barely two miles away from where his victims bodies were found, at his home. authorities say it was a tip thursday that led them here as it happened a swat team nearby. police patrols have been through the area once before. with no result. it's easy to see why. because of the thick under brush it's possible for them to walk within a few yards of somebody and not know they were there. other than general directions we don't know where in the woods the final drama played out but there are signs we're getting close. i found this, a military-style red smoke grenade and if you look on the ground here you can see where it was set off. now according to the fbi, when mayes was found they set off red smoke to alert the other authorities and search crews in the area. this means we're close but not there. that is when i meet ronald roberts. >> you lived here all your life? all my life. >> he was having dinner when he realized something was up. >> blue lights, sirens, gravel

flying, spinning tires, all turning in front of our house. >> robbhe knows the woods like back of his hand. >> we pick up the trail. >> there is a boot print. >> dog prints. >> the swat team divided in two and made their way through the woods. the trail shows a lot of foot traffic. >> a lot of boot marks. stepped on branchs and things. the swat team came across one of the girls laying on the ground, alex andrea, they told mayes to put his hand where he could see them but he shot himself. >> walked down the trail and see what you see. that obviously has been somebody through there. suddenly there i was, the tip off would have been all the flies. the exact place in the middle of the woods. so judging by this blood on the ground that we found here, this

would be the spot that according to authorities, adam mayes shot himself. now in keeping again with their account, the young girls would have been laying on their stomachs directly in front of him. you quickly realize two thing, that phone call tip that came in from the public probably saved the lives of the two girls. but not before the two girls who had witnessed the deaths of their mother and older sister, had to watch one more person die. >> i wish the man could have been saved i wish it hadn't happened, i wish the other two lives could be brought back. but you can't. they met their maker. i hope they were ready. >> martin savage, cnn, alpine, mississippi. >> the fbi offered more than $100,000 for information in the case. it's unknown if anyone collected the money. if you're waking up grab coffee and get you caught up on morning headlines. jennifer hudson's former

brother-in-law faces life without parole after a jury found him guilty of three counts of murder. jennifer hudson was the first of more than 80 witnesses to take the stand for the prosecution. to syria, anti-government protesters calling for regime change marched, the same day a bomb went off in a government office. a human rights group reported 22 people have been killed, since the cease fire 1000 people have been killed. you probably are used to seeing this cone-shaped could are -- collar on dogs, right? one teacher uses it to discipline her class. a superintendent wants her fire. the teacher who used to work in the vet field says she brought the cone to school after her students expressed curiosity

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welcome back, time to check out this week's stories that caught our eye. reynolds and i have a few of them we kind of like. should we start with the 78 foot monster? >> i think so. that is amazing. >> have you ever surfed?

>> i long boarded but nothing as extreme. >> look at this. that little tiny dot practically on the screen, that is a big wave surfer, garrett mcnamara and he's on this 75 foot monster wave off the coast of portugal. i could watch that all day. it's amazing. >> they say surfers like weathermen have to be a little bit crazy to be effective and i think that holds true for this fella, what an amazing thing. taller than most buildings. >> a big debate whether or not it the tallest wave ever surfed and apparently it is. you might have to try your hand. >> have to give eight shot. >> one day. >> you got it. >> have you ever won the lottery? >> i never won anything. >> not a few dollars? i won $8. >> a handful, five dollars at a time. nothing too expansive. >> this guy will teach us something. in phoenix a guy one the million

dollar lottery six times. what? >> i would love to know what his trick is, apparently a handful of other players have won big by buying multiple tickets with the same numbers. six times the million dollar lottery. >> i think we have a new mutual best friend. we need to hang out with this guy. >> if he still has all that cash. >> no doubt. >> you're a big baseball fan, you know how unique a triple play is, right? >> they don't happen every day they're rare. >> unassisted triple play. >> no question. >> especially in the little league, kind of the baseball scouts, in atlanta, 6-year-old made the play of a lifetime during a youth baseball game. unassisted triple play, i hope you're watching it. these are kids, we were talking about how rare it is. only 15 recorded unassisted triple plays in pro baseball since 1909. look at him go. >> you have to give hat's off to the kid, good coaching.

whoever taught him to do that kind of stuff, i can barely pick up a bat. that kid did a triple play. >> pretty proud parents. >> i'm going to practice with my kids as soon as we finish the segment. take a look, remember this? >> i was strolling on the moon one day, in the merry, merry month of -- >> that was gene cernan singing and dancing on the moon. in ten minutes hear what else he did on the moon's surface that is still there today. plus, many of us own a cell phone, so let me give you all some advice, lock your phone screens, because a lot of you are possibly just going to sat, butt calling 911. i can't wait to get phil santiago's take on this. he's already laughing, stay with us.

good morning. so i thought that we needed to start our day with a few laughs, hope that's okay with you. so i invited bill santiago to come in earlier than he usually does. did you get coffee, bill, are you awake? >> i am, i haven't slept of course i'm awake. >> you came straight in from clubbing. >> that's right. >> that is how you hang. >> happy to be here. >> a big week as you know for same sex marriage, first on sunday, vice president biden says he's comfortable with it. and tuesday of course north carolina voted against it, and then a day late president obama saying he's for it. are you having a hard time keeping up with this?

>> the sequences have me entertained. biden they send out the gaffe-meister, he's comfortable with gay marriage, i think that was very interesting terminology, comfortable like pajamas, gay marriage, comfy, he could see himself in a gay marriage, then of course obama comes out the next day, you saw the reaction was positive and people wanted him to come out and he finally decided that he was fully evolved and brought evolution in it. it wasn't enough just to talk about gay marriage. >> i want to ask about biden, obama said biden got ahead of his skis, saying he got ahead of himself on saying he's so comfortable as you said.

>> you have to be very naive they sent him out there on purpose. people know he makes a mistake, he has a reputation of sticking his foot in his mouth. he went out there to get the white house's message going and biden saying he's comfortable is as good saying he's comfortable. they are both gay marriage comfy. >> is evolution the big word now, evolving? >> yeah, just the imagery. he could have said he made up his mind after he consulted with the burning bush and would have mitigated the backlash, he went with evolution, he's evolving, his opinions of mutating, acting to the political losing the tale of doubt, i'm for marriage equality. essentially he said nobody should be denied the right to do

something they might regret. >> let's get to the next topic here before we run out of of time. i want to look at the front page cover, yes, i know, time is of the essence here, "time" magazine, a mom breast feeding her son who turns 4 years old next month. some call it disgusting, do you think it's shocking or overreaction? >> it's not shocking at all. a couple weird things about it. it's teasing, tantalizing, supposed to be promoting parental attachment. they look detached, looking in the camera. the kid doesn't look like 3 years old. he's identified as a 3-year-old. he's wearing army fatigues. you could breast feed as long as you want we can all agree you should be weaned before you're sent in battle. >> only you would notice the army fatigues.

i want to talk about this, maybe it happened to you, a huge problem in new york and pennsylvania nearly 40% of the 911 calls from cell phones are what they are calling butt dials, people put the phone in their back pocket and dialing 911 somehow? >> yes, it's a crisis. supposed to be an accident i think our butts are growing exponentially they are calling 911 to report the emergency situation. help, she is eating again, this can't keep going on! butt dialing is not to be confused with booty call, that is an entirely different situation. 911 being flooded with booty calls would be a real problem. >> i'm glad you clarified the difference. bill, thank you very much. always nice to see you even this early in the morning. >> i love it, thank you so much. >> have a great day. have you ever wondered what it would be like to step foot on the moon? what about dance and maybe sing

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♪ one of the best parts about my job as a journalist is speaking with people who literally shaped history. my next guests are two of those people. two men, gene cernan the last man to walk on the moon and mark kelly, commander of the final mission of space shuttle endeavour, they are in

pensacola, florida to promote the new flight academy. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> many people are calling this space camp 2.0, if you will. i want to talk with you both about the history making moments of course but first, mark, why don't you tell us about the national flight academy and how it differs from the space camp we know today. >> i'm incredibly impressed with this facility here. we have got a real crisis in education in this country with regard to science, technology, engineering and math. this facility is designed to get kids motivated to pursue those careers, take what they learned in school and see a real world application and maybe we can create more engineers and scientists and we need that. >> i go back 20 years when this flight academy was a dream and we discovered some people smarter than i discovered that kids get excited when they come to the national naval aviation

museum, someone said maybe use that to get kids attention, make learning fun and challenge what they are doing and that what is the flight academy is using aviation, in this particular indication, naval aviation, it's exciting. mark we both agree with that. capture kids hearts, inspire them. >> what do you tell them? how do you get them excited? it's very important but what to you say to them, kids are stuck at home with the gadgets half of them don't go outside, what do you say to get them excited about math, science again? >> what well do here is they'll put together a team of kids into a squadron and give them a mission to do. they'll get an intelligence briefing on maybe there's a stranded ship out in the ocean and some of them have to go rescue these people but they have to figure out how far away is it, how much fuel do we have, how long will it take us to get

there, do we have a certain amount of time to do this? so there's planning involved but they have to use math and science they learned in school to apply it to these situations. >> if i can add something to mark, these kids leave here with a can-do attitude. these kids will know that they can do what they didn't think they could do. the key word is dream. dream the impossible, go out and make it happen. if just half of the kids believe in themselves and are willing to try, they'll eventually know how good they can be. >> you had a dream when you were younger. was there one moment growing up that inspired you to join nasa and become an astronaut? >> well, my dream as a kid was to fly airplanes off an aircraft carrier and here i am some 40, 50 years later talking about having gone to the moon. i had no idea that i'd ever get in the space program. i almost got into it by

accident. i was just doing something i dreamed about doing, a naval aviator flying off ships. one day i found myself in the space program and the next day i was looking back home from the moon. i don't know how you explain that, but the impossible does happen. >> mark, what about you, was there a moment? >> well, yes, certainly. i don't specifically remember neil armstrong walking on the moon. i was about 5 years old -- i was about 7 when you walked on the moon. so i remember when gene made the last trip to the moon so i've always been excited about the space program. >> gene, mark says thaet he remembers you walking on the moon. what do you remember about walking on the moon? what did it feel like? >> boy, we don't have enough time this morning. i remember everything about walking on the moon. i guess the memory that's edged deeply is looking back at the earth, the overwhelming beauty,

logic, purpose of the earth. i knew i was someplace special. no one -- everyone remembers neil's first steps, no one remembers mine. >> i do. >> well, my final steps were the important ones to me because as i looked over my shoulder and i climbed up the ladder, i knew i wasn't coming back this way again. i knew somebody would and will. but i wondered what was the meaning of it all, what did it mean to the future? and i'm not sure if i know the significance of humankind leaving this planet and calling another planet or body in this universe our home. it's an incredible thought that it really happened. yes, it did, but what does it mean to the future of our kids? and hopefully we can take advantage of that and have it be truly meaningful, to inspire them to do things beyond that. go back to the moon, go to mars, become doctors and engineers and teachers. that's what we need in this country. >> just a side note here, i'm not sure if you're a fan of the

tv show "modern family" but there was an episode where you actually carved your daughter's initials in the moon before you left. can you set the record straight for us? >> yes, my daughter's initials are on the moon. someone said how long will they be there? i said among will the flag be there? forever. however long forever is. >> mark, it has been 40 years since man last stepped on the moon. do you think we'll go back? >> well, certainly yes, some day. some day we'll go back to the moon. some day we'll go to an asteroid, some day we'll go to mars. in this country if we set our mind to something and really want to do it, we can make it happen. i'm hopeful we'll see somebody walk on the planet mars some day. maybe it will be one of these kids that come through this door here. >> mark, i would be remiss not to ask how your wife, gabby, is doing. >> gabby is doing great. we were just up in washington a few days ago.

she's back in houston. she was excited about this facility. she helps to come out here and visit as well. maybe you guys can go through the same class together. >> that would be wonderful. we wish her well and it was an honor to speak with both of you. thank you. >> you're welcome. $500 million worth of rare art stolen, never to be seen again. now police are looking for clues, 22 years later.

investigators hope they're getting closer to solving a $500 million art heist. they searched the connecticut home of a reputed gangster this week looking for clues into the two decades-old mystery. >> reporter: ground penetrating radar dragged all over a lawn, bomb-sniffing canines trying to pick up a scent, plus federal agents going all over a home in tibex suits. >> it's pretty wild here in manchester. >> reporter: that's what neighbors saw first thing this morning. federal agents swarmed the home of 76-year-old reputed mobster, armed with a search warrant. >> they said that they're looking for firearms, but

they're not. >> reporter: his attorney believes the agents are looking for a half billion dollars in art stolen from the isabela stewart gardner museum in boston in 19 90. we've been covering this case since then and found this video in our archives of the largest art heist in history where paintings were stolen. >> half a billion? wow! >> reporter: federal agents first went through the home in february. he was arrested on drug and weapons charges and is in custody in rhode island. >> they have arrested my client for a drug case so that they could execute search warrants for his house, because they believe that he has the artwork in his house. >> reporter: this search also includes his yard, one of his cars and a shed behind the house. his wife, according to the attorney, has been inside the whole time as investigators have collected evidence for the second time in three months. >> it's only a matter of time

probably when they came back to really do a thorough search. >> that 1990 theft devastated the art community. one of the stolen rembrandt paintings was the artist's only sea scape. that alone could be worth $50 million. thanks for starting your morning with us. we've got much more ahead with cnn's saturday morning, which starts right now. anyone that was directly involved with adam pretty much lived in fear. >> that from the brother of adam mayes, the man suspected of kidnapping two girls and killing their mother and sister, who is now dead. new details in the dramatic conclusion to a massive manhunt. and today we put same-sex marriage in focus. what president obama's new stance on the issue means for his campaign and what critics are saying. and we have reed alexander, the nickelodeon star, who