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Charges Against Tsarnaev Friends; Daffodils for Boston Marathon; DeKalb Deputies Disciplined; Race Case Against Deen Tossed; Illinois Pipeline Explosion; Turks Die from Gas Exposure on "Love Boat;" Kelly Clarkson Buys Jane Austen Ring; Brits Try to Keep; FBI Ties Keyes To Murders; Mystery Priest Revelation

Aired August 13, 2013 - 15:30   ET

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SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The lawyers maintain on behalf of these two young students that when the photographs of these two teenagers were shown by the FBI initially after the bombing, that they didn't recognize Dzhokhar as Dzhokhar like they said a lot of other people didn't at first.

When these young men got a phone call from someone else on campus that the authorities were looking at them after these items had been thrown out, they maintained they didn't really know what these items were all about and that the FBI had been looking for them.

When the FBI showed up at their apartment, that they were as surprised and scared as anyone and maintain that they cooperated fully with the FBI.

Brooke?

BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: So if they are convicted, what kind of prison time are we talking here, Susan?

CANDIOTTI: Right. Obviously the government wholly disagrees, which is why they face such serious charges of obstruction of justice and getting rid of evidence.

If found guilty, they face 20 years in prison and possible deportation. Whether they have asked for or been offered any kind of plea deal to ask for simply deportation.

Obviously. they said they would like to be proven not guilty but they're prepared to leave the country and would accept deportation if that's what it came to.

BALDWIN: Susan Candiotti, thank you.

Want to stay in Boston and talk about some daffodils. Yellow daffodils will line the route from the Boston marathon from Hopkinton to Boston.

They want thousands of bulbs in the ground. Diane Valle formed a group marathon daffodils. She joins me from Boston.

Diane, I love this idea. Tell me why daffodils.

DIANE VALLE, ORGANIZER, MARATHON DAFFODIL PROJECT: Well, daffodils are yellow, and they're the symbol of hope and spring, and they bloom just about the time of the marathon.

We had done a daffodil day before the marathon bombing and it was such an innocent and sweet event.

We thought it would be a lovely thing to plant daffodils from Hopkinton to Boston and try to lift all of the people involved in the marathon.

BALDWIN: So lovely. I know, haven't done it, but I know a marathon is 26.2 miles, though I understand you're shooting for the entire route? How many bulbs in total will that be?

VALLE: At the present time we're planting 100,000 daffodils. We know many people will plant their own daffodils. We have a community in Vermont that will plant in spirit.

BALDWIN: Do you need help? How can people help you?

VALLE: We need volunteers and we're asking for donations. We're asking for donors to send their donations to marathon daffodils at the Cooperative Bank at 201 Main Street in Charlestown, Mass.

BALDWIN: You are looking for volunteers as well to plant those bulbs. Quickly, where can they get information on this?

VALLE: They can e-mail us at marathondaffodils@gmail.com and we'll send them more information.

BALDWIN: Marathondaffodils@gmail.com, I know you said you were a couple of blocks from those bombings last to April.

Here is to many daffodils and a much brighter marathon next year. Diane Valle, thank you so much. I appreciate it.

VALLE: Thank you.

BALDWIN: Coming up next, a late night sheriff's raid on a home in Georgia, the whole thing caught on camera, we brought this for you.

But now a follow-up, punishment for the deputies involved, we will tell you what that entails, next.

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BALDWIN: A Georgia sheriff is disciplining several deputies at the center of this recent controversy. We showed you the video. We talked to this family last week on this show.

It was one that provoked a lot of outrage among many of you watching. Deputies from DeKalb County, this is in the Atlanta area, serving a warrant for one woman with what the family called excessive force. After all, this was all over a $1,000 court bill. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I haven't done anything. I haven't done anything. I'm a Christian woman.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What are you doing? What are you doing?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Not doing anything here. Not doing anything.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're not doing anything. We're not doing anything. We're not doing anything. We're not doing anything. Please stop. Please stop. We're not doing anything. We're not doing anything.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: On the ground! On the ground!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Stop!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, God!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What are you doing? What are you doing?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BALDWIN: Do you remember this? It was just last Friday I talked to the family here in studio about what they went through.

Donovan Hall, who shot the video, you heard him shouting. He described to me what happened that night.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Please stop.

DONOVAN HALL, UPLOADED YOUTUBE VIDEO OF RAID: It wasn't a knocking, you know what I mean?

There's a difference between a police officer coming knocking on your door and someone outside your door, banging the door down, screaming, cursing, open the f'ing door. You know what I mean?

In the beginning, once I heard these sounds, it immediately confused me as to what was going on.

So I responded, why are you here? Please tell us what's going on. They would never respond.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BALDWIN: The family told me that they wanted action. Now they're getting it.

Yesterday Sheriff Thomas Brown said he was appalled by what he heard. He is demoting the highest-ranking deputy at the scene and suspending three other deputies for their roles. Sheriff Brown says he is also changing how civil warrants are served.

The family says they may take legal action against the sheriff's office.

Coming up, a judge has dismissed the racial discrimination against Paula Deen. So are her troubles over? What about her empire?

What's next for the "Queen of Southern Cooking," next.

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BALDWIN: A legal victory of sorts for the "Queen of Southern Cooking," but it's not a total win here.

So this federal judge has dismissed the racial discrimination claims in a lawsuit filed by Paula Deen against a former employee.

The judge says the woman cannot claim to be a victim of racial discrimination because this woman's white, but there are other parts of this suit here, including sexual harassment and abusive treatment claims. That is all still pending. Want to make that crystal clear.

Deen's career took a huge hit earlier on in the summer after she admitted in a deposition that she had once upon a time used the "N"- word. She lost major endorsements, lost her Food Network cooking show and the list goes on.

She did later apologize. She said she is not a racist.

But let's sort of talk about where Paula Deen stands right now. Joining me now, branding and social media consultant Peter Shankman and HLN legal analyst Joey Jackson.

So, welcome, guys. Joey Jackson, good to see you.

JOEY JACKSON, HLN LEGAL ANALYST: Great to see you, Brooke.

BALDWIN: I'm beginning with you because clearly, the issue with racial discrimination, that's chucked. That's thrown out.

JACKSON: It is.

BALDWIN: But this is not over because the harassment claims still and it.

JACKSON: They do. Just to be clear, the facts here, pretty compelling as far as the discrimination issues are concerned about how they treated employees, the types of jokes that were off color remarks that they used, and the judge didn't pass judgment on those.

Whenever you view a complaint like this, Brooke, you always take it in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, so you're presuming it was true. It was dismissed and predicated not even so much on the fact that the person was white, they were, but the fact that she was white, in and of itself, was not enough. There are some instances where you can be white and have a Title VII claim. And, in that complaint, in fact, Brooke, they mention two. Such as, there was an instance where someone was fired for being in an interracial marriage. The fact that you're white still gives you a claim of relief.

There was another claim in the complaint itself where there was a white employee who supported affirmative action. Fired. You have a claim.

Here they said the claims were not within this person's zone of interest, so they weren't necessarily saying that Paula Deen didn't do these things, not her herself, her place of employment, they were saying this person didn't have a specific interest to them and wasn't discriminated against herself, white or black, and as a result of that, those claims would go by the way side.

Final point is that the other claims regarding a hostile work environment, and the whole sexually charged nature of it, and whether or not they were doing things and talking about pornography --

BALDWIN: That's still there.

JACKSON: That still exists and they'll pass judgment on that at some future time.

BALDWIN: OK, so, given everything that Joey Jackson just said, Peter Shankman, let me bring your voice into this because I feel like the last time we talked you were sort of ticking off all the things that, you know -- the empire, the fallen empire, right, the Food Network show, the sponsors, the cookbook deal falling through.

If I recall, you said she just kind of needs to go away for a little while.

PETER SHANKMAN, BRANDING AND SOCIAL MEDIA CONSULTANT, THE GEEK FACTORY: Yes.

BALDWIN: Given what we've learned today, is the damage done?

SHANKMAN: Changes nothing. She --

BALDWIN: OK.

SHANKMAN: While some of the charges might have been -- some of the lawsuit might have been dismissed, the fact of the matter is this doesn't take away from the fact that she still said this under her own admission.

So it's not like all of a sudden she's not a racist. She still said this and it's still not OK as far as advertisers are concerned.

Again, the case in point stays clear. She needs to go away, but she needs to do it in a very interesting way. She needs to pull a "Spitzer," not a "Weiner."

BALDWIN: Do explain.

SHANKMAN: By all means. There's a logic to this.

Spitzer went away, and we didn't hear hide nor hair from him. He came back, very apologetic. He said, here's how I screwed up. Here's how I'm going to work to make this right. And now he's leading for comptroller in New York.

Weiner came -- Weiner, first of all, never went away, initially, blamed everyone else in the world. He did nothing wrong. I am the best there is. You guys are all screwing up. It's your fault, not mine. And, so, when he came back a year later, we weren't ready to forgive.