. >> erin mclaughlin, great reporting. thanks for joining us. >>> listen to this. overnight hackers attacked the website of change.org. it's actually the world's largest petition platform. a spokesperson for the site says among them petitions to allow d, gay boy scout leaders, after that vote we saw last week and one was to end the prosecution of a florida teenager at center of an underage sex case. change.org says they believe they were modified because they were, quote in, the featured section. >>> large parts of san antonio are under water. look at that and see what people were dealing with. what the city looked like this morning and how are they coping. next we'll bring you a live interview with the mayor of san antonio, julio castro. if you're looking to go to school, you deserve more than just flexibility and convenience. so here are a few reasons to choose university of phoenix. our average class size is only 14 students. our financial tools help you make smart choices about how to pay for school. our faculty have, on average, over 16 years of field experien

erin mclaughlin, cnn, london. >> a lot of drama at cannes this year.atement about the jewelry heist, none of the jewels stolen were for actresses to wear at the film festival. the value of the diamonds was much less than what the media had been reporting and they have been reporting about $1 million. we'll wait to get that exact figure from them. >>> meantime, president obama will be here in atlanta today. he'll address graduates at moore house university. the appearance follows a very tough week that the president had playing defense on several fronts. >>> coming up, a brand-new cnn poll looks at how president obama is doing so far in this second term. we'll have those results for you this morning on "state of the union" with candy crowley beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern. >>> he was once known as a hero cop. he was even invited to watch president obama's first address to congress right there alongside the first lady. now, he is under arrest, facing shocking charges. >>> and any landing you can walk away from is a good landing and that definitely applie

i want to go right to london and our erin mclaughlin. >> hi, poppy.ee individuals were arrested in connection with the investigation into the woolwich murder. those individuals arrested on conspiracy to commit murder. two of them were tasered before being taken into custody. we don't know why they were tasered. and officials are also not naming these particular suspects in an investigation that is turning out to be incredibly complex and fast moving. in total some eight individuals have been arrested since wednesday. of those individuals, three of them, two women and one man, have been released from police custody. the man was released on bail. now, as for the two suspects that were arrested at that grisly crime scene on wednesday, they remain in hospital in stable condition under armed guard. poppy. >> erin staying on top of it for us. thanks so much, erin. appreciate it. coming up in the next half hour of the show today, we're going to talk about the issue of extremism. how does extremism in any religion lead someone to commit violent acts in the na

cnn's erin mclaughlin is in london. what can you tell us about this?iend of the murder suspect gave an interview to the bbc last night. in that interview, he described a conversation he had with him some six months ago. during that conversation he apparently told him he had been approached by mi5. he had been asked to work for them. an offer he declined. >> i think on his return back, subsequently he was followed up by mi5. they came to his house. he mentioned they wanted to ask whether he knew certain individuals. that was the initial issue. but after him saying he didn't know these individuals, they asked if he would be interested in working for them. >> reporter: while we know that he was known to security services here in britain regarding the specific claims the security source telling cnn that mi5 would never comment on the kinds of allegations made in that interview. shortly following that interview, abu was himself arrested by counterterrorism pleas on suspicion of terrorism-related offenses not connected to the these crimes. >> erin, thanks so