i'm brianna keilar in for wolf blitzer, it's 1:00 p.m. in washington 6:00 p.m. in london and 8:00 p.m. in nairobi, kenya. thanks so much for joining us. up first, a strike by the united states takes out a top terrorist leader. he was head of the corazon group. the pentagon says the leader was a top al qaeda operative plotting external attacks against the u.s. and its allies. he had expertise in bomb making and he was one of the few al qaeda members trusted enough to

know about the 9/11er the recover attacks. barbara starr, to you first. give us the details on this strike that killed al fadhli. >> very interesting strike indeed. they was on july 8 but not until yesterday that the pentagon publicly confirmed the death of al fadely. it was a drone attack in northern syria. there are no troops on the ground but he was traveling in a vehicle west of aleppo, a drone was tracking this vehicle and when they were convinced it was him they took the shot and killed him. there's been internet chatter over the months that he might have died in some other strike but the pentagon putting out a

detailed -- for them -- public statement saying they did take the shot and he is dead. >> paul, the pentagon is saying al-fadhli's death is going to "degrade and disrupt" ongoing external operations against the united states and our allies and partners. how singh scant this? >> a very significant break. al-fadhli was leading al qaeda efforts to use syria as a base to launch attack against the west. potentially against u.s. and western aviation. for al qaeda, kind of a promised land, there's thousands of western and european recruits and al-fadhli was leading efforts to talent spot them and train them and send them back to launch attacks in western europe and the united states. he's been doing that for the past couple of years. this is a significant breakthrough it makes the united states safer, it makes europe safer but the danger for this group has not

khorasan. there are a number of representatives with the al qaeda set up in the tribal areas of pakistan considered very dangerous as well. a number of bomb makers still at large. so still a significant threat from this veteran al qaeda group in syria, brianna. >> professor give us a sense of this. this is a veteran al qaeda group. >> there is supposed to be tremendous bomb making facilities and creativity as we've heard from sources here. the goal of khorasan has been to find new ways to attack the u.s. and europe but until last year many americans hadn't even heard of this group. give us a bit of the back story here. here. >> well, the important thing is to not drew this as a dramatic development. it's an important piece of

progress. two things to keep in this in context. this particular death won't end the danger we may face from al qaeda. it's certainly not going to lead them roll up their tents and not continue to try and do things to the united states. at the same time we want to keep the threat in perspective. cold hasn't been effective in attacking the united states or its allies in recent years and the size of the threat it poses is greatly reduced. indeed some would argue there are others that pose more of a problem to the united states than al qaeda does. so i view this as a piece of good news but it's not the end of the campaign and it's also important to keep just how serious the threat is in some perspective. >> paul this was a targeted drone strike. what does that tell you? does this tell you this is just one data point? does this tell us a trend about where intel is at this point in capturing terrorists or targeting terrorists in the

area? >> brianna, we don't know whether they had intelligence about where he was going to be at a particular point of time or they just got lucky through one of these so-called signature strikes where they see sort of vehicles convoys, groups of jihadi s jihadis which they think potentially could be al qaeda. it's possible they could have got lucky here if they did have intelligence that's significant because they've been trying to play catchup in syria. they haven't gotten the same eyes and ears human intelligence sources there they have in other places like tribal areas of pakistan like in recent times at least yemen. so it will be interesting to see if we hear more about what led to this strike. >> and we expect to hear that barbara, do you think? what are you hearing? >> well, i think the pentagon is going to play their cards very close, not likely to hear much more than we did yesterday which was the bare bones of what they

did. but they do say behind the scenes it was a targeted strike if you will that when they took the shot they did indeed have the intelligence to know he was in the vehicle. that is what they are saying at the pentagon. >> okay, they knew it was al-fadhli. professor, i want to talk to you about the broader fight against isis in the this region. you say the u.s. needs to rethink its strategy or risk isis developing into a full-blown operational state. why is that? >> well i think the united states needs to at least contemplate the possibility that its efforts to degrade and destroy isis will not work. that doesn't mean isis will start expanding in the middle east or to other parts of the world. it seemly means isis might be able to retain power in the areas it controls. if that's the case and if the united states doesn't want to go back in in large scale in iraq then it's going to have to figure out a way to for lack of a better phrase live with it and focus its efforts on

containing isis. i think we're already doing that. we're organizing other forces to do that but we have to recognize that isis is in the process of trying to build what for all intents and purposes is a territorial state. they may call themselves a caliphate or whatever. but a territorial state is what they're trying to create. the united states and its partners should focus their efforts on maching sure it doesn't attract sympathizers elsewhere. >> professor steven walt, paul cruickshank, barbara starr, thanks to all of you. we are following breaking news we have just heard a major general in a news conference praising the bravery of the five service members massacred in last week's service members in chattanooga. >> rapidly going from room to room they got their fellow

marines to safety once they had got on the safety some willingly ran back into the fight. he fbi is treating mohammad youssuf abdulazeez as a home groub violent extremist who at this point investigators believe acted alone. the fbi is saying it's too early to say if he had been radicalized but they say that's something they are looking into as a possibility in their investigation. we also got a leerer picture of what happened inside the naval reserve center where five service members were shot and

killed. 2 t entire incident happened very very quickly. it lasted anywhere from three to five minutes. authorities say the shooter crashed through the front gate. he got out of his car armed with an assault rifle, a handgun and several magazines of ammunition, a service member inside the facility spotted the shooter and fired several rounds. abdulazeez according to the fbi, started shooting at the building. he walked inside he shot his first service member and then continued to pursue others while he was shotting. the fbi says he made it out of the building clue there the back and shot and killed four service members. chattanooga police responded to the scene and it was one of their officers who eventually shot and killed abdulazeez. here's what authorities had to say about how many weapons and what kinds of weapons were found at the site. >> we found three weapons inside the facility that we know belonged to the shooter. one weapon was located in the vehicle and two were located on

his person. two additional weapons were recovered at the scene, those weapon s weapons belonged to service members and at least one of the weapons was discharged at the subject. whether he was struck by those individuals is unclear at this time. >> now, authorities are still waiting for a ballistics report but according to preliminary information, brianna, they don't believe any of the service members died in friendly fire. >> alina machado, thank you so much. appreciate it. still ahead, hillary clinton hits a bump in the presidential race. a new poll has her trailing in three key swing states. plus what the numbers reveal about some of her republican rivals. and imagine driving down the highway when this happens. hammers making your car go haywire. the new danger exposed for half a million american drivers. no artificial flavors, colors

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is. >> she's considered the front-runner but she's trailing top republicans in three important swing states. the quinnipiac university poll asked voters in colorado iowa and new hampshire if threee campaign was held today, in a matchup between clinton and jeb bush bush leads by a few percentage points in each state. more than a few, actually, in some there is a margin of error here of course. then the numbers against florida senator marco rubio, they aren't much better. it is close in virginia as you can see there. the only difference two points two percentage points so within the margin of error. but the largest gap between clinton and wisconsin governor scott walker this is where the big gap exists. again, you can see the closest between them there in virginia. i want to take a closer look at this poll and the candidates.

we have cnn political director david chalian joining us to talk about this. sometimes polls come out and confirm what you already know or suspect. this is interesting, this poll. yesterday what is the big take away? >> let's put the caveats in place. it's a snapshot in time looking at a general election that's not until a year and a half from now is very difficult to do. but it gives us information. there are warning signs for hillary clinton about how voters are perceiving here in these key states. these are battleground states and she is in terms of her favorability rating underwater. a majority of voters in these three states say she's more unfavorable than favorable. that's not a place you want to be. same on her honest and trustworthiness. so if you're the clinton campaign they're not worried about this they have their plan they look at their data they love to question all the public polls throughout thinking they have a better sense whereof

the electorate is but i think it's clear this is something that will be part of the hillary clinton project for the next year and a half the f she is the nominee is going to be addressing this issue of giving a reason for voters to have a perceptions but about her that is more favorable than unfavorable. >> so she has this issue about the -- the likability issue, the trustworthiness. do you think the issue on -- does she understand and not just for hillary clinton but jeb bush and marco rubio as well does she understand my problems, that's a huge thing. voters want to know that someone understands it's hard for them scrape together to put food on the table. to clothe their kids all of these pocketbook issues and democrats think economics will define the election. what do we know about that and how big of a concern should that be? >> we see hillary clinton upside down in all three states in these numbers. whether or not she is carrye caring

about these issues. i think that's not that different from likability. if you don't want to have a beer with the candidate you're probably thinking they're not looking out for your interests. however the policy debate isn't pulley engaged so you are right. voters are looking for which of these candidate las vegas my back. and the clinton campaign believes they -- when that policy debate gets engaged they'll win out on the economic arguments in a similar way that barack obama was able to do with mitt romney. >> because she just started talking about her economic policies early last week and she's sort of now talking about corporations and how she sees wall street. that's evolving. it takes a while for that to percolate to the masses right? >> and to be fully engaged from both sides in the context of a general election. but you're right. jeb bush is having this problem, also marco rubio is right side up in all three of these battleground states on this topic. it's something that perhaps

feeds into his generational argument that he's making everyday which is that he is the leader for the future and that ties into how people envision their economic future. >> real quick. so who at this moment in time very far out from the election is is faring the best against snik. >> well listen in this poll -- >> this this poll. >> as you said walker does nicely against her, rubio does well against her. she i think -- even jeb bush is doing well against her in iowa and colorado. virginia she seems to have more of a stronghold. but i wouldn't read too much as to where is the election a year and a half from now. we should look at these polls as the snapshots they are and say what here do all of these candidates need to address. so i don't know who matches up against her best but i think the clinton campaign is probably worries about all three republicans tested here as potential strong republican contenders. >> we'll call it a mid-semester report card.

david chalian, thanks so much. appreciate it. donald trump sat down with anderson cooper you don't want to miss that interview on ac 360 tonight at 8:00 eastern. for the latest in politics head over to cnnpolitics.com. still ahead, the growing trend near the nation's airports. more pilots are reporting lasers aimed right into their cockpits. where it happened this time. plus planes packed with passengers nearly collide with flying drones. the two frightening incidents that happened in a single week.

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aviation correspondent rene marsh in washington and we have patrick tucker, the technology editor for defense one. tell us more about these incidents. it's startling you're talking about several in one day, right? >> in the new york/new jersey last night between 9:30 and 12:10 a.m. is when the faa said four commercial aircraft were hit with these lasers an american airlines flight express jet as well as shuttle america and spirit. and then the port authority reported to us that two more were struck with lasers so that's a total of six within one night. so now they're trying to get to the bottom of who is behind it. >> that poses its difficulties. patrick, it's a federal crime to do this. if you're someone with a laser pointing it at an aircraft, there's supposed to be a law in effect president obama signed it into effect in 2012. is it working? >> not according to is what we've seen recently. you're supposed to face a

penalty of as much as five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 if you use lasers to what is technically called dazzling the pilot. so that means shining an optical laser towards cockpit in a way that might distract the pilot. there's no technical way to prevent a wide number of people from doing it. it's impossible when you here in the plane to track the lasers to the ground so there's no way to enforce that 2012 law. >> they catch people sometime right? how do they do that? >> it is like looking for a needle in the haystack but it does happen and when they do find the person you face those charges, today we know in bakersfield, california there's a man making his initial appearance. he's been indicted for shining a laser at a police helicopter and he's facing up to five years behind bars as well as $250,000 in fines. so when they catch you, you're going to get those charges, and these are hefty charges but to your point, it's not easy at all. >> it's certainly not easy.

and there's another issue, patrick, i want to talk to you about while we have you here. drones. you have seen them used in frightening ways. they fly too close to commercial airplanes at some points, that's a tree danger to both -- to certainly whether it's freight or whether it's passenger cargo. there are firefighters in california who say they're hampered by drones. you saw what happened at the white house. what needs to be done? >> this is an extremely big and growing problem. the faa project there is might be as many as 30,000 commercial uavs over u.s. airspace by 2020 and figuring out how to get them away from places where they're not supposed to be is proving to be a larger and larger problem everyday. firefighters were hampered for 20 minutes from taking to the air to fight a fire because of five commercial drones in the area. that's happened at several different fires over the course

of the past few months. also very recently a drone got in the way of a commercial airliner out of poland that didn't result in any incidents but it was a cause of huge concern. in terms of stopping this sort of thing, there's -- technically there's not a lot you can do. you can potentially jam the signal and there's talk that maybe that's what happened or could happen around certain areas around d.c. but when you jam a cell or wi-fi signal you risk damaging other electronics in the area. and if you're a consumer, a regular person like you or i, it's illegal. there's a bunch of off-the-she feel technology that you can use to find drones operating around you and you can see people picking those up and using more old-fashioned means to take drones away from the area that they're operating in by shooting at them and things like this but it's this growing concern. the faa has said what they want is some means to basically track drones in the air and that's a

technological feat they haven't figured out how to do. >> let's look at a drone that is -- this is scary. this is something an engineering student came up with. it's a weapon on a drone. this video popped up on youtube. certainly this is very alarming and i wonder what happened here renee? this is -- is this illegal? >> it's alarming and here's the other layer, it's tough to regulate because, frankly, the laws are so far behind this technology. >> antiquated compared to the technology. >> exactly. so when you have law enforcement, when they go to if books to see what are the laws here how can i enforce and what can i enforce, there's nothing there to give them guidance. as far as that video goes clinton, connecticut, police saying there's nothing illegal about that. that was on that person's private property. they're allowed to fire a gun on their private property as long

as someone's life is not in danger and they tell me they have no evidence that anyone was in danger so as alarming that has is. >> so who might step in here real quick? we need to put a lid on this before we go. >> well, the faa is one of the bodies in charge of regulating potentially reckless or careless use of commercial uavs. and they offer exemptions to particular laws that govern how uavs are used. they offer these exemptions very rarely. this drone was being flown within line of sight on private property so they probably don't a lot of leeway but by september they're supposed to come up with a broad law that governs what you can and can't do with a commercial drone. people say they won't make that deadline. >> well we wish they would but we'll see it come september. patrick, renee, thanks to you both. still to come returning to his father's homeland. a preview of president obama's upcoming trip to kenya.

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president obama lis tomorrow on a trip that will take him to his father's homeland. the visit to kenya will be mr. obama's first since he became president of the united states and cnn's brooke baldwin traveled to kenya ahead of the president's visit. she sat down for an exclusive interview with his half sister alma obama talked about the pride she and others in kenya have for what president obama has accomplished. >> reporter: he's been in the white house for seven years. can you describe the most proud moment? >> getting in the white house. >> getting in the white house. just getting in twice. >> did you see him break out into "amazing grace." have you seen that video? >> i did. ♪ amazing grace ♪

>> i'm surprise head sang so well. it was amazing. >> brooke baldwin joining us from new york. brooke, fascinating journey. you also talked with alma obama. what did she say? >> i've been working on this for months. dr. alma obama is fiercely protective of her brother, her nieces her sister-in-law and rightfully so and so when she extended this invitation to me to profile her foundation for all these young people in this community in their ancestral village in western kenya i jumped on it. and the notion then being invited brianna to her family homestead, to meet their 93-year-old grandmother where, i should mention, there were fresh plants and flowers perhaps in anticipation of a side visit from the president.

i stood with alma over barack obama, sr.,'s grave. a police where the president went stand there. a man he didn't know very well. let me share the moment between alma and myself over this grave. your father passed away when he was 43. you at least got some years with him. your brother didn't. >> not at all. >> reporter: so when your brother reached out to you with a letter in the early '80s and you visited with him in chicago and then you returned the favor and had him come to kenya, what were questions he wanted to know about his ancestral family and specifically about his dad. >> it was really easy talking to my brother. we kind of hit it off. and all the questions he asked i anticipated them. he wanted to know everything. he wanted to know everything about us everything about my father everything about our family. i took him to so many relatives. my brother wanted to know everything. i can't answer that question any other way. i think it's normal because he was part of finding about his

own identity. >> reporter: when you got the letter to first meet barack obama you thought it was your father's handwriting? >> it was like my father's handwriting, definitely. definitely. >> reporter: what do you think the one thing your father would say to his son? >> he'd be extremely proud and say well done. but then he'd add "but obviously you're an obama." he was very proud. >> brooke there are serious security concerns when it comes to president obama visiting kenya. we're told he's not going to the town. but owe said there are flowers planted there. they've rolled out the red carpet. how disappointed will they be if he doesn't show up? >> well listen you know firsthand about security. you covered the president and so even the notion of him going from nairobi to his hometown would be a flight and chopper

ride which i imagine would be difficult. i talked to a source who said it's not impossible but on the books he's only supposed to be in nairobi for 48 hours. but, yes, this is a place where i can't underscore this enough. extraordinarily rural western kenya where you run into little boys named barack obama, you see schools named barack obama, street names named obama or after mama sarah who's a rock star in this world. of course they'd love to have him. they see it as coming home which is really just where his people are from, the luo tribe. they'd love to have him but they're thrilled to have him. this is the first visit for the president as commander-in-chief back to kenya in his seven years now. so i think bottom line it's pride whether he just remains in nairobi or ventures westward. >> they certainly are proud. brooke baldwin, great interview. thanks for sharing it with us. >> thank you. much more at 2:00. >> we'll check it out in about 20 minutes or so. for our domestic viewers, you

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jab new risk to nearly half a million chryslers and those driving them. a huge unprecedented danger. a flaw in the car's computer system allows hackers from miles away to remotely control the vehicle, cut the brakes control the steering even cut the engine. it sounds unbelievable right? well, to prove it, the researchers who uncovered the flaw demonstrated the hack to "wired" magazine and recorded the entire thing.

take a look. >> all right, something just turned on all the fans and ac and stuff. i didn't do that. the trick started small. oh my god. there's a picture of charlie and chris in track suits that just appeared on the dashboard. but as i drove down the interstate things started getting unpleasant and very loud. [ music blasting ] i can't turn it down. the you are a conditioning the air conditioning is blasting, the music is blasting and i can't see anything because of the [ bleep ]ing windshield wiper fluid. >> do it! kill the engine! >> we're killing the engine right now. >> [ bleep ] actually can't accelerate. >> i stomped on the gas but the

jeep slowed to a crawl. it says i'm going a few miles an hour. i turned on my hazard lights but i was snuck the right lane with no shoulder to escape to. >> guys i'm stuck on the highway. >> i think he's panicking. he's not going to be able to hear with us that radio. so loud. >> guys. i need to accelerator. the accelerator won't work. >> it won't work. you're doomed. >> seriously, this is [ bleep ]ing dangerous. i need to move. >> you have to turn the car off. >> okay. >> now you should be good to go. >> a semi drove by. >> that is so scary, right? this video has the attention of congress and joining me now to discuss this is senator richard blumenthal. senator, thanks for being with us. the same date that this video was released you introduced a bill that would establish national safety and privacy standards. it's not just safety this is an issue of privacy as well as a

rating system that tells you how safe a car is from cyber attacks. but first i just want to ask you. you've seen this video, what was your reaction? >> it is a truly frightening video and it illustrates very graphically the reasons that senator markey and i introduced this legislation to establish basic standards for protection. as cars become more connected to the internet consumers need to be more protected. it's as basic as putting a car lock on the door of a car. no manufacturer would produce a door without a car lock. nor should a consider manufacturer today produce a vehicle connected to the internet without basic protections and we would establish them through nhtsa, which is the agency that does recall notices and sets standards for brakes and safety bags and other kinds of basic

safety measures. and this one is as important not only for safety but also privacy. but because hackers can take control of the car but auto manufacturer cans seize information and then market it, invadeing privacy. >> so there's an issue here that we understand from the hackers who did this it's this u-connect system in these vehicles that then goes -- it's in tandem with the sprint network and that's the the loophole. so you have manufacturers who are sort of supposed to be addressing this but they're not calling it a recall and further more this was just a test of some vehicles. ford general motors other makers, the researchers didn't test this. how big could this vulnerability be stretching beyond the models that were tested? >> this vulnerability could be huge and growing bigger as technology advances and more cars become more connected. and so my hope is really that the car manufacturers themselves

will recognize the grave peril along with the promise that comes from connected cars and do the right thing. offer consumers as a standard feature the kinds of basic protections that will prevent hackers from taking control of cars and prevent manufacturers from taking information without consent from the consumers or here's another potential danger a domestic abuser surveil ago car through the internet and then tracking down an estranged spouse. this kind of danger comes with the great promise of internet connection. >> a wide range of vulnerabilities here. i think we should note that chrysler has a software update to fix the flaw. but if you're driving in one of these cars you have to go to the dealer to get it. how urgent this and do you think car dealers are doing enough? >> extremely urgent brianna.

and i commend chrysler for offering this manual fix, but it is only a fix, it's not a standard feature and the driver has to go for that kind of fix. but the point here is the vulnerability is great and the urgency is also huge because cars will become more connected. that's a great potential boon but it also is a very direct bane of peril to consumers if they fail to understand the consequences and take precautions against them. it really is as basic as a car lock that prevents people from intruding or invading a car. that kind of door lock intrusion and invasion. >> senator blumenthal thanks so much for talking to us about this. really appreciate it. >> thank you, brianna. now, still to come an iran

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he was a "washington post" bureau chief working in tehran when iranians authorities suddenly swarmed into his home and took him away. jason ressian was taken into custody exactly one year ago and was later charged on espionage and other serious crime charges. two other americans being held in iran another went missing in 2007. their ordeal continues as iran signs a nuclear deal with world powers. yesterday president obama speaking to vet vet advance promoted the deal and also called for iran to release the

americans. ali rezaian. i know this is tough one year after the detention of your brother. how are you doing? how is your family doing, and what do you want people to know on this anniversary? >> it's been a tough year obviously. the family is doing as best we can. what i need people to know is jason still locked up in iran. we've done this deal with them and still hasn't had a trial. he hasn't done anything. he's innocent and needs ton released. >> where do things stand? what are you hearing from u.s. officials and iranian officials. >> the iranians don't really talk to us. what we've heard from them most recently is the next trial date will probably be the last session although we don't know when that will be. as far as the u.s. government. they have said that they are stilling with the iranians and talking with them about jason and the other americans being held and we always hold out hope that the iranians will do the right thing look at the

evidence and decide that jason should be released immediately. >> this deal struck between the u.s. and other countries, do you think the u.s. should have fought harder to link the release of your brother, of other americans to this agreement? >> i think that's a really hard question. our situation has always been that we thought that jason should stand on his own. jason should be looked at for what he's done and not any other outside influences and the fact is the deal might not have happened, in which case jason would be in a bad place. am i sorry that they didn't push that no but i'm certainly unhappy that he's still there. >> his wife has been allowed to see him. what has she said about that? >> you know she said he's had troubles with his health. he's lost a tremendous amount of weight. his food is not nutritious he's having lots of emotional problems. he's been locked up for a year. right now he gets very little human interaction. he's with one person so he's in the technically in solitary

confinement. >> who is he with? >> another prisoner. >> another prisoner. >> that's it. >> so he's with one other person in a cell that's correct? >> that's correct. >> and other-wise he sees interrogators and he sees the guards and that's it. he's not able to interact with anybody else. they have taken away certain things that he's had in the past because they want him to confess to something that he hasn't done. they have no evidence that he's committed any crimes so they want him to confess to something that -- that he's never done. >> was he able to tell his wife what he's being asked, what he's being accused of what he's trying to be coerced into admitting. >> i know what the charges are. don't know specifically what they are trying to get him to say. other folks held in iran others come at him and ask him to test things. some people have done it a if they haven't commit the crimes. jason is steadfast, wants everyone to know he didn't do

anything wrong and that really gives me hope for him is that he's committed to showing he's innocent and getting out and clearing his name. >> we're thinking of you, certainly thinking of your brother as you continue with this ordeal and will continue to follow this story. thanks so much for talking with us. >> thanks for having me brianna. >> really appreciate it. amir hekmati is a u.s. marine veteran and has been in prison for almost four years charged with cooperating and coordinating with the u.s. government and sentenced to ten years and american pastor abedini has spent nearly three years in an iranian prison his charges stemming from converting to christianity and robert levenson disappeared in 2007. u.s. officials believe the iranians control his fate. again, that's a quote. that's it for me.

i'll be right back here at 5:00 eastern on "the situation room." for international viewers, "amman pure" is next and for the viewers in north america "newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts right now. here we go top of the hour. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. very very soon we you're pected to hear from the family of sandra bland and get their reaction to the newly released dashcam video which shows why bland wound up in this jail cell in waller county texas. the 28-year-old woman was found dead in her cell on july 13th just three days after she was arrested. authorities say she committed suicide, but her family isn't buying that story. her case is now being handled as a murder investigation, and while the video does not explain how bland died it does show how a minor traffic violation turns into a major confrontation between this woman and the texas state trooper. want to show you a clip.