while iraqi forces say they are losing control of ramadi to isis, al qaeda gains strength in yemen. disturbing allegation tlaes 12 migrants fleeing for freedom were murdered before making it to shore because of their religion. families reunited as cambodia

marks 40 years since the takeover. hello and welcome to viewers in the united states an around the world. i'm natalie allen, you're watching cnn newsroom. and we begin this hour with a pair of challenges continuing to confront the u.s. military. the civil war in yemen and the battle against isis in iraq and syria. on thursday, isis posted new video on-line of its attack on iraq's huge oil refinery. the u.s. says isis militants may have penetrated the outer perimeter but the refinery, it says, is not at risk of capture. and in yemen, rebels, al qaeda fighters and government forces are all battling for control. chief u.s. security correspondent jim sciutto has more on that story. >> reporter: fighters from the most dangerous al qaeda, overrunning an airport in

southeastern yemen. chaos engulfing the lawless country with deep implications for safety on the u.s. homeland. the new american defense secretary conceded that the fall of the u.s. allies gostd withdraw of u.s. special forces and the closing of u.s. embassy in yemen all reduced america's ability to fight the terror threat. >> it is hard to imagine for people at home to imagine there's the same control and response -- >> it's easier if there's a government with which we can cooperate in existence in that country. we're not going to find that all the time in all places in the world and that's why we have counterterrorism capabilities that don't depend upon that. >> in iraq, it is the terror group isis that is on the advance. with punishing assault on ramadi. iraqi officials inside western iraq's largest cities tells cnn it is on the brink of falling to the terror group. adding desperate calls for reinforcements from the iraqi

army and more air strikes by the u.s.-led coalition. today joint chiefs chairman martin dempsey conceded that iraqi forces may very well lose ramadi to isis. >> i would much rather that ramadi not fall, but it won't be the end of a campaign should it fall. we've got get it back. >> reporter: coalition forces on thursday cut routes used by isis. residents have given up on rescue. tens of thousands having fled the city in just two days. heartland.in iraq's sunni today the new defense secretary, ashton carter, expressing concern that iraqi government is still relying too much on shiite dominated militias. >> lasting victory over isil, includes governance in baghdad and respect for local populations of all there is liberated from isil control. >> as isis pushes on the oil refinery, important piece of

infrastructure for the economy, the terror group released new propaganda video showing their rapid assault on the city. >> once the iraqis have full control, they will control all of the infrastructure both north and south and deny isil the ability to generate revenue through oil. >> as we mentioned, the largest oil refinery in iraq. our ivan watts is following the latest in iraq and covered this region for some time in the middle east. he joins us live from hong kong. ivan, this oil refinery, even though it hasn't been penetrated, this isn't something that anyone wants to see isis get its hand on. >> that's right. i mean, it was just last week that our team on the ground in iraq was reporting on the iraqi government. basically recapturing the city of tikrit.

the two big flash points as you have seen in that report are the city of ramadi, less than an hour's drive west of baghdad and the oil refinery to the north. you have a senior u.s. military commander suggesting it is not the enof the world if ramadi falls. that city was contested as recently as the end of last year. but you have iraqi government officials there speaking to cnn by phone this morning saying that the iraqi government forces there are inadequate to try to protect the city center, that they're exhausted and desperately calling for reinforcements. even in this sunny arab city they are calling for shiite militias to please come in. which gives you a sense of the desperation there. the deputy head of council, city council in ramadi, telling us this morning that there were two groups of reinforcements that eye raved over the course of the past 24 hours. a convoy of at least 15 humvees.

those american supplied military vehicles and then another convoy of 24 humvees and he was saying that simply not enough to help protect that city. he described the city as being effectively deserted. no citizens on the streets. and calling for more assistance saying that isis maintain their positions in control of eastern parts of the city and that iraqi government forces and tribesman are in the control of the center but nobody is giving ground at this time. then have you the beiji refinely to the north which has this very important economic strategic position this iraq. it's to the north of tikrit, isis releasing, again, a very impressive piece of propaganda footage that not only shows drone video of the baiji, sprawling baiji refinery but

clearly showses isis operators within the network of fuel dee poes there and pipelines there that make up this sprawling area. additional footage that i don't think we have seen before showing what looks like a sophisticated command and control center with lots of computer monitors, suggesting some of the sophistication of isis and the fact that even as it's being pushed back in other parts of iraq, even as it is enduring a campaign of nine months of u.s.-led coalition air strikes, it is still able to mount offensives and to put the iraqi government forces back on their heels in certain parts of this deadly battle ground in iraq. >> and you know, thousands of more people now displaced as a result. the poor people caught in the middle. ivan watson, thank you for that from hong kong. now we turn again to yemen. u.n. chief moon is calling for

an immediate cease-fire in yemen's civil war. saudi-led air strikes on rebels just entered a fourth week even there is heavy battle on the ground for factions vying for control in the country. the port of aiden is under siege by rebels but cnn managed to get in for a firsthand look on thursday. our o correspondent has our exclusive report. report this was not purely a military hospital but because of the way the front lines chris crossed aiden into no-go zones, it has now become the major hospital for civilians. i spoke to one of the doctors and he said to me we've lot count p.m. we simply don't know how many dead, dying and wounded we've today take in. when we were there, 5-year-old boy had been brought in to be treated for shrapnel wounds for his stomach. hit inside his friend's home.

a little girl had a minor operation. her stitches were split. her family hid for three days unable to go the hospital while she de she bled. so many caught in the crossfire. that's what is horrifying about the conflict. it is street by street. very few to find front lines. we were lucky because we were able to go to one of the small are ports but past a few streets in, you start coming across streets that are completely deserted because of snipers. streets that no one can go down buzz they don't know what's going to meet them the other side of that. all the while, there is essentially a siege going on. very, very difficult to get any kind of aid or medical supplies. we visited a bakery where people have been killing around the clock and it is running out. we went and saw the last reserves of flour an they looked at us and said, when this is gone, there is nothing else.

>> there in the southern portion of yemen in city of aiden. and giving us a first glance at what's happening to the people. an american woman living in pakistan is expected to survive after being shot in the face by militants. police say motorcycle gunman fire owned deborah lobo as she drove in karchi where she is vice principal at a medical college. the gunman left a leaf let saying america should be burned. the american native has lived in pakistan since 1996 and is married to a pakistani christian. new drama at sony entertainment at wikileaks post an extensive archive of the company's hacked e-mail answers documents pt searchable data base put on-line thursday includes more than 200,000 items from last november's cyber attack. that hack exposed embarrassing e-mails from top executives,

even causing the co-chair to resign. nor, let's bring in cnn's will ripley. he joins us live from tokyo. where i know you reported that sony is fighting this vehemently and speaking out against wikileaks. will some. >> yeah, natalie, you call this drama. this is a bad sequel it a movie they were trying it to move on from. it is all too real for many of the employees who had their personal information compromised and exposed. and now, all of those documents, which before were essentially raw data that was leaked by the hackers to various news outlets. what wikileaks has done is compiled all of it and made it easy to search. almost like a google search p. any blogger, any reporter with an interest can go, can type in any sort of term, and they can do a search and good through the documents more easily.

of course that means, natalie, there is a good possibility there. be new revelations, new embarrassing details that sony didn't want put out there that now could come to light as a result of wikileaks making the thfgs that much more available. this is what they do. they are defending their access saying they need do this for the sake of transparency. mentioning specifically sony pictures top executives including ceo michael linton and other, their ties with the democratic party in the united states, including linton attending a fund-raiser with president obama and others involved in democratic fund-raisers as well, natalie. >> the u.s. government accused north korea of hacking in the first place. north korea denied it. is there any known leak between the hackers and wikileaks? >> yeah. nobody is saying that wick oo leaks or at least publicly, saying that they think wikileaks had anything do with the actual hack of the u.s. government,

u.s. law enforcement insists it was u.s. korea. there are other experts, internationally and the u.s. who disputed that. but here in tokyo, where sony pictures' parent company is located, the sense is they don't want this information out there. they are trying to move on from this. it was very damaging for the company. very expensive for the company. they have rebounded some with what. sony stock is on the rise as of late. very profitable on video on demand but still not a chapter they wanted to reopen. natalie. >> absolutely. all right. thanks so much, will whiply for us live from tokyo. as sony deals with the wikileaks dram grab with the website founder has his own drama to address. you might think where is julian asage today, he is still in the london. he has agreed to be questioned by prosecutors in london over allegations he sexually assaulted two women in 2010. he repeatedly denied allegations

and that's why he has been hold up in the embassy in london since june of 2012 to avoid extradition to sweden. prosecutors previously balked at coming to britain to question him but now that his alleged crimes will be subject to a statute of limitations in august, prosecutors feel pressure to meet with him before time runs out. italian authorities arrested 15 muslim migrants suspected of murdering a dozen of their fellow passengers just because they were christian. police say the men threw the victims overboard. during their voyage from libya to italy. ben wedeman has more on the arrest and italy's growing my grant crisis. repo>> reporter: report they mat alive. relief sh relief shown in a shy smile. they were rescued from six rubber dinghies.

off the shores of libya. this group of almost 600 migrants from africa brings the total number of people who have arrived on the italian coast in the last six days to almost 11,000. but among them, 10 men were arrested from gambia, mali and senegal, suspected of being human traffickers. while in palarmo, italian police are holding 15 men suspected of throwing a dozen migrants off a boat to their deaths after a fight broke out. all 12 were christians from nigeria and ghana. another boat has sunk. only four people surviving from the original 45 on board bringing estimated death toll so far in the mediterranean close to a thousand. some of the migrants end up here at residents in the shadow of mt. etna. until 2011, it was home to u.s. military personnel and their families.

it's now guarded by the italian army. the new residents are free to come and go as they please. the press, however, is not allowed in. from south sudan, saying he gets work on farms and has no complaints about his treatment. while 22-year-old from darfur sudan is grateful for italian hospitality. >> i've heard they have economic problems here but they've done what they can to help us. >> but with this steady and mounting influx of migrants, it not clear how much longer italy will be able or willing to help. ben wedeman, cnn, augusta, italy. >> the migrapt crisis in italy will no doubt be on the agenda when renzi visits the white

house. renzi and barack obama are expected to discuss the fight or ukraine and fight against isis in syria. republicans and democrats agreed for a change on some new legislation. how the face of medicare will change as a result. that's coming up here. plus, aer a chorus of boosr one candidate. we will hear the lecture he received from the bbc moderator. ] when you're serious about fighting wrinkles, turn to roc® retinol correxion®. one week, fine lines appear to fade. one month, deep wrinkles look smoother. after one year, skin looks ageless. high performance skincare™ only from roc®.

i decided that on a day like today we shouldn't be inside. >> barack obama signing a new medicare bill into law on thursday outside. pretty day. and bipartisan vote, yes, we said by broad bipartisan vote, congress approved earlier this week, to a doc fix, a method government uses to ensure payments to medicare providers keep up with inflation. leading politicians on both sides praised the cooperation. >> this marks the first entitlement reform in nearly two decades. and accomplished by working

together to find common ground on behalf of the american people. >> so this is what's exciting about it is not just that it's a remedy, a doc fix and about the children, it is the manner in which we recognize performance, not procedures, value, not volume. equality, not quantity of procedures as we compensate doctors for their care. >> president obama says he hopes that republicans and democrats working together becomes a habit. we'll see. a u.s. postal worker who landed a gyrocopter on u.s. capitol grounds is out on bond. he is charged with unlawfully operating an unregistered aircraft and violating u.s. national airspace. if convicted he will spend four years in prison perhaps. he wrote on his website he was

protesting campaign finance laws and corruption. the stunt put congress on lock down for hours. he's been placed on home detention in tampa, florida and will be monitored via gps. he is for bidden from visiting the capitol, no kidding, and flying any kind of aircraft, like that one, and is due back in court may 8th. lighter moment on capitol hill for you. we've all had that embarrassing moment when our phone rings in an pormt meeting or movie theater or sitting here on the cnn set, but what about during a u.s. senate hearing. >> we are go tock very aggressive on that issue as well as geographic preferences -- >> oh, come on. ♪ let it go ♪ >> just let it go. >> sorry about that. >> i love it. did you catch the song? turns out u.s. senators are fans

of disdisney's "frozen" as well. he said the ring tone is for his grandkids and his other favorite ring tone is johnny cash's "i walk the line." elections in the united kingdom are less than two weeks away. prime minister david cameron and nick clegg did not take part. but laborers tried to convince voters he is prime minister material. >> let's not pretend there is no difference between me and david cameron. there is a huge difference between me and david cameron. just the three things mentioned and so many other things besides. the real danger in this country is if a re-elected david cameron who doubled spending cuts falling living standard and threat to national health service. that's a big close this election. >> i don't say -- >> i don't say there is no

difference between nied and dav cameron. there is not a big enough difference between ed and david cameron. >> the uk independence party leader got a mild scolding from the bbc moderators. >> there seems to be a total lack of comprehension on this panel and this audience which is a remarkable audience even by the left wing standard of the bbc. believe me. >> hang on a second. >> hang on a second. >> let me just say one thing. this is an audience carefully chosen, not by the bbc, not by the bbc, but by an independent polling organization to represent the balance between all parties. >> very good. very good. [ cheers and applause ] >> i think it is very interesting -- >> never a great idea to -- >> the great audience sitting at home, actually. >> don't dis the audience.

a ugov uk poll shows a tie. keep in mind there is 3% margin of error in this poll. let's look at the bigger trend here. ugov poll showing labor and conservative party have been neck and neck for months. ukip is in a clear third place though slipped since the end of last year. we will see what happens may 7th ps. an australian man quits his modeling career to foit for isis. what is up with that career switch? just ahead. his journey from the runway to the battlefield. and how it ended.

welcome back to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. you're watching cnn newsroom. i'm natalie allen. here are our top stories. new isis propaganda videos showing militants attacking iraq's baiji oil refinery. top u.s. military general said isis penetrated the outer perimeter but the huge refinery is not at risk. coalition air strikes hit isis targets in baiji and city of madi on thursday. doctors on yemen's port city of aiden tell cnn they are so overwhelmed with casualties as rebels battle for control they have given up trying to count the dead. chief moon calling for cease-fire on all sides of yem yn's civil war. flags are flying at half taf

across germany today as national memorial service for the victims of the downed germanwings flight. german chancellor merck el and about 500 family members of the victims are expected to attend the service. an australian man died fighting for isis after leaving a promising career as model and deejay from his home country. cnn has the story. >> i'm active. health wise, i like to go to the gym. >>. >> reporter: his future looked bright but somewhere along wait he chose the life on battlefield over a life on the cat walk. former model and deejay from melbourne is the latest australian believed to be killed fighting along side isis militants. his parents learning of their son's death via a text message and phone call, they told

australian media that he left his home last year telling his parents he was going camping. when in fact he traveled to fallujah iraq where he is believed to have served with isis as a medic p. a cook. and sometimes a machine gunner. a far cry from the life he lived in australia as a popular deejay slash model. >> he was part of a plan. and it was all obviously thrown off track when he had joined isis and we had to then part ways. quite a tearful and heart wrenching moment for everyone involved. >> the australian government said it can't confirm his death but the prime minister used it as a warning for would-be jihadists. >> i have a very, very simple message to anyone who might be thinking of going overseas to join these terrorist groups. don't. don't. they are death cults. and it is just as likely to be

your death. >>. >> reporter: since the bloody rise of ice, jaml joined some 20 other australians killed in the conflict. but the face of some 90 more australians still out there on the battlefield remains unclear. amy la port, cnn, atlanta. it is now estimated that 310,000 people have been killed sincesyria's civil war. the human rights said that inclouds more than 100,000 civilians, 11,000 children. 7,000 women. about 86,000 of those killed were foreign fighters. the rights groups says the international community's silence only encourages more killing. syrian civil war started in march 2011. a veteran chinese journalist has been sentenced to seven years in prison for revealing state secrets. gao yu is 71 years old, accused

of sharing a highly confidential documents. her lawyer tells cnn gao will immediately appeal the ruling. cnn producer steven jing joins me from beijing. she is an accomplished relance reporter. what is the reaction there to this story? >> as you say, a very, very harsh sentence. but not entirely surprising thp this is a country where the ruling communist party controls every aspect of the traditional process with conviction rate of almost 100%. and she was facing state secret charges. now those charges according to her lawyers and other experts almost impossible to defend because the state or party could call anything state secrets any time they see fit even retroactively. it is under this circumstance she was convicted and sentenced.

and her lawyer said she, the alleged recipient of her leaked document even came out to say he did not receive this document from her. so despite these evidence and facts her lawyer said she was still convicted and sent to prison for such a lengthy time. it really shows the intolerant rule under shing ping. the government is harsh and stern on the free flow of information and any perceive challenge to the party. this document, as you mentioned, so-called document number 9 issued by the party in 2003 was an ideological battle plan if you will to cover the pro democracy voices, banning is topics including press freedom, civil rights and independence. these were no secrets to anyone who have lived here before. so this really is a sign of this

trend we have seen here since ping took power and illustrates how sensitive the government is about the topic your interview with the spokesman for commit freeh tekt journalists was black had out here during the last hour when it was shown on cnn. natalie? >> oh, how about that. i didn't know that. yes, that aired an hour ago. and he is with the committee to protect journalists. interesting. we talked about china being the leading country to jail journalists. perhaps they will black that out right there. steven jang for us there in beijing. we thank you. it has been exactly 40 years since taking over cambodia's largest city. the reign of terror aacross the country taking lives, many places known as the killing fields. decades later, survivors are still trying to find one

another. anna coran has the story of one family who did. >> reporter: under a dimly lit tv studio in the cambodia capitol, a 49-year-old woman sits on stage in tears. she is sharing a story everyone in the audience knows painfully well. they've lived through the trauma, it's etched into their weathered faces. i want to find my younger sister. the last time i saw her, ways 13, she was 10. i think she was the only family member to survive. her life was destroyed when in 1975, pot and his army began one of the largest genocides of the 20th isn'try. in the space of four years, a quarter of the cambodian population was wiped out. almost 2 million people tortured, executed an starved, as a way to cleanse the nation.

surviving family members were forcibly separated and sent to work in the countryside. lee ended up in a refugee camp and was evacuated to the united states as part of a humanitarian mission. her little sister lost amidst suffering and misery. while cam bode why's can balancization ended almost 40 years ago, it has been extremely challenging for those trying to find their kin. that was until it's not a dream was launched. the reality tv show, of a phone company, has a dozen young staff all born after the war traveling the country trying to reconnect loved ones. it keeps us all alive doing this work, it is like magic when we find these people, who have been separated for so long. since 2009, it has received more than 1500 requests to find

family members. so far they've succeeded in 54 cases. including lee's. after an outpouring of emotion, the two sisters who continue to wipe away their tears, are asked if they recognize this old family photo. then the woman in this video. recognizing her voice, lee says, she is my mother. the host then asks, do you want to meet your mother. daughters reuniting with the mother they thought had perished. still coming to terms with the atrocities committed against its own people. cnn. >> how about that one. how beautiful.

cnn's anna coran wrote more about the cambodian genocide on cnn.com/international and efforts to reunite families so many years later. can you read about the time line of the regime and just more about these heart felt stories of people finally finding their family members. a u.s. jury hands down a life changing verdict for a former nfl star. >> he didn't need to pull the trigger. he could have made different choices. >> the jury speaks to cnn about why they convicted aaron hernandez. have you touched the stuff?. it's evil. and ladders... awwwwwww!!!!! they have all those warnings on them. might as well say, "you're going to die, jeff". you hired someone to clean the gutters? not just someone. someone from angie's list. but we're not members. we don't have to be to use their new snapfix feature. angie's list helped me find a highly rated service provider to do the work at a fair price.

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dirk van dam back with us to tell us mexico's volcano on fire is back again. >> it is mexico's most dangerous

volcano because of the proximity of 300,000 people living within a 40-kilometer radius of this very active volcano. it erupted four different time in the last five months. this time shooting ash 3 1/2 kilometers into the atmosphere. look at the footage from that region. can you see what i'm talking about. what you're looking a the now behind us, or at least near a tv screen, is, well, eruption column. that's ash and mixing into the atmosphere, 3 kilometers above. and what you see now is called a pyroclastic flow. that is rocks and ash that tumble down the side of the volcano. this area is known as the ring of fire. i wish i could cue up by johnny cash favorite song, but producers say that is infringement. this does encompass part of

mexico right where this particular volcano is located. by the way, this ring of fire is about 90% of all of the world's earthquakes. actually take place here. so zooming into southwestern mexico, just about 125 kilometers southwest of quad la h guadalajara is where went countered in volcano. also known as the fire volcano, very young and youthful strato volcano. can you predict volcanos like weather? the answer is no. but we look for increase in activity because volcanos tend to make earthquakes. this this is ctv footage of children running for cover.

this is during an actual earthquake. 5.3 magnitude on the richter scale. two earthquakes in china wednesday. and fortunately, it was about 40 kilometers outside of the nearest populated area. so there was only very minor damage. no casualties. no fatalities and no injuries out of this particular round of earthquakes in northern china. but showing a lot of activity there. so we will keep an eye on that. geologists are very interested in northern china for more earthquake activity. >> thanks very much. >>. we are hearing from the jury that put one time nfl star aaron hernandez behind bars. panel convicting him to first degree murder and he is sentenced to life m prison without parole. deliberating for 35 hours over seven days. the jurors who handed down that verdict spoke exclusively with cnn's anderson cooper.

>> for murder 1 they have to show premeditated or show extreme cruelty. so did you feel -- >> extreme atrocity or cruelty. >> so it wasn't premeditated. >> no. i can't say with a hundred percent certainty that he premeditated that while i was sitting in that jury room. i can't say that. >> but you do see extreme atrocity or cruelty. >> i see extreme atrocity and cruelty. >> was it with a number of shots? >> it was his indifference. and that was part of what i had to look at. and it was, even if there was no pre mmeditate premeditated, he could have made choices there. he was there, they admitted that. and he could have made different choices, and he chose not to. >> i think one thing in that regard that surprised a lot of

us. was it indifference. we watched the video footage at his home later in the morn org early afternoon after the incident occurred. and he was just lounging around by the pool and playing with the baby and just going about his regular life. you know, for us to acknowledge he was there at the time that his close friend was murdered, personally there's no way i could just carry on hours later like nothing ever happened. that's indifference. >> so the videotapes, in particular his own security camera tapes were crucial. >> hours later. hours later. >> definitely. >> in the instructions we weren't asked to use that after the murder p to weigh our decision. to leave your friend on the ground. knowing that he is not there any more. he is either dead or he is going to die. that's indifference. he didn't need to pull the trigger. he could have made difference choices. when that man was lying there. >> do you feel like he did pull

the trigger or do you -- >> i don't know. there is no evidence to support he pulled the trigger. but he chose not to do anything about it. >> that that moment or the aftermath. >> exactly. in that moment is what i was looking at because that's what i was instructed to do. in that moment. >> he played role. whether he was the shooter or the transport ---he played a role in that murder p. that's what he was charged with. >> as hernandez begins his new life if a maximum security prison, his legal troubles aren't over. he is also accused of killing two men in a shooting in 2012. that trial has been postponed. actress sew sophia vagara and her ex fiance are fighting over their frozen embryos. next, a look at this extraordinary case.

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now to a custody battle that decades ago would have been unimaginable. hollywood actress sophia very ga vegara is being sued by her ex fiance to prevent her from

destroying their frozen embryos. this raises a variety of legal and ethical questions. >> reporter: you can find her walking down the red carpet. posing for paparazzi or attending a gala at the white house. >> hello, mr. president. >> reporter: but sofia vegara, a hollywood sensation, may find herself in court very soon. the 42-year-old's former fiance, entrepreneur nick lobe, is reportedly suing the colombian born actress over two frozen embryos they created in november 2013 with the goal of eventually having children. two u.s. publications identified the couple as being part after lawsuit over custody of the embryos. according to the lawsuit a man believed to be lobe want to preserve both female embryos but the defendant, said to be vegara, wants them destroyed. the couple broke up last may. when the couple was still

engaged, vegra talked about their decision to create the embryos. >> we wanted it plan ahead. my boyfriend is throw years younger than me and never had a son. i have my son. it is not like an emergency for me to have another kid. but for nick, yes, because he has never ahad a baby. >> at the time, she seemed convinced she wanted to have a child with lobe. >> i wanted to take advantage of science. why not. >> how far along are you? >> in the process. >> no, i took them out already. they are in the refrigerator. yeah. >> oh that's hilarious. >> hopefully they will be fresh by the time i use them. >> according to the court filing, lobe and vegara tried twice before to have children with embryos using a surrogate but were unsuccessful. cnn reached out to both but got no answer. attorney van owens said this is important because celebrity aside it poses fundamental legal

questions. >> it delves into areas of when does life begin. what is conception. is an embryo a living creature. or is it property? >> this fertility specialist says when it comes to the embryos, once frozen, they can last an infinite amount of time. >> if this case is hung up in a court of law for multiple years, there's a good chance that once it is resolved and there is a desire to be, for those embryos to be utilized, they will be able to survive. >> vegara, who has a son from a previous relationship, is now engaged to actor joe mongelo. >> we will let you ponder that one. early start for viewers in the u.s. p. for viewers elsewhere around the world, stay with us in the cnn newsroom. thanks for watching.

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