disrupt tonights a major nba game. britain's royal couple are in attendance, kate middleton and prince william. you also have lebron james wearing the "i can't breathe" on his t-shirt, which you hear the protesters chanting now. our live coverage of the protests from coast to companies continues now with anderson. good evening, thanks for joining us. over the last 24 hours in cities across the country protesters have shut down streets calling an end to killings by police officers making their voices heard from new york to california. most were peaceful. in berkeley demonstrations turned violent overnight. in the nation's capitol in rush hour protesters blocked the streets and in brooklyn, new york, tonight the crowds have been growing outside barclays center where a nets basketball game began about a half hour ago. britain's prince william and his wife kate are at the game. lebron james and others are taking their message to the court wearing t-shirts that said "i can't breathe," the last

words that eric garner spoke as he was being held down and handcuffed. we saw other athletes show their support with the protesters. deborah feyerick is outside the barclays center. what's the latest there? >> reporter: we can tell you that when the crowd, one of the organizers told everyone that the players were wearing those "i can't breathe" t-shirts, everyone began cheering. that was right after they staged a massive die-in. you can see the crowd behind me, a couple hundred people. it has dwindled a little bit over the last half hour. it's definitely getting much colder, but these are very determined protesters, and they're here to make sure that their voices are heard. i spoke to one man from tennessee, another from rhode island. they said they are speaking for michael brown. they are speaking for eric garner. the two men involved in police-related deaths who were not indicted, the two police officers. you can hear them saying "our streets." they launched a huge die-in here

outside barclays center, another at the busiest intersection in brooklyn. they're very determined. you can hear them right now making sure -- you've got protesters from trayvon martin organization, you've got protesters from occupy wall street and then a lot of folks who simply live in brooklyn, saw what was going on and simply want to be part of this. you really feel that sense of people wanting to be part of something much larger. i can tell you there's a police helicopter in the air, obviously -- >> can i ask a question? >> reporter: -- and they're keeping an eye on everybody who is demonstrating here. back to you, anderson. >> deborah feyerick, thank you very much. we'll continue to watch the protests to see if that becomes mobile as they have for several nights. now a cnn exclusive. shortly after the grand jury's decision was announced new york mayor bill de blasio spoke with obvious emotion about eric garner's death. he also talked about racism, and he didn't mince words.

mayor de blasio's wife is african-american. they have two biracial children. here's what he said about his teenaged son dante. >> we've had to talk to dante for years about the dangers that he may face. we've had to literally train him as families have all over this city for decades in how to take special care in any encounterhe has with the police officers who are there to protect him. >> here's how police union president pat lynch responded to those remarks in particular. >> what police officers felt yesterday after that press conference is that they were thrown under the bus, that they were out there doing a difficult job in the middle of the night protecting the rights of those to protest, protecting our sons and daughters and the mayor was behind microphones like this throwing them under the bus. >> mr. lynch also in an op-ed in the "new york post" blasted the mayor for other remarks he's

made. on the record, the mayor has praised the police for their response to protests. i spoke to pat lynch in an exclusive interview. you said the mayor has thrown police officers upp s under the. how has he done that? >> what you had was the mayor right after the grand jury made their decision put on the backs of new york city police officers decades of racism. and that's just not true. i have 31 years in the new york city police department and have never heard once on a radio call when a call came over, what race are they, what color are they? who do they love? where do they live? >> you don't think race is an issue? >> it's a majority/minority police department. we're in the city doing our job well. we have thousands of intersections each and every day right outside this building as we speak. we're doing our job well. we're not looking at who the person is. we're looking at the behavior that leads to the interaction with the police.

that's the question. the behavior and why someone called police in first place. >> i spoke to eric adams. he said the way police -- when he was on the force, the way they police in communities of color is different than on park avenue. >> that's absolutely not true. >> categorically not true. >> that's not true. there's racism in every profession that's out there. but on majority our police officers are going out doing the job. they're really not asking who it is. they're getting a call of a crime. those calls come from the community. in this case in staten island, it was the community that called, not once, it was a chronic location. they went to the community council meetings and complained. we were sent there because the merchants asked us to be there. >> if everybody has inherent biases, aren't those amplified amongst those who have power over others? >> no, i don't believe so. you have to look at the number of cases that police officers deal with every day, and the

majority of people leave satisfied. we're not asking who they are. it just doesn't happen. >> so when the mayor says he's worried about his son and the dangers his son would face interacting with the police, that upset you? >> what should upset him and what should upset his son is the criminals that are on the street. it's new york city police officers literally putting themselves between the citizens and the criminals. >> but there are a lot of -- i've heard that comment from a lot of african-american parents who are worried about their kids with crime on the streets and also with interacting with police. >> what he left out of the comment is the police officers you should be running to to help you. it's police officers that surround the mayor and his family keeping them safe as we speak. >> so when you look at that video of officer pantaleo and other officers interacting with mr. garner, you say that's not a choke hold? >> that's not a choke hold. that's a textbook take john maneuver. >> it doesn't say put your arm around a guy's neck.

>> if you look at that video, it's one arm of the police officer under the arm of mr. garner and one around the shoulder. a shorter police officer bringing down a -- >> but it looks on the video looks like it goes around his neck. >> you also have to look at his struggle. we're not talking about someone who is standing there and we yoke him and throw him to the ground. this is a person that says i'm not going. i'm going to resist arrest. that can't be. when the determination is made that you're going to be placed under arrest, you must comply. that's not what we saw from mr. garner. >> you're saying the arm didn't go around the neck? >> i'm saying there was a struggle, there was a plate glass window behind him that if you look at the video closely is rattling. you're talking about a fight that's going on. >> but it looks like in the video it goes around his neck very quickly and remains around his neck. >> i disagree. if you look at that -- obviously, the grand jurors disagreed as well. they saw that video. they saw more than one video. they didn't look at one snippet on the tv of a couple seconds.

they watched the entire video and analyzed that. they brought into consideration the m.e.'s report. if he died of choking, it would have been aasphyxiation. he didn't die from choking. >> it says compression of the neck as well as chest. >> it does not say asphyxiation which is what you would die from. they also the brought into consideration his other health factors as well. it's not as cut and dry as a protest. >> but it was compression of the neck, compression of the chest. >> compression of the neck is not a choke hold. compression of a neck is different. asphyxiati asphyxiation. if he died from choking it would have said asphyxiation. >> it did say choke hold. >> in his public relations released report. absolutely, no doubt about that. we question why that was. >> it does say choke hold in the final autopsy. not just in the public -- >> we're also looking at the grand jury. a choke hold is not illegal. it may be against department policy, but not illegal.

so we can't criticize a grand jury that went by the law, that went on all the facts, 60 pieces of evidence and 50 witnesses and the witnesses varied. >> but by the new york police department definition of a choke hold, any compression of the neck, any arm around the, hand around the neck. >> choke hold, they're trying to have the least amount of force as possible, but that's not always possible in a struggle. >> you're saying the definition the nypd uses is too broad? >> no, i'm not saying that at all. i'm saying a grand jury doesn't look at department guidelines. they look at state law. they didn't say he died from a choke hold. it would have been asphyxiation. they said other factors as well, his health, his heart condition. he was overweight, unfortunately. that's what led to his death. >> it does say cause of death choke hold. >> choke hold is not a medical term. they don't say cause of death choke hold. they say asphyxiation. >> you're saying everybody who sees the video on television and

sees a choke hold, they're wrong. >> i'm saying that the medical examiner should be looking at the medical reports and the body itself. i'm saying people who are seeing a portion of the video, the grand jurors see the entire video and other videos as well from different angles as well. you can't make a determination in a short struggle on tv while you're watching the news. >> but you got to look at this and think there are other ways this could have gone down. >> you know what no one's telling us as police officers, you don't do that. tell us what do you do when someone says, you know what, sir, i'm not going. >> i'm not a police officer. >> exactly. and most people -- >> a job i couldn't do in a million years as much as i wanted to do as a kid, there's no way i could do. i'm a complete wimp. >> not so much. >> but i talked to police officers who say, look, you know what? the police officer i was when i was young and after a couple years on the force is much different than the police officer i was 20 years later. i think i could have talked that guy into handcuffs. >> you think.

and maybe you think that and you're standing on the corner and respect to my fellow police officer, but you don't know until you're standing there. >> i appreciate you for being on. thank you. >> just to review, he's saying not a choke hold at all, and he talked about that if the cause of death would have been asphyxiation, we'll talk to a forensic scientist about that and others as well, former police officers as well. a different point of view. you can see my full interview with mr. lynch at ac360.com. keep in mind what he just said. just as our panel weighs in on those remarks and on the sixth night of protests after eric garner's death. anderson cooper 360 is sponsored by "the imitation game" starring benedict cumberbatch and keira knightley. now playing in select cities.

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for a sixth straight night protesters filling streets calling for a stop to killings by police. outside barclays center where the nets are playing the cleveland cavaliers. the crowd of demonstrators has been significant throughout the evening. in washington, protesters have blocked traffic on cross streets and connecticut avenue which is a major thoroughfare. we heard from pat lynch, the president of the new york city police union. he's been blasting mayor de blasio accusing him of throwing police officers under the bus.

in an exclusive interview tonight he had a lot more to say about the death of eric garner. joining me is a former secret service agent, "new york times" columnist charles blow and dr. kobilinsky. mr. lynch was saying, it wasn't a choke hold and if it had been a choke hold, he would have died of asphyxiation which is not what he died of. >> well, we do know that the airway was not blocked. he was able to speak "i can't breathe." airway was not blocked. however, there was an obstruction of the jugular veins which means that blood was going up to the brain but not returning. that is seen by the petechia, the pinpoint hemorrhages found in the gums and the eyelids and on the whites of the eye. there's no question there was that kind of affsphyxiffix -- a.

strap muscles in the neck, hemorrhage on all of them. then we know about decompression of the chest. what he died of, what mr. garner died of, actually, is a heart attack, but that was brought on by a lack of oxygen to the brain. it was a respiratory failure followed by cardiac failure. >> when he says there was not asphyxiation, you're saying there was because of the constriction of the jugular, there was compression of the neck. >> and additional compression of the chest, yes. >> charles blow, you hear mr. lynch saying racism is not an issue in the new york city police force. he's never heard over the radio call somebody saying what race is the person as being whether or not they would respond to a crime. >> well, i mean, i think we would all like to wlebelieve th that is the case. however, what mr. lynch is talking about is articulated bias. we don't always articulate our

biases. we don't always know that we have the bias. we don't know that we're operating on biases when we do operate on bias, so we can't necessarily rule it out. you may not be able to rule it in and say in this particular case someone was operating on a bias and i have demonstrable proof of that. you can also not rule it out because of that. what we should be talking about is ways in which we can deal with that in a broader context. for instance, if you're going to have psychological evaluations, for instance, they should include bias instruments in those evaluations. and they should not only be given when you're going into the force but regularly. bias is not congenital, you're not born with it. it develops over time. it can develop even later in life even while you're on the force. you may come in not having biases because of the people you have the police and the things you encounter, you may develop

biases. we should do checkups about that. >> eric adams, borough president for brooklyn, former detective with the new york police department, which i quoted him to mr. lynch, mr. adams says that the way police officers police in an inner city community is very different than the way they police in a wealthy white community on park avenue. do you believe that's true? is there different policing based on the area, the ethnic racial makeup? >> i do believe that the policing strategies are different but not due to the ethnic or racial makeup. i think eric adams should know better than that. he was a police officer. >> i don't think he was talking about strategies for policing. i think he's talking about ways police interact with people that they are -- that they come across. >> anderson, i can only speak for my personal experience as a police officer. i never saw that. i'm not saying again that racism

does not exist and that it's not a problem in america. but the problem when you say things like charles brings up every time i'm on the show with him, what he says is this latent bias and this unconscious bias that exists, he's putting forth the premise that is not refutable. so if you act racist, you're racist, but if you don't act racist, there's an unconscious bias. it puts people like me who absolutely abhor that type of behavior on the defensive because we're tired of being called that. we're tired of being called a conscious or unconscious racist when their actions speak otherwise. >> his fatigue is really not my concern. what i'm concerned about is whether or not people are going to have to bury people or not, and that is what the people are in the streets about because people have had to bury their kids. they're worried about whether or not bias crept into that policing in those particular cases and whether or not systematically -- >> do you believe there's a

systematic problem with race -- >> i think that cases like eric garner has so many layers other than whether or not he was choked to death and whether or not the grand jury did the right thing or had the right outcome. you have to go all the way back to things like, you know, the broken windows policy and whether or not something that started out with a good intent to get good results and may have even gotten those results is now delivering diminishing returns. that you have a guy who's arrested 31 times for a minor crime. and the policy rests on this notion that, you know, either if you let these small things go that people will say, we don't care, or that there will be gateway kinds of crimes to larger crimes. in this case, was he going on to larger crimes or not? and do we want to use our, you know, 35,000 officers in this city, do we want to have them out doing that? >> do you believe that -- mr.

lynch says, i said could this have gone any other way, he says he doesn't really see how. that had mr. -- the only other way it could have gone was mr. garner let himself be arrested. >> well, i think it could have. and listen, it's easy for me to monday morning quarterback. i wasn't there. let me just get that out of the way. but police departments in general, there is a crisis in policing, and it's a crisis in training despite what some of the other guests have said. i was there. i went through the police academy three times, twice with the nypd, once with the secret service. there is a crisis in training. it is not taken seriously in america. i can tell you that. triage with police emergencies is always at the bottom. there are a number of joint manipulation techniques that rarely if ever are fatal. we have to get away from the neck. it is a loser every single time. but it requires extensive

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protesters outside barclays center. now they hope the silence with what they call a die-in. the fact the police officers in ferguson and new york have not been indicted for killing

unarmed men have sparked outrage across the country. others say it shouldn't come as a surprise that officers aren't charged. the numbers are hard to come by as drew griffin found out. it's not entirely clear how many people have been killed by police. it's not very often that police officers are charged with anything. if you look at just one city, albuquerque, new mexico, the picture begins to come into focus. in the past three decades no police officers not one have been charged with excessive use of force. that doesn't mean that police in albuquerque hardly ever shoot someone compared to other cities. quite the opposite. >> reporter: it was a police shooting caught on tape by the actual officers who fired the shots. it happened in march and the victim's family, their attorneys the and those who claim this was an execution, say there's no greater proof than what you're about to see. james boyd, homeless, 38 years old, was illegally camping all alone in the hills above this desert city.

when he was surrounded by dozens of albuquerque police. the police were trying to get james boyd to simply move along. after hours of fruitless negotiations, boyd turned away from the police and was holding two small camping knives in his hand. police determined it was enough of a threat to do this. three shots, a police dog attacks. bean bags are fired. police handcuff boyd as he is wheezing and bleeding. james boyd died the next day, but his case isn't isolated. he was the 26th person in the last four years to die after being shot by albuquerque police. the 26th person. the autopsy revealed boyd was shot in the back, a homicide. to date, not a single officer

involved has been charged with anything. alarming but statistically not surprising. bowling green university professor phil stinson, a former cop himself, has been trying to determine just how many people are killed by police, how many of those killings are determined to be crimes. but it's not easy. the data, he admits, is not perfect, the reporting scant, and law enforcement agencies, he says, sometimes don't cooperate and respond honestly to surveys. but in 2000, 718 cases involving police shootings from 2005 to 2011 just 41 sworn officers were ever charged with manslaughter or murder. what's more, he says, is that in ten years of date the on sworn officers involved in any kind of misconduct on the job or off, officers charged with crimes ranging from theft to murder are

33% less likely to be found guilty nan the general public. >> they're treated differently and the people that have to make the decision, either the charging decision in terms the of returning an indictment or ultimately determining guilt in a criminal case, they're just very reluctant to do so. >> reporter: nowhere is that more evident than albuquerque. statistics since 2010 show this city has an officer-involved shooting rate twice that of chicago, eight times that of new york, yet not a single albuquerque police officer has ever been charged let alone convicted of using excessive force in the last 30 years, not one. district attorney carrie brandenburg said she's still investigating the shoots of james boyd, that homeless camper, but after 13 years in office she's never brought an excessive force charge against a single cop. her explanation, in a news conference earlier this year, he

can only believe what the police tell her. >> we have to rely on the police reports. that's what we have. that's a flaw in the system. we're not an investigative agency. >> reporter: police essentially decide what they can and cannot get away with. >> right. >> reporter: albuquerque is now under supervision by the u.s. department of justice, which did determine the city's police force has a problem with excessive force. the new police chief is hired to change the culture of his department. >> we're holding people to a higher degree of accountability. >> reporter: professor phil stinson believes there may be a bigger solution needed. cops should not investigate cops he says, and local prosecutors who rely on local cops shouldn't investigate the cops either. >> they don't want to tick off the people that they need in order to get convictions. so that's complicated, and i think we need to take a closer look at whether we need to have, you know, special prosecutors and maybe someone from the state

attorney general's office come in to handle these cases. >> reporter: in albuquerque, it is the local prosecutor still waiting to determine if charges will be filed in this shooting of james boyd. she is waiting for the police department's own investigation of itself to make that decision. perhaps this spring. drew griffin, cnn, albuquerque. joining me now is brooklyn borough president eric adams, a former nypd captain and on the new york city police department force for 21 years. do you agree that police shouldn't investigate police, even local prosecutors shouldn't necessarily do it? >> no, i do agree. one of the proposals i had when i was in the state senate is that at the time of the shooting or an incident where a person is seriously injured likely to die, you need an independent apparatus gathering the evidence. because that evidence that's gathered at the beginning of the crime is the picture that will take you all the way through the investigatory process. >> as you know, the police push back on this and say, look,

you're treating police like suspects and don't police have to have a certain amount of confidence that, you know, the system has their back? >> well, the right to take a life and take freedom two places and items that are dear to americans. police are the only body that can do that. with that, you have a higher level of oversight and expectation, and it's about transparency, i believe in public safety. that's why i gave my life for 22 years to it. but i know how this apparatus is being used incorrectly. >> mr. lynch, who you knew well, who represents the police union, i put what you had said to me on this program before, that police officers police differently, interact differently with people in, you know, in one community that's, you know, african-american community versus how they do it in maybe a caucasian community or economiccally more wealthy community, he said that's not

true, that there aren't different ways of interacting with people. >> two things. one, a police officer leaves the precinct on his command with two boxes of equipment. in one he uses the hammer in the box, in other communities he uses all the tools available to talk a person down, to a hostage situation, to use all his skills how to de-escalate an incident. the goal is how do you stop the issue without hurting yourself, the victim and the public. the second thing that we need to examine, if you look closely at all of our police unions they're making a big mistake. when an officer takes the life of an innocent person, his life is destroyed also. but because our unions have become so defensive instead of being proactive and showing how do we police consistently, they're hurting their members. that's an antiquated method, not the method of the future. >> he doesn't believe race is an issue with the new york city police department. he never, in all those years on the force, heard somebody over

the radio say what's the race of the person involved in this incident as a way of determining whether or not to respond to a scene. >> let me tell you something, anderson, i've made so many mistakes as a police officer because i prejudged someone because of their race and their religion. >> you personally did that. >> i personally made a lot of errors. i know plaque doctors and attorneys, black engineers and black preachers, still with all of that information, because of the system that indoctrinated me for many years, i looked at people differently until you have to catch yourself and say, how are you policing? and so for a white male to state he never saw race, i find that hard to believe. >> so that's really interesting that you as an african-american man even found yourself responding to people with preconceived notions. >> yes, without a doubt. because remember what you are hearing all day in that vehicle. all day long if you're in certain areas you're hearing all day coming through the transmission, robbery, male

black, crime male black. you are constantly hearing that. if you don't start each day with the concept and philosophy that the person you meet, treat them as an individual and not the baggage you're bringing, if you can't do that, then there's no way you can police people fairly. >> i wear a bullet proof vest and often ride in vehicles. it changes the way i see a place. and does putting on that uniform, wearing that vest, having the weapons, does it change the way you view yourself and view all those around you? >> without a doubt. look at the daily news article. they did an article that showed the shootings and look at the ethnicities of individuals involved. they're black, they're white. the victims are not changing, but the persons who are shooting is ra diversified group. so it's the culture of the institution that's converting people into this us against them mind-set. and the police departments across our country are not realizing what is a danger

behind that, and we're not training according to that. we're in a state of denial. we are a country that's intoxicated with bad policing and we got to start this process of one step towards recovery and the right training and identifying we have a problem. that's the first step to recovery. i'm saying i have a problem. >> appreciate it. what we're learning about the failed u.s. mission to rescue american photo journalist who was being held hostage by al qaeda militants in yemen, luke somers and another hostage killed there captors. details ahead.

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welcome back. family members of a journalist killed in yemen say they were not asked to sign off on a rescue mission, a mission that failed friday. luke somers was killed by his captors as well as a south african teacher. the south african teacher was expected to be released very soon because of the efforts of a south african humanitarian group. barbara starr has details. >> reporter: outrage from the family and friends of the south african hostage pierre korkie. >> there's a lot of anger

against the u.s. government and there's a lot of understanding on the other side, too. so there's mixed comments and mixed thoughts on the process. >> reporter: after months of being held by al qaeda in yemen his family thought he'd be free within hours. >> my name is luke somers. >> reporter: u.s. officials say after seeing this video of american hostage luke somers late last week, the pentagon concluded somers was in imminent danger of being killed. the u.s. scrambled for a last-minute rescue. by thursday the u.s. had satellite images of the compound where somers was being held. by mid-morning friday, the mission was a go. it would not succeed in the end. >> the president does not at all regret ordering this mission to try to rescue mr. somers. >> i commend the president for acting because the intelligence showed an urgency to get in where they were going to kill this american hostage anyway. >> reporter: it was the dead of night in yemen. u.s. officials say b-22 aircraft

raced to a remote region in eastern yemen, about 30 commandos from s.e.a.l. team six and combat medics began hiking to the compound where luke somers and south african pierre korkie were being held. just yards from the target, dogs began barking. the u.s. says the s.e.a.l.s were spotted. a fire fight erupted with aircraft keeping watch, the s.e.a.l.s battled the terrorists. u.s. officials say one terrorist ran back into the compound shooting somers and korkie. the u.s. did not know ckorkie ws there. it was a desperate 30 minutes on the ground. the medics tried to stabilize both critically wounded men. they called for the b-22s to land as close as possible, but one hostage died on the aircraft, the other back on board a nearby navy ship. some in american hostage luke somers' family say they wish

more had been done to get him out of yemen earlier and that they were not consulted about the rescue mission. u.s. officials point out that the united states does not tell families ahead of time about highly classified hostage rescue efforts. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. joining me now is reuters investigative reporter david rhode who was held for seven months by the taliban. he was able to escape. it's understandable that u.s. government tell a family in advance there's going to be a classified raid for, i mean, for obvious reasons, isn't it? >> well, this is another example of the shifting policy that families have complained about. in my case and in one other i know for sure, my family was told if there was an opportunity for a raid, they would be asked for permission. >> oh, really? >> yes. i know from an active case that's still ongoing they were also told about this. this is the second example of where the american policy does not seem clear, the separate

issue is where some families that if they paid a ransom, they would be prosecuted. again, it's five years have passed since my case. there was no talk of anyone being prosecuted for a ransom in the pass, now there's some new standard possible prosecution if you do pay a ransom. >> we talk about this so often about the lack of communication that families say frustrates them. never more than the case of this south african hostage where the family had been negotiating for this humanitarian organization for his release and had arranged, we're talking about just hours away from him allegedly being released. >> the press reports that they agreed on a ransom of $200,000. the money was there, it was going to happen that same morning. again back to another question about american procedure. did the u.s. government inform south african government officials that they were going to carry out this raid? there were four western hostages in that area. did they tell the three other governments they were going to make this raid?

apparently no. you know, why not? i understand you've got to have operational security, but do you trust other governments? >> the other question it's not clear that the south african government even knew their citizens were negotiating for the release of the south african national. even if the south african government had been informed it may not have had any impact. >> to be fair, the u.s. did not know that the south african national was in this compound and they had no idea that it was so close to an apparent deal. >> so i mean, again, it's one of these situations where, yes, there needs to be perhaps more communication, but it's a tricky situation. >> it is, but it's back to actually two separate issues you pointed out many months ago. rescuing a hostage, you know, getting them out, maybe paying a ransom as europeans do is very difficult but can you have a better relationship with families? can you clearly say we will tell you before a raid or we won't tell you before a raid. you can pay a ransom or you

can't pay a ransom, you may be prosecuted. will we share intelligence with other countries that have hostages on the ground? >> thank you very much. prince william and his wife kate are here in new york. how i somehow ended up on the same plane as william, which kind of surprised me and everyone else on board as well. i'll explain ahead. ♪ ♪ come in and use your starbucks gift card any day through january 5th for a chance to win starbucks for life. come from all walks of life. if you have high blood sugar, ask your doctor about farxiga.

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an unexpected person was on my flight this afternoon. prince william. they arrived in the u.s. on sunday. they're here for three days spending most of their time in new york. as you mentioned earlier, right now the royal couple is attending their first nba game. they're watching king james or lebron james and the cleveland cavaliers take on the brooklyn nets. we're joined with more on the royal visit. everybody on the plane -- it was a regular u.s. air shuttle flight 2:00 from d.c. to new york. and they bumped everybody off the front and so i was in like 26. i was all the way in the back. >> when does that ever happen? >> with surprising regulator, actually. but the flight attendants were in the back, you know who is coming, yes, everybody has told me this. >> it's part of security.

rather than having a big fuss, they can just get on a plane and that's part of the security process that no one knows they're coming. >> but it surprised everybody on board the aircraft that he was flying commercial and had a relatively small entourage. >> any interactions there? >> no, i saw like the back of his head basically. >> that's a keeper, regular flight. >> so this is his first time in new york? >> yes. >> i find that -- >> yeah. and i think it's going to be a real memory for them as well. it's interesting. these pictures here from the carlisle hotel which is where diana used to stay. there are so many associations particularly in the u.s. with diana and kate perhaps going to her footsteps as well and william always having a link without talking about her. >> he did meet with president obama today. >> he did. and they discussed the new royal baby due in april, as i understand it. and william is keeping a surprise for himself what sex that baby's going to be. and also a lot of people have

noted how george washington is looking down at the future king of england. >> a little reminder there. >> but very important on this trip in meeting obama, he's got this passion about tackling wildlife, illegal trade in wildlife parks and he recruited president obama to some extent because he made a statement about it afterward. he then went on and made a speech about that. it was really important to him. >> it was interesting to be on this plane because, you know, most americans, a lot of americans don't really care much about the royal family. we gave up all that sort of thing. yet there was this kind of buzz and excitement to see this guy come on the aircraft. undeniably sort of like seeing a rare gazelle or something. you know? >> yeah, i mean it's something untouchable about it. a little moment today i was in harlem with the duchess. she went into this youth center. and she spoke there. they were meeting hillary clinton and she's part of this campaign as well. and this little girl said,

princess. and this girl thought she was a princess out of "frozen." that's the association with princesses, the disney story. >> great to have you on. thank you very much. a lot more happening tonight. susan hendrix is here with a bulletin. >> thousands of u.s. marines are on alert because tomorrow the senate intelligence committee will release a report on coercive coordination tech neengs on prisoners immediately after the 9/11 attacks. a small plane crashed into a home in gaithersburg, maryland, this morning, killing three people inside. a woman, her infant son and 3-year-old son as well. three people on the plane died including the founder and ceo of health decisions a clinical research committee. firefighters are investigating a massive fire on an apartment complex under construction. it took about 250 firefighters just to get that blaze under control. parts of the 110, the 101

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quick look at the protesters who have been outside the barclays center. i'm told they've gone into the atlantic terminal mall nearby in brooklyn. looks like at least several dozen there. i'm not sure in total what the numbers are. that does it for us. we'll see again 11:00 p.m. eastern. another ac 360. "a legend under fire." i'm don lemon. this is our cnn special, "the cosby show: a legend under fire." generations grew up with bill cosby, haddy was america's dad, revered by black and white. how do you go from being one of the most respected and loved people in the country to this? tonight i'm going to talk to five women who accuse cosby of assaulting them. those women are all face-to-face for the first time. i'll also talk to janice