i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. tragedy at the world's highest peak. three climbers die on mt. everest as dozens flock to the top. plus, a tv news exclusive, john mayer speaks up about his disastrous "playboy" interview. >> violent awakening into adulthood. >> you'll hear it here first. 6 blal 6 ♪... ♪... ♪... choose the perfect hotel mine hurt more! mine stopped hurting faster... [ female announcer ] neosporin® plus pain relief starts relieving pain faster and kills more types of infectious bacteria. neosporin® plus pain relief. for a two dollar coupon, visit neosporin.com. neosporin® plus pain relief. you know what's exciting? graduation. when i look up into my students faces, i see pride. you know, i have done something worthwhile. when i earned my doctorate through university of phoenix, that pride, that was on my face. i am jocelyn taylor. i'm committed to making a difference in people's lives, and i am a phoenix. visit phoenix.edu to find the program that's right for you. enroll now. [ creaking ] [ male announcer ] trophies and awards lift you up. but they can also hold y

i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. >> they need to be head accountable. >> a tough talking army woman, she says, for doing her job. now she's facing the biggest battle of her career. >> really? is that what you want to hear on the other end of a 911 call? it happened and we'll play it for you. i've been a superintendent for 30 some years at many different park service units ross the united states. the only time i've ever had a break is when i was on maternity leave. i have retired from doing this one thing that i loved. now, i'm going to be able to have the time to explore something different. it's like another chapter. i tell you what i can spend. i do my best to make it work. i'm back on the road safely. and i saved you money on brakes. that's personal pricing. >>> in the age of the internet and youtube, even a small town pastor can get his message out there. his sermon does not have a message of love. you can hear it for yourself. >> build a great big large fence, 150 or 100 mile long, put all the l

i am brooke baldwin.e got it. a possible break in this cold case. we're getting word that crews right now are digging up the backyard of a mobster. why, you ask? more than two decades ago someone stole artwork, i am talking half a billion dollars potentially in worth from this museum in boston. the unsolved heist, one of the most famous in american history, and today authorities are using everything from a ground penetrating radar to a ferret, yes, a ferret in the search of the home, robert gen teal and we'll have more on that. take to the white house. folks are scratching their heads a little bit and grumbling under their breath and wondering out loud what the heck to do with joe biden, annoyed is a word we're hearing, deeply annoyed to be specific, that the vice president forced his boss's hand on the topic of gay marriage. it is like, when will it stop in jessica yellow infais has been digging with this. has he blown it with the president and committed one blunder too many here? >> no, that's going too

being gay is that type of celebration. ( laughter ) and brook baldwin, in my opinion, the most attractist of the baldwin brothers, knows, this is not about watch lorets having parties. she knows what this really is. >> if you're banning the heterosexual, you know, pastime of bachelorette parties from happening in your club in west hollywood, i mean, on a level, it is discrimination. >> stephen: discrimination. damn straight, pun intended. ( laughter ). so, wag of my finger at discriminating gays who are victimizing america's drunken, horny, shrieking bachelorettes. and, folks, unlike being gay, bachelorette partyying is not a choice. even if you don't want to go, you have to go. i mean-- ( cheers and applause ) you do. you kind of have to go. because you know janet's been planning it for months and if you don't go she's going to turn it into a whole thing. by the way, she says you're supposed to take in $75. and, sure, gays say it's insensitive to their lack of rights, to which i say yeah. that's the point. the most sacred part of getting smaerd taunting gay people that they can't. ( laug

i am brooke baldwin. before we begin, new details on the incident inside a high school in memphis here. we have this video, this school district selling cnn a mailbox bomb went off in the hallway and all appears to be some sort of student prank, and pressurized device contained drano cleaner and thankfully no one is hurt. the exception is the assistant principal did go to the hospital after inhaling smoke and everyone seems to be okay. we'll keep you updated. >>> and we talked about this here, about the osama bin laden file, hundreds of pages of documents seized in the raid that killed him one year ago released by the u.s. government. now another dead terrorist is speaking from the grave. the yemen based militant died last fall in a drone strike, but his group has published new irn constructions and among other things they're telling followers to set fire to america. set fire. these new instructions include guidance on how to create a so-called ember bomb to ignite wildfires. want to go straight to irvine

i am brooke baldwin. the news is now. zip, zero, z il ch, that is how much half the country is saving for retirement. i know. it is disturbing. where do you stand? >>> plus, he certainly got experience speaking off the cuff, but how angry really is the white house at vice president joe biden for tipping the president's hand on same sex marriage? much half the country is saving marriage? >>> neo-nazis training for a race war miles from the happiest place on effort. they are facing charges at this hour. according to investigators the af is a domestic terrorist group that believe a race war is inevitable and here is where they're accused of training to kill jews, immigrants, other minorities, and this is a back woods compound, all of 11 miles from walt disney world near orlando. three of these suspected white supremecists appeared in court tuesday. they were considered so dangerous they were kept in cages and away from other inmates. want to bring in john following this investigation for us today. john, do we have any detail

i'm brooke baldwin. you live to washington where we'll hear from the president in a moment as he's getting ready to speak at what's known as the wall. it's the vietnam veterans memorial, but first this. >>> want to take a look at some of these live pictures here. this is dallas, texas. you're looking at this crane. here is the story. we are told there is a man inside the cab of this crane hundreds of feet above the campus at southern methodist university, and police say he threatened officers. he is believed to be armed we're hearing with a pistol. everyone is okay. the school is closed so there aren't a lot of folks on campus, but we are keeping a close eye on the picture. thank you wfaa for providing it to us. as soon as we get updates we'll pass them onto you. >>> some new video of this tragic scene. look at the smoke, flames break out inside the shopping mall killing at least 19 people. 13 of them are children. this is happening in qatar near saudi arabia, and this news just broke so we're getting mo

i am brooke baldwin. the news is now. a traffic jam at the world's highest peak as crowds line up for mount everest. this new video reveals just how bad the conditions are. so, ah, your seat good? got the mirrors all adjusted? you can see everything ok? just stay off the freeways, all right? i don't want you going out on those yet. mmm-hmm. and just leave your phone in your purse. i don't want you texting, all right? daddy...ok! ok, here you go. be careful. thanks dad. call me -- but not while you're driving. ♪ [ dad ] we knew this day was coming. that's why we bought a subaru. ♪ who have used androgel 1%, there's big news. presenting androgel 1.62%. both are used to treat men with low testosterone. androgel 1.62% is from the makers of the number one prescribed testosterone replacement therapy. it raises your testosterone levels, and... is concentrated, so you could use less gel. and with androgel 1.62%, you can save on your monthly prescription. [ male announcer ] dosing and application sites between these products diffe

i'm brooke baldwin in for soledad o'brien. she is back monday. happy friday.ol, fb as in facebook. in a couple hours, facebook becomes a publicly traded company. millions hoping the price is right for them to get in on it and make a little money. also, how to act human. advice for mitt romney from all people inside the actor's studio. this is going to be good. james lipton joining us in studio live. >>> we know we love him. heartthrob david cassidy is here. it is friday, may 18th. that song has been stuck in my head all morning long. "starting point" begins right now. ♪ >> finally she says. christine romans finally gets her steely dan in the playlist. our panel this morning, hello. good morning. you have john avalon here. senior political columnist at "newsweek" and "the daily beast." his wife, margaret hoover. worked in the bush white house and author of american individualism. hi, guys. >> good morning. >> so cute. and will cain columnist of blaze.com. good to see you all. and our "starting point" today, today is the day we've been talking about for days. it

i am brooke baldwin. a lot to get to.ut an hour from now a group will makes its case why gay marriage should be banned but in just a couple of minutes tony perkins will join me live on the show before he steps to the microphones and i will ask him tough questions. also, happening right now we're talking hurricanes today. we're talking hurricane bud. take a look to the move, the storm is intensifying today and now becoming a category 2. we're talking winds up to 125 miles an hour. it is expected to move toward the coast of mexico, but weaken in the course of the next 48 hours. as of now we're told bud will not make landfall, obviously updates as soon as we get them. first, the mystery, the mystery that really struck fear into the hearts of a generation of parents put those pictures on missing children on those milk cartons and moved to president, president ronald reagan to declare missing children's day and all taking a new turn today. 33 years, almost to the day, after 6-year-old eaton paetz new york police may finally ha

i am brooke baldwin. now. inside the mind of the world's most wanted terrorist, we're now seeing the paranoid diaries of osama bin laden and why his followers began to ignore him. >> not many people would do that. >> a woman's attacked in a wal-mart parking lot and suddenly an iraq war veteran comes out of nowhere. if you made a list of countries from around the world... ...with the best math scores. ...the united states would be on that list. in 25th place. let's raise academic standards across the nation. let's get back to the head of the class. let's solve this. let's see what you got. rv -- covered. why would you pay for a hotel? i never do. motorcycles -- check. atv. i ride those. do you? no. boat. house. hello, dear. hello. hello. oh! check it -- [ loud r&b on car radio ] i'm going on break! the more you bundle, the more you save. now, that's progressive. i tell you what i can spend. i do my best to make it work. i'm back on the road safely. and i saved you money on brakes. that's personal pricing.

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i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. historic. voting to replace their disgraced ex-president. lots of men on the ballot, leaving men wondering what's in it for them. and all smiles, but look at what's lurking in the background. what a story this kansas couple has to tell. [ male announcer ] if you think tylenol is the pain reliever orthopedic doctors recommend most for arthritis pain, think again. and take aleve. it's the one doctors recommend most for arthritis pain. two pills can last all day. ♪ at bank of america, we're lending and investing in communities across the country. from helping to revitalize a neighborhood in brooklyn... financing industries that are creating jobs in boston... providing funding for the expansion of a local business serving a diverse seattle community... and lending to ensure a north texas hospital continues to deliver quality care. because the more we can do in local neighborhoods and communities, the more we can help make opportunity possible. i tell you what i can spend. i do my best to make it wo

i'm in for brooke baldwin. we are watching the mikes. mitt romney is expected to step to the front, to the microphones and give what his campaign is calling a major speech on his plan to fix the economy. we're told the republicans are planning to focus on the debt. we'll keep our eyes on that. the obama campaign is upping the tv antein the battleground states with a new attack ad that really takes aim at romney's record at bain capital. it features steelworkers who lost their jobs years after bain investigated in the company. >> those guys were all rich. they all had more money they would ever spend. yet they didn't have money to take care of the very people that made the money for them. >> bain capital walked away with a lot of money that they made from this plant. we think of romney as a job destroyer. >> this rebuttal features glowing comments from workers at a different steel company. >> mitt romney's private sector leadership team stepped in. >> building a dream with over 6,000 employees today. >> if it wasn't for a company like ste

i'm brooke baldwin. wolf blitzer and "the situation room" begins right now. >> safe travels. we'll be watching, brooke, thank you. >>> mitt romney is moving on and close to the presidential nomination. they keep blocking the spotlight with yet more controversial comments today. we'll update you. >>> a leading cause of death in latin america. does the scary parasitic disease pose a growing threat here in the united states? >>> and a runway emergency in chicago where a giant cargo jet collides with an airliner. we'll bring you the very latest. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> president obama telephones mitt romney, congratulates him for going over the top in the republican delegate count and over the top comments with supporter donald trump has created a distraction. you've heard trump question the birthplace in "the situation room," now romney is trying to move on. here's our national political correspondent, jim acosta. >> wolf, mitt romney has left las vegas, but donald trump is refusing to leave the campaign stage. >

here's brooke baldwin. ♪ >> reporter: contrary to popular belief, john mayer's new single "shadow dayst an ode to a woman. it started as a mantra to himself. >> i was singing and strumming the guitar and i remember singing "i'm a good man with a good heart." and it was really interesting to hear it sung, because it's not arrogant to say that. >> reporter: on his new album, the seven-time grammy winner writes about picking up the pieces after his very public fall from grace in 2010. it came to a head in an overly glib interview with "playboy" where he insulted african-americans and a pair of high profile ex-girlfriends in one disastrous swoop. >> i think that's probably the only time i did or will sort of just write about that crash, you know, that sort of like violent awakening into adulthood by way of like really the now embarrassing behind of behavior. >> some may call it poetic justice, but after running his mouth, suddenly he lost the ability to speak. he developed granules near his vocal chords that had to be surgically removed. in the meantime, mayer keeps to himself, sharing his

i'm brooke baldwin. wolf blitzer and "the situation room" begins right now. >> safe travels. rooke, thank you. >>> mitt romney is moving on and close to the presidential nomination. they keep blocking the spotlight with yet more controversial comments today. we'll update you. >>> a leading cause of death in latin america. does the scary parasitic disease pose a growing threat here in the united states? >>> and a runway emergency in chicago where a giant cargo jet collides with an airliner. we'll bring you the very latest. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room."

and now, as we roll on, top of the houring i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me here on this tuesday. >>> a quick look at the white house. 13 awards, the presidential medal of freedoms. you're going to recognize a couple of the faces here. rock legend bob dylan, madeleine albright, former astronaut and senator john glenn. tennessee basketball legend pat summitt. those are a couple of the names. definitely stick around for that, but first, want to take you to the northeast. syria's dreadful spiral into an allout war. they' got fighting all across the country today. but we are getting these new details theer about the massacre that happened in syria friday night. in total, 108 victims, 49 of whom were children. this is newly acquired video tho shows when and where it happened. do you hear that? this is friday evening. you can hear the screams, the tank shells exploding. but that is not the way most of the victims died here. take a listen. >> the majority have been the result of house to house summary executions of armed men going

i'm brooke baldwin. a warning now. we're about to show you very disturbing images out of syria. syrians have been under bloody relentless attack by their own government. but this weekend, an entirely new level of bloodshed. 49 children nasa kerred. 49. mourners carried one of the small corpses there in protest. it has pushed syrians now to this breaking point. you can just hear the pain in the voice of one witness. >> translator: did the infant carry an rpg? was he a fighter? he was a baby. he had a pass fier in his mouth. what was his guilt? whiefs he killed? >> this happened friday in the town of hula. the slaughter included 108 civilians. kofi annan was in the capital city of damascus today saying the killers needed to be held accountable. i wanted to bring in arwa damon. do we know what exactly happened? and now the stories of 49 children slaughtered. what's .haing? >> it really makes your skin crawl. one activist was describing ho uh he was seeing a child with his head blown off. he was one of those individuals who had been filming the various youtube videos we have been co

i'm brooke baldwin, welcome, bright and early on this monday. our starting point really lead story this big shakeup and calls for congressional hearings this morning after morgan reports this stunning $2 billion loss. so this all actually happened late last week when the financial giant revealed it had made this risky credit bet in the european market. so now, we're hearing three executives are expected to resign and bloomberg is now reporting morgan's entire chief investment office of london could be cleaned out. the trades are raising some very, very serious questions this morning about whether the country's biggest bank learned anything from that financial crisis. let me remind you, that was merely four years ago and what happened to the laws that were supposed to stop all of this? that's one of the big questions we're asking this morning. many of the rules created by the dodd-frank bill still aren't in place, two years later. ceo jamie dimon acknowledging this new mess could give regulators and members of congress more reason to tighten any

"starting point" with our good friend brooke baldwin starts right now. >> we don't see ali velshi withoutting point, broken nose, black eyes, george zimmerman's medical report, is it possibly proof he was attacked or that trayvon martin was fighting for his own life. >> we'll look that with a live report. >>> also, air sick. the pentagon now putting restrictions on the most sophisticated, the most stealth expensive fighter jets ever. i'm talking $400 million a plane here for the health and safety of its pilots. is that going far enough? >>> also looser guidelines for diagnosing addiction. listen to this, 40% of college students are alcoholics. 40%. will this help? will this hurt people with real problems? celebrity rehab's bob forest will join me live. >>> football fan, two-time super bowl mvp eli manning will join me. will his team remain a powerhouse heading into the season and how will his teammates react to him dressing out in drag? check it out on "snl." >> wednesday morning, "starting point" begins right now. may 16th. >> our "starting point" this morning potentially game-changing d

good morning, and happy friday to all of you, i'm brooke baldwin, in for soledad o'brien, my final day traded company. millions hoping the price is right for them to get in on it. >>> did he take the money and run? senator is saying eduardo savran cheated the u.s. out of hundreds of millions in taxes. >>> his head bleeding, nose busted up, getting a first look at to what george zimmerman appeared like after he shot and killed strf of interest and martin's surprise autopsy report. >>> new details into the fight to get back the only american soldier ever to be taken alive by the taliban, including the terror group saying it's been waiting years to "hunt down such an important bird." that's how they describe bowebebow bowe bergdahl. good to see you. our "starting point" po

"starting point" with our good friend brooke baldwin starts right now. >> we don't see ali velshi withoutting point, broken nose, black eyes, george zimmerman's medical report, is it possibly proof he was attacked or that trayvon martin was fighting for his own life. >> we'll look that with a live report. >>> also, air sick. the pentagon now putting restrictions on the most sophisticated, the most stealth expensive fighter jets ever. i'm talking $400 million a plane here for the health and safety of its pilots. is that going far enough? >>> also looser guidelines for diagnosing addiction. listen to this, 40% of college students are alcoholics. 40%. will this help?

. >>> brook baldwin has been getting up nice and early all week, filling in for soledad. >> 2:30 am. debt ceiling. clashing again over raising the debt limit. we'll get both sides for you, talking to maryland congressman and ranking member of the house budget committee joining us at 7:00 am. 8:00 am, we'll talk to texas republican congressman and get his take on this clash again. >>> for more than 20 years, george lucas, legendary film maker, do you realize he's been trying to convince his wealthy neighbors to let him build a huge movie studio? it's created anger. he is striking back. you won't believe his new plan. >>> captain chesley "sully" sullenberger, has a new book out. of course, we know him from the miracle on the hudson. if you're at work, wherever you are, head to cnn.com/live at the top of the hour. >> look at who is coming in here, morgan sperlot. one handsome man. >> mansome. >> good to see you again. >> talking about grooming. >> male grooming. >> we've heard all about you this morning. >> five bucks a month. >> oh, brother. >> he says it only costs five dollars a mont

good morning, and happy friday to all of you, i'm brooke baldwin, in for soledad o'brien, my final day traded company. millions hoping the price is right for them to get in on it. >>> did he take the money and run? senator is saying eduardo savran cheated the u.s. out

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i'm frederica wit field in for brook baldwin. two dozen priests accused of molesting children could learn their fate. the archbishop in philadelphia expected to step to the microphone and announce the results of the church's investigation into sexual abuse. the priests involved are serving suspensions. we're watching that news conference. updates as we get them, of course. first, bottles of vodka on secret service agents' tabs. flirtations on the dance floor. condom shopping on the way to the hotel. the escort in the middle of the columbian prostitution scandal is spilling it all. dania suarez thoughts she was calling out a cheap skais skate that wouldn't pay her. she realized then she was in the middle of a debacle that would topple careers. it began in a bar in cart hana. >> i said, yes, i can go out with you, but i want a little gift. i mean, i directly -- you didn't say how much. we had drinks, and then one other team that he wanted to leave, i told him, well, dear, you know, you have to give me $800. that's the gift that i w

brooke baldwin gives us the details in techno innovation. >> it's about putting a back pack on.y fast. >> bill taylor has a new type of prosthetic arm that could give hope to people all around the world. creating by a group of engineeric students from the university of illinois, the arm doesn't have to be custom made. >> it's designed to be able to be taken out of the box or off the shelf and fit in 20 minutes. >> it makes it effective and affordable, and the device will cost less than $300. >> the socket is really the part where we have done our innovation. it uses both rigid plastic pieces and flexible cloth pieces to enable it to be easily adjustable. >> the students founded a nonprofit in their senior year in 2010 to help people who can't afford prosthetics. >> the vast majority of people who are in need of prosthetic care are living in developing countries. the key for us would be partnering with aid organizations to get it into hands that need it. >> they're working with amputees in guatemala. >> they have the right to prauththetic care. by creating the technology, we can

i'm frederica wit field in for brook baldwin. leon pineta will address troops at fort benning, florida. this isn't any speech, though. we're told he will essentially tell service men and women to be on their best behavior. this after high profile incidents in afghanistan from racy pictures of war to the burning of korans. we'll keep an eye on that, and we'll get that live report from the pentagon to you as well. first, a warning now to women. there's a suspected kidnapper on the move. he tried to snatch two in atlanta, and police believe he will strike again. this is what he is believed to look like. in a sketch the victims helped the police create. this man is suspected of dragging one woman at gunpoint right off her front porch and then throwing her in the trunk of his car. she escaped by clawing her way through the liner, struggling with the latch, and theb jumping out of the trunk as the car was speeding away. the would-be kidnapper struck again just about 20 minutes later. grabbing and punching a woman who was walking to her

i am brooke baldwin. the news is now. ls d, mushrooms, drugs of the 60s returning not in the club but in the hospital room. >> i am just sort of passing through here. >> plus disturbing new numbers show america's taking a lot longer to retire. ben stein tells me his thoughts live. on my journey across america, i found new ways to tell people about saving money. this is bobby. say hello bobby. hello bobby. do you know you could save hundreds on car insurance over the phone, online or at your local geico office? tell us bobby, what would you do with all those savings? hire a better ventriloquist. your lips are moving. geico®. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i tell you what i can spend. i do my best to make it work. i'm back on the road safely. and i saved you money on brakes. that's personal pricing. >>> on the case today what happened to the san diego college student brings a whole new meaning to the term wrongful imprisonment. they admit the agents accidently left daniel ch

i am brooke baldwin. john king is off. we have a developing story. here is what we know. engine problems forces an air line to her make an emergency landing while folks on the ground say parts of the plane fell off in the air and were hitting their cars and more on that and also growing outrage over the massacre of dozens of women and children and now increasing pressure on president obama to stop the slaughter, stop the killings in syria and even if that means putting u.s. troops in harm's way and a charity has raised tens of millions of dollars for veterans fighting accusations it isn't really helping at all. >>> want to begin with this afternoon's scary situation on board this air liner and i am sure it was equally frightening for drivers on the ground who say parts of the plane were hitting cars. we can tell you the jet landed safely. i want to bring in lizzie o'leary, our aviation spore kond ent. what do we know? what happened? >> we can take it from sort of two sides. what was happening on the ground, those parts of the plane, potentially the debris field and what w