0 keeps opening the door with a wave of his hand. the students didn't have no idea going on. >> an accomplice is outside pressing the elevator button to keep the doors open and you see the people not that impressed. the video has been viewed 800,000 times. >> it's pretty cool. reminds you of the commercial with the little boy. >> that will do it for me. have a great weekend. >> i'll see you on monday. >> you're not off yet. you have another hour. cnn newsroom starts now. celebrity chef paula dean is in damage control after making rational comments. the autopsy report is in. james gandolfini died from a heart attack. those details plus what his family is saying. the jury is picked. six women were selected to hear their case against george zimmerman. could this help or hurt him. this is cnn newsroom. we begin with that close call. this is over the skies of the new york. the faa is now trying to figure out how a delta flight arriving at jfk airport almost collided with the plane leaving la guardia. we are filled in on what happens. >> reporter: the incident happened near at new york's jfk airport. a shuttle america was taking off just as a delta 747 was preparing the land. that 747 peeled out of its landing in a standard procedure called a missed approach. the two planes then came way too close. the faa will not confirm just how close. in statement it said the two airports were turning away from each other at the point where they lost the required separation. both aircraft landed safely. it's the latest in a string of near misses akros the nation's airports in the past few years. last year in washington, d.c. at reagan national airport three planes barely avoided slamming into one another after a control tower miscommunication. a frightening near multiple politician in denver. >> traffic alert. >> reporter: the passenger plane caught on radar steering directly into the line of several aircrafts. in 2010 a pilot at boston low can airport takes a wrong turn right into the path of another aircraft. an air traffic controller works to avoid a disaster. >> jet blue hold right there. hold. >> reporter: thankfully the pilot hears him just in time. crisis averted. >> renee marsh is joining us from washington. what are we hearing about the close call? do we have anymore information about how this happened? >> we know from the faa at the point these two aircrafts were very close, they were about a half a mile apart horizontally. keep in mind they are supposed to be no less than three miles apart. they were also 200 feet apart vertically. also keep in mind they should be at the very least 1,000 feet apart. that gives you a better idea as to how close these planes came. they were turning away from each other when they were at their closest point. we did pull in some audio, portion of audio between the delta 747 and the control tower. what you're about to hear is the control tower telling the pilot the direction and attitude of another plane coming his way. take a listen. >> 172 heavy are you turn something. >> yes, sir, we're almost at zero four internow. >> delta 172 heavy traffic. 12:00, 1400 foot. >> we got him on the fish finder. we're turning right. >> all right. that was the heart of it all. you heard the air traffic controller telling him this plane is coming your way. be aware. luckily both of those planes were able to land safely. >> luckily. those passengers must have been terrified. : we're looking at damage control today. this is for the celebrity chef paula deen. >> i've probably got about four pounds of bulleter. >> she's known for a lot of butter. this is the queen of comfort food. she's been under fire this week after admitting she used a rational slur in a video tape testimony. it's going viral. it's created quite the backlash for her. i understand she might have something to say about this. >> we were on her official twitter page. she tweeted about an hour and a half ago that there will be a video statement released shortly. she didn't say much else beyond that. she tweeted just a while ago a picture of herself. it looks like she is sitting there for an interview. that's the picture we saw al teasing that a video statement from her will be released shortly. we can only assume this is going controversy that's been fueling this week. this all started on wednesday. news of a deposition that was taken in may surfaced. it was a transcript of that deposition. it was a video taped deposition but we only got ahold of the transcript. she admitted to having used a racial slur in a conversation with her husband that happened years ago. >> was she apologetic about using that? >> the deposition is related to a lawsuit. it's an ongoing civil lawsuit. she didn't really go into that. she was discussing her history and what she may have said. it was in response to those allegations. that lawsuit was filed by a former employee and that person is looking for damages. right after that broke all we heard was statement from her attorney saying that his client does not condone or find the use of racial epithets responsible. we also talked to some experts. we talked to a man named david johnson. he spent more than ten years helping celebrities deal with controversies. he said the first 48 hours are critical in terms of how the public responds and the person responds. he felt deen would be able to bounce back but because this involved a racial issue it might be a little trickier. we're just waiting to see what happens. >> we'll see what she says. i want to bring in a guest to talk about how could she repair her image. what does she need to do? >> i'm looking at this as a critic not an image consultant. i think given the best thing is to actually be sorry which we'll have to see what her statement says but i think it needs to be more than simply i'm sorry if such and such was offended or the sort of more general i deplore racism. it's more notion that i did something wrong and i understand why it was wrong. beyond that it just seems like damage control. >> she's already faced quite a bit of criticism before with the eating and the diabetes and the controversy around that and knowledging she was diabetic herself. this on top of that, how difficult is it for her to win back some of the people who were loyal fans. >> it's funny because on the one hand you can say they are two very different things. one is diet which i don't think that anybody really saw her as a health food cook to begin with and to some extent that's between her and her doctor and those of the people who follow her and this is a series in a different way but one could say a thing like this could compounds and create a sense of phoniness and lack of trust. while they are initially unrelated, i think having those two things happen in concession could have a tendency to pile on each other and hurt her fan's relationship with her. >> thanks for joining us. we appreciate it as always. we'll see if she has a statement. coming up, he leaked details about the government surveillance program. now his background check is being questioned. did he slip through the cracks? 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