0 from afghanistan by next year. the plan has been to keep a small force there. now the u.s. may have zero presence there and shortly. john king will be joining us to break all that plus have to see this video the mother of two caught on camera, what's she doing? trying to hire a hitman to kill her husband and giggling about it. guess what? not laughing anymore. the would be hitman a cop, and she's now in jail. check out this video a car plows into the gas station, the guy dives out of the way just in time but he catches fire, he stop, drop and rolled and survived. much more ahead on his flight ning story of sur vile. first up that's some story, what we are seeing and hearing from the cleveland three. kidnapped separately, held together for over a decade until they were rescued just months ago from a house of horrors. overnight amanda berry, gina dejesus and michelle knight released a video thanking the community for their support. >> good morning to you, chris, michaela and kate. this is the first time we're seeing and hearing from these women since they went missing more than ten years ago. they're speaking out publicly and it's incredible to hear them speak. instead of being bitter for losing so many of years of their lives they're thankful for the public and for everyone who has given them privacy and talked about moving on and their new lives. in a four-minute youtube video, amanda berry, gina dejesus and michelle knight are speaking publicly for the first time to simply say thanks. >> i want to thank everyone who has helped me and my family through entire ordeal. everyone who has been there to support us it's been a blessing to have an outpouring of love and kindness. >> i would say thank you for the support. >> thank you, everyone, for your love support and donations which helped me build a brand new life. >> more than $1 million has been donated to the courage fund to help the women heal after a decade of alleged abuse in captivity by aerial castro. castro is charged with beating, raping and starving them, forcing the miscarriage of a baby he fathered yet in the video made last week the women seemed upbeat, not bitter. >> i'm getting stronger each day and i'm having my privacy has helped immensely. i ask that everyone continue to respect our privacy and give us time to have a normal life. >> be positive. learn that it's important to give than to receive. thank you for all your prayers. >> michelle knight held the longest, appeared to suffer the worst abuse. here she hints at the pain of the ordeal and what she learned from it. >> i will not let the situation define who i am. i will define the situation. i don't want to be consumed by hatred. with that being said we need to take a leap of faith and know that god is in control. >> they were once known only as silent victims. now amanda berry, gina dejesus and michelle knight want the world to know they have a voice and have reclaimed their lives. as michelle knight put it at the end of the video "i'm looking forward to my brand new life." 9,200 donations have raised more than $1 million for the women. as for their alleged kidnaper if a plea deal is not reached trial will be august 5th, he faces 329 charges. for now it's incredible to see the women speak out and likely the last time we're going to see them speak out for a while. >> pamela, thank you so much. they have a long road ahead in their recovery. >> they say the privacy is helping them, giving them distance. >> we will cheer for them all along the way though. now let's get to the other major story we're watching, the latest on the crash of asiana flight 214. there's new video of terrified passengers fleeing for their lives seconds after the jet went down. you're seeing it there, the scene understandably pure chaos. this morning investigators are focusing on the speed as it made its final approach to land. miguel marquez is live from san francisco with more on the investigation. three days out, no official word from investigators on a cause but they're still looking into it, right, miguel? >> reporter: yes. not an official word for some time but the ntsb is speaking to all four pilots that were on that plane, those interviews will probably be ongoing, they want to know what they were doing and seeing on the cockpit on all the instruments and that incredible video that we're seeing now that shows us what a textbook emergency escape this was. moments after impact emergency chutes deployed from the plane. >> my god that's scary. >> reporter: you see one person zipping down and a stream of people running for their lives. one slide reportedly popped open inside the plane trapping people. >> we have heard there were some problems inside the aircraft. we need to understand why that happening. >> they're [ bleep ] running. >> oh my god. >> reporter: in a minute, dozens of emergency vehicles surrounded the flaen. the possibility a plane crash victim was struck by an emergency worker vehicle now part of the investigation. >> we are reviewing airport surveillance video. >> reporter: united 885 baiting to take off. >> these people and i think they are walking around. >> reporter: had a terrifying front row seat as the asiana came crashing in. >> it looks like it's struggling. >> reporter: this shows the landing gear near the seawall, the glide path on target but the speed way too slow. three seconds before impact the plane just above the batter is doing just 118 miles per hour. it should be doing around 158. >> this is not something that i expected to ever view in my career. >> reporter: first responders coming forward. one police officer jumped into the burning plane. >> we saw the black plume of smoke coming in, like something out of a nightmare. >> reporter: flight attendant kim spoke. >> friends and family are not surprised the family members of the two chinese victims were not surprised they were together. they we the families meant with chinese president yong yong du who apologized in person. >> now some of those family members are very upset and understandably so with asiana airlines, which they express to the president there in seoul as they were making their way here to san francisco. ntsb today we understand they will give us a better readout of what those pilots are saying and what they were seeing in that cockpit as they get closer to understanding what it was that caused this plane to not make it to the runway. chris? >> thanks, miguel. they have a lot of information to work with so hopefully the investigation yields conclusions quickly. we have a cnn exclusive for you on this story. three young survivors from the flight are telling their stories what it was like inside the crash and how they survived. sarah sidnor live with us from san francisco good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. an amazing story all these kids under the age of 16 and they were all treated here at san francisco general hospital, along with their saert but they're incredibly resilient and were able to tell us all about what it was like to be on flight 214 as it crash landed. >> oh my god! oh, it's an accident! >> reporter: the chaos of a plane crash, the sudden impact, the spinning, the dust, the fire, and then the desperate scramble to stay alive. >> there was no warning or anything. it was just, just happened. >> reporter: 15-year-old esther, 13-year-old joseph, 11-year-old sarah jiang and their parents were all inside the plane returning from a family vacation. >> we were all bouncing all over the place. i just remember there being dust everywhere and i was freaking out and then it just stopped. >> reporter: at first, the jang siblings weren't sure they survived the crash. >> i was also calling out for my parents and i was, well i couldn't breathe for like, because i got the wind knocked out of me so i couldn't breathe for a couple of seconds. >> so after everything stopped and i realized i was alive and i looked over and i saw my brother and sister, they were both fine, and then i looked over and my mom and my dad, and they were both on the floor because their seats fell down, and then i called their names out, and they both like moaned kind of. >> reporter: all five of them were hurt. the jang family was sitting in the back of the plane when the tail hit the seawall. their heads snapped forward, luggage fell and seats buckled making it challenging for them to escape quickly. >> well it was hard to get out. >> someone helped us out and my brother and sister went out an exit on the right and i realized that i was limping and their exit did not have a slide so a flight attendant brought me to another exit which had a slide, which was on the opposite side of the plane. >> reporter: the entire jang family eventually made it out alive. >> when we all reunited my family and i, i was really glad, so i started crying. >> reporter: the jangs set out for a memorable trip, the first time the children were going to south korea for a glimpse of their heritage, but on the way home, they ended up learning a frightening lesson of survival. now i can tell you that the jang's mother is actually not in this hospital, and they hadn't been able to see her. she is in a different hospital recovering from her injuries but all in all the family happy that they all got out alive and they are all relatively okay. chris? >> sara sidner, great story. many are paralyzed, people lost their lives but it is miraculous so many people lived. >> when you see the wreckage how many walked away and how quickly they got out of the way and were running away themselves. amazing what the flight crew did. >> i can't believe how calm those children were. they recollected so well, recalled exactly what happened to them. >> amazing. amazing. also amazing, take a look at this video. this popped up in tampa bay, florida, a huge waterspout that eventually it actually came ashore as a tornado and thankfully it only did some minor damage and no one was hurt but we have to tell you about more rough weather that could be ahead for florida. i think we're talking about chantal, right? >> right. talking about barbados. look at google earth it's far, far, far away but there's an awful lot of position as the storm gets closer to america. we'll go day by day. it's going to move over the islands eventually. if you have a cruise scheduled it will be rough. if you have a wedding like poppy's friend does in dominican republic you may have a tough time here. 70 miles per hour over the dr wednesday. here's puerto rico and haiti. they don't need any rain. i'll move it ahead. here is where it gets interesting. this is three, four and five days out but the big picture is this water is warm. when it comes over the dr it will dive off. when it gets back in the water it will strengthen again and the computer models have it turn toward america. remember how sandy made the left turn to the north, the computers are taking it very close to the dr in hate i-and all of the sudden left turn, that left turn is what i'm concerned about either for florida, the coast of georgia or even into the carolinas. this is not one you want to look out and avoid. you want to look at this. we are not in hurricane season particularly. we are in the season but not the peak. this is an early one and it could be a dangerous one. guys? >> chad, we'll be watching it. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. in egypt there are growing fears egypt may be spiraling deeper into chaos. last few days more than 50 lost their lives, hundreds wounded. protests turned violent witnesses saying egyptian security forces opened fire on supporters of ousted president morsi. reza sayah, people on the ground is saying it feels unstable. what are you seeing? >> reporter: yes, chris, every day seems to be another round of intense fighting in this conflict, where on one side the moderates, the liberals, even supporters of military rule pushing forth with establishing a new government and the supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi, supporters of the muslim brotherhood, they're screaming for the process to stop, screaming for the armed forces to be held accountable for yesterday's deadly clashes. at this point incredibly difficult to figure out what happened yesterday, who started it, who fired first. both sides accusing the other of starting this clash. today there are funerals arranged for some of the fatalities, look for this to be another highly emotional and charged day. this interim government doing what it can to establish a permanent government, the interim president last night declaring constitutional decrees, setting a timetable and a framework for new elections in 15 days. panel will review the new constitution and if all goes well, in as little as four and a half months we could have new elections for a new president and parliament standing in their way of course is the muslim brotherhood and supporters of mr. morsi. chris? kate? >> reza thank you very much. you can hear the sirens behind reza now, part of everyday life and the place couldn't be more important to u.s. interests. >> reza has been saying every day there's something new happening another twist in this. are they moving more towards democracy or further away from it. there's also a lot of other news developing at this hour. straight to michaela for the headlines. >> good morning to you at home. making news new this morning, president obama not only giving serious considerations to speeding up troop withdrawal from afghanistan, he's also considering what's called a zero option which would leave no troops there after next year, this after his relationship with afghan president hamid karzai cooled over peace talks with the taliban and negotiations over a long-term security deal ended abruptly. we'll talk more with cnn chief national correspondent john king coming up at the bottom of the hour. could nsa leaker edward snowden's new home be venezuela? they received a formal asylum request from snowden is waiting to hear back from him. venezuela's foreign minister cautioned russia still has to weigh in on the request. snowden is believed to be hold up in a moscow airport. vice president biden said to attend a funeral for the 19 fallen firefighters. the union expected to attend. the death of the hot shots considered the worst fire fighting loss since september 11th. unless patriots hernandez lawyers appeal, we'll know what was seized from his home. hernandez is charged with the premeditated murder of his one-time friend odin lloyd. his associate carlos ortiz will appear in court later this morning. and lastly, check out these raging floodwaters creating chaos in toronto. take a look at this double decker train, hundreds of passengers strappeded for more than five hours when the bottom deck became filled with water. police had to row up in dinghies and get people out one by one. more than 400,000 people in homes are without power which adds insult to injury, you're dealing with this mop-up and without power, a concerning time in toronto to be sure. >> and another train incident going on. boy, oh, boy. >> thank you. we're going to take a break and when we come back something very interested happened in the zimmerman trial. for the defense it's all about trayvon martin's father, they put him on the stand, why? and a ruling by the judge about evidence that can come in now the defense could use about trayvon martin could make a difference in the case. why investigators are having so much trouble locating dozens of people that are still missing three days after a deadly train explosion in canada. more secure. 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