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the father wasn't the only one that researched child deaths in hot vehicles. the boy's mother did, too. i want to bring in cnn's nick have lens yeah. nick, startling information. you were at the funeral yesterday in alabama and now there's more information about what they uncovered, seen and the next set of questions. >> that's right. the search warrant released a couple of hours ago and details about lee anna harris. it says the child's mother was also questioned regarding the incident and made similar statements regarding researching in-car deaths and we don't know the context to which the statement was given to authorities or when that search was conducted. yesterday, at the funeral inside little cooper harris, 22-month-old who died, the red casket in front of hundreds of people who came to pay their respects. >> under a light summer rain in tuscaloosa, alabama, cooper harris was laid to rest.
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not present, his father, justin ross harris who's accused of killing the toddler. but he did call in from jail to thank funeral guests for supporting his son and apolog e apologized for not being there. his wife said he is not angry at her husband and said that the truth would come out. harris could be heard sobbing over the phone as the crowd inside gave him a standing ovation. earlier saturday, new details about the 33-year-old. according to search warrants obtained by cnn, harris told police, quote, he researched child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur. the police officer went on to say, quote, justin stated that he was fearful that this could happen. what remains unclear is exactly whether that search was done. friends and family say the man police paint as a murderer is not the man they know. >> i want that he would be able to forgive himself. >> reporter: family friend carol
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brown. >> it's 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 -- it's just hard for me to imagine that that is the ross, the sweet ross harris, sweet little funny boy that we knew. >> reporter: a lawyer has instructed harris's family not to speak to the media. those who have spoken off camera say a man with the moral fiber of harris would not be capable of killing his son. left in the car for seven hours, cooper harris died. what is still unknown is what could have motivated harris as police say to kill his only child. outside the university church of christ, friends and family grieve waiting to find out if baby cooper's death was a terrible accident or something more sinister.
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i was inside that funeral yesterday when leeanna stood in front of the crowd and said she found solace knowing her 22-year-old would not experience the deaths of his parents and the death would one day come out and talked about having more children. >> was there any kind of visible reaction when she talked about the things that this child would not, you know, or i guess would be able to avoid in his death? >> well, the whole thing was just very bizarre and evident to the reporters in the crowd that they were speaking beyond those in attendance. there was media in the room. there was also people that weren't family and friends in the room. a crowd of about 400. cries and tears and sobs and then standing ovation to ross harris on the phone and he could be heard thanking the crowd for their support of not only him but also of his young son, 22-month-old. >> keep us posted on this. >> will do. >> remarkable story, nick. all right. now to a severe weather slamming
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much of the country. in prior lake minnesota, south of the twin cities, the waters are rising and dozens of homes are flooded. more rain is expected there today. alexandria steele is with me. minnesotans can't get relief from the rain which is are incredible. >> they can't, fred. it's 35 different counties in that state already in a declared state of emergency. flash flooding is creating wiespread damage across the state. river water levels rising. people are just trying to protect homes and streets. they're piling up sandbags five feet high. in waterville, minnesota, they say they have gone through 60,000 sandbags. and we're seeing similar problems in memphis, tennessee, where the national weather service reported a flash flood emergency. warnings are in effect and drivers are warned to stay off
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water-covered roads. some rescues have already happened and in shelby county, reports of some underpasses are flooded with water three feet high. doesn't stop there, fred. over in milwaukee, a 67-year-old man seriously hurt after a tree uprooted and fell on him while he was jogging and we're told that high winds are to blame. a number of problems right now across the country, fred. keeping an eye on all of them. >> thank you so much. bad, very bad situation. and apparently, more terrible stuff on the horizon. let's check in with karen mcguinness. what's the next area? >> that's the problem. we watched the storms just plow across memphis and then did not move very much and as a consequence, here's memphis. here's little rock. you can kind of see where the heaviest rainfall was in the pink and red shaded areas.
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five to ten inches of rain cafa and very quickly. the bulk of it in just a very few hours. and for the most part, they did see in memphis around five inches of rainfall in just about two hours time period. but not just there. across sections of arkansas, as well. look at this. in excess of ten inches of rainfall at little dixie. let's take a look at the tower cam that we have got because it's very interesting. we have looked at this all day long. fwael, this is an improved picture compared to what we saw an hour ago. the temperature has hovered around 70 degrees with the cloud cover. the rain has come down. neighborhoods flooded. there's a brief respite and then from the mississippi river towards northern georgia, three to five inches of rainfall expected over three days. and the upper midwest, that's the other area.
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tonight i dare say we could see severe weather outbreak across-sections of the upper mississippi river valley and into the is central plains. moderate risk of severe weather. hail, high winds, potential for an isolated tornado and then one other thing to tell you about. this disturbance. the national hurricane center say there is a 60% chance to see it become a tropical storm in the next several days and 80% chance in the next five. >> okay. well, it is hurricane season. >> it is. >> so patterns like that i guess we should expect but still it always sounds surprising with a forecast like that. thank you so much, karen. appreciate that. all right. off to arizona now. they could use some of that wet minnesota weather, especially in the eastern part of that state. the san juan fire burned some 5,000 acres but conditions just might be improving. the weather is better today and crews are hoping they contain
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the fire before it reaches properties in the nearby city of vernon. iraq's military just got a delivery that could significantly help their efforts to defeat militant islamists that seized huge areas. today, five russian fighter jets arrived in iraq, the first of 25 war planes that will be delivered under a deal between the iraqi and rush kahne governments. the pentagon is rejecting complaints by iraq's prime minister that isis militants have been helped by the slow delivery of two u.s. fighter jets. a spokesman said the f-16s couldn't have stopped the isis advance. meanwhile, fighting rages on in several iraqi towns. iraq says the air force carried out a strike against isis forces. the official spokesman for isis purportedly released a statement
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declaring the establishment of an islamic state in iraq and renaming the isis group simply the islamic state. so far, cnn has not been able to verify the authenticity of that message. a u.s. official tells cnn the suspected master mind of the benghazi attacks denied to u.s. interrogator that is he took part in the 2012 assault. but the official says khattala did implicate other people in the attacks. khattala talked to interrogators before and after he was read the miranda rights but some members of congress said he should never have been miranda-ized at all. some senators say this was mishandled. what are the concerns? >> reporter: fred, they really wanted him to go to guantanamo bay, cuba, first because the real concern is to underwent an intensive interrogation process
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so the u.s. could get as much intelligence as possible out of him. now, here's how house republican mike rogers that chairs the house intelligence committee put it this morning on cnn's "state of the union." >> these are dangerous folks. if he doesn't give us anything and we get him -- put him in jail, what have we accomplished? i argue we've spent a lot of money and not gained anything valuable. >> so in other words, he's saying without getting that intelligence, just capturing him and spending the money to do that and not getting the necessary intelligence, what's the point, fred? >> okay. another issue that has the white house's attention, official with the white house confirming to cnn president obama will seek emergency funds to deal with the flood of undocumented immigrants on the border. what are you learning? >> reporter: we have heard that the white house on monday will request at least $2 billion to basically try to end this humanitarian crisis of children trying to cross the border
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without parents. that's the key here. but there are a number of things to do with the funds. first thing is to stem the tide of immigrants trying to cross the south texas border illegally. they also want to see more housing for this big influx of undocuments minors arriving without the parents and make it more efficient in terms of enforcement and removal proceedings and also, of course, deporting these immigrants back to where they were coming from, fred. >> all right. erin mcpike, thanks so much. we'll talk more. we'll be speaking with a journalist who lives and works here in america without legal documents. all right. a shocking string of shootings at a hugely popular tourist attraction. new orleans famous bourbon street. police are locking for a suspect that shot nine people there overnight and according to police at least one of the victims is a woman in critical condition now. seven other victims are
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reportedly stable and another had surgery. the shootings happened about 2:45 this morning. police do not have a motive. and now, to the passing of a hollywood star. many of us remember from the sitcom "designing women," actor meshach taylor died last night. he was nominated for an emmy for his portrayal of anthony and also well-known as the larger than life window dresser hollywood montross in "mannequin." >> film at 11:00. yes, my dear. your favorite. she is gone, too. >> get him! >> taylor had been fighting a terminal illness. he was surrounded by his familiar, wife, children and grandchildren and mother when he passed. and we are now less than 50 hours from the u.s. world cup match against belgium but there's plenty to talk about today including a round of 16 match featuring the neighbor to
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iraq under attack. the war in syria. and sagging poll numbers. just some of the challenges president obama is facing right now. so it's no wonder he's actually relishing a chance to get outside the washington beltway and reconnect with voters. in the president's own words, the bear is loose. here's cnn's jim acosta. >> reporter: lost in the political wilderness for months -- >> i'm finding lately that i just want to say what's on my mine. so let me -- >> can't be regular. can't be routine. >> reporter: it's fair to say president obama is doing more than working through some cabin fever these days. >> the bear's loose. >> reporter: now, these presidential bear sightings happen every week.
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but this creature of washington is hungrying for more than coffee runs and fast food as he told a town hall in minnesota. >> i'm like a caged bear and every once in a while i brack loose. >> oh my god, it's a bear. >> reporter: unlike the minnesota bear, he wants to reconnect outside the white house fence and beyond the beltway noise. >> critics and cynics in washington, you know, they've written me off more times than i can count. >> reporter: now the white house is making these getan aways part of the schedule spending more time with every day americans. this week it was rebecca's turn. she is a minnesota mom who wrote a letter to the president about her struggles making ends meet. >> i got the chance to start a conversation about what a lot of the people i know are going through. >> reporter: with the president's poll numbers approaching record lows after
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bearish stories of obamacare to the va, democratic strategists say the looser the better. >> oh, it's an election year so there's no question that the president will visit not just those important states but those not so important districts so i'm sure that there's a little bit of politics in all of this. >> reporter: no surprise with the midterm election battle with republicans under way the claws are coming out. >> they don't do anything! except block me. and call me names. >> reporter: the president prefers the bear, and aides say he's out to convince americans that washington can be more than the circus where he's not the popular exhibit he once was. >> i don't want you to ever forget that. i don't want you to be cynical. cynicism is, you know, popula these days, but hope's better. >> reporter: president obama's not the first occupant of the white house to see this place as
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oh, world cup fever surely you must be feeling it by now. team usa's next match is just a little over 48 hours so if you have been not bitten by the bug yet you have a little bit of time. the u.s. taking on belgium tuesday afternoon in their round of 16 match. team usa landed just a little while ago in the coastal city of salvador, brazil. weather conditions for the match supposed to be perfect. and as the u.s. soccer team tries to advance in the word cup, chris cuomo is live from brazil. starting at 6:00 a.m., he will be live from brazil.
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all right. now to a team that has a lot of followers here in the u.s. talking about mexico. mexico has been taking on the netherlands in a match that just ended and nick parker is in mexico city where people have been over the top excited. but now, nick, they have to be pretty disappointed at the outcome not good for mexico. >> reporter: fredericka, that's right. it was the crushing disappointment i think for the fans that gathered in the main square to see the gripping match. on the giant tvs. i think it's a massive sense of what could have been, history could have been made. there's also essentially -- i don't know if you can hear it, but in the background, fans stayed behind long after the match ended to sort of shoulder -- the team -- chanting mexico, mexico. i think overall that does reflect perhaps a sense of resur
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gent pride and belief in the national team. so the locations into this team quite low. but since then, under the management, they have tried to show that anything can be possible. they had a very strong group performance and then 1-0 off against the netherlands but the most of the match finally contending the two goals and dying minutes so -- sort of could have been pulled here with mexico. but ultimately, denied historic passage through to the quarterfinals but still some sense of pride here, fredericka. >> all right. nick parker, what an exciting match right down to the end. thank you so much. i'm sure tuesday's match between the u.s. and belgium will be exciting, too. no one can predict that outcome. thanks so much, nick. in mexico city. fourth of july holiday and
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iraq's military got a welcomed delivery this weekend. five russian fighter jets, they're the first of 25 war planes to be delivered to iraq to help the army fight islamic militants trying to take over their country. fighting continues to rage in several iraqi towns. iraq says the air force carried out a strike against isis fighters who were trying to build a dam to block the euphrates river in anbar province and the official spokesman for isis purportedly released a statement declaring the establishment of an islamic state in iraq and renaming the isis group to simply the islamic state. so far, cnn has not been able to verify the authenticity of the
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statement. i want to bring in retired colonel francona. can you put this into context what this means in their attempt to take things over? >> yeah. i think this shows us what their true goal really is. they're not interested in just an islamic state in syria and iraq. they're not bound by that. they want to set up the caliphate over the middle east. we wondered when this would finally happen and seeing the goals finally come clear. >> what does this mean to you or, you know, how do you digest the information that russian airplanes have been delivered, there's a relationship between i guess, you know, iraq and russia and that, of course, you know, all of these countries are ultimately going to have to work together in terms of a coalition to help save iraq. >> yeah. this is very interesting. you know, the russians have a long history of supplying weapons to the iraqis.
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they have -- goes back decades. of course, once the u.s. invasion came it was shupted to the side. the russians are looking to get back into the game in the middle east and iraq in particular. they're older aircraft but aircraft that the iraqis are familiar with. at one time they had about 65 of these in the inventory and know how to fly it. they probably have pilots that can still operate the aircraft so this is a big shot in the arm for the iraqi air force because right now they have got no real serious aircraft. this gives them an ability to put a lot of munitions on target. this is a very capable aircraft. >> so it's one thing to have the tools and another to be able to coordinate the use of the tools and training to use the tools. are iraqi forces up to that? >> i think so. you know, the iraqi air force, you know, really is an old institution. and they've got people that have been to all the schools. i listened to the commander of the iraqi air force last night when the weapons were delivered,
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and he seemed to be able to -- he sounded like they could integrate them quite rapidly. he says three to four days they' they'll be striking isis targets. he said the russians will be there and doesn't make me feel good. you will have iraqi aircraft flying. american aircraft flyinging. we have seen syrian aircraft in the west and now iranian drones and add to the mix turkish drones. >> will they be talking to one another on these missions? >> somebody's going to have to control that air space. i assume one point it's going to be the united states. we'll move in there and try to control the air space but as far as coordinating, i don't think we want to coordinate with the iranians and syrians but we probably would be telling them we're operating in the area, please stay out of our way. >> okay. and then meantime there are conflicting reports of who controlled saddam hussein's hometown of tikrit. if iraqi forces do control it,
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what does that say about their strength? sort to speak, to hold off isis. >> they have got to take back tikrit. not because itself is important but taking back territory from isis. they're putting helicopters into the mix, they're moving troops, air assault troops. movining armor. if they're defeated trying to retake tikrit, this says that the iraqi army has serious problems. >> and iraqi prime minister al malaki saying a military advance might have been avoided with the proper air power. are they now saying that now that everything is coming to terms with the russian planes, things will come along better? >> yeah. a couple of thoughts on that. that was kind of a cheap shot on malaki's part. the f-16s not supposed to be delivered until this fall anyway. it's long process. that said, you have got to give the russians credit.
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delivering the aircraft in a matter of two days and having them in combat three or four days later, that is really impressive. my hat's off to the russian air force here. >> all right. lieutenant come celonecolonel, much. good to see you. all right. just in time for the fourth of july holiday, rising gas prices and part of it might be due to the turmoil in iraq. zain asher tells us how shall we'll be paying at the pump. zain? >> reporter: hey, fred. national average price for gas this fourth of july weekend is expecting to be $3.48. 20 cents higher than last year. typically prices fall in june. that didn't happen this year. mostly with the turmoil in iraq. national average is nowhere near the all-time high of $4.11 we hit in 2008. crude oil back then topped $140 a barrel. at this time, now, right now, just under $106 a barrel and not
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close to the record highs but still analysts eyeing the situation in the middle east and always sort of wondering what if and asking if the conflict in iraq and middle east sends oil back to the scary highs and translate into more pain at the pump. nearly everyone we spoke to seemed to think it's highly unlikely. $4 a gallon an s a reality some parts of the country, don't expect to see $5 a gallon any time soon. >> i don't see $5 as a distinct possibility in the coming months. the market is not ready for it unless a major geopolitical occurrence takes place. the dynamics of the market mean that possibly we could have a little bit of a price increase because of the driving and inventory issues but as far as $5, that's quite remote. >> experts basically saying demand here in the u.s. and issues with inventory here are having a much bigger impact of how much you pay for gas than anything in the middle east and demand is rising right now.
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this fourth of july weekend more cars on the road than last year. aaa says 41 million people, that's 2 more drivers than last year. fred? >> big numbers. thanks so much, zain asher. appreciate it. a toddler is dead after being left in a hot car by his dad. so why did the dad and mom research that exact cause of death online? when did that happen? my legal ladies weigh in next. spokesperson: the volkswagen passat is heads above the competition,
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new details in the case of a georgia toddler that died after his dad left him locked in a hot car. cnn learned the boy's father wasn't the only one that researched child deaths in hot vehicles. the child's mother did, as well. yesterday at the funeral in alabama, his father justin ross harris made an emotional statement from phone from the georgia jail where he is held on a felony murder charge. i'm joined now by tonya miller, defense attorney and former federal prosecutor and glenda hatchet from "the judge hatchet" tv show. tonya, when you hear that the mother, as well, may have researched this kind of -- what
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does it take for a child to die in a hot car -- what's that tell you, even though police are not revealing the sequence of events? we don't know when that search took place. when's that tell you, though, as an investigator, as a defense and prosecutor? >> yeah. well, i'd like to wear my prosecutor hat for this one. i tell you. look. the fact that this was being researched by the mom and by the dad is a bad fact for them and difficult to explain. if -- i'm saying if, because we are very early in the investigation and we don't know what law enforcement knows right now, but if the mom was somehow a part of a conspiracy or a plot to kill this baby and make it look like an accident, then she will be charged as a party to the crime under georgia law. >> absolutely. >> and that means she will be charged with murder just like the father is. she can be pun initialled just like the dad is. under law. they can get the same exact penalty even if he didn't leave him in the car. >> when's the information you want to hear or investigators
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need to hear in order to get a complete picture as best they can before trial on what exactly may have happened here? >> it's interesting to see if the surveillance tape in the home depot headquarters shows what he was doing getting into the car at lunchtime, put something in the car, what was he doing in the car? >> what we know in terms of sequence of events, getting to work, parking the car, going into work, coming out and going back to work and then leaving for thedy. >> right, right, right. they may be trying to get in front of this by saying that they researched this, to say that they wanted to avoid it. it makes it worse, actually. to say they went on the internet to research this and to avoid this happening to their child. you would think it's much more sensitive and other thing is surveillance tape if any at chik-fil-a and the pattern and time the time it took him there. >> martin savage did and under
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-- >> under three minutes. martin did it. there's going to be a lot of pieces that the police where i think the most damning part of this is the fact that the searches have happened on the internet and both the mother and the father -- it could very well mean that the father will be charged, she will be charged, i agree absolutely with tonya. they may do a plea deal with her for exchange for information about him. that could half. >> let's remember. we're still very early in the investigation. >> very early. >> really, two big categories of investigation that law enforcement is probably doing right now but certainly they'll need to do before they charge. one, they will have to look into the background of this guy, the relationship with the baby. were there any other instances of abuse or neglect? what did the baby -- >> what if we noticed from the funeral and leading up to it, so many people that know, you know, this family, who feel like they really knew ross are saying he was an upstanding, great father.
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the mother even says to folks at the funeral saying -- she says he was and is a wonderful father. >> that's what they're saying now. you have to dig deeper, take a deep dive. how did it present at day care? other individuals and adults outside of the immediate family, is there going to be any information from neighbors or other people who interacted with the baby to contradict that? they have to dig deep, look at other internet searches, when did they do this internet search? what was the context of it? is there an explanation or did they do it very soon before this death happened? all of those things will factor in and they're also going to have to look closely, right, judge, at what happened on that day. from the time he got up to the time he jumped out of that car yelling. >> conducting himself even at work. >> at work. >> also -- >> absolutely. what was his routine? this was the man i think primary caretaker in terms of taking the child to the day care. >> on the premises. >> of work. >> of his work.
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and also, they're going to be looking to see what really happened after he left work, too. they're going to go back to all the witnesses in that parking lot and all of this really is circumstantial because he says it was an accident. they've got to build a strong case because the state has the burden of proof to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. >> he is in jail but the mother has not been charged. however, it is likely -- i mean, help us understand how she is being watched, examined, how even she is being investigated even though we haven't heard anything about charges. >> all of the subpoenas, we know they're looking at cell phones. were they talking back and forth several times in that day? did they talk after he went to the car? they won't know what was said. >> search warrant did include cell phones, computer. >> the homes, the car. what was going on there? and so, they're going to ask
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him, when you came out, what did you put in the car? what did they find in the car? all that's going to be very, very important. >> they're going to ask the questions even though they can discover it for themselves but then you want to match the consistencies and consiste inconsistencies. >> any time a child of this age is murdered, statistically, it's the mom, dad, somebody close to the child and look at that mom very closely just like they're looking at that father. >> wow. >> i wouldn't be surprised if both of them aren't charged and if she is charged, whether it's a deal with her for evidence in exchange. >> wow. incredible. all right. thanks so much. >> death penalty. death penalty in georgia. >> potentially? >> potentially. absolutely. >> all right. judge glenda hatchet, tanya miller, thank you. >> good to be here. >> thank you, fred. there's another case to talk about coming up. the oscar pistorius murder trial
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oscar pistorius murder trial is scheduled to resume tomorrow after a month-long psychiatric issue. did he have psychological problems the night he shot and killed his girlfriend revis steenkamp? the judge is ready for the case to wrap up. >> reporter: for the past month, oscar pistorius's mental state had been assessed, analyzed by a panel of doctors at an institution in pretoria. the court sent him for observation after his own psychiatrist testified he suffered from a general anxiety disorder. and that could have impacted how he acted that night he shot and
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killed his girlfriend revis steenkamp. crucially, this pam of experts will have to decide whether pistorius is criminally responsible for his actions. they will give a report to the court and then over the next week or so, the defense will continue with their case calling witnesses. we understand, though, from a court official that the judge is very keen for this case to be wrapped up by the end of july. so it's likely that pistorius and for revis steenkamp it's the final stage of a judicial process that began in the early hours of valentine's day last year. robyn curnow, johannesburg. in this country, calls for congress to pass immigration reform. a journalist and an undocumented journ citizen is taking his story public. the 8-month pregnant olympian, why she ran and why
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and how did she do that? yooir the challenges for wimbledon were huge. in our case, how do you keep water out of wenter court? what does everybody do when it rains now? umbrellas. what if we had a giant umbrella? when you press the button to start the roof closing, a computer starts to work out the exact positions of all the motors. they start pushing the roof out and each panel can be pushed out in succession. >> i've enjoyed it. it's a great atmosphere when the roof is closed. it's extremely loud. i think the atmosphere. >> it's folklore and as i say on
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president obama will ask congress for nearly $2 billion to deal with a flood of undocumented immigrants. many are children crossing the border of central america. the funds would get those people back to their home countries and also pay for more border patrol agents and deportation proceedings. yesterday hundreds of undocuments immigrants protested in new york. they said they're tired of being separated from their families. tonight on cnn, the airing of a film called "documented." highlighting the plight of one man that entered the u.s. at the age of 12. jose antonio vargas continued to live here illegally, go to school and work as a pulitzer prize winning journalist and told me why he felt compelled to do this film. >> immigration is the most controversial yet least understood issue in america. and i think the film really
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underscores that. >> and i guess it really underscores i guess the real contradiction here that people know who you are now, know your story that you have lived in america undocumented since your mom made a decision that, what, at the age of 12 to send you from the philippines to be with family members here and all aloeng t along the way you're going to school, getting jobs and undocumented and now the government knows your situation. while you qualify to be deported, you have not been. why is that? >> i don't know. really, the question here is -- this is really the question we should ask, you know, all political leaders, congressional leaders and president obama which is, what do you want to do with me? what do you want to do with us? the 11 million of us. and then how do you define american? i think those are the questions that our leaders have yet to really answer or explore. i mean, this issue is so politicized and people think of
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it in black or white terms. you're illegal or legal. the people have not explored or bothered to think about the complexity of the issue. all this talk, for example, about the u.s.-mexico border. my border was the pacific ocean. i got here on a plane. 40% of the undocumented people in this country overstayed the visa. they came here legally and fell out of status. these are not the topics of immigration reform. it's always from the perspective of the politicians and framed around the politics. not about the people. and not about the lack of process. there's a scene in the film when i, you know, crash mitt romney rally in cedar rapids. people say why don't you get in the back of the line and get legal? >> xwha's the answer? >> there is no line! there is no line. >> so you don't find a need? you haven't felt compelled to fill out paper work, go through
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the motions to -- >> because i can't -- again -- >> to have legal status. does it matter? >> the fact that politicians don't know that, the fact that many journalists haven't really explored that to me speaks again to the level of misperception that people has coming to this issue. right? we need immigration reform because there's no line. there's no way for somebody like me to make myself legal. >> and be sure to tune in to cnn tonight. "documented" tells jose antonio vargas's story tonight at 9:00. we have much more ahead and it all starts right now. hello again, everyone. i'm fredericka whitefield. these are the stories topping the news this hour. a shocking revelation in the case of a child who died in a hot car.
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