>> reporter: from what we understand, rodney king's fiancee called police shortly after 5:00 this morning. she heard a splash in the pool. before that they had been talking. she called the paramedics. police arrived and took rodney king out of the pool and did everything they could to revive rodney king. cpr failed. they took him to a local hospital. all their efforts did not pan out. rodney king was not revived. we do know rodney king was an avid swimmer. it was part of his physical therapy. we talked to him at cnn recently and he explained how he went into the pool and kind of used the pool as a sanctuary. they didn't find anything around the pool. >> right now, the preliminary investigation is indicating it appears mr. king died of a drowning. however, the police department, the detective bureau is investigating the incident. there were no obvious signs of trauma. >> police also said there were no signs whatsoever, at least at this point, of any foul play. rodney king recently had been interviewed by cnn. everyone who talked to him said he was in a joyous state, that he was in a good mood. interesting thing about rodney king. you may remember this statement, can't we all just get along? often remembered for that. rodney king ad libbed that. that is resonated throughout the decades and was a big part of hopefully helping the community of los angeles heal after what could best be called race riots. a lot of sadness in the neighborhood. rodney king known to people around here as a sweet man, somebody who was friendly and cordial and knew his neighbors. rodney king passed away this morning because of a drowning. >> paul, thanks so much. among those who had an opportunity to talk with rodney king, our own don lemon. you spent time with him. we know a documentary followed that. we are going to see that replay this evening are evening. your impressions of him. you met his fiancee. he's been described as a gentle spirit and one reluctant to take on this giant responsible and symbolism that came behind his experience. >> he was reluctant even to do an interview when we, back during the 20th anniversary. i went out to dinner with him and his fiancee. she said the reason you're here is because i like you. he's a big guy. she could in no way have gotten him off the bottom of that pool. she couldn't swim. i spent time at the home. it was interesting because he was a big guy but he was a docile guy. very gentle. when he talked to you he would look you in the eye. i said, are you still using? he said i will always have a problem with addict. he said he would always have those issues. i asked him about that incident. he said he still had nightmares. let's listen to him. >> yeah. i do. >> what's a nightmare? do you wake up? >> tossing and turning. sometimes hearing the voices that was going on that night. hands behind your back. lay dune, get down, get down, you know, those words. i have to wake up, look outside. it's all green, blue. at time has passed on. the nightmares and memories are still there, you know. >> it haunted him. haunted him forever, it seemed. it seemed as though no matter what he would try to do, if he wanted to escape that memory, it sounds just from his description, it's impossible for him to ever do. >> no. rodney king was no angel. he'll tell you that. cynthia will tell you that. he didn't expect to be famous. he didn't expect to be a role model. he was a troubled person. he had addiction issues. he has issues with his parents as a child growing up and as an adult. it was well documented because he had been on "celebrity rehab" with dr. drew. he was a sympathetic figure because you look at that beating and say who deserves to be beaten like that? i didn't want to be a hero or a role model because i asked him during when i spent time with him, why are you still getting in trouble after all this? he said, i'm just human. i'm not superhuman. i happen to be human and i have issues. i don't want to be someone who is a role model. i just want to lead my life. i have to tell you, spending time there, it's odd thinking about that. i spent a lot of time at that home, around the pool with him and with cynthia his fiancee, who by the way was a juror in the civil trial that followed the acquittal of the officers when he got the money. that's how they met. hung out off and on and became engaged. >> this would be the place of his death when this ended up being a real sanctuary for him, helping him deal with these demons for so many years. it is a sad punctuation to his life. we'll see your report this evening looking back at that conversation with rodney king. we'll bring an encore presentation of "race and rage" 8:00 eastern. we'll see you later. thanks, don. a big victory for greece's conservative new democracy party. new democracy leader samaras won enough votes to start forming a coalition government. he favored the bailout deal with europe and austerity measures that went with that. 37-year-old leftist poll situation did not. he wanted to tear up the pact. today he called the bailout an unsustainable economic plan. back in this country, the white house just issued a statement on the greek election. it congratulates the winning conservative party and says "we hope this election will lead quickly to the formation of a new government that can make timely progress on the economic challenges facing the greek people." on to egypt now. polls have closed and votes are being counted in the presidential run-off there. only about 40% turned out to vote due to extreme heat in some areas. on thursday, officials will declare if the winner is islamist candidate backed by the muslim brotherhood or former top aide of hosni mubarak. jerry sandusky's defense team is getting ready to make its defense this week. why is a prosecution's psychologist examining the former coach today? every communications provider is different but centurylink is committed to being a different kind of communications company. ♪ we link people and fortune 500 companies nationwide and around the world. and we will continue to free you to do more and focus on what matters. there is a winner in the greek elections and possible reprieve in the world economy upset. richard is live in athens. why did the conservative party seem to come out on top after backing such unpopular cuts? >> reporter: because the outcome any other way could have been even more dire. all the parties to some extent -- look, the reality is new democracy had made it dleer that they want to renegotiate the bailout terms, which they want to do. the alternative was the far left. they were talking about ripping up the bailout. that would have been the end, if you like, of greece and the euro. we do know, fredericka, about 18% of greeks like the euro and want to remain in the euro zone. so today's vote was classic. do you vote with your heart? you hate the germans and you hate the way the europeans have treated yourselves, or do you vote with your head that this is the best deal, you try to renegotiate and move forward? it seems they voted with their heads. i have to warn you, the horse trading now has to begin as the parties have to form a coalition. >> what about the greek voting public? is there euphoria, relief, reluctance to celebrate or outrage? >> it's all of that and more. i'm just looking at the results. there are 83% of the results are now counted. we have 30% for the winning party. 26% or 27% for the second party, which is opposed in the opposite direction. a coalition will have to be formed. they will have to go to europe and ask for changing the rules or changing the terms. tonight, i would put it like this. is there a long way to go, but greece has taken certainly one substantial step backwards from the cliff edge towards staying in the euro and even, even if markets won't be completely happy and calm because of the result, we should not see the volatility or at least the angst and anguish we've seen in recent weeks. >> the world economy might interpret that as good news. richard quest, thanks so much. will wall street react after this conservative party's victory in greece? if so, how so? ali velshi joining us by phone from new york. you're listening to richard there talking about that one step back from the cliff. perhaps that's what this vote did. that sounds like a great analogy. >> reporter: someone tweet immediate and said why haven't you tweeted out about the greek victory and how great it is for us? i'm not sure it's a victory. i think it means greece lives to fight another day and investors will be relieved by that. 8:00 eastern this evening is when asian markets first open. you'll see a reaction there. then go all through europe most of the day. by the time our markets open at 9:30 in the morning, everyone will have heard the comments, seen what's going to happen. it might be that american investors wake up and say they took one step back from the cliff. so the result of this election is not dire. means greece is not about to fall off a cliff. it's still, as richard says, it's possibly the better outcome of two scenarios, neither of which are particularly good. >> it sounds like there is going to be a lot more green than there would be red. >> probably. i would say this. it's probably not going to be a severe reaction in any direction. there is no investor sits there and says greece is out of the woods, europe is out of the woods, spain and italy. no problems. i think what might have been a major sell-off if it had gone the other way isn't going to happen. you've got from flat to probably more green than red tomorrow. again, this is a global market. you will see that reaction within three hours, 3 1/2 hours you'll start to see that reaction. what happens tomorrow morning may be a different thing when we realize we are just back to normal. the leader of this new democracy party has to team up with the number three party who are socialists, but they both want to stay in the euro and keep this bailout deal. there's going to be a lot of negotiation. a month ago when they had a similar outcome, they weren't able to form a coalition government. hopefully everybody is more mature about the whole thing and we get something done. best case scenario, we didn't ruin anything. >> ali velshi, thanks so much for your insight. >> my pleasure. a psychologist for jerry sandusky's lawyers say a type of personality disorder may explain some of his behavior. today a prosecution psychologist is examining sandusky to check out that claim. a court order came down friday allowing the defense to introduce testimony on whether sandusky suffers from a disorder. the examination isn't expected to delay the trial of the former penn state assistant football coach who is accused of molesting ten boys. that means sandusky's lawyers are expected to begin their defense tomorrow after the prosecution rests. susan candiotti takes a look at what their overall strategy could be. >> reporter: for four days, jurors heard prosecutors set out to prove jerry sandusky is a serial predator raping and molesting ten boys. come monday, the defense takes center stage. after a week of listening to withering testimony from and about ten alleged victims, jerry sandusky began and ended every day with a smile on his face. >> every day's hard. it's tough work. >> reporter: tough work defending a man who himself is a legend for designing defense on the football field. this criminal defense attorney says he has an uphill battle. >> there is a tsunami of evidence against him. >> reporter: the strategy is expected to attack the timeline of repeated alleged sexual assaults pointing out conflicts with sandusky's schedule. the defense is expected to further question whether alleged victims were motivated to come forward by possible lucrative lawsuits. nonsense says howard janet, attorney for alleged victim six. >> does that mean none of them are telling the truth because they've gone to hire a lawyer? that's absurd. >> reporter: sandusky's wife dotty appeared briefly in court the first day, but stayed away the rest of the time, indicating she is expected to take the stand to defend her husband. >> what is his wife going to say in his defense unless she was in the shower with him and the various young boys, which obviously she wasn't. she has nothing to offer this case outside of some sort of plea for sympathy. >> reporter: the defense plans to bring in a psychologist to explain love letters sandusky wrote to alleged victims. in court papers, the defense indicates the letters were not part of a predator's grooming technique but indicative of someone suffering from a h histrionic personality disorder. are you looking forward to presenting your case? a gag order prevents sandusky from talking now and he isn't required to testify. the defense promised jurors they would hear from sandusky. >> the only chance he has is to take the witness stand and maybe he can convince one juror to hold out. >> reporter: will he or won't he take the stand? 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>> in the years that followed, king struggled to leave his past behind. >> you didn't want to be a part of history? >> i wasn't expecting to get tossed in history like that. unfortunately, it happens to us unexpectedly, to some of us. i was one of the unexpected ones to survive through it. >> reporter: in his later years, rodney king battled addictions to drugs and alcohol. never escaping the demons that caused his infamous encounter with the los angeles police officers. rodney king was a decisive character in los angeles and u.s. history. echoing his famous statement, he was quoted in a recent interview saying, understand, we can all get along. it will always be my saying. that's how i will want to be remembered. >> that really came from his heart. those were his words, not the words his attorneys and everyone around him wanted him to speak at the time. thanks so much. >> we'll bring you more. tonight cnn presents "race and rage" 8:00 eastern time, 5:00 p.m. pacific here on cnn. >> strong winds and high temperatures are expected to continue to fuel a wildfire in northern colorado. it has already destroyed almost 200 homes and scorched 55,000 acres. the blaze forced thousands of evacuations and left one person dead. u.s. agriculture secretary says it will be some time before the fire is out. there is a winner in greece's critical parliamentary election. the conservative new democracy party. its lead wasn't big enough to form a government on its own. global markets are expected to react positively to the news. on to egypt now. only 40% turned out to vote due to extreme heat in egypt. officials will declare if the winner is an islamist candidate backed by the brotherhood or former top aide of ousted leader hosni mubarak. more allegations of doping against lance armstrong, why things could turn out differently for him this time. more doping allegations against lance armstrong and the heat meet the thunder. our sports correspondent is with me for the best in sports today. good to he some you. let's get straight to lance armstrong. armstrong accused of doping by the anti-doping agency and he is firing back saying this is a witch-hunt. he cannot compete in france's ironman triathlon this weekend. is he being banned from everything pending this new investigation? >> since the ironman triathlon, it's one of those agencies that subscribe to the protocols of the u.s. anti-doping agency, then yeah there is a temporary injunction against him participating in that event. if he was a professional baseball player that wouldn't be the case. it's not a government agency. it can't prosecutor level a charge. the actual government, the federal government which was looking into lance armstrong announced a few months ago it was dropping his case against him. they hadn't done well in their prosecution of barry bonds. only got one quick. moist of the charges he was found not guilty. roger clemens trial has gone on for a long time. the federal government saying lance armstrong, we'll let you go was seen as a good sign. a few days ago it comes out that the u.s. anti-doping agency says we have samples, some of your teammates are ready to testify against you. >> are these new samples or is this revisiting old samples with new technology and testing? he has passed hundreds of drug tests. >> 500 to 600. you have to realize with a lot of these drugs, there exists no tests for them. epo up until a few years ago, you could say i never tested positive for epo. there was no test. the technology is to some extent catching up with the doping if there was doping in this case. what we heard, what the u.s. anti-doping agency says they have testimony that goes back to maybe 1996 when he started to be a competitive bike rider. they say they have samples from 2009 to '10 which are consistent with epo and human growth hormone use. we are not sure what that means. another interesting wrinkle is four of his former teammates who are likely to go to the olympics will not be on the atlantic team. they withdrew their names. >> let's move on to the nba playoffs. heat evened the series. i did watch tuesday night's game knowing you and i are going to talk about this. what baffled me the most was who was fear the beard? who is the one wearing the beard? lebron james has a g oatee. >> this has been an interesting series. as a sports journalist i'm supposed to say it could go either way. you don't want to prejudge -- but? >> i don't see how you could watch and say one team is clearly better. exciting basketball. lebron james is attacking the hoop like he hates it. that's what he has to do. the biggest problem is oklahoma city starts out slow, which is great news for the it in work airing the series. is there a little drama in the early part of the game also. >> the other distraction for me, explain the gold mouthpiece teeth thing lebron i sporting every now and then. >> and roman numerals xvi, 16, the number of games you have to win. if he needs that kind of motivation, he's doing something wrong. >> thank, mike. we'll continue to watch. keep us posted, of course. today's father's day. a time to celebrate dads. american journalist and author buzz bissinger is using the opportunity to celebrate and appreciate his challenged son. i talked to him about a road trip the two took together. it doesn't leave room for much else. there's no room left for deadlines or conference calls. not a single pocket to hold the stress of the day, or the to-do list of tomorrow. only 14 clubs pick up the right one and drive it right down the middle of pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org. we asked total strangers to watch it for us. thank you so much, i appreciate it, i'll be right back. they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money ? 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this is big news. buzz bissinger, with all his acclaim he's received over the years, there was one thing missing, a connection with his son zach. zach was born three minutes after his twin jerry and suffered trace brain damage. he has the comprehension skills of an 8-year-old while his twin brother is working on a doctorate degree. in 2007, buzz took a cross country trip with then 24-year-old zach to visit places they lived during their childhood. well, the journey is recounted in buzz's latest book "father's day." in one passage buzz says, "as much as i try to engage zach, figure out how much to make the flower germinate because there is a seed, i also run. i run out of guilt. i run because he was robbed and i feel i was robbed." i spoke with buzz and asked him about the moments he finally saw zach's talents and personality shine through. >> i saw blips of talent all his life. zach was born in 1983. he was a twin, 13 1/2 weeks premature. he weighed 1 pound 11 ounces. sadly, he had trace brain damage. i would see little sparks of tremendous lucidity then they would disappear. i felt very much of his life i never had a real conversation with him. i never knew if i was getting through with him. i had this idea to drive across the country to focus on him and be in a concentrated space with him. nothing is more concentrated than a rented minivan going across the country. >> you made that decision we'll drive from philadelphia to los angeles, but this decision really comes about because you felt like it was time to have that one-on-one special time with zach to know him better. that he being a twin, he's very unlike jerry who is at penn state, a grad student. you knew and accepted that zach may forever be bagging groceries as he's doing. >> right. >> he will forever need his family to help him grow and mature. >> well, that's right. he will be bagging groceries all his life. he has another part-time job and will be stocking supplies all his life. that's hard for me as a father to accept. i've never seen him bag groceries. i can't bear it. this trip was an opportunity to basically do with zach what i had done with jerry. those heart-to-hearts. what i had done with my youngest son caleb. i felt it was time to tell zach what his condition was. i never mentioned it. i wanted to see how self-aware he was. if he is self-aware, that can inform oth inform other conversations about his future. >> how aware was he? you where about he's unable to add 100 and 100, however, he does have a certain depth of understanding. how did you know what you were saying was sinking in? what was the response from zach? >> zach gives short answers to many things. he has no physical side effects, which is amazing. i can tell because he doesn't understand because he wants to change the subject. i can tell because he does understand and feels a certain amount of pain. i remember asking him on the indiana toll road and saying, zach, do you know what brain damage is? he said, well, i'm not sure, what is it? i said what do you think it is? he said, well, when my brain isn't right. i said how do you know? my brain isn't right what you jerry can do things i can't do like go to school. i knew he was aware that he was different. he did have a sense. i was gratified by that because i believe in self-awareness. when your child says something's wrong with my brain, those words will ring forever. it was really crushing. >> then what happened along this journey? your feelings about zach were what in comparison to what happened after that cross country journey? about what he could comprehend, what he accepted? what he was aware of about himself and the world around him? >> right. i always loved zach to death, but i was frustrated. i did feel rage. i did feel i was cheated. i did ask myself why did this happen? it was basically a difference of three minutes. i have to say, not just for the sake of a book, on the trip i found zach had tremendous empathy for me. i was very, very steady. i would get lost, i would drop the f-bomb. zach never lost his cool. more than empathy, i realized he wanted to help me. he felt my job as a son in this situation is to calm dad down. he had powers of observation i had never seen. half the time i thought he was looking out a window, not seeing anything and he would mention later a little detail. i saw his need for independence. not only his need. he was independent. really undertaking it with responsibility. all along the trip i saw different things like that. i saw a soul within zach and a character within zach. almost an intuitive sense to say the right thing at the right time. i really mean it. -- he was much more advanced than i ever thought he was. >> so in many ways you saw him for the first time. what did you learn about yourself? >> well, i learned i'm moody. i learned that i'm volatile. i learned that i have a short fuse. i'm not saying i'm going to change because, you know, i'm not going to change my personality. that's too easy an out, but i learned a lot about my son, and it doubled and reinforced what was already a good bond. we are basically inseparable. we are passionately in love. i could never, ever leave him as i once did in my life when i went to l.a., and i'm very proud of him and, best of all, he's continuing to make progress. he continues to mature. he continues to connect to the world. he continues to be more conversational, and i say, and it's perfect on father's day in a sense, it's a reversal maybe, he is the mab that i n that i at in my life. he has struggled and struggled, but he is making his way in life. >> it is a beautiful book "a father's day: a journey in the heart and mind of my beautiful son." happy father's day. >> happy father's day to you, too. >> thanks so much. i'll pass it on. buzz businessbissinger also sai no idea what his son sees when he looks out the world but it's never ugliness, cynicism, or degradati degradation. are you guilty of showrooming? 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