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Suspected Benghazi Mastermind Arrived in the U.S.; Dad Admits Search Child Deaths Inside Vehicles; Immigration Rallies Across the U.S.; Funeral for Boy Left in Hot Car; NYC to Pay $40 Million to Central Pak 5; Iraq Under Attack; Iraqi Crisis Making Strange Bedfellows; Stepping Up Lemonade and Hope; Detroit Boy Found in Father's Basement; World Cup Fans in Brazil Also Looking for Love; 4-D Movie Experience Coming to Theaters
Aired June 28, 2014 - 13:00 ET
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DAVIS: Heading back to finish off that hamstring strain and Jermaine Jones also has despite a broken nose, he is likely still to play without the mask. His broken nose isn't as serious. The nose works.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: OK. Go, Team USA.
Amanda Davis, thank you so much, covering the World Cup in Brazil. Copacabana Beach behind her. It looks way too much fun.
All right. Straight ahead, what investigators say happened to a 12- year-old boy who vanished for almost two weeks and then suddenly turned up in his father's basement?
All that and a lot more straight ahead in the NEWSROOM and it all begins right now.
Hello, again, everyone. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Welcome to the CNN NEWSROOM.
Nearly two years after the attack, the man suspected of masterminding the deadly assault on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, has arrived in the United States to face justice. Ahmed Abu Khattalah arrived at federal court in Washington a short time ago. He is expected to appear before a judge later on today.
Justice correspondent Evan Perez is outside the courthouse joining us with more now.
Is there a lot of, you know, security in place for his arrival and what's taking place inside the courtroom right now?
EVAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Fred, yes, there was a lot of security this morning as we were here in front of the D.C. courthouse, federal courthouse, and it's right across the street from the U.S. capitol. As they finally were able to bring in Abu Khattalah to the federal courthouse. He's been on a ship, the USS New York, as you know, being interrogated and brought across the Atlantic and then they brought him by helicopter into the city.
Now we were able to get some video this morning as the heavy security presence from the U.S. marshals and the FBI homeland security all here at this courthouse. If you look very closely at this video, you'll see we were able to isolate a little bit of a shot of Abu Khattalah as he was brought in and brought into the courthouse. At this hour, we believe he's meeting with his lawyers for the first time. He will face a judge later this afternoon, which will be the first time he'll be read the charges that he's facing that have been filed in here in federal court in D.C. since last year -- Fred.
WHITFIELD: All right. Evan Perez, thank you so much and again, you mentioned earlier that he'll be represented by an attorney for the first time being matched up with that attorney as he does face those courtroom proceedings today. Thanks so much.
And of course if you want more on the case against this Benghazi suspect, Ahmed Abu Khattalah, you can go to CNN.com.
All right. And 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 son. A funeral for the boy starts next hour in the father's hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, but first, CNN's Nick Valencia has the startling details from the search warrant -- Nick.
NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fred, police released these search warrants, three in total, against Justin Ross Harris, one for the search and seizure of his cell phone, the other of his house and the last for his vehicle. Perhaps the most important detail in these search warrant is this statement that I'm about to read.
"During an interview with Justin, he stated that he recently searched through the Internet, child deaths inside vehicles, what temperature it needs to be for that to occur. Justin stated that he was fearful that this could happen."
Now we don't know the context in which this statement was given whether he volunteered this information or whether it was revealed during police interrogation. We should also note that this week, a source close to the investigation told HLN's Nancy Grace that on Justin Ross Harris' work computer, it was found that somebody, perhaps Justin Ross Harris, had looked into how long it takes for an animal to die in a hot car. This police report goes a step further and says that Harris stated that he researched child deaths in hot cars.
How Justin Ross Harris is being portrayed by law enforcement is completely juxtaposed to how he's being portrayed here in his hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Friends and family that we've spoken to off- camera say he was a good man, a great father, a funny and charming and a very likable per person. But this latest detail on these police reports perhaps makes the case against Justin Ross Harris even more startling -- Fred.
WHITFIELD: Sure does. All right. Nick Valencia, thank you so much, from Tuscaloosa.
All right. One year ago today, the U.S. Senate passed an immigration reform bill. 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 Alexandria Field is at a rally in New York.
Alexandra, what are people there telling you?
ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Fred, we know that this is such a divisive issue and people on both sides are very impassioned. They all want to be heard. It's the reason that they're trying to draw attention to it today.
You can see some of the crowd coming up behind me here. These are supporters of immigration reform. They work for a different community activism groups. They have been lobbying and pushing for immigration reform. They also have family members who are part of different deportation proceedings. They say today is the day to raise attention for what they want, which is immigration reform. They say they are here to send a loud and clear message to Washington.
Here's what a couple of the demonstrators told us.
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HINA NAVEED, EL CENTRO IMMIGRANTE: Because we want the president to know that it's his turn to do something. Immigration reform is dead in Congress and it's up to him to keep families together and to pass it for an action for everyone so that we can make sure that kids don't have to worry that they're going to come home and their parents are not going to be there.
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FIELD: And people coming out here in Lower Manhattan today and really across the country say that issue is that they are sick of waiting. It's been a year since Senate Democrats passed a reform bill. They said that they really want to draw attention to this now. They're calling this day a jumping off point for a lot more lobbying across the country and in Washington.
Of course, Fred, what we're seeing here, and what's likely happening in a lot of places where these rallies are being held, is that we are seeing counter protesters. We've spoken to a small group of people, they've come out here. They're holding signs, saying no amnesty. They're obviously representing people who are on the other side of this debate -- Fred.
WHITFIELD: Now, Alexandra, is there any contact or, you know, are there words being exchanged between these two, you know, different sets of protesters?
FIELD: You know, I think that there's certainly a debate that's going on and we have seen some of the protesters interacting. The people who are here to say that they are not for the immigration reform bill are much smaller in numbers. This was an event that was largely organized by immigration reform supporters, so that other group is outnumbered. We have seen some exchanges, and sort of back and forth, the kind of thing that, you know, we're all used to hearing this very divisive debate. Certainly, it hasn't escalated, though, beyond impassioned.
WHITFIELD: Yes. OK.
FIELD: Back to you, Fred.
WHITFIELD: All right. Alexandra Field, right there in New York. Thanks so much.
And you can see more about this situation and the plight of at least one man in this country seeing the film "DOCUMENTED." Paints a very complex story, tomorrow night, 9:00 p.m. Eastern only on CNN.
Iraq's military says it has regained the upper hand in its fights against Islamic militants. We'll tell you why in a live report from Baghdad, next.
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WHITFIELD: Iraqi forces are now saying they are gaining ground in their fight to defeat Islamic militants who've taken over huge portion of northern and western Iraq.
Our Nima Elbagir joins us live now from Baghdad.
Help us understand what's happening right now.
NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Iraqi forces have been under an extraordinary amount of pressure to start clawing back some of this momentum there, Fredricka. And they have it seems now begun the fight back in Mosul itself.
We've now been shown pictures of the aftermath of Iraqi air force strikes in the Islamist militant held city of Mosul and the impact looks pretty dramatic. There has unfortunately been quite a significant amount of displacement because of that and we now understand those displaced people have very few options still open to them.
The Kurdish autonomous region has now closed it border crossings, the ones that were being used by people fleeing that violence in Mosul. Those are no longer open, Fredricka.
Just to give you a sense of how huge the impact of this will be, thousands of people have been crossing through those checkpoints on an almost daily basis. And the first few days of that fight for Mosul, nearly half a million people fled into the Kurdish region and they now are longer able to so and find themselves trapped between the militants and the Iraqi government's fight back -- Fredricka.
WHITFIELD: And so, Nima, what is the explanation as to why the Iraqi forces are saying now that they may have the upper hand? Is there something new structurally? Are they, you know, fanning out across the country differently? Has their strategy changed? What's happened?
ELBAGIR: Well, there's been a huge amount of re-enforcement, a lot of volunteers, a nationwide call to recruitment and there is a sense that they are starting to just kind of flood the area with numbers, but the worry in that sense is because of the, you know, immediate and present danger that a lot of these volunteers are going out that we understand with no more than a week or 10 days worth of training.
We were asking some Iraqi officials about this today and they said well, they get their training on the ground and part of you wonders what they're going to get their training in a war zone. So you can appreciate there are quite a few concerns about that as the strategy, but for now, it seems to be reaping dividends and Iraqi is pushing up the pressure, but that doesn't mean that that ties -- that militant tie has been fully turned back. There were attacks just south of Baghdad. In Hilla today an Iraqi official tells us that they were forced to call in both ground and air support.
And you have to bear in mind, Fredricka, to the south of Baghdad, these are predominantly Shia areas, so these should have been government strongholds, so it really gives you a sense of how ISIS has been able to infiltrate so much of Baghdad and so much of the areas surrounding Baghdad, I should say, and really keep the Iraqi government still on the back foot -- Fredricka.
WHITFIELD: All right. Nima Elbagir, thank you so much. Be safe. Appreciate it.
Coming up in the NEWSROOM, trying to make sense out of that horrific death of a toddler who died in a hot car. How could a parent leave a child in the car? We'll talk about that next.
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WHITFIELD: A funeral service begins soon for the boy who died after his dad left him in a hot car for seven hours. Cooper Harris, who was nearly 2 years old, just 22 months old, and he was left strapped in a car seat by his father in brutally hot weather while the father went to work. His dad Justin Ross Harris had pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and second-degree child cruelty in his death.
But just a short time ago, CNN obtained search warrants and in it, it reveals that Harris researched through the Internet child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur. Authorities also seized a number of items from the home of this suspect including an iPhone 5 and a laptop.
All right. It is such a heartbreaking story and the legal issues are just getting more complicated as this investigation intensifies.
Joining me right now is Mo Ivory, she's an attorney and radio personality.
All right. So we learned about the search warrant and that apparently he did an Internet search about just as I described it, you know, the temperatures, how long does it take and all that, but what we don't know is the sequence of that search. Whether that happened prior to the death of the child or afterwards.
MO IVORY, ATTORNEY AND RADIO PERSONALITY: Every time I think --
WHITFIELD: How does this kind of search kind of justified in the world of, you know, attorneys, prosecutors and defense?
IVORY: Yes. Well, sure. I think what we know right away was that the police felt there was something wrong immediately at the scene because they immediately arrested him, so I know there was, you know, inconsistent statements being said and there was the idea that something is not right here, so right off the bat, that arrest and the quick charges told us something was not right.
WHITFIELD: Yes. Something wasn't right.
IVORY: Right. So I think right after that the search warrants went into effect and they found all this out, I think every day we're learning more and more about this man's state of mind, what he was doing, but the fact that he was even, whether it was before, I doubt it was after, but before the death searching for these who does that?
WHITFIELD: I don't know.
IVORY: Who searches for in his state of mind was, like, I'm worried about if this could ever happen to my child. But --
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WHITFIELD: But parents -- everyone knows -- every parent knows you're just not going to do it. Not for 30 seconds. Not for --
IVORY: You're not going to search details, well, how long does it take, what does the temperature needs to be. There was even a search about an animal.
WHITFIELD: A prosecutor will use that as it speaks to intent.
IVORY: Premeditation.
WHITFIELD: We're talking about a felony murder charge.
IVORY: Absolutely.
WHITFIELD: But a felony murder charge is -- does not necessarily mean first-degree murder where it means it was premeditated.
IVORY: Sure.
WHITFIELD: What does a felony murder charge mean?
IVORY: Well, that there was a felony that caused underlying, you know, event.
WHITFIELD: Intent?
IVORY: Well, not really. It doesn't speak to the intent, but what is even more confusing about this case is the lessening of the charge of first-degree cruelty to a child.
WHITFIELD: Right.
IVORY: From second degree to first degree.
WHITFIELD: Right.
IVORY: I mean, first degree to second degree because that would say that there was no malicious intent.
WHITFIELD: Right.
IVORY: If you go to second degree, which just means --
WHITFIELD: Which is very confusing.
IVORY: Very confusing.
WHITFIELD: Because last week we were talking about the quick charges.
IVORY: Yes.
WHITFIELD: Which really didn't speak to the suspicion by authorities that this may have been premeditated or planned, and now a few days later, it's dropped back.
IVORY: Right.
WHITFIELD: You know, down a couple of notches. But at the same time, the search warrant explaining --
IVORY: Reveals -- sort of explains a premeditation.
WHITFIELD: Behavior.
IVORY: Malicious -- I mean, all of these things that go straight to I'm about to murder my child.
WHITFIELD: So does this make this more complicated? Because I feel like I'm more confused now when I look at the legal road as it pertains to this case.
IVORY: Sure. I'm trying to -- yes. I'm trying to figure out the legal road myself and I think everybody is trying to do that. It doesn't help that -- the mother is making no statements. The family is being absolutely guarded. It's as if we're dealing with two different people. We're dealing with a man that's seemingly was a model father to his family and his community.
WHITFIELD: Yes.
IVORY: But then a man who was obviously doing some things behind closed doors that we don't know about.
WHITFIELD: Yes. And wouldn't it seem there'd be an examination or some kind of probe about his behavior, his demeanor, his interaction with this child over a period of time?
IVORY: Sure. Sure. The psychological --
WHITFIELD: If there was intent here, if -- you know, if this was premeditated, this isn't like a moment that just comes out of nowhere. It would seem that there's behavior prior to that would say, I don't like, you know, being a dad or I don't like, you know, the burden of or something.
IVORY: Well, I think that we're starting to see some behavior prior to the searches. I think that they're going to -- I'm sure their doing interviews. The police are being so quiet about what they have and I think that we're only being given pieces at a time that are helping us put this timeline together. But next week, Thursday, when he goes to his hearing, I think we will find out so much more and we will learn exactly what is going on but --
WHITFIELD: It's heartbreaking.
IVORY: And either way, like we were talking two moms, this is an absolutely devastating story.
WHITFIELD: Yes, it is.
IVORY: It's devastating. The child's being buried today. And it's just nothing that any mother or father can imagine doing to their child or hearing that somebody else would do to their child.
WHITFIELD: Yes. I think so many parents are expressing, it hurts as if it's happening to them because you can just simply with the experience of being a parent once you are one and you can't understand how and why something like this could happen.
IVORY: And the Martin Savidge timeline was brilliant.
WHITFIELD: It was brilliant.
IVORY: The five minute -- well, how do you forget about your child from feeding them breakfast --
WHITFIELD: And there's a sign that says daycare as you enter the workplace.
IVORY: Fredricka, I just can't get it.
WHITFIELD: How do you forget? I know.
There's another case that we're going to talk about because this, too, had caused such emotional strife for so many for period of years. We'll talk about the Central Park Five.
IVORY: Yes.
WHITFIELD: And we're talking about now New York City paying $40 million in civil rights settlement to these five black and Hispanic men known as the Central Park Five. You see it right here during this press conference taking place.
Along the way, they had wrongfully been convicted in the brutal beating and rape of a white female jogger in Central Park in 1989. I think everybody remembers the whole term wilding. That's what came about as a result of the investigation. The sensational case. It polarized the city along racial lines. It became a symbol of rampant crime.
The men, who were teenagers at the time, said they were coerced into making incriminating statements. In fact you heard from some of them who said we had never even met until being in jail. They were convicted in 1990.
Anderson Cooper talked to two of the exonerated men last night and he asked about the financial payout. Listen.
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YUSEF ARDUS SALAAM, ONE OF THE "CENTRAL PARK FIVE": At the end of the day, it's not enough money. Any amount of money wouldn't be enough. I mean, we still have to provide for our families. We still have to, you know, make proper decisions and do what's right and ultimately most of this money is going to be going to make sure that our families are OK. Our children are all taken care of. You know, so, it's not like we can retire. You know. That definitely isn't part of the plan right now.
You know, but being able to think about next steps is definitely a great feeling. To have that opportunity to be able to do that.
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WHITFIELD: Wow. It is something. Don't they seem incredibly at peace given what they have been through, Mo? I mean, being wrongfully convicted. They were teenagers, you know, those latter teenager years, early adult years, were snatched away because of this mistake.
IVORY: I was a teenager in New York growing up at the time that this happened. I remember my mother sitting us down and saying OK, something really bad has happened to a lady in Central Park. They think it's these boys and telling us, please be careful. Me and my sister. Please be careful when you go outside. Watch yourself.
There was already an onus of guilt over them from the moment that they were arrested. And I think everybody from the way it was portrayed, how brutally she was injured, that they just wanted to put it on somebody, and I think everybody sort of adopted, well, these five guys did it and that's kind of what it was. But then at the facts started coming out, and you started, you know, this doesn't make any sense.
I think the settlement is absolutely just and I agree with them. I don't think there's any amount of money that could make up for what they went through. The way they were vilified, the way -- it was just awful, and so I'm glad they're getting it. I'm glad they're getting something. But again, I don't think it's enough. But they seem so, like you said, it seems like even after that, they're well adjusted and they'll move on with their lives.
WHITFIELD: Remarkable. Yes. It is a remarkable, you know, turn of events. And of course, everyone wishes them well as you -- you know, move forward because these are deep scars that will forever be with them even though they've been exonerated. Even though they is this settlement it still is quite the burden.
IVORY: Sure. And what would be known at the Central Park Five.
WHITFIELD: Yes. And those years erased.
IVORY: Absolutely.
WHITFIELD: Yes. Erased and replaced with, you know, other experiences along the way.
IVORY: Absolutely. During such formative years.
WHITFIELD: All right. I know.
IVORY: Yes.
WHITFIELD: Yes. All right, Mo. Thanks so much. Which happens a lot.
IVORY: You're welcome.
WHITFIELD: We'll have you back.
IVORY: Thank you.
WHITFIELD: Thank you.
All right. Stunning new accusations in the case of a Detroit boy found barricaded in his dad's basement. This, too, is another one of those cases that's just what? How can this be? A petition has been filed in court. What that says, next.
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WHITFIELD: All right. Bottom of the hour now. Welcome back. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Here are the top stories crossing the CNN news desk right now.
America's Midwest is getting slammed by more storms today. In Minnesota, rivers and streams have overflowed after non-stop rain. Forecasters have downgraded the weekend prediction of four to five inches to just 1 or 2 inches of rain. In neighboring Wisconsin, clean up is underway after a reported tornado struck Colfax. Multiple trees were down in the area. A gas station along with the local elementary and middle schools are damaged as well. The good news, no injuries reported.
A new report just delivered to President Obama says the VA health care system is in such bad shape, it needs to be overhauled. The report cites unresponsive leadership and a corrosive culture that's affecting the delivery of medical care to the nation's veterans. The White House initiated the new report after CNN exposed fraudulent record keeping at the Phoenix VA center and efforts to cover excessive waiting periods for veterans.
General Motors has announced another round of recalls. On Friday, the automaker recalled nearly 430,000 Chevy Cruze sedans. They say there's a problem with the air bag inflators in the 2013 and the 2014 models.
And one of soul music's greatest artists, Bobby Womack, has died.
Huge hit. His career as a singer and song writer spanned more than 50 years. He'll be remembered for many of his hits including that one right there. "If You Think You're Lonely Now." Womack also wrote the Rolling Stones' first U.K. number one hit, "It's All Over Now." He had been battling several health issues including Alzheimer's disease.
Bobby Womack was 70.
All right. Back now to the crisis in Iraq. The U.S. isn't the only country with a vested interest in saving Iraq from collapse. The militant group called ISIS is inching closer to the capital city of Baghdad and along the way as you can see on this map, all those red dots representing Iraqi cities where the militants have seized control.
The crisis is making for some strange bedfellows, adversaries of the U.S. like Iran are flying drone mission and sending military supplies to help Iraq fight ISIS. Syria is carrying out air strikes against ISIS as well and Iraq is buying used Russian warplanes.
All of this while the U.S. now uses armed drones like the one you see right here to carry out surveillance and provide protection for military advisers on the ground.
Let's bring in CNN military analyst retired lieutenant colonel, Rick Francona.
Good to see you again, Colonel.
LT. COL. RICK FRANCONA (RET.), CNN MILITARY ANALYST: Good afternoon.
WHITFIELD: All right. So is this going to be the only way to control or take out ISIS, you know, having this multinational force?
FRANCONA: Actually, this creates a lot of confusion on the ground for everybody involved and not only do we have the country you just mentioned, the Turks today began flying their own drones over the northern part of the country, so we've got all these countries conducting intelligence missions and eventually one of these countries is going to get in the way of the other and we're going to have a problem.
Hopefully, it won't be a lethal problem. And hopefully someone could get in there, probably us, and take control of the air space and manage all of these assets, but we don't want to be in the position of controlling Syrian or Iranian aircraft.
WHITFIELD: Right. And so how does one navigate this, you know, confusion?
FRANCONA: This is a real problem. It's going to have to be done probably in Baghdad through the Iraqi government. The Iraqi government is going to have to contact these governments and these are their allies. You know, the countries that are supporting Baghdad and tell them you've got to step back and let the Americans get in here.
WHITFIELD: OK. But then the trust issue, especially if it pertains to, you know, the U.S. being part of this and then Iran being part of this, too, also trying to take out ISIS. How can the U.S., you know, trust that that really is the objective?
FRANCONA: It's going to be very, very difficult. I think that the Iranians have their own issue here. They want to prop up the Baghdad government and they want to be the ones that emerge from this as the key power brokers in the country and as long as you've got the Maliki government there that's probably what's going to happen.
Now we've seen calls for replacement for the Maliki government including one from Ali Sistani, who we see there, who has called for a new government. This is critical. Iraq cannot survive with Maliki in charge. It'll break up into three enclave. The only hope is to get a new government in there, one that can reach out to all of the factions of the country. Hopefully, we're not going to use all this military force that we have there.
WHITFIELD: Now what about Saudi Arabia? You know, it is worried about ISIS getting, you know, close to its border. And so that country is now on high alert. Militarily, what can it do because Saudi Arabia has been known to have a pretty fierce air force?
FRANCONA: Yes, Saudi Arabia's got pretty good armed forces and as ISIS comes down to that Saudi border and they'll come down from the west. That city of (INAUDIBLE) that we talked about before. Very critical out there and it has a junction into Saudi Arabia, but once you start going into Saudi Arabia, it's a long way from where you start to get to anything in Saudi Arabia worth hitting. They're going to be strung out on those roads if they try this. I don't see them going into Saudi Arabia. Just doesn't make sense. They've got their hands full right now. They're going to carve out the country of ISIS between Baghdad and even Baghdad and Damascus. They're going to have to focus on that for awhile. They can't take Baghdad. They just don't have the military power to do it.
WHITFIELD: Wow.
FRANCONA: They can make life miserable, but they're not going to take Baghdad. So I think they're going to consolidate with what they've taken so far.
WHITFIELD: All right. Lt. Col. Rick Francona, thank you so much. Complex indeed. All right. Still to come, there is a lot of cheering and excitement
in the streets of Rio right now. A live look at Copacabana Beach where Brazilians are watching the World Cup and praying that their team takes out Chile. We'll take you there, next.
But first, a 4-year-old selling lemonade in her front yard turned quarters into dollars. Millions of dollars. Now a teen actress has joined the movement and is showing kids how they can make an impact one glass of lemonade at a time.
Here's Chris Cuomo.
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BAILEY MADISON, ACTRESS: Hi. Do you want some lemonade?
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR, NEW DAY (voice-over): Actress Bailey Madison is handing out more than just lemonade, she's serving up hope.
MADISON: Pink, of course, because it will match your outfit.
CUOMO: Madison works with Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, which encourages kids to raise money for childhood cancer research by selling lemonade.
MADISON: You're never too young to make a difference, and your voice can be so powerful, no matter if you're a singer or a dancer, you're an actress, you go to school. And no matter what you do in this world, you have a voice and you can make such an impact. I always say just go for it.
CUOMO: That's certainly true for bone cancer survivor Kayla Cruz.
KAYLA CRUZ, BONE CANCER SURVIVOR: Peek-a-boo.
CUOMO: At 5 years old, she had her left leg amputated above the knee. Today, there's nothing this middle schooler can't do.
MATTHEW CRUZ, KAYLA CRUZ'S DAD: She's involved in tae kwon do and swimming. She doesn't consider herself handicapped in any way. She's differently abled.
CUOMO: Cruz teamed one Alex's Lemonade Stand to share her story, raising pediatric cancer awareness and inspiring other kids to never give up.
CRUZ: If you fall down, get back up, get back up, keep trying and believe in yourself. And no matter what, if you can do one thing, you can do everything.
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WHITFIELD: Just a short time ago we've learned a petition was filed in a Michigan court alleging physical abuse in a case of a Detroit boy who was found barricaded in his dad's basement this week. The boy had vanished from his home for nearly two weeks. The petition details abuse the boy allegedly suffered and in one instance the petition says the boy's father, quote, "drove a PVC pipe into his chest," unquote.
The petition says the boy told police that his stepmom barricaded him behind boxes and totes and the boy also said that he was told, quote, "not to come out no matter what he hears," end quote. But there's a lot more to this story from both sides.
Our Alexandria Field has that.
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ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Charles Botheull tight-lipped.
CHARLES BOTHEULL, FATHER OF BOY FOUND IN BASEMENT: I can't. I got listen to the attorney.
FIELD: Bombarded by questions about how his son turned up behind a barricade in the family's basement 11 days after he was reported missing.
(On camera): Charles, if you are able to speak to your son right now what would you say to him?
BOTHEULL: I have to say no comment.
FIELD: But the father's attorney is defending him saying 12-year-old Charlie was a troubled kid becoming particularly upset after he learned he'd no longer be home-schooled.
(On camera): Troubled how?
MARK MAGIDSON, BOTHEULL FAMILY ATTORNEY: He'd been failing in school. He'd been kicked out of a couple of schools and he told his son, Charlie, your responsibility is now going to be you, you're going to have to go to school like everybody else, and if you don't go to school in the public school I'm going to have to send you to a military academy.
FIELD (voice-over): Attorney Mark Magidson says he doesn't know where Charlie spent 11 days or how he ended up in the basement. As for the couple at the center of growing suspicion, Charlie's father and stepmother, he calls them very caring, very loving parents.
When Nancy Grace broke the news live on air that his son was alive, this was Botheull's reaction.
NANCY GRACE, HLN HOST: Your son has been found alive in your basement.
BOTHEULL: What?
FIELD: Police say the 12-year-old could not have constructed the barricade, which included a 55-gallon container on his own. They haven't ruled out child abuse after finding a PVC pipe and blood- stained clothing.
JEFF GARDERE, PSYCHOLOGIST: It seems to be more than just a case of a missing boy, but some sort of a family dynamic that may have been taking place.
FIELD: No charges have been filed. But in a bizarre twist, Monique Dillard Botheull was taken into custody for a violation of probation after police say they searched the home and found a firearm.
Earlier this year, Charlie's stepmom pleaded guilty to purchasing a pistol without a permit. Her husband was in court to support her but he hasn't seen his son since he was found Wednesday. Charlie disappeared after being scolded for not doing chores and exercises.
MAGIDSON: When he first got there, he was overweight, frankly. My client being an RN, being in the medical field, was acutely aware of problems of child obesity. Yes, he asked him to work out on the elliptical. It was a punitive? No.
FIELD (on camera): Was this little boy ever in danger in his own home?
MAGIDSON: Never in danger in his own home.
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WHITFIELD: All right. Alexandra Field, thanks so much. Very complicated story there.
All right. Coming up in the next hour, a man of many talents. Rock star Rick Springfield joins me here live in the studio. We'll talk about his life, his tours and his life as a writer. He's got a new novel and the critics love it.
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WHITFIELD: OK. It's down to the wire. And it's so exciting right now with Brazil taking on Chile, the elimination round is officially on at the World Cup. It will be the U.S. against Belgium on Tuesday. No draws in this round. If a match is tied after 90 minutes, teams play two more 15-minute period and if it's still tied penalty kicks determine the winner.
OK. So folks are celebrating because right now Chile and Brazil are, you know, duking it out. Last we checked the score was 1-1 with five minutes left in regulation time. So it will be interesting to see what is going to happen when and if they get extra time to play. But right there on Copacabana Beach. People are enjoying the surf and the sun. Of course they're enjoying the partying there, too.
You can bet the majority of fans out there are Brazilian, checking out the game there on the big screen right on the beach.
Of course we're going to give you the latest as that match is underway. So at the World Cup it's all about what is happening on the pitch.
But there is a pitch of a different sort that's causing big buzz in Brazil.
Here's Shasta Darlington.
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SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): These days everywhere you look it is football or should I say soccer. They are not cheering on their teams it seems many fans are looking for love. And they're increasingly using location based dating apps like Tinder and Badoo to do it. USA fan Scott says he's made a few matches on Tinder.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it's mostly Brazilian.
DARLINGTON (on camera): OK.
(Voice-over): This couple say they aren't using it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I know. I actually haven't.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I never used it. I know all about it but I've never used it.
DARLINGTON: With more than 600,000 fans pouring into Brazil for the World Cup Tinder says usage in downloads here have jumped 50 percent.
Brazilian fan Tatiani (ph) says she is not surprised.
"It's good to meet people especially with all those foreigners in Brazil," she says. "People are really using it more."
(On camera): The bars are packed during games. But if you look around a lot of people have cell phones on their hands. Maybe they are checking to see if they found a new Tinder match.
(Voice-over): I decided to set up my own profile and flip through the options in a nearby radius. Wow. A lot of those. It's a match. Then it's time to chat each other up. Hard to say which is a bigger distraction -- the game on the big screen or the one on the little screen.
Shasta Darlington, CNN, Sao Paulo.
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WHITFIELD: Wow. We're going to have to a follow-up from Shasta on the matching.
(LAUGHTER)
The matching up.
All right. Coming up it's a whole new dimension to movie going. My gosh, the 4-D experience. Are those chairs moving? Yes, they are. That's pretty exciting. So what exactly is this and when will it come to a theater near you?
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WHITFIELD: Tomorrow night on CNN be sure to tune in for the film "DOCUMENTED." It tells a story of Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist working illegally in the U.S. He lived for years with this secret until he wrote an essay in the "New York Times" magazine outing himself.
I spoke to Vargas about what he wants now.
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JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS, FILMMAKER, "DOCUMENTED": Right now I am here in this country illegally out of status. There is no -- this is why immigration reform is needed because there is 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.
WHITFIELD: So then --
VARGAS: But as far --
WHITFIELD: I'm sorry, go ahead.
VARGAS: No, but as far as I'm concerned, you know, I am an American. I'm just waiting for my own country to recognize it.
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WHITFIELD: Hear more of his story tomorrow night on CNN, 9:00 p.m. Eastern.
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WHITFIELD: All right. Typically if you are hit by something in a movie theater you're wondering why the people behind you brought their child to a grown-up movie like "Transformers" or why they're throwing popcorn or something. Well, now the sensation is just another part of a new movie going experience.
Remember the rocky horror picture show? It's that and more.
CNN's Stephanie Elam was one of the first people in the country to go to a 4-D theater.
Hi, Stephanie.
STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fred, we go to the movies because we like watching those flicks on that big screen. But what if you could feel like you were part of the action? One company is hoping that will bring Americans out to the theaters.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ELAM (voice-over): With 4-D, it's not just about watching the action. It's about feeling it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I usually go to sleep in the movies, but gosh, not that one.
ELAM: As movies face ever increasing competition to snag eyeballs, one company is betting it can lure people into theaters with the fourth dimension. Korean company CJ 4-D Plex is opening the first American 4-D theater here in Los Angeles.
The technology isn't new. In 2009, "Avatar" was the first major picture viewed by audiences in 4-D. Just not here in the United States.
ANGELA KILLOREN, CJ4DPLEX AMERICA: I think a lot of people have been waiting on the wings to see if 4-DX would work in America.
ELAM (on camera): What are all the things that the chairs can do?
YOUNG CHOI, 4-DX DIRECTOR: Well, obviously the motion chair, the back shaker and the leg tickler.
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ELAM: Leg tickler, that's the official term for it?
CHOI: That's good for the horror movies. I mean, creep you out.
ELAM (voice-over): And if that's not enough, there's more effects in and around the chairs like mist, rain, wind, strobe lights, even scents and bubbles. But the company may have an uphill battle.
STEFFIN CALINOUM, 4D MOVIEGOER: It's not family oriented. It's something you would go with your friends.
ELAM: While last year's total box office jumped 1 percent in the U.S., 3-D receipts went the other direction, dropping a percent even though Hollywood's 45 3-D releases were nine more than the year before. So many American movie theater owners are hesitant to take on 4-D until they see how this theater does.
PAUL DERGARABEDIAN, SENIOR MOVIE ANALYST: What they're going to require with 4-D is for audiences to get on the 4-D bandwagon. If that catches on, then it goes from being a gimmick to a trend and potentially a habit of movie going.
ELAM: With an up-charge of $8 a ticket, consumers could end up paying around $25 a pop to see a 3-D movie with 4-D effects.
ALEX ORELLANA, 4D MOVIEGOER: Being a father and having, you know, a wife and two kids can get to be a very expensive investment.
ELAM: And is every movie right for 4-D?
KILLOREN: Absolutely not. I mean, we do our job in choosing movies that would be work well in 4-DX. It's not like we're doing something constantly like a ride. We pull back, let the story take over. But then when there's exciting moments, you know, the 4-D gets going and you know, the adrenaline is rushing.
ELAM: Only time will tell if moviegoers will be rushing back for more.
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ELAM: And the creative director tells me it is a very delicate balance to use all of those gismos, all of that technique, but not to overdo it because the last thing they want is a bunch of people walking out motion sick. Fred?
WHITFIELD: That's a good point. That takes movie experience to a whole other area. You had me until I started envisioning a movie like a rain forest or something. Forget it. All right, thanks, Stephanie.
