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good morning, everybody. 9:00 a.m. in the east. 6:00 a.m. out west. let's get started. he was a russian orphan adopted by an american family. in less than a year, they sent him back, put him on a plane with a backpack and a note. was he really plotting murder? an alarming number of birth defects and a toxic waste dump. what's going on in kettleman, california? our cnn investigation and the fed's findings revealed. nickel and dime you no more. a senator is outraged and launching new linlgs lation. can he really prevent airlines from charging you for carry-on luggage. chuck schumer joins us live. we begin with the outrage around the world. a 7-year-old boy in the middle of a firestorm. he was adopted by a woman in tennessee but she says he grew psychotic, threatening to kill the entire family. so she took desperate action, put him on a flight to moscow and thought the nightmare was

over. today, the drama is only, only deepening. martin savidge has the latest. >> reporter: it began when this 7-year-old little boy stepped off the plane in moscow thursday, alone, with a note from his adoptive american mom saying she was returning him, because he was mentally unstable and violent. russians were outraged. countries foreign minister even threatened to suspend all adoptions to the u.s. and the media flocked here to the small town of shelbyville, tennessee, looking for the family that sent the kid back. that family doesn't want to be found. this has been our regular routine here in shelbyville. we come to the door every couple of hours, knock on it, never have any response. yesterday, they were a bunch of notes here in journalists but they are gone. now, there is this addition, a fruit basket. we are told it is from "people" magazine. we would like to get the family's side of the story. right now, they don't look too good in the headlines. what we have been trying to do is track down the hanson family

with former addresses that they have. they are listed in at least four different states. there air lot of listsings here in tennessee. this is one of them. 2441, it's murfreesboro, tennessee. it is not a home. it is a post office box. another address is a vacant lot. in a phone call with cnn, the boy's adopted grandmother described him as violent and psychotic. he had a hit list that he wanted. on that was his adoptive mom. nan nancy she was afraid he was going to burn the house down and kill everyone in it. martin savidge joining us live. this note to the russian ministry of education that was stuffed in this boy's backpack doesn't mince words at all. the adoptive mother writes, i no longer wish to parent this child.

this child is mentally unstable, violent, has severe psychopathic issues and behave yoer. she believes the russian government lied to her about this child. >> reporter: that's exactly right, kyra. they had several visits with the child dating back to last year when they were beginning this adoption process. on all those visits to the orphanage, they never were allowed to be with the child by themselves. they would ask the authorities at the orphanage what was the mental condition of the child, were there any previous problems. they believed they were lied to. they were told the child was fine. there were no previous conditions. they certainly believe that was not the case as a result of the experiences they have had. right now, we have moved here to the center of town. we are trying to track down the family. after the initial phone call they made to cnn on friday, they had gone into sec collusiolusio. we are frying to track down the attorney. it is not clear at this point

whether they have broken any laws. as outraged as many people are on both sides of the atlantic, so the investigations are continuing, kyra. >> i think that's what a lot of people are wondering. you are hearing one side of the story. you are starting to hear the other part of the story. could this family face abandonment charges because they did adopt this child? >> well, that's certainly the attitude the russians have. in shelbyville, there are at least three different crews from russian television here. the russians take this story very seriously. in the past, they say, there have been a number of instances russian children dooptadopted b american families that have suffered as a result. some of them having much more tragic results. last august, there was a seven-year-old russian boy who was adopted by a pencille vain ya family. he later died. the investigation showed it was as a result of abuse and

malnutrition. his adopted american parents are in jail awaiting trial. that's why the russians are so sensitive about this particular case. they sense a pattern, not just one instance. >> you mentioned in your piece that the russians possibly were thinking about halting adoptions while this was all taking place. do we know anything more about that? do you think that could happen? >> reporter: here is the concern. they believe there should be an official document that outlines the behavior and how parents that adopt russian children, the standards they have to adhere to. they say there is no standard at this particular point. that's what they are saying, we are going to halt any further adoptions by american families until we have this agreement worked out between russia and the united states. that's where it stands right now. so while we have not heard the official canceling of adoptions, there are about 1,500 that take

place every year. there air lot of families that would like to go forward but are now feeling in limbo as a result of this case? >> we will follow it. it is getting worldwide attention as you can imagine. martin savidge, great reporting. thank you so much. the u.s. is calling on russia to not carry out this threat to halt adoptions. just minutes ago, the state department said it will soon dispatch high-level officials to moscow to better ensure the well-being for children. for americans desperate to be a parent, russia has been a leading source of hope. last year, the third most popular country for americans wanting to adopt. nearly 1,600 kids came to the u.s. to live with their new families. 2009 was a down here. five years ago, more than 4,600 russian kids came to live in the u.s. through the years, about 60,000 russian children have found new homes and new families right here in the united states. we are talking about the little boy send back to russia on my

blog this morning. go to cnn.com/kyra. click on comments and i'll read as many of them as i can. tonight, at 10:00 eastern, what happens when adoptive parents change their mind and want to give the child back. daern son cooper has a special report on ac 360. after a long, hard week of waiting, watching and hoping, the grim work of removing the bodies of 22 workers from that west virginia coal mine begins today. search teams found the last four bodies early saturday but couldn't recover any because of toxic gases still in the mine. 29 miners died in the explosion last month. recovering the bodies could take as long as two days. west virginia's governor is calling for a moment of silence this afternoon at 3:30. investigators will try too determine what caused that deadly explosion. the scene in front have o the presidential palace in warsaw,

poland this morning is both beautiful and sad. thousands of flowers and can dals fill the sidewalk. they reflect a nation in mourning. president lech kaczynski, his wife and many of the political and business leaders were killed saturday in a plane crash in western russia. poland begins an official week of mourning. the president's body was returned to warsaw yesterday. many of the bodies remain unidentified. 97 people died in that crash. our nic robertson reports that evidence is pointing to two possible causes, bad weather and the plane's pilots failing to effectively communicate with air traffic controllers. our frederik pleitgen is in warsaw. an entire generation of poles admired this prowestern president. what are they telling you? >> reporter: people are still coming in here. this is a working day here in warsaw. still, if you look behind me.

you can see that there is literally hundreds, if not thousands of people in the presidential palace right now. as you said yesterday, when the coffin was brought here, there were tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people lining the street. the interesting thing that people are telling me here is that they said even if they didn't agree with president lech kaczynski on many political issues, he is someone who was very conservative and a staunch ally of the united states, very instrument in bringing polish troops into iraq. also, just recently, very instrumental in increasing the polish contingent in afghanistan. someone who was always very pro-american. if they didn't agree with it on some issues, everyone in the country right now is simply in very, very deep sorrow of this loss. they do say even if they didn't agree with him, he was a towering political figure in this country. i have seen people here in front of the presidential palace with tears in their eyes. people praying, laying down

flowers, lighting can daledles. we are looking at live pictures right now. frederik pleitgen, we will continue to follow this story with you. meanwhile, republican power play over unemployment benefits. we saw it earlier this year with kentucky senator, jim bunting. he held up the vote because he wanted to know how the government was going to pay for it. fast forward to today. the senate back in session. this time, it is oklahoma's tom coburn with the same question. cnn's christine romans live in new york today. christine, help us with this. how many people and how much money are we talking about here? >> he with are talking about a couple hundred thousand people last week who rolled off the unemployment benefits and overall for the month of april, if the senate doesn't do something. you have a million people whose unemployment benefits will expire. what it really underscores is there are so many people who are long-term unemployed in this

country. there are almost 6 million people who have been getting extension after extension of unemployment benefits. now, what the republicans are concerned about, this was emergency spending for the stimulus in the very beginning. now, we have a chronic long-term unemployment issue. they are saying, all right, let's address it. find a way to pay for it. find a budget offset as they say in washington. the democrats are saying, no, we need to do this quickly and get moving. some democrats want to go ahead and have an extension for this and for a cobra health insurance subsidy through the end of the year so that we don't have to keep going and patching it up and chasing it and watching it up again. so a philosophical difference of opinion here. one thing i think you are going to start to see now as this goes on, if we are starting to get jobs creation, starting to see signs that the economy, the stock market has recovered. there is going to be this philosophical debate of how are you going to address the long-term unemployed in this country and how long are we

going to allow. the national bureau of economic research, the official agency that dates whether a recession starts or stops. it today said it is not ready to declare when the recession ended. that's got people a little nervous. i think it shows there are these two kind of gears of the economic recovery and stock market that's done very well. still, an awful lot of people who aren't feeling any recovery. >> thanks. nice weekend east of the mississippi. a western storm is now slamming into the west coast and pollen at record high levels whether it is coming up when the "cnn newsroom" comes right back.

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a nuclear attack in the middle of new york city, moscow, london, all the reasons for a major nuclear summit in

washington. powerful world leaders, guests of president. suzanne malveaux joining us now. why do we need to pay attention to this right now at this time? >> reporter: president obama is trying to make the case there is an immediate and urgent need. this is a very dangerous threat. this is something we have heard before from president clinton and bush. president obama is frying to convince world leaders that this is something that has to be addressed right now. he is making the case that the threat is no longer about a nuclear war in the cold war era when you have to deal with states that a nuclear weapon. the possibility that terrorists could get ahold of nuclear materials, build an explosive, set off some sort of kind of dramatic attack. that is what the president is talking about today. he wants the other leaders on board because he believes it the most dangerous threat. here is how he put it. >> the single biggest threat to

u.s. security, both short-term, medium-term and long-term, would be the possibility of a terrorist organization obtaining a nuclear weapon. this could change the security landscape for years to come. >> reporter: we did hear from secretary of state hillary clinton and robert gates. they both say that intelligence shows that this is a real serious threat, that world leaders have to deal with. so the bottom line in the summit is to try to get the world leaders together to sign on to a document and a communokay, if you will, saying, look, we are going to go ahead and fry to secure these loose nukes within the next four years that are around the globe. that is the goal. >> this isn't even a legal binding document. so does it really is any teeth? >> reporter: that's an excellent point. it is not a legal document. it doesn't have teeth.

it is a political document. a statement of intentions by these world leaders. what we are going to hear that's important, kyra, is that some of the world leaders are going to say, look, we have some ideas on the table, how to secure these loose nukes in our own countries. chile says he with have highly enriched uranium. we don't know how to secure it. you guys deal with it. other countries are saying, we will have third parties deal with these nuclear materials. another important thing are those sideline meetings the president is having with some of the world leaders, one of them, hu jintao of china. they are talking about sitting down and having iran face possible sanctions for their own nuclear ambitions. >> what the heck is going on behind you? >> reporter: i knew you were going to ask that. i knew it. >> you know me. >> reporter: i know you. i knew it. so i've been told that they are digging. they are trying to figure out

what's underneath, soil samples because there us a tube with communications lines that they are gog run through. they have to figure out if there is rock or soil and how to get that tube through. unless it is just top secret and they are lying to us and it is something completely different, that's what i have been told. >> some sort of nuclear weapon something or other being passed in secret tubes. well, you are doing a great job with the distraction to say the least. suzanne malveaux, thanks so much. >> reporter: thanks, kyra. a major storm system making this morning's rush-hour that much more fun for many californians. meteorologist, rob marciano has that and more in the severe weather center. no distractions behind rob? >> no. with all the construction going on here at the cnn center, that wouldn't be odd. you mentioned the storm out west. we certainly have that. everywhere east of the rockies, a couple of spots are going to see some showers.

northern plains, western great lakes and florida as well. everywhere else, it has just been phenomenal. that has created its own bit of problem. a storm out west creating some problems in the way of some rain that in some spots has caused some flooding. certainly, some high elevations of snow and winds gusting to 30, 40 miles an hour. everywhere else, look at the red on this map, from southern arizona to the mid-atlantic and down across the south. pollen extremely high. in some cases, the highest pollen levels we have seen in about a decade. the heavier rain we have saw in the past couple of months, a delayed spring and then once spring sprung, it did so in a hurry. temperatures in the 80s, 90s, dry air. pollen flying everywhere. seattle, portland seeing some rain, all the way down to parts of san diego seeing some rain. this is more like a storm you might see in february or march, rather than the middle of april.

certainly unusual. we are seeing rain across parts of south florida. what this will do is create an onshore flow. that's going to maybe create some rip current problems. so if you are feeling the need to get to the beach, because it is that nice out and you do brave yourself to go out in the water, be careful, especially across the carolina coastline, maybe through georgia and parts of florida. 78, miami. a couple of showers. 80 degrees expected in atlanta. 67 in new york city. if you are traveling, the only spots we expect to see some problems is out west with the storm system. los angeles, san francisco. denver seeing a little bit of wind as well. we made it through that without any distractions. hundreds of firefighters descend upon manhattan's east side.

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three months to this day after haiti's horrendous earthquake, survivors are now heading for higher ground. the first wave of haitians made homeless began relocating this past weekend from tent cities that sprang up after the january 12th tumbler. officials want to get earthquake survivors out of the low-lying areas and into resettlement camps that be less prone to flood. the rainy season is about to ramp up. increasing chances of disease sich as typhoid asuch as typhoia are about to increase. one area at great risk is tucked

into the american south. cnn meteorologist, jacqui jeras, joining us with a closer look at memphis and the danger that lies under foot there. nobody would have thought unless you live there and you stay up on it. >> we talked about it in the southeast, in charleston, south carolina. today, we are going to be focusing on the fault zone in the mid southern u.s. which has repeatedly produced a major quake. up to a 40% chance that another big one could occur in the next 50 years. when the last big ones hit in 1811 and 1812, the area was sparsely populated. today, a major quake to have a global economic impact. >> this part of the area around here was downdropped during the earthquake. it actually sank. part of the river was affected by the change in local elevation. >> gee olgist, phillies steckel

tells how an earthquake forced the mississippi to flow backwards and create real foot lake. she is worried about the moves here again it will have catastrophic impacts. >> a lot of what we come to expect in 21st century society. a lot of it comes through this area. >> reporter: memphis, tennessee, 100 miles to the south. you know it as the home of the blues and barbecue. steckel knows it as america's distribution center and the most vulnerable city on the fault. >> a lot of shipping goes up and down the mississippi river, come moddities, coal, cotton, rice, wheel. >> reporter: many fuel pipelines lie here. it is in the top five busiest places for class one railroad service, trucking and inland ports ports. they have the busiest cargo tracking airport. fed x moves more than 1 million

pieces of cargo each day. >> we do everything in our power to anticipate these sorts of things. we understand those risks. we work very hard to develop these contingencies so that our customers don't see this. >> reporter: in the event of a quake here, fedex says the company could be up and running within one day. another memphis-based company constructeded their headquarters to withstand a 1.8 earthquake. >> it will let the ground move and not transfer all the motion from the ground to the building. >> reporter: it is the only structure in memphis built to such a high specification. >> what i think we almost need is an earthquake that's large enough to get people's attention but, of course, not large enough to do any damage or any significant damage or certainly no injuries. we don't want that.

i think it is going to take something here to wake people up. >> phyllis steckel says that this job is too big for the government. the focus has to be on the individual businesses and industries. so she stafrted giving tours fo business executives to give them a better idea how great the risk is. >> i notice you have a little music in the background. memphis i a very well-known music, place of sound for sure. so why so much of this area? >> well, the fault itself is actually kind of large. one of the other problems is that it is right along the mississippi river. so all the soil next to the river is made up of sediments. it is really soft. so it allows the energy from earthquake waves to travel 20 times farther than it would in california. >> that's pretty amazing. like you said, it is like a hockey puck, that could help a building withstand 9.0. that's remarkable.

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outrage at 30,000 feet. remember, spirit airlines is going to start charging for carry-on bags, $45. u.s. senator, chuck schuler, vowing to stop that and stop other airlines from following suit. he joins us from washington. senator, what are you going to do? >> well, i've sent a letter to the treasury this morning asking them to prevent this from happening, which they can do. there are all kinds of tax incentives for airlines to charge these extra fees, because

they don't pay anything on it, any extra tax on it. so if treasury were to say in an overhead bag is a necessary part of travel, no airline would do it. it is a necessary part of travel. you are a business traveler, you need something in that overhead bag. you have kids, you are an older person, you need medication or you need food or whatever else for them. you know, this is the last straw. everyone understands the airlines have difficulty, fuel prices and everything else. so when they took away the pillows and the meals and even the leg room, that's very annoying to me. i'm not that tall, 6'1", sometimes i can't fit in some of the airlines. everyone said, okay, okay, okay. now, this is step over the line. an overhead bag, which we have all been conditioned to use, because so many bags, when you, first, you need them. they are a necessity for many travelers. everyone is worried if they check their luggage, it will get

lost. this is a step over the line. enough is enough. i am very hopeful that treasury will go along. if treasury doesn't go along, we will introduce legislation and my guess is that will go through the senate and the house like a hot knife through butter. i have heard lots of outrage, more about this issue than many others this week. >> let me take it another step further. aside from paying for carry-on baggage, is there anything else that bugs you when you fly? >> the other is when they know the flight is delayed, significantly, but they don't tell you. they don't tell you until you get on the plane or at least till you've gone to the airport in an effort that you will still fly anyway? >> they don't want to make you

angry. that happens all the time. >> kyra, it is not that they don't want to make you angry. they want you on that plane so you spend the ticket. there are lots of times if you know the plane is going to be delayed four hours and you knew it in advance, you wouldn't go to the airport. you would cancel. you would do it another day. they don't tell you sometimes till you are on the plane. sometimes till you are at the airport. that's wrong. once they know there is a significant and real delay, they ought to let people know. >> can you make them tell us, though? is that something you can do? >> well, there is something called the passenger bill of rights, which i've worked on with others, like senator boxer and others. we are trying to make this part of the passenger bill of rights. so they would be required toll you. there is nothing wrong with that. it is only fair and right. most people will fly but they will fly at a time when making the trip is so delayed.

a lot of flyers are afraid of the domino effect. if spirit airlines can charge up to 45 bucks, what is to stop other airlines to from doing the same thing? >> it is not just spirit. one of the smaller airlines experiments. the larger airlines look to the reaction. if there is not much of a reaction, they all institute it. i am hopeful we can get this done before it spreads to the other airlines. treasury could act on this rather quickly. i'll be calling the secretary of the treasury following up on the letter and if they don't, i think we could get legislation through the house and senate quite quickly. i can't imagine who would block it. >> we are counting on you, senator chuck schumer. appreciate your time today. >> thank you. the shot heard around the south on this date in history, april 12th, 1861, the first shots fired on fort sumpter in

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even the smallest mistake in battle can be deadly. so the military tries to make training as realistic as possible. but this takes it to the next level. the look and feel of an afghan village, even the smell, is recreated for troops headed to the front lines. here's the story from barbara starr. >> reporter: marines on patrol in an afghan village with

insurgents nearby. well, not exactly. we're actually inside an old packing plant at the marine corps base in california. we are in this afghan village, of course, it is simulated. these marines are headed to the front lines of southern afghanistan, but first they are getting some of the most realistic training the military can offer -- a village of narrow lanes, mud walls and blind corners. religious calls, smoke kbgrenad and odors like gangrene and dinosaur dung are piped in. tell me about this. >> these are digital avatars. marines could be presented with any situation when they go into it. >> reporter: bullets, though made of chalk, are flying. while the marines patrol one end, those playing the role of insurgents are getting ready. tensions build.

marines enter the village squire. villagers are upset. this kind of training is about as realistic as it can get for the marines. this is what general mcchrystal worries about -- incidents of civilians being killed by military action and then it all spins out of control. what did the marines learn here? >> tactical pulse, figure out what's going on. you had an i.d. going off. >> reporter: how to work as a team under fire. >> did you know what was going on all the time? >> no. >> when you guys got contacted you just -- who said who the contact was from. i couldn't hear what was going on. >> reporter: how realistic, how good is the training? >> i like this. it's good training. we get in there. you have actual role players speaking the language, smells different. >> reporter: at the end of the day the idea is if a young marine is going to make a

mistake, better here in training than on the front lines of the war. barbara starr, cnn, camp pendleton, california. political dignitaries from more than 40 nations descending upon washington for a two-day security summit hosts by president obama, reportedly the biggest assembly of world leaders hosted by an american president since 1945. lye pictures now and in 15 minutes we'll hear what the summit means for us. a week after the deadly blast that killed 29 coal miners and tore apart a tight knit west virginia community, another grim task remains -- retrieving the bodies inside the upper big branch mine. we're told a couple of rescue teams went in at midnight and a third will reenter the mine this morning. in afghanistan's kandahar province at least four people are dead and 18 injured after a

misi can tan possible attack by troops on a busload of afghan civilians. isaf says they regret the loss of life. a powerful scene in front of the presidential palace in warsaw, poland this morning. it's both beautiful and sad. flowers and candles fill the sidewalk reflecting a nation in mourning. president kaczynski, his wife and other military leaders were killed in a plane crash in russia. poland begins an official week of mourning today. the president's body was returned to warsaw yesterday. many of the bodies remain unidentified. 97 people died in that plane crash. nick robert son is there and watched as the casket holding lech kaczynski's body was returned to warsaw. >> reporter: slow, solemn and somber. moments before president lech kaczynski's casket is boarded on

a flight home to poland, the russian president vladimir putin stands side by side with poland's ambassador to moscow. this is going to close the first chapter in this very painful episode. standing together on the runway now, a lot is at stake over how the investigation develops in the coming days. in the nearby woods, that investigation still under way. experts searching through the wreckage. aircraft parts littering the ground where it crashed in heavy fog 24 hours earlier. looking at the black box and re-examining what the air traffic controllers talked about, the warnings they gave the aircraft that it was too low, moving too wide. clearly this point where we are where the plane came down half a mile short of the runway is down through the trees there.

already investigators say the black box data shows no mechanical faults. >> many people think that this is something which pilots did wrong, but it must be investigated. >> reporter: he had come to say good-bye to his president, but warns relatives of others killed in the crash may have to wait to get their loved ones back. >> many people are in moscow and maybe they expect that they could take it with them soon, but it depends on the specialist. >> reporter: on the investigation, it depends? >> yes. >> reporter: polish and russian investigators are working closely according to officials of both countries the tragedy, they say, has brought the two nations closer than they have been in years.

it's not just officials saying that. if you look at the gate to the airfield, you can see floral tributes and candles left by local russians in tribute to all those polish people who died aboard the aircraft, not just the president, his wife, government officials but all of them. a real message of sympathy and all of it coming from local russians who live around here, kyra. >> so, nick, there are two possible causes to the crash right now. what do you know? >> reporter: well, one of them is obviously a dense fog that the plane was flying into and what we have heard from russia's deputy prime minister today is that they can confirm. they say they have hard proof that the pilots were told that the weather was too bad, that they shouldn't land at this airfield. they have hard proof that the pilots did receive the message. nevertheless, the pilots did appear to continue to try to land here.

that's what is understood. the other issue as the polish ambassador talked about is the possibility of pilot error in and of itself, kyra. >> interesting. as we follow those two parts of the investigation, what can you tell us about these aviation rules and whose judgment it is to make certain calls about landing? apparently there has been talk about the president getting impatient with landing in certain spots? >> reporter: well, there is certainly a very strong line of speculation out there. it's not something that cnn can confirm at the moment but certainly among some polish and russian news organization there is talk of when the president was on a board going to land in georgia, the former soviet republic of georgia in 2008. he told the pilot to land and the pilot said, no, i don't think it's safe.

he wanted to land at a different airfield where he felt it was safer. what happened then was that the pilot refused to land. now cnn talked to that pilot who subsequently resigned his commission as president shall pilot but he said he didn't want to speculate or talk further about the issue. that's the issue that's out there. of course, some people are speculating, did the president play a role talking to the pilots in the landing here. certainly from russian investigators it's not something we are learning any information about at the moment. so that is sort of part of the speculation, if you will. but as to the legality, if air traffic controllers say it's not safe to land they are to respect that. the air traffic controllers control the aircraft because the pilot may not know everything going on beneath him. the russian authorities say they had provided the pilots that information, not safe to land, divert to another airfield,

kyra. >> okay. thanks, nic. in russia, outraged leaders calling for a halt to all pending adoptions by americans. the reason? a tennessee woman put a 7-year-old boy on a moscow-bound flight and returned him home to russia unannounced saying the boy was violent and mentally unstable. the woman's mother spoke to cnn over the weekend. the adoptive grandmother, nancy hanson, say the boy had a hit list of people he was targeting and also wanted to kill for the house. she said also that he threatened to kill her grandson for a videogame. this story reminded us of another boy adopted from overseas who expressed the same violent thoughts of killing his family and burning down the house, but the parents didn't send him back. they sent him to a ranch. gary tuchman went there in january. >> reporter: 11-year-old alec is a precocious and intelligent child but he's done and said

things that have frightened his parents. beth and bill cole are his parents. >> i adore him. i love him. i want him to have a good future just as normal as can be. [ growling ] >> reporter: this is from a videotape alex's parents gave us. they took the video because psychologists, social workers didn't understand or believe what alec has done and now his pained parents have taken drastic measures. alec no longer lives with them in florida. he lives in montana on a ranch for deeply troubled adopted children. >> i freaked out like almost every day. >> reporter: alec's parents adopted him from belarus when he was a toddler. they adopted lauren as well. >> it's like an orphanage. >> reporter: i understand. >> very poor. >> reporter: i understand. alec lives on the ranch for kids

with grandmother who has raised russian orphans of her own. >> the purpose is to assist parents and children with reuniting with one another if they have had difficult because of issues or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. >> reporter: like many of the 25 children at the ranch for kids, alec has dramatic mood swings. at worst he's violent and threatening. what has he said to you? >> the worst is that he's going to kill all of us, burn down the house. >> he's talked about wanting to blow up the house, wanting to burn down the house, wanting to get a knife to stab us with. it seems silly or maybe not, but we took a step to hide the kitchen naives kitchen knifes and put them where he can't reach them. >> reporter: you once said, i will get a gun and shoot you in the neck and then the heart. did you say that to them? >> yes. >> reporter: how come?

>> because i just get mad. >> reporter: parents send their children here for about $3500 a month because they don't know what else to do. >> all of the kids have been to the psychiatrist, the psychologist, the therapist, medicated. >> reporter: people who have the expertise haven't done anything for them? >> in many cases. i'm not saying all, but in many cases those modalities failed. >> reporter: they get love here but sometimes it's tough love. there is a lot of snow to shovel, chores to do. they go to school where in addition to the three r's there are lessons in human relations. >> i'm sad because i have been mean and treated my family. i feel sorry for the way i have treated people in the past. the end. [ applause ] >> reporter: it sounds like a feel-good story. it is. and it isn't. that's because the endings are not always happy ones. sometimes the children don't

improve enough to go back home. other times the parents just don't want them back. most of the parents are desperate for their kids to get better and come home. christopher was adopted from china when he was a toddler. >> i don't know where he may be. >> reporter: his mother and sister live in florida. she says she loves her son, but -- >> he would hit me, kick me, throw things at me, at her. >> reporter: would he say threatening things? >> absolutely. like that he was going to hurt me, kill me. >> reporter: now she said she's made a painful decision, mainly because she fears for her daughter's well-being. >> i have decided not to bring him home. >> reporter: ever? alec's parents have a much different outlook. is there a chance you would realize maybe he would be too dangerous to be fak back in your family setting and you would send him to a foster home or get another family to adopt him?

>> no. >> not at all. >> reporter: no chance? >> no. he's our son. >> reporter: gary tuchman, cnn, eureka, montana. >> we were talking about the adoption gone wrong, the one that happened in russia. we want to know what you think. go to cnn.com/kyra. what would you do in a situation like this? would you keep the child, send the child back to another foreign country, to a special ranch like the family you just met? it's an interesting conversation. give us your input. i would like to read the responses later in the hour. tonight at 10:00 eastern, what happens when adoptive parents change their minds and want to give a child back? a program could keep them together. anderson cooper has a special report. we are awaiting president obama's arrival. he's headed to the opening of the nuclear summit in washington bringing together world leaders to talk about the threat of nukes.

>> i'm rob marciano in the severe weather center. not a lot of severe weather east of the mississippi. big storm out west. we're looking for rain out east. the pollen levels are high. we'll go over the forecast in a minute.

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front line. >> this is the mobile trauma bay. it's the front line of medical defense for the marine corps. we take a patient who would probably die without immediate life-giving care. we stop bleeding, secure an airway. we keep them alive long enough to get them to the o.r. >> they talk about the golden hour. if you get help within the first hour, you pretty much are good to go. >> unfortunately in theater it is not always feasible to get a patient to a hospital within an hour. especially if you're dealing with things like weather getting involved. if you can't get your air asset in, you need something to hold patients over until you can get the helicopter in. our job is to keep them alive for longer than that golden hour

and extend that to an hour and a half, two hours. >> they are by far probably the greatest mental asset that keeps myself and marines on the convoys. if we end up getting hit, knowing, hey, it will be okay. >> all of that means nothing if wounded troops can't, in a very short time frame, get to the next level of care like the surgeons. >> if we get somebody here alive, 98% of them leave here alive. >> reporter: a collection of tents and trailers is being replaced by a new concrete hospital. the doctors are already prepping for the big offensive against the taliban in june. >> we don't know the exact date when it will occur, but we have already made changes in the way we receive casualties, increased the number of trauma teams we

have. >> chris, tell us more about the new hospital that's being built. >> reporter: well, kyra, it looks just like any hospital in atlanta, new york, d.c. and it will give them increased capacity by a third. unfortunately, not every unit will be able to take advantage of some of the mobile emergency rooms. those cost about half a million each and right now there are only six in afghanistan. kyra? >> great story. chris lawrence, appreciate it. are you sniffling and sneezing? got gunk in your throat and green on your car? it's pollen season. ♪

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is pointing to bad weather and the pilot not effectively communicating with air traffic controllers. lech kaczynski, his wife and other military and business leaders were killed in the crash in western russia. 97 people were killed. the funeral for the president is saturday. new york city's chinatown was the scene of a massive fire taking 250 firefighters more than four hours to bring the blaze under control. two dozen people were hurt and so were some firefighters. up to 60 families are now homeless. honoring our troops -- a big crowd in areraleigh, north caroa welcome back soldiers from the heavy brigade combat team. they came back in february from their seventh deployment in iraq. they were in southern baghdad to work with iraqi forces. >> it was a great experience. i wouldn't trade it for anything. i'm glad to be back home. >> it was emotional, the people

we lost. >> it's the final conclusion to a long, drawn out process. i'm glad it's over. >> the 30th heavy brigade combat team was the first guard unit sent to iraq twice for unit operation iraqi freedom. oh, springtime. the flowers and trees in bloom and your sinuses under siege. it's pollen season for much of the country. that means millions of you are suffering with allergy problems. 120 is considered high on the po length count. in atlanta, the pollen count is 2,492. here are tips on avoiding that stuff. keep your doors closed, change your clothes. stay indoors at peak times and check the pollen count. rob, do you have bad allergies? >> i didn't until i moved here. >> same with me. >> gives you a few years in the south and you get it good. you have seen this around town. the pine trees just -- it's just

snowing yellow out there. the past week, week and a half you see it blowing around your cars. the allergy specialists tell me that this is not the stuff that really makes you sneeze, that people are allergic to. it's the microscopic pollens that make the allergy sufferers suffer. this gets on your car, in your house. look at the extreme amount of real estate in the high category. mid atlantic down across the south of the mid plains and even in through the southwest. the west coast getting a break because of rainfall. you know, we had a lot of rain, pretty much got rid of the drought because of the heavy rainfall. we had a cold winter, long-lasting winter. that almost delayed spring. but when spring sprung it did so in a hurry. lots of folks in the 80s and 90s.

that got the trees doing their whole thing. west coast getting a break with the rainfall. that's the place to go. good living out there, kyra, as you know. their pollen counts are relatively low compared to everybody else. give it a week or so. maybe we'll get rain here, but it looks dry for the next several days across the eastern third of the country. >> need a good rain to get it out of here. thanks, rob. for more information go to cnn.com/health. not in my backyard, a town with toxic chemicals. the fed stepped in and we have new re litigations. [ woman ] nine iron, it's almost tee-time. time for new zyrtec® liquid gels. they work fast. so i can get relief from the pollen that used to make me sneeze. with new zyrtec® liquid gels, i get allergy relief at liquid speed. that's the fast, powerful relief of zyrtec®,

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what is going on in kettleman, california? after a month-long cnn investigation we may have answers. why care about this small california farming community? because it involves children, people struggling to be heard and it involves birth defects. nearly a dozen since 2007. the environmental protection agency was put on notice and began an intense investigation. now the initial findings have been released. waste management, the company that owns and operating a toxic waste dump there has improperly disposed of a chemical known to cause cancer and reproductive problems. it's the latest development in an investigation that we first brought you in march. >> reporter: how do we know if a

birth defect is more than one mother's misery? >> translator: it's such a small town and such a large problem. we want to give our children life, not death. >> reporter: how do we know if maria's misery is part of a pattern? maria is not alone in the farming community of kettleman city, california. her misery has company. when you're driving through the san joaquin valley in california it's beautiful. green, lush with rolling hills. but just a few feet off this busy highway, something else grabs your attention -- the largest toxic waste dump west of the mississippi.

last year, 400,000 tons of hazardous waste, including led and cancer-linked pcbs found in plastics was dumped here. less than four miles away is kettleman city, a small, poor community with no grocery store, no high school and few sidewalks. the town of 1,500 is also plagued with poor air quality, unsafe drinking water and exposure to pesticides. it also has a startling number of birth defects that some residents believe could be linked to this toxic dump. in the past three years, ten babies have been born with birth defects, three of those children have died. small town, troubling numbers. troubling for mothers like maria

and daria hernandez. daria's son joel was born with a cleft palate. when you look at these pictures, as a mom, how does it make you feel? >> translator: it makes me sad. i look at them and i remember what we had to go through. it was difficult for him to eat. >> reporter: maria's daughter ashley also had a cleft palate. she died. when you knew she didn't have a strong immune system and that you were losing her, what did you say to her? >> translator: i apologized for not taking her earlier to the hospital, but the doctors told me it wasn't my fault, that with babies like this, this is what happens. >> reporter: and just this past february, another baby was born with a birth defect.

this is baby azul, the tenth known case in kettleman city. yet in december, local officials voted in favor of expanding this waste site, sparking protests across this small town. [ chanting ] >> reporter: our investigation led us to a shocking document. take a look at this 1984 report commissioned by the state of california. it actually identifies communities that are least likely to resist a waste site in their area and key characteristics -- low income, and catholic. >> those describe farm worker latino communities to a tee. >> reporter: in a statement to cnn, waste management says the facility operates safely and is fully protective of human health. in addition, four government entities have concluded that

waste management operates safely. however, we discovered past epa violations, including failure to perform monthly monitoring for fluids at its pcb landfill. ingrid is an attorney with the center on race, poverty and the environment. >> if there is potential that these birth defects are caused by environmental contaminants then we shouldn't be introducing any new contaminants. there shouldn't be an expansion of the dump. >> reporter: waste management paid $3 million in taxes to the county. >> it's essential that the county knows what is causing the birth defects before the hazardous waste dump can be expanded. it appears this is a case about the money. >> reporter: so now residents and activists filed a lawsuit against kings county. >> for any discussion of an item

on the consent calendar -- >> reporter: richard valley, the chairman of the board of supervisors agreed to an interview with cnn, but when we came to town he didn't show up. hi, i'm kyra phillips with cnn. you cancelled our interview last week. >> can i call you back? >> reporter: i wanted to ask you a couple of questions -- most importantly why you voted to expand the toxic waste site even without a thorough health investigation. >> do you know i'm the one who called for the investigation? >> reporter: valley asked the state for an investigation into birth defects, on december 15th, but just a week later, on december 22nd, he voted to expand the waste site. >> i separated the health concerns out of kettleman city with the land use decision that i made as it relates to the permit of the waste management

expansion. >> reporter: the point is why vote to expand the toxic waste site when that investigation is not done, when the families haven't been talked to, the kids haven't been studied? >> i answered that already. >> do you understand that question is subject to litigation right now? talk to our attorneys. >> i would be more than happy to talk about this. i have in the chambers and public meetings, but right now i have to stand with the county. folks filed a lawsuit against us. i thought i had delivered with the health investigation. to some people that's not good enough. >> reporter: would you be comfortable if your wife was pregnant in kettleman city right now? >> i can't answer that question. that's not a fair question. >> reporter: maria saucedo echoes the mothers of the city. >> translator: i want a response. i want it quickly.

nobody's given us answers and children continue to be born sick. >> reporter: we want to emphasize that there has been no official connection between the hazardous waste facility and the alarming number of birth defects. also, the lawsuit filed against kings county is still pending. here's what waste management told us once the epa's findings were released. the epa, quote, detected very low levels of pcbs con find to the inside of a pcb storage and flushing building and a small area of soil adjacent to the storage building. the inside of the building has already been cleaned, according to to epa standards, and the affected soil will be immediately cleaned to meet epa requirements. epa also noted three paperwork violations which have already been addressed. recently completed monitoring of air soil and vegetation at the site has confirmed that the pcbs storied and treated at the facility have no impact on human health and the environment. the health and safety of

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the death toll could rise. a declaration of war on the pakistani military. hundreds of taliban fighters attacked a security checkpoint near the border with afghanistan. two security personnel and dozens of militants died in the battle. times square, grand central station. those were the expected targets for najibullah zazi. federal agents arrested him in denver before the planned subway attacks. he wanted to carry out the ait cans november 14, 15 or 16th.

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that's april 15th, tax day. we'll have special coverage. along the way we have been taking you inside the grassroots movement. cnn's political producer shannon travis has been blogging about the crowd, message, messengers. he joins us now. is there a new energy now that michigan congressman bart stupak is resigning? >> reporter: kyra, the energy isn't even the word. the crowd is pumped up in buffalo, new york. along the route we have been following the tea party, primarily because of congressman bart stupak's decision not to seek re-election. that's reinvigorated the movement. many of them say they pushed him out. the congressman says he's resigning to spend more time with family, that his health care vote was a crowning achievement for him and it's time to go.

these tea party activists say, no, it was our campaign that pushed him out. they have a lot of other democrats and republicans in their sights. >> so, shannon, the leader of the tea party tour intends to clean house. here's what mark williams said. i want your reaction right after. >> we need to purge both parties. we need to purge the democrats of the marxists and the republicans of the weaklings. we are on a rhino hunt. we'll drive them to political extinction in the republican party. >> shannon? >> reporter: that's right, kyra. mark williams is actually the leader of the current tea party iii tour. he wants to clean house of democrats and what conservatives call rinos -- republicans in name only. funnily enough, the tea party buses here haven't rolled in yet, but one of the speakers just sent a message to scott

brown, the republican, you know about the election he won in massachusetts. he said he actually helped along with the tea party activists helped with scott brown and said if he doesn't behave he could fall political prey also. it gives you a sense of how active and passionate the tea party activists are. >> you wrote an article for cnn.com, what happens at the tea party rallies. give us a sense of the behind the scenes. it's changed a lot since the party's inception. what do you think some of the misconceptions are? >> reporter: i can tell you one of the biggest misconceptions. it's the stereotype that most of them are racist, that there is an element of anti-obama simply because he's black. a lot of activists say that's the biggest misconception about them. in traveling the past few weeks and seeing the rallies you see

sign that is will be offensive to african-americans, some fringe elements, but by and large that doesn't tell the story. most of the people i met have been welcoming, warm, and that's probably one of the biggest misconceptions i have seen traveling with them. >> we'll continue to follow what you write and the travels with you as well. shannon travis, thank you very much. tiger woods' new nike commercial is fresh meat for the comedy writers of "saturday night live." it's worth waiting for.

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