our david mattingly is live in decatur, georgia. what have you been able to find out about this particular suspect and his background? >> reporter: ashley, michael brandon hillary was in trouble with the law before he came to this elementary school back in march. he was arrested for terroristic threats and acts and we spoke to the d.a. at a neighboring county where the arrest took place. he said that hill threatened to kill his brother via a text message. well, he was arrested, he was charged, he went before a judge and his sentence was three years probation. he was ordered not to go anywhere near his brother and his family members. also, he was told to take anger management classes and the d.a. says there's no indication that he ever took any of those classes. but as far as why he showed up here at this school is still something of a mystery. we know that he spoke to the two women that he took hostage in the office when he first arrived and one of those women actually was ordered to make a phone call to a local television station b

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the flight had originated in louisville, kentucky, and david mattingly is on the ground for us there in birmingham, and david, can you set the scene for us, and tell me what you know at this hour. >> well, brooke, always the first two questions in a crash like this is, were there mechanical problems? weather problems that anybody noticed? officials say there was prec precipitation in the area, but nothing serious to bring down an aircraft like this. and residents living nearby, and i spoke to a man specifically who is with the civil airline patrol, and airline mechanic, and he told me that when the plane went over his head over the airport, it sounded to him like there was a backfire from the engine and followed by an engine roar suggesting that the pilot was giving full power for the engines in the last moments before the plane went down. we also heard from the residents saying they heard something like an engine sputtering as the plane went over, but fortunately the plane did go down a half mile away from where those houses were, as it proceeded closer to the airport, it landed seve

david mattingly, cnn, dekalb county, georgia. >>> two minutes past the hour. the family of a man police say killed a family friend and abducted they are 16-year-old daughter is now asking for a paternity twist. they want to know if james dimaggio was more than just a family friend to hannah anderson, her brother ethan an her mother now that he's led and left a $120,000 life insurance policy to hannah anderson's grandmother. >> we've taken dna samples. we're going to be requesting from the anderson family to try and get a dna sample from hannah. and if they have anything left of ethan. we're going to get a dna sample, there's been a lot of rumors whether or not jim might be the father of either children. we find it strange that he's left all of this money without any explanation. >> police now say dimaggio used a timer to set fire to his home near san diego, some 20 hours after he took off with hannah. her mother and brother's bodies were found inside of that burned-out home. >>> now to the fire lines in idaho where an aerial assault appears to be helping slow

david mattingly, cnn, atlanta. >>> we are learning more about the kidnapping of hannah anderson. unsealed warrants revealed he tortured and killed her mother and brother and set fire to his house before snatching hannah as she left cheer leading practice. there had been 13 calls between hannah and dimaggio that day before her phone was turned off. autopsy reports she dimaggio was shot five times. >>> manningly is apologizing for leaking information to wikileaks. he told the judge he is sorry for his actions because they hurt people and the country. he's facing up to 90 years in prison. lawyers showed a picture of manning in a blond wig and make up, which he e-mailed to a superior claiming he was mentally unstable when he leaked the documents. >>> you know, we know how powerful water can be in floods, washing away cars and people in flood zones. >> yes. >> what happens when they finally recede? this happens. this buckled road in hutchinson, kansas, an area hit hard last week. officials say the floodwaters washed away the ground under the road causing it to give way. >> indra peter

david mattingly joins us live with the latest. david, what is the story? >> reporter: jake, you might be able to hear a big cheer going up in the parking lot of this shopping center away from the school. this is the staging area where the children are now being brought to be reunited with their parents. it's been a very tense couple of hours, parents very upset, even though they know from authorities everyone is okay. finally the school buses are arriving. can you see them behind me. we're going to push in here to get a closer look for you. those buses are coming directly from the school to reunite the children now with their parents. what authorities are telling us isn't much right now, other than there was a single male shooter on campus there at the school. we don't know his identity, we don't know his motive. police aren't ready to tell us yet what kind of weapon he had, how many he had or how many times he fired. but we have been told here that he gave up to police without any kind of incident. now, as this was going on, many children were taken out o

. >> david mattingly joins me now. david, what you have learned about this gunman and why he may have done this? >> reporter: well, he's been identified just in the last hour, anderson. police say he's michael brandon hill. police say he's 20 years of age. he's now being charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, terroristic threats and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. they continue to interview him. as far as a motive goes, police aren't yet saying why he decided to do this but we do know from talking to a local television station, when this man went into the office and took a couple of office workers hostage, he had them call a television station and relay a message to him. that he was not afraid to die and that he wanted the television station to come out and take pictures while he was killing police officers. now, fortunately that didn't happen. this man, michael brandon hill, did fire half dozen shots at officers, they did return fire but then he gave himself up. and you just heard the woman

david mattingly for us in decatur, georgia. let's go to houston where the son of the vice president joe biden is said to be undergoing testing at a world renowned treat treatment with his family at his side. bo biden experienced an episode of weakness and disorientation. this several years after he suffered a stroke. we're also learning that president obama spoke with the vice president over the weekend to extend his best wishes. joining us now to explain this more is our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, first off, what do we know about bo biden's status? >> we really don't know much. we know that he had this recent episode of disorientation and weakness. we know he's being evaluated at md anderson, which is a renowned cancer center. that's all they do. i think it is important, it is significant where he is. he is being evaluated at a cancer center. we don't know what that means, but we do know that that's important. >> now, one of the other things we do know is that he had a mild stroke in 2010. a lot o

david mattingly has been at the crash scene today. what is the latest on the ground that you know?> reporter: the people living around this airport have gotten used to living with jet noise. what woke them up this morning is something they will never forget. the broken and burnt wreckage of the cargo plane sits in an open field a half mile from a neighborhood. nearby broken trees and power lines show how close the jet came to killing people in their homes. >> i'm just thankful that it did not kill us. that's dangerous. i mean, it was just like the plane was like this and we were in the middle. >> reporter: pieces of the plane litter barbara benison's yard. the last seconds of what had been an uneventful flight. the ups plane was out of louisville, kentucky, flying over roof tops. people say they awoke to what sounded like a flight in trouble. >> it was low and then it sounded like it was sputtering like it was out of fuel. >> reporter: seconds later fire and explosions. >> i heard three booms. like boom, boom, boom. >> reporter: federal crash investigators are only beginning to fin

our david mattingly is outside the discovery learning academy just outside atlanta with the latest tonight. david, let's start off first of all with this gunman. what did they find, what was he prepared to do? what do you know about him? >> reporter: when police first got to the seen shortly after 1:00 eastern time today, the gunman inside fired about a half dozen shots at them. they returned fire. that was all the shooting that went on here. but you can bet there was a great deal of concern about what was going on inside that school as he gave himself up when they went in there, they found he had an ak-47, other weapons on him. they haven't elaborated what he was carrying. he is described as 19 years old. no motive has been described by authorities yet. but he is being interrogated and hoping to have answers soon. you can imagine as the police were there, under fire themselves, the children were having to find ways to get out of that school. some of them had to exit the school out the back in those dramatic pictures that we saw going off to a playground to seek refuge. they were all okay.

david mattingly, thank you. >>> and now our seventh story "outfront," sinkhole scare.n orlando resort on edge tonight. experts saying that sinkhole that swallowed part of the property is now almost 120 feet wide. the earth under the resort first opened up sunday night and miraculously none of the guests were injured, they were able to evacuate when they heard cracking noises. some are crediting just one specific man with saving their lives. martin savidge is "outfront." >> reporter: the first emergency call caught even the 911 operator off guard. >> where is the patient located at? >> it's not a patient. we have a building that potentially collapsed. >> reporter: it was almost unbelievable, a sinkhole was swallowing an entire resort building even as guests struggled to get out. it was a disaster at the busy summer bay resort just miles from disney world. but it didn't become a tragedy thanks in large part to this man rich shaard shamly. he was flagged down by a guest who said there was a problem in building 104. >> they kept hearing noises, popping and cracking noises

and david mattingly takes us inside one of these sinkholes.close look at the a phenomenon as olds as the ice age. >>> we'll take you inside the so-called devil's den, one of florida's nearly 20,000 known sinkholes, ahead on "360." uhh, it's my geico insurance id card, sir. it's digital, uh, pretty cool right? maybe. you know why i pulled you over today? because i'm a pig driving a convertible? tail light's out.. fix it. digital insurance id cards. just a click away with the geico mobile app. first wait till summer. then get the cars ready. now add the dodge part. ♪ the dodge summer clearance event. right now get 0% financing for up to 72 months and no payments for 90 days on all dodge vehicles. ♪ pain relievers -- they don't compare. pamprin's not just pain relief. it's period relief. >>> welcome back. today we learned that sinkhole that swallowed up a three-story villa measures up to 120 feet wide, 15 feet deep. an engineering firm hired by the resort said that preliminary tests have not turned up any further cause for alarm. as we reported,

our david mattingly is outside ronald mcnair discovery learning academy outside of atlanta with the very latest tonight. david, let's start off, first of all, with this gunman, what did he find? what was he prepared to do? what do you know about him? >> reporter: well, when police first got to the scene shortly after 1:00 eastern time today, the gunman inside fired about a half dozen shots at them. they returned fire. that was all, the shooting that went on here. after that the gunman actually gave himself up without incident, but you can bet there was a great deal of concern about what was going on inside that school. as he gave himself up when he went in there. they found that he had an ak-47, other weapons on him, but they haven't elaborated on exactly what he was carrying. he is in custody. he's described as 19 years old. no motive has been described by authorities yet, but they say he is being interrogated and they hope to have some answers soon. but you can imagine as the police were there under fire themselves, the children were having to find ways to get out of that school. some

david mattingly reporting for us. zimmerman is back in the headlines tonight because he turned up at a gunman fracturer in florida yesterday. this comes a month after he was acquitted of murdering trayvon martin. the gossip website tmz got this picture of zimmerman. in it he was posing with someone he says was an employee of the gun maker and while zimmerman has every right to buy as many guns as a mer ka, wouldn't it be smart to lay low instead of visiting a gun mac foman fractu smiling or is there something else you can read, i got a gun, cut it out with the death threats. stephanie miller and ben ferguson. ben, i'll start with you. which side of that argument do you come down on? >> i think if you just google or you go into twitter right now and you put in the search term kill zimmerman, today in the last hour and a half there were more than 150 i'm going to kill george zimmerman comments if i see that guy he's a dead man. and things like that. so i think if you're zimmerman, he probably said i'm going to let peopl

our thanks very much to david mattingly. >>> dr.ddiction specialist and the host of hln's "dr. drew on call." dr. drew, thank you. this is such a bizarre situation. just hours before he allegedly killed his wife, medina posted a picture of him, his wife, and his kid from a previous marriage eating lunch together. you can see her smiling in the picture. and afterwards he didn't call 911, he changed his clothes, stopped at his father's house, then he actually drove himself to the police station. what do you make of this sequence of events? >> well, as far as the changing of the clothing and not calling 911, it's easy the to sort of conclude that this is a diabolical, cold-blooded event, but i don't think that's, in fact, the case. when you really hear what he claims went down, it was something of domestic violence that just escalated and ran out of control. it sounds like he was in sort of a disassociated state and just didn't know what he was doing, but intended to report himself. the really sad piece of this story that he left a 10-

david mattingly, cnn, florida. >>> all right.op of the comedy world. then disappeared from stage. now, schappelle is making anothr move. >>> how many of you walk away from a $50 dollar contract? comedian dave schappelle did it several years saying he was burned out. apparently he's ready to get back onstage. here's cnn's michelle turner. >> some are calling this a comeback kicking off a new comedy tour in austin, texas, next week. head lining funnier guys in curiosity festival playing in 15 cities around the country. this tour also includes a host of popular comedians but to many people this is the biggest project that chappelle has been involved with since he walked away from his hit comedy central show and a $50 million salary back in 2005. he just said he was burned out at the time. this tour has chappelle fans hoping that he's ready to do more high-profile projects, because he's basically just been making appearances at comedy clubs since his show went off the air. by the way, if you're wondering, according to the people that

cnn's david mattingly is in decatur, georgia, with the latest. good morning, david. >> good morning, carol. the students at this school were actually expected to be back at class today, but not at their regular school building. they'll be meeting at a nearby high school. they will be back at their desks at their old school it is expected tomorrow. that is if some parents decide to let them come back here after they got the scare of a lifetime. hundreds of kids, ages 4 to 10 running for safety as gunfire erupts in their school. inside 20-year-old michael brandon hill armed with what police say was an ak-47 and a number of other weapons takes office workers hostage and tells them to call a tv station with a chilling message. >> i never experienced anything like this. he wanted us to start filming as police die. >> reporter: the gunman fired at police, maybe a half dozen times. officers returned fire. when one worker convinced him to surrender. >> he wanted to go outside and start shooting, again. i just telling him my life story and what was going o

cnn's david mattingly is on the phone. what can you tell us, david?rter: carol, unbelievable is probably a very accurate description. the homes were probably about half a mile away from where the aircraft eventually went down into this vacant field. no houses were damaged. electricity in the area actually went out from the impact it was so hard. residents talking about that huge explosion that they heard as the plane came down. i had a brief conversation just a few minutes ago with birmingham mayor william bell. he's given me new information saying that they've talked to people at the tower saying that there was no distressed call from the crew at the time the plane was approaching the birmingham airport. so that is a very curious bit of information if there was no on board emergency, if the crew wasn't having any problems, it certainly raises a lot of questions about what happened at the very late stages of this flight. again, that information coming from birmingham mayor william bell. he was also telling me that they thought the debris was going to

david mattingly is "out front" on this story. hi, david. what did investigators find?well, first of all, they found 367 dogs. over 100 of them just in one single location. they have arrested ten men, seven of them came from the state of alabama. but this goes beyond just fighting dogs and the atrocities involved in that. they're looking at what they seized here in terms of money. they seized a half million dollars in this raid on friday that shows you just what big money is being had at these dogfighting operations. now, they also believe that some of these defendants may have been gambling as much as $200,000 on a single dogfight. again, showing you what kind of money was involved in these operations so doing much further than just dogfighting. they're also looking at illegal gambling operations and what sort of organizations might be out there associated with this. >> that is big money. what will happen to these dogs? >> well, right now, they're in emergency shelters. they're being cared for. they're getting medical treatment, food, getting a safe place, a comfortabl

david mattingly, cnn, atlanta. >> you can't count on good luck to get you through a bad flight. that's why these investigations are so important. we'll stay on it. >> scary regardless. especially when you see how close it was to some of these homes. >>> coming up next, a stunning announcement impacting 425 million gmail users. google admitting you should have no reasonable expectation of privacy. does that mean the internet giant is reading your e-mails? we'll take a look at it. >>> and why is president obama staying silent while civilians are being slaughtered in the government crackdown in cairo? that's a provocative question. we'll take you inside the beltway, next. at a dry cleaner, we replaced people with a machine. what? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it? hello? hello?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello? ally bank. your money needs an ally. saving time by booking an appointment online, even smarter. online scheduling. available now at meineke.com. maybe it is, maybe isn't, weather wise. welcome back to "new day."

david mattingly, first to you.shoeld juror waiting for their little ones to come home. tell me what you're hearing. >> reporter: well, brooke, about the only people who aren't okay right now are these family members, scores of them in this shopping center parking lot waiting for their beloved little children to be delivered to them in school buses. that's the arrangements that's been made in spite of the rea urns shoos, naturally everyone very upset. very few details right now about what actually happened here. an assistant chief for dekalb county police addressed the parents here and is saying that no one is hurt. many of the children are being left to sit outside and others are sheltering in place inside classrooms, inside the school, again, emphasizing over and over and over again that these children are safe. now about the suspect, we know that he's been taken into custody. not many other details other than he is a white male. we don't have confirmation of what type of weapon he was carrying, how many and what

david mattingly is live from decatur, georgia, with the latest. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning, kate. the kids at this elementary school will be returning to class today, but not in the building that they were accustomed to. they'll be meeting at a nearby high school, not coming back here today because of a case that was made so frightening by what could have happened. hundreds of kids, ages 4 to 10, running for safety, as gunfire erupts in their school. inside 20-year-old michael brandon hill, armed with what police say was an ak-47 and another of other weapons takes the workers hostage and tells them to call a tv station with a chilling message. >> i've never experienced anything like this. he wanted us to start filming as people die. >> reporter: the gunman started firing and officers returned fire. one convinced him to surrender. >> i told him my life story and he put his weapons down and i told the police he was giving himself up. >> reporter: children had to be escorted from buses away from the school before being reunited wit

david mattingly is covering this. we have the story about the tsarnaev brothers.s something a t lot of people may take more seriously than they would have a few pos ago. what do you know about the 19-year-old and what he was trying to do. >> bell is fou the latest young american to be accused of oh trying to join up with a terrorist organization and getting involved in terrorist activities. specifically the federal indictment accuses him of conspiring and attempting to provide material support to terrorists. according to that federal indictment bell had plans to go to yemen late last year. he got on a plane, flew to israel, wasn't able to get into the country there. he ended up flying to turkey and then also to jordan but it was not clear in that document if he was actually able to get into yemen where h allegedly had plans to join up with a terrorist organize station and get involved in some kind of oh violent armed activity. before he left the indictment says he was able to recruit a minor to join with him in going over there. they say he videotaped firearms tra

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. >> david mattingly joins me with the latest. what have you learned and why he may have done this?reporter: he's been identified in the last hour, anderson. his name is michael brandon and he's 20 and being charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, terroristic threats. as far as a motive, police aren't saying why he decided to do this. we do know from talking to a local television station, when this man went into the office and took a couple of office workers hostage, he had them call a television station and relay a message to them that he was going -- he was not afraid to die, and that he wanted the police -- the television station to come out and take pictures while he was killing police officers. now fortunately, that didn't happen. this man michael brandon hill did fire off we're told about a half dozen shots at officers. they returned fire, but then he gave himself up, and you just heard the woman in the office describing how she convinced him to do that. so, no bloodshed here. he never actually made any shots fired at any of the staff or luckily, at none of the ch

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david mattingly is "outfront" with the story. >> reporter: there is nothing free when it comes to georgeimmerman's freedom. his defense team estimates zimmerman's acquittal cost millions and now florida taxpayers could be paying part of the bill. >> i just think it's absurd that he had to spend it. we had to spend it. the donors had to spend it. and that somebody shouldn't pay that back. >> reporter: florida law 939.06 makes it clear, a criminal defendant who is acquitted doesn't have to pay court costs or fees. zimmerman's attorney says that includes fees for transcripts and experts who testify, so how much? $200,000 maybe $300,000. omara says blame the prosecutors. >> i wish somebody would say why is no one calling up the state attorney's office and saying, how dare you prosecute somebody for a charge there's no way you could ever convict? >> reporter: we did contact state attorney angela corey's office for comment. we were told the state attorney's office will respond to the request in the proper arena, the courtroom. zimmerman has to make a case for his reimbursement and he may not g