found any quote hazardous material. we'll continue to update this as we get more information from our london bureau throughout the morning. >> this will continue and you can continue the conversation and been a good one this morning on our blog. cnn.com amfix. thank you for joining and having me. thanks to the pirate crew this morning. >> have a wonderful weekend, as well. the news continues. cnn newsroom with kyra phillips starts right now. good morning. >> good morning. here's what we are working on this morning. a terrorized mother begs for help withdrawing ransom money as the family is held hostage. >> we have a lady who is in our bank right now who says that her husband and children are being held at their house. >> but the search to police isn't enough. dallas police officers accuse criminals hammered by officers fists and batons. we have the dash cam tape moment

by moment. and black top goes green as urban spaces gets grassed over. big-name rockers are strumming their way to help jones and heinz performing live in the studio this morning. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast. 6:00 a.m. out west. i'm kyra phillips and you're live in the cnn newsroom. we begin this morning with breaking news out of london. british police say five men arrested on suspicion of terrorism. the arrests come on the second day of pope benedict's visit to britain. some arrests say it involves the potential threat to the pope and police declined to make that link. authorities are reviewing the security arrangements for the visit. the itinerary did not change. atika shubert will join us this hour live from london. new york city is reeling from a killer storm that seemed to pop out just out of nowhere. slamming the city in the afternoon rush hour.

tornado-like winds actually blasted neighborhoods at 80 miles per hour ripping roofs off homes and snapping trees. one woman died when a tree crashed down on to her car and the storm dumped debris on train tracks snarling mass transit, knocked out power to tens of thousands of people. the sky is black except for those intense lightning strikes. national weather service did not declare a tornado officially but new yorkers say they know what they saw. >> it was like a twister. a whirlwind. i just couldn't even get out of the house. it was very dark and fast and a lot of power. a lot of power. >> you think it might have been a toshd? >> i think it was a tornado, yes. >> a possible tornado also slammed parts of ohio leaving a trail of splintered trees, blown out windows and overturned cars. people in wooster say they saw a funnel cloud near ohio state

campus. many damaged homes and only hearing of minor injuries from the storm. rob marciano tracking it for us. >> that one in ohio, we're confident it was a tornado. saw the damage there, kyra. one in new york, regardless, winds 80, 90 miles per hour it does damage. i don't care whether they're going straight or whipping around in a tornado. there's the line of thunderstorms that rolled through the jersey-new york city area last night between 4:00 and 7:00. look how it explodes heading over the delaware river and really staten island and queens and brooklyn really getting the brunt of this and the bowing of the radar echo indicates certainly heavy winds from the upper level and there was a tornado warning that was posted so they'll send a survey team to check it out. regardless, damage is done. cleanup is beginning and it is a mess boroughs. the storm going through, becoming calm. a potent storm. led to the outbreak.

we'll look for severe weather in the plains today. this cold front is strong for this time of year. it is one that certainly brings with it temperatures that will be well, well below normal. let's talk about something that's in this time of year normal in the bay of campeche don't typically see strongs this strong. i believe the strongest storm to roll through the bay of campeche and now heading into mexico here. the outer bands getting -- beginning to roll in to just south and north of vera cruz and there's a lot of oil towns, oil platforms out here. fairly populated area. they'll get a tremendous storm surge and could be a category 4 over the next few hours as it makes landfall here in northern mexico and then it will head towards mexico city, very populated area. as you may know it is very, very high up there. about 8,000 feet and typically the storms hit, nail the

mountains, mud slides and heavy rain on the eastern slopes of the mountains and then mexico city and wind down. westerly at 9 miles per hour and again strong, strong storm exploding in intensity. want to talk about igor. this is a strong storm although it's beginning to weaken a little bit and still a major storm. 120-mile-a-hour winds and the forecast track continues to bring it toward bermuda and not good. sunday, sunday night when we expected it close to that island. if we get it to shift further to the east, then we'll be in a lot better shape. and because most of the wind i think by the time this thing gets to bermuda on the eastern flank of the storm. beginning to get sheered and hopefully a category 2 or weaker by that time. a lot of action in the tropics and across the new york city area. we're all watching it from the cnn severe weather center. >> thanks.

british police say five men arrested on suspicion of terrorism on the second day of pope benedict's visit to the uk. atika, what do you know? >> reporter: five men arrested around 5:30 in the morning, 26 to 50 and questioned by police and police are also continuing searches at a business address here in central london and at residences in north and east london. we know that police have said they have not found any hazardous materials that the point but no further details on what this alleged terror plot might be. now, we have asked police whether or not these arrests are sbrektly linked to the pep's visit here and won't confirm that. what they have said is these arrests did trigger a review of the security and the pope's itinerary saying they're happy with the security arrangements they have. there will not be any change today. you can see behind me already a lot of security. there's police every few meters and the roads are completely blocked off from traffic and i

should point out that the pope has been notified of these arrests. his spokesperson spoke to the press earlier saying they learned about the arrests earlier this morning. they're happy with the security this t.ents and that the pope >> atika, what about the protests, protesting the pope's visit? you know, we had mixed reports that it wasn't going to be that big of a deal, it was growing, that sexual abuse victims were going to show up in full force, protesting his visit. what have you been able to observe thus far? >> reporter: well, the protests are really going to reach their peak probably tomorrow. that's when the big protest is being planned with a march from hyde park to this area and thousands of people are expected to turn out. and they certainly have been gearing up and organizing so it is likely we are going to see people on the streets. having said that, there are a lot of people that came out in support of the pope, more than 100,000 flocked to glascow and

eden borough yesterday to see him. he has supporters and admirers even with critics and detractors. >> atika, appreciate it. on a much less threatening note, when he was traveling through scotland, he got a special performance by a woman who says it's been her dream to sing for the pope. ♪ >> you remember susan boyle, the singer famous on britain's "got talent" and sang three songs for the pope including signature "i dreamed a dream." later today president obama will introduce a woman hired to help protect your wallet. harvard professor elizabeth warren will shape the new consumer financial protection bureau. it is a cornerstone of the

reforms signed into law and it was her idea to create the but row. the mission to educate consumers about the fine print and lingo or legal mum bo jumbo to hide things such as high interest rates and the penalty fees. a closer look at elizabeth warren and the reception likely to receive and for that and other political news, today candy crowley. so candy, is she the voice that we need? >> well, i think the first question is what voice is she going to have here? because what's happened. elizabeth warren is pretty controversial. there are at least among republicans who many republicans who think she is too anti-business, that she goes too far in leaning toward, you know, the protection of consumers to the extent that she's unfair to businesses. okay. so you have that. what the president is apparently going to do is to put elizabeth warren inside the treasury department where she can help put together this consumer protection bureau for banks

basically as you just outlined. but does not mean she is going to head that protection agency because in order to head that protection agency, you have to be confirmed by the senate. and the administration that the point at least according to reporting by our jessica yellin doesn't want to have that fight so they have kind of created a position for elizabeth warren that they can put her in and doesn't have to go through the senate and she can help with the hiring and put the bureau together because it was her idea to, you know, help shape it the way the president would like and she would like but doesn't appear she is going to be running that bureau and upsets the president's -- the liberal half of the president's constituency that want her in charge of that bureau and pushing him to make that appointment. it doesn't appear he will do that so this is -- this is a job to put the bureau together. not -- agency together. not necessarily to run it and probably not to run it at least according to jessica's reporting.

>> all right. well, powerful female names of the moment, another one of those names headed to the values voters summit, talk about the overall goal here. >> i find this fascinating. and not, you know, unexpected that the latest conservative darling to come out of the tea party, grow out of the tea party, the new republican nominee for senate in delaware will come down and talk to the values voter summit. when's interesting to me is that the tea party has had the successes it's had not based on the social issues but based on fiscal conservatism, been based on lower taxes, less government spending, less government regulation. less government overreach. the social issues have largely not been there so to have kind of the headliner in the tea party now come down to talk social values will be really interesting and why have they not wanted to do that? because in general to make a broader movement many in the

leadership of the various tea party factions that there are understand that if you want to bring in independent voters and republicans need independent voters to get a majority, to bring those voters in, the social issues are a turnoff. in general, independents don't like what they consider to be too conservative positions on social issues and they don't much like there being discussed in the public realm. so i think it's really interesting that she is coming down. i think a lot of republicans, many of those who supported mcdonald's opponent looking a this the holding their breath to see what she'll say and how the opposition will take that and use it to draw independents back into the fold of the democrats. >> candy crowley, good to see you v. a great weekend. >> thanks. you, too. all right a. mom tries to save the lives of her daughters

and husband. >> the people are in a car outside the bank. she is getting $125,000. that if the police are told they will kill the children and the husband. she is petrie if ied. >> the bad guys said everything would be fine if they got the money. well, they lied.

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gruesome details of a horrific home invasion are coming out in a connecticut court a. couple of ex-cons accused of murdering a mom and two daughters. the dad tied up in the basement able to escape before the home went up in flames and three years after the crime police face questions about their response. cnn's randi kaye reports. >> reporter: you are watching a wife and mother in a desperate attempt to save her family. this newly-released bank surv l surveillance shows withdrawing $15,000 from the bank in the small town of connecticut. it was a monday morning, july 23,2007. about three miles away something awful, something truly sinister was happening inside her home.

her husband william was bound and gagged. and along with her two daughters, haley and my kayla was held he is tanlg. their mom hoped the $15,000 would be enough to convince the two men who allegedly broke into her home the night before to spare her family's lives. at the bank, she reaches out for help but has to be discrete because one of the two allege d kidnappers was just outside. the bank manager quietly calls 911. 9:21 a.m., police first learn of the home invasion and hostage situation. >> we have a lady who is in our bank right now who says that her husband and children are being held at their house. the people are in a car outside the bank. she is getting $15,000. that that the police are told they will kill the children and husband. >> reporter: minutes later, she

leaves the bank with the ransom money. >> they told her that they wouldn't hurt anybody if she got back there with the money. i think she is walking out now. >> reporter: 9:26 a.m. hawk pettitte gets into the car along with suspect steven hays. the bank manager describes the vehicle to police. officers are dispatched to the house to set up a perimeter. 9:27 a.m., a police captain tells officers not to approach the house. almost 30 minutes go by. still, not a single officer approaches the pettitte home. no other authorities are alerted. not the fire department, not state police. in court, police testified that was protocol. in a hostage situation, they said, they don't storm the house. adding they had no reason to believe anyone was in immediate danger. at 9:54 a.m., a police dispatch. dr. william pettitte who would turn out to be the only survivor was in the yard calling for

help. he was bleeding badly from his head, his ang ls still tied. by now, nearly 40 minutes had passed since the bank manager warned police about the nightmare scenario unfolding at the family's home. 40 minutes. police would soon learn that jennifer hawk pettitte had been strangled. she and one of her daughters sexually assaulted. in chilling testimony, dr. pettitte described how he was beat within a baseball bat and then tied to a pole in the basement. he said the suspects yelled to him, quote, don't worry. it is all going to be over in a couple of minutes and it was. dr. pettitte managed to free himself through a basement door and minutes later the house was on fire. his wife and two daughters dead. hays pleaded not guilty to sexual assault and murder. around 10:00 a.m., the suspects race out of the driveway in the family's suv. as smoke billows from the back of the home, the suspects slam into police cruisers.

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checking top stories. more than 30,000 people in new york state without power after a severe storm hit. one person was killed when a tree fell on her car. national weather service is

investigating whether a tornado swept through new york city. roger clark from affiliate new york 1 live in brooklyn this morning where they're cleaning up. roger, tell us about it. >> reporter: let me tell you. it is a mess here. this is the parks slope section known for the beautiful brownstones and tree-lined streets. many of the streets are full of trees but they're not standling up, they're down. branches all over the place. on top of brownstones. cars crushed and a mess. not to use a cliche but the calm after the storm right now. it's actually not a bad day here in new york city. certainly, a big difference from the way it was last night. but people are spending their time on a nice day cleaning up the mess from this storm last night. got a chance to talk to one woman that grew up in missouri and experienced a tornado when she was a child saying what she heard last night as we know hasn't been confirmed yet that this was a toshd but said it sure sounded like one to her. it just basically a lot of cleaning up to do today and

we'll find out at some point whether truly a tornado hit here in new york city. >> yeah. we'll be following the weather conditions. thanks so much, roger. living in poverty in america. it's every day life for a record 44 million people now. we're going to put faces to those numbers.

gold prices soaring to record highs. silver nearing the all-time paeb peak, as well. alison kosik at new york stock exchange probably has plenty of gold and silver. >> i wish. why i didn't it way back when? when we see everybody buying

into the commodities, what investors tell us what they feel about the economy and buying gold and silver tells us they're worried. gold is safe. investors are unsure of where the economy is headed so they want their money parked in something that's a sure bet. that's why gold hit a record of $1,284.40 an ounce. despite that, though, stocks set to rise today at the open. mostly because of some big gains in the tech sector. oracle shares up 4% in the pre-market. research in motion which make it is blackberry up 5%. both companies reported double digit percentage growth in profit and sales last quarter and shows that every day americans and businesses spending the money on technology and that will help the economy eventually. research in motion shipped record 12 million blackberries. wall street is worried people

are dumping the blackberry for the iphone but they're not giving up the crackberries. i didn't think they would. did you? >> as a matter of fact, from what i understand, there's an addiction center in washington for people addicted to devices. >> doesn't surprise me at all. not at all. i could be one of them, though. >> i think we all cub in that group. thank you. another sobering sign of a bad economy, the nation's poverty rate at an all-time high. nearly 44 million americans living in poverty. that's 1 in 7 people, folks. but those numbers don't begin to tell the whole story. we are talking about your neighbors, colleagues, people that maybe you don't even expect. cnn money.com's poppy harlow joins us live from new york. you spent the day with a woman struggling to get out of poverty. >> we did. this number from the government on thursday and we knew it was going to be high and hearing nearly 44 million americans living below that poverty line it is incredible.

that's a family of four under $22,000 a year. yesterday afternoon, i went to brooklyn. i spent the afternoon with a woman named an valdez living on about $5,000 a year, 34 kids. born in public housing and lives in that same public housing and fighting she says to get out of poverty since she was 18 years old. here's ann. president obama said today the number of people living in america in poverty is unacceptably high. >> this is true. poverty is really very serious. it's very demoralizing. it's made to feel demoralizing. hurtful. there's so much going on and there's no jobs available. no one wants to live the way we have to live. >> reporter: how do you get by, every day, ann? what do you live on? >> i live on approximately $5,000 a year. sometimes i have to skip a meal to save the money so my son brian has what he needs and if

it wasn't for my sister my son would not have half of his school supplies or any of his clothing for school. >> reporter: joseph, how's it been for you? do you feel like you grew up in pover poverty? >> yes. but i wasn't deprived a good childhood so i'm very happy. it doesn't matter where you come from. if you have a good childhood, money isn't an issue. >> i gave everything i can to my children. >> yes, you did. >> if i had to go without, it's okay as long as my children had. >> reporter: if you could have one message to send to the people watching, what would it be? >> my message would be never judge a book by its cover. never make assumptions. come outside. meet the people in your community where you live. meet the people in the communities where you work. and meet the people in the communities where you represent. >> reporter: see the face of poverty? >> see the face of poverty. >> and you know, kyra, we spent a few hours talking with ann. walked around the neighborhood

with her. she said i'm trying to get full-time work since 2005. the unemployment ben filths, they ran out in 2006. she has two years of college experience and cannot find any kind of permanent work. i think the most disturbing part of this whole report on poverty, kyra, the fact that american children are the ones suffering the most. we now know that more than a million more american children are living under that poverty line than just a year ago. 15.5 million american kids, kyra, living in poverty. tough to digest. >> it is a cycle of poverty. you know? we have watched this for decades and decades. why's it been so difficult for her specifically to find a job? >> it's a very good question. we talked a long time about that. ann's mother lives in the same project she lives in. ann says i can't find any work. i find temporary work here and then and they let me go and don't need me. the unemployment ran out a long time ago. her son joseph in the piece he is 28 years old. he's living in poverty. he doesn't have a job and, kyra,

he has a 3-year-old child and want to break the cycle. ann says we need more government help. i said, washington's done a lot. they spent billions upon billions of dollars helping people that are in your situation. she said, what we need and she's a big supporter of the president and need a clear jobs bill. we need to stop what she says giving corporate america money. we need a clear jobs bill. that's what she is asking for. she has hope and supporter of the president and his initiatives but a cycle. her mother living there. ann living there. her son and now her son has a child. you hope that that cycle can be broken. kyra? >> we have to do more about it. poppy, thanks. check top stories. breaking news out of the london. british police say five men are arrested on the suspicion of terrorism. security arrangements for pope's trip under review. and the mother of missing american teen natalee holloway is in peru. this where's the prime suspect in the disappearance of her daughter is jailed.

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>> reporter: this is so cool. i mean, i'm going to tell you i'm in thereabout station inside atlanta and this place looks like a park, right? didn't exist yesterday. what they have done is they have taken this parking lot and put sod down. check it out. this whole area will fit about 6,000 people and following me over here and see where we're standing is a parking lot until yesterday. we have a time lapse video to show you how they got a bunch of people and turned into a park pretty fast. they're inspired by a worldwide event called parking day which is happening in europe and all over the united states where people arepark ing lots and trying to get people talking about green space, what we're losing and paving over too many of these great parks that are out there and lose some of the green space all over the country and the

world. so, what do you do not only to get a lot of attention setting up a park somewhere but also to get people turning out? how about an awesome concert? that is what brings in chrissy hin and some of the others. shawn mullen here this afternoon at 4:00 up on the stage up here and they're expecting a really big crowd for this. all at atlantic station here in atlanta and then all of this, everything you're seeing, the big stage set-up, the sod, it goes away. this will be a parking lot again and giving away the sod to people who turn out and want to check it out. kyra, expecting a big crowd. everyone's excited about this. thinking maybe to get people talking apt it enough to start losing fewer of our actual parks out there, turning fewer of them into parking lots. that's the idea. >> all right. josh, we'll check back with you. appreciate it. you heard josh. we have some very special guests who are headlining the concert

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>> conservative groups are holding a gathering in washington today. the annual values voters summit champions causes like stronger military, christian values and this year the crowds will hear from a number of candidates and politicians who are embraced by the tea party movement. time for the latest from the best political team on television. paul steinhauser in washington. i don't know, paul. i want the know what's crossing now but the colbert and stewart, yet, leave it to them to add humor amidst all of this. >> oh, yeah. that's the weekend before the midterm elections keeping us busy that weekend, no doubt about it. we'll see what happens with that. we were talking about the value voters summit, an annual conference. let me pick up where you dropped off. there ar lot of top presidential hopefuls, possible presidential hopefuls on the republican side speaking there. i confirmed with an aide to mitt romney that he's going to have some tough language against the

president tan democratic leaders in congress speaking there. of course, tomorrow, the presidential straw poll. keeping our eyes on when's on top. last year, mike huckabee did and christine o'donnell speaking there, newest rock star on the right. she, of course, won that delaware senate primary on tuesday on the republican side. talking about that. check this out. brand new, joe biden, the vice president, going to delaware today. helping out chris coons who's going up against o'donnell in that race. this was joe biden's seat for 36 years. before he became vice president. so the democrats obviously, k a kyra, they want to keep that seat in democratic hands if they can. also today, sarah palin. sarah palin. the former alaska governor, 2008 republican vice presidential nominee. somebody who's been influential in the primaries. where will she be tonight? iowa. the main attraction at a major republican party dinner there. of course, this is all about palin says about helping out candidates this year and dinner

helps fund republican candidates running for this office year. if she has presidential aspirations, iowa is the place to be. >> okay. an up dmat an hour a. reminder for political news in you can't hold on to the moment, go to cnnpolitics.com. we'll be right back. ????????????

all right. i need your input on this one. if you were a cheerleader or your daughter or son, you want to weigh in. take a look at this cheer. our backs ache. our skirts are too tight. we shake our booties from left to right. all right. that may sound like standard cheerleader stuff. what if your girl is 6 years old.

you want to talk about tight skirts abe bootie shaking? well, mom in michigan said, nope, not appropriate. complained to the detroit media about it and the cheerleading league. well, they weren't too happy. they got ticked off at mom for taking it public and guess what they did. they kicked the little girl right off the team. >> i do love this sport and i fought to get her on the team because i knew it was a good organization and the fact they were okay to vote her out is terrible. >> worst thing to deal with in the league. i've never seen anything like it. >> i don't know what i'll tell my daughter. don't know. >> that was a fun talk with her daughter. mom says she tried to solve the matter internally but no one was listening and that's why she went public. so the little girl gets the boot and the cheer stays. so tell me what you think. should little 6-year-old girls cheer about booties and tight skirts or wait until they're older, like 30 maybe?

tell me what you think on my blog. we have developing story on the medical front. adds early as today the food and drug administration could revoke the approval of avastin. researchers say that the drug offers few benefits but some patients say it may have saved their lives. cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has the story. >> reporter: the first time ronny got breast cancer she was 27 years old. when it came back, she was 31 and pregnant. >> and, when i was 27 weeks pregnant is when i found out the reoccurrence of my cancer which it had spread from the original site into my bones and this particular case into my right hipbone. >> reporter: little maddy was born healthy but the chancer is still in the mother's bones and now it's in her liver, too. >> i had a healthy, beautiful baby. >> reporter: most patients who get a diagnosis of stage iv breast cancer like her can expect to live only another year

and a half. but she's lived two and a half years and counting and her tumors have shrunk a bit. why has she lived longer than most? >> i think first and foremost it's my faith in god. >> reporter: and also, she says, because of one of her med sens, avastin. like other patients, she uses it in combination with chemotherapy drugs. >> people respond differently to different types of treatments. and for whatever reason, i have responded positively to this treatment. >> reporter: dr. ed it perez is her doctor. >> before she started the treatment, she was in pretty bad condition. >> reporter: have you seen tumor shrinkage? >> oh, oh, absolutely, absolutely. yes. yes. >> reporter: this is it right here? >> yes. >> reporter: she is afraid the insurance might soon stop paying for avastin because recent studies show breast cancer patients on average don't live longer with avastin. plus, the drug has serious dangers including high blood

pressure and internal bleeding. dr. joan mortimer was on the food and drug administration advisory committee that voted against avastin. >> i think based on the objective data that we have right now there really is no evidence that the benefits of giving of giving avastin with chemotherapy outweigh the risk to the the patient. >> reporter: there is no way that she could pay for it on her own. it costs about $5,000 a month. i couldn't say that avastin is why i lived longer. i say it's a combination of a lot of things. >> reporter: maybe it's her other medicines or good luck, but villarreal doesn't want to change a treatment that seems to be working. >> it's given me two years with my daughter and to me that's kind of priceless. >> reporter

>> reporter: elizabeth cohen, cnn. we have a lot going on. let's check in with rob marciano, following the crazy weather in new york city. >> that, and potentially tornadoes touching down in new york city. crazy stuff there. certainly winds strong enough to do damages. winds now with hurricane karl at 120 miles an hour expected to make landfall as a category 4 storm. i'm stephanie elam in new york where we are trying to dry out from the weather. how about this milestone? student loan debt now exceeds total credit card debt in this country. what do students have to say about this? that's coming up in the next hour. thanks, guys. here's the rock in the rock for roots that we've been talking about today. j.p., chris chrissie and the fair ground boys playing a mini-gig for us in the next hour. ♪ that's why i love you lady

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high speed chase through parts of dallas ends with a police beating and the brutal run-in is caught by a squad car dash cam. the video is graphic, and this is the part we see. the d.a. says he's pursuing charges against the three officers. two are ar accused in the beating and the third trying to hide what happened. ed lavandera walks us through the tape. >> reporter: when the dashboard video camera first spots andrew collins, he's riding his motorcycle on a side walk. the police officers start chasing him even though they were ordered by a superior officer on the radio not to. collins speeds off at times reaching 60 miles per hour but

along the way, the camera picks up a disturbing threat from one of the officers in the car. >> someone in the car with randolph and bower, either one, says keep us going, i'm going to kick the expletive s.-h.-i.-t. out of him. >> reporter: he appears to surrender when the beating begins. randolph hits him five times with a baton. he's been fired. a third officer is also on leave after police say he moved the dashboard video camera to obscure what was happening at the scene. all three are facing criminal charges. another three officers are also being investigated and have been put on restricted duty. dallas police chief david brown

says the behavior is unacceptable. >> i expect citizens to hold me accountable to ensure that dallas officers treat all citizens with fairness and compassion. no one is above the law. of this great country. >> reporter: collins suffered bruising and developed blood clots. >> can you tell me how you are feeling? >> very sorry. >> can you tell me about yourself, just about you, what you're going through right now, what you're thinking psychologically? >> it's just no good. it's not good right now. >> reporter: all of the officers involved are white, but dallas' police chief says the beating doesn't appear racially motivated. instead, he believes inexperience is the issue. all officers involved have been on the force less than three years, but, once again, the actions of a few officers threaten the trust of minority

citizens. >> he's officers made some poor choices and bad choices and the entire police department will suffer from it. >> reporter: we tried to reach officer randolph's attorney but he hasn't responded. we did speak to officer bower's attorney. bower was the man seen punching collins in the video and says bower acted reasonably, tried to get collins handcuffed and the scene under control. ed lavender ra, dallas. it's the top of the hour now, and it's tough being a hero. we told you how army suicide rates is on the rise. yesterday we talked to a retired army major who has been looking for work for two years, and the v has failed so many veterans, exposing houses of them to potentially fatal diseases because of sloppy hospital

practices. our fallen heroes don't ever seem to get a break, either, because of this. even arlington national cemetery hasn't had their backs. with dumped tombstones, mismarked graves, missing burial records and outdated maps, a senate panel has claimed as many as 6600 graves might be marked wrong, not marked at all or mislabeled on the maps. now an ohio couple heard about all of this and wondered if their son, marine private heath warner were buried in the right place, in the grave they would be visiting for the rest of their days. they went to arlington this week and had the army actually exhume his body. as grisly and painful as that was, they were fortunate.

last month, another family had the same fears and they were confirmed. turned out their hero was in the wrong place. private warner was killed in iraq in late 2006. he was 19 years old. he wanted to be buried at arlington. his father said when they laid their son to rest that day among the heroes, the honor matched the grief. after taking their son's remains out of the grave four years later and revisiting that pain, honor and grief have turned to outrage. scott warner joins me live from cleveland, ohio. scott, i can't even imagine what it was like for you to go to arlington and actually have to sift through your son's remains. >> good morning, kyra. it was beyond anything i ever imagined that i would possibly ever have to do. i hope that my speaking to you and with congressional

enforcement this will never happen to another family ever again. >> now, scott, take me to that moment. you saw all of the news coverage about how arlington cemetery had literally just botched so many grave sites of our fallen, and you were concerned that possible your son -- it might not be his remains, he might not be buried in the right place. so what did you do? did you call arlington, i want my son's body exhumed, i want to confirm he's there? tell me how you did that and what kind of response you got? >> it really doesn't work like that. there's an 800 number where you contact them initially and they do some investigative research. we received a phone call back from their call center saying that our son was in the right place and everything matched, and it sounded a lot like a

blah, blah, blah. so i said, could you please send me hard records. i would like to really be able to look at what you're saying. so at that point, when i received the hard copies, it was accompanied by a letter, by the executive director katherine condon, in which she said she reviewed the records from accuracy and had assured us that our son was in the right place, and as i began to go through the paper work, there was a form called the desecedent informati sheet, and it was incomplete and had flaws in it. >> what were the flaws? >> well, the receiving funeral home had an address for a city in illinois, and we're from ohio. so that was my first red flag. the second red flag was that had that arlington cemetery was the

receiving home in d.c. our understanding was that our son was to be received once we had sent him from cleveland hopkins airport to d.c., he would be receive bide a funeral home, kept there in storage until the day of the burial, and at that point brought to arlington. this whole piece is missing. so that's when katherine began doing her research, and what really brought it to a head was we had a phone conversation probably a week ago this past wednesday, and she said that she had found that murphy's funeral home in d.c. had the remains of our son. so i had a friend on my behalf contact murphy's, ask them to

verify if arlington had called and asked them to confirm with arlington that they had records. they said, no, they did not have records and they could not say they took care of heath. so the next morning i had a phone conversation with katherine condon and she had with her the man who is the head of all of the military cemeteries of the united states. he said, what are your concerns, mr. warner. i said, katherine, why don't you begin your research. she says, these are clerical errors, this a computer glitch and we know he was stored at murphy's from this day to this day and arlington from this day to this day, and i said, would you fax that information over to me because i would like to look at it. there was an awkward pause and she said, no, i don't have it. she said i thought my word was good enough.

i said, ma'am, do you not understand the gravity of what's taking place here. >> how did you cut through all of this b.s., scott, and say, i want to see if this is my son? this is my right to do this. i want to see if this is him and he's buried in the right place. how did you finally get to that point? >> well, it was that conversation because i pinned her down, and i said, i know for a fact you do not have that information and it has not been confirmed because i had a call made on my behalf to that funeral home and at that point, the man who is the head of the cemeteries said, mr. warner, what would you like us to do. and i said, you have left us no option but to disinter our son's grave for positive identification. >> so, after all of this, they finally exhume his body and there you are having to -- i mean, did you say to the funeral

director -- >> kyra? >> yes. let me tell you it was not that easy. >> it still was difficult after all that? >> i had engaged congressman boatierry's officer from the 16th district. they organized a conference call with kath 35th, the superintendent, legal counsel, myself, the congressman's chief of staff, and we had to have a conference call to negotiate the terms of the disinterment because the relationship had become so contentious at that point. >> how did you finally know it was your son? how did you finally confirm that it was him? >> well, i will tell you that they did break the agreement that we had made, and the morning of the disinterment, i was left with no choice, because of the compromised grave, that i had to literally jump on the

flatbed truck and literally i had to -- the funeral director had stopped -- he had stalled looking through the remains, and i was like, the hell with this, and i jumped up there and i did what i had to do, and i said, get over here. >> what did you do, scott? >> i said, get over here and do your job. i said, find my son's arm. >> he eventually was able to find his arm, and i was handed a handkerchief by one of the army officers, and i began to wipe his arm off and at that point, i was able to see his tattoo. i was left with no alternative, kyra, and that's the thing i want people to know. i was not a deranged, demented, bereaved father. i was left with no other option but to do what i had to do to positively identify my son.

>> i don't blame you. as a parent, i would want to do the exact same thing. did arlington cemetery apologize to you? did you in any way, shape or form feel any sense of peace once you knew that that definitely was your son? did you feel better at all, scott? >> you know, i'm really processing that right now. the reality is my son's in heaven, and i say i have two miracles that took place that day. the first miracle that god gave me was, one, heath actually ended up where he was supposed to be, because if you look at the records, it makes no sense he ended up there. and the second miracle was that god preserved his arm that i could see his tattoo, because his body was so decomposed that for his arm to still be intact that i could see that tattoo, i just call it a miracle, and i thank god that he was still

there and i know where my son is, and so i do have peace now from that perspective. as far as arlington goes, that's a different story. i believe that they were negligent. i believe they compromised the grave site. i believe that what my family went through, no family should have ever had to go through that. >> yeah, so true. >> it was absolutely horrific. >> well, scott, i thank you for just bringing this to our attention and for talking to us. i know this has not been easy for you. >> can i say one more thing real quick? >> sure. >> i did contact senator mcclass ski's office, made her aware of the situation because she needs to know what's taking place at arlington, because i believe the army is incapable and the one thing that's really interesting is that the army will not allow

the executive director or the superintendent to make public statements, and the reason is they're afraid as soon as they open their mouths that everything's going to crumble and fall apart, and i know for a fact that reporters have been trying to talk to them, but they are closed mouth. >> well, scott, we're on this story. we're dedicated to the story and so are a lot of other journalists. our men and women coming home from the wars have to deal with so much, things they shouldn't have to deal with it, and now seeing what's happening to our fallen at a special place like arlington cemetery, it's flatout wrong. we are sorry for what you went through, but you are bringing attention to something that must be fixed. >> thank you, and i want to say god bless all our troops, thank you for your service, and thank you to all of the families who have lost their loved ones. >> scott warner, thank you, and

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london where british police say five men have been arrested on suspicions of terrorism, they come on the second day of the pope's visit to london. >> reporter: the late thaeft we found is that those five men were working as street cleaners here in central london, according to the westminster city council. we do know they were aged between 26 and 50, arrested around 5:30 in the morning at a business address and police are still questioning them now and that they are still continuing to search a business address and several residences in north and

east london. we also know that police as a result of these arrests did review the security for pope benedict while he's here. they say they are happy with the security that's in place, and there will not be any change to his itinerary. we'll keep on top of this and late you know of any changes later in the day. straight ahead, leaving college way diploma and a mountain of debt. if you are a struggling student who needs help, stay tuned. first, j.p., chrissie, and the fair ground boys playing a mini-gig for us live here in studio 7. ♪ in this temporary world where nothing's meant to last ♪ ♪ and i'm just about to sink into a rage of angry lust ♪ ♪ so run a mile and walk away leave me if you must ♪

♪ i'm secretly embroiled in a burning hot desire ♪ ♪ if you get to close you'll surely burn in my volcanic fire ♪

students taking on more debt than ever to cover the cost of college. stephanie elam joining us live from new york. stephanie, i bet you're so excited about having a new baby, getting ready to grow up and go to college. >> we already set up our 529 plans for a little girl born on 529. we're on it.

>> i hope you would be, being a financial correspondent and all. >> it would be embarrassing if i had not done that. it's something that a lot of people are thinking about because student loan debt hate record high, now exceeding credit card debt in this country. student debt now stansd at $850 billion and this is according to finna.org. what's behind the trend? for one thing, people are cutting back on credit car use. it's fallen for 23 months in a row, and at the same time, college costs are rising, about 5% a year. that means more borrowing. that's why students are wracking up loan debt at a rate of $2800 a second. that's scary. you might think this would freak students out. that's not what we found when we spoke to students here in new york. >> i think when i become successful, i will be able to

pay them off. i mean, it's always a little worrying that you have this massive debt on you. >> hopefully i can get a nice job and i can pay it off in time. >> with what i'm in loans, i need to have a very well-paying job to pay it back. >> i know that my job prospects out of graduation are much higher, so the price will hopefully be worth it. >> here's the thing. jobs not so easy to come by these days. we've been talking about this a lot for people who have been out of college for a while. more students are having trouble paying off debt for that reason. the default rate on student loans hit 7%, the highest since 1977. >> what can students do so they aren't paying off loans for years and years and years like so many of us did. >> i know, right. there are a few suggestions from experts. first one is start with federal aid first. borrow there first.

stafford and plus loans are cheaper and more available than private student loans. second, don't borrow more for your entire education than your expected starting salary. that means you have to research what your chosen field might pay and apply for grants and scholarships. you don't have to pay those pack. cnnmoney.com has an online calculator that shows you how quickly you pay them off. you are probably still paying for yours. you came out of college like six years ago. >> try tripling that. it takes about decade. >> they say it's worth it. >> i had a single mom working hard. she wasn't able to do a 529. you are already ahead of the game, sister. >> they didn't exist when you and i were growing up and trying to go to school. >> i think it was you buy bucks for a bond and hoped it grew.

we're old. thanks, steph. beating the odds and making a difference and making her mark. an inner city school principal in florida is waging a war against ill nor rance. in 200 had, lee charter school in ft. myers had a state rating of f. the principal turned it around with a lot of hard work anden credibly positive attitude. >> i'm making a difference with children that many others have given up on. we have high expectations for children. it doesn't matter what you look like. it doesn't matter what you bring when you come. what matters is what you receive once you get here. >> every monday, the principal is her staff dress in army fatigues just to remind students are their battle to succeed and get this, for the last three years, that school has maintained an a grade from state officials. you know that old joni

mitchell song about how they paved paradise to put up a parking lot. here's a twist. we're going to show you where they're actually putting paradise back.

♪ don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got till its gone ♪ ♪ pave paradise to put up a parking lot ♪ ♪ i don't care about spots on my apples ♪ counting crows, one of many bands that covered that song. it's 2010. there's a movement to put paradise back and turn the blacktop into green space. josh levs is at an event in atlanta. tell us what it's about. >> i am doing what i tell my 3-year-old son never to do. i'm sitting in the middle of a parking lot. today it's not a parking lot. it's been turned into a park.

they laid down all of this sod and it's been inspired by an event called park-in day, and they are turning parking lots into parks. this is the ceo of an independent energy company. why does this parking lot look like this? >> isn't this incredible. >> reporter: this a huge parking lot usually. >> i expect tonight they will be dancing on this sod and not sitting around like we are. >> reporter: what's going on? >> mx energy has been active in georgia for years. this is an important market for us we serve customers with natural gas but more importantly, what we have done for years is work with local environmental groups, been a sponsor with earth day and recently helping to plant a virgin forrest in columbus, georgia. i think you know new forest

helps to offset carbon dioxide emissions. >> reporter: this is largely about getting people to talk about green space again. getting people to talk about how we are losing so much of our green space in this country and all over the world to developments and parking lots. i understand you put about $100,000 into this and this will be a big concert. you want to see a big turnout to get people talking about green space. is that the idea? >> exactly. we also want people to have a good time. this will be a good time tonight. families will be out here. we expect over 10,000 people at least. i'm worried about crowd control because we think it be fun. there are practical things people can do to conserve energy, to offset their carbon dioxide emissions, and we have been active in this area for years, and we expect that tonight people will sort of start the chatter and virally people will start to focus on these issues.

>> reporter: it is interesting. i know we have had this park-in day and we find each year more and more places are getting involved, and it's not alwayses a extensive as we're seeing here with a big concert. a lot of cases we see little parking lots getting sodded over. there's a map up at the website, parking day.org, and we put all of the information up on my facebook and twitter pages. you can't all be here in atlanta to see the big concert but you will have a little taste of that concert right now, thanks to the show that brought in chrissie hind and j.p. >> thank you, and thank you for hosting chrissie hind as well. >> reporter: it is amazing to sit in the mill of a parking lot yesterday morning and will be tomorrow. all of this sod -- can you get a shot of this.

this is the sod. this is the parking lot underneath. there were cars here a couple of days early. this sod will be given away for free tomorrow. >> bring back some. here's the rock in the rock for roots that josh was talking about. j.p., chrissie and the fair ground boys, playing a mini-gig for us. interview, whole song coming up next. ♪ ♪ where does the light go when it's early ♪ ♪ you have given me belief in man ♪

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♪ don't invite me to come in, you better lock this door and if you don't want me to return ♪ ♪ you better lock this door well, you've just seen chrissie hind then with the pretenders and with j.p., chrissie and the fair ground boys. this what you and your soul mate do when you 30 years apart. you get out your guitars and turn that passion into music. j.p. is helping us see a chrissie we have never seen before and maybe one she didn't even know existed. they join us together with patrick murdock. together they are j.p., chrissy and the fair ground boys. j.p. what is it about you, there's this light around this woman? what happened here? >> i really don't know how to answer that.

>> you have to try. >> it's not me. it's just we get on so well, we have become like soul mates, and, you know, it's all come out in the music. so it's just not me. it's just how we are together. >> how old are you? it's totally you. >> chrissie has said it is about you all along. the whole fair ground and what that meant to you for years? it's kind of a trip and like front of fessy. you guys meet and had you thrown down a few and you are at a congre congoese party. >> i couldn't eat the meat, busch meat and he came up and started talking. it was noisy. i said i'm going on tour

tomorrow, and give me a call sometime. i thought he was interesting, and when i went off on tour, he sent me a few songs on computer. i thought he has an amazing voice and writing these genius songs. i didn't see him for months because i was on tour. i met him through his voice and songs, crude demos but i was totally seduced by it. >> when you said he wrote these amazing songs, how do you define that? so many times you don't know until it happens. you had no idea what was going to come out of that room in cuba when you looked at each other and were jamming on the guitar. it just happened. >> totally. this whole thing has been such a natural, organic process. we haven't planned anything. exactly how the songs came out. we wrote them all in about ten minutes each, and it just flowed out of this, and this whole process of this album and

everything has just snowballed lack as if it is all out of our control, like how the songs came out. >> i remember sting saying i can't write music unless there's drama in my life. you two met, you had this passionate love affair -- >> who said you had a passionate love affair? >> the both of you. there's a spark. you do something to him, he does something to you. you listen to the lyrics, something's going on there. there's something deep. this isn't britney spears. see, patrick, you know what i'm talking about. you have grown up with him. you have been in a band. >> all of that, britney, whatever, you know, who when they are brushing their teeth. >> it's image. it's fire works and flash. >> talking about a love affair. we never said that. >> there's love. >> of course, there is love. i love her with all my heart,

but, you know -- >> let me ask you this, chrissie, there's a connection obviously that the two of you have. you listen to the lyrics. it's like love letters to each other. >> we didn't intend to make an album. we were writing to each other, sitting there writing the songs to each other, and the sad part of it. the tragedy for both of us is i'm 30 years older than him. if we had wanted to start something -- it's just never going to happen. e we wrote it in the music and they're stronging to each other and we kind of demoed them. these are kind of personal. >> it's very personal. >> it's very personal bhp i listened to that, i thought, wow, that's the best thing i have ever done. >> why is that? why is it the best thing you have ever done? >> because he's involved. i'm singing with someone. i'm not a solo artist. i always wanted to be surrounded

by band. i like someone writing with me. i'm not really a collaborator. i'm more of a recluse when i write. it happened so fast. it's nice to share the limelight, which i don't really enjoy. it's nice to have someone else, and the music was so -- i wasn't sitting their for two years thinking i should write some songs. they just arrived. >> that's the great part. it's the heart, the minds, the emotions. it's what happens among people. it's so much more raw. you're a songwriter. you know what i'm talking about. >> yeah, for me as a songwriter, the first thing that comes to mind is always the most truthful because if you think about it too much, then, you know, it becomes pop music. so for me, you know, and like how we wrote all of these songs, you know, i was pushed and pulled back home in britain, and in this pop kind of world and

meeting chrissie, she has made me realize that you just got to be yourself. if you're a true rock 'n' roll musician, you got to be yourself and just be honest in the songs, and that's what we've done in this album, and, you know, it's clear that people want the truth. >> people want the truth because that truth brings about clarity when we can't always express it by ourselves. i will let you sing in a minute. i promise, but this is kind of that spiritual side of me. you know, you're from respbay. cool place. you surfer, and you decided to travel across america. we were looking at these pictures of your trip and my writer and i were talking about this, and you made this trip across america and made all of these stops. i think we have a picture of you in, is it, niagra? i love this picture.

this is fabulous. >> grand canyon. chrissie, i'm thinking, chrissie had that song thumbelina, and this is weird. it's like the two of you were destined to meet. you have written about things and sung about things that you are doing in your life, and this whole fair ground connection. you grew up next to a fair ground. this is a row mantic theme for you. it's been a theme, i do videos at fair grounds and gravitated to them. it's like you were destined to meet or knew each other in another life. am i crazy? >> yes. >> i always had this thing about fair grounds, and i don't know why. it's been a real strong pull for me and when i met him that night at that congolese barbecue and i said, i can't hear you. he said, yeah, aisle from wales,

a fair ground, and he heres this all the time. my mother's family was welsch and worked in the coal mines in ohio. i thought maybe that's why i had it, so i'd recognize it. he wrote me a song and sent it to me before i even had seen him again that night. he said, we could meet on venice beach. i said, why venice beach? when are we going to california? i said, guess where we are? >> see, i'm telling you, the whole thing is a trip. it was all meant to be. >> and now we got to meet you through it. >> oh, and what an honor for me. really, it is. just the whole dynamic is awesome. tell me what you are going to sing? >> we are going to do our single, "if you let me." >> you want to tell me there's no love affair, passion? listen to the lyrics.

it says it all. are you ready, patrick? i want to be serenaded. okay. j.p. jones, chrissie hind, patrick murdock. here they are. ♪ you don't want me to come in you better lock this door ♪ ♪ and if you don't want me to return you better lock this door ♪ ♪ because i fight by myself ♪ are you going to help me survive to survive on my own ♪ ♪ it's just too lonely and i'm going to take on this world ♪

♪ i'm going to make you love me if you let me ♪ ♪ if you let me, if youet me, if you let me ♪ ♪ you don't want this bleeding heart, you better lock this door ♪ ♪ and if you can't watch me fall apart ♪ ♪ you better lock this door ♪ because i have been in here a long time ♪ ♪ are you going to drop me tonight ♪ ♪ i'd like to come in and don't tell nobody ♪ ♪ cause i'm going to take on this world ♪ ♪ i'm going to make you love me ♪ ♪ if you let me, if you let me,

if you let me ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm going to take on this world ♪ ♪ i'm going to make you love me ♪ ♪ if you let me, if you let me, if you let me ♪ ♪ i'm going to take on this world ♪ ♪ i'm going to make you love me if you let me, if you let me, if you let me ♪ ♪ oh, i'm going to take on this world ♪ ♪ i'm going to make you love me ♪ ♪ if you let me, if you let me, if you let me ♪

♪ i'm going to take on this world ♪ ♪ i'm going to make you love me ♪ ♪ if you let me, if you let me, if you let mow ♪

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