many of these minorities fear domination by sunni muslims. but there are also sunni conscripts here, risking their lives to defend the regime. >> narrator: soldiers' phones are routinely monitored by the regime to limit the chance of them defecting, and to prevent them from speaking to enemies like the villagers across the valley. they rely heavily on regime tv stations for news. >> narrator: many are convinced they're fighting an army of foreign terrorists who are aided by the international media. >> narrator: it's three days since the attack on wadi daif and the collapse of the united nations ceasefire. on the rebel side of the orontes river valley, villagers are terrified of what the regime may do next. >> narrator: while sunni villagers flee the daily threats, many more arrive every day, escaping the fighting in nearby cities. they think that these villages are safer. but ahmad's village is struggling. >> narrator: the new arrivals are putting pressure on dwindling supplies of fuel, medicine and food. >> (translated): i grew up in this va

a sunny district. in two thousand and six i was all for. it was subjected to rocket fire at least fifty rockets falling on us every day it never stopped. you know me the streets were filled with corpses and there was fighting everywhere to show out of you know their ideas of a new the battles raged for seventy two hours you know. al-qaeda the army the militia everyone was fighting men behind a band and bodies became prey fit to be devoured by stray dogs that my little girl saw dogs eating the dead which i had never seen before in my life packet which has left me ritual from just. living in baghdad ming surviving attacks but it's also an everyday battle. in the capital of the world's third biggest oil producer the electricity system works for just a few hours a day. the best business in town is selling generators. for khaled my driver a visit to the barber after ten days on the road should be a moment to relax a moment of peace but nothing is that simple. yes quite simply hell here. sheer hell. it's not a normal life like other people have a

and also prominent sunni cleric calls for up.

you since have a lot of explosions of sunni and shia mosques and sunni and shia areas.ia or not? yes, and no. the tension between sunni and shia is related. sunnis in iraq feel very marginalized and they want to be included in the government. i would have to say that shia, the iraqi shia government do feel sometimes like teasing the sunnis by further marginalization. in simple way thaw feel it in the street. it's not necessarily. so yes, there is a political messaging in here that you are marginalized and we the shia are controlling the government. so all of these things are increasing in the tension. that this tension is very political. it's not seen on the street is scared of going back into the bombings of 2006 and 2008. they're very, very scared and if you hear iraqi tv and what's happening in iraqi. people are calling and they're saying we do not want to go back. we do not want to go back to these explosions and the sunni-shia fighting. this is a political thing. we want the stability of the government. so that's in general what's happening in the country. >> and t

i'll go back to sunny's point. i agree with sunny about the wet grass, and it's precisely the point i've been trying to make. the prism through which you look is going to inform how you look at this case. so you hear one witness or see one witness say something, and if you're white, you view it one way. if you're black, you view it another way. when you hear these screams, it's going to be the same thing. the prism through which you look or hear those screams, if you believe that george zimmerman was the attacker, you're going to believe it was trayvon martin. if you believe that trayvon was, you're going to say that it was george zimmerman. it's one of the fascinating things about this case. it's like a racial test, when you're watching -- >> wait a second, mark. i'm not sure that's true. who is to say that black people and white people see these things differently? do you have evidence of that? >> yeah, i -- [ both talking at same time ] >> i think that this case does break down not strictly along racial lines bu

sunny, let's start with you. her on the stand today, especially the defense spending a lot of time on the subject of race. how do you think that played out? >> you know, it was hard to tell from the courtroom. but i've got to tell you, it didn't seem to advance the ball to me very much for the defense. they made much ado about this comment that trayvon martin apparently said to rachel. but what was also interesting is that he also described george zimmerman with the "n" word. so certainly he described him in two ways. he described him with a derogatory white term and a derogatory black term. so the defense in this case took such pains to make sure that the prosecution didn't talk about race in its opening statement, didn't say the words "racial profiling" yet they took what was the elephant in the room, painted it bright pink and threw it back out there. i just don't think it stuck. >> mark geragos, what do you think? >> i'll tell you, sunny, you put on a spin on this that is mind boggling. this sounds like a ver

radical sunnies radical sunnis like sheikh ahmad al assir in the port city of sidon has been doing justhat, urging his followers to join the syrian rebels fight against assad. friday, he cited nasrallah's speech. >> nasrallah said i want you to kill the sunni, who are worse than the jews, to go fight in syria to fight the rebels. we consider those words are launching war against sunnis throughout the world. >> warner: assir, who made a recent show of going to the front lines in syria himself, concedes lebanese sunnis assisting the rebels are no match for hezbollah's reinforcements for assad. >> they have more military experience and they have much more developed weapons. we know that our people are not going to make a difference, but it is our duty to send them. >> warner: so do you think this is turning into a sunni/shi'a war? >> i consider this a war launched by those shi'a groups who have always carried animosity and hatred to the sunnis throughout history. >> warner: hassan srour of tripoli, a sunni, answered the call to help the syrian rebels. but he and his comrades were attacked

that the government systematically driving sunnis from baghdad this is missing. migration is being done in the open cities are restricted in everything from where we live to the kinds of jobs we can have but in a shia neighborhood a different version of the story fearful of retribution for speaking out this residence prefers to hide his identity he tells us of the dangers iraqi shia face from armed groups. we also have been displaced by threats from al qaeda and other militias this used to be a mixed area but people have started exchanging houses between sunni and shia families for safety some analysts blame the united states for the divisions they build the new system political system in iraq on the sectarian basis like they made the proportions for the seventies for this. and for the dish and this is very little. those divisions have taken a toll on a rocky youth a generation separated by the threat of violence. it really affects causes a lot of problems between me and my friends especially if they're from a different six we can't work together we'll hang out p

new york, mostly sunny today. sunny in miami as well and chicago mostly sunny with a high of 76.sunshine, but los angeles, clouds, and then the sun will shine. >>> and time now for a check of the national forecast. severe weather is expected to hammer the northern plains. another system will hit the gulf coast, bringing heavy downpours and frequent lightning. it will be dry in the northeast and hot in the southwest. >>> police in massachusetts are remaining tight-lipped on the investigation of a man found dead near the home of pro football player aaron hernandez. investigators have questioned the new england patriots' tight end and cbs's boston affiliate reports that hernandez has not been ruled out as a suspect. >> reporter: patriots' tight end aaron hernandez arrive at his sprawling house in north attleboro, massachusetts, with his mother at his side. he didn't speak to reporters. while hernandez was out, police detectives returned with a court document but got no answer at the door. officers spent hours searching the home tuesday evening. the body of semipro linebacker oden ll

and redwood city in there we'll see mostly sunny to partly sunny. there are mild temperatures. partly sunny here. 60s, 70s and 80s. the days are long. the hangle is high. but here seasonal. thursday a bump up. and it will not be that hot. then another low drops for a cooling trend into sunday and most of the week it looks like. >> thank you very much. >>> two men are preparing to swim from san francisco to alcatraz. the 1000th time. this is video of gary and steven making the same swim back in 2007 t marks the anniversary of the he scape of frank morris and clarence and john england. they escaped from their cells by digging spoons into the ground and making a raft. did not know that. >> you need to take the tour. >> still learning. >>> coming up next in the 5:00 hour, a shocking delivery at a beach. what a beach comber found in an appeal to the public. >>> breaking news a fire in the bay view district. >>> we are on the scene of a still unfolding story. >>> bart is in negotiations. >>> and a crackdown on gangs in the biggest city. it is all ahead on channel 2 morning news. >>>

led invasion this area was the heartland of the sunni insurgency today it's become the focal point of the anti-government protests the on for several months now every friday this scene prayer on the highway to baghdad followed by protests against the baghdad government it's a situation that's reflective of the state of iraq today a country that has been torn apart by war but doesn't seem to be and are closer to healing the wounds in the divisions that have been on the least during that occupation here the sunni protesters who have gathered behind me want a different kind of system they want to change they feel that the government doesn't represent them. is one of those protesters he's brought his son to almost every demonstration there for a residence but not by choice he says he was forced to flee baghdad for fear of arrest by the military and that his sect made him a target of one day a military brigade surrounded the area where we lived in baghdad and started making arrests they were targeting sunday residents and arrested two of my cousins so i gathered my family and escaped to fl

for the sunny custom as the whole affair was an american manipulation. movement the greek word plays a key role in the arab world and. the americans use the country to trap saddam of like them very i mean how did before they set the bait up and he took it for what it was a prearranged ambush. it's time to leave and head for lucia khaled doesn't like stopping for too long. kidnappings are frequent here and for the criminal gangs everyone has a price probably including me. the killing in the kidnappings may be motivated by political or religious convictions but increasingly simply for profit. i've lost count of the checkpoints along the way but the controls this morning seem interminable. i don't know who this fever victory sign is aimed at as we finally enter the ravaged city of fallujah. joe was the scene of one of the most violent american offensives of the. g.i. summerlee killed youngsters and whole families here any time last korea kalisch recover. but that blew up hearts and caused a lot of fatalities. fallujah is the most ravaged city in iraq of the

let's dig deeper with our panel, sunny hostin joins us. marcia clark, and on the defense side, we have danny savalos and mark geragos. so mark, the key eyewitness today was called by the prosecution, but his testimony seemed critical for zimmerman's defense. what impact do you think he had on the jury? >> i'm astonished that they would have put him in there. maybe the prosecution figured don't let the defense call him, so put him out there first to deflect from having the defense have some powerful witness. i don't understand how this witness was anything but somebody who was positive for the defense. >> sunny, do you agree with that? he seems to be the star really for the defense, but he was put on by the prosecution. >> yeah, no, i do agree with that. as a prosecutor, you can't hide from the facts of your case and you certainly can't let the jury believe that you're hiding the facts of your case. so you put that type of witness on and you try to frame the narrative. but we all knew going into this, if you looked at the diskovry, this is

balance in lebanon, among sunnis and shias. and a major combatant in lebanon's civil war, the christians, though they're an estimated 35% of the population, many worry they'll be persecuted or driven out, as christians in iraq and egypt were, after political upheaval brought islamists to the fore. at a mountaintop shrine to the virgin mary, joelle karam voiced that fear. >> christians here are leaving the country, they are leaving lebanon. >> reporter: but beirut's melkite greek catholic arhcbishop, cyril bustros, says christians here need not fear or flee, if they keep their heads down. >> ( translated ): they cannot be caught in the war if they don't collaborate in and participate in the war. 2,000 years we are here and there is no way that we will leave the country to the muslims. so we have to stay here. >> reporter: but on a carefree night, the kind that makes beirut a magnet for so many in the middle east, young partyers of all sects told us they would just as soon leave, than watch their country slide, again, toward inst

clouds and temperatures are chilly, mid-and-upper 40's headed to 7:00 and 57 by noontime, and we are sunny and 60 degrees this afternoon. around the bay we are waking up to clear conditions and theys in the 50's by noon in the upper 60's and mid-70's by the afternoon in oakland and castro valley is warmer and notice we are clear in the evening and that will change tomorrow. inland upper 50's and mid-70's by noon, and by noon if it is in the 70's you are on the way to a remain warmer afternoon and upper 80's inland, and a nice comfortable night but we are talking about a cooler weekend that the last with the details ahead. >> this is along the maze westbound 80 on the bay bridge westbound direction at treasure island we had an early stalled car which made the pinch as you making the drive away from emeryville to san francisco so 39 miles per hour and we are down to 19 miles per hour closer to the toll plaza. at maze you can see caltran crews are picking up cones with quite the backup at 14 minutes from highway 4. the san francisco police are standing guard at the foam hayes valley farm a da

tomorrow, sunny skies and warmer. with cooler weather sunday and showers developing by monday, possibly early as sunld. pulling back to take a look at satellite mack you can seat trough brought us cool, windy conditions moving out. high pressure is building in but we do have an active storm prak and overnight tonight no rain in sight. clear skies with perhaps a patch or two of low clouds near the coast. low to mid-50s, cooler in the north bay valleys. tomorrow, sunny, mild, 84 down in gilroy. 76 palo alto and mountain view. 60s in pacifica. 63 half moon bay of. breezy on the coast ask will be mild. sunny, mild downtown tomorrow. north bay highs 84 in santa rosa to 84 so nice and warm. inland east bay warming up tomorrow, mid to upper 80s. and here is the accu-weather forecast. warmest day of the forecast period will be saturday. inland highs climbing into upper 08s near 90s but a sharp drop in temperatures will occur on sunday, more clouds enter the picture will be cooler monday with a chance of showers and may have a

from cross the country towards that tarion violence to hear from sunnis and shiites about their plight. next the following the leak of america's secret surveillance program more significant revelations are yet to be published that's according to the journalist who received the initial classified documents from make cia staffer edward snowden meanwhile tens of thousands of signed an online petition urging president obama to pardon the whistleblower there's also been a fund raising effort to pave his defense and a rally in new york port and i was at the demonstration braving some very wet and chilly weather dozens of new yorkers have come out into the street to show their solidarity and support with n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden this of course coming just. after the twenty nine year old revealed himself as the man who handed over classified documents to the guardian which then exposed the national security agency's program prism i think that the public is owed an explanation of the motivations behind the people who make these disclosures that are outside of the democratic model now

tomorrow, sunny skies. on the pin anyone slarks 84 redwood city. downtown san francisco a high of 72 tomorrow. upper 70s to around 80 in fremont. inland east bay upper 80s to 92 in antioch and here is the accu-weather forecast. sunday, very cool, cloudy and potentially rainy. >> thank you. >> coming up, updating breaking news van in the water in marina green. driver still missing. >> the latest coming up right after the break as we take a look. >> time announce the winner of the big shell gas card give away. matthew c you would won from shell. thanks to everyone that entered and don't forget check us out any time on facebook. >>> we continue our breaking news coverage this is sky 7 live over the scene scene of the north end of marina green. apparently a van has driven off the road and into the bay there. >> the van went by at 20 miles per hour or so into the water. it apparently was floating for a time before sinking. these are live pictures as drivers continued to look for the person in that van. this happened about an hour and 25 minutes ago. so

either jean or sunny. first, then jean. >> we're hearing that the opening statements may occur as early as monday. that makes sense. because these sequestered, mean they're not going to be able to go home or be with their families for the duration of the trial which is supposed to take two to four weeks. the judge may impanel them today. let them go home over the weekend, settle their affairs and come back monday ready to get to work. >> jean, you have knowledge no one else has watching this. neither of us here on the set. sunny has been down there. you're there now. take us inside the courtroom as this jury was impanelled, was selected today. >> reporter: it was so intense. and it was fast. and the families were there listening. george -- i mean trayvon martin's family was right there with benjamin crump. you had to just write down your numbers very quickly and put it all together. that's how it is at the end. because the individual questioning had concluded. the general questioning by both sides had conc

i love jeff, love sunny. the idea that this was a compelling witness, the idea that this witness is going to play well with this jury, save this tape, anderson, please, save this tape. she seems like a very sweet high school senior, but please. i mean, i get it. but come on, guys, you've got to be kidding me. who are you guys kidding? >> not at all, not at all. >> do you have your fingers crossed. >> not at all. >> not with this jury. save the tape. >> danny, do you agree? >> mark, finally a voice of reason. this is the prosecution's star witness, it's not their second best. it's not their third best. it's their star witness. and when you just watch her demeanor on the stand, as a juror, if she is -- number one, florida has depositions before trial, which is very unusual. and it's true, that does yield a treasure trove of inconsistent statements. however, the jury is free to evaluate this witness' credibility. they can believe some of it or none of it. and just looking at her demeanor, just hold it in your mi

santa cruz 59 degrees so where it has been sunny it's warmed up a little bit. this is vollmer peak on top of our east bay hills. looking at numbers in the 60s where the sun has been shining and the winds light, relatively speaking. off the north coast, in fact, up toward marin county, we've had gusty winds, but by the delta, mid-60s. upper 50s union city and 62 los gatos. you see the camera shaking here. this is mt. tam. you can also see the marine layer. the coastal clouds will be with us throughout the day today, ocean beach, and the point. and the onshore flo will keep us cooler will you tuesday. wednesday things start to turn around once the upper level system passes to the east of us. high fire danger in the sierra nevada was the trough pushes through. we will look for warmer conditions as a ridge builds in behind this. this is a pretty shot, how nice and sunny it is from the exploratorium camera. look at the first column. this is the averages. we should be looking at more 70s and 80s this time of year. livermore is below average today. napa should be 8 to

washington, d.c., mostly sunny, 78 the high. atlanta, partly sunny. st. louis as well partly sunny.nderstorms in denver and mostly sunny in seattle. >>> in sports, in order for the miami heat to defend their nba title, they would have to win game seven of the eastern conference finals against indiana. miami getting the home court advantage monday night. lebron james scores 32 points and duane wade breaks out of a slump with 21 as the heat win a hard-fought series with a 99-76 victory. miami will face san antonio in the finals as they aim for back-to-back championships. >>> in baseball now, philadelphia outfielder dominick brown continues his streak at the plate. he connects on his 17th homer of the year leading the national lead and also his 8th home run in the last eight games. phillies top miami 7-2. >>> the boston bruins grab a big lead over pittsburgh in the nhl eastern conference finals. a goal 28 seconds into the game. the bruins win 6-1 and head back to boston with a 2-0 series lead. >>> and deacon jones, one of the most formidable players in nfl history has passed away. thro

father's day mild sunny for bay and inland. and then cooler monday, tuesday, dropping down into mid to upper 70s. mid-50s coastside. as mentioned fine-looking weather for father's day and now. i'm abc 7 news sandhya patel. dan, cheryl, i'll stay for for a while. >> thank you. >> just ahead a treasure chest of fun. >> under a construction >>> congratulations to the gas kartd give away. lynn k from napa you've won $700 of free gas cards from she. we still have six winners to go sou stril a chance to get in on the action. all have you to could do is click the like button then fill out the entry form if you're a fab you still need to fill out that form on our facebook page. >> we have new details about the graveyard discovered at santa clara county medical center. 681 coffins were unearthed this, dates back to 1875 containing bodies of people when were poor or didn't have family. today we saw a glimpse of artifacts including a coin dating back to 1882 and pocketknifes. no identify marks is been found. the graveyard disappeared from

>> correct. >> so sunny, i guess there's some ambiguity there, yes? >> there's a bit of ambiguity, but the bottom line here is while this was a good witness for the defense, we still have the entire picture. if george zimmerman was the initial aggressor, we don't know that. but if he was, then he would have had to have been in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm before he could use deadly force. he also would have had to have used -- exhausted all his means to get away from this altercation before using the deadly force. that is a question that still needs to be answered. just because john good testified that perhaps george zimmerman was on the bottom and perhaps he could have seen blows, that does not by any stretch of the imagination make this a game over type case. i reject that notion. >> danny, go ahead. >> very quickly, mark. i respectfully disagree and here's why. that description doesn't recognize the burden here. george zimmerman does not have the burden. the prosecution has the burden, and it's not preponderance of evidence, it's n

in san jose, mostly sunny.overcast here but nice afternoon, 57 in san jose with 56 in union city. clouds have made their way into napa at 55. it's clear in santa rosa at 54. here is the forecast for the rest of the day today. fog will hang around the shoreline and it will be cool there with numbers ranging from the upper 50s but 50s will be the morning temperatures. afternoon we climb through the 70s and mid-80s for east bay. tonight should be pleasant but the fog will move in back across the bay allowing for more cloud cover sunday morning. we'll talk about the rest of the weekend and coming workweek when we return. >>> new this morning, president obama says there is no substitute for the love and support that fathers provide. in his weekly address, he is wishing americans a happy father's day. the role of father can be a difficult one no matter the circumstances of the parents. >> being a good parent whether you are gay or straight, a foster parent or grandparent isn't easy. it knanz your constant attention,

but santa rosa, mostly sunny.ulling away, burning away as we move through the morning hours. by afternoon, even by lunchtime, we should be mostly sunny around most of the bay. 64 in concord right now. 64 in fairfield. 57 in napa. upper 50s, mid-50s around the bay, 50 degrees at half moon bay. so a cool, gray start for you along the coastline. afternoon highs for today, these numbers, we're pulling them back by several degrees. by 5, even 10 degrees. we showed a graphic at the start of the show, anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees cooler today. santa rosa, 89 yesterday. today, 79. 79 in napa. 60s around the bay to low 70s. 70 in oakland for the a's game this afternoon. 79 for danville. into the santa clara valley, it's going to be nice in your neighborhood. 78 san jose. 79 saratoga. low 70s. santa cruz, mostly sunny for the afternoon, although mostly cloudy at the moment. 75 redwood city. 64 san francisco. low 60s and cool conditions at the coastline. the extended forecast, again, as i mentioned, this trough, not going t

chicago, sunny. dallas, mostly sunny as well. becoming sunny in los angeles. >>> and time now for a check of the national forecast. thunderstorms, hail, damaging winds, and tornados are possible across the northern and central plains. rain will persist along the northeast coast. but the mid-atlantic states will be dry and cool. much of the south will be dry as well. scattered showers and thunderstorms are possible in the northern rockies. the northwest will be cool, but the rest of the west will be hot and dry. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch" now, new competition for the panama canal, and how much would you pay to own a parking spot in boston. ashley morrison is here in new york with that and more. good morning, ashley. >> good morning to you, anne-marie. well, asian stocks bounce back after some heavy losses this week. tokyo's nikkei gains more than 2% while hong kong's hang seng added half a percent. better than expected data on retail sales, and unemployment drove wall street stocks sharply higher. the dow jones industrial average

>> you've got the makings of a -- it's become a shi'a/sunni war. i mean, people -- people keep talking about, oh, we're heading into a period when we're going to have a shi'a/sunni war in five or six different places. we already have it. >> rose: on the shi'a side you have iran and hezbollah-- both shi'a-- supporting the syrians.