the united states. this one here on u.s. soil caught it from two mers patient during a business meeting. the newly infected man was falling ill they met 40 minutes and sitting within six feet of one another and she shook hands. the next day they had another meeting and this one shorter and when they did testing on this new patient, they found that he had been infected with mers. it's important to say that he hadn't been very sick or perhaps not even sick at all. so it seems that mers affects people in different ways but what is interesting here is that we have been talking about mers as something you get from family members or a doctor and a patient gives to a doctor. this was two business meetings, the longest of which was 40 minutes. >> yeah. that is obviously, concerning. the cdc earlier today saying it was close contact between these two individuals but this does not sound very close at all. this must be worrying. >> close appears to be in the

eyes of the beholder. for the cdc a handshake and 40-minute meeting is close. i think people think close is closer than that. or sharing food or something like that. i think this will have people concerned. i do want to say this is not a terribly easy virus to get and not like a cold and not like the flu or measles. this requires some contact so you're not getting this by passing someone in the hallway. it seems to be harder than that. but, still, it's maybe little easier than some people might have thought. >> but contracting this clearly if you get it is not good. what happens now? do they go to the families of these individuals, their friends? it takes some days before the symptoms come on so you could be talking about a large number of people. >> right. the incubation period could be as long as 14 days. this does take a long time. this is a lot of footwork for these epidemiologists to do for these disease detectives to

under take. you can imagine the cycles. now they need to go to this third man and ask him, you know, tell us about your family. we need to test them. who did you see during such and such a day and such and such a day? they have already asked him to remain isolated and not to, you know, go out there in the community. so each time this happens they have a new set of people to contact and a new set of people to interview how they are feeling and new set of bloodwork to do and it's a task but something they are really diligent about doing because this is a new virus and we just don't know that much about it. >> that is the fear. elizabeth cohen, thank you for staying on top of this. very welcome news today from the west coast where, at one point, nine separate wildfires ate up thousands of acres of dry brush, trees and several homes. firefighters in northern san diego county say they are finally winning against the fires. they say half the fires are now fully contained and the others are burning themselves out. our paul vercam is in san marco

now. the town looks different than a couple of days ago. >> reporter: indeed, it does. right now we have the lower humidities and lower temperatures and lighter wind but the other day in this canyon the fires was to extreme the fire burned through here and down in that area and this house here was lost. fire nato came up through this way and it turned all the way across. it's a fire whirl if you will or a fire funnel. came over through here. jumped this street that is called phoenix street, ironically, and burned down into here and took another house out. you have the firefighters making a heroic stand on this ridge and losing some homes and letting the acres burn. look to our left and this house was saved. so it was quite a stark contrast. what causes these? it's extreme shift in temperature just like a tornado

in a sense. you've got fires creating their own climate and in this particular instance, it was hot, hot in one area and then a dramatic drop or dip in temperature in another. they came together and that formed the fire whirl. i have to tell you i just -- i believe i've lost -- i'm not sure i'm able to hear you if you ask a question. it's good news to see right now that the winds are lighter. >> paul, can you hear me there? i think -- >> i do hear you now. i've got you back. >> you're standing on top of a hill. it's amazing the house next to you survived because the fire as it runs up the hill everything burns the hottest up top and it must have been very well protected there, yes? >> reporter: extremely well protected. not only well protected by firefighters who go into that mode of structure protection but if you look at this house, it has everything they say that you need. a composite roof. stucco. it also has in this area we have seen a lot of the drought as you well know, ice plant

doesn't burn easily and all of those little things and active brush clearance can play a big part in this because the fire just generates its own weather and it starts kicking up embers and the last thing you want is embers to land on, let's say, your redwood deck. that wood burns up in a hurry. not only the firefighting that went on at the moment but some good preparation long before this fire season, this early fire season started. >> southern california living. are all of the communities now safe? >> reporter: from what we can tell, yes. because we have this vast vista up here. at a point, you could see not just one or two fires burning here but several of them. looking off into the distance, we don't see any smoke, we don't see any active flanks of flame. we talked about those containment numbers earlier. they are all going up slowly. we know they are going to go up again in about three hours. they promise that they will. so they have got it under control but they still, cross

their fingers and keep their hoses in the ready and pick up those shovels because the last thing they want is to have a return of those devil winds and whip up some of this ash somewhere and drop it in a spot and have it flare up again. that is their prime concern right now and why so many firefighters on the line. >> mop-up, mop-up, mop-up. thank you, paul. take a look at this. this is istanbul and police disbursed runs of demonstrators angry with the government over this week's deadly mining disaster and asking the prime minister to step down. the final victims were recovered from below groued todnd today a people died. turkey's energy minister has promised a thorough investigation. african and western

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now to the hunt for malaysia airlines flight 370. a war of words is erupting what may be the most valuable clue to the plane's disappearance. malaysia says it does not have the raw data that the satellite used to create every single search area off the west coast of australia. for weeks, heart broken families have begged malaysia to release that data. the top transport official in malaysia made his position very clear. >> not with militia and not with -- so there is any request for this raw data to be made available to the public it must be made to inmarsat. >> inharassat, the british satellite company says only malaysia can decide to release any data. >> the truth is it's not our data. the data belongs to the malaysian authorities and it belongs to them for the accident

investigation work going on at the moment. it's a matter for the authorities to decide what they are going to do with their data. it's not something inmarsat can release. >> right now the hunt for the flight 370 is on hold while leaders determine to focus on the next search phase. the missing plane disappeared 72 days ago. now two airplanes nearly collided over the pacific ocean this week. investigators say an air traffic control error it so blame for the incident. correspondent renee marsh talked to a paerssenger about the it terrifying scare. >> i thought this is it. >> reporter: united airlines flight 1205 from hawaii to california cruising at 33,000 feet on april 25th. the 757's collision alert system goes off. flight 1205 in danger of colliding with a us airways jet. flight tracking sites show the

plane plunged 600 feet in 60 seconds without warning for passengers like kevin townsend. >> i'm looking down the aisle and there is hundreds of people in front of me. people start screaming. there's noises of things that weren't secured falling around. >> reporter: close calls usually come down to pilot or controller error. but sdasters almost always averted thanks to technology and controllers. >> you're going to run into the situation. unfortunately, nothing is perfect. i know that's not a comforting answer but, indeed, the system worked. >> reporter: last year, three planes were on a collision course at reagan national near washington, d.c. >> what happens at the river back there? >> stand by. we are investigating it. stand by. >> reporter: in 2012, radar tape shows that japan airlines plane nearly slammed into a cargo jet. a new controller blamed for the mistake was sent for retraining.

townsend wants to make sure near collisions are thoroughly investigated. >> i don't think there's some epidemic of near accidents occurring but it was a jarring experience dodging another plane. >> reporter: united says it's working with ntsb, which is reviewing this most recent incident. these planes were eight miles apart but at teespeeds of 500 ms an hour could be on top of each other within seconds. we know the ntsb and the faa sent investigation teams to honolulu air traffic control facility which had jurisdiction over two planes. rene marsh, cnn, washington. utterly frightening. thank you, rene. the casual observer the ocean floor pretty much looks the same but to an archeologist what looks like a pile of rocks could be an amazing piece of history. we will tell you why after a quick break.

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of t of the earliest native americans. you could describe this the littlest of the giants. they say they have found the fossil remains of a unique long necked dinosaur that is a giant. one of the largest land creatures in earth's history and lived in north america 140 million years ago but is the first of its kind found in smirk. making their mark this week, an ocean archeologist. why? because he may have just discovered one of the history's most famous vessels. >> reporter: it may not look like much. a pile of rocks, but this could

be the historical find of a lifetime. several lifetimes. how sure are you that this is the santa blomaria. >> reporter: i'm extremely confident. >> reporter: barry clifford believes this is the wrecked ship of that santa maria. the size and shapes of those rocks fit the size and weight of the santa maria but one piece of evidence that led him to his eureka moment! >> a smoking gun. columbus is described over and over lawn bards. that is a cannon they used on the santa maria. >> reporter: literally a smoking gun? >> literally a smoking gun. >> reporter: he says they are marking the spot where christopher columbus woke up on

1492 and realized his flag ship was sinking and clifford relied on columbus' diary marked up and pored over to help lead him to the wreck. >> reporter: is this the page that led you to the discovery or to believe that this was the discovery? >> it's one of the pages. about a week and a half from -- >> reporter: a league and a half? 4.7 miles offshore of cap payion and 10 feet of water. why do i feel i'm talking to indiana jones? >> i don't know, but i loved that movie! i think is there a great lesson for kids. take history and use clues to go back and solve riddles. >> reporter: if this nautical indiana jones has found the santa maria, barry clifford's name will also go into the history books. how big would this be for you

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temperatures. that is what has help exhausted fire crews get a upper happened on a wave of wildfires that sorched more than 30 square miles, including several residential communities. paul vercammen is in san diego. fire officials say it's a matter of time now. paul, what makes them so confident? >> reporter: if you look over here you can see a faint wrestling of these leaves. it's a huge improvement from what we saw earlier when these fires were wind-whipped and being driven all around. so now the focus is make sure is that none of the hot spots flare up and i was talking to one fire public information officer and he said the key is to try to spot these places by getting up above in the air. let's hear what he had to say. >> we have crews still in all areas of this fire that are cleaning up areas where there is still some hot spots. we had infrared flyovers that we

are happening out as far as the areas of greatest concern. obviously, the winds can pick up at any moment and we want to try to get it while the winds are calming down today. >> reporter: those calm winds, a good sign. but certainly devastating sight. a house lost here. to give you perspective, these are $2 million homes and you can see the entire canyon scorched below me and many canyons throughout san diego county. 20 houses lost in all and we say about 125,000 people evacuated at the peak but as you look today, the fact that we can see across the ridges and this is not filled with smoke any more certainly a good sign and yet another indication of what they wanted which was dropping temperatures, rising humidity, and a calming down of these winds. >> i take it those weather trends are going to stay on that

track? >> reporter: yes, they are confident the weather trends, for now, are going to stay on this track. of course, unusually hot for may and because of the drought-like conditions and like it sped everything up and fire season here started three or four months earlier. many firefighters telling us these are conditions they would see more normally in, let's say, august or september. >> we will pray for a very, very foggy june gloom as they typically have in southern california. thanks, paul. firefighters are working from every possible angle to extinguish these flames. yeds thinside this plane, t prepare for takeoff. >> clear left. clear right. >> reporter: during a fire, this plane is capable of dropping up to 3,000 gallons of retardant

from as low as 150 feet above the flames. what are you aiming at? >> when there is a fire you know where to aim, yeah, because you're talking to the guy on the ground. >> reporter: i'm only allowed to ride along because this is a training flight, a water drop for ryan's annual certification. >> i think that is the suburban. >> reporter: the target is to the right of our camera crew on the ground. >> nice job. >> reporter: neptune aviation based in montana is one of a few air tanker companies and planes and crews are staged throughout the united states and could be in the miles an hour minutes after getting a call. >> it's critical to get there before it gets big. >> reporter: once they get there, the adrenaline kicks in. >> you don't know you're breathing because you're just so hyperfocused on what you're doing. it's very coordinated chaos when you're over a fire jo.

>> reporter: the largest air tanker is the world is this dc-10. >> right now the fire that could call us is in west texas. >> reporter: we caught up with the plane and rick hatton, the man who helped design it, at the interagency fire center in phoenix. isn't this too big to really get close to the fire? >> that's an excellent question and it's a common misperception. >> reporter: patton says the dc-10 is the ultimate firefighting aircraft because it carries more than any other plane can carry. the two doors controlled from the cockpit. meanwhile the area where up to 380 passengers used to sit has been completely gutted, giving the pilots greater maneuver ability. >> a little bit of adrenaline going but fear? no, there is no room for fear. >> reporter: but there is danger. over the years, several accidents including this 2002

accident in california that claimed three lives and then, two years ago, pilots todd thompson and ron chambliss tied when the tanker they were flying crashed along the utah/nevada border. >> when we lose people it's very difficult. >> reporter: while there are some critics who believe tankers are too dangerous and too expensive the men and women flying and maintaining and risking their lives on these planes believe their role is critical. >> it's like artillery or air in a war. it isn't the only thing you need, but it's a vital part of a coordinated effort. >> our ultimate goal is put out the fire. our little piece of that pie is what i enjoy is knowing that, you know, we helped. >> you're clear to land. >> reporter: ted rowlands, cnn, mond montana. >> we will take a look at the

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prey to a rapist but flyers and graffiti are no doubt focusing attention on what many say is a crisis on college campuses. the sexual assault by students by students. three men were found, quote, responsible for sexual assaults by the university. cnn has obscured their names. the flyer identifies the fourth name who is, quote, a serial rapist. new york police say none of the men listed are in their database but columbia is facing a federal complaint saying the school is failing to protect sexual assault victims whose attackers are allowed back to campus. cnn spoke to three women who say they have been victimized. >> reporter: heather mcdonald wrote, it is not a rape epidemic but a culture of drunken hookups with zero checks and promiscuous

behavior. >> i don't know how you could talk about the worst night of someone's life and talk about the pain and they will them that was you being promiscuous. i think that is a level of cruelty and ignorance that i don't appreciate and i don't agree with. and it doesn't reflect what so many people are experiencing. you're never done healing from an assault. >> very brave of those women to come out. joining me is clinical and forensic psychologist jeff gardere and criminal defense attorney holly hughes.

why isn't the attackers who are disciplined by the university not getting criminally prosecuted? >> they are gone to the police. the university police conducted an internal study. the reason you heard a spokesman from the new york city police department say their names don't appear in our database which means their remains haven't been reported to appear on a police report as a suspect or an accused. a lot of times it's because of the university discourages these young women. let's face it. what is columbia? columbia is a money making institution, miguel. they don't want the bad press so they say we hold them responsible here which means we will suspend them for a semester but you have to see them in class after that, you have to run into them into the calf ffea and study hall and the library but godon't go to the police because it will ruin this man's life forever. >> jeff, what do you make of these young women coming out with these stores and telling

about it and pressing about it? >> full disclosure. i am a graduate of columbia university. the women feel they are not getting justice and it's important they tell their story. i guess what we need to figure out what really happened with these individuals, how these women were attacked, why it wasn't prosecuted. but there's no reason not to believe these young women. certainly they don't want to put themselves in the limelight in this particular way as victims of rape if they don't have to. >> i'm sure it's not limited to columbia and clearly there needs to be much, much more investigation on this. holly, columbia university has declined to comment about the allegations of the alleged rapist list put to counter the lawsuit the officials say the school has, quote, taken a measure of new measures. is that enough?

>> is isn't enough. it means you're acknowledging there is a problem if you are suddenly changing your policies and trying to add on additional steps. but what needs to happen, miguel, is these men need to be prosecuted. it need to be reported to the police. these young women need to be taken seriously. i used to prosecute these type of crimes and let me tell you something. these young women are not going to come forward and make this up, have their face put on national tv, go through a rape exam which is one of the most invasive horrific experiences after you've just been violated! then have to go in open court or in a tribunal at the college. this isn't the kind of thing you make up for attention, okay? this is a horrifying, horrifying experience. so right now, too little, too late. columbia, their hands are tied. there is a pending suit. they can't say a whole lot. they can't come on aout and say

because of the pending suit. the fact they are taking additional steps tells you they understand is there a problem but until we hold these men criminally responsible. they deserve to be brought in front after jury of their peers and judged by that standard beyond a reasonable doubt. if they are guilty they need to go to prison. >> jeff, is it your sense this is the tip of the iceberg? >> this is the tip of the iceberg. we see this happening in colleges around the nation, that the colleges, i'm not talking about columbia but the colleges are trying to protect the students. this is something who knows may have happened here but women need to be aware the rapist is still out there and a double standard we are not believing these women when they wouldn't put themselves out there if something significant hadn't happened. we need to support our women in this cause. >> thank you very much, holly and jeff. stay with us. i want to get your thoughts on this adoption case. a little girl pleading to be

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racing kre ining triple crown. california chrome won the preakness stakes. california chrome becomes the 13th horse, the lucky 13th horse, to win the first two legs of the triple crown since the last triple crown winner in 1978. all that is standing between the horse and history is a victory in the belmont stakes and that is on june 7th. now, the last time sonya's adoptive parents heard her voice the girl was begging to return to the only home she has known but a judge has returned her to her father who is a convicted criminal who has lives a thousand miles away. randi kaye has more on the law that allowed this to happen. >> reporter: this is the sound of a 9-year-old girl begging to return to the only home she had ever known.

>> reporter: that was the last time sonya's adoptive parents heard her voice, january 30th. sonya had been removed from their home, her home, in tennessee the day before. but why? sonya had been in the care of david and kim hodges since she was 2 and adopted by them in 2008. when the adoption became final, thousand liled we how thrilled were the two of you? >> we were so happy. >> reporter: that joy was short-lived and here is why. sonya's birth father john mccall is a convicted criminal. he pled guilty to transporting firearms and felon an sentenced to prison in 10 years. under tennessee law his rights were terminated because state law doesn't allow anyone incarcerated for more than ten years to have rights to a child under 8 years old.

but before his daughter's adoption was finalized, he cut a deal and got his sentence reduced to 7 1/2 years. that deal and lesser sentence allows him to assert his parental rights and fight to reverse the adoption that was later finalized. >> she has never laid eyes on this man. he's a total stranger. >> reporter: that total stranger managed to convince the court to reconsider. in november 2009, one year and 12 days after she had been illegal adopted, sonya's adoption was reversed but she continued to live with the hodges while both sides fought for custody. nearly five years later a juvenile judge court ruled that sonya should be returned to her father. >> sonya is crying her eyes out screaming bloody murder p please, mommy and daddy, don't let them take me. >> took her bags and stuff was the last i've seen her! >> reporter: just three hours

after the judge's ruling, sonya was gone. dave hodges asked john mccall to reconsider. >> i asked him to look into her eyes right now because, obviously, he is standing right there and she is begging and pleading and crying and it didn't matter. >> reporter: mccall's lawyer in tennessee told us despite repeated efforts by the foster family to terminate this child's father's rights his pa rents rights have never been successfully terminated and his daughter has been returned to his care. this is sonya's home now. we came here to omaha, nebraska, to get john mccall to answer some of our questions about his daughter sonya and his past. he had told me earlier by phone he would be open to that and to check with his lawyer. but when i got a hold of his attorney, she told me that at least for now, mr. mccall is forbidden by the tennessee department of children services to speak publicly about the case and sonya. back to that heart wrenching

phone call the hodgins recorded in january before their last conversation with sonya, this is how she described her new life. >> dirt everywhere! no clean water! no drinking water. i think there's even mold. it's so dirty! dirt all over it and it's to nasty in here! >> are they being nice to you? >> yeah. >> reporter: it's a recording dave and kim hodgin can't even bring themselves to listen to. >> anybody within in their right mind would be worried and, yes, we are terribly worried. >> reporter: randi kaye, cnn, dixon, tennessee. it seems impossible that this could actually happen. let's talk about this case. clinically and forensic psychologist jeff gardere is back along with criminal defense attorney holly hughes.

jeff, we can't forget this is a 9-year-old girl in the center of this adoption fight. how is this probably affecting her? >> as we can tell she is devastated by it and she is with her father who is a complete stranger to her so it doesn't matter they are the biological bonds which are very important, by the way. there are no winners here. i'm sure her father loves her very much but she also has an adoptive family who has shown her a life that sounds like absolutely fabulous. what i'm concerned about is if there is so much dirt, cigarettes and so on, is child welfare investigating and seeing what is going on in this home? i know i may upset some people here, but i really do believe that the father still has the right to have his child back because this is someone who has served his time. >> it is a terribly difficult call to make. holly, our cnn affiliate wate reports that during a court hearing yesterday, a judge ruled that the 9-year-old sonya hodgin

will remain for now with her biological father in nebraska. what do you make of this decision? >> well, the judge's hands are tied by the law, miguel. sometimes being legally right isn't the same as morally right. what we need to see here is see this father who does have the biological right because his rights weren't terminated. as we heard randi kaye discussing a little earlier, his sentence was reduced to under send and went to 7 1/2. the judge has to follow the law as it is written. however, this father needs to do what is in the best interest of his daughter. he need to move close to the adoptive parents, do some visitation first, work out a schedule, get to know this little girl because, right now, she doesn't know him. she is living states away in what sounds like a very physically and emotionally unhealthy situation. but the judge did what the law requires because we do, b

biological parenthood trumps. even though that is legally the correct decision i don't think it's morally the right decision. the father needs to be a little less selfish. so that she is not traumatized by his wants, his needs, his desires. let's talk about what is best for sonya. >> let me play devil's advocate here. i do believe that the foster parents are probably the best parents for her. but, again, you have to talk about a father. the love of a father for his daughter. she said, yeah, the place is filthy but he is treating her well. he loves her. this is his daughter. he has the right to have her. i wish that it could have happened much more slowly but the experts will tell you that sometimes you have to cut off the adoptive parents or the child will never make the transition back to the biological parents. either way, this is a tragic,

tragic case for the adoptive parents and for this little girl. maybe even for the biological father. >> we don't know if there are terms or probation that would keep him from getting closer. holly, another court hearing june 18th and the judge could decide at that time to make the girl's placement permanent. do her adoptive parents have any legal recourse here? >> there is always a fight and always an appeal. the only thing i can see really helping them, dr. jeff had mentioned it earlier, miguel, is if that home is so unfit that child services steps in and there are some reports done saying either he needs to get his act together and provide a clean stable healthy environment or he is not a fit parent and if, in fact, they go down that road legally, then the adoptive parents need to be returned to her. of course, he is nice to her. he wants her so say, yeah, he is being nice to her but loving a

child means they don't live in moldy, filthy cigarette infested houses. i just got to say, nice holds a whole lot of water with me here. >> i'm sure he loves his daughter, holly, but i do agree with you. it doesn't sound like it's a fit place for her to be right now. let's hope he gets some services so she can be in a healthy place. if not she should be with her adoptive parents. >> this is just heart wrenching! >> i know. >> thank you both very much. donald sterling recorded by friends. jay-z and his sister-in-law recorded having a fight. your credit card data stolen. those are the most recent examples of privacy taken away. coming up, a cnn hour of cnn special, the end of privacy. bigp our country in the lead. ♪ load! we keep moving to deliver what you need. and that means growth, lots of cargo going all around the globe. cars and parts, fuel and steel, peas and rice, hey that's nice! ♪ norfolk southern what's your function? ♪

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