minute. the barrier islands are home to hundreds of species of wildlife. we'll take you live to show you what cleanup crews are up against. a city under water facing a long painful recovery. flood waters receding across parts of nashville and central tennessee. they are worried they could find more victims. president obama has given the okay to pour federal disaster money into the area. we'll have the latest on how folks are trying to recover. the a.m. fix blog is up and running. head to cnn.com/amfix. we'll read your comments throughout the morning. >> let's get you started with the confessions of a suspected terrorist, faisal shahzad, trying to detonate a car bomb in the heart of times square has admitted to receiving explosive training at a terrorist camp. and there is new information about how close he came to

escaping. when agents approached him on the plane he looked up and said, i was expecting you. this morning we're getting a clearer profile of shahzad and the financial problems he was facing when he allegedly turned on a country that had just honored him with citizenship. deb feyerick where police have been collecting a good deal of evidence from the suspect's foreclosed home. what's the latest? >> reporter: first we'll start with the investigation. after all of that planning to build a bomb and try to create chaos in times square. faisal shahzad is talking. he was interviewed at jfk when he was first arrested but also been spending much of the day talking to investigators. so much so they waived his hearing. he was supposed to appear in federal court. he did not, so investigators could find out good information. how did he get to the region?

who did he meet? not only the leaders but people who may have been training along with him and likely plots. that's key. this is the first time we've seen this in the united states, the car bomb. investigators want to know things like that. that will help in their planning in the future. everything has to be verified. a source i spoke to yesterday told me in the upper circles they are calling this a close call. there was a moment during sunday night where in fact faisal shahzad did fall off the radar. he simply disappeared. he was on the way to the airport and there was a phone interception trying to block a flight on the emirates airline plane. according to the associates i spoke to, at the same time, multiple jfttf teams were being

assembled to execute a search warrant on his house. when he was found and arrested by jfk, in the words of my source, everyone was shocked. they didn't know exactly where he was. you've got a lot of layers. he did buy his ticket in cash. there was that phone intercept but his name was put on a no-fly list but late in the game. because he bought the ticket at the last minute, other airlines check who's on the plane. they weren't able to check his name until after he had purchased the ticket. it really was quick thinking, not only about the airline but the border patrol agents. why are we standing here in connecticut? this is the house where he lived. there are a number of boxes of documents that seemed to be tossed in the backyard that gave us details of who he is. we do know that he worked as a financial analyst at a global

company. really, last year seems to be the turning point for the young man. in june of 2009 he left his job. it was an amicable departure. at the same time his house was in foreclosure. his family was preparing to move away, his wife and two young kids. at the same time his wife was moving to the midwest he left for dubai and spent eight months overseas. it is believed it is during that time he came under the influences of whoever may have talked him into doing this attack on times square when he returned back to the united states. this house was no longer his. he moved into a small apartment and a month later he bought a gun and that's when authorities believe he began gathering the materials to put together the bomb in the car. >> deb feyerick, thanks. >> the arrest of the accused times square bomber was blown up

the case in his native pakistan. pakistani officials have made a number of arrests connected to the not there even though shahzad is claiming he acted alone. nick robertson is on the phone from karachi. >> caller: we're hearing from law enforcement officials here of more arrests today. we don't have numbers or don't know who they are. we do know there are more arrests today. that follows from the two arrests yesterday, coming very quickly after communication was established between u.s. authorities and pakistani officials. it does appear that the investigation continues here. we don't know how many people have been arrested today. but it does seem that the pakistani authorities are still active in this area of karachi where he attended the university at one point. this is not the area where his family most recently lived, that

was close to the afghan border region, kiran. >> we're also hearing from shahzad's family in pakistan. what are they saying about the news of this arrest and the fact that he's claiming that he was indeed behind this plot? >> caller: from his family's visit, we heard from a cousin, that defended him saying that this village, there's been nobody linked with jihadism. so they are putting up a strong defense, saying it doesn't make sense. the father had a respectable profession in pakistan. so it's a shock for them, the family and close neighbors. but also they are putting up a strong defense of this man himself and the rest of his extended family, kiran. >> nic, there's an interesting

report out of the associated press claiming that pakistan's army is saying that it doubts that the pakistani taliban was behind this times square bombing. they said the claim should be taken with a pinch of salt. any other comments or reaction froms the pakistani government or whether or not they buy this? >> caller: they said it is something they want to distance themselves from. when you talk to people on the streets they are concerned about this because there's another representation -- pakistan already has bad reputation -- >> looks like we lost our connection with nic. also coming up at 6:40, we'll speak to former cia officer jack rice and david kelley about the charges shahzad is saying and

how much is to be believed by law enforcement. the massive oil slick slowly but surely is making its way towards the shore. rob marciano is looking at where it is heading and so far, rob, folks have gotten lucky. will the look hold out? >> reporter: very lucky indeed. that's the big question. it's a race against the clock. right now conditions are very favorable as far as the weather is concerned. we had the strong south winds over the weekend pushing that oil directly to the shoreline. now the winds have turned lighter and will be that way for the next several days. some of the dispersants they are putting on the oil is helping show the spread. 2,000 square miles of this thing, going 150 miles into the gulf of mexico. at the fringes it's spotty and difficult to see where it was. we went up in the air and saw it did get in the chandelier

islands. there is where it is right now. the forecast over next several days, maybe a slow progression to the west. no progression expected to the north. that's good news for the folks of mississippi and the coastline of florida for now. what they are doing to prep, they are cleaning the beaches before the oil even gets close. the theory here is if the less debris there is on the beach and if the oil does come, it's easier to clean it off the beach. these are bp contracted workers scrambling to get the beach clean. and it may be as clean as that i have seen here in quite some time. no promises as far as next week goes so they've got to cap that thing and figure out a solution before the weather turns worse and inevitably it probably will. >> thanks, rob. new this morning, a scathing

fda inspection report shows more than 20 problems at a plant that manufacturers several varieties of children's cold medicines, including tylenol and benadryl. the drugs were recalled over the weekend. the inspector say the company used raw materials contaminated with bacteria and failed to follow up on complaints of black pe particles in the drugs. we'll talk to carl neilson. trying to determine whether it is an appropriate use of force to taser fans who walk out on the field. a philadelphia cop used a stun gun to drop a 17-year-old fan in his tracks. police are backing the officer's actions. another fan jumped out during last night's game but police didn't use a taser to apprehend them. >> he called his dad, i'm

thinking of running on the field, what do you think? i don't think it will be a good idea. it would be a once in a lifetime chance and he did it. a couple of teams said we don't have tasers, we don't allow them in new york. no, we don't tase fans either. the philadelphia police said we didn't know what this guy was up to. we wanted to take him down. >> don't run out in the field. still to come, we're going to the gulf of mem cxico, where we're getting a first-hand look on the oil slick. favorite strea. the one that runs through a field where pollen floats through the air. but now, with the strength of 24-hour zyrtec® to relieve my worst allergy symptoms, indoors and outdoors... let's go before the fish stop biting. they won't wait for us. but that's okay. zyrtec® is the fastest 24-hour allergy medicine. today, we battle wits with the trout.

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venice, louisiana. david, you saw firsthand the impact the oil is having on the wildlife. what have you seen so far? >> reporter: we went out into the gulf of mexico looking for oil. we found it, but what we found in the oil made it even more disturbing. take a look. both captains told us where to find it, an ugly reddish-brown wave of oil. the seas are still rough, but right here in front of us, looks like a red, muddy line through the water. that is the oil. national wildlife federation president believes the impact on wildlife is inevitable. >> it's been treated so it's breaking up and disbursing into the water column.

>> reporter: all the way down. i'm going to grab a towel here. this is rubbing up against the side of the boat. there it is. that's what's in the water, sticking to the side of the boat right there. if this is doing this to the boat, what is it going to do to anything that lives in the water? >> hard on the fish and shell fish. >> reporter: the oil seems to go on forever. over here, as far as the eye can see, there's a red line of that oil going right across the gulf of mexico. it is endless. as bad as it looked, it was about to get worse. this was something we didn't expect to see. this is a sea turtle, right here in the water, right near the top, swimming right in the middle of that oily mess. >> he's having trouble, that's why he's doing that. >> reporter: clearly stressed. the turtle has to come up for

air? >> yes, when it does it's picking up the oil on the surface. >> reporter: taking it into its body? >> yes, if you're drinking oil it's not good for the digestion system. he's in distress. >> reporter: it seemed to be having breathing problems and after a few moments it disappeared into the reddish oily muck. we're about to take off, didn't want to leave without getting a souvenir. there it is, the gulf of mexico oil spill. that's one leading band of it, see how it's floating to the top. all of this is going that way back towards shore. and this is what it looks like almost 12 hours later. you see how this is all separated after the oil has come in contact with the dispersant, coming down to the bottom of the bottle and up here the nasty oil film, almost a small microkaux of what we saw in the gulf of

mexico. >> eventually it does get eaton how long did is that take? >> reporter: we hear different things. there are people that say it will stay in the environment for years before it disappears. the concern is right now, what the marine wildlife that is out there that particularly, the turtles and mammals that have to come up for air, they encounter that slick, that sheen on the top. and they have to encounter this material floating in the water column. tiny little pellets, they go down as far as you can possibly see. that turtle was coming up multiple times, almost like it was gasping for breath as it would come up and swimming ee

erratically. >> there's nothing they can do at this point to plug the gushing leak from the well. david mattingly, thanks so much. coming up next, we're talking more about the i'oil slk in the gulf. it could also impact your wallet. christine romans, "minding your business" next.

oil is still leaking off the coast of louisiana. british petroleum has a good plan. they are hoping to create a giant vinegar spill to turn the gulf of mexico into a delicious salad dressing. >> if only it was that easy. >> hardly though. that oil spill hurting more than just marine life from coffee to tires to a lot of other goods you count on every day could see an impact. good morning, christine. >> a lot of stuff comes down the mississippi river and a lot of

things imt ported up through new orleans. there could be disruptions to the shipping lanes. i'm calling it the logistics tango, to make sure you don't see disruptions. this will be critical over the next 60 to 90 days. coffee, you've got a lot of coffee beans coming up here. several weeks have been stockpiled ahead of time to make sure their manufacturing facilities don't run out of green beans so you wake up with folgeres in your cup. a ten-day fishing shutdown is going to probably mean shrimp prices will go up. we do think they will go up and other seafood as well. sport fishing shut down there. did you know rubber, the biggest import lane for rubber is right

up there through the gulf of mexico? it could have an impact on what you're going to pay eventually for tires. what does it matter if the traffic is still coming through the gulf of mexico, why does it matter if the oil slick is there? these big ships have to be power washed before they can go to the offloading facilities in the port of new orleans. think of the time and backup, for example of grain barges coming down the mississippi. you have to power wash the ships before the grain can be offloaded. that could be a difficulty. 60% of our exports come through there. we bring in a huge number of bananas and fruit. all of those big ships will have to be power washed. and we've got higher prices already 6 cents higher for gasoline prices. the amount of oil we're talking about is a thim bl full in a

market full of supplies. it's the psychological impact. you have gas prices moving higher. so we'll watch for that as well. >> christine, thanks so much. the water is finally beginning to go down in nashville, that's just revealing the extent of the real damage left over by the catastrophic flooding over the weekend. 25 minutes after the hour.

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♪ 28 minutes past the hour. president obama giving the green light to spend federal disaster money to help in the relief efforts for nashville and surrounding counties in tennessee. the cumberland river, which cuts through downtown is still receding. officials are worried as the water recedes they'll find more victims. the flooding downtown has shut down electricity and that is complicated things more. here's a look at how things stand this morning. good morning, martin. >> reporter: good morning. it is looking a little better. the daylight is starting to appear here. you might see it reflecting over the cumberland river. it's going by at freight train

speed. as you point out, the effort to try to get the water of those places hampered by lack of electricity, the water got into the wiring and that never goes over too well. as the water recedes, the fear is the death toll will go up. we went with two teams in cheatham county in a small town that was hard hit. we meet captain tony clark, whose only had about eight hours of sleep. >> we still need to go in and do our search, i understand that. just in case, we need to see if we can get into the house. >> reporter: these specially trained firefighters were here over the weekend and now they are back to make sure everyone got out alive. >> this will keep us from having

to search these houses again. we'll mark them and know they are clear and we won't have to come back and waste resources again. >> reporter: located down the stream, nashville city is still battling the water. it still has a long way to go and so does captain clark. >> everything is clear here. we're going to our next area from here. >> reporter: a half mile from city hall, on a road that is now a boat ramp, we hit a ride with different firefighters searching where only boats can go. for derrick, these are familiar waters. his son usually plays soccer on the field 15 feet beneath us. the floodwaters have brought new dangers, of which propane tanks are just one. you've got to avoid the traffic lights. out here the water plays tricks on you, some houses don't look so bad until you realize you're looking at the third floor. sunday when the crews first came

out it was to warn the residents the floodwaters were coming. two-thirds decided to stay. ever since then they have been pulling in all of the people who stayed behind. >> it got ugly and said they would sleep on the roof or whatever, they wasn't going to leave. we picked them up the following day off their roof. they got their wish. >> reporter: just trying to get close to a home for a look isn't easy. first, you have to clear the trees. >> you don't know what's underneath you, trampolines or swimming pools. >> reporter: you don't find anyone and head back. you wonder how long it will take to get back to normal. from the looks of things, it's going to take some time. those search teams will be out again today searching once more to see if they find anyone. the death toll right now in the

state of tennessee stands at 19. >> martin, thanks so much. we're crossing the half hour. prosecutors say the suspected times square bomber faisal shahzad is talking and admitted he got bomb-making training in pakistan. there it blows again, the iceland volcano. what was the name again? causing more trouble for flyers over europe. a new ash cloud forcing british officials to close down air space over northern ireland and scotland this morning. the leading edges of the oil spill grazing the shoreline. bp expects to lower a metal container over the biggest leak this week and the goal is to suck the oil to a drill ship

where it can be collected. as the spill spreads, bp officials met with washington lawmakers over how much money the oil company will pay for the cleanup and its economic impact. there were charges that federal regulators were asleep at the switch before the disaster occurred. brian todd is digger deeper this morning. >> reporter: new concerns about the government agency that ov oversees the oil business. they understated the amount of previous oil spills in the gulf and potential impact, according to a warning sent last year from n oxt a noaa. it says when asked for a risk assessment, they used outdated information and failed to include more recent information from many sources, including a big increase in spills from hurricanes katrina and rita. the head of one watchdog group

says this -- >> one of agencies really doing their job and raising concern and saying as we're looking at offshore drilling, shouldn't you be concerned about the implications and them ignoring them. >> reporter: it was posted by a website for government official called peer. a spokesman said they were not official comments from noaa, only meant to start a dialogue. >> we've had problems with them for over a decade. recognizing this is an agency that thinks the oil and gas industry as their partner or client rather than an industry they should be regulated. >> reporter: despite several calls and e-mails, mms did not respond to that. records show that before this accident, bp was confident it could handle this kind of spill. in one document, the company said it has the capability to respond to a worst-case discharge, which it estimated then at 300,000 gallons a day.

this well is leaking less than that amount. bp is struggling to contain it and has been criticized by the government. i asked if they overestimated their ability to respond? >> what you're seeing from our response capability, this is huge, not just bp, there are federal agencies and state agencies here with us. i think it speaks well that we were able to manage, to get resources to quickly in these areas and really start a pro active response effort. >> reporter: robert thomas teaches journalism students how to cover the oil industry. have they done a good job? >> an awful lot of people feel like they are doing nothing. it's one of those priority things. i want them down there at 5,000 feet to stop the flow. >> reporter: bp officials tell us they are doing everything they can 24/7 to do that. the latest effort, to dome and

filter on to ships and says it will have the dome in place by the end of the week. cnn, new orleans. >> every second counts but they are building it from scratch. >> they did use, to some extent after hurricane katrina, but they don't have a supply on shore. they don't even know if it's going to work. that's the real question. >> it's going to be much harder in the deep ocean waters to try to make that work. our coverage of the times square bombing continues. we'll speak with former u.s. attorney david kelley and jack rice, more about the suspect and how in the future you would catch somebody like him. 36 minutes past the hour.

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♪ the american citizen accused of planning a car bomb in a packed times square is talking and talking more to the point that authorities want to be careful he's not bragging. faisal shahzad was questioned before and after he was read his miranda rights and admitted his role in the attempted bombing and he received bomb-making training in pakistan.

david kelley joining us now and a washington former cia officer, jack rice. great to see you both. jack, let's start with you, a couple of things have come to light in recent hours. that is the fact that while this guy was put on the no-fly list, emirates airlines hadn't updated their list and didn't know he was there. it wasn't until customs and border patrol went through the flight manifest that it was discovered he was there. are these lapses in security? >> absolutely they are. we were talking about you this, you and i with abdulmutallab. it was one of a whole list of problems. everybody is pleased they were able to catch him. but the fact this happened after he boarded the airline, this could be problematic.

i'm saying that nicely. it should have worked on the first try. >> david kelley, we also learned the fbi lost track of this fellow for a time. kind of reminds me of those episodes of "24." the perimeter and somehow the terrorist gets out. >> i don't think people how realize how challenging it is for the fbi to track somebody. this is a success story all around. there's things that have to be evaluated. what went right, what went wrong? the system was tested on a lot of fronts and we need to go back and examine and evaluate what happened, why it happened, how we can prevent it from happening again. >> this guy is singing like a jay bird. would you trust everything that comes out of his mouth? >> lots of folks in this position do sing like a jay bird. and he's doing it and it's much better to have him singing than saying nothing. let the agents and officers

evaluate that information and corroborate it against other information they know to be true and sort through that. it sounds as though there's a lot of things he's saying that matches up against what we do now about, his travel and contacts overseas. >> from what we've heard so far about the confession to investigators that he was trained in explosives in taliban training camp, it was initially thought maybe he didn't have the same connections as najibullah zazi, the alleged subway bomber. does this cement a greater connection between what's going on in the tribal areas in pakistan and new threats against the united states? >> it seems to. but again, i agree with david on this. we never really know exactly what it is we have. as an interrogator, if you're going to interrogate somebody and you're trying to understand what it is they are doing, you

have to have skepticism in everything they say. so you have to be careful. however, at the same time, earlier on we didn't know if there was any international connection whatsoever. the fact he did spend five months in pakistan. the fact he may have -- may well have been up in waziristan, all of those are issues that are relevant. there are two people that have been detained and questioned as we speak on that side of the issue. if you can match these together independently, you could verify a lot more. and that's critical here just because somebody says something doesn't necessarily make it so. >> you have the najibullah zazi case and abdulmutallab case and what happened over times square

and hack bull la mehsud. would you take that together as threats against the homeland? >> it's really hard to evaluate. what al qaeda has done or whatever terrorist group may be behind it is taking people like we arrested in times square, if they are willing to go, we're willing to send them. let's throw them out there and see what sticks up against the wall. that may be what we're seeing. and we need that tremendous vij lance -- >> he has admitted he was involved in this but he can always plead not guilty in a court of law. do you think they've got a solid case against them? >> it sounds like they do. it doesn't sound like he's pleaded guilty but he is cooperating. it sounds as though they have a

solid case having read the complaint. >> thanks for being with us. jacqui jeras will be along with the travel forecast. many parts of the country have calmed down after a week of extreme weather. we'll be right back.

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♪ 47 minutes past the hour. here's a beautiful look at atlanta where it is almost 60 degrees and sunny. little bit later going up to 84

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grabbing the rope. jacqui jeras, quite a rescue there. >> what were they doing out there in the first place? >> i have to wonder that myself. you're always taking a chance when you know how quickly things can change. >> looks like the water was knee-deep and a 30-foot water fall, certainly a dangerous situation. we have a lot of floodwaters across the south. if you are out there traveling, don't play in the dirty nasty water, sewage and oil and all kinds of bad stuff. the upper midwest, you can see the showers and thunder showers making their way across wisconsin and chicago will see this later on this morning. behind that front, we're going to have real strong gusty winds pushing 35 miles per hour. travel delays expected. slight risks of thunderstorms that are severe here from indianapolis up towards cleveland, even into detroit.

that will kick in this afternoon. damaging winds and large hail will be the primary threats, though we can't rule out the isolated tornado. ahead of this system, is it gorgeous here? nothing but sunshine. we've got a little fog to start you out with into southern georgia but we'll burn that off by 9:00, 10:00. scattered showers and storms expected across central florida. that's about it. overall temps about 15 degrees above normal. behind the front i was telling you about, we're way below average. 10 to 25 degrees. only 55 in minneapolis. 70 degrees in chicago. that's before the front moves through and getting toasty across the south. 92 degrees in the houston area. getting like summer down there. >> and jacqui, what's so amazing, the grand oel opry

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good wednesday morning to you. thanks for joining us on this 5th day of may. >> i'm kiran chetry. here are the big stories we're telling you about. the latest on tracking down the terror suspect. this morning we're learning that authorities who were tailing the times square bomb suspect, faisal shahzad, lost him as he made his waive y to the jfk air. how is a person on the no-fly list able to board a flight to

dubai? bracing for impact, a massive oil slick reaches the mouth of mississippi moving ever closer to shore in the gulf of mexico. we'll talk to bp's chief operating officer and how far the company is willing to go for economic damages. if you give your kids cold or allergy medicines. the food and drug administration is slamming conditions at a facility that made children's benadryl and tylenol and motrin. we'll talk to a retired safety officer coming up. was it a no-fly list failure? we're learning more about the lapses and luck that led to the capture of a man accused of plotting a car bomb. >> they found the suv smoking and identified their suspect, faisal shahzad, placed him on the no-fly list and chased him on a flight to dubai.

>> how was a suspected terrorist on the no-fly list still able to buy a ticket and board a plane? our special investigations correspondent drew griffin joins us. for a long time you were on the no-fly list. >> that's right. there are lapses on getting off for sure. he is placed there monday afternoon. there's this period of time where the emirates would have to download, get that material and put it on their no-fly list. it's not automatically updated as it was supposed to be by the beginning of it year. they are still working out that program. number two is that customs border and protection was at the airport. they were checking and knew there was a security hole. they kept updating and checking everybody on every international flight. >> emirates didn't update the no-fly list. hadn't tsa sent out a bulletin,

we have a name to look at? >> clearly there is a lapse here. keep in mind he's under arrest and confessing and nobody got hurt. but you have to go back and say we did have a hole. this is a hole. there's a lot of instant things not clicking. you have to figure out why and make them better and tighter. when a person gets put on a no-fly list, he should be on every airport in the country instantly. >> the other question is how you're able to boost the priority. is there one overall alert? or can you prioritize that? they thought he was the suspect in an attempted terror attack on times square, that should reach a different level. >> i totally agree with you. apparently we don't have the system in place. we don't have that system where you automatically send out the alert that this is the top guy

everybody is looking for. i think that's where the system needs to drastically improve. >> when you look at in mayor bloomberg said this yesterday, we came very close -- how close did they come to losing him? >> that's hard to say. people have been caught on planes as the planed are up and have turned around. dubai, that's a long flight. we have plenty of time to get to dubai. so how close were they? he was on board the plane and the door was shut when they took him off. interestingly enough, when the plane is leaving, they thought we have two more guys on the plane we want to talk to. this is what happened. take a listen. >> 2-2 right position, actually, i have a message for you to go back to the gate immediately. so make the left turn when able. >> turning left here. >> make the left turn on to echo west al fa, you can call your company for the reason.

>> they called the company but there was two more guys they wanted to check. they turned out to be false alarms, but that plane was taxiing out and heading towards the runway. >> there was a different narrative that perhaps this was intentional, that they let him get on the plane and waited to see whether he made a phone call to somebody using a cell phone, maybe to dubai or pakistan, i'm here. so yesterday as more of the story unfolded, that was not intentional letting it come down to the wire? >> no, it wasn't. it was maybe speculation and hope that was what was happening. there was a screw up and they have to figure out what went wrong and why it went wrong and fix. >> it should update automatically. >> like thousands of americans, faisal shahzad and his family were recently forced from their

home after the bank moved to foreclosure. he had serious financial woes when he attacked the country that just awarded him citizenship. deb feyerick, what's the update this morning? >> reporter: well, you know, kiran. one of things that authorities are looking for, what changed in the life of faisal shahzad to make him do what he did. this was a young man whose life appeared to be on track. he arrived on a student visa, gone to the university of bridgeport, getting two degrees from there. at the time he is working as an in-house financial analyst at a major marketing company in june. his life appears to unravel. he quit his job. he was behind on his mortgage payments and lost his home. his wife was forced to sell their belongings and move away. it was at that time that shahzad went to dubai and telling

authorities he spent part of that time is a jihadi training camp. in february he bought a 9 millimeter rifle and building allegedly that bomb. now his wife had given a neighbor a computer. that computer was seized yesterday. here's how the neighbor described the family. >> very private person. kept to herself, liked to come out at night and wear all black and go jogging much his wife didn't speak much english. his daughter played with my daughter, oldest daughter. i didn't suspect he would do something like this. >> reporter: shahzad did waive his right to remain silent. he's talking to investigators. one of big things they want to know, how did he make his way to this jihad training camp and who did he meet with?

not only the leaders, but what other young men maybe training, people who have passports who can travel easily throughout america and europe. also, what kinds of plot were they discussing at this jihad training camp? if this all works out for investigators, maybe they'll figure out exactly what was going on in his mind and what really is at stake or in play, what the jihad is are thinking about. a young man seemingly on track and it begins to unravel. we saw that the with detroit plane bomber and with the young man who went from denver to new york. it's happening, they are looking for something. >> we'll find out more about this. deb, thank you so much. we'll talk about shahzad and the possible accomplices when we're joined by nicholas smidle and

pet peter brookes. federal law capped bp's liability for economic damages in the gulf oil disaster at $75 million. senate democrats, however, want to change that law and raise the limit fairly dramatically to $10 billion. bp is picking up the tab for cleanup cost which could run as much as $14 million. bp's mufl of mexico drilling was exempt, showing bp's lease got a cat gorical exclusion from the analysis. neither federal regulators or the company anticipated an accident on the scale they have

now. if it gets cut in the loop current it could empty out through the florida keys. officials in the keys are bracing for the potential spill impact and preparing to protect the prime tourist territory there. the calm ocean waters expected to keep the oil slick at sea for next couple of days but it is already lapping up against the shore and threatening marine life and wildlife. the oil forecast has it at the mouth of the mississippi river and inching ever closer. the massive slick grazing the shore of the barrier islands. cleanup efforts are underway, even before the oil arrives. rob marciano is live in gulfport, mississippi. how much longer are weather conditions expected to remain favorable? >> several days thankfully, but you have current in the gulf and mississippi river dumping into the gulf complicating matters even more. what we saw was the oil did infiltrate the chandelier

islands and sound getting dangerously close to the wetlands of extreme southeast louisiana into the mouth of the mississippi, the delta itself, we didn't quite see that. it will get very close, if not into the delta over the next few days. as you mentioned, there are preps being done before the oil gets close. the theory here is that if you clean the beach of debris, if oil does land on the sand, the sand will be easier to clean up. yesterday one of the -- hosted by bp and other entities -- was safety training courses to train volunteers that want to get out and do the same thing, a lot of nervous energy. people are scared and want to put the energy to work. they are taking courses to volunteer themselves. a lot of people wanted to get their questions answered by bp. there were not bp officials there but it was officially hosted by them. at sea the work continues, 200

vessels continuing to lay boom. they have a million feet to left to help out. c-130s have been brought in to attack this thing from above. the good news is some of this dispersant seems to have been working. the slick, even though it continues to leak, the slick itself doesn't seem to be getting bigger. the untolled damage at sea has been done. the light winds, it may drift it farther to the west towards the mississippi delta. as far as getting down to the keys, that is way too far away to tell. winds will not be onshore in the northern gulf for the next several days, if at all. but the mississippi delta and certainly the west coast of florida, long term is system not out of the woods so to speak. john and kiran, back to you. >> you mentioned, rob, that people have a lot of questions to ask bp. coming up in ten minutes' time,

we'll answer those questions. we'll talk with doug suttles. music facing a long recovery after getting four months of rain. the rivers are receding and revealing the misery in nashville this morning. the gulf oil spill putting thousands of fish and birds at risk. what's being done to prevent more? we'll get together with two experts who will tell us. at 7:52 eastern time. how concerned should you be if you give your kids well-known brands of allergy medicines. numerous violations found at a facility used to make children's medicine.

♪ 14 minutes after the hour. happening now, tensions over greece's growing debt crisis, boiling over in the streets of athens. police fired tear gas at protesters. they are striking over the decision to accept painful cuts, like reducing salaries and imposing higher taxes on alcohol and cigarettes. today's strikes have shut down hospitals and schools and tourism sites. the feds say times square bomb plot suspect faisal shahzad is admitting he got bomb-making training in waziristan and getting phone calls from his country in the days leading up to the failed attack. let's bring in peter brookes and

nicholas smidle, now with the new america foundation. welcome to both of you. peter, you spent a lot of time with us as the developments are coming out. we now learned he has admitted he got bomb-making training in native pakistan. what does this tell you about the threat of a naturalized u.s. citizen being able to go back to pakistan, under the radar? >> yeah, that's the thing. people are talking about the success of preventing him from leading the country, arresting him. but he got very close, kiran to getting that bomb going off. he traveled to pakistan, went to a training camp and reentered the united states and gathered materials, drove them into times square. there were 99% correct -- he was 99% positive in getting to making that thing explode. this is really, really bad news. everybody seems to be focusing

on the no-fly list and the fact we arrested them. but there should be no back slapping going on here. >> what is the biggest concern in your mind? >> i want to know who was behind him and who gave him his training. he talked about waziristan, it is broken up into north and south. some of the other groups, i want to know where he got his training and who was behind this. the taliban is claiming responsibility and that would be a new threat to us here in the united states. >> what do you make any ties between shahzad and the taliban in pakistan? intelligence officials have been skeptical of the claims and said they need to be taken with a grain of salt this morning. they have doubt that there was this connection. >> well, i think the question is whether the pakistani taliban are capable of doing such a

thing. but i think we're also underestimating the pakistani taliban and afghan taliban that we routed from afghanistan ten years ago are two totally different beast. the pakistani taliban has been in closer cooperation with al qaeda and they are the ones that ran the double agent that killed blackwater officers in late september. this is a sophisticated operation and they do have global ambitions. >> that's the question now because we're hearing reporting from nic robertson that there were more arrests in pakistan in connection with shahzad. how strong of a partner will the pakistani police and law enforcement be in helping us determine how much involvement there may have been from the groups we're talking about? >> well, the pakistani government has had an about-face in terms of counterterrorism

cooperation with the united states. they arrested top taliban officials in major cities, including karachi, there's been military operations in south waziristan. this is a very different pakistani government than the one we had been dealing with for past nine years. we can expect good cooperation. >> there's a couple of articles highlighting the effectiveness of these drone strikes that the u.s. doesn't officially acknowledge. some reporting that perhaps this may have been, at least what faisal shahzad may have been telling some law enforcement, pay back for those that killed the top insurgents in pakistan? >> we have to work with the pakistanis, but this is a fabulous asset we have here to go after the top leaders. and we have a top al qaeda leaders as well as we thought we had the leader of the taliban

who just resurfaced. it's a very important element, not the entire program or entire policy, but a very important element of our counterterrorism strategy in that part of the world. >> bottom line, do you think there's other people out there like this? that have this desire and intent? >> we have to have some imagination and be able to imagine things that are previously unthinkable. that there are other naturalized citizens floating around certainly seems plausible? >> how do we tackle that? >> it's a real challenge. i don't think we're looking our best after this one went down. we'll have to look at things and understand that kplansancecy is one of our biggest enemies in this threat. >> thanks to both of you this morning. bp feeling the heat over the gulf coast oil spill. with they go the extra mile to pay for damages from the disaster? a bp executive joins us coming up next. it's monday,

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23 minutes after the hour. welcome back to the most news in the morning. cheenup and containment efforts, now a race against time. the bp says it's doing everything it can to bottle up the disastrous oil spill and minimize the damage. mr. suttles, thanks for being with us. yesterday david rainy, your vice president of production told congress that this well, thought to be leaking 5,000 barrels a day could dramatically increase the oil it is putting out. what kind of figures are you looking at here? >> thanks for the opportunity to join you guys. what dave described yesterday to members of congress was in -- in certain conditions, this is all in the permit to drill and permit to explore, but under

certain conditions the rate could go higher if the blowout preventer was completely free. >> he stated yesterday to congress it could be as high as 60,000 barrels a day. what would happen in the gulf if it started heeking at that rate? >> it's hard to know. i think all of us are making sure that doesn't happen. i don't think anyone believes it's very likely. clearly, it's the sort of thing we need to be prepared for in case it did occur. >> in terms of doing everything you can, the latest attempts here will be to put these -- very much like coffer dams to collect the oil, almost like an upsidedown funnel to pump the oil back up to the surface. these have been tried at shallow depths, was the likelihood it's going to work?

>> you've absolutely nailed the challenge. i'm confident we'll do everything we can to make it work. we have the best people in the world working on this. it will leave around noon and take about 12 hours to get to the scene and then a couple of days to get to the bottom. i think what could happen here, it will be a bit frustrating at the beginning, but i'm confident we'll find a way to make this work. >> a question comes to mind. if you're going to drill at those depths, 5,000, 6,000 feet, some even deeper than that, it not incumbent on the company to practice the plans in case of something like this so you're not just experimenting when it comes to shutting off the know of oil? >> you know, john, the contingency plans in place for us and others, we do drill with the agencies. but i think what's happening here, unfortunately we're learning about the new science we need and things we need to

develop. i'm sure once this is complete, that thinking will move a long way. the requirements that had to be there were in place. but clearly we need to do more. >> in terms of the amount of money that bp is going to end up paying -- and i know it's going to be a huge amount of money, probably billions of dollars in the cleanup, but the economic damages by federal law are capped at $75 billion. is bp going to hold to that cap or will bp go beyond -- will they try to be a good neighbor and good corporate citizen and go beyond that cap in terms of the potential economic damage? >> we've said since the beginning that we'll meet our responsibilities. and i think our behavior since the beginning, we've shown that. any impacts that are legitimate and created by this, we'll meet those responsibilities and we've shown that since the very, very beginning. an example of that was the thing we did two days ago with the $25 million state grants to unlock

the process. we're going to do what we need to do here, john. >> you say legitimate claims. how will you measure what a legitimate claim is? would you, again, go beyond the $75 million cap if you find these claims under whatever terms you're about to apply to them to be legitimate? >> on, i don't think the $75 million cap is going to be the issue. things where there's impact from this, from this event, this spill, whether they be economic impact or whether it be environmental impact, we'll have to meet those responsibilities. just an example of that right now. people can call our hot line and file a claim and they'll actually get their money. we want to get them to them quickly because we know it is having impact on people today. >> doug suttles, thanks for being with us. a lot of people are wishing you luck in getting this thing shut off. >> thanks, john. following the terror trail, nic robertson live in pakistan with where the suspect was

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half past the hour. it's time for our top stories. parts of tennessee still totally stunned after getting four months' worth of rain in a two-day span. rivers are receding and damaged furniture is piling up on the curb after people recover from storms that killed 23 people, 10 of those deaths in the nashville

area alone. >> trying to stop the black tide, bp, the company that owns the leaking oil well in the gulf of mexico now plans to place a 100-ton containment dome, something experts say has never been tried so deep. the arrest of the accused times square bomber, pakistani officials have made a number of arrests connected to the plot even though shahzad says he acted alone. nic has the latest. >> reporter: we have an update for you. the two people arrested last night, we know who they are, one is the father-in-law, the father of huma, and another is a close friend of mr. shahzad.

both of these arrests came last night. further arrests today, not clear on the numbers arrested today -- in and around this area of karachi, his family home where his father is believed to live is father north, closer to -- city -- >> looks like we lost nic, we'll try to get him on the phone. the news out of karachi is that the suspect, faisal shahzad, his arrest here leading to raids in pakistan and led to the arrest of his father-in-law, as well as his close friend. other arrests as well, nic saying they are not clear on the numbers. but the investigation is

continuing. nic, now that we have you on the phone. not clears on the numbers today, but you know there were more arrests. what ils do you know? >> what's very interesting here is these arrests are coming around karachi and because we now know his father-in-law was one of those arrested, it does focus on that side of his family and his old friends rather than where we understand his father is or at least was until recently, which is close to that town where the northwest frontier province of lawless tribal border area of afghanistan. the police have been very, very close-lipped here. normally in pakistan in situations like this, little bits of information slip out. security sources give away information. right now it's very quiet and very little information coming indeed. we've been checking on some of mr. shahzad's past here calling one source, we've been told just

not to say anything right now. the government is trying to keep a lid on the detailed of what happened and why would they want to do that? because they don't want to limit and impact further arrests they might be about to make. >> there are questions today about whether the pakistani taliban would be behind this. there were claims of responsibility. this would be the first time if indeed they are behind this, that they reach inside the borders of the united states, as we know tied to the situation that happened to the cia base in afghanistan. is the threat of the pakistani taliban potentially changing? >> caller: i think the assessment has to be yes, experts are saying, don't be surprised by the pakistani experts are saying don't be surprised by this. what we're being told by the pakistani army spokesmen is that they don't see any direct link right now. but the threat internationally, we do know they've attempted to

strike inside europe. we do know they are becoming more -- working hand in hand when when it comes to training and executing missions. the case of the jordanian doctor who killed operatives, a case where it appeared the pakistani taliban were working closely with al qaeda. when you look at how the groups are operating -- they are side by side, in the same mountainous area and sometimes sharing the same camp. this is a history we're seeing, one group will united states th -- use them for some months. it should not come as a surprise, many would see it as an escalation of perhaps their retaliation for strikes they see happening against them from drones operated from inside the united states, kiran.

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the gulf coast oil spill we were hoping we wouldn't see. a sea turtle picked here swimming in the slick. one of the first signs of how much trouble could be in store for the hundreds of thousands of marine animals and wildlife that live there. joining me now from new orleans, randy pa seen na and in ij ka, new york rosenberg. i want to start with the video of sea turtle from david mattingly. he had a chance to get out there with the crews assessing the damage on wildlife. how anxious are you as you wait to see how big of an impact this will make on the wildlife there in the gulf? >> well, just, as was mentioned earlier by the bp rep, we prepare for the worst. we have to prepare for the worst. we have all of our teams and sea

turtle and mammal straining network is ready to go. as of last night there was no related see turtle strandings or injuries due to the oil. >> but you expect that to change? >> we hope that it doesn't change. but we expect the worst and we will be prepared for it. >> how can 2 00,000 gallons of crude oil gush into the watt area and not make a major impact? what are we talking about the terms of toxicity and the long term effects on the region? ken? can you hear me? >> oh, i'm sorry. yes. the timing couldn't be worse for the bird population in this region. it's the peak nesting season for thousands of brown pelicans which have recently come off the endangered species list. birds all along the coastline on the beaches and in the coastal

marshes and peak migration time for birds coming long distances from central south america need to strop and rereplenish themselves. our fear is their find a lot of oil when they get there. >> the fish eggs and shrimp eggs will be impacted. could the potential could go far beyond what we're talking about in the initial spill, in the initial slick but for years to come? >> well, what's important to remember. let's pretend by some miracle, the spill never touches the shore of louisiana. these animals have to complete a life sicycle. if some part involves going out into the ocean and coming back in and that's interrupted, that effect will be for years to come. >> kentucky, i want to ask about the dispersant chemicals.

environmentalists are looking at these with a wary eye. there are unintended consequences as well because they are also toxic to the sea life and fish in the area. what is your feeling about -- i guess, juggling the two things, the lesser of two evils, the oil or the dispersant? >> well, that's exactly right. we're either trying to prevent the oil from getting on shore where we'll know there will be a lot of devastating consequences that are going to be highly visible and these dispersants are keeping the oil out in the water and down under the water. we don't know a lot about the toxicity of these chemicals. but certainly it will have major effects to the marine life. and ultimately this is the same marine life that the birds and animals on the surface are dependant on. because we're not seeing oil washing ashore does not mean

there aren't major effects happening in the water in that the kmchemicals are contributin to that. >> they have not found a way to plug it yet and it could be some time. certainly people are bracing for devastation. randy and ken rosenberg, things for joining us this morning. >> head to cnn.com/impact, you'll find a list of reputable organizations that are accepting volunteers. jacqui jeras has your morning travel forecast after the break. stay with us. 42 minutes after the hour. and you'll dump your old mop. but don't worry. he'll find someone else. ♪ who's that lady? ♪ who's that lady? ♪ sexy lady ♪ who's that lady?

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later on today the sunshine will continue and the high will get up into the low 80s. >> enjoy it while we can. 46 minutes past the hour. let's check on this morning's weather headlines. jacqui jeras is in atlanta. >> up and down the east coast it is gorgeous. here in atlanta, we're still kind of dealing with high water. check out these pictures that we have from roswell georgia. a high water rescue across a dam. some teenagers decided it would be a good idea to walk across it. not so much. the rescue workers had to come in and they threw a big life ring to them and were able to pull them safely to shore. a good reminder that even though it hasn't rained in two days now across the deep south, the water is running quickly, you don't want to get stuck. the big weather maker across the midwest. looking at showers and thunder

showers stretching down into the midwest. rain pulling into milwaukee. chicago will get those showers later on this morning. some of the thunderstorms could be severe later today. we'll be watching places like detroit, down towards cleveland and indianapolis. the large hail and damaging winds will be the primary concern. we're not really expecting rotating thunderstorms today. ahead of this system, we have the nice southerly flow bringing in warm temperatures and almost, dare i say, getting muggy out here. high temperatures will be way above average. 10 to 20 degrees above where you should be for this time of the year. yeah, 80s for new york city. upper 70s for boston. d.c. 81, atlanta a high of 86. check out southern plain states, 90 in dallas and 92 degrees in the houston area. travel overall should be good we think across the country today. we'll watch for delays in san francisco as well as chicago and detroit because of those storms. but if you're traveling overseas, we've got some delays

from the volcano. there are some flights canceled in scotland as well as ireland. we're watching the northerly flow because the ash plume could spread across other parts of europe. call your airline ahead of time. >> we thought that threat was over, i guess it's back. >> could go on through the summer. >> as long as the tornado continues to rumble, the ash can blow where it wants. new details about the accused times square car bomber, how he almost got away? the security measures that failed and the ones that did keep his flight on the ground. a possible change that could make you an involuntary organ donor. supporters say the bill saves lives. the smell you crave that you can't do without that you want permiating your home? the belly bomb scented candle.

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you trust the medicine you give your kids is safe, but the food and drug administration is slamming conditions at a factory where children's tylenol, motrin and benadryl were made and then recalled over the weekend. inspectors say the company used raw materials that were contaminated with bacteria and then failed to follow up on consumer complaints about black particles in its drugs. joining me to talk more about this is carl nielsen, a retired fda consumer safety officer who worked at the agency for almost three decades. it's great to see you this morning. thanks for being with us. i've got this preliminary report

in my hand that says that johnson and johnson had recalled them but were knowingly using contaminated supplies, contaminated components, that they're not maintaininged adeque laboratory facilities for testing of components and drug products. how concerned should parents be about the medicines they're giving their children? >> certainly, there should be concern for those particular products, and the parents should be doing what the agency is asking them to do, and that is to discontinue the use of those products because of potential safety issues and to consult with health professionals, farm pharmacists or doctors for alternative therapies. >> we heard time and time again during political campaigns, people talking about the

reimportation of drugs from places like canada, and we can't be guaranteed that the drugs are safe. don't do that. here we have a serious problem in our own backyard. how much of a wake-up call is this? >> i think it's a very large wake-up call for the over-the-counter drug industry. it's well-known that for the prescription drug industry 80% of the ingredients are imported. fda does very little foreign inspection work on over-the-counter drug suppliers of ingredients active and inactive. and this is is wake-up call very similar to melamine, to the food safety issue and heparin for the prescription drugs. >> melamine that came in dog food from china and resulted in the death of so many pets. when we think about tylenol, we remember back to 1982 in the tylenol scare and we remember how well johnson & johnson responded to that.

they're the parent company of mcneil, making all this stuff subpoena is this a real black eye for them now? >> well, it certainly is not a good eye. there's a lot of questions. one really has to wonder how did this happen all of a sudden. it also looks like, based on the fda report, that the fda's responding to complaint material. then the real question is, well, is this an industrywide problem or just a single factory problem. >> yeah. i guess there were 46 complaints that were registered with mcneil about contamination of the products, little black specks inside them. we hear about all of this regulation, all these safety concerns when it comes to prescription pharmaceuticals. but when it comes to these over-the-counter drugs, how tightly regulated are they? >> well, the regulations are there, but which is less and not as robust for those required for

prescription drugs, particularly for the active ingredients. but the real question is lack of oversight and resources dedicated by fda to make certain the manufacturers of those ingredients use the best practices. >> right. so the fda is saying don't use these brand-name products, but you can go ahead and use the generic version of these products. can people be guaranteed that those generic versions are safe? >> i don't know on what information that would be based. that's a good question for the agency. if it's directed to other products because there has been no complaints versus affirmative knowledge of conformance with good manufacturing practices, those are two different levels of assurance. >> wow. so lingering concerns there. carl nielsen, former safety officer with the food and drug administration, thanks for joining us this morning.

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good morning to you. glad you're with us on this "american morning" for this wednesday, may 5th. i'm kiran chetry. >> i'm john roberts. thanks for being with us. here are the big stories we he'll be telling you about in the next 15 minutes. the terror suspect busted in the times square bomb plot is talking, and according to authorities detailing his plot

and the training behind it. we're also learning a flaw in the no-fly list nearly let is suspect fly away. plus, a city under water facing a long, long recovery. floodwaters receding across nashville and other parts of central tennessee this morning. rescue officials are worried it means they could find more victims. president obama has given the okay to pour federal disaster money into the area. what was left behind, though? we're live in nashville with the latest just ahead. >> and all eyes are on wall street this morning after the markets got hammered yesterday. the debt crisis in greece and word that spain might need a bailout sent the dow skidding to its lowest level in a month. tensions in greece boiling over on the streets of athens. witnesses say police fired tear gas and striking protesters were angry about the government's redecision to reduce salaries and impose higher taxes on alcohol and cigarettes. of course the a.m. fix blog is up and running this morning. join the live conversation going on right now.

we'd like to hear from you. go to cnn.com/amfix. first, though, the times square terror suspect is talking to authorities this morning, and among the many fast-moving developments, authorities now say that faisal shahzad has confessed, that he admitted that he received bomb-making training in pakistan. raids there have netted as many as two other suspects in connection with the attempted bombing. our nick rock erberts telling u pakistani authorities took into custody the father-in-law of shahzad as well as a friend. how the arrest of shahzad went down, authorities followed him and lost track of him going to kennedy airport on monday. the events that followed exposed a gap in our nation's air security. shahzad paid cash for a one-way ticket to pakistan through dubai despite being added on monday afternoon to the nation's no-fly list. >> so, how does all that happen? our special investigations

correspondent drew griffin has been digging into that and joins us live. drew, we should remind our viewers you're very familiar with problems with the no-fly list because you were on it for an awfully long time. >> i was a problem. too many people were on it that shouldn't have been. it was hard to get off. this is a completely different problem. you get into the nitty-gritty here, and there's a lot of details we don't know about. one thing that is interesting is all day yesterday i was told by my federal law enforcement sources that even eric holder said yesterday we have redundancies in our surveillance. there was no way this guy was going to get out or escape our control. well, it looks like it came pretty close to happening. i mean, he was on board that flight. they didn't know it until finally the customs border protection checked -- literally checked the manifest and checked that against the no-fly list and found out he was there and then they opened the door and took him off. >> they came a lot closer than obviously they wanted to get. any details of them losing track of him tailing him throughout the day? >> i want to know where they

lost track of him. they put him on the no-fly list in the afternoon. they september out -- you know, you have to manually kind of update that list if you're an airline. and emirates apparently didn't do that. i have not talked to emirates about that yet. then the federal authorities say we sent out this bulletin saying, hey, special watch for this guy. what does that mean? i don't know how the airlines get that bulletin, how they put that in their system. there's a lot of nitty-gritty details and quite frankly i think there's some covering of the butt going on that we need to find out. but in the end, guys, he's under arrest and he is talking. >> how did this all go down at the airport? >> at the airport, he's on board the flight, the door shuts. yesterday i was told that was all kind of a ruse to get him to make a phone call. not so sure now. we realized that he might have been just sitting there and as you're waiting for that plane to pull back they realize he's on it, the captain opens up the door or the door gets opened, he gets pulled off. he's undergoing questioning. this plane right here you're

seeing is taxiing away. now they realize there's two more guys on that plane that they want to talk to, that they're not so sure about. out of the abundance of caution, that kind of bureaucratic phrase we keep hearing, this is what happens next as the plane is taxiing out. >> yeah. the reason is there was two more people that they wanted to talk to on that flight. they pulled them off, they didn't let them fly. turned out to be a mistake. but that's how tense this was. >> right. that flight didn't take off till nearly 7:00 in the morning eastern time the next day. we understand that he is talking to investigators. do they believe he's telling the truth, he acted alone? >> that's a big question. a source reminded me these guys like to brag even when their

attempts fail. they like to brag, make themselves bigger than they are. so they're going to have to check everything he says, obviously, what's the truth of his so-called bomb training in pakistan, who trained him, and that'll get down to whether or not this guy really is a terrorist player with other accomplices or other groups behind him or if he is just, you know, the worst-case scenario, really is that he is this lone wolf that just popped up on the radar. i mean, two days ago we didn't know who this guy was. >> and lone wolves, any investigator would tell you, hardest to detect. >> very true. >> as the suspect faisal shahzad continues to speak with investigators, the search for potential accomplices has gone global. in pakistan, new arrests this morning after two people were detained during a raid in karachi. our reza sayah is live in islamabad for us this morning. what are we learning? >> reporter: john, law enforcement officials telling cnn more individuals have been rounded up in pakistan today as

the investigation in this country unfolds. we don't know at this point who these individuals are and what their connection is, if any, to faisal shahzad. more new this was coming in to cnn, we now know the names of the two individuals picked um yesterday in karachi in a raid. of course karachi another city, southern port city in pakistan where faisal shahzad, according to investigators, spent a lot of time. those two individuals, faisal shahzad's father-in-law and shahzad's friend according to an intelligence source. those two individuals are in custody. i think it's important to point out over the past 24 hours we've used the word "arrest" when it comes to these individuals. that obviously suggests that these people may be linked to a crime. officials have pointed out here, look, these individuals picked up are not suspected of any crime. they've only been detained for questioning as investigators try to find out as much as possible about faisal shahzad. karachi one focal point of the

investigation in pakistan, the other focal point is up in the northwest area of pakistan where faisal shahzad and his family resided. it's where he grew up. we went to his home, his father's home yesterday. he was gone. very interesting. his father, a retired vice marshal for the pakistani air force. john? >> reza sayah for us in islamabad this morning. thanks. just 20 minutes from now, a live report from the home in shelton, connecticut, where faisal shahzad lived until a bank foreclosure forced him as well as his wife and two children out. we have new information about the suspected car bomber straight ahead. the nba's phoenix suns have decided to make their own statement about arizona's new immigration law. when the team takes the court tonight against the san antonio spurs, their uniforms will say "los suns." team officials say it's a way to express their frustration with the state law while honoring their latino fan base and

mexico's heritage on this cinco de mayo holiday. the philadelphia phillies are evaluating whether it's an important use of force to taze fans who run on the field illegal illegally. it hammed monday night. take a look. this guy was running, 17 years old, couldn't catch up with him so eventually that officer used a taser to drop him in his tracks. police are backing the officer's action. another fan jumped onto the field in the same game but was apprehended without the use of a taser. the 17-year-old son's mother apologized for her son's behavior. apparently he called his dad and said i'm thinking of running on the field, should i do it? his dad said not a good idea. actor corey haim's death was caused by complications from pneumonia, lung damage and a bad heart. the autopsy report shows that haim did have eight drugs in his system at the time of his death, including prozac, valium, a

muscle relaxer and cold medication. the 38-year-old actor struggled with drug and alcohol addiction for most of his life. right now oil is starting to graze the beaches of louisiana's barrier islands. so far, though, calm winds and waves are keeping the joint oil slick from hitting land. our rob marciano is live in gulfport, mississippi, with more on the waiting game, i guess you could say, as officials there prepare to see whether or not this is -- well, they know it's going to hit at some point but just what the impact will be. hey, rob. >> reporter: exactly. good morning, guys. yeah. it's an eerie waiting game, especially here across the northern gulf where the weather has turned up beautiful and the waters here are clean. one of the things they're doing to prep for the potential of an oil slick is cleaning the beach. turns out if you clean the beach clear of debris it's a lot easier to clean up the oil if it ever hits the beach. so these are bp contracted workers getting out there to do that. a lot of nervous energy, as well, so roll tears have been

gathering and there have been some classes hosted in order to tell people and inform them and train them how to do the same thing. safety gear being shown right there. as far as what's going on out to sea, well, the vessels are in place and continue to skim and lay boom down, 200 of them out there. and this dispersant seems to be working as well. even though the oil continues to come out, the oil slick isn't getting that much bigger too quickly. it's not making much northern progress. why? we haven't seen the strong winds. winds are calm right now and will remain calm for the next few days and might even go offshore over the weekend. i don't think it's going to make any northern progress for next four or five days, but it is forecast to drift a little bit farther to the west. it's already made inroads to the chandelier islands of eastern louisiana, and it may get closer to the mountains of the mississippi delta here in the next couple days. talking to the forecaster trying to predict these oil slicks and it's so complicated and so many

variables. one is the wind. when they go light, it gets more complicated. you have several different types of currents and eddies around the mississippi delta that make things even more complicated. that's the area of concern immediately. longer term, some of the other currents in the gulf of mexico may very well take over. so now folks along the west coast of florida and the florida keys are making preparations for the potential of the oil heading that way. this is a long-term deal here guys, whether or not it makes landfall in the mississippi coast or not. it's already done the damage out to sea and it's going to be hanging around the gulf states for quite some time. >> talking about that conveyor belt phenomenon, i guess, of the oil moving around and actually hitting the florida keys. explain that to us a little bit more. >> reporter: well, it's called a loop current. it's a strong current that actually during hurricane season we used to forecast the intensity of hurricanes because it's so warm, but it's a pretty strong current as well. it also is pretty far into the gulf, so that slick has to travel south and east a fair

amount of ways to get to that current and that won't happen for several days to come. but it is a possibility and folks along the florida coast and the keys are certainly gracing for that potential. >> rob marciano, thanks so much. nashville under water over the last couple days after those torrential downpours of 17 inches of rain. as the waters recede, we're getting a greater view of the damage and the potential to find more victims. [ diane lane ] when you were 14 you knew exactly where to turn to help your skin get healthy and clear. fast forward a few years and now that your problem is wrinkles we still have the solution dermatologists recommend most. neutrogena anti wrinkle moisturizer with pure retinol sa. in just 1 month it's clinically proven

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is. 15 minutes after the hour. president obama is giving the green light to spend federal disaster funds for relief in nashville and surrounding counties today as swollen rivers and creeks begin to recede. officials are also trying to pump water out of some of the biggest landmarks like the grand ole opry. but shutting down electricity making that process difficult. martin savidge is live in nashville for us. give us the lay of the land or the water where you are now. >> reporter: good morning, john. now that the sun has come up we decided to give you a better view of the cumberland river here. if you're not familiar with nashville, when you first see it you may say it doesn't look that bad. as the camera pushes in, you start to see things that reveal it is not that good, for example the lamp posts and the signs. two things you notice, one, the force and the speed of the current that is rumbling through downtown nashville, then the

fact that there's a lot of those lamp posts, a lot of things that are under water. it is going down. as it goes down, more is revealed and word the death toll are go up as searchers get into areas they haven't been. we were in cheatham county and we joined two teams in a small town that took a very big hit. we meet captain tony clark, who's only had about eight hours' sleep since saturday, as he leads his team into another neighborhood. >> lived there by herself. >> we still need to go in and do our search. i understand that. but just in case, we need to see if we can get into the house. >> reporter: these specially trained firefighters were here over the weekend helping people to evacuate. now they're back, making sure everyone made it out -- alive. >> this will keep us from having to search these houses again. we'll mark them, we'll know they're clear and we won't have to come back and waste resources again. >> reporter: located down the

stream from nashville, ashland city is still battling the water. it's down some but has a long way to go. and so does captain clark. >> everything's clear here, so we're going on to our next area from here. >> reporter: a half-mile from city hall on a road that's now above ground, we hitch a ride with a group of different firefighters searching where only boats can go. for this deputy chief, these are familiar waters. his son usually plays soccer on field 15 feet beneath us. the floodwaters have brought new dangers of which propane tanks are just one. here's the latest hazard these days of navigating the cumberland. you have to avoid the traffic lights. out here, the water plays tricks on you. some houses don't look so bad till you real itz you're looking at the third floor. sunday, when these crews first came out, it was to warn the residents that the floodwaters were coming. about twotwo-thirds decided to

stay. ever since then, the teams have been out pulling in all the people who stayed behind. >> we had some that even got ugly with us and said they'd sleep on their roof or whatever if they had to, they wasn't going to leave, they was going to ride it out. we picked them up the following day off their roof, so they got their wish. >> reporter: just trying to get to a home for a closer look isn't easy. first you have to clear the trees. >> you don't know what's underneath you, trampolines, swimming pools. >> reporter: in the end, we fortunately don't find anyone and head back. you wonder how long it will be before ashland city gets back to normal. from the looks of things, it's going to take some time. i had a conversation with a representative with the army corps of engineers in ashland city. he said this was not a 100-year flood, john, this was a 500-year flood. no city in america that prepares for something like that. john? >> martin, the sign you showed us earlier when the camera

zoomed in looks like it has a flood gauge on it. do you know if it's ever been that high before? >> reporter: you know, they say in the '60s it was that high down here. however, as we just said, there are others that say really this kind of flooding has not happened with this kind of speed in hundreds of years, certainly not in living memory. they're still adding up the figure, still trying to figure out where it's going to go in the history books. right now it is a huge disaster and still unfolding. >> this is the season of flooding. in fargo, north dakota, they had two hundred-year floods back-to-back. what's going to stop it? a lot of people are asking that question. martin savidge for us this morning in nashville. thanks so much. kiran? still ahead, stocks set for a rough open falling after terrible news overseas, debt problems in greece, concerns about spain, as well, having an impact on our markets. it was in my sister's neighborhood. i told you it was perfect for you guys. literally across the street from her sister.

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54 hours, 55 hours. it would have been too late. they got this guy at the airport as he was about to fly to dubai. here's how it wept down. the alleged bomber boarded the flight, started relaxing, thinks he's home free, but the authorities are hot on his trail, charging through jfk screaming, "stop the plane, stop the plane!" but it's too late! it's too late! the plane is pulling away full of celebrating terrorists. but it's leaking gas and one man has no intention of letting them get away!

>> yippy kay-yeah, [ bleep ]. >> victory is ours! >> got to bless john mclain. >> still one of the best movies ever, right? if only it really went down like that. christine romans is minding your business this morning. >> i don't know that all the other people on the plane would have appreciated it. >> jon stewart said it was a plane full of bad guys. >> even though it really wasn't. >> that's why they call it the movies. >> i forgot that line. >> that was the big deal. was he going to be able to say that. >> say the full line. >> making the movie "r," the sequel if he said it again, right, because he didn't is a it or he did and they made it "r." it was a big deal because of kids. in the sequel. i think they made it pg-13. >> we're all showing our cultural -- >> i wasn't following that

closely. christine romans here minding your business this morning. >> there you go. we're expecting the stock market to climb. we had a big one yesterday, about 2% for the dow jones industrial average, you guys. we've been saying for eight weeks the dow has been going up and we've been watching with some concern what's going on in greece and some of the european countries with their debt problems. this is what the dow looked like yesterday, a vigorous decline, expecting it to continue today. this morning futures all pointing down so if you're watching your 401(k) or wondering about your little stock account, we're looking for another hit this morning. the reason why, we're watching greece. i want to show you some pictures here of what's happening in athnesath ne athens, riots as people are concerned about measures in this country as it tries to get its debt problems pulled together. three people are dead at a fire in a greek bank in athens during riots over what this country has to do to get itself out of the debt crisis. huge measure, public-sector job cuts, pensioning being cut, tax

increases, hours and wages being affected. also this country can prove the eu it's worthy of a bailout of $146 billion. also this morning, you know, people concerned about portugal. you have people concerned about spain. we've been telling you about these countries, portugal, italy, ireland, greece, spain, countries that have much bigger debt and much bigger expenses than they have money coming in. so there's concerns that the greek bailout may face some hurdles. there could be a domino effect around europe, and that would be a threat to the global economic recovery, a recovery that has been pretty fragile. we have been watching china. there are concerns that china will have to slow down, that the government of china is going to try to help it carefully slow down. you don't have china as a driver of global growth, what does that mean to our recovery and the world economy? these are all things that are happening far, far away that definitely matter to the money you have in your retirement, the stock market and the recovery in the u.s. >> just when everything's going up, it goes back down again.

>> sure does. we'll watch and see how -- i don't expect the damage today to be as severe in the u.s. stocks as it was yesterday. we know all these problems are out there. we're just watching to see how they may or may not spill around. >> thanks so much. nearly 12 people die each day waiting for organ donations. in new york state, there is a push for a change in the law. it's called presumed concept. if you don't check off a box on your driver's license you would automatically be enrolled in organ donations. it's raising some controversy but we'll talk to the assemblyman behind it. and more details on the suspected new york city bomber, a married financial analyst. what kind of clues did he leave behind?

29 minutes past the hour right now. time for a look at top stories. prosecutors say suspected sometimes square bomber faisal shahzad is cooperating with their investigation and providing useful information. he claims he got bomb-making training at a terror camp in pakistan. we're learning more about his life in connecticut where he recently lost his home to foreclosure. while he maintains he acted alone, pakistani officials have announced a number of arrests in connection with the case. the university of virginia will still send both lacrosse teams to the ncaa tournament despite an unthinkable tragedy on campus. a member of the men's lacrosse team is charge wds murdering a member of the woman's team, 22-year-old yeardley love. police say she was found beaten to death on monday with a pool of blood on her pillow. the athletic director calls the decision to play part of the healing. and some good news regarding the gulf oil leak.

bp says its crews have capped one of the three leaks this morning. earlier on "american morning" i asked a bp executive if they would go beyond the $75 million cap on damages, economic damages, that the company is required by law to pay. >> i think the $75 million cap is going to be the issue. and of course things where there's impact from this -- from this event, this spill, whether they be economic impact or whether it be environmental impact, we'll have to meet those responsibilities. it's just an example of that right now. you know, people can call our hotline, they can file a claim, and they'll actually get their money. we wanted to get it to them quickly because we know this is having an impact on people today. >> bp plans to place a 100-ton containment dome over the oil spill to seal it off. and we're following breaking news this morning. the u.s. coast guard getting set to hold a press briefing on its response to the gulf oil spill and kind of where things are right now. it's just about to happen.

we're monitoring developments there and we're going to let you know if there are any updates. meantime, new developments in the case against suspected times square bomber faisal shahzad. federal prosecutors say they have a confession that shahzad admits that he tried to blow up an suv in the middle of times square last weekend. and we're finding out a lot more about the suspect's life in connecticut before he allegedly turned on a country that had just honored him with citizenship. our deb feyerick live at shahzad's former home in shelton, connecticut, a home he recently lost to foreclosure. deb, what are we learning about this fellow? >> reporter: well, you know, one of the things is really what changed in the life of faisal shahzad? this is a guy who for all intents and purposes was on the right track, arriving on-in the united states on a student visa, had attended the university of bridgeport, getting two degree, one of them a masters in business. he was also working as a junior financial analyst at a pretty big company. but then about year ago, june 2009, it appears that things

began unraveling. first of all, he could not make the mortgage payments on this house and so he lost his home to foreclosure. he left his job, his wife sold some of their possessions on craigslist, and then she moved away, taking the couple's two young children. it's then that he travels over to pakistan via dubai. he spent about eight months in that area. part of that time he's telling authorities was in a terror training camp up in the waziristan area. he arrived home, and, john, just a couple months ago. one of the first things he did was buy a nine-millimeter semiautomatic rifle just at a nearby gun shop about a half a mile from the home in which he used to live. and he actually bought that gun legally, it was registered-pe passed an fbi background check, because he didn't hit any red flag, so he got that gun. that's when authorities believe he started buying and building -- buying components and building this bomb.

now, really, the question is, he's talking to authorities right now, and they are very intent on discovering who he met with, not just the leaders or the handlers but also young men who may have been at that camp along with him, because obviously if he was training with a group of people they want to know who those people are so they can begin keeping an eye on them. also they want to know what kind of plot they may have been talking about. clearly this one was to drive a bomb into times square, a car bomb, but there may be others out there. so all of that, authorities are hoping to get to and figure out was this guy just somebody who was lost and searching or was this part of a continue yum, did he intend to come to the united states, you know, about a decade ago in order to carry out this attack. all of that gets to the philosophy and the ideology of who this young man is and whether there are others out there like him, john. >> awful lot of questions yet to be answered. deb feyerick for us in shelton, connecticut, thanks. meanwhile, we have a little

bit of new information, good news regarding the gulf oil leak. bp is now saying that crews have capped one of the three underground leaks this morning. our dave mattingly is live in venice, louisiana. we're hearing this was the smallest of the three, but tell us more about how they were able to do it. >> reporter: that's right, kiran. i just had conversation with the director of external affairs for bp, john curry. he told me that one of the three leaks was capped this morning. this is the smallest of the three leaks and it was located at the end of the drill pipe. he said that they were able to shut this off, they were able to cult off the pipe and then seal it with a slip valve. again, this was the smallest of the leak, but he says this was a big step forward because now they can concentrate all their efforts on the two major leaks and they're getting ready this morning to move out that large device, that containment device, that dome we've been talking about has been loaded up and would be moved out today to the site of the spill so that they

can try and concentrate on capping those two remaining leaks. but this morning the smallest of the three has been capped, sealed off with a slip valve and bp saying that now they can concentrate on those other two. kiran? >> do you know if there's any hope that they could use that same technique on either of the other two leaks that are still gushing? >> reporter: those other two leaks, they're going to use containment devices. that's what they've been building. they've got the largest one done and loaded up on a ship that's going to be going out of the harbor about noon today. it will take about six to eight hours to get into place, maybe 12 hours to get into place. after that it's a very slow operation. it's going to take a couple days to lower that 100-ton device down to the ocean floor where it's going to go over that first of the major leak and they'll have another device to go over the second one. >> do we know how much or are

they estimating how much oil was leaking from the smallest of the three? >> reporter: that's been very difficult. they can't do that by looking at what's coming out of the bottom. we've been getting government estimates just based on the size of the spill. all they know is this was the smallest of the three leaks and at that point, with all three of them going, we were getting about 5,000 barrels a day so, that number obviously now should be cutting back. >> david mattingly with at least a little bit of a bright spot there, the smallest of the three leaks, there was a successful effort to cap it today and now they move on to the other two. david mattingly, thanks so much. well, still ahead, we're going to be talking about organ donation. in new york state they have a big problem with organ donation. the number of people who sign up to be donors is much, much lower than many other states across the country and they're hoping a new bill will change that, but it's not without controversy. [ crowd cheering ]

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welcome back to the most news in the morning. 39 minutes past the hour now. every year in new york 500 people die waiting for an organ transplant. one of our next guests is lucky she was not one of them. she was saved not once but twice by donors, one time her mother,

and her father hopes to save more lives by proposing a bill in the state assembly that would switch the organ donor program from an opt-in program, which is what it is now, to an opt-out program. that's created a bit of a controversy. with us now is assemblyman richard brodsky and his daughter. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> new york ranks pretty low in terms of the number of people that are signed up to be organ donors, something like 11%, where in other states it's three times higher. why is that? >> it's an awful system. it's failed. people will die in new york in the next few days because we don't have a good system. the reasons are many but in the end we have to shake the system up. we've proposed a very controversial way of doing it. there are many ways to do it. but in the end, new york imports 50% of the organs for transplants from other states. so we have become this great importer. other states are kind to new yorkers. but the people of the state want to do it. 67% in polls say -- >> 60% of people want to do it, why are only 11% signed up?

>> because the government has not created a system that's easy, accessible. people sometimes get confused. the information is bad. so you have 67% who want, 11% on the registry. people dying. that's the change we want to make. >> so the first part of it, which wouldn't be as controversial, this would be that if you've signed up to be an organ donor, that if anything should happen to you and you should pass away, your family would not be able to argue against your wish. >> whatever it is you want. just like a living will. >> right. >> you would have the decision. it would last past death, and if you made the decision to donate, as we think people would do, then that would be binding. that's the first change. >> here's where we get more controversial, though, because the next part would be something called presumed consent, which means that when you get your driver's license you have to check a box saying i do not want to be an organ donor as opposed to i do want to be. you would have to opt out rather than opt in. some people say this opens the door for confusion and maybe people don't know they're actually agreeing to be an organ

donor. >> there are plenty objections, religious and others. but we have a failed system. people are dying. this change, which works in other country, gives everybody control over the decision. you'd have the control. i'd have the control. but we'd make you make the decision. we think that would vastly increase the number of organs. what happens now is in the middle of a terrible tragedy, a car accident, a sudden illness, families are brought in and made to make decisions about someone else's welfare at a time when they're not really competent to do that. it's like a living will. we want to make sure everyone does what they want to do. but we want to make sure they do it. >> willy, your life was saved by organ donation. tell us a little about your story. >> i was born with an autoimmune disease that effectively ate my kidneys when i was 2, and when i was 4 i had a kidney transplant. i received a kidney from my mother, which lasted 11 lovely years. then when i was 14, i received a cadaver donor kidney from a puerto rican woman who got

struck by lightning who made a very big decision to donate her organs and her family agreed. let her. >> you are one of the lucky ones. what do you think when you hear that 500 new yorkers die, 12 people a day in our country die some would say needlessly because there are organs available, it's just that that connection isn't being made? >> mm-hmm. i think it's personally ridiculous. like just -- we have to have our organs in, like, from other states, which seems silly because new york is all about standing on its own and being new york. so why should we need help from other states? >> and when we talk about some of the other concerns, you know, there are other concerns that people have that perhaps you're looked at as a potential donor if you have a health emergency as opposed to being a patient. i mean -- >> there are all kinds of myths about this. and what we have in america is the american people are good hearted. they want to do the right thing.

we can trust the decency of the american people. but the government needs to come up with a program that lets people express that decency. that's what's missing, a connection between the fundamental goodness of the american people and a system that is not producing the organs that save lives. we were lucky. we should not have to wait for acts of god to save lives in a country this decent, this good, and this concerned. >> 24 countries in europe do have this presumed consent. how did they get over some of the ethical, moral concerns and religious concerns that people have over the this? >> two ways. education. people better understood it. second, respecting those who don't want to donate. people should not feel compelled or coerced or pressured. it's a perfectly moral decision to say that's for somebody else to do. but if the they want to, we have to find a way. >> you're doing well. >> i am. >> freshman at nyu. >> i am. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> senator brodsky, thanks.

>> thank you. thunderstorms rolling across the midwest. could be travel delays if you're going through that part of the country, but on the east coast, look at that, all kinds of sunshine. jacqui jeras is up next. finally, what i love is what my skin needs.

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mild, high of 70, but you can expect some showers there. >> all right. well, jacqui jeras is following all of that for us. it's 48 minutes past the hour, and jacqui is keeping track of everything for us. atlanta is looking good. you guys are recovering from a lot of rain. we're looking good but not every part of the country is in the clear today. yeah, not everybody. you know, chicago may have looked good in that picture but we've got showers and thundershowers that will be rumbling in in probably just a couple hours away. this is our strong storm system we're dealing with across the lower 48 today. and in addition to that threat of rain, we've got some really strong, gusty winds coming in on the backside of this thing. in fact, we can see gusts around 30 miles per hour. so travel delays expected, milwaukee, shachicago, detroit, indianapolis, cleveland, even into cincinnati. a few of these storms in the red area could be severe, damaging winds and large hail our primary concern. folks still dealing with high water across the midsouth and the deep south.

check out these pictures from roswell, georgia. some teenagers decided the it was going to be a good idea to try and cross this dam area, about a 30-foot drop there by the way. they did have to be rescued. everybody got out of there safely. this area is known, by the way, for being dangerous. about a year ago, we had another situation where people had to be rescued. so use a lot of caution if you're out there traveling for today. things look good up and down the eastern seaboard, though, lots of sunshine, temperatures very comfortable, almost sticky, highs in the 80s. john and kiran, this is my fun video of the day. take a look at these pictures. a 200-poun black bear had to be rescued in oxnard, california, after it fell asleep high up into a treetop. what happened was this bear had been spotted around the neighborhood and got hit with a couple of tranquilizers but it didn't fall asleep until it got high up in the tree and was actually dangling with its head and legs hanging down. so some scary moments. they were able to get that bear out of there after a nice

two-hour nap 25 feet up. >> it got down a lot better than the other bear -- >> the famous trampoline bear. >> climbed up a tree and -- >> when it fell? >> tranquilized. >> yeah. fell down, hit the trampoline. >> didn't work so well. >> oh, on the nose. >> i bet it was a good sleep for him, though. >> yeah. this guy probably didn't know what hit him, right? got to wake up and wander off. >> somebody went up the tree after that bear. kind of interesting. thanks, jacqui. our "building of america" series comes up next. john zarrella goes to a farmer's market in a place you might not expect one.

♪ take me out to the ball game, take me out to the crowd ♪ ♪ buy me some peanuts >> welcome back to the best news in morning. hall-of-fame broadcaster ernie harwell has died after a battle with cancer. he spent more than five decades in the broadcast booth, most of it as a play by play voice for the detroit tigers. >> he was loved by players and fans alike. he revealed last year he was diagnosed with inoperable cancer, but he lived to a ripe old age of 92 years. well, today in "building up america," how people are beating the recession by literally going back to their roots. >> john zarrella shows us how farmer's markets are flourishing in the big city and helping people afford healthy and fresh. >> reporter: in the shadow of high-rises, a garden of green, turnipings, bockly, and something called jamaican

spinach. you cook them or what? >> what we do, we prepare them for cooking. >> reporter: or salad? >> no. we cook them. >> reporter: really? >> salad, too. >> reporter: here once a week on wednesdays small family farmers sell their produce. >> you don't have to go to canada for green house cucumbers anymore. you can go to homestead. >> absolutely delicious. >> reporter: this is overtown, smack in the middle of downtown miami. a supermarket? not around here. in a unique way, that farmer's market fills that void. here eddie can use cash or his ebt card to get fresh vegetables. >> homegrown and fresher than anything else. you can't beat that. >> reporter: and you can't beat the prices. for every dollar in food stamps -- >> 21 good? >> good. >> reporter: you get $2 worth of produce, even exotic fruits like loquat.

what does it taste like? you're the chef? >> some are more sweet. >> it's a cross between an apple, a melon, and a kiwi. >> reporter: this subsidized market is the brainchild of a chef. there are more than 100 open around the country funded by donations and money from his foundation. the idea -- give small family farmers an outlet for their locally grown produce. try tam ron. >> you're eating the flesh which is around the seeds. >> reporter: mm-hmm. mostly this market provides fresh food at an affordable price to community where is access to groceries is is limited. >> when you provide the access and the resources both, miracles happen. it's pretty cool. >> reporter: you can pick up the overtown cookbook, too. >> this is dessert, a mango banana smoothie with granola. >> reporter: i like that a lot. students at booker t. washington high produced the book using

recipes from home but substituted healthy ingredients. >> instead of molasses, you can use things like honey, apple juice. >> reporter: in this neighborhood, the seeds of healthy eating have definitely taken root. john zarrella, cnn, miami. to download the multimedia client presentation my associate dave here was supposed to bring. and while that's happening, dave will attempt to explain to our boss why he left the one thing he was responsible for back at the office. okay, got it. what can you do with 4g? [ male announcer ] get a free 3g/4g card from sprint. it's more than a wireless network. it's a wireless revolution. deaf, hard-of-hearing and people with speech disabilities, access www. sprintrelay.com blend it. sprinkle it. sweet! [ female announcer ] just about anywhere you use sugar you can use splenda® no calorie sweetener. [ male announcer ] savory. fluffy. yummy. sweet! [ female announcer ] splenda®. america's favorite no calorie sweetener.