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Crisis Spurs Talk of Immigration Overhaul; Plane Makes Emergency Landing on Tiny Island; Silicon Valley Becoming Sex Valley?; Police Suspects Escort Killed Google Exec; Is White House Immigration Strategy in Disarray; The Other Side of Gun Violence; Children in Limbo as Border Crisis Rages; Hasgtag with a Cause; Hunting for Criminals; Oklahoma Tops California in Earthquakes; Curbside Birth Captured on Special Cam

Aired July 12, 2014 - 13:00   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: We begin with the border crisis. The Homeland Security secretary says he wants to make this message clear to undocumented immigrants. You will be sent back and he visited a temporary facility and said, it will help speed up the process of deportations.

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JEH JOHNSON, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: The message has to be that our border is not open to illegal migration and we are sending people back and this is an example of that effort.

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WHITFIELD: But thousands of children are still spilling across the border, 57,000 of them, just in the last nine months alone, and a political -- solution rather seems out of reach.

Erin McPike is at the White House for us.

So the White House and Republicans in Congress seem completely at odds over this. Perhaps they all agree that there is humanitarian crisis or a crisis at hand, but how to resolve it. That's the conflict.

ERIN MCPIKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Fredricka, that is true, but it's not really at an impasse and we're not seeing the same kind of intransigents from Republicans who say we won't give the president what he wants at all. They simply want to see more conditions put on the money that the president is asking for. So that's what we're looking at right now. The issue is how to pass the House.

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MCPIKE (voice-over): As U.S. officials struggle to contain the flood of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S./Mexico border, the Obama administration is begging Congress for help.

JOHNSON: Not doing anything frankly is not an option because it will require us to simply run out of money. MCPIKE: Asking for nearly $4 billion to temporarily shelter tens of

thousands of immigrants. Many of them unaccompanied minors, send them home and step up border patrol. Complicating the issue --

SEN. BARBARA MIKULSKI (D), MARYLAND: These children are seeking refuge. They are seeking refuge from organized crime, despicable gangs, vile human traffickers.

MCPIKE: Both sides agree there's a humanitarian crisis, but leading Republicans have this ultimatum.

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: I have talked to a number of my colleagues, who are Republican senators, we will not agree to the additional funds, $3.7 billion, most of which is to care for these children and provide the facilities until we can assure the American people that it's going to stop and unfortunately that is not in the president's request.

MCPIKE: McCain and his Arizona colleague, Jeff Blake, are calling for faster deportations of children caught at the border and asking for increased, but conditional aid to their home countries, arguing that's the only way to drive the message the United States won't tolerate it anymore.

And now this crisis is becoming a jumping off point to restart the case for comprehensive immigration reform.

REP. XAVIER BECERRA (D), CALIFORNIA: All we have to do is get the Republican leadership of the House to say, OK, we'll finally let a vote take place because we know that there are votes sufficient to pass a bill that would give us a commonsense fix.

MCPIKE: Despite some momentum on Capitol Hill to take action, at least on the current flare up, Democratic Congressman Juan Vargas, who represents the California border, warns --

REP. JUAN VARGAS (D), CALIFORNIA: So everyone wants a quick fix. At the end of the day, I think the likely scenarios, nothing happens.

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MCPIKE: But, Fred, we have seen a number of efforts surface in the past week. We'll see more come up next week. Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar of Texas, who has been critical of the Obama administration, is joining with Republican Senator John Cornyn, also of Texas, to introduce a new bill next week that specifically deals with the current border crisis at hand, but we're also seeing revived attempts to talk about comprehensive immigration reform, even though we're just a few months away from midterm elections -- Fred.

WHITFIELD: All right. Erin McPike, a whole lot there. Thanks so much from the White House.

All right. We're also now learning a little bit more about that United Airlines plane that made an emergency landing on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The flight took off from Honolulu and was supposed to land in Guam, but the plane made an emergency landing on one of the smallest, most remote islands in the world.

CNN's Alexandra Field has more on this story from New York.

I'm sure the passengers very shaken, but at this point, very relieved.

ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, certainly, Fred. This is a place that they probably never imagined that they would visit, but 335 passengers, 13 crew members, all touched down on Midway Island, a former naval air station. They were rerouted to the remote island after an odor was smelled on board. It's been described as an electrical scent. No doubt a scary experience for people who are on board the United flight which was traveling from Honolulu to Guam.

After that odor was detected, the pilots turned the plane around, they landed on midway. No one was hurt but everyone who's on that plane had to spend seven hours on the island before United was able to send another plane out there to pick up the passengers and bring them back to Hawaii.

Right now a spokesperson for the airline says they are investigating the mechanical issue, which caused the problem. They say they are also inspecting that Boeing 777 -- Fred.

WHITFIELD: Wow, very much a close call there.

All right, thanks so much, Alexandra Field. Appreciate it.

All right. Meantime, there's a new twist in the chilling murder investigation involving an admitted high-end prostitute. She is accused of killing a Google executive in California by injecting him with heroin. And now police in Georgia are looking into whether she killed her former boyfriend in a similar way.

Laurie Segall joining us now.

So very similar, but of course very different cases.

LAURIE SEGALL, CNN MONEY TECH CORRESPONDENT: Very different, but that being said, the story keeps getting more bizarre. We just got some of the latest details. Take a look.

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SEGALL (voice-over): When Dean Riopelle died from a heroin overdose last September, it appeared to be a tragic accident. His girlfriend made the call to 911.

UNIDENTIFIED DISPATCHER: OK. And why do you think -- why do you think it's an overdose?

ALEX TICHELMAN, SEX WORKER: Because there's nothing else it could be.

UNIDENTIFIED DISPATCHER: OK.

TICHELMAN: I know that for a fact.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK. Accidental or intentional?

TICHELMAN: I think -- definitely accidental. Accidental.

SEGALL: That was the story from Alex Tichelman and the case was closed. Until police in California announced this week that the model turned prostitute had been arrested in connection with the death of Google executive, Forrest Hayes. A 51-year-old father of five. Police say he, too, died of a lethal amount of heroin that they believe was given to him by the 26-year-old Tichelman.

Georgia authorities reopened the Riopelle case because the circumstances were too similar to ignore.

CAPT. SHAWN MCCARTY, MILTON, GEORGIA POLICE: The similarities are basically the deaths of the two men by heroin overdose and the common denominator being Miss Tichelman. In both cases the individual seemed to have died from an overdose on what appears to be their first time in using heroin.

SEGALL: Alan Vine told CNN's Erin Burnett, he was a friend of Dean Riopelle.

ALAN VINE, FRIEND OF DEAN RIOPELLE: Back when me and Dean used to play music together, I used to smoke weed and, you know, used to party a little bit, and he was always saying, dude, that's not the way to go.

SEGALL: Vine says he was shocked to learn of the heroin overdose given Riopelle's lifestyle.

VINE: You need to do right. That's be health conscious and, you know, it's not the way to go. And he always preached that to me. And when I heard he died of a heroin overdose, I was immediately, no freaking way.

SEGALL: Tichelman moved to California, working as a prostitute, she surfaced in Santa Cruz. In November, she joined Hayes on his yacht. Investigators say surveillance cameras showed Tichelman doing absolutely nothing to help the distress Hayes after injecting him with the heroin.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was so callous that in gathering her things, she was literally stepping over the body.

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SEGALL: Pretty unbelievable when you look at it and the details just make the story even more and more absurd. If you look at Alex Tichelman's online presence, it's also interesting, she writes a lot about her addiction to heroin. She said her favorite TV show is "Dexter," about a serial killer, so, you know, people just keep looking because the story just keeps moving along in all these different directions -- Fredricka. WHITFIELD: And then of course, you know, people are examining the

relationship or how these two came together but then apparently one of the underlying stories is this booming business of, I guess, call girls or prostitution rings that target or somehow involved in the whole Silicon Valley culture.

SEGALL: Sure. Certainly. One thing that's really playing a spotlight on is the booming sex industry in Silicon Valley. Now we saw traces of this a year ago, I interviewed a lot of sex workers who says, Laurie, our business is doing very well. Some -- like Wall Street back in the day it's really lucrative, there's so much money pouring into Silicon Valley, all these young guys have a lot of money.

I reached out to them recently, they said it's even better. I spoke to a sex worker about it. She went on the record and talked to me a little bit about it. Take a look.

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MAXINE HOLLOWAY, SEX WORKER: I think it's really interesting that we have this increase of tech employees coming to the bay area. You know, they're working really long and tense hours, which is giving them disposable income. But along with that lifestyle, it doesn't always leave room for traditional dating. So this really nice kind of mutually beneficial relationship with professional sexual providers seems to work out really well.

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WHITFIELD: So she talks about this as though this is a legal business. In the state of California, last I checked, prostitution was not a sanctioned business.

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WHITFIELD: What's going on here?

SEGALL: This is illegal. Now sex worker --

WHITFIELD: Illegal.

SEGALL: Illegal. This is illegal, but sex worker, there are many different terms and it can go -- you know, a lot of folks say certain types of sex work is legal. I mean, this is -- it's a lot more complicated than you would think.

Now I will tell you the women in Silicon Valley are taking the idea that there's tons of money in this and they are marketing to it. I had these women showing me their types of marketing. They were looking at T-shirts, you're at them now.

WHITFIELD: Merchandise.

WHITFIELD: These are geeky T-shirts they put out there. They're accepting credit card payments via Square so they can actually accept credit card payments. And they're also wearing different types of stuff that say "Follow Me on Twitter." I mean, they are really going after this geeky crowd because they say it's so lucrative. That's where the money. A woman told me she has made over the last decade $1 million.

WHITFIELD: Wow. OK. Thank you so much, Laurie Segall. Glad you're here in studio and bringing us this very complicated and now either further complex story.

SEGALL: Sure.

WHITFIELD: Appreciate it.

All right. After an accident critically injured comedian Tracy Morgan and killed his friend, Morgan is suing Wal-Mart. Police say one of the company's trucks was speeding on the New Jersey turnpike when it rear ended the limo carrying Morgan and several others. The suit blames the truck driver for negligent. Morgan broke ribs, his nose and a leg in the crash.

Wal-Mart issued this statement saying, quote, "This has been a terrible tragedy. We wish Mr. Morgan, Mr. Fuqua Jr. and Mr. Milea full recoveries. We are deeply sorry that one of our trucks was involved. As we have said, we're cooperating fully in the ongoing investigation. We know it will take some time to resolve all of the remaining issues as a result of the accident but we're committed to doing the right thing for all involved."

All right, up next, is the White House immigration in disarray because of the current border crisis. Our senior political analyst weighs in.

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WHITFIELD: Tempers are flaring over the current border crisis. In many places attempts to add temporary facilities for the thousands of undocumented kids crossing into the U.S. are being met with protests.

On his trip to Texas President Obama was even urged by Governor Rick Perry to bring in the National Guard. But the president said Congress already has the means to do something about the situation.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Those who say I should visit the border, but when you ask them what should we be doing, they're giving us suggestions that are embodied in legislation that I've already sent to Congress, so it's not as if they're making suggestions that we're not listening to. In fact, the suggestions of those who work at the border who visited the border are incorporated in legislation we're already prepared to sign the minute it hits my desk.

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WHITFIELD: I'm joined now by Ron Brownstein. He's a CNN senior political analyst and the editorial director of the "National Journal." Good to see you.

Hi, Fred.

WHITFIELD: OK, so, Ron, where do we begin on this one?

BROWNSTEIN: Yes.

WHITFIELD: You said on CNN earlier in the week, the border crisis has thrown a big curveball into the overall strategy on immigration.

BROWNSTEIN: Right.

WHITFIELD: It's a confusing time, isn't it? Because we're talking about a president who has been very aggressive on deportations, people have criticized him for that.

BROWNSTEIN: Right.

WHITFIELD: But then now, he's getting criticism for his, for this latest influx of mostly Central Americans protected by this 2008 law.

BROWNSTEIN: Right. Right. So it's important to understand this crisis in the context of a larger debate about immigration that we're having. As you know, the president throughout his administration has had a very clear, but controversial strategy. He has toughened enforcement at the border and internally, taking a lot of grief from the left over that and that was to -- politically, the goal was to create a predicate, to say, look, the border is under control and now we can deal with the broader issue of the 11 million people who are here undocumented.

And that in fact was able to get legislation through the Senate in 2013 on a bipartisan basis, but this summer, you know, the House Republicans, after struggling for months to reach a consensus, the president says he was informed they are not going to take up comprehensive immigration reform and he indicated that he was going to move forward unilaterally with executive order to take controversial but potentially historic action to provide legal status for millions of people who are now here illegally.

The problem is that now this new crisis has really complicated that because it has once again created the image of the border being out of control and that is not a conducive backdrop for the kind of big changes they want to pursue on the legalization front for the people who are already here.

WHITFIELD: So then how do you see upcoming midterm elections stirring the pot here? You know, widening this divide over who or which branch of government is to blame for the current circumstance, and then you say the overall because the -- yes, we're talking about two different dynamics here.

BROWNSTEIN: Yes. Right. And look, I think the two dynamics are going to intersect. You know, the president has asked Congress for legislation and money to deal with the immediate crisis of the unaccompanied minors on the border. It's hard to imagine House Republicans going along with that request without getting some kind of commitment from the president that he's not going to act unilaterally on the 11 million. On the undocumented who are already here.

And it's frankly hard to imagine the president giving them that kind of insurance, so even though they might agree on the policy and agree on urgency of the unaccompanied minors, the other larger issue could complicate that decision as well.

Look, this is a near term and long term issue politically. Near term, it isn't that much of a problem for Republicans. It might even be more of a problem for the president because if you look at the 2014 calendar, the key Senate races are in red states that are preponderantly white, older, blue collar, and pretty conservative on these issues.

On the long run, though, the challenge for Republicans is that this entire confrontation and potentially an executive order on legalizations they oppose, is further paving them into a corner with a growing not only Hispanic but Asian American population. We should all remember that in 2012, Mitt Romney won a higher share of the white vote than Ronald Reagan did in 1980 and he lost by five million votes.

In the long run, there is no alternative for Republicans but to increase their competitiveness among minorities if they want to be competitive for the White House and that becomes more challenging if they all erupt in opposition to what the president may do unilaterally on immigration later this year.

WHITFIELD: But then really quick, you know, you bring up this possible unilateral move, the president executive order, is he precluded from even exercising that now that there is a lawsuit? Does it stand in the way?

BROWNSTEIN: Right. Well, the lawsuit was clearly designed to be a shot across the bow, I think, to discourage him from doing this. I think the bigger challenge is what's happening on the border because, as I said, the political predicate they always envision was saying, look, we have the border under control. And in fact, the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. had been steady throughout the Obama presidency after rising to $3 million --

WHITFIELD: Right.

BROWNSTEIN: -- during George Bush's eight years. So they had this predicate to some extent established. Now it is much more cloudy with this new influx and it creates a much more difficult political context for what he wants to do on the 11 million.

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WHITFIELD: Yes. But you used an interesting word. You said discourage him, but it doesn't necessarily deter the president.

BROWNSTEIN: I think that's right. I mean, they may well act on this even with this larger question going on. But first, they will have to show that they're making progress toward getting it under control.

WHITFIELD: Right. Ron Brownstein, always great talking to you. Thanks so much.

BROWNSTEIN: Thank you, Fred.

WHITFIELD: All right. We tend to focus on those killed by gun violence, well, there's another sad reality. Many victims are left paralyzed. Hear why former gang members are now speaking out.

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WHITFIELD: In America, nearly 90 people are killed each day by guns according to government figures. We often report on those shootings, but there's another story when it comes to gun violence. Many shooting victims don't die.

Poppy Harlow is here with the other side of the gun problem in this country.

POPPY HARLOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi there, Fred. Well, what happened when guns don't kill? We know the statistics on homicide by gun and also incarceration, but there's an outcome of gun violence that many don't contemplate and it is plaguing the streets of cities across America. Paralysis. These bullets turn the lives of those shot upside down and society bears the cost for decades. Here's our story.

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RAY DUGGAN, FORMER GANG MEMBER: It was right there. That's where Ryan got shot.

HARLOW (on camera): Right there.

DUGGAN: Yes. And I fell into the street right here.

HARLOW (voice-over): Ten years have passed since Ray Duggan was shot. Today the wheels he relies on are a constant reminder of his violent past and life in a gang.

(On camera): You started gang banging at 14.

DUGGAN: Yes.

HARLOW: Wow. When did you get your first gun?

DUGGAN: I'd say about 16.

HARLOW: Did you think you were going to die?

DUGGAN: Yes, yes. I was ready to die. It never entered my head about being paralyzed or anything.

HARLOW (voice-over): It's an outcome of gun violence that many don't think about. JOEL IRIZARRY, FORMER GANG MEMBER: It's either death of jail. You

never hear about disability. Literally, half of my body is dead. From the waist down, I can't feel it. I can't move it. I can't do nothing with it. This is my prison for the choices that I made.

I was scared. I was in a gang for protection.

HARLOW (on camera): Did you think you were invincible?

IRIZARRY: Yes. This is where it happened. This is where everything changed.

HARLOW (voice-over): May, 1998. Joel Irizarry says he was trying to leave the gang life when he was shot and paralyzed at just 17.

IRIZARRY: A rival gang banger, he put out the pistol and shot just one time. The bullet went through the backseat and hit me dead in the spine, so I was instantly paralyzed.

HARLOW (on camera): Acts of violence, primarily gunshot wounds, are the third leading cause of spinal cord injury among American adults, disproportionately affecting young, uninsured men and the cost to society is huge. The care can cost up to a million dollars per patient in just the first year and up to $181,000 for every year after that.

These aren't the numbers that we track.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. No, these --

HARLOW: Incarceration.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right.

HARLOW: Murders, but not those left to live in wheelchairs.

MICHAEL BROWN, INNOCENT BYSTANDER: Right. Right. It's just not attended to.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is the side where the bullet went in, right?

BROWN: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's going to be a little stiffer.

HARLOW (voice-over): A single bullet left Michael Brown a quadriplegic. He's not a gang member. He's a pastor and a math teacher. An innocent bystander.

(On camera): What is the prognosis for you being able to walk again?

BROWN: Well, to be honest, it's not very good. I just hope.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're going to straighten your hips out, OK?

BROWN: I don't hold any bitterness or anger. I just want the violence to stop.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Number one thing that happens is patients lose autonomy. They lose the ability to control themselves.

DUGGAN: There are so many kids getting shot. It's not you get shot, you go home. You get shot, some people end up with cluster with bags inside. This is long medical care.

HARLOW (voice-over): But Ray Duggan is not looking for sympathy. I knew what I was doing. I had multiple chances to change my life around before that. I didn't want to.

IRIZARRY: This is the consequence, you know, and not everybody makes the news.

HARLOW: Irizarry and Duggan are back on the streets now, but as peacemakers, trying to convince young men not to make the same choices they did.

IRIZARRY: You know how they say that everything happens for a reason, this might -- this might have been the reason. Just so that I can -- prevent somebody from following my same route and ending in the situation like mine or worse.

DUGGAN: As long as I stop one kid from going down the wrong path, then bang, I had saved a life.

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HARLOW: And today, Ray Duggan is working at the Institute of the Study and Practice of Nonviolence. Joel Irizarry just got his masters degree in social work. Both of them tell me that helping other young men is what drives them today -- Fredricka.

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WHITFIELD: All right, now for an update on mortgages, 30-year fixed rates dropped while 15-year rates jumped. Take a look.

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WHITFIELD: All right, bottom of the hour right now. Welcome back. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Here are the top stories crossing the CNN news desk right now.

New video out of Gaza shows how Israeli forces warned civilians in Gaza of a coming -- incoming airstrike with a so-called knock on the roof. First, you will see a warning strike and then a fast forward the actual strike about a minute later.

Take a look.

Reports say a Hamas official lived in that building. The death toll in Gaza from Israeli attacks has risen to 135 and hundreds more have been wounded according to Hamas spokesman. Israel says Palestinian militants have fired nearly 700 rockets in Israel. Now Israelis have been killed in those attacks and today it seems the

crisis is expanding. Two rockets hit the West Bank near Bethlehem today, but no major damage caused.

California is loosening the rules on its three strikes and you're out sentencing law. The law says that if someone commits two felony acts, then they get an automatic sentence of 25 years to life for a third violent conviction. But now the California Supreme Court says if two of those felony convictions stem from the same criminal act, they will not be counted as separate strikes.

Tomorrow is the much anticipated final World Cup showdown in Brazil. But Brazil's not part of the equation. It will be Germany and Argentina facing off. But today a less anticipated game happened to losing teams still have to compete for third place. Brazil and the Netherlands hit the field this afternoon for third place.

OK. Sounds familiar? You're listening to the Ramone. Fans of the influential punk rock band, however, are in mourning today. The quartet's last surviving member, Tommy Ramone, has died at his home in New York at the age of 65. He had been suffering from cancer.

Tommy Ramone once said the band wanted to bring back something that was missing in rock music and say something new and different.

And who can get enough of them? A little rock and roll history for you right now. The Rolling Stones performing their first concert ever 50 years ago tonight. Of course this is not it right there. That moment, though, happened at London's Marquee Jazz Club. Mick Jagger says he doesn't really count that show as the birth of the Stones, however, he says the band really formed a year later when Charlie Watts joined.

Jagger told "Rolling Stone" magazine it's a very different group today. Mick Jagger, by the way, turning 71 later on this month. They are incredible. And if you have an opportunity to see them in show, in concert, you must, you must go.

All right. The White House estimates as many as 90,000 kids could cross the border into the U.S. without their parents this year. The president says the children are desperate to escape poverty and violence plaguing their home countries. Specifically the Central American countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

CNN's Rosa Flores takes us inside one Texas shelter where those children, some unaccompanied, are living.

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ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): After traveling hundreds of miles, these Central American families find a glimmer of hope at a temporary shelter at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen, Texas.

Most are fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries, arriving exhausted with nothing but the clothing on their backs, laceless shoes and a manila folder handed to them by immigration officials with documents in English they say they don't understand.

Daisy Villanueva says she traveled with her 2-year-old son Stanley by foot and by bus from her home country of Honduras, nearly 1500 miles until she made it to America, then turned herself in to immigration authorities. Few meals along the way, the fear and trauma still clear on this family's face. She didn't leave anyone behind but hopes to reunite with her husband in North Carolina.

Not the case for Sergio Bolanos (ph). He left a wife and two children in Guatemala, making the dangerous journey with his 9-year-old son, Vidal, who was anxious to change his dirty clothing and sit down to eat a meal.

Sergio says he crossed the border and turned himself in to immigration, spent three days with his son in a detention center, was assigned a court date to face an immigration judge, and was set free at a bus station. That's how thousands of people end up in temporary shelters like this one.

(On camera): This facility sees between 150 and 180 people a day. Take a look around, it's a quick stop. They get some fresh clothing, a blanket for the road, some shoes, and also some snacks for their bus ride. And if there's time, they get a quick shower.

(Voice over): Sister Norma Pimentel established this temporary shelter a month ago and has already served more than 3,000 people.

SISTER NORMA PIMENTEL, CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE: They may be stripped of everything but one thing they do have is their faith. And so I think this is a beautiful encounter of faith alive, you know, amongst our people.

FLORES: It's the common story here.

Daisy says she wants to protect her son from the constant sound of gunshots in her neighborhood and the dead bodies on the streets.

For Sergio, he says he's escaping the extreme poverty in Guatemala where he had trouble putting food on the table working in agriculture. As he and his son boarded a bus to reunite with family in California it was left up to them to honor the immigration court date in that paperwork in the manila folder. Sergio wouldn't say if they plan to show up for the court hearing.

Rosa Flores, CNN, McAllen, Texas.

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WHITFIELD: John Walsh, you know the name and the face. Well, guess what? He's back on "THE HUNT" for the most wanted criminals around the world. He tells me why he's so desperate to find the fugitive accused of murdering his wife and two girls in California, but first, it's time to honor those making a difference in their communities and today a simple hashtag on Instagram is now changing lives in Atlanta.

Here's CNN's Chris Cuomo. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR, NEW DAY (voice-over): Photographer Tim Moxley had an aha moment on Instagram in 2012.

TIM MOXLEY, #WELOVEATL: I was noticing that, you know, there were certain photos that told, you know, a bit about people, a story about people's lives in the city.

CUOMO: He brainstormed with fellow photographers and they created their own hashtag.

MOXLEY: Weloveatl is a hashtag that we started on Instagram for asking people to proclaim their love for the city, show a little bit about their lives in the city.

CUOMO: They showed some of the photos in an art gallery but when people continued to submit to the hashtag, they came up with a new plan.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We had the idea to buy a bread truck and turn it into an art gallery. Kind of a food truck for photography.

MOXLEY: We hang the photos in the truck and sell the photos and we donate all the money to the Atlanta Community Food Bank.

CUOMO: #weloveatl has helped families across north Georgia.

JULIE BRYANT FISHER, ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: We have been fortunate enough to be partner with WeLoveATL. And since that time that's brought us more than $7600. So for us at the Atlanta Community Food Bank, that equates to 30,000 meals.

CUOMO: Who would have thought a hashtag could do so much good?

AARON COURY, #WELOVEATL: We're bringing kind of art and culture and charity together. And we hope that it starts to spread all over the country because we love the idea of celebrating your city. That what we've realized throughout this project.

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WHITFIELD: Tomorrow, CNN welcomes crime fighter, John Walsh, and his new original series, "THE HUNT." Each week, Walsh will examine unsolved crimes, hoping our viewers can help track down fugitives. Well, the premiere episode delves into the case of a domestic violence turned deadly.

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JOHN WALSH, HOST, THE HUNT: America has a couple of really ugly secrets that nobody wants to talk about. We have a huge amount of domestic abuse. My god, this is America. This is the land of the free and the brave, and this is the land where women should be respected. And if you hit or abuse women, you're not brave, you're a coward.

MARE DEUTCHER, CLIENT ADVOCATE, ONE SAFE PLACE, REDDING, CA: Domestic violence is a major crime in Shasta County. It's epidemic here. I know it sounds ideal, let's go live in the mountains, commune with nature, but that's the perfect setup for an abuser.

ERIC ROBANSKE: Shane Miller (ph) had no involvement with law enforcement in Shasta County up until there was the domestic violence that started occurring between him and his wife.

TOM BOSENKO: Sandy Miller (ph) ended up going to a local women's refuge to seek safe harbor, and she took her children with her. We took a domestic violence report. Our detectives learned Mr. Miller did have an extensive arrest record and had also had a federal arrest record in which he was sentenced to federal prison.

DEUTCHER: When Sandy came in to our office, she appeared very tired. The girls were very tearful, red-eyed, exhausted. They'd had a long morning trying to get down the mountain to come here. She said Shane had been very agitated for about three days. She had hardly any sleep. She said Shane had assaulted her, tortured her, choked her, threatened her with guns. Now he was threatening to kill her whole family.

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WHITFIELD: Wow. Powerful stuff. I spoke to John Walsh about what drew him to this case against Shane Miller.

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WALSH: As the father of a murdered child, I'd learned one horrible, horrible reality that I always hated people who hurt children, who prey upon children and I learned that most of them are cowards and there is no excuse for that.

This guy had a rap sheet as long as my arm. He spent time in federal prison. He met a beautiful woman. He abused her, she tried to get away and go to a shelter. He somehow talked her back into coming home with their two daughters and how did he reward that behavior? He murdered her in cold blood and shot his 5-year-old daughter and 8- year-old daughter in the face. Went on the run.

Biggest manhunt I think in northern California's history. They found a bunker where he had 45 assault weapons and 100,000 rounds of ammunition stored, so he's a dangerous, violent guy. He has brutalized this family and so many friends and relatives in this area are terrified that this guy will come back. He's a lose canon. Hate people who hurt children. He needs to pay for what he did.

WHITFIELD: So overall how far is this show "THE HUNT" able to go in terms of revealing the resources that are dedicated to the search for any number of these suspects?

WALSH: I have a great bond of trust with the public. And I'm talking about the worldwide public. I got to catch guys in 45 countries because I believe -- I believe people will do the right thing. I guarantee that you can remain anonymous. Just give us that call. Give us that tip online. We'll take it from there and we'll make the world a safer place, I think so.

But I'm relying on the general public. They watch that show for 25 years. I hope they watch this show and say, you know what? I think I may have seen that guy. Might have seen him on vacation in Mexico. I might have seen him in Canada. He may be working somewhere in the United States. It only takes one person to have the guts to make that call. We can get justice for entire town that's hurting.

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WHITFIELD: All right. Thanks so much, John Walsh.

So coming up in our 2:00 Eastern hour, my interview with a deputy U.S. Marshal who is on that same case. He says there's one factor in particular that's likely helping Shane Miller remain so elusive.

You don't want to miss "THE HUNT" with John Walsh. It premiers tomorrow night 9:00 Eastern Time right here on CNN.

A number one ranking is usually good thing, right? But not if you're talking about earthquakes. Next, hear which state has the most earthquakes and what might be triggering them.

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WHITFIELD: All right. This just in. Two earthquakes struck in Oklahoma today about 40 miles away from Oklahoma City according to the U.S. Geological Survey's Web site. One was a 4.3 magnitude and the other a 3.2. Well, you might be surprised to hear that Oklahoma has the most quakes in the U.S. more than California. It has seen 5,000 -- 5,000 percent rather increase in the last five years.

Martin Savidge went to find out why.

MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Fredricka. You know, if you were to ask people quick name a state that has earthquakes just about everybody would say California, which is true. But actually there is another state that recently eclipsed California when it comes to seismic activity. Oklahoma.

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SAVIDGE (voice-over): In Oklahoma, earthquakes are in the news.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're having an earthquake right now. Our lives shaking quite a bit here --

MARTIN: The day we arrived these three earthquakes, magnitude 3.0 or greater before lunch.

(On camera): These three were all before noon today.

AUSTIN HOLLAND, OKLAHOMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: That's right. MARTIN (voice-over): Turns out that's nothing.

HOLLAND: We've had probably 100 earthquakes in total today already.

MARTIN: Most of those are hardly felt but they are getting stronger.

HOLLAND: It's truly remarkable. We've never seen anything like this. This is completely unprecedented.

MARTIN: Five years ago Oklahoma averaged just two magnitude 3.0 or higher earthquakes a year. Last year there were 109, a 5,000 percent increase. And just so far this year more than 200.

MARLA WRIGHT, OKLAHOMA HOUSEMAKER: I'm excited. I'm really excited about getting into this house. This is, like, wow, cool.

MARTIN: Marla Wright has just moved into her new home in the small town of Prague 2 1/2 years after she lost her old one.

WRIGHT: And you heard this huge boom before the shaking started.

MARTIN: It was November 5th, 2011.

WRIGHT: And you were being tossed to and fro and back and forth and --

MARTIN (on camera): It was that violent.

WRIGHT: It was horribly violent.

MARTIN (voice-over): The quake measured 5.7, the largest in modern Oklahoma history.

(On camera): Like a lot of people, Marla worries that the source of the earthquake that devastated her home is actually located not that far outside of town. Right about here.

(Voice-over): An underground injection well, where wastewater from the state's booming oil and natural gas production is pumped back into the earth. Oklahoma has roughly 10,000 of them. Some scientists suggest the wells are destabilizing the state's underlying network of faults. But any suggestion drilling and earthquakes are related makes for some difficult conversation here.

(On camera): Does it ever worry you at night that maybe in some way that industry is doing this kind of harm? Has it ever crossed your mind?

KIM HATFIELD, OKLAHOMA INDUSTRIAL PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION: It concerns me that it's possible.

MARTIN (voice-over): One out of every six Oklahomans gets a paycheck thanks to the oil and gas business. It also produces 27 percent of the state's annual tax revenue.

HATFIELD: We're not ignoring it. We're working hard on it. And we need to understand the science better.

MARTIN: Scientists have linked the Prague earthquake to nearby injection wells, but they stop short of saying injection wells are responsible for all of the state's earthquakes. The problem they say may be part manmade and part nature.

HOLLAND: We're probably looking at a contribution of different factors working together to really create what can only be described as kind of the perfect storm.

MARTIN: So seismologists and the energy industry have teamed up to try and find a solution that stops the quakes but not the drilling.

(On camera): Do you worry about another one?

WRIGHT: Yes. Every day.

MARTIN (voice-over): Which explains Oklahoma's newest business boom -- earthquake insurance.

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MARTIN: Most of the people we talked to, even those who've been directly impacted by the earthquakes, say, look, they're not out to put the oil and gas business out of business. They do hope that that industry can get a better understanding of what's going on to try to stop the earthquakes but not the business -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right. Martin, thank you so much.

All right, next, it's something all dads can relate to. The baby is coming and you have to drive your wife to the hospital.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's coming out.

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WHITFIELD: Oh my gosh. Well, this Texas couple, well, guess what, they barely made it and we'll tell you what happens. We can do that because it's all documented.

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WHITFIELD: OK. Maybe you can relate to a moment like this. A frantic rush to the hospital, but then the frightening realization that two, in this case, very soon-to-be parents aren't going to make it in time. And guess what? All of it captured on dad's video camera.

Here's Jeanne Moos.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT: You know how some people like to wear GoPro cameras while they ski or while they surf? Well, how about while your wife gives birth?

KRISTIN DICKERSON, GAVE BIRTH ON HOSPITAL CURB: He's coming out.

MOOS: When his wife went into labor, Troy Dickerson strapped his camera to his head.

K. DICKERSON: Please, please.

TROY DICKERSON, CURBSIDE BIRTH WITH GOPRO: Next exit. Next exit.

MOOS: Doing 95 at 1:30 in the morning, headed for Texas Children's Pavilion for Women. They made it as far as the curb.

K. DICKERSON: His head --

T. DICKERSON: OK, you want to sit down?

MOOS: But Kristin Dickerson says she couldn't move.

T. DICKERSON: Sit down so I can catch him. Sit down.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sit down. Sit down.

K. DICKERSON: I really wanted to appease everyone and sit down because everyone was telling me to sit down. But it just wasn't happening.

MOOS: Kristin actually teaches birth education.

T. DICKERSON: Kristin, don't push yet. Don't push.

K. DICKERSON: His head is out. I'm not kidding.

MOOS: So her husband, Troy, sort of knew what to do.

T. DICKERSON: She actually taught birth classes out of our house for a little while. So I have seen too many birth videos for one man to see.

MOOS (on camera): You know who did go in the other direction. Did you see that security guard?

K. DICKERSON: His head is coming out.

You know, we realized later he was going to page the emergency response team.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get a doctor out here now.

T. DICKERSON: When I saw the head, that's when it really kicked in. I was like, OK, he can't stay like that. His head halfway out for much longer. So I -- that's when I said, go ahead and push.

Push, good. Good girl, good girl. Good girl. Good girl. I got him. I got him. I got him. He's perfect. He's perfect. MOOS (voice-over): Troy used a little discretion, censoring some of

the video. He recorded the births of his two other sons, and he's a huge fan of the GoPro.

K. DICKERSON: Never dreamed that the whole nation would be watching that.

MOOS: Medical staff arrived in time to mop up.

T. DICKERSON: You did it. That's awesome.

K. DICKERSON: I love you, baby.

T. DICKERSON: You did it. You did it.

MOOS: Troy really did earn the retired obstetrician hat someone gave him. As for the parking valet who tried to get Kristin to sit --

What do you tip someone for watching your wife give birth?

T. DICKERSON: It's 20 bucks.

K. DICKERSON: Yes, 20 bucks. I don't think that really compensated him for the trauma he had to go through.

MOOS: Meet Truitt Dickerson. That kid should have to watch this video every mother's day to be reminded of what his mom went through for him.

K. DICKERSON: It's great natural birth control for a teenager. We'll show it to him when he's 16.

MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN.

T. DICKERSON: Got it on video.

MOOS: New York.

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