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at least 137 people are killed. the suicide bombers attack two mosques in yemen and it may be the start of a new campaign by isis. and days after the terror network's deadly attack in tunisia we'll talk about the group's growing reach. and security agents a man swinging a machete. more on that. a closer look at airport security in america. i'm isa soares in london. this is "cnn newsroom." we begin this hour with a scene of utter carnage in the capital of yemen. the terror group isis claims it carried out a series of bombings
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of two shiite mosques killing or wounding hundreds of people. some survivors have been taken to jordan for treatment, and saudi arabia is sending urgently needed medical aid. our senior international correspondent has our report and we have to warn you. the images you are about to see are graphic. >> reporter: a staggering death toll well over 130 dead over 200 injured. san sana's capital, and hitting at the busiest time of the week. two key shia mosques in sana from the hutie movement. suggestions, and the plastic blasts used by the suicide bombers.
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after the first rushed in a second device outside, each of these mosques, targeting those rescuers. that perhaps, is behind the large numbers of dead here but adds a troubling extra element to the instability and unrest across yemen here where the government was swept out of power by the increase in the organized houthie movement. these were shia in the target here in the mosque here. it is thought perhaps extremists were behind it. that tactic is used by extremists in the past. the past suspects many accuse chd doing this al qaeda, issuing a statement saying it was not them and they would not attack large groups of civilians. the claim of responsibility we have heard today came from isis on both written and audio form through channels used in the past. it actually adds weight to the possibility that isis were behind these blasts.
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in the past they have been known to have a limited capability in yemen. dozens perhaps, only pledging allegiance to the isis leader in northern iraq and northern syria at the moment but the potential they found the capability to carry out a mass scale attack like this have many deeply concerned. the u.s. has closed its embassy, struggling in its fight against al qaeda there, the notion that perhaps isis are slowly using that instability to find another place to call home. we'll be deeply concerning to those who also don't want to see further sectarian violence inside yemen. many worried in yemen now. seeing perhaps a new chapter. we've seen instability now perhaps the sunni shia violence may have found a new home in yemen. for cnn, beirut. well the white house is condemning the yemen mosque attacks and this week's air strikes against the presidential palace in the port city of
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aidan. the national security council issued a statement urging all parties to end military actions and return to political dialogue to resolve their differences. now at least a dozen of the 23 people killed this week at the museum in tunisia were tourists. four italians three french citizens two spaniard among the dead. some still uni identified in a morgue. a march against terrorism. authorities arrested nine people in connection with the attacks, which isis claimed responsibility for. phil black has more from a witness to the massacre and from the family of one suspect. >> reporter: these are the panicked scenes security forces arrived at the baddo museum. by that time the gunmen had already killed many people. and moved deeper inside the complex. >> terrified. >> reporter: this man witnessed the start of the massacre. >> translator: the moment when they started to shoot everybody
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in front of him, with no mercy, the blood and innocent people laying down. >> reporter: a tourist guide had brch wait been waiting by a bus when he saw a man that didn't look like a terrorist. >> men. >> in twillcivilian clothes. >> not military at all. blue jeans, nike sneakers and shaved and did not pronounce any words. >> reporter: the man then pulled what looked like a gun from his bag, but didn't know how to use it. >> at the moment i thought he was one of the guests one of the clients, one of the tourists playing with a plastic gun. >> reporter: he got working just as crowds were leaving the museum. >> there were around 50 or 60 tourists and he start to shoot everybody in front of him. >> reporter: he fled as security forces quickly arrived in big
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numbers. after killing the gunmen they were cheered at heros. one of the attackers is seen lived here. his family confused. grieving and angry. his uncle says it's true. he carried out this terrorist attack. he was killed. we don't have his body back. he was also a victim of terrorism. his family says the morning of the attack he drank coffee with them, like any other day. families in tunisia and across the globe are struggling to understand why that normal ritual was followed hours later by horrific violence. bill black, cnn, tunis. this is proof the terror group is gaining followers in new countries. joining us now to talk more about this is a professor of middle eastern political politics and international
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relations at the london school of economics and author of a book concerning the arab world. thank you for speaking to us this morning. we've shown two pieces on the ground. one from libya, one perspective from tunisia. both of those attacks that we've seen there claimed responsibility from isis. my first question to you is -- do we know if this is isis? they said it's claiming responsibility. is there proof this could be them and if it is them what does this say about the reach, the ground they're gaining? >> the first point i would say to your viewers that we should not buy the claims of daesh or isis. we have no credible evidence about who are the perpetrators. of course, isis would like us to believe they are spreading far, gaining followers, invincible and what have you. it's their interest but yet we don't have any credible evidence. the point i would stress this
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virus, this virus of extremism is really poisoning the veins of arab and muslim politics and it is spreading near and far. regardless of whether isis or the so-called islamic state is behind it you have like-minded groups extremists who believe in this particular ideology and, yes, isis is gaining, you know foot holds in libya, in yemen, in tunisia, pakistan afghanistan, west africa in reality they are doing so but these particular attacks could either be carried out by people inspired by the ideology or like-minded groups like sharia also a group that existing in both libya and yemen and in tunisia as well. >> and they seek in countries that are highly stabilized and that seems to be targeting these young individuals there. i mean when you look -- when you've mentioned a couple of those countries but also we've
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seen egypt, in i believe it was was -- how are they gaining so much ground? mostly propaganda? >> what we need to understand is that you have fears, social political and ideological struggles they can place in the region's in egypt in yemen, libya, in tunisia. you have the painful transitional process. isis and nashar sharia basically feed on incapability. you have chaotic situation. take yemen. you have multiple fault lines, ideological political fault line between the health houthi and also sectarian sectarianism between the houthi and the large sunni community and social and tribal struggles in the same way in libya. it's a political struggle.
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so what isis and al sharia manipulate exploit, infiltrate the politics. the immunity system is weak and that's why isis and like-minded groups infiltrate these groups and say we are standing up, we are the defender of the real authentic islam. think about this for a moment here. take yemen. the attacks against the mosques, worship places. sacred places. isis and sharia would like us to believe they are defending the faith, yet they are attacking sacred places. regardless of the disagreement with the houthi that killing worshippers and -- and what does this tell you? more than almost 500 killed and injured. what does that tell you? it's not about religion. this is ash politics ideology. showing fears. in tunisia attack basically western tourists who had nothing
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to do with whatever happening, and this is not about a clash of civilizations. these are infernal civil wars in the region. >> very interesting. how much is this is it also fighting among each other for notoriety? >> if you ask me really how to you describe the whole thing? this is an internal civil wars. civil wars within the world of islam. this is not about the west and islam. in yemen you have multiple civil wars. in libya various civil wars. in syria, iraq, other places. that's why isis or daesh and like-minded groups are very easy to manipulate the fragile politics. the immunity system is weak. that's why the virus seeps in and exactly what's happening. unfortunately as long as these social fears, social political ideological struggles unfold you're going to have like-minded groups doing the terrible deeds they are doing. >> when you look at this picture, you know the civil wafrrs within the middle east as you
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call them what worries you in terms of their reach? where else will they be looking at? >> they're really spreading. the reality is the main battlefields are syria and iraq. it's spreading now into libya, yemen, lebanon, north africa pakistan afghanistan. i mean they don't represent an existential threat a serious security concern. i mean think of the slaughter of civilians in cold blood. hundreds and could be -- and this instability could create trigger, a great instability and also complicate and aggravate political conflicts in yemen. yemen what do we make of it? these particular attacks, i mean inflame sectarian tensions twun the houthi and the sunnis and that's the strategy of isis. >> looking at them, but forgotten you mentioned north african. boko haram and been inspired and growing allegiance with isis and
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that's a huge concern. >> absolutely. not just boko haram, in north africa in afghanistan and pakistan. you see what isis does we are a winning horse, we are resilient standing up. that's why they give the sense of victory and you have these holistic groups and factions trying to join jump on the caravan of the isis gee haudigigee -- jihadism. and ahead, screeners at the airport and an update plus passengers had to screen before boarding flights. screeners and anyone else working at the airport. both these stories right here on cnn. "ride away" (by roy orbison begins to play) ♪ i ride the highway... ♪ ♪ i'm going my way... ♪ ♪i leave a story untold... ♪
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investigators are trying to determine why an armed man attacked screeners at new orleans louis armstrong airport friday. an army of officers ascending on the airport where officials say 63-year-old richard white stormed through two security checkpoints. sheriffs officials say they sprayed two transportation security administration offices with wasp spray and slashed a third tsa officer with a machete. the sheriff's deputy opened fire shooting white three times. white was taken to hospital
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where authorities say he underwent surgery. officials say the reasons for his rampage is still unclear. take a listen. >> we have no information at the present time, and, of course, this is early in the investigation, of any connection between the perpetrator and anyone here at the airport. and we don't know whether or not this individual was a member of the traveling public. we suspect not. he has been a taxi driver. he's recently received a chauffeur's license, has little or no criminal history. some disturbing the peace charges, and a couple of traffic attachments. >> we're told that none of the injuries suffered by the tsa officer was life threatening, but the incident in new orleans turns the spotlight once again on to airport security. airport employees work day in and day out without being screened at all. cnn's drew griffin reports, there is no national system
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raising fears someone could slip through the net. >> reporter: 54,000 employees at los angeles international airport report to work without mandatory bag checks no body screening, and literally hundreds of doors like this one, where a badge and a code gets you right on to the tarmac. think that's scary? put yourself in the shoes of l.a.'s airport police chief patrick gannon. >> i got ask you about the lone wolf scenario because right now what you have in place with hundreds of access doors and the screening you go through, there is really it doesn't appear to me to be protection against the lone wolf scenario? >> when you say lone wolf are you talking about somebody a lone wolf that has access -- >> reporter: that guy that just walked in with a backpack with a mug. we don't know what's in his backpack or in his mug nor his heart or head. >> that's correct. >> reporter: does that concern
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you? >> it concerns me all the time. with 54,000 badged employees that work at a large airport like this, there is no way that you are going to have the ability to screen every single person that comes to work in the airport. >> reporter: l.a. tries to minimizes the risk by maximizing random checks like this one. airport workers never know exactly when or where spot check koss occur. employees also face background checks. yearly updates, and a system built around everyone watching out for anyone who might seem suspicious. chief gannon admits nothing is foolproof. >> we've been at airports across the country, we have not really seen anything that could prevent what atlanta went through, in which was gunned smuggled on to airplanes. >> i agree. i agree in any airport throughout the united states and here also. there is never a 100% guarantee
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that somebody couldn't, who wanted to do something illegal or wrong, couldn't make that happen. >> reporter: what happened in atlanta is causing a reaction at airports across the country. and you can see why. these are guns. guns smuggled on to as many as 20 flights by one delta air line baggage handler. that baggage handler took the guns to work in a backpack, which was never screened. motive for the crime, pure profit. selling the guns in northeast city. but atlanta hartsfield-jackson's general manager testified to a congressional committee the real danger the gun-returning exposed is the threat of potential terrorism. >> in the last six months, for example, we've started to see that people are being recruited to engage in terrorist acts.
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people are being recruited from the united states. so now we have a greater insider threat. >> reporter: atlanta is moving towards full airport employee screening, but it hasn't happened yet. a cnn investigation found that only two major u.s. airports miami and orlando, conduct full employee screening, requiring employees to pass through metal detectors just like passengers. airports say moving towards full employee screening would simply be too costly and too time consuming for airport workers to wait in line like you and i, but some members of congress just aren't buying that demanding the department of homeland security review employee screening policies to make sure airports aren't leaving a door open -. to a possible disaster. drew griffin, cnn, los angeles. you're watching cnn. still to come former rap music
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a lifetime event for millions yesterday. the solar eclipse seen across parts of europe and eastern north africa. from veeienna behind a statue of the history art museum from italy next to the statue of milan's tacathedral and lebanon, and norway where the eclipse was total, pretty neat stuff, as you can see. many people getting to witness that across europe parts of the middle east parts of north asia even and north africa. this unique celestial event was witnessed from space as well. the world weather center we have more. we were here waiting here in london to see it but it was so cloudy yesterday, that many of the children that went out there to see it kept saying where exactly is it? we can't see it. >> i heard, and i saw you reporting from that. a bit unfortunate. >> yes. it was unfortunate. very upset about it but the
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best view without a doubt, was from space. wasn't it? >> in fact it was. you've got to see the phenomenal video coming in from a satellite. people actually viewing it from earth. well only got to see it sometimes, if they were lucky, if the skies cleared overhead from above, this is a few hundred kilometers from above. look that. you can actually see the full duration of the solar eclipse taking place from a small satellite in outer space. a phenomenal thing. i want to show you the entire face of the solar eclipse. someone captured this on their camera. i want to point out two distinct portions. just before totality that is when the moon covers the entire disc of the sun, this is a phenomenon known as the diamond ring effect. i think this is such a phenomenal photo. i just have to explain exactly what's happening here. this is just moments, we're talking seconds, before totality actually occurs. again, that's when the moon's shadow covers the entire disc of
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the sun and creating an almost ring-like feature, and there's still just a few beams of light on the outer edge of this sunlight here and that creates what is called again that diamond ring effect. a lovely photo captured in that -- and in that phenomenal is a celestial occurrence. from new york to boston saying it is supposed to be spring but feeling very winterlike. unfortunately, these temperatures are going to continue to take a nosedive in the big apple. look at the forecast from sunday into monday. actually had a fresh layer of snow fall and easterneven a few flakes fell near boston. traveling to the united states for the weekend or perhaps into the start of the workweek be prepared for cold weather. pack accordingly. you can see the storm system on the way out, and we also have another major rainmaker across texas and louisiana. we've got the south by southwest
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festival taking place at the moment this weekend in the austin texas, region and it is going to be quite a washout. in fact we have flood watches and warnings across much of south and central texas. that stretches into parts of louisiana, where our heaviest rainfall is currently occurring. in fact pockets of four to six inches of rainfall possible over the next 48 hours. wet weather from dallas austin san antonio, corpus christi and houston, north of louisiana into shreveport a wet forecast. isa, back to you. >> so this is spring? rain snow -- >> this is what we get here in america. >> thanks very much. >> you're welcome. >> thanks very much. still to come right here on the show new health concerns for a man whose bloody arrest was caught on camera. up next what happened to him and how the investigation is actually going. plus isis' influence on the rise in north africa.
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bringing you up to date. the top stories we're following this hour. bodies found a shallow grave in syria on friday. discovered in a town recently liberated from boko haram. the victims, some beheaded believed to be residents who refused to join the terrorist group. at least 137 people are dead hundreds more wounded, after attacks on two mosques in yemen's capital. isis claimed responsibility in a pair of online posts. suicide bombers blew themselves up inside the mosques and at least one car boemmb exploded outside as people tried to flee.
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70 syrian soldiers killed in attacks launched by isis east of homs monitoring the civil war, the assault began on wednesday. the group also says isis suffered casual tifftyies but did not provide a number. tunisian officials say two of the men who carried out the attack on the country's museum had training -- our correspondent covered libya over the past few years and is live in baghdad. good to see you. we've just said you've covered libya extensively over the years. let me ask you this -- when you heard that the two men behind the tunisia attacks had weapons training in libya did that spripz youurprise you at all? >> reporter: absolutely no surprise there, isa. when we first heard the news. this is something that has been a concern for libya's
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neighboring countries. they have been concerned about this spillover of the chaos in libya, the thriving extremist groups there, and it's not the first time we are seeing this spillover effect. we saw it in 2013 in january of that year the attack on the gas facility in algeria, close to the libyan border in the south. it was attacked by militants who had set up camp in libya. they did their training there, used libya as a logistics base including some tunisian fighters at that point. isa, for the past few years we have been reporting extensively on the threat from libya. jihadist groups have set up camp in that country really taking advantage of the security vacuum the political instability in the country, and we've seen this since 2012 really where a lot of militants would go to libya. whether from tunisia or other north african countries or other parts of the world, trained there and head to syria after
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that. and there has been concern about the impact this will have not only on the neighboring countries, isa, but also on europe. again, libya is so close to the shores of europe across the med tranin mediterranean. we're hearing from egypt, they're concerned, we've seen egypt taking action and it feels like another wake-up call for the international community to address this rise of extremism in libya. >> yes, and, in fact what it does show, like you said is terrorism is just not a problem, not just to libya but to most really but also for the entire regionship in it? as we've seen in the last few days? >> reporter: absolutely. and the concern here isa, yes a number of jihadi groups taking advantage of the situation in libya, and using the country for training and also a launch pad
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for attacks, too, and we've seen isis do that, which is a major concern for the international community, and we've been hearing more and more about this because over the past few months we have seen the emergence of this isis presence in libya with a number of groups in the three different provinces of libya pledging allegiance to isis and also carrying out really high-profile attacks including that attack in january on the five-star corinthia hotel in tripoli, and a horrific beheading of more than 20 egyptian christians. so a lot of concern about this rise of isis and the fact, isa, it's not being tackled by the international community. the same community fighting isis in iraq and syria. >> yes, and then just yesterday we heard european leaders talking exactly about this. you mentioned it briefly. libya, of course is the main departure from africa to
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migrants coming to europe. now officials obviously fearing that extremists could also make that crossing you mentioned it there. in baghdad, now 35 minutes past 11:00. as always, thank you? >> now our next story deals with a very disturbing incident in afghanistan. a report an afghan woman reportedly mentally ill beating by a crowd for allegedly burning the koran and all caught on camera. we must warn you, though this report contains graphic images. [ speaking in foreign language ]. >> reporter: a public lynching in afghanistan. a local woman said to be mentally ill is attacked by an angry crowd after being accused of burning the koran. it happened thursday in kabul near a kel-known mosque in the heart of the afghan capital. several local news crews were there at the horrific events unfolded. dozens of men surrounded the woman hitting and kicking her, some throwing stones others
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beating her with boards or sticks. eventually the woman was beaten severely dragged through the street thrown from a bridge and set on fire. a body left in the river bed. her name not released. her paints said she suffered from mental illness for years. afghanistan's president says he is launching a full investigation and police say they've arrested nine suspects. after the attack afghan networks showed video of burned pages of the koran. the murdered woman's parents say their daughter would not have intentionally set fire to the muslim holy book but a member of afghan's religious affairs ministry responded angrily. [ speaking in foreign language ]. >> translator: if this woman was against the holy koran had done it deliberately and at the same time a non-muslim woman, then we justify the action of the people. >> reporter: united nations issued statement condemning the murder calling it an unspeakable
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horrendous that can't should result in those prosecuted to the fullest extent possible under afghan law. a shocking and brutal killing in a country where crimes against women are all too common. reporting for cnn. turn our attention to luzan in switzerland. officials say there are major sticky points like when sanctions in iran will be lifted and how much nuclear research iran will be allowed to conduct. a framework agreement deadline is set for the end of the month. where u.s. house speaker john boehner plans to visit in the next few weeks. he invited benjamin netanyahu to address a joint meeting of the u.s. congress earlier this month. just this week netanyahu won re-election. during the campaign he said there would be no two-state solution in the middle east. netanyahu's statement led president obama to warn he might
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re-assess the u.s. relationship with israel. we have details. >> reporter: if there's one thing that's clear after president obama's phone call with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu it's that a single conversation won't repair a damaged relationship. [ speaking in foreign language ] netanyahu set in at least three interviews he still believes in palestinian statehood, despite his preelection flip-flop in a desperate appeal for votes. i haven't changed, netanyahu told npr, but that's not good enough for the white house. >> why not just take him at his word on that? is there a reason that the white house -- >> i guess the question is, which one? >> his latest. >> okay. >> reporter: white house press secretary josh earnest declined to say whether netanyahu clarified his position in his phone call with the president. >> did the prime minister tell the president he believes in a two-state solution in this phone call? >> that's something -- you can ask my israeli counterpart about what the prime minister said in
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his phone call. >> what the president heard? >> i'm not saying i don't know. i'm saying i will allow my israeli counterpart to describe the views that his boss conveyed in that phone call. >> reporter: despite those tensions house speaker john boehner plans to visit israel at the end of the month, while the speaker's office says the trip was planned well before the prime minister's re-election it comes around the deadline for the nuclear deal between iran the u.s. and other powers. >> this moment may not come again soon. our believe we have the opportunity to resolve this peacefully. an opportunity we should not miss. >> reporter: the president urged leaders in tehran to come to agreement and release add statement calling for the release of americans either imprisoned or missing in the country. secretary of state john kerry who spent the week working on a nuclear agreement sounded optimistic as he left the talks. >> we'll be back next week. made a lot of progress yes, here. >> reporter: the white house had said before netanyahu's victory
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the president would not meet with the prime minister weeks prior to that election but with the voting over aides to the president say they won't rule out a future meeting. noting the two leaders have much to discuss. jim acosta, cnn, the white house. and an african-american college student who accused police of excessive force had to be take ton a health center friday pap source tells cnn there was concern over head swelling from martese johnson's arrest by alcohol enforcement police on wednesday. in this video you see him pinned on the ground. johnson's attorney says the young man suffered a gash on his head. brian todd has more on the investigation. we want to warn you, you may find some of the images disturbing. >> hey, his head is bleeding! yo his head is bleeding! >> [ bleep ] -- >> stop fighting! >> reporter: the arresting agents described him as agitated delistenerant and intoxicated but martese johnson says he did nothing wrong that
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virginia's department of alcohol beverage control agents used excessive force. his attorney says johnson had a valid illinois state i.d. but when asked for his zip code johnson gave his mother's current address different from his >> i d. card. >> how did this happen? you're a racist! >> reporter: johnson suffered a head injury required ten stitches. on the university of virginia campus outraged students pressed top law enforcement officials on the johnson arrest. martese johnson was at this forum but didn't speak. neither will senior abc agents who were there. virginia's top safety official who oversees abc says he doesn't know if this is about race. says the accusation of excessive force is being investigated and any -- >> any of the officers had disciplinary measures taken against them in the past? >> we're allowing the investigation to -- those -- that type of information is important to gather and we've asked the state police to gather that information. >> reporter: now a top virginia
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legislator is putting immense pressure on this alcohol enforcement agency. >> they're not appropriately trained, they don't have the proper protocols and don't implement they appropriately and here's another example of them being overzealous in their enforcement. >> reporter: saying it's time to consider taking weapons and the power to arrest away from abc agents. contacted by cnn, abc officials would not comment. but this isn't the first time abc agents have been accused of excessive force. in april of 2013 a young university of virginia student was swarmed by abc agents outside this area in charlottesville. they surrounded her car. at least one pup add gun. they thought she was buying alcohol underaged. turns out all she had was sparkling water and cookie dough. on the 911 call from inside the student's car, fear and confusion. >> does somebody have a gun or something? >> oh my god.
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oh my god, oh my god! >> reporter: this student was arrested that night, but she later got that taken off her record. and settled a lawsuit for more than $200,000. after that incident the virginia abc department disciplined those agents and reformed its practices. but there could well be another round of that in the weeks ahead. brian todd cnn, charlottesville, virginia. u.s. law enforcement sources say it appears the hanging of an african-american man in the state of the mississippi must have been a suicide, not a lynching as many initially feared. the man was found hanging from a tree thursday morning with bed sheets around his neck and no chair in sight. mississippi has a long history of racial violence that includes lynching of african-americans. the fbi says no one should jump to conclusions. take a listen. >> everybody wants answers and quickly. we understand that. everybody's heard rumors including myself as to who may be behind this and why. we're going to hold off in coming to conclusion until really the facts take us to a
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definitive answer that we're all seeking. >> the fbi also says a report on the man's cause of death is expected next week. well you are watching "cnn newsroom." still to come whitney houston the daughter bobbi kristina still in a coma but out of an atlanta hospital. we tell you what we know about her condition and where her family has moved her after this break.
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the dawg daughter of singer whitney houston moved out of the hospital and into a rehab facility according to a source close to her family. bobbi kristina brown had been in a medically induced coma since found in her home. ventilated through a hole in her throat. the full extent of her injuries are not known. police are treating her case as a criminal investigation. former rap music mogul suge knight collapsed after a judge set his bail fors 25ds million s$25 million. a fee his attorney says is excessive. stephanie elam has more. >> reporter: suge knight's current troubles all captured on this surveillance video taken in january obtained by tmz. knight driving the red pickup
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had gotten into his truck after an argument with two associates. the argument continues as knight begins to drive, and watch what happens happens. the truck reverses striking sloan before changing directions and running over the man again. the truck then hits terry carter and leaves the scene. >> that seen suge knight turn around go to his car. backed his car up and put it in drive and then he hit terry carter. >> reporter: knight's attorney say he was acting in self-defense. >> there are witnesses that indicate that mr. knight was being attacked by a number of men. they were beating him through the car window that he was making an effort to leave. >> reporter: when knight arrived for questioning and was ultimately booked on suspicion of murder he seemed cool and collected. even stopping to put out a cigar before entering the los angeles county sheriff's department but since he's been in custody, knight's facade seems to have lost some of its swagger. he's collapsed in court not once
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but on two separate occasions. the first time february 3rd, after he pleaded not guilty. the 49-year-old was taken to the hospital complaining of chest pains. while in court another time knight said he's blind in one eye and has only 15% vision in the other. his lawyer says blindness in his left eye a result of glaucoma put the victims in his blind spot. the second time he collapsed after a judge set his bail a. great potential to flee and apparently has so in the past. in this court's opinion, $25 million is reasonable and it is so set. >> reporter: $25 million to get free on bond. several minutes after hearing that knight dropped to the floor. >> mr. knight literally fell like someone pummeled the switch hit his head on the way down and he was unconscious. >> reporter: charges of violence are nothing new for knight who went to jail in the late 1990s and again in 2003 for violating probation and assault charges. as for the defense for suge
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knight i spoke to one of his lawyers who says first of all they believe it was an accident but also say the blindness in his left eye is key here. remember that video, you can see that the two men are on the left-hand side of the vehicle. they're saying that knight was just trying to flee the scene and couldn't see where the two men were standing and if he didn't know they were there, he couldn't actually target them to kill them. stephanie elam, cnn, los angeles. you are watching cnn, and still to come in india, some parents have been caught -- listen to this -- clinging to the outer walls of their children's school. we explain why, just ahead.
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you are looking at the pope in naples. it is now 9:53 in naples. the pope is meeting with community members at john paul ii square in more than an hour he's planning an outdoor mass in another part of town. more than some 7,000 people expected. earlier pope francis had a prayer at a shrine in pompeii, the ancient city buried under ash in 7980 when mount vesuvius erupted. we'll monitor that for you. it's not uncommon for parents to expect to have high expectation about their
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children's performance in school. wait until you see what some parents in india did to guarantee good grades from their kids. cnn has the details. >> reporter: exam time in india, and eager parents and relatives are lining the wall of schools in the state. those aren't good luck cards or packed lunches they're passing to students. they're cheat sheets for all important exams to continue their education. local media reports say police accepted bribes from these relatives to give them access to the school. inside the classroom, under the not so watchful eye of examiners, the answers are passed around and around with pupils barely seeming to care when their caught red-handed. mass cheating in behar state is a recognized problem with other cases already reported. it's a problem authorities say they can't tackle alone. >> translator: three to four people helping a single opportunity which mean there are
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a total of 6 million to 7 million people helping students cheat. is it the responsibility of the government alone to manage such a huge number of people and to conduct a 100% free and fair examination? >> reporter: india is lagging when it comes to education. with the literacy rate of 74% compared to 94% in china. women in particular are affected with just 64% having a formal education. the superintendent of this high school says cheating is detrimental to a student's future but denies it's happening under his nose. [ speaking in foreign language ] language ]. >> translator: no such thing is happening in my center. we are conducting peaceful and cheating-free examinations here. >> reporter: education is seen as a precious commodity for young indians, but for these students the value of their education might have just taken a serious hit. for cnn. now the family of a 9/11
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victim now has a little closure. 13 years after the horrific events of sept 11 2001 new york authorities told the remains of her 21-year-old son had been identified. she was shocked at the news but that it put everything to rest. you may be surprised to learn that of the 2,753 people reported missing an issued death certificates 40% of them have yet to be identified. the new york city medical examiner's office has vowed to i.d. every victim. the office continues to re-examine remains of the unidentified as developments in dna procedures are discovers. the mother hopes the same closure comes for every victim's family. there are now 1,1013 people unaccounted for. we hope everyone else as well can be identified. that does it for us for this hour. thank you very much for joining us.
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