against these divisive social issues, and so it's interesting that there are certain diocese that seem to be going in the opposite direction. >> reporter: for molly, enough's enough. >> thank you for standing up for your son. >> reporter: after supporting her son, molly's getting support from others. >> i know in my heart i'm doing the right thing. >> reporter: playing her diocese will have a change of heart. susan candiotti, cnn, cincinnati. you are in the cnn newsroom. i'm randi kaye in for don lemon. this hour we're fast forwarding to the week ahead. we'll take a look at all the stories you'll be talking about and hearing about this coming week. let's begin with our five questions for the week ahead. we begin with question number five. what's going on with qatar all of a sudden? it's a tiny persian gulf nation that over the past few days negotiated the release of a

captured american soldier and is also in the middle of an international sports bribery scandal. you can bet that you'll be hearing plenty about qatar in the week ahead. we wanted to know how the country's reacting to the part they played in the freedom of beau bergdahl. >> for the tiny country of qatar, this has been an extremely important development, but you might not realize it looking at the morning newspaper. this is the gulf times. the lead story is some rather esoteric story about qatar's heritage to go digital. somewhere buried in the middle of the front page -- and watch how they phrased it -- obama thanks qatar for assistance as taliban free american soldier. and that speaks volumes to how this country views what it did. very few details have been given of their involvement. they will only say that the

talks were mandated by the emir himself. that they were long negotiations. that they were part of the country's basic humanitarian principles of foreign policy. and when i asked a question of the foreign minister earlier today, he really wouldn't give any more other than a general architecture of what they've done. >> as i said, i'm not prepared to go into any details, but in any case, when qatar takes a mediation, it is not base on basic principle and that's humanitarian consideration and because qatar enjoys the confidence of all parts, it makes it easier for us to deal. >> reporter: now the really big question. how can qatar guarantee and live up to the promise that the

detainees will remain in the country for the prescribed period and both during and after will not involve themselves in terrorist or violent activities? it's been the cornerstone of the promise guarantee given to the united states, upon which so much has been relied. the truth is we don't really know how they're going to keep that promise. they've refused to give any details. as for the new regime of the emir this has been a very important arrangement. it cements his closeness and the closeness of the country to the united states. it keeps the taliban on one side, and in terms of foreign policy, it puts qatar on the map. randi? >> richard quest, thank you very much. in a few minutes more about qatar, specifically that country's relationship with both the united states and the taliban. it is a very tricky spot to be in politically. i'll have former cia officer bob

bear here to discuss. could a sudanese women sentenced to death after refusing to renounce her christian faith. her husband was raised christian and is a u.s. citizen. he says he's working with two u.s. senators to quickly secure asylum for their family. will their request be granted? question number three, what new stuff is apple set to unveil at their news conference tomorrow? and how is it likely to impact their stock? cnn's allison cossack gives us a preview. >> hi, randi. apple-gates are psyched for this week. they kicked off the conference on monday. tim cook will take the stage to announce all the cool i-stuff. what's everybody expecting? the word is a new praying system for iphones and ipads, we're also betting on new macs, but

any announcement about iphones or apple tv are much less likely. >> randi? >> thanks, allison. more on what's expected and some of the things we wish they would announce. question number two, will colorado chroco california chrome be the first horse to triple crown since 1978? only 11 horses have completed the feat of winning the derby, preakness and belmont stakes. will president obama face political repercussions for the deal that led to the release of beau bergdahl. so let's talk about the bergdahl deal with commentators ben ferguson and marc lamont hill. so national security adviser susan rice told our candy

crowley today she doesn't consider this deal to be negotiating with terrorists. and the defense secretary agrees. listen. >> first of all, we didn't negotiate with terrorists. as i said and explained before, sergeant bergdahl is a prisoner of war. that's a normal process in getting your prisoners back. >> mark, the white house obviously very sensitive to the idea that the u.s. cut a deal with terrorists. will the president face any long-term repercussions from this, do you think? >> long-term, likely not, the catch phrase and the buzz word for the day to say negotiating with terrorists -- >> all right, we're having some trouble hearing marc. ben, let me ask you. is the president going to face tough repercussions here? >> absolutely.

i think first from congress because there are a lot of congressmen who are upset that he didn't come to congress about this, first of all. and the other issue is the fact that people are trying to claim around this administration that we didn't negotiate with terrorists. the taliban is a terrorist group. we've declared them a terrorist group. the united nations has even said they're a terrorist group. they gave us five names of terrorists that we said were terrorists that we put in guantanamo bay as terrorists, and we gave those terrorists back to the taliban, a terrorist group that we claim is a terrorist group. so this idea that they're saying we didn't negotiate with terrorists, i think is an embarrassing line for the white house because i think most americans are smart enough to realize the taliban's a terrorist group, these men were terrorists. as one commander put it, these guys have blood on their hands of american soldiers and they're so important for the taliban that they asked for back a

five-year period. >> just because you keep saying "terrorist" over and over again doesn't make it any more or less true. we didn't negotiate with terrorists. we negotiated with qatar. this is a normal situation. this is a war situation. this was a prisoner of war. it's the united states' responsibility to do everything to bring a soldier home that is a prisoner of war. that's very different than just negotiating a hostage situation with al qaeda or hezbollah or some other organization in a traditional hostage situation. >> how many nonterrorists do we have at guantanamo bay? >> ben, i let you talk uninterrupted, let me finish my point here. the issue of connecting with congress is very important. the president argued some had a responsibility to talk to congress ahead of time. there are debates about that. the statement last year indicated that he compromised the powers of the commander in chief. if he waited 30 days it may have

affected his health. he had health issues. a soldier may have died if we didn't do about thp how do you make the case for someone -- >> it's amazing now that you bring this up. because for five years this deal has been on the table from the taliban. the idea that now all of a sudden there was urgency certainly is up for debate, but i would say this. how many nonterrorists do we have at guantanamo bay that the taliban wants back? they're all terrorists at guantanamo bay. that's why we have it and built it. that's what it revolves around is terrorists. to say they're not terrorists is incorrect. >> what was the answer then? how would the u.s. have gotten bowe bergdahl back. they say they couldn't reach him, it was too dangerous. what's the answer, leave him there? >> i don't know if the answer is

giving up five to one. the question is what will that mean to our future. we have people around the world that are being held against their will right now in iran. are we going to train with iran to get the pastor out of iran right now? there are a lot of different americans that are being held. one that's being held in mexico. are we going to make a trade with them for that? there's a certain standard that america's had for 50 years that we do not negotiate with terrorists if you have one of our citizens. the price of every american soldier or civilian goes through the roof in that part of the world because they know now that they atlantic trade five for one for top people they want out of guantanamo bay and there's a lot more prisoners they'd love to trade with starting tomorrow. >> marc, you want to respond to that? >> there are no problem-free solutions here. ben seems to think -- and this is telling. you asked ben a very direct question, what would you do? he doesn't have an answer.

this is the classic republican response no matter what the president does, the response is they did it wrong. >> classic, we don't negotiate with terrorists. >> this is not an issue of negotiating with terrorists. there was a third-party intermediary, the country of qatar. number two, this is not a question of five terrorists -- now these are terrorists, but these are five terrorists who were under security from qatar. they're not simply being allowed to go back and rejoin the fight. once again, this was a war, this is not a hostage situation. this was a war situation. we talk about a standard for 50 years. the one we set is if we send one of our soldiers off to war, we'll do everything we can do to bring them home. this deal was being negotiated for five years but the terms the were not on the table for five year. one of the reasons it was hard to get the deal done is because of extremists in the taliban and the karzai government. they had to get it done quickly, in less than 30 days and also this gentleman was sick.

he could have died had we not gotten him home. in all this politics we're forgetting that a young man would be dead if we didn't come and make this negotiation. >> we don't know, first of all, we don't know if he would be dead. you're saying an awful lot of information that no one else has said out there. >> i don't think his parents or the u.s. government wanted to wait and find that out. >> right. >> a good discussion as always. marc, ben, appreciate it. why did the u.s. put so much trust in the qatar government to negotiate the release of bowe bergdahl and ensure that the terrorists don't retaliate, next we'll discuss. hear from a family who claims birth control killed their daughter and why they refuse to accept a $100 million settlement from the company that made that birth control. for all kinds of reasons.eoplet i go to angie's list to gauge whether or not the projects will be done

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government today. president obama thanking the government there. all of a sudden qatar is like this rock star negotiating power. when did this happen? and i guess on a more serious note, how cautious should u.s. officials be in doing business with them? >> we are cautious because qatar plays both sides of the fence. it's hosted islamic militants for a year, khalid shaikh mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11 was in qatar in the mid-'90s. since then qatar has become a pretty good ally of the u.s., a large intelligence platform there. it's in its national interests to be a good ally of the united states. >> do you think this was a one time deal for qatar? i mean, for this purpose only? or do you thing thk this could the stage for further negotiations with the taliban?

>> i think this is a huge opening to the taliban because, again, we're leaving afghanistan. we don't intend to get in a civil war there. if there's some sort of mediation that has to occur between the united states and the taliban, the people to do it are the qataris. they're trusted by both sides. >> what do you think of these guys? how are they specifically going to watch them? is there anything in place? where will they live? who will keep an eye on them? will they have communication with taliban in pakistan or afghanistan? how does this work? >> qatar is pretty much a police state. they will be able to watch them if they want to. all telephones are monitored, airports are monitored. a very snis kated security system and they can be watched if they intend to do that. i don't know why they wouldn't for a year, just let things go, keep the five prisoners there under watch. i think they'll probably live by their side of the bargain. >> if this does happen again, i

mean, if this becomes something that the u.s. does again for any reason, can they -- can somebody like these five guys and anybody else, can they be rehabilitated? >> i think they can be rehabilitated. i think they are islamic militants but again they didn't participate in 9/11 or any attacks the on americans. they fought what they call a war of national liberation. but to class them with the worst terrorists is a mistake. rehabilitated is a big word, but i think that in the future we have to have some sort of channel to the taliban and the militants in afghanistan. there just won't be another 9/11 attack, al qaeda won't come back or else. >> bob baer, nice to see you, thank you. apple is rumored to be making some major announcement tomorrow. will it be their next big thing? plus, how would you like to get paid to spy on your neighbors? one company is asking the people

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an update to apple's operating system. new imacs, rumors those are coming out. the osx redesign, will supposedly get a major design overhaul. this one is very -- it hits close to home for me. the smart home software update that would make it easy for you to connect your home to your iphone. these are just rumors, but this could potentially happen, which is really interesting. an app called health book that would help users monitor their health rate, sleep and breathing, this is all coming out. but we'll find out. >> monitoring your heart rate on an app. okay. you mentioned the smart home. you actually got inside one of these? >> i think this trend is so interesting. i got an opportunity, a guy that founded wordpress, has a smartphone-connected home. that's matt waking up. the lights go on. it says good morning, matt. there's the kitchen. you can control everything with your phone.

i kid you not. you walk into the kitchen. the coffee starts brewing, you open the door and it will tell you, this is the weather. there's a lamp that turns red or depending on the traffic if there's a lot of traffic, the lamp will turn red. if you walk into the home, frank sinatra's "fly me to the moon." very interesting, it's a brave new world. the technology is out there. if apple makes a play here, very interesting. >> does it make you breakfast, too, your home? >> i'm homing it can cook and clean. >> way more important than breakfast. new york city, the home to more than 8 million people where officials are trying to track every single one of them. here's cnn's erin burnett. >> reporter: americans spend roughly 37 million hours a year waiting in lines. at the grocery store, for a hamburger, at their favorite restaurants. imagine if you didn't have to.

that may soon become a reality in new york where they're embracing new recognition technology that will count every pedestrian in the city. >> every neighborhood in the city walks. we really need to have an understanding what that activity looks like so we can serve new yorkers better. >> reporter: over 60% of commuters in new york travel by foot or public transit. for a city of 8.4 million, that's a lot of people to count. >> the department of transportation counts pedestrians around the city, and they send a few people, they go, twice a year and they sit there with umpire pitch counters. it doesn't really give us a view what it's like day in, day out, threw different seasons. >> reporter: a start-up called place meter is trying to change that by providing a realtime picture of new york's pedestrian traffic using video feeds around the city. >> it actually makes it possible to detect and count people. >> reporter: using online traffic video feeds, placemeter currently counts about 10

million people a day. they can even count how many people are inside a building. the city's already using the data, providing pedestrian counts to small business owners in the city's online business atlas. there's promising potential for data integration with consumer apps. >> if our data was instead of yelp or google maps, you could set up an alert telling you that restaurant that you wanted to try but is always packed that right now is the right time to go. >> reporter: today the company only covers 25% of the city. to help count the rest, place meter is offering to pay residents to stream video from their own windows. >> tomorrow we're going to start detecting and classifying gender, then age, then we'll start detecting people with strollers or with bags and things like that. >> reporter: detection technology rapidly improving an obvious concern is whether their systems will be able to track the details of our daily lives. >> what we do is turn video

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life-threatening blood clots is double with a device called nuv ra ring. nuva-ring has been available in the u.s. since 2002. 830,000 women use it. studies have shown that the number of those rare side effects are low. fewer than 11 cases per 10,000 women who used it for a year. but a recent story in "vanity fair" detailed some of these dangers and allegations and we wanted to look further into it. we found families struggling to understand their loss and demanding better education of doctors and the public on nuva-ring's potential side effects. among them the family of erica langhart. >> i learned more from her than she ever learned from me. she was an amazing young lady. >> reporter: was an amazing lady, past tense because in november 2011, just days before thanksgiving, erica, at 24, suddenly collapsed in her virginia apartment.

karen and ring wock wondered wh could have caused their vibrant daughter to collapse. 2,000 miles away they had no idea what paramedics were up against. >> she had a heart attack, and then two more on the way over to the hospital in the ambulance. and then another one in the hospital. and she never woke up. >> reporter: erika was dead. she'd been a healthy 24-year-old. so immediately the question, why. the answer would come as a shock. something they were never told about. something tens of millions of women in america might not know about. when you were speaking to the emergency room doctor, did he ask you anything about what your daughter might have been on or if she was using birth control. >> he asked if she was on birth control and what type. i said she was and it was a nuva-ring. >> what did he say in response?

>> there's a link between nuva-ring and pulmonary embolisms. >> reporter: nuva-ring, one of the most popular birth control products on the market. the manufacturer says 44 million prescriptions have been filled for women in the united states alone. hospital records cited nuva-ring as a lisk factor for causing a blood clot to break free and travel to erika's lungs, cutting off her oxygen instantly. the manufacturer merck acknowledges a small risk of blood clots but stands by his product saying there's substantial evidence to support the safety and efficacy of nuvaring. since the 1990s there has been a study saying that while third level progestins are safe they're twice as likely to cause blood clots than those used in older birth control pills. merck denied our request for an on-camera interview, instead giving us this statement. while there's a small risk of a blood clot while using nuvaring

or any combined hormonal contraceptive, this risk is much less than the rick of blood clots during pregnancy and the immediate postpartum period. without admitting any wrongdoing merck settled the class action lawsuit and agreed to pay $1 million in damages. but the langharts did not settle, insisting merck be held accountable for what the family said was merck's failure to properly warn users of the risk. according to the study that risk is fewer than 11 cases for 10,000 women who used nuvaring for a year but double the incidence of life-threatening blood clots from older pills. be sure to tune in for my full series of investigative reports on this starting tuesday night 8:00 p.m. eastern time. e-cigarettes and saturday morning cartoons. an odd and troubling pairing that you'll be hearing more about. elizabeth cohen told me why.

>> so here's the issue. the people who make e-cigarettes say, hey, these are for adults, but it seems like they're being advertised, according to various experts, on things that kids watch. so channels like comedy central or abc family and mtv. and so there's this real concern that even though they say that they're not advertising to children, that children are certainly seeing these ads. so we're expecting to hear more about that in this coming week. everywhere i go i see people using these e-cigarettes. i read so much about them, so many mixed reviews. are they as dangerous as regular cigarettes? >> randi, i think one of the reasons it's hard to know is they're so new that there aren't a lot of great studies. the cdc says we don't know what it means for your health to inhale these e-cigarettes. but there is one thing they do know, these e-cigarettes work with this liquid nicotine and it gets heated up. the concern is that as the e-cigarettes are being filled

that kids' fingers or anybody's fingers might come in contact with the nicotine. this isn't just a theoretical worry. the calls to poison control centers have gone up. people, it gets into their skin. not like a burning feeling, but they actually get sick because it's gone into their skin. they inhale it. it's the filling of the e gunn cigarette to a large extent that's the concern here. >> i hear there's news about a promising new cancer treatment. >> that's right. the american society for clinical oncology is going to be meeting this week. the biggest cancer conference of the year. and we're expecting to hear some news about amino therapy. right now if someone has cancer, basically you're given for the most part chemotherapy and radiation. chemotherapy and radiation, they kill cancer cells but they also kill healthy cells. for years doctors have said how can we just target the cancer sell cels? immuno therapy is helpful that way. it trains the body to fight off

cancer the same way it would a cold. i had the pleasure of meeting with a teenager named nick wilkins. he had leukemia. there were no more treatments. he was at the end of the road. he was able to get immunotherapy and 18 months later he's doing great. again, there was nothing left for him to try. he did have some side effects but they were very short lived. wasn't like the ones that chemo has where they sort of go on and on. there's a lot of promise in this treatment. we'll be hearing about big studies coming out of this conference. >> and he was doing great and feeling good, which is different from a lot of people who are taking the chemo. >> that's right. a lot of times chemo will just put you out. you're fighting the cancer but you can't really enjoy life. he was doing great, learning how to drive. we went to school with him. just a great kid. >> that's amazing. great story. we look forward to that. elizabeth cohen, nice to see you. >> thanks. and some sad news just in to

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in world war ii. it was the largest seaborn invasion in history. thousands died and it was seen as a major turning point in the war. cnn's jim bittermann is in france with a preview of what to expect this week. >> reporter: randi, friday is the big day here in france for the 70th anniversary of d-day. something of a test for french diplomats because in addition to inviting the heads of state of the former allied powers like president barack obama and queen elizabeth, the french have invited vladimir putin, the russian president, who is being shunned by the rest of the leaders because he sent troops to invade the ukraine and just adding to the diplomatic delicacy is the fact that they've invited petro poroshenko, the newly elected leader of the ukraine. it could be a diplomatic opportunity as well. apart from that, there will be nearly a thousand world war ii veteran here's for the big commemorations which would include air shows, mock

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fast forwarding now to saturday and the belmont stakes in new york. and the question everyone is asking, can california chrome become the first horse to win the triple crown since 1978. let's bring in cnn's laura rutledge. 11 horses have won the triple crown, 12 others have won the derby and the preakness then failed at the belmont. >> i think california chrome has a great chance at winning the belmont stakes but also becoming the first triple crown winner in 36 years. on saturday, he had a workout run, and he ran a half mile in 47.69 seconds. that's really fast. and he also seemed to have a little extra left in his tank even after all that. here's the thing about the belmont. it's the longest of the three races at 1 1/2 miles. the kentucky derby is 1 1/4 and

the preakness is 1 1/16. it won't be easy for him. he faces off against commanding curve, wicked strong and sambra. they did not race in all three races. they is up to the task, he loves thele cha eng. he's truly the people's horse. loves all this extra attention he's getting. some wondered if the extra attention would wear him out. i think it fuels him. if you believe in this sort of thing, horses with names starting with the letter "c" have won the belmont stakes 20 times. that probably also plays in his favor. i don't know about wiyou, but ii ever have a horse racing in the belmont, i'd name him with something with "c." >> i say that's a pretty good idea. i wonder how you did all that research but appreciate that.

now, the way, way forward. giving you a major heads up about something coming up not this week but soon enough to start thinking about. when you hear the words "crime-ridden hellhole" does that sound like the place that tourists would travel thousands of miles to visit? it is when it is hosting a world cup soccer game. it is a city you can only reach by plane but it will host games on june 12th. it is deep in the amazon near the equator. to prepare for the humidity england's team is practicing in three layers of clothing. it's one reason soccer fans are asking what were they thinking giving the world cup tournament to brazil? yes, the country has a rich history when it comes to soccer, but recently it also had this -- a bus strike in the biggest city, sao paulo, one that affected a quarter million people leaving them crammed into the few buses and trains that were rolling. what if this happens during the world cup? no one even wants to think about

that or this, protests against the tournament in the same city from people who say they don't care about the world cup but do care about homelessness. all of it has fans, coaches, players and organizers very worried. is brazil ready? the answer is, sort of. >> reporter: a bustling city of 2 million carved out of the amazon jungle. where weekends are spent frolicking on a beach along the mighty rio negro. it is also a world cup host city where it turns the out england will face off against italy. england's coach said it would be the worst possible option because of the heat. british tabloids kicked up a fuss calling manaus one of the deadliest places on earth. so we decided to ask some british backpackers what they thought. what's your immediate

impression? >> i wouldn't want to play football here. crime-ridden hellhole was the headline. >> i think mamaus is the safest city we've been to. >> reporter: the problem is big and growing, but they say it's concentrated in poor slums and they've stepped up security. the main challenges facing fans headed to manaus may be logis c logistical. the only way in and out is by plane and the four-hour flight from rio de janeiro or sao paulo will cost $600 abo. the airport is a construction site. no indication the works will be done before kickoff. there are some advantages to the city's unique location. manaus may be a concrete jungle, but it doesn't take long to get out on the amazon and even visit indigenous villages. [ speaking foreign language ]

this tribe greets visitors with traditional dances and hand-made crafts. tourism is now their main source of income. the world cup is really important, he says. we've never seen so many visitors like we're going to see this year. but he says tourists may not get everything they want. since he predicts brazil will win the world cup title this time on home turf. coming up, an entire family disappears from their home. years later their bodies are found buried in the desert. and police still have no idea who did it. ♪

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it is a mystery that's haunted the san diego area for years. a family of four disappears from their home and police still don't know who killed them or

why. >> there's the house. >> this is the house? >> february 2010. a young family of four building their american dream vanishes from their home in suburban san diego. no signs is of a struggle. >> don't go anywhere without the stroller. >> or any parent plans to flee. gone without a trace. >> there is no way they left willingly. >> then, nearly four years later, 100 miles from their home -- >> 911. what are you reporting? >> i found what looks like bones. >> mother, father and two young sons found dead. buried in shallow graves in the mojave desert. >> that has never happened in

this county. >> brutally murdered. >> so cold blooded that they killed children? >> how did they get there? who killed them? exclusive interviews, surprising clues. >> whoever did this to the family had this well planned out. >> who killed the mcstay family? buried secrets, who murdered the mcstay family, tuesday night at 9:00, right here on cnn. i'm randi kaye, my special report from coasta rica, "love & death in paradise" begins right now. >> the following is a cnn special report.