gree murder charges for the mother who drove her van into the ocean with her three little children inside. remember this video? absolutely terrifying to watch. the incident happened tuesday near daytona beach. her kids were heard screaming and crying waving for help as their mother ebony wilkerson continued to drive the van into the ocean saying they were okay. bystanders had to rescue the kids. wilkerson underwent a mental evaluation tuesday and a short time ago a sheriff said it disappoints him to see people and mothers do this to their own children. >> it doesn't surprise me when

someone does something like this, it disappoints me. to see what people will do in crimes even do to their own children or other children. it's a very disappointing thing. you are supposed to protect your children at all cost. you are not supposed to try to kill your children. >> we are also learning that wilkerson was cited for an improper lane change that led to a fatal car wreck according to the courier. jane velez mitchell as we learn more i keep thinking about the kids and reading the charging document. it quotes one of the kids being treated and saying mom tried to kill us. >> we are learning that these kids were heroes. they interviewed the kids after the terrible ordeal. they found that te oldest child, the 10-year-old girl jumped into the front seat and was trying to steer the vehicle, the minivan away from the ocean

and trying to save herself and her mother and two siblings. she couldn't overpower the mom. essentially this sheriff is saying she was lucid enough that she did this intentionally. she made a plan to and tried to carry it out. were it not for the heroes who intervene and rescued the kids, she might have killed them. actually on the show, i talked to one of the heroes a guy vacationing there and he said that she actually tried to prevent them from going back and getting the youngest child. she slipped out and walked away towards the shore and they were trying to go back because the two older ersiblings said there is a baby in there. she tried to block them. tried to stop them from saving her own child. >> to think she was telling these children and rolling the windows up and strapping them up. kids go to sleep. she told them.

we know as you pointed out she acted with premeditated design according to the charging do you mean. on the issue of this mental health evaluation we know it happened tuesday. we are a couple days later. is that enough time to determine if someone is really healthy? >> we know that hours before this horror one of her relatives called 911 and said look we are worried about this woman. she said she is hearing demons. we tried to take her keys away. cops pulled her over and interviewed her and decided they did not have what it took to hold her involuntarily. she did not seem to be a danger to herself or others. she turned out to be a danger to herself and others but i think this charge said at least the authorities believed that she knew right from wrong. she knew what she was doing was something that was potentially deadly and she carried that out.

there is mental illness and having a mental illness or border line personality disorder and still know right from wrong. i think they decided she knew right from wrong when she did this. >> where are the kids now? >> the kids were evaluated and extremely traumatized and one of the rescuers saw fear in their eyes and kept asking why, why. they are going to hopefully be placed with a relative but my understanding is authorities want to interview those relatives carefully to make sure that they are put in a very safe situation. remember this woman claimed that she was fleeing an abusive situation from her -- i believe it was her husband. so they want to make sure these children don't go into another abusive situation. >> jane velez mitchell thank you so much. also today, aaron hernandez may face a new criminal charge. hernandez got in a little trouble inside the massachusetts

jail where he is locked up on murder charges. former new england patriot got into this jail house fight allegedly threw a punch at a fellow inmate. the recipient of hernandez's first fist could not strike back because he was handcuffed at the time. we are told no one was seriously hurt but a sheriff described the scuffle. >> there is not an indication that there was an ongoing beef. there could have been things said but never there was a time where they were together one on one. >> the sheriff wants to challenger hernandez with misdemeanor assault and battery. we will have a report in 30 minutes. >> bombshell testimony in the trial of oscar pistorius. the blade runner is accused of exceptional killing his model girlfriend on valentine's day last year. he said he accidentally fired after he mistook her for an intruder.

just a short time ago a security guard who was the earliest to arrive testified that pistorius told him everything was in his words, fine. that was not the case. pistorius's ex-girlfriend also took the stand and she testified that he always slept with a gun nearby. she also said he once got so angry after a traffic stop he fired a shot through the sun roof of a car. >> oscar and darren were pretty anxious and a little bit irritated with the policeman. they laughed and said they wanted to shoot a robot. and then oscar shot a bullet out of the sun roof. >> when cross examined pistorius's ex-could not remember the name of the highway or location. texas governor rick perry giving

a very enthusiastic speech today. he was not holding back bringing a sleepy audience to its feet and asking voters to give him a second chance. >> defend our country. provide a farm policy and what the heck deliver the mail. preferably on time and on saturdays. oat out of the health care business. get out of the education business. stop hammering industry. let the sleeping giant of american enterprise create prosperity again. . >> when russia stormed ukraine's crimean peninsula, the world was shocked. some said the top brass was caught off guard, but vladimir putin's decision said new

intelligence from the head of the agency suggested not only was this planned out, but that the united states knew about the kremlin's take over plans up to ten days before it happened. then you have this. america's war plans and weapon capabilities may be in putin's hands. a man really considered unpredictable. how might he have them? good question. the world's most infamous leaker edward snowden. all of this as they refused to enter crimea for the second straight day. cnn's anna koren is in crimea for us and while observers are being turned away, more and more troops are going in. something like 30,000 occupied crimea area roughly the size of hawaii. me what you are seeing there. >> we are hearing exactly the same reports. it's coming from the ukrainian government now on the ground here in crimea. we obviously have seen them out

at military bases surrounding these bases if not occupying them. obviously there lots of militia and there forces that the region capital has. i can you now there has been a change and a shift in the last few days. we are hearing of a media crack down. ukrainian stations are being shut down here in crimea. we have also encountered our own opposition if you like. the hotel we are broadcasting from told us to shut down and stop the broadcasting otherwise we would be kicked out of the hotel. there is pressure coming from above, no doubt about it. the government here the self-elected government from crimea came into power a week ago. they are the ones that are pushing this referendum forward.

they want to be part of russia. they want to be part of the motherland and any defense whatsoever they are cracking down. >> i want to show the viewers you are there. i want to show the viewers the video. you will see the group of masked man attacking a journalist and he is down on the ground and they are pointing a gun at him and they steal the phone. the journalist said he was using the phone and you said you are experiencing this from the hotel? how many journalists and how massive is the media presence right no? >> it's a huge presence here at the moment. every major network is covering this story. counting down the referendum in just over a week's time. that journalist was just

confiscating the equipment from tv sanctions. they spotted him as they saw the footage and wrestled him to the ground approximate put a gun to his head and went after his assistant. this is how brutal and brazen they are being. he's guys are the law here. it is a changing situation here in crimea. >> obviously you know this but please be cautious. we are glad you are there shining a light on the story we so badly need to tell. president obama scheduled to speak this hour. live pictures from the event. this is homestead, florida where he is about to talk in about a half hour from now. he is expected to talk about his vision to help the little class. we heard this from him and we heard from the president yesterday before the 23sh8 start at the white house.

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you heard from a spring of entertainers decloiningineing to perform at seaworld after killer worlds were in captivity and including the whale who killed dawn brancheau. in less than a half hour a california lawmaker will unveil kill 2140 to allow killer whales to be on display, but they would not be able to perform in shows. the bill would end captive breeding programs and end the export and import of genetic materials and the export and import of killer whales in california. this is california specific. officials had not seen the bill but a spokes woman pointed out that the individuals supporting this bill are "well-known extreme animal rights activists. the legislation appears to reflect the same out of the

mainstream thinking. seaworld operates under multiple federal, state, and local animal welfare laws. we are deeply committed to the health and well being to all of the animals." >> the director of conservation at the world zoo and aquarium welcome back. >> good to be with you, brooke. >> i want to hear your side of things. why is it beneficial for orcas to be in captivity. >> for one thing, we learn so much about the animals and we continue to learn about them. the best way to understand what their needs are in the wild is to see them up close and in person and to understand their biology and behavior. that book is not finished. we still have much to learn about the killer whales. >> this is from the assemblyman who is proposing this legislation in the next half hour. this is what he said.

"in their natural habitat, orcas are family oriented and socially complex with cultural traditions. among the most intelligent creatures on this planet. we should restore tab at that time in the world and protect our oceans. i have to push you because this is your livelihood. this is in your best interest to prevent this bill yes? >> i don't currently train killer whales. i did earlier in my career. i worked for seaworld outside of ohio. i am more concerned about the welfare of all species. when you take an animal like a killer whale and remove it from consciousness, you ensure those animals will decline in the world. we see that time and time again. out of sight means out of mind. unless we have avenues like places like seaworld to teach people to have compassion and care about what happens to

killer whales and the world oceans the future looks bleak for them. i think this bill as it has been described in the media collapses under the weight of inconsistencies, particularly with respect to animal welfare and future breeding. >> i hear you on the research issue and i know folks would push back on that. if this assemblyman gets his way and doesn't want the orcas caught or import and you can't breed them. me in your opinion what the long-term effect would be. >> the long-term effect would be the continued disinterest in the world oceans and the habitat he's animals use in the fish supply and the world. we are using the oceans up as if they were infinite resources and they are not. by having them front and center i think it goes a long way to ensure conservation and the hope that we will conserve our world

oceans. >> is there a part of this you agree with? the notion that they perform and they are displays and unprotected contact with humans. and the music. would you be okay with that? >> i think there is a misunderstanding here. shows are not distinct from the rest of the animal's days. i want animals to learn and have fun continuously whether they are expect tators or working with them. they help us take better care of them and understand their needs better and share that information with the general public. >> we know the assemblyman's side and waiting for the bill out there. wanted to get the other side. thanks so much for coming on. >> thank you. >> want to delve into the details of aaron hernandez. he is in jail for murder and could face you assault changes

for fighting in jail. more on that, coming up.

it's still not good enough. we compared to last year. job growth was close to 300,000 in november. that's really where we want to be to bring down unemployment. the unemployment rate is still high. the economy is not where it should be. we are almost years out of the recession. the good news is even with the weather impacting february's jobs number this 175,000 employers added that 175,000. think of it this way. without the bad weather, that number could have been higher. >> is it also the issue, if it gets lower which is a good thing, that would affect our interest rates. >> it may.

this is the deadline and what the fed said, they keep an eye on when they want to raise interest rates. it wavered and talking about the fed numbers. they wavered as to whether or not to stick to the 6.5% as you see the unemployment rate get closer and they are looking the the economy. it's not there yet. they want to raise interest rates and it's not holding to the 6.5% especially now that we saw it take a higher in february to 6.7%. >> gotcha. wind not totally out of my sails. new allegations against a top officer charged with prosecuting the same crimes. the bill designed to help victims in the military. we are on the case. you are watching cnn. state right here.

ed beef recalled from a meat producer reached 36 states and guam. that includes thousands of retailers. what do we know? >> we know that this is not good news for meat lovers. the list of retailer who is got this meat has grown. the usda believes there were 35

states that have performed this meat from rancho feeding corporation. they recalled nearly nine million pounds of beef. they believed the meat had only gone to a handful of states. now it's going to most of the country and impacting a lot of well-known stores here. we are talking wal-mart 7-11, kroeger and target. it's important to remember it may have gone to these stores. they don't know for sure. that's something to let folks know. we don't know for sure. you need to be aware. >> that's a lot of states and stores impacted. how do i know if i have gotten bad meat? >> this is part of the problem. we called the usda and say consumers can see the complete list of stores. >> that's it. >> then have to ask the retailers should i be concerned? did you buy from rancho?

you have to look up the store, the grocery store and ask the manager do i have reason to be concerned? the other thing that is starting to happen is companies that had used to meat nestle used it in the hot pockets. they are putting recalls on the particular products. no way to know for sure about the meat. >> just a heads up and we will put more information on the website. just go to cnn.com. >> now to the next story that sums up the military because you have this obama administration official telling cnn that the army's top sex crimes prosecutor is being investigated over allegations he groped a female lawyer. there is more because he was allegedly at a sexual assault conference in 2011. also yesterday to overhaul the approach to sexual assault cases

died in the senate and on the way down seemed to spark an inner party fight for the gop. here is senator lindsay graham. >> people wanting to run for president on our side, i will remind you of this. >> you want to be commander in chief? you are willing to fire every commander in the military for reasons i don't quite understand. we will have a good discussion as to whether or not you understand how the military actually works. >> so that was senator graham. that was a jab at 2016 contenders. the likes of ted and rand paul who supported the bill. let me bring in gloria borger to explain. why the parting jab from grant? what was he going for? >> what he is clearly saying is that these folks are political opportunists. they are playing to women and he

believes this undermines the chain of command of the military. i wouldn't say they disagreed on everything from the shut down to the use of drones. graham is strong militarily and he believes very strongly that you need to keep the chain of command in place. the heart of this issue and what senator jill brand was talking about, they cannot go to the commanders directly and don't report as much sexual abuse as they might. the commanders know both them and the people they accuse of abusing them. >> good stuff. >> it's very difficult.

the party too. >> we are talking about the senate and that has been a majority. were they not united on this? >> they weren't. democrats voted against it. chairman of the armed services committee. another woman also on the armed services committee led the fight against gile brrks brand. it was a fight not only along party lines, but a sense of can you upset that chain of command in the military. gilebrand and others feel strongly if you want women to report sexual abuse, you have to make it easier and not harder. this issue will be revisited. you can be sure of that. >> thank you. coming up new troubles for star aaron hernandez who is currently in jail accused of murder. he could be facing assault

changes for throwing a punch in jail. more on that and also ahead, did you see this video? court crashers. recently fans have been rushing on to the basketball court during the game. what's going on here? we will discuss that, coming up.

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. ex-nfl star aaron hernandez may get slapped with a new charge with his jail house fight. he got into a brawl in the same jail where he is locked up on first-degree murder changes. he allegedly punched an inmate who was happened cuffed. no one was seriously hurt. let's talk to the national correspondent susan candiotti who has been following the story very closely. here's my question. he could be facing a misdemeanor

charge for this and guy this guy faces first-degree murder. why add this charge? >> here's what happened. after they conducted an inhouse investigation after the brawl,ly is asking the judge to charge him with yet another crime. is assault and battery. it's a misdemeanor because of a lack of serious injuries but here's the allegation. aaron hernandez was in the common area of this high risk unit at the jail. at the same time another inmate in the unit who was in handcuffs was being escorted in the same area. hernandez was who not in handcuffs was able to land a hit or two before jailers broke it up. the sheriff said there was no actual video of the fight, but there was video of the time that happened around it. here's what the sheriff is doing about the incident. >> no matter what any one person that comes out cannot be any cells open or anyone else

allowed out at the same time. >> susan, it's up to this judge to approve whether or not hernandez faces this misdemeanor charge? >> that's right. the sheriff wants a judge to do it but a magistrate has to hold a hearing. that could include witnesses including aaron hernandez. it's not until after that that we will find out whether this assault and battery charge will go through. we reached out to his lawyers and we had no response. in the meantime the sheriff is taking some disciplinary actions against pered in an against hernandez from three hours outside the cell to only one. >> coming up here president obama expected to speak any minute and live pictures in homestead, florida. what we are really watching for. he has the message about strength ending the middle class. will he touch on the crisis in ukraine. we will keep an eye out for that. also ahead, our chief medical

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a fan walked up to the coach of the opposing team. look at him. i don't know what he's saying. i don't need to know. i would say it's brazen. if will fist a fan last week who broke out on to the court to touch cleveland cavalier irving and then just day before that you talk about the yard fans storming the court and got into it with new mexico state players. the western athletic conference suspended two new mexico state players because of this melee. let's talk about the court crashers with rachel nichols host of unguarded. i don't know what's going on. we were talking about this in the morning. i don't know if people are just feeling it but i can't say the words. feeling it. drunk. how could this guy with be sober? >> i don't think he was. he hurdled out of the stands and

out on the court. the situation quickly escalated. they are underscoring that arenas are maybe not taking it as seriously as they should be. even when it's supposed to be for a happy reason. you saw them getting into it with the other team and even last month in south carolina they stormed the court after a big win. we have seen sometimes fans getting trampled or injured. the university president was one of the ones running on to the court. these kids are following in some cases the examples of their supposed mentors. it is a problem. >> obviously there was a problem with the tar heels storming the court too. just saying. i feel like we need boston red sox, please. i cannot wait tonight. >> your favorite. spring training had to go down

and see the world. of course. i sat down with the guysa the the heard of that clubhouse. david ross and i want to you take a look. here he is talking about statistically one of the most incredible turn arounds in the history of the sport of baseball going from being dead last in their division to winning the championship. take a listen. >> we are the second team in the history of the game going from worst to win the world series. we covered almost impossible. to be on a roll in the spring training with the worst record in the a.l. east and set a goal to win the world series is either stupid or you guys are awesome. turns out we are awesome. >> gotta love jonny gomes. we talked to the red sox about the topics and what it was like after winning the series and the boston marathon. as you know that marathon is going to happen again next month. very special to all those

players. they really feel that by winning the trophy and that doesn't change thingses for the people but they lifted the spirits of the city, they stopped in the middle of the parade and put the trophy down on the marathon finish line and gomes had a great line. now in people's heads when they pass the spot on the street they can point to it and say that's where the championship trophy was as opposed to that's where the bombing happen. to give people that change they feel like they made a difference. >> it's an incredible story line. maybe the beards are back perhaps. >> we're talked beards. >> good. rachel nichols, we will tune in at 10:30 eastern time. 7:30 pacific here on cnn. up next a community in shock after learning a body was found inside a car. inside this garage. the woman dead for six years. we will explain how no one

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. >> did you know the country's first medical marijuana commercial hit the airwaves. it is being played in the state of new jersey. this is from marijuana doctors.com and respecting that users buy the drug online and not from the black market. it shows this guy sort of walking this this alleyway with sushi on the street. what they are trying to suggest is if you wouldn't buy your sushi from this guy, why would you buy more than from him? it comes as dr. sanjay gupta is out once again. you are not only back on your stance on medical marijuana. the science of it but it's interesting as we look ahead to the documentary early next week. your point is we were talking with so many countries around the world have legalized

cannibis. >> you have a medication out there for ms. multiple sclerosis, a whole plant extract, a cannibis-based drug. it's available in 25 countries and being used. i met patients who benefitted from the medication. it's not available in the united states. i think i only bring that up by way of example to show how far things have gone astray with regard to the fact that we call it among the most dangerous substances in the country with no medicinal benefit and yet you have medication available in 25 countries. it's so divergent. >> you point out that still in this country politics is trumping science. let me go out and say do you think lawmakers are being irresponsible. >> there people for whom this cannibis medication works when nothing has. we introduce to you a child who had been through the modern medicine and seven different drugs.

they wanted a veterinary medication to treat her seizures. >> veterinary medication? >> for dogs because nothing was working for her. let's take a step back. a potential dog medicine. cannibis was considered so fringe. when you look at that is it irresponsible to provide this as an option. >> it's a misnomer. a lot of people want to smoke pot to get high. when you are doing this medicinally in the case of this child, there strands of medical marijuana minus the thc. >> strains are very low in thc and high in cbd, a therapeutic ingredient for seizure control. it's an oil that they squirt into their mouth.

it doesn't make them high. i don't want to be naive. there people who fain ailments to get high. that's a real concern. but the flip side of that is are you going to deny a legitimate therapy for an ailment they have no treatment for. it's a tough question. it's a question that rae really need to answer. >> let's watch a clip. take a look. >> the federal government said marijuana is among the most a directive drugs with no medicinal value. many scientists say they are wrong. >> it's a medicine. >> it's the politics of pot. pitting policy against patients. trapped in the middle is sick qualified people who want medical marijuana and can't get it because it's illegal. >> final thought from you? >> i try not to be injecting moral is in this country we take 80% of the world's pain medications consumed in this country.

someone dies of an accidental prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes. that is the state of affairs now. we talk about introducing a medication to alleviate suffering for things like pain ms epilepsy. there has been overdoses that are unheard of in this case. you may have something that works and causes not nearly as much harm. it's something that people need to hear and consider. >> tune in. put the graphic back up to show the people. tuesday night at 10:00 eastern here. >> you got it. thank you. hour two, i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me. you want to begin with ukraine. the crimean peninsula roughly the size of high. look at the map. it's small and currently overrun with russian troops.

cnn learned that 30,000 of them are involved in the small peninsula although the u.s. believes the number is slightly less. when the ukraine's government crumbled and all the russian troops swooped in the world was shocked. some said russia's top brass were caught off guard by the decision. here's the but. new intelligence from the head of the defense intelligence suggest that is not only was this planned out, but the united states knew about the kremlin's take over plans up to ten days before this happened. then there is this today. america's war plans and weapon capabilities may now be in the hands of vladamir putin, a man considered unpredictable. how might he have them? answer the world's most infamous leaker here edward snowden.

here is michael flynn. >> a defense capabilities are we talking about u.s. war plans or are we talking about intelligence gagering methods? >> i think it's an all of the above. inteligence capabilities and operational. technology. it's weapons systems. >> do you think that russia has access to the kind of colors that we are talking about? >> to the information that he got? >> yeah. >> you have to assume that if they don't have access, they will try to get access to it. >> joining me now, correspondent barbara star. barbara, the new intelligence suggests that the cia had specifically warned policy maker that is the military was indeed coming. what did the u.s. do with that information and was it enough? >> i don't know that there was a specific warning and time date and place when russian troops

would suddenly move to take crimea. what there was was a number of agencies that looked at the indicators that they saw. the beginning of troops moving around. the shifting of russian assets. watching on both sides of the border what was happening. they came up with a number of their predictions of what putin might do. as general flynn said as the days went on the seven to days before the rugs made their move he said that the intelligence community, the agencies warned policy makers that there was a great likelihood that something was imminent but all of this was based on what was in vladimir putin's mind that nobody can read. the russians were right there and could move with literally zero warning time. that was something that cnn reported last week. this was all very tricky business. it depended when putin wanted to make his move. >> and also too the priority

the notion of spying on russia has been very low priority since the end of the cold war 23 years ago. we have this latest power grab by vladimir putin and fears what russia may have gleaned from edward snowden. do you think it might change priorities? >> i was fascinated to hear what general flynn was saying. i have known him for many years through the wartime years in both iraq and afghanistan. this is probably one of the country's preeminent military experts. he's a guy who worries about everything as his job requires him to. when he is worried about it we need to be worried about it. he's going to assume that if snowden hasn't given the russians everything the russians are going to try to get it out of him whether snowden realizes it or not. war plans and techniques that the u.s. uses on the

battlefield. one of the things i thought was interesting, he is worried that the russians have information about one of the u.s.'s most sensitive technologies, how they deal with roadsides with ieds. these are the skreatsecrets of the military technology. the kinds of things that they are so worried edward snowden is giving away. >> in a word frightening. thank you very much. right now the military is on the move. in fact lock look at video we will play for you. the guided missile destroyer crossing into the black sea. very, very close to the crimian peninsula. as tensions in neighboring ukraine simmer this ship is taking part in exercises with romania and bulgaria.

it's part of the waterway that sdrid decides them. >> the u.s. navy destroyer truckston sailed past us at full speed in the straight. the u.s. navy said this was a previously scheduled trip into the black sea to conduct joint maneuvers with the countries of bulgaria and romania. there is nothing normal about that in the crimian peninsula that sticks out into the black sea where the russian military has occupied ukrainian territory and blockaded ukrainian naval vessels from being able to move out of their ports. at this time it's a very delicate time for negotiations between washington and moscow. movements by the militaries are seen as important symbols, signs of support for allied countries in the region particularly in

the baltics and eastern europe. very concerned about russian military maneuvers into the ukraine. reporting from the straight in istanbul. >> what a shot. thank you so much. let me tell you coming up in about 20 minutes, we will talk to a columnist who said this is a new cold war how she is phrasing it and how to learn main lessons from putin's actions. we will talk to her about 25 minutes from now on cnn. back here at home new attempted first-degree murder charges for the florida mother who drove her van into the ocean with her three little children strapped inside. police charge ebony wilkerson a short time ago and this is the video. horrifying to watch. this incident played out near daytona beach. her kids were heard screaming and crying waving for help.

a bystander said willkerson cent saying we are okay and continued into the water. they rescued the kids and wilkerson underwent evaluation. a sheriff told reporters, people mothers are not supposed to be trying to kill their children. >> no. it really doesn't surprise me when somebody does something like this, it disappoints me. to see what people will do in general in crimes even do to their own children or other children it's a very disappointing thing. you are supposed to protect your children. at all cost. you are not supposed to be trying to kill your children. >> good for the sheriff for saying that. another incident in florida that the same woman was involved in in 2007. she was found guilty for improper lane change and the

passenger in the car she hit ended up dying. sunny hostin joining me now. i know you are fuming when you read about what these kids said saying mom was trying to kill us. it sounded like the kids were trying to stop their mother. >> they sure were. when you read it it's unbelievable. i think it tears at your heart strings. the bottom line is one of the kids tried to steer the car away from the water. i have to agree with the sheriff. as manufactures and human beings we are supposed to care for those and protect those who are uncapable of caring for themselves. if indeed she did this in a premedicated fashion. i will tell you what gives me cause and i also want to mention these types of cases where mothers kill their children are so rare. this is why we are outraged when we hear about them. remember susan smith and andrea yates. those are cases we cover and

people are outraged. both of those cases at least the andrea yates case had the element of mental illness. this mother her family members called the police and said she was talking about demons. we know there allegations she was an abused mother and is pregnant at this time when this happened. i think we do have to perhaps take a moment and think about the fact that this may be someone suffering from mental illness. i was curious. i was talking to jane velez mitchell about this because my goodness if she was evaluated on tuesday and this is friday. in a couple of days investigateor investigators were doing due diligence, but to determine she acted with premeditated design to kill the kids. >> officers and law enforcement i don't know are necessarily the best people to determine whether

or not someone is in their right state of mind that's something that you leave for medical professionals. again, these allegations that she was talking about on the same day. we have to observe judgment. there was no question in my mind that we are going to hear an insanity defense coming. i think the right thing to do is charge someone with this behavior. my goodness, not only are you pregnant but you have three kids and you are driving into the ocean. there may be a defense here. our law hasn't caught up with the mental health issues. we saw that in the britney spears case and andrea yates and maybe seeing it with this. >> congratulations because we will be watching and you your new show called making the case with you and your pal, sort of. >> my pal. >> mark geragos. >> it debuts minute at 10:00

eastern. sunny hostin thank you so much. >> this community absolutely in shock after they learned this woman's body was found in the garage and apparently she had been there for six years. no one noticed. her bills were paid through automatic bill pay and neighbor cut the grass. what eventually led to the gruesome discovery and what the neighbors say today. this video with the moment of impact next. you are watching cnn. s the points at the coffee shop. which will help me get to miami...and they'll be stuck at the cube farm. the citi thankyou preferred card. now earn two times the points on dining out with no annual fee. go to citi.com/thankyoucards.

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>> i have seen that before and it's still tough to watch. the devastating next dan. police say the pickup truck hauling a trailer didn't stop and that led to this. luckily no one was seriously hurt. the truck driver is charged with failing to yield. take a look at this video. this is historic. what you are looking at here this is the first ever video of an asteriod breaking up. nasa's hubble telescope caught this and the asteriod shatters into pieces. it's as wide as four football fields. they are fascinated because they are not sure why it broke up in the first place. now to this not the condition you the to see a school bus. this is a bus for special needs

kids. obviously the smoke engulfed this thing. four kids were inside including two in wheelchairs. they pulled the bus over as soon as he smelled the smoke and started helping them get off the bus. >> he pulled the bus over immediately and realized he didn't like the smell of smoke. by the time he got back you can see the smoke and the flame coming through the fire wall by the heater area. >> what happened? investigators think a faulty heater could have kuz caused this. the driver could be there and he is one of the best. >> in a quiet neighbor a woman's mummified body sat in her car for years after she died. she died at least years ago. her body is sitting in the car parked in the garage of her home. we are told the key was halfway

in the ignition. watching this for us today, i mean the obvious question is how did no one notice? six years? >> hard to believe no one noticed. in 2007 a neighbor called police after not seeing her for a while and the officers did a welfare check and found nothing wrong at the time. it turns out that a neighbor had been cutting her grass all those years and bills were being paid through an auto pay account. when it ran down some $54,000 later, the house went into foreclosure. the bank support a contractor to the house and the mummified body was found in her garage. neighbors say it's possible she had been missing all those years because she often traveled taking frequent trips to germany. >> she was probably there for a couple days and likely for a week and come back and leave for a month and come back.

she didn't really talk to anyone. i'm sure she was a nice lady but really kept to herself. we never heard from her. >> nobody came over there to check on the lady. it is weird. it's actually scary. >> a lot of people in the community just stunned that they had no idea who was in the house. she would have been 49 years old. >> do we know six years later how she died? >> still a mystery at this point. it will take a couple of weeks to have a conclusive cause of death because they are waiting for toxicology reports and no sign of trauma at this time. a mystery as to the cause of death and the mystery that this could have gone on for so long. >> alexandra field, thank you so much. now this. three murders. 11 years, one suspect. police now say bullets used in a murder do indeed match two other

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. >> right now, a possible serial killer may be at large in the metro washington, d.c. area. take a good long look at this possible suspect. the sketch here, the police if alexandria alexandria, virginia said three killings may be connected. the woman in this photo here on the left is a beloved music teacher shot and killed in broad daylight in her home last month. they told "the washington post" that the murder may be linked to a killing of a transportation

planner and all three killings happened right around noon broad daylight in homes less than two miles from one another. markings on the bullets were told may be the links. let's begin there with casey jordan from new york. i want to get to the timeline. when you talk about the forensic research on the bullets, me what investigators are looking at and how they may be lichging all of these. >> they are matching the lands and grooves from the grag mts. the more fragmented they are. they are not saying they got bullet casings, but they came from the same type of gun and they are so alike they are going to treat the three homicides as linked. they believe that the homicide of the sheriff's wife from years ago is linked to the two homicides we had in the last

four months. >> the fact that it was years ago, isn't that odd or not normally the mo of the serial killer to take such a long break in between killings? >> if indeed this is the work of the same person it's extremely unusual to see a 10-year gap. we see it occasionally. btk took a year off, but ten years, there is probably an explanation for that if it's the same man. it could likely be he was in prison at the time for a decade. a mental institution or maybe he was traveling around. if he is transient or homeless he could be in other locations and responsible for other homicides that we haven't linked him to yet. >> for he was gone wherever this individual may have been and given the ballistics that this could be linked to the same gun, he must have held on to that gun somehow or another, right? >> right. that is baffling here.

usually it's somebody who was that organized to hang on to the same gun won't be disorganized enough to shoot someone in front of witnesses. as we know the murder of the music teacher a month ago happened in front of a home health care giver described him enough to get the sketch together. we have no vehicle. they are right on residential streets. you have sidewalks. it would look like a killer walked up to the door and rang the door bell and walked off the sidewalk and kept walking down the sidewalk. no vehicle has been identified. this really is a very unusual thing to have something that looks like literally ring the doorbell and shoot the person who answers. no sign whatsoever of any forced intro. all of them killed in broad daylight. this is unusual. we don't see cases like this that don't seem to be motivated by burglary. all the victims are random and

that had the police so concerned in this particular case. >> totally odd. we will stay on it. thank you so much. a reminder to all of you. take a electric at the series called death row stories. the premier is sunday night at 9:00 eastern. coming up this is something that has a lot of you talking. this freshman student at duke university admitting to being a porn star to pay for the duke tuition. now she has gone public. cnn talked to her. she showed her face. what does she look like and how is she responding to the critics? we will have all the answers for you and we will have a chat about that. is russia's movement of troops reminiscent of the cold war? they said this is the beginning of a new cold war. she believes there several lessons we can already learn. that's next.

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. >> bottom of the hour. you are watching cnn. talking with ukraine on how much did the u.s. know about russia's exceptions to storm ukraine's crimian peninsula and when did they know it. new intelligence from the head of the intelligence agency suggest the u.s. knew about the take over plans as many as ten days before it happened. ukrainian officials believed 30,000 russian troops are there

in the small peninsula about the size of hawaii. the u.s. said they believe the number is slightly less. however you slice this this is a lot of troops. a great number of troops for an area roughly the size of hawaii in crimea. this is just chump change compared to the arsenal that russia has at its disposal. nearly 775,000 troops compared with ukraine's. russia's foreign minster issued a warning to the u.s. that your sanctions will boomerang. how much of this is bravado and tough talk? thank you so much for being here. let's begin with the fact that d.c. is very clearly saying this is not a cold war. you wrote this cnn op ed saying you used the words and you cite

five lessons for this. why are you saying this? >> i believe that we have ended the postwar era of partnership and working together. we have entered a new period that we can see as a new cold war. there big differences, but now russia and the united states are in opposite sides and russia and vladimir putin is defining itself in opposition to the west and the united states. it's a new chapter in the relationship and it's more reminiscent of the cold war than what we had more recently. >> is this a matter of putin just wanting and we were talking about it being strategic. clearly pride is on the line and he wants to gather up as many bits and pieces of countries to make his presence more felt around the world. >> putin has a vision of

bringing the strength of russia closer to its old gory. that involves having a system in which moscow is at the center of a block that involves much more than russia. it's kind of a partnership that used to be part of the soviet union and nominally independent. one of the things he wanted to do is not let the country drift away from moscow. one of the things he has done is sent a lesson to any other country in the region that might be considering drifting towards europe. they cannot do that without consequences. it's a lesson not just to the countries, about you to europe and the united states that he is not going to allow them to entice the countries. you have all the republics pondering their future. it's a big transformation and a change to go from the old communist days to a new world of

competition and free markets of less support for social welfare and to try to make your way in the world. they are seeing what's happening in the old eastern european countries. people are lured to that. >> i hear the message and the fear among the countries that had become their own nations. quickly, what message, how do you cutoff a man from doing this? >> he has already sent that message. >> the momentum is there. >> he has already won. he achieved one of his goals to send that message. that is done. how far? we don't know how it will go. we don't know how much more of ukraine he is thinking about taking. we also don't know the crimean experience is going to say to other regions of ukraine and other regions of the former soviet union that may want to declear independence or separate

from the country they are in now and join russia. we don't know how far it's going to go. they need to find a way to make it at least stop at this point. >> that's the million dollar question. read her oped. cnn.com on this new cold war. thank you so much. i appreciate it. a student at duke turns to pornography. the reason? duke is not cheap. pay that tuition. she was in hiding in shadows until now. she did an on camera interview with cnn and calls her critics hypocrites. you will see and hear from her next. ♪ ♪ no two people have the same financial goals. pnc investments works with you to understand yours and helps plan for your retirement. talk to a pnc investments financial

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. duke university's porn star exposed her face and thoughts exclusively to cnn's piers morgan. this is her industry name a duke university freshman who does foreign help pay for the school a $60,000 a year tuition. knox told piers she was surprised by all the online

backlash after she wrote about how porn empowers her. >> we are told not to show our bodies and it's true for women and to be in porn and to be naked and free and have that sexual autonomy is so incredibly freeing. >> there will be lots of people watching who will be faping outrage and looking at porn regularly themselves. is there a hypocrisy over the way people treat porn in america? >> absolutely. i think 80% of the world's traffic on the internet is pornography. i think probably every person at some point in their life has watched pornography. it is extremely hypocritical this the same industry that consumes me is also condemning me. i would advise any other girl the same thing.

i regret not telling my family from the get go. that was the really big mistake. i think that i really kind of isolated myself by not telling them. i think that not telling your family when you are doing sex or if it's an isolating experience. >> that is just a piece of their conversation. if you are curious, knox chose her porn star name from the title character in the disney animated film beauty and the beast and for the accused killer amanda knox. let's chat about this. ladies, welcome. >> hello. >> let me kick this off by saying 11 i first read about this in the duke newspaper. read her thoughts. she felt very support and excited and empowered by doing porn. i was with her until she talked about lying to her parents. if she feels so empowered, why

is she flying to l.a. to do porn? you wrote the piece about this young woman who said i am a woman and i watch porn and support this young woman. give me the top reason why. >> the top reason? i can't think of anything wrong with porn to begin with. i watch it and i enjoy it. i watch belle knox's owner porn and there is a variety of it, but in general i enjoyed it. i think there problems with the porn industry but that doesn't mean she deserved the harassment and i don't think that means that the porn industry needs to end, it just needs to be reformed. if she is trying to pay for tuition, i can't see anything wrong with that. getting up to $1200 a scene, that is big money. if you can make money and rake it in like that i don't see anything wrong with it. >> it's not nothing. you have multiple disagreements

with this. when i first saw her face my first impression is my goodness she is so young. you said she is too young to make these decisions. >> she just turned 18. if it's true that she already made 12 films, i question the legality of her shoots. maybe they happened earlier than we suspect. i don't think an 18-year-old should not make a decision other than ordering from a menu. the developing brain takes a while to catch up. $1200 a scene, honey, the porn industry is owned by men. it's not female power. it's not freedom until women own the business. i understand reform but in the meantime women adopting a male model of sexuality and calling it female sexual freedom is hurting a lot of women. >> want to you respond, but first she is making this 1y ymoney apparently to pay for duke. this is talking about how much she gets paid.

>> i make about $1200 each scene. >> that's a lot more than working as a waitress in north carolina, for example. >> absolutely. >> if she is making all this money and feels empowered, if it were you, why not say here i am and i do porn and this is my face early on? >> i think the porn is so stigmatized, i think -- i don't think the news focused on how terrible the harassment belle knox received was. it was terrible and i was going through so many forums calling her a slut and even worse than that. asking for her to be rape and to die. i saw one where they revealed her duke e-mail. that's how i was able to get in touch with her. they revealed her duke e-mail and her father's e-mail and other relatives's phone numbers. >> she was recognized and i just

have to wonder if she has this alter ego persona and she is walking around and attending classes, is she thinking? there a lot of very healthy men at duke and i imagine they are on the internet and was she thinking someone was not going to recognize her? >> agree with that. she should have thought about that more. if i chose to do porn that would be a huge issue on my mind if someone recognized me or if my parents would find out. that said i don't think any other harassment that happened was excusable at all. >> wendy, i want to hear your voice. >> i want to explain why porn is stigmatized in mainstream culture. so much of porn that exists today again because women don't own it and have the power and it caters to men's fantasies is filled with me soj me in and

violence against women. you are part of a small percentage of women, less than fen 15% usually do to comply with their boyfriends. if you want to talk about female sexual freedom you have to understand the different biologies that men and women have. women's biology is unique make up makes us more susceptible to an std and a broken heart because of oxytocin and catching an 18-year case of parenthood. if we are going to play with the big boys we better really understand our biology before we get into the game. >> and the industry is what i'm hearing. we have to leave it there, but i have no doubt, thank you both so much. coming up it's a conservative conference that features potential possible presidential candidates. rand paul.

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welcome back want to bring in our newest member of the family. michael, and michael and i were going to chat about cpac i just want to switch gears, michael.

because i really wanted to get to this heartfelt story you broke. because it's about a father who was fighting not just one, but two battles at once. one being the right to keep his son's memory peaceful and taking the west boro baptist church to court. tell me about him. >> we all got to know al snyder, the father of matthew snyder. we lost matthew snyder in a one-car humvee accident in iraq in 2006. you know the rest of that story. westboro baptist showed up at the funeral in maryland with ugly visitrysigns and when they posted online about the way he raised his son. he and his wife raised his son. dad had enough filed a lawsuit and was successful at a trial court level, and then in an appellate battle went all the way to the supreme court of the united states. and brooke all the while, dad

was keeping a secret. the secret being, he himself is gay. and so now several years removed, he feels comfortable in telling the story. he wants the world to know. he feels as if it's a tribute to his partner whom he has since lost because his partner was so steadfast in his support over that time. a bit of irony that the man who went all the way to the supreme court of the united states himself gay. >> was gay. let me just quote a letter he sent home and i suppose he shared with you. this is from his son. i'm loving the martial arts we learned. the fleas are horrible you can't smack them off or you'll be doing a lot of push-ups. tell walt hi and to read this if he wants. i love you. tell me more about these letters. >> matthew snyder was writing from basic training in south carolina. and the point is he was totally cool with dad's choice. he was in the loop he knew it. he had embraced the relationship

in which his father was now comfortable. and it was just fine with him. and frequently, when he would write whether it was from an overseas deployment or during the course of basic training, he would be sure to say to dad, extend greetings to mr. walt. with whom al snyder had more than a decade-long relationship. >> i cannot wait to watch the interview. >> tomorrow. >> we're watching tomorrow morning 9:00 a.m. eastern here on cnn. true big heartfelt. michael, welcome to the cnn family. >> thank you so much for saying that. coming up next the power of a girl and her pen. meet our cnn hero next.

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in the los angeles public school system nearly 1 in 5 kids drops out before graduation. but this week's cnn hero is helping teenage girls there with this. a pen. here is karen taylor. >> i blossom with each pen mark. >> i found myself in the words. every girl has a story to tell. >> some of our girls are facing some of the greatest challenges teenagers could ever face. pregnancy, incarceration, violence in their family at their school. those girls need a mentor. they need to be inspired about their own voice. >> life in the light can be so bright. >> writing and self-expression can give them a tool for moving forward.

>> say something nobody else has said before. because you have your own way of saying things. >> we match underserved girls with professional women writers for mentoring and group workshops. >> i want to match you, krista with kristi. >> and the moment you ask a young person tell me about something you're passionate about. the writing and the ideas just flow. >> you know you're going to read today? >> i was kind of scared. like i'm really quiet and i keep to myself. i met emily and she's excited and enthusiastic about writing and i absolutely love her. >> gave me that position in my life, i'm a girl and i have a story to tell. >> thank you. >> we need to help girls see that their voice matters. >> you've got a lot of good stuff here. and what i would like to hear more about is about you. >> to give tools to be able to be positive and thrive and rise above whatever challenges she's facing. what's better than that?

>> i bet you know some pretty awesome people as well. we'd love to have you nominate someone to be a cnn hero. really simple go to cnnheroes.com. and before i go, have you seen this? >> when aretha first told us what r-s-p-e-c-t meant to her -- >> mr. president, i think it was r-e-s-p-e-c-t. obviously he got it. he was taping a special. called the 1967 song a rallying cry for women, african-americans and everyone else who felt marginalized at the time. and that's it for me i'm brooke baldwin. let's send it to my friend jake tapper, "the lead" starts now. the ukrainian military now

says that russia has stormed one of the key bases in crimea. has this cold conflict suddenly turned red hot? this is "the lead." with an american warship, the u.s. steps up the presence in the black sea near ukraine. but why does the u.s. seem to be playing catch-up? a key bush administration official joins us with lessons we should've learned from when russia invaded georgia in 2008. the money lead notice how the british are usually quick to stand with the u.s. on international matters are pretty quiet on this one?