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CNNW CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin July 10, 2014

A 15yearold girl was able to survive a gunshot wound to her head. She somehow had the wherewithal to call 911, tipped off police to the suspects next possibly deadly move. She was the only clue we had to the amount of information that we could gather on this suspect here. She was able to provide us the name of the person who shot them, where he was going next and we quickly responded to that location and caught him coming up to that residents where other relatives of that family lived and we assume he meant to shoot them as well. During much of this multihour standoff, he held a gun to his head while deputies surrounded him with their weapons drawn. He surrendered three hours later. Cnns Miguel Marcus joins me out of texas. You have new details about how the whole thing unfolded. Reporter just a hideous situation. Another idiot with a gun, unfortunately. And it is just awful how this thing played out. Just north of houston, texas, as you said, spring yesterday afternoon. This is a guy who we want went up to the door, went once dressed in a fedex uniform. Used to work for fedex some months ago and left when the 15yearold little girl who answered the door turned him away. He was asking for the parents. He came back a short while later. She recognized him as an ex uncle. Not clear if she thought he was a blood uncle or someone they called an uncle. And he busted down the door, tied up the kids, held them at gunpoint, waiting for the parents to come home. As soon as they did, thats when the shooting started. Steven and katie stay were both killed, as well as, get this, two girls, one 9, one 7. Two boys, one 13, one 4 years old. Awful. And according to police, the way this went down, they were tied up, it would have been basically execution style. The 15yearold girl who answered the door miraculously even though very badly injured, was able to tip off police as to where he might be headed next. How is she . She is in very poor shape, but shes at least stable. So theyre hoping she does survive. The fact she was able to communicate with police at the scene is certainly a good sign. But these things are very tough to get ahold of, and to take care of once somebody is so badly injured. They were able to head him off before he got to the next place. So there could have been even more killing before this guy was finally talked to for about three hours before he finally surrendered. Tomorrow will be his initial appearance on capital murder charge. Our hearts with this 15yearold girl. Incredible what she was able to pull off, and what probably saved lives, as you point out. Miguel marquez, thank you. You got it. To the immigration crisis. It is now morphing into a sort of standoff at the border. Ill get to that in just a moment. But you have these tens of thousands of undocumented children, overwhelming the texas line. This is the topic of the Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing on capitol hill this hour. It starts in just about a half hour. Homeland security secretary, jeh johnson, will be testifying, specifically about this dollar figure we have been reporting this week, this 3. 7 billion. The president obama wants to help spend to alleviate this issue it at the border. This is what hes asking congress for. Now, a problem the president still has not firsthand seen, despite calls by many in his party to do so, go to the border. He is set to leave texas this afternoon with no plans to head south. And back to the standoff. I alluded to. President obama is calling for congress to, quote, do something. That is approve that near 4 billion hes asking for in aid. Republicans are not rejecting it. But i want you to listen to the speaker of the House Republicans here, speaker boehner, lashing out today. Were not giving the president a blank check. This is a problem of the president s own making. Hes been president for five and a half years. When is he going to take responsibility for something . Speaker boehner today. And as the politics on the border crisis gets increasingly partisan, the crisis itself worsens. We have our correspondents on the border to show you what exactly is happening today. And not just the u. S. mexico border, but farther south. Gary tuchman will show us one Border Crossing where you dont need papers, just money. Not much more, actually, than a buck. But first to cnns Alina Machado, on the u. S. mexico line in mission, texas for us right now. So youre along the river, alina. It tell us what youre seeing and experiencing there. Reporter yeah, brooke. We are actually on the rio grand. It is the natural border between mexico and the u. S. You can see on the other side that is mexico. The side that were standing on is the u. S. And in this area, in this general vicinity, we have seen a very strong Law Enforcement presence. Particularly from the Border Patrol. Earlier today, we saw a group of state Law Enforcement boats coming through the river, and we believe Texas Governor rick perry was on one of those boats, getting a firsthand look of the border, of the situation here, which is exactly what he said he wanted the president to do. He met with the president some 500 miles north of here. And as you mentioned, we do not believe the president is going to be heading south. We have been in this area now for a couple of days. We have been getting a sense of the situation here. We went into mcallen, texas, part of town where many of the immigrants who are caught crossing the border make it through eventually, and then head on to other destinations where they may have relatives throughout the country. Were talking about cities like miami, houston, d. C. , new york, other cities far, far away from where we are. And we specifically went to a Catholic Charities shelter that has been helping many of these immigrants as they are making their way through here. They stop there, get a change of clothes. They take a shower. They eat something before they board a bus and continue on their journey. Brooke . Okay, Alina Machado along the rio grand. And listen, as alina pointed out, its not just mexicans who are crossing over. Lets talk about central america. The u. S. Government says 29 of the undocumented children we have been focusing on, they are from these thee specific countries. Honduras, el salvador and guatemala. How does the journey begin for them . Well, cnns gary tuchman went to guatemala to check out one route. And it starts with a boat and little more than 1. Reporter brooke, what were seeing on the border is fascinating and eyeopening, but also whats been happening here for many generations. This is guatemala where im standing on the muddy shores of the river. These are rafts going over to mexico on the other side of the water. Its very easy to get there. Everything is very open. To cross from mexico to the United States, you obvious often have to pay a coyote thousands of dollars. But to do it here you pay ten guatemal guatemalan, the equivalent of 1. 30. This is the river which separates mexico from guatemala. Right now were in the western most part of the country, the southern most part of mexico. And you can see throughout this river, there are rafts of people who are trying to get across the border and doing it very easily. This is very unlike the border going into the United States where you have to be secret about it. I want to give you a look here to give an idea of how open this is. There are police here. There are police all over here. And no one minds that people are going across the river from here in guatemala into mexico. You can see this family of three, a mother, father, and their little boy, they told me a short time ago theyre getting ready to go on this raft, made of huge inner tubes, and getting ready to cross into mexico and the United States. This river is active from sunrise to sunset. And in addition to all the police being here, not caring that people are crossing from guatemala into mexico, whats really amazing is a mile in this direction is the official border station. The official border station down there. So even though the Border Patrol people from guatemala and mexico work over there, they dont seem to care either. This is just a very active business. And the going rate right now for crossing is the equivalent of 1. 30. And this is the family we just met, a little child and his parents. The man in the red shirt with the stick, hes the pilot of this raft. And hes the guy who just got the 1. 30. Typically what happens, they go to the other side, into mexico. There are taxis and advance and also bicycle taxis on the other side. Which will take them in a lot of cases to a nearby city in mexico called tapachula, and they stay in shelters and figure out where to go from there. But it is a long way from tapachula, the southern part of mexico, to the United States. It could take them weeks to get there, if they get there successfully. And thats an open question. The police are not only friendly here, theyre actually encouraging us to go for a ride on one of the rafts. Yeah, go into mexico. So we are. And this is our skipper. Your name, sir . Paluco. We paid him 1. 30 to go on the raft. Is this a fun job . Fun. Easy . Easy job. You like taking people into mexico . Sure. Okay, man. People leave guatemala, he takes them to mexico and if they succeed, they end up in the United States. But if you do this in the rio grand of texas, youre going to be in trouble. You cant do it in front of cops. But here with paluco, you can do it in front of everybody. Paluco has now taken us into mexico. But unlike most of the people on this river, were going to head back into guatemala and spend the next couple hours watching people continue to cross this river heading north. The town were standing in right now is called takun, guatemala. People are friendly, encourage us to show their businesses, but in many cases their fathers and grandfathers also did. We can tell you we have spent ten hours here between yesterday and today and there hasnt been a moment when we havent seen many rafts crossing from guatemala into mexico. Brooke . Gary tuchman, thank you very much for taking us there, showing us how people are crossing. I should point out, the government officials wednesday say mexico deported 90,000 people last year who were on their way to try to enter the United States illegally. Just ahead, a google executive is dead and police say this call girl finished her glass of wine after killing this man on this yacht and now police are looking into the death of one of her former boyfriends. Plus, the battle continues as tensions are rising between hamas and israel. Children and families staying inside their homes. But during all of this, hamas is doing Something Different in terms of fire power. Well explain. And shes back. Rosie odonnell returning to the view after a disastrous exit. So who else will join her at the table . Stay with me. Youre watching cnn. Nineteen years ago, we thought, wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad . So we gave people the power of the review. And now angies list is revolutionizing local service again. You can easily buy and Schedule Services from toprated providers. Conveniently stay up to date on progress. And effortlessly turn your photos into finished projects with our snapfix app. Visit angieslist. Com today. 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Police say he was dying on the floor, as she just as i said her glass of wine and then walked away. Dan simon has more. Reporter she was a highpriced prostitute, according to police. Her Facebook Page filled with provocative images. Here she is on youtube giving a makeup lesson. Okay. So first we start with a primer. Reporter he was a 51yearold Silicon Valley executive who had worked for both apple and google. They had an ongoing relationship, investigators say, and in november of last year, they were together aboard his yacht in santa cruz, california. Thats where Forrest Hayes was found dead. Police say the woman, 26yearold alex tickleman, gave him a fatal dose of heroin. A Security Camera aboard the yacht playing a key role in the investigation. It showed our suspect, showed our victim, showed her injecting him with heroin. Showed her absolute callousness after the fact as he starts to have medical complications. Reporter soon after hayes fell unconscious, the video shows tickleman stepping over his body to finish a glass of wine. And later she lowers a blind to conceal his body from outside view. According to investigators, they met through the website seekingarrangements. Com, relationships on your terms, it says on its home page, where beautiful, successful people fuel mutually beneficial relationships. Tickleman boasting to investigators she had more than 200 clients. Initially, Police Booked her on charges of Second Degree murder. Prosecutors today charged her with felony manslaughter. Police say she tried to hide her involvement. We have her computer records, we know the google searches she made and the things that she did to try to get herself out of this. Reporter hayes was a Silicon Valley veteran, married and a father of five. His career included working on the glass project at google. One employee writing this on his memorial page. You showed us how to be better engineers and a better team. An Undercover Police officer arrested tickleman by posing as a client. They met at an upscale location and agreed on a 1,000 price for sex. Authorities are investigating whether she may be involved in a similar case in another state. Dan simon, cnn, san francisco. Well get to that georgia case in a minute, but first, hln legal analyst, joey jackson, joins me to walk through what happened with this google executive. So well get to the nittygritty details from the Surveillance Video in a minute. But first, melanie manslaughter. Why that charge . I think it could be upgraded. Let me talk about what that is. When you talk about manslaughter and murder and how theyre different, the difference is there a malice element to that crime. Manslaughter does not have premeditation. Deliberation. Malice murder does. Now, if youre going oh to make the argument that she intentionally took a needle and put heroin in his veins and as a result caused the death and well talk about her behavior in the aftermath, closing the blinds, stepping over his body, nonchalantly covering her tracks, i certainly think it could be elevated to not felony manslaughter but certainly murder. And then, brooke, if you take the new case, right hang on, hang on, slow you down a second. If youre talking about premeditation, what youre referring to is the closing of the blinds and sipping wine. This this is postmortem. Exactly. What that shows is consciousness of guilt. What you do in any prosecution is look at the circumstances in the case, how you acted before, after, and thats what goes to the charge. And so if you did, indeed, in this case, the accusation is she injected heroin what if he asked for it . If he asked for the heroin, i moon, that would be a difficult thing to thats a good defense, i think, to establish. Its a difficult thing to make the argument. Its a very good question. But then it becomes more of a reckless type of crime. Because if i ask for heroin, youre going to do me a favor and give it to me. And the question is, did you give me too much. At minimum, reckless and then manslaughter certainly would apply. So the case in georgia, hearing what happened with this google executive, saying hang on a second, we remember this woman. I think it was the boyfriend in the shower, she was saying there was a thud. It was accidental heroin. And alcohol overdose. Accidental. That was her story. That was her story. And she, in fact, called 911, brooke, on that occasion. But i think thats a big gamechanger here too. You know why . Because it goes to a common plan of scheme and could certainly evidence some kind of intent. And we dont know what happened. They ruled it the journal authorities at that time, ill be interviewing that sheriff, by the way, later on on hln and have questions for him. The point is, i think as a result, brooke, of this particular case, you can use in any trial both cases against the other. So what theyre going to say is she has a modus operandi of doing this, because she allegedly did it here. So in the reopening of that investigation, theyre going to ask probing questions, get more evidence. I assume theyll do a lot of toxicology and other things. And theyll just see whether she had any criminal coupleability. And that absolutely is coming in as evidence in the california case and thats why i say look for a potential upgrade in those charges. Okay. Well be looking for the results of that sheriff interview, mr. Jackson, on hln. Thank you very much. Pleasure and privilege. Just ahead, we now know what happened in the mystery of that little boy who went missing for 11 days before being found in his basement. The new details involving a lot of situps and pushups and a lot of other things. Thats coming up. Plus the battle rages between hamas and israel. But during this conflict, hamas doing Something Different in terms of fire power. Well

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