here's randi kaye with part three. >> reporter: growing up, ryan had a secret, a secret he shared inages of his diary. but when ryan was just 13shgs his mother read his diary and discovered ryan was gay. it was the beginning of the most painful years of his life. >> i didn't question the world i had grown up in. i thought there was some legitimacy to the idea that i was an evil sinner who was going to burn in hell. >> reporter: ryan says his parents were determined to change their son. as ryan tells it, his parents signed him up for reparative therapy. >> every day i would hear, this is a choice. this can be fixed. >> reporter: did you believe that? >> i never believed that. i know i'm gay just like i know i'm gay and short and half hispanic. it's part of my fundamental identity. so the parallel would be sending me to tall camp and saying, if you try really hard, one day you can be 6'1". >> reporter: ryan says he was treated by joseph nicolosi, who today is still associated with narth. >> the constraint refrain was a religious one, that this is a sickness that can be fixed, that is s

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right now randi kaye has another "360" bulletin. >> reporter: a preliminary magnitude 6.7 earthquakeg was issued but canceled with know reports of damage or injuries. the epicenter was about 100 miles north of the area hit by the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated northern japan in march. >>> an arizona jury has found self-help guru james arthur ray guilty of negligent homicide in the deaths of three of his clients during a 2009 sweat lodge ceremony. the jury cleared ray of the more serious charge of manslaughter. ray faces up to 11 years in prison when he is sentenced. >>> in minot, north carolina, sirens sounded today warning 12,000 residents to evacuate due to rising floodwaters. the river which flows through the center of town is expected to set a new flood record. >>> and fashion designer john gagliano testified today in a paris courtroom that his addiction to alcohol and sleeping pills kept him from remembering his alleged anti-semitic rants against three people. prosecutors say the incidents occurred before he was fired from christian dior in march when a video sur

cnn continues on with randi kaye now. >> the issue of same-sex marriage is taking center stage todayat the white house. with the clock ticking the new york senate is set

. >> reporter: randi kaye, cnn, granddaughter, and their daughter is facing the death penalty. they don't know what happened to their granddaughter. so they're trying to find out what the truth is. and they hope to get closure through this. >> reporter: if this case goes into the death penalty phase, i think george and cindy anthony will take that stand as withins and they will beg that jury to save their daughter's life. >> reporter: casey anthony may still be acquitted. if she's found guilty, even a father's undying support might not be enough to save his daughter. >> know that i love you. and i want you home. i want you home. >> i love you, too. >> reporter: randi kaye, cnn, atlanta. >> it's interesting. it may look chaotic to the defense attacks on multiple front with everything they can looking for any way to raise a reasonable doubt. but as their case winds down they also face what maybe their toughest decision, whether or not to put casey on the stand. i spoke about it with former prosecutor paul henderson in san francisco and andrea lyon a law professor casey anthony's

randi kaye looks at the relationship. >> good morning, beautiful. i love you. >> hi.e you, too. >> reporter: from these jailhouse videos it appears as those relationship between casey anthony and her father george is a loving one. >> you're the best father. and by far the best grandfather that i've ever met. i'm going to say that and i mean that with all my heart. >> reporter: recorded in 2008, you can hear the retired police officer assure casey he is trying very hard to find his missing granddaughter caylee. >> i'm doing everything i can. everything i can to help you and help her. i wish there was more i cowl do. i would give my life right now for you and for her. >> reporter: he repeatedly try to ease his daughter's pain. >> if i could switch places with you this second i'd do it. i would do it. >> i know that. >> believe me i would. >> reporter: but just three years later, on trial charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter, casey's defense paints a totally different picture of that father-daughter relationship. >> and it all began when casey was eight years old

>> it's randi kaye, look at her. >> it wasn't me. it was not me. >> i saw you, randi.ob. from michelle, saving jobs was the priority and at least the auto industry held up their side of the bargain. not so with the banking industry. huge bonuses and parties are their priorities. this from stan, it was certainly worth it. it saved jobs which would have cost the american taxpayer more. i mean we lost 14 billion dollars right, but that was worth it in light of all the manufacturing jobs that it actually saved. facebook.com/carolcnn. keep the conversation going and thanks for your comments. we enjoy them. >> great to have you in atlanta. you have to go back to washington. >> i'm going on vacation next week but back in washington after that. but i've loved being in atlanta these past three or four months. it's been great. kyra phillips will be back. >> that will be great. >> 9:00 a.m. through 11:00 a.m. it's been great anchoring those hours and the viewers are great. enjoyed talking to you while i was on the air. >> see you out of washington. thanks. >> we're about to air t

first randi kaye. >> reporter: anderson, authorities in mexico have captured the top leader of one of violent drug cartels. jose de jesus mendez is the head of the la familia cartel. mexico's national security spokesman says his arrest will effectively shut down the cartel. >>> dunn was drunk and driving up to 140 miles per hour before crashing his car. the star of the emergency tv's jacks was driving and died along with his passenger. his blood-alcohol concentration was more than twice the legal limit. the federal reserve has pulled back on its forecast for growth of the economy. he says the gross domestic product will rise no more than 2.9% this year down from an april estimate up to 3.3%. there's an uproar in boston over nike's new campaign featuring t-shirts with pictures of pills and slogans like "get high" and "dope". boston's mayor wants nike to take down a display in a city storefront. nike says the campaign is about action sports and doesn't condone the use of illegal substances >>> more in tonight's breaking news in the trial of casey anthony. we now know her parents don't t

clinton officiated weiner's wedding. >> randi kaye, thank you.t thinks rapes, we for the first time have a copy of one video. >> we've heard the accusations of mass rape happening inside libya, bud now there is apparently proof. sara sidener uncovers explosive evidence. you have to see this, next. >>> i want to warn you, the story you're about to see is disturbing and graphic, because it's about rape as a weapon in libya's civil war, and evidence of those assaults that rebels say is frequently found and captured on cell phones, as cnn's sara sidner explains, the videos are so horrific, even the rebels are trying to erase the evidence trying to avoid humiliating their families and victims. we have blurred almost all of the video to make -- the audio alone may be upsetting to some of you. >> reporter: on the frond lines of libya's war, rebel fighters say they are fighting more than weapons on captured or killed -- they say they have confiscated cell phones that that show them raping citizens. >> reporter: we for the first time have a copy of one. t

randi kaye has a story in this week's "what matters" segment. ♪ >> reporter: voices of destiny is notin compton, california. this group is using the power of music to change their lives. and they're young. everybody is under 30. >> at the time that we started voices of destiny the crime rate in compton was out of control. i had buried in that year alone over 35 young men. i needed a choir that they could feel like they belonged to and they could call their own. >> reporter: pastor michael fisher started choices of destiny in 2005 when he took over the pulpit from his father. he was 25. >> i looked around and saw that there was nobody in the audience that was my age. >> reporter: now the choir has 60 members, and they recently won the title best choir in america during a composition in washington, d.c. but the real reward is the impact on its members. >> before i joined voices of destiny i was on a road to failure. >> reporter: for this 19-year-old, the church and the choir gave her a reason to live. >> they were like family to me. i was able to express myself when i was with them. i d

for more on the $300 house project, check out my facebook page at randi kaye cnn.et over the gas, that's the message from michele bachmann who says she's serious. [ male announcer ] do you know how you will react when someone changes lanes without warning? or when you're distracted? when you're falling asleep at the wheel? do you know how you'll react? lexus can now precisely test the most unpredictable variable in a car -- the driver. when you pursue perfection, you don't just engineer the world's most advanced driving simulator. you engineer amazing. ♪ oh, we call it the bundler. let's say you need home and auto insurance. you give us your information once, online... [ whirring and beeping ] [ ding! ] and we give you a discount on both. sort of like two in one. how did you guys think of that? it just came to us. what? bundling and saving made easy. now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> time now for a krnl cnn political update. wolf blitz er joins me now from washington. who are we hearing from today? >> tim pawlenty, randi the two-term ex-governor of

. >>> randi kaye is in for ali velshi. >>> well, out of cold storage, into the daylight, more than 24,000 pages of sarah palin's e-mails from her abbreviated stint as governor of alaska. cnn and other news organizations asked for those records way back when john mccain picked a running mate no one in the lower 48 had ever heard of. it took this long for the state to sort out what it had to produce and what it could legally hold back. and right this minute in juneau, cnn's drew griffin is picking up six boxes of paperwork and getting ready for some speed reading. palin told fox news she's not worried, even though she thinks political opponents will try to exploit the information. >> a lot of those e-mails obviously weren't meant for public consumption. they're between staff members. they're probably between family members. i'm sure people are going to capitalize on this opportunity to go through 25,000 e-mails and perhaps take things out of context. they'll never truly know what the context of theech oeach one e-mails was. >> drew griffin will join us live with his first arm load of palin'

i'm randi kaye.o start this hour with the casey anthony murder trial, which has so many of us captivated, fascinated by the drama unfolding this hour inside this orlando courtroom. these are live pictures inside the trial for you in what is day two of casey anthony's defense. flies and trash found inside casey anthony's car are the focus right now. prosecutors say it's proof the decomposing body of casey's 2-year-old daughter, caylee, was inside the trunk, but anthony's defense lawyers are trying to squash that theory with their own bug expert. the bizarre details and explosive theories have us all on edge. so, it's no wonder the casey anthony murder trial is becoming somewhat of an obsession. >> let him go! let him go! >> this is the scene this morning outside the courthouse. you can see there grown-ups, yes, grown-ups actually fighting, clawing their way in line for one of those seats that are reserved for the public inside the courtroom. let's bring in "in session" legal contributor sunny hostin t

first randi kaye has a 360 bulletin. >> reporter: an unmanned u.s.r went down while on a nay vo station mission over libya. nato says it lost contact with the helicopter this morning. libyan state tv reported it was a manned apache helicopter but nato says no apaches have been lost during the entire mission. >>> newt gingrich had at least apparently two lines of credit at the jewelry store tiff thinks. one worth $1 million. about a month ago, financial disclosure forms for gingrich's wife showed they had a line of credit at the store for between a quarter and a half million dollars during 2005 and 2006. the campaign says the account has a zero balance and has been closed. >>> republican john huntsman announced his bid for the presidency today at liberty state park in new jersey. huntsman is the former governor of utah and also served as u.s. ambassador to china under president obama. >>> more than 10,000 firefighters are at work against 52 wildfires now burning in 12 states. the fires have burned almost 2200 square miles, nearly the size of delaware.

. >>> "cnn newsroom" with randi kaye starts now. >> too much debt and not enough money. a country in revolt and risking default. an agonizing choice. sounds too familiar but these sights and sounds are from greece. riot, police, and thick clouds of tear-gas are keeping protesters away from athens. their fellow euro states would like l likely stop bailing them out, and that could send shock waves all over this map and beyond. take a look here. all of these countries share the euro. which means all pay the price, when one, even a small one like greece gets in trouble. today's vote clears the way for $17 billion in emergency loans from the imf and eu. the final installment of the billion-dollar package passed last year. cnn's richard quest is in the thick of the demonstrations in greece, and he will join us within the next hour. >>> and then president obama held a full-on news conference at the white house today, and debt ceiling talks with ref cons topped his agenda. republicans refuse to consider tax increases to go along with spending cuts that seem to be a condition for

. >>> "cnn newsroom" continuing right now with fredricka whitfield in for randi kaye. >> let's talk aboutdowns and body scans and inspections all aimed at making sure airline security know who is getting on airplanes, so how did a man with no valid id and somebody else's boarding pass fly across the country last friday from new york's jfk to los angeles? the nigerian national was arrested. he was trying to board a flight from los angeles to atlanta, and they found other several boarding passes that were phoney in his bag. a spokesman did say this, every passenger that passes through security check points is subject to many layers of security including thorough, physical screening at the check point.

randi kaye has the story in this week's what matters segment. >> a world renown golf course and homes have -- >> class a retail in the community. we have to travel quite a distance to get the upper scale stores and restaurants. >> reporter: that has prompted four towns to band together to fight what they call retail red lining, claiming the predominantly african-american communities are being ignored. >> we're 60% african-american. i think the perception on the part of retailers is that we're poor and under educated, high crime rates, and all of those are untrue. >> reporter: rebecca and leslie moore have to drive 30 minutes to get the basics. >> there's nothing within our town that i can go to to get a bag of groceries or what i need on a weekly basis. >> reporter: no shopping means no sales tax ref knew going back to the use by the police department and fire departments. they are trying to figure out how to attract upscale stores to the area. >> when there is a drop in the tax revenue that has to be made up to provide some type of services that the neighborhood wants, and that goes

randi kaye in for ali velshi. >> thank you. >>> out of the frying pan, into the wildfire.elt in weather more suited to august, arizona still is fighting and fleeing a historic fire. >>> you may remember yesterday i told you the scald wallow fire in the he

thank you, randi kaye. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> i want to begin the hour with an extreme fire risk what people in arizona and new mexico are facing today. we talked about the red flag alerts with chad myers earlier in the week, and they are up as fire crews are struggling with a massive wildfire there. here are the picturpictures. it is called the wallow fire and it has burned nearly 400,000 acres, and there is no let-up in the flames. right now, this has been upgraded if the we can use that word to the second largest wildfire in the state's history and folks, it is getting bigger. one of several burning in the state, and in fact, we are getting all kind of video that we are getting from you, the ireporters who are sending come el ping images of the wildfire there. look at the horizon. these images were shot by laurie bailey from arizona who says that the smoke from the murphy fire has covered her community for days, and that the firefighters are not getting any helpp from the weather. talked about high winds continuing, and low humidity making for a tough fight for folks

. >>> "cnn newsroom" continues right now with randi kaye. >>> tonight is the night. in a few hours, president obama will deliver a highly anticipated speech detailing withdrawals from afghanistan. let's take a look at the numbers for you. 30,000. that is the number of troops the president is expected to say will leave the region by the end of next year. 10,000 of those troops are expected to return home this year pulling 30,000 out would leave about 70,000 american troops in the region. if you are keeping track, this withdrawal plan is after the surge of 30,000 troops. and it follows a growing impatience with the war in afghanistan which we have been fighting for ten years now. 74% of americans are in support of some sort of drawdown, and many are in full support, saving a little money on defense spending. when i say a little savings with the drawdown, i do mean just that. in the first year, the afghan withdrawal will save less than $10 billion. that sounds like a lot of money, but consider the cost of the war this year alone. and since the first american troops went

cnn continues now with randi kaye. >> thank you, fred. >>> an 81-year-old was one of the most powerful

"cnn newsroom" continues right now with randi kaye in for ali velshi. >>> well, 67 years ago today, the allies landed on the northern coast of france and turned the tide of world war ii. it will always be known as d-day. we've since been involved in numerous wars and hostilities all over the world but none with such a clear-cut beginning objective and end. that's painfully clear as five u.s. troops are killed in a rocket attack in iraq and as defense secretary gates wraps up an emotional tour of afghanistan. gates is retiring at the end of this month with no end in sight to the afghan war. >> i just want you to know i think about you every day. i feel your hardship and your sacrifice and your burden and that of your families more than you can possibly know. you are, i believe, the best our country has to offer and you will be in my thoughts and prayers every day for the rest of my life. thank you. >> back at the white house, president obama today brought in the rest of his national security team to update the plans to begin. now the key word there is begin pulling troops out of afghanis

. >>> we continue with randi kaye who is in for ali velshi. >>> a move follows revelations of his lewd online exchanges with women. you will recall, anthony weiner, a democrat, lied about reports that were true. according to his source, weiner made a decision to resign after talking to his wife and house minority leader, nancy pelosi, and fellow congressman, steve israel yesterday. he is expected to announce his resignation at the top of the hour. we will bring that to you live when it happens. >>> let's get to our senior congressional correspondent on capitol hill. many were expecting his wife would weigh in on this decision. do you have any indication how the conversations went or how he came to this decision? >> reporter: we don't know how the conversations went except that we do know that there were conversations. we knew his wife who is a top aide to secretary of state hillary clinton was traveling with her and now returned. everybody on capitol hill was waiting for that moment, because anthony weiner was telling them he did not want to make decisions until they spoke face-to-face

cnn "newsroom" continues now with randi kaye in for ali velshi. >> thank you. it is bigger than memphis, bigger than kansas city, much bigger than chicago. it's driven thousands of people out of their homes with little hope of seeing those homes ever again. it's not the biggest wildfire in arizona history yet, but the so-called wall owe fire in the apache national forest is still growing fast, and the smoke can be seen as far away as kansas. >> cnn's jim spellman joins me. jim, set the scene for us. any sign they're getting control of this massive fire? >> reporter: absolutely not yet, randi. still zero percent contained, despite having 2,500 firefighters on the ground. this morning, one of the firefighters described the fire simply as a monster. they have not been able to get any kind of control over it. one of the big things they're dealing with here is the wind. we know that in wildfires like this, weather is the key to getting a handle on it. 25 mile an hour sustained winds, 40 mile an hour gusts. creating what they call spotting where embers can fly severa

"cnn newsroom" continues with randy kaye. >>> thank you. president obama is making a rare presidential visit to puerto rico right now, speaking there with leaders and citizens about jobs and their status as a u.s. possession. puerto rico is an important stop for the president. he's the first president to make an official stop there in 50 years, since john f. kennedy. president ford was actually the last president to visit puerto rico while in office, but he was there for an international economic conference, not to meet with puerto rico's leaders. they have a special importance now. while residents there are u.s. citizens, they can't vote in a presidential election but puerto ricans living in the u.s., of course, can. right now, there are more puerto ricans living on u.s. soil than on the island. this trip was promised by the president the last time he was in puerto rico as a candidate. even though he lost the primary to hillary clinton. cnn white house correspondent dan lothian is traveling with the president. he's in san juan for us. dan,

"cnn newsroom" continues with randi kaye. >> i love that kid, too cute. >> he is great. not shy at all. >> have a great day. thank you. >>> 30,000 troops out of afghanistan by the end of next year. an administration source tells cnn that is the plan for the draw-down. president obama is expected to lay out the plan in a speech tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. of course, we will bring it to you live right here on cnn. the first of those troops should be coming home this summer. during meetings at the white house last week, u.s. commanding general in afghanistan, general david petraeus, offered several options to the president. here's where we are right now in afghanistan. since operations began nearly ten years ago, 1,522 u.s. troops have died there. 185 this year. there are around 100,000 u.s. troops, many of them committed to the nato-led international security force. so what do the american people think? in a recent cnn opinion research corporation poll, 74% said at least some troops should be withdrawn. 39% think all the troops should come home now. 18% think the

well, animal lover randi kaye, thank you so much. have a good weekend. hello to you all. i'm t.j. holmes, in for brooke baldwin today. you remember how the week started with that cnn debate up in new hampshire, where we saw all of the potential republican candidates going at it? well, this is how the week is ending for the gop presidential hopefuls. it's ending down in new orleans. this is a live picture at a conference going on right now, the annual republican leadership conference. no, eyes are not playing tricks on you. nobody at the podium yet. someone is walking to it, but we expect to hear from a couple folks who will take the stage, one of them being congresswoman michele bachmann. she, of course, made a big splash in new hampshire, got a lot of attention. a lot of people gave her a lot of credit for her performance. also in the next few minutes, we're expecting to hear from congressman ron paul, republican of texas. now you know when he steps in front of a camera or puts a microphone on, he usually has something to say, so we'll be checking in there plenty within the next