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good morning, everyone. i'm randi kaye. three people dead, two injured in what tulsa police say is not your normal homicide but could be hate. thomas kincade died. a look at his enduring canvas. and tyler perry shines a light on the case of two florida men who disappeared without a trace years ago. we begin with the fiery crash of a navy jet into apartments in virginia. good news is three people who were missing have now been accounted for. sandra endo is live. you have good news. rescues were going door to door as this fire raged. >> reporter: absolutely, randi. it's a very active scene. investigation is ongoing. we have dramatic video moments after the crash. take a look and listen in as well.
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>> one more. >> police. >> anyone in here? get out? any pets spets? any pets? >> reporter: part of firerescuetv.com. that retired firefighter showing the scene right after the crash. you can see the smoke and flames billowing out of the apartment complex. five buildings were hit in this crash. we're talking about 40 units, and it's remarkable when you see this. new dramatic video that there have been no fatalities so far. only seven injuries and out of those seven injuries, six have already been treated an released from the hospital. you can also see, rehandi, portions of this jet, the wreckage, still at the crash scene, billowing and smoke. obviously this photographer got up close and perj to this crash
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site. it's remarkable the images you see from this video, and clearly that was the scene here for most of yesterday and throughout the evening hours as well as search & rescue teams went through every unit to make sure that everyone was out. and the good news, of course, we learned today that everyone has been accounted for. there are no fatalities and right now the investigation is ongoing. >> yeah. i mean it's amazing when you look at that video. you can see the urgency. that fire was right near some of those apartments that they were going into. have they given the all clear yet in terms of the fire crews? >> reporter: it's very interesting because they are hesitant to say it's all clear. so they have not said it's all clear as of right now. what the investigators want to do is search every square foot of the crash site including under the wreckage of the jet. that's the portion they're focusing on right now. as i mentioned, they have gone through every unit and made sure that that portion, all five buildings have been cleared. but so far they have not got on
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the the wreckage of the jet yet and that's what they're working on. >> what about the pilots? do we know any more about them and whhow they're doing. >> they were taken to an area. one is still in the hospital right now and hospital officials say that pilot is in good condition. the other was treated and r released along with the others who were injured. pretty good news so far in terms of the devastation you saw in that video, that serious accidents didn't occur and no fatalities to report. >> sandra endo for us. thank you. great job getting that new video. three people are dead and two have been injured in an incident oklahoma police say maybe a hate crime. the victims were shot in four different locations in seven hours in a predominantly african-american community in north tulsa friday morning. a police spokesman said it is, quote, not your standard homicide. they've now formed a joint task
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force. all of the victims are black. earlier this morning i spoke with a tulsa city spokesman and asked if a certain age range was being targeted? >> no. the ages range from, i think, in the 50s to younger people which -- i think, 17, 18. i don't know of anyone that was injured that that's younger than, that but i do know that allegedly these people are walking -- driving up to people that they see walking and they're asking for directions, and when the people give them directions and tell them they don't know, then as they're walking away, this person opens fire. >> authorities say the suspect is a white male, believed to be traveling in a white pickup truck. we have new details this morning in the trayvon martin case. now a witness is talking about hearing lots of yelling and
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crying the night the florida teen was killed. according to the witness, the cries came from martin, not george zimmerman, the man who claimings he shot the teen in self-defense. we even altered the witness's voice to protect their identity. >> there were two, as i say, yells for help. the first one was a very clear yell for help. it was the second one that will always stay with me. it was kind of almost like a yelp. it was like a devastating desperate type of yell for help and even to a sense it could have possibly been a cry. the lead investigator said to me kindly, he just said, well, if it makes you feel any better, the person that was yelling for help is alive. i really thought it was the boy crying for help, but here's the lead investigator, you know, telling me, no, it was mr. zimmerman. >> zimmerman's legal team is taking issue with this witness. a grand jury is expected to convene next week to review the
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case. your tax dollars at work this morning, and you're not going to be very happy. there's new video now of skits played at a government agency gathering that has lawmakers asking new question about government spending. "the huffington post" posted the skitting on its website and it shows members of the gsa, the agency that came under fire for a nearly $1 million convention in las vegas paid for by you, the taxpayer. there is news on jobs. here are the numbers. 120,000 jobs added in march and the unemployment rate drops to 8.2%. but as our money expert christine romans says it's a disappointment for those who expected more. president obama is optimistic. >> we welcome the news that our businesses have created 120,000 more j.o.b.s. last month and the unemployment rate ticked down. our kmm has now created more than 4 million private sector jobs in the past two years, more
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than 600,000 in the past three months alone, but it's clear to every american that there will still be ups and downs a long the way and that we've got more work to do. >> critics are using the report for ammunition. millions of americans remain out of work, but president obama continues to impose job-killing tax hikes and those that would lead to creation of thousands of new jobs not to mention more revenue in state budgets. it doesn't have to be this way. the energy resources in the united states are enormous. in fact, shale deposits in the united states con taint enough natural gas alone to power this country for another 100 years. let's be clear, the energy crisis we're facing today isn't a lack of energy resources. it's a lack of leadership.
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>> for your the record, the hospitality industry led the way with 39,000 jobs created followed closely by manufacturing. well, talk about a really nice payday, one of three winners of that huge mega millions jackpot came forward friday in kansas. that winner is not giving up their name. they took the cash option of their $218 million of the share and lottery officials gave what details they could. >> kansas law allows the person to remain anonymous. that person has chosen that option. here's what i can tell you. the person is a kansas resident, the ticket was purchased at k.c.'s convenience store in ottawa, kansas. they made the claim at 11:45 a.m. today in topeka. the person had good legal counsel, good financial adviser, and the person looks forward to
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to this. >> mitt romney stood with big oil for the tax breaks. >> this is not the time for president obama's hide and seek campaign. >> reporter: thanks to mitt romney's sweep of tuesday's primaries, he's looking more and more like the inevitable presidential nominee and the story's changed from a fight to battle. president obama is not wasting any time to try to define his likely gop challenger. he slammed the republican congressional budget and tied romney to it. >> hi said he's very supportive of this new budget, and heechb called it marvelous. which is a word you don't often here when it comes to describing a budget. >> reporter: romney fired back. >> the president came yesterday and railed against arguments no one is making and criticized policies no one is proposing. >> reporter: while the general election showdown kicks off, santorum is not ready to call it
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quits in his bid for the nomination. >> we're now calling it halftime. half the delegates have been selected and who's ready to charge out of the locker room in pennsylvania for a strong second ha half. >> reporter: any chance of announcing a comeback has to be by winning in your home state. >> we man on winning here. this enwi >> even fe he lasts till may, will it really matter? at this point it's not about winning contests. it's about clinching nominations. four years ago hillary clinton beat barack obama in five of the last eight democratic primaries but in tend obama took the nomination. randi? >> thank you, paul. a program note for you. join fredricka whitfield every sunday afternoon for a special hour of the special contenders in the 2012 election.
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house flipping is making a comeback. that's where investors purchase a home, usually renovated, and they put it back on the market. flippers can make huge profits. a short time ago financial guru clyde anderson and a realtor told us there is a potential benefit for neighbors. >> some properties have become eye sores in the communities because they've been just sitting there. so now if you have an investor who wants to go in and rehab the property and give it a new facade -- >> they can get forecloses off the market. >> definitely can. >> let's take a look at mistakes flippers make. there are some mistakes they make. let's talk about the first one. the first one is they should get an appraisal. >> right. the bottom line is the number
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one mistake they make is not understanding how the lending laws affect the resale. they may find a buyer who wants to pay the full price but if they don't understand how the appraiser comes all with the valuation, they could be looking at major losses. they have a flip rule that prevented them or make them subject of two denials. bottom line you get an appraisal, it's going to stick with the property for four months. >> another thing they should do is budget for the unknown. >> yes, budgeting for the unknown, when an investor goes in and they're inexperienced, they'll start looking at prom a but find b, c, and d. it my be very difficult for them to recoup those losses. >> and keep expenses to market value. >> yes. you don't want to renovate like this is your own personal property, and i see it happening all the time. they go with the top of the line, you know, appliances and the top of the line granite.
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they need to renovate to current market standards or they're not going to recoup. >> that is good advice. you have to pay for it. >> yes. >> sit getting easier to get loans? >> loans are getting tied to get. if you have good credit, it's easy. if you're a good investor, they generally have to put more money down than they did five years ago. so you have to be prepared for that. you have to go in knowing you have to have a little bit of cash secure to do the repairs and upgrades. >> so it seems like the flippers went underground when the market was dropping out but now they're back. do you thinkover all this will be a good thing for the market? >> i do. i do. investors tend to come out in markets like this. it helps not only take the short sales and foreclosures that are currently on the market off but it helps increase neighborhood values as well as a lot of these properties that are in this condition are unfundal according to lender standards so they're
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able to turn these homes around and make them fundable. >> obviously it's going take more than flipping homes but you also think it's good for the housing market. >> definitely. any kind of boost or surge we can get is great. >> you're so positive. you're such a cheerleader. >> we take what we can get, you know, incremental steps. >> all right. sounds good. we'll keep an eye for all the flippers out there. thank you both. appreciate it. absolutely, positively cool. i'm talking about some glasses. it's a case of high-tech meets high fashion. we'll tell you who designed them and why you'll need a phone number instead of a prescription to get them. not in this economy. we also have zero free time, and my dad moving in. so we went to fidelity. we looked at our family's goals and some ways to help us get there. they helped me fix my economy, the one in my house. now they're managing my investments for me. and with fidelity, getting back on track was easier than i thought.
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feedback. here's how it was explained, this really cool technology. >> i actually personally experienced what this would kind of be like almost ten years ago, randi. there was a company called zybernaut. it was a computer that hanks over my eye and i was actually navigating around in grocery stores and everyday life. it was connected to a computer pack on my waist. >> i can't imagine what you looked like. >> that was part of the reason for doing it. >> and how did it go? >> i found it took a second do i. you can definitely do it but people were like what is wrong with this dude? what is going on with him? >> i'm sure. how close is the project of google glass? how close a reality is it? when can you get it? >> when you look at the history of their projects, they had
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other projects, some of which are out like the driverless car. well, at least out that we can see it actually worked. but they're working on space elevators. this particular project feels more realistic, i could see this happening within the next 12 to 24 months. we don't know. we don't have an official word from google as to when the glasses would be out. we do know we want them out in the next few months to get feedback and tests back. i do believe -- look. they're in the search engine business and ad sales business. there's no reason why if you're wearing your glasses and you look at a car dealership you could get a competing ad from a nearby car dealership in your lenses. why not. >> is anyone else working on this or just them? >> this is a great question. there's a lot of promise in the medical field and tourism. we have a photo of an entrepreneur of a company called
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juxtopia. his golg goggles are a little . it's used in the health care industry so surgeons can operate and get other data. there are other apps consumers use. there's a subway app in new york. it will show you on the physical image digital data of where the nearest subway is to you. there's one called spot crime too that can actually do this for crime mapping. so how cool is this? you're in a neighborhood or moving to neighborhood and you thing about buying a house. you take your phones camera, use the spots crime app and use your phone and see different crime alerts within that image and you can click on the crime alert to see it. >> looks like you see the bad guys in that app. >> that's right. >> all right, mario. very cool stuff. this is very fun. i look forward to it.
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>> thank you. the future's not too far away. you'll be wearing a pair snoon i maybe not. i don't think so. you wouldn't expect to see federal drug agents at your local pharmacy, would you? that's exactly what's focused on their attention. what problem are they trying to stop? we'll tell you coming up. the right amount of light. so you see everything the way it's meant to be seen. experience life well lit, ask for transitions adaptive lenses. water, we take our showers with it. we make our coffee with it. but we rarely tap its true potential and just let it be itself. flowing freely into clean lakes, clear streams and along more fresh water coast line than any other state in the country. come realize water's true potential. dive in-to the waters of pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org.
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this week the dea issued warrants for several pharmacies in florida. they're trying to figure out how so much oxycodone is making its way to the black market but walgreens, it turns out, isn't the only chain being investigated. mary snow explains. >> reporter: the drug enforcement agency moved in on walgreens, removing records the and other documents from six pharmacies in florida and a distribution centers look for suspicious sales of oxycodone. in the warrants they state in just the first two months of 2012 there are 53 walgreens
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pharmacies listed in the agency's top 100 purchasers of oxycodone. that's half of them in florida. that's compared to 0 being on the list in 2009. a spokesman for the drugstore chain said, we're working with and cooperating with the dea only this matter. it comes two months after the dea in florida moved in on two cvs stores and a cardinal health drinter. cardinal health is calling for action and cvs is disappointed but cooperating. >> they're going to be a continuous and vigous effort if this regard. as pill mills are no longer disdispensing, we're looking at pharmacies. >>. >> reporter: they're looking at unusually large orders. the national association of chain drugstores says it has zero tolerance for prescription drugs being diverted to the black market but it's also
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working with law enforcement on another problem. the rise in prescription drug abuse has led to pharmacies around the country being robbed. in new york suffolk county four were killed in a pharmacy robbery last june. >> unfortunately it's a very serious problem in the fact that the price on the black market of prescription drugs, mainly painkillers, is so high and that they can actually buy heroin at 25% less than prescription dr s drugs. we see people very desperate and willing to rob pharmacies. >> reporter: pharmacies are beefing up theirstores with extra surveillance. some are even arming themselves for extra protection. mary snow, cnn, new york. checking top stories, venezuelan president hue go shah
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rez flying back after kim chemo treatments. safety considers will delay the reopening of a nuclear plant in california. they're calling for it to be closed for good. the plant shut down in january after a small radioactive leak. there was a problem with pipes in one of the generators. the pipes are fixed but the plant will stay closed until they figure out why those pipes leaked. the man behind these idyllic pajts, thomas kinkade has died. his family says he died of natural causes at his home on friday. he completed more than a thousand paintings. in his interview he told larry king about his very first print. >> when i was a young boy, my mother told me your talents are god's gift to you and what you
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do with it are gifts to god. so from the very beginning i began raising money for chair its. robert bail, the soldier accused of killing 17 wants to replace his lawyer. he wants the change over disagreement over how the case should be handled and he had more experience than the military council. they assign lawyers who accuse soldiers and they would have to approve any change. good news out of virginia beach. getters have found three people who were unaccounted for after a navy fighter jet smashed into an parent complex. it was a dramatic scene yesterday. flame, smoke, and people running for their lives. take a look at these firsthand accounts >> and we were stalkding out in front of the building when i heard the plane. i looked up and what i saw was a plain very low coming down at an angle with flames under the right wing. >> it was coming from the direction of the actual base.
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it came over the top of my truck, emptying out jet fuel and it plowed into the apartment building. >> all of a sudden the whole house started shaking and the power went out. it was dead black in my house. i looked around the corn sbeer my bedroom and i saw my window was red and orange just blazing by and i heard this crackling noise and i was like oh, my gosh, and i heard pow, pow, pow, pow. >> the whole thing was in flames, the whole backyard. and then things started to explode. and then i don't know -- i mean things kept exploding and that black smoke kept going. >> you could see the plane lying on the ground and part of the building was missing and on fire. >> there were people running away that may have been coming out of the build because when the initial impact happened there was debris and pieces of the flames flying everywhere.
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>> i heard a couple of big bangs, and they weren't normal. so i got off the couch and went to the back door, sliding door. when i looked out, i saw a pilot lying there bleeding from the nose and his parachute hanging from the building and i knew exactly what happened. a jet had crashed. i don't know where until i saw the smoke. >> and the pilot said i'm sorry for destroying your house. i bent down and said it's okay. are you okay? he said, i think i am. >> we did not see the second pilot or we didn't know exactly where the plane had crashed, but i knew we had gas lines in the building, so we had to get them away from where we were because i kept hearing secondary explosions going on. i don't know if that was fuel, gas lines in the apartment or what, but i knew we had to leave. my mother said, "well, maybe we ought to buy this hot dog cart and set it up someplace."
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♪ ♪ that should do it. enjoy your new shower. [ door opens, closes ] welcome back. northern texas and southern oklahoma are bracing for strong storms. >> they have the opposite on the eastern seaboard and along the west coast. here in atlanta, it's picture perfect. it's going to be beautiful. what we're going to be seeing along the seaboard is pretty dry conditions. anyone who might be tuning in later on today for the master, expect great conditions not just
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for today but also into sunday. monday, a chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms pop up. the biggest storms we're seeing at this hour right now in parts of the upper midwest and back in the plains between wichita and oklahoma city, that may be the beginning of potential weather outbreak especially into parts of texas and oklahoma. they might see a chance of damaging winds, large hail, and perhaps even an isolated tornado. but on the other half of the system, what we're seeing is something ail toekt different. strong gusts aet 40 to 50 miles an hour. breezy conditions along parts of the northeast. the reason for that is very simple. high pressure building over the great lakes. works in conjunction with the area of the low pressure. it creates a bit of a pressure grade yanlt. with that you've got stronger winds. some approaching 40 mime 40 mil
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hour. we're going to see rain out to the west. picture perfect. out to the east, it looks like it will be nice. it's going to be the west coast where we'll see changes. already you see a few scattered showers and you can anticipate those will bring rain to the coastline but possibly toward the end of the weekend wrapping things up. also a touch of cool temperatures. 60s along the coast. wrapping it up with 69 degrees. 73 in atlanta and 59 in new york. randy, that's your forecast. you're up to speed. >> thank you very much. of course, a lot of people traveling. christians are celebrating easter this weekend and jews around the world are mark passover, the eight-day holiday recognized exodus when the sleeves were freed from egypt. earlier nadia joined me to explain the symbolism. >> when the jews were in egypt, the israelite slaves were there and asked god to let me people
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go. m moses asked pharoah to let the slaves go. the last plague was that he smooit if first born child of all the egyptians but he passed over those of the israelite. >> obviously we have passover dinner or seder or seder plate. each has its own significance kchl you walk us through a few of them? >> we start with the horse rad dish which is a bitter herb. that symbolizes the bitterness of slavery. >> and egg? >> egg is the symbol of life and continuity. if you think about it, an egg actually hardens as you boil it. so as the israelites suffered the adversity, so as a people they were strengthening. >> what about the greens? >> the green is the parsley and
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that symbolizes spring, the wake iowa wakening and life, a new beginning and you dip it in the saltwater. >> it's all coming back. >> the saltwater being the tears. >> right. this is a mix of apples and honey. >> apples and nuts and honey. i made mine delicious. this is to symbolize the mortar that made the brecks for the many houses the slaves had to build under the hard ruler pharaoh. >> and the shank bone? >> the night before the boyce were passed over, they sacrificed a lamb and the blood from the lamb went on the doors of the boys who were passed over. >> got it. very quickly we have the motza. we only eat unleaven bread. >> because of the rush. the bread wouldn't rise.
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the motza is very fragile. if do you that, it splint ters. that's symbolic of life which is fragile and splinters. >> and we drink wine to recline and relax. >> lots of wine and reclining because in slavery it was very hard and very arduous, so we do the opposite during the passover seder. >> i'm going have some of this because i'm a little hungry this morning. a sleepy town on florida's gulf coast. two men go missing. i have a story of why the sheriff's department has been investigating one of their own and why the investigation has gone nowhere. geget t totogegethther, yoyou u cacameme t to o ththe. bebecacaususe e heherere a at, wewe'r're e ononlyly a abob. fifindndining g yoyou u ththe e isis a allll w we e do. wewelclcomome e toto h hot. not quite knowing what the next phase was going to be, you know, because you been, you know, this is what you had been doing. you know, working, working, working, working, working, working.
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in naples, florida, a quiet community on the gulf coast, two men have disappeared. their only connection, a run-in with a former sheriff's deputy. this is the story of that case and why the investigation has gone nowhere. >> reporter: mar see ya williams hasn't seen her son in more than eight years. >> do you have any hope your son is still alive? >> i don't believe that terrance is alive. at this point i have to find out what happened to him. >> reporter: what happened to terrance williams is anybody's guess. he was last seen outside this naples, florida, cemetery on january 11th, 2004, with this man, sheriff's deputy steve cawkins. >> they say his story doesn't add up. at one point witnesses say he pulled his car over because he was having problems but when he called in dispatch he reported the car had been awant donned.
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he never lead on t on that he h contact with the driver. >> i have this car, i gotta homie cadillac on the side of the rear here signal 11, signal a 52, nobody around. >> reporter: if no one was around, how was he able to run a background check using his name and birthdate? >> last nam williams, common spelling. >> date of birth, 4-1-75, black male. >> reporter: listen to what he says when a sheriff's dispatcher calls him at home. >> you tow add car from vanderbilt and 11th monday. a cadillac. do you remember it? >> no. >> the people at the semtrary are telling me you put somebody
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in the back of your vehicle and arrested him and i don't show you arresting anybody. >> i never arrested nobody. >> a seasoned deputy? he don't remember? >> you don't buy it. >> no. it's not true. it's not true at all. >> eight days after he vanished deputy calkins had to write a report. he said he drove a father of four to a nearby circle k where he thought terrance worknd that's what concerned investigators because months earlier they had the same story from deputy calkins about another disappeared man, felipe in 2003 after deputy calkins arrived at the scene of an accident involving he issued santos a citation and put him in the back of the
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sheriff's car. santos' brother, who was also at the scene, asked we hide his face out of fear of his safety. >> did deputy tell you where he was taking your brother? >> translator: the officer never told us anything. later we went to the jail and my brother wasn't there. >> when he was questioned about philippe santos, an undocumented worker, he told santos he dropped him off at a circle k. sheriff's investigators o'neal. >> we have no independent of seeing them. that's strictly his testimony. i think we can add up where we can put his testimony at this point. >> o'neal says neither of the missing men were seen on circle k's security cameras and there's more. butt about a month later he gave a sworn statement during an investigation. he told investigators he had called this circle k where he says he dropped terrence
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williams off. he told investigators he made that car from his work issued nextel phone. when investigators say they pulled his phone records and told him there was no record of a call from this circle k to his cell phone, he brushed it off saying simply, quote, i don't know what to tell you. you've been doing this for a long time. you know when something doesn't smell right. do you think he had anything to do with the disappearance and possible death of this two men? >> he's absolutely in the middle of the investigation. everything i turn to brings me right back to him. >> months after santos and williams went missing, the deputy, a 16-year veteran, was fired for lying in connection with the investigation of terrence williams. he hasn't been charged with a crime because no criminal evidence was ever found linking him to the disappearances. in the case of terrence williams, investigators say the deputy's car was searched and described as immaculate.
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his home was never searched because according to investigators they didn't have the evidence needed for a search warrant. we wanted to ask him some questions but couldn't get past this woman. hello? >> yes. >> hi. sorry to both you. i'm randi kaye from cnn. i'm looking for steve calkins. >> no. you can get the camaro off my property. >> he's not on your property. >> good-bye. >> in 2006 kalkins says he didn't do anything wrong, blaming the distance answers on bad luck suggesting maybe they ran away. >> if terrence was alive, terrence would have had somebody contact his mother. i know if he's alive that's one thing he would do in a heartbeat, call my mama.
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>> she said there's no way he would run away. he was just getting his life in order. he had a new jod and four children at home. news continues at the top of the hour with fredricka whitfield. >> we look like an easter basket. why not? this the weekend to do that. how are you? we've got a lot straight ahead. our legal guys -- one of our legal guys will be here. holly will be joining avery friedman. we'll talk about several cases, one including the ray charles estate. we're talking about seven out of his twelve kids are challenging an estate arrangement. all the children before his death, he made arrangements they would all get $500,000. now, many years afterwards, some of those children are saying they want a piece of the pie, a bigger piece of the pie. a legal challenge is now one affairry and holly hughes are talking about later on. then a dispute over female membership at augusta. >> we've heard about that discussion. >> no one has said they want to
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take it to court. but if they were to do so, what would be the argument being made for this private institution which has a men's only membership? we're going to be talking about that. also activist martha burk over the years tried to challenge augusta for a long time. just looking at the ceo of ibm and whether she will get membership. >> they sponsor. >> martha burk will be joining us to talk about the statement that ibm is making by not making more of this, by being a continued sponsor, even though this policy exists. she says this really should be a great opportunity for ibm and other corporate sponsors to make some challenges. again, lots of eggs. as i mentioned, we look like an easter egg basket with our colors here today. i want to you take a look at images and you tell me whether they are dyed eggs or whether. >> can we see? >> dyed eggs or natural?
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>> it's kind of hard to see but i'm going to go with natural. >> we'll go with natural. we have other images we'll show later, too, light green eggs, blue eggs, kind of a chocolate brown. yes, indeed, these are natural eggs. in fact, these eggs you're looking at here are organically grown right in someone's backyard. that, i don't know it doesn't look like it but that is a rather exotic chicken. this is part of a menagerie in the backyard of someone's home in atlanta. this really is a hot, big thing right now, having your own chicken coop in your backyard. why are people doing it? it really is kind of a growing trend. there are no real trend as to how many people have them. take a look at these beautiful eggs right there. people do. we're going to take you to a chicken coop. this chick here is adventurous and i figure we will nest on the topic for a while. a lot straight ahead. >> i think you got all the cliches out right there.
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>> no, there are more. i've got a whole lot. you'll have to tune in. >> thank you, fred. talk about holding your breath, take a look at this. this is not where you want to be, especially in an armored truck. think about what that thing waist. nouncer ] sometimes, all you need is the smooth, creamy taste of werther's original caramel to remind you that you're someone very special. ♪ werther's original caramels.
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patrol officer said the truck was hanging on the edge of the bridge and leaking gasoline onto surface streets. no word yet on what caused that mess. the faa is investigating surprising incident at denver international airport where confusion between an air traffic controller and a pilot during an emergency landing led to this exchange. >> 5912 emergency, smoke in the cockpit, roll trucks, please. >> who is that? >> 5912. >> united 12, watch your position. did you hear that? >> yeah. >> i know that's bs. i know it is. >> what? >> united 12. do you know of a united 12 anywhere. >> the controller thought he said united 12 not 5912. in an faa statement they said once they identified the plane they notified firefighters immediately. only one taken to the hospital. i'm randi kaye. "cnn newsroom" continues right now with fredricka whitfield. >> you'vt

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