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one hour away from an eu emergency meeting on the violence in yemen. >> horrific details about a woman who hid for two days in a closet during the terror rampage in kenya. her incredible tale of survival and what she had to eat to stay alive. pull over [ bleep ] you understand me? >> that's crazy, inappropriate. >> how long have you been in this country? >> a new york city police detective does an about-face apologizing now to an uber driver after this really nasty rant. always so good to have you with us on a saturday morning. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. 10:00 here on the east coast, 7:00 out west. you are in the "cnn newsroom" and we start with dramatic new developments in the conflicts. the u.n. will discuss the

humanitarian aid in saudi arabia leading a coalition of states in an air campaign against the rebels who seized the capital. >> this comes as new images of a senior al qaeda leader inside a presidential palace in southern yemen. we have to add cnn cannot confirm the aweuthenticity of the photos. >> let's bring in senior international correspondent nic robertson. what else do we know about khaled batraf sni. >> reporter: it say senior al qaeda leader in yemen, somebody the government locked up he was helping establish training camps and that is exactly what al qaeda is going to continue to do particularly at the moment because there is this high level of conflict now, the government

is essentially broken down the huuti rebels are fighting the southern separatists in the town where the jailbreak took place, where bartarfi got out of jail. that tells you a lot about the situation. what al qaeda has done in the past is take advantage of instability in the country and gain control, gain a stronger foothold and that has everyone very worried at the moment. the saudis say their air campaign continues that they've been targeting the huuthi leadership and using noncombat special forces on the ground to take control of it. i can hear aircraft in the air above us right now, saudi jets continuing to fly from here into yemen, but also importantly, the saudis say they also used special forces on an island right off the south coast of yemen, that is strategically important, that they say the

huthis have been using to get help from iran to put weapons system on. the island is the sort of choke point on the gulf. saudi special forces talking on houthi militants according to island sources. this has many dimensions, the al qaeda dimension the houthis, potential for interrupting international oil flows and the u.n. calling for the emergency session to discuss the fighting for humanitarian pause, 519 people according to the u.n. killed so far and the hospitals are running out of medical supplies. victor? >> nick robertson, thank you so much. let's bring in senior u.n. correspondent richard roth. good to see you this morning. what have you learned about the discussion? >> the meeting of the u.n. security council was called by russia to discuss the issue of a humanitarian pause that nic

robertson discussed, the increase in violence and the casualties in the fighting in yemen. this is the third weekend meeting on yemen, i believe, for the security council, and it hasn't exactly led to any type of halt in the fighting. if anything things have increased as big powers in the region do what they feel is necessary to protect their own interest. now russia had been dueling with saudi arabia over the issue of coalition, arab coalition air strikes in yemen to fight the houthis. the saudi arabian said president putin of russia was using very critical language that was not needed because russia has decided always to defend assad in syria, leading to over 200,000 deaths. back to you. >> how plausible is it the u.n. may have plans to help the saudi arabia-led coalition, richard? >> well they haven't exactly formally backed anyone. they were backing the former president, who has fled and so

right now, the council is not exactly coming out in this current phase of the fighting and saying we back saudi arabia we back this or that. once again, it was another situation of watching to see developments on the ground may outrun political decisions that some countries don't want to have to make and putting it on the record here. >> richard roth always appreciate it. thank you, sir. let's bring in michael weiss, coauthor of "isis: inside the army of terror." michael, the public narrative is that this is an effort to get the houthi rebels in some ways back to a negotiating table of some sort. is that accurate do you believe, that the saudis really want to bring the houthis back into some negotiating circle or is this an effort really to oust them? >> i think it's more of the latter. two reasons, number one they see iran and particularly the revolutionary guard corps spreading like a cancer throughout the region on their southern doorstep.

number two they're sending a message to the united states. the pact americana where the u.s. had the gulf states back against iran is now crumbling. the u.s. is pursuing this deal with iran which the saudis believe is not just about the nuclear file but a broeter rapprochement with the islamic republic. the president of the united states made noise to that effect himself saying this could welcome iran into the community of nations. the saudis qatarie s ieqataris and kuwaitis are chewing the carpet with anxiety and fear this will allow iran to take over more of the region. it's an extraordinary thing they assembled this coalition quite quickly, according to a room in bloomberg last week the send of cent centcom was told an hour before "operation decisive storm" got under way. this was unprecedented after the

1970s what america has been able to do and how it's been able to kind of regulate the activities in the region. the saudis don't want to see a settlement with the houthis. they want the houthis expunged. >> let's talk about aqap. even if the houthis are pulled out this vacuum will be filled by aqap. isis to a smaller extent in emen as well. what is the realistic scenario of success here? what is the best outcome in yemen? >> to be honest with you, i don't know. i don't know what the saudis are playing at and what they think they can achieve. yemen is a failed state. this is broadly speaking. you can get to a more granular analysis. four major factions. aqap the most formidable al qaeda franchise in the region minor but growing isis contingent sunni tribes which are more or less defending the government and then you have the houthi rebellion.

four competing factions vying for the same resources and same control of the land and so far we've seen massive air power brought to bear on this country. does this mean there will be a ground invasion? the saudis have also indicated they might go that far. let's project a little into the future. say the saudis dispatch ground forces they may have already done special forces and covert opp os but does that mean they go head to head with iranian revolutionary guard? a proxy war becomes a hot war between saudi arabia and its nemesis in the region so the potential for a major catastrophe here is great. the fact that russia wants to sort of oversee a peaceful settlement i think should also be taken with very due amounts of skepticism here. the russians no doubt are standing mind iran and the houthis in this regard just as they have done the assad regime in syria. >> what do you expect out of this meeting today? >> nothing. >> okay. simple answer. >> truly, nothing.

>> let me ask you about one event that happened this week freeing of 270 prisoners by aqap. do any of the prisoners, the threat to u.s. interest is obvious lp. >> yes. >> do you believe there's any threat to the u.s. homeland? >> sure. anwr awlaki the al qaeda cleric we killed with a drone strike he radicalized the underwear bomber abdulmutallab, and the queens girls that were arrested here in new york they were also radicalized by somebody with connections, actually the chief propaganda propagandaist for aqap. now you have this major competition between al qaeda and isis the way the competition is played out is in the bloodshed on the streets of europe and the streets of the united states and the middle east and north africa. we're now at a rate of one major terrorist attack per month and

also one moderate to mild terrorist threat that has been successfully thwarted by fbi counterterrorism forces also per month. so i think this is only a matter of time before unfortunately something really terrible is going to happen. >> michael weiss, always good to have your insight. thank you. >> sure. what another unbelievable story of survival this morning that we're hearing after that attack at a kenyan university. terrifying details of a woman who hid in a closet for two days just coming out today. hear her incredible survival story, next. plus it was the tirade that went viral. if you haven't seen it or heard this you're definitely going to watch this segment. new york city cop going off on an uber driver and now the officer is apologizing. hear what he had to say about that angry rant. if your purse is starting to look more like a tissue box... you may be muddling through allergies.

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a stunning story coming in to us from kenya this morning. this young woman you're withabout to see now survived two days shaking in a closet after militants armed her college campus. this is cynthia, 19 years old in northeastern kenya and these are the first pictures of the young woman, christian purofoi joins us from the college where the attack happened thursday. first, christian, tell us about cynthia. >> cynthia is 19 years old, victor and found today at 9:00 over 48 hours since the attack on that university happened. she said she hid in the wardrobe while the al shabab terrorists came in and separated christians from muslims. here's what she had to say, victor. >> and then me i decided to go

to the wardrobe. in the wardrobe we have these small rooms. and then i entered into that place and then i covered myself with the clothes, then these people ended up in the wardrobe and i had a roommate who were hidden themselves under the bed. they told them to go out, and when they were outside now, they told if you don't know how to read to them in the muslim word whatever, you lie down and then if you know you go to the other side. >> reporter: now, victor it's a horror of a time you look for the stories of hope but cynthia's story has such

shocking elements. she had to drink body lotion while she was in the wardrobe to keep herself rehydrated. she was still in shock when we saw her and when she was found by the military she wouldn't leave the wardrobe. they had to get her principal, bring him back to the scene of the crime so he could tell cynthia it was okay these people were not going to kill her. victor? >> drinking body lotion to survive, i don't know if many people would have that presence of mind to do that. we're already hearing al shabab is threatening more attacks, right? >> reporter: yes, al shabab released a statement threatening blood bath basically. this entire region has seen plenty of al shabab attacks and only about a four-hour drive from somalia, which is the al shabab stronghold kenya, its regional partners and american drones are targeting al shabab leaders in the area but long

border and easy for fighters to come across and hit soft targets like this university. i spoke to one, we spoke to the governor here and he said what al shabab are trying to do because there is a strong christian community here they're trying to come in and create a division between the christian community and the muslim community. it is in that division that al shabab thrived in the chaos. victor? >> christian purefoy, thank you so much and thank you for bringing us cynthia's story this morning. >> that is something else. a massive brawl erupts in a new york casino punches, flying chairs arrests and thousands of dollars in damage. we have details for you. plus a new york cop is apologizing after one ugly rant at an uber driver that went viral.

22 minutes aever the hour now. let's get you caught up on other stories we're following this morning. a new york police detective offering an apology after his rant at an uber driver went viral. remember this? >> pull over [ bleep ] me. you understand me? pull over. >> no, that's crazy, really inappropriate. >> how long have you been in this country? >> almost two years. >> almost how long? >> two years. >> two years, i got news for you, remember this in the future don't ever do that again. the only reason you're not in handcuffs going to jail and

getting in the precinct is because i have things to do. that's the only reason that's not happening. because this isn't important enough for me you're not important enough. >> that was nypd detective patrick cherry who has since been put on desk duty. he said he's sorry and his emotions got the best of him. >> i sincerely apologize. >> what do you want him to know? >> that -- excuse me -- that i'm not mad at him, i was just angry at that moment for that exchange i was angry for that exchange. if the conversation initially went differently, we probably would have shook hands at the end of the encounter.

>> since the original video was released he was removed from the city's joint terrorism task force as well. a wild brawl caught on video. look at this. you can hear the glass breaking the chair thrown. dozens of people were throwing chairs and punches at this casino in queens new york. three men have been arrested and an injured officer sent to the hospital. here is the issue. nobody knows why these folks were fighting. hmm. a third american woman is taken into federal custody accused of terror charges. what is driving the disturbing trend of women sympathizing with isis? we'll take a closer look at that for you. first this week's ones to watch series examines the art of sculpture. >> we meet a rising star awarded the guinness world record for the world's smallest sculpture. >> if you look closely, you'll

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29 minutes past the hour. so good to have you with us this morning. new for you, two illinois men have been indicted for allegedly conspiring to provide support to isis. u.s. army national guard specialist and his cousin are accused of plotting a terrorist attack on an illinois military facility. if convicted of the charges against them both men could face 15 years in prison. >> it's not just men trying to support terror groups. this week several u.s. women were also placed into federal custody. cnn's jason carroll looks at the new developments for us. >> victor, christi her ailian was the young lioness, real name is keonna thomas a 30-year-old. she's accused of attempting to provide material support to a

terrorist organization. let me read you one quote reads that thomas "attempted to travel overseas in order to join fight with and martyr herself on behalf of isil." as far back as 2013 federal agents say she was posting jihad jihadi tweets on twitter and in 2013 allegedly september an electronic communication to a known somali terrorist, also again according to the complaint several times over the course of last year she reached out to another known terrorist in syria. federal investigators then began to look at her travel plans, she got a visa from turk yu then arranged travel to go to barcelona, spain. if she's convicted she faces a maximum sentence of up to 15 years in prison. her case not as specific as the case of what we saw with the two women in new york city. we do have an update on that. noelle valenctzas 28 years old,

married has a young daughter and adopted daughter. her husband is speaking out on her behalf saying she's is "not a monster" saying she is not the woman to are trayed in the media. listen to what he had to say about it. >> i'm surprised, just like it was a knock at the door and everything changed. i didn't see anything like this happening, didn't see anything like this coming just right now at a loss for words. >> her husband says she was "a very attentive mother always upbeat." he also knew sadiqis a siduiqqi as well her attorney spoke out saying she is not guilty when pressed about more details about her and

about the case he said he was not going to try the case in front of the press. he said instead that he would try the case in court where it belongs. victor christi? >> jason, thank you so much. we want to get more insight on the disturbing trend involving u.s. women attempting to join isis with cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes. thank you for being with us. >> good morning, christi. >> in both case this is week the accused women were really vocal about their support of isis getting on social needmedia to i guess let it be known. what do you make of the fact that they're so open about it? >> well i think that's exactly right. they want to let it be known that they have these intentions, this they're probably trying to rally others to consider doing the same thing on behalf of the cause. i think that's part of why they want to get on and also their undoing because it leads either friends of theirs to contact the fbi or the fbi to monitor the

social sites and discover it on their own. you know that makes their undoing, basically. >> don't you know that? i just think it's odd that somebody you know who is smart enough to i guess want to try to make a plan about something will broadcast it on social media. don't they know that that's part of their unown doing? >> i think they get caught up in what they're trying to do and maybe don't think that's going to happen to them and from the fbi standpoint i've talked to many executives over the last year or two since this recent phenomenon and they almost regard these cases as just a nuisance. they want to know want to focus their resources on isis' threat and al shabab's threat to attack a u.s. mall u.s. soldiers and police and look at that kind of serious threat and then up pop these social media broadcasts and then they have to put

resources to it. >> almost a distraction. can i read you some numbers here? i want to read you some numbers. officials estimate more than 500 western women joined jay hood eranks in syria and iraq. up to one-fifth of all jihadi groups are women. tom, what do you think about isis that entices women? >> i think there's a couple of classes of the type of women that get attracted to it. when you hear stories of the 15 to 17-year-old teenage girls that want to go join and become isis brides suzy homemaker for terrorist, you know that's just they're goofy teenagers and don't realize what they're getting into. that's a different category than the women arrested this week by the fbi who are going to be terrorists. >> yes. >> they're either going to martyr themselves over there or do it here and they're learning how to make bombs, they plan on doing it. they've already targeted who they're going to use the bombs against. that's a different category. >> and they're moms some of

them. do you have any idea what it is that's enticing them specifically that age group? >> no. i think in our case they want to join the cause and support it and we've seen so many martyrs, male and female not care about sacrificing their children are not going to have them anymore and their husbands or wives are going to be single parents and the whole thing, and then you have this husband, and we see that typically, the spouse is delusional not my wife not my husband, not realizing that she just about gave him a no cost divorce and left him as a single parent. >> tom fuentes your insight is always so educational to us. thank you so much. >> thank you, christi. question for you. could you survive at sea without freshwater without fresh food for 66 days? a castaway shares his miraculous story of doing just that and a former navy s.e.a.l. examines the challenges.

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complete at that site. we also learned today that this week the investigation is going to focus on the flight data recorder on 40 mobile phones recovered from the crash site and the analysis of the 150 dna profiles identified. more breaking developments at the top of the hour as well. a castaway lost at sea for more than two months says he's grateful to god for giving him another shot at life. >> this story reads like a hollywood script. stuck aboard a wrecked ship with a broken shoulder he managed to keep himself alive for 66 days eating raw fish and collecting and drinking rain water. he told cnn how he rationed freshwater before he was rescued, about 200 miles off the coast of north carolina. >> i was running out of water, drinking a pint per day, rationing the water, almost out, finally god answered my prayer right before i ran out of water. >> you know there's some

skepticing out there, they have questions about this what is being called an amazing story. former navy s.e.a.l. joined us to talk about the conditions the 37-year-old would have faced during the two months two plus months out on the ocean. >> there are three things you need to worry about, exposure dehydration, and then basically starving to death, and they talked about the conditions out there as far as air temperatures. talk about the water temperatures. he mentioned he had been living in a vessel that was chest deep in water. well those water temperatures you're losing your core temperature ten times faster than if you're just standing outside, so i want to know about hypothermia conditions. he said that he gathered rainwater, yes that's highly likely but then again he said that he was constantly battling waves and when that saltwater gets into that rainwater, it's contaminated you can't drink it. and then the big thing for me is

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this weekend the president is personally calling members of congress trying to drum up support for the recently announced framework for a nuclear deal with iran. it's going to be a hard sell for the president as he faces down a congress he has repeatedly clashed with. how does he do it? let's bring in our panel this morning, lisa booth, a republican strategist maria cardona a cnn political commentator and democratic strategist. good to have you back. >> good morning. >> hi there. >> the president has not one who is known to have members of congress over for cocktails, not have them over for a game of golf or anything like that.

how does the president now try to create these relationships to try to pass this or get congress's support? >> though he has done all of those, victor yes, you're right. right now what we're seeing is this president doing exactly what he needs to do. he is calling members of congress personally making sure that they know the details of this deal making sure that they understand that this is the best verifiable deal moving forward that will keep iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon which he knows is everyone's priority in congress. but it's not just the president. as you know the president has a huge team around him that has been working on this deal and they know the details of it so he has his national security adviser, his own chief of staff, various deputy national security advisers the secretary of state john kerry, various deputy and undersecretaries of state have been calling members of congress his secretary of the treasury various undersecretaries of the treasury

as well the u.n. ambassador and many of her deputies so he has a whole team around him that have been focused on this deal and all of them have been calling members of congress on both both sides of the aisle and those briefings will continue until we actually have, we're at a point where congress understands this is the best deal moving forward to focus on the priorities we all want. >> let me bring in lisa. lisa it seems like many republicans made their mind up before the details of the framework were even announced. are they even open to listening to the details of the plan? >> i think president obama will need all the help that he can get. it's not just republicans that have expressed concern, it's also democrats, if you remember just recently 367 members of congress from both sides of the aisle sent a letter to president obama demanding congressional approval and asking for congressional oversight over any sort of deal that gets made and look here's the thing to

remember. when iran's supreme leader says "death to america" we should listen. iran is the most active state sponsor of terrorism. they've worked closely with our enemies to kill americans and to kill our allies and look, president obama has pointed to yemen as the beacon of his counterterrorism policies but we're on the verge of a full scale proxy war between iran and sunni arab states. so the concern for everyone is that president obama has really been blinded to the definite thal we're dealing with with iran and that he's more concerned about cementing his foreign policy record than he is about putting together a good deal in the best interests of our country. >> another topic way tonight get to we can't ignore t the religious freedom bills that have been passed in arkansas and in indiana over the last couple of days and lisa i'm going to start with you with this one. we heard from potential candidates as well for 2016 supporting these coming out full

throatedly endorsing some of these bills and now laws. do you think they got ahead of their skis and were too optimistic about how people would support them because we saw a fix in indiana, a recall and amend in arkansas and in north carolina and georgia they're stalling. will they regret that? >> no because what we've seen is demagoguery from the left about what the rfra actually does. and what is ironic to me is you've got some of the same individuals who once supported rfra that have come out against it. senator or then house member chuck schumer is the one who introduced the federal rfra in congress which was signed into law by president bill clinton. president obama when he was a state senator in illinois once supported rfra and the reality is the rfra doesn't enshrine discrimination. all that it does is seeks to provide a defensive protection against more vulnerable religious groups like jehovah's

witnesses, muslims, and individuals like that. >> let me get to maria. does hillary clinton want to launch a campaign with the culture war that her husband started against in '92? >> no absolutely not. she will focus on themes having to do with helping middle class families and workers in this country try to move forward with this burgeoning economy that has not touched everybody and you're not going to be able to see a more stark contrast between her focus on fighting for the middle class each and every single day and the extreme views that you just talked about, victor in terms of what republicans want to focus on which is keeping lgbt community in this country from enjoying the same rights as everybody else and covering that up with talking points about how this is about protecting religious freedom, when we all know what is at the bottom of this and clearly the folks who have -- >> president obama's economy

middle class families have suffered under. >> i think they have whiplash with the kind of 180 that they have done because their own republican chambers of commerce and other republican leaders have said -- >> the business community did come back pretty strong -- maria -- >> going against what this country is about and it's a stark contrast. >> maria, lisa, we have to wrap it there. the business community came out strong especially walmart in arkansas and the change was made that their voice certainly was heard. lisa boothe maria cardona thank you both. >> thank you. >> we'll be back. if your purse is starting to look more like a tissue box... you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin®.

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of kentucky, doing a person season and trying to win the ncaa tournament is that too much pressure to carry into the games this weekend? listen to what he said. anyone throws the "perfect record" quote at you, i always hear you say "we are undefeated we are not perfect." why is that distinction so important to you? >> we're undefeated but not a perfect team and our game is defensive, that if we swarm and play off of your defense we're really good but you have to be high energy. you have to be into it. you have to have that mentality, not that i'm coming to play a ball game. i'm coming out to maul this dude. >> "maul this dude." so no animosity there at all. if you want to know about that matchup they're going to face wisconsin, the team they faced in this exact same stage of the final four last year and by the way, wisconsin thought it was winning that game one of

kentucky's players aaron harrison a crazy three-point dagger with about ten seconds to go to kentucky hoping for a repeat of that. wisconsin very open about the fact they have waiting for this moment for a year. they want their revenge. it's going to be good this afternoon. >> all right, rachel nichols, looking forward to it. thank you very much. >> thanks rachel. >> don't forget to tune in to cnn today at 2:30 eastern for rachel's march madness special, all access at the final four. >> hope you enjoy watching. have a great weekend. make great memories. >> much more ahead of the next hour of the "cnn newsroom," say hello to fredricka whitfield. >> have a great weekend. happy easter weekend. >> you too. >> thanks so much. it is the 11:00 eastern hour i'm fredricka whitfield, "newsroom" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we begin this hour with remarkable stories of survival from the horrific college massacre in kenya.

helen titus smeared her dead friend's blood on her own face and playing dead herself. she said "i just soaked myself with that blood and they skipped me." for more than two days another young woman hid in a closet buried in clothes, drinking body lotion for hydration. her name is cynthia, and this morning she is out of hiding and safe. we'll hear from her in a moment. in the meantime al shabab terrorists are warning they are not done after thursday's attack killed 147, most of them students. this morning, they are vowing that kenya's cities will run red with blood. let's bring in cnn's christian purefoy in garissa, kenya. christian, you were able to speak to cynthia about her ordeal. she was the one who hid in that closet. what more did she say? >> reporter: yes, it's times like this that you really look for some sort of hope amongst the