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and sieman tackled him. >> reporter: threw the basketball at the forehead, swatted the gun out of his hand. >> he's a hero. >> without him, i'm not sure all of us would have made it. this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> good morning, salvaging the summit. this morning, cautious optimism, renewed faith that the meeting between donald trump and kim jong-un may happen after all. >> less than two days after canceling it, mr. trump says his team is having productive talks against with north korean. with 2.5 weeks to go, can the meeting happen on the day originally scheduled? >> will ripley is following the reaction, but we'll start with sara westwood live in

washington. good morning. so obviously very different information coming out from 48 hours ago. we saw in a tweet president trump saying we are having very productive talks with north korea. any idea who is involved in the talks, and specifically what's being discussed? >> reporter: president trump is creating a lot of whiplash over the north korea summit this week. like you mentioned, he canceled the meeting thursday. within hours, suggesting the meeting could still take place as scheduled. he said on twitter, "we are having very productive talks with north korea about reinst e reinstating the summit which, if it does happen, will likely remain in singapore on the same date, june 12th. and if necessary, will be extended beyond that date." plans are not slowing down. aides are still preparing for the meeting as if it was happening. a person familiar with the plans tells cnn a scheduled trip by

senior officials to singapore to scout locations for the meeting is taking place as scheduled even as a senior official tells reporters, downplaying expectations by saying the ball's in north korea's court, and time before the june 12th meeting is running out. >> will, i know that you have spoken to regime officials, i understand. are they as optimistic as the u.s. seems to be about this? >> reporter: they're cautiously optimistic. obviously they were taken by surprise when we got the news on the train ride back from the nuclear test site, that president trump had unilaterally canceled the summit. there was shock. it was antibiotic wards and uncomfortable. then -- awkward and uncomfortable. then president trump was given credit for taking steps that no other u.s. president has done before, to sit down with north korea. they said they want a dialogue with the united states.

they feel dialogue and not military escalation is the solution. no words welco-- those words wed by the president. now the meeting is a distinct possibility. that is being welcomed not only inside north korea but in south korea, the presidential office putting out a statement, it says, quote, it is fortunate that the embers of the dialogue are coming up again -- a presidential spokesperson commenting -- but the white house would like to move forward, also saying we are watching the development carefully. they're watching carefully in north korea, as well. we know the diplomats that had closed channels of communication have reopened them. even though there's still a lot of mistrust on the north korea and u.s. side, they'll try to see if they can work something out to make the talks happen as planned next month. >> to clarify, the video, will was a witness to the destruction of the nuclear site in the last

24 hours since that happened. we'll talk to you more about that, what you saw, what was possibly destroyed in north korea, in the next hour. thank you very much. joining us now, jean lee, director for the center of history and rebecca grant, department of international research focused on analysis. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> the north korean rhetoric has obviously made a dramatic reversal since the cancelation of either president. to what degree more than just wanting this summit does kim need this? >> kim needs this, and i like the word "dialogue." it means they're still willing to talk. look, china gave north korea military power, but they can't give kim prosperity. kim has a wonderful choice. he can embrace the u.s. and south korea and denuclearize, make a deal and get economic development, or he can continue

to live with the severe military pressure and sanctions. let's hope he chooses denuclearization. >> after the summit, the chance of nobel, the president saying he could come up with a great deal for the world, rebecca, let me go to jean with this, does the president need it? >> the president does need to show that this declaration that he's going to do something historic, was not just an early declaration of victory, but that he's going to walk away with something substantial. this is a high-stakes diplomacy that we're seeing play out so publicly in his twitter feed and north korean state media. let's remember that this would be historic, the first time a u.s. president sits down with a north korean leader. here's the opportunity to change 65 years of tensions and provocations. this is something that the current peninsula needs, and the south korean president certainly

has been at the forefront of this effort. remember the korean have been living with the tension, the war between the united states and north korea for more than 65 years. they want some resolution to it. >> so rebecca, on the question of calling the talks on and off, potentially back on, the president said in response to a question from reporters yesterday that everybody plays games. was this cancelation a play in that game or evidence of what analysts say is a lack of preparation and realism about the north koreans and their willingness to actually negotiate the nuclear program? >> i can tell you that president trump's firm rebuke to north korea strengthened military deterrence in the pacific. believe me, that ecoeyed on back to china -- echoed back to china. down the road we'll have to contend with china, too. i think it was a good move. secretary mattis says our diplomats and president are working hard. there's no question, jean is

right, this should be historic. we want to see the denuclearization go forward. >> what is on the table, of course, an important question, jean. there's still -- appears to be no consensus definition of denuclearization. one that we all understand that both the u.s. and north korea agree to. listen to south korean president moon jae-in in the oval office and his list of expectations he's placed on the president. watch. >> i have every confidence that president trump will be able to achieve an historic feat of making the upcoming u.s.-north korea summit successful and end the korean war that has been lasting the past 65 years. along the way, achieve complete denuclearization of north korea, establish a permanent peace regime on the korean peninsula, and normalize relations between the united states and north korea. i have every confidence that he will be able to make an historic turnaround in this sense.

>> that's a lot for this first meeting between these two men, even the north koreans at the end of their statement saying there may be small steps here. how much of what was listed there is realistic? >> it's a complicated process. i'm concerned that we've spent so much time dealing with the dodge sticks -- logistics of whether this is going to happen or not going to happen. we have a little more than two weeks for the sides to get on the same page about what they're going to do at the summit. i would say that all of these goals are possible in the long term. but what they could do at the summit is declare together that they would work toward it. and then map out, let experts, their diplomats map out the step-by-step strategy to get to that point. but the expectation that we're going to see complete denuclearization from north korea before they sit down on june 12th is unrealistic. >> rebecca, let's talk about the element that initially scared or

spooked the north koreans, this mention of the libya model when john bolton, national security adviser, mentioned it. he likely was talking about the deal finalized during the bush administration for gadhafi to give up chemical weapons, weapons of mass destruction, nuclear program. what kim saw was gadhafi during the bush administration, the government being overthrown, his being killed and dragged through the streets. has the u.s. put to -- to use a sloppy analogy -- put the toothpaste back in the tube? is it clearly off the table? although there was the double down by the vice president after the president shot it down. >> yes, libya is the wrong model. the right model is ukraine. ukraine was the third biggest nuclear power in the 1990s. it took four years to denuclearize ukorean. one year of in-- ukraine. one year of talks by president clinton. we ended up buying back highly enriched uranium. it was a good deal and resulted

in the close relationships and ukraine in the national order. uine that, not libya -- ukraine, not libya. >> quick yes or no, jean first, then rebecca. do the talks happen on june 12th? >> i do hope that they will. there's momentum right now, and the longer we wait for this, the less likely we're going to have success. >> all right. >> yes. i'm hopeful. let's see it. i want to see june 12th. >> thank you both. >> thank you. students say a school shooting in indiana yesterday could have been so much worse had their teacher not stepped in to stop that gunman. how they say he used a basketball to disarm a school shooter. holiday travelers will feel some pain of -- potentially subtropical storm alberta soon. allison chinchar tracking that storm-to-be. that's right, the official start to hurricane season isn't for another week. mother nature just didn't quite get the memo. we'll break down exactly where

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two people are recovering from gunshot wounds in indiana after a middle school student started firing two handguns in the middle of class. >> and listen to what students say happened in the room next. >> and everybody started screaming and freaking out. and mr. seaman ran up and tax emed him and secured -- tackled him and secured him. >> he started screaming to call 911 and get out. we realized he tackled him and the gun was out of his hands. >> let's talk about the teacher

who was pivotal here. wcia walks us through it. >> reporter: shots rang through an indiana middle school friday morning. police say jason seaman was giving a test to his seventh grade science class. the shooter asked to be excused. when he came back, he had two handguns and started firing. he shot a 13-year-old girl. a student in the class said seaman threw a basketball at the shooter's forehead, swatted the gun out of his hands, and tax emed him through a storage room. -- tackled him through a storage room. he told students to run and call 911. >> if there's a guy you was on your side, in the trenches with you, it was jason. >> hear he -- to hear he was the one, a hero, doesn't surprise me a bit. that's something jason would do. >> reporter: hero, the name seaman's been given nationwide. people know him as a husband, a dad, and a great man. >> he was a great teammate, great leader. he made everything fun.

we could go to work, and jason would lighten things up in a good way. >> reporter: keith pope was his teacher and coach. seaman played basketball. he was a track and field star. he was also a standout on the football field and went on to play at siu. polk says he was an all-around star. >> if he's not the best athlete here in 25 years, he's close to it. >> reporter: corey christiansen is a high school and college friend. he played football with seaman and looked up to him. >> get along with anybody in school. you could go up if you needed help with anything. he helped me with sports through high school and so forth. >> reporter: he said he got a notification on his phone about the shooting but knew nothing. when he found out it was seaman who was shot, he was at a loss for words. >> you never think that something like this would happen to someone you know so close. >> reporter: but it did. those who know jason seaman say when it comes to fight or flight, he will always stand. >> our thanks to caitlin

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center. okay. comes on a holiday weekend here. but what are the chances that this is really going to rev up into something serious, something major? >> pretty high chances. i think that's the key. we have to see what it does in the next 36 hours. the forecast does expect this to intensify from where it is right now. let's look at that. right now winds about 40 miles per hour, gusting up to 50 miles per hour. it's moving to the north just about seven miles per hour. it's what happens once it gets into the gulf that's key. right now we expect landfall could be from florida to louisiana, which i know may seem like a widespread, but that's going to be key. we have to see what it does in the gulf. i mean, how does it interact with the warm temperatures? the further north it goes, the warmer that waurth ter is going go. from low 80s to upper 80s. at this point time, we expect it to be a tropical storm at landfall. however, and i put a big however there, if it enters some

extremely warm water right there before it makes landfall, it's very possible it could give it just enough push to make it into a low-end category-one hurricane at the time of landfall. for that reason, it's important that you stay focused on the forecast in the coming days until we get much closer to that landfall time frame. at this point, it's expected to be late monday night. we have tropical storm watches in effect for areas from louisiana, stretching over toward western florida. storm surge expected to be about two to four feet. the main concern here -- and this is entirely -- this has absolutely nothing to do with where it makes landfall, pretty much from all of florida stretching over toward eastern texas, flooding is going to be the main concern regardless of where it makes landfall. that's because the storm is going to kick up an enormous amount of moisture. pretty much widespread. you're looking at most of these areas to be about four to six inches. now as we mentioned, the start of hurricane season technically

doesn't start for another week. but that doesn't mean anything per se. earlier this week, they came out with the numbers that noaa put in the forecast. we expect about 10 to 16 named storms and five to nine they expect to be hurricane strength. and at this point, we only expect alberta to be a tropical storm. but it could get just enough extra strength to be one of the five to nine hurricanes. >> goodness. all right. allison chinchar, thank you very much for the heads-up. you saw there the forecast model. potentially alberto heading there into the gulf. and oil rigs could be shut down. the gas prices are already higher than they were this time last year. >> uh-huh. cnn's paolo sandoval live outside a gas station in ridgefield, new jersey. let's talk about what that could do for memorial day travelers if we have some shutdowns in the gulf. >> reporter: think of the higher

gas prices as a new tax on roughly some of the 36 million people expected to hit the road this summer -- at least this memorial day weekend, according to aaa. people are spending more on gas which could hurt consumer confidence, but it means more take-home for those benefitting on the trump tax plan. that could impact the upcoming midterms. what is happening here? at this point the average cost of a gallon of regular unleaded at $2.97. nationally here, people could only dream of that. it's about $3.10 ads the memorial day weekend gets started. those numbers according to aaa. certainly demand is up. at the same time, there's a spike in crude oil that has led to the increase in gas prices which haven't been this high since 2014. consider that. what do people have to say this morning? we're getting mixed reaction. for example, an uber driver told my colleague that maybe it's time to find another job. i also spoke to one of the 36

million people this morning. a woman headed from philadelphia to connecticut who says it is what it is. the reality of 2018. the prices go down, they go up. they're hoping the spike is short-lived. so is the trump administration. >> thank you very much. you've got to see these pictures. a family in hawaii had no choice but to sit and watch as lava just got closer and closer to their home they somehow were calm during this entire thing. watch. >> the same street -- this house -- house on that side over there also gone. this is insane. the lava's advancing about, i don't know, three feet per

minute. two feet per minute. >> over there. >> we have traffic cones being moved. mailboxes on fire. >> i mean, you have to stand there -- what do you do? you can't put sandbags up or anything. >> a water hose is not going to work on lava. >> so sad for these people. lava from the kilauea volcano is conning just over three -- covering just over three square miles of the island. the earthquakes are ramping up, as well. yesterday alone there were 90 earthquakes in a matter of six hours. every four to five minutes. >> these are photos from nasa,

the international space station. nasa has been helping officials track new fissures and give a heads-up on where the lava is headed. when you watch the video, you know at two to three feet per minute that it's coming and there's nothing you can do. nothing you can do. >> it is so sad for people. yet, did you hear all the -- you heard all the wildlife. i heard the birds. just so strange. we're going to keep you posted on what's happening in hawaii this morning, especially as the light comes up there. still to come, we were talking yesterday about harvey weinstein. he is charged with rape, with sex abuse. this in new york. now the defense is worried he's not going to get a fair trial. what do you think? legal analyst joey jackson is going to talk about that. also, the nfl says it will fine teams whose players do not stand for the national anthem. some see the policy now as a snub of the players that

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36 minutes past the hour now. disgraced media producer harvey weinstein waking up this morning waking a gps monitor. he's stripped of his passport, confined to travel in just new york state and connecticut. he was released from police custody under those conditions on $1 million bail after turning himself in to be charged with rape and sex abuse. weinstein's attorney says he's completely confident his client will be exonerated. >> mr. weinstein will enter a plea of not guilty. we intend to move quickly to

dismiss these charges. we believe that they are constitutionally flawed. we believe that they are not factually supported by the evidence. we believe at the end of the process mr. weinstein will be exonerated. >> weinstein is expected back in court in july. legal analyst and criminal attorney joey jackson with me now. good to see you. i think the operative words are defense attorney now. with that said, if he was your client, what would be the crux of your defense? >> you know, good morning to you, of course. ben brafman is a very skilled attorney. in the interest of disclosure, he was one of the trainers we had. it's being prosecuted by my former office, the manhattan district attorney's office. he's the real deal. he knows what he needs to do. there are two things he aim focus on. -- he will focus on. first of all, the issue of consent. even before that point, you heard him speak to the issue of

the constitutionally flawed nature of the charges. he will say the 2004 case should not have been brought in the first instance. he will attack the factual allegations. remember, whenever there are cases, the other case is 2013. whenever you have 2013, 2014 charges, there are memory flaws, issues with witnesses. there may be documentary evidence issues. i think there will be a tax on all fronts in that regard. we are in a very tough culture and environment as it relates to sexual assault cases. >> the attorney mentioned that he was concerned the me too movement might have some effect here. do you agree that it might be tough to seat a jury? >> i really do. there's a practical speck and the legal perspective. from the legal perspective, the judge will instruct the jury you're not to be influenced by any outside factors, you're to evaluate the case if it gets this far, to trial, of course, to evaluate it based upon the

evidence you hear in a courtr m courtroom. you are to divorce yourself of preconceived notions. everything is what happens there. however, from a practical perspective, we know that we are in the -- we are right in the thick of a movement. that movement is holding all accountable, holding the rich, holding the famous. holding people who never before would be brought to justice or otherwise, answer for the crimes. in that classmate, notwithstanding the judge's instructions, it's going to be very difficult to get a jury to focus on specifically the facts. you hope they do. you pray they do. the law requires that they do. whether they actually do from a practical perspective is going to be the issue in this case if it goes that far. and -- >> i'm sorry -- >> it's okay, i want to get this in. that is that remember with cosby there were multiple other accusers. what i'm going to be looking for in this case is whether the judge allows other evidence as to weinstein's misconduct to filter into this case because we

know that that plays a significant role in how jurors evaluate the mode usmodus opera. >> i wanted to ask about others with accusations could supersede lack of physical evidence, as well. i want to get to two more questions. in this case, do you anticipate more charges? >> there certainly could be. he's only been charged with a criminal complaint. what that means is that a grand jury has not issued an indictment now an indictment doesn't show anything about guilt. there are 23 members of the grand jury. they're voting about, a, whether there's reasonable cause to believe a crime has been committed, and b, whether harvey weinstein committed them. based on the evidence presented to 23, only 12, the majority, have to vote out an indictment. they'll have a lot to consider factually, and a grand jury can very well issue additional charges than the three he's facing now. that is a likely possibility.

>> okay. i wanted to ask you quickly before we let you go about the new policy from the nfl that requires players to stand for the national anthem. they will be able to stay in the locker room if they choose not to do so. getting a lot of pushback here. we have the golden state warriors' head coach who said it's idiotic. harvey kay tweeted, i am a co-owner of the packers and feel asham ashamed of the organization for bowing to the anti-democratic efforts of the envelope to strip players of their free speech rights. we must not accept it. you have the policies here, first amendment here, is the policy illegal, joey? >> i think that there will be a lot of problems with the policy. forgetting about the merits and asking everyone at home to divorce themselves from the issue of respecting america, we need to love the country, respect the country, and believe in its principles. >> yes, sir. >> but that's the point here. the point here is that it's a country which allows and permits us to do, right, what you want to do. we have freedoms. here's why i think the policy's

flawed. one, on a strictly legal side, the fact is that under collective bargaining agreements between the players and the owners, you have to bargain for any changes and conditions of employment. you're now forcing people to stay in the locker rooms and not be with their team. that cannot be unilaterally imposed upon teams. that's something that has to be bargained for. two, there's something called title 7. title 7 says no discrimination. and so the reality is this could have a disparate treatment. that means it can disproportionately impact african-american players and other players of color. that's not to suggest that their white counterparts are not joining into the movement. but by virtue of the vol on its face -- of the policy on its face, it could disproportionately impact them. and if you're protesting against discrimination, an employer cannot retaliate against you. i see multiple problems with the imposition of the policy. i don't think we've seen the end of it. and whether or not it actually

goes into effect is a problem. last point, and that's this -- we know the president's been very involved in it. normally the constitution protects us from the government, not private entities. to the extent that the president has reached into the nfl, made it such a broad issue, we could see a challenge based upon grounds of first amendment. again, first amendment not applicable to private employers, but to the extent that the government and the president has been so involved here, who knows whether the courts by implication apply it to this case. many problems with the imposition of the policy. >> interesting. joey jackson, your perspective is always appreciated. thank you, sir. >> thank you. next hour, former nfl player dontee stallworth is joining us for more reaction to the anthem policy. stay with us for that. the president of the university of southern california will step down after a doctor was accused of sexually abusing female students on campus. an internal investigation found that george tyndall, a gynecologist there, had conducted inappropriate pelvic exams and made sexually and racially offensive comments to patients dating back to the

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it's been 50 years since the tumultuous events changed america. tomorrow the two-night event, "1968," explores icons including martin luther king jr. >> on the anniversary of his death last month, i spoke with reverend jesse jackson and former ambassador andrew young. it was their first joint visit to the memphis hotel where dr. king was killed in 1968. it was april 4th, 1968, in memphis, tennessee, before andrew young was an ambassador

to the world, before injectijes jackson became a groundbreaking political figure. two young men dedicated to the cause of equality led by dr. martin luther king jr. and it was a chilly thursday afternoon at the lorraine motel. >> i was talking to him, telling him he needed a coach. he sort of raised his head to kind of see -- needed a coat. he sort of raised his head to kind of see, test the weather. pow. >> a single shot, and king was dead. he was 39 years old. a half century later, young and jackson return to the very spot where their friend and leader was assassinated. >> his shoes got caught here and knocked him by his shoes. >> a photographer snapped this iconic image as king lay drying. >> we were over there because the police were here, they were

running this way. we were trying to tell them that way. that's where the shot came from. >> do you think he heard the shot? >> he heard the shot or felt it. i think it was a beautiful death. my first reaction was to be mad. second reaction was to say, well, if anybody's entitled to a reward, you have sure earned it. and you know, take your flight to heaven. >> be sure to watch cnn's original series event, "1968," part one airing tomorrow at 9:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. so the next time you fly and you've had one, three too many on the flight, remember this -- federal law prohibits the airline from serving an intoxicated passenger. >> important to make that distinction. that apparently started a ruckus aboard an american airlines flight from st. croix to miami wednesday. want to show the video. it's a bit hard to hear. but i want to take you through

what happened when passenger jason felix wanted another drink. >> please sit down. i'm not serving you any more beers. we'll be there in an hour. why are -- [ bleep ] >> it doesn't take long for felix here to get, let's call it animated. demanding that he have another drink. and even taking jabs at the flight attendant. >> please, you -- >> sit down. >> didn't end there. there were punches. look at this -- other passengers jumped in to try to calm the man down. according to a criminal complaint, felix spit blood at one and threatened to kill him.

>> from the cockpit, the captain turned on the seat belt sign -- that works -- instructed everybody to return to their seats. eventually passengers calmed felix down enough, though he was still agitated, talking loudly, punching overhead bins. >> he was arrested for interfering with a member of the flight crew. he has a reservation before a judge on tuesday. the lines of communication with north korea are back open again. >> they're trying to work out and make something happen to make this summit occur on june 12th. he is yet another media-shy russian billionaire linked with the kremlin and mired in allegations of collusion with the trump team. why did your company pay hundreds of thousands of dollars -- >> not now -- >> -- to president trump's lawyer? walked in, had the gun in his hard and