♪ this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. this is a tale of two cities. chicago reeling after 82 people are shot over the fourth of july weekend. new york, fearing the violence is spreading with more and more shootings every day is a simple change in police tactic to blame a former cop and a councilman will go head to head. plus, what does this guy have in common with disgraced radio host anthony cumbia of opium anthony? what you can and can't say. my legal experts are here to tell you who is right and who is wrong. plus, the latest surprise in the hot car case. and we know what happens when animals asharks and bears.

but what happens when the tables are turned and humans are the bad guy sms the heartbreaking and inspirational story of the crying elephant. and as always, we want to know what you think about all of this. make sure you tweet us using the #askdon. first, i want to give you my take on the violent crime that seems the plague some of our cities. it's 10:00 p.m. do you know where your children are? remember that phrase on to the tv and the radio? do you knee where it came from? it started in the summer of '67 when youth curfews were put into place after rioting in several u.s. cities like newark, buffalo, chicago, and los angeles and beyond. some say it started in buffalo. others say it started in new york with news anchor on the 10:00 news starting each nightly newscast with the phrase as a reminder to parents to keep their children off the streets. that station was the first station at which i ever worked. and i often wondered why it was said. but never got to the bottom of it until now.

until this past holiday weekend when an astounding number of people were injured by gunfire in chicago and new york. it makes me think that maybe it's time we bring that phrase back. i will ask you again. it's 10:00 p.m. do you know where your children are? and with that, our tale of two cities now, george howell is in chicago. jean casarez is in new york. we begin tonight with george. >> violent retail on the streets of chicago. a rash of shootings in a span of five days. monday night a 19-year-old was shot and killed, eight wounded. and over the holiday weekend, a reported 82 people were injured by gunfire, 16 reported killed. most of the shootings on the city's south side. >> you don't want it to happen to you, because you never know. >> people like murphy palmer live with the fear and frustration that nothing seems to stop these spikes of violence. >> it happens every day. you don't want to see it in your

neighborhood. >> reporter: right. >> but it happens. >> reporter: police say they had plan in place, put mortgage officers on patrol in certain neighborhoods. but chicago's top cop admit there's is just something about sunday making it one of the bloodiest in memory. >> we're square rooting it nine ways from sunday. what is it that happened yesterday? was it a fatigue factor? did we give people off? >> the police superintendent tells me part of the problem police can't seize illegal guns off the street fast enough. >> we're bringing drig from a fire hose. we're taking more guns off the street than anybody in the year and very people go to jail for gun possession. >> reporter: mccarthy says the penalties need to be stiffer. >> they pick somebody up, go to jail, take them to court, turn them loose. gun violence. >> reporter: stiffer gun laws, more cops on the streets. many chicagoans are left wondering what will it take to stop the violence.

i'm jean casarez in new york where the city is reeling from its own bloody fourth of july. >> it's been a terrible. kids dying, everything. >> reporter: from o for new york city residents, the holiday was anything but peaceful. 23 people shot, three dead. part of a frightening spike in shootings. according to the new york police department, at 10.3% increase in the number of shootings victims from this time last year. >> to hear gunshots with your child around is not the best thing ever. i worry about my daughter all the time. it's just something we have to live with. >> reporter: but why now after new york city seemed to have gun crime under control? all this comes just 11 months after a federal judge ended new york's controversial stop and frisk policy. which gave police officers the power to search someone without a warrant based on reasonable suspicion. new york mayor bill de blasio. >> i don't think this has had an impact. it's being used a lot less than

in the past because as in the past, almost 90% of those stopped were not guilty of anything. >> reporter: some new york city residents who applauded that ruling now wish officers were more proactive on the streets. >> there is somebody walk do you think the street with a gun on them or something like that, the officer who apprehend them and they can find it on them, and then look, somebody is safe. >> not all agree. >> i wouldn't really say it did too much good. it wasn't stopping anybody from doing what they had to do. if anything, it created an advantage for a lot of cops to abuse their power. >> reporter: new york's police commissioner bill bratton insist overall crime is lower, including the murder rate, down 10%. but bratton vows to put hundreds more officers on the streets. and in east new york, brick lynn, where the murder rate is up, it won't come soon enough. >> a lot of people dieing this year. like more than last year. you know what i mean?

and the year not even almost over yet, you know what i mean? >> reporter: jean casarez, cnn, new york. >> jean and george, thank you very much. joining me now, luke palumbo, director of elite intelligence and protection and a former police officer. jerusal jumani williams and mark oh mere rachlt i'm going to start with you, jumani. the weekend before in new york city, 21 people were shot. why this rash of violence? >> every one of those numbers say tornado watched to somebody's mother, son, daughter, family friend. second, i want to be clear there is no ruling all law that passed took away stop and frisk. police still have the ability to do that. i hope they do do it, just constitutionally. there are ebbs and flows of gun violence. there is no one single thing that is a cause alt.

but we have failed because we keep trying to one thing that will cause to it go down. and it's a multilayered approach. the same thing across the country. the same thing goes with new york city. i think we have an administration now, though, that understands that a little better than the previous administration. >> you just said you hope they continue to do stop and frisk when you were against stop and frisk before. you were one of the main opponents of stop and frisk. >> that's why i want to correct it. i never was opposed to stop, question and frisk. purposely the police unions and then police commissioner tried to make it confusing. but i've never been opposed to police officers being able to do their job. they have to be able to stop, question and frisk people if it's constitutional. what was being done was not constitutional. it was the abuses we were trying to end, not the tactic that is a needed tactic. >> you saw in the story that shooting violence is up 10% compared to this time last year. in new york. do you believe it is directly related to stop, and as he said,

stop, question, and frisk? >> yes, i think there is a direct correlation to the somewhat total abandonment of the practice. i mean, conversations were had as to what the impact or the direct result would be if the police officers stopped this practice of stop, question, and frisk. and we're now living with it today. that's a simple reality and truth. >> many people say listen, the numbers don't show there is no evidence. if you look at the studies, they don't show it. but now the new york city police department has commissioned a study now because of this spike in shootings to see if it is indeed a factor. >> don, i want to start my comment by saying this. let's go back 21 years when bill bratton first arrived in new york. the homicide rate was over 2200 per year. in a short window of time, this very talented law enforcement official brought the homicide rate down to roughly 500. that was done by employing this tactic of stop, question, and

frisk. part of the problem we have here, don -- >> is that you? someone is saying -- is that mark? >> that was me. look agent it simplistically is not giving due credit to new york city's police department for the way they did handle and bring down the homicide rate. but you can't look at stop and question and frisk and say that it in and of itself was the reason for the now uptick in it. what we really have to look at it is what happened with stop, question, and frisk is this. >> or just stop and frisk you. say stop and frisk. >> okay. what they did is they clanged it from a probable cause standard to a reasonable suspicion standard. and when you make the standard easier, it's easier to abuse. there is no question that what was happening from all of the figures that we look at that a lot of people who were truly innocent of any crime, any criminal behavior whatsoever were being stopped unnecessarily. the police simply cannot abuse that right to do their good police work. and if they do good police work,

followed by probable cause, they're going to make proper stops and proper arrests. they just went too far. >> hang on. i want you to listen to the police commissioner and we'll pick back up. listen to william bratton. >> it's one of the many, many tools that we use. unfortunately, stop, question, and frisk has become the flavor of the month if you will that everybody feels that's either the cause of the problem or the solution. it is neither the cause nor the solution. >> go ahead. >> let's just be clear. to do a proper stop, question and frisk, you need reasonable suspicion to stop someone. you need probable cause to go ahead from the fris tock the search. officers were not using any of those. they were stopping people based on getting their numbers up, which is usually based on the color of someone's skin. there has not been a wholesale stop of stop, question, and frisk. what has happened is people have made some officers afraid, the police unions have, the former mayor and the former commissioner, we are now reeducating what we try to do

when it comes to stop, question, and frisk. >> let me read this to you from an npr article i found interesting. northeast new york has seen the biggest jump in crime. it's a neighborhood predominantly black and latino. stop and frisk is down here more than 90%. shootings here on the other hand are up 30% last year. james william, a resident there said he felt safer when criminals were nor afraid of the cops. now he says kids are running around with their guns and they feel more safer carrying them. he says they're more aggressive and they're more bold. and they know that the man can't stop them. another resident says she agrees with it. didn't like it when they stopped her son, her son is a good boy. but they need to bring back stop and frisk. >> but look at the numbers. the problem is we keep looking at numbers in a silo. if we look at the past 12 years, there is absolutely positively no causation. you look at kelly and bloomberg's own numbers. from '04 to '06. >> how do you explain the

uptick? >> the problem with that is we keep trying to find one thing that is going to deal with the gun patrol. the nypd is one part of a solution. they are part of law enforcement. where are the other agencies, the department of mental health, the division of youth community development. we need legislative, we need cultural and mentality changes and we also need law enforcement. well keep focusing on law enforcement. we do that with the black and latino community, black and brown community historically. but it's not the only thing that we have to do to address this. >> don, if i may, the councilman brings up very valid points. and i hate to contradict mr. o'mara who i have a lot of respect for, but it's a very simplistic approach to this problem. if you are proactive and stop individuals who you suspect may be contemplating engaging in a crime and you get guns off the street, the gun violence goes down and so does the homicide rate. that's irrefutable however you want to say it. >> and i grow with that. i truly do. the problem i have is we have a constitutional that allows us to be free from unreasonable attack

from police. and i -- i think cops do a great job. here is the the problem. we know there are certain police tactics that work. we can call it racial profiling that has been outlawed in every state in the country because you can't focus on a racial group and say we're going to -- we believe that there is more crime happening there. there used to be the denial of right to counsel. that got more confessions when we didn't have lawyers involved. not to is a what happened 100 years ago. but rubber hoses used to get more confessions. but reality is we have to use those things consistent with the constitutional fundamental principles that we're going to live like in a free society. and when you allow police officers to go to somebody with less than a good reason, and that's what has happened with stop and frisk or else 90% of them wouldn't have been completely innocent. >> stand by. i got get to a break. everyone stick with me. when we come right back, we're going talk about why things are so much worse in chicago than

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no city in america is immune to gun violence. but no city has it worse than chicago. so what will it take to fix the problem? back with me now lou palumbo, jumaane williams and mark o'mara. did you finish your point we were talking about? >> there were two things that i wanted to say that we have to focus on one is the effectiveness of abusing stop, question, and frisk. if you look at the numbers, it wasn't effective. the second part is we have to decide as a society that the

constitution means something and we don't want to live in a police state. if you want to violate those things, i'm sure all manner of crime will go down. but we can't just do it in one community, in the black and brown community. >> i can say one thing, don, very quickly. >> what about people who say you're doing it in the neighborhoods where there is crime? >> yes, except you don't do it on wall street. we don't stop people on wall street. >> there aren't shootings on wall street. >> but there is financial crimes that cause the shootings. we didn't do it in the italian neighborhood. >> i understand what you're saying, jumaane. that's apples and oranges. >> the violence happened in the italian community, they didn't do that. when they wanted to deal with violent crime in the community that was white. >> italians don't indiscriminately shoot people in the street. >> jumaane, let him get in. >> that were a lighter hue. they said they needed jobs and education. and they floods those communities with those things. in the black and brown community that. >> just don't do that. >> that's a very valid point, but i want to speak to the italian issue very quickly.

they normally were mission-driven. the people that they shot were part of an agenda. they didn't indiscriminately shoot people in the street and injure innocent people, number one. number two, the problem that we're dealing with here is we're going from one extreme to another. perhaps an overzealous approach to stop and frisk to an abandonment. but i want to say one thing so everybody is clear about this. when you have 2200 homicides and the city is so dangerous that people are afraid to go out at night, they tell the police go out and do whatever it needs to take, whatever you need to do to get the city back in tow, which bill bratton did. the second point i want to make, a very important point. when you take the statistic down to about 500 homicides, you have to revisit the tactic. and that's what i think the problem was. the exercise is not to go from one extreme to another, but to understand that you have to be a bit more judicious. and i'm not suggesting at any point in time we violate anyone's civil rights. but i want to make one final point. >> quickly. >> making these decisions that

in a sometimes spontaneous fashion, please don't be so judgmental about what is going on in the street until you have walked the streets. >> i've said this on your program before, i would never risk my life the way a cop risks their life every day. i truly respect them. i'm swrigt to be very careful of the constitution when we put them on the street. let's move on to chicago. do you see a corelation a drop in cold weather, january 19th went nine days without a murder. so the summer, though, now you see all of this. you see 22 people. why does that happen in the summer as a police officer, lou? >> because we're in the street. and the heat drives us. and combine with alcohol, it makes us do different things. don, speak to the problem in chicago. it's a different dynamic that is diving the problem in chicago. >> gangs? >> exactly right there. is a bad narcotics issue and a very prevalent presence of gangs there.

so much so that the drug cartels have become brazen enough to literally send in their own representatives into chicago to how would you say, facilitate their transaction. that's one of the issues and an issue germane also to newark and camden, new jersey. >> why more gangs or gang violence in chicago as oposed to new york city? >> because new york city wouldn't stand for it. they have a gang unit attached to the intelligence division and they're very proactive and they have an entirely different approach to policing. the problem with chicago, don, as again i go back to newark and camden, the horse is out of the stall with the gang activity. it never got that way in new york. new york has always stayed on top of it big, the problem again here, we keep focusing on just one thing. you bring up the '90s. crime went down nationally during that time. also in new york city, not only did mayor dinkins put more cops in the streets, he opened up the schools. there were communities that never had these resources that became beacon schools.

>> councilman, the city is the most history of new york is dinkin's administration. >> i didn't finish. there was more than one thing that was done at that time. and it's important because police officers risk their life every single day to keep us safe. we can't put the only -- the onus completely on them -- >> jumaane, i understand your point. you have made it several times. but listen, i lived here during the dinkins administration. lou is right. it was the most unsafe time. >> i was here too. >> listen, people get upset with rudy giuliani because of the tactics with police officers. the city was never safer than under rudy giuliani, which was, wiz was bill bratton. he brought bill bratton in who brought in stop and frisk and quality of life crime. >> i understand that. but wait a minute. [ overlapping dialog ] >> gets a lot of credit for things that dinkins started on the way out. all i'm saying is we have to have the police department. they have to be able to doo their job. we keep putting the onus of

public safety completely on them. what i'm saying is we have to do some other things to deal with this across the nation. because as we can see, just putting the onus on the police who risk their life is not working. >> and that's a well made point, don. but the simple reality of the situation is when you have an immediacy of need, you need to find the quickest resolution to the problem. >> great. what happens after that? >> you're absolutely correct, councilman. what we have to do at this point is put on our thinking caps and try to facilitate what else is going to change the living dynamic in that culture so they gravitate away from the guns as they do in white america. i agree 100% with you. but you cannot arbitrate the need or the effectiveness. >> but that last part of what you just said is a conversation that never happen misthese communities. the only thing we do is say we need police, police, police. which we do. but that last part of the conversation does not happen. and it is critical. >> i'm going to say this. >> between both of you thank you. >> i want to say one thing.

>> you to go fast. >> bill bratton didn't fail us 21 years ago, and we should trust him again. he is the most progressive, intelligent, qualified law enforcement official. let's give him a run at that. >> i'm absolutely doing that. i'm happy about this administration's support. >> it's a great conversation. thank you, lou. thank you, jumaane. will you guys come back and we'll do this all over? >> absolutely. >> mark, you're going to stick around because we have a lot to talk about. next, the latest surprising details about the hot car death. cooper's dad gets an interesting visitor. and some people think baseball is borg, right? take a look at this guy, why he is suing espn for $10 million.

justin ross harris was sexting six women on the day his son died in a burning hot car. but his wife, the boy's mother is stand big her man. joining me now to talk about this, attorney janie weintraub, alex ferrer, and host of television's judge alex, jane velez-mitchell ankle or of hln's jane velez-mitchell. and mark o'meara. it's good to have all of you. welcome back to the channel. mark. justin's wife leana went to the jail where he is being held. she was unable to see him. is it odd she even tried? >> i think it's crazy. something doesn't add up, don. why is she so fiercely loyal to this man who has betrayed her in

the worst possible way, cheating on her, sexting with six different women, and then losing her son, their son, whether you believe it's intentional or accident. it happened on her watch. why is she so fiercely loyal to him? here are some things that come to mind. first of all, i heard a friend describe her as very shy. perhaps she is malleable. we know that he is a manipulator of women, sexting with six women allegedly at one time. i have to wonder, given the fact that authorities have been looking into his medical records and their son's medical records, if he didn't tell her some story, make up some lie, because cops say that he has lied, perhaps about a hereditary illness. something to sway her and put her on his team. >> jane, i understand what you're saying, but she is a grown woman. go ahead, mark. >> with just less speculation for right now. obviously see is being convicted

in the court of public opinion already because of what came out at the last hearing. but let's make sure we be careful about what is going to be truly admissible in a courtroom a lot of that will not be. and let's not jump to the speculations yesterday until we find out what is really going on. >> well, we're not in a courtroom. >> judge, she does seem totally on fazed by all of this. from the looks of it. >> she does, and i do agree with mark that the sexting of women is really going to be irrelevant to his state of mind at the time that the death happened. but there is an aspect of it that probably will come in. and that is one of the women he was sexing, he told her that he had no conscience. and you better believe the prosecution is going to use that in the case there is a lot of evidence. these accidents happen all the time. they're tragic, horrible situations. but jury has to decide what his state of mind was. the only way they can do that is a look at the surrounding circumstances like him sofearchg on websites how children die in

hot cars, living without children, all those circumstances. >> go ahead, janie. >> we don't know what trig thorred them looking or searching that website. well don't know in f there was a public service announcement. in florida we have so many drownings and it amazing me that everybody doesn't know how to swim in this state. mabt was getting so hot that they wanted to get the air conditioning in the car to be a certain degree. we don't know [ overlapping dialog ] >> let her finish. >> child-free lifestyle. you can't guess and you can't assume. and before these prosecutors walk into the courtroom with cameras and the court of public opinion as the overcharging the case like they did in casey anthony, we need to wait and see what the evidence really is. i disagree with you, judge. i'm sorry. i do think the evidence of the sext willing come in from the defense. because i think they will show he was so distracted that that's how he could forget.

>> but does it raise any suspicion? >> that's not what you really want to show. >> go ahead, mark. >> that's not the distraction you really want to show. i don't think the sexting is coming in. but i do think as the judge mentioned and jayne, you said the state of mind going to be the most relevant. he is either the worst of the worst, a first-degree murderer of his own child or it's a horrible negligent accident there is no middle ground. he is one of the other. >> a friend of the father was on new day this morning. let's listen to him. >> he knew his craft very well. you know, everything that he told me computer wise, you know, i instilled in my website. when news of the searches came out, i was like they've got to be making this stuff up, because he is a computer genius. he wouldn't leave searches like that, if he was going do searches like that. >> so jayne, if he had ill

intentions, why would he leave a digital trail? >> well, he tried to delete some of his incriminating searches and chats they managed to retrieve it. but there is a litany of things. he researched how to survive in prison five days before his son dies in a hot car. he looks at a video of a veterinarian. >> that's something you typically don't research. >> he looks at a video of a veterinarian who is demonstrating on tape how horrible it is to die in a hot car, to be stuck in a hot car. >> and there is also the fact -- [ overlapping dialog ] >> go ahead, judge. >> there is also the fact that -- there is also the fact that his office was only five minutes away from the chik-fil-a where he ate with his child. so you're asked to believe it, and it may very well have happened. i'm not saying he is guilty. but i'm saying there is a lot of suspicious circumstances. he put the child in the car and within five minutes forgot the child was in the car. that's a stretch. but that does happen. all the circumstances are being put together. and the life insurance. i don't know a lot of people

that take life insurance out on their toddler. >> hang on. how do you skplexplain, jaynie, you're representing hour, do you explain the searches? >> how do i explain the search on the website? we don't know what triggered it. it might have been a public service. now about make sure when you get into your car that it's a certain temperature. if it goes above a certain temperature. we don't know. and we can't make -- >> mark o'mara, go ahead there. >> are easy ways and we all know this as criminal defense attorneys there are easy ways to explain away individual pieces of evidence. the problem that the harris defense is going to have is trying to explain this half dozen or a dozen by the time of trial maybe two or three dozen individual factoids like all of the searches, the fact that the child was dead for another time for rigor mortis to set in and therefore a smell to emanate through the car. all of those things are going to be very, very difficult in sum to try to explain away that this is all just circumstantial and

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new york yankee derek jeter makes $12 million a year, not bad for playing baseball. but one yankees fan thinks he deserves at least $10 million. i'm back now with jaynie

weintraub, also alex ferrer and jane velez-mitchell. also mark o'mara is with me. a man who fell asleep during a yankees-red sox game is suing the yankees, mlb, espn and the two commentators who pointed out he is asleep. take a look. >> asleep. i tell you what, how comfortable is that? probably won't have any neck problems tomorrow. >> i mean, that guy to his left his buddy who is just letting him sleep, or is he here alone? what is the deal with this guy? >> maybe that's his buddy and he likes him a lot better when he is asleep. >> judge alex, does he have a chance? >> no, not really. although i have to tell you, i totally sympathize with him because baseball has the same effect on me. but they coo definitely put him on the big screen. he is in a public place. he can't claim he has any right of private any a baseball stadium. what they said is crucial. they're saying oh, you know, he is overweight or things like that, if he is overweight, it's truth. and truth is a defense to

slander. if they call him a thief, that's a different ball game. and i didn't hear anything like that. >> the other thing about the ticket, if you read the back of your ticket at every mlb game and nfl game you give up your right to your privacy. and they can reproduce and show anything they want to that is going on in that stadium. so when he walked in those gates, he gave up his right to sue for anything like that. unless there is something truly egregious that they did. ♪ going get that. >> when he bought the ticket and walked into the stadium. jaynie, he is demanding $10 million for defamation and intentional inflings of emotional distress. >> really. >> if you were representing him what kind of strategy would you have or send him home? >> within 24 hours, what could possible warrant $10 million verdict? i mean, it is absurd to me. the lawyer is only perpetuating more shows of this clip. i don't understand how a lawyer can make this lawsuit. everybody knows you go to a ball

game to have fun. the jumbotron is always to make fun. people kissing, people dancing, older people, people eating disgustingly. it's all part of the fun of a game. >> and jaynie and i, the next time we go to a game, we're going to be on kiss cam. if they play that, it will cause a lot of people emotional distress. >> i love it. sign me up. let me say this. the sad part about this whole thing is obviously he didn't like how he looked. and his reaction was to sue. instead of having a moment of clarity and realizing maybe there is a reason, and i bear some responsibility for not looking the way i want to look. maybe i should go to a batting cage or join a softball team and get some exercise. that wasn't his reaction. and i think that's kind of sad. look in the mirror. >> here it is. >> that's another lawsuit. >> oh, it is? that i'm showing the "new york post"? >> i think he should wake up. >> what jane just said. >> jane, you're going get us sued here. let's move on now. let's move on. i want to turn to another

story in the headlines, a case of siriusxm radio host opie and anthony, anthony cumia was charged for a series of racially charged tweets. he is a shock jock. can a company fire someone for being a jerk? >> yes, absolutely. people say what about his first amendment rights? and what they don't suns the bill of rights, including the first amendment intended to protect you from government action. meaning the government can't arrest you for making racist comments. that's why the kkk can march in skokie, illinois and say all kinds of outlandish cretin minded things. but that doesn't mean your employer has to keep him. if you want to test the, don, go to your boss at cnn and call him a name. watch how quickly you are not working for cnn. >> a lot of people are cancelling their siriusxm subscriptions there is a change.org position to reinstate

him that he should get his job back a la phil robertson of "duck dynasty." jane velez-mitchell? >> i looked at the tweets and they're horrific, they're really vile in my humble opinion. >> it's a jungle out in our cities after midnight. violent savages own the streets. they all came to defend this pig. i had to yell like dogs. and she was talking about a confrontation he got in with woman on the street. then she punched me five more times. she is lucky i was a white, legal gunowner or then show would be dead. and then five blacks started giving me -- i can't say what that is. that's what happened. apparently there was a confrontation on the street and he was acorpsed by an african american woman, janie. >> jane velez-mitchell, sorry sorry sorry. >> those were some of the nicer tweets. really, my stomach turned when i was reading the entire thread. and honestly, i have to say in my humble opinion that sirius did the right thing and he needs to seek help.

i think this shows a very angry man who needs to get some counseling over his feelings. >> jaynie? >> look, you have a first amendment right to say what you want in this country, for the first part, but there are consequences attached to your speech. that's what people aren't understanding here. that's why you can be fired. it's a consequence of the offensive behavior. you don't want to promote as the boss or the employer, you don't want to promote that kind of what i would call disgusting commentary. but it doesn't mean that he is not allowed to say it. it's not against the law. we must start breeding tolerance by acting tolerant. >> there is someone on twitter that says opie and anthony aren't shock jocks. really? go ahead, judge. one of the things i was going say is i was on opie and anthony's show on two occasions during the george zimmerman commentary. they were very polite. they were funny. i never heard any racist comments. i don't know what he is like

normally. this might have been just one fly off the handle moment and it's a shame that could be a career ender. >> don, they say in vino veritas. i say in tweeting veritas. if you tweet enough, your real personality is going to come out and you're going to reveal yourself. that's why it's dangerous and it's taken a lot of people down. >> this is a contract action. he has a contract with sirius. somewhere in the contract it says they have a right to fire him if he does something they deem inappropriate. we have a complete right to be a raving racist, but there is consequences to what we do. so if you want to do that and tweet out whatever you want, but don't say you can also keep your job if you have a contract that says they may fire you. >> i don't understand why people are defending him. he has every right to do what he wants to do, but there are consequences. thank you, everyone. coming up next, a bleeding man rescued from a vicious shark attack? what was it like at the moment the shark sank his teeth into him, and how he managed to get away.

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have you heard the one about the crying elephant? there is no punch line. it's really not a joke. tears rolled down the elephant's cheek as he was freed from a painful captivity in india. meanwhile, some very difficult stories are making headlines in this country. a mother bear and two cubs who attacked a jogger in alaska and a fourth of july weekend shark attack.

joining me now is jarod miller. he is a zoologist and a television host. i want to start with this shark attack. it was on the fourth of july. a long distance swimmer's name is anthony robles was attacked by a great white shark off the coast of los angeles. here is how he described it. >> and i'm sitting there staring at this shark eye to eye, just right there. and i could feel the vibration of this entire shark gnawing into my skin. you can feel the whole body shaking as it's digging into my torso. and i grabbed his nose with my hand here. i tried to pull it off of me, and he fortunately the shark released itself. and it took off as fast as it appeared. and it didn't come back. >> all right, jared. so what do you do? can you imagine how scary that is? what do you do if you're attacked by a great white? >> it's a scary thought.

of all animals on a planet, a great white has been around for millions of years. a good point is being attacked by an animal that size, there is really not much you can do in that situation. what is interesting in listening to how he described that encounter, he pushed the nose or the rostrum. the rostrum of a shark is very interesting. they have millions of receiptors and they use that to determine what is food and is what not. in the case of a great white shark, they're probably the most notorious. they're the ones that have the worst representation, especially with hollywood movies and people going out in the water and because of their sheer size, people are most afraid. >> you know people say you should punch a shark right in the nose. >> in that situation, you can disrupt them a little bit. you want to stun them. keep in mind, when sharks attack whether it's a big great white or a bull shark that is another that will commonly attack humans, sharks will bite and release. >> they aren't deadly most of the time. they don't really like humans. >> that's interesting. the one statistic even last year

was that only one fatality out of -- >> 47 unprovoked shark attacks in the u.s. >> exactly. you're human. you're out in the water like this. and remember this too. a shark is no different than any other fish. don, if you go up to your goldfish at home and move your finger, he is going to follow your finger. they're all about movement. what happens if a shark approaches you and attacks, some of your best ways of guaranteeing that you'll come out of this alive is really just maybe stay still. and he might take a bite out of you, but then he'll -- if he doesn't see you as something that is injured or snag is going to die, again -- >> if i see a shark, i'm going to swim as hard as i can the other way and scream at the top of my lungs. ahhh! >> exactly. got you. >> a woman jogging near a campground in alaska, and it's a second recent such attack. what do you know about this incident? >> okay, first off, when obviously people -- when you're encroaching into a bear's territory, there is a number of reasons that you could be attacked. probably the most prevalent

would be simply the bear was protecting, this was a sow bear, a female. when their maternal instincts kick in, they'll do whatever it takes to protect their cubs. and that's probably and usually the most common reason bears will viciously attack someone. >> why are we seeing them in so many neighborhoods? do we keep moving to the outskirts and into their territory? >> the reason people are getting attacked by sharks we're going into their habitat. bears, human population is expanding much quicker than the animals can handle. we're cominging into their habitats, and they're adjusting to us. they've been around much longer than us in many cases and now they're conflicting with us. >> i was leaving a friend's house for the fourth of july, and i saw a deer. and it was so cute like bambi in the neighborhood. i was shocked. you live in new york city, you're like what is that? that's a giant dog. >> well, it's remarkable even in central park right here, it's amazing the wildlife that can

live on the fringe of human existence. >> when i run at night i do see that. here is what you don't see in central park, the elephants. this is a story that has captured the hearts of many americans. named raji, a 50-year-old male elephant held captive and in chains since he was a baby. he was rescued by an organization called wildlife sos and freed from his shackles for the first time. here is a video of raji freed. >> you can see the horrendous spikes on his legislation. and he has had them for 50 years. and we're going to remove them now. i'm very glad that he is going to experience his first chain-free and spike-free moment of his life. >> what is more incredible, jarrod, when he was freed he cried. obviously animal, even elephants have emotions like humans. >> absolutely. animals feel pain. even an elephant. my fortunate experience of working and being around elephants in captivity and seeing them in the wild as well,

elephants are highly perceptive, highly intelligent, highly just really remarkable creatures. it's a 9,000 pound animal you. you imagine how big their brain is? they have -- and they mourn their dead. they can experience loss. there are studies that prove that elephants go back and mourn like an elephant graveyard. it's remarkable how elephants are, very similar to humans and nonhuman primates as well. >> 50 years. it is common for some animals to be held privately like that? >> it seems like it was in india. and again, compared to the united states or in the west, obviously, elephants have been utilized in that part of the world for different reasons. and he was probably kept, you know, if he was a zoo elephant or if he was one that was used, you know for, work. a lot of elephants do work. but 50 years is a long time. and what is remarkable about this, the chain thing, it's -- >> it's terrible. >> it's become barbaric. especially with animal like an elephant. but it's amazing to ceci this

animal now. that's the silver lining. >> thank you, jerod. >> thank you. appreciate it. hug your dogs tonight or cats. check out his animal exploration with jerod miller. up next, the mug shot that went viral and melted later. it may be a while before this guy's mug is on camera again.

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this is cnn tonight. the stories tonight that you'll will talking about tomorrow. a world cup blowout. in the semifinals today, germany crushed brazil, 7-1. the germans scoring one goal after another, stunning the home court brazilian fans. they'll be facing the winner of tomorrow's match between argentina and the netherlands.

and we have reports of up to four storm-related deaths to tell you about tonight, three due to high winds in syracuse, new york, and one at a church camp in maryland. in this story we have seen the last of the man dubbed the sexy mug shot guy, at least for now. that's because california officials transferred jeremy meeks to central custody to face a gun charge. and the feds, they don't allow photos. that's it for me. i'm don lemon. thanks for watching. seal you back here tomorrow. ac 360 starts right now. good evening. thanks for joining us. president obama unveils his plan for dealing with a flood of central american children into the country, and we cut through the political noise surrounding it. also tonight, this. missiles fly and sirens sound as the top cities in israel come under attack in the country ways and all-out ass