i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. >>> inside a twister. the power to kill and crush entire neighborhoods. >>> eight days left. >> all this stuff about bipartisanship is important. >> reporter: cnn on the trail in florida, illinois, california, rhode island, new mexico. >>> and why is actor randy quaid seeking asylum in another country? who exactly are he and his wife running from? >>> all right. good afternoon, i'm brooke baldwin. welcome to the "cnn newsroom." i'm going to tell you a tough story here about a young man 26 years of age. and he was aiming for the olympics. instead, a talent young athlete died doing what he loved most. look at the picture. swimming. his name was fran crippen. he died saturday while competing in the last leg of the marathon swimming world cup in the united arab emirates. again, 26 years of age. talk about an elite athlete here. an official with the uae official swimming federation says his death was caused by severe fatigue. earlier, another official told us that preliminary results indicated he had a heart at

i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. >>> the other facebook movie -- >> you've just found like the tip of the iceberg. >> you've got to stop. >> "catfish" captures social networking's darker side with a shocking twist. one of the guys behind the film joins me live. >>> restaurants get surprise inspections. coal mines. even big rig trucks. and you would think oil rigs are on that list. so were government watchdogs asleep on the job? >>> george clooney goes to washington. what he's telling your senators. >>> someone toilet-papered this lavish california home. wait until you hear who it belongs to. >>> we are about four hours and counting now to the start of that mine operation -- mine rescue in chile. hi, everyone. i'm brooke baldwin. big, big news happening today. by the end of this evening we could be seeing the first miner pulled to the surface through more than 2,000 feet of solid rock. folks, this is kind of like the ultimate reality show in a sense. think about the time line here. 68 days we have fol

i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. >>> some are doubting the wife who says pirates shot her husband on a border lake. so will tiffany hartley take a lie detector test? >> i know what i saw. >> her answer. plus, friends, family, demanding mexico do more. we'll take you to their rally live. >>> an explosive report. many of the security guards hired to protect u.s. bases in afghanistan allegedly are linked to the taliban. oh, and guess who's paying them. american taxpayers. plus, wait until you hear why aquentin tarn continuo movie plays a role in all of this. >>> guys, want to earn more money? pack on the pounds. ladies, lose them. this stunning new study on our paycheck. >>> and it's kind of tough to jout run a plane but this little guy sure wants to try. could it be, could today possibly be the day in chile? hi, i'm brooke baldwin. happy friday. here we go. all eyes this hour on that mine down in chile where those attempted rescues have been going on of those 33 miners now officially nearing this clima

i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. >>> a wave of poisonous mud threatening everything in its path. and now, this sludge is hitting a river, crucial to many european countries. so what's next? >>> kidnapped by the taliban? no. this is only a movie. but wait until you see this. >>> plus, a duke graduate spilling the dirt about her sex life on campus. it includes ratings, names, pictures and all the scandalous details. harmless or just plain wrong? >>> hi, everyone. i'm brooke baldwin. ready to go? "cnn newsroom" rolls on starting here. a commercial flight bound for bermuda canceled. more than 100 passengers and crew members evacuated and a man with no i.d., no badge, he's there helping load bags on to this plane and he started this whole thing in motion. now, obviously, the police would like a woord with him, but he is nowhere to be found still. this has all happened over the course of the last couple of hours. this is in philadelphia and the official word is, this could be a serious incident or it could

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i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. >>> who goes up first?so why are rescuers fearing breakouts of panic and loneliness? >>> did brett favre send raunchy pictures and voicemails to a new york jets employee? the nfl is looking into it. he's in new york tonight where he's expected to face the

here is part of her interview with brooke baldwin. >> i hear that mexico will not let us go over there. they don't have the resources to do a thorough search. so it's like, you know, if that's the kcase, please let us cross the border and search for him. >> perhaps to add insult to injury, here's what i ready from the newspaper, they are reporting that mexican authorities are questioning tiffany's story. they haven't sure it happened the way she's describing it, three boats, ak-47s and the like, shooting your son in the head. they're not necessarily buying it. how do you react to that? >> that's insane. the way tiffany told it is what happened. i don't know if they're trying to steer things in a different direction so they don't have to look because they don't think it happened, but it did happen, and it happened the way she said it did, and we need to go over there and search for him. we need help to push the mexico government into letting us over there to retrieve him and bring david home. >> oh, boy. >>> firefighters respond but they don't put a drop of water on the burning house. w

i'm brooke baldwin. welcome to "cnn newsroom." this monday shaping up to be a busy news day. we want to begin with breaking news. this story out of manhattan. take a look at some pictures momentarily here but basically what we know is nypd have found some sort of military grade explosive bricks in a garbage bag in a cemetery in the lower east side. we've been listening to police commissioner ray kelly. we have allan chernoff our own standing by in new york to just walk me through what it is, allan, that police have found in this cemetery and what does the police commission say? >> it's eight bricks now. the nypd has corrected the information. eight bricks of military grade explosive, c-4. let's note it was not wired to go off. the commissioner gave some very interesting information. he said that it seems that these bricks were actually dug up last spring and had been laying around in the cemetery, it appears, for well over a year. but this morning, a person in the cemetery, a caretaker, noticed it, called the police. the bomb squad showed up. but, again, no threat and apparen

he explained what he was doing to our own brooke baldwin earlier today on cnn. me play a little clip. >> i was absolutely one of the low points in human history. and it's a tragedy that we don't want to forget, we can't sweep it under the rug. >> eric cantor of the republican leader and one of the republican leaders in the house. and one of the other republicans, they're walking away from this guy quickly right now. do you understand what's going on? >> you know, for whatever reason, some men like to dress up in army uniforms. there's always a union-confederate battle. this guy wore union -- in a campaign, he's going to spend the next week explaining what he's doing in a nazi uniform. at the end of the day, it has to distract from the campaign. since it's not one of the top targeted races, it would make it difficult for him to win this thing. >> james, go ahead. you've got a smile on your fail. >> i heard he said he did it to bond with his son. my dad used to play catch with me in the front yard. just kind of -- dressing up like nazis. somebody is going to find

. >>> "newsroom" continues with brooke baldwin. >> it's a wave