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Medevac Crew's Heroic Rescue; Syria's Worst of the Worst; Parolee Boards Plane without Ticket; Apple's CEO on "Made In The USA"; Face-Eating Attacker Identified; Doc Watson 1923-2012; Tennessee Mosque Could Be Halted; The Queen's Wheels; Criminal Probe after Italy's Earthquake; Jet Collision on Ground at O'Hare
Aired May 30, 2012 - 14:00 ET
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BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Hi, everyone. I'm Brooke Baldwin.
Big, big news day here on this Wednesday. A lot unfolding as we speak. But I want to begin, as always. "Rapid Fire." Roll it.
Can you imagine? It would have been kind of nice to listen in on this phone call. President Obama giving Mitt Romney a ring to congratulate him on finally clinching that magic number, winning the Republican nomination. The Obama campaign says the president told Romney he looks forward to a healthy debate about America's future.
Also, the former Rutgers student convicted of intimidating a roommate who later committed suicide is choosing to go to jail tomorrow. That roommate, Tyler Clementi, jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his sexual encounter was recorded by a hidden web cam. Dharun Ravi's lawyers, they are fighting Ravi's 30 day sentence, but Ravi says the choice to go ahead and start the jail time is all on his own.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The ultimate decision is yours, do you understand?
DHARUN RAVI: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Have you had enough time to think about this?
RAVI: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have to believe you're satisfied with your council (INAUDIBLE).
RAVI: Yes, I am.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. And you've had enough time to think about this?
RAVI: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And the decision is a (INAUDIBLE) following her decision (INAUDIBLE)?
RAVI: Yes, it is.
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BALDWIN: The man behind Wikileaks is one step closer now to being extradited to Sweden. Julian Assange has been fighting those charges that he allegedly sexually abused those two women in that same country. The British supreme court ruled today that he be extradited to face questioning, but then in a surprise move, the court gave him two weeks to then appeal that decision.
Saying he was responsible for some of the most brutal crimes in human history, an international court judge sentenced former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison. Taylor was convicted of war crimes during a civil war in Sierra Leon in which nearly 50,000 people died. He was found guilty of backing rebels in a campaign of terror, including murder, rape and sexual slavery.
And now to -- this is just a stunning story. It's a story of such raw heroism. We had to talk to someone involved. I want you to take a good long look at this picture here. This was taken in Afghanistan. This was back in January. But we are just now learning about this tale today. The Marine on the gurney -- there is someone lying on that -- he isn't just injured here. Inside of him, in his leg, he has this rocket propelled grenade. It's embedded in his leg. It is a live grenade. Basically this bomb could explode at any minute. He has to be medevaced. And now just think about this for a moment. This guy is at risk of blowing up. Anyone coming anywhere near him obviously faces the same risk. Risk of losing their own lives. Fortunately for Marine Lance Corporal Winda Perez (ph), a flight medic unit was willing to take that risk. And a member of that unit is now joining me by phone. Lieutenant Commander James Gennari is with the Navy Nurse Corps commander.
Thank you for hopping on the phone. Welcome home. I just want to say that. And, wow. Let me just begin with this. Given obviously the danger of this live RPG, you obviously made a choice. You could have put someone else next to this gentleman. Instead, you chose to risk your own life. Why?
LT. CMDR. JAMES GENNARI, U.S. NAVY NURSES CORPS (via telephone): Hi. Thank you for having me.
You know, I think the reason that I did it, I didn't give it more than a thought or two, but I knew that I'm sent out there by the Marine Corps to save lives and he was in danger. And I looked at it as my duty and my job to go do that.
BALDWIN: How many years have you been doing this job? And in all those years, have you ever dealt with a live grenade in someone -- embedded in someone that you're removing?
GENNARI: Well, I've been in the Navy for 28 years. I've been a nurse since 1993 and a nurse corps officer since '98. But, no, nobody's come in with live ordnance in them before.
BALDWIN: So we're looking at all these different pictures that you all have sent us, and thank you for that. But as you're standing -- as you're standing here and you're looking into this Marine's eyes, I imagine he's terrified. What did you say to him? Did you say anything?
GENNARI: Well, I did. Actually we had a little bit of an interaction. When I first came out there to him, he asked me why everybody was away from him. And I said, because you have an RPG in your leg. I held his hand and I obviously realized that he was in a lot of danger and I said, I promise you I will not leave you until that thing's out of your leg.
BALDWIN: Oh.
GENNARI: And then we started to talk a little bit and I gave him some pain medication, waiting for the explosive ordnance disposal guy to come out.
BALDWIN: So just going back to something you said. So this gentleman had no idea he even had a live grenade in his leg? You broke the news to him?
GENNARI: Well, I think he -- I think he realized it and he was probably in and out of awareness.
BALDWIN: Consciousness?
GENNARI: I won't say consciousness, but maybe in and out of awareness just because of the shock. But when I told him that, he lifted his head and looked at his leg and muttered a few things not for TV and then he and I started talking about other things and I gave him some pain medication.
BALDWIN: Before you get him to this position where we see you and someone else working on him across this gurney, I know that you all were on this medevac helicopter. I imagine it wasn't the smoothest ride in the world, keeping in mind that this is a live grenade. How long did that flight itself take. And how long did it really feel like?
GENNARI: Well, actually, to clarify that, I was not part of the crew that picked him up.
BALDWIN: You were on the ground afterwards?
GENNARI: Right. He came to our shock trauma platoon. And that's when I met him. But after we took the grenade out, I did fly with him back to a theatre hospital.
BALDWIN: Got it. So, I mean, I know that the flight itself was 11 minutes and I'm sure it felt, for folks who were on that flight, much longer than that. Explain to me what you had to do to get this live grenade out of this lance corporal's leg.
GENNARI: Well, there's a pretty common procedure that -- first, I'm an ER ICU nurse and a fairly common procedure is what's called conscious sedation. When you give someone just another narcotics and another medication called versed (ph) to allow them to maintain their own airway and breathe, but you make them semiconscious. So I was performing conscious sedation to knock him out but so he could still breathe on his own. And the explosive ordnance technician then had to physically pull this thing out of his leg.
BALDWIN: Now, was this easy to pull out or is this something you had to -- forgive me for -- are you yanking this out of his leg? I don't know the medical term for that.
GENNARI: It took the EOD tech three pulls.
BALDWIN: Oh.
GENNARI: And he pulled it about halfway and then we had to readjust and, you know, pulled it out two more tugs.
BALDWIN: So as you're watching him tug two times, three times, sir, I don't know if you have children. I mean are you thinking of your life flashing before your eyes? What goes through your mind in those split seconds?
GENNARI: Well -- well, OK. Well, the truth of it is, is that I said a prayer and I thanked God for everything that I had and I left it alone. I left whether or not the grenade was going to blow up, I left it to him and I just worried about keeping the lance corporal's airway open. And that's the truth of it.
BALDWIN: So that's the truth of it, you said this prayer. And fortunately for all of you involved, you get this grenade out. Where -- what happened to the grenade?
GENNARI: Well, we -- the explosive ordnance guys took it to just outside the base area and -- where it was blown up. And then the patient went right inside to where our surgeons -- we have a couple of surgeons there and all the corpsmen and other nurses worked on him and, you know, to stop the bleeding. He's -- by this time this thing's out of him and he's bleeding profusely. So we put -- did a lot of care for that, stop the bleeding. And coincidentally, it was my turn to fly medevac from our position to the big hospital. So I had to gear back up again and fly with him.
BALDWIN: So --
GENNARI: But then again, you know, I'm a nurse. Once you put a claim on a patient, the patient's yours. So, I mean, it wasn't a big deal really to fly with him.
BALDWIN: I have such respect for medical personnel and nurses in particular. What a job. And I just want to point out here before, obviously, I want to ask you about this particular Lance Corporal Perez, that the picture -- I'm told that the camera was very, very far away. It was only the three of you there and everyone else was told basically to take cover for fear that this grenade would actually go off during this procedure. How is Lance Corporal Perez doing? Have you had a chance to speak with him? What did he say to you?
GENNARI: Well, the first time I was able to get a hold of him, I think I was still in -- yes, I was, I was still in Afghanistan. And at this time he was at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Anyway, I got a hold of him and I asked him what he remembered of it. And he said he just remembered some -- just some guy with -- some older guy with glasses and a moustache, you know, talking to him. And he said that he remembered somebody saying that I wouldn't leave him until that thing's out of his leg. And I said, well, that would be me. And he thanked me and, you know, he gave me the best award anyone could get. He said, you know, you'll always have a special place in my heart. I think three weeks -- two weeks -- two or three weeks ago was the last time I spoke to him and he's going through rehab and he sounds good and, you know, he kept his legs and --
BALDWIN: He did?
GENNARI: I was really pleased about that. He's really the first patient I ever did a follow-up on.
BALDWIN: Well -- well said, says the older guy with the glasses who saved the life there in Afghanistan. That is a tremendous story. And I just thank you for your service and, again, thank you for calling in, Lieutenant Commander James Gennari. A tremendous story. Thank you.
GENNARI: Brooke, thank you very much.
BALDWIN: Wow. A lot more happening right now. Take a look.
It's got everyone talking. A man rips of his clothes and eats another man's face in this zombie like attack. But are bath salts to blame here?
Plus --
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So will it ever say on the back of an Apple product, "designed in California, assembled in the United States"?
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BALDWIN: The chief of Apple drops a hint that a game changer could be in the works.
And, how the heck did this guy, fresh out of jail, hop on a plane without a ticket?
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BALDWIN: No break in the violence in Syria. U.N. observers have found a second massacre here in less than a week. And just a warning here, you may want to turn away from some of the pictures we're about to show you because, as always, they're pretty tough to look at here. This cluster of bodies in the eastern part of the country. Now I have to be clear, CNN cannot independently verify this YouTube video, but U.N. observers have confirmed they found these 13 bodies, the victims' hands tied, some of them shot at close range.
All of this comes after an event our own correspondents have called the worst of the worst in Syria. The massacre of 49 children. Some hacked. Others shot to death. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
VICTORIA NULAND, STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESWOMAN: Absolutely indefensible, vile, despicable massacre against innocent children, women. Shot at point blank range by regime thugs, the Shabiha (ph).
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BALDWIN: You hear her call them "regime thugs." CNN International, our veteran go-to guy, Jim Clancy, here to first talk about -- I think it's so important because, you know, so much we hear about the Assad regime versus the people of Syria, but so much of this story, it's Syrians versus Syrian violence. This is the Alawites (ph) and the Sunnis. These are two different sects.
JIM CLANCY, CNN INTERNATIONAL: It's two different sects among many different sects in Syria. And therein lies the problem. You know, I don't know what she was saying. I mean these is the Shabiha. These were gunmen. Obviously these people were --
BALDWIN: These are the thugs. Another word for the ghosts (ph), the thugs.
CLANCY: Well, these are people that were executed. But we don't know who the thugs were.
BALDWIN: We don't.
CLANCY: No. we have no independent analysis.
BALDWIN: We don't know if they were --
CLANCY: Could have been a reprisal attack or something else that has happened carried out by regime forces. And this is the very problem we're talking about. This -- Syria is descending into a sectarian civil war. It is headed the route of Lebanon. The fighting's already spilled over into Lebanon. Fighters are already going in.
Look, Russia, Iran and others are sending in arms on the government side. Arab states sending in arms on the opposition side. It's going to get bloodier. It's going to get nastier.
BALDWIN: Syria, it's nasty, it's this quagmire, you and I were talking earlier. There's this one professor at Harvard. And let's just listen to what he's saying.
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VICTORIA NULAND, STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESWOMAN: Absolutely indefensible, vile, despicable massacre against innocent children, women. Shot at point blank range by regime thugs, the Shabiha (ph).
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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PROF. STEPHEN WALT, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY: The paradox is that most outside powers have no real interest in trying to intervene there because they recognize it's a potential quagmire and that intervention might, at least in the short term, cause more civilian deaths than staying out. So in a sense the international community is trying to tell Assad, we might come in and hope that's enough to convince him to actually observe this cease-fire and begin a political process that might end this -- this carnage.
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CLANCY: Well, what Walt's saying there is, all right, we threaten him. This was our strategy. But we've got a problem with our strategy.
BALDWIN: We're not backing up our threats.
CLANCY: Well, there's no plan b. There's no plan b. There's no way to get the Russians onboard. You can't put in a peacekeeping force now. If you started off on the road to, well, we'll help the opposition and the Russians and others will help the Assad government, all you're doing is fuelling the civil war. There's no plan b. There's no other -- there's no fallback. The regime seems convinced now, number one, the international community won't intervene and, number two, it's fighting for its life. It's a fight to the end.
BALDWIN: We hear again from Senator John McCain saying air strikes are the way to go. You hear the Russian foreign minister saying absolutely no foreign intervention. They've already exercised their veto on any sort of U.N. resolution. I mean, what's next? No one's talking. It seems no possibility for reconciliation talks. Opposition and the regime aren't talking.
CLANCY: The opposition won't talk to the regime.
BALDWIN: Right.
CLANCY: And the regime is obviously not pushing forward under these talks. The Kofi Annan plan, six points, and we're zero for six.
BALDWIN: Yes.
CLANCY: Nothing's been implemented. It's very clear right now you can go for more sanctions. Today, Turkey joined a dozen other nations pulling their diplomats out of Syria. That put some pressure on them, but I think the regime is going to try to hold on to that. You can go for safe havens, you can talk about all of that, Brooke, but the reality is, you've got observers on the ground, they can't do anything. There aren't' enough of them, number one, and they don't have the support of the Assad regime.
BALDWIN: Another point I want you to make is the fact that a lot of people -- and this is something I don't know if the American audience fully realizes, a lot of people are still very must so on the side of the Assad regime. And if someone comes in, a lot of people would be disenfranchised, so says you. CLANCY: It's not that they wouldn't like to see a democracy, but they don't want to see what this opposition is offering. They don't trust them.
BALDWIN: Why not? Why not?
CLANCY: Because they see them as part of a sweep by the Sunnis across the Middle East. They're minorities and they feel that their rights will be sacrificed first. Even their properties and the lives. All they have to do, all the Christians need to do is look across the border into Iraq. This was -- that was a Sunni-Shia clash. We all know it. Christians weren't directly involved. Who paid the price? About two-thirds to three quarters of all the Christians are out of the country. Communities entirely wiped out. And this is the fate that Syria's Christian community doesn't want to see. Syria's (INAUDIBLE) community doesn't want to see. And they, too, eventually, will be in it for the fight to the death.
BALDWIN: Jim Clancy, thank you. Thank you. It's frustrating to talk about.
Coming up here, one extra passenger forces the evacuation of a plane. Bags are unloaded. Tickets are rechecked. And a parolee is now heading back to jail. Was there a breech in security here? I'm about to speak live with the man heading up that investigation.
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BALDWIN: All right, think about everything you have to go through just to get on a plane these days. You take off your shoes, you walk through a scanner, maybe even get patted down. But this man, reportedly on parole, skipped all of those steps just to get on this flight from San Diego. Police say he sneaked on this plane without a ticket. Just took a seat. Snuck on. Might have stayed, actually, if this very astute flight attendant had not yet realized that there were one too many people onboard that particular aircraft. Let me bring in by phone, San Diego Harbor Police Chief John Bolduc. The airport is in his jurisdiction.
Chief, welcome. Let's just begin with a question everyone wants answered, and that is, how did this guy get on the airplane in the first place?
CHIEF JOHN BOLDUC, SAN DIEGO HARBOR POLICE: Well, Brooke, that's a great question. I think we've got it figured out at this point. It was definitely a breach of security. But we have multiple layers of security built into our airports, as you know, and the backup systems were able to catch this guy.
First of all, he went out an emergency fire door, which triggered an alarm, which caused the airport security staff to review the video footage of that alarm. They immediately dispatched Harbor Police officers. They were there within four minutes. They were able to talk to some witnesses, find out that they saw this person go out that door and head on to the tarmac where a number of people were boarding the plane. He was somehow able to blend in with the other passengers and got onboard.
BALDWIN: Do you know -- let me just jump in because you point out, you know, the fact that he set off alarm bells, literally, for going through that emergency door. Do you know if he went through TSA screening, like we have to do each and every time we hop on a flight?
BOLDUC: No, he completely bypassed TSA screening. He was in a public area and went out an emergency fire door, which gave him access to the tarmac.
BALDWIN: I mean, is this something that you stop and think about and just kind of -- I mean it makes me a little nervous to think that this could still happen here given everything we're going through.
BOLDUC: Well, again, the good news is that there are multiple redundancies put in place with the systems that we have. And, you know, the guy did breach security, but he was caught. The flight crew, the responding officers, the security staff and even the airport operations crew, once the alarm went off, they held the plane until officers arrived.
The flight crew did a great job. They realized they had an extra passenger, started checking tickets.
BALDWIN: Right. Thank goodness.
BOLDUC: The guy figured the gig was up and decided to get off the plane. And as soon as he deplaned, he went right into the arms of our awaiting officers.
BALDWIN: Does this though, chief, raise alarm bells to you perhaps that there are ways to breach security, not even go through security, to hop on some of these smaller planes instead of the larger jets? And do you think that that should be looked into? So many hearings on Capitol Hill. Here's another one.
BOLDUC: Well, any time you have a breach of security, it's important to go back and review all of the facts and all of the procedures and find out where there were gaps and where we make improvements. And, again, that's why we have multiple layers so that when somebody violates the law and exits a public area into a secure area, there are ways that we can detect them and eventually locate them. In this case, you know, the guy was caught within about five minutes.
BALDWIN: Yes, out of jail and right back in.
Chief John Bolduc, thank you for calling in.
BOLDUC: You're welcome.
BALDWIN: Apple products, some of the hottest on the market. Many of them, though, produced overseas, assembled in factories where, as we discovered in our investigations, workers have committed suicide. So Apple's new chief says a game changer here could be in the works involving jobs in the USA.
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BALDWIN: Apple sells a lot of iPads, a lot of iPhones each and every year. So when Apple's CEO is indirectly inferring the popular gadgets could one day be made in America, that certainly gets our attention.
And I emphasize the word here indirect because right now Tim Cook is getting a lot of attention for something he said during this conference in California.
I want you to hear the words here for yourselves then we'll talk about what exactly this means with our Silicon Valley correspondent Dan Simon. So give this a listen first.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Will there be an Apple product ever made again in the United States?
TIM COOK, CEO, APPLE: I want there to be.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So will it ever say on the back of an Apple product, designed in California assembled in the United States?
COOK: It may. It may. Even though it doesn't say that today, you could put down there several parts are from the United States.
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BALDWIN: It may, he says. Dan Simon, when you listen to what we said, what exactly is behind those comments, do you think?
DAN SIMON, CNN SILICON VALLEY CORRESPONDENT: Well, I have to be honest. I was a bit surprised that he actually said that because you didn't hear it in that sound bite.
But he seemed to express real hope that someday an Apple product could be manufactured in the United States. I'm surprised because right now Apple is such a well oiled machine.
They have everything going perfectly in China, despite the fact they've had these allegations of human rights abuses and so forth.
But the way they're able to make these devices at scale and keep the prices down for consumer, everything is humming along the fact that they would suddenly create a big manufacturing plant in the United States seems a bit farfetched. So, you know, he seems sincere in his comments, but I'm not sure he truly believes it could happen -- Brooke.
BALDWIN: Well, let's talk some manufacturing jobs because I know he mentioned some manufacturing jobs already in the U.S. specifically the glass made for the iPads or the iPhones.
They're made at this corning glass factory in Kentucky. Also some of the chips, the engines that drive those gadgets, they're made at the Samsung factory in Austin, Texas.
And then, of course, the jobs at the headquarters in Cupertino, California, is there any sign like a concrete sign that Apple could actually bring more of those jobs back here?
SIMON: You know, I have to say not really. You know, the problem is -- and Tim Cook said this on the stage. Right now, infrastructure does not exist in the United States to build iPhones and iPads.
He said there aren't enough companies who make the equipment to build the iPhones and iPads and make everything else that goes into the iPhone.
You mentioned that there are certain parts made in the United States, such as the glass in Kentucky and he did make reference to that.
But in terms of the overall infrastructure, it isn't here and you would have to invest million billions and billions of dollars to get it here -- Brooke.
BALDWIN: In the meantime while he was talking, did he mention anything about any new gadgets or trends here at this conference?
SIMON: You know, Apple is notoriously a secretive company. And Tim Cook said the company is doubling down on secrecy. So you couldn't get much out of him.
But you know, there was talk about the much rumored Apple television, Apple currently make a set top box called Apple TV. But will they actually make a TV. That's what everybody wants to know.
And he would only say it is an area of intense interest for the company so read what you will into that. But there is a Worldwide Developers Conference for the people who make stuff for the Apple ecosystem.
That's coming up on June 11. So stay tuned. There could be some interesting product introductions in a couple of weeks -- Brooke.
BALDWIN: All right, Dan Simon, for us. Dan, thank you.
And now let me just ask you right now. Put the sandwich down if you are eating lunch, put it down. Because we're going to talk about one man eating part of another man's face.
Police say this is because suspect may have been under the influence of bath salts. And apparently, this is happening more and more frequently.
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BALDWIN: Are bath salts to blame for what some are calling this real life cannibal lector episode in Miami. Today, we know that Rudy Eugene is that man who gruesomely attacked and chewed the face off a homeless man in Florida. In fact, there was surveillance video. It has been viewed many, many times now. It shows a video of Eugene on this bridge. He is attacking. He is dragging, stripping this victim of his clothes and then gnash at the man's face and nose.
We have learned that 18 minutes had passed before police arrived on the scene. They told him to stop. They then pointed a gun and that is when Eugene turned around, growled at the police like a wild beast and then continued eating the man's face.
It's disgusting. It is horrible. It's crazy. But this agent with Miami day in police with cases like this are becoming more and more common in this area.
He says that the reason for Eugene's behavior that is still investigation. But many experts are pointing to bath salts. I want to bring in Adrianna Houser. She is live for us in Miami.
And Adrianna, first, we're going to talk about bath salts in that trend next hour in terms of the health angle, but tell me about the uptick of incidents that people are using and abusing bath salts in Miami, why?
ADRIANA HAUSER, CNN EN ESPANOL: Well, that's right, Brooke. We now know the identity of the subject if this horrific attack. What we don't know is what prompted him to act this way.
The reason behind this attack is still under investigation and there are so many questions unanswered. Several experts are speculating what drove this man to acting such way could have been drugs such as bath salts or LSD.
We spoke earlier today, Brooke, with Sergeant Javier Ortiz from the Fraternal Order of Police here in Miami and he said that the results of the toxicology tests will not be known for at least a month. So until then, it would be speculation.
However, Ortiz did mention that this type of incident has become more and more frequent in this area. He referred specifically to another incident with a different man that occurred not long before that Saturday attack.
A few blocks north of where the Saturday attack took place. Ortiz said in that case a man under the influence of LSD was attacking another man.
And Ortiz said it also took nine officers to subdue him. Ortiz went on to say the subject in that incident also ripped off his clothes in this more recent incident -- Brooke.
So there's a lot of speculation about whether it was any sort of drugs. It could have been bath salts. It could have been LSD. But again until the toxicology report, we won't know for sure.
BALDWIN: What about in this attack we talked about on the bridge, how is the victim? HAUSER: The victim we know from Sergeant Ortiz is actually in the Jackson Memorial Hospital, still in critical condition. He did not reveal the identity to protect the identity of this man.
However, some local media including the "Miami Herald" have identified the victim as Ronald Popo, a man who had been homeless for a while -- Brooke.
BALDWIN: Adriana Hauser, thank you. Again, as I mentioned we're going to be talking to Elizabeth Cohen next hour to find out exactly how this is becoming a trend, these bath salts and how we can stop this.
Music legend has died. We're going to talk about Doc Watson in just a moment. Love that music.
Plus, a waiter in Texas gives a $5,000 tip on a $27 tab. Wait until you hear why.
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BALDWIN: Can't help but tab your toes to that one. Doc Watson took traditional folk music and turned it right on its head. They used to just strum the guitar before Doc came along.
How about those fingers on that right hand, flat picking, thank you, Doc Watson. He's passed away. He's gone to join Merle, his son. We're going to talk about this giant of American music with another musical genius, Watson's friend, Ricky Scaggs. That is coming up in the show.
A Tennessee mosque expansion is now in limbo. A spokesman said it's because of their fate. The battle to build this mosque in Murfreesboro is one of the spotlight for years.
Not welcome signs appeared two years ago when the expansion approval was granted. And now a judge says the public wasn't given adequate notice of the hearing and construction could be halted altogether. A spokesman said if that happens, they will apply again to build the mosque.
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SALEH SBENATY, SPOKESMAN, ISLAMIC CENTER FOR MURFREESBORO: We are a very small community and we are faced with this vicious and unjustified attack. Therefore, we're just going to sit back and see what the next step is going to be. Most likely we'll apply again for the permit.
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BALDWIN: A Texas waiter gets a $5,000 tip on a $27 lunch. A pair of regulars knew Greg Rubar just lost his car in a bad storm a couple of weeks back so then this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GREG RUBAR, WAITER WHO GOT $5,000 UP: He just said here, we're going to still come in, but we're not going to tip you for a while. He said this is for you. He said it's enough money to go buy you a nice car.
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BALDWIN: By the way, that generous couple did not want to be identified. Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee celebration in London, days away.
Cue the music. But the festivities are getting started no uh with a garden party. There she is, the Duchess of Cambridge looking lovely in pink, pretty in pink, wearing a dress that she wore two weeks ago.
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BALDWIN: Getting excited about the Diamond Jubilee. This may have been the toughest yet on the planet, an invite to the queen's garden party, tea and trumpets at Buckingham Palace. You have the queen, Queen Elizabeth and her husband of 65 years, by the way.
Prince Phillip, Duke of Embra, here at the party. Then you have Duchess of Cornwall. You have Duchess of Cambridge and of course, Prince Charles here. The beautiful, the lovely Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge.
Take a look at the crowds here. The queen, she host parties like these a couple every summer, thousands upon thousands with their hats, the fascinators they call them, celebrating 60 years as sovereign of the U.K.
If you figure the queen owned a pretty sweet ride, well, no doubt she certainly does. Max Foster takes a look at how some of the fine sets of wheels that will whisk her majesty to and from her Jubilee celebrations.
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MAX FOSTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The queen's state limousine is one of two made for her by Bentley. And this is how she's getting to the cathedral for her thanksgiving service.
The seats don't get hot, don't get cold. The reason of neutral color, it won't clash with anything she's wearing.
FOSTER: On her return to Buckingham Palace, the queen will take a more traditional form of transport.
(on camera): And this is the carriage that's going to head up the procession. It's the queen's favorite carriage. You may recognize it for a certain royal wedding last year.
MARK HARGREAVES, HEAD COACHMAN: In 1902, it doesn't come out that often. So it's very nice to have a unique occasion where we can bring the 1902 out. FOSTER: What's the plan with the horse?
HARGREAVES: The plan is that the horse doesn't bud.
FOSTER: As nice as the 1902 is, it's not much use in the rain. So there's a backup plan for bad weather. This is the Australian stagecoach that will be brought in if there's a need to keep the queen dry. Max Foster, CNN, Buckingham Palace, London.
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BALDWIN: The big event, the festivities coming up this weekend. We're going to bring you live all of the events from London. I'll be there. I'm headed to London right after the show, along with Piers Morgan.
Our live coverage begins this Sunday morning. Please join us at 11:00 Eastern Time. I will see you from London.
A frantic search for survivors as dozens of aftershocks rattle Northern Italy. A state of emergency now is declared, but many say the government is not doing enough to help.
Plus I will speak live with the former congressman who's now running for Senate about why he wants a birther office. Yes, three people dedicated to vetting presidential candidates.
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BALDWIN: She survived an earthquake only to be encased in the rubble it created, but a woman in Cavetso, Italy is now free.
Rescuers pulling her out, saving her life last night, they say she have been trapped for some 10 hours. This quake here in Northern Italy killed 17 people, has now lead to a criminal investigation.
Many of those who died in this 5.8 magnitude quake were in factories that local prosecutors say should have been remained standing. CNN's Isha Durgahee reports from Italy.
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ISHA DURGAHEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In the Moderna region, the oldest buildings in the center of villages like here were the most vulnerable, with the majority of residential housing remaining intact.
I feel lucky that my house is still standing, says this woman. But she's still worried and will continue to sleep in her car. This man says, there are a few damaged houses, but it could have been worse.
Apart from the old and unoccupied farmhouses that were reduced to rubble, the most striking evidence of destruction is along factory roads that connect these small villages. This region is one of the industrial hubs of Italy providing employment for thousands of locals in the factories.
Just a day after the earthquake workers have returned to assess the damage and secure the buildings. This construction worker was at work when the earthquake struck. He tells me that no one would sleep last night, fearing for their jobs and of course, their safety.
So far at least 17 people have lost their lives. More than twice the number that perished in the first earthquake that occurred in the middle of the night at 4:00 a.m. The second earthquake struck after 9:00 in the morning while everyone was just settling into work.
(on camera): Just a few hours ago, the bodies of two workers were pulled from the rubble of this factory, which only had the all clear at the end of the last week after the first earthquake struck this area on May 20th and one more worker is believed to be still inside.
And now the prosecutors' office said it's launching an investigation into how these factories were built in the first place and why they weren't able to withstand b the earthquake that's being nicknamed the earthquake of the factories. Isha Durgahee, CNN, Madala, Italy.
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BALDWIN: Isha, thank you. We're getting some news here just into CNN. I want to take you to Washington to Lizzie O'Leary who is reporting here. We're learning the 747 on the tarmac at Chicago's O'Hare Airport clipped a commuter plane? Tell me what happened.
LIZZIE O'LEARY, CNN AVIATION AND REGULATION CORRESPONDENT: Yes, that's right, Brooke. We're talking about a 747 cargo plane, operated by EVA Cargo. It clipped an American Eagle Regional jet. You can actually see it there on the tarmac in Chicago.
It clipped the tail of that regional jet. There were 21 passengers on board the regional jet. It was flying to Chicago from Springfield, Missouri.
No injuries here, but certainly this was something that happened on the taxi way. Both of these planes landed at O'Hare, and you can see where the right wing intersected the tail of that American Eagle jet.
This is according to the Chicago police, they say no injuries onboard that American Eagle plane. That's their regional carrier and all those passengers are being evacuated and taken off the plane -- Brooke.
BALDWIN: OK, are these live pictures? Yes. OK, so these are live pictures, thanks to our Chicago affiliate WLS. You see all kinds of traffic there on the ground. I'm looking at some emergency crews, flashing lights there. So explain to me. Had both of these planes just landed when this happened?
O'LEARY: Yes, as far as we know they had. The information is still a bit spotty, Brooke, but it looks like they both just landed. A 747 is a very large airplane, has a big wingspan and it's not entirely clear who was going in which way as this happened.
But you can see that the American Eagle Jet was trying to approach the gate, the gate it was bound for. And it looks like that cargo jet came along just behind it there that way.
BALDWIN: There you go, the tail of the regional carrier, the right wing of that jet. So that's happening right now?
O'LEARY: Right now, it looks like they've got all those emergency vehicles there. They're inspecting damage on both of those aircraft to see how serious it was and what they would have to do. A lot are precautionary.
The airport was saying there are no major delays. O'Hare is an incredibly busy airport and this could have the potential to disrupt traffic, but it doesn't look like that's happened.
BALDWIN: So to be clear, if I'm a passenger on that teeny, tiny regional, you know, the regional plane, I'm thinking I'm going to feel some sort of thud. Am I wrong?
O'LEARY: You're not wrong. That's certainly what you would have felt, absolutely.
It's a passenger plane, one of these planes like a Canada Air regional jet used for a lot of these short hop flights. So there were 18 passengers on board, a crew of three, no injuries reported.
What they're doing right now is basically checking to see what kind of damage is there and we did get a note just now, Brooke, that all those passengers are off the American Eagle plane.
BALDWIN: OK, Lizzie O'Leary, keep your eyes to those pictures. We're going to move along. If we need to come back to you, we will. Lizzie O'Leary for us in Washington on what's happening there at Chicago's O'Hare.
