many times we don't need one. >> renee says alex would have celebrated his 29th birthday yesterday. coming up at 6:00, renee shares the lessons and advice she has for other people who are battling addiction. >>> two of the police officers involved in baltimore charged in the death of freddie gray. they're suing baltimore's top prosecutor. officers william porter and alicia white filed suit for defamation and invasion of privacy. that lawsuit argues baltimore state's attorney made statements not to prosecute, but to quell porter's trial ended last year with a hung jury. >>> virginia governor terry mcauliffe is threatening tonight to withhold funding from metro if safety improvements aren't made. this come on the same day of announcements of a new safety commission. what all this means for you. >> reporter: good evening, jim. you know, this commission wouldn't take effect until next year. if regional leaders get their way, that commission will have broad powers over commission. it is not just an advisory commission. a very frustrated virginia governor said he can't wait until next yea

the end came just four months ago, two days shy of rene's 74th birthday. >> when i saw you last timel come as a shock? because even when you're expecting it you kind of never expect it. >> i think i was more in shock when i did talk to you the last time, because i saw him suffer and that is the worst. today for me it's like i don't live with him physically, but i live with him inside of me. >> reporter: her husband of 21 years slipped away quietly in the early morning hours of january 14th. >> i started to talk to him and i said, you know what, i want you to just go in peace. i want you to not worry. you were worrying for my career. you were worrying for the children. you were worrying for everything. it's enough. i promise you we're going to be okay. >> you left me now with enough good memories of you to share with my younger brothers. >> reporter: the couple's sons 15-year-old rene charles and 5-year-old twins nelson and eddie now adjusting to life without their father. >> every night we kiss him good night. eddie starts, two fingers, one finger and he said love you papa so much, h

i'll do the plug for you here because rene's series is continuing. go to cnnpolitics.com and catch her work and next piece on, you guessed it, airports. tonight on erin burnett outfront 7:00 eastern time. rene does fantastic exhaustive work. >>> in just a few moments, donald trump expected to speak live in fresno, california. one day after he clinched that magic number of republican delegates needed to clinch the nomination. there's activity outside too. police bracing for the protesters who have already shown up. going to go live right after this. amazing sleep stays with you all day and all night. sleep number beds with sleepiq technology give you the knowledge to adjust for the best sleep ever. save $500 on the memorial day special edition mattress with sleepiq technology. plus 36 month financing. know better sleep. only at a sleep number store. when yaren't moving in the right direction, it can be a burden. but what if you could wake up to lower blood sugar? imagine loving your numbers. discover once-daily invokana®. with over 7 million prescript

but first, let's bring in cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh. there's so many questions involving the final moments leading up to the disappearance this plane. if indeed this was a bomb on board, how big of a bomb would it need to be to bring down this plane? >> jake, at that altitude, 37,000 feet, it really wouldn't have to be that big of a bomb. a small amount of explosive could essentially tear that aircraft apart because of the air pressure at that altitude. but before investigators are able to definitively say what brought that plane down, they need to get their hands on the critical black boxes as well as the wreckage and not long ago, one airline official telling cnn they believe they have located that wreckage. as distraught families rush to cairo airport for word on their loved ones, the u.s. navy has deployed a p3 aircraft to help in the search. officials believe this was likely an act of terrorism. >> translator: if you look at this situation properly, the possibility of a terror attack is more likely than a technical problem. >> repo

. >> during renee final moments assured him that she and her sons would go on as his living legacy. >> i promise you we're going to be okay. please leave in peace. i don't want you to worry. >> she tells abc news deborah roberts that she explained his death to 15-year- renee charles and nelson and eddie by comparing it to the movie up up where balloons lift a house into a peaceful sky. >> today papa wentup. the only thing i wanted was for them to say up. up is a good thing. up is uplifting. we' to celebrate right now because papa is no in pain. >> they even still talk about it they say good night and they say good night papa, you're up. >> the full interviiw airs tomorrow on gma and nightline and for a final good-bye celine reveals she her boys held their own up fair well. >> we're going to make a wish and talk to papa and we're going to say papa love you. have a good up and we're going to spread this and it's going to go to him. >> up next we have big news from the big apple. >> if you're going to do something big you're in the right place forit. >> garth brooks back in new york. how

cnn's rene marsh has more. >> reporter: the ntsb investigation into the amtrak derailment that killed eight and injured more than 200 people in philadelphia last year has concluded that the train's engineer, brandon bastian was distracted. he was distracted with radio conversation was other trains and dispatchers about other trains hit with projectiles. the ntsb will announce this morning at a public meeting. investigators say they found no evidence that the amtrak engineer was using alcohol, drugs or a cell phone. we do know that the ride from the train station in philadelphia to the site of the derailment was 11 minutes and investigators say seven to nine of the minutes, the engineer was listening and participating in the radio conversations. bastian approached a 50 miles an hour curve at 106 miles per hour last may. >>> rene, thank you. >> a federal judge announced the names of the conspirators in the bridgegate scandal. we could learn if chris christie was involved in the decision to close lanes in the george washington bridge. two others are going to trial in connection with the

rene, thank you so much. >>> another big story we're covering. any minute, bill cosby could come face-to-face with andrea constand. cosby's attorneys will argue the case should not go to trial and prosecutoring will try to peel away the love of a tv dad. sarah is outside the courthouse. when do we expect bill cosby to arrive, sarah? >> reporter: any minute now. the hearing is to begin at 9:30, pamela. nowhere was bill cosby more loved than here in his hometown, just united states side of philadelphia. now, this is the place. this is the courthouse where he is facing criminal charges. three counts of aggravated in decent assault against a woman named andrea constand who was the director of the women's basketball team here at temple university, who says that back in 2004, cosby had her over to his house, gave her blue pill, and then sexually assaulted her. constand was the first woman to come forward and make accusations like this against bill cosby. that was more than 12 years ago. since then, we know that more than 50 women have come forward and

dion emotional performance every queen the show must go on, four months after losing her husband, renens in tears at the billboard music awards. but it was saline who got choke up when their son, rene charles, came out to present her with the billboard icon award. fittingly, she ended her acceptance speech with family. >> my beloved, whom i know, will continue to watch over me from up above. >> ♪ >> everyone was on their feet in las vegas, as got go's reunited and turned back time with their 1980 hit, we got the beat. the bands is set for reunion tour this summer. >> ♪ purple rain ♪ >> and a tribute to prince, stevie wonder joined madonna on the team oval arena crowd sing purple rain for the pun he will one. in hollywood, i'm david daniel. >> so a loft people are still talking about that prince tribute. >> i'm not a music expert, but i -- >> i woke up scrolling through twit they are morning, just checking out what happened overnight, and a lot of people were upset about it. >> bet -- >> started running this promo, like purple city, the purple bet award coming up, we told you about it l

. >> marsha, tracy, jackie, my brother steven, my sister rene renee', my mother pearly and my other sisteratherine. >> reporter report how about the mom pearly she's a pastor in trenton. she ended up taking the cash on this one that's $284 million. they all pray that they spend it wisely and they say friday the 13th it is a blessed day for the smith family. from outside the lottery headquarters i'm karen hepp fox 29 news. >>> so happy for that family. now, could you be the next millionaire? get your powerball tickets and watch the drawing live right here on fox 29 every wednesday and saturday night. >>> a family in northeast philadelphia is tied up at gun point and robbed in their own house this happened last night on the 1400 block of farah day street in philadelphia's somerton section. the suspects broke in, tied up the terrified couple in their 60s and their 37-year-old son. they wore masks and gloves hadn't a handgun. they repeatedly asked the family where was the money while they ransack the place. well, the victim spoke to fox 29 saying the suspects clearly had a house in mind but it

rene marsh, thank you.this memorial day, appreciate it. >>> on this day, as america remembers the fallen military members at arlington and a ceremony about to get under way at the memorial better known as the wall and got more on that next. show me movies with romance. show me more like this. show me "previously watched." what's recommended for me. x1 makes it easy to find what you love. call or go online and switch to x1. only with xfinity. >>> i'm jim sciutto in for wolf blitzer. 8:00 p.m. in fallujah, iraq, wherever you are watching from around the world, thank you for joining us. we begin the memorial day here in washington as america pauses to honor its fallen. these are live pictures of the ceremony just about to get under way right now at the vietnam veteran's memorial. it commemorates the 58,220 u.s. waldiers who died in the vietnam

cnn's rene marsh is here to kick off a new story.ted several bridges across the country and you found a troubling trend, i think it's fair to say. >> it's fair to say. not in good shape, many of these bridges 204 million times a day americans are driving over nearly 60,000 bridges that are in desperate need of repair. we're talking about major deterioration, cracks and other flaws that reduced its ability to support vehicles. 68,000 vehicles cross the arlington memorial bridge between d.c. and virginia every day. this is what drivers don't see. >> it's just eroding and the concrete is falling off. >> we have to wear masks and gloves inside of the bridge because this is all lead paint. this beam is helping to support the bridge and if you take a look, it is badly corroded. you can see how thin that steel is and you can see holes in the steel. >> reporter: the original support beams from 1932 have never been replaced. >> we're like a third-world country when it comes to infrastructure. >> reporter: federal spending on infrastructure ha

rene marsh has a story you'll see only here on "outfront." >> reporter: deep inside the hudson river and new jersey, the concrete is cracked and crumbling, after superstorm sandy flooded the tunnel, the situation became urgent. >> the salt is eating away at the concrete, at the rails, eating at the cables that go through here for power. >> reporter: the amtrak ceo joe board encalls it a glaring example of aging infrastructure in united states. >> this is the busiest corridor in the western hemisphere. we got here because we didn't maintain our infrastructure. >> reporter: every day about 230,000 riders pass through t the tunnel is plagued by power failures. power cables are 80 years old, causing shut downs and massive delays for days. the repair backlog for 450 miles of race from boston to washington, d.c. alone is $20 billion. aging infrastructure has always contributed to deadly derailments. >> shut down the entire northeast corridor. >> reporter: in may, 2015, amtrak 188 traveling more than two times the 50 miles per hour speed limit jumped the tracks in philadelphia. 8 people wer

how did the problem get so bad so fashion, rene marsh has a story you'll only see here. >> reporter:ere insecurity for two hours. >> reporter: frustrated passengers. it has become the standard at airports nationwide. the trouble facing america's airports goes far beyond the security checkpoint. >> people going through airports built in the '50s, '60s, '70s, the airport structures can't accommodate. >> reporter: decades ago when the airports were built, there were 62 million travelers. today that number has grown but capacity has not. more than 750 million passengers are expected to fly this year. presidential candidates on both sides agree the nation's airports are not ready for the 21st century. >> i am tired that we don't have a single airport in our country that's considered in the top 25. >> you look at some of our airports, it is third wore. >> reporter: also in need of updating, the faa's air traffic control system. doug parker is the ceo of american airlines. >> our flight times and what we schedule our times to be are longer than they would be if we had a more efficient air t

look at the ocean but they can look at any house i i cannot see i just had in my opinion leo and renees house the lowest house in the block with first story most of houses is second story but if their house is adapted a vacant place the neighbor always had a better view look at her site now the new owner didn't matter he - i think they had a right to the neighbors before they have the same second story house like the neighbor before. >> that's what i my point of view. >> thank you very much union thank you any other speakers in support of project sponsor. >> mr. johnsms. johnson. >> my name is silvia johnson. i know that those i know needs processed and that the delivery had been proceedings as responsible and that this is has to be done by the put-down open there to be on any kind of delivery in this process of building and i have you know measurements that would be you know included in the new foundations which i am working everyday trying to get the city department involved to receiving that we started 7 o'clock in the morning that is late i have to pack a lunch to get down there so

renÉe came up big in goals, 44 saves, the series is tied, numtwo-numtwo, game 5 saturday night in sana raptors and heat went to overtime again, toronto on top, 96-92. led the way with 21 points for the raptors. the heat had their chances as they led by seven midway through the fourth quarter and dragons tied the game with 10 seconds left. game 3 will be saturday afternoon in miami. the extra play carried over to the baseball diamond as well because the yankees and orioles sit out through 10 innings where baltimore barely walked away with a 1-0 victory. masahiro tanaka pitched eight shutout innings but in the bottom of the 10th pedro alberts drove in the winning run on sacrifice fly, yankees returned home to face the red sox tonight at twee 10 innings and 1-0 the final score. nicole: i want to talk about the most exciting two minutes in sports, the kentucky derby gets underway tomorrow at churchill down, 7 wins in 7 starts. exaggerator, 3 other horses follow with 10-1 odds with 30-1 odds. dallas stewart knows how tough the race is going to be. >> this is a fight. it will be a dogfight.

rene, you have done your job. >> thank you. >> ladies i'm sure you've done your job.is a time to celebrate and to think about people that have helped us out. so rock your freedom, ladies and gentlemen. i like t by the way, come to my house little later. i love what do you. >> she'll yell at you over there, too. >> we've already scheduled the fight. >> thanks, so last night about 10:00 it start today rain heavily in front of my apartment here in old sit. >> i okay? >> so i went out, i created a piece of rainy artwork, would you like to help me roll it now? a little fireworks in the puddles outside. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> now, alex? >> it is, the fact it is rain, and it looks like a sparkler, that's pretty cool. >> ya, rain and puddle, sidewalk in front of my apartment. >> reflection of the light and what the rain is doing to the reflection? >> yes, there was a light up above, street lamp, ya, it is the reflection. >> very nice. >> if you would like to look at all of it, it goes on for 13 minutes. >> exact same shot? >> oh, ya. >> where should we go, mike? >> go to my facebo

renee concerned of kardashian.hey are fielding 7 figure offers for their own reality tvv show. that's going to be a roller coaster. if all you do is work, work,work work on your studiesry and a could help cover that cost. she he she set up through klehr a foundation.ndat it is amounts ranging from 5,000 to $50,000. the application process is open until june 10. in a statementry anna calledca being able to give the gift ofit an education an honor. this is a no brainer that a musical about a founding fathern should come to the nation's capital and it is finallyfina happening. very exciting. creating a lot of buzz. hamilton is coming to thehe kennedy center. but not until the 2017,-2018 season so you can safe your pennies for those tickets. it won the pulser price for drama and 16 tony awards.on it is the story of alexanderlexa hamilton one of our founding o fathers who was a top advisor to george washington and served as the cunt first treasurer. the dates have not been announced. we'll be sure to tell you when they

. >> rene is doing well.ou're comingback, but i love this, with his blessing. >> he wants me back, he wants me strong, and this is what we're doing together. >> just eight later, he would lose his battle with cancer. i was in montreal watching celine and her young son say good-bye. in february, she ledda tribute in vegas wiping away tears. now in her 2016 billboard music awards return, the woman who lost her soul mate, the father of er children will again emerge triumphantt >> people know me well. they know my priority is my family, but the fans are as well. ♪ >> there's no doubt about that. i was also in vegas for celine's show. i felt to me like she was relieved to be back in front o the audience again. >> i think she actually gets her strength from her fans. and they certainly love her. >> we'll be right back. ♪ hey i think the internet just went down. huh, why don't you give it a sec, it'll come back. something just happened in the world and we have no idea what it was. get high speed internet from at&t w

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prosecutors connected him to another woman, rene wright, found dead in that same summer tossed in anl >> don anderson works on the case and now he's trying to get stanley's death sentence confirmed. stanley has been on death row for 32 years. >> you abolish the death penalty or you enforce it. there is no sense of having it if you are not going to use it. >> reporter: stanley has two competing set of attorneys. his defenders are filing appeals to save his life. his private attorneys is fighting the following stanley ready to die. >> there is something about this system where the death penalty just becomes a form of suicide. >> santa clara university's alman is an expert. panel recommended many changes. the study that costs $1 million was published in 2008. >> what improvements have been made? >> nothing. a report has been filed away on the shelf of legislatures. they have not addressed any of those problems. >> so death penalty cases such as gerald stanley dragged on. the national average is half that. >> chase stanley tells me his father had put to death decades ago. now, that stanl

i think it was a wonderful gesture he goes back, that he read a letter that renee and i happened to write. did a very very good job. just like to thank him because he didn't have >> student to do that but if he didn't i would probably get on him. i like to thank him for that and also like to thank pam for escorted him there to make sure he got there. very much so. when you have a city like this, i didn't come out here until 1958. you didn't know anything about me at the time, because it was something strange, it is [inaudible] city and joe was my [inaudible] when i came out here. nobody know that, but i did. the thing that i never seen a picture oaf and when joe hit his last home run in 1951 we played a game in new york and he had a grand slam. i'm out there clapping for him. you don't do that when you play the opposition in new york, you just don't do that, but i was clapping and my think was, why didn't you want to get that pitch in. i'm glad they did want because [inaudible] probably would have shot me right away. it was just a wonderful gesture on my part and forgot all about what was

correspondent rene marsh has been following all of this.is the very latest here and what does it mean for the lines that folks are still seeing at the nation's airports? >> reporter: well, i can tell you, kate and john, this is a pretty major shake-up in leadership at the tsa. of course, as you mentioned, this is all happening as airports, airlines, and passengers are complaining about those painfully long airport security wait times. now, the head of tsa security operations, he made more than $90,000 in bonuses, they paid that to him in $10,000 increment and that was on top of his base salary of $181,000. so he received all that money and even after tsa failed to detect fake explosives and weapons 95% of the time during those covert testings. he remained in his position. now, that alone is just a prime example of a broken washington. this shake-up happens, of course, just two weeks after members of congress grilled the head of tsa, peter neffenger, about why hoggan was getting such a handsome salary and bo s bonuses despite his poor perfor

john and christine. >> thank you, rene.me court chose not to resolve religious dispute with the obamacare issue. the justices sent the matter back to the lower courts. this could be an example of how the court approaches contentious cases. >>> a judge offering the order of the co- conspirators in the bridgegate scandal be made public today. we could know if people in chris christie's administration was involved in the decision to close lianes in the george washington bridge scandal. >>> the oklahoma city thunder serving notice. you know, everyone says golden state is so good. they will roll to the finals. no one told that to oklahoma city. game one of the western conference finals in the books. we have coy wire with the bleacher report next. hmmmmmm..... [ "dreams" by beck ] hmmmmm... hmmmmm... the turbocharged dream machine. the volkswagen golf gti. part of the award-winning golf family. the call just came in. she's about to arrive. and with her, a flood of potential patients. a deluge of digital records. x-rays, mris. all

for all the latest information, joined by rene marsh, following this. are we getting answers?> the number one question they wanted to know, lawmakers, is how did we get here and the head of the tsa saying that there are three things that happen that all came together to create this nightmare situation at our airports. number one, they stopped letting passengers who didn't have precheck into those prechecked lines to ease congestion. that doesn't happen anymore. they also don't have enough screeners and you have this situation where the number of travelers, essentially, has exploded. so those have come together to create this nightmare situation where you have people being asked to show up at the airport three hours ahead of time and they're still missing their flights but you know, wolf, this is not just inconvenience. it's also a security issue. you saw what happened in brussels. the soft area of the airport. the concern is having so much congestion in the soft area of the airport could be problematic. so there are lots of actions that tsa has taken. we know by at least mid j

prosecutors connected him to another woman, rene wright, found dead in that same summer tossed in an well >> don anderson works on the case and now he's trying to get stanley's death sentence confirmed. stanley has been on death row for 32 years. >> you abolish the death penalty or you enforce it. there is no sense of having it if you are not going to use it. >> reporter: stanley has two competing set of attorneys. his defenders are filing appeals to save his life. his private attorneys is fighting the following stanley ready to die. >> there is something about this system where the death penalty just becomes a form of suicide. >> santa clara university's alman is an expert. panel recommended many changes. the study that costs $1 million was published in 2008. >> what improvements have been made? >> nothing. a report has been filed away on the shelf of legislatures. they have not addressed any of those problems. >> so death penalty cases such as gerald stanley dragged on. the national average is half that. >> chase stanley tells me his father had put to death decades ago. now, that s

. >> rene is doing well.mp. >> you're coming back, but i love this, with his blessing. >> he wants me back,,he wants me strong, and this is what we're doing together. >> just eight months later, he would lose his battle with cancer. i was in montreal watching celine and her young son say good-bye. in february, she led a tribute in vegas wiiing away tears. now in her 2016 billboard music awards return, the woman who of her children will again emerge trium ready to share her incredible strength with others. >> people know me well. they know my priority is my family, but the fans are as well. ♪ >> there's no doubt about that. i was also in vegas for celine's first show. i felt to me like she was relieved to be back in front of the audience again. >> i think she actually get strength from her fans. and they certainly love her. >> we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ new fresh step with the power of febreze. odor control worth celebrating. see the look and the reason behind it. it's all at etonline.com. >> trave