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0 now to the big stories in the week ahead. we begin with the president's plans for the week. >> reporter: after trying out his charm offensive on republicans for the last week and a half, president obama will work on international diplomacy. on tuesday, two days after st. patrick's day, he we will comes the prime minister of ireland to the white house and then mr. obama embarks on a very important trip overseas to the middle east where he'll sit down with israeli leaders and also meet with leaders of palestinian authority before making his way to jordan. during this trip mr. obama is expected to issue a very strong warning to iran they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. >> coming up this week on wall street a host of major companies will report their earnings. we'll hear from fedex, general mills, nike, and tiffany. the fed announces its latest rate decision. that comes on wednesday. we'll be listening very closely to comments from central bankers on overall economic recovery especially after a particularly strong february jobs report. then on thursday we'll get the latest existing home sales numbers for the month of february. those are key because existing home sales actually make up about 90% of the overall housing market. that will show us if this rebound we've seen seeing this housing is continuing. we'll track all of that and the latest business news for you on cnn money. a.j. hammer, this is what we're watching this week. celebrity obsession with the jodi arias trials. the stars can't stop talking and tweeting about the wild trial including aubrey o'day. don't miss my one-on-one with her arias obsession. an update to the daring escape. two inmates from a helicopter at maximum security prison outside montreal. police ordered the two to fly to the prison but within an hour police captured one inmate. the man who told a radio station he would rather die than going to a jail cell. police also captured the second. they're both back in custody. i'm don lemon at cnn headquarters in atlanta. thanks for watching. have a great night and a great week. this is south bend, indiana. >> raging wildfires happening right now. national guard preparing to deploy dozens of cabins already destroyed. the rnc releasing its autopsy. where did the party go and will the results be enough to get the gop back on track. >> what we're really doing this morning, filling out our brackets. march madness is set. it does not come without some controversy. >> i think i won last year our an kror bracket. take a look at that. slamming into two homes, damaging a third and winding up inside one of those homes. >> my roof is caved in. there was glass everywhere. the front of the house, windows busted out. i just grabbed my son and got him clothes and we ran out. >> i have a big picture window and the plane was coming toward me. i was afraid it was coming in the house. and it swerved and went across the street. >> i thought that was it. i mean, when i looked up, the plane was right over the top of me right then. my wife was standing in the door and i hit the ground. i thought it was going to explode when it hit, but it didn't. >> oh, my goodness. jim spellman live on the scene in south bend, indiana. you have the latest. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. take a look at this. totally surreal scene in this neighborhood. we're in the backside of these homes. you can see a section of the wing or rear stabilizer in the middle of this home. all the other homes around it are fine. it's hard to believe there was a plane crash yesterday. what we know is two people are confirmed dead. another person seriously injured. our understanding at this point is that all of those people were on the plane. at this point, we believe everybody on the ground is safe. there was one additional injury here. what we understand happened is yesterday around 2:00 in the afternoon, plane reported some sort of trouble. tried to do a landing. was not able to do that. went to do a circle around. obviously, never made it. landed here in these homes. >> jim, do we know who the victims are here? have they identified them? >> reporter: we do not know yet. we know the plane originated in till stulsa, oklahoma. we don't know the identities. >> that's a horrific site. when will people be able to return to their homes in that area? >> reporter: they hope later this morning. but they have a lot of work to do. the ntsb investigates are already on the scene. they're going to complete their on-site investigation before they remove the plane from the house. they have to make sure jet fuel is safe and everything is structurally safe. >> jim spellman reporting live from south bend, indiana. thank you very much. happening right now, the national guard in tennessee preparing to deploy two helicopters to help fight a huge fire in the resort town. it broke out yesterday afternoon and destroyed more than 30 cabins. andrew spencer has the story. >> reporter: from the air, can you see the scale of the wildfire. house after house after house up in flames. this is pigeon forge, tennessee. fast-moving fire caught both visitors and lowers offguard. >> i don't know if it's our property. our friends live up there. >> reporter: there's also concern for those on the front lines. >> i've been sending him text messages telling him i love him and i want them all to come home safe. >> reporter: 150 people evacuated. >> it's a huge fire. large amount of resources up here. we've had our -- it's been rough. i mean, it's been as rough as i've ever seen it. >> reporter: on saturday some of the same firefighters battled a smaller brush fire at dollywood theme park. across the country, more wildfires. in florida on sunday, smoke from a forest fire mixed with fog to cause numerous traffic accidents on i-95. saturday in south carolina a brush fire destroyed more than two dozen buildings including a housing complex displacing more than 180 people. and in colorado on friday, fierce winds helping fuel a wildfire at a state park near ft. collins forcing hundreds of evacuatio evacuations. the wildfire season off to an early and dangerous start. andrew spencer reporting. >> four minutes past the hour. developing overnight, canadian police arresting the fourth and final suspect in a daring prison escape. this happened sunday afternoon at a maximum security prison outside montreal. police say two inmates, 36-year-old benjamin hudson barbo climbed a dangling ladder to a helicopter. >> that is insane. >> isn't it? the inmates along with two unidentified suspects are all in custody now. an investigation under way right now to figure out what caused a deadly bus crash carrying a college lacrosse team in seton hill. the the bus driver and team's head coach, a young mother who was six months pregnant, were killed. >> everyone's devastated by the losses. almost seems like we're coming together, you know, as a school. >> christina quigley's unborn child did not survive. police say they don't know what caused the crash and no other vehicle was involved. they're examining the bus for possible mechanical problems. >> the little boy she was carrying, that's what reports say, and she had another little boy at home. president obama expected to announce his pick today for labor secretary. it's tomas perez, assistant attorney general, who heads up civil rights division. the president is preparing for a visit to israel tomorrow. the first international trip of his second term and first of his presidency to jewish state. after visiting jerusalem he'll head to jordan. this is the internal review detailing where the party went wrong in 2012 and how to reverse fortunes for the next election. >> we have to relate things to people's lives. we have to win the math war, which we do a good job of. but we have to learn how to win the heart war. in presidential elections what is plaguing our party. >> this comes after the first sort of votes of 2016 were cast this weekend with kentucky's paul winning cpac straw poll. we're joined live from washington with mark. i took a look at embargoed copy of this report coming out today. there are more than 200 recommendatio recommendations. >> it comes back to demographsidemographic demographics. what was very troubling for them as well as asian-americans as well. what prebus said on "face the nation" it's going to cost money. this is what he said. >> we'll be announcing a $10 million initiative just this year which will include hundreds of people paid across the country from coast to coast and hispanic, african-american, asian communities, talking about our party, talking about our brand, talking about what we believe in. >> there you have it. reince priebus on sunday talk shows. what's also interesting from the report, from those that have seen it, is they'll open up an office out in san francisco to harness the technology brain power we see in silicon valley. >> technology data a big part of it. also messages and also the mechanics of picking a president. they're talking about sort of redoing the entire primary process. >> they are, john. you know, there was a big frustration among established republicans when they saw 20 presidential debates happen in the past campaign. they thought these debates were destructive to the eventual nominee, mitt romney. they wanted to reform that. >> i think our debate calendar needs to be shrunk. i think we had way too many debates, candidates slicing and dicing each other. i think they had to wait too long to get to the convention. i'm calling for a convention in june or july. >> and there you have it. reince preibus talking about moving up their convention. he's talking about doing that now at the beginning of the summer. it will greatly alter what we're used to in seeing how a presidential campaign operates. >> will front-load the whole process, giving us a few months of intense, intense campaigning. nice to see you this morning. thanks for coming in. later on "starting point" we'll talk about the republican blueprint with ari fleischer. also cnn's jake tapper, whoegs new show "the lead" launches this afternoon at 4:00 eastern time on cnn. he'll be on the show at 8:00 talking about the republican plan. listen up. calling all bracketologists, the field for ncaa men's field is set and the team that won it all a year ago is not even in the tournament. kentucky left out of the whole thing as louisville gets the overall number one seed. tops in the midwest region. the other one seeds, gonzaga, indiana and kansas. march madness is in full swing at cnn center in atlanta. look at this. this is time-lapse video and shows the construction of a giant ncaa tournament bracket. this year's final four will be at the georgia dome in atlanta. the tourney gets under way tomorrow. we're all filling in our brackets. you can compete against us, go to cnn.com/brackets and join the cnn group. >> i might be an easy target. it's a hard bracket. >> have you ever won? 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[ beep ] her family, my family and the community. >> i would like to apologize. i had no intention to do anything wrong. i'm sorry to put you guys through this. i would just like -- >> i just want you to understand that i'm sorry. >> the 16-year-old girl was raped during a series of late night parties in august when she was drunk. >> the court is able to view the demeanor of the witnesses, judge their credibility, and weigh the evidence presented to the court. the court has done so in this case and it is the court's decision that both of the defendants are hereby adjudic e adjudicated delinquent beyond a reasonable doubt on all three counts as charged. >> malik rich monld, one gleer a juvenile correction facility for rape. trend mays to a minimum of two years, guilty of rape and of taking and distributing and illegal nude photograph of the victim. both mays and richmond will also have to register as juvenile sex o offenders. the girl was so intoxicated she wasn't capable of consenting to anything. >> this case is about a 16-year-old girl who was taken advantage of, toyed with and humiliated. and it's time that the people who did that to her are held responsible. >> reporter: eyewitness testimony from three teenage boys all friends of mays and richmond and all granted immunity from criminal prosecution was damaging. he videotaped mays performing a sexual act on the girl during a car ride between parties. two others testified they saw richmond do the same later that night while she was lying naked on the floor. in the state of ohio, this act performed without consent constitutes rape. >> there is an unbelievable casualness about rape and about sex. it's a cavalier attitude, a belief that somehow there isn't even wrong with any of this. >> reporter: text messages, tweets and photos were at the center of the trial. fellow teens vulgarly joked about the rape. song of the night is definitely "rape me" by nirvana. >> what if that was your daughter? >> it wasn't. if it was my daughter, i wouldn't care. >> witnesses read text messes including this one before b. the victim. yeah, dude, she was like a dead body. i just needed some sexual attention. there was no jury. this was a bench trial with visiting judge thomas lips rendering the verdict because this was a juvenile case. poppy harlow, cnn, steubenville, ohio. >> mark dewine announced after this verdict that a grant jury will be convened april 15th to determine if other crimes were committed in this incident, meaning more people could be charged here. 19 minutes after the hour. let's bring you up to speed on all the news happening around the world. a private jet slamming into two homes, possibly damaging a third, and ending up nose first inside one of these houses. the body of the plane almost really split in half right there. an faa spokesman says there were four people onboard, two of them are dead, at least three other people including one person on the ground are injured. louisiana's governor in a car accident last night in baton rouge. bobby agenda will was on his way home from his son's soccer game when a truck made an illegal u-turn and sideswiped his vehicle. the governor was not hurt but a state trooper went to the hospital with minor injuries. vice president joe biden is in italy leading a u.s. delegation of the pope's inauguration mass tomorrow. he has work on his agenda later today, meeting with italy's president and prime minister. pope francis giving his first noon blessing yesterday with an estimated 200,000 worshippers looking on. people in droves sunday to honor ireland's patron saint, st. patrick. in dublin, ireland, a quarter of a million people line the streets for this parade. more than a million showed up for celebrations in boston. who knew st. paddy's days with a hit in shanghai. look at this. with irish songs and dances and, of course, green chinese brag dragons. >> my boys made leprechaun traps. they wanted to catch a leprecha leprechaun. they put them out saturday night to see if they caught anything. >> they did not catch anything. >> the leprechauns some chain and candy for the boys. so coming up, a big market selloff in the dow pointing down this morning. >> bad, bad, bad. >> and the teeny tiny country that may be responsible for it all. this is a really big storiment we'll tell you all about it. a.-d 34 mpg highway. amazing. see the grille? mm-hmm. let me show you how it works. it opens and closes like this to help you conserve fuel. oh. is that an s.o.s. signal? no, that's the aero grille shutters demonstration. we do it all the time. 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