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Second Death from Jerusalem Terror Attack; Criminal Past of Alleged Philly Abductor Revealed; Obama Hosting Congressional Leaders at White House

Aired November 07, 2014 - 06:30   ET

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MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: The little one is battling stage four cancer. The Bengals have donated $1.3 million to Cincinnati's Children's Hospital in little Leah's name. You can hear the crowd roaring when she came on to the field, chanting her name. She's a little shy.

This was the first time Leah got to see dad play live since his NFL debut two years ago. It's wonderful to see the whole city and the league embracing that family and that little one. Lots of love to Leah.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: So glad she got that opportunity. That's great.

PEREIRA: Absolutely.

CAMEROTA: Thanks, Michaela.

Well, a 17-year-old Israeli soldier is the second victim to die from this week's terror attack at a Jerusalem train station. The teenage certificate one of 15 people who were mowed down by a car. The driver was eventually shot and killed by security forces.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordan's King Abdullah spoke Thursday, trying to ease tensions between the two nations following clashes with demonstrators at Jerusalem's Temple Mount.

CNN's Erin McLaughlin is tracking latest developments live from Jerusalem for us.

What's the latest, Erin?

ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Alisyn. We're hearing of clashes that are taking place at a Palestinian refugee camp in Eastern Jerusalem. It's the refugee camp that was the home of the Palestinian driver who drove his van into a tram station earlier in the week, killing two Israeli citizens. One of which died just this morning, a 17-year-old Israeli student.

We're also hearing of clashes taking place in the West Bank. But as for the situation here, outside the Damascus gate entrance to the old city in East Jerusalem, things are relatively quiet. Friday prayers are over, a lot of the police out to secure the area have packed up and gone away. This wholly site known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the temple mount has been an increasing source of tension of late. Many Muslims are suspicious that there could be a change to what's called the status quo of the site. And the status quo of the site, and the status quo of the site being that Israeli Jews are allowed to pray, visit at the site, but they are not allowed to pray there.

And even though the Israeli government has repeatedly said that the status quo will remain the same, the fact of the matter is, there is this call from the far right for Jews to be able to pray. That's increasing tensions here in Jerusalem -- Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: Erin, we were looking at a shot earlier that was live. It looked like a portion of Jerusalem right here, this is happening live, is on fire. It looks like it just a burned-out pocket of a neighborhood here. It's hard to tell what this is the aftermath of.

Do you have any information about what we're seeing?

MCLAUGHLIN: Well, we do understand as I mentioned, Alisyn, that there are clashes ongoing at a refugee camp in East Jerusalem. And this is the refugee camp that is the home of the driver, that perpetrated the attack that happened at a Jerusalem tram station on Wednesday. Thirty-eight-year-old Ibrahim Alakhari (ph) drove his fan into that station, colliding with a group of people, killing two Israeli citizens.

Now, I spoke to his wife following this attack. And she told me that she believes the attack was motivated by the clashes that had happened inside the al Aqsa mosque earlier in the day, as well as motivated by the restrictions that had been in place on worshippers, by Israelis.

CAMEROTA: Erin, thank you. It's just intense to watch this unfold before our eyes and see the clashes happening there in real-time.

Erin, thank you.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Erin is talking about the status quo at the prayer site. What you're seeing there is the status quo in that part of the world right now and that's why there should be no surprises when it gets out of control. That's going on on almost a daily basis. And that's why we're trying to keep you apprised of it.

Something else we want to tell you about today that's going to matter -- your money. It's CNN money time.

All right, now the stock market -- some people care about it, some people don't. Jobs matters matter to everybody. Christine Romans is here.

We get fresh numbers today, yes?

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: We do, at 8:30. We'll have those live for you. And this is the most important economic report in the world, because it shows the state of the jobs number, the number that matters to you most. The forecast this morning -- 233,000 net new jobs added in October. The jobless rate steady at 5.9 percent, you'll remember that's near a five-year low.

New details this morning for you about the Home Depot security breach. It's big. The retailer says 53 million customer email addresses were now taken during that hack. That's on top of the 56 million credit and debit card numbers it previously disclosed.

If you shopped at Home Depot this year, you must look at your bank statements, you must be looking out for suspicious email. Someone could be trying to phish for your personal information to steal your identity.

And this is jus a little bit -- let's suspend reality and take a look at this house. I mean, you know, mortgage rates are low, maybe could you afford this. The most expensive home in America for sale, it could be yours for $195 million.

Think about that for a second. It's a Beverly Hills estate, it has a vineyard, a 27-car garage, that's not big enough for me. A 12 bedrooms, 23 bathrooms, a wine cellar and a tasting room. It's a real estate mogul who owns it, $195 million. Let's think about that while wages are basically flat. We'll have the jobs report later.

PEREIRA: You know what I think about when I see a house like that? All the dusting.

ROMANS: You wouldn't be dusting. If you had that house, someone else would be doing the dusting.

CAMEROTA: A lot of surfaces to collect dust.

ROMANS: Could you lose your children in that house.

CUOMO: That's the upside. Generous bathroom-to-bedroom ratio, 23-12, I like that.

CAMEROTA: It could be yours.

CUOMO: You're always hunting for private time in the bathroom. Kids everywhere, 23? You could find one.

CAMEROTA: Thanks, Christine.

CUOMO: All right. So, we've been telling but this amazing recovery of this young woman in Philadelphia. Right, a guy just took her right off the street. It was on video.

Here's why it mattered so much -- one, she's home safe. Two, guys like this? They've done it before. And Devlin Barnes, the police believe, he has maybe done something like this before. They're taking a look at his past. There's new information. We'll give it to you when NEW DAY returns.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) CUOMO: Welcome back to NEW DAY.

We have new information for you about the criminal past of the man who allegedly snatched Carlesha Freeland-Gaither off the street in Philadelphia. We say allegedly. The cops believe this is the guy, his name is Devlin Barnes, he confessed to the kidnapping. And here's the key -- he may have confessed to more.

Alexandra Field has the latest.

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CHARLES RAMSAY, PHILADELPHIA POLICE COMMISSIONER: He's a vicious predator. He's off the streets and hopefully he'll be in jail for the rest of his life.

ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Devlin Barnes, under arrest, accused of snatching a woman from a Philadelphia street corner. Now, investigators are releasing new details of another vicious attack allegedly perpetrated by Barnes. Barnes will face federal charges in the abduction of 22-year-old nursing assistant Carlesha Freeland-Gaither. The violent crime caught on tape.

But first, he's being extradited to Virginia to face additional charges, including attempted murder related to an attack last month on a 16-year-old Richmond girl. Police in Charles City County say Barnes hit the teen in the head with a shovel, put her in the trunk of his car and took her to his parents' Virginia home where he raped and tortured her.

CAPT. JAYSON CRAWLEY, CHARLES CITY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: He proceed to douse her clothing in gasoline and douse her in gasoline and bleach and proceeded to burn her clothing.

FIELD: Officers say Barnes asked her how she wanted to die and at one point showed her pictures of other girls he claimed he attacked.

CRAWLEY: He was attempting to dig a hole, but somehow got distracted and she proceeded fleeing the woods.

FIELD: The victim ran two miles to this business where she was discovered naked with third-degree burns. Police say DNA tests led them to name Barnes as their suspect. Barnes has a lengthy and violent rap sheet officials say including dozens of charges from armed robbery, to aggravated assault and false imprisonment. A friend of Barnes describes an entirely different person.

RONALD DAVIS, FRIEND OF SUSPECT DELVIN BARNES: He's always looking to help somebody. Always looking to bend over backwards. He'll give the shirt off his back if he could.

FIELD: Carlesha Freeland-Gaither is now back in Philadelphia. Her family at her side. Officers who worked for days to find her relieved she's finally home.

DETECTIVE JAMES SLOAN, PHILADELPHIA POLICE: It felt extremely personal. After seeing the video, it struck a chord with just about everybody who saw it. And we just made it a mission that we were going to find her and find her OK.

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FIELD: The officers involved in this case truly doing hero's work by bringing this young woman home. But they did have some help.

We're learning there was a witness on the street who saw Carlesha Freeland-Gaither be stuffed into that car and we know the witness did all the right things, he got on the phone, called the police, he waited for officers to arrive and, Alisyn, that's why they were able to track down the surveillance video so quickly. It was key to the case and key to the fact that the young woman is back here in Philadelphia with her family now.

CAMEROTA: Oh, thank goodness for that witness. What a Good Samaritan.

Alexandra, thanks so much for the update.

And we do have some new developments this morning on how police tracked the suspect and rescued the victim, in addition to what Alexandra said. So, let's bring in Captain Jason Crawley of Charles City County, Virginia, and Lieutenant J.J. McLaughlin III, New Kent County sheriff's investigator.

Gentlemen, great to see you this morning.

CRAWLEY: Good morning.

MCLAUGLIN: Good morning.

CAMEROTA: Captain Crawley, we understand one of the first breaks in this case happened when you figured out that you went to high school with this suspect.

CRAWLEY: Yes, ma'am.

On the investigation we had very limited information about a suspect, due to the traumatic injuries of the victim. Several weeks later, we were able to develop DNA response from the state lab of DNA that was submitted a week after the attack in Charles City County, that led us to Barnes.

CAMEROTA: Small world. That is great stuff.

And, Lieutenant McLaughlin, we understand that surveillance video, that Alexandra, our correspondent was talking about. You noticed something, when you both were combing through some arrest records and traffic stops and you came upon this surveillance video, you noticed something on the license plate that helped crack the case. What was it?

LT. J.J. MCLAUGHLIN III, NEW KENT COUNTY SHERIFF'S INVESTIGATOR: Well, actually it was the state inspection sticker for Virginia, that's a place in the middle of the windshield. We also found what appeared to be stickers from an auto local dealership here in Virginia.

CAMEROTA: And those stickers led you to the auto dealership and you put two and two together, that that dealership always puts GPS systems on their cars?

MCLAUGHLIN: Yes. From prior investigations, we just remembered that potential GPS could be there. So we made a phone call and in fact, it was.

CAMEROTA: That is incredibly lucky. Captain Crawley, this suspect Devlin Barnes, has a rap sheet a mile long. Why wasn't he in prison?

CRAWLEY: He was on probation out of the probation office in Virginia. And he was on probation for several other charges at the time.

CAMEROTA: Lieutenant, do you think that there are other women out there who were victimized by him?

MCLAUGHLIN: Not sure. We're going to definitely look into it and try to find out if we can assist anybody else. And get some justice.

CAMEROTA: Captain Crawly, Lieutenant McLaughlin, great old-fashioned detective work, thank you so much for joining us with the updates.

MCLAUGHLIN: Thank you for having us.

CRAWLEY: Thank you. Good morning.

CAMEROTA: You, too. Let's go over to Chris.

CUOMO: A bad guy who can't hurt anybody else, can't ask for more than that from the police. That's for sure.

All right. So, another story for you, Ray Rice and his wife Janay finishing their testimony. They're on their way out of this appeal hearing. What happened with him? They're trying to convince an arbitrator the NFL overstepped its bounds by suspending him indefinitely.

Remember, that's not what the NFL policy is, but that's what they did to him. Will he be back on the field soon? Answers ahead.

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CUOMO: Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, and his wife, Janay, have completed their testimony at his appeal from the suspension from the NFL. Rice was banned indefinitely after a video emerged of his punching Janay in an elevator. That's actually a gentle way of putting it.

First, he only got two games. But then, Commissioner Roger Goodell started to get basically raked over the coals for it. And then he said Rice omitted key parts of the story. And then Rice says, no, he told the commissioner everything. And the original two-game suspension was sufficient. Of course it was then made indefinite.

So, Rice wants back on the field. Many are fighting back, saying cutting a suspension would send a message.

So, let's talk about this. We have retired NFL player Wally Williams, and Mel Robbins, CNN commentator and legal analyst.

Let's figure out where we are on this. Who thinks that Ray Rice should get back into the league? Mel? You think he should? Yes or no?

MEL ROBBINS, CNN COMMENTATOR: Well, you know --

CUOMO: Just yes or no?

ROBBINS: Yes.

CUOMO: OK, Wally? Yes or no?

WALLY WILLIAMS, RETIRED NFL PLAYER: Yes. Yes, he should be back in the league, yes.

CUOMO: Let's talk about why. Let's start with you, Mel, why, when we're so worried about how we protect women and he knocked her the heck out in that elevator, why should he get back in the league?

ROBBINS: The reason why he should get back in the league is because my personal opinion, Chris, is that he was the sacrificial lamb for the NFL, the NFL screwed this up royally. They knew what happened from the beginning because they had the police report and they were merely reacting to public pressure.

And under the NFL players' association guidelines, and underneath the constitutional by-laws, you cannot repeatedly punish a player for the exact same incident. So, I think he has been punished multiple times, Chris.

CUOMO: So, no criminal case against him. That part is done. His wife is by his side, he's getting counseling.

The NFL policy says one thing, you did something else to him. Wally, where is the fairness in this, even though we feel like what he did is so bad, obviously.

WILLIAMS: Well, the fairness is not there. And that's systematically the problem with this whole issue. I think Roger Goodell and the NFL and ultimately the Baltimore Ravens in some ways really inflated this entire situation. Had they been themselves stayed by their guns with the discipline, with the CBA bargaining agreement that all NFL players have to abide by, within the rules package, I think everything would have been fine and moving forward.

But I think we also understand the strength of how public opinion can sway some of our big-time money people and that's what happened in the case with the NFL and Roger Goodell. When sponsors come out of the deal and you talk about money, I think they that had a tremendous impact on them making a decision and pretty much dealing with Ray Rice the way they did.

CUOMO: But then, Wally, why didn't they change the policy to say something kind of like -- if you knock your wife unconscious, you cannot play in the NFL. Why isn't there a rule like that? Who would fight with that rule?

You really think the players union would say that's too harsh?

WILLIAMS: No, no, I don't think any player wants to be in a situation where they're in a, argument to the point where you have to have some kind of physical altercation. At the same time, the dynamic of the rules and how the NFL and the NFLPA are at the table bargaining about things, that dialogue has to be clear. And I think in this case, the dialogue was very clear under the CBA agreement that the players and the NFL owners agreed with, that it was supposed to be a six-game suspension. And then after that, it's a lifetime ban under the domestic violence law.

And they should hold that and hold Ray Rice to that six games and really he should be playing in the NFL right now. Preferably with the Baltimore Ravens.

CUOMO: I mean, it's really -- it's so offensive to common sense here, Mel, that's one of the hard things. You see what ray rice did and you're like -- no, you know this is really bad. And it has to be treated that way.

But it's been processed. The court system looked at it. You know that part is passed. He and his wife looked at it. That part has passed.

And the league is just being inconsistent with this policy. They wind up at an arbitration hearing, this isn't a court proceeding. Tell us legally about what's going on here.

ROBBINS: Yes. You know, it's interesting, Chris, you said common sense and honestly that's what the arbitrator is going to be looking at. It's not a courtroom. Picture a conference room.

Goodell and Ray Rice will be sitting at the same table, you've got a former federal judge who is listening to both sides. It's a much more relaxed setting where she's having a conversation, she can go anywhere she wants to go. The hearsay rules don't apply. So, they can talk about what other people said.

And she's going to base this decision based on what's fair. And, she's also going to look at the guidelines that the NFL is supposed to be following. So honestly, what's interesting about this, Chris, is Roger Goodell has always been the one that had the wide discretion to decide what to do with players. Now he's the one that's in the hot seat and he's got a former federal judge trying to decide, well, what is a fair outcome here when we have a terrible situation. I agree with you what ray rice did is disgusting.

But frankly, nothing changed. The only thing that changed is that the NFL's PR problems increased and they punished Ray Rice for that. Not because he punched his wife.

CUOMO: And that gets us to the heart of the matter here, is that Ray Rice is what he is. He's going to have to figure it out with his wife and a whole bunch of counselors. But Roger Goodell, Wally, this policy still stinks. Six games for knocking your wife unconscious, it's just ridiculous.

He said he didn't know. How could he not know? You and I knew what happened in the elevator from the video that was released at first. There's reason to believe that Ray Rice ever lied to him. That's never been substantiated.

Why isn't he in front of some tribunal, Roger Goodell, getting raked over the coals for what he did?

WILLIAMS: That's probably one of the more disturbing things about the whole situation. That there's no way, and that's as an ex-player, we understand the security measures that teams go through, to make you feel comfortable. And for that, for the NFL not to, to say they did not see anything prior to it being released on national television -- look, they're either lying or there's some gross negligence. Either side of it is bad. And it's all coming from the NFL, and Roger Goodell. And he needs to be held accountable to that. To whatever disciplinary measure is going to be taken.

If you want my personal opinion of it, nothing is go to happen, he's going to be at the courts and the owners, there's going to be a double-edged sword. But it's going to be a very dull sword, because the bottom line, Roger Goodell makes money. He has a salary of $44 million a year. And trust me, he's not losing too much sleep understanding this situation, and moving forward.

And neither are the owners for that matter. They go through their due process. But I really don't believe when it's all said and done that anything is going to happen to Roger Goodell.

CUOMO: This situation stinks anyway you look at it.

Wally Williams, Mel Robbins, thank you very much.

ROBBINS: Great to see you.

WILLIAMS: Thank you.

CUOMO: We'll stay on that. And when we find out what happens, we'll let you.

There's a lot of ongoing news so let's get to it.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Congress will pass some bills I cannot sign. Pretty sure I'll take some actions that some in Congress will not like.

REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: When you play with matches and you take the risk of burning yourself.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: One of the most dangerous terrorists in the world may have been killed.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Drugeon was believed to be working on bombs that could potentially get past airport screenings.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Truly this technology is scary.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Sixty-eight-year-old Charles Logan storms the St. John's hospital nurse's station, swinging wildly.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They were repeatedly struck by the man with the pole.

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CAMEROTA: Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to NEW DAY. I'm Alisyn Camerota, alongside Chris Cuomo. Happy Friday.

We will get to that video that we just showed you, so dramatic in a second. But in a few hours, President Obama will sit down with top House and Senate leaders at the White House to talk about the aftermath of the mid-terms and Republicans sweeping to power in Congress.

Everyone says that they are ready to compromise. But much of their partisan rhetoric has not changed.

CUOMO: Probably a lot of this, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt. On the agenda today, the war against ISIS, the fight against Ebola. Immigration, the one common theme? Disagreement on how to handle just about all of it.

Now both sides are already digging in their heels and that's the concern. It will be very nice to hear what comes out of the meeting. It will be even more interesting to hear what happens in it.

CAMEROTA: OK. So, here to preview it all for us, let's bring in senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta, and Dana Bash, our chief congressional correspondent.

Great to see you, guys.

Dana, I want to start with you, so everyone says they're ready for a new start, yet they're using same old rhetoric. How does that work?

DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It's true. Look, I mean some of the rhetoric is new, that you are hearing Republicans say we want to get things done, we understand that we know the responsibility of governing. But you're exactly right, at the same time very, very heated talk, confrontational talk.

I was surprised by John Boehner yesterday, particularly on the issue of immigration, warning the president that he can't do an executive order on immigration because it will be pouring fuel on the fire. But it does speak to some of the same old issues that prevented getting things done before, which is, John Boehner and the Republicans have a very staunchly conservative caucus, particularly on the issue of immigration. They don't touch the president.

And you have a White House who says we're sick of waiting for the Republicans in Congress to do things, particularly on this issue of immigration. So, we're going to go it alone. And the rhetoric on both sides is already so white-hot it's hard to see how they can come together and work together on big issues that everybody agrees needs to get done.

CUOMO: All right. Well, Jim -- Jim Acosta, let's try to look at this like regular people for a second, because the politics never makes any sense.

If you and I were in a dispute, OK, and we knew what the sticking point was, we wouldn't want to start with the sticking point, right? We would want to find the common ground first, how does the White House explain coming out of the box saying, by the way, the president will go it alone on immigration? Why scratch the scab right out of the box?

JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Right. Well, you know it is sounding a little less like a bourbon summit and more like high noon over here at the White House.