lee cowan, cbs news, portland. >> and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight.us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >> there were so many flames and everything happened so fast. >> tonight we hear from the driver whose limo caught fire on a bay area bridge killing a new bride and her friends. >> you know, to watch this long limousine engulf in flames was a nightmare. >> a limo with too many aboard. >> this particular vehicle is listed with the puc as for carrying eight or fewer passengers. >> good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm allen martin. >>> tonight, we are learning the identities of the women in that limo including the new bride. their limousine caught fire while heading to a bridal party in foster city saturday night. now, all the women were bonded by careers in nursing. we have team coverage on this story starting with len ramirez with the latest on the investigation into what may have caused the fire. len. >> reporter: allen, due to

lee cowan introduces us to a man whose long-neglected photographs of americans at war in vietnam shed new life on a time gone by. >> for some 45 years, these pictures and thousands of others sat in a shoebox, unopened for fear they would open old wounds from vietnam. so what did you do with them when you got home? >> put 'em in a drawer, you know. life's what happens while you're making other plans. >> reporter: but this memorial day, charlie haughey's treasure trove is once again seeing the light of day. ahead on sunday morning. >> osgood: we have something magical for you this morning. john black stone's interview with the famed illusionist david copperfield. >> for more than 30 years, david copperfield has left people wondering how on earth did he do that. but copperfield can keep a secret. in fact, he keeps thousands of them. >> there are many many secrets. oh, yeah. and ghosts. >> ghosts and secrets here. reporter: david copperfield reveals the history of magic in his private museum later on sunday morning. >> osgood: memorial day means it's time to head to the beach. for those o

colonel cowan, great to have you, thank you so much. >> thanks, jenna. jon: two major rivals facing off in the race for governor in virginia. the latest on the contest between two men with very different views. >>> and, no one wants to get stuck on a fence 20 feet off the ground. why this guy was arrested after firefighters helped him get down. [ male announcer ] straight from red lobster's chefs to your table for a limited time! it's our seafood dinner for two for just 25 dollars! a handcrafted seafood feast made to share. first you each get salad and unlimited cheddar bay biscuits. then choose two from a wide variety of chef-inspired trées like our new honey garlic crispy shrimp or new seafood lover's lingui. round out your seafood dinner with your choice of either an appetizer or dessert to share! don't miss our seafood dinner for two, just $25 at red lobster, where we sea food different. @p@ñ@p@ñ don't miss our seafood dinner your chance to rise and shine. with centurylink as your trusted technology partner, you can do just that. with our visiona

claudia cowan on fox top story live in san francisco. the police do though say that this limo was overcrowded, right? >> that's right, shepard. that particularim lousine was only licensed to carry 8 passengers. but we know there were nine women riding in the back of it on saturday night. a violation of policy and possibly a factor in this horrible tragedy. one thing is clear. that partition was the only way out. four of the women managed to scramble through it to safety. smoke and fire consumed the other five who were found huddled together. >> they were getting away from the fire and that's why they are in the front towards the partition and you can also probably say that they were trying to get out as well. >> investigators now going over every inch of that charred limousine checking safety and maintenance records, looking for signs of possible equipment failure. now the driver, he has gone on record saying he thinks the cause of this fire was electrical. it should have been a joyous night of celebration. 31-year-old nolle wed ter ther

cowan.thank you very much. [laughter] i do, i'm glad that you know the difference at at least. [laughter] >> in the spirit of getting the last word, i'm glad we're both here together so we can put the truth to the rumor that there's only one of us. >> absolutely. [laughter] let's talk on june 26th. this probably is, perhaps, the most amazing confirmation process i've seen so far in my short term in the senate. so often i hear pointed questions with pointed responses and a lot of deliberation about nothing. today i've heard very kind comments and perhaps still a lot of deliberation so far about nothing, so let's get to a couple of very important issues. mr. foxx, mayor foxx, it's good to have you with us. it's good that you took the time to meet with me, and certainly as the mayor of a city, i certainly have an affinity for people who have served locally. local highway transportation commissions as well as transit organizations, so your footprint and your involvement in local transportation n

claudia cowan looks at both sides of a very expensive debate. >> california son the verge of a new golds sparking estimates of 15 billion barrels of oil. even the state's green friendly governor says. >> the potential is extraordinary. anti-fracking bills seeking tougher control over the controversial technology. same take aim how the crude is extracted. others call for full disclosure of the chemicals used in the process. state senator fran pavly is pushing for moratorium until potential is known about the risk. >> hundreds of gallons of water laced with chemicals, sand and can go horizontally underground we don't enough. >> hydraulic fracturing has been in used in california for decades. standard step in drilling and has a clean safety record here. bills more studies and rules at this point premature and could jeopardize a potential bonanza. >> why would you want to curtail energy production with a technology that has proved to be safe and deny the folks in the region of the state where those defendants are going to accrue that opportunity? that doesn't make any sense. >> state regula

>> shepard: claudia cowan live in san francisco.ooking for missing couple that disappeared on the carnival spirit cruise ship off the coast of australia. shows the para 30-year-old man and 26-year-old woman just dropping right from the ship's deck last night. now cops say they are trying to figure out whether the couple fell or jumped. >> when you think about the circumstances of going over the side of a cruise ship, i have serious concerns about the welfare of both of those people. but we're still going to try hard to find them. >> shepard: this is but one in a string of recent problems for carnival. you will probably recall in january of last year, 32 people died costa concordia struck a reef and overturned off the coast of italy. the carnival triumph will soon be back in business. in february, passengers aboard carnival triumph spent days in what many call the floating hell after engine room fire caused the ship to lose power. toilets overflowed. human waste on floors and in the halls for days, nonstop everything on the. now afte

-- cowan they should be used as directed and because of the nature of the streams storms taking placecountry and our fisheries have been hit very fisheries very hard and massachusetts, rhode island, a trade along the coast and we need to have that money necessary to do the research and development so these industries continue to thrive given extreme storms we have seen in the past few years so i strongly support his amendment and i know there is a consensus among many senators who experienced these very significant losses over the last few years. >> madam chair i would like to call of my amendment to repeal mandatory country of origin labeling. this amendment would repeal whittling livestock and poultry regardless of the maritime we have been off more than we can shoot now we face the prospect of $2 billion of retaliation from canada and mexico this significant piece is canada and mexico or two of the biggest trading partners in agriculture the polls -- fda would even have more of a burden instead of labeling product of u.s. and canada and now we have to say born and raised in the u.s

this morning j-lo talks to our lee cowan. >> she's the reason that women run it. >> reporter: with herewest single out just this past week, jennifer lopez is all music. but get her talking about design and she gets almost giddy. >> you know, your juices start flowing in a way you kind of like it just starts going. this goes with this and this happens with this. >> reporter: j-lo rocks the business of design ahead on sunday morning. >> osgood: tea time has a special meaning in florida, home to nearly 1500 golf courses. design is an important part of any course from the large to the downright miniature. the sort of course bill geist has been checking out. >> reporter: designing miniature golf courses might not seem terribly important, but try telling that to the owners of barnacle bill's, a 50-year-old course that was washed away last fall by hurricane sandy. barnacle bill here gets back on his feet later on sunday morning. let me give you a hand, bill. >> osgood: that's just for starters. martha teichner looks up to birth houses. seth doane finds an old neighborhood in china enjoying ne

for her antiwar statement a decade ago is back in the spotlight and talking this morning to our lee cowan. ♪ take me away >> reporter: the dixie chicks will always be remembered for that signature sound. but they'll also be remembered for their lead singer's signature controversy. does it feel like what you said that night still will probably be around even now? >> yes because you're here asking me about it. >> reporter: fair point. natalie maines is still not ready to back down but she is ready to make music. later on sunday morning. >> osgood: the word legend seems custom-made for actor sidney poitier who has been making his presence felt on and off screen for more than 60 years now. as he tells leslie stahl of "60 minutes" this morning, his work is far from done. >> they call me mr. tibbs. reporter: after a lifetime of accolades, including being the first black man to win an oscar in 1964, sidney poitier is not planning on a quiet retirement. at 86, he has just finished his first novel. >> i was looking for who i am at this point in my life. >> reporter: did you find out? somewhat, yes

our lee cowan has paid her a visit. >> hi. how are you? >> how are you? so good to see you.viting us. a beautiful day. doesn't get much better than this. >> so nice, bright and shiny. reporter: it was a bright and shiny day when they met at the white house just three days before the events in boston and west texas. >> the garden changes week to week. >> reporter: those twin tragedies cast a long shadow over a spring that was just beginning to bloom that day out on the white house garden. it all changed so quickly. in the days following our tour, the president and the first lady found themselves attending memorial services for the dead. offering the consolation of a nation, she says, has been more powerful than almost anything else she's had to face. when there are no words, how do you come up with the words to say? >> you know, in those moments i try to speak from my heart. and i try to do a lot more listening than i do talking. it's tough but knowing that a hug, that an ear, that a ray of hope... we know how important that is. so that, you know, helps you find the words som

looking to force steve cowan and others to testify in the long running investigation of that firm.pments at this point on that. and we've got home depot, that's another stock that we use as an economic indicator. and this is good. and the stock is, look at that, it's up. >> this is good and with it bringing lows up along with it, it's up about 3% right now and it moved to another all-time high for this dow component, a retailer that this is their season, the spring selling season and they're saying we expect rising home prices will remain and notable catalysts and that's according to can accord and they're hot on it, and 1% and credit suisse raised the price target to 85 from 78 with an outperform rating. stuart: there you go, 2% up on home depot, thanks, nicole. i've got your 7 early movers this morning, early this tuesday morning, the mobile world that we live in, standard & poor's lowered its credit rating on dell by two notches as the pc market continues to shrink. disappointing sales at urban outfitters and that stock is down 1%. and we have a carnival cruise line, cut its out

i want to get to aeropostale, a name cut over at cowan today.ections are a little too aggressive. so as a result they did cut aeropostale. it has run up recently. in comparison to names such as abercrombie & fitch. zumiez, all somewhere in the middle. buckles up 7%. abercrombie, 11% and arrow pass stall up 15%. back to you. >> nicole, thank you. tracy: see you in 15 minutes. ashley: our first guest says it is not too early to prepare for a rude awakening. tracy: gene ma martin adams is wells fargo securities institutional equity strategist joins us now. that is a lot to fit on a business card there. >> that is a mouthful. tracy: this whole, this sky eventually is going to fall. why doesn't it even have? why can't the market just keep going? >> it doesn't have to. there is a lot of indications to suggest. the factors are lining up to suggest we're in the midst of creating something near a top. optimism is near all-time high. we've seen articles how many advisors are optimistic, how many traders are optimistic, how many investors are optimistic. a

lee cowan talks to j. lo on "cbs sunday morning."." >> my job i feel i always have to wear things that hurt. my collection is made of all things that make me. >> reporter: she inked a multimillion-dollar design deal with retailing giant kohl's two years ago. >> feel it. it's kind of great. >> reporter: that is pretty good. >> it's kind of good. >> reporter: now you name it, and her name is on it. she's even designed her own brand of bedding. it's glamorous. >> reporter: you've got sportwear, dresses, handbags, jewelry, shoes, sleepwear. >> yes. >> reporter: does it get overwhelming? >> of course. of course it's overwhelming sometimes. and yes, at times, what am i taking on? it's so overwhelming. but i feel like life is overwhelming and you can't be afraid of that. >> lee cowan joins us at the table. listen, how big of a deal is her kohl's deal? her clothes are nice on the kohl's line. >> they won't give numbers, but it's huge. it's like a 20-plus-year deal. they're talking about her designs and all those accessories in stores until,

claudia cowan, watching the fallout from that in the bay of san francisco.ack on the other coast now and an update on the survivors of the boston marathon bombings. it is a long road to recovery for those who were injured. molly line is following it for us live in boston. so we're learning, molly, that one of the families who was hardest hit in this attack has gotten a little bit of positive news today, right? >> reporter: we have a statement from the richard family. martin richard was the youngest victim that was killed in these bombings. he was 8 years old when he died but his sister jane, was also very severely injured. she has undergone her 11th surgery. she lost a leg below the knee but the family is thanking everyone for their support across the community and saying doctors have been able to close their daughter's wound and that they are optimistic she will be --. martha: molly is coming in and out for us in boston but some good news for the richard family. that was a picture of martin richard. the little boy lost his life and his little sister seems t

claudia cowan live with more in san francisco. >> reporter: megyn, by all accounts when that stretchimousine caught on fire saturday night, nine women scrambled for their lives and in a matter of seconds, five of them perished. the driver, orville brown, said he helped pull four of the women to safety, but one of them said he could have done more to help. she said when the limo began filling up with smoke and fire, she yelled and banged on the partition but she said brown did not want to stop the care. he said he didn't understand what she was saying, thought maybe the women were asking if they could smoke. when he finally did pull the car over, ariana said he got out and that was it. she said she was the first to escape by crawling through that partition, and only when she got stuck did brown return to help her and then three others escaped the same way. she tearfully described trying to save her five trapped friends. >> the whole car was on fire. i said i need to go back. i need to go back and save them. the man said you cannot go back in there. >> reporter: the driver is also dist

claudia cowan, thank you. heather: all right.of breaking news to tell you about right now. we're looking here at brooklyn, new york and that is where a cherry-picker at a construction site apparently overturned, trapping at least one worker underneath. now as we understand it, that worker fortunately has been freed from that site. i believe the gentleman that you can see being loaded into the ambulance right now is the man who was trapped. a cherry-picker overturned in brooklyn at an area, to many new yorkers is well-known. belt parkway area, is a major, major thoroughfare in the brooklyn area right there. you can see part of that cherry-picker, this video i believe is just a little bit earlier where you can see that overturned that happened at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. we'll keep you updated with developments. >>> he is one of the terror suspects in the boston attacks but investigators can not ask him what. could the time he spent oversees and possible jihadist activities provide clues. >>> we have flooding in the midwest but the

jenna: claudia cowan live in san francisco. thank you. jon: right now a new call for presidential leadership. it's coming from the pages of the "wall street journal." are daniel hennin skwrer rights the u.s. and the world are only four months into mr. obama's additional 48 live month tenure as american president. the u.s. and the world are at the edge of political and economic instability. what is needed now is u.s. presidential leadership. what it looks like we and the world are getting instead is presidential follower ship, or worst presidential lee induced confusion. daniel henninger, the editor of the "wall street journal" is the man who wrote these words. he joins us now. this started at least if i'm reading your column correctly with the question that jonathan article from abc news asked the president. way -pbt to replay it for the viewers in case they didn't see it and get your reaction. >> mr. president you are a hundred days into your second term, on the gun bill you put it seems everything into it to try to get it passed, obviou

even if those charges aren't presented to the jury in the ricin case, paul cowan, our legal analyst,s that the charges given the publicity could end up hurting him significantly. >>> an update on another story we've been following. we've learned the walt disney company has stopped production of its merchandise in bangladesh. now, its decision was not a response to last week's devastating building collapse but to a series of factory fires in the country last fall. which we reported on at the time. disney sent a letter to vendors in march telling them to discontinue production in quote, unquote, high-risk countries of which bangladesh is one. other companies are reacting as well, but the problem is this. safety doesn't trickle down to subcontractors. it will be business as usual. you may think you're buying a well-produced piece of clothing that wasn't built in a horrible place for no money by children, but you'd be wrong. according to one human rights group, bangladeshi garment workers earn the lowest wages on earth. >>> and now to tonight's "outer circle" where we reach out to source

joining me now paul cowan and sunny hostin. and martin najime for us in florida. to all of you. paul, let's begin with you because these rulings would seem to hurt george zimmerman's case when it comes to backing up his claims of self defense. do you agree with that? >> no. i totally disagree. i have to take a contrarian view on this. i think it was an enormous victory for the defense in court today and i'll tell you why and a stra steenlgic brunder by the prosecution. the prosecutor brought up the text messages with a motion to prevent the defense from mentioning this stuff. and you know something. under the rules of evidence, the defense would never have been allowed to bring any of this stuff up because the rule in self defense cases is the bad character, the alleged bad character, of the victim is not admissible unless the defendant knew about it. because it's all about what you perceived when you fired the shots. if you don't know the guy, his background isn't going to, you know, influence your opinion to fire a shot. and here, brooke, what happened was as a

fox news's claudi cowan is live in san franciscwith this story. claudia?lissa, we're talking about fracking, hydraulic fracturing. a lot of discussion about this technology right now and this flurry of bills here in california coming now in response to the growing buzz over the monterey shale. this is a geologic formation in central california where talk of expanded fracking is sparking esmates of 15 billions barrel of oil, millions of new jobs and huge contributions to the domestic energy supply. a number of democratic lawmakers are saying hey, not so fast. they have inoduced measures cagng down on the controversial technology. some of the bls take aim how crude is extracted from rock layers beyond the reach of conventional drilling. others call for full disclosure of the chemicals used in the high pressure process, how they're removed and where they're stored. one seek as moratorium until more studies are done on the potential risks. hydraulic fracturing,00 of gallons of water, laced with chemicals, sa and can go horizontally underground, we don't know,

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claudia cowan with this news from san francisco tonight. claudia?shepard, some neighbors say they had questioned the boy's story all aloan. there were no major clues and within days of the murder police scaled back their search. said they were making progress and basically told residents not to worry. investigators spent 15 days trying to confirm the brother's account. they asked for help from the public in case anyone else seen alleged intruder described at&t as tall, white or latino with long gray hair. no credible witnesses came forward. no composite sketch was ever made. and there was no sign of a break-in. tonight, residents like this man have mixed emotions. >> you got people that feel sorry for the young men. don't understand why a 12-year-old. other people want to lynch this poor kid. they want to have the hanging in the middle of the town square. >> it appears investigators may have a strong case. evidence seized inside the home gave a quote positive result. leila's family now dealing with a double tragedy scheduled to make a public stateme

claudia cowan reports. >> when we data mine, we're teaching the computer how to go through large amountsderstand what they mean. >> gary angel is head of a company he founded over 15 years ago. that makes, he says, one of the most experienced players in the data mining game. >> i'm using a tool here called a listening tool. this tool collects information on things like twitter. >> a big part of what the folks here do is scan the web and analyze data. it's not unlike what the nsa will try to do at the utah data center. sift through the noise of all the world's electronic communications, isolate the fragments of troubling data, then connect those dots before a threat materializes. >> what do you think would surprise people most about data mining? what don't they know? >> i think how clumsy it is. how much work goes into getting the simplest conclusions out of the data. i think there's a sense that computers can do far more than they actually can. >> the biggest challenge isn't collecting and storing the information. it's making sense of it all. >> i picked a selection of terms that nationa

. >> joining me now is laura cowans who counsels victims of this type of violence.ws first hand what they've experienced. she was a victim herself, held captive for four years by a polygamist husband. beaten, tortured. she was held in a garage at one point for six months, i spoke to her earlier. can you explain what makes somebody stay? because that's the question so many people sometimes don't understand. >> i know. so many people ask, why do women stay? i'm quite sure the women were threatened, i was threatened. he probably threatened them, the child. family members if they left. >> law enforcement says there were beatings he would do trial runs where he would leave, pretend to leave, if it looked like he tried to get out, he would surprise them and beat them? >> exactly. that happened to me several times also. >> really? >> oh, yeah, definitely. victims like that go through a survivor mode. you know what i mean, i think it's called stockholm syndrome, where they relate to the captor and really they're just trying to stay alive. >> it happens pretty quickly from w

it would setup sexual assault oversight and response cowan similars.uld hire director of military prosecution for military sexual offenses. do you expect today's pentagon report to help move this bill to a vote? >> it absolutely should move this bill to a hearing. you know, there's 122 members that have already signed on to this legislation. to take the actual reporting of these crimes out of the chain of command and put it in a separate office within the military so that we have prosecutors who are trained and investigators who are trained to make the decision whether or not a case should move forward to court martial. right now that decision is made by the commander. a commander who has no legal training. and what we find is that very few of these cases go to court martial. so you can understand why victims are reluctant to actually report these crimes, because more often than not, what happens is they get ostracized. they get labeled with having a personality disorder. and they get discharged from the military. so it was wonderful to hear the presid

claudia cowan is live in our san francisco news room.er had no idea about any of this. >> that's right. at that point actually leila's stepmother had no reason to think anything had happened beyond a break-in. there was a second 911 call when dispatchers called the home and spoke to the boy until officers got there. that call has not been released. but even as they mourn the loss of their daughter, the fowler family is standing by the son accused of killing her. >> i'm with my brother 100%, you know. that's all i got to say. we were just trying to be positive. >> everybody knows i love all my kids. i have a lot of them. i love them all. i love them all the same. always have. >> that's barney fowler. he says he wants to see the evidence against his son. sources close to the case tell our fox affiliate in sacramento that blood and fingerprints found in leila's bedroom do, in fact, belong to her 12-year-old brother. they say dna tests confirm it. shep. >> shep: what's the latest with the legal proceedings in this case? >> the boy will be tr

cowan, chairwoman stabenow. >> no. the clerk will tally the vote. 12., total nays >> are there further amended to the nutrition title? senator roberts. , i have ahairwoman bill that encompasses many of the mms that have already been considered, and some that are about to be considered, so this is a comprehensive amendment with regards to what i call foodstamp reform. i'm going to introduce this, i will read it very weekly and withdraw it here and and see if it could be considered here on the floor. in that respect, perhaps the senator from new york could check her blood pressure little bit and we can move on down the road. this amendment cosponsored by senators thune and johanns would rein in the largest furniture, we're talking talking about snap, of course it weakening's -- restore integrity to this program while providing benefits to those truly in need, save over $31 billion. i know that figure may have found some of the committee, but i think it is accurate. first, it eliminates the lie he loophole. let me be clea

claudia cowan following the story from our san francisco newsroom this afternoon. claudia? have just learned that new details in this case will be released in just about two and a half hours. as investigators move closer to releasing a composite sketch of the suspect and the community hopes then naming a suspect. more than 50 deputies with the county sheriff's department have been working nonstop following up on more than 300 tips. now they are teeming up with the fbi that has some of the best testing resources in the country. layla was only stand from the back not the front. that home by the way remains an active crime scene as investigators comb through every inch of it looking for more clues while the community waits for this new information, again, shepard, expected to be released at 7:00 p.m. local. 10:00 p.m. eastern time tonight. >> shepard: claudia, the medical examiner yesterday released the body of the 8-year-old to her family. they transported her to a cemetery about 40 miles from her home. still no word on funeral plans. there is word though of a new investigati

legal analyst paul cowan says it could backfire if the jury sentencing decision is not unanimous, a newted. it must be a unanimous decision. >>> apple ceo tim cook defended the company's tax strategy on capitol hill today. the senate panel is looking in to allegations that apple has avoided billions of dollars in taxes by shifting income to overseas subsidiaries. the fact that apple has billions and billions and billions of dollars overseas to pay less tax is a fact and cook claims it's a high effective tax rate and that figure is based on profits in the united states. and the problem is they have a billion dollars overseas in cash which is often taxed at much lower races so you can see the problem. nicklas thomas says they've done great things and shown it's as creative of dodging taxes as building things. >>> it's 656 days since the u.s. lost the top credit rating. today stocks ended the day at record highs. >>> all right. along with countless scenes of destruction in oklahoma, there have been images of relief and gratitude and reunion, including this one which is resonating around th

for a vote now, but i'm hopeful senator cowan and gillibrand and harkin and leahy sent mine can reach broad, broad consensus in this committee and on the floor. >> senator chambliss. >> thank you, madam chair. let me say i am in sympathy with senator brown here and others has spoken in favor, but i also empathize with the chair in trying to find the money we have been dictated to find. the food banks in my state are busier than ever and the guy who runs the atlanta code pink is a hero to me in the job they do there is just amazing. let me just say i don't know how we deal with this, but i look forward to working with you is to get back to the floor if there's anyway to figure this out, i agree. whatever we can do we have to give a good shot. >> i appreciate your comments because i do think this is a critical area. senator brown on our colleagues, and very supportive of what you are proposing to do and i'm very optimistic that we can address this. because it needs to be addressed. thank you very much. are there other amendments in title iv? >> s., like to offer gillibrand amendment two

fox news's claudia cowan joins us with the new rush to clamp down on tracking and all the profits that claudia. >> hi, melissa. the flurry of bills comes in response to the growing buzz over the monterey shale, a vast geologic formation in central california where talk of expanded fracking is sparking estimates being able to access some 15 billion barrels of oil as well as millions of new jobs and huge contributions to the domestic energy supply but a number about democratic lawmakers in sacramento are saying not so fast and introduced measures cracking down on the controversial technology. some of the bills take aim at how crude is extracted from rock layers beyond the reach of conventional drilling. others call for full disclosure of the chemicals used in the high pressure process, how they're removed and where they're stored. and one seeks a moratorium until more studies are done on the potential risks. >> with hydraulic fracturing,00 of gallons of water, laced with chemicals, sand and going horizontally underground, we don't know, we don't know enough. >> a standard step in oil dis

claudia cowan has an update live from san francisco. claudia? >> >> megyn, the big question here is why this expert sailor was trapped underwater for so long, at least 10 minutes. investigators with the coast guard and san francisco police department are looking at every possibility like whether he hit his head and became unconscious or maybe he got tangled up in the rigging. here's what we know. all 11 crew members on the artemis were tossed overboard yesterday afternoon. it was sunny and breezy. there was a small craft advisory in effect. some say the catamaran sponsored by the swedish toiling. off the water. if it rises too high the boat will flip. somehow andrew simpson became submenard underneath the boat and he died. a sailor since the age of 4. he was the team's strategist. he determined the best course given the weather conditions and relative to other boats in the race. a gold medalist in beijing and a hero in his native england, simpson had just moved his family to the bay area while he trained for sailboat racing's most please teenage

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cowan, a senator from the commonwealth of massachusetts, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: yesterday afternoon i called home to check, see how things were going, to visit with my wife a little bit, and she said, you can't imagine what i'm watching on tv. she said, it's hard to watch. she was talking about the terrible storm that had hit oklahoma, the devastation, the death, the injuries she tried to explain to me was hard to relate, even though she was watching it on tv. homes destroyed, schools destroyed, even elementary schools destroyed. i think what she did was described what all americans felt. our hearts go out to the families whose loved ones were lost. those injured are missing in the devastating tornadoes in oklahoma. we feel so sad for them. our thought are with those who are affected by this tragedy, and so many people have been affected. families are still searching for their family members, their children. i recognize and commend the h

claudia cowan's live in san francisco. claudia, i'm a san francisco native, born and raised there.er can be a factor we know, it can change very quickly around the bay area. what was the weather like yesterday? was that a factor at all? >> reporter: jenna, yesterday it was sunny and breezy, a small craft advisory was in effect, but for these expert sailors the conditions on the bay were just perfect for taking practice runs. some witnesses say the catamaran flagged under the royal swedish yacht club was foiling, that's when one of the twin holds rises too high, and the boat will flip. all 11 crew members onboard the 72 foot long cat were tossed into the bay including the team's strategist, andrew simpson, 36 years old and a decorated british olympian who won gold in beijing. he was submerged under the boat for ten minutes, and can despite numerous attempts to save him, simpson was pronounced dead after being brought to shore. >> everyone worked really hard to not have this outcome. these are always difficult things to report, and our hearts go out to the family of the member of the

my colleague victor blackwell talked to paul cowan about what happens next. >> paul, in a lot of statesle because the jury couldn't come to an agreement. not in arizona. why and what happens next? >> arizona has got a very, very unusual setup. a couple other states have similar ones. very, very rare. in arizona if the first jury can't agree on the death penalty, they are dismissed and they impanel and start all over again to decide the penalty. a new jury is going to be sworn. you can imagine how difficult that's going to be given all of the publicity regarding the case and then they are going to make a recommendation about the death penalty. now, if they do not reach an agreement, the second jury, then she gets life. you don't get a third shot at it under arizona law. prosecutors do get two tries. >> this case has been all over television and the internet for years. the last case that i remember much like this one was the casey anthony trial and when they had to impanel a jury, they had to go to another county because of all of the attention. how does this judge find a jury that has no

claudia cowan could you is live on this story. what do we know so far? >> reporter: we know the limo was over the limit. there were nine passengers on saturday night. that tickling con town car was only licensed to carry eight people. we have here a violation of policy and possibly a factor in this awful tragedy. and now one of the survivors is speaking out. she describes the nightmare that claimed the lives of five of her friends when black smoke and flames bee ban filling the passenger compartment, she banged on the partition to get the driver to stop but she says the driver, orville brown didn't listen. when he finally did pull over she says he got out and that was it. she says she was the first to escape by crawling through that narrow partition, only when she got stuck did brown return to help her and then three operateses get out. she says she was desperate to rescue the others. >> ph-p two guards help us h. they came over and help us. i said i need to go back. i couldn't go back in any more. >> reporter: no you can't go back in there any more. all

claudia cowan could you is live on that story out of san francisco. what are they saying?e flurry of bills comes in response to the growing buzz over the monterey shale a geologic formation in central california where talk of expanded fracking is sparking estimates of 15 billion barrels of oil, millions of new jobs, and huge contributions to the domestic energy supply. a number of democratic lawmakers are saying not so fast. they've introduced measures cracking down on the controversial technology. some of the bills take aim as how crude is extracted from rock layers beyond the beach of conventional drilling. others call for full disclosure of the chemicals used in the high pressure process, how they are removed and where they are stored. and one seeks a moratorium until more studies are done on the potential risk. >> about hydraulic fracking, hundreds of gallons of water lacinged with chemicals and sand can go horizontally underground. we don't know enough. >> a standard step in oil drilling tracking has been used in california for decades and has a clean safety record. s

claudia cowan is live on this story in san francisco with the latest this morning. further word, claudia, on what started this fire? >> reporter: not yet, martha. investigators will hold a press conference later this morning and hopefully release more details on what caused this fiery accident that turn ad girls night out into a horrible nightmare a passing driver with a cell phone took these dramatic pictures of the 1999 lincoln town car limousine after it burst into flames saturday night. happened at 10:00 p.m. on the san mateo bridge, one of eight bridges that cross the san francisco bay as the group was headed west pound for a wedding celebration. the limo driver, orville brown wasn't hurt and is cooperating with investigators. someone smelled smoke in the back and banged on the partition for brown to stop. according to the "san francisco chronicle" he mistakenly believed ask whether the women could smoke. by the time brown stopped the car to get out to check the back of the limo was a ball of flames. >> driver was able to get out. some good samaritans did stop

claudia cowan is live from san francisco on this.the first step back in this case is it? >> it isn't. three potential leads have fallen through and a week later there is still no suspect in this little girl's murder. police have taken down the road blocks on the street where layla lived but her house remains an active crime scene, as investigators follow-up on more than 300 tips and analyze several knives found inside. according to investigators layla's 12-year-old brother found his injured sister after coming face-to-face with an intruder. the man was said to be white, or latino, about 6 feet tall with long gray hair wearing dark clothing. no specifics at all about his age. a neighbor said she had seen someone fitting this description running way of away from the house on the day of the attack. on wednesday she refused to help police with a sketch and took her story back. two other leads have also fallen apart. the suspect in the kidnapping attempt of another little girl nearby has been ruled out. and reports of a bloody hitchhiker

claudia cowan live in san francisco. claudia, boy, this is just an awful, awful case. >> reporter: it sure is, martha. investigators really not revealing too many details but they do confirm dna testing of evidence taken away from the home at quote, yield ad positive result. the april 27th murder of the little girl sparked a massive manhunt and many residents locked their doors in fear. leila's 12-year-old brother said just before he found his fatally-wounded sister he had seen a white or latino man leaving home. initially a neighbor reported something similar on the day of the attack. shen then she recanted her story. they showed no signs of a break-in and authorities focused attention on the brother, the only witness to the stabbing. fbi agents spent days collecting evidence, including from time to times, a mattress and a several knives one which they said would be a murder weapon. whether they have the weapon is not known and neither is a motive. according to the woman's biological mother said the siblings were quote.

cowan, a senator from the commonwealth of massachusetts, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks, the senate will be in a period of morning business until 10:30. the republicans will control the first half and the majority the feignal half. following morning business, the senate will resume consideration of the water resources development act. there will be up to seven roll call votes to complete action on the bill and we're going to start the voting at about 10:30 this morning. mr. president, there's a lot going on here, committees meeting, but i want to alert all senators, my democrats and the republicans, we have a lot of votes to do, and we're not going to wait around while someone strolls in. we're going to first vote -- i direct this question to the chair: are the final six votes ten-minute votes? so the first vote will be the regular 15-minute vote. after that it is 10 minutes. i am alerting everyone that we're going 0 clo