pamela brown, thank you so much.stion number three, will we hear more from the victim's families. the visibly shaken father of christopher martinez made a statement yesterday. >> why did chris die? chris died because of craven, irresponsible politicians and the nra. they talk about gun rights. what about chris' right to live? >> we now know the names of all of the three shooting victims, the three people who were found stabbed to death at rodger's apartment have not been publicly identified. and question number four, can the internet stop the next killer? we've been digging into the red flags, hints the shooter left online about what he wanted to do. nick, what do people, what do they say? what are they noticing? >> he posted on a variety of forums including pua hate which we'll get to as well as a body builder forum. we talked about that manifesto hey sent that to somebody on the body builder forum who tried to get rodger help but it was too late. i want to talk to pamela brown talking about the close call with auth

i'm pamela brown, here in los angeles.ay, a california community is coming together in the wake of a senseless tragedy to try to cope. while many are stunned and disgusted by the suspect, people in isla vista are focusing on the victims. ahead of the deadly shooting, elliott rodger stabbed three men to death in his apartment, two were his roommates. the third, 20-year-old huang, was visiting. the the two sorority girls, she was studying archaeology at uc santa barbara, according to facebook, and 19-year-old veronica weiss. her father told the "l.a. times" she played four sports in high school and loved math. and 20-year-old christopher martinez was killed at a deli in isla vista. his father called for stricter gun control and this emotional message. >> i can't tell you how angry i am. it's just awful, and no parent should have to go through this. no parent. to have a kid die because in this kind of a situation, what has changed? have we learned nothing? these things are going to continue until somebody does something. so w

pamela brown is live for us now in santa barbara, california, with exclusive new insight into the tragedy. pamela? >> reporter: that's right, fredericka. we are expected to learn any moment now the identity of the three victims found stabbed to death inside eliot rodger's apartment and from talking to a family friend of the rodgers named simon astair that he had grown frustrated with his roommates recreptly. apparently upset because they were making too much noise and played video games and contacted the landlord asking for them to move out and he was told that couldn't happen and learning from a family friend friday night his parents were in a mad scramble to find their son after receiving this chilling manifesto, the family friend says 9:17 p.m. pacific time, the e-mail was found by the mom. read one sentence. knew something was wrong. went to the youtube page and known to post videos and found the retribution video. she apparently immediately called 911 according to the family friend and called the father and they sort of frantically trying to get in touch with him. hopped in the car t

pamela brown is live for us in santa brar santa barbara, with exclusive new insight into this tragedymela, tell us more. >> reporter: well, a representative with the sheriff's office just walked out not long ago and said that any moment now we'll learn the identities of the three people stabbed to death inside elliot rodger's apartment. we'll bring you that information as soon as we get it. fredricka, we've been speaking to a close friend of the rodger family by the name of simon estare and he walked us through in great detail what elliot rodger's family went through before and during that shooting rampage. he says that on thursday elliot apparently spoke to his father and said that he was looking forward to seeing his family this weekend. and then friday night, at 9:17 p.m., pacific time, the mother received this e-mail with the manifesto attached to this -- 140 pages attached and she was one of a couple of dozen people that elliot rodger had sent this manifesto to. she instinctively went to his youtube page after reading the first page and that's where she came across the retributio

officials to bring the charges. >> pamela brown, thank you so much. the five suspects are officers in a top secret unit of the chinese army. the country has openly recruited experts for the group for over a decade. last year, a claim was made that numerous cyber attacks were traced to the neighborhood where they operate. we're joined by chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. shawn, let ne start with you. they're officers in unit 61398. who are they? what is this unit? >> they're a group of hackers working for the chinese government. they're trying to make chinese companies much more competitive and give them an advantage. >> what kind of information do they want? >> research and development. corporate strategies. when u.s. companies are involved in partnerships, the chinese are interested in gaining information. what type of negotiation strategies the company might perform in the negotiations. it's about getting a leg up, putting themselves in a much stronger competitive position. >> how are they doing this? breaking through the security?

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newsroom with pamela brown starts right now. >> i'm pamela brown in for brooke baldwin. thanks so much for being with us. a huge development. a bomb shell revelation from the malaysians. not only did it take 17 min mut to notice a plane was gone but no one bothered to launch an official rescue operation for another four hours. families are hearing a newer clearer version of the communication between the

our justice correspondent pamela brown is standing by live for us. pamela, what's the latest? >> jake, we're still trying to figure out what pell through the cracks here. investigators have been going through the search of elliot rodger's mother's house to indicate what made him finally snap. we know that elliot had been struggling with mental health issues since he was a child, as you pointed out. but it was not until friday night, that according to this friend, there was any indication that he was going to hurt someone. cnn has learned elliot rodger's father was racing from l.a. to santa barbara in a frantic search for his son when the car radio blurted an announcement. >> there is a dark colored bmw with a white occupant, a male in a white shirt. >> reporter: someone driving a black bmw, just like his son's, was on a deadly shooting rampage in santa barbara. >> shots fired, shots fired. >> reporter: peter's fears realized. police say he was planning for at least a year. >> you do deserve it, just for the crime of living a better life than me. >> reporter: rodger taped this

let's go to cnn's kyung law and pamela brown.yung, you traced the steps friday night and bringing that to us in a moment but first, pamela, you have learned new details about warnings signs from a family friend. what do you know? >> that's right. we have spoke on the a family friend of the rodger family. simon astair and he walked me through in great detail of the warning signs and the moments just before and during the rampage on friday night. and desperate search was under way by eliot rodger's parents to find him when the rampage was going on because they had just been tipped with that chilling manifesto and e-mailed it to them and a couple dozen other people. the mother apparently came across the e-mail at 9:17 p.m. pacific time and read a sentence, knew something was terribly wronged she looked at the youtube page and known to post videos there and came across the rebring bugs video talking about slaughtering women at a local sorority house and called the father and called 911 according to this family friend, they got in the

pamela brown, washington. >> thank you. lavoro's dad was on tv and said he is stunned he could be facing life in prison for this. >> i'm not shocked he smoked marijuana but is shocked he's facing five years to life for marijuana. that shocks the heck out of me. it doesn't seem right. >> there are a lot of people who agr agree. paul callen, former prosecutor in new york with me and also with me, this delightful tray of a pound and a half, almost a pound and a half of brownies. that's why i wanted to lift this tray so you could see the volume. we're not talking cases and cases of brownies but more than just the thc located in his brownies. these rer clean. we're talking about the cocoa, butter, flour, and everything included with what he's charged with. i don't understand. >> i will do a lot to improve the ratings on this show but i will not eat a marijuana brownie, but it's clear. >> it is not a marijuana brownie. why did they include all those ingredients? >> it sounds idiotic. here's where it comes from, a heroin dealer se

. >> and justice correspondent pamela brown joining us now from los angeles. give us the latest on this, pamela. >> well, brianna, i've been speaking to a family friend of the rodger family. and of course the parents of elliott rodger are still very shaken. indescribable grief. coping with the fact they've lost their son. trying to come to grips with what he did. we've learned he has a history of mental health issues. in fact, he had been seeing a therapist on and off since he was 8 years old. in high school, he apparently saw a psychiatrist just about either day. at the time of the rampage, he was seeing two therapists. a deeply disturbed individual. from talking to his family friend, elliott didn't really show any outward signs of violence, aggression. the friend said he was reserved, to a daunting degree, but that he never seemed violent or didn't show any fascination with guns. that really wasn't part of the dialogue. but his parents were acutely aware to the fact that he did have some mental health issues and he was being treated for them. back in april, b

pamela brown, reports. >> reporter: reigning teen miss usa cassidy wolf is accustomed to be front and center on the public stage. now the 19-year-old beauty queen is in the spotlight once again as the victim of cybersnooping. it was a notification from her facebook account that alerted her. >> i received an e-mail 30 minutes later saying he sent me an e-mail and said what he was doing to me and gave me three options and attached two nude photo of myself that he had taken on my computer. >> the hacker was someone she had gone to high school with. a college freshman in computer science. wolf wasn't his only victim. according to fbi records, abrams is accused of hacking into as many as 150 computers, taking nude photos of women in order to blackmail them. wolf was among nine known victims in his scheme. fbi officials say abrams gained access to a private space by entering her computer through back door using software better known as creepware. over the past week 100 people have been arrested on a worldwide crackdown of the users and sellers of the malicious commercial software called bla

pamela brown is "outfront" with the story. >> reporter: 19-year-old jacob lavarro is facing the sames some rapists and murderers in the state of texas, up to 99 years behind bars. his alleged offense? baking brownies with hash oil. >> honestly, when i heard that i was going to get life in jail, my face turned completely white. and i had to throw up. >> reporter: but local texas police say lavaro made a business out of pot brownies, selling them for 25 bucks a pop. police found several bags of marijuana and hash oil in separate containers in his house, enough to bring another felony charge against lavaro. but because of a controversial law, it's those hash brownies that could lead to big jail time. >> it really was meant to cover a situation where you were mixing a small amount of cocaine or heroin with white flour. and it was difficult to weigh it because it's all mixed up together. >> reporter: in this case, police weighed all the ingredients in the pot brownies, not just the hash oil. they included the sugar and butter and milk and eggs and flour and chocolate too. 661 grams total.

. >>> but first, our justice correspondent, pamela brown, she's got the very latest. pamela?olf, this is the first time the u.s. has ever done this. filing criminal charges against employees of a foreign government. and in this case, five men who allegedly worked for a secret union of the chinese army. the department of justice says while americans were hard at work designing new technologies, the five chinese suspects were stealing their work to give chinese companies a leg up. wanted by the fbi. five chinese military officials who've allegedly spent years stealing trade secrets from some of the biggest companies in u.s. like westinghouse and alcoa, draining the u.s. economy of billions of dollars and putting americans out of jobs according to u.s. officials. >> for the first time, we are exposing the faces and names behind the keyboards in shanghai used to steal from american businesses. >> reporter: from thousands of miles away, the u.s. tracked the men down to one city, one block, one building on a chinese army base near shanghai. according to this indictment, the five me

pamela brown, thanks very much. >>> and this just coming in.retary of veterans affairs eric shinseki just released a letter to veterans responding to an exploding scandal and calls for his resignation. shinseki noting the allegations of misconduct by his employees first reported by cnn involving delays in treatment and deaths while patients were waiting for care. he writes this to the veterans. "you and your families deserve to have full faith in your va and we intend to earn it every day." shinseki goes on to write about his work on behalf of veterans but he then adds this. "notwithstanding these accomplishments, va will do even better. if any allegation under review are substantiated, we will act." that just in from secretary shinseki. >>> still ahead, america's power and water supplies at risk. we have new confirmation that a utilities control system has been hacked. >>> and we'll go live to the scene of a huge wildfire now threatening a popular resort area. evacuations are now under are the largest targets in the world, for every hacker, cr

newsroom with pamela brown starts right now. >> i'm pamela brown in for brooke baldwin. thanks so much for being with us. a huge development. a bomb shell revelation from the malaysians. not only did it take 17 min mut to notice a plane was gone but no one bothered to launch an official rescue operation for another four hours. families are hearing a newer clearer version of the communication between the cockpit and control tower including these, the final words spoken by the two men piloting this plane. >> so most experts describe that as normal and routine but it's what happened after the plane vanished. that is definitely not normal and definitely not routine. joining me to discuss this more is riply. this report looks like a chain reaction of missteps, oversight and con vugs. what's been the response so far? >> you had these five pages here which lay out the facts of this case as they know them and make a safety recommendation. then you have these supplemental documents that describe what happened. when you heard the voice say good night malaysia flight 370. there was

. >> let's go to cnn's pamela brown. , the dodj is saying our people are inventing these products, your people are stealing the research and selling it cheaper than the west can because your research costs were pretty much close to zero, you stole the information. tell me what we're talking about here specifically. >> sure. brook, u.s. officials are saying these five military officials from china's people's liberation army targeted six u.s. companies in the steel trade, nuclear power and manufacturing industries and basically hacked into their computer systems from thousands of miles away and raided highly sensitive information from them such as cutting edge research, as you pointed out, pricing and strategy information. essentially kpa t compathe compn jewels. they sent e-mails that launched inside their networks and u.s. officials allege hackers stole trade secrets of a nuclear power plant while negotiations were under way between westinghouse, one of the alleged u.s. victims, and a chinese company and, brooke, official

but let's get the latest from justice correspondent pamela brown. i know you're working your sources. good morning. what can you tell us, pamela. >> good morning, carol. it's called economic espionage. sources we've been speaking with say it's an epidemic. it's the first time the u.s. has brought charges against state -- chinese state officials. so what we have learned, carol, is the u.s. department of justice is filing charges against five chinese military officials essentially for hacking into u.s. companies and stealing trade secrets. we've talking about companies, trade unions, manufacturing, as well as steel companies. this has been going on for several years. we've been told by officials that they've suspected for a while that the chinese government was behind this, but it's the first time that we're really seeing those words accusing china of hacking put into action with these charges filed this morning. carol? >> let's be realistic, though. the u.s. has filed charges against chinese officials in china. so what really will come of that. >> spe

. >>> hello, everyone, i'm pamela brown, in for ashleigh banfield. it is monday, may 26th.you're watching "legal view." it was one man's twisted world it and now dozens of people, innocent victims and their families are tangleled in it. elliott rodger was set on hurting as many people as possible in his day of recei retribution. a shooting spree in the college town of isla vista, california. he detailed his plans in a chilling manifesto and on a youtube video. this hour, we'll take a look at his mental state. what drove h

>> pamela brown reporting.lliott rodger but no one as able to stop him from murdering six people on friday night. in the weeks leading up to the attack, sheriff's detectives went to rodger's home because relatives were worried and authorities were alerted on april 30th. >> the relative indicated there was concern about his well-being and the person from the mental health department had been contacted our agency and ask that we conduct a welfare check to determine if he was a danger to himself or anyone else. and deputies from the sheriff's office contacted him. they found him to be rather shy and timid, polite, well spoken. he explained to the deputies that it was a misunderstanding and he was able to convince them that he was not at that point a danger to himself or anyone else and wouldn't have met the criteria for an involuntary hold to examine him further. >> rodger wrote about that meeting in his manifesto which cnn obtained a copy of. this manifesto says "the police interrogated me outside for a few minut

i'm pamela brown. now it's time for jake tapper and "the lead" and critics are asking, did the u.s. underestimate bo underestimate boko haram. >>> monica lewinsky's "vanity fair" is out for everyone to read. what will it mean for hillary clinton's presidential run? >>> and what happens to the players not taken in the first first round? at least they have their world-class educations to fall back on, right? good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. the "closing bell" is ringing. now on to our world lead, you could fit the size of the u.s. response to the nigeria kidnappings on a city bus and still have plenty of seats left. about 11 military personnel from the u.s./africa command are on the ground. more are expected tomorrow. no shadowy figures with a very particular set of skills, at least not publicly or officially. the u.s. appears to be in advisory mode. president obama at an event last night seemed to lament, they can't snap their fingers and get these girls home. >> when there are times in which i want to reach out and save those kids and having to think

. >> thanks to pamela brown for that report. and chinese news agency is reporting that beijing has summoned the u.s. ambassador over these five indictments and is warning u.s./china relations are in jeopardy. let's get more on this from beijing. it would seem the retaliation has only just begun. >> reporter: oh, that's right, john. how far this would go is anyone's guess. the u.s. government also confirming that max bacchus, the ambassador to china, was in meetings with the foreign ministry. he was called in, it appears, late into the night after that initial announcement by the u.s. justice department. that image of the alleged hackers in wanted posters, similar that you would get for international criminals of the more violent nature. even terrorists by the fbi is deeply embarrassing at best for the chinese government. even one of them in the p.l.a., people's liberation uniform. that they were hand in hand with the government and state-earned enterprises to steal secrets. the chinese government has said it is all rubbish. they

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pamela brown? >> thank you. grief and anger in turkey tonight. anti-government protests have erupted in wake of the country's deadliest mining accident. an explosion during a shift change sparked a fire deep inside a coal mine there. 88 workers made it out alive. 274 are dead. dozens more are still missing. the world health organization warns the potentially fatal middle east respiratory syndrome is serious. most of the cases are in saudi arabia and now a second case is confirmed right here in the u.s. in florida. the patient is a health care provider who worked in saudi arabia just like the first patient in indiana who recovered. >>> take a look, incredible video from upstate new york. two young boys were seriously injured when a gust of wind swept up the inflatable bounce house they were in. they fell to the ground after the inflatable soared 15 feet in the air. authorities say the inflatable was properly secured to the ground. >>> and from bakersfield, california, a 5-year-old boy is riding his bike when a neighbor's dog attacks biting his leg

pamela brown has more. >> reporter: hi, there, anderson, in turkey, protests happening in the wake ofry's deadliest mining accident. there was a fire deep inside the coal mine there. 88 workers made it out alive but at least 274 are dead with dozens still missing. >>> and the world health organization warning that the respiratory deadly virus, mrsa, is spreading, one patient who worked in saudi arabia is recovering, just like the first patient who recovered. >>> and in upstate, new york, two boys were seriously injured when a gust of wind blew up the inflate in house they were playing in. the authorities say the inflatable was properly secured to the ground. >>> and from bakersfield, california, a 5 yearly boy is riding his bike when a neighbor's dog attacks biting his leg. get this, the boy's cat came to the rescue and fought off the bad pooch, the boy needed stitches, and called his cat a hero. >> might become a cat person after that. pamela, thank you very much. that does it for us, we'll see you at 11:00 p.m. eastern, that does it for us. cnn now starts right now. >>> good evening

i'm pamela brown. "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. >> did vladimir putin strong like bear turn tail like rabbit? this "the lead." the 40,000, 50,000 russian troops, putin said he's pulling them back. that vote on sunday that could break away southeastern ukraine, well, putin says, move that back. naturally the white house is skeptical of it all. >>> also in world news, terrorist whose vow to sell more than 270 girls they kidnapped, they're only growing bolder in nigerian. assaulting a village with bombs and rocket propelled grenades. nigh dpe nigerian is accepting the help. >>> the girl's going nuts trying to get out of her house. >> an unlikely celebrity when he rescued three young women who had been held captive in the neighbor's home. a year later, charles ramsey will visit "the lead" to tell us how the experience changed him forever. good afternoon, everyone welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. the world lead. i am not sure who this guy is but he does not sound much like vladimir putin. p

pamela brown has a 360 bulletin. >> ukrainian forces have launched their biggest offensive yet as theyussian militants from the southern and eastern parts of the country. they have reportedly seized dozens of buildings across the region and say 30 heavily armed militants have been killed in recent days. >>> south korean police say too much cargo and failure to tie it down properly contributed to the sinking of a ferry there last month. authorities say the cargo weighed more than twice the ship's limit. at least 268 people died in the disaster. 34 others are still missing. >>> and los angeles clippers president andy rosier began an indefinite receive which the nba says will give a new ceo the chance to start with a clean slate. the nba is in the process of forcing owner donald sterling to sell the team after reporting surfaced of him making racist comments, as you'll recall. >> thanks very much, pamela. many people weren't surprised about sterling's comments. maybe least surprised was elgin baylor who sued sterling five years ago alleging racist behavior that went back decades. tomorrow

analysts are standing by with full coverage of this story and we begin with cnn justice correspondent pamela brown. pamela? >> well, hello there, brianna. investigators are going through the items right now that they took from a search of elliot rodger's house looking for any other clues that might indicate what made him finally snap. we've been talking to a close family friend of the rodger family and he tells us that elliot has been struggling with mental health issues since he was a child but it wasn't until friday that there was any indication that he was going to hurt himself. cnn has learned elliot rodger's father was racing from l.a. to santa barbara in a frantic search for his son when he heard a news report on the radio. >> a dark colored bmw with a white occupant, a male in a white shirt. >> reporter: someone driving a black bmw, just like the one his son drove, was on a shooting rampage in santa barbara. police say the 22-year-old college student was shooting at will, exacting the revenge had he been planning, police say, for at least a year. >> you do deserve it, just for a crime of li

pamela brown is in los angeles with the details.o you, john. apparently elliot rodger sent that chilling manifesto to a couple dozen people including his parents and his therapist right before he went on his rampage. this is according to a family friend of the family. the mother first saw the manifesto and knew something was wrong immediately. she went on his youtube page and saw the retribution video where he talked about slaughtering women at the local sorority house and there was a desperate search for elliot rodger by his parents and therapist. their worst nightmare came true when they learned there was a shooting and their 22-year-old son was behind it. of course, elliot rodger had a long history of mental health issues according to a family friend and had been seening a therapist on and off since he was 8 years old. they talk about a pivotal moment back in april when police checked on him. the mother was concerned because she had found some youtube videos where he talked about being lonely. police didn't pounding in too alarmi

our justice correspondent pamela brown is here in "the situation room." the case. >> wolf, u.s. government sources that we're talking with say the fbi agent was in pakistan with permission from the government there to work on a task force combatting public corruption. they tell us the agent did not have a gun on him when he boarded a domestic flight in pakistan but he did forget about ammunition he had in his bag and that's what got him in hot water. >> reporter: locked away in i pakistani jail cell on anti-terrorism charges, this fbi agent from miami now finds himself at the center of an international incident. u.s. government officials tell cnn the agent, in karachi boarding a flight back to islamabad with other fbi agents when authorities searched his bag and found 15 .9 millimeter bullets, three knives and a wrench. he did not have a gun on him. pakistani law prohibits ammunition on commercial flights. the agent was arrested, taken away in handcuffs, cell phone and laptop confiscated. the next day in court a judge ordered him to be held in custody unt

i'm pamela brown. now it's time for jake tapper and "the lead" and critics are asking, did the u.s.erestimate bo underestimate boko haram. >>> monica lewinsky's "vanity fair" is

i'm pamela brown.er starts now. >> did vladimir putin strong like bear turn tail like rabbit? this "the lead." the 40,000, 50,000 russian troops, putin said he's pulling them back. that vote on sunday that could break away southeastern ukraine, well, putin says, move that back. naturally the white house is skeptical of it all. >>> also in world news, terrorist whose vow to

i'm pamela brown in for brooke baldw baldwin. we begin with breaking news.ust learned that the new los angeles clippers ceo will be richard parsons. what else do we know about them? what does this mean for the team. here is more. jason. >> it could mean a lot of things. first of all a man that is highly respected. he's an african-american. also what you're seeing here, pamela, is more evidence that the nba is move iing forward. basically saying that they were moving forward with the search with the clippers new ceo. this announcement today is further proof that they are doing just that. also when you think about this, remember what sterling's wife has been saying that she wants to remain in control of the clippers. she has 50% ownership of the clippers. she wants to be a passive owner. the nba is moving forward without donald sterling, without shelly steriling and trying to get the clippers back on track. >> the ceo stepped down last week. here we are with the new ceo. thank you. i'm going to talk more about this with hln legal analyst and joey jackson. bran

. >>> i'm pamela brown in for brooke baldwin. great to have you with us on this tuesday.years ago. but today a team of scientists say that the time for dire predictions is over. that global climate change is here, it is here right now, when we are all being affected. longer, hotter summers, drought, and extreme weather patterns across the u.s. they conclude climate change once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present. that is a quote. there is politics here, of course. the report was released by the white house and immediately rapped by republicans. supporters of stronger government action to meet this challenge say the study could be a game changer. with us now from atlanta, professor marshall, noted authority on climate change. he's with the university of georgia. and from here in washington, white house correspondent michelle kosinski. nice to have you with us. marshall, we want to start with you. what's new here that really jumps out to you? >> well, what's new to me is that the report is so consistent. it's bringing the specter of f