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British Diplomat Killed in Afghanistan Attack; Macy's Parade Begins at 9:00 A.M. Eastern; Brown Family Speaks; Another Cosby Accuser Comes Forward
Aired November 27, 2014 - 06:30 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back to our special Thanksgiving Day edition of NEW DAY.
Deb Feyerick is taking a look at our today's top stories.
DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN ANCHOR: Yes, there's a lot breaking overnight.
A British diplomat is among five people killed in an attack on a convoy of foreign embassy cars in Afghanistan. A car loaded with explosives detonated as the convoy passed through Kabul. The chief of police there says it was a suicide attack. More than 30 other people were wounded, including several children. The Taliban has claimed responsibility.
And the Northeast is waking up to drier, calmer conditions after a horrible night for holiday travel. Hundreds of flights were canceled, thousands more were delayed by a punishing nor'easter, forcing a lot of people to make hectic last minute changes to their itineraries. AAA anticipating 46 million people traveling this Thanksgiving holiday, the most since 2007.
And there's a concern over surge in near collisions between drones and airplanes. Pilots across the United States have already the FAA to dozens of episodes in which small drones came within a few seconds or even a few feet of a much larger aircraft. The FAA is working on new rules for the drones which should be released in the next few weeks. More on the story in our next hour.
And, of course, lines are already forming outside stores nationwide, ahead of Black Friday. Tents filled with soon-to-be shoppers waiting on their chance to pounce on discounted merchandise. Many stores have started opening Thanksgiving Day or early Friday, to get a head start on the shopping season. But as it turns out, guess what? Most Americans won't be shopping either today or tomorrow. The new CNN poll finds that only 12 percent of people plan to shop today, only 22 percent tomorrow.
Michaela and Chris --
PEREIRA: Are you shopping at all today, Deb?
FEYERICK: No, I am not shopping at all today. I shop in January when things are actually 70 percent off.
PEREIRA: That's my kind of girl.
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Strong, strong.
PEREIRA: So not shopping perhaps, but today is all about food, football and most importantly family.
Somebody let a -- you're going catch it. Of course, you're going --
CUOMO: I want to eat it.
PEREIRA: One of our great Thanksgiving traditions, of course, in America is the Annual Macy's Parade. And we're lucky to have it right here in front of us here in New York City.
CUOMO: One of the great things in the city, perfect thing to watch after you get your news from us, of course.
PEREIRA: Yes.
CUOMO: It kicks off in a few hours.
Let's get to CNN's Miguel Marquez. He's along the route, joining us live.
Miguel, how are you doing this morning?
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CUOMO: Happy Thanksgiving, my brother.
MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN ANCHOR: We are in the best spot ever. We got the band starting up here, Western Carolina University. Pride of the mountains here, getting ready to go.
We have got Thomas the tank engine right down here. They're filling them up. The biggest balloon ever, the most fabric used on any balloon here, most helium.
And of course, the center piece of the table, Tom the Turkey. It's a tom sort of a morning here and it's just starting to now a little as well. We weren't expecting that. And over there, I just saw some dancers retting ready, 1,300 cheerleaders and dancers, 49 giant balloons and a bunch of other balloons and 33 floats going to come down here.
Look at all of the floats lined up down this road right here. They're getting ready for one giant parade.
One concern here, because we've had these protests in New York is that the protesters are promising to stop the parade and police here say this is a security nightmare for them on a good day and they're confident that they can take any protesters and stop them from stopping the parade. So, we'll see how it goes. It's looking so far to be a great day. Back to you, guys.
PEREIRA: Well, and that weather that was so gnarly yesterday has moved son so they don't have the concerns of wetting and even blowing the balloons away. But again, that concern of protesters that could be an issue.
CUOMO: It's true. Police, they're going to have help, though. There are so many families there who are looking forward to a certain kind of day, that may get lots of sets of extra hands there to help keep it civil.
PEREIRA: So, reason they'd be protesting, Michael Brown's father, he has been speaking out. He says Officer Darren Wilson is a murderer. Brown's parents speaking out on their son's killer and the investigation that cleared his name. We have that emotional interview, next.
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PEREIRA: Just a day after Officer Darren Wilson broke his silence about what he says happened on that fateful day in Ferguson, Michael Brown's parents have responded. They're still devastated obviously by the loss of their son and the lack of justice they feel for his death. Wilson's words offered no relief for these grieving parents.
Joined by their family, Michael Brown's parents sat down with our legal analyst Sunny Hostin.
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SUNNY HOSTIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: I want to start by saying I'm so sorry that your son was taken from you. And I think there are a lot of people that feel the same way.
And I'd like you, Leslie, if you can, to tell us about your son, the son you know.
LESLEY MCSPADDEN, MICHAEL BROWN'S MOTHER: The son I know, Mike Mike, that's what I called him, Mike Mike was, he was a big guy. He was so humble and soft spoken and he loved animals.
He loved being a big brother, and he loved being a grandson. He loved his grandmothers. He was the first grandchild. He was our first son. So, he was special in many ways.
HOSTIN: Can you tell me about your son, the son you know?
MICHAEL BROWN SR., MICHAEL BROWN'S FATHER: Funny, silly, make you laugh, real good with his hands, fix almost anything. Like she said, Lesley said, he loved his siblings. He loved his grandparents.
He loved to do different things to show girls -- he was just being a teenager, you know. Just living life.
HOSTIN: Now, when you got to the crime scene and you found this out, what were you immediate thoughts?
MCSPADDEN: Why? Why you do that? Anybody that knew him, that was the thought. Why? No. Mike Mike, no. We don't believe it. He too sweet.
HOSTIN: Well, let's talk about that. Because so many people in America have seen this surveillance video in the convenience store, and people are saying your son was a punk, your son was a thug, your son was aggressive, your son was violent. So, he must have been aggressive with Officer Wilson.
What do you say to that?
MCSPADDEN: I say that you cannot judge him off an 18-second video and we've known him for 18 years. We know better. I say, no, you're wrong, and you cannot look at one image of a person and perceive who they are in a whole. If that's the case, let's look at the offense side with Darren Wilson.
HOSTIN: So, do you believe when Officer Wilson approached your son and told him to move out of the roadway, do you think your son's first response was, F what you say.
MCSPADDEN: No.
BROWN: No.
HOSTIN: Do you think that's possible?
MCSPADDEN: No.
BROWN: No.
HOSTIN: Do you think it's also possible that Officer Wilson was saying that your son reached into the car and tried to grab his gun?
BROWN: No.
HOSTIN: Do you think it's possible that your son told him, you are too much of a P word to shoot me?
MCSPADDEN: I don't believe any of those words were exchanged at all.
BROWN: No.
HOSTIN: And why not?
MCSPADDEN: Why? You know why? Because my sister had just rolled up this street and rolled past my son as he was coming down and just that quick, not even five minutes went by before someone was running to my mother's house saying, Mike Mike is laying up, you know, up there in the middle of the street dead. An interaction or, you know, it lasts a little longer than that.
HOSTIN: Officer Wilson said that he had a clear conscience about what happened that day. If he had to do it again that day, he would. What's your response to that?
BROWN: He's a murderer. That's what that tells me.
HOSTIN: What does that tell you, Lesley?
MCSPADDEN: I hope the Lord have mercy on his soul.
BROWN: He's a murderer. Because if he was conscious of what he was doing, that mean he understood his actions, he understood exactly what he was doing, you know. He didn't have a second thought, a push-back thought or nothing. He was intending to kill someone. That's how I look at it. Even if it wasn't my son, even if it was (INAUDIBLE), he was going to kill someone at that point.
HOSTIN: He also said, Officer Wilson, that had your son been white it would have happened exactly the same way.
BROWN: Not true. I don't believe it.
HOSTIN: You don't believe that?
BROWN: No.
HOSTIN: Why not?
BROWN: I think that the interaction would have been a whole lot differently. Probably would have rolled right past and kept going. Probably would have blew his horn and waved out the window at him.
HOSTIN: And when you heard there was not going to be an indictment in the case, give me your immediate reaction?
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PEREIRA: We'll have more of what Michael Brown's parents have to say in our 8:00 hour. Chris, it's interesting to hear this on this day, because at the end of the day a young man is dead, grandparents don't have their grandson, these parents don't have their son at the table. No matter the behavior, no matter what he did, no matter what happened, at the end of the day a child is not going to be there for Thanksgiving.
CUOMO: This is their first Thanksgiving without him. Also, it'd be the first Thanksgiving for Wilson and his family in a very new reality.
PEREIRA: Very new reality.
CUOMO: Even though he wasn't indicted, the situation is far from over as far as what the future holds legally and personally.
PEREIRA: Yes.
More on that coming up ahead.
CUOMO: Yes, we will. We also have more trouble to tell you about for Bill Cosby. There's a new accuser coming forward. She's not holding back. She has a very graphic account, somewhat different from what we've heard in the past about what happened between. This is her first TV interview. Weigh in there and let us know what you think about it once we play it for you.
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CUOMO: There is a new sexual assault claim against Bill Cosby, this time from a woman who struggled to come forward for decades because she's a black woman and she didn't want to take down a man who meant so much to the black community.
Susan Candiotti speaks to her in her first television. And we want to warn you, some of what this woman has to say is graphic.
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JEWEL ALLISON, ALLEGES COSBY SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER: Cosby is a human being. He did his job and did it well but he's not a messiah. And none of us are.
SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Jewel Allison publicly divulging a humiliating sex encounter with Bill Cosby she says happened 25 years ago.
ALLISON: This is where it hurts and this is where it makes it very difficult.
CANDIOTTI: Even more difficult and painful she says is coming forward as a woman of color, about a man who means so much to black Americans, especially when she claims he abused her in the late '80s.
ALLISON: I don't want to take this black man down who is providing so many jobs for black people and doing something that was historic is a positive way. I understand why we're in denial. I understand why we don't want to believe this. I didn't want to believe it.
CANDIOTTI: In her 20s, when Cosby was twice her age, Jewel Allison was a model and aspiring actress doing voice-overs in New York. Her agent she says set up a meeting with Cosby, including visits to his wildly popular "Cosby Show' set. She went to dinner at his house.
ALLISON: He said, I'm meeting with a couple of you who have college educations, who I think could do a little bit better than modeling, you know? And I want to help you all out. (INAUDIBLE) with me.
CANDIOTTI: She accepted a second invitation.
(on camera): What happened that night?
ALLISON: I wasn't there for very long before he asked me if I wanted something to drink and he showed me a bottle of wine. I don't remember the age on it. But the age was impressive. And I said, OK. He fixed me a glass of wine, I drank a little bit of it, not a lot.
Took a couple of sips, it tasted horrible and I was like, I'm not drinking the rest of this.
He, at that point, came over to me and he said, stand up. And he helped me get up from here. And I stood up. At this point I'm kind of out of it and I'm thinking, was it the wine? He said let's go into the room where there was a mirror. And I remember that there was a mirror, I'll never forget that there was a mirror, because he told me to look in the mirror and he was in back of me at this point.
CANDIOTTI: Did he say why he wanted you to look in the mirror?
ALLISON: After he had an orgasm. He said -- he said to me, you know, afterwards he said, look at the glow on your face. But before then, he took my hand and put it in back of me and I felt something wet on my hand and then that's when I realized that something sexual was going on. But I was unable to stop it.
And then he turned me around and he helped me, he put his hands on my shoulders and he walked me out and he said, let's get you home or something like that. At that point he hugged me, you know, which I felt was really bizarre in an unaffectionate way, and he kisses me at the door. All of it didn't make any sense.
And then he opens up the door, there's a taxi there, there's a yellow taxi there. I always thought you had to flag taxis down. So, the ride home was bizarre because I got violently ill.
CANDIOTTI (voice-over): She kept it under wraps.
ALLISON: I came home crying. It's horrible because it's like someone just sexually assaulted me and drugged me and it was Cosby, the one person that meant so much to us, which I think is not fair.
CANDIOTTI: Privately, she's told a few friends over the years but after seeing other women come forward, she's breaking her silence.
ALLISON: I have learned that fear can cripple you, it can make you sick, it can make you not sleep at night. Once I decided to put this in God's hands and I said, I know you got this --
Do not be a victim of circumstances.
CANDIOTTI: A writer and public speaker, Allison has not yet addressed the Cosby issue.
(on camera): Is there anything that you would say to him?
ALLISON: Begin praying and get the strength and the courage to begin to tell yourself the truth.
CANDIOTTI: Bill Cosby has not been charged with any crime. Some venues have canceled his show.
CNN has reached out to his lawyers about Allison's claims, they have not responded. In a blanket statement last week his lawyer wrote, "We have refuted these new unsubstantiated stories. When will it end? It is long past time for this media vilification of Mr. Cosby to stop.
Susan Candiotti, CNN, New York.
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CUOMO: It's very tough to hear. It's got to be even harder to say.
Let us know what you think. We're telling these women's story because the court of public opinion is all that really exists in these stories. So, you tweet us with #newday. All right?
We'll following a lot of news for you this morning. It is Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving to you. Let's get to it.
