what's going on in our city that no one would take the time to help this drowning man. >> could we have done more when the gentleman became unconscious? certainly there's that opportunity for us to have gone out and do more. we're looking at that. >> alameda officials say they'll reinstate the water rescue training. >> 911 what's your emergency? >> i called a little bit ago. i found out my granddaughter has been taken. she has been missing. her mother finally admitted she's been missing. >> casey anthony's mother cindy breaks down on the stand in an orlando courtroom. the jury hears cindy anthony's 911 call to report her granddaughter caylee missing. she told the 911 operator her daughter's car smelled like a dead body. prosecutors say casey anthony killed her daughter and buried the body in nearby woods and then pretended that she was missing. sarah palin tops off a meeting with donald trump with a visit to the statue of liberty today. her i'm not running for anything bus tour stopped by trump's new york penthouse last night. later, palin and trump discussed the republican presidential field over pizza. trump has already said he's not running. palin is on the fence. >> what do we have in common? a love for this country and a desire to see our economy get put back on the right track, making sure that we have a balanced trade arrangement with other countries across this world so that americans can have our jobs, our industries, our manufacturing again. >> do you support sarah palin as president? >> she didn't ask me for that. she's a terrific woman. she didn't ask me. i will tell you, she's a great woman and a terrific woman and a great friend. >> president obama is meeting with dozens of house republican at the white house right now. they are trying to find common ground on spending cuts. republicans insist on $2 trillion worth of cuts before they'll agree to increase the government's ability to borrow money. the debt ceiling must be raise by august 2nd or the u.s. will default on its bills. >> a view of the space shuttle "endeavour" coming in for a landing. gear down and locked. >> after 25 spaceflights, spanning two decades and 122 million miles, "endeavour" returned to the earth overnight for a final time. the shuttle will spend its retirement at a los angeles museum. >> i really want to thank my crew members who did such a spectacular job on this flight. could not have done this without them. they all, every single one of them just performed flawlessly. >> our commander, we want to thank him, too. >> thanks for coming out. it's great to be back and have a good morning. so long. >> nato today extended the libyan military mission another 09 days. at license launched air strikes and a no-fly zone in march to protect civilians and pressure moammar gadhafi to step down. secretary general anders muhsin sends a message to the libyan regime, nato will complete its mission. in yemen, several generals who have defected say the regime is trying to kill them. they say four missiles hit their meeting site last night. they say nobody was hurt. a senior figure in yemen's defense ministry tells cnn that the general's allegations are not true. today is the first day of hurricane season. government forecasters predict a busy six months ahead in the tropics as many as six major hurricanes. that is triple the number in an average season. here's your chance to talk back. one of the big stories of the day, today's question has congressman anthony weiner said enough on the twitter photo scandal controversy? carol costello with more. what do we think? it's been a back and forth, knotts a lot of answers to basic questions. >> it's a complicated issue. you may have heard about the indelicate photo of a man in his underwear sent from anthony weiner's twitter account to the a college student. weiner says his account was hacked. if that's true, it's a crime. why not alert the police to get to the bottom of it or say that photo is not of me which weiner has yet to do. he seems incapable of a yes or no answer. >> can you just say why you haven't asked law enforcement to investigate what you are alleging as a crime? >> you know, dana, if i was giving a speech to 45,000 people and someone in the back of the room threw a pie or yelled out an insult, would i spend the next two hours responding to that? no. >> did you send it or not? >> if i were giving a speech to 45,000 people and someone in the back threw a pie or yelled out an insult, i would not spend the next two hours of my speech responding to that pie or that insult. >> did you follow her on twitter and if so, how did you find her, what was the reason? >> i have i think said this a couple of ways and i'll say it again. i'm not going to permit myself to be distracted by this issue any longer. >> okay. i know, a right wing blogger with questionable tactics did break the weiner twitter story but before we start referring to this as just another partisan political fight, maybe it's worth asking, should the congressman have to answer these questions? after all, don't we demand that of our public officials? or is the issue as he says, just a distraction? >> i'm not going to permit it to continue on for three, four, five or six more days. if that's not satisfactory to you, i apologize. i think what people really want to talk about are things like the debt limit vote tonight or things like the oppressive disparity between the very well to do in this country and people don't have as much. or how it's more difficult being the middle class in this country. that's what i'm hear to talk about. >> has congressman weiner said enough on the twitter photo? facebook.com/carolcnn. i'll read your comments later this hour. >> thank you very much. there's a a rundown of the stories we're covering in the next couple of hours. a man drowns in the san francisco bay while firemen and police do nothing. i'll talk live to the fire chief to find out why. also, the new face of a syrian uprising, a 13-year-old protester, tortured and killed. plus, is it better to rent or to buy a home in some are asking the questions and some questions you should ask yourself before committing. and finally, cnn in depth, medication nation. how taking too many pills can lead to a disaster. 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>> reporter: alameda's interim police chief said if it had been a child, officers would have jumped in. but in this case it was a large adu adult, so they were concerned about officer safety. >> it's muddy out there. we don't want them sinking. we don't want them in distress. >> reporter: fire officials say they will restore funding for water rescue training by july and tonight the mayor said there are immediate changes. >> in the future, the fire department's command on the scene will have the discretion to send swimmers into the water as circumstances allow. >> alameda's interim fire chief michael derazzi is with us on the phone. first of all like that woman in the piece said, if you could simply explain what were you thinking, when there's a man who is treading water for an hour, struggling for his life and drowns and your crews just watch? >> yes, suzanne, thank you for the opportunity to speak with you this morning. monday's situation presented itself as very difficult and very regrettable. on two levels we had to take under consideration the circumstances. first of all, this scene was a crime scene. the police department was in charge of the scene, obviously. under those circumstances we have to defer to their judgment based on what they have experienced. they felt that going into the water initially might not be the best idea because they were unsure if this individual was armed, the stability of the individual. so that is on one level. on a secondary level, which is something that we in the fire department have moved to change immediately, there was a policy in place that pretty much precluded our people from entering the water. and that's something as i stated, that we have already changed and we will be putting into effect a new policy which allows our commander discretion after these circumstances. >> with all due respect here, why not say to heck with the policy, we have an emergency on our hands, a man's life is at stake. we'll deal with the paperwork and fallout later. >> that's understandable. i can certainly understand that. if our people had entered the water and said we have to do this because there's a situation that presents itself where we can make a difference, i wouldn't have an issue with that. what i am saying, though, is that the policy that was put into place has changed and there won't be any question about that in the future. under the same circumstances, again, though, with the crime scene with an individual who could be unstable and potentially dangerous we'd have to take that into consideration before we attempted a rescue. >> as a firefighter, isn't that part of the job? it's a dangerous situation, we might meet up with somebody who's dangerous but we'll take the chance anyway because we've committed ourselves to saving lives? >> absolutely. i know, suzanne, those firefighters on the beach yesterday, they were incredibly frustrated by this whole situation, because i know them. they wanted to get in. they wanted to take action. they want to do their jobs. and they feel like they're handcuffed. it's an untenable situation for our people. >> if this was your father in the water drowning, would you say this was a frustrating situation? wouldn't you get the crews in the water to save him? >> if the situation was touching me personally, absolutely. i understand the feeling from the community. i understand obviously the family, we feel terrible for the family of the individual. but i can't go back and change the circumstances that took place on monday. i can only change the way we do things going forward. and i have initiated that process and we're going to change it. >> does it worry you at all, these guys are following the rules, following policy, does it concern you at all that there was a lack of compassion, humanity, not a single one of those first responders got into the water, it took a good samaritan, a woman to try to save them and ultimately she was too late? the man was treading water a whole hour. >> i don't agree there was a lack of concern or compassion. i've talked to these people and they rinne credibly concerned and frustrated, again, over the whole situation. and yes, i know they wanted to go in there and make a difference. and that's why we're moving forward and we're going to use this situation to make ourselves better, make sure we don't have this happen in the future. >> you certainly are trying to make the situation better, clearly that is not going to bring back this man's life. is there anything that you have to offer his family, besides an apology? >> you know, i wish there was something i could offer them besides that. but there is nothing that i can do to change the circumstances that took place on monday. all i can do is let everyone in the community of alameda know that the fire department is moving forward to make sure that we don't put our people in this type of a situation ever again. that we have the discretion to do what we know we need to do to take care of these type of rescue situations. >> chief d'orazi, we appreciate your time. a tragic situation. thank you, chief. >> you're welcome. sarah palin's bus tour is making a detour. she stops in new york to talk pizza and politics with donald trump. we were actually thinking, maybe... we're going to hike up here, so we'll catch up with you guys. 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[ female announcer ] new purifying facial cleanser from the new line of neutrogena naturals. two of the most highly publicized people not officially running for president sit down over pizza to talk politics. sarah palin and donald trump met in new york for what trump called a low-key dinner. they discussed the potential field of gop candidates and trump recently announced he was not running for president after weeks of political grand standing. palin who is on a mystery bus tour won't say whether or not she is running. she talked with cnn's peter hamby about last night's dinner with donald trump. >> how was the dinner? >> dinner was great. we had great pizza. wasn't that good? it was real new york pizza. that's with fun to get to be there. >> what's been the best part of the trip so far? >> oh, my goness. we love the o.t.r.s. we love hopping off the bus and meeting the nice folks who are the hometown characters basically in some of these small towns that we get to stop in. i love it. >> other candidates -- >> that's what i'm most comfortable doing. i know that. i love being able to. >> a lot of people don't realize in alaska you were known as a retail politician. if you do run -- i'm not going to ask you if you are going to run, because the answer will be the same -- would that one-on-one interaction still be possible for you as a global celebrity now? >> man, i would hope i never -- i would never lose that ability or that desire to get to be with that one-on-one relationship with people. i think it's the most valuable thing that a person, professional politician, anybody can have. is that desire to have that one-on-one relationship with people. that's how you learn and grow and figure out what the needs and concerns are so that you can know what to concentrate on to help meet those needs. yeah, if someone was to lose that, you'd become a typical politician and that's traj nick my eyes. >> palin has not officially entered the race. here are the republicans who have decided to run. former house speaker newt gingrich, ron paul, tim pawlenty, gary johnson and herman cain. there will be one more official candidate soon. that will happen tomorrow. mitt romney will announce his intention to seek the gop nomination. some republicans like palin are in the spotlight while others like romney seem to be taking a low-key approach. next hour we'll talk to a republican strategist about the different tactics. syrians rally around a 13-year-old boy and against the brutal regime they believe tortured him to death. we'll hear tough talk from secretary of state hillary clinton. premium litters now work harder to help neutralize odors in multiple cat homes. purina tidy cats. keep your home smelling like home. you've been stuck in the garage while i've been sneezing from the dust in here, and the pollen outside. but with 24-hour zyrtec®, i get prescription strength relief from my allergy symptoms. it's the brand allergists recommend most. ♪ lilly and i are back on the road again, where we belong. with zyrtec® i can love the air®. [ male announcer ] get up to $6 in savings on zyrtec® products at zyrtectv.com. here's a rundown of some of the stories we're working on next. a young demonstrator becomes a poster child for the syrian uprising after being tortured and killed. then with housing prices at new lows, is it better to buy or to rent? we'll tell you some wes you should consider. at 11:56 eastern when taking too many medications hurts more than helps. our cnn in depth medication nation. well, a 13-year-old boy has become the new face of the two-month-old revolution in syria. after alarming video surfaced on youtube of the child's mutilated body, it appears to show that he was tortured before his death. the video has angered activists and drawn sharp criticism from the united states as well. >> i, too, was very concerned by the reports about the young boy. in fact, i think what that symbolizes for many syrians is the total collapse of any effort by the syrian government to work with and listen to their own people. >> cnn's arwa damon has been following this story for us. and a warning, some of you may find the graphic images of injured children upsetting. >> reporter: on april 29th, anti-government protesters tried to break the syrian army siege on the city of dawrah. they described how security forces indriscriminately opened fire on them. 13-year-old hamza, separated from his father in the chaos. a month later, the family received their son's body. hamza's face bloated, purple. this video posted to youtube catalogs each of his wounds, much of it too graphic to broadcast. the narrator points out multiple gunshots before moving to his head. and even more shocking, his genitals were mutilated. cnn cannot independently verify what happened to hamza or the authenticity of this video. after it was initially broadcast, hamza's family was threatened. now they are too petrified to talk. even to close friends. a prominent syrian activist who we reached via skype says she has no doubt it's real and that the regime had a message in releasing the boy's body. >> they want the people to see this. they want the people to get scared. they want the people to know there is no -- everything, no matter how awful could happen to their family members if they continue to participate in this revolution. >> rep