>> i could not have won the case, i could not have gotten the death penalty without forensic science. early 6:00 a.m. on a saturday morning, but hopefully, you don't have to do anything but just lay there and relax. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. 6:00 now. this is "new day saturday." at first this morning, armed american drones are flying over the skies of baghdad. >> north of the iraqi capital, a health official says air strikes have killed seven citizens in the city of mosul, which was seized by isis militants two weeks ago. iraqi officials say seven iraqi

soldiers also died when isis soldiers attacked a military basis 53 miles south of baghdad. >> there are reports of executions and questionable killings being committed by both sides. human rights watch say mass graves full of police, soldiers, civilians killed by isis have been found in saddam hussein's hometown. >> amnesty international say iraqi government forces have executed sunni prisoners, apparently, they say, in revenge against isis. >> let's bring in cnn senior international correspondent, arwa damon now, she's in baghdad. arwa, there are disturbing reports of these executions, we've talked about, by both sides here tell us more about those. >> reporter: let's start with the human rights watch support. that comes after human rights watch launched a fairly extensive investigation, looking at satellite imagery, thousanowg that they do firmly believe that hundreds of people to include those ranging from iraqi

security forces to civilians were executed, their bodies dumped into shallow mass graves in saddam hussein's hometown of tikrit. but atrocities are being committed on both sides. cnn has been looking into the reports of the execution of sunni detainees at the hands of iraqi security forces, as they have been evacuating various locations throughout the country, ahead or during the isis onslaught. those, according to information that we obtained, that has also matched up to information obtained by amnesty international, taking place in baquba, but also in telefarr and mosul. one witness we spoke to described how iraqi guards entered his cell where he was staying with 36 other people, opened fire with a machine gun. he says that he was amongst one of the only survivors. and with these mounting atrocities on both sides, this is only contributing to the hatred and the sectarian divisions, as we are watching

iraq unravel. >> we're getting some news right now that iraqi air force carried out air strikes on various isis locations within the city of mosul. that's just coming down to us. and we also know that the top shiite cleric in iraq, he is urging an expeditious formation of the government there, thinking that this is what's going to help really solidify this country and thwart everything that's going on. arwa, how quickly might that actually happen and how likely is it that al maliki, the current prime minister, will still be in charge? >> reporter: well, this is iraq at the end of the day. if we look back to the last government formation process, that took around six months. grand ayatollah, the top shiite cleric, is trying to urge a speedier government formation process.

now, according to the constitution, basically parliament is meant to be convening for the first time on tuesday. during that session, they're supposed to elect a speaker of parliament and his two deputies. there is then a 30-day period that would see parliament voting on a president and his two deputies. and then the timetable basically moves forward. what he is urging is a speedier government formation process, speedier than that timeline that has been laid out and most certainly speedier than we've seen government formations in the past. this is key, because how that government comes together is going to have a direct impact on the violence. this is a country where historically politics and violence have gone hand in hand. as for the fate of prime minister nuri al maliki, will he be a candidate moving forward? where there have been growing calls for him not to be. we have been hearing that from various sunni opposition leaders. we've been hearing that being alluded to by various shia leaders as well, and the kurds have made their position very

clear. they do not want to see al maliki in power once again. but it's going to be a very tricky process moving forward, christi and victor. >> arwa, thank you. we're getting a little more about these iraqi air strikes carried out in mosul. four locations, according to several sources there. 'tissist headquart issis issistg to reports, seven civilians killed, two others injured in the air strikes, according to the general director of the health directorate there in mosul. >> meanwhile, those armed american drones that we mentioned earlier are flying over baghdad, we know. and the reason is to help protect 180 u.s. military advisers there. but this is coming, of course, as iraq's prime minister slams the u.s., and of course, this evidence emerges of those purported atrocities. >> chief national security

correspondent, jim shudo has more. and we have to warn you, we know the hour and that some of you are quite sensitive to these images. some of you may find these images disturbing. jim? >> christi and victor, american drones are now flying over baghdad and no longer just the observe and report kind, but the kind that can kill. but still, air strikes are not part of the u.s. mission there. >> reporter: american drones armed with hellfire missiles are now patrolling the skies over baghdad. but they will not go after isis targets, flying instead to provide protection for 180 u.s. military advisers deployed to iraq. >> they are prepared to use military force from the air, if necessary. >> we're certainly prepared, you know, if the commander in chief decides that he wants to employ air strikes, our job is to be ready to do that as soon as possible. >> reporter: frustrated by the lack of american air support, iraq has now turned to russia,

buying secondhand russian fighter jets. just the latest in a string of american adversaries from syria to iran, now aiding iraq. iraqi prime minister, nuri al maliki, slammed the u.s. in an interview with the bbc, saying iraq could have repelled isis advances if the u.s. had delivered f-16s first ordered three years ago. >> translator: if we had air cover, we could have prevented what has happened in this country. >> reporter: those f-16s, say u.s. officials, are just weeks away, though maliki has also asked for air strikes on isis by american war planes. syrian jets are already carrying out strikes on isis targets. this is some of isis' work. two mass graves believed to contain bodies of iraqi soldiers, police, and civilians murdered in saddam hussein's hometown of tty chris. they murder tleed groups of men,

numbering in the hundreds. the group claims the death toll even higher. while the u.s. still deliberates military action in iraq, secretary of state john kerry met with the president of the opposition in syria, following a white house decision to seek $500 million to train and equip moderate syrian rebels. >> in light of what has happened in iraq, we have even more tube in terms of the moderate opposition in syria, which has the ability to be a very important player in pushing back against isil's presence. >> reporter: that aid to moderate syrian rebels is a step that some people, even within the administration, have been pushing for for more than two years. and there are critics say that at least part of isis' strength in iraq can be blamed on the administration's lack of action in syria. here at home, a texas man tried to leave the u.s. to join

ranks with isis in syria has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges. michael todd wolf now faces up to 15 years in prison. police nabbed him earlier this month. in a separate incident, also in texas, a second 23-year-old man is facing terror charges. he's accused of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and trying to recruit others to commit violence jihad. rahatto khan also faces 15 years in prison. a scathing new report shedding light on the growing v.a. scandal now. 77 facilities are under investigation this morning for delayed care. now, the report prepared by an obama administration aide, cites, quote, significant and chronic systemic failures at v.a. hospitals nationwide. and it goes on to say that a corrosive culture and weak leadership is what crippled the agency. also around fire, the 14-day scheduling standard for appointments, which the report

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you know, it's been almost four months -- >> good heavens. >> since this flight, malaysia airlines flight 370, vanished. and even this far along, we're learning new details about the plane's final hours. according to a new report, australian officials say the pilots may have been in an an, quote, unresponsive state, after suffering oxygen deprivation. >> the doomed flight likely maintained cruising altitude, they say, flying on auto pilot for some five hours before it ran out of fuel and spiraled

into the southern indian ocean. the massive search now will move south, away from where crews had been looking. >> let's put this at a perspective. the new search will take place in an area roughly the size of the state of west virginia. so a large area here. let's dig deeper with cnn aviation analyst and former inspector general of the department of transportation, mary schiavo. it's been a while! good to have you back. >> it has been. at least we have some news and gna new direction for the investigation. >> let's talk about it. does the new report rule out the plane's disappearance as an intentional act, now that they're talking about this as being on auto pilot? >> well, some people say that it doesn't, but the fact that it was on auto pilot for such a long period of time, they believe, and the fact that they now are pretty well convinced that the crew was unresponsive, it does not leave a lot of pilot suicide, hijacker, nefarious

criminal scenarios that make sense. particularly when they look at behavioral profilers and they look at the information that they have from prior crimes or similar crimes, and they say it just doesn't fit with a pilot suicide and it doesn't fit with a hijacking, because no one has taken responsibility or credit for a criminal act, from outside forces. so, that's one of the reasons that they are leaning towards this theory of some kind of a rapid deprivation of oxygen, could have been from a fire or malfunction of the oxygen system. and then the pilots only have an hour of oxygen, if they get their oxygen masks on. >> okay. so, this new information about the fact that they believe the whole plane was unresponsive, my first question that came to my mind was, how do you know? we don't have a plane. we don't even know where the thing is. what technology is being used to make these determinations at this point? >> well, they don't have a lot to go on, but what they're going

son is there was absolutely no, apparently, from the satellite pings, is that there was no deviation or change in the plane's flight pattern. now, people think that it's easy to fly straight and level and continuous, but as a former pilot, i can tell you, perfectly straight and level and no deviation flying is actually very difficult, because your plane can be buffeted by the winds, i mean, even a slight change in the positioning of your aircraft or the ailerons or the rudder can change its course. so the fact that it they would such a steady course was an implication to them that it was on auto pilot and nothing changed and that would be very unusual for someone, for a live, conscious person in the cockpit not to make any changes to the course and direction or any of the flight characteristics for five hours. that's pretty tough not to touch anything. >> let's talk about this new search area, moving farther south in the south indian ocean. actually, earlier this month, an outside team of experts, they pointed to a specific location that overlaps with the area

where australian officials plan to look now. are you encouraged by this overlap? >> well, i'm encouraged by the overlap and also that so many things -- and not just this latest information, but all of the previous information from inmarsat put it in this general area -- now, general is a pretty broad term, meaning, we're talking about originally, hundreds of thousands of square miles, and now we're down to 23,000 square miles. but an arc, maybe 100 or 200 miles long. and to put that in a different perspective, ownther than sayin you're searching in an area the size of west virginia, you're searching for that area, but looking for a plane in the grand canyon. because under the ocean, it's just tremendously uneven and craggy and mountains and valleys. and that's why they are encouraged by one other fact, and that is that the united states, in years past, had mapped part of this ocean floor. so, they do have some things to go on, to begin with. they are going to try to map more of it, and they'll have

three, up to three submersibles this time. and that's why they're saying it's going to take about a year. >> a good thing to remember, a grand canyon the size of the state of west virginia. >> that is a great visual. mary schiavo, so good to see you again, mary. thanks for being here >> thank you, my pleasure. so, consider this. this woman stopped working, she was then fired. >> this is bizarre! >> but then she refused to leave a california family's home. now there's a new turn this morning involving the woman being called the nanny nightmare. plus, two georgia parents facing charges this morning. police say they kept one of the their ten children in a basement, locked up for years. sea captain: there's a narratorstorm cominhe storm narrator: that whipped through the turbine which poured... surplus energy into the plant which generously lowered its price

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ago. a health official says seven civilians were killed in today's air strikes. number two, nobody knows really what she was up to last night, but the so-called nightmare nanny was spotted in a car outside of a california police station. okay, so diane stratton hid under a blanket and refused to comment when ktla approached her. the nanny is still apparently refusing to move out of the home of the family who fired her earlier this month, but police have said that this is a civil matter and they cannot intervene. number three, a georgia couple is in custody after being accused of locking their 13-year-old son in a small basement room for two years. police are charging them with child cruelty and false imprisonment and the boy was found in a room was nothing but a mattress and a bucket he used as a toilet. the boy and his nine other siblings, by the way, have all been taken in by child services now. the funeral for 22-month-old cooper harris, who died after being left in a hot car for

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this escalating crisis in iraq. armed american drones are now patrolling the skies over baghdad, as islamist militants creep closer to the capital city. >> let's talk about it with cnn military analyst, retired air force colonel rick francona. colonel francona, thank you so much. as we were talking about earlier, we know now that the iraqi air force has carried out these air strikes on isis targets in mosul. what do you make of the developments there this morning? >> this is nothing new. they've been doing this for quite a few days now. they've been using their mi-35 helicopter gunship, a russian-built platform, very, very capable, heavily armed, can put a lot of ammunition on target. i'm a little disturbed with them going into market areas and using these heavy weapons there, and of course you're going to take civilian casualties. but politically, this is a good thing. this shows that the iraqis are not willing to seed the entire western part of the country. they're not going to put their ground troops up there. they've pulled those all back to defend baghdad, but at least

they're making an effort to blunt isis' advance. >> the report there, seven civilians killed and two others injured as a result of these air strikes. i want to ask you about something the prime minister said about the u.s., actually blasting the speed of support, saying that isis' advance -- this advance might have been avoided if iraq had secured the fighter jets it's been trying to buy from the u.s. is this, in your estimation, a legitimate argument? >> no, it's a cheap shot. these f-16s that the iraqi have purchased have been under contract for some time. the scheduled delivery date for the first f-16 into iraq is september. everything is right on schedule. we've delivered some of them to the iraqis in ft. worth where the pilots are undergoing qualification training. everything is on schedule. no one could foresee that they were going to need them earlier. and it's hard just to turn around aircraft deliveries. there's a lot of things that have to go with that, a lot of equipment and a training package and everything else.

so i think maliki's shot was really uncalled for and i really don't think that he's going to be able to get russian aircraft in the skies that quickly. i don't know if his pilots are qualified. if he does, they would be from the previous iteration of the iraqi air force. so i really think he's just talking. >> there's also this report that they're investigating reports of atrocities on both sides. we're talking about mass killings, execution of prisoners. when you're talking about something like that from not only isis, but also the iraqi military there, how does that complicate our u.s. intervention? >> oh, this is a human rights nightmare, because there's such animosity between the -- and let's talk about the two warring parties here, the sunni and the shia. the kurds are kind of out of this. you've got a lot of years of animosity and this is based on centuries of problems between these two groups. so when you're in that proximity

and people are in fear of their lives, this is what happens. and you know, all civility breaks down. and we're going to see more of this, not less. >> complicated issue on several levels. colonel francona, thank you so much for helping us sort it all out. >> sure. >> thank you, sir. well, for the first time, the father of a california shooter who killed six people and injured dozens, more than a dozen others, is breaking his silence. up next, we're hearing from peter rogers, in his own words, about why he's coming forward and speak out about his son's horrific actions.

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well, for the first time, we are hearing from the father of eliot roger. remember, he is the student that killed six people and injured 13 others during a shooting is and

stabbing spree just last month near the university of california and santa barbara. >> well, in an exclusive interview with abc's barbara walters, peter rogers says that he did not see the mass murder coming and says every day he's haunted by his son's actions. >> it's like a reverse nightmare situation, when you get to sleep normally, you have a nightmare and you wake up, and oh, everything's okay. now i get to sleep, i might have a nice dream, and i wake up, and slowly, truth of what happened dawns on me, and that is that my son was a mass murderer. and then i think about the victims and i think about what he did. and i'm trying to process it. this is the horror story. this is the american horror story, or the world's horror story, is when you have somebody who on the outside is one thing

and on the inside is something completely different. and you don't see it. >> in an open letter to abc news, roger said his son was not evil, was mentally ill. and this is what he wrote. "i tried my best to do my duty as a father, but obviously my best was not enough. my duty now is to do as much as i can to try to stop this from happening again. too many lives are being lost." that's a quote there. >> let's talk more about this with licensed psychologist, dr. eric fisher. thanks for being with us again. i want to get your reaction to what you just heard. >> well, you know, in zen buddhi buddhism, there's a saying, make music from suffering. when life happens to us, we can something of it or being buried by it. we can try to make understanding out of paining and turn that into a translation of learning and growth and healing for

others, that's a very positive and powerful thing to do. and i think that's what the father's trying to do, because he knows his own personal loss, and he can probably relate to other people's losses, that lost people not only through his son's actions, but through some of these other actions that we've seen in the news, that have been horrific happenings with other teens and young adults. >> and we know he did recently speak with one of the fathers of one of the folks that was killed. his son actually had been killed during this killing spree. what do you think of rogers' decision to come forward and speak directly to these victims? how does it help? >> it's incredibly courageous, but also, i can't imagine the survivor's guilt that he feels and the number of, you know, moments in a day that he questions what could i have done differently? but it's a sense of empowerment for him to do something with what's happened, with a situation that feels so helpless. as he said, you know, there's his son ideal self that he

showed the world and the feel self that he kept inside, that ultimately came out through this very real action. and it's very difficult to understand that. but as we look at our own feel, real, and i deal selves, and you know, how we show them differently, we can begin to understand what happens inside of somebody, when you hide it and bury it for so long and don't get the help, it cans almost grow in some ways like a cancer and it permetes and grows and bursts out. police are looking for this woman. she's accused of beating a mom in front of this mom's 2-year-old child. we want your reaction to the video that has gone viral now. and the fact that bystanders did nothing to help.

brutal beatings caught on cell phone video, it's sadly become a regular occurrence. but this one especially gut wrenching. >> a new jersey mom violently assaulted in front of her 2-year-old son. she was kicked and punched is while bystanders, they didn't jump in, they took out their cameras and filmed the thing, leaving only her 2-year-old son to defend her. and he tried. >> yeah, he tried. cleave brian of cnn affiliate has the story. and we have to warn you, what you're about to watch,

absolutely, is disturbing. >> mommy! >> reporter: it was a brutal beating, salem police pulled from youtube. this is the result. katherine frarra suffered a broken nose and concussion, as well as extensive bruises and cuts to her face. >> i could have been dead right now, she hit me in the right spot, it would have been over. >> reporter: frarra says she used to work at mcdonald's with the suspect, who police have identified as 23-year-old latia harris. she says the fight started over workplace gossip, which she admits she took part in, but never imagined it would go so far. >> this is not good for anybody. you don't look good, i definitely don't look good. it doesn't look good. >> reporter: in the video, a group of what appears to be teens or pre-teens stand by gawking, while frarra's 2-year-old son is the only one trying to intervene. >> after that, i became so much closer to my son, because, it's like, he didn't care what was going on, he wasn't afraid, he just wanted to defend his mom,

so that is -- that's my world right there. like, i love that boy so much. >> police will charge harris with aggravated assault and making threats against the victim and her son. >> you bet get yourself [ bleep ]! >> frarra studies biology at salem community college and hopes her injuries won't interfere. >> i have a dream and right now it's just a dream, but i have a dream to become a surgeon. >> all right, let's talk about this. we have dr. eric fisher with us. he's a licensed psychologist. >> and before we tackle the assault itself, obviously, i think what is most shocking is that you see this 2-year-old kicking and crying and screaming to help her. and other people, they almost look like they were walking around her, just to get a better view of what was going on. how does that happen? >> well, this is a topic we call bystander apathy. and it basically has been happening probably for as long as humans have been alive, where they see something happening and nobody acts. there's a diffusion of

responsibility and they often take their lead from other people. if one person may have acted, other people may have jumped in, but they were looking to other people. it's a surreal situation that you often can't believe that this is happening, that you're seeing it. you're also looking at your own sense of safety and what happens if i jump in and i'm the only one or i end up getting hurt, so there's a self-protective aspect, but i also think there's a socialization to it too. you look at this 2-year-old, who's not socialized into our culture yet, and here he is doing the bravest thing of anybody in that whole group. he didn't even stop to think, if that person tea's getting hurt, need to act, and that's what he did. and i salute the courage of him and i hope he continues to be socialized that way. two, stand up for something that's going wrong. >> the chief of police there released this statement. i'm going to read a portion of it. there's a moral and social breakdown in the fabric of our society, which is clearly evident when a woman gets

pummeled in broad daylight in front of her child while a dozen people pull out their phones to record the incident instead of calling for help. there's so little regard for human life by the actor and by the bystanders. is he right? is there this breakdown in society? we know there are websites and entire television shows dedicated to video like this. >> i wouldn't say it's a continued breakdown of society, i would just say we're adding cell phone to it. but in that way, i think it's such a quick reaction that i think people, like i said, are just getting a view of something that just looks surreal. when we add the cell phone thing, it appears very impersonal and very cold. but like i said, the bystander apathy effect has been happening for as long as people, and we all need to prepare ourselves for what we do in these situations. we need to do mental rehearsals of what i would do if something happened, because the more we prepare for something, the more likely we are to act.

because we know what's in our own makeup of what we can do. so ask yourself a question. really, if this happened, how would i react and what would i do next? call 911? do i assist? stay out of it? ask other people to help? these are questions we ask ourselves so this doesn't keep happening. >> lastly, is this 2-year-old going to remember this? >> even if he doesn't remember this, to me, it still stays in his unconscious. it's still part of his language of the world that he has seen and that he will speak. it's how his parents talk to him about it. the words, do they help him to see that he was strong and brave and courageous and help him to do something with this, or do they just say, let's just forget that and leave that behind. he really needs to sort it out and talk him through and have people around him who can help him effectively do that. >> dr. eric fisher, thank you so much for being with us. we appreciate you breaking it

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i want to dedicate this song to all the lovers tonight. and i expect that might be the whole world, because everybody needs something. >> that is a classic. >> yeah, the world of soul music has lost a legend this morning.

rock 'n' roll hall of famer bobby womack has died. he was 70. >> he was diagnosed with alzheimer's disease, and this is a wretched disease, he was having difficulty remembering his own songs. but soul fans will not forget them. here's nischelle turner. >> reporter: bobby womack began his long career as a guitarist for sam cook and aretha franklin. he proved his raspy, soulful voice was one of a kind when his solo career took off in 1967, with his first song, "trust me." one of womack's early songs he sang and wrote, "it's all over now," was even re-recorded by the rolling stones. it became their first number one song in the uk in 1964. ♪ but it's all over now. >> reporter: born in cleveland, ohio, the singer/songwriter was known for such hits such as "looking for love," "women's got to have it," and "if you think

you're lonely now." ♪ his song, "across 110th street," which was a hit in 1972, found a new audience when it was featured in the credits of quentin tarantino's film, "jackie brown." the r&b singer finally got his due in 2009, when he was inducted into the rock 'n' roll hall of fame. >> i want to thank you all so much. >> reporter: three years later, womack released his album, "the bravest man in the universe." in the making of "the bravest man in the universe," the soul man was humbled by the experience. >> everything kept falling like it was supposed to fall. there was no craziness, it was about music. that's what impressed me the most. >> reporter: though womack continued to perform, he had various health concerns, including prostate cancer, colon cancer, and pneumonia. and in early 2013, he was

diagnosed with alzheimer's disease. the singer was saddened by the diagnosis, reportedly saying, how can i not remember the songs that i wrote? considered to be one of soul music's greatest artists, womack's contributions to music won't soon be forgotten. >> classic line of that song, "when you think you're lonely now," i want to tell you about this woman of mine, always complaining that i'm not at home, but when i'm there, i'm broke. >> you're not going to sing it for us? >> no, no, i'm not going to insult the man by trying to sing his music. >> i understand. yeah, well, we'll keep playing a little bit more of his. >> we'll have a few throughout the morning. >> thank you so much for starting your morning with us. >> next hour of "your new day" starts now. this morning, he's been on a slow boat to the u.s. now the alleged mastermind

behind the benghazi attack that killed four americans could land on u.s. soil this weekend. a live report from the white house, straight ahead. also, a community is saying good-bye to 22-month-old cooper harris this morning, after he was found dead in a sweltering car. this, of course, as investigators have now retrieved new evidence, they say, off his father's computer. and that father is still the prime suspect. you're to the going to believe what they say they found. that's coming up. and you know it's hot in brazil, but you have not seen anything yet. i was going to say "ain't," but checked my grammar. >> you're allowed to. >> team usa getting ready to take on belgium. we'll take you to the center of the action. "your new day" starts now. coffee, oatmeal, orange juice, whatever is on the menu, you are on our menu. we're just glad that you're here. i'm christi paul. >> can we get some bacon in there? just for good measure. i'm victor blackwell, 7:00 on the east coast.

this is "new day saturday." >> we want to beginning with the suspected mastermind of the 2011 attack on the american mission in benghazi, that's expected to arrive in the u.s., as soon as this weekend, he is. >> reporter: ahmed abu khattala has been spent most of the past two weeks being interrogated aboard the "uss new york." as it nears the coast, he's set to be flown to a secret location to await federal trial. >> it's that decision that's whipping up a new political firestorm, let's call it. erin mcpike has the latest for us. >> reporter: upon revealing ahmed abu khattala's capture nearly two weeks ago, president obama revealed the terrorist will now face the full weight of the american justice system. >> it's important for us to send a message to the world that when americans are attacked, no matter how long it takes, we will find those responsible and we will bring them to justice. >> reporter: but as khattala awaiting trial here in washington, republicans are

blasting the administration, insisting he should have been sent to guantanamo bay first. >> before he's turned over to civilian authorities, the fbi and all our intelligence agencies, cia and others, should interrogate him, as long as they have to. because i'm not that concerned about a criminal conviction. we're going to get that, ultimately. but it's important we get as much intelligence out of him as possible. both as to what happened in benghazi, who planned it, how it happened. >> reporter: a senior administration official has insisted the government will try to collect all the intelligence it can from khattala, as it does from all terror suspects. in the meantime, congressional republicans are planning hearings soon to further investigate the 2012 attack. and added to the trial, a looming question over how the two events could affect hillary clinton's political future. >> i took, as you know, ten years, to bring osama bin laden to justice. it's taken more than two years to bring this perpetrator to

justice. but ahmed abu khattala has been very much on the minds of our law enforcement, our military, and our intelligence professionals since that night in september of 2012. >> erin mcpike joins us now from the white house. is there a timeline, any start date, potentially, for this trial? >> reporter: well, victor, it could all start as soon as this weekend, that khattala could appear here in district court, in washington, d.c., and when that happens, it could be a real mess here in washington, because it's going to require substantial security to move khattala from where he's being held to that courtroom, christi and victor. >> all righty. erin mcpike, thank you so much for the update. we appreciate it. i want to talk to you now about the fighting in iraq. we've learned some new moves here by the iraqi military this morning, as they take aim at islamist militants who have overrun the country's second largest city. >> a senior cnn military

official says that they have carried out air strikes today on separate military target s in mosul. the targets included the militant tease headquarters. a top health official tells cnn that the city's health directorate and a shopping district were also hit. and when you say shopping district, you know there are civilian casualty. seven civilians have been killed. >> mosul is a five-hour drive from baghdad where armed american drones are flying in the skies to protect the u.s. military advisers who are there in the city. >> cnn's senior international correspondent, arwa damon, joins us now from the capital city of baghdad. arwa, are you hearing anymore details about this situation in mosul? >> reporter: well, those air strikes did take place, seemingly, the iraqi government's attempt to try to send a clear message to isis militants, but the great concern, of course, is that throughout the entire country, and places that isis does control, as we were mentioning there in mosul, they are

embedded amongst the civilian population. and while the fighting has seen one of the largest movements of people in such a short period of time, displace families, is that there is still a significant number of civilians that remain in these areas. we've also heard from the spokesman of defense, talking about an offensive that the security officials were launching against the city of tikrit, saddam hussein's hometown, saying that they have managed to recapture it from isis militants, who reportedly have fled towards mosul and also towards the province of kirkuk. there the front line being held by the kurdish fighting force. and the general was also talking about how the iraqi government expects to receive fighter jets within the next few days. remember, not too long ago, that few days ago ago, the prime minister telling the bbc that they were expecting a delivery of fighter jets in russia and belarus. that, of course, great concern to the civilian population, who do continue to fear an

indiscriminate bombing campaign by the iraqi government, victor. >> so arwa, i want to ask you about the u.s. drones in the skies over baghdad. iraq's prime minister, of course, is insisting, as we understand it, that the capital is safe from isis. do you feel safe? do the people there feel safe? can you help us get a sense of the situation there? >> reporter: look, to put it quite bluntly, iraqis have never felt safe. they have not for quite some time, not since the u.s.-led invasion, one could, in fact, argue. right now in terms of daily violence, daily bombing on baghdad, they do still occur, albeit at a slightly lesser level, but people are very frightened by this potential for an isis defensive, because even if isis does not manage to storm baghdad, as one may imagine, there are various sleeper cells that do already exist within the borders of the capital and there have been numerous car bombings

that are geared towards the shia population. so it might not appear as if it is going to be this massive offensive, from numerous different directions, although already various reports that isis is trying to penetrate baghdad, from at least four different points. the violence could very easily reach the capital in a different dimension. you could once again see the capital, divided along that patchwork of sunni and shia neighborhoods, and at a stage where you don't have the u.s. military to even try to begin to rein it in. so iraqis are living in a heightened state of fear and anxiety, arguably more than they ever have in the past. because their future is more uncertain at this stage than it's ever been. >> arwa damon reporting for us there in baghdad. arwa, thanks. >> let's take a closer look at the u.s. options this iraq at this point. >> joining us now is retired u.s. officer, douglas oliphant. former director for u.s. counsel during the bush and obama

administrations. >> so douglas, as international human rights, this is the other thing we're hearing this morning, these rights groups are continuing to investigate reports of atrocities by both sides in iraq of mass killings, of the murder of prisoners. how do those things, coming from both sides, complicate any u.s. intervention? >> well, they certainly complicate things. we know that isis has done these atrocities. they're advertising them, they're reveling in them, they're taking great pride in what they're doing. they could easley be occurring on the other side as well, we don't know that, they're certainly not talking about it. but they have the potential to accelerate the sunni/shia conflict and bring people who otherwise wouldn't participate in this conflict, you know, neighborhood gangs, things of this nature, unorganized militias, into the conflict again. >> so, christi just brought this up a moment ago, in the conversation with arwa, the

prime minister's assertion that baghdad is safe. he says, and i'm going to read the quote here, we have an army to respond to the catastrophe that has occurred and baghdad is safe and cannot be exposed to instability. in the context of the soldiers that we've already seen abandon their posts and get rid of their weapons and uniforms, what credibility do you give that statement, that baghdad is different than mosul and any of the other cities that have been taken by isis? >> i think most of us do think that baghdad is different than mosul, but it's certainly easy to understand someone's skepticism about that claim. but i think most analysts do think that the iraqi army will stand up for baghdad, that particularly the shia conscripts will make sure that the cotmy of shrine, which is on the north side of baghdad, is not exposed to isis, you know, can't be torn down or blown up or attacked. so we do think we'll see a little more spine in the backs of the iraqi army as the fighting moves closer to baghdad. >> well, we know, you know, diplomats are telling cnn that

the u.s. is not likely to launch any sort of strike there in iraq before isis, you know, or against isis, before any sort of government is formed. before there is a formation, we know that the top cleric in iraq is calling for this expedited formation of the government there. but how likely is it that that could even happen? and will nuri al maliki, the prime minister, be involved in a new government? >> well, there's a lot of questions there. i think these two things are going to occur on two different timelines. there's going to be, at some point, a battle for baghdad. i thought it was going to occur faster, i think most of us did. but it seems like the offensive has slowed down. at some point, there's going to be a fight around baghdad. then there's going to be government formation. we know that's going to be slow. i don't believe it's possible for them to work through the process and get a new prime minister before mid-august, earlier, and i would say september is more likely.

so if a major offensive occurs in baghdad before we have a new government, then we'll be forced to make a decision as to how we react to that, one way or the other. and as to whether it's the prime minister, i think we'll just have to see. he is certainly, because of his earlier vote share, still in the dominant position in iraqi politics. >> all righty, douglas ollivant, thank you so much for your insight. we really appreciate it this morning. >> thanks, douglas. >> thanks, christi, victor. tragic accident or murder? that's the question surrounding the death of a journgeorgia tod who died after being left inside a hot suv for seven hours. nick valencia is following this story for us. nick? >> reporter: a somber day here in tuscaloosa, alabama, where the funeral for 22-month-old cooper harris is expected to happen this afternoon. i'll have the details in the investigation after the break. you're watching "cnn new day saturday." okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu.

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later today, the funeral for 22-month-old cooper harris, the georgia toddler who died after he was left in a blazing hot suv, will be held in tuscaloosa, alabama. >> his father, justin ross harris, behind bars facing charges included felony murder. police originally described the incident as a result of a tragic, absentminded father. >> but this morning, the investigation has turned into something more sinister. the big question now, whether harris intended to kill his son. for those who know harris, they say that that just does not add up. cnn's nick valencia has more from tuscaloosa for us. >> reporter: in his hometown of tuscaloosa, alabama, friends say what justin ross harris is accused of doesn't make sense. family friend, carol brown. >> it's just hard to imagine that that could happen.

that that could have really happened. it just seems out of character for ross. and i know people change, it's been 15 years or so since we've had contact in the church. so, you know, people change, but i -- it's just hard for me to imagine that that is the ross, the sweet ross harris, this sweet little funny boy, that we knew. >> reporter: harris grew up here, a city about an hour outside of birmingham, known mostly for its historic college football team and civil rights history. as a boy, he spent a lot of time at the university church of christ, going on retreats and making people laugh. this is the family home that ross harris grew up in here in tuscaloosa. we just knocked on the door and his parents answered saying that they did not want to comment to the media. friends and family that we've spoken to off-camera say that the man police say is charged with murdering his 22-month-old son is not the man that they know. harris graduated from central

high school in 1999. for the next several years, he stayed in tuscaloosa, employed a to the university of alabama, first as a parking monitor and later as a mail delivery clerk. and then in 2006, he found work with the tuscaloosa police department as a dispatch operator. it would be the same year he married his wife, leana, who also grew up in the area. he would stay in tuscaloosa until 2012 to earn a bachelor of science degree at the university he once worked. and then it was off to atlanta, georgia, for a new job as a web developer for home depot, a move that would change his life. back in his hometown of tuscaloosa, his family and friends have been instructed by a lawyer not to talk to the media. all of them waiting to find out if little cooper's death was a tragic mistake or something else. >> nick valencia joining us live now from tuscaloosa. so, nick, we know police have seized computers from the

father's office. what have you learned about that? >> reporter: yeah, good morning, christi. we know that a source close to the investigation told hln's nancy grace that on his work computer, justin ross harris' work computer, there was a search for how long it takes an animal to die in a hot car. now, we don't know who did that search or when it happened. those details are expected to emerge in search warrants that could be released as early as today. they could, perhaps, also tell us motive and why police remain unwavered in their belief that justin ross harris meant to murder his son. another note on those computers, leana harris pb the wife of justin ross harris, and the mother of that little 22-month-old cooper harris, she requested photos to be removed from her husband's laptop so she could use some of those photos of cooper harris here at the funeral that's expected to happen later this afternoon. her request was denied by the cobb county police department, according to an attorney. victor, christi? >> nick valencia, thanks for keeping us up to date on this

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number three, the man who hit the number one hit in the uk has died, bobby womack. he was just 70 and a victim of alzheimer's disease. his career as a soul singer and songwriter spans 50 years and he'll be remembered for that stone's hit, "it's all over now," and many of his own, including, "if you think you're lonely now." >> wait until tonight. number four, hillary clinton is under fire for a massive speaking fee. students at the university of nevada want clinton to give back the $225,000 she was paid for an appearance this october. a lot of the students bristled at paying that amount of money, especially since tuition has recently gone up 17%. a university spokesperson disputes the link, saying the money came from a private donation, not tuition funds. and number five. i am sorry to tell all of you folks in minnesota there, that what you're seeing is more of

what you can expect. flooding, the upper mississippi valley could get hit with damaging winds and hail. i want to show you some aerials here too. the st. paul half of the twin cities has really been hit with some of the worst flooding here. karen maginnis is in the severe weather for us with an update right now. who's the target today, karen? >> reporter: there are about 18 million people that are at risk for showers and thunderstorms today. could see an isolated tornado. a very stubborn weather pattern, just does not want to give up across the upper mississippi river valley, and the central plains. this morning, garden city county, kansas. they have seen some street flooding there, but upstream from the mississippi river, heavy rainfall over the last several days, and indeed, another round of showers and storms for minneapolis, as we go through the afternoon and evening hours, all the way from fargo to minneapolis, des moines, kansas city, oklahoma city, as i mentioned, about 18 million people today under the gun for the risk of severe weather. a smaller area, but nonetheless,

risky area coming up for sunday, from minneapolis to sioux falls to omaha, to kansas city, so watch out. the pattern is setting up where we're seeing this heavy rainfall. that's why the big rises across the mississippi and other rivers. i want to show you the fire situation in arizona. this between show-low and springerville want 5,000 acres already have burned here. it is hot, it is dry, and firefighters say they don't know what started the fire. it's too hot and too dangerous to go in to investigate. we'll be back. >> hey, karen maginnis, thank you so much. this morning, there is a major shift in the hunt for missing malaysian airlines flight 370. so we're almost four months into the search here. this 777 boeing en route from

beijing to kuala lumpor. >> this map shows where crews will begin scanning the bottom of the ocean floor. that will happen in august. the new search zone is about the size of west virginia. >> this morning, there are also new questions about the flight's final hours. according to a new report from australian officials, the pilots were likely incapacitied after suffering from oxygen deprivation. also in this report, a revelation that the jet may have flown on auto pilot, until it ran out of fuel, possibly then spiralling into the ocean. let's talk about this with cnn analyst and director of special projects for woodhole oceaning ofic institution. >> so how do they know that the crew and that the people on board were incapacitated? we don't have a plane or any

debris. what technology are they using to discern this? >> that's a great question. and they don't, in fact. what the report really says is it seems like the plane was credibly flying in more or less a straight line. and that would be consistent with pilots being rendered unconscious by hypoxia. it doesn't rule out other causes for that kind of potential behavior. so they're not really asserting that the pilots were unconscious, but as a for instance, this is one reason why the plane might have flown like this. >> david, help us understand this new search area, much larger. and as we learned in the initial, say, 6 to 8 weeks of this search, we don't know a lot about this body of water. >> yeah, victor, it's one of the most unknown pieces of our totally unknown ocean, as it is, and it's incredibly rugged in places, incredibly deep in places. so it's going to be chabllengin,

and right now, there are two ships making the first real maps of the sea floor. i think we're going to see some pretty spectacular topography coming out of that. but it's going to be pretty challenging. >> so, jeff, if the plane was on out pilot and then it crashed, would it be a violent crash, or would it kind of glide down to the surface? there's still no explanation of no debris anywhere. >> yeah, i mean, that's a huge part of this riddle. the plane, if the scenario that's outlined in this, i should say, very interesting report, full of information, it gives us a much more complete picture than we've ever had up to date. so it's very exciting that this has been released. but the assumption that the authorities are playing are right now is that the plane flew on auto pilot until it ran out of fuel, it would have hit at extremely high speed and been pulverized into many small pieces.

s so it's not the scenario where the plane landed gentle and sank and went in one piece to the bottom. there should have been massive amounts of debris. it's a huge puzzle, why haven't we found floating debris, that's a great question. >> what will this search look like? last time, it was the one blue fin 21, doing the lawn mower pattern, up and down, up and down, hour after hour, are we going to see a single submersible here, more than one? what's it going to look like, david? >> yeah, i think, victor, because there's such different kinds of terrain that you're going to find that the atsb is in the process of this right now, choosing exactly which vehicles, which ships, which tools, which teams to put to use. so we're probably going to see a bit of everything, but most of it is going to be exactly how you describe it, a lot more lawn mowing back and forth. the trick here, victor, is to not leave a spot unsearched. you don't want to leave an opening where that plane might be. so they'll be very methodical about how they map the sea

floor. >> so jeff, is there anything in this report you call so interesting, any one specific thing that you would like to know more about, that's missing from it? and why do you think it took so long for the report to come out? >> there's really been two mysteries this entire time, almost four months, incredible. on the one hand, the mystery of the plane, and on the other hand, the mystery of the behavior of the authorities. and we still don't know much about where the plane is, but we know a lot more about the kind of logic that the authorities were using, as they were shaping the search. so what we're left with now is we're trying to, we are, who are independently observing this search effort, are trying to really narrow down and understand why the authorities are looking where they're looking. and that's something that's a lot of outside experts are trying to piece together right now. they're looking at a very wide area. it's going to take at least a year to start to search this area. and we don't really have a good sense of, is this really the best strategy? is this type of analysis really the most appropriate for the data that's provided? you know whereby but it's very

heartening that they've opened up to a great extent, a lot more than before. they've opened up their data, opened up their reasoning, and i think it's going to become a much more democratic and open process, which i think is very encouraging. >> okay, david gallow and jeff wide, we appreciate your insight. thank you for being here, gentleman. >> my pleasure. >> thanks. parents are now facing allegations of child abuse after their missing son is found alive in their basement. you probably saw the moment from nancy grace's program over on hln. but now the family's attorney is saying the kid is not so innocent. >> oh, boy. >> you've got to watch this line here. we'll have the latest on this investigation, coming up. [ female announcer ] hands were made for playing. legs, for crossing. feet...splashing. better things than the joint pain and swelling of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. if you're trying to manage your ra, now may be the time to ask about xeljanz. xeljanz (tofacitinib) is a small pill,

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all right, folks. this is one of those moments where you're watching the television and you're thinking, am i seeing what i really think i'm seeing here? take a look. >> we are getting reports that your son has been found alive in your basement. >> what?! >> yeah, this father learns his son, who's been missing for 11 days, had been missing for 11 days then, was found alive in his basement, on television, and the case since then, it's only gotten more bizarre. his mother has been taken into custody. and when we say mother, we're talking, the boy's stepmother, taken into custody, on apparently unrelated charges. >> alexander field is following the investigation from detroit this morning. good morning, alexandra. >> reporter: christi, victor,

there are still no charges in this case, but the 12-year-old boy, are charlie bothuell, is talking to police, presumably telling them more about where he was during the 11 days he was missing and what happened to him. charles bothuell, tight-lipped -- >> i can't, i've got to listen to attorneys. >> reporter: barred about how his body ended up barricaded in the basement. >> if you could talk to your son, what would you say to him? >> no comment. >> reporter: but the father's attorney is defending him, saying 12-year-old charlie was a troubled kid, becoming particularly upset, after he learned he would no longer be home-schooled. troubled, ow? >> he'd been failing in school, been kicked out of a couple of schools, and he told his son, charlie, the responsibility is now going to be you. you're going to have to go to school like everybody else, and if uh dwroent go to school and the public school, i'm going to have to send you to a military academy. >> reporter: attorney mark

magnetson says she doesn't know where charlie spent 11 days or how he ended up in the basement. as for the couple at the center, a growing suspicion, charlie's father and stepmother, he calls them very caring, very loving parents. when nancy grace broke the news live on air that his son was alive, this was bothuell's reaction. >> -- reports that your son has been found alive in your basement. >> what?! >> reporter: police say the 12-year-old couldn't have constructed the barricade, which included a 55-gallon container, on his own. they haven't ruled out child abuse after finding a pvc pipe and bloodstained clothing. >> seems to be more than just the case of a missing boy, but some sort of a family dynamic that may have been taking place. >> reporter: no charges have been filed, but in a bizarre twist, monique dillard bothuell was taken into custody for a violation of probation after police said they searched the home and found a firearm. earlier this year, charlie's stepmom pleaded guilty to purchasing a pistol without a

permit. her husband was in court to support her, but he hasn't seen his son since he was found wednesday. charlie disappeared after being scolded for not doing chores and exercises. >> when he first got there, he was overweight, frankly. my client, being an rn, being in the medical field, was acutely aware of the problems with child obesity. yes, he asked him to work out on the elliptical. was it punitive? no. >> reporter: was this little boy ever in danger in his own home? >> never in danger in his own home. >> reporter: he says neither of his clients ever hurt or abused the boy. charlie has been taken to the hospital to be checked out by doctors and spoken to child psychologists and right now he's with his biological mother. >> alexandra field, thank you so much. >> we'll get some of them answered hopefully a little bit later in the show when we talk to our legal team. but let's turn to technology. let me ask you your opinion here. does bigger always mean better?

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all right. here's the billion dollar question. iphones or android? >> iphone. >> iphone. >> me too. >> all right. according to nielsen if you own a smart phone there is a 94% chance one of the two is in your pocket right now and both apple and google are doing just about everything they can to win your business. >> bloomberg's reporting that apple is going to make their phones bigger. the new phones will reportedly have a display screen 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches across. what does that mean to you? it is a big leap from the 4 oich display on the iphone 5 s and 5 c right now. >> cnn's technology analyst joins us live from new york.

good morning. i've got two, one issued by work and one i have myself. >> right. >> if they increase the size of the screen another inch and a half diagonally what will i do with these huge phones? is this a good idea? >> people seem to want these larger phones. as we saw on the graph apple is up against all the big hd phones coming from htc, samsung, the google nexus phone is also a larger screen. so the four-inch screen we all loved when it first came out, slightly smaller when the iphone first came out has become sort of dwarfed by comparison. the extra inch and a half what that is really going to get you or in the prior case extra 0.7 inches, what that is really good for is all the mobile video we like to be consuming and the video games we like to be playing while on the go. that is really where the screen real estate makes the most sense. the problem we're up against is

we are running out of space in our pockets for these things because a 4-inch phone is a lot. that's the size of most wallets. a 5-inch phone, 5 1/2-inch phone, we're talking more about what we like to call the fablet or a phone and tablet in one. you look silly when you're walking down the street talking on it. just throwing that out there. >> how long do you think it'll be before we see the new iphone? >> rumors suggest september. that actually lines up really well with what apple is doing. they're going to roll out the new ios, ios 8 which is expected to be out also in september and usually they line those things up at the same time where they have the new phones come out and the new operating system come out so existing users get the new ios 8 and new users line up for the previous week to get their hands on the new phone. >> all right. >> let's talk twitter. >> yes. >> over the last week, some users have apparently had access to a new feature called retweet

with comment. >> yes. >> what is this? >> now, you know, i love what they're doing. i think this is a great idea for twitter. twitter has been struggling a little bit since they've gone public to remain relevant and stay active and keep all their user base. what they'll let you do now is when you get those tweets, maybe you get the cnn alert that says, you know, the u.s. advances in the world cup and there is more information and you want to retweet that to your followers, you've always been limited to that 140 character cap. if what cnn sent out was 100 characters then you only have 40. now what they're going to let you do is quite awesome. they'll let you retweet the whole tweet that was sent out with any picture and information. you can see it there on the right side of your screen. then you get to add in whatever you want. then you actually get back all 140 characters. i think this is a really good step for twitter. they're really trying to hold on to the 140 character thing they've been well known for but

now they'll basically give you 280 characters but with some exceptions on retweets. >> all right. just so you know, twitter hasn't given any official comment about the chances of this becoming reality but they do note online, i thought this was funny, it's rare for a day to go by when we're not releasing at least one experiment. >> pat yourself on the back, twitter. >> they have a great attitude about all of this stuff. i like how they roll out features. it randomly pops up on people's twitter feed. they dress the feedback that they get and then roll it out if everybody likes it. a good way to do business. >> well, it works for them i suppose. good to see you this morning, brett larson. happy saturday. >> thank you, brett. >> thank you. you, too. >> let's talk about the immigration crisis. it's getting personal for one of our own here at cnn. wait until you hear her story, coming up. spokesperson: the volkswagen passat is heads above the competition,

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america is caught up in the debate over illegal immigration. thousands, many of them children, pouring over the border each year. recently, alone. >> this is understandably a big problem. however, it's still made up of a lot of individual stories. one of them belongs to cnn's rosa flores who came to the country legally and offers some personal thoughts on this complicated issue.

>> reporter: i grew up in progresso, texas, which is a tiny town in south texas, very much surrounded by mexican culture. for example, my grandmother's 90th birthday was very much like it with mariachi, a large cake, a lot of people. it sounded very much like mexico but was very much in america. when i was born, the border was less complicated. there was no wall between progresso, texas and nouveau progresso. as a matter of fact, it was so uncontroversial that my parents who were legal residents of the united states actually drove to mexico so that i could be born. my mom says that i was born in mexico for economic reasons. they couldn't afford a hospital in the united states. my dad worked in a dairy farm. my mom stayed at home with the kids. i'm one of five. they just couldn't afford it.

but we were educated in american schools. i was the first to graduate from college. even getting a master's degree. i actually feel very lucky that my parents were here in the united states legally and they became u.s. citizens. [ speaking in other language ] >> my mom says that she wanted the power to vote so she could have a say. she did not want to be a legal resident alien in her own land. she wanted to be a u.s. citizen in fear that something along the border could change. and now we all know that the border has changed. >> be sure to watch "documented" a cnn film tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. all righty. 8:00. smack on the dot here for you on a saturday morning. i hope it's treated you well so far. >> thanks for waking up with us.

we're beginning this morning in iraq where we are now hearing that iraqi security forces are claiming a major victory. >> according to iraqi state television troops have retaken the northern city of tikrit and have driven isis militants out. this is new information just coming to us here. the military also on the offensive in iraq's second largest city of mosul and an iraqi military official tells cnn iraqi war planes have fired missiles at isis targets there but that seven civilians have been killed in the process. >> as iraqi soldiers patrol towns around the capital there is also fighting going on just south of baghdad. iraqi security officials say seven soldiers died and 29 others were wounded when islamist militants attacked a military base today. >> the fighting ramps up and the pentagon says it is sending hundreds more missiles to iraq to help the government try to keep back isis. >> armed american drones are now

also flying over baghdad, sent to help protect u.s. military advisers there. the evidence is also emerging of reported atrocities by both sides in iraq. >> our chief national security correspondent has more. i want to give you forewarning. it's early in the morning but there are some images here that you may find quite disturbing. i just wanted to give you a heads up. let's get to jim. >> reporter: christi and victor, american drones are now flying over baghdad and no longer the observed and report kind but the kind that can kill. air strikes are not part of the u.s. mission there. american drones armed with hell fire missiles are now patrolling the skies over baghdad. but they will not go after isis targets flying instead to provide protection for 180 u.s. military advisers deployed to iraq. >> they are prepared to use military force from the air if

necessary. >> we're certainly prepared if the commander-in-chief decides that he wants to employ air strikes, our job is to be ready to do that as soon as possible. >> reporter: frustrated by the lack of american air support, iraq has now turned to russia buying second-hand russian fighter jets. just the latest in a string of american adversaries from syria to iran now aiding iraq. the iraqi prime minister slammed the u.s. in an interview with the bbc saying iraq could have repelled isis advances if the u.s. delivered f-16s first ordered three years ago. [ speaking in other language ] >> translator: if we had air cover we could have prevented what has happened in this country. >> the f-16s say u.s. officials are just weeks away. malaki has also asked for air strikes on isis by american warplanes. syrian jets are already carrying out strikes on isis targets. this is some of the isis work.

two mass graves believed to contain bodies of iraqi soldiers, police, and civilians murdered in saddam hussein's hometown of tikrit. a new report by human rights watch analyzed isis photos and concluded the militants executed three groups of men numbering in the hundreds. the group claims the death toll even higher. while the u.s. still deliberates military action in iraq, secretary of state john kerry met with the president of the opposition in syria. following a white house decision to seek $500 million to train and equip moderate syrian rebels. >> in light of what has happened in iraq, we have even more to talk about in terms of the moderate opposition in syria which has the ability to be a very important player in pushing back against the isis presence. >> that aid to moderate syrian rebels is a step some people even within the administration have been pushing for for more than two years, and there are

critics who say at least part of isis's strength in iraq can be blamed on the administration's failure to act in syria. >> all right. jim sciutto, thanks. iraq's military spokesperson says that today additional fighter jets will arrive in iraq within the next few days. >> he is not saying who is supplying them, but we want to bring in our cnn political analyst in washington for us here. he is also the senior national security correspondent for "the daily beast." josh, thank you so much. today iraq saying it is clear the northern city of tikrit -- that they have cleared tikrit of isis militants. do you think maybe we're beginning to see the first of some sort of turn-around by the iraqi military? >> good morning. it is too early to call it a turn-around. the city of tikrit is very symbolic because it is close to baghdad and it was the home of saddam hussein and his tribe. but this is just the first in what will be a series of high pitched battles between the

newly bolstered iraqi security forces, flush with thousands of recruits including reinforcements by shia militias against the newly bolstered isis forces also getting recruits flowing in from all over the region. tikrit, mosul, are key battles but we should also note isis has taken the fight to many other places. they are now threatening the air base which has its own air force which they could take over. they are threatening border points along the jordan border, the syria border, so as you just reported, they're south of baghdad. so it's good that the iraqi army is now engaged in the fight but this is the beginning and not the end and it is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better. >> let's talk about the latest attack on that base you just brought up there south of baghdad. most of the cities and towns that have been taken by isis are north of baghdad, a few in the western anbar province. we saw in syria there along the border as well. but this is just 50 miles south

of baghdad in a stronger shiite stronghold there. what is the significance of that? >> the significance is twofold. one, it is isis's stated strategy to surround baghdad and place it under siege. baghdad has been bolstered by lots of reinforcements. it's going to be very hard to take baghdad. but it would be relatively easy to encircle baghdad. this is exactly what they're trying to do. the second significance is as you mentioned this is a shiite area. one thing isis has been doing has been attacking shiite muslim religious sites. this has the potential to put an extra degree of seriousness to the ongoing sectarian violence. now, if there is going to be some solution to the crisis it's going to have to involve some sort of agreement between shiite and sunni leaders especially tribal leaders and the more isis can attack shiite areas the more they can prevent that agreement from happening. that is definitely part of their strategy and what you're seeing now. >> we're talking about the u.s.

drones flying over baghdad now but the iraqi prime minister malaki blamed the u.s. for the iraqi army retreat earlier saying if they had had more of -- more support from the u.s., had the fighter jets it wanted, it would have been able to hold up isis in some of the northern areas. do you think that's a legitimate statement? >> i don't think it's a legitimate statement actually for two reasons. one, we've seen that the iraqi army over the last few years has been corrupted, weakened by actions taken directly by malaki and his supporting it. so it is not clear that if they had had extra weapons that they would have been a fighting force that would have acted responsibly and effectively against isis in the first days. also, the u.s. has provided a ton of support. we have to remember for over ten years to the iraqi army. billions of dollars. lives lost in the effort to train and quip them. at some point they have to stand up for themselves. i think that's what you're

seeing now. the u.s. can and will support them but ultimately it is going to be their fight. i think everybody knows that. malaki is trying to deflect blame for a lot of the problems he contributed to. >> we'll see how long malaki sticks around. cnn political analyst, good to have you this morning. >> thanks, josh. >> good to be with you. more than a million iraqis have fled their homes amid all of this fighting and a lot of them have little more than the clothes on their backs. you can help. just go to cnn.com/impact. here at home, a texas man whom prosecutors say tried to leave the u.s. to join ranks with isis in syria has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges. police nabbed 23-year-old michael todd wolfe at a houston airport two weeks ago when his wife told an undercover officer he was ready to die for his religion. he faces up to 15 years in prison. it could be as soon as this weekend the suspected mastermind of the deadly 2012 attack on the american mission in benghazi is due to arrive in the u.s.

>> he has spent most of the past two weeks being interrogated aboard the u.s.s. new york. as it nears the coast, he is set to be flown to a secret location to await federal trial. >> it's that decision that is whipping up a new political firestorm. erin mcpike has the latest for us. >> reporter: upon revealing his capture nearly two weeks ago, president obama announced the alleged terrorist who spearheaded the attack on the u.s. mission in benghazi will, quote, now face the full weight of the american justice system. >> it's important for us to send a message to the world that when americans are attacked, no matter how long it takes, we will find those responsible and bring them to justice. >> reporter: as he awaits trial here in washington, republicans are blasting the administration insisting he should have been sent to guantanamo bay first. >> before he is turned over to civilian authorities the fbi and

the cia and others should interrogate him as long as they have to. i'm not that concerned about a criminal conviction. we'll get that ultimately but it is important we get as much intelligence as possible out of him both as to what happened at benghazi, who planned it, how it happened. >> reporter: a senior administration official has insisted the government will try to collect all of the intelligence it can as it does from all terror suspects. meantime congressional republicans are planning hearings soon to further investigate the 2012 attack. added to the trial a looming question over how the two event could affect hillary clinton's political future. >> it took as you know ten years to bring osama bin laden to justice. it's taken more than two years to bring this perpetrator to justice. he has been very much on the minds of our law enforcement, our military, and our intelligence professionals since

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left him in the back of his suv while he went to work, his 22-month-old son was dead probably long before he tried to resuscitate him. >> opened the back door, pulled his child out, laid him on the concrete, tried to resuscitate him. >> leaving him inside the hot

suv for seven long hours. >> it seems like it's a rush to judgment. >> i think it is impossible for this to have been intentional. >> you'll be entering a plea of not guilty at this time. >> more questions this morning about the georgia father who left his son in a hot suv for seven hours while he went to work. >> those close to the investigation saying the police have collected new evidence in the case. i want to go out to cnn's nitus alabama right now where the funeral will be held in a few hours. what is the latest from police here? >> reporter: well, police maintain they believe justin ross harris meant to leave his 22-month-old son cooper harris in that car for seven hours under the blistering summer sun in atlanta, georgia. temperatures that could have reached more than 120 degrees in that car over time. what we doan know is why they believe that and what the motive is. those details may emerge later today as early as today and

search warrants that we expect to be released by the police we may have those questions answered. but for people here in tuscaloosa, it just doesn't really match up, this murder charge against a man they call ross harris just doesn't match up with the person that they know. he is described as charming, a sweet man, someone that just wouldn't have the capability or really the desire to do something like this. people here call him a great father and they don't like this negative attention that justin ross harris is receiving in the media. >> i covered the story here in georgia for the better part of the week, the entire week. you're now in alabama. we've been communicating via e-mail. what i've noticed is the hesitancy to speak with reporters, that you had to go through a lot of nos to get to someone to tell us what you just relayed. >> you know, victor, i've never been part of a story where so many people are as reluctant. it is the over arching sentiment

here. everyone we've come across. we spent a large part of yesterday and the day before canvasing this area and flocking on doors. people were politely telling us to leave and mefr never come back. they don't like the negative attention. i knocked on a door yesterday and they asked me to leave and said they don't want people like us here. i did speak to carol brown, a close family friend, a friend that hadn't spoken to the family in a couple years but knew ross harris as a teenager. she says, victor, she has the same questions as everyone else. why would ross harris go back to the car in the middle of the afternoon? how could he have not seen his 22-month-old son, a son who was already talking and verbalizing, how could he have not seen the son in the back of the car? having said that, those questions that she has, she says there has been a rush to judgment and that we don't know everything that happened. take a listen to what she told me. >> it just seems out of

character for ross. i know people change. it's been 15 years or so since we've had contact in the church. so, you know, people change. but i -- it's just hard for me to imagine that that is the ross, the sweet ross harris, sweet little funny boy. >> that seems to be the over arching sentiment of everyone we've spoken to here from his work place at the university alabama where he was once a parking monitor as well as a mail delivery clerk as well as people we've spoken to off camera, both family and friends. they just can't believe justin ross harris would have the ability to do something this horrific. >> and people who even don't know him can't believe this. >> no one wants to believe it. >> right. and as we said many times during these reports, he is absolutely innocent until proven guilty. we still must ask these questions. nick valencia there in tuscaloosa for us, nick, thank

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4th of july is just a couple days away now. >> if you're one of the 41 million people who are going to hit the road, you'll feel the pinch at the pump. >> summer gas prices are at their highest level in six years. >> good morning. >> hey, the national average price of gas this 4th of july weekend expects to be $3.68 a gallon according to triple-a 20 cents higher than last year and the highest since 2008. usually gas prices fall in june but it didn't happen this year mostly because of the turmoil in iraq. still, the national average for gas prices is nowhere near the all-time high of $4.11 a gallon. we hit that back in 2008. crude oil topped $140 a barrel at that time. right now it's just under $106 a barrel so we're not even close to the record highs. still, analysts are sort of eying the situation in the

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admit it. doesn't saturday feel good? i'm christi paul. it does. 30 minutes past the hour right now. >> i'm victor blackwell. let's start with five things you need to know for your new day. up first we go to northern iraq. islamist militants are coming under attack from iraqi warplanes and troops. iraqi security forces say they've driven isis fighters out of the northern city of tikrit. iraqi warplanes struck isis targets in mosul and there are reports seven civilians were killed in the air strikes. number two, today is being touted as the national day to stop separating families. immigrant families and advocates plan to hold demonstrations across the country to protest deportations that split relatives up. in the meantime, the top democrat in the house nancy pelosi heads to south texas to talk with border officials about the recent wave of undocumented children. number three, the fight over same sex marriage rages on in indiana shortly after the state's ban on same sex

marriages was overturned. a circuit court of appeals approved an emergency motion friday evening effectively putting all same sex marriages on hold for the time being. sides will be able to take their arguments to federal appeals court. number four the funeral for 22-month-old cooper harris who died at being left in a hot suv for hours is going to happen today in alabama. the boy's father justin ross harris is still behind bars and faces charges including felony murder and will not be at the funeral. harris is accused of leaving his son strapped into the car seat while he went in to work. number five, the man who among many things wrote the rolling stones' first number one hit in the uk has died. rock 'n' roll hall of famer bobby womack was 70, a victim of alzheimers disease. his career as a soul singer and songwriter spanned 50 years. he'll be remembered for the stones hit "it's all over now" and also his own hit "if you think you're lonely now."

this is one of those moments on happy ending. it was to be a happy ending a detroit father being told his missing son had been found alive. listen. >> we're getting reports that your son has been found in your basement. sir? sir? are you -- >> what? >> yeah. we are getting reports that your son has been found alive in your basement. >> i was waiting for the rest of the statement. now as you saw the father visibly shocked there. he is facing questions about how his 12-year-old son charlie, who was missing for 11 days, turned

up in the family's basement. important to say no charges have been filed in the case. >> but in a bizarre twist the boy's step mother was arrested on unrelated weapons charges. and the boy has been placed in his mother's custody. he has spoken to police. they have not revealed what he has said yet but we do know he has also spoken to child therapists as well. >> let's talk about this with cnn legal analyst paul cowan and hln legal analyst joey jackson. good to have both of you. i want to start with you, joey. unrelated charges but, certainly, timely. >> they certainly are. good morning, victor, christi, and paul. first the good news. the child is alive right? how many times have we had discussions about cases where children are missing and the outcome is not as favorable as this? then you ask the question, victor, what happened here? who is at the bottom of this? did the child need assistance or anything else? and to your original question,

of course, as the police were searching the home, oh, there is a gun. mom, step mom, no permit. as a result, she is taken in. i think that is the tip of the iceberg. in speaking to the child i think they'll want to determine what led to this. did he have any assistance in doing this? was he put in any harm not only physical harm but mental harm and, boy, that scratches the surface of many things to come. >> well, paul, one of the reports that came out, too, that i think had a lot of people a little disturbed was the fact that police discovered pvc pipe and blood stained clothing in the basement as well. what do you make of that? >> that was extremely disturbing but of course it remains entirely speculative. you know, he is 12 years old. i was looking at the stats on detroit. you know there are estimates that there are 78,000 abandoned buildings in detroit? so if you're a resourceful 12-year-old kid and you want to run away from -- he is living with a father and step mother and, you know, his true mother

is absent from the scene and there may be some troubling issues there that caused him to want to run away, plenty of places to hide in detroit if you're resourceful. you know, i think it's hard for us to really get focused on the specifics of this until we really know what the young man has to say to the police. they haven't arrested anybody. and i'm betting you won't see an arrest but a kid with an adventure story and maybe a little bit of a troubled past. >> what do you think, joey? i mean, the attorney for the father also used the term "troubled." got to be careful there, right? >> you absolutely do. but i'm not as confident as my great colleague paul cowan in terms of whether there will be an arrest or not. we'll reserve judgment and see. a lot depends on what the child has to say. you have to wonder whether or not you could see some type of child abuse charges. why? remember, child abuse not only relates to things that are done that are physical, but, certainly, it relates to mental harm.

how does a child decide not with standing abandoned buildings being all over detroit, how does a child secret themselves in a basement, have access to food, have access to a restroom because there is no indication he was going there and then invade police detection and cadaver dogs as they come down? it sounds like someone was at the heart of this and that he couldn't no matter how resourceful or, you know, eventful the child is, have done this alone. we'll see as it unfolds. i don't want to cast aspersions on his family members but it sounds awfully fishy to me. >> all right. listen, let's switch gears here for a second and talk about 22-month-old cooper harris as you know who died in the hot suv and his father is now being held. we know some of the new information that came out in the last 24 hours that police searched the computers in his father's office and found an internet search of how long it takes for animals to die in a hot car. it sounds incriminating but we

don't know who was at the key board or when that was searched. what do you make of this latest find? >> well, if that story is confirmed, that is an exceptionally disturbing piece of information. obviously, because the father was taken into custody, immediately after the young child was found, this had to have been done before he left with the child in the back seat, the search on the computer. so i find that to be exceptionally disturbing. you know, even if we rule that out, leaving a kid in a car for eight hours and what i'm hearing from everybody is, well, this happens. people make mistakes. hey, it's his kid. you don't leave your kid in the car for eight hours to die. so there are very serious criminal charges that are going to be lodged here even if the computer search doesn't prove to be true. >> i'm sorry we've run out of time. as i know we could talk to you all hour. >> time is always the enemy. thank you.

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we've been talking today about the search warrant we've been waiting to be released in the investigation into the death of a 22-month-old, cooper harris, who died in a hot suv after being left there by his father earlier this week. that search warrant we understand has now been released. >> nick valencia has it. he is in tuscaloosa, alabama, where this child's funeral will be later this afternoon. nick, a major revelation in this warrant. what do you have? >> good morning, victor and christi. it is actually a handful of search warrants including search warrants for justin ross harris's cell phone, his home, as well as his car. and revealed in those search warrants i want to quote police here, what they are stating in their report. it says, quote, during an interview with justin, he stated that he recently researched through the internet child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur. justin stated that he was

fearful that this could happen. this is the first detail that we're receiving from this police report. they don't go on to list any other details aside from that statement. it was buried in the search warrant toward the end of it. i should note, victor and christi, that a source told hln's nancy grace earlier this week that on justin ross harris's work computer there was search history of animal -- how long it takes for an animal to die in a hot car. now we're reading from this search warrant that justin stated that he had researched child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur. this revelation coming just a short time ago, cnn obtaining those search warrants as they were released by police just moments ago. victor, christi? >> you know what's important about this is we've been saying all along as we heard about these -- this possible search, that we didn't know who was at the computer. >> yes. >> that we didn't know when that search was done, that this was a

computer, essentially as we understood, from his work, stow could have been anybody. so now this information clarifies he did it himself, that search. but it shows not necessarily an intent, but it does show a fear that he feared he might do this. >> and, christi, what is not clear, what remains unclear, is if justin stated this on his own, if he came forward with this information and this statement without being questioned by police or whether that was revealed during questioning. it is just a very short statement buried a the bottom of this search warrant, multiple search warrants, but we just don't know how this revealed and in what manner. we don't know the confection of th -- the context of this statement. we do know as i just quoted this police report that justin did state that he researched through the internet child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur because he was, quote, fearful that this could happen.

victor, christi? >> one more thing. you talked about the two caveats. we didn't know if he searched or when. we now know he searched. does the search warrant mention he ever said when he conducted the search? >> reporter: it does not give a timeline or much context, so we're hoping to get that from police. it doesn't really go on to establish motive. it's not clear. the charges are up top homicide as we've been reporting. police have been unwavered in their belief that justin ross harris meant to kill his son when he left his son in that car for seven hours under the atlanta summer sun. we should go on to say here, people in this community just say it doesn't add up. they have described justin ross harris as a good person, as a god centered person, a great father, sweet and charming man. when we've spoken to family friends both on and off camera they just say that the judgment has come too soon and we just don't know the details and now

this revelation or statement that he made to police during questioning. >> and a very good point to make on this day that he is innocent and there is nothing proven. he has not been convicted of anything. but, of course, it has to be so tough for those folks in tuscaloosa coming on this day to get this information when they are getting ready to bury 22-month-old cooper. nick valencia, thank you so much for the latest. we appreciate it. >> reporter: yes. >> quick break and we'll be right back. ♪

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good morning. i'm michael smerconish. on monday we'll learn how much the families affected by the gm

ignition switch problems will be compensated. but today i have the first television interview with a gm whistle blower who has come forward to say the culture of looking the other way at the auto giant dates very far back and that ignition switches are only one of the many potential problems. >> if that had been corrected in '98, if we had done a thorough check of all our procedures and found out how safety defects were getting through, none of this would have happened. and it is pretty simple. >> we have a great program this morning. i hope you'll join us. christi, victor? >> all right. we certainly will. thank you, michael. watch "smerconish" at the top of the hour a few moments from now 9:00 eastern. you know, drivers in texas have a reputation for flying down the highways. but usually not literally. right? look at this. a must see moment. >> a driver in arlington, texas

took cell phone video. look at this. a small plane? making an emergency landing skimming a grassy area then lands on an over pass connecting two major interstates. the pilot was towing a banner when he reported engine problems. just glad everybody is okay. look at this. a very pregnant runner completed an 800-meter race at the u.s. championships in california. wow! >> you've done this. >> i have not. look at her go. impressive. >> yeah. her doctor signed off on her competing and she's been exercising throughout her pregnancy to, well, stay away from saber tooth tigers. >> you know, if you think about it, back in the day people were -- they had to continue working. they had to, you know, live on the land and, i don't know, i like to say like run from saber tooth tigers. >> my goodness. the five-time national champion

finished the race just 35 seconds slower than her personal best. i want to see how fast that baby runs when it comes out. >> come out running. >> wow. just glad everybody is safe and healthy. again, that's all that matters. it is impressive. all right. time now for the good stuff. a retiring 21-year marine vet recently bought a house. it was a fixer upper but it was all he could afford. >> then head to ship out to japan for his final assignment so he asked his buddy a fellow marine to watch the house for him. watch what he did. yeah. he watched it all the way to some $70,000 worth of renovations. friends, fellow soldiers, volunteers came together to rehab the house from the inside out. we're talking new floors, new kitchen, new bathrooms, new everything. >> when master sergeant bernardo arrived at the airport, he was greeted by a stretch limo, no

less. >> welcome home, brother. >> we're proud of our service and, you know, those guys that didn't make it back and those guys that are -- that didn't make it in one piece. they deserve this, not me. >> bless his heart. we beg to differ though, master sergeant. after a lifetime moving around in military housing, you get to retire in style. we are happy for that and grateful for your service. thank you. movie stars moves light up social media for the right reasons for a change. >> amy adams who played a sexy con artist in "american hustle" showed that she is one class act. on a recent flight she gave a first class seat to a soldier. the passenger took this self-y with adams. his surprise seat.

adams whose father served in the military did it quietly without calling attention to herself. here we are singing her praises. that's okay. let us sing it for you. >> "smerconish" is next but at the top of 10:00 eastern we'll certainly go back to nick valencia with the latest on those warrants related to the hot car death in georgia. >> see you then. i'm michael smerconish. how much will gm victims get? we'll find out monday when the attorney and compensation expert kenneth feinberg will unveil the plan for those who died or were injured as a result of defects in gm automobiles. at least 13 people died and many more were injured due to fault iggy initial switches, a defect that took a decade for gm to address. let's get started. normally at this point i'd give you a headline. i'd welcome a guest with expertise to talk about that