>> reporter: baird, a trained diver, volunteered to go and retrieve burns' body. >> co-worker suffered, drowned in some way to animals in the tank, that you are about to go in with. >> yeah. but it wasn't a malicious attack. it was an accident. >> reporter: the coroner's enqvist, listing the death as drowning due to forced immersion of killer whales. she was the first trainer ever killed. >> my goodness. it was awful. it was awful for everybody. people in general couldn't believe what had happened right here in our own backyard. >> reporter: not long after, sea lion shut down. tilikum sold to orlando. >> sheriffs deputies identified the 27-year-old man dead in a killer whale's tank. >> reporter: in 1999 a man's body draped naked on tilikum's back one morning. how the man got there, sea world

couldn't say. in 2010, tilikum pulled trainer dawn brancheau into the water, to her death. when he first met tilikum, colin had no problem with can test and killer whales. now, three decades, and three deaths later, he definitely does. do you blame him? >> i don't blame him, no. this -- these would never have happened if he had been left in the north atlantic. >> reporter: martin savidge, cnn, british columbia. >> fantastic story by martin. tonight, cnn presents a special on killer whales called "blackfish" highly encourage you to watch it. a tremendous film, 9:00 eastern right here on cnn. blackfish. thanks for watching, everybody. "around the world" starts right now. three big stories we're following now. u.s. allies are angry at america

again, this time over allegations that the nsa spied on the private phone calls of german chancellor angela merkel. american officials are denying it, and following this. it's an obama care blame game on capitol hill. as companies charged with launching the government's health care website say they did everything right. also, one of the biggest soccer stars in the world faces racial taunting and monkey gestures in the field in moscow. welcome to "around the world." i'm suzanne malveaux. michael holmes is off today. finger pointing begins as private contractors are testifying on capitol hill. take a look at live pictures and what is fascinate, what stands out this morning, is that no one, no one, is taking responsibility for the botched rollout of the health care site. politicians are taking on each other. >> no health information is

required in the application process and why is that? because preexisting conditions don't matter. so once again, here we have my republican colleagues trying to scare everybody. >> will the gentle man yield? >> i will not yield to the monkey court. >> this is not a monkey court. >> do whatever you want. i'm not yielding. i'm trying to tell you the problem -- >> protecting american citizens -- >> preexisting conditions don't matter, hipaa doesn't apply, no health information in the process. you're asked about your address, date of birth, not asked health information. so why are we going down this path? because you are trying to scare people so they don't apply. >> covering all angles of what could be called a fiasco here. joe johns on capitol hill with our congressional investigation and the hearings that we're seeing. elizabeth cohen joining us in atlanta focusing on one of the critical design flaws on the website. joe, start off with you first. we're listening to these guys,

frank palloone and joe barton going at each other, calling there's a monkey court. are these guys going after each other, scoring political points, are we learning anything about what went wrong here? >> reporter: i think it's a bit of both. they were talking about private circumstance monkey court business. in the big picture, you've got 50-some odd companies who are contractors, only a few represented on the hill. one company, cgi, blames another company, qssi, for the big problem. qssi blames the federal government, the centers of medicare and medicaid services for putting in a late change that created a bottleneck. this is clearly a political issue. also very technical. and it's something a congressional committee, as a whole, isn't equipped to handle very well without a ton of staff to work on. so you get a lot of people veering off, asking policy questions to companies here to talk about a technology

breakdown. that's even evident when asking very, very simple questions about the testing of this product before it went online. listen. >> that the system -- that our portion of the system, the cgi was responsible for, that our functionality worked. >> and it didn't. >> yes. >> it did not in the end result, correct? >> when it became part of integrated end-to-end system. >> you knew it was going to be integrated. there are many subcontractors than wasn't a surprise. do you have something to say about the testing? >> let me be clear about our role in testing. our work, the data services hub, tested, tested well, tested adequately. yeah. >> reporter: one company testified the last-minute change requiring people to register before they could browse created overload situation and the overarching situation from this, there are so many moving parts, the kind of site integrating so

much information from so many different places that there were going to be problems. >> joe, thank you very much. elizabeth to talk about some of the things that people, at least, seem to agree on, one of the initially problems you create accounts, create accounts before they were able to shop around, to see what was available and out there. how did that set this thing up to fail? >> right. this was joe explained it, this was mentioned at hearings and this whats my sources are telling me is a big problem. go to colorado, new york, kentucky, you can put in a couple of pieces of information. you can put in, for example, your age, what county you live in, and then you can start looking at policies like it's very quick. so you're window shopping. you look around, you see what you might want to buy, then you do the whole application procedure, which takes some time. right? you've got to put in social security number, verify your identity. the federal government decided to flip that order. they decided to do, in the beginning, the long application process first. >> create the account first,

without ever really taking a look at any of the plans they could sign up for? >> right. you lad to create a log in, prove who you say you are, do all sorts of steps. on a site working well, that takes some time. on a site not working well, i can attest to this, it scares me trying to make this happen it takes a very long time. imagine 100 people trying to go into a store and fill out information on a card, you're going to get a line. if you let them look around at the merchandise you're not go together get the same line. the federal design created a bottleneck at the very beginning. and many experts are saying to me, why did they do that? why would you choose to do that, especially when other places were having success doing it the other way. >> that's what here to trying to fix all of that. glad you got on the site eventually. >> yes. >> took weeks. thank you. amid all of the problems with the signature health care website, the president's

shifting his focus to a different priority, this is immigration reform. a short time ago that the president came out urging lawmakers to finish their work on measures to strengthen first the u.s. borders. provide a pathway to citizenship for the millions of people in the united states illegally. of course, it is one of the domestic agenda items he says he wants to address by the end of the year. >> we should pass immigration reform. we should pass immigration refo reform. it's good for our economy. it's good for our national security. it's good for our people. we should do it this year. everybody knows that our current immigration system is broken. across the political spectrum, people understand that.

we have known it for years. it's not smart to invite some of the brightest minds from around the world to study here and then not let them start businesses here. we send them back to their home countries to start businesses and create jobs and invent new products some place else. it's not fair to businesses. >> a senate passed a bill earlier this year that creates a path to citizenship for the estimated 11.7 million undocumented immigrants in the united states. allows more high-skilled workers to get visas and boosts security along the u.s./mexican border. now, republicans in the house, they want a more step by step piecemeal approach to immigration reform. well, there is more angry fallout over the nsa's alleged spying on americans' allies. germany summoning the u.s. ambassador at the foreign ministry today. merkel called president obama directly. here's the issue here.

the nsa leaker, snowden, telling the truth, is he telling truth, when he said that merkel's own cell phone was tapped? and part of the government's wide ranging national security operation. well, if he is right, merkel says that, and this is a quote, it is a grave violation of trust. white house spokesman jay carney says the u.s. is not monitoring and will not monitor merkel's cell phone. >> president obama and chancellor merkel spoke by telephone, regarding the allegations that you mentioned, that the u.s. national security agency intercepted communications of the german chancellor, and i can tell you the president assured the chancellor the united states is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor. >> fred pleitgen covering the story. good to see you in person. >> good to see you as well. >> this is a big problem, it's becoming an increasing problem for the united states. angela merkel, very angry, upset. what do we know about the

veracity of the comments here? is this true, coming from snowden that perhaps the cell phone was being tapped? >> i think the germans wouldn't have made the big fuss about the whole thing, gone public, if they didn't have some sort of information that indicated that most probably this could very well be true. apparently what happened was, you have the comments made by snowden and the german intelligence services went back and seemed to have found things that indicated that one of her cell phones -- she has multiple cell phones -- might have been tapped. this is something where she was very angry about this. you really don't see -- i've been covering angela merkel for years -- i have not seen her this angry before. i know when you see her on tv it doesn't look that angry but she's a very reserved person. she's a science professor. she normally would never call out an american president public like she's doing now there's an eu summit. france was another country very angry at tunited states.

listen to what merkel said at summit earlier today. >> translator: i would like to touch on the matter of the aelth alleges regarding the u.s. there needs to be trust and eavesdropping among friend is never acceptable. as i said back in june in berlin, and again reiterated yesterday with the president. >> so, merkel does keep smiling all the time but she is not happy at all. now the germans are calling for additional treaty to make sure something like this can't happen again. the complex goes back months to when snowden first came out with the fact that so much had been monitored. >> she said she'd like to add, she wasn't asked that question, she volunteered that information. >> came out by herself and said it. >> is it false, a little phony to think the germans aren't doing this to the americans, french aren't doing this to americans, that everybody's listening in on everybody else? this is pretty common fare? >> the interesting thing is when

all of this first came to light, there was a big ring of phone tapping of tapping of internet connections, most of the countries tried to block it. germans sent out one of their government ministers to the public who said, we believe that this whole scandal is over, no one's rights were violated. but then german newspapers found out that possibly angela merkel's own phone had been tapped and that's something the german government couldn't hide anymore. i mean they probably do try to do this to each other. it's the murky world of intelligence. >> absolutely. >> barack obama himself came out one point and said, of course the leaders of russia and germany want to know what i'm say thinking not just terrorism last couple of years america was interested to see how germany would try to solve the eurozone crisis. >> a as it sid acknowledgement that this is going on all sides. good to see you. come back some time. >> sure. >> more of what we're working on for "around the world." police return this little girl

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this time, a pilot died when his water bombing plane crashed earlier today. he's one of more than 1500 on the fire lines. his plane dropped water on the fires threating sydney and fires destroyed more than 200 homes. officials are trying to do their best. >> on behalf of the firefighters, that are doing it so tough up there, we do apologize and regret that we weren't able to save everything. we are acutely aware, because our teams are embedded in the local communities particularly the lower blue mountains through spring wood there has been so much damage and destruction and people have lost everything. they did their best and they'll continue to do their best. >> the weather has cooled a little bit and the winds that had gusted to 45 miles per hour are calmer today. we have now newly released video to show you. this is of a massive rescue

effort of african migrants off the coast of italy. now, more than 200 people, they were pulled from the water almost two week ago. you see it there. at least 31 died. the overcrowded boat was carrying migrants trying to escape the poverty of north africa. there had been several recent sinkings in which hundreds had died. nigeria, pirates have kidnapped two americans from a u.s. oil supply vessel. this is in the gulf of guinea. straight to lagos nigeria. first what do we know about the attack and who was taken? >> reporter: well, here what happens we know. sometime early morning on wednesday, this u.s. vessel, owned by a louisiana-based company, was attacked by pirates. we don't know how many, details are sketchy. during or after the attack, two american sailors, the captain

and the chief engineer, were taken hostage. we have not heard about where they might be at this point. what's interesting where this attack took place, took place as you mentioned in the open, in the gulf of guinea. historically, piracy has been very, very common in east africa, off the coast of somalia, as you know. in the last couple of years weave started to see an uptick in piracy attacks in west africa. in the gulf of guinea 30% of all attacks in african waters happen in the gulf. the nigerian navy stepped up efforts to patrol the coastline and chase pirates when they do see them but it's very difficult. this area's known as the river delta. for many years, militants attacked and kidnapped all sorts of usually oil executives, people affiliated with the oil industry. 2009 the nigerian government offered amnesty to militants in exchange for laying down weapons, they offered vocational

training and a monthly stipend. we started to see violence increase in this part of nigeria which would spell trouble because the government's dealing with a volatile mix of islamic milltism in the northeastern part of the country. >> thank you so much. we'll be following that story as we -- as it develops throughout the afternoon. also learning more disturbing details about the high school teacher in massachusetts allegedly killed by a student. a live report up next. [son] all right,she has no idea.

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one question that hangs over the murder of a popular young teacher at danvers high school, why? why did this happen? we know that she was beaten, suffered wounds from a boxcutter, phillip chism accused of attacking and killing colleen ritzer, leaving her body in the woods near the school. then calmly taking in a movie. don lemon is in danvers. don, what hawe learned about th? >> reporter: that's really the question of the day, why? we have learned how, sadly, how she died. and the circumstances leading up to her death and what happen after her death. according to sources who spoke to our pamela brown this morning, she went into the faculty rest room and that rest room was locked and when she couldn't get into that rest room she went into the students' rest room on the second floor and was followed in by phillip chism

and, sadly, it's brutal, but he used a boxcutter, punched her, used a boxcutter, and put her body into a recycling bin and then removed it and threw it in the woods. and also that was caught on videotape, a number of video cameras here at the school. again, the question is, why? no one knows exactly why. as a matter of fact, as we're speaking now, suzanne, an autopsy's being done. >> don, do we have any sense at all whether or not there was any kind of relationship between this student, he was a student of the teacher here, was this someth if anybody had walked into that bathroom or do they think that she was targeted in some way? >> reporter: again, not exactly sure. the only thing people knowha is he was ind a student in her math class. that was confirmation from the prosecutor's office. also confirmation from students we spoke to yesterday.

and some of the students we spoke to yesterday, one of them here on cnn talked about phillip chism and knowing him. take a listen. >> he did have friends. he wasn't like too friendly, though. he only had certain friends. he wasn't outgoing to everyone. like in classes he would only talk to a select few people. he was new, too. so like le didn't have, like, the amount of friends as everyone else. >> reporter: and that student and other students said they saw him in class that morning. she saw him in her english class. other kids saw him in the math class and said he acted normally. nothing out of the ordinary. >> it's so hard, i know you've covered these stories before, and we've seen these things happening across the country, i can't imagine how people are dealing and coping with this, at the school on campus today. you've talked to people. what is the sense of how they're dealing with this? >> reporter: it's always heartbreaking, as i'm looking

off to camera left here, i'm seeing members of an athletic team here and they're all gathered together. you can see some of the students behind me here at a makeshift memorial. coming out, over my shoulder here, students are starting to leave as well as grief counselors, between 10:00 and noon, students got meet with grief counselors, faculty and family members if anyone needed to talk to them. the whole community is shaken. this is a community that never really sees anything like this. and a teacher who was beloved by all accounts by everyone. >> all right. don, thank you. i know it's difficult for a community to be dealing with something as tragic as that. thank you. following this, the obama care blame game on capitol hill that is taking place as companies charged with launching the government's health care website, you see testimony taking place right now, live picture there's from inside. they are saying they did everything right. well, we'll hear from them directly, up next. stick with innovation.

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care website. the house energy and commerce committee are grilling executives from four tech companies that guilt healthcare.gov. they each claim their portion of the site work just fine. >> from a cgi perspective, our portion of the application worked as designed. >> when occasional discrete bugs in the data services hub were identified we promptly corrected them. >> cnn's money technology correspondent laurie segall joining us new york. it's frustrating, almost mad. ing when you listen to the testimony because each person is insisting their piece of the puzzle worked just fine, but when you put them altogether and the system was integrated it all fell apart. was it tested? was the integrated system tested before the site launched? >> it doesn't appear so. there are so many cooks in the kitchen, an entrepreneur said he

said it varied well, because everybody's responsible, nobody's responsible. what we heard in that hearing is we heard cheryl campbell say, she's part of cgi, what she said was, part of our technology didn't work but it was because another technology didn't -- we were overwhelmed because another part of the technology from another contractor, the eid, the registration process, when you first get in, they prompt you to register, she said because that didn't work. we go to andrew slavitt in charge of that, he said the government, he came to us last minute and said we needed to add a registration process. that kind of decision last minute would require a lot of time, it would require a lot of testing, that it seems like they didn't have time to do. you have all of the finger pointing and really no concrete answers. >> everybody's doing, one of these numbers, pointing at everybody else. how do they fix this thing? can it be fixed? >> a loot of folks are

frustrated, how do we fix this? there are reports that there was a massive amount of coding involved in the project, something like 500 million lines of codes and 5 million lines of code needed to be fixed they asked cheryl campbell, she again, she's a vp of one of the contractors, listen to what she said. listen to her answer, suzanne. >> does cgi have to rewrite 5 million lines of code to fix the problems we've seen thus far? >> no, sir. i can tell you 300-plus employee i have back in the office, i think they'd all walk out if they had to rewrite that many lines of code. >> she says maybe this is -- this number might be inflated but we don't get answers as to the timing, could this take 30 days, 3 months. we don't really get that. i should note this, when you look at government contractors, and i spoke to an entrepreneur in silicon valley who has a lot of knowledge of this, they are paid for lines of codes and paid for the body. you're seeing a lot of inefficiencies come out without

many people being able to take responsibility because it you look at it, there w no quote/unquote ceo in charge saying do this. it was so fragmented. >> so it's frustrating when you listen to the hearings and held accountable.oing to be laurie, thank you so much. following this story as well, one of the most famous soccer players in the world, he's taunted on the field. we'll tell you essentially what did the opposing team say to him, up next.

just a few month as way until the one ter games kick off in russia. but today now, there is growing concern on whether or not russia's even the safest place to host the games. european soccer governing body is now investigating a moscow

soccer team after the star african soccer player claimed that fans of the russian team chanted monkey slurs at him. now the team denies the allegations, and alex is in london with more to talk, first, what are the allegations? what does he claim? how are they responding? >> well, this all occurred in a champion's league match, one of most high-profile soccer competitions on the planet. and the african footballer of the year, plays -- used to play for barcelona, now plays in manchester city, england. says fans were making monkey chants. here's what he had to say after the game. >> a few times i went into the goal and tried to score and some fans were reacting badly, but they say some blah, blah, blah, they have to stop now, we -- we

are not kids, i he we take action on that. >> his team launched an official complaint, lodged an official complaint with europe's governing body. and csk moscow denied this saying one delegate put in his report there was no racist chanting. in a statement from csk moscow, pointing out studied the video recording of the match, have not found insults and it's a significant fact throughout playing in europe, it's never been recorded, still more punished, for the manifestation of racism by the fans. >> we know this is not just a single incident here. olympics are fast approaching and the country's hosting 2018 world cup. what do they say about the other allegations of racism that have been made in the past? are the players even really

safe? >> a mixed report. certainly punishments so some russian soccer clubs when it comes comes to black players taunted, even bananas thrown on to the feel of play. olympics are run differently to soccer. there have been concerns about the anti-gay propaganda law in russia. but someone live on cnn international, two former american gold medalists have been speaking to people in the current u.s. winter olympic team are not worried about competing there at all. >> alex, thank you. this is a very disturbing story. pregnant women targeted by snipers in syria. this is the latest horror in a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people. we've got a special report, up next. la's known definitely for its traffic, congestion, for the smog.

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welcome back to "around the world." top story wooies we're followin. lawyers foic skakel are preparing a bail application to get their client out of prison. skakel is the nephew of robert anethel kennedy. he w found guilty of killing martha moxley when they were both 15. yesterday a connecticut judge granted him a new trial, saying his defense was inadequate. prosecutors are now planning to appeal. in italy, more troubles for former prime minister silvio berlusconi. he's been ordered to stand trial for corruption. he allegedly paid $4 million to buy a politician's influence. that helped bring down the italian government in 2006. his lawyer says there's no substance to that allegation. in august berlusconi was convict order tax fraud. the violence in syria has

taken a horrific turn. there's evidence now that snipers are targeting pregnant women and children. atika shubert's got the story. we've got to warn you images are graphic and this is disturbing. >> reporter: it is a chilling image of just how horrific the syrian civil war has become. a sniper's bullet in the skull of an unborn fetus. the pregnant mother was victim of a sniper attack. the surgeon volunteered at several hospitals in northern syria with a charity syria relief. >> you see the bullet hole here going from one side of the uterus to the other side and the baby was caught in the middle. >> reporter: these images are graphic, but they are all survivors. the doctor says 90% of surgery his performed on any given day were sniper wounds, up to 20 gunshot wounds a day. syria relief provided cnn with these pictures of sniper victims

in order to raise awareness of the growing violence. dr. knot believes snipers are specifically targeting pregnant women and sometimes children in a vicious game of war. >> one day we would see, say, that 8 to 9 targeted in the left groin. only. and the following day, they were targeted in the right groin only. i think definite will a game going on. >> reporter: targeting game? >> targeting game. >> reporter: in this video from aleppo, men, women, children tried to outrun snipers' bullets as they cross in the regime-controlled enclave of the city to the rebel-held areas. it's not clear who is pulling the trigger in the video, but innocent civilians are literally being caught in the cross fire. they risk their lives because food and provision are on the rebel side, but their homes and families are on the regime side. desperate, they make a dash for

supplies, but not everyone makes it through. >> atika shubert joins us live from london. it's even hard to watch what we've just seen, to even understand what is going on here. but what is behind this? is this some sort of sick motive to terror a whole society, a particular group. >> what is going on? >> reporter: it's clear that the snipers are shooting at civilians, essentially to terrorize them. we don't know who is pulling the trigger who the snipers are or targeting anybody in particular. there does seem to be, as dr. nott said there, a kind of game. he had even heard reports that they -- some of the snipers were getting rewards like cigarettes for targets achieved, which united states a horrific and chilling thing to think about. it goes to show how far the civil war has descended into syria and the fact you have

regime-controlled and rebel-held areas, and civilians are caught in the middle simply because they might have family on one side but what they need in terms offed into afood and medicine i on another. >> it is difficult to see images but we need to bring this to the world. thank you. ahead, an assistant bishop with a catholic church speaks out about his relationship with a woman who is 23 years youthan. this important programming note, this is a fascinating, must-see watch. orcas thought to be one of the most intelligent creators in the animal kingdom. cnn films follows the history of killer whales in captivity, leading up to the death of a sea world trainer that happened in 2010. watch the premiere of "blackfish" tonight here on cnn at 9:00 eastern.

an explosive, new scandal in the catholic church, this comes addai after the pope suspend the bling bishop for spending $42 million to renovate his home. for the latest scandal involves a secret relationship of former assistant bishop in limaed aplited to haviaplit ed admitted to having with a young woman. he's the father of her 2-year-old daughter. >> reporter: in the eyes of the world, he was the asis tant bishop of lima, serving one of the large effort catholic dioce dioceses. but he had a secret, a hidden relationship that would put his church career in jeopardy. meet the 26-year-old, she sued the 49-year-old bishop for

months ago claiming he's the father of other 2-year-old daughter. last week the judge in charge of the case ruled in her favor. >> translator: when i met him, i wasn't a minor anymore. but i was still a young lady. i reacted like any young girl who is still growing up and developing. he approached me trying to be protective and paternal. like any other girl i never doubted his motives. >> reporter: at first she approached him for spiritual guidance, but over time, their relationship became romantic. when the baby was born, he baptized his daughter and became her godfather. the secret revealed when she filed the lawsuit. back then, she told per vuvian media they mutually agreed to keep the relationship and their daughter a secret for ever, but he also said he never took advantage of the woman who is 23

years younger than him. >> translator: i have never denied the girl is my daughter, he told a local television program this month. i never tried to sidestep my responsibility. what i had asked was time so we didn't have to rush things so we didn't creed a scandal. his former lover's attorney says he was vindictive. >> translator: if he originally denied paternity hee'd avoid child support. something that worries me is that he appealed accusing my client of defamation. >> reporter: he has resigned as assistant bishop and the church is supporting the mother and her baby girl. cardinal, the archbishop of lima, asked him to assume his responsibility as a man and confirm that the vatican accepted his resignation. >> raphael joins us for the back story. there's a back story why she

sued the bishop. >> exactly. it happened two years after the girl was born, so the back story is that the relationship was probably still going on in secret and at one point the relationship might have soured and this woman decided that she was going to try to get child support for the baby because there was no clear indication from the bishop that he was actually going to take responsibility for paying expenses for the girl. so that's apparently what finally brought the case to the courts and then the bomb exploded and the scandal was created. >> so do we know if he's now -- he's no longer assistant bishop. is he paying child support? his he taking care of his child? what's next? >> he's paying child support, he's going to take care of the child, he said multiple times. but he's resigned, so he doesn't have a job anymore. and we don't really know what he's going to do next. >> yeah. you wonder with the bling bishop

and this guy, what happens next? what happens going on. >> it's a tragedy. it's bad. >> raphael, thank you. appreciate it. in russia, piracy charges, they're dropped. this is against a group of greenpeace activists arrested last month, recall for trying to stop oil drilling in the barren sea. phil black, he's got details on what charges he'll face. >> reporter: greenpeace, government, nobel peace prize winners, they all told the russian government that climbing an arctic oil rig was not an act of piracy. now russian investigators agree, they're dropping the piracy charge and charging 28 activists and 2 freelance journalists with hooliganism. greenpeace says its activists are no more hooligans than pirates. in russia, the charge can be punished with prison time. back to you.

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