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Massive Storm Hits California Coast; Awkward Moment for Jolie, Sony Executive; Did North Korea Hack Sony; Mississippi Police Say Key in Chambers Murder is Phone; Model Beverly Johnson Is Latest Cosby Accuser.

Aired December 12, 2014 - 14:30   ET

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BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: The storm is moving -- has been moving inland. It's losing some steam. Really taking its toll on the Los Angeles area earlier today when mud and debris were flowing into Camarillo Springs, engulfing homes and that is where we find my colleague Paul Vercammen.

Paul, tell me where you are.

PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Brooke, I'm on the backside of some homes that were swallowed up by massive, tons and tons of rocks. They heard a rumbling. It wasn't the weather. It was these rocks that came cascading down this hill. You look at the rooftops. One couple and their caregiver pinned inside. They got out. Nobody seriously hurt in all of this. Nobody died. We do have ten homes that are now red tagged meaning uninhabitable. There's another three that are yellow tagged. Three are green tagged and this is going to be a monumental cleanup effort. The good news as I said, nobody was hurt in all of this. You can imagine the volume of debris here just unwielding. Very difficult to deal with. They evacuated 125 or so homes in this area and why did all of this come down? You may recall a devastating fire that roared through here in 2013. It dripped vegetation off the hillside and made them vulnerable. They worried about a big storm and the national weather service telling me that last night in just three hours they got 1.5 to 2 inches so very concentrated storm in a short amount of time and that's what loosened up all of this. Billions and billions of rocks. It looks like a quarry here.

BALDWIN: If you can get your photo journalist to pull out a little bit more to see perspective. If it were any other day, you should be standing on grass multiple feet below you, correct, but instead it looks like rocks and mud and muck.

VERCAMMEN: You're right. I'm probably 10 to 12 feet above where I should be standing. Go ahead and pull out to give a sense of how vast this slide area is. There's actually two separate spots, Brooke. There's this cluster of four or five homes that got engulfed where I'm standing and then over a hill there's another cluster of homes. And one of the considerations they had of course gas leaks. We saw some firemen sort of walking around these houses making sure -- a ruptured line off in the distance they have to address.

So, yes, this is a pretty large debris field. They talk about mudslides. This was almost purely a rock slide. There's mud mixed in but they have left lifting to do before these people get back in their homes. 10 are uninhabitable when all this rock just came tumbling down.

BALDWIN: Unreal. Thoughts of that community.

Paul Vercammen and Spike (ph), thank you both for showing us those pictures.

Let me move on. Angelina Jolie comes face to face with Sony Pictures executive whose private e-mails were hacked and leaked. And in one of these e-mails, not that she sent, but one she received, described Jolie as a minimally talented spoiled brat. The awkward moment between them captured. We'll talk about that next.

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BALDWIN: It's fair to say this is probably one of the most embarrassing and humiliating weeks for Sony Pictures. Hackers exposed the company's secrets ranging from business practices, pay disparities, and trash talking between executives about Hollywood's elite, like Angelina Jolie. According to a leaked e-mail, a producer told Amy Pascal to shut down Jolie or he would. The e-mail said, "I have zero appetite for the indulgence of spoiled brats and I will tell her this myself if you don't." So you have this exchange and then you have this picture. This is Jolie with Pascal after news of the leak came out. We should note Pascal was on the receiving end of that e- mail we just showed you. People say pictures show a thousand words. There you go.

But to this alleged intent behind this attack, North Korea is suspected of orchestrating this. We don't know if it's North Korea or not. Sony has a movie coming out that's about a plot to kill Kim Jong-Un.

Lots to discuss. Michael Smerconish gets to chat with me on all of this, host of "Smerconish."

Good to see you.

MICHAEL SMERCONISH, CNN HOST, SMERCONISH: Good to see you, Brooke. Thanks.

BALDWIN: There's so many layers of all of this. Everybody is sort of reading into the weeds and juice of the e-mails. Your whole point is let's move down into paragraph four, five and six, and the issue is the subject nature of this film.

SMERCONISH: The plot. The beef is -- not that I'm a fan of Kim Jong- Un but the idea there's going to be a movie where we have Seth Rogan in a comedy talking about killing a foreign leader, even that foreign leader. I think to myself, if it were any other nation and it were reversed and the movie were about our president, we would be upset about this.

BALDWIN: Do you think -- because it's James Franco and Seth Rogan and it's funny and over-the-top comedic way and so nobody has stopped to discuss --

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SMERCONISH: They did stop to discuss it internally. You read on and there was a rift between headquarters in Japan and Sony Pictures in the United States where they were asking Amy Pascal about the ending to this movie.

BALDWIN: They had to tone it down, didn't they?

SMERCONISH: They had to tone down the ending. Apparently, a death sequence.

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SMERCONISH: But this is interesting because we would be upset.

BALDWIN: Here's the other issue. This is what I come back to. We covered so much. Jennifer Lawrence nude photos. I chose not to look at those. But releasing private Sony e-mails to hurt people is the same as releasing nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence. Why are they OK to print? You say we're a nation of rubberneckers.

SMERCONISH: I can't help but take a look. I also say that let's assume that the media didn't cover this. Let's say that CNN didn't cover this story. People would be saying what? You're not covering an executive in Hollywood who is making disparaging racially tinged comments about the president? What kind of a cover-up is this? You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. I don't think she survives having sent those e-mails. I have to tell you, if you were to open my e-mail account, you wouldn't find racially tinged e-mails. You would find a lot of eyebrow raising things because I think that's the way --

BALDWIN: It's not warm and fuzzy in your inbox? What?

SMERCONISH: We tell our kids don't hit the send key. Look at these adults who are captains of industry making the same mistake.

BALDWIN: It could have been turner. It could have been any of us. Watch your e-mail.

SMERCONISH: If Sony can't protect themselves, no one is safe.

BALDWIN: Watch this guy on Saturdays, 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern here on CNN.

SMERCONISH: Thanks.

BALDWIN: Thank you.

Coming up, police in Mississippi say they have found the key to finding Jessica Chambers' killer. That's the teenager found horribly burned on a rural road near her car. Apparently, able to talk to investigators before she ultimately died. The key could be her cell phone. Those details are next.

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BALDWIN: How about good news on this Friday? These are live pictures from our Los Angeles affiliate, KABC. Here's good news. We were talking about this water rescue, watching this boat trying to find a second individual. They located the first, who was A-OK. Looking for the second person. Good news is they found that person. No word exactly where that individual was found. But again, both of those people found and doing just fine this Friday afternoon.

Let's talk about this. "The key to everything," that is what investigators are saying about this cell phone of this Mississippi 19 year old who authorities believe was set on fire and left to die Saturday. Investigators are now poring through Jessica Chambers' cell phone data and her text messages and incoming and outgoing calls looking for clues. Prosecutors say she got a call before she left her house. At a nearby store, she put more gas than usual into her car and when the clerk asked her why, she said she told him she was going somewhere. Officials also confirmed they have interviewed multiple witnesses who saw her at a party that night.

Joining me now to talk about this case, criminal profiler, Pat Brown.

Pat, welcome to you.

And let's just get right to it. They are talking about the cell phone it may be key to cracking the case. How do they use that phone and how do they track those people down?

PAT BROWN, CRIMINAL PROFILER: I think what they're looking at is the fact this was not a stranger abduction. When she got to the gas station, she had a plan. Whether she had plan from home or got distracted by someone at the gas station who waved at her and said come to a party, that's what they have to figure out. But she was gone for 90 minutes some place and it wasn't with a stranger. So they are looking at where she spent that 90 minutes and what could have happened during that 90 minutes. And I kind of believe something happened perhaps at a party during that 90 minutes and then they had to get rid of the evidence. That's what I see in front of me.

BALDWIN: So, again, this is a small town. You know, according to what I heard from sheriff's deputies when they came upon her, they knew exactly who she was. Does this mean they would have to go through people not just friends, family familiar with her but almost anyone in this town?

BROWN: It's a small town that's a fortunate thing. When you have this happen in a metropolitan area, you know, you have a lot more problems. The cell phone may well be the key. If she knew who did it, they have a small population of people they need to look at, and obviously they want to know where was she. She left fine and wasn't kidnapped, something happened with people she knew, and the question is what is that? We hope the autopsy may lend information as well.

BALDWIN: We look at pictures of her burnt car. Investigators haven't determined what was used to set her car on fire. Why is that also so important to know?

BROWN: They could have brought the accelerant they brought to do that. I read one thing that she was attacked in the car. I tend not to believe that. I tend to believe she was attacked somewhere else and what happens is, for example, let's say you have a gang rape which could be what happened. We don't know yet. Let's say there was a gang rape and afterwards they said she's going to go to police and rat us out and then they knock her out. Put her in her vehicle and drive her to a location and set her and the vehicle on fire and run away. The question is how far out of town was the car? That may lead to know whether someone was alone in the car with her or if there were two cars. One driving her car and one following so they have a car to leave with. We don't know if we're talking about one person involved or a few people involved in this particular crime. But hopefully, between the phone, her actions that night, and the autopsy information, they're going to come up with some idea of exactly what happened to Jessica.

BALDWIN: So much is so unknown.

Pat Brown, thank you. We'll follow that out of Mississippi.

BROWN: Thanks, Brooke.

BALDWIN: Huge story today. American fashion icon, Beverly Johnson, the latest woman to come forward and talk about her interactions with Bill Cosby, the drugging, the back and forth. That exclusive interview next.

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BALDWIN: The latest woman to claim she was drugged by Bill Cosby comes as a shock to so many people around the world because this is coming from supermodel, Beverly Johnson, an icon truly in American fashion and the first black woman to grace the cover of "Vogue." Her voice joins the total of 23 women with accusations against Bill Cosby, many of whom who say Cosby raped them.

In a stunning article posted to VanityFair.com, Johnson recalls a dinner at Cosby's Manhattan brownstone wherein, as so many other stories, Cosby allegedly drugged her with a drink. Johnson writes, "I knew by the second sip of the drink Cosby had given me that I had been drugged and drugged good."

Earlier today, she shared her story with CNN's Alisyn Camarota.

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BEVERLY JOHNSON, SUPERMODEL: He made this cappuccino. I said I really didn't want to drink any coffee. It would keep me up late at night. He was insistent. He said it would be the best coffee I ever had. I relented. I took one sip of the cappuccino and I felt something very strange going on in my head.

ALISYN CAMAROTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Describe the sensation in your body that you started feeling immediately. JOHNSON: The first sensation was, you know, a little woozy. And so

then I took another sip and after that second sip, I knew I had been drugged. It was very powerful. It came on very quickly. The room started to spin. My speech was slurred. I remember him calling me over towards him as if we were going to begin the scene then and he placed his hands on my waist. I remember steadying myself with my hand on his shoulders. And I just kind of cocked my head because, at that point, I knew he had drugged me. I could get out -- and I don't swear -- was M.F. I kept saying it to him louder and louder and, for a moment, he stood there looking at me like I was crazy. And then it happened very quickly. He immediately grabbed me and started to drag me toward the stairs that went downstairs to the outdoors and I was stumbling around trying to grab my handbag and I really didn't know where he was taking me. We ended up outside and it was dusk. It was light out. All I remember is him grabbing me by one arm and him flailing for a taxi with the other. I remember kind of looking around at people and people were recognizing that, you know, that's Bill Cosby. And a taxi stops, he opens the door and throws me in there and he slams the door shut and I somehow get my address out to the taxi cab driver.

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BALDWIN: By the way, Bill Cosby or his attorney have yet to make comment so far, specifically on Beverly Johnson's story.

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BALDWIN: -- why this young woman carries just as much meaning as thousands of protesters who hit the streets for Michael Brown and Eric Garner. We'll show you how, right now, Attorney General Eric Holder is trying to ease tensions between police and the communities who say enough is enough.

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