je jeanne moos, cnn. would you want this chest? >> if it were a little tanner, maybe. >> that does it for me. thanks very much. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." for our interviewers, "world report" is next. here in the united states, "john king, u.s.a." starts right now. >>> we begin with breaking news this hour in southeast texas. investigators are on the scene of what appears to be a mass grave containing, according to a sheriff's department official, 25 to 30 bodies, including, we are told tonight, the bodies of children. a federal official confirms to cnn this grisly discovery was made at a home in hardin, texas. the fbi has been called in to assist this investigation as we start to get early details, jeanne meserve joins us with the latest. sounds like a horrible developing story. >> reporter: it does, but we do not have the details yet. a law enforcement official telling cnn that at least 20 bodies may have been found at this home in hardin, texas. there are children involved. the law enforcement official says they a

jeanne? >> reporter: joe, this is an embarrassment for the atf. this is an agency that is supposed to stop the illegal trafficking of firearms specifically. in recent years, its mission has been to stop trafficking to mexico. it has had some success in that regard, but when atf whistle-blowers stepped forward and said, no, their hands were tied, they were forced to stand by and watch as straw-buyers purchased weapons and passed them on to criminals and cartels. it is an embarrassment, particularly when you hear how they found out about the guns later. here's an excerpt of an interview that drew griffin did with an atf agent and whistle-blower. >> the only way you're going to find those guns in mexico is where? >> at crime scenes, at the death, at the site of somebody who's dead, at a gun battle between the police and the bad guys, in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in which the gun was left behind. >> reporter: now, the atf says its goal was to dismantle the larger drug

our homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve is working the story for us.hat do we know about this individual? >> well, wolf, this is a military reservist charged with shooting at military facilities. the case unfolded unexpectedly. before he was arrested last friday in arlington national cemetery yonathan melaku was not on the fbi radar but now is charged with a string of shootings at military facilities in virginia in october and november. a key piece of evidence a video recovered from his bedroom apparently shot by melaku himself. it allegedly shows him firing a gun from inside a vehicle at what looks like the marine corps museum. according to an affidavit he says that's my target. that's the military building. it's going to be attacked. when the shooting is done he yells, alahu achbar. >> anybody who would shoot a semiautomatic weapon at four different military installations over the course of five separate instances is very serious. these were not, you know, junior highers shooting bee bee guns at a local school. >> reporter: last fall ballistics testi

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>> shocking story, jeanne.uch for that report. >>> getting good news in from houston, texas. congresswoman gabrielle giffords has now been released from the hospital. a statement coming out of the hospital saying that she has improved to the point where she no longer needs to remain a patient in the hospital. congresswoman giffords has shown clear, continuous improvement from the moment she arrived according to her physician. we are very excited that she has reached the next phase of her rehabilitation and can begin outpatient treatment. we have no doubt that she will continue to make significant strides in her recovery. she'll stay, by the way, in houston. one of her neurosurgeons said this. gaby has recovered well from the surgery. her wounds have healed, she has resumed full physical therapy without a helmet, and i am comfortable that she can be discharged. good news. we still have the picture, there was the picture released earlier in the week. she's out of the hospital. she'll be going through outpatient t

cnn's jeanne meserve working the story for me and working it now. jeanne, who are you learning?porter: well,brook, they were arrested late last night according to the department of justice. joseph anthony davis, 33 of seattle washington, and frederick domingue, 32 of los angeles, had machine guns and intended to use these in order to attack the military entrance processing station in seattle. according to the department of justice, law enforcement became aware of these people when someone who had been approached to help purchase firearms went to law enforcement and told them what was up. they then worked with law enforcement. we're told, according to this press release from the department of justice, that they do have them captured on audio and videotape, and that they had been monitoring these individuals for some time. they say there was no threat to the public because they had made the machine guns which these men were allegedly purchasing inoperable. so they would pose absolutely no risk to the public. they said that initially this pair of men allegedly planned an attack on

, jeanne, what's the lateest?porter: it's been a huge story and subject of heated hearings just last week. the acting director of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms is expected to resign under pressure perhaps in the next day or two according to two senior federal law enforcement sources. as acting director of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, kevin nelson has touted his agency's success stopping guns flowing to mexico. >> we are putting the hurt on the gun trafficking trade down there. >> reporter: but on melson's watch atf agents in phoenix were instructed to stand by as straw buyers purchased weapons and passed them on to cartels and criminals. the program, called fast and furious, was intended to bring down arms trafficking organizations. it hasn't, but two of the guns turned up near the body of slain border patrol agent brian terry. melson wasn't present as a fire congressional hearing just last week but was raked over the coals for allegedly watching live video feeds of fast and furious g

what's on the menu, jeanne. >> reporter: the slow food movement has roots here in the bay area.helle obama is talking about organic local food. and now two bay area chefs are putting that passion on the table for the first lady. >> chicken breast. we stuff it with mozzarella and bell peppers. >> reporter: this chef doesn't need to practice cooking, but he's making lunch for the first lady tuesday, so he's having a dress rehearsal. in this kitchen, michelle obama is a celebrity. >> i'm a huge fan of hers. i think that as a woman, she's very very inspiring, and also as a chef. like i said, the work she's doing with her get fit campaign is very important. >> i think we should go back and eat like we used to. eat healthy, and safe, and sustain what's around us. >> reporter: beet salad, stuffed chicken and mashed potatoes. her favorite food is tamales. so they're sending her a special treat. >> i think it's a gesture, him being from mexico. this is what i grew up with, i know you love it, so i want to share it with you. >> reporter: mrs. obama is expected to talk to 2500 gifts who pa

jeanne meserve has the latest. >> reporter: if you feel like you're getting nickelled and dimed by thosene baggage and reservation change fees, it's adding up to serious money. according to the department of transportation, in 2010, u.s. airlines collected $3.4 billion in baggage fees, and $2.3 billion from reservation change fees for a grand total of almost $5.7 billion. if you are wondering how big an increase that is, it is huge! d.o.t. says between 2007 and 2010, baggage fees rose 631%! in that same three-year period, reservation fees went up 151%. though they were down a little bit last year. wolf? >> which airlines collected the most in these fees? >> well, delta in both categories by a very large margin, followed by american airlines. the air transport association which represents u.s. airlines maintains airfare is still a bargain. it says that in 2010, even with $5.7 billion in fees, the industry had only a 2% profit margin. >> all right, thanks very much for that. >>> jack's got the cafferty file. >> the question is what do you want to hear from these republicans tonight in the

. >> jeanne, what about another stimulus? some democrats have talked about another stimulus. doubt you could get it through the congress. could that be a possibility? >> they want to do infrastructure spending. i would ask dana bash that particular question in terms of how likely it is. but they're going to push for stimulus measures and it's going to be a communications problem when they come out with a debt reduction plan that also spends $700 billion. i don't know how they're going to cross that bridge. but like mark said, the payroll tax cut, helping states preserve -- also prevent layoffs. the former cbo director is like the budget deficit hawk in washington. she said, we have to continue to give aid to states so they don't have to do layoffs. >> david, president obama's former top economic adviser, larry summers, wrote an interesting piece recently in which he said, and i'm quoting him here, that we are halfway towards a lost economic decade. do you think he's right? >> gloria, there is increasing conversation about that question right now. carmen reinhart who wrote the

our homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve is on the story for us. with all of the focus on our security and precautions in place this seems outrageous. >> it is an eye. owning event. a law enforcement official tells us nothing at this point that indicates terrorism but certainly raises a lot of questions about what kind of security we have at the nation's airport and involves an individual by the name of noabi. on june 24th, according to a law enforcement affidavit, he boarded a virgin american flight at kennedy airport in new york and through to lax. he was found on the flight after it took off and was asked if he had a boarding pass. he produced something. but it turned out that the boarding pass and the ticket were for the day before. they were not in his name. they then asked him for identification and he produced a university of michigan i.d. then a few days later, on june 29th, he tried to board a delta flight, this time flying from los angeles to atlanta. he was stopped by a delta agent at the gate and was told he did not have a valid boardin

jeanne, whose head is about to roll here?or of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, ken melson may be going soon. according to two senior law enforcement sources who spoke to our producer, terry freeden, he is expected to resign under pressure. the timetable here is not clear, but this may happen within the next day or two. it's a result of all the attention focused on this program, fast and furious, which not only allowed weapons to walk into mexico, but the icing on the cake is when two of the weapons associated with this program showed up near the body of brian terry. he's a border patrol agent who was killed just a few miles from the mexican border, brooke. >> jeanne, might this go beyond the atf? there was a congressional report saying the program was authorized not only at the highest levels of the atf but the highest levels of the department of justice here. might other people be forced out? are a >> reporter: some people might, but we just don't know what the upshot of the investigations are going to be. right now the insp

. >> with us now, our homeland security correspondence jeanne meserve. this is a videotaped message, not audiotape. >> it is interesting. more complicated to produce and distribute a video message. it's particularly interesting because of the security risk this must have posed. the assumption has been a lot of al qaeda leaders are worried after osama bin laden's death and the gathering of that treasure trove of information in pakistan. the feeling was zawahiri and others were lying low in order to protect themselves. and the fact that he went through the effort to distribute this now may indicate he was very anxious to be heard and to be seen. one of the analysts pointed specifically to the use of a courier, saying it was a courier that led the u.s. to bin laden. he had to have used couriers in in instant. it must have meant he wanted his name and face out there for followers to see. >> is it, forgive the word, it's an american word i guess, but is he staking his claim, to be the new number one? >> i've seen different interpretations. he does not end the

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political headlines and jeanne moos straight ahead. i'm wolf blitzer.e in "the situation room." we begin with new information on congressman anthony weiner's political future. up in the air now one day after an internet sex scandal blew wide open with a married new york democrat admitting to inappropriate online exchanges with multiple women. even as fellow democrats press for an ethics investigation, weiner says he's not going anywhere. listen to this exclusive exchange he had with cnn producer adam reece a little while ago as weiner returned to his home in queens. >> nothing new today. >> no. >> -- called for your resignation. official call for your resignation. how do you feel about that? >> he is entitled to his viewpoint. >> would you consider it? >> i'm not resigning, no. >> excuse me, guys. >> congressman, how did you feel when you woke up this morning? >> thanks, guys. i appreciate your patience. >> how did you feel when you woke up this morning? >> let that close. rules of the apartment building. >> can you tell us how you felt when you woke up

jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >>> 10:00 a.m. on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. outs out west.s. we're keeping a close eye on the supreme court. we're awaiting rulings on prescription drugs and the dangers of generics. >>> alleged boss and crime boss james "whitey" bulger was finally caught. the. >>> before jurors can decide if casey kid her 2-year-old daughter, her parents offered their own opinion. they don't think she's innocent. >>> the first u.s. troops will be pulled out next month. 10,000 of them come home this year. another 23,000 u.s. troops withdrawn by a end of next summer. >> this is the beginning, but not the end of our effort to wind down this war. we'll have to do the hard work of keeping the gains that we've made while we draw down our forces and transaction security to the afghan government. >> now members of the team face critics on capitol hill. and is he house armed services committee, testimony is good to get under way discussing the draw down plan, as well. >>> democrats, republicans, even military leadsers all have grave concerns about the president's new

jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> it's 7:00 a.m. out west, 10:00 a.m. on the east coast.nd security committee are hearing about the threat of radical muslims in the u.s., criminals who convert to islam extremism and pose a threat when free of the wife of disgraced congressman anthony weiner may return home. that means a decision is near. weiner said he won't carespond calls to resign until his wife returns. and the one-time mistress of arnold schwarzenegger is talking. she said her teenage love child had one word to say when told arnold schwartz neg certify his father. that word, cool. >> well, we begin with a shocking update on the hunt for osama bin laden and informants in pakistan who helped the cia track him down. in the u.s.s, they'd be he rose. in pakistan, they're arrested. it's the latest fracture between strained relations between the two countries, i had a chance to speak with u.s. official, what did they tell you, reza? >> reporter: indeed p-kyra, the relationship is at a low point. it needs repair, it needs mending. it doesn't need to take more hits but looks

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political headlines and jeanne moos straight ahead.d you are in "the situation room." >>> it is the lewd twit ater picture that has everyone talking. one day after lashing out at reporters for pressing him for answers, the democrat anthony weiner sat down with me on capitol hill in his office to confront the controversy. he insists he did not send the close-up shot of a man in underwear to a young seattle woman and says he's treating the we'll thing like a prank. but he would not say important certain the picture isn't of him and suggested the image may have been manipulated. we sat down in his office just a little while ago. here is part two of the interview. did you send that picture to that colel stude college studen washington state? >> i did not. she says she never got it. she doesn't know me. i don't know her. this seems like a prank to make fun of money. when you are named weiner, that happen as lot. this seems like a prank that's gotten an enormous amount of attention. >> have you ever taken a picture like this of yourself? >>

jeanne meserve is in washington. help us understand. for. were they hoping to make an example out of this guy? >> they were. drake pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge after prosecutors decided they could not charge him with more serious information against him according to the washington post, the case concerned a 1.2 data building program called trailblazer and nsa efforts to collect american's e-mails and phone call information without court orders. prosecutors accuse him of leaking information to a reporter and charged him last year with ten counts. if convicted, he could have faced 35 years in prison. today drake pleaded guilty to the one misdemeanor, which was accessing information on the agency internet site and passing it on to another person. he was awarded a whistle blower prize and was exposing government legalities and this is a just result, his attorney says. tom drake never should have been charged under the he is pea najarian charge and he didn't. individuals granted special access to the most sensitive information cann

political headlines and jeanne moos all straight ahead.r and you are in "the situation room. " >>> we begin with pressure on congressman betweener to resign. it is growing by the hour and certainly a stepped-up several notches. with the leak today an x-rated picture allegedly showing the embattled new york democrat. cnn learned exclusively that democratic colleagues are privately urging betweweiner to down and preserve his own deg tonig dignity. lisa sylvester is working the story for us. dana bash, senior congressional correspondent, is here as well. dane a let me start with you. the calls in congress right now -- not just the reps. but from democrats. they are growing louder and louder. >> absolutely. just since and you i spoke last hour, wolf, we have had about four of anthony weiner's fellow democrats come out and say he should resign. i was told by a democratic lawmaker who i talked about this effort to push him out earlier that this would be changing by the hour. boy is it. it is. now, we have congresswoman tsongas from massachusetts

jeanne meserve, cnn, washington. >> amazing. back to our top story.oops today after announcing withdrawal from afghanistan starts next month. >>> the president saying it is time to turn to the battle for america's future. >> starting next month we will be able to remove 10,000 of our troops from afghanistan by the end of this year. we will bring home a total of 33,000 troops by next summer. fully recovering the surge i announced at west point. america, it is time to focus on nation building here at home. >> joining us now, former specialist to president bush. also cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. welcome to both of you. what did you think of the -- make of the quote from the president nation building here at home? >> yeah. that's the bumper sticker quote. that was obviously directed at a domestic audience. it is important to the american people to hear that. but the president has a lot of audiences in these speeches and tried to speak to the pakistanis and the afghans to say that we are committed to a longer-term strategic relationship. which

. >> is there any mark and then to jeanne, is there any reason here for any kind of optimism? i disagree with that perspective. i think that the u.s. economy is incredibly resilient. we've made a lot of progress over the last couple of three years, righting the wrongs that got us into this mess. right now i think our biggest missing ingredient is a lack of confidence and resolves around our inability to address what really ails us chgs our fiscal problems. if we nail this down in a reasonably graceful way we'll get the confidence and come back. one thing looking at the history of the american economy, don't bet against it very long. >> but mark, if you're argument is we can bet on the politicians, is that a very -- does that give you a lot of confidence? >> yeah, that too. also, history suggests that they will come through. what's that old winston churchill addage, americans will try anything and they'll ultimately do the right thing. i botched that but that's roughly what he said. that's roughly right. i feel that when it comes down to signing on the dotted line, we're going

jeanne meserve is tracking the story for us. >> reporter: the video is in large part a tribute to osama. >> translator: he went to his god martyred because he said no to america. >> reporter: ayman al zawahiri does not proclaim himself bin laden's successor, but with the tape he appears to be positioning himself. >> he wants to show to the al qaeda membership around the world that supporters, that he's the paramount leader of al qaeda. that he's the one that's delivering the eulogy for osama bin laden. >> reporter: in the video, zawahiri cheers the uprisings in libya, syria and yemen. >> translator: they need to continue their struggle, their rage, and their sacrifices. >> al qaeda doesn't like these movements but they recognize they have no option but to say if we want to be relevant we better stick with the population and the population has spoken so let's pretend like we're with them. >> reporter: in the tape, zawahiri pledges support to mullah omar, head of the taliban, urges muslim passes to rise up against what he calls a treacherous pakistani regime, and he makes repeated but uns

cnn's homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve is here with the latest. >> this is one of a series of stories we've heard on attacks at military centers. one man from seattle, a former prison inmate and another man of los angeles. apparently when they tried to recruit a third individual to this alleged plot, he went to the authorities. and at that point law enforcement was able to monitor the plot as it developed. here is a bit of sound from a press conference with authorities a short time ago. >> the men were captured on audio and videotape discussing the attack. law enforcement monitored the suspect's actions, including a weapons transaction where they acquired automatic weapons. unknown to the suspects, the weapons they acquired had been rendered inoperable by law enforcement ahead of time and they posed no risk to the public. >> court documents say the men were unhappy about the u.s. mill tair presence in the middle east. they wanted to kill people, it is alleged, and they also wanted to inspire others to also stage attacks. they were going to do that they hoped through publici

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let's go to jeanne meserve. please explain. who is on this?intelligence bulletin sent out last week, there was a video made by adam gadan, an american, but also a propagandist for al qaeda. he sent this out encouraging individual acts of jihad. in response, an extremist web forum posted information on how to collect personal information. then the fbi says others posted the names of over 40 potential targets. people in government, industry and media with photographs of the 26 of them. they were associated with think tanks, u.s. contractors supporting the military. one postings even sited sending booby-trapped parcels to the residences. the fbi does say this all appears to be aspiration all in nature. they contacted the people whose names were posted out of due diligence, but no imminent threat or so it appears. >> aspirational, and where is adam gadahn? >> i'm sure they wish they knew specifically. i'm sure a drone would have found him by now. >> jeanne meserve, thank you so much. now this. >> tell it to the judge at this point. >> that's from

our homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve joins us with more. >> hit list is exactly the wordarned about by the fbi. they put out an intelligence bulletin, which says that adam gadahn encouraged acts of individual jihad in a june 3rd video. in response, the bulletin says, an extremist web forum posted guidance on collecting personal information on potential targets. then the fbi says others posted the names of over 40 people, individuals in government, industry and media, the bulletin says the list included people associated with think tanks and u.s. contractors supporting the u.s. military. free throwos were also included. one suggested booby-trapped parcels to the residences of the people on the list. the fbi says this all does appear to be aspirational in nature. they contacted the people whose names and photos were posted out of due diligence. >> so they say all the individuals named there, they have been alerted by the fbi? >> i asked a law enforcement efficient if they had all been contacted at this point, that officials couldn't answer that question, but this was put ou

reporting live, jeanne elly, nbc bay area news. >>> and another round of wet and wild weather is moving in and bigger changes could be ahead. welcome to the month of june, about 35 minutes from now and get out your umbrella. this evening's clouds and sprinkles were the beginning of a rare round of rain that will bring different things to our different microclimates. here's jeff raneri leave in the weather center with a preview. jeff, we talked about this. it's no longer a fluke. it's becoming a trend? >>> most certainly, a lot of these long-term climate models predicting for the next 14 days we could have this below average conditions when it comes to temperatures acrosshe t bay area. berkeley hills, 4500 of an inch of rainfall. walnut creek, 2600. we're calling it juneuary. this cold air of pressure pushing across the bay over the next 24 hours. we're monitoring showers to the north that are pushing to the south tomorrow and as that happens, we're looking at the chance of isolated thundstorms that could produce some small ilor f youror wednesday and,r also, this second stronr storm dro

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jeanne, what's going on here?g incident which has fueled a heated debate about whether security should trump privacy. this 95-year-old luke can a patient was going through security at a florida airport on june 18th. because she was in a wheelchair she was given a pat-down, and the transportation security administration found a problem. >> a wee bit embarrassing. >> it had something to do with her depends, that it was wet and it was firm and they couldn't check it thoroughly. she would have to remove it, and -- and i was -- i said i don't have an extra one with me. this normally isn't a problem, and she said that she could not complete the security check without the depends off. >> reporter: her nephew thinks it was ridiculous. >> i felt sorry for her. i mean, you know, dignity and self-esteem. >> reporter: the tsa says they did not require her to remove the diaper an provided the elderly woman and her daughter with options. >> they offered to get her bag off of the -- out of the plane and bring it back so i can ge

political headlines and jeanne moos straight ahead. i'm wolf blitzer.ituation room." >>> several days now congressman anthony weiner has been trying sometimes clumsily to end the drama over a lewd photo that briefly appeared on his twitter account. still not clear if it was a picture of the congressman in his underwear or if he sent it to a young college student or all the work of a hacker. today congressman weiner gave it another shot. listen to this. >> is this a good spot? okay. good morning. yesterday from 1:00 to almost 10:00 i sat down and did interviews with anyone that wanted to answer questions extensively. made it very clear i did not send a picture my twitter account had been hacked in this prank. apparently it been successful but after 11 hours of answering questions, today i have to get back to work doing the job i'm paid to do. i appreciate your patience and understanding. if i can do anything to make you more comfortable while sitting in the hallway let me know. thank you. >> fair enough. how's all this playing in his district? new york d

call 1-800-sandals. >>> let's go to cnn's jeanne moos.rter: you know the scandal has peaked when the weiner puns start to should livele, though every day there's something to keep it alive. the scandal has been painful for jon stewart. who was making a spoof of the weiner press conference when he broke some glass. >> that's not good. >> the show went on. >> reporter: by the next night, stewart was showing off his stitches. >> here's what happened there. >> reporter: the psychic cuts suffered by weiner were self-inflicted. it's bad news when liberals are the ones whining about weiner, begging him directly. >> please resign. please. please do it. it's bigger than you. >> get out now, anthony. out. >> you've got to go, anthony! good-bye. >> reporter: we said hello to a bunch of guys with anthony's same name, though unrelated. >> yes, this is anthony weiner. >> reporter: anthony weiner? >> no, weiner, pronounced the correct way. now, this wind of weiner is spelled w-i-e-n-e-r. if he pronounced his name like the rest of the weiners, it would h

. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> a little ham. she is very cute. >> so effective. >> very effective. if you push a journalist, you have to be careful. >> she is just microphone height. she is just in the right sfot. that's going to wrap it up for us this morning. >>> good morning. it's 9:00 a.m. on the east coast. 6:00 a.m. out west. i'm carol costello in for fear ra phillips. good morning to you. >>> a cloud of destruction, a tornado, another one sends debris flying through the air. it is not tornado alley. it is in massachusetts. this is what it sounded like on the ground. >> oh -- i'm so happy i'm filming this right now. seriously, the ceiling, look. oh, my god. oh, my god. >> these guys made it out alive but four people were killed. we will show you just how bad the damage was. >>> shelling heard from a roof top. street fighting breaks out in the airport in yemen's capital. flights canceled and there is new concerns of a coming civil war. >>> google says hundreds of personal g mail accounts have been hacked. they blame a giant

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here's cnn's jeanne moos with 10-year-old piper's excellent adventure. >> reporter: if a teacher asks she did for a summer vacation, she can leap right into the we, the people bus trip saga. very few people have their very own bus. how many so-year-o10-year-olds they've been hounded by the press. >> don't step op the kids, please. >> make a hole. >> reporter: or had pizza with donald trump. >> we had great pizza. wasn't that good? it was real new york pizza. >> reporter: or went motorcycle riding with mom on the back of dad's bike. oh, sure, she had to entertain herself cramming gum in her mouth while she listened to mom giving interview after interview. and sometimes she had to physically drag her mom away. and occasionally it took -- >> where's the school? >> reporter: not just one tap on the shoulder, not just two. >> in fact, todd, our guide -- one sec, honey. >> reporter: three taps, and she's out. finally, even a kid -- >> piper, what did you think of the statue of liberty? >> reporter: isn't immune to the role in the limelight. in a role reversal, mom watched as piper described

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jeanne meserve with the details. >> reporter: the pilots' tirade about flight attendants is peppereds, insults and slurs against homosexuals and women. >> 11 [ bleep ] over the top [ bleep ] [ bleep ] homosexuals and a granny. 11. think of the odds of that. i thought i was in chicago which was partyland. after that it was just a continuous stream of gays and grannies and grandes. >> reporter: grandes, an apparent reference to overweight people. >> i hate 100% of their asses. >> reporter: the pilot talks about exploits with some of them. >> so six months i went to the bar three times. in six months, three times. once with the granny and the [ bleep ] and i wish i hadn't gone. at the very end with two girls, one of them was that was probably doable. >> an air traffic controller tries to stop him but the rant goes on. >> i still wouldn't want anyone to know if i had [ bleep ] them. there's all these [ bleep ] old dudes and grannies and there are maybe a handful -- >> somebody has to stop mike. we don't need to hear that. >> one adds commentary. >> they wonder why airline pilots have a b

is an important thing to note and of course the big picture here the deal that we had heard on our jeanne moos earlier about the signing of the agreement between president medvedev and chinese president hu jintao over this gas deal between russia and china china has a very important role to play here at the forum and later on in the in the forums. and present a bit of will be here to address the delegates and that's something that we will bring you of course here on our seat before we get to all of. i am joined here by timothy draper in the principal and founder of draper fisher jurgensen to talk more about the economics and investment in russia thank you very much for being with us so how important thank you very much how important do you think this forum is for your company so for a company it's it's a mission. we're in the business of spreading entrepreneurship and venture capital wherever we go i grew up in the silicon valley where it was just. orchards of. apricot it's and now it's grown into the center of economic development and and i watched that grow and so i see actually how tha

them thank you very much looking to need to fight for them for us and for others that's marvelous jeanne thanks so much for being with us tonight it's great to nature more than sixty five years ago president roosevelt unveiled a second bill of rights that all americans should be entitled to he said that those new rights including the right to a job with a fair wage the right to food and clothing and recreation the right for every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living the right of every businessman large and small to be free from domination by them and i believe at home or abroad i'm using roosevelt's language here the right of every family to a decent home the right to adequate health care the right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age sickness accident and unemployment and the right to a good education unfortunately after all this time it seems like roosevelt's second bill of rights is becoming harder and harder to attain and that's why it's important to show up tomorrow and march with national races uni

could complete a full search that happened at the northwest florida regional airport last weekend jeanne what was. she's ninety five she has leukemia she apparently had spoiled her diaper and didn't have any extra thing about this story is just so. you know you have to strike a balance between your freedom and security and i think that once you start taking the day pressure off ninety five year old women we could give you you sort of you've lost the war the war is about preserving freedom the words of a serving america if you're risking their duty if there is can get ninety five year old grandmothers to smuggle utensils on a plane some look they will lose that small battle there's a bigger battle to fight when i used to travel a lot and i would take off my shoes and take off my belt and you know basically strip down just to go through security i always used to say some of it is laughing right now because you know this is one way in which you want americans now they have to strip down just in order to travel a lot and of course no longer with us but i think this is another thing that thos

of the chemistry international spent three months investigating the claims picked a good idea to jeanne was using flagger with its troops then she came back and said that is absolutely untrue there is no evidence for that and what she did was she spent three months investigating these claims so far night that amnesty international no human rights watch every investigated gleams the west has conducted a systematic killing of civilians so you know what i would say is that i was the pm she is making a significant and the need to be investigated and i frankly don't understand how the great organizations like amnesty and human rights watch spent a lot of their resources investigating walk by the other side but that's why it's. a comprehensive report about war crimes from me to and from the united states and much the same goes to the campos office at the hague. will use this fact team that's why i was being given the creeps a claim though completely you know at least from amnesty international opinion that has been debunked even by ok nothing about need to a crime all right certainly a lot of

. >> clothes and art and furniture from the show dallas and i dream of jeanne. get all of your headlines . i am rachel smith on the red carpet in los angeles. >> we have a new recall to tell you about. popular brand of birth coal a second look. >> we'll take you back up to the tahoe area. this is trucky, winter weather advisory in affect and cars creeping along there. back in a moment. >> toyota is recalling more than 100,000 prius. the hybrid cars have a problem with faulty steering caused by a nut that could come loose. the first generation frius models went on sale in 19nen x. 52,000 of the vehicles were sold in the u.s.. loose nut can cause the prius to steer with too much force. >> and fewer people are driving motor and ford cars off of the lots and when it comes to insurance, you may be in good hands with all state but costs you more to stay there. >> the attention was on the auto industry. top estimate sales are shot up 10 percent . beating the forecast of the 9.5 percent. dodge durango and jeep grand cherokee . toyota headed south. gm's delivery dropped

jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> 10:00 a.m. east coast. 7:00 a.m. out west. hope today's weaker winds help them battle historic wildfires, nearly 400,000 acres burned, biggest fire moved into the town of greer, which has already evacuated. this morning, a grim new measure of the economy, last week the number of americans their first claims for unemployment benefits rose to 427,000. 1,000 more than the week before. >>> and country superstar, shania twain, took a tumble at last night's cmt music awards. she is fine and is in the midst of a big comeback. we'll have that story a little bit later. >>> this morning, reports of a secret u.s. war in yemen, as the important u.s. ally teeters near collapse. u.s. ally is a hot bed of terrorism and growing instabilit instability. >> this is the white house, ratcheting up air strike, rebels badly wounded yemen's president, he's now recovering in saudi arabia, rather. the u.s. is take advantage of the power vacuum that's been left behind. strikes further testing the full resources of our military. >> it is interesting, he

our cnn's jeanne moos has the embarrassing evidence. >> ever drive off with something sitting on your and have this thing on the trunk? >> it's a careless act. >> a semiautomatic rifle sitting unattended on the trunk of a patrol car parked in downtown seattle. passerby snapped a picture and alerted officers on bikes and then sent the photo to seattle's alternative newspaper, "the stranger." sure was a strange sight. now it's one thing to leave a cup of coffee on the roof and take off, but the gun apparently didn't fall off. a source confirms to cnn that one officer was unloading his car in the precinct garage and sat the rifle down on the trunk of a second car and forgot it. a lieutenant came out and got in it and drove off with the gun on the trunk, and she stopped a few blocks away to get starbucks, and that's when it was shot. it seems like a shot out of "there's something about mary." now, when police do this with a gun, it would most likely be considered minor misconduct and result in a reprimand or suspension. worst things could be left on the top of the car. there was a baby do