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"newsroom" begins right now. we begin this morning with new reports suggesting al qaeda could use so-called body bombs on planes in america. our affiliates in california are saying their law enforcement received the alert from the fbi and homeland security. they say al qaeda is looking into new ways of concealing explosives by surgically implanting those devices into their bodies. ray kelly spoke to cnn earlier this morning about the so-called body bombs. >> the information about planting bombs inside of people we've been looking at that, intelligence community has been looking at that for a while. >> new to us and not new to you. >> commissioner kelly also said the highest concern of u.s. intelligence continues to be the threat of nuclear weapons. in other news this morning, they are back. remember the protest from the occupy wall street movement? today they are hoping to rage against the machine again but will they? this was their show of strength less than six months ago and this is their fizzled fury today. this is a live picture of a modest turnout in new york city. more on that in just a minute. the group says it will hold demonstrations in 135 cities. they have chosen today, may 1st, because it's known across the world as international workers day and that of course underscores the group's theme. the rich get richer, the rest of us get poorer. organizers ask everyone to take part in a boycott of sorts. a day without 99% means no school, no work, no shopping and no banking. we've already seen some violence from the protests. vandals in san francisco smashed windows and threw paint at a police station in the mission district. but let's head back east and cnn's poppy harlow is in new york's bryant park. the beginning of a planned march. not many people there, poppy. >> reporter: not many people here. it's early. they tell me it's going to get a lot busier around 2:00 this afternoon when will march from union square to wall street. a very small turnout. 40 people representing the movement. you have have that many in terms of police officers. i spoke with commissioner ray kelly of nypd this morning and he said they'll have significant police force on the ground. he wouldn't give me the exact number. again, this is sort of a resurgence. the movement hopes it will be of the occupy movement and of the message as you said. they are saying no school, no work, don't bank, don't buy. i talked to a number of occupy members already. what they say to me is we are demanding economic justice. i asked has your message changed? they said, no, it's not just about a park. it's about changing laws. it's about progressing this movement. critics will say they can't do that. they believe they can. i want you to take a quick listen to the occupy member in charge of organizing today. we spoke with him just a few minutes ago. >> i think ultimately people would have been very dissatisfied if we just stuck to the park and did nothing else. we're trying to get at a grassroots level to organize people around issues that are important to them and that's where the movement will succeed or fail is those interpersonal connections because the world won't be changed by simply what happens on tv. >> reporter: i'll also tell you something that i noticed that has changed in this conversation. it seems to me like they are making it more mass market if you will. really bring the 99% sort of all of these working people on the street into their message and their movement and not alienate them by just being represented by what we saw in the park. >> it's rainy and cold in new york city and maybe later in the day people will gather. if there's not a huge turnout in 135 cities across the united states, what will that say about the movement itself? >> reporter: i think frankly my opinion it hurts them. i think they need this to be a day when they are visual all over the media. a day when they get their message out because we haven't seen them group together since that november 17th eviction of the park. the goal is not only to park a conversation, they've already done that but to change laws. to do that we have to be in the public eye and they have to emass more support and they have to emass more money and it's hard to do that if you don't have a big showing. that said, i don't think this is representative of what we're going to see today from what i've been told throughout the week from organizers. it's really going to pick up this afternoon. it's supposed to stop raining about noon. we'll see. this they need money and support and to do that they need masses. >> poppy harlow live in new york city this morning. story looks different around the world in the cuban capital of havana the streets are teaming with thousands of people marking international workers day. that's always a big day in the communist country when the citizen is celebrated. in spain, anger is driving people into the streets. union workers have shut down much of the country with a general strike. they are rallying against a failing economy and severe austerity measures. in moscow, the day of spring and labor. demonstrators were joined by leaders of the former communist nation. the russian president and prime minister vladimir putin took part in the annual march. in just over a month, wisconsin voters decide if they want to keep or boot their governor. scott walker is in a recall battle now. his fight with labor unions kick-started efforts to recall him. walker has raised an astonishing amount of money. more than $13 million in just three months. some of the ads his supporters are running make you think he's running against president obama, not his in-state democratic rivals. >> barack obama could learn a few lessons in leadership from wisconsin's governor scott walker. under obama america has lost more than 800,000 jobs. we owe billions to china. gas prices are out of control. and home values have plunged. >> i have never seen a president trash a country so fast in my life. >> i'm very concerned about what president obama is doing. >> under governor scott walker things in wisconsin have begun to turn around. >> scott walker is trying to have -- >> you get the idea. walker is getting help you can't put a price tag on. governor chris christie of new jersey will campaign with him today in green bay and milwaukee. christie is a busy guy with a growing national profile. look how busy and how national. besides wisconsin, christie is also a featured guest at events in washington, kentucky, and chicago all within a month and none of them in new jersey. christie's name has been floating out there as a running mate for mitt romney and in the past he said no way. he seems to be changing his tune. >> what i said before was i really have no interest in being vice president. but if governor romney called and asked me to sit down and talk to him about it, i would listen because i think you own the nominee of your party your respect. who knows what he will say. he may be able to convince me. he's a convincing guy. >> let's talk to john from "the daily beast." also a cnn contributor. looks like christie wants that vp spot now. >> well, he's not being shy about it. that's as close as you come to saying i'm interested. it's a game where people say no, no, it's not going happen. they try to downplay their interest. christie is a big personality. he's not a shy kind of guy. i think there's some wisdom to the argument of him joining a ticket even though conventional wisdom in washington centering around a more sober understated pick like senator rob portman. this is a process that will go on for months. i'm sure chris christie will be on a final short list. >> chris christie is going to wisconsin to hold these rallies for the governor there who is facing a recall election in june. why chris christie? >> chris christie is actually developed a fascinating profile in a short period of time. he's one of the few republican figures right now, governors who is able to unite the tea party movement, the business establishment, with a strong record of executive leadership and government reform with an eye toward reducing the budget. that really helps the republican coalition. he's become really a national republican celebrity as a result. when he goes out to campaign for scott walker, guess what? it makes national news. and this is a strong argument for scott walker to make. scott walker pushed through some budget reforms early on obviously. very polarizing. hasn't been the most popular guy in his state. raising $13 million is an amazing accomplishment. 46% of wisconsinites in a recent poll said they were disappointed in the results he's had. chris christie comes bounding in and adds charisma that scott walker needs to make him appear more appealing and to put his reforms in a national light. >> and just an added tidbit, wisconsin lost jobs and we all heard governor walker at the time promise to create 250,000 more jobs in wisconsin if he fixed the union problem. that really hasn't happened. >> yeah. you know, beware of politicians promising specific numbers. they are not magicians. they usually can't deliver on these things. it's like when a politician promises to lower the price of gas. walk the other way very quickly. that said, governor walker pushed through some very controversial but his allies see as important efforts to make long-term changes in balancing the budget arguing that wisconsin would be on a more stable long-term path. what's fascinating about this referendum, it's a complete reversal of that old tip o'neil wisdom that all politics is local. all politics are national now particularly this wisconsin recall which is a major test for fall. big business versus big labor. one of the arguments you're going to see laid out is that scat wa scott walker hasn't been spending a lot of time minding folks at home. he's been more interested in preserving his job than growing jobs for folks in wisconsin. walker's folks will say you know what? this is a major test. not only of the fall strengths and what could be a major swing state but a question on whether states can balance their budgets in the face of major public sector obligations that they just can't afford. it's going to be a fascinating national debate played out in wisconsin over the next five weeks. >> john, thank you. other stories we're keeping an eye on this morning, the department of homeland security launches a separate investigation into the secret service prostitution scandal and effective immediately new u.s. standards of behavior apply to all secret service personnel no matter where they are in the world. 24 people have been linked to the scandal. 12 from the secret service and from the u.s. military. the owners of the grand ole opry and wisconsin based water heater maker are seeking it millions of dollars from the u.s. government. they filed a lawsuit accusing the army corps of engineers and national weather service of turning the 2010 nashville flood into a man-made controversy that killed 11 people and cost $2 billion in losses. take a look at this. baseball sized hail. it's not a myth. it really exists. it busted out windshields in texas on monday and that will keep the insurance adjusters really happy and busy today. cnn meteorologist rob marciano is here. that's insane. >> yeah. and there was over 120 reports of hail yesterday along with six reports of tornadoes. busy day. severe weather wise. we'll have another busy day today. it's a season. may 1st. one of the reasons that we get severe weather in the spring is because at least at the upper levels of the atmosphere we still have a fair amount of cold air. that's where you get that uplift and the little ice pellets grow to be these big monsters when you get several rounds in the atmospheric elevator going top to bottom in the atmosphere where it is very, very cold. cold enough to make those giant hail balls and they fell with a vengeance across parts of oklahoma. we have a spot today, two spots actually, where we'll see threat for severe weather. this line of showers and thunderstorms moving toward chicago. at the moment not severe behind this as we get disturbance that will roll across the upper midwest is where we think we'll see large hail, damaging winds and potentially isolated tornadoes. the storms pro dicks center added another spot across the ohio river valley north and east of st. louis including evansville, indiana, and cincinnati, this afternoon and through early this evening. part of the reason is extreme warmth. it feels more like june out there than it does the first of may. we'll see temperatures that are 15 to 20 degrees above average again today. yesterday we had records across the board in some spots across the south well into the 90s and even washington, d.c. later on today will get into the mid 80s. we had an early spring. looks like we may have an early summer as well. >> figures, right? we have to show these pictures. dog video. >> it's good stuff. >> we don't like to put too many dog stories in the news. this dog guards the guy's bike while he's away. >> love it. and then on top of that, he hops on the back. i love it. perfect. >> that dog has to fall off eventually. >> not in this video. that's perfect stuff. >> thank you, rob. still to come, you heard about isabel celis missing in arizona. now an advocate for missing children says there's a huge resource out there that could help where amber alerts do not. we're talking about long haul truckers. marc klaas joins us later. osama bin laden, navy s.e.a.l.s killed him, radical muslims keep his legacy alive. we'll look at the global cult that has elevated him to sainthood. "cnn newsroom" back in a minute. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the condemnation of osama bin laden and his ruthless tactics was not universal. his name remains a rallying cry for many muslims who say he still inspires their cause. a report from cnn's matthew chance. >> reporter: among some british muslims, osama bin laden was a hero. his killing by u.s. forces a bitter blow. >> we will continue to produce the likes of osama. >> reporter: these were angry scenes outside of the u.s. embassy in london when president obama came to visit shortly afterwards. most british muslims don't share these views but analysts say the global cult of bin laden is still thriving after his death. >> i don't think bin laden has been forgotten. he will never ever be forgotten. after his death he's being treated in certain places as a saint. it will remain for a long, long time. >> reporter: the influence of bin laden on radical muslims in britain and elsewhere has been profound. his video message is given prominence at meetings like this one. some radicals viewed his 9/11 attacks as no different from the wars in iraq and afghanistan which followed and his killing has done little to change their minds. >> now the muslims have a point to prove that this jihad will not begin in anguish. every mother wants to give birth to a child of osama bin laden to be on the front line as well. >> reporter: the killing of bin laden last year dealt a powerful blow to al qaeda. the network lost its charismatic leader. evaded capturing while masterminding attacks for years but the man is revered in some corners and the organization he led remains a dangerous threat. true, al qaeda's influence may have declined in places like iraq and afghanistan but analysts say elsewhere somalia to yemen, al qaeda expanded its reach by affiliating with local groups. in syria, it may not yet be a huge player nor does the network appear to have played much of a role in the arab spring uprisings of last year but analysts say it's constantly looking for opportunities to insert itself. >> you think it would be a mistake for the united states for instance to think that because osama bin laden has been killed, the war on terror has been won. >> no way. no way. no way. it's wrong. it's still yet to say that and it's not war against terror. it's war against global revolutionary insurgency. they have many around the world and they are active and from time to time for certain reasons, military reasons, some will just go like a low profile. >> reporter: a year after his killing, it seems the cult of osama bin laden lives on. matthew chance, cnn, london. >> osama bin laden's death one year ago is turning into a political battle. the gop says the president is politicizing this day but it mitt romney about to eat his words? we'll explore that issue ahead. and a passenger plane crashes on purpose. why would anyone want to do that? 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