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commercial. barry cunningham says just you wait until sunday's game that the new spot will capitalize on the current flap. >> i think we're going to see the puppy finding a good home. >> reporter: godaddy is a company that relies on the kiss of controversy. now they're hoepg a rehoping a retriever will prove golden. jeanne moos cnn, new york. >> thanks for watching. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening, thanks for joining us. tonight a "360" executive. mersa alexander who spent three years behind bars for firing a warning shot to scare a man who she said had been strangling sheer out of jail speaking for the first time. first, a new ultimatum from isis. if true it's the latest throat behead another hostage. the surviving member of a pair of japanese hostages. he and a jordanian captive now facing death in a matter of hours, say the group. this comes after what jordan's foreign minister today admitted has been several weeks of
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negotiating through back channels for their freedom. in exchange isis wants the release of a failed suicide bomber in jordanian custody a woman. all this raising serious questions about talking at all with a group that does not just take and kill hostages but also publicly revels in it. chief national security correspondent jim sciutto joins us with new information. what's the latest on this ultimatum? what do we know? >> reporter: that's right, this was released on an isis-linked twitter account which has previously released other hostage videos and audio recordings. this one a recording purputters to be the voice -- purports to be the voice of the surviving hostage, kenji goto. he presents an odd exchange really and ultimatum saying if by sunset tomorrow mosul time -- about 9:30 a.m. eastern time tomorrow -- if the convicted terrorist held now jordan al rishawi, is not at the turkish border then the jordanian pile captured when his f-16 went down last month over syria would be
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killed. again, the jordanians saying they're not interested in any ecochange until they have proof of -- exchange until they have proof of life of the pilot. >> for jordan, this would be a hard prisoner to give up. she is a convicted terrorist. she attempteded to take part in a suicide attack. and her vest simply didn't go off. >> reporter: exactly. i covered the bombings. i'm sure you remember as well, in 2005. devastating in amman, the capital of jordan. dozens killed. this was an operation ordered by the then-leader of al qaeda in iraq, alnd reason she didn't kill anybody is because her suicide vest didn't go off. the ordane view is twofold, one, they look at it as a prisoner exchange. she is a prisoner, the pilot is a prisoner of isis. two, because her vest did not go off, they say she does not have blood on her hands. they look at it differently. >> though 57 people died in the attack. >> they did.
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57 did. devastating, a major attack. if this exchange goes off, it would be a propaganda victory for isis to get her released. >> no doubt about it.sciutto, appreciate the update. daniel o'shea coordinated the u.s. embassy's hostage working group in baghdad during the war. also national security analyst fran townsend george w. bush's former adviser and serves on the cia and external advisory boards. dan, as jim said obviously this would be a huge propaganda victory whether -- you know not only able to get this convicted terrorist out of jordan out of custody, but a huge propaganda victory to be seen, isis negotiating with a nation state. >> exactly that point. they're going one step further to not only establishing the islamic state ads ass the caliphate now recognize a western nation with japan in the mix. it has effects beyond just the
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prisoner swap. >> does it surprise you how public this seems to be? i mean not on isis' part but on jordan's part? >> absolutely. i'll be frank, this very woman of part of the ransom doemd one of the major -- demand on one of the major cases, one of the big kidnapping ring including the jill carroll kidnapping. this ring we've tracked and was ultimately dismantled after hard effort. they had this woman, this same woman, saija, offered as an exchange in one of the demands. we never let it out. it was not publicly released. ten years later, they're getting their wish. it's also drawing a linkage and connection between isis and back to the origin of the roots which is al qaeda. >> fran for the u.s. obviously -- which has been critical of making deals in the past -- hard to have a leg to stand on given the prisoner exchange they with bowe bergdahl. >> that's right. look i think the u.s. is going to make the argument that this is -- what they was engage with the taliban to get one of their
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own back. of course, if you're jordan, you're feeling the same way about the jordanian pilot. once you engage with the swaps the u.s. with taliban or jordan with isis what it does is encourage these groups to grab other citizens not just japanese and jordanians in the case of isis. this is -- with these guys, they learn they can get media attention, they can get listened to and paid attention. it's a propaganda victory. that just the engagement in itself. and then the notion of actually a successful swap really embolden them. >> does the change of a deadline make sense to you? >> well it's just part of the game. they're just ratcheting up the stakes here. and miss stwend2010 is 100% right -- miss townsend is 100% right. to get the woman back who is a heroine to the slamislamist cause,
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this will have that effect because she will be part of the propaganda effort in the future. that this was successful, and it's going to be successful again in the future. so we can continue to see the slippery slope as we're losing the moral high ground to stand by a position of no concessions because we no longer hold that position when it comes to hostages. and so how can we ask the rest of the international community to do the same when we're not holding to the same standard? >> fran is there a difference with so-called prisoner eco exchanges? is it any different than the european countries which pay to get hostages released? >> look, the engagement with them and the ceding to demand whether it's money or people is the problemment and this woman in particular as dan is talking about, this woman is going to, if released to isis, is going to kill people. she -- her husband was a martyr. she was a widow. her brother was of a direct lieutenant. this woman is determined. and you know people may recall
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the 2005 bombing. you mentioned the 57 killed. this was a wedding that she -- her cohorts went into and detonated themselves killing people in a hotel in amman. i worked these cases when i was at the white house. i mean she is a really really bad person. and she will kill -- she absolutely will kill. >> i remember being on the air covering this bombing in the hotel in amman. i mean fran the u.s. said today that every country has the right and ability to make their own decisions. been the scenes though do you think the u.s. is trying to convince jordan not to go through with it? jordan is a very public face of you know of part of the -- one of the few middle eastern countries which is actually now fighting in isis and sort of a chink in the armor if they now make a concession. >> no. anderson, you're absolutely right. one would hope behind the scenes they are making the argument to not do this. again, you pointed out the fact that the u.s. engaged in the bergdahl swap with the taliban makes that a little bit
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difficult. the other piece to this we have to recognize, these sort of prisoner exchanges in this region are not that unusual. remember, israel often will go through these large, massive negotiations and prisoner exchanges with hamas, for example. so within this region, this is not so unusual. it's just the notion of doing it with such a brutal group. and -- and by the way, with no proof of life, we're going through this negotiation. we don't know that these hostages aren't already dead. >> that's the interesting thing, dan. again, it's so public and there hasn't been a proof of life. >> again, they are violating that rule. you never make any negotiation in this process without the proof of life. i mean i've brought this up in the past. to launch a -- to do a hostage mission, you have to have proof of life to do anything in the steps. so again they're holding the world hostage by doing this this release by the japanese terrorists who may be the only
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one alive at this point. you don't know. she may be released and we may not get the jordanian back in the first place. it has blown the whole behind-the-scenes negotiation of the world that was not so wide open, but we've kind of -- we've played our cards. now we're going to just see more of this in the future. i've been predicting this since last spring with the bergdahl release. it's coming to fruition sadly. >> dan, how would logistically something like this work? i mean they say bring her to the turkish border by you know a time tomorrow mosul time. would then the idea being that she gets handed over and at some undetermined other time the other two hostages if both are in fact alive are handed over? would it have to be -- you would think it would be simultaneous. >> yeah. if rational rule and laws applied here but they really don't. so that remains to be seen. there may be the mexican standoff tomorrow when they let the girl go at the time and then they're waiting for the jordanian pilot to walk across the border like the cold war swap between, you know frances
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powers and the swap we did back in the day. but again, there's no guarantees with these groups. but regardless, and fran brought of these points, it's still going to be a propaganda coup and another victory for isis. >> right. dan o shea i appreciate your expertise, fran townsend as well. coming up, my exclusive conversation with mersa alexander. she said she stood her ground against an abusive husband. she might have spent decades in prison for it. she talks about the deal that she's made to secure her freedom. our eyes they have a 200-degree range of sight. which is good for me. hey! and bad for the barkley twins. your brain can send information to the rest of your body at 268 mph. three times the speed of a fastball. take care of your most important parts with centrum. multivitamins expertly designed
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a woman who's been through more than most of us imagine, most of it at the hands of the criminal justice system. marissa alexander. you may remember her. she spent three years in a florida prison for firing a gun -- essentially taking a shot which hit no one. a shot that she says she fired to stop her abusive husband from hurting her. now her case and her defense, which relied on florida's stand your ground legal doctrine came to national attention during the trial of george zimmerman. he won a new trial and was presented with -- by the terrifying choice to take the plea deal that would mark her as a felon or take the trial that could mark her with a 60-year sentence for the rest of her life. she took the plea deal. she's out of jail on a house arrest for another two years.
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you'll hear from her shortly. her first interview since getting out. first, how we got here. >> reporter: this was marissa alexander in 2012. she'll just been found guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and would soon be sentenced to 20 years behind bars. >> this is my life i'm fighting for. this is my life. and it's my life and it's not entertainment. it is my life. >> her legal trouble began in 2010. she says her abusive husband, rico gray, was in a jealous rage over text messages on her cell phone. gray had been arrested in the past for assaulting her. she'd locked herself in the bathroom. >> he managed to get the door open. and that's when he -- he strangled me. he put his hands around my neck. >> alexander got away and ran into the garage. but she says the garage door was stuck. she grabbed a gun, she says she kept there. she explained what happened next
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to gary tuchman. >> reporter: were you thinking you were about to shoot him? >> yeah, i did, if it came to that. he saw my weapon at my side. and when he saw it he was even more upset. and that's when he threatened to kill me. >> that's when she fired what she called a warning shot into the wall. >> i believe when he threatened to kill me that's what he was going to do. and it -- had i not discharged my weapon at that point, i would not be here. >> rico gray fled the house with his two young children who were there at the time. alexander was arrested but maintained she'll been standing her ground. during a court depth, gray said this about the shooting incident "if my kids western there, i knew i probably would have tried to take the gun from her. i probably would have put my hand on her." when asked what he meant about putting his hand on her he responded, "probably hit her. i got five baby mamas, and i put my hands on every last one of them except for one." later at a court hearing on her stand your ground defense gray changed his story, saying he
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lied repeated three protect his wife -- repeatedly to protect his wife claiming he did not threaten to kill her and said "i begged and pleaded for my life when she had the gun." alexander was offered three years in prison as a plea deal, but she refused. she went on trial and was convicted and sentenced to 20 years for three charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. >> you do everything to get on the right side of the law. and there's a law, and it does not apply to you. where do you go from there? >> a new legal team picked up alexander's case after her conviction. in 2013 fought and won her a new trial. the victory of short-lived -- was short-livedflation. florida state attorney angela corey said this time if alexander was found guilty they'd be seeking a extend of 60 years instead of the 20 -- a sentence of 60 years instead of the 20. she was offered another plea deal if she didn't go to trial. three years behind bars and two years under house arrest. just yesterday, she served her
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last day in prison. >> that concludes the hearing. [ applause ] >> with time already served marissa alexander was able to walk away but now begins her house arrest. marissa alexander joins us now. first of all, mine how does it feel to be how does it feel to be out of prison finally? >> relief. absolute relief. i'm excited, i'm happy, i'm grateful. those are just many of the emotions that file. so that's how i feel to be out finally. >> you haven't given an interview since 2012. at this point, what do you want people to know about what happened to you? >> i think that it's just one of those things that it's unfortunate, but i can see that -- i'm out now. i'm looking forward to the future. i don't really look back to what has happened. it wasn't easy but i'm much stronger. i am in a better place than i was.
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i'm just looking forward to moving forward. >> i want to ask you a little about your case. i mean, you tried repeatedly and failed to use stand your ground as a defense. at this point, do you still believe you were standing your ground? you still believe that? >> knowing what i know now, i don't really feel any different about it. i guess really at the end of the day it doesn't matter. you know what i mean? i think that new i'm out, i can't go back and change what wasn't decided or has been decided. i'm grateful i'm out now and can put that to bed. >> i know you were offered a three-year plea deal before your original trial. you wanted to take your case to trial. do you regret that decision at all? that's a tough decision to make. >> not -- it is. i mean going to trial is not easy. i don't regret it. you know, it wasn't -- it wasn't a decision that came lightly. but i believed in my innocence. that's the reason i took it to trial. not only that the three years,
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you know didn't want to take charges for the children. and didn't feel -- i just didn't want to do that. so that is the reason why the original plea i did not -- i did not accept it. >> when you heard, first of all, the sentence of 20 years, what goes through your mind in that case? you had just had a baby. >> you know you can't even digest something like that. i can't tell you that i did -- and when i did it was extremely difficult. i don't believe i ever really accepted that sentence. i believe i was going to fight. but it's not something you can ever really digest. >> so what made you decide that second time at the time of the retrial to take the plea deal? essentially it was the same one they offed you before. three years -- offered you before. three years in prison. what was the thought process on saying you know, i'm going to take this plea deal this time? >> well for me it ultimately boiled down to i needed to
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guarantee my children that i would be home. and i mean that is the primary reason why i made that decision. >> you know, obviously some of your supporters people believe in you, believe that race that sexism played a role in your incarceration. do you believe that? >> i could go into it, but it wouldn't do me any good right now. i can tell you that my primary focus, the energy and effort is moving forward and not spending a lot of time on the negative aspect of it. it can get really draining. i really look forward to the future about it. i just kind of don't spend nightmare that area. >> as mentioned, you -- spend time in that area. >> as mentioned, you gave birth to a baby girl before there ordeal started for you. she's now 4 1/2. >> yes. >> to be with her, what is that like? >> when i left rihanna, she was six months old. when i was able to connect with her again, she was 2 years old. that is the time when i was able to finally see her, sit her in
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my lap. outside a glimpse of pictures of her, i didn't -- i didn't get to see her. to -- you can imagine just unbelievable joy to be able to see her. and then when i came home on bond to be able to connect and bond with her. and i mean we're in love. so i'm grateful to be able to have you know the relationship that we have. she knows that i'm her mom and that i'm not going anywhere. >> what's next for you? what do you hope to do? >> well i mean, to be honest with you, i've been looking forward to just being able to close this book -- not even a chapter, i want the book closed. and i just want a whole new book. >> marissa, it's a pleasure to talk to you. i'm happy to talk to you out and -- and i wish you nothing but good things for you and your
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[ temperaturechnical difficulties ] >> her lawyers got a ruling from the trial judge that they could introduce evidence of all the abuse that -- that gray had imposed on other women. so that's the trial setting that it was going to happen. that got angela corey's office to negotiate down to essentially time served in this kind of house arrest. people should know it's not house arrest like people remember junior soprano from --
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"the sopranos." she can go to school. she's studying to be a paralegal. she can go to church. schee have-- she can have medical appointments. she's not confined to her house, but she's not free either. >> to supporters who say, look race played a role or sexism played a role, that if it was a guy who fired a warning shot against another guy or a white person who fired a white person against an african-american, what deuce? >> i don't know-- what do you say? >> i don't know. but it's suggestive of
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tonight new england is being told to brace for a new winter storm less than 48 hours away even as it's still digging out from record snowfall. this of the scene across much of coastal new england today. the national weather service says the same kind of storm system that dumped all that snow drop as much eight more inches of snow on some of the worst hit areas. take a look at a time-lapse video of a deck in berlin massachusetts buried yesterday. first you see it then basically you don't. the storm derailed countless plans for people travelers. this some things can't be stopped including twins who were determined to be born. an amazing story. randy kaye has it. >> this is gabrielle lee and sariah. my angels. >> reporter: twins born sunday night. while it may not sound
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newsworthy, their mom went into labor as parts of the northeast were getting pounded by a blizzard. paticia lives in worcester, massachusetts where the storm dumped nearly three feet of snow. how bad of the weather at that point? >> good not, the snow of going ever -- goodness, the snow was going everywhere. up, in your hair under my dress everywhere. >> reporter: paticia wasn't due for another five weeks, but the contractions were so strong by 9:00 p.m. monday she was having trouble breathing and had a big problem. >> our car was under snow. so there was no driving. there was nothing. there was no cabs. >> reporter: her boyfriend called an ambulance. a travel ban was in effect except for emergency vehicles. >> one of the paramedics guys slipped on the ice outside my house. i didn't think -- i didn't know if we were going to --
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make it. >> reporter: she was right. her water broke just minutes after she got in the ambulance.$#;( >> i got another urge. >> reporter: she had the umbilical cord cut in the ambulance. baby gabriel of perfect, person at 9:24 p.m. machine. paticia hoped to get to the hospital before his sister pushed out, too. two minutes later she was in the o.r. at umass memorial medical center. >> she came out, like everything was so perfect.ípk!jdtq) r utes of patricia going into labor. >> hi angel! hi aaliyah .
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>> reporter: how does it feel to have him in your arms? >> it feels so wonderful. just want to squeeze them. oh my goodness. >> reporter: for now, gabriel and aliyah are being kept in special incubateors to help keep them warm as they grow. >> my baby. >> reporter: when they grow up they're sure to have quite a story to tell. >> that's for sure. randi joins us from umass memorial medical center. beautiful little babies there. how is everybody doing? >> reporter: everybody's doing really well, anderson. paticia the mother went home today. the two little ones are here been me they're probably going to be here another week. she's anxious to get them home because she has three more children including, believe it or not, a 1-year-old. she's anxious for them to meet. one final note they weren't the only babies born at the hospital during the blizzard machine night. we're told six other babies were born in the same time period from 4 clock:00 p.m. to midnight including another set of twins. >> incredible.
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bowl. the new england patriots dropped their star tight end after he was charged in the 2013 shooting death of another athlete. two top team officials are on the state's list of potential witnesses. now just three years ago hernandez seemed unstoppable. his star was rising. tonight, it is a very different story. susan candiotti has the latest. >> reporter: the last time the new england patriots played in the super bowl in 2012 aaron hernandez was on the field. this time he's sidelined. on trial for murder pleading not guilty. if his former bosses team owner bob kraft and coach bill belchick, take the stand, they're expected to testify about their conversations with their superstar. the timing's critical. just days after the bullet-riddled body of odon lloyd was found, hernandez returns to the patriots' gillette stadium. the media watching. a law enforcement source says
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kraft and will bellbelichick talked face to face with hernandez. hernandez flat the-out denies he had anything to boodo with lloyd's murder. and the source says he tells the coach the same thing -- he wasn't there. former teammate, patriots' wide receiver, matt slater trying to make sense of it. >> as well as the families involved in the situation. a lot of people were affected by the situation. they're all in my prayers. >> reporter: at first, it seems there's a mountain of circumstantial evidence against the star tight end who's pleaded not guilty. 18 months later, the case isn't the same. >> the universe of damning evidence has shrunk. >> reporter: shrunk thanks to a defense team scoring some victories. arguably the biggest, a text message from lloyd to his sister about who he was with sent minutes before he was killed.
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lloyd writes "nfl just so you know." a judge ruling it's inadmissible, not enough proof lloyd thought he was going to die. >> if the jury believes that aaron hernandez was with odon lloyd right before odon lloyd was killed, it's not a leap to conclude aaron hernandez was involved in the murder of odon lloyd. >> reporter: yet prosecutors say they have surveillance videos of the victim getting into a car with hernandez and co-defendants earnest wallace and carlos ortiz who have also pleaded not guilty to murder. video of that same car driving into an industrial park and later, hernandez back home less than a mile away holding what prosecutors say is the alleged murder weapon. but it was never found. >> there is no murder weapon. or -- a witness that's credible would testify that aaron hernandez did it. there is no such witness. >> reporter: the judge also blocking any mention hernandez
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is indicted for two more murders in boston. prosecution witness alexander bradley can't say he's suing hernandez for allegedly shoo6 ñ te overcome any weaknesses? >> there still is a good amount of circumstantial evidence against aaron hernandez. it just isn't the slam-dunk case that it seemed to be. >> susan candiotti joins us now. it's fascinating to see how the ever has been disallowed, shifted. the fiancee is there any chance she could testify against him? if she's on the state's witness list right? >> reporter: that's right. it is certainly possible. but the question is will she stand by her man? we know that she met with prosecutors recently. and that immunity was discussed. now this is important because prosecutors suspect that she threw away the murder weapon. but will she flip on her fiance?
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it's a secret until she takes the stand. defense attorneys for hernandez, you can imagine, anderson they want to know that answer right now. >> yeah. susan thank you very much for the report. appreciate it. ahead, a new warning in the growing measles outbreak that began at disneyland. don't let a severe cold hold you back. get theraflu. it has the power of three medicines to take on your worst pain and fever, cough and nasal congestion. theraflu breaks you free from your toughest cold and flu symptoms. so you never miss a day. theraflu. serious power.
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an adult woman is the latest in the state. she had contact with an infectioned family of four and may have spread the virus to a pediatric health center in mesa arizona. elizabeth cohen joins you now. this one woman who might have exposed nearly 200 kids to measles -- >> right. it is amazing. measles is incredibly infectious that one person can spread it to possibly 200 people. and what we know about this woman as you said, is that she had contact with a family where four children had measles. and we know from an arizona health official that those four children, their parents had refused to vaccinate them. >> and the director of the arizona department of health services they're saying the outbreak has reached what they call a critical point. what does that mean exactly? >> what he means is that right now it is containable. they can track all the cases, track where they've been, who they've had contact with. but at a certain point, with the disease that's as contagious as measles it is really really hard to do that and i want to
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give you an example of how contagious it is anderson. if i had measles, i walked into a room and walked out, and you walked into the room two hours later, you be get measles if you -- you could get measles if you had not been vaccinated. people are contagious even when they're not sick yet. if someone has measles and hasn't yet developed the signs, they're still con taj. they could be running around spreading it. >> if you have measles, just because you've been in the room you don't have to sneeze or -- >> no. >> incredible. >> just breathing, droplets get in the hair and can hang there for hours -- in the air, and they hang there for hours. we talked about how tough to say spread ebola, you node to have close contact, measles is the opposite. >> how many cases are there throughout the u.s. now is. >> about 67 cases that we know of in the united states. more than 50 of them are in california. but as you see, there's also you know fewer numbers in other states in the west and in nebraska. mexico has one case, as well. >> incredible. elizabeth thanks for tracking for us. we want to get the latest on stories we're following. we have a " 60 03 0" bulletin.
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>> reporter: hezbollah fired anti-tank missiles at israeli military vehicles killing the two soldiers and injuring seven others. the idf returned artillery fire. a spanish peacekeeper was also killed, although it is not known whether that was from israeli or hezbollah fire. the libyan branch of isis has claimed responsibility for the attack on a luxury hotel in tripoli that killed ten people including an american contractor. an official says two attackers were also killed. fire officials in maryland say an electrical failure that ignited a dry christmas tree caused the deadly fire at an annapolis mansion earlier this month. four children and their grandparents died in the fire. and dash cam video shows an incredible scene outside of pittsburgh. a shoplifting suspect in the
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back of a police car crawled through the front seat and somehow managed to drive the car with her hands cuffed behind her back. police say she drove 100 miles per hour for nearly ten miles and then ditched the car. police caught up with her. now she faces a lot more charges. incredible stuff. trying to figure out how she was able to drive that far that fast with her hands cuffed behind her back. anderson? >> if we can i want to look at the video again. i don't get -- i mean, i guess she was driving with -- the steering with her knees somehow or shoulder? >> that's what i was thinking, too. if you watch the video, she apparently honks while she's -- you can hear it. she's honking at people. they're in her way. she even stopped at some point and asked somebody to drive for her. >> incredible. >> really bold. crazy. >> thank you very much. we'll be right back.
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♪ ♪ i have the worst cold with this runny nose. i better take something. dayquill cold and flu doesn't treat your runny nose. seriously? alka-seltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms plus your runny nose. oh, what a relief it is. cnn will bring incredible stories 70 years in the making. yesterday holocaust survivors gathered to mark the anniversary
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of the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp. tonight on cnn "voices of auschwitz," four survivors share stories of pain and hope with us. i'll speak to wolf in a moment. eva core is a survivor. she recalled the horror that she was subjected to including experiments at the hands of josef mangele whether she was just 10-years-old. >> reporter: we're looking at the ruins of the gas chambers the crematoriums. eva, tell me what do you remember? you were just a little girl ten years old. >> we knew from the smell. it smelled like burning flesh and burning hair. and the smoke was rising high above the structure. and we actually knew that most of our families probably ended up here. the other people were in the barracks. first night we arrived, shade it look there, see the smoke
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and the flames. our names e families must be burning right now. i said that's not possible. burning people? that is crazy. >> reporter: eva, this was the barrack that you lived in something like this? >> yes. it was my home almost nine months. i entered the place and went to the latrine which of at the end of the barrack. there is the latrine floor, the scattered corps corpses of three children. i made the decision that i would do anything and everything to not end up on the latrine floor. >> reporter: eva, tell us what was going on in this building. >> we used to be brought here three times a week. they would tie both of my arms to restrict the blood flow and give me minimum of five injections into my right arm. the contents of those injections
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we didn't know then nor do i know today. but after one of those injections, i became very ill. next morning, doctor mangele came in and turned to the doctors and said, laughing sarcastically, he said "too bad. she's so young. she has only two weeks to live." later in the afternoon, a woman yelling at the top of her voice, "we are free, we are free we are free." and from a distance i could see lots of people, they were all will smiling. they gave us chocolate cookies and hugs. and this was my first day of freedom. my name is eva moses core i am a survivor of auschwitz. >> and wolf blitzer joins me now. it's just incredible. and still so incredible to hear the stories of people like eva.
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she's one of the few survivors you spoke with who actually says that she forgives the nazis. i find that -- the courage to do that extraordinary. >> me too. when she told me that it was amazing to me because i know a lot of survivors. and i know they'll never forgive. they'll certainly never forget. she says that if she weren't able to forgive, the nazis would have won. they would have won that part of her. so as a result, she has decided she is able to forgive. she's an amazing woman, i must say. the only reason she survived is when they took her off that cattle car with her sister, miriam miriam, they were identical twins. the nazis needed identical twins for dr. mangele's so-called experiments. and they were shouting twins, twins. they were taken to one side. they survived. they were tortured with the experiments. they survived. but their parents, their grandparents, other brothers and sisters, all went to another side. they were immediately sent to
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gas chambers and the crematorium. she never saw her family ever again. >> i mean, to be experimented on at ten years old and to have come face to face with this monster dr. mangele. for you, your paternal grandparents were both killed at auschwitz. this was your first time going there. how -- what was it like for you? >> it was amazing. i thought of going many times over the years. i never made it there for whatever reason. and i went there, you know as you know we were doing the pieces for cnn on our family history our roots. i decided to go there then. i got involved not only in that piece learning about my family's history, getting more details, more information, but i also got involved in helping cnn work on this?z)&y documentary that's about to air. i'm really proud of cnn, that cnn, our excellent team, they put together this amazing one-hour documentary. it tells these stories of the survivors. their stories ñ before the war, what life was like for them during the war, the hell they went through, and then the lives
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they created after the war. such an inspiration to hear these stories. and i'm so proud that we all put it together. it's really really powerful. >> i urge people to watch it. wolf blitzer, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> that does it for us. we'll see you again at 11:00 p.m. eastern for another edition of "360." please washtch "voices of auschwitz" starting right now. the following is a cnn special report. these gates market the site of one of history's greatest horrors. >> we are in the biggest cemetery of the world here. >> during the holocaust, more than one million jews were murdered here at auschwitz. >> my aunts, uncles everybody's dead now. >> part of hitler's plan to wipe out the jewish people.
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