ireland. the st. louis cardinals are being investigated by the fbi for allegedly hacking into the computers the astros and trying to steal information about >> as russian president putin vows to add dozens of missiles. >> and the donald wants to be the president of the united states. donald wants to be the president of the united states. his big annoyance and his jabs at current politicians. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. thank you for joining us. i'm rosemary church. >> we begin with new

developments in the investigation in to two convicted killers who escaped from a new york prison. a source familiar with the investigation tells cnn prison worker joyce mitchell knew the fugitives had plot ed to kill her husband. and warned him about their plans to break out. >> an attorney for mitchell's husband said his client didn't know anything about the escape plan. lyle mitchell visited his wife in jail for the first time hins since her arrest last week, as you see here. joyce mitchell is charged with helping richard matt and david sweat escape. >> investigators are looking to whether other inmates may have created a diversion, before, during or after that escape. >> meanwhile, authorities are expanding their church for the escaped inmates to new areas near the prison. >> police have developed more than a thousand leads in the hunt but it's not clear whether any of them will pan out. we look at some of the

possibilities. >> reporter: the early search for escaped killers, richard matt and david sweat focusing on the immediate area, 250 officers covering a few square miles around the prison. then the manhunt shifted. a local newspaper reported no police guarded the terminals for the ferries that crossed lake sham champlain to vermont. another possibility canada, 2 miles north of the prison. a form per fbi agent who led manhunts said the killers would not try to drive past border check points and going on foot is even harder. >> the woods are harsh environment, setting themselves up for a fall. >> they are scouring the adirondacks in upstate new york. 6 million acre wild witherness at the doorstep of the prison, filled with hundreds of cabins, many abandoned in the off season. they think the pair could be holed up in one of them or warn they could invade a home and

take hostages. >> if you do that even if you leave you have set a footprint for the police to latch on to. >> reporter: at least one escape plan called for prison employee joyce mitchell to supply a getaway car. she told investigators matt and sweat kept their destination vague. >> all she told us, approximately seven hours away, no specified location. >> an average of 60 miles an hour they could get more than 400 miles away. putting cities like boston, new york and philadelphia within reach. maybe the easiest place to disappear. >> small townspeople are aware of who's around them. they are aware of what people are dogging. once you get to a larger city, people stop paying attention. >> reporter: even new york's governor has to admit the trail has gone cold. >> we don't know if they are still in the immediate area, or if they are in mexico by now. >> reporter: mexico, about 2000 miles away, could be a real possibility. in 1997, matt brutally murdered a man near buffalo, new york.

back then he fled to mexico and killed another man before captured. now time may be on the killer's side. >> you can't sustain this type of manhunt for very long. it's just too much of a vacuum of all other resources. >> reporter: cnn, west platsburg, new york. now to another story we are watching closely. rachel dolezal has spoken out for the first time since her story made headlines. >> this after her resignation from the naacp in spokane, washington, amid allegations she lied about being black. >> her parents are among those who say she is white. and have even shared her birth certificate to prove it. now rachel dolezal is giving her side of the story. >> are you black? >> yes. >> what do you mean when you say that? what does it mean to you to assume the mantle, the identity of blackness? >> well with, it means several

things. first of all, it means that i've really gone there with the experience in terms of being a mother of two black sons and really owning what it means to experience and live blackness. >> even after giving these public statements, some are even more confused about where rachel is coming from. her parents say they are troubled by their daughter's behavior and about her claims of being black. >> they talked about it in a conversation with cnn's don lemon. here's what her mom had to say. >> we're concerned that she's not being rational and she's not being honest with herself or with others. in her attempt to establish a new identity she has become very malicious toward her biological family. very accusatory with false accusations.

so that's very concerning for her and for the rest of the family. >> rachel dolezal has given several interviews in an attempt to explain this bizarre situation but her answers have raised even more questions. >> anderson cooper look at the strange case of rachel dolezal and somehow she came to identify as black. >> reporter: rachel dolezal was born november 12th, 1977, in montana according to this birth certificate provided by her parents ruth anne and lawrence. while no race is listed, this is her mother and father. >> we are her birth parents. we do not understand why she feels it's necessary to misrepresent her ethnicity. >> reporter: rachel says she started to identify as black around age 5. something her parents dismissed, although they say she felt a connection with african-americans at an early age. when she was a teenager, her parents adopted four black children. rachel went on to college in

mississippi and attended grad school at howard university, a historically black institution on an art scholarship. while she didn't identify herself as black on the application, because there wasn't an option to, her parents say they believe the school thought she was. >> because her portfolio was all african-american they assumed she was black and only found she was not after they awarded her a full-ride scholarship and she arrived. >> eyes were popping and jaws were dropping when she walked in to finalize her registration in person. >> reporter: how honored the scholarship offer in 2000 around the time she began studies there and she married this man. in 2002, she sued howard university for discrimination as a white woman. claiming she lost scholarship money and a job opportunity. a judge and then an appeals court found no basis for her claims and he was ordered to

repay court costs in 2005. it's unclear when she started to publicly identify as being black. in 2010, while teaching the africana studies program at washington university she identified as black with an african-american father and white mother. >> much more than just an astettic. >> reporter: he became a fierce defender of civil rights and a leader in the black community there. in 2014, she was appointed to a commission that provided civilian oversight for the spokane police department. on her application, she identified herself as african-american, white and native american. in a posting from january on the organization's facebook page, this man is identified as rachel's father. she was questioned about that last week. >> is that your dad? >> yeah. that's my dad. >> reporter: that is the moment when rachel dolezal's story began to unravel.

>> are you african-american? >> i don't understand the question. >> reporter: anderson cooper, cnn. >> people do have many questions about this. it's the first time we have seen such a case. if you would like to read more about this story, just head to cnn.com. there's a new strain on relations between nato allies and russia with president putin's latest announcement. >> that's right. u.s. plans to station -- triggered a response from putin. we have more on the move nato's secretary general is called saner rattling that is destabilizing and dangerous. >> reporter: a dramatic amphibious landing. u.s. navy hover craft glides on the beach. troops storm with their weapons.

further south soldiers move through trench lines, deploy from helicopters. these are u.s. and nato troops battle testing themselves as a possible confrontation with russia looms in eastern europe. >> my big worry here is the possibility of accident miscalculation when you have military forces operating in close proximity. >> the pentagon is considering sending tanks, ar ril tillry and weapons. the u.s. defense official tells cnn it will be enough to outfit a brigade, up to 5500 troops them soldiers themselves won't be permanently stationed there, but the official said the equipment will be there to use in these kinds of training exercises. it's prompted a warning from russia. the foreign ministry saying this could slide in to quote a new military confrontation with destructive consequencens. putin just announced he's adding 40 ball itselfic missiles to his nuclear arsenal. >> translator: if someone threatens some of our territories we will have to aim

our armed forces modern attack capabilities at those territories which threaten us. what else can we do? >> reporter: as both sides build up their forces, it's putting the region on edge. >> given the tempo of russian military operations over the last year, you have more of those interactions, more possibilities for things to go wrong. >> putin's jets have played dangerous cold war style games with forces recently. one jet within ten feet of a u.s. aircraft. coming off an escalation of fighting in ukraine, and putin's aggressive deployment of weapons in to ukraine the baltic countries nato allies of the united states are terrified putin will target them next. >> they have every reason to be concerned if russia wants to gobble up some more perceived threats on their flanks they would be the first ones attacked. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry said he is very concerned with the russian president's military flexing, saying if this countries it's a

huge challenge. and that no one wants to go back to a cold war standoff. brian todd, cnn, washington. now with more on the implications of mr. putin's latest move, we are joined by cnn military analyst, lieutenant colonel frank kern. always a pleasure to talk to you, sir. a day after they criticized the plan to put them on russia's border president putin announces plans to add 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles to his nuclear arsenal. where is this all going and how concerned should we be? >> this sounds like the cold war again. it is an escalation. we do something, he does something and pretty soon it escalates out of control. we have to make sure we address this now. the 40 missiles he's talking about is scaled back. he said six months ago he wanted to increase the arsenal by 50. that's an es skalation.

it is putting him up against the limitations that we have agreeped to with the russians. looks like he wants to open up a new round of tension. it's not just in the baltic states. if you look across eastern europe and i was just in eastern europe talking to people about this, you can feel the tension. people are very concerned about what they believe is the new military tearism out of moscow. >> understoodable too. mr. putin said these 40 ballistic missiles will be able to overcome even the most technically advanced anti-missile defense systems. what's he expecting will happen here and who's he trying to scare exactly? >> this is aimed at the united states. if you look at the missiles the soviets are developing they are not land based or subject to this anti-ballistic missile system we are putting in europe. the missiles are to be launched from submarines. that's a real threat to the united states because they are almost impossible to detect. he's raising the stakes here.

the question is can he afford to do this? you have to remember how the cold war was won. it was an economic victory for the west. putin doesn't have the resources to do what he wants to do. he's going to start this incremental escalation. she taunting our reconnaissance flights and this is so much elements of danger here that one miscalculation leads to an incident and spirals out of control. this is very dangerous. >> this is the real concern, isn't it? how should the international community respond to this saber rattling as nato calls it? >> i think we have to respond in kind. let's not alarm everybody. prepositioning equipment in the baltic states is not a major change in our policy. we do this in the middle east. we have pre-positioned stocks in the middle east. if we have to go back there, we move the troops. the equipment is already there. i think this is a rational thing to do. i don't think that mr. putin likes that but little he can do about it. fighting in ukraine and

threatening areas down there, you know, seizing crimea, that's one thing. attacking a nato country, that's a new ball game. i don't think he really wants to go there, but i think he wants to play the game because this really resonates with the russian people. >> yeah, this is a worry. we will be watching all of this every step of the way. lieutenant counsel rick francona, also a pleasure to hear your perspective and talk to you on these matters. still to come here on cnn newsroom, another candidate joins the race for the white house. >> how stupid are our leaders? how stupid are they? our president doesn't have a clue. >> billionaire donald trump jumps in to the 2016 race with an unfiltered announcement that has everyone talking. plus, the nba crowns a new champion. the highlights from cleveland just ahead. don't go anywhere. yes, we are twins.

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in the past 20 minutes or so, the warrior 0s took the deciding game six on the road in cleveland to win the series four games to two. >> the final 105-97. it's the warriors fourth title in franchise history and their first since 1975. the cavaliers lebron james led all scorers in the series. now for more, turn to the nba senior writer for bleacher report. rick is on the phone from the bay area in northern california. rick, while stephen curry was an outstanding player during the championships, was this win more of a team effort or was it really all curry? >> yeah, there's no doubt about it. the entire series reflected the depth and versatility of this team. coach steve kerr made the most of it using guys even in this game six, all guys off the bench that were pivotal in the second

half. yet didn't play a lot in the season. didn't play during the regular season. it showed the guts of kerr to use everything he had but also the arsenal he had to draw on that the cavaliers did not. so it -- curry had his moments. he stepped up when they needed him. it really was the depth of the team that was the difference. >> you had for nba fans in the u.s. and around the world, two titans battling it out during this series. the reigning mvp steph curry and lebron james. do you think they made each other better. >> the head to head will bring out the best in competitors and made for great theater. you knew going in though finals with those two and the difference in styles this was

going to be an entertaining, dramatic finals. we got everything that we could have hoped for. yes, they won in six games. it didn't go to a seventh. when you start out the series with two games going in to overtime for the first time in the history of the finals, you know you are in for something good. really it was the cavs -- the cavaliers lack of depth that really simply ham strung them at the end of this lebron and the team in general ran out of gas. >> just barely. this last game, i think, had a four-point difference right before the end. it really came down to the wire. i want to get your thoughts on what comes next for stephen curry. his daughter became an internet sensation when her dad brought her to a press conference. professionally what does this mean for him? >> the beauty of steph curry is whatever you think of him as a

player, my experience in being around him since he's come to the league is he is twice that as a person. i would expect he's going to continue to work on his game. this has become a shooter's game, and a long-range shooters game. i would expect he is only going to continue to scale the mountain as far as that sharp shooting is concerned. he has a great group around him. this is a relatively young team. he's a relatively young player. he's gotten past the ankle issues that plagued him at the beginning of his career. if you are looking for someone who's going to be the face of the nba, i just don't know that you could pick someone more qualified than steph curry. >> great day for fans. thank you ric bucher on the golden state warriors win. you see them on the right of the screen, celebrations in full

swing there in san francisco as they really enjoy the win they haven't seen in a long time, many decades. thanks to ric. celebrate safely tonight in california. american billionaire and real estate mogul donald trump says he wants to make america great again. that's why he's running for president of the united states. it was a bit more exciting than that. >> a bit. >> he's already hit the campaign trail, just hours after a colorful announcement speech there in new york. trump headed to des moines, iowa, for his first official event in the caucus state. >> okay. so let's get back to trump's presidential announcement in new york. in an unfiltered speech, filled with ranting and raving, the reality tv star boastfully

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you have smart people, but we have people that are stupid. i like china. i just sold an apartment for $15 million to somebody from china. they have bridges that make the george washington bridge look like small potatoes. i don't need anybody's money. it's nice. i'm really rich. i love the saudis. many are in this building. two weeks later the place was blown up. we're dying. we're dying. we need money. thank you, darling. mr. trump, you are not a nice person. >> we don't need nice. >> that's true. but actually i am. i think i am a nice person. we have losers. we have losers. i would build a greatball wall. and nobody builds walls better than me. believe me. nobody would be tougher on isis than donald trump. we won't be using a man like secretary kerry. goes in to a bicycle race at 72

years old and falls and breaks his leg. i won't be doing that. the american dream is dead. but if i get elected president, i will bring it back -- bigger and better and stronger than ever before, and we will make america great again. thank you. thank you very much. >> okay. did you get all of that? did you get his platform there? >> wow, certainly know where he stands on a number of issues. >> he will add color if nothing else. >> okay. amazing. jeb bush, former governor of florida and brother of george w. bush entered the race. >> he republican hit the late-night circuit appearing on the tonight show with jimmy fallon. the pair picked up a couple of microphones and slow jammed the news. take a listen. >> i'm looking forward to hitting the campaign trail and discussing the issues that are important to all americans.

and having spirited debates with my fellow republicans about how to solve them. >> you don't want to mess with little jebby. because when it comes to debating. he's a master. he's a master debater. >> while we're talkin' about the issues, where do you stand on immigration? >> well, jimmy, we're a nation of immigrants, and i believe everyone should have the chance to achieve the american dream. to translate that for all of your spanish speaking viewers -- [ speaking spanish ] [ cheers and applause ] >> whoa, whoa, whoa. hold the telephono.

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you are watching cnn. thanks so much for staying with us. i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church. time to check the headlines this hour. a source tells cnn the new york prison worker accused of helping richard matt and david sweat escape warned her husband about their plans but an attorney for joyce mitchell's husband said his client was dmept the dark. police expanded their search to new areas around the prison. russia's president said he's adding more than 40 missiles to russia's nuclear arsenal. the announcement is a day after he condemned the u.s. plan to store heavy military equipment along russia's border. the u.s. secretary of state expressed concern over a possible black slide in to cold war tension. an apartment balcony collapsed during a birthday

party in california killing six young people. five victims were students and one was an american. seven others were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. it's not clear what caused the fourth floor balcony to collapse. hong kong is getting ready for a new confrontation over democracy. lawmakers are introducing a controversial plan for electing the city's next chief executive. >> the proposedal would let people cast votes for hong kong's next leader in 2017 but only if china gets to vet the candidates first. this was the scene last year, you may remember, when pro democracy demonstrations cut shut down key parts of the city for 79 days. >> there are new tengs. police say they have arrested ten people accused of conspiring to cause an explosion ahead of the crucial vote. let's turn now to ivan watson. he's following this developing story from hong kong. hi there, ivan.

of course the government is set to vote on these reforms later this week. will there be new effort to compromise and perhaps stave off the likelihood of more protests for hong kong? >> reporter: you know, that very question was submitted to some of the top officials and they said there are no plans to make moves like that right now. the election proposal has been submitted to the legislative council and will be presumably debated later in the day. the legislative council is that round building over there. in front of it you have supporters and opponents of the election law facing off peacefully but it is loud. due to tech nickal restrictions we don't have the bandwidth to stand there and show it to you. it is very loud. we are standing now in what is the supporting camp. so one of the symbols these people put is an up and down thumb. it says thumbs up to protect

democracy and thumbs down against violence. one of the most prominent supporters of bill, which would allow theoretically for the next chief executive of hong kong to be elected by voters here in hong kong. one of the chief supporters is the current chief executive himself. listen to what he had to say about this this week. >> it is a question of government amending the laws in hong kong to allow all of the voters in hong kong to have the right to vote for the chief executive in a universal suffrage for the first time. >> now, in the legislative council for the election system to pass, it would need at least

two-thirds vote in favor. however, there are more than a third of legislators from the so-called pan democratic block that say they oppose this and are going to try to vote it down. listen to what one of those legislators told us yesterday. >> it is an election, which will not give the voters genuine choice. only candidates picked by beijing and the powers that be and only two or three, will be allowed to stand for election. the rest will not get a look in. so if we get this passed, when the election comes, i think many voters will cry and they will stay home and will be very tearful. they will regret it. so now i'm telling them, no, we're not going to give you that sort of electoral system. >> so rosemary, the police have been deployed in large numbers. the authorities worried about the possibility of repeat of the

unprecedented sit-in and occupy movement that took place in this very area last autumn. rosemary? >> indeed. and the concern is protests this year could possibly be more violent than last year. we will be watching this closely. ivan watson reporting there live from hong kong. many thanks to you. we keep our focus in the region. south korea confirmed eight new cases of the mers virus that brings the total to 162. one more died raising the death toll to 20. this is a day after the world health organization said the number of new cases appears to be declining, but it also warned that outbreaks are unpredictable. >> in the meantime, the seoul city government is taking precautions, planning to disenfect almost 10,000 public places over the next several days. though default is look ing more and more likely, greece's prime minister is standing firm.

greece must repay $1.8 billion to the international monetary fund at the end of the this month or face default. >> in an address to lawmakers, alexis -- accused greece's creditors trying to humiliate greece by calling for more austerity cuts. let's listen. >> translator: the time has come for europe to talk seriously, not just about greece's future but also the future of the eurozone l. it insist on leading a country and people in to humiliation and poverty or do they want to pave the way for democracy and solidarity within its territory? >> the european commission president accused him of misleading the public. german lawmakers are discussing the possible of a greek exit from the euro. former turkish president has passed away. he died at a hospital in where

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from a teen that survived a rare shark attack. >> incredible. the 16-year-old is one of two teens who lost arms in separate attacks about 90 minutes apart. now he is talking about what happened from his hospital bed. take a listen. >> i was just in waist-deep water, i'd say.

playing with my cousin, as i said and i felt this hit on my left leg. i felt like it was a big fish coming near you or something and i felt it, like one more time and it hit my arm and that was the first i saw it when it was biting up my left arm. then it got that off eventually and swam -- i don't know if it swam away but i was able to move and i got out of the water with the help of my cousin and on to the beach. >> what a level-headed young man. able to talk about that. >> likely still in some kind of shock. i mean this is so recent. seeming so calm. >> in the u.s., texas is bracing for more rain from tropical storm bill. the system made landfall tuesday with winds reaching 96 kilometers per hour. it's the rainfall, though, that's the biggest concern as parts of the state are still recovering from last month's record flooding. in alaska, massive wildfire

is ravaging parts of that state. fire north of anchorage. in fact, it is moving fast. it has already spread to more than 7500 acres, and is still growing. so let's talk about these fires a bit more indepth. what's the cause and how bad will this be? >> officials say it is potentially human induced. nine in ten wildfires is started by humans. that's not a surprise. it went from two to 75 acres in a matter of a few days. powerful winds and not just a warm wave across alaska. they are experiencing a heat wave. impressive one actually. temperatures in alaska, anchorage have been warmer than chicago. remarkable. the rainfall has been limited and dry as well. you take a look. the critical fire concern north of anchorage, to willow, a town of 2,000 people. the sled dog community.

500 sled dogs having to be evacuat evacuated. this is where the iditarod race begins in the season. they had little snow so it wasn't much of a race this past season. look at the heat wave in place. upper 70s on sunday in anchorage. 83 on tuesday. take a look. expansive area of high pressure. when you sink air it warms by compression. that's what is happening. you have places across alaska pushing in to me mid and upper 80s. close to 90 who in fair banks that routinely gets 20 to 30 below vee in the winter season. what is happening with tropical storm bill? it is impacting central texas. heavy rain in place. slow-move ing is system and that's the concern. four to six inches of additional rainfall could come down. 50 million people across the united states have been warned of flooding and it will be a multi-day multi-state event.

as far as as pennsylvania they will get rainfall with remnants of bill in the next coming days. >> wow, all the way up there. >> unbelievable. >> huge storm. thank you. british media personality, chris evans is getting a new job title. we will look at how he's gearing up for a new gig on one of the world's most watched shows. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ it took tim morehouse years to master the perfect lunge. but only one attempt to master depositing checks at chase atms. technology designed for you. so you can easily master the way you bank.

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months after jeremy clarkson was fired the bbc named hi successor. british tv and radio personality chris evans signed a three-year deal on tuesday as part of an all-new lineup. the network says clarkson's cohost, richard hammond and james may will not be involved in the new show. >> clarksson was fired in march, you'll recall, after a fight with the show producer. top gear is one of the bbc's most popular shows, watched by some 350 million viewers worldwide. our seniorer media correspondent is joining us from new york to talk about this big announcement. brian, i'm wondering if for our u.s. viewers there is any

equivalent. this show is an institution globally. 350 million viewers around the world. it makes roughly 80 million per year. changing hosts, that's a tough task. >> absolutely is. you can feel the pressure that chris evans is under. you can even sense it in his statement. he said i promise i will do everything i possibly can to respect what's gone on before and take the show forward. you asked if there is a good comparison to this in the u.s. and there's not. we don't have a show quite like this on american television. "top gear" has done well in america because it has been imported from britain. i think there is some comparisons to be made to late-night shoes host like david letterman stepping down or nightly news anchors because those changes of the guards don't happen often and their shows are a lot about personality. letterman just stepped down last month. stephen colbert has to take over and he's getting ready for that,

surely nervous about that. people in those a-list positions show the pressure is intense. >> you talk about personality and chemistry, it seems that richard hammond and james may, the side kicks, especially to clarkson, they won't be returning either. are you surprised by that given they are after all a part of what has been a winning formula for the show? >> there was probably no way to make it work, however, with a new host comes new ideas, new strategies, often times new producers and things like. that they have may have been contractual negotiations as well. this ups the risk and possible reward. but the risk for the producers even more. we know the final episode with clarkson and the current crew will be on june 28th. we know this is apparently partially shot before clarkson was suspended. we know that will air at the end of the month and then this period in between. if chris evans is luckily, there

will be a significant period in between, a break between the old and new "top gear" where he can work on his version of the show and where it can premier in a new way. the bbc hasn't said when the new will appear yet. >> he is his own character, a massive car enthusiast and apparently signing a three-year deal and will continue to do his radio show in the u.k. how will you measure his success? it is viewership and ability to allow the brand to continue to make money? >> that will be crucial for the bbc and for its partners around the world. how well the show does, compared to jeremy clarkson's "top gear". this is not an enviable position for him to be in but we have seen it done before. we have seen the individual is not as big as the institution. the individuals can be belove but institutions are bigger. "top gear" is an interesting test for that. over time it became less about

cars and automobile and more act the characters. so it is an interesting test of the idea. >> hopefully they continue to do the outrageous car challenges. i'm not sure -- are you a fan of the show? anything that stuck out to you in the past? >> it is something i'm a late coming to. i have only recently fell for the show. like a lot of people, i appreciate it is one of a kind on television. that's largely, as we are saying, because of the prnalties. there's a reason it translates well around the world and not about the cars but the people. >> i can tell you they race a super car versus a jet. the jet always win. thank you for your time today. talk to you soon. >> thanks. now to a different story. beaches in southern california have been taken over by a massive number of tuna crabs. look at these pictures of newport beach, where they blanketed the sand by the thousands. >> look at that. the scripps institute of

oceanography in san diego say this is caused by unusually warm weather. the crabs live most of their lives on the sea floor, rising just above it to eat pyto,blank tin. >> an unusual site in ohio out of a kid's book. three little homes built in a field near a highway. one of hay, another of sticks and the last of bricks. name that story. just like the three little pigs. >> the tiny houses are near the place where a semi truck hauling 2200 piglets crashed last week. officials estimate more than 8,000 of little piggies died in that wreck. it's unclear who built these little houses but at last check there were no wolves hanging around to huff and puff and blow them down. >> in the original story i think the wolf ate the pigs, right. >> there are different versions. >> but a brutal story initially. we are telling this to our kids. >> watered down a bit.

>> yes. the wolf dies. any way. >> thank you so much for watching. i'm rosemary church. >> we will be back for another hour of cnn newsroom. and back again later. stay with us. so you're a small business expert from at&t? yeah, give me a problem and i've got the solution. well, we have 30 years of customer records. our cloud can keep them safe and accessible anywhere. my drivers don't have time to fill out forms. tablets. keep them all digital. we're looking to double our deliveries. our fleet apps will find the fastest route. oh, and your boysenberry apple scones smell about done.

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