and jim spellman visited an unusual place that they chose.e'll have jim's report in just moments here on cnn. >>> in the meantime, in toronto history was made. this woman became the first transgendered contestant to compete. she forced donald trump and the pageant to end its ban on transgendered contestants. she didn't win but feels pretty good about her performance. >> for a couple seconds, i was a little bummed out. but after like a couple minutes, i was just extremely happy, so proud of myself and made sure i did my best performance so i wouldn't feel getty. people should embrace their individuality and follow their dreams like i did. >> talackova was born a boy named walter and began hormone therapy as a teenager and had gender reassignment surgery four years ago. >>> as we mentioned the one-year anniversary of the destruction in joplin, missouri, is today. the entire city including the high school was in ruins and they had to scramble just to get students out of harm's way. here's jim spellman. >> reporter: when the tornado struck, rache

here's jim spellman. >> reporter: when the tornado struck, rachel berryhill and her family took shelterr bathroom. >> we shut the door and then we were just holding on to each other and our eyes were closed and all praying. >> reporter: they weren't hurt but emergesed from their destroyed house to a scene like this. when did it hit you that your life wasn't going to be the same? >> i think once i found out that the high school was destroyed. >> reporter: joplin high school was reduced to rubble and classes in the district were cancelinged for the remainder of the year. administers needed to find a temporary facility as aceh fast and they did at a local shopping mall and took over a vacant end of the north park maul and turned it into the temporary high school. they needed to learn and also be together. >> it's really important like we get support from each other and from our teachers and it just helps us grow stronger and stronger. >> reporter: walking the halls of what they call the mall school easy to forget all the students have been through. do people talk about it much anymore? >>

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. -- spellman college yesterday in atlanta. she has a long history with the school she received her own honorary degree from spellman in 1993. >>> high school in joplin, missouri will cap the senior year today when president obama delivers a commencement speech. the president will visit southwest missouri the day before the one year anniversary of the country's deadliest single tornado in 60 years. the twister killed 161, injured hundreds more and destroyed thousands of buildings, including joplin high. >>> internet has turned cell phones into mini hand held computers eye classes could be next. the drive to discover a way to see the world through the internet. >> reporter: this is a wifi mobile device with screen built-in. this is a wifi mobile device its screen is at other end of this wire inside a pair of glasses. this is your sandwich. this is your sandwich through google glass. it is like having your phone over your eye. google's take is still an experiment. this is epsona take available now. >> the -- the content viewing i

. >> that was our producer jim spellman caught in the middle of all that, and as you can see, protesters stood in front of police vans trying to stop them. those vans were mostly filled with riot police who stayed on the sidelines during much of the demonstrations. >>> despite that incident, the protests have pretty much been peaceful, but according to police, that wasn't the intention of three suspected domestic terrorists. cnn foreign affairs reporter joins me now from chicago. good morning. let's talk about this. these guys had big plans to create chaos. what are police saying that they actually wanted to do? >> well, randi, they say these three self-proclaimed anarchists traveled from florida to attack -- to basically cause havoc on the nato summit. not only attacking president obama's chicago headquarters, but also the home of mayor rahm emanuel and also some police stations. they believe that they've been doing reconnaissance, sur veiling the area for the last few weeks, and were going to try to recruit people. basically what their attorneys are saying is that this is entrapment to

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early on we gave opportunities for internships at spellman college. we went there. we announced it. we announced 15 internships for young women to actually work in transportation. we signed an agreement with an organization called the women's transportation association. >> who knew? >> to -- they did. and they're very happy about it. and they've sent us and really helped us recruit women to be involved in transportation careers. look, we agree with you on this. we need many more women involved in what we do, and we're making a real effort to recruit women, recruit young women. obviously, the stem program is one that has really i think -- >> science, technology, engineering, and math. >> exactly. but really, again, focused on women. and it'll take a little time, but i think the effort's worthwhile. >> related to that -- oh, i'm sorry. i was just going to say that gsa is pushing very hard ideas around telework, around flex work, bringing technology that allows you to take that work wherever you are to kind of create the flexibility that you can strike that right balance between home,

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gonzalez received the valor award for his part in rescuing the elderly and disabled residents of at the spellman house in college park during a fire. >> they were knocking door to door getting people out especially the ones in wheelchairs'. it was very scary. >> a stark contrast wine is being mentioned this morning. the six-year officer on paid leave on the allegation he clashed -- crashed his police cruiser while drinking and driving early saturday morning. responding officers immediately suspected the 38-year-old was drunk. prexy was not on duty at the time if. >> it was not injured when he crashed his squad car on rte. 1 in bladensburg, but his colleagues say his blood alcohol content registered 0.13, well over the legal limit. >> they are here to protect the public. if they're not doing what is right, then that causes others to follow and you are the leader. >> his police powers have been suspended this morning and his department issued gun has been taken away pending an internal investigation. reporting live at prince george's county police headquarters, john gonzalez. >> thank you. good sa

you are a spellman woman. >> all right.ing his speech at boston university to tear their eyes away from their smart phones and their computer screens. can you believe it? he said, quote, take one hour a day and turn that thing off. take your eyes off that screen and look into the eyes of the person you love. have a conversation, a real conversation. fantastic advice. he also acknowledged that some in the audience were probably tweeting what he just said. also true. >> turn that thing off? sounds like my dad in the '70s. turn that thing off. wow. eric schmidt saying that of all people. >>> all right. she is a real life indiana jones for the digital age. 34-year-old dr. sarah parkaq is a space archeologist. who knew there was such a thing? she is also a professor at the university of alabama and she is uncovering the world's ancient secrets using space age satellite technology. have a look. >> the most exciting moment as an archeologist happened when i was looking at the great site we all know from indiana jones. we got satel

jim spellman, we're grateful to you. for the report. >>> and speaking of those volunteers, today's events are expected to attract more than 130,000 volunteers to joplin to help out and continue the rebuilding of homes. >>> ten months after going into hiding, casey anthony will be heading back to court. you may remember she was acquitted of her daughter's murder. according to "the huffington post" and "people" magazine she's going to have to appear at a defamation trial. she had claimed her daughter caylee was kidnapped by a babysitter, zenaida gonzalez. gonzalez claims anthony ruined her reputation so the case will go to court in january. >>> and if you've ever wondered the worth of presidential blood, here is one answer. at least $9,910. that's the latest bid for a vial of president ronald reagan's blood. the online auction site says the dried blood rescue idue is clea visible inside the vial. they say the blood was drawn from reagan while he was recovering from an assassination attempt in 1981. >>> often the most capti

. >> that was our jim spellman reporting from the middle of the chaos you saw there. earlier protesters stood in front of other police vans trying to stop them. those vans were mostly filled with bri on the police who are stayed on the sidelines during much of the demonstrations. >>> despite that incident, the protests have pretty much been peaceful, but according to police that wasn't the intention for a few of the protesters. lemen were snatched up and charged with planning a series of terror attacks meant to coincide with the nato summit. cnn's paul has more on the alleged terror plot. >> the young men sitting in jail on $1.5 million bond each are all in their 20s. they are brian church, 22, jared chase, 27, and brent betterly, 24. according to authorities, they all came from florida to chicago to cause mass mayhem. >> the terror suspects stood handcuffed and expressionless identified by police as self-proclaimed anarchists. prosecutors charged they had planned to commit extreme acts of violence and destruction during the nato summit. authorities say the three men