i'm atika shubert.nd here's an update on the top stories we're following this hour. attorneys for dzhokhar tsarnaev are expected to appeal his death sentence for the 2013 boston marathon bombing. tsarnaev showed no physical reaction has the federal jury handed down the punishment friday. >>> an an assistant amtrak conductor said she heard her engineer say the train was struck by something just minutes before it derailed tuesday. another engineer reported his train had been shot at or hit by a rock. eight people were killed and more than 200 injured in tuesday ace crash. >>> iraq, isis appears to be winning a month-long fight in ramadi. sources say they have taken over several facilities including police headquarters and a provincial government building. u.s. is expediting weapons to help iraqi forces. >>> in nepal, a u.s. military helicopter missing on tuesday has been found. the army has confirmed there were no survivors. searchers found the helicopter on the mountain of kathmandu. they later discovere

what do you think, atika? >> extraordinary pictures definitely.k you very much, derek van dam at the international weather center. >> take care. >>> we now have this just coming in, former president of egypt mohamed morsi has apparently already been, the verdict has been read and his sentence is now in. we would like to go i believe live to ian lee, outside the courthouse in cairo. ian, you have just heard the verdict coming in. tell us, what was said? >> reporter: the judge started mohamed morsi on the death sentence procedures. he and dozens of other defendants have been sentenced to death. it is not confirmed right away. this ruling will go to egypt's grand mufti, the highest legal authority of islam here in egypt. he will have his say on the verdict as well and then on june 2nd that is when we will hear whether or not this actual death sentence is confirmed but this is the harshest sentence that mohamed morsi could receive in these procedures for the jailbreak which the prosecution accused him of helping free roughly 20,000 inmates during the

i want to bring in atika shubert. good morning, atika. isis claiming responsibility but i suppose we don't have direct evidence it was ordered by isis yet. >> reporter: this is the question whether or not they ordered it or whether or not the two men who carried out the attack were aspiring to be members of isis. i think isis essentially supports these lone wolf attacks. when you see an attack like what happened in texas or against "charlie hebdo" in paris, it is not clear these attacks were ordered by isis. if the perpetrators say they swear allegiance to isis it is accepted after their death. then isis claims responsibility. unfortunately, these are the hardest attacks to stop john. >> it may be a distinction without a difference. at it may be completely irrelevant. the fact is the attacks are happening. the target of the attack this time was the event in texas. the keynote speaker, a man well known in europe and well known to you. geert wilders. a right wing politician who is apparently on the al qaeda hit list. >> reporter: he is on t

atika shubert, paul crew shank, thanks very much. coming up the controversy in the freddie gray case here in the united states. one of the police officers charged in this death, challenging the prosecutor over the knife gray had when he was arrested. was that knife actually illegal. the answer be may come down to a single spring. we got the new tempur-flex and it's got the spring and bounce of a traditional mattress. you sink into it, but you can still move it around. now that i have a tempur-flex, i can finally get a good night's sleep. when i flop down on arrested. and it's just like, 'ah, this is perfect." wherever you put your body it just supports you. like little support elfs are just holding you. i can sleep now! through the night! (vo) change your sleep. change your life. change to tempur-pedic. . >>> we go next to baltimore, maryland where emotions are still raw after the death of freddie gray. the big question today, centers on the knife gray was carrying at the time of his arrest. was it illegal? two of the six police offi

for the sisters áw atika schubert has their story. >> last year they were popular high-achieving teenagersfter. little more than a year from bubbly teens to jihadi brides, and now it seems widows. tweets from an account believed to belong to zara celebrating their husband's death as isis mart irs. there's this photo of rb&d isters were believed to be following in the footsteps of their brother, the first in the family to leave the uk for the battlefields of syria in 2013, according to authorities. a communitycl ehind.g w so would his sisters be able to do the same? not>@k÷ likely, says counter extremism researcher. >> if youñ= es harder for you8v return back to western society. we have a few hundred cases of men that have returned through various means disi lugsed with what they experienced butskigñ for women, it's almost impossible. we only have a handful of cases and this is because just to leave your house, you're supposed to have male permission, and then a0f male chauffeur or escort to@

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atika, it only takes one foot of water to float a vehicle. it takes two feet of rushing water to float and move an entire vehicle, including an suv. >> definitely something to watch out for. thank you very much. derrick van dam for us at the world weather center. >>> crash investigators in the u.s. have uncovered some disturbing details about last week's fatal train derailment in philadelphia. renee marsh has more on the growing investigation. >> reporter: new information from this assistant conductor is deepening the mystery about what caused this deadly derailment. if we reset, we have a septa train was reportedly struck by some sort of object. that happened minutes before amtrak 188 derailed. we now have audio when police responded to that septa train after it reported being struck by a projectile. >> unknown object made contact with that train, shattering the windshield. we do not have an update on any injuries because they are prohibited from making communication with the engineer while they're still on the rail. but it is a train that h

they need a home for 20,000 this year alone, and the number is growing, atika shubert, cnn. >>> we want to focus on the weather now. millions of people in parts of europe are bracing for what could be the hottest day ever in the month of may. some people expect temperatures to top 43 degrees celsius or around 110 degrees fahrenheit. and our meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us to talk about this. where is all this heat coming from? >> it's coming in from the african desert. it's bringing in some haze, dust with it as well, and the health officials in spain are saying doing things like putting your bed sheets in the freezer and cooling them off. heat worldwide one of the number one weather killers in the world. you take a look at the united states, you think hurricanes, tornados kill more people, it's actually heat at ththat kills m people. 70,000 lives were lost because of heat waves. it's very dangerous as far as the temperatures. we have a high pressure system sitting right around the mediterranean. the sa haharan desert just belo. when you take a look, seville, 104 or so fahrenheit