can help all of us chase life. that's going to wrap things up for "sgmd." stay connected, keep the conversation going on twitte twitter @drsanjaygupta. back to the cnn newsroom with pamela brown. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com wack in to the cnn "newsroom." i'm pamela brown in for don lemon. and princess diana and her boyfriend at the time dodi fayed. the british press association has a bombshell allegation. cnn's reporter join us us from london. tell us more about what scotland yard is saying about this. >> reporter: scotland yard is not saying a lot. basically that they have new information and they are now reviewing it for its credibility

and relevance, and therapy not reopening the investigation just yet, but that this is something they might do later on, if they find out more from this piece of information. what we are understanding about the source of the information from the british press association, that apparently comes from the parents-in-law of a former british soldier. now, what's interesting also is that sunday paper has an article now published saying this came basically out of the court-martial of a british soldier recently and that the parents-in-law of a soldier that was not named in the trial basically said that he had told their daughter -- that the military forces had somehow covered up the death of princess diana. this is according to the sunday people magazine here. this apparently is the source of all this and what police are now doing is looking into these reports to see whether or not these reports are, in fact, credible, hopefully we'll have

details when the police come out with more information on this. >> yeah. atika, a shocking allegation there, and i think that it says a lot that they have actually released a statement referring to this allegation as well. >> that's what's most surprising. they probably get all kind of tipoffs all the time. the fact that in 2008 there was already multiple police invest gayses and an inquire they put a lot of these conspiracy theory os rest saying it was the gross negligence of the driver of her car and the paparazzi vehicles chasing her. to now have years later police say we have new information we're looking into has been a shock to a lot of people here. >> absolutely. do you make anything out about the timing of this report, atika? >> i think that the timing at this point looks like it may simply have been coincidental. people are saying it um comes right after the birth of prince george, prince william's son, of course, princess diana's grandson and two weeks before

the anniversary of her death. she actually died on august 31, 1997. nearly 16 years ago. a lot of people are wondering why is it coming up now? at such a sensitive time? >> absolutely. atika shubert, thank you so much. turning to i wou ining idah get to idaho we want to talk about diana's son, prince william. you can see parts of the interview monday morning on "new day" with kate bolduan and chris cuomo at 6:00 a.m. eastern time. and idaho, more than 2,000 people forced from homes by a raging wildfire near the sun valley resort there. a red flag warning is in effect. that means there are high wind and whipping the flame there's. there is a new mandatory evacuation order for folks in the towns of ketchum and hailey and the sheriff's office, put it this way. take your essential belongings and pets and go now. the wildfire has already scorched at least 64,000 acres

there, and more than 600 firefighters are battling the blaze at this hour. and turning to the south where flooding is a problem in many areas there as we see in this video. the streets looking more like livers there. this is what it looks like in wilmington, north carolina coaling heavy rain there's. some areas have gotten record rainfall this summer. jennifer delgado take as look. >> reporter: pamela, more rain is on the way for parts of the southeast. look at this graphic here. we're talking two to four inches of rainfall in the forecast for parts of florida as well as georgia, alabama and some of these locations where you see the orange and the red, potentially you could see six inches of rainfall. this is going to lead to more problems with flooding out there and that is why we have this graphic we're showing you all the flood watches out there. multiple locations and flood warning. a lot will last through tonight and even through tomorrow, because the rain won't stop tonight. it's got about another 48 hours to go. now, what is causing all of this

mess? we have an area of low pressure in the gulf of mexico. we've been watching this for potential for tropical development. we can tell you it's kicking in a lot of moisture along the stationary front, that is the fuel for all of this heavy rainfall. this moisture, this tropical connection is causing all of the lows across parts of the southeast. as we go through tonight, we're going to continue to see more of that rain. the front starts to lift slowly up towards the north tomorrow night, but still we're not going to see the sunshine. not going to see dry conditions. not for this weekend across parts of the southeast. on a wider view, the northeast, beautiful today. it is going to be sunny again once again tomorrow. temperatures are going to run 10 to 15 degrees below average. out of the west, the fire threat out in areas including idaho for a flood warning and that means seeing wind gusts in these locations up to about 30 miles per hour as well as single digit relative humidity values for parts of idaho as well as into utah. not what they want to see and a potentially dangerous situation with so many people evacuated.

pamela? >> more obstacles for firefighters. thank you. a horrible tragedy for one tale in indiana. take a look. this fiery highway crash killed four children and three adults all relatives from the same extended family. police say during a traffic backup a big rig rammed their suv right from behind knocking it into another tractor trailer truck. all seven people in that suv died. one of the drivers hospitalized of the truck and the other not hurt. an early morning em ploegs on the cal state hayward campus got rid of an old building and gave scientists new tools to study earthquakes. wow. incredible to see that. the 463 pounds of explosives used use ed in that blast equal to a small earthquake. scientists placed sensors around the area to measure and map movements along nearby faults.

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[ gunfire ] >> he's are egyptian troops shooting into a mosque where they say snipers were firing at them. hundreds of protesters ral nid that mosque and demanding for the fourth day the return of ousted president mohamed morsi. security forces did not let them stay there, however. right now it's after 11:00 p.m. in cairo and our frederick pleitgen is there. frederick, start talking about what happened at that mosque today? i'm assuming the situation is calm and everyone disbursed from there? >> reporter: well, everyone's been disbursed and a lot of people taken into custody, pamela. for about 24 hours that mosque was under siege from egyptian security forces and from egyptian swims sort a vigilante militia fighting on the side of the egyptian government. of course, those inside the mosque were supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi, and they had gone inside that mosque after a protest had ended in violent clashes. the mosque itself actually for a while was being used as a makeshift hospital.

people were being treated there and then surrounded by the government forces. people didn't want to go out and the government actually said there. snipers inside that mosque, and we could see that exchange of fire that went on. so the raid there went on for about 24 hours. later it was cleared. and the protesters who were still in there then surrendered to government forces, pamela. >> frederick, more than 170 people have been killed just in the last 24 hours. tell us what is the tension level there in cairo right now and are we expecting more bloodshed and violence there tomorrow? >> well, we certainly are expecting more tension, more violence in the coming days. one of the things that's happened is that the muslim brotherhood, of course, the organization that backed mohamed morsi who was ousted by those currently in power, they've calmed for pror tests every day of week to come. what we've seen in the past couple of days, protests usually lead to violence. in the past three day, 700 people have been killed in egypt, in protests that have been going on. certainly right now the tension

level is very high. and what you can see is that both sides, both the supporters of morsi as well as the supporters of the military and interim government are digging in their heels. both side say they go are the ones who should be lit jitmy governing the country, should be in pow around neither side is willing to back down. the muslim brotherhood is fielding hundreds to pro test and the other side is going to hold firm and issued a decree in government buildings are attacked they'll answer with live fire, pamela. >> no signs of capitulation anytime from either side. thank you. now we want to look at live pictures out of birmingham, alabama, where national transportation safety board officials are revealing new information on that u.p.s. cargo plane crash that happened on wednesday. let's take a listen. >> the autopilot was engaged until the last second of recorded data. now, let me clarify this. the flight data recorder --

excuse me, the flight data recording ended before the cvr, the cockpit voice recorder -- recording. cvr continued to record for a few seconds after the fdr quick. and really these are two separate pieces of equipment, one records cockpit communications, the other records aircraft data. they are two separate pieces of equipment. one quick recording a few seconds before the other. and so when i say that the autopilot was engaged until the last second of recorded data, that's not the same end of recorded data that we talked about yesterday. because there is several seconds between each of the end of recorded data.

the auto throttle auto throttle, was engaged through the end of the recording, recorded data. the recorded air speed was tracking the auto flight selected air speed of about 140 knots, which is consistent with the expected approach speed. yesterday we -- we discussed a sink rate alert that was enunciated and heard on the cockpit voice recorder. we also see indications from the flight data recorder that that alert was enunciated. now, what we will be doing is, we will be correlating several pieces of data. we'll be correlating the cockpit voice recorder data, the flight data recorder data, the radar

data. that's the data that's recorded from the air traffic control radar system here in birmingham, and other data sources. then i'll speak to you about that in jauchust a moment. we'll be pulling all of these sources of data together to create a composite picture, a composite and accurate picture, of what happened. what happened to this airplane. i'd like to now turn our attention to the, to the airport itself. yesterday i mentioned that there was to be a flight check that we had hoped to get in, the faa would conduct a flight check of the airport navigational aids, including the precision approach path indicator lights, or the papi lights. that not all of that flight check was able to be done yesterday, but the faa was able

to flight check the papi system. the pap i lines. and they found that the papi was within 1 0.1 of a degree of being properly aligned. we vo have the full, the complete flight check package by mid-week, weather permitting. we are also obtaining airport surveillance video. we know of two of them at this point, and we've received those. one from the airport itself, and one from the alabama air national guard up on the north side of runway 6 and 2-4. and both of these video sources appear to have captured the fire associated with the crash. i'll now speak about what we've done to learn more about the

flight crew. we began interviewing pilots and training pilots who had flown with each of the pilots. with each of the accident pilots, and we have several more interviews scheduled that will occur over the next several days. as we do with any investigation, we are conducting a 72-hour history. we do this for all of our investigations. go back for the previous three days and try and get a picture of the flight crew's mental and physical condition before the accident. and as part of obtaining that 72-hour history, between midnight and 2:00 this morning, because that's when these people were available, because they're operating a nighttime cargo operation, between midnight and 2:30 this morning, 2:00 this

morning, our investigators interviewered u.p.s. employees and contractors who interacted with the crew as they began their duty day in rockford, illinois, and as they made stopovers in peoria and louisville. we have consistent with that, we're in concert with that, we have interviewed the van driver who drove them out to the aircraft. in louisville. we know that they obtained keys for the sleep rooms in louisville. u.p.s. has sleep rooms available for their flight crew. we know they obtained crew, signed out keys for those rooms. we want to see if we can determine if they actually used those rooms. tomorrow we will be examining an

ex-every lar u.p.s. and in the coming weeks we anticipate we will do a flight nest a u.p.s. a-300 to seep how this approach would be flown in that type of an aircraft and to learn more about u.p.s.'s instrument approach procedures. the aircraft. we have removed electronic yimt from the wreckage. electronic equipment that may have non-volatile memory that may be able to contain additional data on what this airplane was doing. we find oftentimes that the memory chips in some equipment still gives us a lot of data. for example, the engine control module. that we know contains data about the operation of the engines.

so we have obtained those memory chips from those pieces of equipment that we believe can give us additional information. the maintenance group has been working very hard in louisville, since 8:00 yesterday morning, scouring the maintenance records of this aircraft. and so far, they are reporting that all service and air worthiness directives have been complied with. and so far they've identified no anomalies, no mechanical anomalies with the aircraft. and we believe that all aircraft components have been removed from all property not belonging to the airport. however, we would encourage someone if they do, if they have come across an aircraft part

that has not been recovered, we would like to know about it. our e-mail address for receiving that information would be, please contact us as witness@ntsb.gov. and we're hearing from the national transportation safety board, new clue what's could have throwed that u.p.s. plane crash there in birmingham, alabama. as we heard him say there was a sink rate alert in the moment bright that crash. that means some sort of alert to the pilot and copilot the plane was going too low, as we heard from him, he's saying they're going to look into the physical, the mental condition of the copilot and pilot who were killed in that crash and also continuing to analyze the data from the cockpit recorder, the flight data recorder and the radar data as well. so new clue, but we still don't have that clear picture of exactly what happened that throwed that crash. more on this coming up. meantime it is much more than a

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a child custody fight has people questioning a oklahoma judge's decision. a 6-year-old little girl, awarded to her father ashes convicted sex offender. this came after nicholas

alexander pleaded no contest and spend six years in prison for the rape of his 6-year-old stepdaughter. he filed for custody after his ex-wife and mother of his biological child reportedly stopped granding him visits. he fought for sole custody of his daughter and won. now sarah's mother is desperate to get the girl back saying he daughter returned from a visit with him alleges that his 19-year-old son touched her appreciate parts. a lot going on with this story. more analysis and we bring in human behavior expert wendy walsh and criminal defense attorney colleen hughes. nice to have you both with us. do you have any idea what could be behind this judge's decision, and it also makes you wonder what was going on with the mother that the judge gave sole custody to the father who's a convicted sex offender? >> several things factored into the judge's decision. number one, despite a court order allowing the father visitation, the mother suspended

all visitation. judges do not look kindly when a parent disobeys a court order. number one. number two, during the original hearing where he got visitation, the victim recanted, and when i say recanted, pam. i'm talking about the 6-year-old stepdaughter. he went to prison for molesting, she actually came to court all of these years later and said, it never happened. he did not molest me. that also factored in, and lastly, there are those allegations that you just talked about. where the little girl returned and said, her 19-year-old stepbrother touched her and the judge said they defined absolutely, could find absolutely no evidence and tended to think ms. knight was making those up. i'm not saying i agree with his decisions but those are the factor was are hearing cited for this very controversial decision to give this little girl to her dad. >> in the midst of this controversy, wendy, you have to wonder what this does to this

little 6-year-old girl? >> well, of course. i think the worst thing for small children is a revolving door of parental figures, and being torn from homes that, one felt like a secure base, perhaps, to another one. so i guess, you know, i hope that the judge and the court is taking into account the attachment injuries that can take place with this moving around. on the other hand, look at this as a great vote finally for the rights of fathers. there have ban large body of men in this country who feel they are underserved in the family courts, and look at a case like this, with as holly mentioned, all of these other factors and someone's looking at the right of a father to be a good parent. >> right, at right of a father. this is a father, don't forget, accused of raping his 6-year-old stepdaughter. talking about a different scenario, holly. i mean what do you think? >> well, i think when the original victim took the stand and testified on behalf of this man who had been convicted of molesting her and said it never

happened, i think that's got to weigh heavily with the judge. we need to remember the climate at the time. they actually called them witch-hunt trial, and in this particular county where he was convicted, there were all of these child molestation cases being made by a particular police department, and a lot of them were actually reversed and found to be not good convictions. now, pam, i'm not saying this guy's conviction was overturned. it hasn't been, but a lot of them were, and i think it is powerful when a girl who is now, you know, in her late teens, she's basically almost a grown woman, coming forward and saying, you know what? it didn't happen. i was kind of coerced into saying those things happened, and that's probably where this judge is hanging his hat. >> so that on that note, wendy, do you think we're being too quick to judge? could he about good parent? >> we have to look at all sides of story. could you imagine, i'm not saying this is the case, but i want you to imagine that really

what this guy is guilty of is choosing bad girlfriends and we'ves to have babies with. those who coerce young children to tell stories or the current mother of this child who said that a stepbrother you know molested her. the new 6-year-old. so i think that we have to have an open mind and think of all sides of the story and i think the judge is trying to do that and the court is trying to do that and i also understand the trauma to this mother and to the child. i don't like to see kids moved around, but let's have an open mind. >> difficult situation all around. thank you both. appreciate you tumming on the show, holly and wendy, thank you. meantime, learning more information about that scotland yard has taken another look at princess diana's death. more on that right after this break. ♪ ♪

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[ gunfire ] as we see in this individual joe here, egyptian troops shooting into a mosque where they say snipers were firing at them. this happened today in cairo. hundreds hole ed up in the mosq dupe to the government curfew. looking into new information about the 1997 deaths of princess diana and her boyfriend dodi al fayed. they say this is not a reinvestigation but a look at in information. new information uncluds the allegation that die nan and al p fayed were murpdered by a member of the british military. a longtime family friend says kidnappi napped hannah and

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oprah sports fans, this may be the most exciting you've seen all day. take a look. at first glance, zach hodskins looks like any other basketball star, hitting great lake shots. look closer. zach is doing all this one only one hand. born without the lower half of his left arm but it good enough as having a shot what a lot of tids r kids dream of. playing for one of the pop college programs in the country,

the florida gators. zach joins us with his sir loeg ton talk about this incredible opportunity and how he made it to this point. thank you both for being on the show with us. appreciate it. zach, i want to start with you. growing up obviously you played basketball, you love the game. did you ever doubt your ability to get an offer like this one? given your situation? >> no. i never thought about it coming up. just i love basketball so much that i just go out there and play hard and practice every day. >> well, tell me how -- how did -- do you ever feel like it got in your way or you'd have extra obstacles as result? >> the fact i knew in my own self i had to work harder at some things other people didn't have to. and i was able to do that and it never bothered me. >> hmm, and logan, you're a basketball player as well. growing up playing together. did you ever go easy on zach? >> i know i certainly didn't with my brother. no. i wouldn't say we went easy on each other. i just played with him like i

would anyone else. i didn't see him as any different. we both worked hard to make each other better. >> you make a good point. didn't see him as any different. zach, do you think opponents see you as different? ever under estimate you on the court? >> i believe they do only if they don't know who i am or have never seen me play. once i go out on the cord and knock down a few shots, they guard me like any other player. >> got to love that. i know obviously a lot of trash talk on the court. do you think -- to they say anything about your arm or is that a moot point considering how good you are? >> maybe the fact if i am good they're going to trash talk more. yeah, there's always trash talking but i can play through it. you just have to be immensely tough and i just go out and play ball. >> take that as a complement if trash talking meaning your really good. was this your dream, zach? to grow up and play for such a

great respected basketball program? and do you have dreams are maybe going beyond that, playing pro or perhaps coaching? >> always been my dream get to a d1 level. i finally fulfilled that dream and the sky is the limit from here. i'm going to keep going. see what i can do after college. i just want to get into motivational speaking, a little coaching, everything. >> wow. a lot of people will be inspired by you. logan, i'm sure you're very proud of your brother. >> of course. >> tell me about your feelings and how far he's come in his life? >> i'm just so proud of him. just so happy that he's achieved everything that he's worked so hard for, and it's great to have all of these opportunities that have come up and i'm so happy for him. >> zach, how do you think your story is inspiring others? >> you know, the fact that i never gave up and never felt sorry for myself, and you know, i want people to know that if you work hard at something, feel like something's holding you back in life, you can do it.

you can keep going in life, and never give up. >> mind over matter. all right. thank you both. zach and logan. >> thank you. >> good luck to you, zach. >> thank you. not that you need it. all right, well, be sure to strap on your seat belts pap new kind of travel could be on its way. are you ready for tube travel? more on that story after this break. dad. how did you get here? i don't know. [ speaking in russian ] look, look, look... you probably want to get away as much as we do. with priceline express deals, you can get a fabulous hotel without bidding. think of the rubles you'll save. with one touch, fun in the sun. i like fun. well, that went exactly i as planned.. really?

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joining us with more on this. he released his plan, elon musk, the idea of a hyperloop, rocketing from san francisco to sflaengs halfen hour. incredible. traveled like something you see at the big drive-thru. how realistic is thises? do we actually think this is going to work? >> i think the sentiment is, if anyone can do it, it would be elon musk. so he's saying it's possible and he actually showed dozens of engineers from tesla and space x, released how he thought could actually happen. monday we saw pictures, how this would work. you're looking at them now. a tube-like device to travel up to 800 miles per hour. what it's going to come down to, is he going to be able to put in the resources to build this? up until now he's said, this could be a possibility, but he said if it was his top priority he'd be able to build out this prototype in about one or two years.

so i think we're waiting for that. he also said it would take $6 billion to build this. if you think about this, that's not a lot for the magnitude of building out the needs of transportation. >> absolutely. interesting you point that out, that at this point he's not saying this is a priority. in fact, before this he said, look, i'm done. no more, and then built out this prototype. we'll see how seriously he takes this and if the hyperloop does not work, some new zealanders have a good plan b. right? >> a fun one. a group has just gotten the permit to build out and test fly a jet pack. kid you not. you're looking at it now. allowing you to hover in the air about 25 feet above land or water. they're trying to get this oubt out for real people like us to use. can you imagine taking one of these homes? trying to get them out to first resporders and the military to

test them out saying this is a real possibility. >> not so practical for a lot of reasons. like for family vacations, that kind of thing. when you've got that covered with something straight out of the jetson, right? >> this actually might be my favorite. we've all heard of the flying car. right? a massachusetts-based company is actually building that. not just saying they're going to build it. they've built it and tested it out. it looks actually like a car, but it has wings and can actually drive on the highway and fly into an airport and it can fit into your garage. i kid you not. and they're actually making a rally saying if you want one of these, put down $10,000 and reserve a spot and they're going to tripe to get these out by 2015, 2016. so it's very cool when you talk about the future of travel. becoming close are and closer, some of these things for a long time we thought we could only imagine. >> yeah. i mean, it's incredible, lori. it seems like we could become the jetsons in no time. all right.

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