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attempting to kidnap a 2-year-old boy. this hour hear from the teens who tried to chase the kidnapper down. hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm errol barnett with you for the next two hours on cnn, this is "cnn newsroom." we begin with shocking new video from isis. it shows a young boy shooting a teenage captive in the head at pointblank range. the terror group accused him of being a spy for israel. cnn is deciding not to show any part of the video. our correspondent joins us now live from jerusalem with more. it is disgusting. it is vile. and it seems like yet another attempt by isis to generate some kind of reaction but what do we know about the teenager executed in this video? >> reporter: it is vile.

we're learning more about the young man at the center of the video. his name is muhammad musallam from east jerusalem. unlike most palestinians from the area, he chose to get israeli citizenship. as far as we know, that make him the first israeli citizen killed by isis especially in such a public and horrifying way. we've spoken with his family and learned more about him. they describe him as a funny guy, a good brother good son. they say he was a volunteer firefighter who had plans to go to tel aviv soon to become -- to learn more about fire-fighting and perhaps make it a career. that's when as of 3.5 months ago his family says that's when he went to join isis. one thing his family says he is not, they insist he is not a musaad agent. >> we were planning to throwing to sound, it appears we don't have it at the moment. talk to us about how he came to be with isis members. his family had desperately we

understand been trying to get him back for months. >> reporter: real quick the sound bite was from his mother. his mother insists there was no way he was a musaad agent. they lived a frugal life. they were say figure he were an agent they would have had a better life. from what they learned, they believe heed deceived. isis promised -- he was deceived. isis promised the good life money, women, paradise. of course when he got there, the son found that wasn't the case. his father said he tried to get him home tried to send money to get across the border and into jerusalem. he even tried to enlist the red cross. by the time they got through to him, it was too late. he never made it home. that's how we learned why he joined isis. the family saying it was

trickery deceit. when they found their son had crossed the border they tried everything to get him home to no avail. >> cnn deciding ton show the video or -- not to show the video or still images. to get a sense of emotion from the victim's relatives, we'll play that sound. let's watch it. >> translator: muhammad is not an agent. mum is not an agent. if he were he would have live a beautiful life. we could have been living a different life and wouldn't be living this life. if my son of a spy, i wouldn't be cleaning houses so we can live. >> reporter: there you get a sense of how much the family couldn't believe the action situation leveled by isis that 19-year-old mohammed musallam of an agent. they say after he went to join isis they talked to him on skype and saw he'll grown a beard and was carrying a rifle.

they said at that point they didn't roy their son. >> five past 8:00 in the morning there. thanks. police in london apologizing for not doing enough to keep three teenaged schoolgirls from traveling to the middle east to join isis. this is a scenario we've seen from the u.s. to canada and australia. some young people have made it to iraq and syria only to be killed on the battlefield. caught in time by authors before they left their home country. now in this case the families say they had no idea the girls wanted to run off and join isis describing them as normal teens. those families testified before a parliamentary committee in london tuesday. we have more. >> reporter: last month, two british 15-year-olds breezed through gatwick airport security in london with their classmate.

they landed in turkey on their way to syria. one was a fan of "keeping up with the kardashians," all were getting good grades. the families insist they had no idea the girls were intend on joining isis. not even when police visited the action to question the girls about a classmate who had gone missing in syria millions earlier in december. cooring to the police and school officers handed each of the girls a letter to notify their parents, a letter that was never delivered. that the families say, would have been the red flag to alert them something of wrong. going to heart a national debate over who is responsible for failing to stop the girls. >> if we received the letter directly we would have contacted the police. i would have spoken to my sister and said, hold on, if she was of a close friend of yours, what do you know how much information can you give. >> the big question why of the

letter begin to them. why they left. >> it failed. of course we're sorry. >> reporter: the families received a police apology, but lion's metropolitan police commissioner also defended police struggling to monitor the hundreds of men and women leaving for syria. >> the scale is big. i don't think any of us can estimate that by complexity and size the police are the last resort when it comes to the law. >> reporter: police say in the last year more than 20 british women and girls have gone to syria. this is the last video of the girls waiting at a turkish bus terminal their hoods turned up against the. syrian activists say the girls are in a sharia camp in the isis stronghold. police say the girls are not being treated as terrorists and will not be put in jail if it's not too late for them to find a

way home. cnn, lion. -- cnn london. >> for more on the three girls including the list of what they wanted to pack for the trip, head to our website any time at cnn.com/world. the open letter almost four dozen republican snares sent iran has triggered a war of words at homes. democrats blasting the move. and as michelle kaczynski reports, the white house also has something to say. >> reporter: the white house today let loose on senate republicans' open letter to iran as reckless irresponsible, misguided, a blatant, flagrant partisan attempt to interfere. vice president biden pen a lengthy, angry statement of his own calling the senate letter beneath the dignity of an institution i revere. just as the senators tried to school iran on their role in foreign policy. biden schools them on the myriad agreements signed through the centuries that did not require

congress' vote like removing chemical weapons from syria, basing troops in afghanistan. he says the letter sends a message that is as false as it is dangerous. the decision to undercut our president and circumvent our constitutional system offends me as a matter of principle. former secretary of state hillary clinton weighed in. >> either these senators were trying to be helpful to the iranians or harmful to the commander in chief. >> reporter: while the white house has refused to say whether they believe the letter hearse negotiations with iran, today the state department did. >> we believe it's harpful to america's national security for anyone to insert themselves into the middle of sensitive negotiation. >> reporter: republicans who signed it stand by it. seven did not sign, including chairman of the foreign relations committee, bob corker. >> i didn't view the letter as helping achieve an outcome i'd like to see. >> reporter: he wants tong to have an input but feels his own

bill to give congress an up or down vote on a deal with iran would be better. some feel the same. >> -- some others feel the same. >> i did not feel it was appropriate for us to write to the ayatollah and try to explain to him our constitutional system of government. i doubt very much that the ayatollah cares what a group of senators thinks. >> reporter: michelle kaczynski cnn, the white house. you saw a glimpse of hillary clinton speaking at the u.n. in michelle's report. well ms. clinton spoke out for the first time at that moment about a controversy involving her e-mail. the former secretary of state insists she didn't break any rules by using her personal e-mail account for state department business. she admits it would have been better if she'll used a second account and carried a second phone. >> i have absolute confidence that everything that could be in any way connected to work is now in the possession of the state

department. and i have toed a, even if i'd had two devices which is obviously permitted many people do that, you will still have to put the responsibility where it belongs which is on the official. so i did it for convenience, and i now looking back think it might have been smarter to have two devices from the very beginning. >> i think she's right about that. clinton said she turned over 55,000 pages of correspondence to the state department. that has yet to end the controversy. still to come on cnn, a fraternity at a u.s. college closed for good after some of its members were recorded chanting racial slurs. now a student expelled over the video is apologizing. plus, the latest on the investigation into a helicopter collision that dilled ten people include -- killed ten people including ten french spores stars. the star of the hit show "top gear" is suspended. he had an altercation with a producer. details coming up.

welcome back. france has launched a manslaughter investigation into a deadly helicopter crash in argentina. three french star athletes were among ten people killed when two choppers collided midair monday evening. two argentine piles and five other french -- pilots and five other french nationals were kill. for the latest we're joined from paris with more. what are we learning about the victims of the collision? >> reporter: we're learning more about the victims all the time. we're hearing that the two argentine pilots involved were both experienced flyers. one, in fact serving during the faulklands war in 1982. of course much of the attention is being focused on these three famous french athletes who were so tragically involved in this

accident. in many ways each of them were inspiring characters. sadly, their final moments are being played out in the media here in horrifying detail. it was a catastrophic collision. a midair crash at 100 mears that almost instantly doomed ten people and plunged a nation into mourning. two helicopters were ferrying the cast and crew of a television show in a remote area of northwestern argentina. among the dead eight french nationals, including three famous athletes. >> translator: they died because they wanted to beat back their boundaries. to show exploits countries, and regions and be able to lead by example. >> reporter: among the casualties a 47-year-old sailor who became the first woman to win the race to run a solo transatlantic yacht race in 19 0. an iconic figure she known as

the fiancee of the atlantic. also killed the 25-year-old swimmer, one of only three french women to have won three medals in a single olympic games. having triumphed in london in 2012 she retired and was focusing on her new career. >> translator: camille was often called the 100% lady. she was successful in many things almost everything actually. in any case she left as a very happy woman on every level. >> reporter: the 28-year-old boxer was hoping to compete at the next olympics in rio. he was a bronze medalist in beijing, 2008. a beloved national athlete, planning on a comeback at the 2016 olympics. tragically his death comes after his sister was killed in a car crash earlier this year. the tv show they were filming was call "dropped," an independently produced survival kind of program which would have been broadcast by the channel

this summer. featured one of the country's best-known football players who tweeted, "i'm sad for my friends. i'm shaking, i'm horrified, i'm lost for words. i don't want to say a thing." as a mark of respect, the football team say they'll wear black armbands during wednesday's champions leagues tie in chelsea in london. it's a sign the whole country is in mourning. >> the people who are quite well known in france really a good man. he was boxing you know. and it's a sadness. >> reporter: the paris prosecutor's office has launched an involuntary manslaughter investigation and the crash investigation team is on its way to argentina. for the second time in as many months this country is mourning a national tragedy.

and this accident was, of course different in nature to the deadly terror attacks in the capital. the french people have again been so cruelly reminded about the fragility of human life. >> certainly. and don as the manslaughter investigation continues, what will happen to production of this series "dropped"? i understand it was popular. does this put the entire show in jeopardy? >> reporter: very much so. this is actually the second tragedy to have befallen the independent public sector company alp. actually two years ago they had a contestant die during filming in cambodia. the show's doctor later took his own life and alp have confirmed actually already that the show "dropped" has been canceled testimony would have been airing this summer in france the head of the channel says they are

living a nightmare. >> tragic. live on the story from paris. thanks. italy's highest court has upheld the acquittal of former prime minister silvio berlusconi. in 2013 he was convict of paying for -- convicted of paying for sex with a minor and sentenced to seven years if prison. some thought that was the end of the story but no. an appeals court acquitted him last year. then another twist. prosecutors called for the ruling to be overturned. the latest development is that the high court rejected that appeal so the acquittal stands. berlusconi denied ever having sex with the then-17-year-old dancer known as ruby, the heart stealer. a solar powered plane attempting a solar-powered trip around the world landed safely. we interviewed one of the pilots earlier. the solar impulse 2 aircraft touched down and will take off again on saturday for northern

india. this of the second leg of its five-month adventure to you prove flying is possible without the use of offensively fuels. the -- fossil fuels. the journey is expected to wrap up in july with scheduled stops in china, hawaii new york and southern europe. no word on what music they're jamming to to make the time pass by. we'll find that out. a u.s. college student expel epled for leading a racist chant is apologizing for his actions. coming up for you, we'll hear reaction from an african-american member of that fraternity involved. plus popular tv host jeremy clarkson suspended by the bbc after what's being called a fracas with a producer. stay with us. financial noise financial noise financial noise

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a u.s. college student expelled for loading a racist chant is apologizing for his actions. >> n a statement published by "the dallas morning news," parker rice said "it was wrong and reckless. i made a horrible mistake by joining into the singing and encouraging others to do the same. for me this is a devastating lesson, and i'm seeking guidance on how i can learn from this and make sure it never happens again. my goal for the long term is to be a man who has the heart and the courage to reject racism wherever i see or experience it in the future." rice is just one of two students expelled from the university of oklahoma after video of the racist chant went viral. meanwhile, a man who says he's the last african-american member

of the school's sigma alpha epsilon chapter is reacting to rice's apology. take a listen. >> if he's being sincere in his apology, then that's great. but honestly i feel a little bad for him because he now is going to experience something that very few people he associates with understands of walking into a room and being prejudged just because of how he looks. people thinking they know something about him that i assume he's suggesting is his apology isn't true. he's not going to know who believes him. he's not going to know who he can trust. and that's going to be new for him. that's going to be an education. it's going to be tough. and i feel bad for him. he's going to have to go through that. >> now the university sigma

alpha epsilon chapter, is closed for good. you're watching as members of the fraternity move their stuff out of the house on tuesday. the school's president cut ties with the fraternity shortly after the racist chant video surfaced. meanwhile, we can report on more fallout in another u.s. town of accusations of racism. the city manager of ferguson, missouri, has resigned. john shore step down in the wake of a scathing report from the u.s. justice department. that report blames ferguson's police and courts for abusive behavior that disproportionately targets african-american residents. ferguson was thrust into the spotlight, you'll recall after the controversial shooting death of black teenager michael brown by white police officer darren wilson. in his resignation letter shore said his office never instructed police to target black people. and unfortunately yet another u.s. city is facing growing racial tensions. madison, wisconsin, sproifts

erupted there. protesters democratic answers in the shooting death of an unarmed teen. police say officer matt kiny had to use deadly force after being assaulted. when it comes to racial bias madison's mayor says the focus shouldn't be on just the police. >> is there bias in the madison police department? that's the wrong question. the bias and disparity is in the entire criminal justice system. >> interesting point to make. because of a new law in wisconsin, the state, not the police department is of the shooting. activists in london fight to keep teens from joining extremist groups like isis. coming up for you, why they say their job seems to get harder every day. >> the recruitment and ideologies rapidly change. we've got young men and women on such media platforms middle of the night when they should be doing their homework or should be in bed. they're being engaged and

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hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm errol barnett. let's get you up to date on our biggest stories now. hillary clinton is addressing controversy over her e-mails for the first time. the likely presidential canadian says she used her personal e-mail for state department work out of convenience and has turn over thousands of emails for review. she admits she should have used separate accounts. from the boston marathon bombing trial, jurors were shown etchings inside the boat where

tamerlan tsarnaev hid from police. police say it showed radical beliefs most straighting the attacks. the defense argues he was manipulated by his older brother. a new isis video shows a young child killing an israeli arab man who isis claims was a spy. the f.y. of 19-year-old mitt romney musallams he's -- mohammad musallam says he's in syria and was recruited by isis. the family denies he was a spy. the iraqi military says it's making a final foush retake the city of tikrit from -- final tampa to retake the city of tikrit from isis. they are getting weapons and advice from iran. we're joined live from cairo with more on the story. and ian, this division of iraqi forces have been bolstered by iranian help. it does seem to be making an impact. what is different about this battle for tikrit?

>> reporter: they're about a mile from the city center. 1.6 kilometers. there it has been a slow go. this is a large force that's going into the city of tikrit. the iraqi government think they can have the city under control in the next few days. about 30,000 personnel involved in this attack. isis is not an easy enemy to defeat. they have roadside bombs, they have trucks laid weekend bombs. they have suicide bombers that are slowing their progress. also giving high casualties to the forces that are trying to take. but this is a force that is very determined to take the city. they have a lot of help from the iranians. we know there are some commanders there, some advisers there helping them in this push a test also one and if they do liberate the city how they treat the liberated. this is a predominantly sunni town city. this is the hometown of saddam

hussein. this is a predominancely shia force that is moving into the city. we'll be watching to see how they treat the people the residents once they take that city. >> and the iraqi forces want to get this right. you've got around by one estimate 30,000 iraqi forces and militias making this happen after -- if they do take back tikrit from isis. they will then set their sights on mosul, iraq's second city where isis has control. in a way, taking back of tikrit could be a major turning point in the fight against isis. would you say? >> reporter: that's right. tikrit is the largest city in the province. taking that will be down the road mosul would be the next stepping stone to taking mosul. mosul is ten times larger than tikrit. it is going to be a lot more difficult. it's the second largest city in

iraq. it is isis's main city in the country. they're not going to give it up without a fight. it is going to be difficult. what that battle, you will have for the battle for mosul the kurdish peshmerga forces that will be involved in that. a lot larger force. you could also have the coalition air strikes involved for the battle for mosul. we're seeing them noticeably absent for the battle of tikrit. the united states careful to not be seen taking sides with the iranians or showing that they are supporting them. the iraqis say they don't need coalition air strikes they say this is a battle they can take themselves. >> certainly a positive development as it relates to the on the ground fight against isis. ian lee with details from cairo. thanks. meantime, there are efforts to stop isis' efforts to radicalize people on line. community activists in london and other cities, for example are reaching out to young people

to warn them about the dangers of radicalism. many say their job is more difficult now than ever. cnn's chief international correspondent christiane amanpour visited at activist she first spoke with in 2007. it is machine, absolutely beautiful -- >> reporter: eight years ago, i met hanif kadir, a youth worker in one of london's most diverse and deprived areas. >> street crime, gun crime, drugs. car theft. then you've got another threat. >> reporter: what's the new threat? >> radicalism. it's a cause. everyoneness a cause. >> reporter: the threat has mushroomed. today, radicalized muslims teens are a major worry for britain's government, police and security services. and the group of london outreach workers are on the front line trying to stop young muslims from joining isis. >> you have a lot of young

muslim boys that do not understand the religion per se. they're brought up in britain, they're born muslims. and the radicalization takes place because of a lack of understanding. >> reporter: muhammad hands out magazines saying isis is unislamic and warns everyone not to get involved. the message doesn't always get through. >> quite a few from this area have left. they've gone to syria because of misguidance. they do not understand what they're doing. they've picked themselves up without giving a warning, and they left the country. at this moment i don't think their family knows if they're dead or alive. >> reporter: and his job has gotten much harder in the eight years since i first met him. recruiters have moved from mosques to on line. >> the recruitment techniques and ideologies rapidly changed. we've got young men and women on such media platform in the middle of the night when they should be doing their homework

or being in bed. they're being groomed on line. even though they may not know it. >> reporter: some say that videos of bloodshed in syria that isis circulates over the internet can help drive people to radicalism. >> since january, i've had six cases come to my attention. i'll say the majority don't even understand islam. they don't know which direction to pray. they haven't been radicalized by islam, they've been radicalized emotionally. >> reporter: at the youth center they try to warn the young people about the dark side of social media. reminding them that these three girls were groomed on line and have now turned up in syria. >> do i look stupid? these girls have been ripped out of their household. they're going to join a network of individual that clearly haven't got their best interests at heart. how did this happen? social media. >> it's about social media.

>> reporter: these teenagers don't think they're vulnerable. while some leave convinced tonight, others are more skeptical. >> they're religious. they will come up -- we listen to them. after they go, it's just -- [ inaudible ] >> cnn's christiane amanpower reporting. have you checked your money? how's it doing this week? investors are waiting to see if u.s. stocks can rebound from the worst drop of the year. the dow industrial average plummeted 333 points tuesday. it's an eerie number. erasing all of its gains from the year. both the s&p 500 and the nasdaq dropped about 1.7%. experts blame the strong u.s. dollar, low oil prices and the potential interest rate hike for that slide. let's check the asia markets at this hour. a bit of a mixed bag there for you. the nikkei is up went went 3% point. the hang seng down .6.

and the shanghai composite marginally up this hour. in the midst of its bailout crisis, greece have newing a democrat that germany, one of its creditors, pay reparations from world war ii. the prime minister says he will support parliamentary efforts to review what he calls legal tricks by germany to avoid war compensation for the nazi occupation of greece. germany claims this issue was resolved at the talks that led to german reunification in 1990. now a british broadcaster has suspended one of its biggest stars. coming up after the break, a look at what allegedly got jeremy clarkson into trouble. plus a very happy ending to a dramatic attempted kidnapping. it was caught on video here. we'll explain what happened next.

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thanks for staying with us on cnn. i want to get you you to washington state now where a dramatic kidnapping tampa was caught on surveillance video. watch this. you're seeing a man run off with a 2-year-old boy. that kid of just playing in a park with his older brother and sister when the man grabbed him from his stroller. here you see his siblings running, screaming, grabbing the attention two of nearby teenagers. the teens gave chase until the kidnapper let the little boy go.

and here's what the young men who are rightfully being called heroes had to say about the incident. >> to begin with it was a normal sunday noon. and we heard screaming coming from somewhere. it was at first, it seemed like the normal child scrape their knee. then it turned into a more blood-curdling scream. >> i believe that i did what had to be done in that moment. and i did it because nobody deserves that kind of tension. nobody -- nobody deserves to have their lives changed and ruined because of one man. i did what was acceptable and what what needed to be done at that moment in time. >> wow. we're so glad he did. worst part of the story, the suspect you saw there is still at large. the host of the hit television show "top gear," jeremy clarkson is in hot water

again. he's been suspended after an altercation with a producer. the suspension is the latest controversy involving clarkson as itv reports. >> reporter: on sunday's edition of "top gear," jeremy clarkson was his usual excitable self. >> yes! you're good! >> reporter: the show has made the presenter and the bbc a lot of money. this afternoon, it said in a statement following a fracas with a bbc producer jeremy clarkson has been suspended pending an investigation. no one else has been suspended. "top gear" will not be broadcast this sunday. until now the bbc has stuck by clarkson. last year "top gear's" you crew was forced to flee argentina. the presenter was seen behind the wheel of a car with a number plate which looked a lot like a reminder of the 1982 faulklands conflict. ♪ >> reporter: then there are the frequent accusations of racism.

a derogatory term used in burma which saw "top gear" turned off by the broadcasting regulator. >>ini, meanie -- >> reporter: the use of an offensive word during unbroadcast footage. for that the star issued an explanation. >> i realize that in one of the mumbled versions if you listen carefully with the sound turned right up, it did appear that i actually used the word i was trying to obscure. i was mortified by this horrified. it is a word i loathe. >> reporter: clarkson of put on his final warning. >> it just never shuts up. it would drive you mad. >> reporter: the bbc has to decide what to do with the staff and the program which is one of its biggest money spinners. itv news. you now at this hour japan is marking four years since a 9.0-magnitude quake caused a massive tsunami there. this was the largest quake to

hit japan, and the fourth largest on record. the confirmed death toll stand at more than 15800 with several thousand more missing. you're looking at pictures coming to us from this ceremony taking place. four years ago, there was an estimated $300 billion in damage done. that made it the most expensive disaster in modern history. what many of us will victim that video cameras were rolling when the ground first started shaking some four years ago. i want to show some of the frightening firsthand accounts from that day. [ crashing ]

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>> it just blew up. whoo! whoo! this is crazy! look at it. i'm back. do you all see this? >> you can send the adrenaline pumping through had man's veins as he feels the quake. witnesses things exploding around him. in fact the city in northeastern japan was one of the hardest hit by the tsunami. some of the most harrowing video of recorded there four years ago. massive waves like this slammed into the coastal cities. images that we at the time thought were just unbelievable. this was happening in real time. reports say more than 600 people

died and 6,000 buildings were destroyed in the city. four years later, the town is still slowly trying to recover. let's bring in our meteorologist, pedram javaheri with some of the big world weather stories. first, i know that that massive quake event from four years ago is still being felt in many ways today. >> i'm getting goosebums speaking to you -- goosebumps speaking to you, seeing the footage. i was there that morning in japan. the energy when you release 9.0 quakes like that the energy equivosilence like some 31 atomic bombs being released at the same time. aftershocks have occurred to this day, still getting aftershocks in the last 24 hours in the 6.0 magnitude or greater in spots. 12,000 aftershocks since 2011 since four years ago today. it shows you the disruptive motion within the earth there. and of course the aftershocks still continuing as the energy on the move across that portion of the world.

watching a couple of storm systems across australia. three with the high probability of formation on the northwest side of australia. cyclone nathan sitting on the northeastern side. tropical cyclone pam sitting near the area. pam has the potential to be the strongest tropical cyclone in ten years across the region. notice not coincidental. this area in orange is indicative of the sea surface temperatures. about 90 degrees fahrenheit. 31 or so celsius. very warm sea surface temperatures to give the storm system tremendous energy. still have no i-formation yet. 185 kilometers per hour meaning it is a major hurricane equivalent or category 3 equivalent. concern is for this town here. villa, the capital island. in this region, very little in the way of being able to get out of harm's way with the storm coming in. look what happens -- 250 kph. that would be category 5 equivalent. potentially gets to a healthy category 5 over the next two days. we're watching this carefully. fortunately for villa, the storm

system looks to want to track more favorable to the eastern side of the island. that's where the strongest winds are associated with cyclones in this part of the world. we're watching that with this feature. then nathan is near cannes. 150,000 here this more a rainmaker than strong winds. active weather across australia you now. >> all right. thank you very much. it appears that megahit song "blurred lines" which you can't get out of your head, it crossed the line. the singers found guilty of plagiarizing the legendary marvin gaye. find out how much it will cost them next. ♪ hi, tom. hey, how's the college visit? you remembered. it's good. does it make the short list? you remembered that too. yea, i'm afraid so. knowing our clients personally is what we do. it's okay. this is what we've been planning for. thanks, bye. and with over 13,000 financial advisors

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the people of new zealand have a message for tourists. we should get off our roads air string of serious, even deadly accidents caused by foreign drivers. some locals are taking matters into their own hands. cnn's david malko has more. >> reporter: they're pulling out

their camera phones to record close calls. and some are even taking it a step further. >> come around the corner, and there was a car in the road. >> reporter: robert penman decided to take the other driver's keys. >> it's a south korea thing. you know time frame for police to get there. >> reporter: with more and more tourists taking to new zealand roadways, locals are tired of encountering foreign drivers who don't know the rules. a string of recent incidents has pulled the prime minister into the debate. >> i really would advise people not to do that. i think people taking the law into their own hands is not sensible. >> reporter: over the past few months new zealand has seen some historic crashes including this one when a carry carrying a family of four from -- a car carrying a family of four was hit head-on. none survived. safety campaigners want to go so far as requiring visitors to take driving tests.

authorities say it's unfair to single them out. >> i think foreign drivers are subject to the same issues that local drivers are around traveling too fast, not wearing seat belts. the same things in terms of driver behavior flay part. >> reporter: in an effort to lower the number of accidents, some highway upgrades are being accelerate. and rental car companies are putting road safety tips front and center. >> if the road is completely blocked, stay on your side -- >> reporter: this video part of a drive safe initiative points out surprises drivers might encounter like one-lane bridges. >> if the large arrow suspense are hid you have the right of way. >> chance really. you're not -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: some of the road rage incidents targeting foreigners have had a nasty racist tinge. while the driver who took matters into his own hands says he will do it again, local reports say he was also breaking the law for driving with an expired license.

cnn, hong kong. now robin thicke's "blurred lines" of the number-one song of 2013. when it comes to copy right infringement a john miller says the track crossed the line and it's going to cost the singer millions. ♪ i know you want it ♪ ♪ i know you want it ♪ >> the live performance did break up his marriage. pharrell williams wrote and produced it. robin thicke sang it. tuesday a federal jury in l.a. said the song was plagiarized. thicke and williams admitted "blur lines" was reminiscent of morve ingaye's "got to give it up." a jury found they copied without permission. listen to the original. ♪ >> that is a great track. the jury awarded marvin gaye's children $7.3 million. his daughter broke down outside

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