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i'm about five years older than you do. >> i got my kids' names tattooed on my chest. >> he was going to show us. we said no, that's okay. >> happening now in the cnn "newsroom," one of the fastest moving fires in 50 years and floods. we're live coast to coast with the latest on that. >> and three winning powerball tickets. we could meet one of the lucky people today. and usher and his ex-wife getting ready to battle it out in an atlanta courtroom. a fresh custody fight after their 5-year-old son nearly drown in a swimming pool. plus this. >> queue internet. >> it is a scene straight out of

sky fall. hack verers have a new way to sn you through your cell phone. the news starts right now. good morning. happy friday. >>. i'm don lemon in today for carol. there is a new warning surrounding the nationwide manhadnma manhunt for the kidnapping and murder suspect. they say james dimaggio may have boo booby-trapped his car with explosives. a third family member, ethan, is missing, though remains found in the burned home are consistent with a child ethan's age. miguel joins us live with the latest from san diego, california. hello, miguel. >> reporter: good morning, don. it is a very, very tough time

for this family. it's an extraordinary circumstance where they want to plan for funerals and grieve for the dead but they are reminded and trying to stay so positive for 16-year-old hannah that is still out there. hundreds and hundreds of tips coming in from across the country. they're hoping one of them leads to the return of hannah. this morning more sightings, more concern about the fate of 16-year-old hannah anderson in the hands of her alleged abductor james dimaggio. dozens of the sightings of the dark blue versia outside california. at this seattle emergency call center, nine out of ten calls related to hannah anderson. >> it's obviously a very high priority for us. >> reporter: investigators are saying dimaggio may have built his own explosives, ditched his own car, wiring it to explode, urging extreme caution. >> we want to put out for civilian safety, officer safety, if you see this car do not

approach it but call law enforcement. >> this as the human toll is taking its effect, speaking exclusively to cnn, mother and st grandparents to hannah anderson. >> let her go. sheep needs to come home. >> reporter: they believe with 100% certainty hannah is alive. they hold out hope e is alive as well but they fear the worst. >> little e, he's just the best little guy you can imagine, mr. fisherman. hannah, our honey bunny. >> now they're holding on to each other wearing "pray for hannah" t-shirts are preparing for one funeral, possibly two. >> you never plan to bury your child. you never plan to bury your grandchildren, if that's what it

comes to. it's something you just can't comprehend or cope with. >> reporter: for now all their energy devoted to the hope that their granddaughter is alive and they will soon be reunited. >> the family also saying that mr. dimaggio's house was being foreclosed on, that he was going to lose it soon. they say he begged christina and the kids to bring up the family dog, spend the weekend with us, believing this is more evidence he planned this ahead of time. they're hoping against hope that hannah comes back. >> heart breaking to see the least. >> deadly storms wreaking havoc in dozens of towns across the northeast. rescuer workers are working

around the clock to bring people to safety. >> you can tell right there that got moved all the way from across the street. but everything around here looks horrible right now. so this is just part of the flooding this morning that has happened. yeah, this is pretty bad around here. >> in oklahoma city, a 60-year-old man was killed when trying to save his stranded daughter. missouri may have seen the most extreme weather. a woman was killed yesterday when floodwaters swept her away in her car, the second weather-related death in a week. and more rain on the way. george, this is devastating. >> reporter: don, good morning. now we know of another death in south carolina, a 23-year-old man killed in flooding. again, here in hollister, the problem is it's starting to

rain. not a lot of rain but just enough to make people nervous. this has proven to be a deadly storm. >> evacuations and rescues continue to missouri where flash flooding has claimed two lives. the most vulnerable, children and the elderly. the current so strong that it forced this construction crane on up on to an already flooded landing. in davis county, dozens had to be rescued. and look at this building in nashville. it literally broke in half under the pressure of a nearby overflowing creek. on the highway cars were left drifting in the current. and then this fire fighting scene, two firefighters tethered with a rope, carefully carrying a 5 week-old baby through the

river of waist-high water. it's all part of a storm system gripping at least a dozen states in benton county, arkansas, officials put out an emergency disaster declaration after thunderstorms dumped ten inches of rain. one victim piled belongings on her bed. >> we were in the kitchen and glass started falling off the wall. the fridge flipped backwards and busted. >> in georgia, water rescue teams geared up to jump into what used to be a tiny creek to rescue a man stranded with his two dogs. >> and back here we want you to see -- >> george howell in hollister reporting for us. we'll get back to george. a limb technical difficulty now.

from water to fire, one of the fastest moving wildfires still out of control. the fire near palm springs has scorched more than 14,000 acres and destroyed more than two dozen homes and businesses and seven communities have been ordered to evacuate. more than 1,400 firefighters are battling the flames. >> we're seeing fire behavior we haven't seen in a long time because the fields are so dry. you add a little wind to that and it really makes it a challenge for us to catch or keep up with the fire. >> the right is about 20% contained. it is the second big wildfire in the area in less than two weeks. >> the world knows usher raymond like this, as a performer with an incredible voice and smooth voice move but his ex-wife paints a different story, an absent father who is putting their kids in danger. in just a few hours, the two of them will battle it out in court fighting for custody of their

two young sons. this has really become a courtroom drama. >> that's a good way of putting it, don. this is the latest legal twist in what has been an ongoing custody battle between the singer and his ex-wife. tamika foster raymond filed in may for a custody modification. this weekday after their 5-year-old son nearly drown in a pool at the singer's home, raymond filed for an emergency hearing on the matter. here's what her lawyer had to say. >> her concern is for the custody of the parents. the main concern is the children being left in the custody of a third party for long periods of time. >> will usher be in court?

we're told both parents, expected. what's going on here? >> that's what it seems like, don. both parents are expected to be in court. i think we can assume that usher will be there. >> they have been tweeting -- i know tamika has been sitting about her son saying he's sitting up, they played games all night. how is he doing? >> we talked to her attorney, she says the boy is improving, he's dpoing much better. she tweeted a picture of herself with the boy saying he's doing better. at one point he had a breathing tube and that tube, according to her attorney, has been removed. we don't know when he'll be released from the hospital the >> there's good news this morning for the housing market. home prices have skyrocketed, particularly in areas that took big hits. and more people are paying their

mortgages on time. finally, some good news. when it comes to the economy and housing market, we love it. what is going on? >> what's interesting is the prices are not rising in just one section of the country, they're rising in all sections. they found prices were up in 87% of the areas. sacramento, atlanta, up 39%. fort myers and alsolas vegas, ps of up 31%. these are the areas that had the biggest housing bust so they have the most to gain back. there are fewer homes on the market because people are actually buying homes again so the inventory is shrinking a bit. 2.2 million homes are for sale now. in 2007 there were 3.5 million

homes on the market. what you see happening in this case is that in some areas it's winding up being close the selling markets and those bidding wars, they are back, don. >> and as you said, you said a bit of a shortage of inventory. you can't even find places. every real estate agent i speak to here in new york and across the country say there's nothing on the market. there's no inventory. >> it is really hard out there. i guess what i could say to you picky people is try not to be too picky. but what's also interesting to see about this sort of trend in housing is that mortgage delinquencies are also on their way down. more people are paying their bills on time. almost 6% of mortgage payments are at least 90 days late. that's the lowest in five years. more people are getting jobs, they get a paycheck. a couple of red flags with with the data. delinquencies if you compare

historically, still a lot of ground to make up because they are still high. you doesn't want to see the prices get so inflated that we have another bubble. the good news is analysts say prices will go up but you're not going to see the gains rise much faster. >> concern about a bubble. let's hope there's no bubble this time that it's healthy as prices rise and the market improves. thank you, we'll see you soon. >> we know of 16 people who may not be worried about their mortgages anymore. we're talking about the lucky powerball wins are from new jersey who will split this check. "usa today" says they are co-workers at a county garage. and this man has another one of the winning tickets. paul white of minnesota says he's got some big plans. >> i've spent my whole life trying to figure out what it was i want to do when i grow up, well now i get the opportunity to do whatever i want. i'm not going to be one of those people who says i'm going to

keep working because i'm not working for anybody else anymore. not going to happen. i don't think i could wake up every day without having to go somewhere. so what that ends up being, i'm not sure. it might be -- i don't know. honestly at this point i don't know. it's just too surreal at this point. i don't think you guys can understand how it's just amazing to me. it's just amazing. no worries anymore. it's crazy. i think i can get by. we'll see. but you do think of it of course, almost $450 million or something. that's a big deal. but once uncle sam gets his chunk there's not much left anyway. >> i don't like that guy. that's because i'm jelly, i'm hating. >> the group that covers college athletic says it's pulling

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fort hood shooter. the government is trying to hammer home the devastating impact of the rampage that left 13 dead and 32 hurt. 31 people have testified so far and 50 more are waiting in the wings. meantime, a military judge says nidal hasan's backup lawyers cannot quit. they say the former army psychiatrist is trying to get the death penalty and that they shouldn't be forced to help him commit suicide. ed, what's going on here today? >> reporter: good morning, don. everything is moving along now despite what happened here in the mid of the week when the standby attorneys for major nidal hasan had voiced their concerns that they felt major hasan was working with the prosecution to get himself the death penalty.

they said being forced to do that was morally repugnant. the judge said they have to continue working alongside major hasan and now the prosecution continues calling their witnesses. we've heard from a number of shooting victims and witnesses who were there in the room where the shooting erupted four years ago. the prosecution will continue to do that, laying out in painful detail just what happened in those moments when the shooting erupted in that room. remember, this is a group of soldiers that were preparing during their last medical checks and paperwork to finish before being deployed to afghanistan. prosecutors say that's why major hasan targeted them specifically. and things are moving much more quickly because major hasan is barely asking any questions of these witnesses. >> ed lavandera, we'll get back

to you later. thank you, ed. >> and coming up, it's as bad for your privacy as publishing your social security number. we'll show you the spyware, that could be lurking in your apps.

many smartphones are the swiss army phones of technology. you can search the web, pay for your groceries and even make a phone call once in a while. but they can also betray you and your privacy when hackers begin to snoop around. >> reporter: your smartphone turned into a spy phone. i >> i'm looking at playing angry birds here. >> reporter: you see angry birds

on the screen. on the other end, a hacker can see you. >> there's us looking at the phone. >> reporter: and that's just the beginning. >> the other thing we can do is record conversations. i can use the listen function here. and when i click listen, i'm going to record ten seconds of conversation on this phone. >> reporter: how did they do it? >> we used angry birds. it's a very popular game. >> reporter: popular app but be careful where you download it. >> they say it's a very great game, go to the link, they install if on their phone, they're all happy, they get to play the game but the spyware is there. >> reporter: it's a fake app they down load. this man's work is designed to find security flaws. >> we created a trojan horse, an

application with the malware inside it. they install it and the trojan horse creeps in and takes over their phone. >> reporter: once you download the bad link, your private data exposed. >> then we go to the web site and we can locate where they are. here we are at black cat in las vegas. we immediately get their e-mail address, the telephone number, the type of phone that they own and we've also taken the contact list off the phone. >> reporter: google and apple recommend people only download apps from their app store. you guys have done it so it opens the door to others being able to. >> that's right. if you get a download saying

click here to download this app, unless you really know the person, don't do it. >> still ahead, a motorist killed by police in a barrage of gun fire. two years later the man as family and injured bystanders are still waiting for their questions to be answered. hey love. [off screen] there you are. [speaking german] hi, grandpa! [off screen] give me a kiss! [speaking mandarin] what do you think? do you like it? [off screen] happy birthday! can you see that? [speaking polish] [off screen] did he apologize? [off screen] thanks, micah!

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happening now in the newsroom, flood fears from dallas to boston, torrential rain soaking half the country. plus this -- >> a controversial shooting caught on camera. miami beach police firing off 100 bullets. two years later many are asking why isn't the investigation complete? and oprah, new claims she was the victim of racism when shopping in europe. hear both sides of the story. cnn newsroom continues right now.

welcome back to the newsroom right now. i'm don lemon in for carol today. we have got a lot of news to cover so stay tuned. we're going to start with our top stories right now. it looks like the markets may end the week on a down note. allison, how is it looking right now? >> what a difference a day makes. stocks are starring lower. last week there were record highs on the table. now we're expecting a loss for the week. as we head into today, the dow is down more than 1%, specific as much do -- s&p down. there's this new word on wall street, you know what it is?

septaper, we have all these interesting words, fiscal cliff, tarp and now septaper. consider this, august is also historically one of the worst months for stocks. so that could be just a little bit of a factor here, don. >> all right, thank you very much. we'll get back to allison. we want to give you some other stories that we're watching right now. there is a new warning on the manhunt for kidnapping and murder suspect. police say james dimaggio may be armed with improvised explosives or may have booby-trapped his car with him. he's wand in the disappearance of 16-year-old hannah anderson and the killing of her mother. a third family member, hannah's 8-year-old brother, ethan, is also missing.

>> and rescue teams are working around the clock to save stranded motorists. overnight in oklahoma city, a 60-year-old man was killed when trying to save his stranded daughter. at least two others have lost their lives in missouri, while a south carolina man was found dead in floodwaters on his family property. nashville, tennessee was one of the hardest hit, as parts of the city have seen upwards of 8 inches of rain. mile-per-hour goodness. stephanie is a reporter for wkrn in nashville. stephanie, as i said to the reporter earlier, this is devastating. what are you saying? >> as day lie breaks, it's clear just how much destruction is left behind. this clean-up process to take months. i'm walking in what was once the foundation of a salon that is completely wiped. yesterday business owners say water reached levels of five or

six feet high, pushing the salon some 50 feet off its foundation. the salon was once joined to this dentist office but now about a 20-foot gap lies in between. this area was also hit by the may 2010 floods in nash vvillna not quite this bad, though. today as business owners return to clean up this destruction, it looks like the weather is going to cooperate so they can get right to work. >> all right, stephanie. we appreciate it. stephanie from wkrn, we appreciate that again. >> a florida man makes a stunning admission on facebook and now stands accused of murder with the words "you will see me in the news." >> derek medina posted a confession and a picture of his wife's corpse on his facebook page saying he killed her. he turned himself into police but the photo stayed on his

facebook page for at least five hours and was shared again and again before it was taken down. nick, what do we know about this? >> reporter: this story seems too horrible to be true but police say that it is. we want to give you a warning. we're about to show you the photo which is very, very graphic. if you have a weak stomach or children in the room, now is not the time to look at the tv. this is the photo that derek posted after he said he killed her after getting in an argument. he is a published author of self-help ebooks. he maintains a web sight where e talks about effective communication, some irony there. they divorced only to get remarried. he said his goal was readers was to help them understand the true

meaning and purpose of life. don? >> facebook just a few weeks ago said it was cracking down on inappropriate posts. so why did it take hours before this one was removed? >> in this day of social media where everything is so closely monitored that, is a very, very good question. cnn did reach out to facebook. they said "the content was removed via our own process. the content was reported to us and then we took action on the profile and we reached out to law enforcement. they're saying they reached out to police. they say they take action on all content that violates our terms. they're referring us to authorities in florida for any additional details. they're saying as soon as they figured it out, they took action. as you mentioned, that photo was up there for about five hours before they took it down and shared over 150 times.

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it's a scene that we all know well. customer misjudged by her appearance and a shopkeeper left regretting the error. >> you got my stuff? >> thank you. >> how much is this? >> i don't think this would fit you. >> well, i didn't ask if it would fit, i asked how much it was. >> how much is this, marie? >> it's very expensive. >> it's very expensive. ♪ pretty woman, say you'll stay with me ♪ >> may i help you? >> hi, hello. do you remember me? >> no, i'm sorry.

>> i was in here yesterday. you wouldn't wait on me. you work on commission, right? >> yes. >> big mistake. big, huge. have i i have to go shopping now. >> and one shopkeeper in germany made a huge mistake. >> so i go into the store and i say excuse me, may i see that bag right above your head? and she says to me, "no, it's too expensive." >> nischelle turner, i saw her talk about this. i wanted to hear the shopkeeper's side. you just spoke with oprah about this same topic. what did she say to you? >> she said that she doesn't face overt racism on a regular

basis in the united states. she did tell me earlier this week that the racism she experiences is more subtle here but she did say in that e.t. interview she did deal much more directly with it while in zurich. she didn't name the shop but she did talk about what happened here. you heard that in the sound that you just played there. now, even though she didn't directly name the shop, our cnn colleagues have spoken to the manager of the top. the shop is called twoi palm in zurich. she said it was a 200 misunderstanding. she said mrs. oprah came in and was looking at the handbag, my sales woman told her it was the latest bag, it was made from crocodile skin. mrs. oprah asked her how much it was and the sales assistant said 35,000 situation franc with, i

is $38,000. because she didn't want to take the bag down because she was embarrassed and worried about the price, she also said she had other models. here's what oprah winfrey said about experiencing racism. okay, basically she told me when she walks into a room full of people that don't look like her, there's a lack of expectation. that almost falls in loon to what she believes she experienced in zurich, don. she said it was the sales woman's lack of expectation of her, the lack of thinking she could afford it. one side thinks it was a

misunderstanding, one side thinks it was a racial incident. >> hmm, that's very interesting. and $38,000? >> you had to go there. it's oprah, don, okay? do we have to talk about the price? >> yes! a purse is $38,000. most guys are like, what? i thought purses were like $38. >> let's think about this in our terms. i would be talking about a $38 purse but oprah talks about a $38,000 purse. it's okay. it's all right. >> but apparently there was something that happened there and we don't know what it is but oprah says it's racism. the shopkeeper says it's a misunderstanding. we'll see. okay, let's move on. hopefully you can sing because you're going to be humming this. >> oh, lord. >> a show that defined saturday night for a generation. ♪ and love, life's sweetest

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it has been two years since miami beach police and wounding four by standers. but that investigation is still not complete and while the dead man's family waits for answers, those bystanders are still looking for help with their injuries. >> reporter: the controversial shooting captured on cell phone video shows the last moments of raymond's life on may 30th,

2011. several shots are heard as florida police officers try to stop his reckless driving. >> i almost ran over a hialeah cop. >> reporter: the video shows him coming to a stop. he's then surrounded by several miami beach police officers. >> oh, my god. they are going to kill this man. >> reporter: the street is crowded with onlookers enjoying urban beach week, an annual hip-hop week. a second bystander capture what happened next. police start firing, firing more than 100 bullets. scattered traffic picks up the chaos. >> where is the subject? where is the subject? >> reporter: four bystanders are hit. horice is killed. hit 16 times. >> we think about it all the

time. we think about how my brother left us is very painful and in order for us to move on just a little, just to go on, we need some kind of closure. >> reporter: the herisse family is still waiting for close sure questioning why after two years later the investigation is not complete. there is an autopsy revealed that herisse was driving drunk and he says a gun was later found in his car. whether he put his hand underneath the seat to grab the gun, something happened that caused them all to react at the same time. the family attorney is not buying it. >> there was a gun residue test that was performed on the weapon. that gun had not been shot, period. so any suggestion that he was shooting a gun has gone out the window. >> what do you think is happening here? >> i think they are trying to

make it seem like it was an accident or it was his fault but really it was them who did all of this and most of the damage and they are trying to hide it. >> they definitely used excessive force. definitely. >> reporter: scanner traffic showed police tried to get a handle on how many bystanders were shot. >> we have a man down at the delores hotel. >> reporter: that man was sedrick perkins. >> i seen the blood and realized i was shot. >> reporter: and that was carlson st. louis. >> where were you sitting? right over here? >> right over here. i knew something was wrong when i fell. that's when i saw bullet wounds and blood rushing out of my head. >> reporter: carlson has a metal rod and screws holding his hip together. perkins still has a bullet lodged in his chest.

>> it feels like an ongoing cramp in my chest all day long. >> we're really looking to the police for clarity. we want a full investigation report and we want charges brought against the police officers. >> reporter: neither the miami beach police or police will turn over information which has been turned over the miami-dade state police office. is it to determine if there is or there not a crime? he says it's due to processing so much evidence collected over a wide area saying the crime scene was blocks and blocks long. in the meantime, the bystanders caught up in the shooting still wait for financial help with their injuries and the herisse family still waits for answers. >> i'm cry any time. i never finish cry.

i'm asleep, i wake up cry. >> we'll continue to fight until we get something from them, some kind of answer, until we get closure. >> reporter: the herisse family has filed a suit against the police officers and are planning on filing civil suits as well. in the meantime, the mayor released a statement saying that the city has been working on enhancing policies and procedures throughout the organization to restore the public trust. jason carroll, cnn, miami beach, florida. >> jason, thank you. the year-long investigation into the impact of marijuana on the human body. it may make you rethink about what you thought about pot.

what a comeback story this is. just one year after being exonerated of a rape charge that charged him ten years of his life, brian banks made his nfl debut. hey, andy. >> hey, don. last night's game was a long-time coming for banks. he was one of the biggest high school football stars in the country. in 2002 banks was falsely convicted of rape. he spent more than five years in prison. after being exonerated, he made an nfl debut, a tackle in the fourth quarter.

before the game, he tweeted, "game day, never thought this game would come. if it all ended here tonight, mom, i did it." tiger woods has work to do if he wants to take the pga championship. he's six shots back coming in to today's rounds. he tees off at 1:45 eastern. catch all of the action on tnt this afternoon at 1:00 eastern. red sox and royals last night, taking a picture of a baby before the game and realizes he needs to get on the line for the anthem and takes the baby with him. he returned the baby after a couple more pictures. big papi can take care of a baby. >> very nice. thank you for the bleacher report. have a good weekend. next hour in the cnn "newsroom" begins after a break. don't tell mom.

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break overnight, devastating storms and one of the fastest moving fires in 50 years. the ncaa says it made a mistake and starting today no more player jerseys will be sold on their website. 120 dolphins all found dead, all off the east coast and all since june. what's behind their mysterious deaths? plus -- >> how quickly do you expect this to work? >> within like the first five minutes. and then i'm done. >> that's it?

>> that's it. >> medical marijuana and the quick effective relief it brings to the sick. "newsroom" starts right now. good morning, everyone, top of the hour, i'm don lemon in for carol today. parts of the midwest and east are underwater after getting pounded day after day and the death toll is climbing. among the latest victims, an oklahoma man and south carolina man, both of whom were caught in flash floods. and at least two deaths are reported in missouri. george howe is one of the hardest hit areas with the very latest. what are you seeing, george? >> reporter: don, good morning. we're in pretty much in an evacuated neighborhood and i want to take a minute to show you an example of the force, the

power of mother nature. this is the result of water that ripped the side off of this mobile home. but look in there. it's interesting to see how some things remain standing. the pencils are still standing m you can see a few shoes there. it's always hard to imagine when you see the force that came through here. enough force to move an entire mobile home over. it was shifted over that way and it's all because of this creek. what is typically a very quiet creek was a raging river overnight. the neighbors here tell me that the water at one point was as high as i'm standing now. water that came in to many people's homes, moved trailer homes and there were stories of heroism out here. nick ramirez went door to door. he didn't go in to try to save his own stuff. he went door to door, knocking on doors, making sure everyone got out. the word here, no one was hurt or injured. everyone got out. there were several rescues but

what a night just 24 hours ago in this one neighborhood. >> george howell reporting for us, thank you very much. we appreciate that. i want to talk about the mags nal manhunt for kidnapping suspect. jam james dimaggio has kidnapped hannah anderson. 20 years ago, another missing child case gained national attention, that one ending tragically. poly klaas was abducted from her home. poly's father, marc klaas has being an advocate for child safety. thanks for joining us this morning. how are you doing? >> i'm well, don.

thanks. thanks for having me. >> thanks for coming. what do you think the chances are that hannah anderson is alive now and may be able to survive the kidnapping? >> oh, i think the chances of her alive are good. she was obviously the object of this individual's affection and he would do whatever he can to get her. i can't imagine then that he would try to kill her. >> you know, mr. klaas, we tell kids to look out for strangers but in this case he was a close friend of the family. should we change our messages to kids to include adults they know? >> oh, absolutely. it's never really been about strangers. the vast majority of children that are abused are abused by somebody that they know. so i think that we need to change the rules. instead of not talking to strangers and, quite frankly, don, strangers are going to help a child out of a difficult situation. stranger doesn't mean bad. what we have to tell our kids is that if something feels bad, they need to put distance

between themselves and whatever that is and then find a trusted adult and tell that adult so they can intervene and assure that what happened here doesn't happen again. >> you know, we talked about this on our show yesterday. you're critical of the california amber alert system, the warnings sent out to mobile devices that came in the middle of the night. it frightened some people. a lot of people felt disturbed by it because they said, you know, it was too loud. they didn't want it. why are you so critical of the warning system? >> well, listen, if people don't like it, they can opt out. that's a very easy thing to do. i think it's got huge potential the way they are rolling out this new system. it's got fantastic potential. but listen, i received the amber alert at 10:45 on monday night. i live almost 500 miles away from where this crime was committed. however, yuma, arizona, which is only 100 miles away did not

receive the alert. i think it's an absurd policy to do a statewide distribution when you need to do a geographic distribution. in other words, you want to put the house, the crime scene in the middle of the distribution. you don't just want to shoot it willy-nilly. i know that other people received it during the night. that's going to turn them off. they are going to eliminate that from the kinds of things that they receive on their cell phones and there was no way to link to what was going on with that amber alert. so it's got great potential but it needs to be tweaked. it needs to be fixed. and they need to try to include people and not push them into opting out of the system, which is what i think they are doing now. >> how's your family? >> my family's good, don. you know, we're fast approaching our 20th anniversary. it's about 6 or 8 weeks away now. and we're kind of looking at it with dread. it just doesn't seem like it's been that long in many ways.

>> marc klaas, thank you very much for your perspective. >> thank you. now some other stories we are watching this morning. in southern california, one of the fastest moving wildfires in half a century is still burning out of control. it's near palm springs and has burned out more than 14,000 acres and has destroyed two d z dozen homes and businesses. more than 1400 firefighters are battling the flames. >> we're seeing fire behavior that we haven't seen in a long time because the fields are so dry and then you add a little bit of wind to that and it really makes it a challenge for us to keep up with the fire. >> right now the fire is about 20% contained. it is the second big wildfire in the area in less than two weeks. in just a few hours, pop star usher raymond will face off against his ex-wife over the

custody of their young son. he almost drowned on tuesday. his ex-wife says usher is not home enough to adequately protect their children. look at that. just a measly $86,000. it could belong to 16 co-workers at a garage. a second ticket belongs to paul white of minnesota. he says he doesn't know what he'll do but he's definitely not going back to work. there is still one more winning ticket left unclaimed. and some students heading back to college, breathing a sigh of relief, a president preparing to sign a bill that would bring interest rates on student loans back down. students are happy to hear that. parents, too, i'm sure. alison kosik is following the story from new york. when does this law kick in? >> when the president signs it,

it's going to kick in immediately. just in time for the next school year. it's retroactive back to july 1st because that's when the rates for undergrads jumped to 6.8% because congress couldn't get a deal in time. what's going to happen now is the interest rates on these loans is going to drop to 3.86%. graduate loans are going to be a bit higher at 5.41%. when you look at the average student carrying $27,000 in debt, this lower interest rates is going to save families thousands of dollars. don? >> so what happens this year? rates going to go back up? >> and that is really a good question. so yes, rates will most likely go back up. because look at this kind of as a longer term plan. this isn't a band-aid approach. it lays out what is going to happen to these student loans as time marches on. these rates are actually pegged to financial markets. you're going to see the rate fluctuate. specifically, it's tied to the

ten-year treasury bond. what that means is when interest rates on bonds are low, rates on the student loans will also be low. but as the economy heals, you're going to see bond rates go up so that interest rate on these student loans will go up as well. but the good thing about this law is that there's a cap on here and yet there's a catch because the cap on the loan rate is high. it's between 8 and 9% but the good thing about that is at least it wouldn't happen overnight which is what could have happened if congress didn't come to some kind of compromise. although you're going to see the rate fluctuate, it is starting out at a lower rate. don? >> alison kosik, thank you very much. another big story, the ncaa getting out of the business of selling numbered jerseys. the move comes after espn exposed an official website that linked players' names with the shirts. the sales could be seen as hypocritical since the ncaa bans players from earning outside

money from performance. this comes amid the claim that manziel got thousands of dollars from this. mike, does this really eliminate the hypocrisy that mark was talking about? >> no. what i think this move does is take about the thinnest figure leaf in amateur sports and adds a thickness to that figure leaf. what i'm saying is that college football is amateurism only in that the players don't get paid. everyone else gets paid. the coaches make money, the schools make money. but it adds to the fact that the players don't get paid. the ncaa wants to put up a little bit of wall and distance from the fact that it is making money on specific players. so if you want to buy a johnny manziel jersey, it won't say

manziel on the back. but guess where you can buy that, every other website that sells jerseys. >> yeah. listen, for someone who is -- listen, i'm not a sports junkie. i jump on the bandwagon for playoffs. i love my lsu tigers. what's wrong with johnny manziel making money off an autograph. >> right. this is a guy who the market is saying you're going to get paid millions of dollars. the only reason he's not in the nfl is the ncaa and the nfl have a rule to wait until your high school graduating class has completed their sophomore year. they say it's to protect the health of young players. really, let's not forget the nfl has a free minor league system in the ncaa. now, i'll articulate their point of view. if you pay johnny manziel for an autograph, that's fine. but what's to stop the entire offensive line getting paid for

autographs? once you close the door on being able to profit on the fact that they are athletes, it's going to be game on and athletes will essentially just sign contracts and the official reason will be, you're not getting paid to play for your signature on that contract. we're just going to pay you actually for your signature, or whatever, to open up a car store or -- >> it's a slippery slope, is what you're saying? it's a slippery slope. >> yeah. the door would be opened. >> the school is making money and johnny manziel and others, make your money. there's a lot of people who need it. thank you, mike. we'll be right back. t to experience the precision handling of the lexus performance vehicles, including the gs and all-new is. ♪ this is the pursuit of perfection. to take skincare to the next level you're ready for roc® new roc® multi correxion has an exclusive 5 in 1 formula it's clinically proven to hydrate dryness,

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in pakistan was evacuated. only a few emergency personnel will stick around. the state department has warned u.s. citizens against travel to pakistan. we expect more testimony today in the ft. hood killer. nidal hasan's back-up defense lawyers cannot quit. another big court case we're watching today, the trial of james "whitey" bulger which could be decided by the jury at any time now. the admitted mob boss is accused of rackateering and extortion and being involved in 19 killings. deborah feyerick is joining us from boston. deb, the jury has been deliberating for more than 20 hours now. do we know if they are close, close to making a decision?

>> reporter: we never know if they are close to a decision. but they have been very, very thorough. keep in mind, don, this is a case that involved some 70 witnesses, 800 pieces of evidence, and not only that, they've also got to go through 32 counts plus 33 additional charges. this is a big -- this is big, what they have to consider, what they have to weigh. it appears that they are being very deliberate, very methodical. they've got a lot in front of them. yesterday there was a little bit of anticipation because it seemed that they were asking a question, what is the final count, the gun possession count from the serial number that was warn off one of the guns. but we don't know. they may be going over what they decided, making sure that they didn't leave any stone unturned, don. >> what happens if they don't reach a verdict? are they allowed to work through the weekend? courts are different in different municipalities. >> reporter: all courts are different. if they are close, she might consider bringing them in on

saturday. it all depends. but right now there's just so much anticipation in the court. you've got a lot of family members of the victims, the 19 people who were murdered, and they want resolution. they sort of want to get this part of their life over with. he comes in to court and sees his brother in the front row. that's one thing that makes him happy is seeing the loyalty of his brother and niece who have been with him throughout the trial. don? >> deb feyerick in a rainy boston, thank you. it's a mystery along the east coast. dead dolphins washing up on beaches from new jersey. so far, the cause of mystery. we'll hear from jeff corwin. [ female announcer ] the best thing about this bar it's not a candy bar. 130 calories 7 grams of protein

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okay. so along the east coast of the u.s., a big mystery. since june, an unusually high number of dead bottled-nose dolphins have washed up on beaches from new jersey to virginia. at least 28 dead dolphins have

washed ashore in the last month. experts don't know what is causing it but it could be a virus. jeff corwin is joining us, he's also the author of a new ebook, sharks. so jeff, what do you think, what is causing this? >> well, don, it is a great mystery and unfortunately there could be a number of answers to what is causing all these dolphins to die off in what is called a catastrophic mortality event. and it could be the result of ship strikes. this is not uncommon, especially in areas where human beings moving their boats around a lot. that usually wouldn't target a large amount of animals. it could be a result of weather. storms have been known to throw large pods of dolphins and whales off, causing them to beach themselves. sometimes there may be issues with navigational sonar. but what likely this could be is a disease or pollution. now, we did have a die-off event

about 25 years ago, over 700 dolphins from new jersey to florida and that was from a deadly virus which is sort of like a marine mammal version of distemper. >> so then why would -- would that explain why it's happening only in this area of the atlantic? >> well, often times diseases tend to be regionally focused and then they move in what is called the outbreak phase as they sort of ripple out into greater population and because pods of dolphins are so tight, they only have an opportunity to share these diseases when they connect with other dolphins and the truth is, diseases are naturally occurring in waters around our world. we have been known to fall prey to diseases like the red tide and shell fish and these animals are vulnerable to disease like that as well. but if it's not a disease, we immediate to look towards pollution. recently in our series "ocean mysteries" we did a study called

harrah, which is this rapid health assessment on dolphins. we discovered that dolphins living in this lagoon system in florida have a much higher rate, sometimes 30, 50% higher rate when it comes to diseases, cancer-causing agents and heavy metals and chemicals that can be very dangerous to a creature's health. >> so can these deaths be stopped and can these sick or dying dolphins be rescued at this point? >> very interesting question. complex answer. yes and no. out there in the watery wilderness, it is almost impossible to intervene with the natural process of disease as it plays out in the edge environmental world. with the human environment, we can control what we're leaking and adding into waterflows that makes their way into the ocean and pollutes the oceans. when you come across a dolphin that is distressed, there's nothing that you can do.

in fact, you can expose yourself to diseases. what you need to do is contact the noah marine, 866-755-6622, or contact your local recognized aquarium or wildlife center and those are the folks best equipped and trained to respond to a stranded animal like this. >> listen, and i'm hearing you here where you say you can expose yourself to a disease. how concerned are you about this? do you consider this a crisis? >> i think it has the potential of being a crisis. i don't know if this is just the beginning of something much greater. we know many environments throughout our country are experiencing distress from climate change and pollution and habitat destruction and the great question is, are events like this when we see 120 dolphins die since june alone, 28 dead just in the latter part of summer, is that the beginning of a greater catastrophic event?

are these animals the indicator species? we can look at these animals as the beacon for the state of our planet's health when it comes to our oceans. >> so glad to have your perspective, jeff corwin, thank you very much. >> thanks, don. going to go jogging. >> we'll talk about that later. thank you. just ahead, could there be a helpful high? dr. sanjay gupta now tells us why he is in favor of the illegal drug. [ male announcer ] this store knows how to handle a saturday crowd.

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later and a middle age man seeks his true identity. and california police go looking for the wife of scientology leader -- of a scientology leader after an actress files a missing person's report. "newsroom" continues right now. welcome back, everyone. i'm don lemon in for carol costello. there is a new warning in the manhunt for the kidnapping and murder suspect. his name is james dimaggio and police say he may be armed with improvised explosives or may have booby-trapped his car with them. he's wanted in the disappearance of 16-year-old hannah anderson and the killing of her mother in a burned-outhouse. the 8-year-old brother is missing. floods wreaking havoc from oklahoma to south carolina. overnight in oklahoma city, a

60-year-old man was killed when trying to save his stranded daughter. at least two others have lost their lives. a south carolina man was found dead in floodwaters on his family's property. meanwhile, nashville, tennessee, was one of the hardest hit areas as parts of the city has seen upwards of eight inches of rain. all right. sit tight, everyone. pay attention to this. because a new cnn documentary airing this weekend may make you rethink what you thought you knew about pot. our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta, changed his mind after he spent a year investigating the impact of marijuana on the body. sanjay is here to discuss. sanjay, this is not the first time that you and i have had that conversation. we'll talk about that. but i want to dive in to more about pot, about something that you thought was bad, a bad drug for a long time that surprisingly you say works well as a medicine.

so how so? why did you change your mind? >> let me preface by saying that for a long time we've known that there's medicinal qualities from marijuana. up until 1943, it was on the farmicopia. but for the last 70 years it's not been. and for me, don, one of the things that happened, if you look at the literature regarding medical marijuana, some 20,000 studies will pop up and you find the vast majority of them are designed to look at harm. less than 10%, around 6% to actually look at benefit. and i realize now that painted a distorted picture and distorted my own views on medical marijuana. i was pretty critical of it. it took getting out of the country and looking at other countries and small labs that don't get nearly enough attention and paying attention to legitimate patients with legitimate problems for whom not only did marijuana work, it was the only thing that worked. i too easily dismissed them of

high visibility malingerers looking to get high. once you start doing this and really spend time investigating this, it -- in my case, it changed my views. >> okay. let's watch a little bit of it, sanjay, and then we'll talk more. i want people to see it. >> i always -- >> meet 19-year-old chaz moore. he uses many different strains of marijuana. that's why he's talking this way, almost speaking in hiccups, like he can't catch his breath. >> this fluttering here, it's annoying but it becomes painful pretty quickly, i imagine. >> yeah. after like 15, 20 minutes, that is when i can really start to feel it. >> reporter: he's about to show me how the marijuana works. he's been convulsing now for 20

minutes. >> how quickly do you expect it to work? >> reporter: within the first five minutes. and i'm done. >> that's it? >> reporter: that's it? >> that's it. >> reporter: it was actually less than a minute. >> that's chaz moore. he's 19 years old. he's been seen by lots of different doctors, been on dozens of different medications, was even in the intensive care unit for some time. so, you know, you saw how well that can possibly work for him when dozens of other medications potentially toxic medications could not and that's not just one person. there are unhads of people like this. there's real science to sort of make this point. >> again, as you and i have talked about this before on "starting point" and we had a very interesting exchange then with soledad o'brien and a number of people have been saying, i wish the news media

would stop looking at the use of marijuana, especially medicinally as something that is bad and detrimental. as i said in that segment, in many ways alcohol can be worse for you than marijuana because of the lingering effects but we don't look at alcohol that way because it's legal. and maybe in some way we could start to study it and find out what good, if any, is in the use of marijuana, medicinally or for pleasure. do you disagree with that? >> look, it's an interesting question. i think people always go to this moral equivalency point. marijuana, alcohol. which of these is worse? i think a lot of the points you make are correct. i think if you look at addiction or dependence, marijuana, closer to 9%, alcohol closer to 15%. if you look at long-term impacts, alcohol can lead to all sorts of problems. and people can actually die from overdosing on alcohol. i haven't found any evidence of that with marijuana. but look, don, for me, the

medical marijuana part of this is enough to stand-alone. i don't think people need to commingled this other issue, it's not as bad for you as alcohol. i'm looking at it from a doctor and neuroscience standpoint. there is a therapy out there that can help people and they can't get it. that's wrong. they can't get medication that can help them when other things don't? the real comparison now is pain pills. marijuana can work well for neuropathic pain, for example. patients will try different meds, and end up on narcotics and they don't work well for them either and a person dies in this country every 19 minutes of a prescription drug overdose. that's a horrifying statistic. marijuana can work and i haven't found anybody that has died from it. it's got to be part of this discussion. >> that was a very profound thing that you said. and we do that not only with

marijuana but with a bunch of different things, like we want to do a false equivalent. the narrative that you have to compare it to alcohol or some other drug. it stands alone on its own and the conversation is very important as is, talking about medical marijuana. i think that's very profound, dr. sanjay gupta, and the fact that you changed your mind, bravo. >> thank you. i think being a scientist involves continuously looking at the science and i do apologize to people who maybe because they've been misled could not get treatment for them and they suffered needlessly. that's not acceptable and that's why i apologized. >> check out sanjay, it's on op-ed. thank you. i look forward to talking to you more in-depth about this. don't miss the special, "weed" sunday night at 8:00 p.m. only on cnn. we'll be right back. distribution systems," "and one of the most efficient trucking networks," "with safe, experienced drivers."

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it's a mystery once believed solved. but now being visited half a century later, the elements of baby's kidnapping, a child found and a middle-age man's quest. tear is cnn's ted rowlands. >> reporter: todd is determined to find out who he really is. his story goes back to april 1964 at michael reese hospital in chicago. celebrating the birth of their baby boy paul when a woman posing as a nurse kidnapped the 1 day old newborn. it was front page news and the the parents could do nothing but wait. and then just a year later this boy was found abandoned in newark, new jersey. investigators thought it could be baby paul because his ears were similar. with dna not available, they couldn't just hand him over.

the fronczaks adopted him. >> they are great parents. >> reporter: the boy grew up as paul, living a great life in the chicago suburbs. as an adult, decades later living in las vegas with a family of his own, he decided to take a dna test because he always had questions. >> and i started thinking honestly what are the chances that the kidnapped baby of chicago that i am their kidnapped child found in new jersey 2 1/2 years later. it's pretty wild. >> reporter: the results confirmed that paul was not the baby stolen from the hospital. he now wants to find out his true identity and now nearly 50 years later, because of paul's dna test, the fbi has reopened the case in an effort to possibly find the real paul fronzack, the little baby stolen in 1964. >> i just think it would be really cool if we actually found the real kidnapped baby.

>> reporter: and don, it leaves two mysteries here. paul wants to know who he really is. he's working with ancestory.com and they have apparently located a couple distant cousins that he's going to meet with and then they went into the vaults here in chicago, they found the old case files, they are going to start making phone calls and they feel they have physical evidence that they are going to use as well. hopefully to solve this mystery. >> ted rowlands in chicago, thank you, ted. we'll be right back, everybody. ♪

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for around $269 per month. president george bush is still recovering from a blockage in his heart. as some health experts or officials are pointing out, there may be good in the doctor's discovery and not just for the former commander in chief. cnn's tom foreman covers that in this "american journey." >> reporter: in office and out, george w. bush has been regarded as many as the most fit

president ever, mountain biking, running, swimming, golfing, weight lifting and laboring on his ranch. his annual physicals while in office found him in excellent health with no history of hypertension or diabetes and low to very low coronary artery disease risk. when physicians instert certificat inserted a stent, some people were sur viced. >> people should not assume that just because they exercise a lot they don't necessarily have a heart problem. >> reporter: he wrote a book on the impact of celeb pretty health issues called when illness goes public. when famous people face illness, this is the good that almost always follows. public awareness and action rises sharply. when former first lady betty ford disclosed she had breast cancer, the number of women seeking screenings rose. when katie couric's husband died

of colon cancer, screenings came out of that, too. >> people pursue it more. >> reporter: over the half century or so, each president has maintained some sort of physical finance during and after his term. nixon, ford, carter jogged, reagan rode horses, obama plays basketball and the first president bush even jumped out of an airplane. each one a living reminder that how much your health matters whether you're famous or not. tom foreman, cnn, washington. let's check your top stories. one of the fastest moving fire in southern california still out of control. palm springs has had 14,000 acres burned so far. and seven communities have been ordered to evacuate. oprah winfrey says she was a victim of racism on a recent

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you remember that show "kings of queens," leah remini is in a battle with the church of scientology. they have filed a missing person's report for the church's leader. nischelle turner has been following this story for us. she made this very dramatic break from the church and then this and then the wife is responding and then it's just really odd. what is going on here? >> well, any break from the church of scientology, don, is going to be viewed as dramatic. the church is now lashing out at leah remini after she cut ties with the church and after she cut tie with the church, reports have surfaced that she filed a missing person's report for the wife of the head of the church, david. the los angeles police

department has confirmed that they did receive a missing person's report some time this week. they are not saying who filed this missing person's report. we tried to reach leah remini for comment but she has not said whether she actually filed this missing person's report. she left the church back in july. but early friday morning a commander with the lapd told cnn that they followed up on this report and that shelly is, quote, fine. detectives had a face-to-face with her. she is not being held against her will and that case is now closed, don. >> and i started reading this and i think that the response from the church was that she had been busy working on church, making the church better and inside the church with women and all of those things. that was their official response, right? >> yeah. you know, she hadn't reportedly been seen in public for several years and leah's sister said on a radio interview last month that her sister's problems with scientology started when she asked david about his wife's

whereabouts at tom cruise and katie holmes' wedding. they released and statement and said, "the entire episode was nothing more than a publicity stunt for ms. remini. rather than move on with her life and career, she has aligned herself with a handful of people who harass the church to advance their self fish agendas. it's a back and forth, for sure. >> we'll leave it there. thank you very much, nischelle. thank you for joining us today, everyone. cnn "newsroom" continues right after this quick break. i'm don lemon. when i--- [ both ] oooooh... [ female announcer ] as you get older, protein is an important part of staying active and strong. ensure high protein... fifty percent of your daily value of protein. low fat and five grams of sugars. [ major nutrition ] ensure! nutrition in charge! low fat and five grams of sugars. [announcer] there's no hiding the beneful baked delights.from new heartfuls are made with real bacon...

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