amid concerns that krorists are creating undetectable bombs and have western passport holders who can transport them. middle east. middle east tensions exploding. tensions raging after a palestinian teen is found murdered. was it a savage reprisal for the murders of three israeli teens. >> and holiday hurricane, tropical storm arthur is already looking very mean from outer space. it could hit the east coast july 4th as a category 1 hurricane and north carolina's governor warning beach goers. >> i want to reiterate, don't put your stupid hat on. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this is cnn breaking news. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm brianna keilar. we are beginning now with breaking news. the obama administration is stepping up security for direct flights to the united states from some overseas airports.

>> now that right there is the explosive power of a toothpaste bomb developed by an al qaeda spin-off, but now there are growing concerns about more powerful and undetectable new bombs and american jihadists who could potentially deliver them. chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. >> these are for international flights bound for the u.s. particularly, we are told from europe and the middle east and it is in response to new intelligence that terrorists are further refining bombs to get around current screening methods and take down passenger airplanes. >> they're the first line of defense for the american homeland, foreign airports with direct flights to the u.s. and

now the department of home lala security is directing those international airports to step up their security screening. in a written statement dhs secretary jay johnson said we are sharing recent and relevant information with our foreign allies and our consulting the aviation industry. these communications are an important part of our commitment to providing our security partners with situational awareness about the current environment and protecting the traveling public. driving the new directive is increasing concern that terrorists from al qaeda and the arabian peninsula are refining bomb designed to avoid detection by current airplane screening methods. >> al qaeda has long looked for vulnerabilities in airport security and in particular finding ways to put together bombs using non-metallic material that can make its way through metal detectors and also

trying to hide bombs in body crevices to get through airports. >> aqap master bomb maker ibrahim al asiri. in recent months they have warned that terrorists trained under him are improving designs such as shoe bombs that could fool screening systems. we spoke about the new measures today with former dhs secretary michael chertoff. >> how concerned should flyers be about what this means about the threat? >> i would be mindful of the fact that there's increased risk. i don't think it's dramatically different. i would not fly and the good news here is that the government sharing information with others in other parts of the world is responding to this. we are told this will not change what passengers can't bring

onboard flights and passengers will see additional screening of shoes and electronics. they'll see additional screening for explosive residue and those swab machines you are now familiar with and you'll see additional screening at gates sometimes on flights in addition to the screening you go through just after check-in they might look at your bag again and swab you again and i am told that this is about aqap and them always refining bombs that get past security and fewer metal parts and less explosive residue and that's the real thing behind these threats. >> very scary. >> we want to get more now from the former security director for tel aviv international airport and he's the president of new age security solutions. you hear about these -- these new concerns, rafi, these new really guidelines. what do you make of this? >> well, the concerns are new, but the capability or capacity of terrorists to produce bombs

that do not contain metallic components in it, and therefore pass through a certain metal detector system has been proven two months after 9/11 by the shoebomber richard reed and eight years later by abu mutallab, the so-called underwear bomber and both of them carried devices that did not contain any metallic elements and were able to take their devices onboard. what i make of the latest news is that there's probably some more pinpointed intelligence that indicates to the possibility that there is an intention to use these techniques sometimes in the future to actually act against american afr yagz. >> we look at these new measures and it has to be in response to a specific threat and it seems

muddy. is this a specific threat, is this imminent or a more general thing? >> it's not imminent and not a specific threat and for instance, a bomb on a particular plane at a particular time. >> intelligence officials, homeland security officials have known for some time that these groups want to get a bomb on the plane like richard reed, the underwear bomber and we improved our screening and they're constantly trying to explode their devices to get past that screening and this is more in's spons to a general threat as opposed to a specific threat, but it doesn't mean it's not serious. >> so when we see governments changing their measures here and the uk, for instance, is changing some of their guidelines to be more in line with the u.s., does it -- does it make us think that maybe there is a bigger issue than what these governments are actually saying that there is? >> we can always assume that there is a bigger issue than what is made public because

obviously, that is the nature of intelligence and intelligence does not expose to the public in details. what we are hearing is perhaps just the conclusion that decisionmakers make intelligence, but i want to make one comment, and i think that one of the most important changes that tsa has adopted since the underwear bomber is that there's more and more shifting towards a risk assessment approach that focuses more on passengers than we did in the past and not just about what they carry because some passengers do reflect a certain indications that they may deserve than we are providing to the general flying public. >> a look at what they're carrying may be the last line of defense in that case. rafi, thank you so much. jim, i appreciate it.

an explosion rage in jerusalem, violent clashes after a palestinian teen is found murdered in what may be a savage reprisal for the murders of three israeli teenagers. their urgent e fofrts now to put a lid on the tensions. let's go live now to cnn's atika shubert. she is in jerusalem with the latest. atika? >> that's right. within hours of reports that a palestinian teenager was abducted we saw clashes on the streets of jerusalem. we were there earlier today. here's a look at what happened. the streets of jerusalem are seething with anger and grief on both sides. before sunrise on wednesday 17-year-old palestinian was forced into a car outside his family's shop. an hour later police found a body in a forested area of west jerusalem so badly burned that his parent his to provide dna to identify their son. within hours, palestinian

teenagers set up flaming barricades in front of the home, throwing stones at israeli police stationed nearby. for many of the palestinian residents here there's no question as to what happened. they see this clearly as a revenge attack and they're angry throwing stones and using sling shots and the response from the israeli police, stun grenades and tear gas. >> when palestinian lawmakers of israel's parliament visited his cousin shouted out his frustration. we demand the israeli government bring the people who did this to justice, he said. deal with them as he did with the others. we want to see their houses demolished and their families arrested. we want revenge. this just a day after the bodies of kidnapped israeli teenagers naftali frankel, gilad were laid to rest. tense of thousands came out to mourn and their parents doubled over in grief. now calls to avenge their deaths

have brought yet another funeral and the cycle of violence so familiar to residents in the city appears to have started once again. now that violence that we saw in the streets continued for more than 12 hours and, in fact, is still ongoing. less so in shawafat and in some areas in the mount of olives, we understand. once the anger boils over it can be very hard to contain. >> atika shubert in jerusalem, thank you so much. let's get reaction from diana butu, a former legal adviser and spokeswoman for the palestinian liberation organization. diana, thanks for being with us. we are looking, obviously, at a very complex situation and what obviously may be turning into a spiral of reprisal. is that how you see it? are you concerned that this can keep going back and forth? i'm absolutely concerned and the

reason that i'm concern side that the israeli actions have been in day one to blame palestinians to carry out measures of collective punishment including home demolitions and mass arrests and including damaging homes and then killing 11 palestinians and then we saw after the death of the three israelis we heard statements from as high up as the israeli prime minister himself call for example revenge and vengeance and we heard this from other ministers, as well and it's not surprising that they've taken heed and listened to their leaders. my fear is that because nobody is putting a stop to israel's actions that we will see this spiral out of control and the real question is who is left protecting palestinians? >> obviously, from your perspective, you have a lot of skepticism, i imagine, about how when, for instance, benjamin

netanyahu says someone has to get to the bottom of who killed this young man. the killing of the israeli teerngs israel very convinced that it is hamas. do you believe that it is hamas or do you think it is someone acting in connection with hamas or the fringes of hamas? >> well, brianna, we don't know and this is the main problem is that we have been calling for an investigation as to what happened with those three israelis and instead the israeli government already convinced said that it was hamas. they not only said it was hamas. they then named some suspects and went ahead and demolished homes. this is all without trial. this is all without conviction and so what we are left with is simply statements on the part of the israelis. they didn't undertake any efforts to undertake an investigation and instead we are left with their word. at the end of the day we don't know, the israelis don't know,

but palestinians have felt the punishment for israel's actions. >> it's interesting when you listen to the families of these teens on both side, the father of this palestinian young man, the uncle of one of the israeli teens, they're calling for a stop to the bloodshed. they don't want to see anymore. do you think that the deaths of these teens are being exploited by both sides? >>, we are getting to the root cause of the violence. the fact that there's been a denial of freedom for the palestinians for more than four decades, close to five decades and it's time for us to address these root causes. it's time for us to address the military occupation and the denial of freedom and the reason that we see this violence being perpetuate side because of the fact that palestinians have been denied their freedom for such a long period of time and in exchange when you get to this point of denial of freedom it becomes very easily for it to

turn into violence. it's time now for the international community to step forward and to put pressure israel to end the military rule and if israel doesn't want to end its military rule peacefully it has to put sanctions on israel to get the message that this type of action is no longer acceptable. >> do you see some of the argument and do you see the point of some of the argument from the side of the israeli government? they say, look, the palestinians have chosen to partner with hamas? this essentially makes them feel like they are negotiating with terrorists. they don't want to negotiate with hamas. they don't want to sit down at the table. do you see how that makes it more difficult for them to come to the table and earn this discussion about this? >> i don't want to sit down with the israelis likud and i don't want to sit down with the jewish

homs party and they make up the current israeli coalition and it's not palestinian -- not up to palestinians to be choosing who is going to be on the other side. the problem is that israel is looking for excuses to continue its occupation rather than for reasons to end its occupation and one of the excuses that it continually puts forward is that it doesn't like hamas, but as i said the palestinians don't like lick you said or the jewish home party either and we don't have the luxury of choosing who is on the other side and it's time for israel to be told very clearly by the international community that enough is enough and that it has to now give freedom to the palestinians. >> diana buttu, joining us from ramallah, former legal adviser to the plo. we appreciate you being with us. and next, a new forecast just in, a hurricane warning for the carolina coast as dangerous storm bears down just in time for the july 4th holiday.

crisis on the border, the arrival of thousands of undocumented children in the u.s. is met by protests and fears that some could be spreading disease. we have that next.

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thousands of unaccompanied children streaming across the border into the u.s., many are already calling it a crisis and now there is an added health concern with confirmation that at least one of the children was infected with the h1n1 flu virus. what are you finding here? >> brianna, the administration says this case of h1n1 is an isolated crisis, but is doing a lot to rev up the potential health crisis. >> obama! >> protesters in southern

california tuesday surround, stop and block three busses of undocumented immigrant families. the undocumented immigrants were being moved for processing from texas to california to help alleviate the strain on taxes from the massive flood of immigrants. since october, 39,000 adults with children have tried to cross the border and 52,000 children on their own. with this surge, the political temperature rises. swirling through the political cyclone fears of a rising health crisis, the department of health and human services confirms to cnn that one immigrant child came to the u.s. last week with the h1n1 flu virus and is now being treated at lackland air force base in san antonio. medical experts say this one case isn't cause for alarm. the h1n1 virus is already common in the united states. this past flu season it was actually the most prevalent strain. some, though, are back to

calling it the swine flu, harkening it back to the fear of 2009 when h1n1 first broke out in america. >> i think you need to balance responsible public health, scientific, rooted analysis debate and decisions against those old divisive drumbeats of fearmongering that have accompanied waves of immigrants throughout the history. on the front lines the scare tactics have trickled down. >> bottom line is they have diseases. >> we don't want your unhealthy people coming here making our kids and my wife and my mother and father sick. >> and there are some health concerns from those three busses stopped tuesday in california at the national border patrol counsel confirms, of the 136 immigrants screened, ten children are at local hospitals for unknown ailments and seven additional kids are quarantined with active skabys. the the public health risk is one challenge they're devoting

resources to. >> there is a plan for dealing with those contingencees. >> the president has requested additional money to deal with the surge and respondzing to this specific h1n1 case today, brianna, they say this is just one of the areas they could help with if they had the extra money. summer, thank you so much for that report. let's dig deeper with cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. some people seem to think that this one child with h1n1 is a threat to our health here in the u.s., but what's the reality check? >> the reality is that there is not a public health threat. if people truly believed that this child is a threat then they should have put themselves in a bubble that past winter when tens of thousands of people in this country had h1n1 and it was rampant, so this one child with h1n1 when we already have h1n1 in this country really doesn't make a difference. >> i personally had a very close relative who had it so i went through that with a family member myself. there is this issue, i wonder,

of public health when you are looking at kids and maybe as many as 1500 a day. that's a lot of kids. some of them in confined spaces. how do you keep these kids that are illegally crossing the border healthy? >> right. that's certainly a challenge. one of the things they're doing at these shelters, we talked to the folks who run them is when unaccompanied minors come in they're screened, medically screened before allowed into the shelters and vaccinated according to the centers of disease control. those are certainly two steps you can take. i'm assuming they do the types of things they do at school, having to wash their hands a lot and all of that kind of thing and that's a challenge when you have a lot of people in one place. >> elizabeth cohen, thanks for breaking that down for us. we appreciate it. this also brings out other discussions and we want to talk about that with cnn political commentator and washington correspondent for the new yorker ryan lizza as well as jackie kucinich of "the washington post" and chief national correspondent john king. you are seeing, obviously all of this, john, ratcheting up the

pressure on congress and president obama to do something about immigration. we now know president obama is planning to go it alone. what are his options and what might he announce if he's talking about executive actions? >> i think you have to take this in two parts. the short term is he'll take the resources he can control now and get them down to the border and he'll ask for more money and for people to help process to deal with the humanitarian crisis, but he's taken a tough rhetorical line and it could take months in some cases and could take longer that in his view most of will be returned. >> then he says the lawyers will look at this over the summer and in august heading right into the midterm elections and then he'll decide what else he can do. he can't give the undocumented citizenship and he can't give them legal status and can he create a guest worker program and what does he mean by saying i'll take additional steps this summer. >> how does that affect the politics of it? it's the midterm election year. how does that fire up democrats

and republicans. >> there is a coal igsz thition they're doing to turn out in 2008 and 2012 and a big part of that coalition is hispanic voters and i think obama will have two tracks here. he'll bash the republicans for not passing immigration reform and that's always been the threat he's held over their head which is the price at the polls and he's going to try to go as far as he can with executive actions and so, you can't pass the immigration bill to pass the senate and you can't pass that through executive actions. if you could, the president would have done it already. so i think it will be a little bit for show. >> and we look beyond the midterm elections and, of course, some republicans say immigration reform has to be passed if we're really going to have a shot at the white house. does it do anything when it

comes to 2015. >> national republicans playing the long game. the short game, they're look at their districts and the republican base does not want comprehensive immigration reform and they're worried about their jobs. 2016 going forward, the national republicans are saying we need to do something on this. i don't think this happens while president obama is still in office if the house republicans, if that makeup stays the same. >> this is such a good point, because this is a tale of two coalitions, right? the republicans are much more a party of the house and congress and the democrats right now are much more a party of the white house and they have very two different electoral coalitions and one that helps in the midterms and one that's better in presidential elections. >> look at the map. you say long term and short term. i would say lead them. worry about me. i want to stay a speaker and i want to get the senate majority and not acting on immigration a needs me. john boehner with the bigger

republican caucus, they'll take that. >> i want to talk about hillary clinton does one of the stories that we've seen lately has to do with what happened 40 years ago. she defended as a legal aid lawyer, a rapist, someone accused of raping a 12-year-old girl and audio came out where she was sort of admitting that she believed her client at the time was guilty. this was a case from 1975. this was audio from the 1980s. there's an interesting legal take that we are now hearing on it and our cnn legal analyst paul cowan wrote about it. clinton performed her role as defense counsel to an unpopular indigent client with skill and competence, affording him the constitutional rights cherished by americanses. so it is sad really to see her throw this away and apparently throw betray the secrets and interests of her client for the sake of telling her a good story

to areporter. >> it depends how she answers the question. >> and she'll be asked it. >> it depends on how republicans and perhaps if she has democratic opponents and how hard they hit her on this and if she doesn't have a good answer to that question then it turns into a problem much like the wealth has. >> does it hurt her? >> i wonder for younger people, this is something i wondered about, younger people who don't know a lot about her, but she's being framed as a champion of women and girls. >> those younger people may not know she's an attorney because they know her from politics. they may not know her governor of arkansas. she is new to some people and we think we know everything about hillary clinton, we don't. if she's asked about this how does she handle it? does she say i was not a very experienced trial lawyer and perhaps i should have spoken out of school when i shouldn't have, i don't think someone will hold

something from 40 years ago against her. i think this election will be about many other things than that, but she'll have to answer for everything on her record. >> we'll be watching. appreciate it. coming up, hurricane warnings are up as arthur churns up the east coast threatening to rain out the fourth of july for millions of people. we'll have the latest forecast and also we'll talk to one governor who is warning of the storm's deadly potential. >> i want to reiterate, don't put your stupid hat on. >> some words to live by, i'd say. plus how a movie comedy may be endangering two americans being held by north korea. is kim jong-un planning to get revenge?

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we have a new forecast warning that tropical storm arthur being soon turn into a dangerous hurricane just in time to wreak havoc along the east coast for the july fourth holiday. i'll speak with north killer carol's governor, but first let's go to meteorologist chad meyers. >> right where our reporters are, all of the way down to surf city which is just to the north and northeast of wilmington in north carolina. this is the new projection for where we think arthur's going to go. arthur is now up to a 70 mile per hour storm. last hour it was only 60, hurricane hunters finding stronger winds than 60 to hurricane center made the numbers higher. 70 miles per hour now. you can believe this is the eye

right there of the storm and it's had an eye for quite some time today, but now that eye is what we call breathing. literally it's suck air down at the surface and rising it up through the eye wall and expanding or expelling that air at the higher elevations and making those cirrus clouds blow off of the now increasing in strength hurricane, soon to be hurricane, the hurricane center saying within 12 hours this will be a category 1 hurricane. the danger is for north carolina, parts of south carolina as well. there will pounding surf and there will be waves 6 to 12 feet tall and eroding the beach itself and it may be completely gone in some areas and also the rip currents that we've told people over and over and over today to please stay out of the water and yet, i can look right here and i can look at a picture, here it is this is jacksonville beach and waves 6 to 10 feet, where are the people? right there along the shore playing in the water.

you can tell them what you want, but sometimes you just can't get them to do what you want. >> also closer to you, into new york and even into connecticut seeing very big weather and we'll watch that for you as well and some of these storms across the northeast could be severe tonight and not each part of arthur, a completely separate system and a couple of things going on tonight, brianna. >> you keep saying it and maybe they will. maybe, over and over and over until i'm blue. >> all right. thanks, chad. >> astronauts aboard the international space station got this view of what could soon be hurricane arthur and one ever them said it looks -- it already looks mean, doesn't it? i think it does as well. north carolina is getting ready for the potential impact and cnn senior correspondent joe johns is life from kill devil hills. joe, that's sort of what you're seeing, right? even though people at this point should be heeding some of these warnings some people are still in the water.

>> reporter: right. there are concerns over the next 24 hours of rip currents and there are concerns about coastal flooding especially along north carolina highway 12 and one of the main thoroughfares here. as you can see in kill devil hills there are still people on the beach, but the officials are very concerned about this situation and they're stopping fireworks celebrations that are supposed to go on on july 4th and moving them to other dayses and the beach down here, about 45 minutes from here has been shut down as of 9:00 this evening and a lot going on and there are a lot of concerns here in north carolina. >> it's coming up the coast from florida after forcing officials there to put out the warning flag. authorities are scanning the skies and the beaches for signs of trouble with the holiday weekend imminent. for now, most people have not left the beaches, but some report worsening conditions. >> you can definitely feel the

rip current. >> here in north carolina the most likely potential landfall, officials are begging the public to take the threat seriously. >> we want to make sure people don't try out the great waves right before the storm comes. each though they are good waves we don't want you to go into the ocean. >> so far they are not asking people to shy away. >> go ahead and enjoy yourselves, make use of today and tomorrow, but pay attention to what may come. >> hanging in the balance, not just weekend vacation, fourth of july parades and fireworks, but also more serious concerns. everyone here remembers irene in 2011. the pounding waves and the flooding and the houses ruined. the ocean breached right through the island in several places washing out the only roads and cutting off several thousand people from the mainland. could a storm that serious happen again? >> we've got to be ready for anything. >> reporter: 250,000 people expected here in the north carolina beaches over this

holiday weekend and the question is how much they're going to adjust their plans until they figure out what the storm is going to do. brianna? >> joe johns, thank you so much. he has already warned beach goers not to take chances and you heard him there, joining me now is north carolina pat mccrory. thanks for being with us and let us know exactly what's being done to prepare for this storm on such a busy weekend. >> we just had a good conversation with the fema representatives in washington to ensure that if we need any recovery help from the federal government we get it. we've opened up food supply areas with water and supplies especially in any flooding occurs in eastern north carolina. we'll be making decisions tonight and each of the county officials will be making decisions tonight on whether to do mandatory or voluntary evacuation in the morning at the time of daylight. that most likely, if it does occur would occur most likely from all indicateds that the

outer banks if that decision is made and we're also just warning people about getting their supplies ready and also, as i said earlier, don't put your stupid hat on and get in the water before the storm or during the storm just because there are good waves and don't get near high flooding or after the storm leaves if we have down power line, don't get near the power lines. that's usually with we have casualties right before or after the storm as opposed to during storms. very similar to the ice storms that we had this past win thor. >> let me ask you this because i'm hearing mixed messages and we're hearing from our severe weather expert chad myers. he's saying stay out of water because if there is a sandbar break you could be just swept out even when you think everything is fine and everything is fine. he said people aren't doing that. we just heard in our reporter joe johns' piece there, officials are saying come out and enjoy it. at what point do people need to start exercising caution? we have a large coastline and

each county will be making that call for themselves all of the way from wilmington and nagshead which is a long way and we don't know where the storm will get hit and all indications most likely will be north of moorhead city and if this storm is bad it will be the outer coast or the outer belt in the nagshead area and that area that will get hit, but again, late tonight we'll be making decisions and the county officials will be making decisions and cook island has made a decision for voluntary leaving the island and we're providing 24-hour ferry service for that and so as the officials on the beaches and in those towns along the coast make those decisions the state will coomb rate with them and help heed the warning to people. this is a unique time with fourth of july weekend and right now our major concern is the liefr and safety of our citizens and also our visitors and many who are coming to north carolina this weekend during the fourth of july holiday weekend.

>> we are watching some of them there in kill devil hills on the outer banks of north carolina and a very nice vacation spot. there are some people in those areas in the outer banks who may be wondering, who may be on the fence about leaving and how do you convince them, you know, get out. you need to seek safer ground. >> we -- officials in that area will be making those decisions later on this evening and then if any evacuation is ordered it will be communicated tonight and then that evacuation will start early morning at daylight. >> i only have you for one more moment, if there are evacuations order and some people are thinking i'm not going to go, what would you say to those people? >> if it's mandatory evacuation, move, get out. if it's mandatory evacuation, that's your decision, but even if you don't move then stay away from the water as much as possible. we're also concerned inland. we have a history of flooding.

we hope this storm, of course, we hope the storm doesn't hit and goes further out, but we also hope it's a fast storm so we don't have inland flooding inland or on the sound also. so we also have to be worried about in flooding and that's why we have the national guard with high water trucks ready to operate and we also have some swift boat rescue teams that have been deployed already at this point in time for eastern north carolina. >> as you said, be smart, don't wear your stupid hat. governor mcroar, we really appreciate the time. >> thank you very much. and next, the first look at the evidence against the suspect in the benghazi attack. it points to other deadly crimes as well. and is kim jong-un putting two americans on trial because of a movie? we have details of the film that may be sparking kim's revenge. ♪ the last four hours have seen... one child fail to get to the air sickness bag in time. another left his shoes on the plane...

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the suspected ringleader of the deadly attack on the u.s. diplomatic mission in benghazi, libya, was back in court here in washington today and we're getting a first look at some of the evidence against him. cnn justice correspondent pamela brown is on the case for us and we're learning more about the case against this man. >> yes, we certainly are, brianna. federal prosecutors saying they have evidence against abu khattala including eyewitness interviews, forensic evidence and statements from khattala himself. the defense claimed the government has a weak case. the judge ordered khattala to stay behind bars pending trial and the terrorism suspect didn't talk today he did make two special requests through his attorney.

>> under heavy security, abu khattala arrives at court in washington for the second time since landing on u.s. soil wearing a green prison jump suit and disheveled hair he sat in court stoic, making two requests through his attorney for a copy of the koran and a specialhalal diet. it has evidence khattala had a nearby cia annex that left two navy s.e.a.l.s dead and, attacking the u.s. consulate in libya that killed u.s. ambassador chris stephens and three others. in this 11-page court document prosecutors say khattala, who they claim is a leader of the islamic extremist groupance ar al sharia entered the compound and had material from the scene by numerous maen, many of whom were armed and the defendant returned to an aas camp in benghazi where a large group of

armed aas members began assembling for the attack on the annex. government sources tell cnn that they have surveillance video of khattala inside the compound, but the defense claims the government has shown no evidence khattala was directly involved in the attacks saying they're having to rely on the media for information. cnn asked the prosecution about that. >> we'll try the case in court. in his only interview, khattala, before he was captured admitted to cnn's arwa damon in may daft year that he was, in fact, at the embassy the night of the attack, but he claims he was just a bystander. in the days after the attack the u.s. government alleges khattala began stockpiling weapon fearing american retaliation for the attack trying to protect himself from capture, but last month u.s. special forces got him just outside benghazi. they put khattala on a u.s. navy ship, a special team of fbi interrogators questioning him

for two weeks as they crossed the atlantic from libya to the u.s. federal prosecutors say after his capture, khattala gave staples corroborating key facts. some analysts say this is just the tip of the iceberg in the government's case. >> i think they kept it as broad and as vague as they could to leave room from whatever further, more specific charges they want to make. the government today saying it handed over video evidence to the defense as part of the discovery process and so far khattala has pled not guilty to to conspiracy to provide support, and it >> really interesting new details, pamela. thank you so much. still ahead, extra airport security measures about to go into effect. why u.s. oh officials are so concerned about a possible terror attack. that's an american movie commodicomedy about a plot to kill north

korea's leader. is he striking back by putting two americans on trial?

ominous signs from north korea including recent missile launches and now a vow to prosecute two american tourists detained this year. could it be tied to a movie that hasn't been released yet? cnn's tom foreman is looking into it. this is a bizarre story. >> it is. what we are seeing maybe is a strange collision of events that put these american tourists in peril. first the timing of their visit to north korea. second, the white house's current state of play with the nation. and lastly, and most

surprisingly the upcoming are release of a new comedy. ♪ >> the interview is a spoof about tabloid journalists sent to kill the north korea leader. >> kim jong-un's people believe everything he tells them including he can speak to dolphins or he doesn't urinate and defecate. >> whoa, whoa. my man doesn't pee or p ork o? >> everybody does or they would explode. >> but he talks to dolphins. >> he says it is an act of war and promises a counter measure if the u.s. supports the release of the film. that's are where the two tourists come in. arrested this past spring some foreign affairs analyst believe their prosecution may be retribution for the movie and to goad washington into reengaging talk about weapons, trade and

international aid. >> the administration now seems to be sitting on its hands looking for a signal that the north koreans are serious about negotiating on their nuclear weapons. they don't see a signal so they haven't been engaging much at all. >> beyond that, why north korea would prosecute 24-year-old matthew miller is a mystery. he allegedly tore up his visa and asked for asylum. 56-year-old jeffrey fowl according to family and friends was just visiting, even if he did leave a bible in his hotel room possibly violating laws against proselytizing. >> his family misses jeffrey very much. >> reporter: all this along with the sentencing of another captured american, kenneth bay, to 15 years hard labor has the state department concerned. >> i don't have the north korea travel warning in front of me. it suggests strongly not to travel at all to north korea. >> reporter: maybe especially when the movie comes out this fall. >> want to go kill kim jong-un?

>> totally. >> it's a date. >> to be fair, people would not react to movie about an assassination attempt on a united states leader. but when you think about this it seems ridiculous. maybe it's just an excuse for thok making all of the noise. but there is a very are strong cult of personality at work here. something unlike anything else we know. clearly they take great offense that their leader is specifically named in the movie, no matter how the movie was made. that's what they are acting upon now. we'll see how it plays out. >> they revere their leader. >> a very big, near deity for them. it's something that matters. they don't take it lightly, even if it's just hollywood making what we think is a light-hearted joke. >> tom foreman, thank you so much. coming up, a new terror are threat. security is being boosted at airports with flights to the u.s. amid concern that is al

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critical airport or will will the u.s. be dragged into combat? wolf blitzer is off today. i'm breanna keeler and you're in "the situation room". >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we are following two breaking stories this hour. the holiday hurricane danger on the east coast, a new hurricane warning in effect here. plus the breaking news. the department of homeland security just announced new action in response to growing concerns that terrorists are building new bombs that can get past airport screeners. our chief national security correspondent jim schudo has details. tell us about it. >> you can get a sense from how fast they are acting and specific cities, airports to just how urgent this is. these changes will take effect within the coming week. the new screening measures will affect overseas airports with direct flights to the u.s., pliemly in europe and the middle east. this is based on new intelligence that terrorists are

further refining explosive devices to avoid detection by current screening methods using, for example, fewer metal parts. we are told it is unlike tloi affect what passengers can take on flights, for instance l lap tops, but passengers will see additional screening of shoes and electronics. screening for explosive residue, swab machines we are familiar with. . the passengers may see additional screening at gates and additional random screening where sometimes passengers are taken aside for additional interview. this has been an ongoing concern for some time. u counter terror officials watching the bomb makers as they refine technology to get past our screening methods. i have been told by intelligence officials new intelligence came in that identified a vulnerability and dhs is acting today to address it. >> identifying the vulnerability. all right. foreign airports obviously. this must be a concern for the u.s. government. >> it is, for sure. this is a place where the tsa

doesn't operate. it doesn't do screening overseas. it has represents that with security officials and make recommendations and so on. i spoke with michael chertoff who said one challenge is these countries don't have are the resourceses we have. it's something they have to deal with. that said, they have long-running relationships with these countries. they have been able to communicate these warnings before. >> let's talk about it. tom furks entes here with us as well. cnn national security analyst bob behr on the phone. tom, this is interesting. jim is saying it is a vulnerability that's been identified, not an imminent threat. at the same time we are seeing these increased screenings kicking in next week. that's quick, right, when you're not talking about an imminent threat? or am i wrong. >> they have heard members of aqap communicate thad the

vulnerabilities that have been there all along are still there. why don't we keep trying? the efforts in 2009 with abdul matulab to the underwear bomber on the flight bound for detroit. the printer cartridges. i think they are looking at that not a lot has changed and if they don't step up security on the in-bound u.s. flights, there will still be a good way to get material on board. >> you worked for the cia. when you look at this, what kind of intelligence leads to a move like this? >> well, first of all, tom is absolutely right. we are very vulnerable with bombs. i mean, they use a particular kind of explosive called petn. it can be poured into the sides of suitcases. a pound of it, even in the center of a plane is enough to bring a plane down. it is very hard to defend against. on the other hand, the good news

is just a couple of bomb-makers can actually make them effectively and get the detonators right and on planes. unfortunately, some of those people have been in iraq prior to 2003. there are rumor s they are back in iraq. the real fear is if we are drawn into a conflict in iraq they would be more motivated on a headed for the united states. >> that's the concern. this is the concern coming to the united states from europe and the middle east. those are the areas we should be most concerned about? >> i think absolutely. from the middle east if there is no secondary check it would be ease stairway get one crossing the atlantic. on the other hand, i have been assured by people who made up the mock bombs, my former colleague, that they could get them through u.s. security as well. they are sophisticated. you have to have a thorough nitrate test to catch one of them. even then you could check one in. as long as a passenger

accompanied the bag you could get it on a flight. >> do you think we'll see an expansion of the regions they are looking at for this possible threat, jim? >> i'm told it's about europe and the middle east, not other areas. they will make an effort to focus resources where they can. if this is the area that's worrying them now, they will try to focus attention there. >> we are seeing the uk get in line with how the u.s. is wanting to do increased screening. does that make us think the threat could be bigger or -- you don't think so? >> i don't think bigger, but big enough. the issue for the europeans are they don't require a visa traveling on a european passport. you don't need a visa to enter the united states. that makes it easier for someone radicalized from a uh european country. if they get training in yemen they have an increased capacity to get on planes and come here that others don't from other parts of the world. the other issue is the are

principal bomb maker in yemen is creative and innovative. most bomb makers are not. if they make a bomb and are have their fire extinguishers and toes after it goes off a, they don't change the recipe. he does. he's tried bombs in body cavities on his own brother. >> his own brother. >> he engineered the printer cartridge, the underwear bomb. all of these things are invas n invasions you have not seen other bomb-makers ace tempt. that makes him dangerous. he could have couple with a new method we don't know about yet. >> thank you, tom fuenes, jim scuitto and bob behr. tropical storm arthur is almost a hurricane new watches for north carolina, but the threat of stormy weather extends to the south and north. americans are prepare aring now

for long fourth of july weekend that they were hoping for beautiful weather for. millions of people headed to the beach. they have holiday celebrations that could be affected by heavy and winds and deadly rip currents. that's key here. renee marsh is on kill devil hills on north carolina's outer banks. it looks beautiful there. i imagine people are thinking about taking precautions. >> absolutely. just about an hour ago all of our cell phones lit up. we got an extreme weather threat alert. so the warnings are definitely in effect. we can tell you we are about four hours into a voluntary evacuation in one county, hyde county. that's happening now you can see people are taking it all in now. in hours, this will change. we'll be talking about massive waves, rip currents as well as

storm surge. >> you don't plan on a hurricane over the fourth of july. >> reporter: tropical storm arthur threatening to deliver fireworks of its own. captured on radar and from space, an astronaut on the international space station tweeted this picture of the storm writing, just flew over tropical storm arthur. hoping it heads to sea. looks mean. it's barrelling up the east coast and gaining strength. in its path, beach towns like kill devil hills, north carolina. >> hopefully it will bounce off and keep going out to sea. >> if it doesn't? >> maybe we'll head inland. >> reporter: arthur battered florida shores as a tropical storm. by thursday it is expected to morph into the season's first hurricane, clocking in as a category one with. coastal north carolina is preparing for a hit. >> projections now indicate it will brush the coast and affect primarily the outer banks. as we know, there is always a

possibility this could change. >> reporter: a coastal state of emergency in the tar heels state and voluntary evacuations ordered in at least one county. with the with sun still shining, arthur's threat isn't enough to make visitors staying at the water's edge uneasy just yet. >> so that's what we are expecting, great weather. >> despite the forecast. >> you know, they can be wrong. >> reporter: so you hear a little bit of optimism along the coast. the governor of north carolina put it best and it's worth repeating. do not put on the stupid hat. they want you to take precautions. they say even if the storm doesn't hit the coastal area directly, there is still a concern of storm surges, of course, of the rip current. so they just want people to be smart about this. >> be smart. err are on the side of caution.

renee marsh in kill devil hills. now to the severe weather center and meteorologist chad myers . be smart. that's what you have been warning people. >> right. now at 5:00 the forecast changed a little bit. didn't change a lot. let me explain why it matters. the 11:00 a.m. forecast was here. the 5:00 p.m. forecast is right there. that brings the storm closer to shore. it bring it is eye wall closer to shore. it brings more wind, more water, more rip current activity right closer to shore. that's the new hurricane warning all the way from nag's head down to surf city. the storm is stronger, bigger, larger in size now. at least the size of texas if not bigger with showers all the way over to tampa. s there is the eye of the storm right there. 70 miles per hour. hurricane center in their discussion last hour said this will be a hurricane within 12

hours. is breathing in air from below, warm moist area of the gulf of mexico and it's blowing out the top in big sir rus clouds. here is the rub why the storm is is closer to shore and white matters. you could get an eye wall that goes around and around and scour it is beach to nothing left. the coastal erosion runs offshore and plows more water to nags head, cape hatteras and the like. it continues to move away from d.c. and new york city. there may be a lingering shower, a band, an arm that could get to you. the next story is boston. about 8:00 at night it will park there, try to throw bands of water, rain, thunderstorms at you. we'll see if that changes. that's the fourth of july night. maybe that changes the fireworkses or the boston pops. we'll see. i haven't seen them this good in

a long time. there there is no outliers going left or right. are remember sandy? this way, that way. these are tightly packed. when you're on the beach and you see waves you want to get in the water. but the water is coming over sand bars and if the bars break the rip current take use into the ocean. >> paddle sideways, not back where you came from. get the feeder current you see in in graphic. thank you so much. now a check on storm preparations in north carolina. bill rich is the manager of pride county. what's being done there to prepare? >> we have been heating for two days with our emergency service people and getting advice. we have issued a state of emergency for hyde county.

at this point we have issued voluntary evacuation for the island which is part of hyde county. we have to get on and off the island by ferry. the ferry service works through the state. we'll run ferries all day and all night on demand. they run every 30 minutes. we could evacuate within five hours. we'll continue to watch and if we go to mandatory, we'll make that decision. >> are people following the suggestion pretty well, do you think? >> yes. the voluntary evacuation alerted them to the risk and danger. some of them are making the decision now. all visitors would have to leave the island if it's mandatory. residents stay. >> how do you decide whether to

go to mandatory versus volunt y voluntary? >> just like the report uh you had. we'll look at the 8:00 report are and see how it changed from 5:00 and have a decision after 8:00. >> we are actually looking at a live picture coming from kill devil hills, north carolina. you can see in this sort of the phenomenon that's the sand bar. there is a young man with a surfboard standing out on one. at what point because there is a concern these could break. at what point do you see it's time to get out of the water? >>we already have. we have closed the beaches and all of the camp sites and all of those people -- all the campers had to evacuate. that was mandatory. that was through the national park service. so the beaches -- >> through some of the other beaches like the ones we are looking at in other areas? >> all of the hatteras seashore beaches are closed as well.

they will be chained off as of 9:00 tonight. >> so that's when the concern start sths these folks we are watching are okay? >> absolutely. the concern starts at 9:00 tomorrow night actually. >> okay, good. certainly good to give yourself a buffer of comfort there. we heard from the governor that he's been in touch with fema. really ready to secure resource that is might be needed after this storms passes. are you certain that you have the resources you need now ahead of the storm? >> yes. we have been in touch with fema and our emergency management backup. we are certain. >> thank you, bill rich, hyde county, north carolina, manager. we appreciate your time. >> thank you very much. >> one of the nation's most famous fourth of july celebrations is being moved up a day to avoid being rained out by arthur. chad was right. it could affect things in the area. this was just announce thad the

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right now, isis fighters are moving closer to the northwestern edge of the baghdad

airport. that's very are bad news. defending the facility is a top priority for u.s. troops on the ground and the iraqis battling for the capital city. arwa damon joins us now from baghdad. tell us what you saw. >> reporter: a lot of what the iraqi forceses are resorting to is the use of unconventional militias especially along the critical front lines. we find the front line about 25 kilometers from baghdad's airport. these shooi shia fighters are w brigade, many hiding in the open field in front of us. you can see them in the distance, in the grass.

mortars fired by conventional iraqi forces thud in the distance. that's where we are told the isis positions are. the sounds of the mortars we are hearing are outgoing. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> reporter: and this village, they moved into it at dawn the a few hours before we arrived. we can see their men at their current front line, just over there. at 5:00 a.m. we began creeping into the edge of the orchards. the commander says our special forces entered first, just with knives. these men are experts in unconventional guerilla warfare. he was trained as a special forces officer under saddam hussein. he then became a member of one of the shia militias that fought the americans but he won't tell us which one with. in fact, many of the men are now applying skills learned from attacking u.s. troops. they are fresh off the

battlefield in syria where the brigade was formed. he was in syria with his family applying for asylum in the west when the syrian revolution took a sectarian turn. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> reporter: our holy shrines are a red line, he says. fighters from iraq flooded in to protect the syrian shrine of the are prophet's granddaughter. sacred for them. the brigade grew in strength, battling alongside the syrian regime's tanks against the rebels. we are returned to iraq a month and a half ago, he tells us. we knew that isis would be planning on coming to iraq. now wearing iraqi military uniforms for the hardened fighters, deployed to one of the fiercest front lines, it is a battle to the death. after overrunning an isis position, they show us what little the isis fighters left behind.

this is the scope for an anti-tank weapons system that they also found. we will damn you, they chach t chachblt -- chant. it is perhaps this country that's already damped. he still plans to apply for asylum in the west. he says there is nothing more the to keep him here. the reason he feels that way is because he believes the iraqi politicians are going to be unable to form the kind of national unity government that's going to be needed to ensure iraq's long-term stability and success. >> they are struggling to do that now. thank you so much, arwa, from baghdad. one of the big concerns for the u.s. now is will talky forces stand and fight if isis

militants make a direct attack on baghdad. we are getting new information on that from inside the pentagon. let's go to our pentagon correspondent barbara are stast. what are you hearing? >> it's not a surprise that u.s. military advisers' preliminary assessments are that the iraqi forces will fight. you saw in arwa's report how complex the battlefield is. there are already questions this time around, is the u.s. intelligence on iraq any good? the iraqi air force striking at what it says are isis targets. iraqi ground forces on the move. tanks and troops headed for northern provinces overrun by islamic insurgents. preliminary intelligence reports from u.s. military advisers in iraq say the iraqis will stand up and fight. >> everything we see indicates that they will fight, that they will defend baghdad. >> reporter: u.s. advisers for

now aren't going on patrol or anywhere near iraqi combat positions. they are staying at iraqi headquarters around baghdad. >> it's impossible to do that. >> reporter: is the latest intel on iraq any good? >> when you deal with the headquarters level you will never get the true picture and, quite frankly, it's in the interest of the iraqi forces at headquarters level to lie to their american counterpartses. >> reporter: even protecting baghdad airport, a top priority, will take iraqi troops. it is the only way to evacuate thousands of americans out of baghdad in a crisis. but there are only 300 u.s. troops there. u.s. arms could help. this week, 100 hellfire missiles delivered to the iraq aries. fighter jets from russia now

flying over baghdad as well. prime minister al malaki says there will be amnesty for those who fought the government unless they killed iraqi forces. thes prospect of sectarian war still looms large. u.s. intelligence reports increased presence of iranian quds force personnel coming to iraq to train shia militias. what else is happening in iraq? no u.s. military advisers on their way to northern iraq as originally planned because, of course, that's territory that isis holds now. >> barbara starr, stay with us for the next segment that we are doing. we want to bring in lieutenant general mark hertling, cnn military analyst and top u.s. commander in northern iraq which barbara spoke about during the troop surge. also with us, the former commander general anthony

zinney. the iraq army has collapsed in many of these areas. a lot of americans look at this and say what's going on? the american troops were spending years trying to train these folks. why aren't they able to fight back? >> i imagine the state of morale is not high. the equips of the army was slow in coming. they didn't see themselves as fighting for their homes. i think it will stiffen around baghdad. there could be elite units that stand up and the shia militia are fighting for their homes and religious sites. the stand around baghdad, i think, will be a better show than in the north. >> general, you were in baghdad for 15 months from 2003 to the

2004. i know you had close relationships with them and you started to see them, what, polled? >>what i would say is the division commanders i had strong relationships with were in the north. we had five divisions we were working with. two kurdish commanders, two sunni and a shia commander. after we left, they were pulled, replaced. i think what general zinni said is any time you have an organization with poor and toxic leadership -- and we have seen that over the years since the u.s. has left in the replacement of good commanders, the organization the loses its fabric and falls apart. that's what's happened in the north. the soldiers haven't been supported by the government. some of the tribal leaders told them to quit fighting for the government which they don't perceive as on their side. i think that's generated some of the problems in the north.

>> bash are are a -- i'm sorry, general. >> in baghdad you will have a very different story. you have organizations closer to the flagpole. commando units and special operations forces. it will be tenuous on the western sides of town. neighborhoods around baghdad airport are sunni airports. those are places that were promised to udi hussein when he was still in power. a lot of military leaders retired there. that's a huge sunni neighborhood. there will be good support for isis and the sunni revolution y revolutionaries in the area. >> that's alarming. barbara are has a question. >> i do. i want to put it to general zinni. for years the u.s. military has been working at training troops in iraq and afghanistan. if u.s. special forces can't get out on the ground, can't walk the ground and see the actual troops out there, can this advise ary mission really work?

what can it really accomplish? how do they know flat out that the iraqis aren't lying to them? >> well, i think you're absolutely right, barbara. you need to get out with the units on the front lines. that's what our special forces are expert in doing. the teams need to get an assessment of not only what the iraqi military is and what they can and can't do, what is the situation, what is the mood, as mark said in the villages and neighborhoods. the point about being up in the north, i'm surprised we are not in kurdistan. that's in the north. and the pesh mu argha will figh. we should think about the kurdish areas and the saudi border. nobody wants to see it move into those areas. we have to the get eyes on the ground and assess how to contain this.

i would make one other point. it isn't a matter of just military capability. this government -- malaki's government had better deliver something that the sunnis can look to and be willing to resist isis so that they have a government they can believe in after this. >> can you imagine a situation, barbara, where there would be -- as the general mentioned -- troops surrounding isis? >> well, you know, this is a political decision certainly for the white house, for president obama to make about whether he wants to send groups to the middle east. i think every president in history that's done that has found it to be a problem. my question goes back quickly to both general zinni and general he are rtling. does the pentagon need to take more risk and have special forces get out and do their job? if they are going to stay in iraqi brigade headquarters it's hard to see what they will accomplish. >> i will answer that. >> the answer from my point of view is yes. i defer to mark who has been on

the ground and worked and knows it better than anybody else. >> i would also suggest that's a great question, but some of the special forces and special operating forceses that are part of the advisory group, their initial mission was to feel this out. let's get an assessment. where are things? the fact that iraqi generals in command in baghdad may be lying to them. these guys have been around for ten years dealing with these guys. they know when the flag needs to be thrown on things being said. they are like willy in some of the kurdish provinces. in fact, some of the embassy officials have been moved up. so i think we have close connections with the pesh murgha and asief. we had it when i was in the north. we are getting good intelligence from the kurdish government. we are concerned about baghdad. giving mr. malaki is a chance to

pull forces together. possibly make the right political moves. if those moves aren't made. it doesn't matter how many forces you put on the ground. it's not going to make a difference. we had 160,000 there for almost ten years. without the constant pull on the politicians to do the right things, we won't get the kind of mission completion that looking for. >> general zinni. when you look -- and i know perhapses you think the u.s. maybe should have been in iraq longer than it was. what do you think things would look like now if there were troops and they'd stayed longer? >> yrngs i was there in 2008. i are visited mark's unit in the north. on the ground as long as we were there, the united states, you know, we were building the kind of military, hope into the villages that i think was

necessary. but everybody told me if malaki doesn't follow up on this, if he doesn't reach out, if the government isn't inclusive. if he doesn't share power and the distribution of resources down to the provincial and district levels, this will all collapse. you could say american troops should have stayed longer. but you weren't going to hold things together if eventually we didn't change or malaki didn't change. i think what has to happen now is to rethink the structure of this government. you know, the kurds, for all practical purposes, are autonomous. the shia areas in the south are much their own masters. i think there is going to be some brokering of autonomy or semi-autonomy, especially in the sunni areas to put them on an equal par with the other two. if that doesn't happen, you're just going to see this chronic problem repeating itself time after time. >> it would mean and perhaps we

are already seeing an end to iraq as we know it. generals, thank you so much and thank you as well to barbara starr. just ahead, jerusalem on the brink. a palestinian teenager is killed. angerer and mistrust boil over in the city streets. later, the rise of a new american sports hero. goalie tim howard captured a wave of new followers. how high can he go?

as if tensions in the middle east aren't high enough they were driven higher in jerusalem today with the discovery of a

palestinian teenager's body this a forest. his death, a suspected act of retaliation for the killings of the three murdered israeli teens buried yesterday. as news of this spread, fresh clashes erupted. cnn's atika schubert and her crew witnessed a clash while on the air earlier. >> reporter: things are very tense at the moment. in fact, i will spin the camera around briefly here. ooh, excuse me. there is a lot of police trying to disperse us. i'm sorry for the noise. it seems they let off a stun grenade near us. >> she joins us now from jerusalem. tell us more about what you saw. >> reporter: we were in north jerusalem in the exact spot actually where that young palestinian teenager was reportedly forced into a car,

abducted, and it is believed killed. his body was later found about an hour later. his family is still in that area. in fact, his family home. that became the center point for a lot of the clasheses we saw. it was a pretty chaotic scene with a lot of palestinian residents using stones, slingshot s, and responding from the israeli police with stun grenades and teargas. unfortunately now it's almost coming up on 24 hours since that young teenager was abducted. we have had clashes all throughout the day. >> tell us about what you are expecting to happen tomorrow. >> tomorrow we are expecting the funeral are. israeli police are conducting a full autopsy on the body but they will be giving that back to his family. so we are expecting high emotions, more tensions and unfortunately tonight, even now it's about 1:00 in the morning. we are still getting reports of

the violence spreading to other neighborhoods in jerusalem. so we could be in for another day of oh violence tomorrow. >> we know you will be watching. atika a, we'll check in with you tomorrow. coming up now, the tim howard -- well, tim howard taking the u.s., certainly the world by storm. team usa's record-setting goalie reflects on his stunning performance in brazil yesterday and soaks up his new celebrity. will we see a lot more of him? also ahead, president obama signed the fair pay act to close the gender pay gap. is the white house practicing what it preaches? we'll find out.

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rhythm. that was -- i felt like that for most of the season. certainly in the last couple of weeks i have felt good. the game has slowed down for me. i'm seeing things much earlier. my reactionses have been very quick. so, yeah, it felt like that. i'm also very weary in those moments knowing that when the big bad wolf is knocking at the door, he could at any time enter. i was worried that it would break. just trying to organize it as much as i could which is why my voice is gone. and make the saves i was capable of making. >> joining me now to talk more about tim howard and how he's just really taken, i guess, the u.s.'s imagination by storm, rachel nickels, host of "unguarded." we talked about this. even though the u.s. lost in the game it was an amazing performance by this goalie. >> yeah. historic performance. 16 saves, not just

history-making for an american which is the context we usually talk about soccer, because we can't compete on the world stage with history-making performances, but tim howard did. this was the best performance by a goaltender in a world cup of anyone from any country in nearly 50 years. what makes it even more amazing to me was that he did this with the tourette's syndrome he's been so open about. the stereotype is people swear uncontrollably. that only affects about 10% of tourette's sufferers. 90% are like tim howard where it is twitches, things like that. unfortunately those come out more when you are under stress like -- i don't know -- one of the biggest games of your life? so tim howard was very open after the match talking about how his tourette's was acting up more and the way he controlled it is when the ball was in the belgian end he would let his body go, do what it wanted to. when he was facing shots he was

able to employ body control. so amazing to me that he was able to put in the performance he did when his body wasn't necessarily listening to him. then coming out and talking about it afterward. he said it was important to him to bring it up, make sure kids out there, other people with tourette's know, hey, you can do absolutely anything with this condition. after seeing him, i can't argue. >> that's what i love about him so much. he's such an inspiration to so many kids who are battling tourette's syndrome. he's become a celebrity. he has the celebrity status now, right? >> how do we judge anything? the internet. the internet has gone crazy for tim howard. one of my favorites was you go to the wikipedia page of the secretary of defense which is usually chick hagel there. somebody replaced it with tim howard. give chuck hagel credit. he thought it was funny, too. today he called tim howard, talked to him, told him, thank

you for defending our country. said, you put in the work, you could be the secretary of defense one day. he wasn't the only politician to get in on the act. president obama called tim howard and clint dempsey, the striker to say thank you for representing our country, not just on the field but representing it so well off the field as well. then, of course, everybody else had to get their say in, too. we have mount howard instead of mount rushmore. he was on the dollar bill being in tim we trust. what else can tim howard say? there are memes of him saving ned stark from "game of thrones," valerie jarrett, the president's adviser posted her own meme. here is ned stark. valerie jarrett posted one where he was >> it would have changed the whole plot line.

>> exactly. >> voice to hagel, he made the call hoisting the soccer ball. a lot of people are better wondering water ahead, now they know who tim howard is. what is he going to be looking for? >> reporter: yeah, well, she 35-years-old. going into the world cup, the thinking was this is his last go, this is probably the last time we will see him in a world cup, he will play foreverton. then all of a sudden this thing goes crazy and tim says, you know what, he is really energized by this young team, so he's going to tame some time to think about it and, frankly, he has been any e energized by the fans and the report as well. here's a report he gave to cnn earlier today. >> we've felt it down here. we seen the videos and youtube and the bars and restaurants and the parks have been sold out. it's been special and that's been a part of this amazing journey, playing at the world cup is special, but also being

able to captivate the hopes and dreams of a nation is really certainly a part of that ride. >> reporter: amazing, right, to think that all of the people out there have maybe influenced tim howard to stick around. we'll have to see. for now, though, he says he will take it easy with his family and get a few more tattoos. >> i don't think there is room. all right, rachel nick nichols, thank you so much. ahead, pay day at the white house, president obama promised to close the gender gap. six years later we find out if the administration is living up to that under its own roof? and when weather hits, it's data mayhem. but airlines running hp end-to-end solutions are always calm during a storm. so if your business deals with the unexpected, hp big data and cloud solutions make sure you always know what's coming -

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closing gender pay gap has long been important to president obama. the fair pair act was the very first legislation he signed into law as president in 2009. now new statistics show the divide between what men and women earn on average at the white house, itself, may still need a little bit of work. cnn white house correspondent michelle kazinski is joining me with details. so the white house is maybe not living up to the details? >> reporter: hey, pay is not bad here at the white house, including bigender. they have pay grades by title, male or female, everyone working with each level isn't exactly the same. where this got confusing when you take this as average as the white house repeatedly uses to apply that to the white house, yes, there is also still a wage gap right here. it's one of president obama's top agenda items.

just yesterday. >> let's make sure women earn pay equal to their efforts. >> back in april this. >> the average woman earns 7 cents for every dollar a man earns. >> reporter: that has been one tricky statistic on the u.s. on average. it doesn't explain why more women hold lower paying jobs, for the highest paying roles the field of applicant is predominantly male for a number of reasons, including choice and those fields include the whoigs where more women hold lower paying positions and if you use the rhetoric, the white house pay gap has women earning 88 cents to the dollar. that hasn't changed in six years. >> i wouldn't hold up the white house as the perfect example here. there is no doubt that there is more that we could do to approve our record here, when compared to the pride detector, our

record stands pretty strong. >> the real push the white house, itself, seems right on target target. top tier assistants to the president, male or female, dennis mcdonagh and susan rice and josh earnest and jen pal merry, again, over all, more women hold the lower paying jobs. >> which is more specific, if that doesn't represent equal work for equal pay, is it really fair to say in america it's 77 cents to the dollar, female-to-male? >> again, what i would say is there are a variety of metrics that can be evaluated whether or not equal work leads to equal pay. >> reporter: the white house doesn't want to back off from use tag statistic, even though at times when explaining the white house wage gap, it seems to contradict a value of using that average in america at all.

>> michelle kazinski, very interesting report. thanks so much for watching, erin burnett out front starts right now. >> up next, breaking news, tropical storm arthur gaining strength that is now on a collision course with the carolinas. plus, sweeping new changes to airport security could be on the way. will it be enough to stop the latest terror threat neighborhood, and a flight forced to return to lax due to a mechanical problem? w'll tell you exactly what the mysterious leap was. let's go "out front." [ music playing [ music playing ] >> good evening, everyone. "out front of the" tonight, we are following two breaking stories right now. a major security crack down u june at airports across the globe and tropical storm arthur gaining strength and winding up

for a possible hurricane strike just ahead of the july 4th holiday. wednesday up to 70 miles per hour churning off the northern coast of florida and as arthur moves north, bands of damaging winds and torrential rain are expected to hammer the coast of north cloevenlt a u.s. astronaut tweeted this picture of the storm. can you see how big arthur is. enormous. in boston, 4th of july fireworks celebration has been moved up until tomorrow. meteorologist chad myers "out front of the" tonight checking it all. chad, what itself the latest on the storm's path? >> getting beggar, getting deeper, which means the low pressure is getting lower. the winds are picking up. the path is taking you right to forth carolina. right along the coastia were from wilmington to moorehead city and right over towards cape hatteras. that's the lean. here is the storm, itself. there is an awful lot of lightning associated with an outer band. it's not attached to this storm. significant lightening.

at least a thousand lightning strikes. i have seen here across the florida peninsula in the past couple of hours. there is the storm on satellite, beginning to see the eye take shape. >> that means the storm is sucking in air at the surface and blowing it out the top. this is how a hurricane gets bigger and the hurricane center says this will be a hurricane in less than 12 hours. there is the eye of the storm right there. the forecast has changed a little bit. at 5:00, the forecast got the storm closer to the shore of north carolina. so a couple hours ago, this line was kind of out here. now the center of the line is out here, which tells me, we have looked at the models all day, there is a better cans, a higher cans we get more erosion in north carolina, more rip currents. more beach erosion, more roads that may get washed out, eventually, it heads to the east of knackshead into the atlantic ocean. something else, it will get farther away from new york and

d.c. that's some good news, there is an 85-mile-per-hour storm. it will get er closer to boston. it makes its approach tomorrow night. that's why we know they are rearranging their plans for the 4th of july. most of those plans will take place tomorrow because of that storm could affect boston as the friday night approach, right around 18:00, it would be prime time the closest approach for that storm t. modems are all in agreement, don, there they go. i don't think it misses north carolina at all. something else i want to get to right before i lose you, there is a major line of weather heading right to new york city. sometimes when that happens, we get what's called satellite fade. the satellite can't shoot through all that rain. we'll watch your signal to see if that happens to you tonight. but big weather is headed to new york city. lots of lightning, get inside. >> if we get knocked off the air because of that. it's many you are fis law or arthur's law this time. cad, we'll be checking in with. thank you very much. appreciate it. anotheric brack story tonight, sweeping changes to

keep air passengers safe across the globe from explosive devices that can slip through security. homeland security will be putting new rules in effect. just hours ago, the british government announced it is stepping up security measures. tim scuitto tis out front to check this security shut june facing millions of travelers. >> they are the american first lean of defense, foreign airports with direct flights to the u.s. now they are directing those international airports to step up their security screening. in a written statement, dhs secretary jay johnson said, we are sharing recent and relevant information with our foreign allies and are consulting the aviation industry. among the changes passengers may see, more screening of electronics and shoes. more explosive detection machines and in some cases, extra screenings at boarding

gates. driving the new directive is increasing concern that terrorists from al qaeda and the arabian peninsula or aqap are refineing bombs designed to avoid protection by current airport screening methods. >> al qaeda and the arabian peninsula has long looked for vulnerabilities in airport security and, in particular, finding ways to put together bombs using non-metallic material that can make its way through metal detectors, also trying to hide bombs in body crevasses, that will not be easily identified by some of the newer machines in place at airports. >> this is the man believed to be behind the threat, aqap master bomb-maker ibrahim alasiri. they have warned terrorists trained under him were improving zeens of new device, such as shoe bomb, that could fool screening systems. we spoke about the new measures

today with former dhs secretary michael chertoff. >> how concerned should flyers be about what this means for the threat? >> i would be mindful of the fact there is probably increased risk. i don't think it's dramatically different. i would not fly t. good news here is that the government sharing information with others in other parts olt of the world is responding to this. >> reporter: we are told these new security measures will be implemented in new york and the middle east and the fact that they have specific city, specific airports in mind, indicates this is an urgent threat. they wanted real action and these new measures will be taking place in several days. >> we appreciate that tonight. and out front, seen in counterterrorist analyst phil mudd. can i run through, inspections of shoe, additional explosive trace machines and additional screenings at boarding gates, so

will they, will all of these measures be enough to stop these explosives that can make their way through security, phil? >> the answer is sort of i mean if you look at how effective we have been in the year of 1991, if you told someone we would face no downing of an airliner over the u.s. in the ensueing 13 years, i think people would say, i'd take that bet. we got close in december a few years ago by a guy wearing an yungd wear bomb made by the same bomber. you can't play defence against the bomb wloer is this creative and this technically sufficient forever. it's like the u.s. soccer team last night. can you play brilliant defense, eventually, these guys will score. >> 98 million passengers arrived in the u.s. by airline last year. about 257,000 passengers a day. so what can be done to screen and protect all of those passengers without disrupting air ralph? the leans are long enough? >> well, you've seen some of

that already in the past years, for example, you can't take liquids on aircraft. >> that resulted from a plot we witnessed beginning in the summer of 2006. the problem here in my view doesn't relate to how we stop every electronic device, whether we can search 2300 million shoes come -- 200 million shoes coming into the u.s., you have to be sure that not a single shoe has a device. let me tell you the answer, don. the answer is that guys that were plotting this need a one-way ticket off planet earth. can you not eliminate these kind of plots unless you eliminate the technical proficiency in al qaeda and syria and yemen. there are few bomb-makers that can do that. >> that has to do with anti-terrorism and measure, correct? >> that's correct. i think you can assume the people involved in this plotting are pretty high up on u.s. target lists. they will eventually go down. >> let's talk about more than four years ago, it was

explosives in the underwear, do you remember that, the underwear bomber tried to blow up explosives. is that what we are dealing with now? >> that's right. what you are dealing with is bomb-miami makers who recognize the capabilities of the machines in airports. so that's why they're looking for non-metallic devices. these guys are very smart. if you remember, in my experience, i watched them for 25 years at cia and the fbi, they read the newspapers. they have access to the internet. so they see the devices we are trying to put in place. they see the measures that tsa and others, the european security agencies are putting in place. they try to stay one step ahead of us as we try to stay with these measures, a step ahead of them. you'd be surprised how much internet research these bomb-makers will do in order to figure out what we are doing. >> thank you. it's frightening that these can't be detected. appreciate it. >> it is. up next, tensions rising in the u.s., some are saying israel is

retaliateing. plus, does your skin color determine your prison sentence? and goalie tim howard saves bambi. jeanie most has the story. .

new and violent clashes after another teen is found murdered. we have more from jerusalem. >> reporter: the streets of jerusalem are sooeting with anger and grief on both sides. >> before sunrise on wednesday, a 17-year-old was forced into a car outside his family's shop. an hour later, police found the poid in a forested area of west jerusalem, so badly burned that his parents had to provide dna

to identify their son. within hours, palestinian teenagers set up flameing barricades in front of the home throwing stones at israeli troops stationed moni nearby. they see this clearly as a revenge attack. they are angry throwing stones, using slingshots and the response from the israeli police, stun grenades and tear gas. when palestinian law-makers visited the cousin shouted out his frustration. we demand the israeli government bring the people who did this to justice, he says, deal with them as you did to the others. we want to see their houses demolished, their families arrested. we want revenge. this just a day after the bodies of kidnapped israeli teenagers were laid to rest. tenles of thousands came to mourn. their parents doubled over in

grief. now, it seems, calms to avenge their deaths have brought yet another funeral. the cycle of violence to familiar to residents in this city appears to have started once again. >> you were watching earlier, you had a bit of a scare, it was a real scare while you were in the field today. i want to play some of that and get your reaction. >> reporter: things are very tense here at the moment. knack, i'm going to spin the camera around very briefly here. oh, excuse me. there is a lot of police trying to disperse us here. it seems they let off a stun grenade, israeli police are trying to disperse residents that are very angry at what is happening. >> i think you were cool and calm, what is it like on the streets today? >> reporter: it was pretty chaotic in the neighborhood we were at. we were right in front of the

location where that palestinian teenager was believed to be abducted. so that's why it was particularly tense there. the lot of the people there in the neighborhood knew him. some even saw what had hatched. so they were extremely angry and they responded with throwing rocks, israeli police had stun grenades as you saw in that video. unfortunately, it looks like that violence has spread to other neighborhoods of jerusalem tonight. >> atika shubert, thank you. joining me now is israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's spokesman. they say they are investigating whether the death of a palestinian teen in jerusalem was a retaliation killing for the west bank teens. any news on that? ? >> i can tell you the police and investigators doing that at this stage cannot say they know who did this killing, this gruesome murder. i think we have as to wait for them to give us their report. >> we have seen clashes brake

out between israelis and palestinians since the discovery of a palestinian teen's body the white house weighed in today. i want you to listen. >> we call on the government of israel and the palestinian authority to take all necessary steps to prevent an atmosphere of revenge and retribution. >> so what specific steps will the israeli government be taking? >> the prime minister called upon all people, people on all sides, not to take the law into their own hands. now, we will get to the bottom of this. this crime this morning is obviously a teen has been killed, murdered and we're going to get to the bottom of this. but we can't jump the gun. you better allow the police to do their work to find out exactly what happened. >> what is up? you said bengals then netanyahu said don't take the law into your own hands. would it help if he made some sort of verbal statement condemning this killing, regardless of who is responsible? >> he has. he has condemned. he did it straight away. he condemned the murder.

he called eight heinous crime. i don't think you can find tougher language than that. >> but he did not do it verbally. >> he put out a statement the prime minister has been in security meetings all day and the defense ministry in a bit. we have a crisis as you know, there is fight income gaza. there is the ongoing investigation to try to get the killers, the kidnappers and murders of those three young israelis. he's got a lot on his plate. >> you don't think it would be appropriate for him to step in front of a camera, a group or somehow convey it, himself, to the palestinian people? >> he might be doing that very shortly. >> i want to read you something that the palestinian teen's cousin said today, it says, we blame the israeli police for the kidnapping and killing of mohammed and his burning. the israeli police and government should do the same as they have done, demolish and blow the settleers houses who have done this, done this crime. so, would you take that action

if it is discovered to be a revenge killing? >> we are totally, when it comes to this sort of criminal act. there is no difference between a jewish or arab resident of jerusalem. murder is murder is murder and the police will get to the bottom of this. >> i spoke yesterday with israel's ambassador to the u.s., ron dermer. i askled him if israel was prepird to see this escalate to a full scale war. i want you to listen to what he said. >> the people if jerusalem the decision-makers meeting as we speak in the security camera will make the decisions they have to in order to protect the country. >> he didn't exactly rule it out. are you prepared to rule it out? >> if we look at the situation in gaza, i'm not interested. the government of israel is not interested in escalation. but when you got rockets coming across the border daily, unfortunately, it appears there are more and more rockets. it has to stop.

if hamas stops it, that's the best. but if we have to stop it, we will. >> so you are not ruling it out as well? >> once again, we do not want to see escalation but we will act to protect our people, if need be. >> thank you, mark gregor. >> thank you very much, sir. break ne break. breaking news, a woman at the denver airport trying to meet a member of the isis. what was the substance passengers saw leaking in the plane? .

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this is cnn breaking news. >> another breaking news story to tell you about tonight a. fine-year-old american woman arrested at denver airport, accused of providing information to isis, battling in iraq and syria, shannon conley was arrested as she boarded a praen trying to meet up with an isis fighter she met online. evan perez is in washington with the latest. what did you learn in this is unsealed. it didn't just happen, right? >> this happened in april. she was trying to board a flight to turkey when the fbi stopped her and arrested her and the complaint that the fbi filed has been unsealed today by a federal judge in denver. according to complavent that the prosz prosecutors have filed, they say the fbi has been talking to this woman for

several months, baaing to last year, when they found out from sources, through people in the community she had an intent to join the jihad group. she felt she as a muslim convert needed to go help in the jihad cause. now, the fbi started interviewing her. they talked to her parents, talked to people she knew to try to persuade her this is not the route. this is not something you want to do. she invised. she kept explaining why she felt she needed to do that. there is a part of the complaint in which she says in which the fbi says that in which the fbi says conley stated that she wanted to wage jihad and would like to go overseas to fight. she further stated that she is in the allowed to fooid fight because she is a him who. she would use her medical training to aging jihadi fighters. apparently, she had nurse training and had military training when she used the military explorers, they help

young people prepare for careers in the military. >> evan, thank you very much. still out front the truth about america's drug laws. are you more likely to go to jail if you are black? plus, a scare on a flight from los angeles, what flooded the aisles in the latest city of tomorrow. we see the future and its trash. .

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while pot has brought in millions in revenue in colorado, in most parts of the country it can land you in jail. reportss show black people are much more likely to be arrested than whites. so a u.s. drug laws do they apply differently to minorities? jim clancy is out front tonight. >> reporter: linda clowers looks at the old photos and remembers worrying about her sons as any parent the jungest, grew in his 20s, staying in steady jobs and staying out of trouble, she took comfort. >> i felt as a parent i was on my way to having a successful young man. >> reporter: today he is 25 and sitting in a georgia jail convicted of possession and intent to distribute marijuana. >> my life is destroyed. >> reporter: he says he expects to serve two years of a six-year sentence. he is not the only black man in prison because of his own bad choices. according to an aclu report,

black people are almost four times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white people although actual usage is the same for both groups. the racial disparity is stunning, according to an attorney working to change america's marijuana laws. >> the only explanation is blatant racism. >> reporter: he talked to cnn on the phone, a first time offender drove his friend to the convenience store. it was his friend, he said, who sold a pound of pot to the under cover agent. >> i feel like in georgia it's not legal, so we're getting treated like, unfairly because if you can do it in one spot but in another state you can't. >> reporter: the amount cited in his case exceeds legal limits in any state. a changing attitudes about marijuana have made buying an selling an ounce legal in colorado and decriminalized in many others. as a result, a legal industry is

starting to emerge. >> you know, i flick on the evening news these days and when the subject turns to marijuana legalization, i see lots and lots of images of white people smoking marijuana, getting high and white men, in particular, dreaming of getting rich quick, selling marijuana after decades of young, black men and boys, in particular, being targeted and round up enmasse and stripped 06 their basic civil and huh pan rights for doing precisely the same thing. >> veteran prosecutors say there are clear differences. >> don't make any mistake that illegal drugs are a real problem for our society and you can debate marijuana, but and the legalization in some states, but the mexican drug cartels are

responsible for a stre amount of vika ledges. it's caused a real problem for our society. i'm not one that should advocate we should abandon our drug prosecution. >> reporter: the fbi reports 750,000 americans were arrested for marijuana violations in 2012. of those arrests, more than 87% were for simple marijuana possession. but yates says at the federal level, thousands of jail offenders may be eligible for early release if that their convings e 56s didn't include gun or violence. >> it's designed to focus on the lower level, non-violent truck offender, who under prior laws and policies received very long sentence, sometimes ten, 20, sometimes life. >> reporter: billions of dollars is spent enforcing marijuana laws each year a. become more keeping an estimated 40,000 marijuana offenders in jail.

contrast that with colorado's 10.8 million in tax revenue. in the first four months marijuana sales have been legal. if real clang is coming, professor alexander believes it has to be about more than just money. >> i don't think it's enough for us to just kind of, you know, try to wash our hands of this and say, okay, we're done now, locking millions of people in cages and stripping them of basic civil and human rights for using or selling marijuana him we are done, let's move on, let's make some money. i think we're going to have to think very carefully about how we got here and what can be done to repair the harm, the really unspeakable harm done to so many families in this country. >> reporter: linda clowers could say something about that. >> now you can say one state makes money and prospers, in another state, his life and whole life and dreams are torn

away from him. >> john, a great debate, of the kind envisioned by michelleal shander is all but inevitable. as the u.s. appears more flexible in its drug policies going forward the people most affected by them want a reexamination of the past. felony drug records, say some, are a life sentence. it will affect a person's ability to get a job, an education and everything that goes with it. as we discover here, that affects people of color in a disproportionate way. don. >> you want a good read. you want to learn about this particular issue and others, read michelle alexander's book, the new crow, it is eye opening. let's debate this now. "out front" tonight, former district attorney michael bongiorno and matthew, you first, do you think u.s. drug laws are applied lif differently to minorities? >> no doubt about it as a law officer that spearheaded the drug war, i know for a fact we

targeted urban areas. we were actually led to stay in those areas, not go to the more affluent areas the white areas, we were told they know judge, lawyers, politician, those folks want to challenge your arrest, change your probable cause, all of the thing that led when you look across the board, what led law enforcement officers to the more minority areas then on too much-of-that, i lash at for example, prince georges county, an area with one of the most affluent african-americans easterners in the country. still the arrests in those areas were up. you add that racial component to it. it's clear cut. >> michael, you don't think this is all about race and why? >> it's about crime. resources were directed at communities with high crime rates. in inner cities, those tend to be black communities are poor. will you have more arrest the law abiding people in those communities were up in arms. you go back historically to the '70s, ''80s, and '90s, crime was

out of control. >> i have to disagree, it's all about crime and according to a prosecutor, a good friends who says it's not racist on its face, race does play into it. it's the application by individual judges and maybe the judges may have some bias, therefore, race would play into it. >> there is always individual bias. the institution as a whole and the vast majority of judges are fair minded and are trying to do their best. let me dispel misconception, your peace order conplated drugs and marijuana and cocaine as if there are a lot of people if prison for marijuana, that's simply not true, especially in new york, where i'm a prosecutor. in the year 282008, 71 people were charged. 71. there are things, 14. >> it is lax when it comes to marijuana because of the crime rate is up, other things that they're looking for desides

marijuana. >> but it dispells the notion that these prisons are filled with these minor marijuana offenders. very few people go to jail for marijuana. >> i'm from new york, it's a bit different t.aclu report shows african-americans are four times as likely as whites to be arrested despite similar abuse. you say it's because of police officers. >> the resources of the police are led to the high crime area. most of the people arrested are men. is the system anti-male? no, the people tend to commit the crimes that, i draw the police attention. >> this is what president obama said back about incarceration rates for weed smoking weed in january. he said, quote, middle class kids don't get locked up for smoking pot and low poor kids do. >> no, because like i said, if you look at the black middle class families the report brought that out, they had

higher numbers of arrests in those areas so again race plays a very important part here. also, the report brought out that overall, if you talk about 3.4%. in some areas, it was 10, 20, 30% disparity rate. what i observed and was involved in when i saw it, we were targeting black areas. >> yes. >> we knew exactly where to go. >> meek am, in a new york centric way in georgia, it is different. people are locked up in georgia and other states, they are going to jail for marijuana. i had a friend in georgia, in atlanta. for marijuana. white male. he did go to jail, but they're going for marijuana, maybe not in new york. >> once again, they're not going for simple possessions of apples, it's probably because they trespassed in larger amounts. if you want to argue the legislation, that's something for legislatures too deal with.

in terms of enforcement, if you look at the way police departments react. you have to go after the lower level to prevent the higher level crimes. it doesn't mean you have to send them to jail. if you pull them off the street. they get find or truck treatment pursuant to their crimes, that's a good thing. >> it is a great debate. those of us in the real world my age who have seen the marijuana, first it was very tabu now it's accepting, i lived in the suburbs. there is a lot of drugs, a lot of marijuana in the disturbs, more than i see if urban areas, but people don't have that perception about it. that's the simple truth in reality. in my reality. that's what i see and a lot of kids who bought their pot were buying it from white kids in the suburbs. >> you think about the different types of dealing, in the city, you have a lot more open dealing on the streets, that will be more subject to law enforcement intervention, if you are developing and putting cuts into

those communities to release the cuts, there is a big connection dwooen between drug dealing and violent crime. >> we knew exactly. we had informant. we knew where they were going into the white affluent areas t. bottom line is we were directed away from those areas, we knew what the fallout would be if we did go into those areas. i'm saying the whole culture in place is to go after the little guy the guy that cannot defend himself and go into the raeshlly black areas. that's just black. i think everybody sees it. >> you have to look too as well if you look at the difference, i know it has changed, the sentencing for cocaine and crack, that was a federal disparity. still. we are still talking act a drug disparity. >> we get back to a couple of points, once again, i was in law enforsment 20 years the assistant da in manhattan, we

never shied away from truck cases, known where this is coming from. >> it was everywhere. >> well, no, that is certainly not the case in new york. i can tell you you were working for the wrong people. >> if you look at the numbers, i'm saying, you would say, automatically, african-americans use drugs or use marijuana more than anybody, more than the other the white race. we know that's not true. so why are the arrest rates as high as they have? again the whole culture guess go after the weakest link, get your numbers up, get our arrest records up so we can show the public we are washing on drugs, but the reality is. >> who are your supervisors? >> let's not get between washington and here. he has a point the way the culture is set up. more police officer, where does that come from? >> this is a reaction to the tremendous crimes we had in the 70s, '80s and 90s, we hired more police and directed them into

the community. >> they were pushed into areas, into urban areas. it didn't just all of a sudden happen. >> that stemmed, in part, in large part from racism. >> if the people are in the neighborhood, if you say that's a part of racism, you have to police those neighborhoods. you can't puchlt. >> you understand what he is saying. he is saying because the way the system is set up. in turn. >> it doesn't make him a racist. >> systemically, it's because the way the system is set up. the system is set fun part because of racism. you can't design e do you enthat aspect when analyzing it. >> i don't understand your point. the police direct the resources where they think it's most needed. >> we need to run, i don't mean to dang up with you. i love having this conversation. >> thank you, we'll have you back. out front next, the city of tomorrow is already here, what philly is doing to save the environment and millions of dollars and a flight forced to

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is not working. here's something you don't see every day. >> that is water running down the aisle of an airplane. this double deck quantus polite sprung a massive leak. it was enough to flood the upper deck and rain on passenger's seated on the lower deck nicole brown tweeted about the experience and >> all of a sudden, it looked like a trickle, like i thought someone spilled a soda or pop and it got bigger and bigger and filled up isles and it was like a river running down the isles of the plane. it was the scary's thing i've seen. >> flight attendants tried to soak up the water with blankets and pillows. the airline said there was no safety concerns but the captain decided to head back to lax. listen, maybe this was gross to say the least, do they know what

happened here, sarah? >> you know what? i just got off the phone with a representative from qantas and i asked where the heck did this water come from? i didn't know there was that much water on a flight like this. here is a couple things, one is the water on this flight was actually drinkable water according to a qantas representative. it's water for things like the bathroom, as well, but it was clean. it was not use in anyway. and so that's a good thing. the passengers did not report any kind of smell or anything coming from this water, but these airlines, especially the ones going on long haul flights like this one leaving from la and going to melbourne in australia, a 14-hour flight. they have to have enough water on the flight to make sure things like the bathroom work properly all the way through. that is where hundreds of gallons of water on the flights, that's where the water came from, don. >> we've all sat next to the

bathroom and so, if they didn't smell it, it's probably okay, i hope. still, if it is running down the aisle, sarah, and raining on people in the lower deck, we've seen the statistics on the germs on airlines and studies. apparently they said there is no safety concerns but water, electrical equipment 35,000 feet in the air, it a recipe for for disaster. >> here is the thing. i talked to aviation experts and they said look, because it was on the second floor, that was one good thing but the planes have plenty of electrical cords and wires throughout the bottom of the plane and throughout the plane, for example, when you watch movies, the long haul flights, there is plenty of electricity and if it seeped into that, that may have caused a real problem because it may have shorted out some sort of electrical devices on the particular plane, but at this point, because of where it started, they said look, they were only an hour into the

flight. the flight attendants did what they were supposed to. people were not screaming and hollering. they were given blankets to sop it up and just so you know, just got this, basically they are still trying to get this problem fixed. and they will give people a whole new flight at 8:00 our time tonight. >> drier, i hope, with some towels, maybe. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> definitely. >> can they put everybody in first class for that? >> you know what, don? i don't think -- there are 400 people, if there was 400 first class seats. >> just make the whole thing first class and give everybody all the food and drinks. >> a little blink off the air. see you later, sarah. a record number of saves at the world cup but what else should tim howard save? jeanne moos as that story.

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praise from his teammates, the president called him today, 16 saves during yesterday's game thrust tim howard into the spotlight but what about other things that need saving? is jeanne moos. >> reporter: talk about well armed, the u.s. may have suffered heart break. but ended up with a heart throb. timmy howard they are chanting. >> the man of the match. >> the new captain america. >> timmy howard. >> reporter: but the internet didn't clap. it photo shopped its love for placing george washington on the quarter in tim we trust. the goalkeeper's 16 saves earned him the title human wall. here is a photo of tim howard's proud parents. >> you, my man, are popular. >> reporter: tim howard trails

only jesus in saves, difference between tim howard and jesus, jesus had 11 guys he could trust. all of which brings us to our goal, the top ten tributes to tim howard. many of them inspired by the hashtag, things tim howard could save. number ten, the dinosaurs from extinction, that's howard interceptiente entering an astroid. number nine the titanic, number eight saving the italian defender from the bite of luiz suarez and mount rushmore became mount howard. number five, howard saves taylor swift from kanye west as she accepts her mtv video music award and number four, the king of blocking shots even saves blockbuster.

maybe he should have saved his voice. >> good morning america. >> reporter: he was horse from yelling to his teammates and humble as he received praise in interview after interview. >> that's what i signed up to do. i'll stick my face in front of balls and try to keep them out. >> reporter: number three best tribute. blocking sperm from fertilizing an egg. >> i think right now the ban needs a nap. >> reporter: number two, whoever changed the wikipedia entry making tim howard the secretary of defense. he got a congratulations call from chuck hague. l. tim howard travels from the world cup to the super bowl, a world cup goalkeeper that saves janet jackson from her own malfunctioning cup. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> did he really say i stick my face in front of?

he did. so many jokes. i won't do it, though. that's it for me. thank you for watching. have a great 4th of july. i'll be back after then. i'll be back after then. "ac 360" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening, john berman in for anderson. two big stories, each involving your safety. a major storm on track to hit the seaboard and fresh concerns that terror groups found a new way of getting bombs on to airliners. we start with tropical storm arthur soon to be hurricane arthur, and our first clear indication of where peak impact will be. for that, let's check in with chad myers at the weather center. chad, you've been in the weather center all day tracking this storm. how are things looking now? >> the pressure is getting lower and the winds are picking up. that means arthur is about to get to that hurricane strength. hurricane center saying sure, by morning, probably this will be above the 74