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welcome to the "cnn newsroom" on this mother's day. it's sunday, may 8th. i'm fredricka whitfield. we start with breaking news out of st. louis. a second passenger plane has been diverted today. this one a continental flight bound for chicago. apparently there was an unruly passenger on board. he approached the front of the plane and tried to get to the exit door. the passenger had to be restrained. he was taken off the plane in st. louis and is being questioned by federal authorities. the plane was allowed to continue on to chicago, and now this comes after this taking place in new mexico. albuquerque, delta flight 1706 was forced to land there because of a potential security threat, according to the tsa. a flight attendant on the san diego bound flight discovered a suspicious note in the lavatory.

the passengers are being checked out by the fbi there at albuquerque, new mexico. that flight that started out in detroit on its way to san diego, diverted to albuquerque, new mexico. you're seeing that picture there of the flight on the ground in albuquerque. cnn is following both of these stories. one out of st. louis. this one out of albuquerque. we'll bring you more details as they become available. in other news today, blunt talk for pakistan from the president of the united states. mr. obama is publicly calling on the pakistani government to investigate possible ties between that country's intelligence service and al qaeda terrorists. cnn's senior political editor mark preston joins us now from washington with more on the president's interview to air tonight on cbs's "60 minutes." what are can you tell us, mark? >> the lightning raid that killed osama bin laden is being described as the single biggest achievement against al qaeda. top administration officials acknowledge it's complicated their relationship with

pakistan. a week after the u.s. killed enemy number one in a daring nighttime raid, the white house says it is pressing pakistan for answers about how osama bin laden was hiding in plain sight. just 30 miles north of that country's capital. in an interview with cbs's "60 minut minutes," president obama says the u.s. has delivered that message to pakistan. >> we think that there had to be some sort of support network for bin laden inside of pakistan. but we don't know who or what that support network was. we don't know whether there might have been some people inside of government, people outside of government, and that's something that we have to investigate and, more importantly, the pakistani government has to investigate. >> reporter: pakistan's ambassador to the u.s. says an investigation is under way and promises that if need be, heads will roll. at the same time, he insists his government would have taken action if it had known bin laden's whereabouts. >> if any member of the pakistani government, pakistani military or pakistani

intelligence service knew where osama bin laden was, we would have taken action. osama bin laden's presence in pakistan was not to pakistan's advantage. >> reporter: questions about pakistan come amid calls by some lawmakers to cut u.s. aid to pakistan. currently about $1.5 billion a year. but president obama's national security adviser tells cnn, remember, pakistan is a key u.s. ally. >> the fact is osama bin laden was in abbottabad, pakistan, for six years or so. the fact also is more terrorists and extremists have been captured and killed on pakistan soil than any other place in the world. they have been a very important partner for the united states in our efforts against terrorism. >> with bin laden dead, donilon said all eyes turn to the hunt for senior al qaeda leader amman al za wary. we are still learning more about the raid on bin laden's compound. just yesterday u.s. officials

released bin laden videotapes captured in the raid on that compound. today we learned that the courier who unwittingly led the u.s. to bin laden was first identified during the bush administration. >> i think it was about four years ago in 2007, we had built up sufficient lead information on the name of the courier that we thought it was ready for presidential primetime. so we briefed it to the president. not as something imminent, but as our most promising lead to track down bin laden. >> so this is classic human intelligence. you had people on the ground. they talked to people. they developed relationships. is that right? >> it is. but it also came out of detainee interrogations. one of the more prominent leads we had at the beginning of this exercise was partial identity information that came out of detainees that we were holding in our so-called black sites. then from that point, we used all the tools of intelligence. i can't go into detail, but i

can assure you it was signals intelligence, imagery intelligence and human intelligence that allowed us to build this. fareed, this wasn't done one brick at a time. this was actually done one pebble at a time. >> former cia director michael hayden also talking about his thoughts about the decision to attack bin laden's compound with a commando raid instead of a missile strike. we'll have that comments later on this hour. and then this. a remarkable rescue in nevada. this canadian couple disappeared seven weeks ago while traveling in a van on a remote road in northern nevada. they were last seen in surveillance video from a convenience store in bakers city, oregon. that was nearly two months ago. just this past friday hunters found the woman. but not her husband. she told rescuers she survived by eating tiny amounts of trail mix and snow. family in canada says the

discovery is a great mother's day gift. >> i'll probably cry. just seeing rita, knowing she survived 7 1/2 weeks in a van and hung on to hope for all that time. probably words will not come and probably tears will come and lots of hugs and kisses. >> the search now turns to chretian's husband. he was last seen on march 22nd when he left her, his wife, to go find help. all right. let's talk weather now. severe weather along the mississippi river. a nonstop battle to keep floodwaters out of homes and businesses. the river is expected to crest tuesday in memphis at 14 feet above flood stage. that's just inches below the record flood level back in 1937. right now at least 1,100 homes have been evacuated. the high water has already covered some streets in downtown memphis including river front -- the river front street at biel.

right now nerves are on edge. >> it's just bad. like i say, it's an act of god. what can you do with an act of god? >> just use the common sense test. look out the back door. if the water's there today and it wasn't there yesterday, you need to be concerned. >> downstream from memphis, the flooded river won't make it to the gulf of mexico for a couple of weeks now. but no one is waiting around. right now they are shoring up the levees around new orleans. tomorrow the u.s. army corps of engineers plans to open a spillway north of new orleans to divert the floodwaters from the city. let's check in with our meteorologist jacqui jeras. sometimes these efforts are controversial. some feel like let the levees do their work. others say to avert a bigger disaster, you've got to do something about the levees. >> exactly. either way you slice it, it's going to be having a detrimental impact on somebody. that's for sure. let's talk a little bit about

this system of hef vlevees we h. we're talking about 3,700 miles overall. where the river has crested here in the boot heel of missouri. we're going to zoom in. we already heard about the first levee explosion that took place at bird's point. that was up in missouri. these aren't levees that we're going to explode. these are going to be, like, gateway systems and spillway systems they're going to open up to move that water. the first one, this has already been approved. the bonnet carre spillway. tomorrow morning around 8:00 a.m. they're going to open this up. this is the mississippi river right here. this is lake pontchartrain. when they open this up the water is going to flood into this area and move into lake pontchartrain. the whole idea of this is, yes, to spare new orleans. the flood plan, basically what it's going to do when they open up these gates, they think it's going to help to relieve some of the pressures and stresses as well. waters are still going to be

rising in new orleans. the official crest is that it's going to hit 19 1/2 feet next week. that is a half a foot shy of where those levees are going to be able to hold, right? at over 20 feet, then it's overtopped in new orleans. so the question is are they going to open up a second spillway? this one has a much greater impact in terms of homes, in terms of agricultural. we're going to talk in another 15 minutes, fredricka, about where that spillway is and what we're expecting that to do if they do, indeed, open it. >> thanks so much, jacqui. then there's a tornado ravaged state of alabama where some moms are spending this mother's day counting their blessings. later, face to face with venus williams. she actually has advice for some parents with athletic kids. and advice to the masses. sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. se nasal allergies. i know what works differently than many other allergy medications. omnaris. omnaris, to the nose! did you know nasal symptoms like congestion

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been picking up a lot of lines and power lines in the community. picking them up, sending them off, possibly recycling them. many beyond repair. it's the action you're going to be seeing not just here in this place but in communities around parts of central alabama, trying to clean up after the storm. as far as you can see, this neighborhood in pratt city, you've got wreckage everywhere. houses rip aid part, some of them completely off the foundations. look off in the distance here. every single house has had some kind of damage. nothing left untouched. certainly a tough thing to deal with. especially on a day like today which, of course, happens to be mother's day. speaking of mother's day, just yesterday in tuscaloosa we were able to meet a very interesting person. she's 20 years old. her name is alicia fairchild. she's celebrating mother's day in a shelter and she has a very interesting story. >> all i could think was, my son, i got to get to my son. they pulled nails out of my feet from where i had to run through my house. we had to climb over a huge tree that landed on our house that was blocking the door. i had to climb over that tree.

i was determined to get to my son. >> that's a pretty great mother's day present. >> yeah, it really is. he's a blessing. i can just tell him, hey, you know you lived through a tornado when you were 9 weeks old, 8 weeks old. >> now you're home for mother's day. what is that like? >> it's kind of hard. because i've pictured mother's day at home with his father. and happy and everything. and it's not. it's far from happy. >> she has applied for federal assistance. when she gets the check, first thing she plans on doing is buying a car and buying a home. from pratt city, reynolds wolf, cnn. an investigation is under way after a crowded commuter train overshot its stop in hoboken, new jersey, today and slammed into a bumper block. the bumper helped absorb the impact of the crash. 38 people suffer med minor injuries.

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into today's "reclaiming your career," if you're thinking about asking your boss for a raise, you'd need to show him or her why you deserve it. holly is the author of, get a life, not a job. she joins us from new york with three ways to do that. paula, first you say there are markers that you need to be aware of to determine whether, in fact, you as an employee actually deserve a raise. >> right. well, we all think we deserve one, right? >> of course. >> we'll probably get one, though, if all three markers are in place. we want to make sure there's an equity issue. perhaps you're making less than others doing the exact same job. also merit. you want to make sure you're consistently performing exceptionally well. the third is critical. your organization just cannot afford to lose you. those three things all in place you're probably in a pretty good position to ask for and, in fact, get a salary increase.

>> let's tackle that equity first. you need to be looking into or know, what are the changes of salaries, pay, for others that are doing the same job as you. and you got to try and figure out what that is. that's hard to sometimes determine. >> that's really tough. especially now. because in the past few years of downsizing, we've seen a lot of people have their responsibilities increased but their salaries not increase. the first thing, take stock of the types of responsibilities that you have. you might want to, believe it or not, you might want to ask for an elevated job title. i know there's that old joke when you can't get a raise, ask for a title. but really that one's going to be very important. because that will indicate what your salary range, we want to get you to a higher salary range. next thing, use that new title or the title that you have to go on to some of those sites like payscale.com or glassdoor.com to try to figure out what that range is. hopefully in combination you'll

do a good job of making the equity case for yourself. >> then merit. you need to discuss -- you need to come equipped to say on merit, i deserve this raise. you need to come up with maybe some real hard core examples of what you've done, what makes you deserving, right? >> absolutely. most organizations will link performance review with your salary increase. so don't assume that your boss remembers all of the great things you've been doing. you want to make the case for yourself. accomplishments, achievements. any evidence of commitment or engagement. you want to make sure that you make the best possible case for yourself going into that -- that meeting. >> and you want to show the competitive advantage. that's the third marker that you talked about at the very top. you need to explain, what's the competitive advantage. know what kind of role you've played and how you have an advantage over anybody else who plays that similar role? >> and in this climate, fred, in this climate, this one's particularly important. because unemployment is so high. you want to make sure that you are in a role that's absolutely

critical to the organization. they need you in order to compete. in addition to that, you want to make sure that the role that you do and the job skills that you have are unique. so very difficult to replace either internal in the organization or on the open job market. both being in the critical role and a unique role, you'll be in a much better position to ask for that salary increase. >> you've gone in there with these markers, equity, competitive advantage. the boss says, sorry, it's not going to happen. then what? >> we're seeing a lot of this. companies are very reluctant to add anything to their operating expense. what we're starting to see, companies are getting very creative with variable pay. things like a commission. any kind of a bonus or an incentive plan, you might want to go and sort of craft something for yourself that you think would be fair that's based on what you're actually accomplishing. another possibility is to ask for a tangible benefit that you

would value. something like maybe going back for a credential or going back to school. receiving tuition reimbursement. if that fails try asking for something you'd value such as additional vacation time or maybe the opportunity to work from home. and, remember, above all, make sure you have the appropriate job title. so go back to if you can't get a raise, give them a title. ask for that title. that will be important in the long run. >> usually people say elevated title, that means you want elevated pay that goes with it. you say sometimes be happy with the title. maybe you'll be empowered in some other way somewhere down the line. >> hopefully it will come. hopefully after the title's there, hopefully the salary will improve as well. >> paula, thanks so much. happy mother's day. >> thank you very much. >> thanks so much, paula. all right. straight ahead, the backlash now following the removal of two imams from a plane in tennessee. they were on their way to a

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ted, what is the scene right now? >> reporter: well, fred rhee kwka, a huge sigh of relief for people. what a tidifference a day makes. this is water from the m mst. a spillway that normally doesn't have any water at all. the actually mississippi, the banks of it are way out. see the billing out in the distance. it's actually another quarter mile past that. it's actually where the mississippi normally would be. all of this water has gone over the banks of the mississippi and come right up to the town of cairo. they have another problem. that's the ohio. this city is right at the confluence of these two rivers. if you look in the back here behind me, you can see a wall with a red barge in the background. that's the ohio. the levels of both of these rivers have gone down considerably over the last few days, meaning residents are back for the most part in their homes here. officials are warning them to leave in the evening hours. then come back and get things they need and stay here during the day. they're asking people to leave in the evening hours.

the reason is because of the amount of pressure that is still up against that retaining wall, specifically in the ohio. there is some seepage. if any part of that were to blow of course the city would be flooded in a matter of minutes. people in cairo are very pleased the army corps of engineers decided to blow that two mile hole basically in a levee on the other side of the mississippi. they believe it may have saved their town. there are some farmers over on the missouri side who have lost everything. they've lost their homes, their barns and their fields are now covered with water. they're not too happy. the folks here do believe that decision may have saved their homes. >> the ones who aren't too happy, they're actually filing suit wanting to take it to the next level that someone should pay for the damages and their losses? >> reporter: yeah. basically what their argument is, is that the rules have been in place since the 1920s. back in the 1920s cairo was a big town. there was 15,000-plus people. now there are less than 3,000 people here. they say the farmland actually

is more precious, if you will, than this city. they're battling, saying this really wasn't right. they're also saying that they should have waited a few more days. they believe that cairo still would have been safe without blowing that levee. they're hashing it out in court. as you could imagine, you lose your home after a manmade situation, not mother nature necessarily, although it's rooted, obviously, to the flooding, it leaves a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. they are going to court. whether or not they'll be successful, who knows. these people are happy. these people are not. >> let's check in with jacqui jeras right now. certainly not everyone is out of the woods just yet. there are still grave concerns all along the mississippi and ohio rivers. >> yeah. we have hundreds of miles to go. when we take a look at where the peak of that water is now, this is where the river is cresting. okay? we've got a long ways to go. when we say "cresting," we're talking about the height of the river. it's already elevated all the

way downstream, even into new orleans. so the waters are starting to rise downstream and they're just going to get higher in the upcoming days. what are they going to do about this threat of the rising waters in some of these major metropolitan areas that are right along the mississippi river? one city of concern is new orleans. and right now the river is expected to crest just below about a half a foot below the levee. so if it stays that way, it's good. that takes into account that they're going to open a spillway, similar to what they did in cairo. it's called the bonnet carre spillway. there's a second one. nobody lives there, by the way. nobody's really worried about it. it's a good thing. that's what it was designed to do. the second one is the morganza spillway. if this thing opens up, this is going to be impacting people. this is going to be impacting agriculture as well. that one has not been used to protect new orleans just yet. it was opened one time back in 1973. it is designed to fill a swampy

area basically between the atchafalaya river. if the hlevee is opened seven parishes could be covered. st. francisville, louisiana. five feet of water could move into parts of houma and morgan city. this one will certainly be detrimental. that's that catch- .22. do you harm fewer people or more people? the corps has asked for them to open the morganza one. it hasn't been approved yet. that could happen in the upcoming week. >> similar dilemma played out upstream. this is complicated in so many different way. . thank you very much. more now on that raid that killed osama bin laden. former cia director michael hayden was a guest today on cnn's "fareed zakaria: gps."

earlier this hour we heard him talk about the courier who unwittingly led them to obama's doorstep. he said the ci airks began keeping tabs on that courier four years ago. hayden also talked about obama' decision to launch the raid on bin laden's compound. >> i would have been very worried. i know my friends at the agency were very worried. but frankly, fareed, this was a courages you choice on the part of the president. make no mistake about it. in addition to being courageous, i think it was also inevitable. this was the very best chance we had to kill or capture this target. the president had choices. made more difficult because even as those helicopters were going over the wall, everything we had on this facility, the belief that bin laden was there, was truly circumstantial. there were no sightings. nothing that you can point to and say, that's it. that's him. so the president made this decision even in the face of

uncertainty. that requires some courage. but, frankly, i cannot imagine any american president not making that decision. >> also on cnn today, former secretary of state condoleezza rice. >> i was proud that over two presidencies, we were persistent enough and patient enough to put together the picture that ultimately led to him. you don't just stumble upon osama bin laden. it takes a lot of work to get there. and i think it really closes a chapter in the book on al qaeda. i was surprised that he wasn't in the tribal areas some place, that he was in essentially a suburb of islamabad. and we all know that pakistan is a fractured society. i don't for a minute believe that the government knew this and was trying somehow to hide osama bin laden. but i do know that there's some very hard questions to be asked and answered by pakistan. and they really ought to be asking them themselves. because pakistan itself is at risk from terrorism.

>> there are also a lot of questions about this case. why two imams were kicked off a flight in tennessee friday. at lastic southeast airlines has apologized to them and launched an investigation. cnn senior correspondent alex chernoff joins us from new york. there are reports the pilot actually made that decision. because some of the passengers apparently made it clear they felt uncomfortable with these imams onboard. >> well, the attorney for the imams is saying, actually, the passengers were fine with them being onboard. he says that a delta supervisor went back onboard the plane, surveyed the passengers. no one had a problem. nonetheless, the pilot still would not allow these two imams on to the flight. there was a lot of irony here. the imams started in memphis. they were trying to get to char l charlotte for a conference on

islamaphobia. the plane actually left the gate, then returned to the gate for these two imams to be checked once again. and they got through security a second time. >> we let them check our stuff and our luggage, our bag, our body, everything they did. they said, okay, you guys are good. you can go. when we are entering to the plane, the supervisor, mr. russell, he said mr. i mmam, sorry, i was pleading with the pilot to let you go with this flight. he is not allowing you to go. >> delta invited the two men into its sky club at the airport in memphis. they had to wait six hours until the next nonstop flight over to charlotte. delta deferred statement to atlantic southeast airlines. it did say, quote, compensation

and reaccommodation on the next available flight were immediately offered to the passenger and the passenger's travel companion. we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. certainly a very embarrassing situation. fredricka? >> i'm wondering about the pilots. what is being said from them or what might they be facing besides questions? might there be any penalties imposed on them? is there anyone who is saying they want them to explain themselves? >> well, certainly, yes. i mean, an investigation is being conducted by atlantic southeast. the attorney for the imams says he wants training for delta and atlantic southeast airline pilots. he also wants the pilot to be disciplined. not fired, but to be disciplined, he told me. >> all right, allan chernoff, thanks so much in new york. appreciate that. this young lady's name is

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it's addictive. >> you write in your book, you know, "come to win," that you love to win, but at the same time you reached out to a number of business leaders, athletes, some who made it to the professional level, all who have kind of sport at the root. they talk about that winning. you tried to impart some of those lessons about sometimes you really do have to lose in order to be a better winner. >> absolutely. i hate to break it to everyone, but the sad truth is you do learn a lot from losing. i'm not saying that you need to lose every time. but there are those key moments where you take a tough loss or a tough failure, a tough break, and those are the moments where you decide to rise up. you learn so much from it. it just stokes a fire in you that makes you go toward the direction that you were destined for. >> you were how old when your parents introduced you to the racket? >> oh, gosh, 4. i mean, i think my -- my whole family plays tennis. i was around tennis my whole

life from birth. >> what age do you suppose you were when it just hit you and you said, you know what, i am in this full bore. i love this game. >> that's interesting. because there was no age. because that was my life. i woke up, went to school, played tennis. did homework. that was my life. i didn't think about it. so that was how i was brought up. my parents said, you're going to go pro. you're going to play wimbledon. that was my life. >> if you had advice to a parent out there who, of course, has dreams of their kid becoming like a venus williams, do you advise that parent to introduce their child very early? does the parent become kind of a coach to their child? do they let them go? what's the perfect foorm formul. >> i think it's a combination. you have to recognize as a parent who you are. whether or not you can work with your child. we would hit for hours and hours. we had different parks we'd go to. one was a tether ballpark.

we'd take 15 minute breaks and play tether ball. one was a duck park. we had a great time. my dad would say, you sure you don't want to go and get on the slides? they're going to say that dad is so mean, never go to the park. he made it fun. sometimes they were tough on us. in between when i look back, i just remember what a great time i had. >> and more face to face with venus williams next hour. she's going to be answering some of your e-mail questions. people wanted to know some pretty intriguing things about dating. they wanted to know about her favorite foods. all of that. she reveals it all. you can see jacqui jeras with me now, you can see she's very relaxed. >> she is so beautiful. >> she does look gorgeous. she really is very exuberant and magnetic. of course, she loves talking about the game of tennis. but she does a lot of things off court, too, which she thinks are really important. she really does credit her parents in large part to emphasizing it's important to diversify. yes, be a great athlete. but there are other interests that you need to develop as

well. >> that's an interesting angle on mother's day. her talking about how her parents were so pivotal throughout that. i think your parents would have to be onboard from such a young age to develop that way. >> you were an athlete as a gymnast in school. >> sure. >> that was something you were drawn to as an individual. but did you feel like it was important to hear from your parents along the way or for your parents to be very involved? >> sure. oh, yeah. your parents are a huge part of your life. i don't think you could become successful really without their support to be there for you. i want to know why you didn't play tennis with her. you play tennis. >> that hopefully is coming. she really is just getting on the tennis court again. she's been injured. she's following doctors' orders and her trainer's. she's got to take it very easy. the game i would have brought, yeah, that might have set her back a little bit on her recovery. tho. not a chance. not a chance. i'd love to get on the court with her. right now she's just taking baby

steps on getting back into action. even though she's already signed up for a tournament considered a warmup tournament to wimbledon in june. we'll see if she delivers. we'll see her next hour and see you again next hour in the chat room. fun stuff from gators to geysers. >> and it's prom season, too. we'll talk about. >> all of that, straight ahead. all right. and then, of course, later on in the hour we're going to talk about high profile florida murder case that starts tomorrow. jury selection. our legal guys are already weighing in on it. you've been stuck in the garage, while my sneezing and my itchy eyes took refuge from the dust in here and the pollen outside. but with 24-hour zyrtec®, i get prescription strength relief from my worst allergy symptoms. it's the brand allergists recommend most. ♪ lily and i are back on the road again. where we belong. with zyrtec®, i can love the air®.

the libyan woman who claimed she was held against her will, beaten and raped by soldiers loyal to moammar ga gafdhafi is longer in libya. live to tunisia and cnn's senior international correspondent nic robertson following her story from the very beginning. now you've got details about her escape and how she was able to get a little help by going to tunis tunisia. >> reporter: yeah, fredricka, it's quite incredible. this is the lady who became the face of the sort of abuse and repression of gadhafi's regime when she came to the hotel and tried to tell journalists her story of being raped. then at the same time, government officials jumped on

her and escorted her away and pushed journalists out of the way and roughed her up and took her away and never addressed her issues, denigrated her in the public media. finally she's able to get out of libya. she was able to do it because two libyan army officers decided they were going to desert the army and with their families and her, they got in a car, a military car and using their military identification documents, they drove through the mountains to get to the libyan/tunisian border. when they got there, libyan rebels helped them sneak across the border and into tunisia where they went to a safe house. that's where cnn was able to catch up with the woman and talk to her. she said one of the ways she was able to get out of the country was because she not only went with these army officers who were deserts, but because she used a local costume that covered everything on her face. all except one eye. when she was asked about whether

she wanted to try and meet with her family who are in the east of libya in rebel controlled areas, she said she was still very concerned about it but she wanted to do it. >> translator: would you like to go see your family in the east? what are you planning next in the future? >> translator: i still don't know what i'm going to do. of course, i'd like to see my family. i have called some relatives of mine in egypt. but still did not hear back from them. no, i did not rush. i walked to my cousin's house and we all met. then rode in the same car. we left very normally, of course. i was wearing -- bring me that. it's a traditional tribal headware which was given to me by my friend's mother. indeed you can't see anything apart from my one eye. >> reporter: once she got to that safe house in tunisia she spent a couple of days there. then a european embassy helped her to get to tunis here, the

capital, sending a driver and a car down to the border area for her. bringing her up to the capital here. it now appears she's already moved on out of tunisia, fredricka. >> wow. incredible story. nic robertson, hank thanks so much for bringing us that update. back in this country, a high profile jury selection is about to happen somewhere in florida. why all the mystery? we'll explain after this. ines ] [ grunts ] [ dog barking ] gah! [ children shouting ] [ grunts ] [ whacking piñata ] [ whacking piñata, grunting ]

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a florida judge wants a jury that is not familiar with the casey anthony case. anthony is the orlando mom accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter. the judge in the case is taking an extraordinary move. when jury selection begins tomorrow, it'll be a secret location. our legal guys have plenty to say about this. >> perhaps somebody forget about the first amendment. the fact is that the media has already disclosed in the worst kept secret in america that the jury is being selected in hillsboro county in tampa. in fact, the funny thing is the chief judge in tampa says if you want information, call the chief judge in orlando where this case is going forward. so give some credit to judge

bilbi belvin perry. nothing trumps the first amendment. understand prejudice to the defendant. but at the end of the day, first amendment prevails in this case. >> richard, this is strange. is it not? i mean, it does appear as though this is something that happens on a fairly regular basis. there may be a change of venue. but that jury selection would take place in a secret location is highly unusual. >> it's highly unusual, fred. i have never seen or heard about this ever happening. i don't think this is something -- there's going to be a lot of challenges on appeal for this case. this probably is not going to be one of them. there'll be more severe ones with the experts and the battle of the experts and what the judge allows in as admissible or not. look, there are far more reaching and more devastating issues for this defense than whether or not the press know where this trial is going to be. this case is really setting up

miles and miles against this defendant. this is what happens, fred, when an attorney lets his ego get involved and not his ability. this attorney baez does not belong defending this woman here. he does not have the skills to do it. and she is going to get annihila annihilated, fred. it's going to be a flash verdict. she's going to get crushed in this case. >> our great legal minds there. you can catch avery fridman and richard herman every saturday live beginning at noon eastern time sfwlnch time. i had to quit. ♪ my doctor gave me a prescription for chantix, a medication i could take and still smoke, while it built up in my system. [ male announcer ] chantix is a non-nicotine pill proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions

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all right. so the international headlines now. in egypt crowds of christians and muslims clashed in cairo, throwing rocks and at one point actually shooting at one another. officials said the clashes started when rumors spread that a woman, muslim convert, was being held in a church against her will. at least 12 people were reported killed. in bahrain, the country's ruler says he'll lift the state of emergency put into place in march. witnesses and civil rights groups say bahrain's forces cracked down hard on protesters during that time. anti-government demonstration spread across bahrain beginning in february. it's election weekend in singapore. voters returned to the ruling people's action party to power. that's the party that has ruled singapore since 1959. and listen up, moms. do you know where the best and worst places are for mothers on

earth? according to the group save the children, the best place to live is in norway. moms get generous maternity leave and the country has the lowest infant mortality rate. australia, iceland, sweden and denmark round out the top five. the five worst places to be a mom and to live, niger, guinea, yemen, chad and afghanistan. obviously, you're wondering, where is the u.s. on this list? at number 31, down from number 28 last year. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we begin this hour with two developing stories. two different planes from two different airlines forced to divert their flight plans. a short time ago, a chicago-bound continental flight was forced to land in st. louis. an unruly passenger was taken off that flight. he apparently tried to get to