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Suspected Benghazi Mastermind Now In U.S.; Controversy Grows Over Benghazi Prosecution; Iraqi Official: Troops Push ISIS Out Of Tikrit; Funeral For Boy Left In Hot Car; Dad Can't Attend; Immigration Rallies Underway Across U.S.; Search For Missing Jet Could Take Another Year; Iraqi Official: Troops Push ISIS Out Of Tikrit; Authorities Searched Harris's Home, Car, Cell

Aired June 28, 2014 - 12:00   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: All right, hello again, everyone. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Here are the top stories we're following in the CNN NEWSROOM. We are following two big stories right now.

The suspected master mind of the attack in Benghazi, Libya just arrived in the U.S. a few hours ago to face criminal charges in Washington, D.C. He's appearing before a federal judge today. A live report just moments away.

And a father accused of killing his toddler by leaving him in a sweltering car makes a stunning admission. It's all contained in a newly released search warrant and we'll bring that to you this hour.

Plus --

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This lady is walking inside my house anytime she wants to eat my food anytime she wants and harass me basically. I'm now a victim in my own home and it's completely legal.

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WHITFIELD: A California family fires their live-in nanny, but guess what? She refuses to move out of their home and the law is on her side. Brand new developments in this ongoing saga this hour.

Nearly two weeks after his capture in Eastern Libya, the suspected mastermind of the 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi is on U.S. soil now waiting to face justice. Ahmed Abu Khattala arrived at a federal court in Washington, D.C. just a short time ago.

Erin McPike is at the White House with a look at the political controversy surrounding Khattala's prosecution. But first, I want to go to justice correspondent, Evan Perez, who is outside the courthouse where Khattala is right now. So what is happening right now, Evan?

EVAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Fred, Abu Khattala is now in the custody of the U.S. Marshals right here in this federal courthouse behind me. We're right across from the U.S. capitol. He was brought here in the early morning hours. We were here. We were able to get some video of the U.S. Marshals, the FBI and Homeland Security officers, very heavy police presence as they brought him in to the courthouse.

At this hour, we believe he's meeting with his lawyers as they prepare for his first appearance before a federal judge here later this afternoon. We know that obviously since his capture a couple of weeks ago, he's been questioned by the FBI-led HIG team, which is an interrogation group, looking to get intelligence information from him.

To see if there's any information about the militias in Libya, anything else that they can learn about other people that might have been involved in the attacks in 2012 in Benghazi.

WHITFIELD: So, Evan, how will we ever know to what extent Khattala cooperated with those inquiries, the questioning from the intelligence officials on board that ship?

PEREZ: Well, we know, we've been told by sources that he has been talk talking to the interrogators. We don't know the quality of the information he's been providing. We don't know whether he's been telling the truth, frankly. We expect perhaps once we are able to talk to his lawyers, we will get a sense from them whether or not he's been cooperating. Whether he's been providing any information.

One indication perhaps of how it's been going is that, you know, we knew today he would get the opportunity to wave this hearing in the courthouse. He did not. The FBI would have liked to have talked to him for a little longer, if possible. Clearly, he decided that he wanted to be presented to a court now. And so, that's what we're waiting for now today -- Fred.

WHITFIELD: It will be interesting to know whether he ever gave any intelligence information for U.S. officials to go on. All right, thanks so much. Evan Perez, thanks so much.

The criminal complaint against Khattala was filed nearly a year ago, but the political controversies surrounding his prosecution may just be beginning. For more on that, we want to bring in Erin McPike from the White House. So Erin, a lot of this controversy swirling around has a lot to do with the Obama administration making the decision to try him domestically in a federal court.

ERIN MCPIKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Republicans are criticizing the administration because they say that he should have gone to Guantanamo Bay and gone through a military tribunal there, but the White House is defending this decision saying that they have tried a number of international terror suspects domestically. And they have since imprisoned some of those.

They also say that they have not added one person to the population of Guantanamo Bay since President Obama took office. Another issue is that the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia is going to be the one who is prosecuting Khattala and some Republicans are saying that is just not high level enough.

But the other thing I would point out is when they have tried these terror suspects in the past, it's been in New York City or Alexandria, Virginia, and this is going to be first time that it's in Washington, D.C. So there's some additional security concerns here because the courthouse is in between the U.S. Capitol Building and the White House.

And we were talking about this last hour. And an analyst was on saying it might not be a huge security concern per se, but it is going to be very disruptive in the middle of all the business that goes on inside downtown Washington.

WHITFIELD: And with this federal case going before you know, a judge, one has to wonder whether there is any need for other scheduled congressional hearings on the horizon as it pertains to Benghazi. Might this federal trial cancel out the need to, for Congress to carry on with its Q and A?

MCPIKE: Fredricka, not necessarily and in fact, it could play into those hearings. Republicans have been saying for some time now that they want to have these additional hearings on Benghazi. We were hearing earlier this year that that could be sometime this summer, however, that really only leaves the month of July because Congress will break for recess in August.

So maybe that means the hearings will be in September, which of course, could also play into the midterm elections. There were some rumors that perhaps Hillary Clinton could be called on to testify again. We haven't heard any confirmation of that yet, but again, this is going to bud up right into the midterm elections.

WHITFIELD: Interesting. All right, thanks so much, Erin McPike. You can find more on the case against Benghazi suspect, Ahmed Abu Khattala, right here on cnn.com.

Iraqi forces are cracking down on Islamic militants who have seized much of northern and western Iraq. Here's what we know right now. A top security official says Iraqi forces have retaken the city of Tikrit from ISIS fighters. Government troops advanced on the city from four directions using tanks and backed up by the Iraqi air force.

A tribal leaders says the ISIS militants helped by tribal fighters have retreated. In another offensive further north, Iraq has carried out air strikes on ISIS divisions in the city of Mosul. That's according to a senior Iraqi military official. Four separate locations were hit including ISIS headquarters in Mosul.

And the skies over Baghdad, armed U.S. drones are providing protection for 180 U.S. military advisers on the ground who are there to help Iraqi forces collect intelligence on the militants. Meantime, Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region is closing off two main crossings into the area and that's raising concerns for desperate families trying to flee the violence. We'll have more in a live report from Baghdad coming up.

All right, now to a shocking admission from the Georgia father who left his son in a hot car for seven hours while he went to work, Justin Ross Harris has already pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and second degree child cruelty in the death of his 22-month-old child.

I want to go straight to CNN's Nick Valencia now. Nick, you're outside the location where a funeral will be taking place for this little boy there in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. But tell us about the discoveries of what is being revealed in search warrants in Georgia that you have your hands on.

NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good afternoon, Fred. Three search warrants released today by police and perhaps the most startling detail was this statement given by Justin Ross Harris to police. Says quote, "During an interview with Justin, he stated that he recently researched through the internet, child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur."

Justin states that he was fearful this could happen. Now it is worth noting, Fred, that we don't know the context to which this statement was given and we don't know how long ago that search was conducted. Earlier this week, HLN's Nancy Grace was told by a source close to the investigation that on Justin Ross Harris' work computer, there was a search for how long would it take for an animal to die in a hot car. This goes a step further and says that Justin Ross Harris researched child deaths in hot cars -- Fred.

WHITFIELD: OK, and then the funeral to take place there right in the building behind you, just in about two hours or so from now. Are you already seeing family, friends, anybody who's willing to talk about this little boy and this investigation?

VALENCIA: Well, as a matter of fact, just a little while ago, the hearse arrived carrying the small coffin of that 22-month-old Cooper Harris. Family and friends we've spoken to on and off camera have been very reluctant to talk to us, Fred. They don't like the media attention. They don't believe that the man that police say murdered his 22-month-old son, Cooper, is the same man that they know.

They just don't think he's capable of it. They describe him as sweet, loving, God centered man, a great father, who just would never do something like this. They don't believe point-blank. They don't see how someone like Ross Harris as he's known to as his friends here, how he would be able to do something like this.

WHITFIELD: It is the unthinkable. It's hard for anybody to understand how this could happen in the first place. Nick Valencia, thanks so much.

And this just in now to CNN. We learned a petition is filed in a Michigan court alleging physical abuse in the case of that Detroit boy who was found barricaded in his father's basement this week. The boy had vanished from his home for nearly two weeks. The petition now gives details on abuse the boy allegedly suffered.

And in one instance, the petition says the boy's father quote "drove a PVC pipe into his chest," end quote. The petition says the boy told police that his stepmom barricaded him behind boxes and totes and he said during an interview with police that he was told not to come out, no matter what he hears." His father learned that he had been found by HLN's Nancy Grace this week. The father has not been charged and has denied knowing that his son was in the basement.

Today, immigration activists are calling for a day of action and demanding reform as thousands of immigrant children are crossing the U.S. border seeking a better life.

Plus, a live-in nanny is fired for being lazy, but guess what? She refuses to move out of the house. Why a judge says she actually doesn't have to.

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WHITFIELD: Exactly one year ago today, the U.S. Senate passed an immigration reform bill, but today, the U.S. House has yet to follow its lead and that's leading to rallies across the country. Immigrant families and activists are holding at least two dozen events in cities from Bakersfield, California to Boston, Massachusetts.

CNN's Alexandra Field is at a rally in New York, which is just now getting underway. So what are people there telling you?

ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fred, they're calling it a national day to stop separating families. This is the kind of event we're seeing across the country. We're in Manhattan in front of a federal building. You can see this crowd starting to gather. It's made up of people whose families have been affected by deportation proceedings and they're also joined by community organizers who have fought for immigration reform.

We spoke to one organizer and he talked to us about the importance of coming out here today to mark the anniversary of the Senate's bill. Take a listen.

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STEVEN CHOI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION: We need relief. We've had millions deported and we just can't do that anymore. It's been tearing apart our families. So we are here today to send a clear message, stop deportations, provide administrative relief and also, we are going to get our communities out for the upcoming elections to make sure that everybody in D.C. hears our voices that we need relief now.

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FIELD: And the goal out here, Fred, is really to send very visual message. The group that you can see gathered behind me are hoping to be joined by enough people to actually hold hands and form a human chain and circling this federal building. We'll see if they are able to make that happen.

At the same time, Fred, we know that this is a heated and contentious issue that has divided so many people. We should point out, a small counter protests out here, a group about a dozen, who are holding their own signs, no amnesty, and things like that. So we're seeing a small glimpse at this debate that's happening really across the country -- Fred.

WHITFIELD: All right, Alexandra Field, thank you so much. At one of the debates right there in New York. So, today's anniversary of the stalled immigration reform comes at a time when thousands of undocumented children are crossing the U.S. border seeking a better life and escaping from poverty and gang violence.

CNN's senior Latin American affairs editor, Rafael Romo joining us with more on this. So you spoke with someone in this situation who came from El Salvador and what is his or her story?

RAFAEL ROMO, CNN SENIOR LATIN AMERICAN AFFAIRS EDITOR: Well, just imagine how desperate he had to be at the age of 16 leaving his country and his family behind and what he says is he couldn't do it because he was seeking the American dream, but simply to stay alive.

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ROMO: So you came by land all the way from El Salvador?

(voice-over): He is still teenager, but Wilfredo Vasquez has already seen plenty in his life. He was abused and neglected by his parents in El Salvador and his neighborhood was infested by violent gangs.

(on camera): Were try trying to force you to join a gang?

WILFREDO VASQUEZ, SALVADORAN IMMIGRANT: Yes, if you didn't enter, they can kill you.

ROMO (voice-over): At the age of 16, Vasquez left for the United States and traveled alone by land through Guatemala and Mexico. The trip by bus took him two full weeks. He was caught by immigration authorities in Texas shortly after swimming across the river. He spent three months in a detention center.

(on camera): And then they released you to the custody of your cousin.

VASQUEZ: Yes.

ROMO (voice-over): Vasquez is now a permanent resident in the United States thanks to a little known part of immigration law that helps undocumented minors arriving alone in this country.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The federal benefit is special immigrant juvenile status.

ROMO: Rebeca Salmon is an immigration attorney and the executive director of "Access to Law," an organization that helps immigrant children like Vasquez.

REBECA E. SALMON, ACCESS TO LAW, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Not every kid that applies gets to stay. Not every kid who enters can even apply. You have to be abandoned, abused, neglected, you have to be without your parents. There's also the rigorous process of immigration so not every kid gets to stay.

ROMO (on camera): Those minors who qualify under this provision of the law and get approval can obtain a green card, which allows them to stay in this country and have legal status in the United States. They can then apply for citizenship after five years of living here or when they turn 18 whichever comes first.

(voice-over): Tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors have arrived to the United States this year alone, mainly from Central America, but Salmon says very few can actually qualify for this immigration benefit. Immigrants like Wilfredo Vasquez who can prove they were victims of abuse, abandonment or neglect.

VASQUEZ: My dream is to graduate from high school and start looking so I can go to college.

ROMO (on camera): And what do you want to do to college?

VASQUEZ: I want to be a doctor.

ROMO (voice-over): Quite an improvement for a young man whose goal as a child was merely to stay alive.

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ROMO: Wilfredo Vasquez is getting very good grades and he is taking summer courses so that he can improve his English and graduate faster from high school.

WHITFIELD: So I learned so much from this piece because we're talking about this special immigrant status and this application process that can be extended to kids under extenuating circumstances, but we're not just talking about children who are crossing the border from Central American countries, we're talking about any kid who has been abandoned or abused who can substantiate that would be able to apply for this special order.

ROMO: That's right. It's really anybody in the world, but what experts were telling me is that we have to be cautious on how we tell people about this because it's not just anybody who shows up at our door. It has to be an extreme case of abuse, neglect or abandonment and most of the 60,000 kids who have come to our country in the last year or so would not qualify under this program.

WHITFIELD: Because they willingly or their families made that decision willingly not because of abuse, but because they are hoping they'll find a better life and that's just not enough to qualify for this kind of special process.

ROMO: For example, in this case, Wilfredo Vasquez was facing a grave threat. He was threatened with death by some of these gangs in El Salvador, so you can begin to understand that this was a very extreme case. He suffered from neglect, abuse and was so desperate that he couldn't take it anymore.

WHITFIELD: How was his journey financed? Two weeks on a bus. ROMO: He told me that he started thinking about this months before he made the final decision and he managed to get $100. By the time he got to the border, he only had $20. He said that was only enough to pay for a couple of meals then after that, this is something that probably will work for his benefit, he was arrested by immigration and sent to a detention center.

WHITFIELD: Where he stayed for three months you said.

ROMO: Three months exactly.

WHITFIELD: What an extraordinary tale. All right, thank you so much, Rafael. Appreciate it. Thanks for bringing that to us. Be sure to tune in tomorrow night here on CNN, the film "Documented" tells the story of Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist working illegally in the U.S. for years. I spoke with him and he explains part of his plight.

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JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS, FILMMAKER, "DOCUMENTED": Right now, I am here in the country illegally out of status. There is no -- this is why immigration reform is needed because there's no way for somebody like me to get in the line and make myself legal and be in line for citizenship. That doesn't exist right now. As far as I'm concerned, I am an American. Just waiting for my own country to recognize it.

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WHITFIELD: And the U.S. is what he's talking about. This is his own country, he says. Even though he comes from the Philippines and his family made the decision at the age of 12 to send him here unaccompanied. Hear more of his story tomorrow night on CNN, 9:00 p.m. Eastern.

Coming up in the NEWSROOM, a new phase in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Investigators will be heading south now, hoping to find that missing plane.

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WHITFIELD: The hunt for Flight 370 is now officially shifting once again. This time, shifting further south in an uncharted region of the Indian Ocean. Australian officials say the new search area is based on new data analysis. It makes new assumptions about why the Boeing 777 vanished more than three months ago with 239 people on board.

Joining me now is Mary Schiavo. She is a CNN aviation analyst and former inspector general at the United States Department of Transportation. Good to see you again, Mary. It's been a while.

MARY SCHIAVO, CNN AVIATION ANALYST: It has been. Good to be with you.

WHITFIELD: So, now we have a new theory. One of the new assumptions is based on the likelihood that the pilots suffered oxygen loss. How believable is this new theory to you?

SCHIAVO: I have to say the report that the Australians put out this past week was really very good and threw out a number of things, solved a number of mysteries, but really drilled down on what they did know and tried to throw out what they did. By looking at the flight tracks, they still just have the Inmarsat data, but they put a lot of minds on it.

And they looked at probably about 75 other accidents to draw data from those accidents, and so because the plane appears to have no human touch on the controls, they reasoned that it was on autopilot and there was really no one conscious at the controls. And they did that by looking at many other accidents that had similar characteristics and that seemed to fit the best. It explained the data the best.

WHITFIELD: What would cause the oxygen loss?

SCHIAVO: Usually, there are a couple of they thinks. One is something called a rapid decompression where you have a hole in the fuselage or some equipment fails like the pressurization equipment and you simply lose the oxygen. The pilots have just a few seconds to get on their emergency equipment.

There's hoods they can put on with oxygen and then they have an hour of oxygen. Not so with the passengers. The mask will drop from the plane's roof automatically from the cabin, but that only provides them a few minutes because the theory is that the plane would descend.

WHITFIELD: So, you said it would happen quickly a few minutes, but then you said the oxygen might be available for the pilots for about an hour, which would seem a few minutes or an hour, there would be time for some sort of may day or something. Why wouldn't there be a record of that on the receiving end?

SCHIAVO: Exactly. And that's why one of the things that they're looking at, whatever caused the oxygen loss, either it could have been an onboard fire as well. There's a situation where when you are deprived of oxygen, for example, if they didn't get the masks on soon enough, you enter a stage called hypoxia. You really can't function.

You can't make decisions. You can't do what's necessary. So it is possible that they had enough time, enough realization to get the plane turned around, but then started suffering from the effects of hypoxia. And that's one of the assumptions that the Australian report makes.

WHITFIELD: OK, so, meantime, there is some mapping now being done in this region that would be searched for the first time. How difficult is this going to be in terms of getting the right kind of equipment there, apparatus and discerning the mapping?

SCHIAVO: Well, it's going to be difficult. Certainly going to be as difficult as the search before, but this new search area is just a little larger than the U.S. Grand Canyon. It's about 446 kilometers long. This new search area is 650 kilometers long. It's about three times as wide as the Grand Canyon and that's what we liken it to. However, in this situation, the United States has already mapped, not in relation to this crash, some of the ocean floor and have searched the two mapping vehicles there and with this new contract, they want up to three submersibles that will be towed, so it will go a lot faster than the Blue Fin. Still be a year that they have budgeted for this search, searching the Grand Canyon underwater.

WHITFIELD: Still, so very complicated. No good explanations as to why it made that left turn in the first place. I guess, we'll never know all this stuff until they really do locate this plane.

SCHIAVO: They need to plane desperately.

WHITFIELD: They really do. All right, Mary Schiavo, thank you so much. Appreciate it.

SCHIAVO: Thank you.

WHITFIELD: All right, he's accused of plotting the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi and right now, he's inside a Washington, D.C. courthouse where he'll face justice. Details straight ahead.

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WHITFIELD: Iraqi forces are now saying they are gaining ground in their fight to defeat Islamic militants who have taken over huge portions of northern and Western Iraq. Our Nima Elbagir joins us live now from Baghdad. So Nima, what's happening there right now?

NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, we know that Iraqi forces have now called in air strikes on the militant controlled city of Mosul. We've seen pictures and video of that aftermath. It seems they are trying finally to crawl back a foothold in the city, but there is still claim and counterclaim over the oil rich city of Tikrit.

Now, Iraqi forces have said they killed 120 militants in that city and regained control, but we're hearing that might not be the case and that just reinforces how fluid the situation is. What's happening to the south of Baghdad, the south had always been seen as relatively secure because of the Shia population base.

It was always perceived to be difficult to for militants to get any kind of a foothold there, but there is now violent fighting to the south in the Iraqi forces have confirmed to CNN that they have called in air and ground support -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: And what about the flight of so many citizens who are looking for refuge, what has their journey been like as some of them try to cross the border, trying to leave the country?

ELBAGIR: Well, this has just been extraordinarily difficult for most of those who have been displaced by the fighting because to the west, you have Syria, then you have the Jordanian border, a 12, 15-hour car journey from some of these areas and that's transport people don't have. So, they're displacing internally and now, that's becoming more difficult because the semiautonomous region, its government has decided that for security reasons, they're going to close some of those border crossings and those were being used by thousands of thousands of people and the first few days in Mosul, nearly half a million people crossed over and that option has been taken away from them.

It's been stolen from them and that's causing a lot of concern here on the ground, Fredricka, because there are so few boat holes for these people and now, they have one less. We understand that behind the scenes, eight agencies, the international community is trying to lobby, but as of right now, the situation up there is just extraordinarily tense -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: These poor millions of people simply caught in the middle. All right, thank you so much, Nima Elbagir.

Back in this country, a couple fired their live-in nanny saying that she's lazy. She was good at first, but then they said things went downhill. They tried to make her move out, so why isn't the legal system helping that family?

And then it's World Cup fever everywhere, but especially in Brazil. Right there, the beach where the huge number of fans are watching Brazil take on Chile in a match right now. It looks so picturesque. We'll take you there, kind of, via satellite, next.

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WHITFIELD: This is some kind of story. A California couple fired their live-in nanny, but guess what? She refuses to move out. The nanny says she has legal rights to stay put and a judge agrees. Our affiliate fills in the blanks for us.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER (voice-over): Ralph Brocamonte served his live- in nanny, Diane Strenton, with legal papers to quit and leave their home.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Because when I called the police, they were telling me it's now a civil matter and that I have to evict her. So, this lady is welcome inside my house anytime she wants, to eat my food anytime she wants and harass me basically. I'm now a victim in my own home and it's completely legal.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Strenton can legally come and go as she pleases. Marcela Brocamonte, a mother of three, found Strenton on Craigslist back in March and she says they agreed Strenton would live in their home for free in exchange for helping with house cleaning and caring for the children.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She wouldn't do anything. She stayed in her room 90 percent of the day, so I really tried to work with her. She just stayed in her room all day. I told her, either you perform or you've got to leave.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The couple took her to court, but a judge ruled against them on a technicality and said they needed to file the legal papers again.

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WHITFIELD: Wow, that's some story. The nanny's belongings actually still remain at the couple's house, but at this hour, still unclear whether the nanny has returned to the house, but here are some pictures last night, she's actually sitting in her vehicle here outside the police station in Los Angeles. The nanny has refused to speak to anyone.

The couple meantime says they actually haven't seen her in person since Thursday. All right, let's bring in one of my legal guys, criminal defense attorney, Richard Herman, going solo today, Richard.

RICHARD HERMAN, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: All right, Fred. I got you though.

WHITFIELD: And I got you. Glad you're here. So, this is something else. We're talking about this couple pulling out all the stops to say she's got to go, even telling family and friends on Facebook that she is no longer their nanny. What was missing here in the way this which this family fired her because apparently, the law is now on the side of the nanny, why?

HERMAN: The law is because there's one thing that happened here. She established residency in that domicile, in that home. Having done that, she has certain rights and each state is different, but they afford a lot of rights to people once they've established residency. That you just can't send them a notice, get out, and they have to leave.

You have to go through usually landlord and tenant court civil proceedings to evict these people and depending on the state you're in, it could happen anywhere from 30 days to two to three months to evict someone like this. Beware when you invite someone to your house -- Fred.

WHITFIELD: Warning taken and California is unique. They have very tenant friendly laws. Kind of advocacy laws, so there are great, I guess, comforts that many tenants can take on that. So, apparently, this family was also told they needed to have executed some sort of three-day kind of notice and because they didn't do that, that's why this woman is able to stay. But is it too late for them to now go through that process and then try to make their eviction stick or stay?

HERMAN: She may be out now, the stories are she's left and she hasn't returned, so she may have just vacated the premises, but no, they always have the right to follow the proper procedure. These eviction procedures are creatures of statute. You have to follow them precisely. You have to adhere to every procedure requirement, other otherwise, you do not get a proper eviction. Like California and New York, these states are very, very compassionate to tenants. A state like Nevada where there's a lot of transients going in and out, the foreclosure time periods and the eviction time periods are much quicker, but again, you must adhere strictly to the rules of procedure.

Hotels have this problem, Fred, when people stay in hotels and they extend their stays, and next thing you know they've established residency in the hotel, the hotels have to go through eviction proceedings.

WHITFIELD: Interesting. So, in this case, is there a penalty this family might be facing besides what this family might say is the penalty that she gets to maintain residency there, but is there a penalty that a family who invites a live-in nanny to stay, doesn't execute proper eviction or firing notice, do they have to pay a fine potentially for not adhering to that law?

HERMAN: Well, there are damages, believe it or not, Fred, there are damages this tenant who established residency in their home could seek to enforce and she's on the litigant list for the state of California, so she brings more frivolous cases than anybody. So break open the bubbly for her. She'll probably come after these people and sue them.

But there's home style justice, which I've seen happen where the owners just say, you know, I've had enough, throw them out, get all their stuff and throw it on the street and yes, potentially, they could be facing serious fines. It's in the nature of fines.

WHITFIELD: So, bottom line, seriously do your research before you embark on any arrangement that is similar to this, right?

HERMAN: Yes, don't rely on Craigslist if you're going to invite someone to establish residency in your home.

WHITFIELD: Apparently, they obtained the woman to take care of their three kids by way of Craigslist, but lots of lessons learned. We are all learning lessons by way of their case here too. Thanks so much.

HERMAN: Yes.

WHITFIELD: All right, Richard, good to see you.

HERMAN: OK, Fred, nice to see you.

WHITFIELD: All right, straight ahead, stunning new details in the death of a toddler who died in a hot car. What his dad researched on the internet.

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WHITFIELD: New information on the death of this precious little 22- month-old boy in Georgia. Search warrants released today show authorities seized several items from the baby's father, including a cell phone, car, la laptop computer and a computer tower. Cooper Harris was left strapped in a car by his father in brutally hot weather while the father went to work.

Cooper's funeral is happening just over an hour from now in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Justin Harris has been charged with felony murder and second degree child cruelty in his son's death. Martin Savidge has a timeline now of just what might have happened the day the child died.

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MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: According to the investigative narrative, the day the baby dies begins here, when the father and son are seen at this restaurant and the father is seen placing the 22 month old baby into the back of seat of his car into a child seat. They don't say how investigators saw that whether it's by close circuit television or some eyewitness.

But the clear point here is that father and son are interacting. The father knows he has the child and he's going to drive to work. Let me point out something. Those white buildings just in the distance. That's work. So, let's do the drive.

So what I've done is reset is odometer, so we can see how far a drive is it. All right, we're just about at his work space. We can't drive on the property. It's 0.6 miles. Obviously, just over half a mile and less than 5 minutes. That's the building where Justin Harris works and apparently what police are trying to imply, how did you know you had a child down the road, but less than 5 minutes later, you forget you have the child?

And instead, the father goes into work. The next time he is seen, he is coming out and opens the drive's door of the car, but then goes back into work and then the next reference they make to him is when he gets in the vehicle and leaves. We don't know the exact route the father took after he left work, but we do know where he ended up and it's just a little bit down here.

All right, so this is the last stop and this is really the horrible realization. We've gone 2.3 miles. Again, we don't know the specific route, but it's taken us over 10 minutes to get here. This is the shopping center where according to authorities, the father pulls over. It's also where the witnesses say it became very obvious that something was terribly wrong.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hopped out of the driver's seat, opened the back door, pulled this child out, laid him on the concrete, tried to resuscitate him.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He just screamed, "what have I done," loudly. Obviously, it was a bit dramatic, hands up towards the sky, "what have I done" type of thing.

SAVIDGE: Just because there might be a search history on a computer is not necessarily as damming as it sounds. For instance, if you want to know specifically who else might have had access to that computer and it should be pointed out that kind of evidence has been introduced in court before against someone, Casey Anthony, perhaps the most famous case and in that particular trial, she was not convicted in the death of her daughter. Martin Savidge, Marietta, Georgia.

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WHITFIELD: That makes you want to be there, doesn't it? Guess what, it is win or go home time at the World Cup now. The U.S. team has made it to the elimination round of 16 and will play Tuesday against an undefeated Belgium team that some think could win the entire thing.

Joining me from Rio is Amanda Davies. So Amanda, right now, folks are really excited about Brazil taking on Chile, but we are excited about the U.S. so what you got for us.

AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely, Fred. Despite the music here at the moment, the party is on hold because it is halftime of the Brazilian round of 16 game against Chile. They're of course the first match of the knockout stage and it is tight. It is Brazil, 1, Chile, 1, and there is a lot of nail biting going on from these home fans.

Brazil took the lead. Chile equalized so 45 minutes and all left to play for, but over in Sao Paolo, Jurgen Klinsmann is fevering away on the training pitch of course. They've got another couple of days until they take to the pitch against Belgium. The good news is that Jurgen Klinsmann says strike Jozy Altidore is heading back, that hamstring strain and Jermaine Jones despite the broken nose, he is likely still to play without the mask. His broken nose isn't as serious (inaudible).

WHITFIELD: OK, go Team USA. Amanda Davies, thank you so much covering the World Cup.