your "new day" starts right now. your "new day" starts right -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. welcome to "new day." it is wednesday, may 7th. 6:00 in the east. the nigerian nightmare has just gotten worse. eight more girls abducted. this on top of 300 missing. the motive, to condemn education of women. the threat, to sell them all into slavery. so the question is, what are we doing about it? the nigerian government has been slow on this but new pressure is spurring new action. the u.s. is sending law enforcement and military support and there are calls for the u.s. to do more. our coverage begins with vladimir. some question of what help nigerian question wants, but the families involved are certainly desperate and you are hearing that directly from the parents

of the kidnapped children, right? >> that's right, chris. we spoke to two parents who basically risked their loois to come and talk to us because they want the world to know what conditions they are living under since their two daughters were taken in the middle of the night by boko haram. they say they have not seen any kind of significant action from the government. let me play what they had to say for you. fear this morning that boko haram's rein of terror may be intensifying in nigeria with news of another vicious abduction. at least eight girls, 12 to 15, snatched from their homes at gun point from the village sunday night. these latest abductions coming amid international outrage over the kidnapping of more than 200 girls from this school weeks ago. >> we want them back now. >> reporter: families avoiding

talking to the media out of fear for their daughters' lives until now. these parents of two missing girls speaking exclusively to cnn saying they want their world to know about their suffering but ask v. asked we conceal their identities to maintain their af city. the father scoffs at the government's statement that the military has been deployed to search for the girls. >> the federal government or the rulers are playing with we parents. they are looking at us like we are fools. >> reporter: sheer agony is what they felt after watching boko haram's appalling video. the leader taking pride in taking the girls he claims he will sell. translating for his wife -- >> most of the women, we started crying because we have nobody to help us or our daughters have been a duckeded or have been captured as slaves. >> reporter: they fear not only the fates of their girls but also their own. >> life is very dang use in

abuja right now. seems on 14th of april we don't sleep at all. around five, six people will disappear to the bush because there is no security. it looks like we have no hope. >> reporter: helplessly they wait. not knowing where their girls are or if they will ever see them again. >> she is pleading, let them release these girls. they don't know probably one of them are born a president or a doctor or a pastor or a lawyer. who will be helpful to the contrary? please, let them release them. >> this was a very difficult interview to sit through the the parents' emotions ranging from sorrow to prayerful to anger at government reaction around what they say is a real no end in sight to what they are suffering, kate. >> they are at a loss and completely helpless as they wait for three weeks now and counting. vlad, thank you. wonderful interview to hear

directly from the parents. the united states is now -- is now entering the search for the hundreds of kidnapped nigerian schoolgirls. president obama is sending in a team of military and law enforcement experts to try and help find them but what extent are they going to be able to help? let's bring in senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, bring us details on what the discussions have been between the obama administration and the nigerian officials. >> kate, as you know the president was sitting down for a round of interviews on climate change yesterday when he was asked this question about the kidnapped nigerian girls and called this crime awful but also said the u.s. would do whatever it can to help recover the missing girls and what that involves is something that you just said, the u.s. is going to be sending in an enter disciplinary team of military and law enforcement personnel. experts who are -- who have done a lot in the area of hostage taking and intelligence. those folks will be going to assist the nigerians with this

search. initially they were sort of slow in accepting this u.s. offer of help but a call from secretary of state john kerry to nigeria's president was apparently what made the difference. and we should point out that white house press secretary jay carney said this is not going to involve u.s. armed forces going in to conduct a search to try to recover these missing girls. but as we heard from the president yesterday in that round of interviews saying the u.s. will do whatever this country can to help recover those missing girls that is an indication that things could get ramped up. kate? >> i'll take it, jim. thank you. joining us now is a reporter from the new yorker, alexis has written extensively about africa and is based in nigeria. eight more girls taken. what do we know about their age, where they were taken from, and how this was supposedly pulled off. >> we know they were taken on sunday from their village in

borno state in the northeast of nigeria which is also the state where the chibok was located, with the girls were taken over three weeks ago. the girls were between the ages of 12 and 15. arrested, one of the villagers said the girls were taken by militants, believed to be boko haram, put on a bus and driven away. the boko haram warned the residents not to tell security forces. otherwise they would take revenge on them, they said. but the residents did report it to the police. >> now, when you say they reported it to police, there is not police presence there the way that we imagine it here in the states, right, where there would have been something to pursue them immediately, true? >> you're right. that's the problem in this region. residents have complained of a lack of military and police protection. they report that boko haram is attacking their villages and neighboring villages without any

defense from the military. >> the power of the threat don't tell anybody, we're seeing it way on the consciousness of these parents because they have been slow to come forward. obviously no parent anywhere in the world cares about anything more than they do their children but it is true that the threat is so strong that the parents are afraid to come forward? >> exactly because they're afraid that, you know, the militants will kill their children if they say anything. they're afraid that the military won't take them seriously. the it's almost as if they're dealing with threats on both sides. >> threats on both sides. the nigerian government, fair criticism, they've been too slow in this situation? >> yes. certainly. i just spoke to parents again yesterday saying, why haven't we heard anything from the government, why are we not getting daily updates? there's still even doubt that the nigerians have launched a serious military operation to go get the girls which is a terrifying thought to these

parents. >> what would be an explanation for their not taking action? >> well, one explanation is that in past hostage rescue operations done by nigerian military they've backfired and the hostages have been killed by bochco haram militants. so they is a huge concern. but one would think that by now the military would have been able to come up with a plan speaking to eyewitnesses, speaking to residents who have seen the girls nearby in the forest to figure out a way to get these girls back. >> what's your take from your side of the situation, we've been pushing hard ear on the u.s. side for the u.s. to do more, so much extensive intelligence and military capabilities. we've been given a complicated response saying, hey, there are existing channels, you'res assuming the government there wants our help. we're not getting that message the way you think we're getting that message. what are you hearing? >> yeah, exactly. i mean, as of last year, the u.s. had already provided over $20 million in security

assistance to nigeria to help them with their fight on terror and with their fight on boko haram. it really is a matter of nigerian government right now taken up the initiative, taking up the steps to really do this on its own and incorporate intelligence that it's receiving from its partners and actually take action. >> and we know that there's also international outreach to surrounding countries because there's such a shared borders that you don't know where boko haram could be holding the kids right now. to end on a hopeful note, is your understanding right now that the nigerian government is being more accepting of having u.s. personnel come in and try to mount a little bit more of an effort in this? is that a fair assessment at this point? >> yeah. in the past nigeria has accepted u.s. personnel on its fight with boko haram. so i do believe it's still accepting it and willing to take help. >> all right, alexis, thank you very much. complicated situation but the

humanity of it is so obvious. we know ugly things are happen ing there. but 200 girls now, close to 300, something has to be done. thank you if your perspective. >> we will continue our coverage on that throughout the show. also this morning, just released security footage of teenage whole stoed away in the a wheel well of a blowing 767. we're showing you a highlight. the video shows him climbing out of the plane and walking around the tarmac. this is, of course, after somehow he survived the five-hour flight from california to hawaii. truly almost unheard of to survive those conditions. cnn's dan simon has more of the details. >> reporter: this newly released airport surveillance video clearly shows someone emerging from the rear of the plane. authorities say the 15-year-old california stowaway coming out of the wheel well of the boeing 767 that landed in hawaii. moments later, it appears the young man is dazed as he walks on the tarmac.

you can see he's obviously affected by 5 1/2 hours well above 35,000 feet and he staggers around. he's clearly affected. >> reporter: the boy continues walking until he gets past the stairs of the jetway. eventually you see him talking with an airport worker wearing a yellow vest. if there were any lingering doubts about this young man's story, this video should put that skepticism to rest. >> from what i know of he was a really shy person. you know, he didn't really talk a lot. he mostly kept to himself. >> reporter: he told investigators he was trying to get to so mmalia to see his mother. it's believed he hoped a fence at the airport shortly after 1:00 a.m. on april 20th and stayed on the grounds for nearly seven hours before the plane took off. medical experts say the lack of oxygen and subzero temperatures at high altitude put the boy in a state of hibernation. >> because of the hibernation he

may not have needed as much oxygen and that may be how he survived. >> reporter: he's now back in california and in the custody of child welfare officials. local police want to conduct another round of interviews. they tell us they haven't ruled out charges. if it's anything, it would be trespassing. though as some have noted his disorienting journey would have been punishment enough. dan simon, cnn, san francisco. >> amazing to see that footage. let's take a look at more of your head llinheadlines. ukrainian forces killed five pro-russian separatists. they retook a city council building in the east before being over taken again. now russia's foreign minister is calling the timing of the upcoming ukrainian election unusual. possible sign moscow may contest the result. nato's chief calls the situation the gravest crisis to european security since the cold war. the man arrested after a lock down of the white house is expected in court today.

matthew goldstein faces unlawful entry charges after trailing the motorcade carrying the president's daughters through the complex gates. they swept the vehicles for explosives. he reportedly holds a pass for the u.s. treasury building. in north carolina, cnn is expecting a big primary win for the republican establishment over the tea party. tom tillis will be in runoff. we are still awaiting results of a closely watched house primary race in the state. "american idol" runner-up clay aiken is vying for it. too close to call but aiken has a slight lead. overnight, the beverly hills city council passed a resolution calling on the government of brunei to invest ownership in the famed beverly hills hotel. it does not include a boycott of the hotel. there have been a growing number of protests against the hotel's

ownership after brunei implemented sharia law. all right. it's mother's day weekend this weekend. did you think about that? have you ordered your flowers? is it a good weekend to take mom for brunch outdoors? indra? >> seriously, it's only wednesday. everybody is asking me about the weekend. we're so close. let's talk about the change we're expecting as we get closer towards mother's day. here's the pattern. it is has been hot smack in the middle of the country. this is the trend here. let's look at the temperatures. especially some of the big cities here. talking about temperatures. out towards d.c. and philly, rise in the 70s and even 80s. that trend will continue and filter in towards new york city and boston as we get towards the weekend itself. that's good news. it doesn't mean we're dry. let's talk about how we're getting there. first, again, middle of the country. this is the heat. this is where it's coming from. warm, still well above normal.

chicago, you're talking about 60s today. back into the 80s. this is the heat that will be spreading to the east. a lot of heat out there. it does mean we're talking about a chance for showers. even severe weather is going to be out there today. look at the low in the pacific northwest. that's going to clash with the middle of the country. this system will start to bring on shift all that farther to the east. showers will be out there as you go through the second half of the weekend and kicking up overnight tonight and kicking in all of the way through the weekend. kind of hit and miss throughout the weekend. it is warm. it was a brutal winter. i do not care. it can rain all at once. says a lot to me. >> indra says -- >> this will be the last mother's day when you are not a mother. >> ah. >> it's true. i had not thought about that. i always think of my mother. now i get to start thinking about myself. >> get you a gift, too. >> people have to hand me little crafty things. >> it does beg the question, what are you going to get me?

>> one preliminarily? no. we don't like that. you will start getting lots of ugly flatware to the kid. make pottery because, you know, the daddy does nl know what to get you and he gets you flowers. >> so glad your kids are probably still sleeping. he loves what you're making. >> they may not be sleeping but they're not watching. i'm no match for spongeb sponge. the husband could bring like a yacht into the front yard and you're like, move that yard yacht so i can see the card that the kid made with all of this jewelry. >> i'm very excited. >> i know you are. >> for all the mothers, of course. >> back to the news. monica lewinsky breaking a day," decade of silence. why is she talking now? who does she blame? and what does she say about hillary clinton calling her a

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welcome back. monday kick that lewinsky opening up for the first time in a decade with new details of how her of tear with former president bill clinton has affected her life. she looks back at the scanneding expressing regret and anger at what she calls the global humiliation she suffered at the hands of the internet. but she also looks forward. >> hold on a second. >> reporter: the salacious details of the monica lewinsky scandal forever burned in the public's memory. now after a decade of silence, lewinsky herself is opening up about the affair with president clinton. in an especially seas written for "vanity fair" titled "shame and survival" she writes it's time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress. she's now 40 and deeply regrets what happened but doesn't blame president clinton. writing, sure, my boss took advantage of me but i will

always remain firm on this point. it was a concensual relationship. at times during the 16 years that followed, lewinsky describes having strong suicidal temptations. it wasn't until the 2010 tragedy of 18-year-old tyler clemente that she decided to speak out. she empathize with the rutgers student who jumped off the bridge after his roommate streamed video of him kissing another man on a webcam. like clemente lieu weenins i ca said her mother had, quote, a fear she would be literally h humiliated to death. now she's ready to stop tip towing around her past writing i am determined to have a different ending to my story so that i can take back my narrative and give a purpose to my past. adding, what this will cost me, i will soon find out. >> for more on this we're jund by maggie haberman, senior

political writer at politico approximately good morning. >> good morning. >> during all of this she talks about -- i want to get your take on why do you think she published the essay now because she talked about back in the 2008 hillary clinton run she was virtually reclusive. she had all of these asks to speak to the press and had all of these opportunities but she said no and wanted to stay out of it. why now? >> bearing in mind that we have not seen the full interview, we don't know what else she says in this i take her at her word, that she feels like she's been silent too long. she hasn't done it very much. she clearly feels like she has something to say. she clearly regrets not talking in 2008. she can control her own story line in a way she could not have in 1998. had the internet interest existed in a different way she might have fought back differently. >> you say fought back differently. do you believe she was unfairly treated in that situation? look, here's some proof. here's the new york post.

my life sucks. pretty neutral. probably -- could be any of our faces right now from time to time. if anyone wants to love up monica lewinsky it should be the new york post because of their typical political leanings. the devil in a blue dress. fair point that she was really made into a veil lillain in tha situation. >> it's hard to understand how she was demonized is a specific word but it's hard to describe it another way. eshl isly you had the weight of both sides of the political parties coming down on her and she talked about this in the essay. she was, you know, her files were seized by special prosecutors. ken starr never spoke to her. her life would be very, very different today. there is no question that she was at the center of something that she couldn't control. she had no ability to fight back against. whether she was deem demonized e extent she feels she was, those are debatable points but no one

in recent history we can.to in america treated the way she was. >> what do you think about the here and now? impact. we talk about the impact of hillary clinton's first grandchild on her political future. of course, everyone is going to ask what do you think the impact of this. separate from 2008 because 2008 it really was not part of the campaign. people did not talk about the scandal. but this time around, do you think it will be different? i mean, there are already republicans bringing it up. >> that is where this is different. this has already been coming up. rand paul in particular has been talking about this. other republicans have been alluding to the go-go '90s scandals. i don't think this is particularly new information. it will be new information for millenals. people who were not around during this period. but i don't know that it's going to make them think differently about hillary clinton. i think it will seem like such a disabotant memory and something they don't totally understand and it will seem out of context. people inclined to like hillary clinton this is not going to

change because of that. i think people who were disinclined to like her because of this is not going to effect her. >> maybe i'm wrong but kind of look at all the politicians who are -- >> they've grown up with sex scandal. >> a lot of politicians have similar sex scandals. >> economy, jobs are hard to find. they're far more concerned about their own lives. >> surprised to concern that probably the monica lewinsky is the only one that different cash in. this is the age of discretion where the word becomes profit. >> she talks about those offers. >> absolutely. i remember at the time i got to know her at the time when this was happening. believe me, she was not acting the way people in this kardashian era act now when they do something stupid, they wind up getting rewarded for it. >> she makes that point. >> help me through the thicket of gender politics. when hillary clinton says i believe myself in part for this, i wasn't there for my husband emotionally. this is going to be novel. if she's going to be president of the united states, if that comes to pass, first woman obviously. so how does this all kind of come together in analysis of

her, do you think, that as women, to hear a woman say in a situation that seems so obvious what happened, i blame myself. is that worthy of analysis of her as a candidate? >> my initial reaction to that is we have not heard her say that. >> true. >> interpreted through her fend diane blair, through her papers. we don't know what she says other nan what she wrote in her own first book "living history" i don't think she's going to address this in her new book coming out next month. >> lewinsky takes it on. she says in one of these exce t excerpts, hillary clinton wanted it on the record that she was lashing out at her husband's mistress. she may have faulted her husband for being inappropriate but i find her impulse to blame the woman not only me but herself, troubling. >> strong point. >> we, again, in terms if she's speaking specifically ability the diane blair comment that was not wanting it on the record. that was talking to her friend. if she's talking about other comments it's a fair point. in the larger point i think a lot of women will look at that

and feel some concern about it. on the other hand, can you think of another instance where you had the leader of the free world and his wife dealing with a situation like this playing out in public in realtime so i think that for a lot of women they are going to find it to be a human and sympathetic response. >> real quick, maggie, do you think -- no response from hillary clinton's people on the lewinsky essay. she will be asked about it at some point along the campaign trail if she decides to run. what do you think the response is? >> i think the response is going to be as little as possible and as minimal as possible. this is not an era the clintons want to revisit. you've already seen as republicans going on about this and talked about this era recently. do you see defenders of clintons speaking very aggressively about why this is something people will be discussing. i think hillary clinton will be content to let other people debate this and talk about this as little as possible. >> it wasn't hillary clinton's indiscretion that she needs to answer for. >> or i don't even think it will

be something like that. i think this will be something we discussed a long time ago. i'm interested in t future. i'm interested in other people's lives. i think she will try to stay away from this as much as she can. >> i think that's what lewinsky wants almost. let her be something else in her life. she's been through enough already. >> it will be interesting to see the rest of it. maggie, great to see you. let's take a break on "new day." when we come back, noearly two months of nonstop questions. is it time to stop looking? we're going to find out what you think in an eye opening new poll. and we have brand new video of that stowaway teen. . if you question his story, i'm not sure he was in that plane, you're going to see him stagger out of it when he lands and you're going to watch it for yourself and figure out how did he survive this five-hour flight in a jet wheel well. we'll take you through the story. plant in the country

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welcome back to "new day." let's look at your shaed lines here t half past the hour. the u.s. is sending a team of military and law enforcement experts to ney year gentleman to help find hundreds of schoolg l schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram. they abducted eight more young girls on sunday. the nigerian government claims it is search for them with planes and helicopters and two special battalions. nato's chief calls the situation in ukraine at this time greatest crisis since the cold war. they killed five separatists and retook a key city council member before they regained control.

russia's foreign minister is raising eye brows by calling the timing of the election unusual and dismissing the chance of another peace summit. top lawmakers could take another step towards restricting the nrk sa's powers when it comes to your phone calls. the house judiciary committee is set to pass a bill that would limit the agency's ability to collect and store massive amounts of call data. the info would stay with the phone companies instead and investigators could getting a cess to it if they needed to. the house intelligence committee is working on a similar bill. those are your headlines for this hour. now to the hunt for flight 370. a new expanded search of the indian ocean is about to begin as they get assets together and resources under way. experts from china, malaysia, and australia are meeting today to go over information and determine what's needed going forward. also this morning, a new cnn/orc poll show what's americans think about the search so far, what you think.

a slight majority think officials will find out what happened to the plane eventually. here to walk us through it all are david soucie, cnn safety analyst, former faa inspector and the author of "why planes crash" and mary schiavo, aviation analyst and former inspector general for the department of transportation. the gang is back together. good morning to both of you. let's go through the polls. >> good morning. >> good morning. ma mary, let's get your take on that poll. does the general public believe we will ever find out what happened to the plane? a slight majority says yes. but 46% of americans polled said that they don't -- they're not confident we're ever going to find out what happened to the plane. what do you think? >> well, i think we will if we look at this statistics and what usually happens we do, but this is a very rare event in that we don't have the wreckage. but in many crashes in the united states it has taken years to figure out what has happened even though the plane itself hasn't gone missing.

if we look at what usually happens, look at the averages of statistics, we will. but it can take a while. >> is your confidence changed? have you gone back and forth over this extended period of time that we have been searching that they have been searching for this plane, david? i don't know. if they're going to find it or not? >> i think they are going to find it. it's just going to be a long time. the expectations have weaned up and down as to whether we're going to find it this week, next week, whatever. and the pings have gone up and down as well with the fre quequ not being right. i'm very confident we will find it. it's just, again, it's going to take some time. >> let's talk about the pings. that leads me to the interesting numbers. the question is, do you think flight 370 is located in the indian ocean where the search has been taking place or somewhere else. 51%, slight majority, thinks that it is in the indian -- it is in the indian ocean but still

46% believe that it is somewhere else. do you, mary, entertain the idea that the plane is not in the indian ocean? >> well, sure, everybody thinks about where it could be and there are lots of different theories. i'm sure david gets this, too. every day your inbox is flooded. your e-mails are flooded with different theories. but in an investigation you've got to go with the facts and you've got to go with what you have to work with. and you have to, as an investigator, stay focused on that because you can think of a lot of things in your mind. i think that the facts that we have are the best that we have and that we should go with them. we're looking in the area we need to be looking because that's where the facts say to look. >> that's where the facts lead us. that's where that probability, the inmarsat data have led us. why do you think people are still leaving the possibility open then that it could be somewhere else? >> it's a matter of confidence of what we're hearing. again, they haven't been forth coming with everything that they've known when the preliminary report came out. we have a lot more information that we had before but it's still not enough. maybe it's just not there. we just don't have it.

i think that creates this unsurety in this -- >> uncertainty. >> uncertainty. that's a great word. uncertainty of where it is and that makes sinense since we don have a lot of information. >> do you think anyone on flight 370 is is still alive? in this one i always -- i want -- i hesitate to bring up because it's very tough for the families. but i find the numbers very interesting. almost 80% of the people polled do not believe that anyone is alive on the flight but 20% of the people poll rd still holding out open that folks are alive. when it comes to a similar kind of crash mysteries like air france, do you deal with that same kind of hope that they hold out months later that there still could be alive somewhere, somehow? >> and i work with so many families over the years. and you know they say there's a dichotomy -- their head tells them know but in their heart, their heart wants to overrule their brain. the human emotion wants to have,

you know, a better ending. they want to find them alive. i think it's just a fact of being human. you see the facts but you wish they weren't so. >> yeah. and you wait until you have the evidence, the indisputable evidence to show you one way or the other. also asked in the question, david, kind of looking at why. why did this happen. really what happened in that cockpit. a couple of numbers i want to get your take on. asked if the disappearance of flight 370 was due to terrorist or hostile government. you see the numbers there. 57% said it was likely due to terrorists or hostile government. do you think there is a possibility still? i mean, we don't know. we're all dealing with the possibility. >> that's right. we're still working on the what, let alone p why. >> the why would come much later. >> right. it's too early to speculate without any information. in my estimation, the way that it went, the point that it was on hand control there's a lot of -- there's some explanations as to why it would be either one of those two things. and again, either one of those things has holes in every single theory you look at as to why.

so i just can't even speculate. >> final thought, mary, because david makes the excellent point, every theory that has been brought up there are big holes in every theory. that is why there is no prevailing theory. also, finally, just jumping off that poll if it could be due to terrorists or hostile government, two-thirds of those people who -- folks polled also thought it was likely because of the actions of the pilot or crew. >> well, that's what we're getting from the investigators and many people have said that. and just to note on the terrorism, i think it's clear that the investigators don't think it's terrorism because, remember, they rounded up terrorists suspected terrorists in malaysia for questioning just last week. if they thought it was terrorism that would have happened on day one. i think they're looking at some other factor. >> again, that's getting to the why things happened. we're still working on the what exactly happened and where the plane is. the search continues. these are very telling poll numbers. first time we're hearing what the american public thinks about this investigation and the

search so far as it continues. chris? >> interest has been there. when we come back on "new day," he somehow survived a five-hour flight in a wheel well. i mean, that's just the fact. it's not supposed to be able to happen but this new video show what's seems to be that teenage stowaway leaving the plane just homes after it landed. where was he coming from? what does this mean going forward for this kid? we'll tell you straight ahead.

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wrk back to "new day." brand new video of that teenage whole stowed away in the wheel well of the boeing 767 in a five-hour flight and survived. some people questioned it but now it's just too real to be fake. security footage shows the 15-year-old climbing down from the plane walking around in a daze, on the tarmac. let's walk through it p you don't have to be an air force colonel to get this video but understanding what it takes to survive this. let's just take a look at the vo video. got a bubble on it for you so it makes more sense. seems to be coming out of that right rear side of the plane, right? >> that's right, chris. what you see right here is he is

clearly walking around very disoriented. this is consistent with what happens when someone has oxygen deprivation. so if you have oxygen deprivation your faculties are not going to be all there. you're going to be walking around. you're going to be unbalanced. you're going to think about almost nothing. you're going to try to get your bearings and you're going to try to figure out exactly where you're at. you can see that's what he's doing right now. >> he's staggering. he doesn't know where he is. seems like he was coming from the right rear of the aircraft. the wheel well in the back, is it any more sustainable, is it any better temperaturewise, is there any variable that made it mored advantageous for him to b there than in the front? >> normally the only thing that's going to keep him in a higher temperature is the fact that he's getting possibly some warmth from the engines. >> right. >> he's pretty close to the engines. you see him right here, the engines are right at this point on the wings.

and the wheel well is not too far from there. so he's probably in that balanced area between too little temperature and too much temperature so that makes it almost -- not quite just right. certainly don't try this at home. but it is one of those things where in this particular case he was able to survive because he had just the right atmospheric conditions in order to do that. but he dedefinitely did this, in my view. >> he got lucky, you're not supposed to survive this. so any variable that makes it more plausible. clearly, if you do this you will die in all likelihood unless you get incredibly lucky like he did. interfaces with the -- a worker there who has a vest on. imagine being that worker and this guy saying i just hopped out of this plane? >> unbelievable situation. when you have in an airport situation you have a certain routine. you're going to be handling cargo, making sure the plane is

taxiing to the right place. this is totally out of the ordinary and had he not approached that worker, chances are he could have potentially walked off the tarmac into some other area in the airport and that could have created a whole other sort of problem. >> we know he's with child welfare now trying to figure out what's going on with him. in your experience, just because you survive something doesn't mean you're okay. right? especially when we're dealing with altitude and temperature. >> there are a lot of concerns but one of the things that can happen is there is a possible shutdown of the organs that -- it could affect his kidneys, his lungs, the whole respiratory system is potentially at risk in this case. for example, with the f-22 one of the big concerns for air force pilots is they're not getting enough oxygen so they had to redesign the entire oxygen system for the aircraft. what this kid did was he experienced something very similar to that. of course, with fewer gs than you would pull in a fighter jet,

but because of that he had a really lucky break in this particular situation. could have really adversely affected everything that -- as far as his body was concerned, all of his physiological functioning. and it could have been a disaster for him. >> of course, what did it do to his head and the psychological issues that made him get in the plane in the first place. but to be clear, the only way he's popping out of that wheel well is if he was in there to start with. no way in there from the cargo hold or anywhere else. this video substantiates the story. now we wait to the next chapter. colonel, thank you very much. >> thank you. kate? >> coming up next on "new day," the kidnappings that horrified the world. now for the first time we're hearing exclusively from family members of some of the missing nigerian schoolgirls. plus, the announcement rocking wall street. the biggest online shopping company you've probably never heard of and it's about to change the way you shop. that's ahead.

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the heat and nets now. this is the big match-up. many people think the nets could tend heats que f s quest for a pete. let's bring in andy shoals for the bleacher report. didn't look good for the nets last night. looked like an old-fashioned mismatch. >> brooklyn beat miami all four times when they played in the regular season but last night, much different store prip lebron and paul pierce said hello before the game. they've had some epic playoff battles in the past. in game one it was all king james. lebron led all scores with 22 points. the heat remain perfect in the playoffs with the 107-86 win. number one in lineup section of bleacherreport.com is kevin durant beating out lebron for his first nba mvp award. acceptance speech was amazing. durant thanked all of his teammates one by one but it was his message to his mom that stole the show.

>> we weren't supposed to be here. you made us believe. you kept us off the street. you put clothes on our backs, food on the table. when you didn't eat, you made sure we ate. you went to sleep hungry. you sacrificed for us. you are the real mvp. >> and durant and the thunder will be back on the court tonight taking on the clippers in game two of their series. the clippers have become the sentimental favorite after the whole donald sterling controversy. a lot of people are going to be cheering for the thunder now. >> couple of points, might as well hang it in there because that is the best pre-mother's day speech ever. how beautiful, how beautiful. and then, also, no sentiment here, just passion for the clippers. come on, andy, you know the difference. >> yeah. >> don't you? >> either way, a lot of people cheering for him. >> thanks, andy. we're going to talk now

about one of the biggest initial public offerings ever. don't worry if you haven't heard the word alibaba before in terms of a company. many americans have heard of this e-commerce giant. but that's all about to change. it has filed paperwork to offer shares of stock in the u.s. analysts are expecting it, in fact, to raise more than $16 billion eclipsing facebook's haul when it went public. poppy harlow is here to break it down. alibaba, i'm not the only one who hasn't heard about it. >> it's a chinese company. we've got these names you know around it, paypal, amazon, google, ebay. not because they're part of the company. this is seen by experts as an amalgation of all of these companies, cloud computing, online payments, anything you want online. that's what it is. fascinating thing about this company, started by a guy, english teacher, tried to get a job as a manager at kfc. didn't get hired. i'm going start a company that

might rule the world one day. that is the back story. >> now it's valued at what? >> we're going to see. billion dollar public offering. >> a lot of big questions are about how dig is this going to effect the united states and what it's going to mean here. is it going to change the way we shop. ? >> it may. looking at how big it is. 231 million active users. they process 11 billion orders a year. some perspective. >> i'm sorry? >> two times the amount amazon processes. >> $11 billion a year. >> exactly. 20,000, 21,000 employees versus 7,000 at facebook. this number really gave me some pause. 4 out of every $5 spent online in china is spent on this website. if you do the math, 49 orders per year average for an active user. >> yahoo! is a stakeholder in the company. >> yahoo! owns 24% of this company. yahoo! investors, you want to invest in yahoo! listen up because this could be a cash windfall for yahoo!. look at the final slide in terms

of looking at what this means for american companies. >> is it going to change the way we shop? it. >> may. opening a website called 11main.com. compete with amazon in the u.s. a lot of big u.s. company, global company, nike, apple, gap, et cetera, sell on this website globally. when you look at this they're going to have billions of dollars of cash on hand after this ipo if it well. they've invested in a lot of start-ups in silicon valley like lift. >> they're the ones with the mustache. >> exactly. yeah, i think you are going to see this affect american business and i think it's interesting that they listed here and not in hong kong. there are some stricter regulatory rules in hong kong. opted to list here. >> yeah. bottom line, take away for us, this bigger than visa, bigger than facebook. >> maybe. visa was the biggest ipo, $19.7 billion. in this surface passes it, wouldn't it be interest that a chinese company could be the biggest company ever to ipo in the united states? >> a lot of folks are going to be watching. now you know alibaba if you

didn't. poppy harlow, thank you. >> good to be with you. >> alibaba is a great tale. alibaba and the 40 thieves gave birth to the phrase open sesame. go google it. another big news tart starting your "new day." more nigerian girls are kidnapped. fresh violence in ukraine. can that situation be turned around at all? as a denver pyle lot speaks out after crashing into his own old house. what? let's get after it. >> boko haram's rein of terror may be intensifying in nigeria with news of another vicious abducti abduction. >> our daughters have been an ducted or captured as slaves. >> it is obviously africaed by 5 1/2 hours well above 35,000 feet. celebrities now boeing to boycott the t. iconic hotel and the entire chain. >> maybe people just become aware. >> this is a huge human rights

issue. >> i watched it the whole way going into the house. everything stopped. >> good morning. welcome back to "new day." it's wednesday, may 7th. now 7:00 in the east. the united states is sending a team including military to help find more than 200 young girls who have been kidnapped in nigeria. now we learn eight more girls have been abducted, dragged from their homes by the same group suspected members of al qaeda affiliate boko haram. now for the first time terrified parents of some of the children are speaking out. our vladimir is live from nigeria's capital city of abuja. >> hey, chris, yeah, we've spoken to two parents who have their two daughters that have been taken by the islamist terrorist group boko haram in the dead of night hauled away to god knows where, probably

neighboring chad or niger. this interview that we did with these parents who risked their lives to come forward because they want the world to know what they are suffering under, this mother had this heartfelt plea to abu sheikh shekau the, leader. >> she is leading. let them release these girls. they don't know probably one of them is born a president or a doctor or a pastor or a lawyer. who will be helpful to the contrary. please let him release them. >> reporter: kate, she went on to say as her husband translated for her that these children have not done anything wrong. they innocent babies and whatever argument they have with the nigerian leadership. that's fine but they do not have to take innocent lives. it was a tough interview to do, kate. >> tough interview to do and tough situation all around.

unmanageable what the parents are going through. important to highlight their stories and talking about it. we're going to continue talking about i here right now. united states senators are also calling on the obama administration to do more to help to find the nigerian girls. one of those senators is joining us now. senator, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you, kate. thank you for covering this important story. it really -- you know, this happened three weeks ago. 276 high schoolgirls kidnapped at gun point and i'm glad the world is finally watching this story because we need the world's attention to get the president of nigeria, president jonathan, to really focus on this. it's only recently that he even made a comment about it and said that he was working on a strategy. you can imagine, this is almost as many people as perished in the malaysia air flight. and that was a tragedy of epic proportions. but we just haven't focused enough on this story. i appreciate you covering it

today. >> thank you very much. i do want to get your take on all of this. you are -- you signed on to this letter. all the women in the senate signed on to this letter pushing for more action, to do more. specifically in that letter, really kind of focussing on the diplomatic front, pushing for boko haram, this group to be added to the u.n. sanctions list. i have to ask you, with that letter and that kind of an initiative, how is that going to immediately change the fate of these girls? why not go further? >> well, we're actually calling for them to be labeled as a terrorist organization. that has already happened in the united states. we think the u.n. has to step up and do that. and that then helps to freeze their resources they have and to get the international community to assist us in going after them. we have now sent counter terrorism experts. we have sent hostage negotiators and people to work with the nigerian government. as you know, this the leader of this group has now said that he is going to sell these girls for

sex, 12 bucks to marry them off, a girl. and when you think about this, this is just high schoolgirls just like in america. they had their school clothes because of boko haram whose name actually means that western education is evil. and they close their school. open it up just to take their exams and that's when they were taken away at gun point. this is part of this larger issue of stealing these girls, selling them into sex, things we're seeing all over the world. and it's no surprise that this terrorist group is focused on girls because if you can get girls in education, if you can get them into our economy, into our democracy, you have improvements in countries all over the world. >> senator, what does the united states do? do you agree with susan collins that thinks that united states special forces should be sent in? >> i think we have to take the lead here. i think the people on the ground have to -- are going to have to determine if special forces are necessary. we don't even know where these

girls are right now. but clearly all options have to be left on the table. >> you do wonder, many people will ask why now or why not now? you've got 300 girls who have been taken, some 300 girls. they've been missing now for three weeks. the nigerian government has been slow to this point to really accept help. really only accepting the assistance of the united states when secretary kerry made the call. do you have any confidence the nigerian government can handle this itself? >> well, they are hosting the world economic forum as we speak. and the world's eyes are going to be upon them. i don't think this is a time for national pride or worrying about what people think that they're accepting help. they clearly have waited too long. all these girls had were this these own parents going into the forest are bows and arrows. that is all they had. and now they need to have the world and not just the united states helping to find these girls. certainly we have the intelligence capability to find over 200 girls. >> senator, where, for you,

personally, is the threshold to be met when you believe that it is time to send in u.s. special forces into a situation like this? where is the threshold for you? >> well, the threshold is if it works. if there is a plan in place where we think that the girls are all in one place or that this special forces can help and we can work in a strategic way and in a positive way that we think is is going to bring back these girls. that's a determination i can't make and your viewers cannot make because we're not on the ground. what we do know is it has gone on far too long and the hope would have been if it would have been handled immediately by the nigerian government and if they couldn't handle it themselves, it's easier to find hostages immediately than waiting three weeks. there's no doubt about that. >> you point out it has been three weeks. ney year january government has been dealing with boko haram since 2009 and they have not been able to get it under control and to stop their terror attacks. do you think now that we're three weeks in and these girls

have not been found, they don't even know where they are, that the obama administration has been slow to respond? >> well, again, i think that it is good we are now sending in the counter intelligence and the hostage negotiators. i'm sure we were in communication with them. i don't think that this was even something that we were discussing in congress. i think -- >> why not? >> i think there's a lot of blame to go around. because we didn't even know what had happened with these girls or where they were or what the situation was and we're told that the knee jeerian government were on this. i mean, those were the first things that we were hearing. so i think there's a lot of blame to go around everywhere but i am glad that we are now sending people over from the united states to help with this and i hope that the rest of the world joins in because this truly can be a cause that the world can take on. i was just down in mexico with cindy mccain, senator mccain's wife, leader on human trafficking. millions of girls are working in brothels, sold for sex around

the world. they are from the united states. so we have our own share of problems in places like north dakota and minnesota that you wouldn't think would have sex trafficking operations going on. we do. and i just see this as a part of a major part of our foreign policy as we go forward because we can say we have the same problem. that's what we said when we were down in mexico when we met with the head of the federal police, the attorney general of mexico. and that if people can come together and the u.n. can come together, we should make this literally one of the major parts of our policy. you cannot sell young girls into sex and kidnap them from their schools. >> you are absolutely right about that. i want to get your final take really quickly. from what you know about the situation and how congress works and how the conversations that are going on in private, not public, what are the chances that u.s. special forces are going to be needed in this situation in the end? >> again, that is an intelligence decision to make on the ground. i don't think that congress should be micromanaging the decisions about intelligence

until we have that intelligence. we do not have that intelligence yet for members of congress. and once we have that, that decision can be made. >> senator amy klobuchar, thank you for taking the lead on this and coming on "new day." >> of course. >> breaking overnight, more bloody battles between ukrainian troops and pro-russian rebels. five rebels were killed overnight. now nato is getting involved even though ukraine is not a member. this after russia's foreign minister end kaindicated moscow challenge the upcoming elections. nick paton walsh is joining us from ukraine with the latest. what do you make of this, nick? >> well, chris, i'm talking to you from inside slaviansk, the hotbed of the unrest here where pro-russian militants have been defending the barricades about the military who have been trying to move in. we've hearing from their spokesperson shooting on the outskirts of town about an hour ago now. in the center of this city which

has been galvanized by the moves of the ukrainian forces against the civilians caught in that cross fire. today, somber scenes of funerals here. ten killed in fighting in past 48 hours. a number of civilians as well. people are angry. a lot of anti-american sentiment, too, we hear amongst that crowd. there's no real motive involved here but people believe that may be the case and believe barack obama for it. another thing we're seeing, too, the ukraine kran army move forward. many lives lost. they tried to retake part of a highway we saw two days ago and then pulled back. you have to can yourself, do they have a plan to hold on to this ground further down the line? last night they claim to have taken hold of a city hall of another town. but they say, no, they are back in those buildings. concerns about when the military may choose to move into the center of the city.

locals are hostile. defenses have been proving every hour the theories could be a lot of lives lost if that happens. >> nick paton walsh on the ground for news eastern ukraine. thank you. here at home. debate over climate change is heating up once again on the heels of a white house report that says global warming threatens every part of the u.s. but republicans, they're not buying -- some republican rs ar not buying this dire forecast. they say this is all part of politics. cnn's jim acosta is is is live at the white house with more. >> that's right. president obama says climate change is a threat to the u.s. that is happening now. he made these comments in a series of interviews with meteorologists who came to the white house from around the country. the comments followed the release of a climate assessment that the white house put out to warn of the dangerous weather to come if climate change continues to happen, if global warming continues to happen unchecked. the president sat down with these meteorologists because the white house wanted the public to see this problem as something

that is not scientific or theoretical but something that happens and affects their weather every day. here's a bit of what the president had to say. >> this isn't something in the distant future. climate change is already affecting us now. if you live along the coast, you're more likely to experience it because of climate change. if you live in the west you're more likely to experience drought because of climate change. >> reporter: now, it's safe to say you're going to hear the president talk more about climate change t later on this week. he's going to do fund raidsing in california. at the end of the week he will have an energy efficiency event in the san francisco bay area. expect to hear the president talking about climate change there. but republicans, as you said, kate, they're firing back at the president saying that he should be concentrating more on jobs and approve that keystone pipeline and one republican aide on capitol hill is is questioning whether even senate democrats want to hear the president talk about climate change. he e-mailed out a youtube video to reporters around washington. it shows crickets chirping.

michaela. >> got a chuckle out of me. jim acosta, appreciate that. thank you. let's look at more of your headlines at this hour. today the driver of that car that followed a motorcade carrying tcarry ing the president's daughters inside the white house gates are expected in court. the white house was lock down for an hour on tuesday as secret service agents swept the vehicle for explosives. 55-year-old matthew goldstein reportedly holds a pass to the u.s. treasury now faces unlawful entry charges. just released video shows a teenage stowaway, you can see it here, emerging from the wheel well of a boeing 767 in hawaii. the teen is seen climbing out, then walking unsteadily on the tarmac to the front of the plane. the 15-year-old remarkically survived a nearly five-hour flight from california to hawaii. he told investigators he was trying to get to somalia to see his mother. he's back in san jose, california, and could be charged with criminal tris peacing. a pilot who survived

crashing into a suburban home and in kind of a wild twist we're learning more that the home that he crashed into, it used to be his own. >> there's got to be some reason i'm still around. >> reporter: an unbelievable set of circumstances, this pilot surviving a plane crash completely unscathed. only to realize he crashed into a house he used to live in. brian veech was towing a banner to a colorado rockies game when suddenly he lost power. the plane slamming sbu tinto thk of the house landing upside-down with the tail section still visible. >> i did immediate assessment on myself and realized i wasn't injured. ran up to the back screen door and tried to see if it was unlocked. >> reporter: veech jumped into action, grabbing a garden hose trying to put out the fire himself. the plane's owner says luckily no one was home at the time of the crash. it was only after the initial

chaos that veatch realized the house was familiar. >> i ran around the side of the house, recognized that this was a street that i had lived on a decade before. >> and was this the street he lived on, once lived in that very house he crashed into. apparently real rised that after he saw the tv coverage. he's a firefighter. once he realized he was okay his firefighter instincts took over. he went and assessed to see if anybody else was in the house. grabbed the fire hose. tried to put the fire out. it's just -- and then the fact that he lived there. >> he lived there. >> if you're seeing it from the air you wouldn't have that same perspective as driving down the street. he used to live in that house. a are the chance sfs. >> a lot of questions this morning. >> he survived a plane crash, a. >> why he crashed and why he survived. glad he sold the house. troubling allegations, are veterans dying while waiting for

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welcome back to "new day." veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki says he haven't going anywhere. he's defying calls to step down after cnn uncovered deadly delays at several va hospitals. now, in a cnn exclusive we discovered va hospitals kept secret waiting lists that left

vets wait for months for care, often with deadly consequences. senior investigative correspondent drew griffin first uncovered this. he joins us live from washington on the follow up on this. first question for you, drew, is, thank you for doing this investigation. that's a comment, not a question. this needed to come out. now, what is the response from the white house about this and shinseki in particular? >> well, the white house, the president, is sticking by his man at the va and press secretary jay carney addressed this yesterday telling reporters that the president has confidence, full confidence, in eric shinseki to run the va. but this was his response to our own whougs poernt michelle cosince ski who asked where is shinseki and why isn't he coming out and talking to us and answering our questions? >> some have been trying to sit down and talk to shinseki, including cnn, we've been asking him for an interview since november. why won't he just come out and speak about this or talk -- >> you're asking me for an

interview with -- >> and, yes, can the white house direct him to -- >> i'll refer you to the department for the director's schedule. >> well, it not just really a scheduling issue, is it? this is about accountability and it's not just coming from the media, it's coming from lawmakers also, right? u.s. senators are getting involved. >> that's right. and to carney's point, we've been asking for an interview for six months. and in that "wall street journal" article that came out last night, shinseki needs to responds better and communicate better. part of that is actually talking to people. there's a growing course of lawmakers in washington, mostly republican and republican senators yesterday jumped on board asking for shinseki's resignation. the senate minority leader mitch o'connell was weighing? >> i wish the white house, instead of traveling around the country talking about the urgency of climate change, would

talk with equal urgency about this failure of leadership and incompetence at the va. >> obviously a change in leadership might be a good step in the right direction. >> today i'm demanding accountability and true transformation within the va system and its culture from top to bottom. and all across the country. secretary shinseki seemingly is unwilling or unable to do so and change must be made at the top. >> moran is the only one speaking directly to the issue. the fear, drew, always with these situations is that the people who are victims get lost in the politics that start to become at play. so we know what the lawmakers are doing. we have to get answers. most important people here are, of course, the victims and their families. the families are also asking for answers. is it true they're not getting them, either? >> you know, we found that out just a couple of nights ago. which is really infuriating. more so than the va ignoring cnn. we heard from the family of a veteran that we first told you about back in 2012, chris.

his name is bill nicholas. there he is. world war ii navy airman. his job as a young sailor, he rescued downed pilots in the pacific ocean. in 2012 he went to the pittsburgh va hospital. unbenoens to him but known to management, legion ella bacteria was running through the pipes of that hospital. he and several other veterans died because of the poisoning that took place at the va hospital. nobody has ever been held accountable. that family sent us an e-mail two nights ago saying this about their attempts to reach eric shinseki. they write, how could shinseki and obama allow this to keep happening without any accountability? i will never understand how they can just turn a deaf ear. and the worst part, when we request a meeting where we can look shinseki in the eye he simply does not many respond to our requests. do these people have no conscience? that's from the family of a

veteran who died unnecessarily at a va hospital two years ago. they still haven't gotten any answers. and at that hospital there really hasn't been any accountability to date. >> leads you to believe the scheck tear has nothing of value to say so he's ducking the requests. and obviously the situation existed long before shinseki, but he's accountable for it now. and biggest point, drew, that i know drove your investigation in the first place was that these are the men and women who we say deserve the best, they've sacrificed the most. and the idea that their health system, you know, just the use the most accurate word, sucks, and they're getting this problem and nobody is stepping up is just wrong. thank you for bringing it to light. we know you're going to keep pressing for answers to the secretary and it goes far beyond him as well. thank you for very much. it's an obvious question, right? do you think the veterans affair secretary should be out here in front of us talking about this?

what about resigning? let us know what you think. we always say we care about our veterans. this is a chance to show it. coming up next on "new day," he spent five hours in a wheel well but managed to survive. we have the first security footage of the teen who flew from california to hawaii. we're breaking it down for you. coming up on "inside politics," it's north carolina idol, how clay aiken faired on the ballot last night. honestly, the off-season isn't i've got a lot to do. that's why i got my surface. it's great for watching game film and drawing up plays. it's got onenote, so i can stay on top of my to-do list, which has been absolutely absurd since the big game. with skype, it's just really easy to stay in touch with the kids i work with. alright, russell you are good to go! alright, fellas. alright, russ. back to work!

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eight more young girls have been kidnapped in ney year gentleman. suspected gunk man from the al qaeda affiliated boko haram raided their village, dragged them from their homes. president obama is sending in a team of law enforcement and military experts to assist in finding the girls who have been abducted since last month. more blood spilled in ukraine. five pro-russian rebels killed overnight as ukrainian troops stormed the barricades after the foreign minister said the timing of ukraine's upcoming election is unusual. nato's chief calls the situation the gravest crisis to europe since the cold war. fbi agent has been or rested in pakistan. he was allegedly carrying ammunition, knives as he tried to board a domestic flight there. the agent appeared in a pakistani court tuesday. he has another appearance on saturday. a u.s. official says the agent is in the country to help train local police. probably didn't mean to take bullets and ammunition on to the plane. officials from china, malaysia, and australia meeting

today to re-examine data and reshape the search for flight 370. here at home interesting new results of a cnn/orc poll shows majority of american, 69%, say the hunt for the missing plane should continue. 51% believe the jetliner is in the indian ocean. 46% believe it is somewhere else. when asked if we will ever know what happened to flight 370, 52% said yes while 46% believe it will always remain a mystery. always remain a mystery or wheel find it? >> no. >> you think it will be found? >> we will know what happened to it, not we. when i mean we, the collective, smart people actually investigating it. >> maybe we. you never know. >> please. >> maybe the media undertakes a project with salvage people and they find it. >> let's not go there yet. >> "tie ttanic" wasn't found bye government. "inside politics" with john king. see how i won that one? >> you did win it.

when you win, move on. that's the best way. >> there's the advice he can never understand. >> let the pain set? >> turning the page. busy day. back to you guys in a minute. this morning, a big establishment win, gop, in north carolina. big senate race you might not think it matters to you, but it does. with me to share their insights robert costa of the "washington post." on the ground in north carolina this morning cnn's peter hamby. republicans need a net gain of six senate seats to control the senate. likely to keep control of the house. the gop establishment candidate is tom tillis. he needed to get above 40% to avoid a runoff. all the other challenges, the two on the board and a couple others inspired by the tea party and grass roots base. peter hamby, they spent a lot of money to open thom tillis above 40%. how important is this in the establishment tea party war we've watched play out in recent years? >> well, i think it's very

important for the establishment. i mean, it's a sort of a flawed frame to say that this is a classic establishment versus tea party narrative. two grass roots by candidates, greg brannon and mark harris, didn't have a lot of money. they struggled to get their message out. and tillis coasted in the end but he did have the help of outside groups of more than $2 million from the chamber of commerce and american cross roads, helped prop him up. he gave credit to those outside groups for providing him air cover, in his words, that's what he told reporters last night after his victory speech. this is big for them. they avoid a big headache. democrats really wanted a 2 1/2-month republican owned, republican primary that would drag on, be expensive and possibly hurt the republican party. this is a big early win for the establish m as they look to retake the senate, john? >> that early win and the establishment will feel emboldened. the chamber is going in ten

husband drit districts this we. we have the next big ones coming up. mitch mcconnell wants to be the senate whmajority leader. he has a primary in two weeks. at this point does it look like the establishment will have a sweep that mitch mcconnell will get his dream of, quote, crushing the tea party? >> it looks like it, john. i think mcconnell is poised to win. so is tad cochran in mississippi. it comes down to the same issue in north carolina. when you look at matt bev vin running against mcconnell and chris mcdaniel running against cochran is not top a, top flight kaechbting. they don't have a lot of money. if you want to beat the establishment you better come with some heft. >> you quote the former rnc chairman steele saying this is great but you better not rub the base's nose in it. peter hamby, you've been on the ground where rand paul dmam late and campaigned for a tea party

candidate who lost. how much is there a risk there will be bad blood lingering within republican voters and maybe some only take a tiny percentage don't play in november? >> yeah, well, look, rand paul came in down here on monday. he endorsed greg brannon, did a rally at the nascar hall of fame up the street here. a lot of people questioned why he did this because rand paul has spent two years cozying up to the republican establishment and republicans in washington were wondering why would he go down here and possibly push republicans into a runoff. there are questions about his judgment and his decision making there. but rand paul did come out immediately after tillis secured the nomination and put out a statement on facebook saying it's time for north carolina to unite. this is important because this is a big win for the establishment. til lrk tillis got 45% but 65% of the republicans voted against thom tillis and a big part of the base did, too. it was smart of rand paul to do

that quickly after the results came in and race was called last night. >> important for the establishment not to gloat. one more north carolina footnote. if you an "american idol" fan as kate noted a little bit ago clay aiken was on the ballot there in a congressional primary. you need 40% to avoid a runoff. he's above 40% but we have absentee ball t ots to call. but listen, he wishes we did things a little differently. >> i said a little bit earlier tonight that i sort of prefer it when they just open the envelope and tell you who won. >> he sort of prefers that. we'll keep an eye on that race and see what the absentees tell us. watch at cnn or cnn.com/politics. something else to look out for today, president obama will be in arkansas. that's another big statement of vulnerable democratic incumbent side by side with mark prior. he did invite the president to come down to arkansas to view tornado damage.

he has distanced himself t from the president on obamacare, distanced himself and have been critical of the president on energy policy. watch the two of them together in the state of arkansas this afternoon. they will watch that in the campaign. it could be a test of whether the president might get an invitation back later in the campaign year but don't count on it. let's move on to hillary clinton. everyone assumes the secretary of state is run for president in 2016. if so, gun control will be a big issue in some states. listen to hillary clinton yesterday in suburban washington. >> i think that we've got to rein in what has become a almost article of faith that anybody can have a gun anywhere any time. >> she's talking in the context of mental health. we should be extra careful. people who might have mental health issues have guns. i think we've got to rein in what has become a article of faith. anyone can have a gun. i can see that playing in southern ohio, i can see that playing in florida, i can see

that playing in colorado, i can see it where mr. hamby is on the ground in north carolina today. is it a calculation that is less of an issue? >> maybe she's speaking to a different area of the country, the philadelphia suburbs, the people who vote pat toomey into the u.s. senate who applaud the gun control in the senate background checks. i think hillary knows as secretary clinton know shs she moves left she still wants to win the suburban voters she won so well in 2008. >> peter, to the point where you are in north carolina, candidates, i'm all for candidate speaking their mind and having very clear on the issues as opposed to being vague and trying to duck them. at least she's speaking on the record there. >> that's right. i think what struck me about this was having covered hillary clinton in the 2008 democratic primary when she was really fighting from behind and sort of adopting that blue collar working class mantel. she talked a lot about how important guns are in the

american fabric, in our culture. to me this was a pretty big rhetorical distance from that time. but again, a lot has changed since then. we've had several mass shootings including the one in newtown. the policy of guns have shifted. in some competitive states there are pockets where guns are important and this is going to be something of an issue for her, i think. >> i want to get both of your thoughts on something that everybody in washington is talking about. monica lewinsky wrote an essay ciaing that she wants to move on talking about the scandal. the value of a robert costa and peter hamby, two young political reporters who get out in the country and talk to people. peter, let me start with you quickly. it was primary day in north carolina yesterday. were people in politics talking about this? >> actually, it's interesting. last night another reporter friend and i were filing at the hotel bar where thom tillis had his event and a couple of women asked what's the deal with this

monica lewinsky story, is there a book or something? that is not data journalism but maybe it's something that can seep out into the political consciousness a little bit. as this relates to 2016, who knows how important itz going to be. but any day that the clintons are not talking about their own message on the campaign trail is probably a day lost. i think that's something that could be an impact with stories like this moving forward. >> i got the sense more pop culture than pop tlitics? >> rand paul is trying to bring up the clinton history and there's a little bit of clinton nos st ranks. >> robert costa, peter hamby, thank you. back to you guys in new york. i don't see -- i'm a big skeptic about whether there's political impact. >> i think it's any political

impact i might be getting too far ahead of this is, i think it will be backlash if people try to make it a political issue if hillary runs. if anyone tries to make it an issue with her. >> i think kate is straight on about it, john. you, too. you know, look, she was the first. we see so many of these scandals now. but look at the current context. i think lewis skieewinsky has a case that he was demonized and deserves a chance to live her life. >> see, full stop. let's move on. >> you guys both agree. that's breaking news. >> couldn't have said it better myself, john. thank you. coming up next on "new day," he flew from florida to hawaii in the wheel well of a boeing 767. and somehow survived. now we're getting a first look at the teenager at the teenage stowaway as he emerged from the belly of the plane. marge: you know, there's a more enjoyable way to get your fiber.

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welcome back to "new day." we're now seeing the first security footage of that teenager who stowed away in the wheel well of a boeing 767 during a flight last month. you can see him climbing out of the plane and walking unsteadily on the tarmac. he somehow survived the five-hour flight from california to hawaii despite very little oxygen and facing subzero

temperatures. let's bring in cnn safety analyst and former faa inspector to talk about all of -- to talk about all of this and to break it down. david, i mean, i want to get your take first. let's play through it and pause and discuss. i want to get your take. i've done this three times now. you would think i know how to work my magic wall. we're going to highlight. you can see his feet dangling and jumps out of the belly of the plane. >> that's a far drop. >> it is a far drop. he is a young kid. he's supposedly agile but also just survived a 5 1/2-hour flight in subzero temperatures. continue it. you see him drop out. so let's pause it there because i do want to get your take if you think this fits with the story line we've been told so far by investigators what they think happened. >> yeah. >> well, it definitely does. no place else he could have come from. no access from there into the aircraft. as a safety investigator this is the best possible outcome you can imagine because it exposes all kinds of vulnerabilities in

the system without anyone having a fatality. >> this video, this is just one vantage point obviously. one camera angle. does this video expost pose any vulnerabilities here. >> other thanes he's walking around a long time without anybody approaching him. typically, i've spent a lot of time on the ramp looking at airplanes from underneath here. and when you're out there someone approaches you all the time. if i go out in my suit and tie as an faa inspector they come over and check your badge. there maybe it's looser because of the fact that it's, i don't know, it's a little bit more accessible out there. >> he does walk around quite a bit. you see that he doesn't -- he doesn't -- >> technical difficulties. >> it's the anchor. not anything else. here we go. let's continue this so we can see him. see him walking around and see him more than walking around. stumbling around. he's disoriented. that, we can understand at the very least he would be. does this tell you anything more about how he survived this?

>> well, obviously there's oxygen deprivation. he's not thinking straight. 35,000 feet or 30,000 feet for that period of time, i am really surprised he survived. the temperature thing though, there's a good explanation for that. >> the temperature of how he survived subzero temperatures? >> exactly. it's 40, 50, 60 degrees below zero at times. these aircraft are designed, even the this is hawaii and warm air, they're designed to stay warm in that wheel well. as the wheels come up, imagine if it landed in colorado you don't want that snow and ice up there freezing it 50 below because it may not come back out right. you have to add heat in there. there's a tube that goes from the heat exchanger here that comes out to the aircraft to start the engines. so that air is going through there at very high temperatures. so the temperature stays warm in there as well. >> is this when you would expect someone to come up and talk to him. we don't show you in this video but in another part of the video he ends up walking himself up to

one of the worker tons tarms on tarmac. >> somebody is guiding that airplane in. there are people there. understand the baggage people are not there yet. there's someone out there guiding this airplane and you have wing tip spotters, you have people guiding it into the front. where are those people? >> the only thing i guess could be an explanation is that -- i remember that they said that it was about an hour after the plane had landed that he ended up jumping out. >> oh, was it that long? >> that's what they believed president at least at one point. >> that's a better explanation. >> why someone might not be around the plane. in the end this fits with what investigators say happened. >> yes. >> it answers the questions and puts away kind of some of the skepticism that he actually did ride in the belly of the plane. >> yeah. it would have been easily missed by the pilot walking around in the first part because there's an inner door. and you drop that inner door to do the preflight inspection. in this case, the inside door was up. you wouldn't have been able to

see if someone was in there or not. >> thankfully it doesn't happen very often. not entirely likely any kind of pre-flight check policies are going to change because of it. >> there is. they will start opening those doors now, i guarantee it. >> david sow cucie, thank you. what does killing people for being gay have to do with the beverly hills hotel? real live drama as hollywood comes out in force against a hotel owner. the story, ahead. that's a man interviewino.for a job. not that one. that one. the one who seems like he's already got the job 'cause he studied all the right courses from the get-go. and that's an accountant, a mom, a university of phoenix scholarship recipient, who used our unique --scratch that--

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death. hello! >> that's jay leno, obviously. he's got some time on his hands. she joined up with a lot of hollywood in telling the owner of the beverly hills hotel he's got to go. why? the owner is the sultan of brunei. you may have heard of him. his country implemented islamic sharia law. it's a very traditional and harsh form of law that includes punishments like flogging, dismemberment and death for a lot of things. stoning for crimes such as adultery and homosexuality. very offensive to many people outside of there. overnight the beverly hills city council passed a resolution calling for action but stopped short of an all-out boycott. here to discuss is cnn political commentator paul begala. i must admit, i find no confusion in rejecting sharia law. i am confused about this current pop-up around the beverly hills

hotel. explain. >> it's an iconic building, iconic hotel. i think one of elizabeth taylor's eight honeymoons began there. i've stayed there. i'm sure you have. all the big shots have. we just finished here in washington the correspondents dinner where all the hollywood people come and hang out. it's a mess. this is hollywood at its best. this is hollywood doing what perhaps some in washington should be doing, which is calling attention to a potential, almost certain human rights violations. sharia law is only now being implemented. it's supposed to start tomorrow. it's going to be phased in over a number of years. god bless jay leno and hurray to hollywood. >> i'll take the other side. first of all, don't throw me in with that hoity-toity group. i'm lucky if i'm in a motel 6. i'm not staying at the beverly hills hotel. jay leno says, hello, sharia law

has been in place in a lot of places for a long time. plenty of places to protest, if you're just waking up to it, that's fine. they jump out of the back door and jump out of the bentley, going to protest at the beverly hills hotel. isn't there a more direct approach? >> that's a very good point. very valid point. the truth is, we do, the united states of america does and frankly has to do business with lots of countries that practice sharia law and have for years. saudi arabia, qatar. my goodness, we liberated iraq and iraq is imposing forms of sharia law there after we sacrificed 4500 of our people. it's very complicated and there's always charges of hypocrisy. still it's a good thing when citizens of conscience stand up. it happens to be in their neighborhood of beverly hills. we're talking about it. we're covering it. the fact that we still in the

21st century live in a world where people can be stoned for being gay is just astonishing. i think it's great they're raising attention. >> the question becomes the focus of the attention. the hotel manager makes an interesting point. yes, the sultan's development company may own it, but you're only hurting the employees here who are regular americans by protesting in front of the hotel. if you want to pick a fight, pick a fight with the big boys. fight with the united states government because we do business with the sultan of brunei. the current administration considers the sultan a friend. does it not, mr. begala? >> yes, sir. i believe president obama has used that word, friend, about the sultan of brunei. i would suggest -- you make a good point about the employees of that hotel. i think this is about drawing attention rather than trying to get him to shut down the hotel or something. if you want to draw attention, mr. leno who has 300 cars ought to be protesting next at shell gas station. shell oil company is in business with the sultan of brew nine.

the sultan didn't become one of the richest men in the world by owning hotels. he did it because his tiny nation sits on an ocean of oil. that oil is produced in partnership with shell. if you wanted to really turn up the heat, jay should take 300 of his cars down to the shell gas stations in hollywood and raise attention there. that's really the source of the sultan as well. >> that's a good point, too. you said i made a good point. i'll say you made a good point. there's something about this. >> once in a blue moon. >> sharia law is something you want to be against. whatever you want to say about forms of injustice, this is something that's completely beyond the pale of anything that's decent. something about the nature of this protest, while it is good to bring attention, that bothers me about it. i can't put my finger on it. i it's something about beverly hills. i feel like they're not trying hard enough to protest. it's a good start. >> they're starting somewhere. they're starting in their own back yard. it's a great sacrifice to not

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happening on the ground from vladim vladimir doout yea. he's joining us with the latest. >> reporter: we're learning more about what life is like under the reign of terror since 2009. we had a rare opportunity to speak to two parents who essentially risked their lives to come to talk to us about what they're going through. take a listen. fear this morning that boka haram's reign of terror may be intensifying with news of another vicious abductionment at least eight girls, ages 12 to 15 snatch friday their homes at gunpoint sunday night from the village of row want by. this coming with international outrage over the kidnapping of more than 200 girls last week. >> we want our girls back now.

>> families, avoiding talking to the media out of fear for their daughters' lives until now. these parents of two missing girls speaking exclusively to cnn saying they want the world to know about their suffering but have asked that we conceal their identities to maintain their safety and the safety of their daughters. the father scoffs at the government's statement that the military has been deployed to search for the girls. >> the federal government, all the rulers are playing with we parents. they are looking at us as if we are fools. >> reporter: pure agony is what they felt after watching boka haram's video. its leader taking pride in kidnapping the girls he claims he'll sell. translating for his wife. >> most of the women, we mothers we started crying because we have nobody to help us. our daughters has been adopted or have been captured as slaves. >> reporter: helplessly they wait, not knowing where their

girls are or if they'll ever see them again. >> she is pleading let them release these girls. they don't know probably one of them a president, doctor, lawyer who will be held, please let him release them. >> reporter: chris, there's a glimpse into how horrific life is in chiba in addition to being in a state of emergency where thousands have been killed in northeastern nigeria, these parents essentially telling us that they can't even sleep in their own beds. in resummons today, we found out that the police have come out with a $300,000 reward for any information leading the the whereabouts of these rewards. so far even the president admitted he doesn't know where they are. >> at least the pressure is making progress on the action fund. vladimir, thank you very much.

think about it. when one child goes missing, very often it shakes every set of parents, let alone almost 300 are now gone in nigeria. as we mentioned, the u.s. is sending a team of experts to help find these missing girls. joining us from the state department, linda thomas green field, just fresh back from a trip to the continent, so very familiar with the situation. thank you for joining us. appreciate you being on "new day" this morning. is the u.s. now in a position where it is actively trying to help and is that help, that offer being received by the nigerian government. >> thank you for having me on today. yes, we are reaching out to the nigerian government to help them address this situation. it didn't just start. i was in nigeria in december where we had a series of meetings with nigerian security services to talk about how we might better assist them in addressing the boka haram

terrorist organization. i have also been in nigeria twice since that december visit. we are sending out a team to work with the nigerian government on how they can better respond to boka haram. >> is it a fair statement that this isn't about what the u.s. is willing to provide, it's about what the nigerian government is asking for and willing to accept? >> it's about boblth. we are always ready to assist countries that are dealing with terrorism. we believe terrorism anywhere affects all of us and we are prepared to work with the nigerian government as well as other governments in the region to address this situation. >> have we been asked for any help, the united states -- has it been asked for any help that it has denied? >> we have not denied any help. in fact, yesterday secretary kerry spoke with president jonathan. president jonathan asked for assistance and we're in the process of putting together a team that we hope to get out to nigeria in the next day to work

with the nigerian government. we also already have people on the ground who are prepared to work with the government. >> is there any sense right now of where these kids are? >> we don't know where they are. that's part of the problem and we want to try to assist the government in identifying where they may be found and returned safely to their parents. >> unfortunately, the selling of humans, let alone children is not uncommon. there are known networks in that part of the world and beyond. is the united states using its intelligence to tap into those networks and see if there's any chatter about these kids? >> we certainly are looking and working with governments throughout the region to see if there's any information that we can provide to governments. trafficking in children and trafficking in people is a high priority for us to work against. this is something that not just has caught our attention today. it's something we work on on a daily basis. >> your knowledge of the government and the situation on

the ground there in nigeria, any explanation for why the government has seemingly been so slow to react to this? >> i think that's a question that we have to pose to the nigerians. i know the nigerians are concerned about the situation and i know that they want to address the situation. i think that the assistance from the international community, from the u.s. and other countries in the world will help them move forward more rapidly in trying to find these girls and others who have been kid dmapd. >> are we naive here in the u.s. in our response to this situation. it just seems that, yes, we know there's been thousands killed, bloodshed there in many other african countries, civil strife all over the world. we're aware of that more and more. there's something about this situation that seems to go beyond what we're used to hearing about. >> i think boka haram has shown that they have no regard for human life, even the lives of

young children and young girls. so this is much more serious than some of the other incidents that we have seen, and i call upon all governments to express their horror against what this organization is doing and not to provide any safe haven to them anywhere in the world. >> what can be done to boka haram to destroy them that is not being done right now? >> as you know, back in november we designated boka haram and were encouraging an additional designation at the level of the u.n. it's going to take concerted work and actions and activities around the world to ensure that boka haram does not take root beyond where they already exist and that we work together to ensure that we bring their terror to an end. >> i say destroy. in truth the reality will be this solution will probably find itself in reaching out to boka haram and negotiating some type of organization as opposed to

outright warfare. i know you don't negotiate with terrorists. i understand. in situations like this there's no recourse. >> linda thomas-greenfield, good to know you're on this. please keep us in the loop. >> thank you for paying attention to this story. >> bottom line, get those girls home. let's take a look at more of our headlines. 11 minutes after the top of the hour. the nato chief is telling the situation in ukraine the gravest crisis to european security since the cold war. overnight ukrainian forces killed five separatists and briefly retook a key city council building before rebels regained control. now they're calling the timing of the upcoming election unusual, raising question they could challenge the results. an fbi agent is being detained in pakistan. authorities there say he had ammunition and a pistol magazine on him while trying to board a plane. officials say they are working

to resolve this situation. the agent is there in pakistan to help with an anti-corruption program. we're seeing the first image ofs a teenage stowaway as he's merges from the boeing of the 767. the security video shows him climbing down, walking shakily on the tarmac. we're still wondering how he managed to survive that five-hour flight. the teen told investigators he was trying to get to somalia to see his mother. he could face criminal trespassing charges. toronto mayor rob ford is speaking out about rehab from rehab. for the first time this morning speaking with the toronto sun. he says he will will be out of treatment and on the ballot for the fall election. he says he feels great and wishes he received help sooner before checking himself in after the latest of a series of videos showed odd behavior. he declined to say where the treatment facility is located. >> it's unusual for people to

speak from rehab. >> especially when in the first phase of critical analysis. that's why it was unusual for dennis rodman. unfortunately if you're speaking -- this is a bad sign. this is a sign of not taking treatment and recovery seriously. >> you have to be committed for the cause. >> you have to admit you have a problem and deal with it right now. >> and humble yourself a fair amount, too. >> it's not easy, especially for a politician perhaps. really for anybody. from the beginning i've been very sideways. i feel you don't lampoon addiction. you don't make this man a joke because he's suffering something that attacks so many families. i know the antics are amusing. it's not amusing to the people who love him and care about him. it's not amusing where addiction ends up when it's not treated. up next, monica lewinsky speaking out after a decade of silence. who she blames for her affair with president clinton and how she saying the humiliation she

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welcome back to "new day." monica lewinsky is breaking ten years of silence in a new essay for "vanity fair." the former white house intern

opens up about her affair with bill clinton, taking responsibility for what she calls a conceptual relationship. she also reveals 16 years of pain marked by the stigma of the scandal. so what now? we're joined now by cnn comment dater and legal analyst mel robbins and from washington, cnn political commentator and republican strategist anna navarro. anna, we clearly haven't seen the full essay. everyone waits to see that. what's your initial thoughts? what stood out to you? >> we heard more about monica lewinsky in the last six months than we probably have in the last ten years. i think a lot of it has to do with her turning 40. i know you're like a teenager, kate, but 40 is a big number for a lot of women. it was for me. you take stock of your life. it's about anticipating an upcoming hillary clinton campaign. maybe it's about wanting to get

it out of the way. i take her at her word when she says she wants to move on and get it over with. if she needs this for some sort of closure to move on, i hope she uses it for that because i think bill clinton has moved on. i think it's been a painful chapter for hillary clinton, but i think she's moved on. i think the country for the most part has moved on. i do hope monica lewinsky does as well. >> there's a million questions i want to ask you. mel, you wrote an opinion piece for cnn.com calling it "stop judging monica lewinsky," essentially saying good for her. >> absolutely. if you really think about it, this all broke 16 years ago. she's the first example, kate, of somebody humiliated on a global scale thanks to the internet. there's a lot of people that cashed in on her. matthew drudge launched his website. you also is a barbara walters

interview her with 70 million people tuning in. a lot of people have been speculating why not and why is she doing this? is it political? is it monetary. >> does it matter to you? >> i don't really care. i think after 16 years of being dragged through the mud, not being able to get a job, having suicidal thoughts, not being able to escape this, being reduced to a line in a song partitioned with beyonce that equates her with that sexual act, the only way you deal with the pain in your life is facing it head on. i say bravo, monica. >> she talks about being maybe the first victim of humiliation on the internet. let's read you the excerpts. in this she says, sure, my boss took advantage of me, but i will always remain firm on this point. it was a conventional relationship. any abuse came in the aftermath when i was made a scapegoat in

order to protect his powerful position. she then says i was also possibly the first person whose global humiliation was driven by the internet. she was a victim of cyber bullying. >> 100%, yes. >> i do wonder, that was 16 years ago. what about today? how is the internet going to portray her today? >> i don't think it matters because she's now the one controlling the story. what is different is she's got out in front of the story, and in life, if you have something that's going on that other people are talking about, for example, donald sterling, this is going to be a story that everybody talks about, speculates about until he actually makes a statement and he takes control of the narrative. what she's doing right now, and ana is exactly right, you have the 2016 elections coming up. we know hillary is going to put her hat in the ring. 16 years ago, nobody had a cell

phone with a camera on it. 16 years ago monica was hiding. contrast that with v. stiviano, parading around the grove in l.a. with bodyguards that have her name emblazoned on the lid. she's milking it. >> she didn't kam capitalize on it, she talked about turning down multimillion dollar offers to tell her story. the point you're both making, ana, a "washington post" columnist said today that her putting this out and releasing this now could actually be a huge favor to hillary clinton, defusing this issue if it would become an issue if hillary clinton decides to run. as a republican strategist, what is your sage advice to fellow republicans who would take this on? >> this is toxic. don't touch it. kate, as political people, we just cannot resist the temptation of overthinking and

politicizing absolutely everything. now the conversation is going to be, is it good for hillary, is it bad for hillary? frankly, it shouldn't be an issue. we're three women talking amongst ourselves right now and talking to the national public, does any woman want to see it judged what her husband did 16, 17 years ago. hillary clinton has a very deep record to be scrutinized, her record as first laid dirks as senator, as secretary of state, her record in the private sector. that we need to scrutinize. that we need to look over. that we need to debate. that needs to be gone through with a fine-tooth comb. but this chapter, what more salacious details could we possibly learn that we didn't learn 16 years ago. i think there needs to be a statute of limitations on sexual scandals, particularly involving two presidents. two presidents removed does it for me. >> i'm making that law. i'm glad the statute of limitations applies here.

i agree with you, ana. we should not have to answer for anyone else's injectidiscretioi. >> my we're an equal opportunity society. >> when it comes to you and i, we're definitely the one always in the doghouse. mel, you're much better than us. let's talk about the what now. you think it's important what she is doing. she sighs she wants to take control of the narrative. she wants to use her pain, her story to help others who are victims of cyber bullying. >> kate, i think one of the things that people will find when they dig into this essay is they'll be forced to confront what it was like to be monica lewinsky, what it was like to have your mother by your bedside for three months straight because she was afraid you were going to commit suicide. people don't think about that. they don't think about the psychological impact that happens when somebody becomes

the focus. >> does it make it hard for you to burn the beret and bury the blue dress if what you want to do with it now is essentially embody cyber bullying and use your story to help victims of cyber bullying. can she put it away? >> i think she absolutely can. what's interesting is this is no longer a story about the beret, the dress, the cigar, the oval office. it's a story about what happens to somebody when the world attacks. what she says in the accident is it was tyler clemente's suicide after he experienced the cyber bullying when he was taped kissing another male at his college that made her think, wow, mash i could do something since i've lived through this and i've survived it to make a difference. she alludes to the fact that she wants to go out on the circuit and talk about it. there's the background, but at least now she's using it not to talk about the sex act, but to talk about how bullying impacts

somebody psychologically. >> kate, she needs to literally -- i tell you, she needs to literally bury that beret and literally burn that dress. pour gasoline on it and light a match, take a shovel -- if that's what she needs to move on, then go ahead and get it done because everybody else has moved on, including i think most of the country. i don't know about you guys, but the idea of being on national tv in 2014 talking about the dress, the cigar, the beret, it's cringe-inducing. >> what's really important, ana, it allows us to examine what the impact is of what happens when somebody is bullied online. that's a topic we see every day in this country. we see it as mothers with our kids. she's an important voice that could do a lot of help. >> if she can help others, great. more importantly, she needs to help herself and move on.

>> she seems very aware, she wants to take back this narrative. this is the line that stuck out, take back my narrative and give purpose to my past. she says in parentheses, what this will cost me, i will soon find out. she is very aware that everyone is going to eat this up and make their own judgments. it seems at this point she doesn't care. maybe that's a good thing. ana navarro, mel robbins, thank you very much. chris? coming up on "new day," is flight 370 safe on the ground? are the passengers still alive? will either ever be found? those are some of the controversial questions that revolve around this story. they were the focus of a new cnn poll. you answered questions and you'll be surprised by the answers. they're coming up next. thank you!

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time for the five things you need to know. the u.s. is send ag team of military law enforcement experts to aid in finding the kidnap girls in nigeria. cnn has learned that the pentagon has started plans to offer support. the man arrested during tuesday's lockdown at the white house is due in court. the 55-year-old man faces unlawful entry charges for allegedly driving his car inside the white house gates. airport security video shows

a 15-year-old stowaway emerging from the wheel well of a 767 after a nearly five-hour flight from california to hawaii. that teen could face criminal trespassing charges. there are two stops planned for the president, first arkansas surveying damage from the deadly tornadoes and then to california for fund-raising. the los angeles clippers are playing their best basketball since the donald sterling scandal broke. game two of the series tonight. we're always updating the five things you need to know government to cnn new day.com for the latest. when it comes to the search for flight 370, a lot of you are losing hope. according to a new poll, just slightly more than half of americans think we'll ever find out what happened to the plane. and more of you think the search

should continue, but that number is far from overwhelming to be sure. joining us to break this down and discuss, david soucie, cnn safely analyst and the author of "why planes crash" and mary schiavo, cnn aviation analyst, former inspector general for the department of transportation and a lawyer who represents victims and families after airplane disasters. thanks to both of you for being here. david, surprised by the numbers? >> i really am. you wouldn't think i would be, but i am. i thought there would be more confidence that we would find the airplane. i thought we would find more confidence in the data we've got there. clearly the malaysians have done nothing to instill confidence in the public as to what information they have and where they're going with this. i'm a little surprised. >> another interestinga aspect is are they looking in the right

place? 51% say yes, looking in the right place. 41 says no, they're not. mary, a lot of people are interested in the story because of the mystery and the idea of the conspiracy theory of where the plane might be. fair point? >> fair point. exactly what you said, because we haven't found any clues, no wreckage, no nothing at this point of that plane, i think that's why people think we probably don't have the right place. >> maybe some of the most misplaced confidence in this story from the beginning -- again, this is just my opinion -- the poll question was did the pilots do it? 66% say yes. david soucie, do you believe that you could make a case as an investigator that, yes, the pilots did this, not that they flew the plane but they made it go this way and crash it? >> i think i could. i've always as an investigator

taken the opposite tact. is it possible, is it probable? >> where are you on this, possible or probable? >> i'm possible. >> possible is much lower than 66%. >> absolutely. i'm not probable. primarily because of the fact that when this occurred, right then at that time, i would assume you'd have to have one person acting. the chance they would have acted together on this is astronomical. >> i'm saying it's about proof, proof, proof, facts, facts, facts. i think the least facts on that question. >> least supported for sure and the fact that the public believes it. >> it's surprising to me. >> mary, where are you on that? >> i'm on the other end. we don't have one fact that points to those pilots. i put a lot of faith in the fbi, worked with them for years. they poured over the computers, the flight simulator, nothing. there's one thing that was missing from the preliminary report and i found it unbelievably telling, and there was so much discussion how the

plane went up to 43,000 feet, down to 6,000 feet. maybe the pilots claimed to that high altitude and kill people, this and that, all the altitude data was missing from the preliminary report. that tells me they have no confidence in the data about the altitude. that was one of the key points on the pilot suicide theory. i'll keep the jury out on that one. >> that takes us to the people who were keeping the information out of the report, the malaysian authorities doing the investigating. 69% say they're not handling it well. bob job 69%, good job 26%. david soucie, surprised by these numbers? >> not at all. they have done a bad job at it, especially from the perspective of the public. there's criminal investigations going on. they won't divulge all this information, they can't. they have to keep parts of this secret. >> what parts have to be secret? >> anything to do with the criminal investigation. >> what criminal investigation? >> when they're investigating the people, the pilots. now at this point they're

starting to release it because they're saying we cleared everybody. now they're giving us all the information. they're still not giving information about what they did to clear these people. >> you know what happens, when it turns out that you're not open for no particular good reason, it creates paranoia, conspiracies and lack of confidence which leads us to the next poll question, mary schiavo. do you believe that some other government or some terrorist or somebody shot it down? 57% say likely. you read it for yourself. mary, the idea, isn't that a farrakhan collusion, when you don't run the investigation the right way, you fuel this type of paranoia? >> exactly. it's as if they were living in another decade. anyone now knows that you can't keep these kind of secrets, the icao rules, you're supposed to make the information available certainly to the families. i think there's a throwback

effect. americans remember 9/11, the shoe bomber and underwear bomber. they just assume this is another. there's not one shred of evidence that it was a terrorist attack. we can tell the government in malaysia is not treating it as a terrorist attack. they have done none of the things you do in a terrorist investigation. i don't think they're treating it as one. >> as we wrap up the segment, one of the things that makes me the proudest is having people like you, we know you won't step back from the facts. that's how you keep confidence in what you're doing as reporters. thanks to both of you for being here today. i'm sure we'll be talking again soon. coming up next on "new day," a cnn exclusive. one-on-one with target's newly minted ceo. what is he doing to restore confidence in the brand following that massive security breach. ? /*

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a huge shakeup at one of the country's largest retailers. target's ceo stepped down monday after the data breach last year impacted as many as 110 million shoppers. this happened kind of in the heart of shopping season, holiday shopping season. now the company's chief financial officer, john mulligan is taking the reins, at least until the company finds a more permanent ceo. he just sat down with our popity harlow. >> about ten minutes ago. >> it's fresh in everyone's mind. >> it is. >> the big question everyone wants to know, what did mulligan

say about how the breach happened and more importantly is it safe to shop at target today? >> because this is a company that so many of us shop at, so many people are employed by it. it's a mainstay in retail. i asked him, have you gotten down to the bottom of how this hack happened, how did 110 million customers' private data become public? they say they're still investigating. this happened between mid to end of november and mid december, but in terms of the customers are safe, he said absolutely. >> our guests can shop with confidence today at target. we've removed the malware, closed the point of access where the individual came in. we've taken significant steps to improve the security. our guests can shop with confidence at target today. >> we talked a lot about this. i kept asking him, you don't know exactly what caused it, so how do we know customers are

safe? they put this new pin technology into their target credit cards. i think until we know what happened here, a lot of people are still going to be hesitant. we've seen people, less people shopping at target. >> that's going to be a challenge for this brand if they can't say what happened. the doj is investigating, along with secret service, several states. that's how big this is. they think they'll get to the bottom of it. i think the bigger picture here is not just target. this is happening at neiman marcus, michaels, other retailers as well. can any retailer be safe in this day and age. here is what he said to this. >> at this point in time do you think any major retailer can be hack-proof? >> i can't speak to that. what i can tell you is that the

cyber security is a threat broadly, not just retail but american business. there are actions we've taken internally that we've mentioned. there's actions we've taken that we think are important for the retail information. we think chip and p.i.n. is an incredible step forward to provide additional security for our guests. last week we announced we're going to partner with master card to accelerate that. across all american business, we think information is critical between the government and business. >> bottom line, this is a big, big hangup for not just target. why did the target ceo step down? i pressed him on that. he said that is between gregg steinhafel and the board. i'm not privy to that information. they haven't said if his stepping down is tied to this hacking. it's been a very tough year for him. >> some suggestions that there were other things going on.

>> trouble expanding in canada, a number of things. everyone wants to know what has happened. >> important to hear his voice. he has a huge job ahead of him. he's the head of a huge company. poppy, thank you. great interview. a little human factor right now. did you know millions of americans suffer from sleep apnea? the potentially deadly condition disrupts breathing at night. super bowl champion aaron taylor took charge. cnn's dr. sanjay group that has the story. >> super bowl champion aaron taylor, a two-time all american and for the green bay packers and san diego chargers. some of the same things that got him to the nfl may have also been affecting his health. just like 60% of former linemen according to a 2009 mayor clinic study. >> i was waking up feeling like i was hung over, i had a

headache, my throat hurt, trouble concentrating. i was irritable. >> reporter: while he had a family history of sleep apnea, a potentially life-threatening illness, he never thought it would be something he would have to deal with himself. >> throughout the night, 20 times per hour, for 20 seconds per time i wasn't breathing. that night after night after night after night is what led to all the problems i had. >> reporter: once he was diagnosed with sleep ap knee yarks he made working out and eating healthy a priority. taylor started using a breathing device called a c pap to help him over come it. >> it keeps my throat open so i can breathe continuously. >> the result has been my kids get their daddy back, my wife gets a good husband back. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. up next on "new day," a new climate change report from the white house with dire weather warnings for the country and one

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welcome back to "new day," a new white house report on climate change goes beyond the if and when saying it's already here. the report says severe drought and relentless wildfire seasons expected in the west. flooding across the country is expected to get worse. we'll focus on the rising frequency of torrential rains in the northeast. guess who is here?

meteorologist indra petersons. we'll talk about the drought in the coming days and weeks. but why torrential range in the northeast? >> you have the ocean sht it's already warmer. the air, it is warmer. you know the air can now hold water vapor, more is evaporating. that turns into heavy rain. so that's the problem we're seeing, this really heavy rain especially falling into the northeast. >> we've already seen this. when you talk about these numbers -- let's look at these numbers. we're talking 73% of the heavy rain event. in the northeast we're seeing it already increased about 73%. take a look. this is pensacola, florida a week ago. they saw in some places five inches of rain in an hour. that is something that you don't see in pensacola, florida, maybe once in every 200 years. it's actually one in every 500 years. >> didn't we see in september colorado had a deluge as well?

>> yes. the systems move fast along the highway, it's a traffic jam. in that case they saw as much rain in one storm event that they would typically see in the entire season. >> we talk about the northeast, i think none of us can forget the people in the northeast still reeling from it, recovering from it, that's a perfect example of the heavy and intense storms. >> this is a big concern here. you're talking about what's going on -- incredible amount of flooding along the coastal sections and the storm surge there. >> 13 feet? >> 13 feet. >> you're bringing up the big concern especially in the northeast. pictures like this. when you take a look and talk about sandy. with the infrastructure we have concerns. this is the problem n. the last 100 years, where you see the green arrows, that's where we've seen the sea level rise one foot. in these yellow spots around jersey, two feet. you can imagine the devastation assuming this report is correct. >> it's not just the devastation

and recovery of homes and properties, et cetera. that changes agriculture, infrastructure. the effects are felt in widespread fashion. this is the trend. it doesn't make sense to some of us it's warmer but also more rain. >> yes, also warmer. a lot of people are going to want to go to the coastline. in the next 25 years, how many days over 90 degrees, see the red? this is the frequency of places that will be seeing days over 90 degrees according to the report starting in just 25 years. more and more is related to that heat. >> this is where you want to dig down and take a look. the report comes out and it seems like a lot of data and what have you, we wanted to show you what this is going to feel like. >> how it all connects. because of all that data we're now in desperate need of the good stuff. when we come back, we'll tell you a story, you know how you look on the outside, it often affects how you feel on the inside, right or wrong. one hair stylist is giving her

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♪ >> time for "the good stuff." in today's edition, kentucky hairstylist sherry wood. her day off is wednesday, but she goes to a homeless outreach center and styles hair. the people she helps, she says it means more to them than anything. >> i deal with depression as well as the substance abuse and recovery, and so it lifts me up. whenever i feel better about myself. >> that's tammy benton, look how good she looks now. just one of the dozens of people sherry has helped. still sherry says she is the lucky one. >> they're all wonderful. i love them. it's like family here. it's my blessing, truly it is. >> sherry, you are also giving the blessings. for that you are "the good stuff." we want to thank wvrb in louisville forgiving thus story. they gave $500 to help her with the costs. >> some people say it's so

frivolous. it's give what you can. give what you can. >> she looked good, too. >> win-win. that's "the good stuff." time for "newsroom" with ms. carol costello. >> thanks so much. "newsroom" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. i'm carol costello. thanks for joining me. plans for american help in nigeria are now in motion. right now the pentagon is working out options on how to help nigeria rescue nearly 300 school girls held hostage by terrorists there. barbara starr has the latest development ts. cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes is on the phone with us. barbara, what are the plans? >> reporter: a senior u.s. military official told me a short time ago, and i want to give everyone the specific wording. here is what the official said. the pentagon has initiated planning efforts to