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Reporting live for us inside iraq, thank you. bill cosby back in court. here he is arriving earlier this hour. this time, he's there for a hearing on an attempt to get the sexual assault charges against him dismissed. the judge will consider whether a damaging deposition cosby gave can be used in his trial. last week cosby's defense team declared he was legally blind, arguing it is case should be block md because he will not be able to determine if he has ever actually seen his accusers. at least one worker dead in an explosion and fire along the colonial gas line pipeline in alabama. offi...

Did his thing on the boston marathon. now it's my turn. >> reporter: the negotiator keeps him on the line on and off about an hour. a s.w.a.t. team swarms in around 5:30, killing mateen. 49 people are dead. 53 wounded. among those killed, 30-year-old eddie justice. his best friend demetrius survived. >> he opened fire. and just killed innocent people. people begged for their lives and cried out, please don't do this. >> reporter: a judge will now decide whether to release more than 200 other calls during the carnage. the deadliest moose shooting in u.s. history. >> that was gabe gutierrez repo...

Nefarious actions in the future. >> what about some of the screenings, juliette, pilots go through schooling, they have screenings including mental health screenings, but what about for bus drivers or more importantly transit workers who operate train systems? what about them? >> well, there's different sets of clearances and credentials for different transportation systems. it will seem confusing to most people. there's something called twik, it's transit worker identification card for ports and transit. lots of states and localities have different systems in terms of identification and clear...

And to mark that time there is a memorial service planned tomorrow morning. president hollande will speak. there is expected to be a large crowd of dignitaries that will be on hand, the singing of the national anthem and then a national minute of silence to remember all those who died. brianna. >> martin savidge for us in paris, thank you so much. and i want to bring in now cnn intelligence and security analyst bonn baer, and cnn national security analyst juliet former dhs assistant secretary. so, bob, you heard that report that martin just gave. how hard is it to track these transit workers w...

The notion that they've been concerned for years with regard to islamic radicalization at paris' airports and transit systems. now it gave cnn some pretty grim numbers of how many transit workers left for syria. >> right. absolutely, brooke. according to this source, as many as 100 or more of the members of the transportation system here in france, employees, have made visits or trips to syria since 2012. now, remember, the conflict there began in 2011. so it's not like this is a time many people would choose to go visit friends or family. so the question is, what were they doing there? now th...