team that's in syria is in the town and they are checking out what happened because of the reports of the massacre that's gone on now. earlier in the day, general robert mood, the had of the u.n. mission in syria, he was speaking about this. here's more of what he had to say. >> the death of 32 innocent children, lots of women and men, but in particular the children, that is unacceptable attack on the aspirations of the syrian people. >> reporter: this is considered to be one of the worst days and one of the worst acts of violence in syria since the uprising began over 15 months ago. a network of opposition activists called the local

coordination committees in syria earlier today decried the world's apparent violence going on there and that the u.n. security council should take responsibility for not being able to protect innocent civilians there. we also spoke to an opposition activist in the city and he said it's unbelievable that we have 7 billion people on this planet and they all can't do anything about what they're seeing on tv. he then begged the world, please do something for the syrian people. >> a tragic and horrible picture. thanks, mohammed, for that reporting. now to our other big international story. an embarrassing scandal is coming to light today at the vatican. the man you will see highlighted here riding in the popemobile, that's the pope's butler. right now he's being held in a cell, accused of stealing personal letters and confidential petters from the pope's desk. those leaked documents ended up

in a book that now tops italy's best seller list. the book, seen by many as a breach in the vatican's wall of secrecy. >> reporter: he's in custody within the vatican city state, which is separate from the italian judicial system. which means there's no transparency. if someone is arrested in italy, there's a little more access. inside the vatican, though, they can do basically what they want. their method of interrogation, their right to have a defense lawyer, all of those things are their own set of rules. >> i'll talk with cnn's senior vatican analyst john allen about who this butler is, his access to the pope and what was at the heart of these leaks. here at home, americans are in the middle of a holiday weekend. then it looks like mother nature is not cooperating from

everyone. if you're on the east coast, you know of the weather is threatening. jacqui jeras is tracking all of this from the cnn weather center. how serious is this storm? >> it could be deadly if you don't play it smart. beryl doesn't have to be a deadly storm if you follow all those safely rules. the number one issue today is the threat of rip currents. it's a holiday weekend. people are out at the beaches and it looks great because all of the showers and thunder showers have been offshore. the rip currents are a huge danger. there have been at least 20 people rescued off the coast of georgia. that rip current threat is there in jacksonville all the way up into charleston, even up towards north carolina. the tropical storm type

conditions could come into play tonight and tomorrow as the storm makes its way towards the shore. a lot of dry air moving into this thing. maximum winds around 45 miles per hour. we're not talking about hurricane type conditions. there's the rip current threat. this is going to stay with us through the holiday weekend, so keep that in mind if you're thinking about the beach tomorrow or monday. heavy rainfall also a concern. we could see as much as 3 to 6 inches particularly in northern parts of florida. this part of the country is rain starved, so it's not all bad news except for the people who want to be outside playing. >> thanks so much, jacqui. from storms to a dangerous fire, flames are racing through parts of michigan that normally attract a lot of visitors on a memorial day weekend. the upper peninsula along lake superior, a wildfire scorched

21,000 acres. and in florida, a raging brush fire causing problems for people trying to get to another major tourist attraction, disney world. smoke and flames forced police to shut down traffic in both directions near that park. the road has since been reopened. lawyers for the man charged with killing 6-year-old aton pates would be giving us a preview of his defense. pedro hernandez confessed to strangling the boy and dumping his body in the trash 33 years ago in new york. his lawyer says hernandez has a long psychiatric history, including schizophrenia and hallucinations. he says a plea won't be entered in the case until a psychiatric evaluation is complete. hernandez is charged with second degree murder. in oregon, a hearing is set for tuesday to determine who will get custody of three children found abandoned earlier

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whether the election has been free and fair. >> i think in general terms it's been okay. the egyptian people and all of the opposition candidates have seemed to agree that the election has been orderly and that the people's will has not been subverted by any outside forces. >> and president carter has been in cairo as a monitor for that election. in ukraine, a heated debate in parliament erupts into a fall-out brawl there. lawmakers came to blows over a bill that would expand the use of russian language in courts and hospitals. it's a touchy subject. the head of parliament is calling for early elections saying lawmakers can no longer work together. in the past few weeks, the lawsuit that jpmorgan and the investigation of how morgan stanley has handled the facebook ipo left many wondering whether washington has done enough to

regulate wall street since the 2008 financial crisis. ali velshi breaks down the issue. >> one of the best known advocates for financial reforms joins me now. elizabeth warren was one of the main architects of consumer financial protection. she was brought in by the obama administration to get the consumer watch dog group off the ground. she's now a democratic candidate for senate in massachusetts. elizabeth, good to see you. thank you for being with us. >> it's good to be here. >> elizabeth, four years after the financial crisis, are we or are we not better equipped to shield the economy from risky bets that are made by institutions like jpmorgan? >> well, we are better equipped. there are some changes that have been made like the consumer protection bureau, which means we're feeding a little less risk into the system. but the real question is are we

adequately equipped. what the jpmorgan chase problem shows is there has been no change in attitude out there. the banks still want to load up on risk in order to juice their profits. and there's still not adequate oversight of that. as long as that situation exists, we're at risk. >> why should i care that jpmorgan chase, a private company with lots of money is taking risky bets? my mind goes back to 2008 and aig and i think i don't care if you do it, but at some point it risks the entire economy. am i overstating the case here? >> no, you're not and that's the point. if these banks load up on too much risk, and as long as it all pays off, they take the profits home. but as soon as it reverses, the losses are on the rest of us. never forget what happened in 2008. it meant that people lost their jobs and that small businesses couldn't get the money they

needed in loans to keep their businesses afloat. it meant that people lost their pensions. it meant the whole economy nearly went over the edge. what makes this important is burn me once, shame on you, burn me twice, shame on me. >> elizabeth warren, thank you. this is the weekend when we take time to remember our fallen heroes. but we also want to honor the veterans still with us. we'll tell you about some of the great benefits that you may not know are available. today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe?

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or i should say lilac. >> good to see you, fred. >> so there are lots of benefits available to our veterans. let's start with one of your favorites that perhaps too many vets don't know about, the v.a. loan program. >> i think more know about this than some of the others. but the v.a. program for home loans will cover up to, depending on where you're buying in the country, but in the higher rate states, up to $729,000 of the mortgaged guaranteed by the v.a. this is a perfect time with the low interest rates that we're seeing that i don't think can last too much longer, fred. a perfect time below 4% for a 30-year mortgage for a veteran to take a look at buying a home or refinancing an existing loan. >> that's a nice perk to hear about. say it's not a home but maybe a

car, particularly a volvo. tell me about these special discounts being offered to vets. >> i'll tell you, when you dig around, you find the darndest things. for my money, we can't do enough for our veterans after what they risk for all of us. this is volvo military sales. it is solely for those and they've sold hundreds of thousands of these vehicles, but solely for those military who are deployed overseas. what you get is the factory price on the volvo, not the manufacturer's suggested retail price. what it cost to come off the factory floor. along with that, you can get savings on any of the equipment within the car, which is always the expensive items when you start adding this, that and the other things. and when you're deployed back to the u.s., volvo ships it free back to the u.s. >> oh, wow. >> for those that are maybe in

okinawa or whatever, they will make sure the cars meet the standards in the particular country which you're deployed. and you get a four-year, 50,000 mile warrantee on the cars and you can get information on that by going to volvocars.com. >> that's fantastic. and then maybe you want to take the family on a trip to disneyland for example. there's a discount for armed forces. >> this is excited, too. first off, the military benefits association, which you can access at militarybenefit.org offers discounts on airline flights for the military, which will equate to about $150 on each ticket that the military person purchases. because getting to disney can be

expensive, as well. but then disney has what they say is their thanks to armed forces called salute military. and they've announced that they're extending that right through september 30. so you can get deeply discounted theme park tickets, as well as deep discounts on disney properties if you're planning on san diego on property. so that's the salute military from disney available from now until the 30th of september. >> wonderful ideas. and certainly some enticing discounts and offers being made available. thanks so much. let's not make it so long next time. >> okay. thank you. >> all right. >> and thanks to our veterans, including my husband, ken. >> oh, exactly. thanks so much for everyone's service, including ken. and of course, you can get a more personal financial advice

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has the same type of impacts as it gets towards the coast. the big concern with beryl today, packing winds of around 45 miles per hour is what you can't see. take a look at this live picture from jacksonville, florida. beautiful blue skies and people on the beach. but the threat is in the water and it's rip currents. you can't always see that. red flags are flying in georgia, just up the shore there from jacksonville. at least 20 people have been rescued from the water today as a result of that. so keep that in mind throughout the holiday weekend. our storm is moving towards the southwest and should be heading into north florida as we head towards memorial day and we'll see a significant threat with heavy rains there, as well. and tracking some storm suppose the northeast. a severe thunderstorm watch has been issued here, including you here in new york city and a lot of problems at the airports. jfk, laguardia, newark and weather threats out there this weekend.

>> thanks so much, jacqui. appreciate that. an embarrassing scandal at the vatican. one of a few men with very close daily access to the pope is under arrest, accused of leaking confidential vatican papers to a journalist. the man is identified as the pope's butler. the leaked information appears in a new book that is italy's number one best seller. the arrest is the latest in the vatican's crackdown on leaks. let's break in cnn's vatican analyst john allen, joining us from denver. who is this butler and what kind of access are we talking about to the pope? >> well, look, you know, the pope is like presidents and prime ministers. they live in a bubble and most people don't have access. but the exception is the pope's own household, including two priest secretaries, four

consecrated lay women what cook and clean and so on. and then a handful of laymen who act as butlers who serve his meals and serve his other personal needs. the guy that's been suspected as the suspected mole, in his early 40s, is one of those papal assistants right there in the pope's apartment. so this is somebody that the pope would perceive as a member of his family. >> and someone who rides in the popemobile. what kind of papers and documents are we talking about that this butler is alleged to have taken from the desk of the pope? and then handed off to a journalist which found its way into a book? >> well, how much of the total vatican leaked scandal this guy is responsible for we don't yet know. but if we look at the totality of the scandal, which erupted in

january and gathered steam in february and march and continues to this day, you're talking about an enormous quantity of documents. enough to fill an entire best-selling italian book. they cover a lot of ground. some have to do with personal correspondence with the pope's current ambassador in washington, some have to do with vatican finances and the question of alleged cronyism and corruption in money management. one document concerned a plot to kill the pope. to tell you the truth, the problem for the vatican isn't so much the content of the documents. the problem is, these are real highly confidential documents which apparently have been leaked by somebody who has the closest access possible to the right hand of the pope. >> and now this man is under arrest. who would proceed with the prosecution, would it be vatican

city? is it rome investigators or is it on a much larger scale in italy? >> yeah, this has the potential to become a real diplomatic headache for the italian government. what the vatican announced is they are going to continue to do their own investigation using the -- the vatican is a 108 acre city state and has its own court, whose normal business is prosecuting pickpockets, not alleged moles. but they're going to do a preliminary investigation and determine if there is enough evidence to bind this guy over for trial. if that were the case, then the trial, they might want to hand over the trial to the italian justice system, because they don't have the facilities to incarcerate anyone. and the question then would become, does the italian government want to pick that up? and so in addition to being an additional scandal for the

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from your cell phones to your radio, even your gps, did you realize all of this technology was made for the u.s. military?

our tech expert mark salsman is here from toronto to explain how these products have gone from military to main stream beginning with how we're able to talk right now, by way of the internet. what is the background and the connection with the military? >> sure. long before the internet was fast enough for us to do a two-way video call like this, in the '60s, the u.s. department of defense felt that their data center that housed intelligence was vulnerable to attack. so they devised a system by which computers can communicate with each other over a telephone line. and that was the predecessor to the internet that was sort of used by academic institutions in the '70s and '80s, followed by the worldwide web, the commercial explosion of the internet in the '90s and the first e-mail was sent in 1971. so a long time ago. >> so what about the radio? some of us still like to tune

into the radio, rely on the radio. >> that's right. so the radio was devised by the u.s. navy. i'm sorry, the european navy, the french and then embraced by the u.s. as well, in the early 20th century. of course, it was a communication tool. it was a fast and efficient way to relay information between one another. and then it became a commercial sensation in the '20s and '30s with radio plays and music and before television took off in the '50s, radio was the most popular enter statement median around. >> and the first mobile communication was used by the navy in 1907. how did that become the cell phone as we know it today? >> that's right. in 1907, it was called the radio phone or radio telephone, it's very different than the telephones we use today, but it was a two-way communication tool, whereas radio was one way

before that. it was wireless, of course. but not the same infrastructure. in the '20s, the detroit police department put mobile radios in their car. but they were more like walkie-talkies, which was also a military bred invention. and cell phones for us sillians didn't take off until the 'late 80s. >> and then the gps? >> just a decade ago, we started to use these to get from point a to point b. originally, gps satellites hovering above the earth were created by the u.s. military. these small devices that communicate with the satellite, when it's paired with mapping software, it helps us navigate the roads. men, we all know don't like to ask for questions. so this is a great invention. and now gps chips are in almost

all smartphones. so we're still use thing once-only u.s. military technology. >> thanks, mark, for bringing all that to us. have a great weekend. >> thank you. you too, fred. cheers. for more high tech ideas and reviews, just go to cnn.com/tech and look for the gaming and gadgets tab. a young man came to the u.s. to finish his degree. but one month until graduation, a fire broke out in his apartment and then changed everything. an airline has planes... and people. and the planes can seem the same so, it comes down to the people. because, bad weather the price of oil those are every airlines reality. and solutions won't come from

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3,000 coalition troops have died as part of the war in afghanistan. nearly 5,000 died in the war in iraq. this memorial day weekend, we have a unique interactive way for you to learn about these troops and pay testament to them. josh? >> one of the best websites in the world. fred, we just hit that grid marker this week, that 3,000 deaths in afghanistan. i highly encourage you to check out this site. it is beautifully done and a forever thing. it's called home and away. here's what you're looking at. this is a map of the united states with dots all over. over here, there's a map of afghanistan with dots all over it. you can click on any section of afghanistan or any section of

the united states and find out by coalition troops, most of them u.s. troops, who have given their lives in the war in iraq or afghanistan. let me show you an example right here. i called up one example, clicking on cherry hill new jersey and you learn about lance corporal jeremy cane. once you click on someone, you can get a lot more information. i called up for one example, someone who gave his life in iraq. this is a soldier from flint, michigan. you learn about his unit, about the fatal accident in which he died. you can learn so much about these people and here's why it means so much. let's go to the video. we see video all the time of funerals taking place all over this country as troops come home and are laid to rest. often that's all you know is that these funerals happen or you see a casket. i saw this video. i wanted to learn about this exact person. i wanted to know what his

sacrifice was. who was he? so i went straight to our website, cnn.com. the man you're seeing buried is this man right here. that's just the beginning. one more thing you should know here, you can post a message for the families of the troops or anything at all. this is a woman named c.l. reed who published an i-report through that website, a message about her younger brother jeffrey. and she has a quote right here. she says these troops were willing to leave everything behind to fight for the freedom of millions of people they ever knew. it's so important to remember their sacrifice so that we don't take our freedom for granted. so fred, really good time this weekend on memorial day, take some time to see this website. >> and then josh, we have some information on a special tribute

to those veterans of vietnam. >> it's interesting. we have talked about this on memorial day and veterans day, our nation thinks about our veterans and those who have given our lives. take a look here. this is from ft. hood, texas. they had an event this week to welcome home vietnam veterans. the army officials there say vietnam veterans never had the welcome home they deserve. so on monday at ft. hood, according to military officials, 700 vietnam veterans turned out and were welcomed home by 2,000 people who wanted to give them the welcome home that they never had. >> and we know on monday the president of the united states, the entire first family is going to be paying tribute to those veterans at the memorial there on the washington mall. you can't say thank you enough. thanks so much, josh. >> thank you, fred. in this week's human factor,

dr. sanjay gupta introduces us to a young man who came to america to finish his engineering degree. his future looked so bright until a fire changed his life forever. but he's never given up. >> reporter: in 2004, his family could. have been more proud. because he was coming to america to purdue university to complete his degree in computer engineering. a month of graduation, however, his life changed forever. his neighbor set a fire intentionally with his wife and child still inside. >> by the time we woke up, the whole apartment was on fire. >> reporter: they tried to escape. but they couldn't. >> my roommate collapsed in front of me and i started running down the stairs. >> reporter: he only made it down a few steps before he collapsed. a fireman found him still alive, but on the way to the hospital

he could hear paramedics talking about how badly he had been burned. >> at that moment, i was thinking about my family, what i had come here for to get a good education and now this guy is saying i don't have a chance to survive and i passed out and i woke up in university of chicago burn unit after four months of induced coma. >> reporter: he had burns over 95% of his body. so far he's had 54 operations. but he didn't give up. and he credits three people for his survival. >> my father, my mother and my occupational therapist, shannon hendricks. >> reporter: he says his father saved every penny to get an education. >> my mother always kept on telling me have faith and keep your eyes on the goal. >> reporter: and then there's shannon, twhom he calls his guardian angel. he says she's gone way beyond the duties of a therapist, making it her mission to help in

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a beautiful stretch of beach in france that played a crucial role in world war ii is now a hugely popular travel destination. if you were paying attention in history class, you know that more than 3 million allied forces, including american troops, stormed the beaches of normandy, france in june of 199 -- of 1944. d-day was the largest sea born military invasion in history. this is what the beautiful beaches of normandy look like today. we're going to show you the best way to get there. my next guest knows intimately. she was there as a child and remembers what that felt like and is with us now. kate maxwell is the editor in

chief of "jetsetter.com. good to see you, kate. >> good to see you. >> even though you were a child, you remember as though it was yesterday. >> i do. >> for most folks have to get there by plane. once you get to paris, are you advising folks to get on a train, get on a car or spend a little time in paris first? >> it's paris, one of the most beautiful cities in the the mos beautiful cities in the world, so i would spend at least a night there. there's a new hotel, hotel st. james and it's a mini chateau not too far from the center. i would definitely spend a night there. then, you have a couple options. you could rent a car in paris and drive to normandy, three and a half hours or take the train from paris and then hire a car from there. a car will cost you between $30 and $50 a day. and be prepared to use a stick

shift because automatic cars are hard to come by in france and they're a bit more expensive as well. >> maybe the latter might be the safest. >> i think so. >> you have to be very courageous. >> and then traffic as well. >> now, you get to normandy and then what do you do? how do you make a decision on where to stay? >> i would recommend staying in bayeux. there are a couple really good hotel options there. one opened just a few months ago. a 28-room boutique and hotel. also, another chateau, which is a few minutes outside. room several, $216 a night, it has a great restaurant, a swimming pool. a lovely place to stay. >> these boutique hotels are a larger scale. boutique not by standards of 10 to 15 rooms, but a little bigger than that.

>> yeah, the term boutique has changed in the last few years. >> how many days do you need to give yourself to really maximize, get the best out of your trip to paris and normandy? >> right, so it's at the coastline, the d-day landing site. it covers about 60 miles. it will take you eight or nine hours all together to cover them. i would recommend putting aside two days to do it justice. >> then do you take a tour or go it alone once you're in normandy? >> it's up to you. i think you'll probably get more out of it if you do a tour. you can go with a group. overlord tours are an option. a maximum of eight people a group, or if you want a private tour of normandy battle tours is a good option. alternatively, if you want to do a complete customized tour, go to jetsetter.com/advice or travel planning service will be able to arrange your trip to paris or normandy and you can do what you want and see the

battlefields you want to see. >> beautiful images. it really does look like a recommended travel for everyone. whether you have a fam aeld connection to normandy or otherwise. >> right. great trip. >> really is beautiful. kate maxwell, always good to see you. editor in chief of jet setter.com. >> if you want to get more information, you can go to jetsetter.com/advice and find out more intimately about the travel options. all right, sex parties. underaged girls, a girl dressed like barack obama. another day of testimony at the underaged sex trial of the man once in charge of running italy. >> if you do have to go out today, leave your television set, you can continue watching cnn from your mobilephobe and watch from your laptop. go to cnn.com/tv.

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she was wrongfully fired from her job at a manhattan lingerie distributor. they said they had nothing to do with her performance. i asked avery freeman and richard herman how she'll be able to prove that. >> it's very interesting. unless some employees at the lingerie company are going to back her up, i don't know how one proves that. she claims they wanted her to tape her breasts down and minimize her mammaries and be less sexy or something like that. >> how you get to sexual discrimination and religious discrimination here is beyond me. the fact that gloria all hp wrong is in the case tells me that -- >> have you gotten that phone call from her yet? >> richard and avery. you will hear more from them later on. on this case and others in just a few minutes. cnn international's jonathan mann joins me about a story making strange headlines. one headline goes something like

this. berlusconi, girl masquerades as obama. berlusconi being the former prime minister of italy, and bunga bunga the name of his infamous parties. you take it away. >> can i say at the outset, if there's a child in the room or you're creeped out by the antics of older rich guys who can do whatever they want, this is not for you. we're talking about silvio berlusconi. forced out of office in november, but still in the headlines because he's in trouble. why is he's in trouble? he's on trial for two things. paying an underaged prostitute for sex and misusing his powers of office to get her out of trouble. a young woman who was 17 at the time. >> he's claiming he didn't know that, right? >> he's claim aglot of things. he's claiming he never did anything period, and the

prosecution is illegal. he's been on trial for ruby, saying he was just trying to be nice for her. she got arrested for threat. he called up the cops about a 17-year-old run away and said can you please let her go? that's why he's in trouble. he could face 15 years in jail. >> is there a lot of evidence? >> there's testimony, and the testimony that you alluded to, women are coming forth to the courts. one say tlg were all kinds of tawdry parties at his house, women dressed up at nuns, as nurses. >> that not guest the law. >> no. >> it's against everything that is right and holy. there was a woman walking around drelszed up as barack obama. if that doesn't creep you out, you have a whole different creep-o-meter than us. she claims it was burlesque and innocent. but his personal accountant

showed up. she ga he gave the girls $20 million in cash. actually more than that, 20 million yeeuros. a lot of big money and the trial continues. >> and the allegations of the prostitution, well, it goes on and on. we could talk for an hour because something tells me that's just the tip of the iceberg with this case. but we don't have an hour to talk about it. i'm glad you were able to give us three minutes of your time. welcome back. you're in the cnn newsroom. i'm fredricka whitfield. breaking news out of syria. u.n. observers are confirming reports of a massacre in the town of poula and they say the yeas of force is unforgettable. rows of bodies. a mass funeral for the 92 people killed friday. the opposition accused the syrian military ofhe