welcome to early start. i m christine romans. i m john berman. it is friday april 10th. we have breaking news. a deadly string of tornadoes tearing across the midwest. some dramatic pictures. look at that truck just getting blown over right there. the weather service reports at least 14 reported tornadoes across three states. officials say the path of destruction across illinois alone was more than 25 miles long. there was a huge twister in northern illinois near the city of rochelle. officials say the severe storm killed one person in nearby fairdale. this is another view of the storms in northern illinois. residents of the neighborhood ran to their basements for shelter. we were here. it was hailing. we all thought it was going to miss us. we started getting calls from people in chain of the tornadoes headed our way. we quickly went down to the basement and could feel the tornado right over our house. came up to this. i feel like it s a bad dream. something i would watch on the news somewhere else. not in my neighborhood. emergency officials say the tornadoes and high winds caused multiple injuries widespread damage. take a look at this building leveled in rockford illinois. the fire department saying they are having a hard time accessing areas because of the damage and debris. in missouri last night a severe storm blasted through chesterfield west of st. louis. some of the buildings destroyed. no one injured there because it was after business hours. those who were still around got out as quickly as they could. there was a lot of wind and sideways rain. you couldn t see anything. i started hearing crashing back in the shop area of our buildings. i saw the vents ripped out of the roof. the back part of the roof separating from the wall of the buildings. decided that wasn t the best place to be. in iowa, ominous storm clouds near clinton, iowa. that storm downed trees and scattered debris. officials say thankfully there were no injuries. meteorologist derek van dam is tracking the storms. not done yet. john and christine, all of the inngredients for there for the significant weather event. the national weather service saying this would be a particularly dangerous situation and that is what panned out. you can see the interaction with the warm moist and unstable air mass with the dry air mass behind it. the cold front triggered a supercell thunderstorm that moved outside of rochelle and west of chicago and crossed interstate 39. you saw the footage of the 18 wheeler truck flipped on its side. terrifying and extraordinary to see something of this magnitude. mother nature and its brut force. this is the path of the cold front that brings shower and thunderstorm activity at the moment across the mid-atlantic. we have an expiring tornado watch box across central ohio and kentucky just east of cincinnati and louisville. we now have a new severe thunderstorm watch box in effect through 10:00 a.m. cold front marches eastward. possibly of large hail and damages winds and isolated tornado from the mid-atlantic states including the nation s capital through raleigh and atlanta and south to the gulf of mexico and parts of texas. we do not expect as widespread of an event today. however, still important to keep an eye to the sky. here comes the cold front and temperatures and winds pick up behind the system. john and christine. thanks derek. we have new video that brings new perspective to the police officer shooting of an unarmed black man in north charleston south carolina. the officer michael slager is now in jail facing murder charges. we have a new look at dash cam video. it does show very important moments that led up to the shooting. walter scott is pulled over and questioned by officer slager. can i see your license and insurance card? i have my license. license. the reason for the stop is your brake light is out. the moments before the shooting very important. cnn s brian todd is in north charleston and breaks down what this means. reporter: john and christine, the latest development in the case is dramatic. the release of the dash cam of officer michael slager. the video shows a routine traffic stop. walter scott s vehicle pulling into the parking lot of the auto parts store. officer slager getting out and talking to walter scott on the driver s side. then officer slager comes back to his vehicle. walter scott appears to get out of his vehicle briefly and puts his hand up but goes back into his vehicle. walter scott emerges from his vehicle on this videotape and seen taking off running to the left side of the screen. that is the extent of that videotape. we don t know why walter scott took off running. that will be a key gap that has to be filled in this case. another new development. we just interviewed another witness. ex- exclusively interviewed another witness. gwenn nichols was in the neighborhood. she did not witness the actual gunshots but she said they scuffled a bit and she saw walter scott go into the vacant lot. she described to us how she felt when she heard the gunshots. i started to cry. i m sorry. i started to cry because i thought about the altercation with my son and it could have been my son. it could have been any one of these young black men around here. reporter: she referred to her son there because she says her own son had his encounter with the north charleston police that was similar. her son was pulled over for routine traffic stop and they ended up roughing him up a bit and arresting him. she could relate to what happened to walter scott on that day. john and christine. brian, an interesting look at the video. this morning, we are also hearing from the mother of michael slager, the officer behind now. holding back tears, she offered this to the family of the man her son is accused of murdering. i just i just have to let it be and hope god takes care of everybody involved. not only my family, but the scott family because i know they re grieving. in an interview with steve osusami, karen sharpe said her son loved being a police officer. cracks starting to appear in the framework to the nuclear deal with iran. here in the u.s. the senate closing in on a plan to give congress a chance to review the deal. in iran the supreme leader says he will not agree to a deal unless economic sanctions are lifted on day one. iran s support of houthis rebels are also complicating an issue. we have correspondent frederik pleitgen following the latest from london. we knew it would be difficult, just getting a framework is difficult, now the external pressures mounting. reporter: that s right, christine. the framework was reached, but barely reached. they went over the deadline to reach that agreement. there will be issues that are difficult to reach. now you have the supreme leader the guy who calls the shots in iran coming out and saying he is not optimistic that a deal can be reached by the deadline by june 30th or a deal can be reached at all. iranians feel some of the things the u.s. has said are part of the interim deal are not accurate. they feel that sanctions, as you said should go away immediately after the deal is implemented. the u.s. feels it should be phased out as iran complies with every aspect of the deal. there is another detail as well that could be a problem going forward. there are some high level iranian politics going on. in iran yesterday saying they believe the checks of all of this inspections that are supposed to take place, will not happen in the country. military sites would be off limits to any inspectors. that is something that runs against what the u.s. is saying. the u.s. is saying inspections would take place everywhere inside iran. a lot of negotiating to be done. iranians have a lot of hard liners in the country that are pessimistic about any deal going forward. it is an audience the supreme leader is catering to as well. it is a difficult road ahead, christine. fred thank you. a study out 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in the case against aaron hernandez still has not reached a verdict. now considering they have more than 438 exhibits to look over and testimony from 135 witnesses, it is easy to understand why jurors are taking their time. now there was another development in the case two jurors thought they were followed by an unmarked car. when they reported it to the court, the car belonged to a boston television station. now the judge has banned that television station s photographer in particular from covering the trial anymore. however, the jurors were asked if they thought the incident would affect their ability to deliberate. they said no. the trial will go on. the deliberations will continue. this day on friday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. john and christine. thanks susan. tiger woods came in to the masters. he was hoping to get his game back on track after two months off. how did he do and who set that place on storm? amazing performances at augusta in day one. andy scholes has it in the 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reached. we are live with challenges this morning ahead. welcome back to early start. i m john berman. i m christine romans. 30 minutes past the hour. breaking news. a deadly string of tornadoes tearing across the midwest. that outbreak including at least 14 reported tornadoes across three states. according to the national weather service. officials say the path of destruction across illinois alone, more than 25 miles long. a twister in northern illinois near the city of rochelle. look at that. officials say that severe storm killed one person in nearby fairdale. another view of the tornado with pelting hail in illinois. residents of this neighborhood ran to basements for shelter. we were here. it was hailing. we thought it would miss us. we started getting calls from people in chain of that tornadoes heading our way. we quickly went to the basement and could feel the tornado right over our house and came out to this. i feel like it is a bad dream. something i would watch on the news somewhere else. not in my neighborhood. officials say the tornadoes caused widespread damage. this building levelled in rockford illinois. in missouri another severe storm blasted through chesterfield west of st. louis. officials say 15 buildings in an industrial area damaged. some almost destroyed. no one was injured, officials say, because it was after business hours and those still there got out as quickly as they could. there was a lot of wind and sideways rain. you couldn t see anything. i started hearing crashing back in the shop area of the building. i went back and saw the vents were ripped out of the roof. the back part of the roof separating from the wall of the buildings. it was lifting up. probably wasn t the best place to be. in iowa look at those ominous storm clouds. wow! in clinton, iowa, a twister downed trees and power lines and scattered debris. officials say no injuries reported. meteorologist derek van dam joins us with the latest. looking at that video of the truck flipping over because of the wind shows you the power of the storm. terrifying and extraordinary at the same time. we need three ingredients to get this severe weather outbreak that we saw on thursday. you need warm moisture air and some sort of instability in the atmosphere and trigger mechanism like a cold front. that was the perfect storm we saw set up yesterday by thursday evening. in fact as that storm moved west of the rochelle region you can actually see the dark shading of purple that is potentially what we call a debris ball where sometimes our radars can pick up on the debris the large wedge tornadoes pick up. it gets recognized by radar systems. at the moment our cold front that s caused the wicked weather across illinois continues to march eastward. we have an expiring tornado watch across parts of ohio and kentucky. we now have a newly issued severe thunderstorm watch we will monitor that closely in portions of west virginia in the line of stronger thunderstorms. we still have the collision of warm moist air and cold dry air behind our cold front. that will set the stage once again for the potential of severe weather today. not as widespread as what we experienced yesterday. we do however have the possibility of strong damaging winds, large hail in excess of 1 to 2 inches and isolated tornado cannot be ruled out. this includes the nation s capital and further south to atlanta and all the way to the gulf of mexico. we will include portions of texas in that slight to enhanced chance of severe weather. there goes the cold front marching eastward. cold and windy weather settling in behind it. wind gusts today across the great lakes in excess of 30 miles per hour at times. few thunderstorms for you in new york city. thanks derek. interesting. this morning, video that brings perspective to the police officer shooting of an unarmed man in north charleston, south carolina. that officer, michael slager is in jail facing murder charges. dash cam video released does not show the shooting but shows important moments leading up to it as walter scott is pulled over and questioned by officer slager. see your license and insurance card. i got my license. let s start with your license. the reason for the stop is your brake light s out. cnn s brian todd is in north charleston with the story for us there. reporter: john and christine, the latest development in the case is a dramatic one. release of the dash cam video from the squad car. the video shows what appears to be routine traffic stop. walter scott s vehicle pulling into the parking lot of the auto parts store. michael slager getting out and talking to walter scott on the driver s side. then slager comes back to his vehicle. walter scott appears to get out of his vehicle briefly and put his hand up but goes back in his vehicle. a few seconds later, walter scott emerges from his vehicle on this videotape and seen taking off running to the left side of the screen. that is the extent of that videotape. we don t know why walter scott took off running. that will be a key gap that has to be filled in this case. another new development, we have just interviewed another witness. exclusively interviewed another witness who has come forward to talk about what she saw on the day of the shooting. gwen nichols was in the neighborhood and see saw a scuffle with scott and the officer. she did not witness the shooting. she said they scuffled a bit and saw walter scott go into the vacant lot. she did hear the gunshots and described to us. i started to cry. i m sorry. i started to cry because i thought about the altercation with my son and it could have been my son. it could have been any one of these young black men around here. reporter: gwen referred to her son there because her own son had his encounter with the charleston police. her son was pull over for a routine traffic stop and they ended up roughing him up a bit and arresting him. john and christine. thank you, brian. cracks starting to appear in the framework for a nuclear deal with iran. here in the united states, the senate is closing in on a plan to give congress a chance to review the deal which could complicate negotiations. iran s supreme leader will not agree to a deal unless economic sanctions are lifted on day one. correspondent frederik pleitgen is following the latest for us from london. good morning, fred. reporter: good morning, john. remember how some people said after the interim deal was reached, there were details that needed to be worked out. it turns out the details could be stumbling blocks. you mentioned the biggest one for iranians is the sanctions relief. the supreme leader said that and the president of the country said that as well. yesterday was nuclear day in iran. that s not the only stumbling block in this. the high level defense official in iran also said that military sites would not be inspected by inspectors coming in. the u.s. said inspections should be open to the entire country. inspectors should go anywhere. also another top level iranian official said work would not be halted at any of the iran nuclear facilities. of course we know that in the fact sheet that the u.s. put out, only the nuclear facility would be allowed to continue uranium enrichment. there are differences of opinion. the supreme leader said maybe there will be a deal by june 30th and maybe not. there are many things that need to be worked out before a deal can be put in place. interesting couple of months here. frederik pleitgen thanks. meanwhile, tension mounting between iran and saudi arabia over the conflict in yemen. those iranian-backed houthis rebels overrun the capital despite saudi led air strikes. iran s supreme leader calling the campaign genocide. we have correspondent nima elbagir with the latest. good morning. reporter: christine, those comments come against the background of entering the third week of the saudi coalition led air strikes. they are still unable to break the back of that houthis advance. that city has fallen to houthi forces. it brings them close to the door step of the natural gas facility with the arabian sea platforms. that could have ramifications for yemen and broader region. we are hearing reports that al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is taking advantage of the security vacuum to take more territory. they have taken the port city and now the reuters is reporting that the black flags of al qaeda have been flying in a number of districts. all this, as the humanitarian issue has worsened. the u.n. and unicef tell us it is nowhere near enough aid at this time. thank you, nima. a complicated situation. 40 minutes past the hour. time for an early start on your money. european stocks headed for a 15-year high. greece came up with the money and avoided default for now. here in the u.s. the dow is up for the year. here is what could screw it up. falling corporate profits and crashing oil prices. you have five days left to file your 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other people s lives to let these guys escape from prison. also bloody baltimore, a sky high murder rate distrust after protests. two active officers describe the inner workings of their department. the criminal element feels as though we re not going to run the risk of chasing them. how do we fix this? plus sprurgelurging on luxury items, not saving enough. we get a peek inside marco rubio s bankbook. do his past money troubles matter? and good morning. thank you so much for joining me. any second now the ntsb will announce whether or not the engineer in last month s deadly amtrak derailment was using his cell phone at the time of the trash. the engineer claims his cell phone was in his bag when the train went off the tracks just north of philadelphia. traveling at more than double the speed limit, eight people died in that crash. he suffered a head injury after which he apparently could not remember much about the accident. as soon as we have the ntsb s new findings about his cell phone use, we ll bring them to you. ramping up the search for two cold-blooded killers as the woman who may have helped richard matt and david sweat escape from a super max prison in upstate new york. a source telling cnn investigates believe joyce mitchell planned to pick up both inmates after they broke free but changed her mind at the last minute. also raising suspicions mitchell s cell phone use. according to another source her phone was used to call one of the inmate s contacts. it s still unclear who made those calls and when. in an exclusive interview,uiew with nbc news mitchell s son says there s no way his mother helped. she s not the kind of person who s going to risk her life or other people s lives to let these guys escape from prison. there s a report that your mom went to the emergency room with a panic attack. did that happen? yes. she was in the hospital that evening. i don t know the exact details but she was having severe chest pains. with no get-away car in sight, officials believe the killers are traveling on foot. police are scouring farms and fields in willsboro, new york. reporter: it seems the only person to have seen richard matt and david sweat was a man in his own yard the night of the escape. this is what he told abc news. i asked him what the heldl are you going in my yard? he said. sorry. i didn t know where i was. i m on the wrong seat zblmplgts with . reporter: authorities are growing concerned they may try to flee north if they haven t already. if these guys did cross into canada they may have done so here between new york and quebec. this is a high security crossing so it would have been very very tough. the u.s. border patrol tells me that their officers are trained in imposter detection and fraudulent documents. we are looking at the vehicles the individuals, opening trunks opening back doors of trucks and things. it is very extensive. reporter: i assume your team has the pictures at the ready. right. the photos are all in the prior primary booths. reporter: a lot of this sector mountainous and heavily wooded. some parts of the border are so easy to cross that authorities are at a real disadvantage. the escapees may be looking for a place like this to cross the border. border patrol can t secure the entire northern border so there are plenty of spots like this one, open areas where you don t need any passports or domation to cross the border. watch this. here i m standing in u.s. i can keep one foot in the u.s. and put another foot in canada. i can simply walk into canada no questions asked. helping parole these open areas are highly trained canines. so if they do stop a suspicious vehicle and they think someone could be hiding in the trunk, border patrol has a very special way of finding out. we asked aaron to get inside the trunk of this car, hide himself in there so we could see exactly how they do it. this german shepard smelled trouble and alerted at the car s trunk. this may be the best hope of finding them. good boy. passenger side. whoo whoo whoo! randi kaye cnn, dannemora new york. it s important to remember these are very dangerous men. richard matt brutally tortured and killed his former boss before decemberismembering his body. anderson cooper spoke to one of matt s form i accomplices. it s a man named lee bates. he said he was scared then and the public should be scared now. he can make friend easy. he s a master manipulator. this is a 48-year-old man that knows the prison system has street smarts and is a very kun cunning and dangerous individual. and again we still don t know the extent of matt s relationship with that prison worker joyce mitchell. some have questioned whether the two were involved in a romantic relationship. mitchell s son says no. she definitely wouldn t have an affair against my father and definitely wouldn t be with an inmate. there s no truth to that. let s talk about all of this with criminalologist, casey jordan. this rich matt isard matt is a brutal killer and quite the charmer. two things that are hard to reconcile, right? you can t blame mitchell s son for defending his mother. i don t think we can underestimate what a man nip nipulativenip la manipulative man mr. matt is. if you are in prison you don t have a lot of money. you have to use your charm. the detectives have called him a lady s man. i have no doubt he we re just speculating, maybe she got him the plans so he could get out of prison. but that highly man nipulative personality is his best asset, even more than oh ergs orcoercion. i talked to four people on death row in texas and they were charming too. they seemed just like regular people. absolutely. i ve interviewed dozens of prisoners, including people at clinton. you have to remember that for people to survive in prison, they have to be manipulative. clinton is a super max. the violence that you see there is on par with a show called oz. if he manipulated his way onto an honors block, then they start to get the guard to put their guard down literally. they re in the honors unit. we trust them. we don t check on them as much as we should. protocol may get a little bit slack. even though they go through a lot of training i ve been through training as a volunteer at a local prison. you should never talk to them get close to them let them use your phone. you can t touch them. you can t give them so much as a penny. the guard goes down overtime. we know that mrs. mitchell is alleged to have agreed to drive a a get-away car. there may be more people than her who could be involved. it is interesting she had a panic attack at some point. i think her conscience kicked in. she realized the depth to which she was involved and she was being bamboozled by these guys. she made the right decision not to show up with a get-away car. i think she s got a lot of explaining to do. i think the authorities know a lot more than we do but i think it s just the tip of the iceberg. this just in to cnn. we now know whether the engineer in last month s deadly amtrak derailment was on his phone when that train careened off the tracks going more than 100 miles per hour. cnn has the ntsb s findings. what are they? reporter: they have analyzed the phone record and they say it does not indicate that this engineer was making a phone call or even sending texts at the time he was operating the train. that according to the ntsb. it also goes on to say that amtrak s records confirm that the engineer did not access the train s wifi. now the question remains, why was this train going more than double the speed limit around this curve as it was traveling through philadelphia bound for new york? that is still a mystery. we already know from the ntsb that at this point they have not found any problems with the tracks they have not found any problems with the signals. now they are saying in this statement that there is no indication that the engineer was using his cell phone at the time of the crash. so now perhaps the focus now back on his experience his knowledge, his situation alal awareness at the moment this train derailed. we do know he had been on this specific route for about two weeks. they will be looking closer at that now that they ve been able to cross out distraction. again, the engineer on that amtrak train was not using his cell phone, according to the ntsb. still to come attackers target one of egypt s most beloved sites. when broker chris hill stays at laquinta he fires up the free wifi with a network that s now up to 5 times faster than before! so he can rapidly prepare his presentation. and when he perfects his pitch, do you know what chris can do? 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number of trainers there. they included in that 400 to 500 troops that will go will be security troops. they re going to g too to a base where they are going to have to provide security for the u.s. troops going there to train. it is an adjustment we are told by a pentagon official in what the u.s. military is doing, but not a big change in strategy. they ve been trying to get more iraqi troops raintrained. look the bottom line pentagon officials will tell you, is this is going to be very difficult. nobody anticipates this one deployment changing iraq fixing iraq. and it s not going to be enough for republicans like john mccain and lindsey graham who want to see the white house do even more. well he s out, the texas police officer who sparked outrage after this video went viral resigns. corporal eric casebolt is seen this this video slamming a 14-year-old girl to the ground and later drawing his gun on unarmed teenagers. his own police chief calling his actions, quote, out of control. reporter: that officer was on administrative leeave. even though he turned in his badge, he turned it in for this investigation was even complete. some are saying his resignation just isn t enough. the actions of casebolt as seen on the video are indefensible. reporter: police officer casebolt seen on that shocking viral video yanking a 14-year-old bygirl to the ground has now resigned. the dallas suburb police chief says it s too soon to say whether he will face charges. our policies our training our practice do not support his actions. he came into the call out of control. and as the video shows was out of control during the incident. reporter: this as protests continue over the shocking incident. some teens at the pool party say the police officer s actions were definitely racially motivated. right when he came black kids over here white kids over here. we want to see the black kids because they think we all did something. and the white kids are all nentd innocent. reporter: there were reports of vandalism and fighting in the area when officers responded. case casebolt s attorney has not responded to cnn s requests for comment comment. reporter: that lawsuit stemmed from a traffic stop and the lawsuit was eventually dismissed. it s also worth noting that the officer himself is really the only person we haven t heard from with this mckinney story. we re told he will not be speaking to reporters today, but his attorney is planning a news conference this afternoon. all right. we look forward to that. thank you so much. still to come on the newsroom a cnn exclusive. officers say they re scared, pauk walking away from possible crimes worried about confrontations. a candid life as an officer in baltimore, next. so this beauty can be yours with a down payment and 10% financing. oh larry, lawrence. thanks to the tools and help at experian.com i know i have a 798 fico score. oh. that s the sound of my interest rate going down. according to this score alert, my fico score 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aaw-abiding citizens. it does a disservice to everybody except the criminal element. because they are in the minority right now. they know that pretty much the whole police department has shifted all to a reactive side. you have no more initiated stops per se. you know an officer is worried. he s riding down the street even though you have a reasonable suspicion and you see, you know a guy walking down the street and there s a bulge coming in from their waistband and there s different characteristics that we are trained for to look for an armed person. and i can tell you this and it s the truth. nine out of ten times that officer is going to keep on driving. brooke baldwin joins me now with more of her exclusive interview. tell us more. let me be clear. there s a lot that i can t share. they ve been officers for decades. these are not rookies. we talked for an hour. it s pretty stunning. they were saying to me to the community, if you want a softer more gentle police department here you go. this is what it is. i pushed them. i said listen you took an oath to serve and protect your communities. they said yes, we did. but they are terrified in the wake of what happened to their six colleagues who have been criminally charged responding to something that even the state attorney had told police go and patrol this area. they want to go home to their families at night. they re terrified they could be thrown in jail. they said their biggest fear now as officers in the city of baltimore isn t getting shot. it s going to jail. i ve been out there on calls. i ve seen them engage. could you ask me if all of them are doing the utmost? that s a question they re going to have to answer. i put to them again, remember why you do this job. remember those little kid that i just talked to remember that nine-year-old little baby on memorial day who got shot in the middle of the street. we don t get to pass up bad guys. we don t get to let bad guys walk around on the streets. that was the top cop in the city of baltimore. he was asked to respond a little bit to our interview yesterday morning. this is from yesterday evening. he s saying listen these officers have an ethical duty. they have ae agreegreed to this oath to serve and protect. these officers were saying to me because of what happened to freddie gray nine times out of ten if they see some potential criminality on the streets, they will drive past. i think commissioner batts has a big big problem. you also talked about the prosecutor marilyn mosby. what did they have to say? they watched her speech on the steps of the war memorial. they said it sounded like a campaign speech. i just got off the phone with one of these officers because i wanted to follow up on the news that marilyn mosby gave this directive that ultimately down the chain was saying to baltimore police go out to the pen penn north corner i want to see more arrests. and this officer said to me that s odd to me. that s odd to me that you would get a patrolling command coming specifically from essentially the city s attorney. and so he said let me just be precise and quote him. referring to these officers they were following orders given by the commander and now something went bad in the process, meaning they were arrested around charged in the death of freddie gray. it s confusing. do you follow an order and run the risk of getting charged? i said will you think twice about following orders? he said no. if somebody tells me to do targeted enforcement, i will follow that order. it s confusing. if she really did do that and gave them orders to step up patrols in that particular area she could be called as a witness in this upcoming officers trial. should she recuse herself? she s been krrvery clear and said no. she wants to prosecute this case. thank you so much for joining me this morning. i appreciate it. i know you ve got a busy morning yourself. you can catch brooke s entire interview on newsroom at 2:00 p.m. eastern. 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because it s one of the most embarrassing hit pieces i ve seen on a candidate. basically i m a guy that went to college, took out a lot of debt am not privileged have built my own career. i ve never filed bankruptcy. i ve never not paid a bill. there s nothing about me doing things that were shady in business. literally the attack is you re a young man who paid off his student loan debt far before it was ever due in real life. i think that s a success story. all it does is help him with a story of look i m not a multimillionaire candidate. i didn t get massive speaking fees. and i didn t have a bunch of money from wall street coming my way or k street as a lobbiest. i think it s great news for his campaign. right. and they re using it as such. because his campaign manager is jumping for joy. he tweeted, quote, something you won t hear from my often. thank you new york times. hashtag marco s not rich. is the article fair? of course the article is fair. as much as the rubio campaign wants to spin it, i m pretty sure if they could have not had this piece come out, they would have preferred this. he says the article shows he didn t do anything shady. the article raises some key questions about marco rubio s use of campaign funds. it racesises the question about what it means to have family on campaign staff and what it means to use funds for personal travel expenses. i m not saying marco rubio is lying, but to say there s nothing shady in the article is simply unfactual. every candidate has a right to have their perspective cross checked against their history. we did it with barack obama. who he went to church, who he hung with, who his friends were. certainly we can ask the question about marco rubio. you can t be in a party that has very little sympathy for poor people at the same time you ve been making very poor financial choices. hold on a second. i want to make this clear for our viewers. marco rubio used a republican party credit card to pay for paving his driveway. he also put relatives on campaign payrolls. i think that is kind of good to bring up. voters actually should know that. i will also say that mitt romney wanted rubio to run as his running mate, but red flags went off because of rubio s financial past. we don t know if he didn t give him the job for that reason. we know that any time you re vetting someone, there s going to be red flags on every person you come about. to say they were concerned about his finances or red flags about his finances that s fine and fair game. but let s not forget a lot of people employ their family members on their campaigns. he used a party credit card to pay for it though. did anyone say he did anything illegal there? let me finish. no one said he did anything illegal there. if that s the worst thing you can find i wish that you had the same scrutiny on the clinton foundation and hillary clinton coming in from governments that might be trying to get government favors while you re secretary of state. i wish the new york times would do this much digging on hillary clinton s foundation. people thinking they re giving to a charity? where s that article by the new york times ? i m not sure why we re talking about the clintons right now. the point is money matters. i have considerable preeshspreeshs appreciation it does matter. it all matters. hillary clinton s e-mails matter. the clinton foundation stuff matters, even though we shouldn t be speaking to it right now. we sit there and say barack obama couldn t be a good president because he d never run anything. we looked into his background. i think we ve kind of proven that. now we have to go and look at marco rubio and ask the same question. if the guy gets an $800,000 dollar book advance and buys a boat with it. what is wrong with a guy making $800,000 and having a dream to own a boat that costs less than one flight that bill and hillary take around the country with the clinton foundation paying for it? it has nothing to do with this. hillary clinton then. the clinton worth is much more considerable than $800,000. i would say the boat is completely irrelevant when you have private catch. if you make $800,000 and you have a dream to own a boat and you live in florida, that is not an issue i m concerned about as a voter. i think the new york times is only going to help rubio by talking about this. can you buy a boat if you make $800,000? i say good job, man, go buy a boat. if he can afford it. it speaks to his financial responsibility. it also the potentially speaks to a contradiction if you re in a party that says poor people shouldn t even be able to get seafood if they re on public assistance. this is a party that has consistently said we shouldn t have sympathy for people who got their homes fore closed because they got more home than they can affords. marco rubio was not asking for taxpayers to pay for his filet mignon or crab legs. he s never had a gomtsvernment bail-out. he bought a boat. there s nothing wrong with that. it just shows how ridiculous it is. he s not asking for american people s money, he s asking for them to trust his financial judgment even though he has none. it happened when marco rubio was the florida house speaker. and he s since paid back all of what he owed. thanks to you. i appreciate it. thanks. you re welcome. still to come on the newsroom forget airfare squeezing your wallet. now planes are squeezing more of your space, really. t beautiful feet i have a professional secret: amopé and its premium foot care line. the new amopé pedi perfect foot file gives you soft beautiful feet effortlessly. its microlumina rotating head buffs away hard skin even on those hard-to-reach spots. it s amazing. you can see it and feel it. my new must-have for soft, beautiful feet. amopé pedi perfect. soft, beautiful feet effortlessly. when broker chris hill stays at laquinta he fires up the free wifi with a network that s now up to 5 times faster than before! so he can rapidly prepare his presentation. and when he perfects his pitch, do you know what chris can do? 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there s always a way. get this. some airlines may ask you to cut down on your carry-on. that s not the only way airlines are trying to put the squeeze on you. alison kosik is here to tell us the bad news. oh carol, calm down. it s not as bad as it seems. how many times have you been trying to get on your plane and it s mad rush because everyone wants to get on and take their carry-on to avoid getting charged an extra fee. this is to have a second luggage size to carry on. let s go ahead and show you the differences. right now the standard is that 22 x 14 x 9. i want to make that clear. that size is not going away. you can still get that on the plaep. what the trade group is suggesting to airlines is create this second standard a little bit smaller, 21 1/2 you see it there x 13 1/2 x 7 1/2. that way carol, if you have that smaller bag and you re rushing to get on the flight with the idea here you d have the guaranteed seat if you have that smaller bag because not only can it fit in the overhead it can also fit under the seat. so you re guaranteed to get that carry-on on the flight. i have to say this. the airlines are certainly putting their problems on us. as theyed a and increase the number of seats, the space on the plane is certainly getting smaller and now the problem is on us go ahead around buy a second bag if we want to have gharn teed spot for the bag on the plane, carol. how about doing away with baggage fees. that could be a suggestion but i don t see that going away any time soon. that s a huge revenue source for the airlines. i know. i thought i d throw that at you. alison kosik, many thanks. still winning, lebron james and his team taking on the nba finals. andy andy shulze is in cleveland. the clavs have a 2-1 lead and we ll tell you who is the unlikely hero in game three when newsroom continues. meet the world s newest energy superpower. surprised? 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absolutely right. it was who can step up and help lebron. he can t do it all by himself. we have a rising star. matthew was amazing last night, staving steph curry. diving into stands after loose ball, diving on the floor. he was so exhausted after the game he had to get iv and get to the cleveland clinic. lebron gave him credit. and the coach gave him a lot of credit. take a listen. delly is the most player from australia. what does the coach mean right there? it means we re scrappy and we make do with what we have we never, ever get up and we re also hard-working. don t test us. yeah. he grew up in australia playing rub by. he s a tough guy. you know he ll be ready for game four thursday night. thank you so much. the next hour of cnn newsroom starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com happening now in the newsroom
described in an abc news exclusive, a cloak and dagger strategy that even involved injecting drugs hidden in the team bus on the side of the road. and the blood would be taped on the wall or hung up at a certain level above your head so that gravity caused it to run in your veins and then you leave. reporter: landis was attacked by armstrong for his admission and he wasn t alone. armstrong trashed anyone who accused him. former friend betsy andreu says she was in the hospital room when, during his fight against cancer, armstrong admitted performance enhancing drug use to his doctors. when she refused to lie about it, she says he lashed out, putting the brakes on her husband s career in cycling. it s bittersweet. there s been a lot of damage done to us, but at least the first step has been taken. reporter: those who know lance armstrong best say pictures of his face during competition tell you everything. ferocious and focused. someone who planned meticulously and executes based on his own instinct. and that hasn t changed. lance armstrong may admit using drugs, but he also still sees himself as the champion. confession or not to oprah, officials are not satisfied. and lance armstrong still faces a lifetime ban. diane? a lifetime ban. so, what would it take to change that, neal? reporter: well, officials tell abc news that he is now in talks with them about coming forward, fully, confessing fully to officials, possibly testifying against others and if he does so, officials say, he could reduce that lifetime ban to eight years, which would put him back in competition right around the time he s about 49 or 50 years old. all right, neal karlinsky reporting in again tonight. thank you so much. and tomorrow, president obama will announce his action plan against gun violence in america. but today, new york governor andrew cuomo signed a law that is the toughest gun law in the nation right now and tried to tackle a very big question. how do you keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill? abc s senior justice correspondent pierre thomas tells us about the controversial idea. reporter: we ve all seen the faces. young men accused of horrific mass shootings, looking unstable, believed to be mentally ill. they were ticking time bombs who sometimes had encounters with mental health professionals. could they have been stopped? today, new york state officials are leading the way, passing a new law they hope will block violent acts by the mentally ill. we must stop the madness and reporter: the new law would require mental health professionals to report to state officials any patient they deem to be a significant risk or threat. this would stop mentally ill patients from buying weapons. no court order needed. this would be a sea change but potentially opens up a huge number of patients to the intrusion of the state having their name, knowing that they re in treatment. reporter: the law might have made a difference in shootings at virginia tech and a colorado movie theater. in both cases, the young men received mental health counseling. but some doctors are worried this will destroy trust with patients. people who are concerned about their privacy may decide not even to come to treatment in the first place. people with mental illness account for a very small proportion of the violence that s committed. reporter: but victims of mass shootings want something done yesterday about the mentally it s act ill s access to guns. they all have a common thread and it s all two parts. mentally ill people with guns. come on. it s a three that combination. it s a lethal combination. reporter: the question now will america follow new york s lead? pierre thomas, abc news, washington. and we head next overseas to pakistan, a country so vital to the u.s. war on terror and home to an estimated 100 nuclear weapons. tonight, in turmoil. tens of thousands swarming the streets, vowing to overthrow the government after an arrest warrant for pakistani s prime minister. and abc s muhammad lila was there, sending us a quick dispatch from the street. reporter: all night, protesters have been moving closer and closer to the country s parliament. all that separates them now from the heart of the government are those shipping containers. and from muhammad lila there in the middle of pakistan s demonstrations, we move the now, you see these pictures in syria. they are new pictures of the disaster in that long fight tonight. this was a university, classrooms, dormitories. after two explosions in the city of aleppo. more than 80 people killed. the government and the rebels are each blaming each other for the blasts. and we move on next to this nation, fighting the flu. and tonight, some new post cards from the front lines of america s epidemic. now, even worrying countries overseas. you can see it here. look. passengers from chicago are arriving in south korea, being scanned by those thermal cameras for signs of fever. and we are also hearing of churches back home asking sick parishioners to refrain from shaking hands or drinking wine from the large chalice at communion. and more and more, the all-american high five is being replaced by the fist bump to contain the spread of the flu. and today, we learned that almost 70 million americans believe the flu shot will give them the flu. so, we asked abc s chief medical editor dr. richard besser to take a hard look and bring us back the truth. i actually have not gotten a flu shot. no, i haven t had the flu shot this year. i don t think i need it. i haven t had time. every time i get the flu shot, i get sick afterwards. someone needs to do a better job of convincing me to get the flu shot. i just think i ll get the flu if i get the flu shot. reporter: 69 million other americans agree with her, thinking the flu shot will give them the flu. and right outside our abc offices how can you get the flu from the flu shot? that s what they say. reporter: how can the flu shot give you the flu? i m trying to understand that. because it s a vaccine. and to make the vaccine, you have to put some of the, like, bacteria in it you have to put the virus in it. reporter: i see the confusion. but let me set all 69 million of you straight. getting the flu vaccine does not give you the flu. think of the shot as a video game. the shot is made of parts of three dead flu viruses. dead. not whole viruses. they don t work, they can t give you the flu. your immune system studies those virus parts, sees how they re made and in about two weeks, builds weapons, antibodies, that will fight the live version of that virus. and if you breathe in those strains of live flu, you ll have some immune system weapons that shoot that virus down. did you get your flu shot this year? no. no. not this year. reporter: you might want to think again. out on the street tonight, dr. richard besser is here. so, rich, you swear, you say it cannot give you the flu. but afterwards, if you feel that soreness, a little ache, sometimes a tiny bit of fever, it is reporter: you know, you can feel those. and it s your body reacting. it s building those antibodies. so, what i tell my patients, if you feel that sore arm and that fever, it s going to work even better for you. that can give you some comfort. the more you re feeling, the more you re building up antibodies. reporter: your body is reacting to that vaccine. okay, night after night, you ve been saying to me, it s not too late to get the flu shot. is tonight the night it s too late, or reporter: you look all around america and people are still seeing the flu. as long as you are seeing the flu, it s still out there, there s time to be protected. maybe six weeks, maybe longer. and we are hearing the protection is about 62%. but think about it as a seat belt. it doesn t protect you against everything, but it protects you against a lot. it s a really smart way to go. and you re saying it begins to work just a couple of days after you get it. full effect, two weeks, but it begins to work right away. reporter: that s right. okay, dr. richard besser, thank you so much. and now, we turn to a battle of the tech titans. today, facebook declared war on google, unveiling a new search engine. so, what will this do to our lives? abc s david wright gives us an exclusive behind the scenes look at their big announcement. reporter: today, facebook is getting even more personal, with a search engine tailor made for you. so, this is just some really neat stuff. this is one of the coolest things that i think that we ve done in awhile. reporter: where as google searches everything on the public web, facebook has quietly built up a huge database. people voluntarily sharing their likes and dislikes. a billion people sharing 240 billion photos with a trillion connections between people. data you could browse before, one page at a time. now, you can search it by four main categories. people, photos, places and interests. instead of searching the web for a movie, you can instantly survey your friends about whether they liked a movie. and it s not just your friends you can search. let s say i m looking for a new restaurant. reporter: product manager kate o neill showed us how a facebook search is different from a traditional web search. what i really care about, actually, is places, restaurants in los angeles, that people from los angeles go to. reporter: i can say first hand, that s a great spot. that s great to hear. reporter: company officials say the search tool will respect people s privacy, accessing only information people want to share publicly. one thing s for sure. it will mean new ways for millions to waste time. david wright, abc news, menlo park. and still ahead here, big news for walmart. the biggest retailer in the world, joining the push for made in america. we check some bags in the parking lot and tell you what walmart promises to change. mine was earned in djibouti, africa, 2004. the battle of bataan, 1942. 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our made in america captain is back, david muir, on the case. david? reporter: that s right, diane. walmart now the latest and largest retailer to say, in essence, wait a minute. while the math of making things overseas made a lot of sense, it doesn t always add up now. and economists arguing their move today was about far more than just p.r. tonight, walmart with that bold promise. buying an additional $50 billion in goods to sell, made in america over the next decade. it comes after years of criticism that walmart doesn t pay enough in wages and that the company sells too many products overseas. critics arguing that s how they keep their prices so low. we asked walmart shoppers to check the labels today. it didn t take long. maria small and her new blouse made in china. reporter: this couple and their new stool. made in china. reporter: but today, walmart u.s. was adamant, saying two-thirds of what it sells in america is sourced right here in america. and they re now promising more. maria, still searching that cart, did find something. this one is made in the usa. reporter: and that promise of 50 billion more spent? they could spend that $50 billion the first year, they could create as much as 170,000 jobs in the united states. reporter: he says they ll likely spread that money out, over the next decade, but they ll still be creating thousands of jobs. and he says it s now a big name behind a big trend. only on in. reporter: thank you. companies suddenly arguing the math of manufacturing overseas doesn t always add up anymore. apple revealing some of its mac computers will soon say made in america. global foundry, showing us those microchips, looking at factories in europe and asia, choosing upstate new york. and today, we heard about that slowly changing map from walmart. labor costs in asia are rising. oil and transportation costs are high. the equation is changing. reporter: but we wanted proof that walmart s promise will deliver. american companies weighing in tonight. coleman coolers pointing to 160 manufacturing jobs helped by their partnership with walmart already. and 1880 mills outside atlanta georgia. they ve been making towels for walmart overseas. telling us they ve been asking walmart, why not a deal to make them here? tonight, the deal has been made. this is one of the towels walmart will have in store with our made here packaging on it. reporter: it says made in america? it does. reporter: towels made here, about to be shipped to your local walmart. 600 stores this spring and another 600 next fall? that s correct. reporter: in fact, she told me, up to 50 new jobs created because of this. and walmart promising something else today. it plans to hire some 100,000 u.s. veterans over five years, with support, of course, from the first lady tonight, who has chauped j e championed jobs for veterans returning from war. and diane, we were talking, the ceo of walmart served 25 years in the u.s. navy. in the navy reserve. so, they re going to hire every veteran who has been out for a year or less? reporter: a year or less, when they return, starting memorial day. a salute on that tonight. thank you, david. and coming up next, why did president bill clinton say his wife will have another husband? or two? or three? 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men, full bodied, bitter and costs $10. i am here with joanne nosuchunsky. and his eyes can see to your soul which and ironic because he doesn t have one. it is tv s andy levy. and my pleasure to welcome back tom kotter. i admit that was pathetic. you have a thing in your ear. and next to me man who can kill you with his nostril hairs, it is terry sappert. a block, the lede. that s the first story. oh. are their faces disgraces? it is another crisis sparked by isis. fresh from telling christians in the iraqi city of mosul they must convert or die, the islamic state has said all mannequins yes, man new kins, must be veiled. the sunni extremists took control of mosul last month and according to the ap, shop owners have been told to cover the faces of male and female mannequins due to interpretation of shari a law that forbids statues or art work depicting the human form. progress. here in the land of the free and the home of the brave, we like our mannequins totally uncovered. that makes me want to enlist. i want to go to someone who spent a lot of time battling the forces of radical islam. joanne? just kidding. i totally looked. terry, you did three tours in iraq. can you believe they are now targeting they have killed so many people that they are now going after the mannequins. that goofy religion of peace. they always pull out surprises. the mannequin thing, and i m tired of reading of them doing things to christians. the syrian christians have been there for years and they are gone president starved, killed, cutting off the water supply. isn t there anything we can do the way we helped the muslims of bosnia or kosovo? enough. i don t think we can do that. you know what, if i was in a different situation i would lead a group of people over there and stand in front of the church and say come and get me. it has to be stopped. what about the mannequins? they are bad. we try to find something unusual about every store. islam, god bless them, it is the most insecure ideology i have ever seen. you can t do anything with them. it is like that drunk dude at the bar that if you look at him wrong he hits you. you look at his empyreal friend and he hits you. you you walk by and he hits you. no matter what you do you can t succeed with them. i am a woman and he hits me. what s that from? i made that up. that s pretty good. tom, welcome back. thank you. welcome back carter. haven t heard that one before, have you? sorry. are they going to start veiling everything that might have a face? well have you never worn a male veil when you go banking or anything? i wear mine when i go banking. let s cover them up and make them more creepy. even the mannequins are creepy. everything is a ninja over there and they have to stop this. about the insecurity thing, if we left and went to a restaurant in manhattan and i said praise jesus, a couple of people might roll their eyes and one guy may say amen. if i said allah everybody would be jumping under the tables and dialing 9-1-1. they have hijacked the religion. it is crazy. there is a large measure of discomfort when you are around anybody that might say that. absolutely. andy, i go to you because you want to defend your heros in the islamic state. first of all you tried to make the islamic state look bad because they told christians to convert or die. somehow you left out the fact that they gave them a choice of paying a tax a if they want to remain christian and alive. second, it is important to note that this is for all mannequins. it is not just females. kudos to them for not being problematic about this. if only this society was as gender neutral as they were. in addition to this, there is a shop keeper who sells women s underwear and told routers he was told to stop doing that and only a woman can do that. a cigarette vender said he was told to stop telling tobacco. this is bloomburg s iraq and i don t like it. all right, joanne i am kidding. c s joanne. it is joanne. mannequins have been getting sexier. i have seen some downtown that would make your head spin. do you think they are legitimately worried about the temptation of these plastic sex pots? i am surprised they have not just cutoff their heads. there are headless man gnaw kins everywhere. mannequins everywhere. that s the new thing. some even have bear heads on them. you could totally do that. put anyone else s head on there. i am nervous for the commercial sector, definitely. my shopping, i won t be able to do it the same. i can t shop with my gay best friend. he has to be related to me if i want to go shopping with a male. and i don t have a brother. and also not gay. being gay is a problem too. or he would be beheaded like the mannequin. what about robots? good question. i have to end every segment what about robots? if robots have a face will you veil the robot face? what about goats? what if you are into beastiality? will you veil the goats because it could be tempting? the answer to that is it is not an image of humanity that would cover that. i am glad you answered that seriously. why do they even take you seriously. still talking while i am looking at you. it happens a lot. on wednesday, the fighting in eastern ukraine continued to escalate as pro russian separatists shot down two ukrainian fighter jets. the first was reported since the malaysian airlines plane. the ukrainian government claims the shots came from russia and has approved a third wave of troops for the army. meanwhile, the often shirtless russian president vladimir putin continues to pass the rubble and blame ukraine. he told the russian security council that these scenarios are absolutely unacceptable and destabilize the existing world order. don t believe me? have a listen. don t worry. we will add in all of the closed caption translation later. if it is not there you know what, i knew what he said. why do i care? a horrible russian accept. he sounded hollywood. he was born in toledo. you could hear the twang. putin will get away with this because he knows he can, right? this is what happens when you have weakness and total lack of global leadership. i know we are not supposed to be the world police, but i am always losing time with my family. i lost friends. i get the struggle, but this is what happens when you think that words actually do mean something. i hate to say this because i am an employee of it, but we are a paperer tiger. putin is not afraid of us? it is like telling a kid to get out of the cookie jar or you will be mad. you look over and he is like this. he does it again. the next time he eats cookies you say, i will seriously get mad at putin why not do what i am doing? take the cookie jar. you take the cookie jar and say what are you going to do now? there will be a strong wordett e-mail strong-worded e-mail. this is what happens a when you are weak. we would get a good hash tag campaign saying bring back our cookies. that would be nice. # stop diabetes. i like how you add something to that. it is just to make the balance correct. we are a healthy nation. we are a healthy nation. tom, are we entering another cold war or is it a tepid one? as far as the investigation into the plane crash he is stalling. the guy the he is saying he is waiting to find out who the real culprits are which is like o.j. simpson. tomorrow mark my words he will shoot down the flying nun and the spotted owl and anything. this guy has huge tess testicles. we were talking back stage in the green room. jay we were talking back stage. you know, you said this. his approval rating is sky rocketing in russia. and here is why. right or wrong, good or bad, the russian people see a leader who actually is fiercely defensive and pro them. won t it be nice to have a leader who has veer ross tee like that a veroc tie y like that a? i don t want them to shoot down planes. i am clarifying for you. yes, no planes getting shot down. but it would be nice to know that your daddy would kick the neighbor s ass if they threaten you, and we don t have that. that s an interesting point. in russia, they actually don t like him. but his popularity goes up when he is threatened. in a way he is darth vader. he is their father, but he is evil so they still like as you know, i know a lot of russians. when you talk to them about it, you have to be careful. it is not they are defending him, they perceive you are attacking them. russiansrussians are national lis stick. i don t even know what my statement was. how fun are the conversations at home. my wife is russian. they are interesting. she is because what has happened is the state-run media there and the situation itself believes putin is a victim. putin is being blamed for something he didn t do. the funny thing is there may be an element of truth to that because it was an unintentional shot down of a unintentional shot down of a plane, but if he supplied the weaponry yeah, i don t think he gave the order to do it. he didn t mean to do it, but he put the hardware in the country and said go at it. look, we started doing some asset freezing.]3÷ i think we have to continue to freeze their assets off, if you will, greg. somehow i saw that joke coming. the weirdest thing is i didn t even write that. that is a joke you would never steal. that was the joke you would plant. paul mccu ri o would steal that. paul mccurio would steal that. we are talking about putin and yet we are talking about mccurio. you have to you have to make them mad. otherwise we will wake up and it will be sov yet 2.0. the 19 richest russians lost 14.5 billion this year. it has to be a lot more than that. they have to start sweating. they are the only ones who can put heat on putin. they are the only ones that putin will listen to because they have to. i think you just gave me my monologue on the five. joanne, what makes him tick? it was not a happy time for me. just like all of my exes he says one thing and then he does another. you are like his plan gnaw lana delray. do you ride horses with him? i don t ride horses after that awful accident. how could you bring that up? you didn t know, did you? awkward. definitely all of the media propaganda over there, i see how people are, like you said, his approval rating is going up and there is that nationalist tendency to have the pride and all of that. if it wasn t russians and if it wasn t the ukrainian government and the rebels, who is responsible? somebody needs to be held accountable a and who will hold him accountable? if the policeman is asleep, who will galvanize the world. that s a good article you wrote by the way. i dropped that in there on purpose. the dutch lost a lot of people. cameron said some important stuff for england. aren t you tired of people talking? i am freaking tired of it of the i am tired of like you said we are not going to war with them. but the only way you beat somebody is you make it hurt to continue. as long as it doesn t hurt to continue, there you go. that s how i endmost relationships. this that has been the most unfunny show for me so far. it is a grim world out there and we can t shy away from it here at red eye. should actors on stage make a living wage? he thinks they deserve the same economic recognition as other low paid workers. speaking of radio times the lord of the ring star said, quote, most actors are not rich. they are poor indeed. they had to turn down good roles because they are not paid enough. it is hard. the one thing you can ask is actors get paid a living wage. it would make a huge difference. this would be ago a teres in theaters. only one in 50 of those actors in london make above $20,000 pounds which is above $6 million a year. we had our red eye intern tryouts yesterday. scott did a great job there and a lot of those skills will come in handy. i take it back. this is the best show ever. if we give actors a living wage, what a is next? acting is a dream job if you dream of poverty. i am in the field. on behalf of all stand up comics i would like to say to all of the other actors, suck it. you have to have a day job when are you an actor. that s what they all do. you have to have another job. the waiter said he was also a writer. i said write this down. i want the onion soup and the lamb chops. have another job. joanne, are you in theater and isn t the problem that nobody likes theater? it is not appreciated, definitely not. they are getting all of these celebrity stars to come in and head these broadway shows. and then they still aren t selling tickets. what is a shame is these tickets are so expensive, but the paychecks really don t equal what a film star s paycheck is. i have had a lot of friends who were servers and some collected unemployment while they are not working which i say get a job. there are millions of serving jobs around. get a job while you are auditioning. joanne gnaw makes a good point. there is a lot of immense income inequality. you have somebody like this tom pitt character making $100 million a film. and then you have joanne gnaw who can barely eke it out. joleen made a good point, but it is good to remember that actors are great when they are acting and they are good at it. but you have to remember that they spend their lives pretending to be things they are not. many of them are crazy people. coupled with that is if you watched the oscars they all think they are national treasures. they all think they deserve to get something from us besides our ticket money. i couldn t tell if they said the living wage needs to be guaranteed by the government or these theaters should pay a living wage. in which case, fine. my guess is he was saying, month , we as a society as a government need to give them money which no we don t. he said to me, boy, you ve got it. i am making that up. that was great. he is an awesome actor. great guy. but here is the thing about the whole great guy. yeah, like i know him. we go way back. the whole problem with the living wage bit is that his agent does not bargain for a living wage. he bargains for the most he can get for ian mccowan. he makes millions of dollars. by guaranteeing a living wage a for these other actors is he going give part of his salary to that? that drives the cost of film and theater up. ian, living wage? give it up. it is redistribution among the actual ago a teres who will make more actors who will make more sense than anybody else. don t do accents. he is getting a day job. you are all welcome for your freedom. use your accent for good. be right back. they made a deal with a doll. last year girl scouts of america partnered with the toy maker mattel to give scouts a chance to earn a barbie be anything, do anything patch. that sounds disgusting. soon a girl scout barbie will be available in stores. that s the subject of tonight s wow. the girl scouts first ever corporate sponsor has concerned citizens, very concerned. i wonder isn t barbie basically a terrible role model for girls? barbie is basically a terrible role model for girls. she is not about what the girl scouts principals are which have to do with leadership and courage. then again, girls and moms alike associate the doll with the outdoors and camping and giving back to the community. girls and moms alike associate this doll with the outdoors, camping, giving back in your community. and we think that those are really positive messages to be sending to all of our girls. looks like war. i am disturbed by the partnership, and many of our studio audience panel here are as well. look. their fury is palpable. i look forward to hearing from each and every one of you out there. i just want to let the audience know another thing. underneath underneath your seat is a special gift. at the end of the show if you look under there you will find something interesting. first let s talk to the people here. tom, this wouldn t have happened under bush. no. i love when you say under bush. when i was a kid we had the girl scout gi joe. they called it the green beret gi joe. we called it brown knee with nuts. brownie with nuts. why can t the girls have i can t get why one is mutually exclusive. they can have accessories and the kerchief and the barbie shovel. the barry ken. i don t feel comfortable being between terry and tom right now. i was kidding. i would like to back away slowly. how come he is a comedian and i was not offended. you have every right. i am defending my right to put you in the ground forever. the problem with this whole thing because it is obama s america, more and more people are getting angry and they have a really normal, boring home life so they candy vote time to being angry. i like it. and the judge, awesome. why are we getting spun up about barbies and the merit badge. they are not mutually exclue you sigh. mutually exclie sigh. exclusive. i think she was in a pink pant suit. that ruins it. i m sorry we are out of time. i m kidding. joanne, this is kind of your area of expertise. dolls and whatnot. are you saying i m a living doll? i am saying you are close to one. i have said this before and i will say it again. barbie is made of plastic. last time i checked inanimate objects are not role models. barbie doesn t count. miley cyrus doesn t count. there are mothers and daughters in other areas of the world that are clinging to their lives. they are not worried about barbie and the message she is sending to her kids. you are sponsored by sadness. what do you make of this doll crisis? isn t she a little old to be a girl scout? she looks 55. i am not sure you ever stop becoming a girl scout. this is creepy, grow up barbie, seriously? i was thinking about something heather on the audience panel said. i don t think there is a lot of outrage over this. the today show found the one woman outraged about this and they put her on tv so there could be a balance to the story, and now we are doing it to cover the outrage of one person. there is one person. it is just one person. i am jealous to people who candy vote their time to can devote their time to such things. it is okay now. you can check under your seats for the special gift i left to you. they just discovered this ain t oprah. jay they are not checking under they are not checking under the seats. they are not going to show them again? okay, great, thank you. thank you floor director and director. looks like they are not checking under the seats. that was a good bit. we are going to wait until they check under the seats. good bit. i am not leaving. check under the seats! look under the seats! free gifts. look under the seats! coming up, they were arrested for having sex on the beach. here is a word from our sponsor. tonight s c block is brought to you by the talking pillow. squeeze to hear one of the free programs. it is like a furby, but sexy. not available in canada. it is an amazing thing. is sex on the beach an etiquette breech? a florida couple was arrested after having a public roll in the sand on sunday. on sunday no less! witnesses say ben and elisa are there and below having sex in a bubble. they went at it for 25 minutes which is impressive. it is impressive for that s a good day. that is such an old joke. 24 happened in full view of dozens of people including, yes, the little ones, the children who are our future. they took a dip in the water with their nasty things before returning to their beach towel. a grandmother who filmed them of course described what happened next. they laid on the beach and they totally passed out for hours. we really wondered if they were dead. when they did wake up, they cuddled for a long time and then they started into the same thing they were going to do before. this story will be all over the paper tomorrow. that s when witnesses had seen enough so they joined in. i kid, they called the cops. the pair were booked on lewd behavior after the grand mother showed her video to the police department who were extremely shocked. tom, what s wrong with two beautiful bodies doing what comes natural in a natural setting? nothing. sex on the beach is not just a crime, but a delicious beverage and leads to sex on the beach. i can t believe an old woman, a grandmother, knew how to operate a video camera. terrible. i have seen the video. it is called invasion of sandy shore and i recommend it. how do you expect florida is a state that is shaped like part of the male anatomy tining lig on cuba. it is a sexual place. a lot of weird things happen in florida, terry. are you surprised it took so long do you think people do you think people were enjoying it and then got bored? grandma was watching it for awhile. she was outraged. there were kids there. they don t need to see two muscular bodies propped up against each other in a sick satanic ritual. why i ought to freaking no, sex on the beach and they were in trouble. don t have sex on the beach in the daytime. it is not even cool. it is sandy. i never got that. i thought it was overrated. it probably was with you. joanne, you told me in private this was always a dream of yours, on the beach with an aging personal trainer with a grandmother. i said this grandmother is lying. if you take a look at that picture of the guy he is a body builder. i am assuming he likes the roids. how are you lasting would 5 minutes with that in your system? and she filmed the whole thing, grandma? something is not right. something is not right. do you think they were in kahoots to make them famous? a reality show. dating, naked and having sex on the beach. you came up with the premise. good for you. you have to commend the local fox affiliate for blurring just the right amount of the tape. i would still get mildly aroused even with the blur. i m sure the editors figured out what was the right size blur to use. first of all to the two people having the sex, i would just say, come on, guys, knock it off. i think that s a new segment. come on, guys, knock it off with andy levey. i have questions for grandma. she says when they came back from the water they passed out for hours. we thought they were dead. and you did nothing? you sat there thinking they were dead for two hours. did you poke them? and you did nothing. i would say she is probably worse than the two of them. i would like to see charges filed against her, and what happens she should spend the rest of her natural life behind bars. that s a strong stance to take. i like when i read that one. the guy got mouthy to the cops. he got aggressive toward the woman who told them to stop. he is not a nice fellow. these are not role models. it is the roids. roid rage. i just want to comment before we move to the next story. i am fascinated by the amount of blurring used in tv these days when they decide how much to blur. what if there is a segment of society that is aroused by blurry things. how great must it be for you? this is actually more arousing than what we would find arousing when you see blurry people doing stuff. it is like putting a veil on a mannequin. a minnesota man claims he and his two kids were asked to get off a southwest airlines flight because of something he tweeted. apparently that s him talking in the weird shirt. he had priority boarding, but his 6 and 9-year-old did not so the tikes were told they would have to board later. dad was not happy and fired off a tweet because he was mad, something to the affect of wow, rudest agent in denver. kimberly, gate c9 and not happy at swway. soon after getting to their seats he and the kids were asked to de board. the agent felt threatened by his tweet and he cooperate board until couldn t board until he deleted it. what do you think of this? he hospital have de boarded. who is worse? he is. i believe in freedom of tweet, but if you get on a plane andy andy and you are on the a list. first class which we hate because they can board the plane and we have to do our poverty parade past them. i am annoyed by that. no tears. i am all right with that. the thing is those people of all of the airlines are supposed to have the best sense of humor. they all think they are stand up comics. they do jokes in their in flight thing. she had no sense of humor. i like that. what do you call it a poverty parade? generally what you do is look at your phone. no, i look people in the eye. i do. i want to shame them. and tell them one day they will fall from the throne. one day they will be serving me warm nuts on an airplane. thank god you said on an airplane. that goes back to the beach in florida. anyway. you interrupted with nothing. you forgot to bring a bag. gill wrong. so southwest, a, they are using using they are cool. and two, two, how is this flight attendant why is she checking her tweet when s she is getting ready to take off? you should be buckling people in and saying turn off your freaking cell phone. instead she is up front going that guy just wrote a tweet about me. how did she see it? she was a gate agent. so i don t know if that meant she got on the plane. you should be doing something. why are you looking at your cell phone and looking at twitter? she felt threaten ited by this tweet. she is a gate agent. he is on the plane and going away from her. don t get him off the plane. she said if you delete it you can reboard. vow suddenly no longer threatened? if it was a threatening tweet you would want him to keep it up there to show as evidence if he made a threat. he didn t use her last name. she needs to lighten up. and they got a $50 voucher for him trying to board early. for southwest that is an around dash a round trip around the world. the audience was the real loser here. all right, coming up, a lady loses her leg in a fight. not cool, order it at amazon.com g gutfeld.com. order it now. you look like gg allen. you do look like gg allen. google gg allen. i am glad you knew the name. she lost her head and threw a leg. we have just been witness to the apex of reality tv. it happened on last night s finale on the housewives of new york. she was upset about something. you say that you have never lied to any of us at the table and you find us really hurtful? i find that laughable. the only thing that is artificial or fake about me, this. sick of it. sick of you all accusing me. everything else is real. everything else. everything else is real. i am going to vomit. go ahead. it is just a fake leg. that s so disgusting. you people make me vomit for wanting to vomit because she only has one leg. drink tossing and table flipping have been replaced with limb removal. again we are joined by our studio audience panel and i want to ask them was she justified in reacting the way she did? raise your hands if you think so. well played. they will never know where we got that idea. tom, a great moment for television. she whispered it is just a flesh wound. and then she was hoping hopping mad clearly. you have two more after this, right? not a pushover. these jokes are lame. she was about to go oscar pistorius stop! here is the problem i have. she said that was the only fake thing on her. she glared at them through her tinted contact lenses. she raised up her fake nail and shook them in front of her fake breasts and she said i am real. here is the thing, andy. i was disgusted by the reaction to her. they reacted like they were going to throw up. what was so sick about it? i just thought she wasn t there to make friends. she made that clear. if you are going to watch a show real housewives fake leg is a good show. it doesn t get better than that. joanne, this may be one of the best moments on tv. i just felt for her. i like ramona on the show. apparently when this happened she says we will have two more glasses of pea pino-grecio. all of the people standing in the back work for one of the women there and they are all laughing. all of the women at the table are disgusted. they are bigoted. terry, last word? i don t have one. people watch these shows for that kind of moment and it makes it worth it. i think these shows are awful the way they treat these people. she should have been saluted as an american hero. i want to thank our studio audience for being here. i m sorry we didn t get to hear from you. that s nice they are applauding. we didn t get to hear from any of them. i am not sorry. coming up, all aboard the racist train. when you run a business, you can t settle for slow. that s why i always choose the fastest intern. the fastest printer. the fastest lunch. turkey club. the fastest pencil sharpener. the fastest elevator. the fastest speed dial. the fastest office plant. so why wouldn t i choose the fastest wifi? i would. switch to comcast business internet and get the fastest wifi included. comcast business. built for business. last story. that s the last story. all right. on thomas the tank engine, the good engines pump out white smoke and the bad engines pump out black smoke. it makes us wonder is this racist? i couldn t find my sign. a writer for the guardian.com accused thomas the tank engine for being a bigot and corrupting kids mieppedz. minds. they call the thomas and friends show racist. note thaght villain noting that the villains spew black smoke and the good guys have white wisps of smoke. the white icing on the cake is lack of female trains make it sexist. let s go around the horn. joanne is thomas the tank responsible for your drunken, racist rants? at least some of them. the trains get me going. this is dumb. i don t i don t have to say that, but i just did. this poor kid. kids are color-blind. kids don t fat shame. they are taught these things. they are taught to be cruel and they are usually taught by their parents. shame on you. shame on who though? the paints. shame on the parents. that s not part of the story. you are shaming somebody that is not even here. she is shaming the person who wrote the article. tom, you can make anything sound racist if you try hard enough? yes, you can. i won t let my kids go bowling. that s a little racist. i think they will change, the little engine that could. he used to say i think i can, i think i can. to yes we can, yes we can. and that will make everybody happy. that s an amazing thing there. and now you gave them the idea. being this woman s kid has got to be a blast. what a fun life he s got in store. is this real or was she trolling? i think it is real and spectacular quite frankly. the only part i care about was learning who the fat controller here. there is that song here comes the fat controller. i never knew that was an actual thing. the katherine wheel? no the fat controller. i don t know what he is doing. are you mad at me for saying that? you said something. i don t remember. i just want to make sure. we have 45 seconds. you can say something. those kids are going to be such interesting people when they get older. having a mom raise you like that. where are you headed next, terry? i go to central america a couple days. finishing my show. excellent. tom? i go to rehab right after this and then i go to i am in arizona in august because my agent hates me. i am going to stand up live in phoenix. phoenix is a great town. it is, in december. check out ted. he is great. joanne gnaw, terry safford. i am greg gutfeld. hello, everyone. i m kimberly guilfoyle along with bob beckel, eric bolling, dana perino, and greg gutfield. it s fib:00 in new york city, and this is the five. secretary of state john kerry landed in israel today as the country continues its campaign to dismantle hamas. while israel has attempted to avoid civilian casualties, even going so far as to announce their bombing targets. hamas has turned pools and hospitals into military command posts. now, instead of condemning this deplorable action, the council of american islamic relations is calling for israel to stop their military action. the reaction is a far cry
released and they re heading back to havana. that was not an exchange for alan gross. instead they re making it clear that was an exchange for an intelligent asset of the u.s. who had been imprisoned in cuba for 20 years, tamron. i m being told that the contents of the background call that we received are now able to be reported out. i m going to be give you some of the details. president obama will be announcing a shift in policy between the united states and between cuba. he s going to announce that a number of restrictions will be eased between the two cubs when it comes like travel and commerce. it s going to be a major shift in relations and u.s. embassy will be set up in cuba. of course, that is significant. this is going to be the largest easing of relations between the united states and cuba that we have seen in decades. so this is certainly going to be a significant announcement. this entire exchange was has been worked on for a number of years. the calls for him to be released have grown laouder particularly in the release of bergdahl. his wife speaking out saying if they can exchange taliban prisoners for bergdahl certainly they can work out a deal. the president saying the fact that alan gross was being held prisoner was an impediment to u.s. cuban relations. they felt it was bad for the u.s. and also bad for cuba. again, tamron, the headline is that the president is going to announce some really significant changes. he s going to announce that people can travel more easily under 12 categories including things like business, journalism, and other sorts of humanitarian purposes and he ll map out the 12 categories likely when he addresses the nation. he s going to announce that commerce can be eased. people who travel back and forth will be allowed to purchase some items in cuba. bring them back. so this is going to be a significant shift in u.s. policy with cuba. as you point out, raul castro set to speak at noon. he ll address that major shift as well. kristen, i hope you can standby. i want to bring in eugene robinson. a columnist for the washington. in an article you criticized the administration for putting cuba on the list for supporting terrorism. you wrote that the obama administration made but progress toward a fact-based relationship has been tentive and halting at best. here we are potentially seeing the largest ease in relations in decades as kristen well ewelker put it. it seems to be a huge move on the part of the united states. let s be clear eyed first of all about the cuban government. it s a terrible government. the stalinist government functioning. how do you change that? we tried a policy for 5050 50 years that hasn t worked. i think what president obama is going to attempt is a lot of people makes more sense which is enga engagement. the policy they took toward the old soviet union and china with results. we ve never tried it with coo baa. i think it s time. you have mauro marco rubio. his family fled in the 50s and he s not in favor of the process. let me play what senator rubio had to play. i m not in favor of the process which his release was required. it puts a price on every american abroad. governments know they can take a american hostage they can get significant concessions from the united states. it s ironic a week after we impose sanctions on humanitarian rights violators in venezuela. we are lifting it on the government that taught the venezuelans. a senior administration official tells nbc that gross was to be reported in poor health. you know the divide that exists whenever the conversation of cuba and the u.s. policy is discussed particularly in mr. rubio s home state of florida. yeah. it s a huge issue in florida. and very devicive. you ll hear, i think, some pretty sharp rhetoric on both side of the issue. it is important to remember that from all reports. i was checking, you know, a blog by one of cuba s leading disdents who wrote of mr. gross declining health. by all accounts, it was time to make a move. i think not only did the united states recognize that fact for obvious humanitarian reasons trying to get a citizens home. i frankly, believe, the government of castro saw the potential leverage in any sort of discussions, you know, was in failing health and if this was a time for them to move, too. and so we don t know the full story yet. let s keep an eye on the cuban government and what they agree to do. we have new information. president obama and castro tuesday about normalizing relations. so, eugene, how does the president present this to the american public particularly going back to just the early comments from senator rubio saying that this was not a good idea and likening it to negotiating with some of the worst. this will immediately become a huge and inevitably mostly partisan bone of contentions. not all republicans will oppose it. not all democrats will enthusiastically support it. but basically the same partisan divide, i think. the president is doing what he can do through executive action. there are other large issues remaining that he can t do on his own. i think the trade embargo, for example. right. it has to congress would have to act in order to ease that. just the establishment of embassies, which we haven t had in five decades. i think gives the united states some leverage that it can use in havana. of course, also with, you ha many requestiasks what does it the people of cuba? their situation has been, frankly, increasingly desperate. as other economies have moved forward, cuban economy has been stuck and has been sinking. you know, one trip to havana shows you the potential and five decades of missed opportunities for economic development and, also, obviously political development for cuba. i think the people will react, hopefully, to this. and, you know, they have learned not to expect a miracles from the castro government. right. so i don t think they will expect everything changes immediately. but i think they ll see this as a miracle. let me. you can hang on. kristen welker at the white house. we understand you have more details on what the president will unveil here in the next hour. right. more information coming out of background call we had with senior administration officials including more specifics about the tick to k how it went down. it was set in motion in the spring of 2013. that s when the first face-to-face discussions started happening between the u.s. and cuba. those discussions held in canada. then very interesting point, tamron, this fall u.s. delegation, a cuban delegation met in the vatican. the pope apparently very engaged in this had written to president obama, had written to president castro. had encouraged this type of transfer to occur for the purpose of easing relations between the two countries. so important to point out that the pope was instrumental in this as well. i also mentioned just a few moments ago the fact that the u.s. would be encreasing and opening the ability for americans to travel to cuba. i want to make it clear, though, it still won t be able to americans won t be able to go for the purpose of tourism. that s something that congress would have to approve. still it is significant that more americans will be able to travel to cuba over those 12 does naeesignations i talk abou among them business, journalism, going to work in cuba, for example, for humanitarian purposes. i want to read one quote says, quote, does not need to be a relationship frozen in time. i think that characterizes and captures where the u.s. stands right now when in terms of the relationship to cuba. eugene, frozen in time as you have been to cuba many times. that s how people describe the minute you step foot there. it s frozen in time. yeah. it s frozen in time, you know, sometimes it s a bit over done but basically you see the old cars, you see the deteriorating infrastructure. there is a frozen in time sense to this. an important thing to remember is that the number one excuse that the castros have given the cuban people for all these years for their repression is we have the giant enemy to the north that is seeking to destroy the cuban revolution and therefore we have to be, you know, repr s reimpressive. to deprive them of the excuse is significant. right. and the significance of the vatican being involved and the pope. do you believe that will have some influence particularly among those who would be traditionally opposed to any movement with the government. i think potentially but realistically those who have opposed any loosening of this relationship probably will continue to do so. the demographics of the cuban community in florida are changing. the younger cubans are less sort of dogmatic on the point than the elders who came over at the time of the revolution. but that hasn t totally changed. and so this is not going to over easily at all. eugene, let me bring in rosa delaura who met with alan gross in cuba in may. thank you very much. i heard you say it was a wonderful day. i m having i had the opportunity to meet with alan gross, met with his family here with other members democrats and republicans were concerned about alan and most recently concerned about his health. it s a really a the first anytime five years he ll be able to celebrate with his family and his imprisonment was a tragedy. it changed their lives. his family can begin to, you know, to move on and begin a new chapter together. i was honored to meet with him at that time. honestly was struck by the declining state of his health and back on american soil and received medical care and it s my view not a moment too soon. when you say declining health. can you describe what his health was like when you met with him in may. well, you know, mobility, walking impaired, problems with vision, et. cetera, and others. this is the first time i met with alan gross be i was there with my colleague barbara lee two of us went to visit and prior to that my colleague sam had been to visit. from both of their experiences they commented as well on the deterioration of his health. senator marco rubio within the last hour said this release sets a very dangerous precedent. he said it puts a price on every american abroad. the government now knows that if they can take an american hostage, they can get very significant concessions from the united states. your reaction to senator rubio s words there? well, i just my overall reaction is the following. regarding cuba, first of all, great news. member of the congress on both sides of the aisle. i was part of democrats and republicans about moving forward and not back ward. i believe we are moving forward with easing of the relationship with cuba, which is good for cuba also good for the united states. already senator rubio is saying he plans to delegation democrats and republicans because i was chair of the agricultural subcommittee of the house of appropriations. both democrats and republicans went there to talk about the economic advantages to the united states of easing and dealing with good relationships. i don t believe we will i think that was overstated by senator rubio and i think we have to look at how we move forward. this did not happen overnight. it s been years and years in the making. we have finally achieved a very positive role to the future. i would like to follow up in the new remark we received in from senator rubio. he said he intends to use his role as incoming chairman of the senate foreign relations committee western hemisphere subcommittee to make every effort to block what he calls dangerous and desperate attempt to burnish his legacy at the cuban people s expense. he says today s announcement initiating a dramatic change is the latest in a long line of failed attempts by president obama to appease rogue regimes at all costs. once again responsible for shutting our government down causing american taxpayers. i suspect that the cuban public will be pleased because, in fact, the three of their nationals are being returned. when i was in cuba in may, a number of us met with women parliamenttarians in cuba. one of the cuban nationals and i thing the length of time they have been in prison we have engaged with prisoner swaps in the past. this was a long time in coming. i think senator rubio s remarks are so overstated. just like he was overstated in shutting our government down. and causing may him for the people of this country. thank you so much for your time. i would like to bring in andy gomez. a senior adviser with the federal regulatory law practice. thank you so much for your time. my pleasure. let me get your initial reaction from senator rubio who is already vowed to block any what he calls dangerous and separate attempts by the president to burnish his legacy at the cuban people hands. how does it work under the helm burden law and congress its role in the change of policy in the president s ability to do so well, i would expect for senator rubio, i m listening to your conversations with others to try to block in the senate. we ll have to wait to see how successful he can be. we have to remember that the act is highly codified. what i mean by that there are parts of that act that the president can act on by executive order and other parts of the law that must be have the approval of congress. we ll have to wait and see how that plays out in the next couple of weeks and couple of months, to be honest. look at the situation with mr. grossman. the case he faced, the allegations, i should say. by all accounts those who support him say he was not a spy. senator rubio points out he never did anything wrong. he was not a criminal. he was referred to as a hostage here. the white house has gone out of its way to say this was not a prisoner swap. prisoner exchange here. but the case against mr. gross in cuba was one rejected by americans. right. we have to understand alan gross had done what he was arrested for. i m sorry i apologize for interrupting. live images of alan gross getting off the plane at andr andrews. breaking news developing at this point. we ve spoken with his family members in the past. you can only imagine their joy and surprise. eugene robinson, are you there with us? yes. here we are, eugene. five years in prison in cuba and now no one saw happening this morning in perhaps this man s release leading to a tremendous change in policy with the u.s. and cuba. yeah. you can only imagine how he feels five years in a cuban prison. it would be a terrible experience as everyone has pointed out. his health was in decline and to be home it must be an incredible moment for him and his family. we can only wish them the best and celebrate. he should never have been arrested. he didn t do anything that any civilized country would consider a criminal. i think we should celebrate what has been done to bring him home. he s now home. these images. back to the battle already brewing as the man has barely stepped his foot opn american soil in five years. what do you make of that? here it comes. if we predict that, you know, you and i a few minutes ago. it s going to be sharp division on this point. senator rubio speak it s bad for the cuban people. having been there a lot of times, i can t imagine what could you do to make things worse for the cuban people? they ve had the government for more than five decades. it continues. it s not going anywhere under our current policy or under our i guess we can call it our prior policy. so yes, by all means let s try to get rid of the castro dictatorship, but let s try to do it in ways we know have been successful in the past. and those ways are based on engagement, people-to-people exchanges. on infusion of american ideas and values. on economic development. on ways that have worked around the world. for some reason our policy has not been willing to accept the proposition that maybe they would work in cuba, too. hopefully we ll try a different tact and maybe, you know, i certainly hope make more progress. yeah. an let me bring you back in, andy, to the battle we might see. particularly with your expertise the legal battle potentially regarding this policy change that some republicans will wage or attempt to wage as we watch. you know, let me stop for a second. it s an emotional scene. it s a family before we talk about the battle, to be honest with you. this visual of this family, you know, right before the holidays whether they celebrate it or not. it s an occasion where families gather. whatever your faith. you have this family escorting this man in poor health and perhaps fearing they would never see him again, andy. yeah. it s very nice to see it live. there s no question about it. particularly for alan gross himself and the family as eugene was saying. five years in a cuban prison and what he s had to endure for mo reason. we have to remember alan gross, as i was trying to say earlier, he was arrested the sixth time he went into cuba to do the same thing, was to deliver computers to the jewish-cuban community. so, i mean, the cubans knew what he was doing. they did it at the time where they wanted to bring attention to the u.s. congress to try to usa id support inside. we re trying to get a glimpse. i would imagine mr. gross is probably the gentleman with the lyinger colored shirt. it seems to be the person that is surrounded and the attention is focussed on that person as he slowly walks into the building. our view may be on secured after they walk after they walk in the building here. what it represents over all and at least eugene, your view from i m interested from the younger cuba population to the older. which you noted on earlier. and what they see here as this plays out as well. and what it means well, i have heard arguments from both from dissidence inside cuba and from younger cuban immigrants that this embargo and the travel restrictions and the whole cuba policy it hasn t worked. and isn t working. it is, in fact, counter productive. so i kind of base my view on what i ve heard from those people. there is, as i said, something of a split in the cuban american community in florida. and i want to overstate that. this will certainly not be universally popular, but the waves of cuban immigrants who arrived in more recent times tepid to still have connections with the island to still family members or sometimes able to travel back and forth. they would like to be able to help the people who are still in cuba materially a bit more than they can now. and i think they will certainly celebrate this move as a step toward what they would see is a more rational policy. i want to play an important sound from linda gross, she was on with my colleague jose diaz-balart. i want to play what she had to say and i ll get your remarks. he said to me about a week ago in an e-mail. we re at the critical time right now. i kind of had a feeling something was going on. he never e lap ralab rate e elaborated. i would never ask. my family is crying and overjoying. we re jewish. it s a hanukkah miracle. just unbelievable. what a great way to end 2014! it s fabulous! so touching there. an andy, go ahead. we have to understand the majority of the cuban american community in south florida today arrive after 1980. and i dare to say the difference between the early arrivals to those that arrived much recently psychologically they still have relatives on the island. they are still attached to the island. the key here for the older generation of cuban americans in south florida is going to be this proposal that president obama is going to make at 12:00 noon about looking to reestablish formal diplomatic ties with cuba without properly address the violation of human rights. that s going to be the key. we ll have to wait to see how it s going to be treated. i m told that in january a u.s. delegation will go to cuba to try to begin to negotiate some of the issues. we ll have to remain and see. yeah. we have to wait and see. we know in about a half hour we ll hear more details from the president as he addresses the nation on this policy or change in course as it s called with cuba. we ll be right back with more discussion what we witnessed this hour and the larger impact between the relationship between the u.s. and cuba. er ] are you so stuffed up, you feel like you re underwater? try zyrtec-d® to powerfully clear your blocked nose and relieve your other allergy symptoms. so you can breathe easier all day. zyrtec-d®. find it at the pharmacy counter. zyrtec-d®. 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what can the president and his administration do on their own. there are a number of things they can do quickly. to your point a senior administration travel to cuba is banned. it s only something congress can lift. right. i believe there will be tremendous pressure from wall street, tremendous pressure from the u.s. chamber of commerce. as you mentioned all the european nations are there. canada is there. we re so far behind in catching up to that market. i think we re also at an interesting juncture. the hard liners in cuba are trying to push back. they see the opening of relations with the united states as undermining. cuba needs this. since the soviet union collapsed their economy has been stimyed. when they lost the financial support of hugo chavez in the 90s and subsequently they have been stuck. wages in cuba, i believe are 28% lower than what they were when the soviet union collapsed. so they need this, too. this will be a tremendous boot to them as well. as pointed out by the senior administration official besides gross and the u.s. intelligence asset on its own cuba agreed to release 53 prisoners. that s a good human rights sign there. i don t underplay the fact it s a emotional issue for so many people. obviously starting in south florida but for many americans an emotional issue. the fact that three cuban spies who have been imprisoned in the united states convicted spent 15 years in prison in miami released today. i think, you know, will fuel that emotion. and that sense of are now we now a country that trades hostages for spies? does that put us at risk? the bo bergdahl trade was important for the gross family judy gross and talked about it if we were to be release five members of the taliban certainly we can find a way to bring alan gross home. it s the case. you know, i would be hesitant to say this is some sort of start down a bad road. countries like israel will trade one israeli soldier for a thousand palestinian prisoners. you know, western democracy a close ally of the united states that is a normal thing to do when you are put in a terrible position like that. so i think those kinds of things will fuel the emotional front but i feel like there are many cases here where if you see u.s. influence in a country hopefully access to the internet that would influence greatly human rights and access in social freedom. to your point we heard reports of even the use of hip-hop artists as a infiltrate to get the message to younger people in cuba and the various ways of trying to reach these young people. i think that was a significant part of the administration s calculation that it was a we can better influence their society and their values by opening relations and allowing our cultural values, some of our entrepreneurial spirit to influence them. there s the argument to be made. they have a terrible record on human rights, on many different levels. but look at the other countries we ve traded with from china to russia. they re doing things far worst on a greater scale. i think there s an argument to be made that the time is now we try the embargo for 50 years. nothing happened. this is the time because castro said he s stepping down in 2016. he s 83. we re going to soon see a changing of the guard there in cuba. now is the time to do it. let me show our audience a photograph of alan gross and his wife judy taken, i believe, just before the departure. you see them together again. just before leaving cuba this morning. that tweeted out and senator jeff flake tweeted out that photograph. five years and finally being able to hug each other. as one family member referred to it as a hanukkah miracle for them. the president said engagement better than isolation. isolation has failed, he says, for the last 50 years. i want to pick up on what raul discussed with the change politically happening with the castros in cuba and naturally people wonder what is next or who is next in line and could it derail sop of the very progress? right. i think that the u.s. is taking such a significant step here. i think if we do get to the situation where we have form alized relations. if the talks that begin in january or the group that goes to start negotiations in january is successful in the way we hope to be. we should be able to transcend a leadership change. i think that is the big hope here. and i think, you know, the 54 years of an embargo as many of our leaders have said over all of those years. it hasn t had the impact. it hasn t brought us a leadership change that would do that on its own. i think we have to be in a position where we feel confident about having a system in place that alouse different leadership to come and go. to be part of the change. if there s going to be the leadership change coming it s far better there s a stronger argument that the u.s. is there and able to influence indirectly be a part and a half. the imagery of it when you hear how many presidents have come and gone and the castros remained. that itself is jarring and a reminder that things have changed but not there. right. the isolation policy has not been able to change. right. even among the cuban-american community. there s a real again rational divide that older generation that had hopes of seeing the end of the castros. they re passing on. the younger generation is am bev lent and many not everyone is supporting this as it s been strongly worded by senator marco rubio that he plans to do whatever he can within his power and his soon position of chairman of the subcommittee to derail any change in policy. we ll continue to follow this breaking news on msnbc. we ll be right back. the president expected to speak in about 20 minutes. i will light up every room i walk into. olay presents the regenerist luminous collection. renews surface cells to even skin tone. in just two weeks, see pearlescent, luminous skin. regenerist luminous. olay. your best beautiful. and for many, it s a struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine, what if there was a new class of medicine that works differently to lower blood sugar? 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he s going to say, obviously, they re happy for the release of alan gross, but in the bigger political picture, the message that the administration is sending is that engagement is better than isolation. that the policies that the united states has had in relation to cuba have not worked. it s not achieved what we wanted it to achieve. and now he believes the way to move forward is to do this. it s fascinating the way it s come to be. the president sent signals over the years about his belief things had to change. this was a yearlong series of super secret meetings held between u.s. and cuban officials, you ve been reporting. the vast majority coming in canada, but the impetus for the final impetus provided by letters that were sent to both president obama and president castro from pope francis and that final meeting that happened at the vatican. of course, now the question becomes what happens politically moving forward? a senior official acknowledging they expect there will be a fight over the lifting of the embargo against cuba and already we re seeing statements put out by members of congress who are criticizing what happens which they see as basic reporting what they see is tier any. without a doubt it s a biggest change in 50 years. mark, the president has faced this dilemma for some years with the heavy pressure from the gross family. felt the administration was not doing enough, frankly. it s important to note the politics of the and the reason why cuba and u.s. relations are such a big political story. a lot has to do with the fact of cuba being next to florida and florida is such an important state in american politics. particularly presidential runs. and the expatriot cuban american community in south florida has been overwhelming republican. what has gone on in recent years is the younger and younger cuban-americans are less hostile to the castro regime in cuba. that was one of the reasons why president obama was able to win florida in 2008 and 2012. presidential elections. so in a lot of ways the politics regarding cuba has changed. a recent poll taken earlier this year found that the majority of americans as well as majority of floridians support normalized relations between the u.s. and cuba. so it s just important to get ahold of why this is such a big political story. absolutely. great perspective there. thank you. we re going to take a quick break. we ll be right back. i m angela, and i quit smoking with chantix. people who know me, they say i never thought you would quit. but chantix helped me do it. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it gave me the power to overcome the urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. some people had seizures while taking chantix. if you have any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems, which could get worse while taking chantix or history of seizures. don take chantix if you ve had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. if you develop these, stop chantix and see your doctor right away as some can be life-threatening. tell your doctor if you have a history of heart or blood vessel problems, or if you develop new or worse symptoms. get medical help right away if you have symptoms of a heart attack or stroke. decrease alcohol use while taking chantix. use caution when driving or operating machinery. common side effects include nausea, trouble sleeping and unusual dreams. i m a non-smoker, that feels amazing. ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. welcome back, we continue to follow breaking news. in ten minutes we ll hear from president obama who will discuss the release of alan gross and what could be a historic change with cuba. handful of lawmakers there to greet him as he landed. back in the united states after five years in prison, and one of those is illinois senator dick durbin. thanks for joining us. good to be with you. i can hear the excitement in your voice, what does this mean? not just for the gross family, but for all americans watching? well first, here s a man, five years in prison by cubans who finally made a good call. and what a positive response when we asked about the president s announcement coming up, he said if this doesn t lead to a better relationship with cuba, then i will have wasted five years of my life. he really is committed to the cuban people. he wants us to have a better relationship with the country. it s so interesting in a statement, the president made marking the fifth anniversary of mr. gross s detention earlier this month, he said at the time, the cuban government s release would remove an impediment with relations between the united states and cuba, at the time, that statement was not a huge headline, but in reflection now, and the details we now know regarding the talks behind the scenes, that was ahead of the thought that we are discussing now. well, that s another aspect to this, it turns out that the vatican, the pope played a role in this. we met legislatures met with the ambassador from the vatican to the united states about two years ago and said, with the pope going to cuba, here s a chance for the vatican to play a role as mediator. they played a very important role. and in your statement on your facebook page, you say that alan s crime is that he provided the community with computer equipment to help them access the internet. i ve pressed the government for years to release him, i and my staff visited him in 2012 and again earlier this year. we know that the cuban government says they released him because of his health. you ve been in contact with him for this long, describe to me his condition from 2012 to what you saw today. i was really worried about him when i visited him in prison. he d been there three years and you could tell it was taking its toll on him, physically, mentally, he was getting desperate. separated from family and friends from that time. i was worried this year about what would happen if we weren t successful. the good news is, this ended well. and he s back home, strong, good sense of humor, with his wife. you could just sense that he s so relieved back here in the united states. already as you well know, some of your colleagues across the aisle have criticized this, senator rubio, senator lindsey graham as well saying that this is a bad idea, what we ve seen here. and the notion of normalizing relations between u.s. and cuba. some of them already vowing to block any effort here. what do you say to those words already coming out as mr. gross has only been on the ground now a few minutes? america s foreign policy of embargoes and exclusion was designed 55 years ago to put an end to the castros and communism in cuba. 55 years later, the castros and communism are still in cuba. it s time for a new approach. i think to throw up the doors to trade, travel, exchange of new ideas, we re going to see a positive change in cuba. all right. thank you so much senator durbin for joining us. i want to bring in bonnie, she is the sister of alan gross. hello. hi, how are you? i m wonderful, how are you? i m sure i m not vaccine the day having the day you re having. first, when did you hear the news, bonnie? this morning, this morning, i had just woken up, and we re in dallas and so we re in the central time zone, and my cousin lives in maryland. and she called me first thing this morning and said alan is released, alan is released. my husband woke up, we ve been jumping up and down. i m sure you could not believe what you were hearing. we were very happy to hear that. did you have any idea, any notion that this was no. nothing? no, i knew nothing. i knew nothing. but i m very happy that he s coming home. actually he s landed actually i saw. yeah, we are showing the video right now. that he has landed. he s here with his lovely wife. they are now together for the first time in five years. yes. i saw that picture flash, with him and her before they left, and he had a big smile on his face. my husband and i laughed because he had a pen in his pocket just like my dad always used to. and that really made me laugh. and i know the family greatly concerned about his health over the past few years. and that is a part of what the cuban government said they were dealing with his health, and releasing him on humanitarian grounds, but we now know that alan will make a statement here shortly. yes, i m looking forward to seeing that. and, i can t imagine that you and the other family members are not planning some huge celebration, even though this is all happening very fast. and is moving rather quickly. but we wanted to have you on to hear the joy in your voice that i haven t had, felt this light hearted in over five years. i saw alan in october of 2009, we had a family wedding. it was a wonderful occasion, and that s the last time i saw him. and i ve been putting on a happy face hopefully trying, but always felt the heaviness, and now, i feel wonderful. well, we are absolutely thrilled for your family and it s wonderful to speak with you, cannot imagine what it must have been like for you to wait and wonder about your brother s health, and whether you would see him again. all these years later. so, i wish you the best, and cannot wait to hear how you celebrate together. i think one of your relatives referred to it as hanukkah miracle for the family. that s the first thing my son said when i spoke to him this morning. it s a hanukkah miracle. wow, thank you so much for taking the time to join us and our best to you and your entire family on this day. thank you very much. absolutely. bye. that does it for this edition of news nation. i m tamyra hall, my colleague is standing fwoi pick up our coverage right now. andrea. hello, president obama will be announcing he s normalizing relations with cuba baa. he ll open since 1961. cuba will open an embassy in washington. this is after the president talked to raul castro for 45 minutes yesterday. at the same time, president castro, raul castro of cuba will be announcing steps for new freedoms towards cubans in a live broadcast simultaneously from havana. all this just after alan gross today landed back on american soil. arriving on a military plane at andrew s air force base after five years in a cuban jail. at the same time, three cubans convicted on espionage related charges, were released after 15 years in american prisons. in exchange for them, cuba released a u.s. spy who had spent 20 years in a cuban jail. early this morning, alan s wife judy gross met him in havana. left cuban air space at 8:45 a.m. when they crossed into u.s. air space, i was told the pilot told his passengers gross stood up. also on that plane, senators pat leahy and blake. he was met with bowls of popcorn and a corn beef sandwich on rye with mustard. he called his daughters and his sister bonnie and told them, i m free. gross first learned he was released when he got a call yesterday from his lawyer. he was embraced at ann draw s air force base, you can see a picture now by john kerry who just flew back from europe. kerry in fact was critically important in this entire exchange and also in the normalization of relations. as we await the president s remarks from the president with the white house, let me give you a little bit of background on john kerry s relationship. i am told that kerry and his first talks with president obama about joining the administration coming from the senate, asked about what would be the possibility of normalizing relations with havana. this had always been one of kerry s top agenda items. they discussed it, discussed how it would go forward. alan gross s imprisonment was always an impediment. they engaged the vatican, pope francis got personally involved. and i m joined now be kristin welker from the white house lawn and julius wide on foreign relations. kristin, first, let s talk about the president s involvement in this extraordinary conversation between president obama and raul castro. as you point out andrea, it lasted for 45 minutes, extraordinary indeed. officials describing this as the biggest shift in the u.s.-cuban relations in 50 years. president obama and president castro discussing that, finalizing all of the details of this release of alan gross and of the announcement they are going to make today, andrea. among the changes will be an