if i defame ashleigh banfield, you have to show malice.never do that. >> that's why you're himy guest. >>> coming up, there is a senator so angry he will tell anyone that will listen that the press got it wrong on a story about prostitution. and there is a prostitute saying she lied. it is not pretty. three. my credit card rewards are easy to remember with the bankamericard cash rewards credit card. earn 1% cash back everywhere, every time. [ both ] 2% back on groceries. [ all ] 3% on gas. no hoops to jump through. i earn more cash back on the things i buy the most. [ woman ] it's as easy as... one! -two. -[ all ] three! [ male announcer ] the bankamericard cash rewards credit card. apply online or at a bank of america near you. >>> sex, lies, individuvideotap money. remember the allegations senator made mendes parties with property duties? he denied those claims to dana bash last month and it is looking like it just might have been a big made up story. the conservative website the daily caller first reported all of these allegations runni

i'm ashleigh banfield. they have met, they have talked, and they have prayed a lot. and tomorrow they are going to vote, or at least they are going to meet for the purpose of voting, which means tomorrow, theoretically, the 115-cardinal electors of the roman catholic church could give the world a brand new pope. could it be peter turkson of gha ghana? that would be the first african pope in more than 1,500 years. or perhaps luis tagle of the philippines, a rising star in the church, but seen by some people as perhaps too young to be pope at just 55 years old. maybe sean o'malley of the united states, boston, to be exact. he is one of two supposedly credible candidates for the first american pope ever. new york's timothy dolan is the other. in fact, the united states has 11 voting cardinals of those 115, which makes us the second biggest block of voters behind italy. and speaking of italy, the cardinals might look no farther than milan and angelo scola. he has made outreach to islam one of his specialties. this much we know, every cardinal who casts a ballot is a cand

. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield, this is the most delicate demolition you'll ever see. a big crane with a long reach brings down a house that covers a deadly sinkhole. our live cameras are watching it as it unfold, all the while trying to salvage the contents of this home. jodi arias's lawyer tries to salvage a shaking defense after whithering cross-examination. >>> martha stewart is back in the legal suit over pennies, the retail change that is, but the dollars at stake are simply huge. we begin this hour in the brittle earth just east of tampa, florida, where jeff bush slid to his death in a sinkhole that opened under his bedroom last thursday night. the body will stay with it is. the authorities say it is simply too risky and dangerous to try to find and recover him. they are, however, taking great pains to recover some of the most cherished belongings of the family that lived in this house for 40 years. today jeremy bush, jeff's brother is grateful but also a little angry. >> they said the ground is too unstable to do anything but they got all of this heavy equipmen

"cnn newsroom" continues right now with ashleigh banfield. >> thanks very much, carol.ello, everyone. nice to have you with us today. let the conclave begin. ♪ it is official. a few final prayers, and then it is off to sistine chapel for the 115 princes of the church. one of whom will emerge from the conclave as the brand-new pope. and if they are deeare keeping schedule and they very much are keeping to their schedule, the cardinal electors of the catholic church are in the palmene chapel right now, prepe for a short walk to the sistine chapel in what could be the biggest decision of their lives. they and a enthusiasm fellow clergy begun this day with this, a mass in st. peter's basilica. while it was designated, quote, mass of the pontiff elective, they did thought forget the pope that just stepped down. >> translator: such an interior attitude is ours today as we wish to offer ourselves to the father in heaven to thank him for the holy existence that he reserves in the holy church and in particular the holy pontificate that he has for us. the venerable pope benedict

cnn newsroom continues right now with ashleigh banfield. >>> thanks so much. hello, everyone. good to have you with us. high stakes, hot tempers, accusatio accusations, and that is just the experts. a defense psychologist returns to the stand in the jodi arias murder trial. and the prosecution can't wait. >>> jerry sandusky is locked up probably for life. but the convicted child rapist is speaking out again. this time to a filmmaker who is bent on clearing joe paterno's name. but paterno's family says no thanks. >>> and this could be a historic week for gay marriage in america. the supreme court taking up two major cases over the next two days. and the lines are already forming. i'm not kidding. >>> first, though, a 15-year-old accused in the horrific shooting death of a baby in brunswick, georgia making his first court appearance this morning. the suspect not named because he's a minor did not enter a plea, but he and a second teenager are facing murder charges in the death of this 13 month old baby boy. 17-year-old demarcus elkins is being charged as an adult and will be in

cnn continues right now with ashleigh banfield. >> hello, everyone. thank you, carol.wo guns, a body and a bag of bombs all found in a dorm room on a college campus in florida. we are live in orlando in just a moment. >>> also, send in the national guard. out of control wildfires are racing up the great smoky mountains of eastern tennessee. >>> and lindsay lohan racing literally across the country to los angeles to a courtroom and hoping to avoid a fast track to jail. her hearing begins this hour. ticked ti ticktock, lindsey. >>> the campus was shut down because deadly explosive s foun in a dorm room there were along with a dead body. joining me live from orlando is our affiliate central florida news 13. what exactly have police found there and who was this dead body? >> reporter: let me start by first telling you that definitely a crazy intense situation out here. i want to show you what's going on behind me right now. it doesn't look like a lot. this has been a very active scene since 12:30 this morning. that's when 500 students were evacuated from the tower one dorm

i'm ashleigh banfield. thank you very much forever being with us. the earth moves in washington state. and homes are on the brink. one has already tumbled. into the water below. he can go home, he can leave the country, he's still charged with murder. but life just got a lot better for oscar pistorius. >>> jodi arias on the other hand doesn't have much to smile about. you know what she did. you see her in court. but i'm going to tell you some things you may not know about jodi's life as a capital murder defendant and current jail prisoner. we begin this hour, however, with a fuller and a grimmer picture of the deranged young gunman who killed his own mother, kills himself and also killed 26 children and staff members at sandy hook elementary school back in december. this morning, authorities in newtown, connecticut, have been in the process of unsealing search warrants, thousands of pages, in fact, warrants for adam lanza's home and car, minus a few details that prosecutors will remain -- would like to be secret. what is revealed, is a pathetic exis

>> john king, ashleigh banfield, randy kay, chad meyers. i'm not even down there yet.> this is not good. >> oh, my gosh. keep going. don lemon. >> this is passion week. this isn't about the first shall be last and the first shall be last. >> i'm going to get it. let's talk golf right now. tiger woods still leading the arnold palmer. why is he playing so well nowadays? >> it's two keys can. putting and personal. he's never putted better in his life. it goes back to earlier this month. let's get to the personal. three years ago we discovered that tiger was closer to being eddie haskal than cleaver. did you see that facebook? >> i did. to continue the leave it to beaver theme, it looked like june, cleaver, didn't it? >> it did. that's the new normal now. >> that's exactly right. >> america's new gordon and june. >> wally and beaver and all these guys. >> the first shall be last. thank you, terrin. coming up after a quick break, the album that defined a generation hit, find out how pink floyd fans -- i'm drinking -- try fixodent. it helps create a food seal defense for a c

cnn continues right not with ashleigh banfield. >> thank you, carol. hello, nice to have you with us. this is not what they wanted. this is not what they planned for, saved for, looked forward to. at least it is over. the passengers from a carnival cruise that ended prematurely in st. maarten are now flying back to orlando today. they're doing so with the cruise line's expense and with the cruise line's, quote, sincere apologies. expected to bring more than 2,000 passengers back home from the carnival cruise ship "dream." a couple fly are going to fly out over the weekend. this incidentally is the "dream." not to be confused with the "elation" that had steering problems last weekend. also not to be confused with the "legend." that ship had problems with propulsion and heading back without a scheduled stop in grand cayman. none of this compares to the nightmare aboard the "triumph." that ship was crippled for days with little power, few working toilets and rationed phone. i'm joined by a carnival "dream" passenger, chris anderson, still on board but lik

hi, everybody, i'm ashleigh banfield. and we are about midway through a second straight day of supreme court arguments over marriage. who can enter into it. which rights and benefits follow from it, and who can defend so-called traditional marriage when you walk into a courtroom? today, the federal defense of marriage act of 1996 is being challenged by an elderly new york woman who was hit with a giant federal tax bill when her same-sex spouse passed away. had the feds recognized this woman edith windsor's marriage which was valid in new york state, she would not have owed that tax. but it's not just about the money, it's about the principle. a lot of principles, actually. there's perhaps nobody better to explain those principles than law professor and legal contributor jonathan hurley. i hope you can hear me. i can hear the argument going on behind you. i just can't hear the silent arguments going on with the justices right now. when it comes to doma, the defense of marriage act, again like yesterday and prop 8, is this

i'm ashleigh banfield and we begin in latvia. due south of finland and due west of russia, where rescuers have just plucked horn 200 people off of ice floes that apparently broke away from shore. the bigger of those free floating ice sheets was just off the capital where 181 people stranded on top of it. another one was near a resort town and just as of moments ago, one person was still out on the ice, but not because they couldn't get to him, because he refused to get on the rescue helicopter, instead preferred to wait for a boat. so far we don't know of anyone who has been hurt, but certainly an intriguing story. ice floes breaking off with people stranded. >>> also making news, the acting mayor of brunswick, georgia is in jail this morning. he's under arrest in connection with the murder of antonio santiago, that 13 honesty omonty who authorities say was shot while in his stroller with his mom. james brooks sr. is accused of obstructing the investigation. brooks allegedly wouldn't let a county investigator talk with the mother

i'm ashleigh banfield. it's good to have you with us today on this friday. today we are devoting much of this hour to two stories you have probably had a conversation about, at least one time perhaps this week. the jodi arias murder trial. graphic sex and grisly violence, lies upon lies, and a jury that at this point doesn't seem to know what to believe, given their questions. we're also laooking at the rise of anti-social media. texts and tweets uncover a sex crime in ohio, but then people turn on the victim and it is happening, yes, again. >>> we begin with top stories and a horrifying story out of georgia this morning. a woman in brunswick says that two young boys between the ages of 10 and 15 years old, approached her while she was out walking with her 13-month-old baby. she says they demanded money, she told them she didn't have any, but then she says they shot her in the leg, and even as she pleaded with them, she says they shot her baby boy in the head, killing him. police are now working to identify who these suspects could be. we're awaiting a news

"cnn newsroom" continues right the now with ashleigh banfield. >>> hi, everybody. good to have you with us today. this is a case that caught fire on social media and thus we return to steubenville, ohio, where two teenage boys were convicted of rape on sunday and where two teenage girls are now expected in court today after allegedly threatening the victim. yes, the suspects allegedly threatened the life of the victim, of rape. it happened in a tweet, in a facebook post that the sheriff read to our poppy harlow. >> you ripped my family apart, you made my cousin cry, when i see you, it's going to be a homicide. i take this seriously. >> of course. >> and the next? >> the next is, i'll celebrate by beating the [ bleep ] out of jane doe. >> verbatim. to be clear, the first one was a tweet, and the 16-year-old girl who allegedly sent it is now facing an aggravated menace charge, while the second was a facebook post, and the 15-year-old girl who allegedly sent it is facing a menacing charge. aggravated menacing and menacing. the sheriff says he is now monitoring all soc

ashleigh banfield. good to have you here this hour.resident obama has a couple of dinner dates, lunch date, and they're all congressional. is that boring? no. the real question is it too little too late or is it coming right in the nick of time. plus a prestigious high school in new york slapped with a hazing scandal. three students charged with purchasing a violent sexual act on a younger member of the track team. >>> and jodi arias back on on the stand today. believe it or not, she faced more than 150 questions coming straight from the jury deciding her fate. separation of powers is all well and good and the founding fathers sure thought it was a great idea, but apparently the powers can be a little bit too separate these days. so after standoffs and showdowns and cliffs and budget cuts that were never supposed to happen, president obama and republicans in congress finally breaking down some walls by breaking bread. last night mr. obama treated a dozen republican senators to a pricey dinner at a d.c. hotel, paid for it out of his own

the newsroom continues with ashleigh banfield. you've been doing a lot of jodi arias stuff. you're the court tv lady. >> do you know what, every so often, like every decade is teams, a case comes along that high school has details that just floor you. but at the same time, have questions about injujurispruden that are very legitimate, and a lot of them all surrounded by crazy talks. >> why do these trials capture the american attention? >> i hate to say they're pretty girls, but they're pretty girls. that's number one. but when you have somebody who is an artful liar and more skilled than just about anyone you've ever met, either's fast thating especially when they face 12 people and say they saved their lives with their lies. >> all right. thanks. >>> he was close to osama bin laden. real close. and right now he's close to us. he's in a new york courtroom, but many people wonder why this former al qaeda mouthpiece isn't in guantanamo bay instead. >>> the president who signed the defense of marriage act into law now says it's time to put doma asunder. >>> and jurors in the e

cnn newsroom continues right now with ashleigh banfield. >>> thanks very much. hello, everyone. nice to have you where me today. let's begin here. shall disasters we can prevent. others give us some kind of warning that they're on the way. and then there is the kind of nightmare that we're following this hour in brandon, florida. just east of tampa. and i do mean a nightmare. a sinkhole opened up beneath a man's bedroom while the man was in bed last night.pan panicked the last anybody will heard from help and he's presumed dead. the sinkhole is literally under the house and probably far bigger and far wider and even deeper than the opening through which jeffrey bush fell. jeffrey's brother even tried to jump in and save him, but then himself had to be rescued by the police. this morning he spoke with wfts. >> i have a second job, i went to work, came home at 10:00. and -- >> what did you hear? >> well, we left and came back. and i knocked on his door, told him that we wasn't working today. so he said okay and everything. and i went in my room. heard a loud crash like a car comin

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newsroom continues now with ashleigh banfield. >>> thank you very much, carol.of breaking news. the president in israel. the first foreign trip of his second term. many israelis sort of feel as if they got the short thrift in his first term and the expectations not necessarily soaring right now, either. but when they speak to reporters any second now at the home of israeli president shimon peres, both leaders are sure to stress their, quote, unbreakable bond. especially in the face of perceived threats from iran and now syria in particular. u.s. officials are telling cnn that they, quote, can't confirm nor corroborate that either side in the syrian civil war has used chemical weapons. that issue took on a sudden urgency with these comments that came yesterday on cnn. >> we need that final verification, but given everything we know, over the last year and a half, i, mike rogers, chair of the intelligence committee, would come to the conclusion that either positioned for use and ready to do that or, in fact, have been used. >> mike rogers with the intelligence com