it easier, not harder. >> i'm thinking this is the most important point of all, does north carolina have a voter fraud problem? >> absolutely not. no evidence of a problem of voter fraud in north carolina, certainly not a problem of impersonation which a voter i'd law is supposed to prevent and voter fraud has nothing to do with the north carolina voters are now going to lose. it's an absolute mess and going to effect african-american voters the worst. >> i just want to add on because there are many people who are skeptical of the civil liberties union, so according to north carolina state's board of elections, it's referred only two cases of alleged voter impersonation fraud since 2004 to prosecutors. only two cases out of 4.5 million votes cast. so take that, digest it, figure

it out, dale ho, thanks for joining us this morning. >> thanks so much for having me on. coming up next in the "newsroom," searching for why. why did a family friend kidnap a california teenager and take her to idaho and what do we look for to keep this from happening again? ok, i am coming.

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happening now in the "newsroom," dramatic new video from the scene of that florida sinkhole. the moment of the collapse into that 100-foot-wide chasm. plus this -- >> the first thing i was going to do as mayor was hold a press conference tearing out your [ bleep ] bike lanes. >> anthony weiner unplugged and defiant. what's he got against bike lanes anyway? the new buzzfeed interview you'll be talking about,

straight ahead. and a spectacular bare-handed play from jose iglesias. look at him, the tigers' shortstop and the sixth-inning stunner. you're live in the "cnn newsroom." good morning, thanks so much for being with me, i'm carol costello. checking our top stories at 31 minutes past, a 29-year-old georgia man was killed after falling from a platform at turner field. it happened during the braves/phillies game. ronald homer fell 65 feet from an upper level on to a parking lot below. police believe the fall was an accident and say it's too soon to tell whether alcohol may have been a factor. good news for celebrity chef paula deen, a judge has thrown out a racial discrimination charge in a lawsuit filed by a former employee. the judge says lisa jackson cannot sue deen for race discrimination because jackson is white. in recent weeks, deen has been under fire after admitting to using a racial slur in the past. on wall street, stocks

opening higher this morning after a mixed day for investors, so let's head to the new york stock exchange and check in with alison kosik. looks good so far. >> good morning, carol, looks like the bears are taking a rest today, letting the bulls come out and play but the gains not too huge at this point. investors are stuck in summer doldrums but stocks were at record highs less than two weeks ago. the dow is only 1.5% from its record, but here is what's giving investors a reason to buy today, retail sales numbers rose in july. it's actually the fourth month in a row of gains, so what that means is people are out there shopping, spending their money. that helps to boost the economy, but the thing is, like a lot of the other economic reports lately, not so good, they are kind of good, but not so great. but still you're seeing investors focus on the positive this morning. carol? >> like that, alison kosik, many thanks. this morning, hannah anderson is waking up in

familiar surroundings, the first comforting sign of normalcy since she was kidnapped more than a week ago that saw her mother and younger brother murdered. an fbi shot and killed her abductor after the so-called family friend fired at least one shot at swarming agents. that operation had to lurch into gear virtually without warning. the helicopter crew zeroed in on the camp site with shocking speed. u.s. marshals watched hannah and her kidnapper in disbelief. >> it appears that they were just going about their normal activity, gathered firewood and walked around and really it didn't appear like they were doing anything out of the ordinary, but they were the only ones in this -- in that area. we searched the area and there was no one else within several miles.

however, there's a very highly populated river that was only about three miles away to their east and there's a lot of rafters and stuff that float down that river. and that was a major concern of ours during the investigation was that maybe they made it to that river and floated out of our area. >> but they didn't. cnn's casey wine live in san diego this morning. tell us more, casey. >> reporter: good morning, carol. u.s. marshals were preparing for a very long search in that operation and they were worried that dimaggio and hannah might be trying to make their way to canada, but almost immediately, minutes after they got in the air, they spotted one of the things they were looking for, that blue tent. >> well, there were several things going through my mind, number one, we were definitely not going to take our eyes off of that tent until we had it covered by ground units and make sure that we determine for sure if it was or was not them. >> did they see you, did they hear your plane? >> it appears not, they did not

hear our plane. during the initial surveillance. >> reporter: now when marshals got confirmation hannah was safe after that confrontation and shooting with the fbi, they said it was like a big weight lifted off their shoulders, knowing that she had been rescued. meanwhile, hannah back here in san diego, she is with family members and those who know her telling cnn that she is shocked at the national attention that her kidnapping and subsequent rescue has received. she's also able, they say, to smile a little bit, but tragically she is also involved with helping plan the funerals of her mother and younger brother, carol. >> casey wian, many thanks. we may never know all the reasons why that california teenager was kidnapped and taken into the idaho wilderness by that family friend, but one of

mr. dimaggio's friends has an idea. >> i'm positive that he had a suicidal plan. the fact that he took his cat out into the wilderness with him that he had saved before i mentioned on your show, it was very strange to shoot a dog, but when people have a suicidal plan, they'll often take things with them that they want to die and go with them if they believe in a god or afterlife. a lot of people are sure he's going to hell, but, you know, it's very common people have a suicidal plan and the dates fit so perfectly and he was there, also an eerie semblance he took on a father role with this girl, hannah, and he also did the same thing with laura when laura was abandoned by their family. >> so let's dig deeper into this with mary ellen o'tool, a former senior profiler for the fbi, welcome. >> thank you. >> do you agree with that friend, did dimaggio have a

suicide plan? >> well, in the fbi you could never look inside somebody's head and know exactly what they are thinking, so we would look at their behavior, and his behavior is this, that crime scene was fatal, hopeless, there was no returning. what he had done created a different life for him. he could never go back. he takes what is important to him, it would appear, which would be princess, his cat, and hannah. drives thousands of miles to a very remote area. he can't leave that area. where's he going to go? he can't go back to his new job. he can't go back to san diego, so it does appear that's where he was going to end things. so i do think that suicide was a very strong possibility. i should say suicide/homicide was a very strong possibility in this case. >> but why take a young girl with you, if you want to commit suicide, commit suicide. >> i understand that, and his feelings towards hannah, and i

think this will come out over time, my sense were much stronger than what we've heard about so far. there's a little leakage coming out so far about him having an attraction to her, but i think it's likely it was much stronger. and over the years, as an fbi profiler, i saw fe no, ma'pheno someone can be close to your family, if they have a trusted position, a coach, a minister, oftentimes we let them close to our children because they are an icon and we never look at their behavior and question it. in cases like this, i think that phenomenon really made a difference, because he was considered a friend. his behavior was not questioned. i think his feelings for her are likely much stronger than what people think. >> okay, so let's go back to 1988, dimaggio's father

expressed his love for the 16-year-old daughter of a former girlfriend, dimaggio's father tried to abduct his former girlfriend's daughter and failed. and he told the daughter at the time that he wanted to take her away and take care of her. so was that the same mindset his son had today? >> well, again, the mindset, we'll never know, because he's dead, but the behavior does parallel his father's behavior very closely. to me it's very surprising, though, because in this sense that his father's behavior was perceived as being so negative back at that time, so why his son would want to almost copy that is really quite interesting, but there's no question that parallel is so strong. one has to look at that and say that had to be influential in his decision to pick that particular date, but he will take the exact meaning, his exact thoughts, to the grave with him. >> wow.

former senior fbi profiler mary ellen o'toole, thanks so much for sharing your thoughts this morning, we appreciate it. >> you're welcome. coming up in the "newsroom," oops, anthony weiner got himself in trouble again. >> do you know the role in hillary clinton's 2016 campaign will be? >> i do. >> what will it be? >> i'm not telling you. >> oh, but you did tell us hillary clinton maybe has a campaign staff for 2016. we'll tell you more after this. hi, hi, i'm sherri. and i'm going to show sherri how collecting box tops for education earns cash for our school by shopping at walmart. come on. sherri, look at all these products that you can buy for your family with box tops. and look, four box tops in one box. that's awesome! more cash for our school. only at walmart you get 4 box tops on over 100 items. karissa i got it and you only had to tell me four times. find 4 box tops on your family favorites like general mills cereals

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clinton's staff, except hillary clinton hasn't announced she'll have a political staff in 2016. >> do you know what her role in hillary's 2016 campaign will be? >> i do. >> and what will it be? >> i'm not telling you. >> it all happened in an exclusive cnn buzzfeed interview. jim acosta has more for you. >> as he sat down for a buzzfeed bruise interview, anthony weiner passed on having a beer and what was perhaps the easiest question of the evening. >> are you back in therapy? >> i, you know, apparently you never go out of therapy. >> for nearly 40 minutes that can only be described as quintessential weiner, he veered from one uncomfortable subject to the next. >> i feel what i have done has hurt her, yeah, professionally, hurt her personally. >> huma abedin -- >> is huma still working on the campaign? >> she's helping out every day. >> is -- do you know what her

role in hillary's 2016 campaign is going to be? >> i do. >> and what will it be? >> i'm not telling you. >> to the latest revelations that he continued sexting other women well after leaving congress. >> i did these things, no one did this to me, i made these mistakes. >> but his campaign for mayor has been more than a personal train wreck. weiner's had a few political ones, as well. >> had i conducted myself in the manner you conducted yours, my job would gone. >> no shocker a recent poll found 80% of new yorkers have an unfavorable view of weiner. >> are you on the way back up, have you bottomed out? >> i hope so. >> numbers that have not helped when he dropped an f-bomb at the end of the interview. >> first thing i was going to do as mayor was hold a press conference tearing out your [ bleep ] bike lanes. >> the question for weiner is whether he can stay in his own

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people living near the fire are under a mandatory evacuation. scorched more than 90,000 acres and destroyed several homes. crews are testing the site of a sinkhole to make sure it doesn't get bigger. we're hearing from the security guard being praised for risking his life to get tourists out safely. >> safety meant taking care of their needs, and a matter of just reacting, because the building was coming down so quickly. you don't have time to think. you just go knocking door to door and get people out. because the devastation there, if you saw it, the people inside would have not have made it if i hadn't done what i did. >> at last check, that sinkhole measured about 100 feet wide. a rodeo clown who performed during the missouri state fair while wearing a mask of president obama has been banned from performing at the missouri state fair ever again.

while that clown was performing, the voice over a loud speaker asked if the crowd wanted to see obama run down by a bull. fair officials have apologized for the stunt. hollywood's most famous fish and now nemo and dory are getting a new ending for their second on-screen debut. >> i want to touch it. >> oh. >> hey, come back. come on back here. >> i'm gonna get you. >> i'm gonna get you. ♪ i'm gonna swim with you i'm gonna be your best friend ♪ good feelings gone. >> ah! >> i just want to sit here and watch "nemo." anyway, according to the "new york times" pixar said the end was changed because of recent criticism surrounding black fish. a documentary about whales held in captivity at seaworld, black

fish, highlights the death of a trainer. the ending in "finding dory" was set to take place at a marine park like seaworld. they now have the option of freely leaving the marine park if they want to. it's set for release in 2015. here's what's new in the next hour of "newsroom." san diego rallies to get rid of its mayor, as we learn more about bob filner's history of alleged sexual harassment. >> i think there was a lot of whispering, a lot of things under the surface. >> how much was hushed up or even ignored? also -- >> we're looking for the priest, whether it was just a priest as an angel, serving as an angel tore actual angel that came in. >> mystery priest found. we meet the man who prayed and then banished from a missouri accident scene. vanished. >> you do it. you offer your services. as a priest. >> he explains why he stopped and why he left so quickly.

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a san francisco giants fan is apologizing this morning for throwing a banana in the direction of orioles' outfielder adam jones. here is adam schultz with the bleacher report. good morning. >> good morning. a fan called the san jose mercury news to fess up to throwing the banana in the direction of jones. he says he grabbed a banana off a catering cart and chucked it on the field because he was frustrated the giants were losing. he said he did not mean to insult the outfielder. jones spoke about the incident and called the whole situation unfortunate. >> i personally don't have any hard feelings about it. it's just an unfortunate thing that happened. you never know what could be thrown towards the players. our backs are turned, you never know what could be thrown our direction. so i think i just look at it as a safety issue. >> iron mike tyson is returning

to the ring, but won't be lacing up the gloves. he's returning as promoter and president of iron mike productions. tyson says he's excited about the new endeavor and he wants to work with young fighters. his first event will be august 23rd in new york. what's the left thing you want to do on your day off? go to work, right? apparently that's not the case for these boston red sox players. dustin pedroia, jerryd satellite and gomes attended the a's game yesterday on their day off. these guys play 162 games during the regular season but still can't get enough baseball. >> they just look like guys, too, right? >> definitely love for the game. actor danny devito in attendance for the dodgers-mets game last night. a player went over to him and gave him a nick punto jersey. danny devito wears your jersey, must be good luck, because punto homered later. he had five home runs in the last five seasons. pretty cool moment, they share a

nice high-five in the dugout. >> why doesn't that ever happen to me? >> no one comes and gives you a jersey during the game, carol? >> never. today's lineup on bleacherreport.com, the detroit tigers shortstop jose eiglesias makes an amazing bare-handed play, throws in the same motion. >> yeah. >> gets josh phegley at first. look at this, get this and throws it while falling down. he sits out with that 50-game suspension for peds. jose iglesias making incredible plays like this. >> how some. thanks for making my morning, andy. next hour of cnn "newsroom" after a break. golden opportunity sales event to experience the precision handling of the lexus performance vehicles, including the gs and all-new is. ♪ this is the pursuit of perfection.

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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com a fan falls to his death at a major league baseball stadium. >> he fell from an upper level platform to a secured lot below. the fall was approximately 65 feet. >> why does this keep happening? can anything be done to stop it? plus, dramatic new details of hannah anderson's rescue. >> and all of a sudden there was a little glimmer of blue that we saw in the trees. but at that point we knew we had something extremely valuable. ahead, the crucial moment-by-moment decisions that saved the 16-year-old's life.

also, the mystery priest is a mystery no more. we finally hear from the man who prayed at the scene of a car accident and then disappeared, like an angel. plus this. >> damn the gjellyfish! >> that cry being heard, more than 200 people stung so far. what's behind this jellyfish invasion? you're live in the cnn "newsroom." good morning, thank you so much for joining me. i'm carol costello. a night at the ballpark in atlanta turns tragic. a man falls 65 feet to his death during a rain delay at turner field. the fall didn't take place inside the seating area but from a upper level concession area. the man landed in a parking lot.

he is 25-year-old ronald homer of conyers, georgia. an autopsy has not been scheduled yet. cnn's alina machado is outside turner field to tell us more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. we have just learned the autopsy in this case is just getting under way right now. at this point oh, police say there is no indication of foul play, and that it appears what happened here last night was an accident. a baseball fan dies not long after a fall atlanta's turner field. >> he fell from an upper level platform to a secured lot below, about -- the fall was approximately 65 feet. >> reporter: police believe the man fell from a balcony such as this one behind the field, where the atlanta braves and the philadelphia phillies were in a nearly two-hour rain delay. police say it is too early to tell if alcohol played a factor in what they say appears to have been an accident. >> i'm not sure who he was here with. there were several witnesses.

but i'm not sure if they were the people he was with. >> reporter: atlanta police say the man landed in a secured parking area. he was taken to a local hospital where he later died. a similar death happened during a college football game last year at the georgia dome, home to the atlanta falcons. on august 31st, a 20-year-old tennessee volunteers fan fell about 45 feet and later died. monday's death also isn't the first for major league baseball. in 2011, a texas rangers fan fell about 20 feet to his death, going over the balcony, trying to catch a ball, tossed to him by outfielder josh hamilton. the medical examiner's office is telling us toxicology results in this case could take up to eight weeks to come back. carol? >> and alina, i'm just noticing the activity behind you. and trying to figure out where exactly this man fell. can you help us out? >> reporter: the man fell just about over there. let's see if we can zoom in and show the area where he fell.

near the flag, in that area over there. the activity that you're seeing is actually not related to this story. this is an event that was preplanned, apparently. >> okay. your head is blocking the flag, but i can see where he fell now. it was in the concession area, during a rain delay, and i guess he went out to get something to eat, maybe, and then the accident occurred. okay. we'll talk much more about this in about 30 minutes. alina machado, thanks so much. also this morning, hannah anderson is waking up in familiar surroundings. the first comforting sign of normalcy since she was kidnapped a week ago. that ordeal that saw her mother and younger brother murdered ended in a idaho wilderness saturday. he was shot and killed after the so-called family friend fired at least one shot at the swarming agents. that operation had to lurch into gear virtually without warning. the helicopter crew zeroed in on the remote campsite with amazing speed, just minutes after launching the saturday morning

search. u.s. marshals spotted hannah and her kidnapper in disbelief. >> it appears they were just kind of going about their normal activity. they gathered firewood and walked around and really it didn't appear like they were doing anything out of the ordinary. but they were the only ones in this -- in that area. we searched the area, and there was no one else within several miles. however, there is a very highly populated river that was only about three miles away to their east and there was a lot of rafters and stuff that float down that river. that was a major concern of ours during the investigation, was that maybe they made it to that river and floated out of our area. >> this morning in florida, crews are testing the site of that sinkhole to make sure it isn't getting any bigger. in the meantime, we're hearing from the security guard who is being praised for risking his

life to get tourists out of that building to safety. >> there was no question that i had to do what i had to do. safety meant getting my guests out and taking care of their needs and not worrying about mine as much. it was a matter of just reacting, because the building was coming down, it was so quickly, you don't have time to think. you just go knocking door to door and getting people out. because the devastation there, if you saw it, the people inside would not have made it if i hadn't done what i did. >> at last check, that sinkhole was about 100 feet wide. a massive pipeline explosion in western illinois, flames shooting hundreds of feet into the sky. forcing the evacuation of at least 80 homes. fire crews have been able to shut off the line, but flames are expected to burn for the next 24 to 48 hours. cause of this still under investigation. big win for paula deen but not for her empire. a federal judge says a former

employee has no standing to sue the embattled chef for race discrimination, because she's white and is at best, quote, an accidental victim of the alleged racial discrimination. other aspects of the suit, including sexual harassment and abusive treatment still pending. san diego mayor bob filner out of intensive behavior therapy, and now undergoing outpatient treatment. but he still faces a firestorm of criticism for his treatment of women. many of whom say they were sexually harassed by the mayor over many years. his opponents don't want him to come back to work. so why didn't the sexual harassment accusations come up during last year's campaign? turns out, they almost did. kyang lais in san diego with more. >> reporter: why is it coming out now? a lot of the voters say they believe this has been talked about in political circles for a long time. yet it's only now they have to face it.

suzanne morris was a host of this debate a year ago, as bob filner ran for san diego mayor and eventually defeated san diego councilman, carl de mayo. they were discussing violence and sexual harassment the. de mayo rarely looking at filner until -- >> how an individual treats women in their office. >> look, he looks at him again. a mayor who insists on zero tolerance when it comes to the issue of sexual harassment. >> do you see how he looks at him? >> that's deliberate. >> that's very deliberate. >> why do you think he looked at him? >> i felt like he must have known something. i feel like that has been going on for years. >> reporter: de mayo now running for congress had no comment but a staff member tells cnn allegations about filner's harassment of women swirled in political circles during the mayoral race and tried to warn supporters. this airline worker in a campaign ad last year described

what she called filner's anger issues. >> and the hostility towards me, especially when he screamed "you can't stop me." >> i think there was a lot of whispering. it was a lot of things under the surface. it was a boys will be boys kind of an attitude. >> reporter: lori heard the whispers and complained. she spent six years as a california democratic lawmaker, a former clinton appointee. she went to the head of san diego county's democratic party two years ago. after six women told her of filner's harassing behavior. nothing happened. is it fair to say that especially politically, in political circles, people knew. >> yes. and it was considered abusive, it was -- insulting at times. and i think people need to pay attention to those kinds of reports. and take them seriously. and that, unfortunately, didn't happen two years ago. >> reporter: they're paying attention now, as a city tries to boot its mayor, and ask, why

it had to come to this. >> i think a lot of them knew it. and that really disappoints me. the whole batch of them. >> reporter: there is a recall effort here in san diego under way. mayor filner had until midnight last night to respond, and we're actually just getting his response. this was about seven hours ago that deadline passed and his response is basically -- it's a little curious. he lists all of his policy achievements and his goals. he has one line where he says, "now is not the time to move backwards." carol, the people trying to boot him out of office call his response unacceptable. carol? >> okay. so apparently he ain't resigning. right? i mean, in essence, that's what that says. now is not -- now is the time to move forward, right, so he's not resigning. >> reporter: exactly. >> all right. kyung lah reporting live this morning. we'll be talking to city

councilman mark kerse, calling for filner to step aside in the wake of the never-ending controversy. my interview with him in just about 20 minutes. remember last week when oprah winfrey said she was the victim of racism at a high-end boutique in switzerland? now the media mogul says she is sorry. cnn entertainment correspondent michelle turner live in new york with more on what oprah said. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. you know, it's actually really interesting what she said last night at the premier of her new movie, lee daniels "the butler." oprah isn't apologizing for talking about what happened to her. she seems to be saying she is sorry everyone is focusing on the specifics of this story. not the point she was making that even oprah winfrey believes she is discriminated against. let's listen to what she had to say to cnn last night. >> i think that incident in switzerland was just an incident in switzerland. i'm really sorry it got blown up. i purposely did not mention the name of the store.

i'm sorry i said it was switzerland. it's not an indictment against the country or even that store. it just was, you know, one person who didn't want to offer me the opportunity to see the bag. so no apology is necessary from the country of switzerland. >> reporter: now, carol, just to add to her point, she didn't name the store. it was the media who figured out what she was talking about and what store she was talking about. but she also said last night she was just trying to use this incident as an example of the fact that she believes she still experiences racism, just not in overt ways, which is something she said to me when we sat down last week, as well. because as she puts it, no one is going to come up and call her the "n" word to her face. she feels it in other ways. >> understand that. michelle turner, thanks. school still coming on the "newsroom," if you're headed to the beach this weekend, you better watch where you step. ♪ norfolk southern what's your function? ♪

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checking our top stories at 15 minutes past, two friends of the boston bombing suspect will soon appear in court. the men seen here in a photo with dzhokhar tsarnaev in new york city's times square. authorities say tsarnaev's friends removed a backpack and laptop from his dorm room after the attack. the friends are also accused of making false statements to authorities. a produce supplier in mexico is voluntarily halting production and shipment of bagged salads to the united states. taylor farms is linked to a stomach-like illness in two states. nationwide, more than 500 people have been infected. the company says it will not resume production until it gets fda approval. jellyfish are invading florida's beaches. hundreds of people reporting sightings this weekend. and that is way above normal. cnn now with this painful story. >> reporter: painful is right. i didn't know, carol. talking about over 100,000 people every year are stung by

jellyfish. and unfortunately in florida, that's particularly fertile breeding ground where you get all these stings. and even though they're kind of used to it in that area, they were definitely caught off guard by what happened this weekend. >> trying to see what is stinging you and you don't see anything, but then you walk on the beach and you see a big kind of like cloverleaf jellyfish. >> reporter: stan west is one of many stung by moon jellyfish this weekend near daytona beach. more than 200 people were treated alone, where scores of the clear and hard to spot invert bray are still hanging around. what's causing it? experts say the weather. >> you get a weather system moving through with strong current and a big tide, and that is enough to send a wave of these jellyfish washing ashore. >> reporter: most stings are relatively minor, causing itching and burning. but what about the home remedy rumored to dull the pain from this episode of "friends." >> oh, damn, the jellyfish! dam all the jellyfish!

>> we've got to do something. >> there's really only one thing you can do. >> what? what is it? >> you're going to have to pee on it. >> reporter: there is no research backing the effectiveness of urine for treating a sting. the best remedy is saltwater to help deactivate the stingers and soothe the pain. but ultimately, you're just going to have to wait it out. >> you've kind of got to go through this roller coaster ride of pain but eventually it will pass. >> reporter: how do you know there could be stingers in the water? lifeguards will usually fly a purple flag to signal the presence of dangerous marine life. but above all, experts say the best thing to do is stay calm. >> the sky isn't falling, henne penny can relax. it's just a bunch of jellyfish. >> reporter: florida officials stress this is only a temporary situation, a shift in the wind direction should push the jellyfish back out to sea. don't cancel your beach plans yet. just one more thing people blame me for, the weather and jellyfish. >> going back to what that guy

said. so you're standing in the midst of hundreds of jellyfish. if you just stay calm, you won't get stung? >> so they say. more like stay calm, don't freak out, obviously. >> it's like a hive of bees flying around your head. >> you can say that, but i would be screaming the top of my lungs, carol. >> i would be running from that water. thanks so much. still ahead in the "newsroom," it was a terrible car crash, but it has a happy ending. because there were whispers from an angel. well this morning, we found him. right now, 7 years of music is being streamed.

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firefighters that was beside me, we very plainly heard that we should remain calm, that our tools would now work. and that we would get her out of that vehicle. >> we're looking for the priest. you know, whether it was just a priest as an angel, serving as an angel or actual angel that came in, and wearing the priestly attire. >> isn't that awesome? well, today the mystery is solved. we get answers from reporter raja maples from kahu. >> reporter: he was there because the regular priest was sick sunday, august 4th. that's when he approached the accident scene on missouri 19. he said he was already inside the blockade before authorities started blocking traffic. he waited until it was possible to drive up closer to the scene. he ended up parking behind a large vehicle, about 150 yards

from the scene, walked up to a member of the county sheriff's department, and asked if he could approach the scene. father dowling says he never plans to drive away from an emergency, roadblock, or no roadblock. >> if i were in an accident and a priest heard -- i heard that a priest drove by, i would get him for that. that he would pass by the scene of the accident and leave me at that without stopping to help. you do it. you do it. you offer your services as a priest, because you have the power to forgive sins and you have the power to anoint. if you have faith, you stop. >> reporter: rescue crews took about 80 photos of the crash scene as crews were trying to rescue 19-year-old katie lins. father dowling, also known as the mysterious priest, appeared

in none of them. >> maybe it was a mistake. that's the only explanation i have, because i didn't hide and i just stood there waiting. praying. >> reporter: father dowling does not want credit for the rescue. he said a higher power deserves that credit, along with the hard work and diligence of the rescue workers on the scene that morning. >> this is almighty god who interve intervened, because there was something exceptional there in the manner of her rescue. >> reporter: he described rescue crews as working harmoniously together like a swiss watch. >> the sergeant was quiet, but totally in control. people who were part of the scene were moved. and everybody worked, did his or her job. according to their -- you know, their own expertise. and it was just well-organized. >> lots of angels there that

day. the teenage girl in the accident has undergone several surgeries, but she faces many, many more. reporter raja maples says the girl has asked you to pray, and to pray out loud. the mayor of san diego will not step down. but he still faces a rising tide of criticism in his sexual harassment scandal. among more calls to resign, or face a recall. [ female announcer ] when you asked us to remove high fructose corn syrup from yoplait original and light, we were like, "sure. no problem!"

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happening now in the "newsroom," fed up with filner. san diego, we are holding your mayor's feet to the fire. day 23 now and mayor filner still refusing to step down after sexual harassment allegations continue to swirl around him. plus this. >> didn't see god or jesus, but i was there. i know what it was like. >> you were where? >> i was up in heaven. >> the light you see right before you die. there may be an explanation after all. and god has nothing to do with it. and remember when moving out of your parents' house was the best thing ever? think again. the boomerang kids are speaking out. they say it's cool to live at home. but when does it become not so cool? you're live in the cnn "newsroom." good morning, i'm carol

costello, 30 minutes past the hour. a 29-year-old georgia man was killed after falling from a platform at turner field. happened during the braves-phillies game. ronald homer fell from an upper level deck to a parking lot below. police say it's an accident and too soon to tell whether alcohol may have an a factor. hannah anderston back with her family today. the 16-year-old rescued saturday in idaho following a week-long manhunt for her and her abductor. police say the teenager did not know her mother and 8-year-old brother had been killed by her captor, james dimaggio, during the ordeal. anderson's father thanked law enforcement for his daughter's safe return. take a look at this. these are the faces of the lucky new jersey workers who hit it big during last week's powerball drawing. they won a portion of the $48 million jackpot. we're going to hear from them later today. the ocean 16, as they're called, pooled their money and bought

what turned out to be one of three winning tickets. each worker will get nearly $4 million after taxes. san diego mayor, bob filner, is now responding to a recall effort he faces in the wake of a string of sexual harassment accusations. here on "newsroom," we are holding mayor filner's feet to the fire. we're counting every day it's been since the first accusations of sexual harassment were leveled against the mayor. we're at day 23 on filner watch. in all, more than a dozen women say the mayor and former congressman acted inappropriately towards them. the mayor's response to the recall is, quote, now is not the time to go backwards. he wrote that in a letter. he cites what he has done in office, too. but nothing about the push to get him out of office by voters. filner faces several investigations into his conduct. i'm talking about criminal investigations and the bandwagon calling for his resignation is filling up. >> two weeks is not a cure. two weeks is not enough for us

to forget. we are not going to forget. we are not going away. and we will keep repeating, "bob must go!" bob must go! bob must go! >> among those wanting filner to step down is san diego city councilman mark kerse, joins me now. welcome. >> good morning, carol. thanks for having me. >> thanks for being here. so i'm just reading the latest letter that the mayor, i guess, sent to the city council. and he says -- i'm going to put it at the top. he goes through the letters and cites his accomplishments in office and says now is not the time to go backwards. he's going to stay in office. what do you say? >> well, his record in office is really kind of irrelevant at this point. my heart goes out to the women who have come forward, more than a dozen now, as well as all those who have not yet come forward. as well as the 10,000 city workers who should not have to come to work every day under this cloud of controversy. bob filner needs to resign now. >> well, he had this two weeks

of intensive therapy. now he's getting outpatient therapy. do you know anything about that? >> well, you know, this is a pattern of behavior that he's admitted to that goes back for many, many years, to his time in congress, perhaps even earlier. and this therapy plan is not something that's going to change anything for the women who have already suffered under this abuse. this is something that if this plan does not include his resignation, it will clearly have failed. >> it's just strange to think, and it must be strange for you as a city councilman, the mayor's offices are locked, so we can't get in. he's on -- he's in outpatient therapy for sexual harassment and the way he treats women. and he's refusing to step down. i mean, in your mind, did you ever think this kind of scenario would occur in san diego? >> no. no, there's no way anybody could have predicted this. it's -- it is a bizarre -- truly

bizarre situation. and the one person who can change all that is bob filner. >> okay. so what price is san diego paying as this scandal drags on and on? >> this is clearly not good for san diego. i'm a small business owner and i can tell you that business owners when they're looking to expand or relocate, they desire certainty, they desire stability. and for all of our great attributes here in san diego, we have a very vibrant, educated work force. we have innovative companies. it is very difficult to attract both good talent and good companies when you've got this distraction hanging over your head. and so that's why we need him to go so we can move forward with the business of the city. >> so let's imagine mayor filner is watching cnn at this moment. what do you say to him? >> bob, it's time for you to resign. you need to put the best interests of the city at heart. you need to listen to the voters who got you into office. you need to listen to some of your most ardent supporters who

elected you nine months ago who are now some of the most vocal people calling for you to resign. it is time to go. it's in the best interest of your constituents, it's in the best interest of the city. and it's in the best interest of the women who you have abused, who need justice at this point. >> san diego city councilman, mark kersey, thanks for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having me. still to come on the "newsroom," a fan plunges 65 feet to his death at an atlanta braves game. do our stadiums need to be more secure? we'll talk about that next. this is the one i was telling you about. the new samsung galaxy s 4. it's got a front and back camera so you can take pictures at the same time. seriously! yeah - and it's on verizon's network. sweet! we can stay in touch when we go to school next year. that's so great! get the samsung galaxy s 4 for only $148 on verizon - america's largest 4g lte network. walmart. thto fight chronic. osteoarthritis pain. to fight chronic low back pain. to take action. to take the next step.

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we're learning a little bit more about the man who plunged 65 feet to his death atlanta's turner field last night. his name is ronald homer from conyers, georgia. he's 29 years old. he fell from an upper level near

a concession area inside the stadium, and he fell to the ground into a parking lot below. reports say, in fact, the associated press is reporting that homer worked as a landscaper, and he was a lifelong braves fan, 29 years old, as i said. police say the fall appears to be an accident. venue safety expert, steven adelm adelman, joins me now. welcome. >> good morning. >> we're all trying to figure out how exactly this happened. and we're working on a live shot out at turner field so we can show people exactly where this poor man fell to his death. he was outside from where the seats are, right? he was in the concession area. and apparently, according to the associated press, he had called his mother right before he fell and said he was going to go back and sit down, because he was in the concession area, because it was raining. and he supposedly was near this railing. so we're just trying to figure out how this could happen. >> well, and that's one of the big questions at this early

stage in the investigation. how is it that someone falls over a railing, which isn't even near the playing field? in fact, he was facing the back of the stadium, overlooking the players' parking lot. so unlike the other incidents, where someone has fallen over a railing and died, this one had nothing to do with the action on the field at all. it's completely different in that respect from the shannon stone death in texas two years ago, which is the one that most people know about. or for people in atlanta, the fan who fell at the georgia dome last year. this incident is different. because he just fell over a railing, not looking at the playing field at all. >> it's just -- let's go back to that graphic for a moment. because you can see -- you can see the ledge there. and there is a closer shot we just showed. he is 6'6" tall. would that make a difference? >> well, certainly, it makes a difference.

railing heights are built to code. the international building code and various other codes that piggyback off of the international building code. so we can start with the certainty, the railings at turner field meet code. they meet the minimum standard for public accommodations, such as stadiums and arenas. that's absolutely not a question. what is a question is, is that enough, given the way fans use public venues such as stadiums and given the sizes that different fans come in. so a railing has to be adequate, not only for someone who is 5'10", like me, but also for someone who is well over 6 feet, like this man. >> and just along the signs of what you say, everybody suspects maybe he drank a little too much, or he was drunk. but you have to take that into account, too, because that's what people do at ball games. >> well, that's also correct. and so the venue has a duty to deal with the fans as they know

fans come to the venue. so fans come in all shapes and sizes, all different abilities, balance, coordination, perception. all those things are a function of alcohol that they may have purchased at the ballpark. any other substances that may be in their system. anything the venue reasonably knows or should know about its patrons all have to factor into how does the venue deal with them in order to keep them as safe as reasonably possible, while they're at the ballpark. >> so just to put button this all up, can we prevent this from happening again? >> prevent it? probably not. what the ballpark can and must do, what every public accommodation can and must do, is look at how do people use this place and what can we do to make it as safe for the things that we can reasonably foresee as we can.

crazy things happen, and those crazy things can't be foreseen and probably can't be prevented. what we don't know at this point is, was this a crazy, freak accident, or was this something that was reasonably foreseeable? for that, time will tell. >> all right. steven adelman, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you. still to come in the unusuall "newsroom," the racial discrimination that led to paula deen losing her tv show, now thrown out. we'll talk about that now. we've been bringing people together. today, we'd like people to come together on something that concerns all of us. obesity. and as the nation's leading beverage company, we can play an important role. that includes continually providing more options. giving people easy ways to help make informed choices.

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this is cnn breaking news. >> well, it seems the usairways/american airlines merger is in a bit of trouble. let's head to washington and check in with rene marsh. what's happening? >> that's right, carol. we're getting this information from our department of justice correspondent, evan perez, down at the department of justice at this moment. we just got our hands on the complaint, and in it, it says that the justice department and

attorneys general from six states and the district of columbia filed a lawsuit, challenging the $11 billion merger of american airlines and usairways. now, the airline merger would create the world's largest airline. but the lawsuit says it would substantially lessen competition for commercial air travel. so the top concern really is those local markets. the justice department said, for example, right here in washington, d.c. area, the national airport where the combined airline would control 69% of takeoff and landing slots, and 63% of the routes out of national. so that becomes the issue. just monopolizing a local market. so, again, that is the breaking news here, carol. we are still going through all of this, but the headline here is that the justice department and attorneys general from six states and the district of columbia, have filed this

lawsuit challenging that merger. >> of course, less competition may mean higher ticket prices. so we'll see what happens. rene marsh, thanks so much. legal view with ashleigh banfield live from the set of her new show in new york. ashleigh, hello. i bet you're going to talk about paula deen this morning. >> oh, girl, did you just see me holding this dismissal of the lawsuit against her? we're going to dig into it, find out what was dismissed and what isn't dismissed. but carol, i have a big question for you. are you ready? >> ready. >> have you ever seen a sign saying "no blacks" or "no jews" or "no christians"? anywhere? >> no, just in old pictures from the '60s. >> right. it's history, isn't it? except if you're in a houston area, because there is honest to god a sign that was found saying "no muslim parking. your car will be towed." i kid you not. what year is this again, carol costello? >> i think it's 2013. >> you would think, right? we're going to tell you why this happened, who is behind it,

what's being done. and more importantly, what can signs say and what can't signs say and what's the broader element, as well as the news of the day and the legal angles on the crime and justice story. that's next, carol. >> can't wait. thank you, ashleigh banfield. >> thanks. still to come in the "newsroom," off to heaven and back. >> see god or jesus, but i was there. i know what it was like. >> you were where? >> i was up in heaven. just ahead, reservers now think they can explain those near-death experiences. and they say they have little to do with god. [ shapiro ] at legalzoom, you can take care of virtually all your important legal matters in just minutes. protect your family... and launch your dreams. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side.

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a burst of brain activity. your brain in overdrive. a new study by university of michigan researchers says a hyper-alert brain after someone's heart stops may yield clues about near-death experiences. you probably heard the stories of people say they went to heaven and came back after going into cardiac arrest. here's what a massachusetts school bus driver told our dr. sanjay gupta about her near-death experience in the 2009 cnn special "cheating death." >> pulled right out of my body. my body was here. and i just floated away. >> what did you see? >> what did i see? i saw -- it was very peaceful. massive energy. this powerful, very powerful energy. and when that was happening, it was a picture of my son and my daughter and my granddaughter,

and just every second, just like their pictures just flashed into my mind. and then i must have been when i came back. i didn't see god or jesus, but i was there. i know what it was like. >> you were where? >> i was up in heaven. >> hmmm. a professor was the lead researcher that examined the brains of dying rats. thanks so much for joining us this morning, professor. >> hi, carol. >> you know, we would like to believe that god had something to do with near-death experiences, because people seem to have the same kinds of visions, bright light. they go toward the bright light and then say they experience god. what do you say? >> well, let's just say that humans are very curious creatures. if you give two answers, one is

i don't know, and the other is i have some idea what it is, no matter how lousy it is, people pick the latter one. but that's probably largely because the science is not there yet. and i think what my team has done is to provide scientific, rational reasons for that experience, and -- but it's not exactly the same thing, because our study was done in rats. we did not do human studies, and we cannot possibly interview these animals. even you can resuscitate them. so it's not exactly the same thing. but i think what is really interesting is that our study probably is one of the first to deal with the details of the brain activities. and it's not -- this is so early after the cardiac arrest happened within the first 30 seconds. >> well, let's slow down, because this is really difficult to understand. so after you go into cardiac arrest, what happens in your brain? >> there is suddenly change of

brain activity patterns in these animals we saw. and there's a surge of high-frequency brain waves in the frequency we call a gamma. so those frequency waves increase in power density. and not only that, different parts of the brain actually collaborate with each other in this synergistic way. very coherent manner. so the front of the brain is communicating with the back of the brain in a very meaningful manner. so those are really the key features we're looking for. >> so when that burst of brain activity happens, would that cause you to think about a bright light or beautiful thoughts, or what? >> it's very hard to draw a direct conclusion there. but i think bright light, it's possible, because we saw evidence of visual cortex activation in our studies. actually, there are a number of features consistent with the fact that visual cortex is activated. but that doesn't mean that rats are actually consciously seeing

the bright light. we can't really know that until we do human studies in the future. thank you so much. i wish i had more time to talk with you, but i don't. thank you so much, professor, from the university of michigan school of medicine. thank you so much. we'll be right back. ♪ norfolk southern what's your function? ♪ ♪ hooking up the country helping business run ♪ ♪ build! we're investing big to keep our country in the lead. ♪ load! we keep moving to deliver what you need. and that means growth, lots of cargo going all around the globe. cars and parts, fuel and steel, peas and rice, hey that's nice! ♪ norfolk southern what's your function? ♪ ♪ helping this big country move ahead as one ♪ ♪ norfolk southern how's that function? ♪ congestion, for it's smog. but there are a lot of people that do ride the bus. and now that the busses are running on natural gas,

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your parents. 18 to 34-year-olds said five years. what? yeah, that's a huge shift in thinking from one generation to another. i remember the old days when kids couldn't wait to move out. and analysts are blaming the economy, saying the harsh reality is the young adults can't find work. the unemployment rate for 20 to 24-year-olds is at 12.6%. most people think that if you're going to do it, it shouldn't be a free ride. people surveyed say adult children at home should work for it. do your chores, pay rent. 65% say kids should be shown the door as soon as they get a job, because what this survey also showed, carol, even after they get a job, they're still sticking around, carol. >> i know, because after college my mom said if you move home, you're paying us rent and i'm going to charge you a lot. >> exactly. and did you go ahead and move home and pay rent? >> no. i paid rent in a nice -- well, not a nice apartment, but an apartment, all the same. >> more fun, anyway. >> it was -- actually, it was a

lot of fun. alison kosik, thanks so much. >> sure. >> thanks for joining me today. i'm carol costello. "legal view" with ashleigh "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. nice to have you with us, i'm ashleigh banfield, it's tuesday, august 13th and welcome to "legal view" where we cover the day's top stories and thinking into the stories of the day, as well. how about this for the top story. paula deen, she just got one legal burden lifted off her shoulders, because a federal judge has decided to dismiss the racial discrimination claims that were part of a lawsuit filed against her by a former employee. those allegations that deen and her brother discriminated against black workers shocked people and it got worse when deen admitted she used the "n" word in the past. we have more on the story. >> i want to apologize to everybody. >> reporter: some good news for