1st, 2nd of april, your firm, your company will be a closer knit company because of this, even though you lose a billion dollars to get there. >> can we rag on our associate producer craig schulze? i snapped this picture on my iphone. he was supposed to be cutting video. >> he was multitasking. >> he had three screens on. >> one of them basketball. i'm just saying, craig schulze, i got my eye on you. chad meyers. thank you. now this. all right. let's continue on top of the hour, i'm brooke baldwin. first, that verdict in the daycare murder trial. that is in. also, afghanistan's president makes a big demand of u.s. troops. and new rules in the security line at the airport. let's play reporter roulette. george how, let's begin with you. we heard that verdict read not even an hour ago. it sounded like a pretty emotional jury foreman, as well. tell us the verdict. >> guilty but mentally ill.

that is the decision of this jury. as you mentioned, that sounded like a very difficult decision for the jury to reach. we will see hemy neuman go to prison but he will get mental illness treatment in prison. this was a case that happened in november of 2010 when hemy neuman admits to pulling the trigger killing rusty schneiderman after he dropped off his child to daycare. hemy neuman alleged he heard voices, that he heard voices from barry white and olivia newton-john encouraging him to pull the trigger. there's one thing that's really interesting. defense attorneys made this case. i'll quote the defense attorneys saying the gun in this case was in hemy's hand but the trigger i suggest was pulled by andrea sneiderma, implicating the wife of the victim and both prosecutors and defense attorneys accused her of having affair with him.

she denied that and an has not been charged with anything. >> could she face charges though? >> that's a possibility. clearly nothing has happened at this point. she's not charged with anything, but just the other day, she hired two new attorneys possibly to protect her if prosecutors come with any criminal charges for her. >> we'll watch it. this isn't over. george, thank you. next on reporter roulette, afghanistan's president says u.s. troops should stay on u.s. bases in his country and get out of the vils. this is obviously more fallout after that american soldier allegedly massacred 16 civilians in the country this past sunday. and the military source tells cnn the staff sergeant is in kuwait. barbara starr, tell me more about what are karzai told defense secretary panetta today. >> according to the pentagon, secretary panetta is saying after this meeting, it was one of the best meetings he ever had with the afghan president. look, this comes a couple days after this tragedy, this

atrocity in afghanistan when a u.s. soldier killed those afghan civilians. so the best meeting maybe not from the afghan point of view. hamid karzai is now saying he wants all foreign troops out of afghan villages really sooner rather than later. he wants them to go back to their main bases across afghanistan. that will pose a very fundamental challenge to the u.s. strategy, which is to have troops in the villages working with the people, convincing them that they can be safe and trying to help them get on with their lives and fight the taliban, which of course, exists all across afghanistan still. so this is going to be a little problematic, you know, the u.s. isn't going to keep troops in the country if they're not wanted but that hasn't been what the strategy is. it was to get everything wrapped up by 2014. now it looks like the afghans want to speed it up. >> it's tricky. back here at home, we have this alert from the department of homeland security regarding concern here. what's that about?

>> well, this one's a little peculiar but perhaps not unsuspected. apparently, the fbi and the department of homeland security issuing a joint bulletin saying they don't have a specific threat. they're not even sure it would be likely but they want people to be aware that there could be a threat here at home as a result of this situation in afghanistan. that it could basically embolden, if you will, people with extremist tendencies who want to make some sort of move because of that situation. still, they say, they don't think it's likely and over the years, of course, we've seen the federal government issue these types of warnings when things become very sensitive on the international front. good to be aware of, but probably the advice is don't change your daily life anytime soon. >> thank you for putting it into perspective, barbara starr. next, staying in washington, lizzy o'leary with details that will make it easier for your elderly relatives to get through the security line at busy

airports. how so? >> this is yet another program, brooke, that starts on monday. the idea is for people 75 and older to be able to go through security lines a little faster. so the tsa is going to let them do a couple things. they can keep their shoes on in some of these target airports. they can keep on a light jacket, and to avoid doing extra patdowns to folks who are over 75, they can opt to go back through a screening device. they can take another pass through before a patdown. this is a pilot program. it's going to be at four airports. it will be at chicago, denver international, orlando international, and portland, oregon, airports. these all start on monday. tsa has been rejigering the way it does security programs for kids under 12 to go through, for military members to go through. they call it risk-based screening essentially saying we think people over 75 will less likely to be a threat,book. >> i guess this is the time when you want to be 75 and older and

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and on capitol hill just a couple hours ago, female senators took to the floor there urging the renewal, reauthorization of the violence against women act. this bill passed last time with plenty of bipartisan support. this time there's trouble and here's why. >> yet, there are some who refuse to support it because it now includes expanded protections for victims. and let me put this on the table. the bill includes lesbian and gay men. the bill includes undocumented immigrants who are victims of domestic abuse. the bill gives native american tribes authority to prosecute crimes. in my view, these are improvements. domestic violence is domestic violence. i ask my friends on the other side, if the victim in a same sex relationship is the -- is

the violence any less real? is the danger any less real because you happen to be gay or lesbian? i don't think so. if a family comes to the country and the husband beats his wife to a bloody pulp, do we say, well, you're illegal. i'm sorry, you don't deserve any protection? >> let me bring in correspondent senior congressional correspondent dana bash. we saw all the women on the senate floor. there's quite a fight over this, why? >> democrats are saying they're trying to improve the bill, bring it up to date by including gays and lesbians and illegal immigrants. some republicans say what democrats want to do is drastically expand and alter the intent of the original october. chuck grassley says the democrats version would expand the number of immigration visas to this country without mechanisms to ferret out fraud. a big part of this is politics.

democrats believe that they're scoring points big-time with what they call the republican war on women. that is what mainly drove the female senators to the senate floor this morning to keep this issue going by adding another were in the theory that they would -- this would infuriate women, that republicans are trying to stop the violence against women act. and i just sort of back that up right before i came on air with you, brooke, i got an e-mail from the democratic senatorial campaign committee, those who try to elect democrats trying to raise money on this issue. i can tell you that republican senator jon kyl told ted in the hallway this afternoon it is reprehensible to suggest the republicans are against the violence against women act. they say them have to just come together on some of the issues. >> you have republican lisa murkowski joining the democratic women. listen to what she said. >> unfortunately in as beautiful

a state as i live in, our statistics as they relate to domestic violence and sexual assault are horrific. they're as ugly as they come. nearly one in two alaska women have experienced partner violence. nearly one in three have experienced sexual violence. overall, nearly six in ten alaskan women have been victims of sexual assault or domestic violence. >> now, those statistics, they went over last time. the issue with immigrants, gay couples here, what are the odds this thing will fail because of those sort of addendums here? >> you know, this is just the beginning of the fight. the truth is that this doesn't need to be extended. i believe till the end of the fiscal year. obviously, this is the beginning of the politics. we're very deep into politics here. a subplot of what we just heard from lisa murkowski who is a

republican is that on this issue of women and politics, remember the whole issue of contraception and allowing women to have precontraception, there was a vote on the senate floor last week. she voted with her party against allowing women to have free contraception and later said she regretted that. she told me yesterday that her party, meaning the republican party is in an unfortunate place right now and viewed by many women in the country as they're feeling very anxious about how republicans are viewing women. so it is probably not a coincidence she joined with democrats on the senate floor really on this issue relating to women. >> hmm. dana bash, thank you for us in washington. meantime, george clooney was on the hill yesterday. just wrapped up a visit with the white house right now calling on congress to do something about the crisis in sudan. he calls it a campaign of murder. take a listen. >> what is most striking and

devastating again is the absolute vulnerability of a certain group of people the. it is ethnic in nature and it is again the things that the geneva convention considers war crimes, which is indiscriminately bombing innocent civilians. that is -- there is no -- we have satellite imagery to prove it. we have eyewitnesss to rob it, tons of reports and evidence to problem it. we also have firsthand view and videotape to prove it, videotape. i'm old. we have film of it. to problem it. >> george clooney once lawmakers step in and help do somethinging in sudan. while he allegedly ordered the slaughter of his own people, syria's president talked itunes? harry potter and shopping. you will not only see president bashar al assad's private e-mails but also that of his wife. plus this. >> suddenly on another floor, a tiny whimper.

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over the past month, video has eamericaned from the syrian city of homs and many killings, other atrocities apparently committed by syrian security forces in opposition neighborhoods. cnn has obtained footage that is among the most disturbing yet. about a dozen family members apparently killed in cold blood in one single house in what appears to have been an act of sectarian brutality. the report you're about to see includes scenes that are tough to watch.

>>. >> reporter: the men crouch as they move across rooftops. crawl crawling through holes. it's taken them nearly a week to get this far to reach a house that on a fault line that runs through homs. we're rescuing the bodies of the martyrs the voice on the video narrates. they've heard a sunni family has been killed. what they find shocking beyond description. the first body that of a woman. in the room next to it, bodies crowded into a back corner as if they were trying to hide. the dead child's face a mask of fear. blood splatters the wall. let the world see, the voice exblames. look at this massacre in just one house. he curses the shias, the aloe

whites and bashar al assad. the video is said to have been shot early in february. a look, people, look, this sheikh says overcome with emotion as he too curses the regime. and the world. the camera pans over to show more bodies slaughtered in the bathroom. suddenly on another floor, a tiny whimper. the child cries out, clearly terrified. he comes into view having to crawl over a body lying in the doorway. he must have been hiding for days. don't be afraid, you're safe now. don't make a sound, one of the men tells the boy. it's not known who killed his family or why. but the men who found the bodies are sure, this was a sectarian massacre carried out by thugs allied to the regime. arwa damon, cnn, beirut.

>> you witnessed in her piece a lot of the massacre that is in syria. the number killed over the past year somewhere between 8,000, 9,000. syria's president and his wife order harry potter films while this is going on and buy songs on itunes according to this investigation by the guardian. we have snippets from revealing e-mails. itunes, some of the orders here of some of the music here, these e-mail records show that he went by the name of sam and ordered tunes from a phony new york dress, some of the sonks, sexy and i know it, look at me now, hurt by leona lewis, even the country song god gave me you to his wife. assad's wife writes in late november, are you coming around the 2nd or before? if so, please can you bring the harry potter deathly hallows part 2 released on the 2nd of

december. assad had ordered harry potter apps from itunes that same month. in late december, you see the date, assad tells a adviser to check out a video on youtube. the media adviser's response right here, haha, omg. this is amazing. one more for you. this is part of a private e-mail between assad and his wife. he talks about the refoxes he promised in syria. he wrote this "this is the best reform any country can have that you told me where you will be. we are going to adopt it instead of the rubbish laws of parties, elections and media." just to hit this home, this is the man accused of ordering the pass ker of thousands and thousands of his own people. new information about a security scare involving defense secretary leon panetta. we are now hearing more about this guy who drove a stolen vehicle onto the runway. as the dense secretary was landing in his plane in afghanistan.

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if it's interesting and happening right now, you're about to see it. rapid fire. let's go. the pentagon now believes an afghan man who drove a car on to a runway at camp bastion in afghanistan did indeed intend harm. all this happened yesterday as the defense secretary leon panetta's plane was landing. officials believe the driver at minimum was targeting his welcoming party, but they say it's still not clear if the man knew it was panetta on that plane. the driver was taken to a hospital after crashing his car. he later died. in maryland, president obama making a little stop for barbecue today. the president placing a to go order at a texas ribs and barbecue joint in clinton, maryland. and having a little bit of fun there with the cashier, as well. meantime in ohio, vice president joe biden not eating barbecue,

stepping into the campaign ring for the first time today defending the president's auto bailout to this crowd at the toledo united autoworkers hall and he took aim at the republican candidates' economic policies. take a listen. >> we're about promoting the private sector. they're about protecting the privileged sector. we are for a fair shot and a fair shake. they're about no rules, no risks, and no accountability. >> also, the maryland priest who denied a lesbian communion last month is defending his action speaking out in a letter, essaid he rejected barbara johnson for the same reason he won't have given communion to a noncatholic, a divorced person, someone who was drunk as catholic law directs. johnson complained that he walked out of her eulogy. he priest says he left the service because he had a migraine. take a look at this now with several hours of flooding did,

this is central ohio village of hebron. firefighters and dive teams rescued at least ten people surprised by the fast-moving water. red cross setting up a shuttler for family who's can't go home. in lake county, florida, a veterans group expressed outrage over a version of the american flag flying outside the democratic headquarters. the flag with a picture of the president underneath the actual american flag. nearly a dozen vets went to the door to complain. >> i can't describe how upset i was. because you just don't do that to the american flag. we can now tell you the flag was taken down a short time ago. more than 900 cities in the united states have streets named after martin luther king jr. now 44 years after he was assassinated in the city of memphis, this tennessee city is joining the ranks. the ceremony will take place april 4th, the anniversary of

his death. some city leaders said it was guilt he was killed there that led to the delay in naming a street for him. the new ipad goes on sale in a couple hours. if you're looking to camp out, my friend and tech expert katie linen daal got her hands on one of these early and take a look. >> as you can see here, you might not even know which one's the difference. this is an ipad 2. this is the new ipad in hands a little early. you can't see on your tv screen but one of the features being touted is this retina display. they have doubled the resolution on the ipad 2. you can't even see how clear and crisp it is because it won't come through on your tv. i just want to quickly for the consumer out there, tell you what's different about the new ipad and should you purchase. >> yes, walk me through. >> we talks about that display, double the resolution. a big one for me is the camera, five megapixel camera right now. i'll show you photos i took. makes a big difference for me.

4g lte capability gets you faster speeds on that cellular signal. a new faster processor. hot spot capability. a tiny bit thicker and heavier which isn't even notable. this is video i took on my ipad 3. >> that was ipad video. that was pretty clear. >> i took that video so this is -- i'm going to look like satan's sidekick with the new ipad watching people waiting in line for it. >> look at them camping out already. >> yes. >> what about this upgrade? i know the upgrade costs money. is it worth it? >> it's a request good question. it depends on the user. if you haven't had a tablet before, you've been looking to research the ipad, perfect time to do it. if you're a 2 user and a power user, you can justify making the upgrade. >> want to take you back live inside this courtroom, hemy neuman, the defendant just recently found guilty but mentally ill in the murder of

rusty schneiderman is now addressing the judge. take a listen. >> the loss of a beloved son-in-law, family friend rusty will deservedly so miss him. it is also a tragedy for three other children. for lee and countless family and friends who saw a person they loved, admired, and respected who saw him arrested in shame, charged and now convicted. i am so, so, so sorry. i can't say it enough. i can't say enough to all of you to the precious children, all five of them, to the sneidermas, to the greenbergs, my parents, the family friends and community at large.

i am sorry from the deepest part of me, your honor. that's all i have. >> you may be seated. let me hear from your lawyer. >> fairly emotional defendant there again. hemy neuman found guilty of murder but mentally ill. just last hour here in this dunwoody, georgia courtroom. he said he's sorry to all five children of the family of the man he was just found guilty of killing and also to his own family. we're going to talk a little bit more about this case and where it could move next right after this quick break. we always hear about jobs leaving america. here's a chance to create jobs in america. oil sands projects, like kearl, and the keystone pipeline will provide secure and reliable energy

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all right. on the case with us today, we have joey jackson. we saw the news. it was just last hour on in this dunwoody, georgia, courtroom in which the jury found hemy neuman guilty of murdering rusty schneiderman but mentally ill, found him guilty of murdering him just outside of sneiderma's son's daycare in the atlanta area back last november. bring us up to speed as far as these two counts. >> sure. what happens is is that the guilty verdict in terms of the mental illness, jurors think that's a compromise verdict. it's actually a conviction. and it's sort of the compromise because when you're found to to be insane, that's a determination you didn't know right from wrong. when they say you're mentally ill, it's that you're laboring under an impairment of mood and judgment that you committed an act. therefore the guilty verdict, he'llen sentenced and incarcerated in an actual jail.

when insane, he'll go to a mental institution. so it's a big win for the prosecution to have gotten the guilty conviction even though he was deemed to be mentally ill. on the second issue, dealing with the gun, what happens is is under the law he possesses a gun. as a result of the possession of a gun, the jury had to make a determination whether he possessed it during the commission of a felony. they made the determination. therefore he's guilty as to both counts. >> there are all these allegations of this alleged love triangle and the widow of the man killed. might she face charges. i do want to move along to this next trial, this polo mogul adopts his girlfriend to protect his assets just before his dui manslaughter trial. he is john goodman in court today accuses of drinking while driving his bentley which

crashed into another car. the driver a recent college grad died. goodman's girlfriend, now his adopted daughter took to the stand. >> when was it that you first met him? >> january of 2009. >> okay, you starred dating when in. >> then. >> at that shortly thereafter? >> you had you. >> when did he become your boyfriend? >> shortly after the accident. >> that would have been in february of 2010? >> somewhere around there. >> did you receive a call from mr. goodman at approximately 1:52:00 a.m. on february 12th? >> yes. >> and were you asleep when you received the call? >> yes. >> and you answered the phone? >> yes. >> and it was mr. goodman? >> correct. >> and what did he tell you? >> he said that he had been in

an accident and he wanted me to call carlos to come help him and to give carlos the number that he was calling from. >> he called you about i think we've established about 1:52 in the morning. >> uh-huh. >> is it fair to say your number is the only number he knows by heart? >> yes. >> all the other numbers are in his phone? >> correct. >> how is it that he knows or has memorized your number? >> his children weren't erasing it out of his phone so he had to memorize it. >> so yeah, that testimony and then you have this picture. remember the bentley? so today, jurors walked outside the courtroom to see the damage to the car from the crash. the other car here, they were totalled. but they were, you know, reassembled to just show what they looked like at the moment of impact. he's trying to protect his as is hes from lawsuits. joey jackson, how did things go for him today? >> well, you know what, i think it's a tough case for the defense in general. why? because there are disparities in

this case. we're talking about a bentley which hits a hyundai, a $200,000 car, a $20,000 car. we're talking about someone very wealthy compared to a 23-year-old graduate and ultimately we're talking about someone deemed to be drunk from first respondersen an other people who first came to the scene and someone who was sober. i think it's a very difficult case, you know, and when you look at the witnesses who will put on the stand the things that they mentioned to him in terms of how he smelled of alcohol, how his concern was about the first one he talked to was about look, do i look, smell drunk? when the jury hears testimony like that, it doesn't like it. i think it's an uphill battle for him. nonetheless, i think what the defense is trying to do is establish there's a malfunction with the bentley and had a concussion at the time and that ultimately he may have smelled drunk because he did it to ease the pain back at the bar after the accident, not before it. >> amazing how they reassembled

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>> i'm mary. and i used to be a smoker. i want to give you some tips about getting ready in the morning. first your teeth. and then your wig. then your hands-free device and then i'm ready for the day. >> chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. wow. are the ads eb? that one looked pretty effective to me. >> she started smoking when she was 17. a few months after she developed a sore in her mouth that would go away and that led to a diagnosis of mouth cannes cancer. you see all she's been through. it's remarkable. it's hard to tell how effective these ads are. we talked to the heads of the cdc, asked him that directly. he says there's data from other countries, in europe they've

used pretty shocking ads like the one you just saw there for some time. they think it makes a difference. it's a difference that's hard to measure for sure. but they say it increases the people's likelihood to want to quit. he thinks there's fewer smokers as a result of these ads, as well. yeah, it's shocking stuff to watch for sure, brooke. >> it is. so you have these ads. then you have other people who suggest anti-smoking laws, cigarette taxes. hit them in the wallet where it hurts. maybe would be more effective. do you agree? >> yeah, you know, it's interesting because the health director in new york city where they have laws on this sort of thing, there's a couple of things. first of all, laws can be very effective. that doesn't necessarily quit someone's wanting to quit smoking but it makes them stop smoking or minimize smoking as a result of the laws. it's easy to measure the impact when it comes to taxes, for example, it has the greatest impact among younger people probably they don't have as much

cash. for every 10% increase in the cigarette tax, you can decrease smoebing rates by 3 to 5%. these things are easier to measure for sure. frieden says he really thinks all three things together will make the biggest impact. the shocking ads, new legislation and perhaps the syntaxes or cigarette taxes all in combination. >> if you're looking at these ads and you say today is the day, i'm quitting smoking. are there immediate benefits? >> yeah, i'll tell you what they are. this is sort of the debate always. should we shock people and tell them what will happen to you if you do not stop smoking or could it be more beneficial to focus on the positives and say hey, look at all the positive things that will happen if you do stop smoking. that's a little bit of an unanswered question. take a look at the list here. you get immediate benefits. 20 minutes you can start to mod due late heart rate. 12 hours of not smoking, reduce your carbon monoxide levels.

two to three weeks, decrease your risk of heart problems. there are long-term benefits. one year cuts heart disease risk by 50%. ten years, eventually, lung cannes ker risk cut by 50%. starts to approach baseline shortly after, meaning if you were a smoker but you quit smoking and not smoking for a long time, your chance of developing lung cancer can come back down to what the average person in the population has. >> what's the best way to try to quit? >> in addition to the fact that if you're an addict to nicotine to use patches and gum, they can be effective in terms of trying to curb your key sire for this. anxiety is often a large component of this, just the oral fixation with cigarettes. sometimes anti-anxiety counseling and anti-anxiety medications. those two things in combination with some sort of group support or somebody in your family or an advocate who sort of helps you

keep on the program seems to help the best. it's tough. look, i don't want to sound preachy here because people who are chokers say i've tried hundreds of things. it's not like i don't want to quit. those three things in combination seem to be the most beneficial. >> before i let you go, dr. gupta, i just have to say congratulations on your novel "monday mornings." this guy's a in your row surgeon, chief medical correspondent, an author, a dad, husband. dude, do you not sleep? >> dude, i love it. you know i write a lot on planes. that's even more dubious perhaps than not sleeping. i take a lot of plane trips and did a lot of writing on planes. i do a lot in the evenings and on weekends. writing fiction, brooke, can be fun, too. it can be very cathartic. i enjoyed a lot of the process. >> right on, dude. thanks, appreciate it. coming up, rod blagojevich spending his second hour behind bars. what should the former governor

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it is hour two and counting of a 14-year prison term for rod blagojevi blagojevich. he's looking pretty relaxed. blagojevich convicted of 17 charges, including trying to sell president obama's former seat in the senate. former governor didn't leave chicago without a little fanfare. had a news conference. >> i have to go do what i have

to go do, and this is the hardest thing i have ever had to do. >> not complete without a run-in with the media. here he is in chicago. >> saying good-bye is the hardest thing i have ever had to do. i have high, high hopes for the future, and among the hopes is now you goo is can go home and our neighbors can get their neighborhood back. i'll see you guys when i see you. >> reporter: what times your flight? >> his next stop denver, vintage blagojevich. here's what he said when he got thereisms i'm leaving and doing something that i never imagined would ever be possible. hopefully in the future i'm still, as i said yesterday in the same place as i was when i -- i talked to the judge back in december, and that you know, among the things i take with me

is a real sense of pride in what i was able to achieve for people. >> blagojevich, obviously not camera shy, remember he was on "celebrity apprentice" the camera followed him all the way to the doors, and jack abramoff has a warning. >> basically he has to keep his head down. if he plays to the celebrity, plays to the attention, plays to all the hoopla made about him, he will wind up in trouble in prison. the authorities don't like that. they want inmates to be inmates, not celebrities. >> speaking of celebrity, former enron president jeff skilling is also in that very same prison in colorado where blagojevich is now. cnn, we have our hands on 1346 these documents that show inmates who got pardons from former mississippi governor haley barbour may have also gotten special treatment. an investigator report, next. oh!

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quickly here, he was just found guilty of murdering rusty snyderman in the dun wood,daycare trial, found guilty by mentally ill, he's been sentenced to life without parole there for him. documents lead to new questions around haley barbour. at issue, did two prisoners receive special treatment before barbour issued those pardons? cnn's ed lavandera has the story.

>> reporter: just days before these two mississippi killers were pardoned by haley barbour, cnn has learned that david gatlin and charles hooker within issued brand-new driver's licenses even though they were still technically incarcerated working as trustees at the governor's mansion. which begs the question -- how do they get driver's licenses while still in custody? haley barbour's chief security officer tells cnn he personally drove both men from the governor's mansion over to the driver's license himself. the security chief suggests it would help them find jobs. why el else? to drive their newly purchased cars. cnn has obtained these investigator reports, which detail how gatlin and hooker also had cars ready for them the day they were pardoned. according to the report, haley barbour's wife called a salesman at this car dealership, says marsha barbour contacted him,

the salesman allegedly told investigators that the inmates had been brought to the dealership on january 6th, 2012 in a black ford crown victoria to complete paperwork for the sale. >> these allegations have obviously some victims' family members, some calling them disturbing. others say they were simply disgusted. time for a little political pop. talking about energy policy in maryland the president into some good fueling, texas ribs and barbecues plays a to go order for two slabs of ribs, also didn't he get a brisket sandwich with fries? i wonder if the first lady knows about this. obviously she does. the president greeted supporters gathered outside, even some fun with the cashier. take a listen. >> hot sauce?

isms hot sauce. >> got to be hot. >> that's it. >> is that it? >> that's it. all right. want to ring me up now or play when the order comes up? >> later. >> all right. but i am going to have to pay, so don't try to get sneaky with me. >> i was just in austin for south by southwest. i did not eat enough barbecue. >> sixth street just amazing. you eat year way all the way through america. >> best city ever. >> good work out there, too. >> it was a blast. a lot of work, but a blast. >> chicago is austin hot. >> really? isms no kidding, over 80 degrees. 400 cities yesterday broke records in america. >> what's going on? >> a big ridge of high pressure. now, there is another cold front, a low pressure that will come out of the best. when we get this much heat, we can get severe weather. that will happen sunday, monday,

tuesday, wednesday and thursday of next week, when you get humidity and all of a sudden it's not yet spring, not yet summer. look at this. 52 should be the high in philadelphia today, it's going to be 72. pittsburgh should be 49, it's going to be 75. cincinnati, 53, 76, though it's been showers. they're keeping things moist, wet. now, here are the big ones, dough mines you should be 49 degrees today, your high will be 82. minneapolis 25 degrees above normal. there's no snow anywhere. the snow is gone, gone all the way from the upper midwest through ohio, through minnesota, all through the dakotas. only one good news, only one piece of good news with this, brooke, there will be no spring flooding due to snow melt. we have not been able to say that now for almost four years in a row. big flooding last year. remember how the mississippi was way out of its banks. that will not happen this year, because there's no snow to melt. >> thank goods in. it is warm