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Dempsey Arrives In Iraq As Campaign Expands; Ex-SEAL Who Shot Bin Laden Fears Prosecution; Big Freeze Spreads To Unlikely Places; World Leaders Gather For G20 Summit; Police Radio Calls Released in Shooting Michael Brown's Case; Chuck Hagel Talks about Problems at U.S. Nuclear Military Facilities; Spying over Everybody's Cell

Aired November 15, 2014 - 06:00   ET

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CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR: It's 6:00 on the weekend comes early, doesn't it? What are you doing up? I'm Christi Paul.

JOE JOHNS, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Joe Johns in for Victor Blackwell.

PAUL: Good to have you here.

JOHNS: It's really good to be here. And you know what, it's freezing outside. I walked four or five blocks.

PAUL: You did walk?

JOHNS: Yes, incredible, my hands were frozen.

PAUL: It is 31 degrees. You should be in perfect company there. Listen, we have a lot to talk to you about today.

JOHNS: Absolutely. We begin with breaking news overnight and the release of police dispatch tapes from the deadly police shooting that put Ferguson, Missouri, at the center of a national firestorm.

The clips which the "St. Louis Post Dispatch" obtained through Missouri's sunshine law indicated just how quickly the encounter unfolded between 18-year-old Michael Brown and Officer Darren Wilson.

PAUL: These recordings begin just before noon on August 9 after a dispatcher reported a, quote "stealing in progress." That dispatcher gives a description of the suspect to another officer, not Wilson.

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UNIDENTIFIED CALLER: Twenty five, it's going to be a black male in a white t-shirt. He's running towards Quik Trip. He took a whole box of Swisher cigars.

UNIDENTIFIED CALLER: Black man, white t-shirt?

UNIDENTIFIED CALLER: That's affirmative. She said he just walked out of the store.

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PAUL: Minutes later, Wilson joins the radio, it seems and offers to join the hunt for the suspect.

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OFFICER WILSON: This is 21 to 25 or 22, you guys need me?

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PAUL: Two minutes later, Wilson radios in with this.

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WILSON: It's 21, put me on Canfield with two and send me another car.

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JOHNS: Now from there, radio calls indicates other officers arriving at the shooting scene. Then at 12:07 p.m., there's a call from another officer, as a woman cries in the background.

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UNIDENTIFIED CALLER: In 25.

UNIDENTIFIED CALLER: Get us several more units over here, there's going to be a problem.

UNIDENTIFIED CALLER: Is there any available Ferguson units who can respond to Canfield and Copper Creek? Advise.

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PAUL: Also new this morning, the "Post Dispatch" has released this new surveillance video, it show Wilson just two hours after the shooting in a white t-shirt leaving the police station with other officers and a union lawyer.

A grand jury is expected to decide at any time now whether to indict Wilson in Brown's death. But later this hour, we're going to talk with the head of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, Cedric Alexander, about these new developments in the police shootings of Michael Brown.

JOHNS: Also breaking overnight, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey is in Iraq. He arrived on an unannounced visit to Baghdad, earlier today, as the U.S. prepares to expand its assistance to Iraqi and Kurdish forces battling ISIS.

According to Reuters, General Dempsey said, and I quote here, I want to get a sense from our side about how our contribution is going. Joining us now is CNN military analyst, Major General James "Spider" Marks. Thanks for being with us this morning. What is General Dempsey looking to accomplish with this visit do you think? MAJOR GENERAL JAMES "SPIDER" MARKS, CNN MILITARY ANALYST: Joe, I think he has two missions. One as he indicates, he wants to get a sense from our guys, from the U.S. forces on the ground. The senior folks and to talk to the soldiers that are out there on the edges of this organization that are training the Iraqis, establishing the training routine.

And those that are embedded in certain headquarters elements within the Iraqi Security Forces to get a sense of what they're up to, how they are doing, what the progress looks like, how are relationships building.

The second part of this mission is to talk to the Iraqi leadership no doubt. He wants to talk to his counterpart. There's a new military leader in Iraq, who has just been appointed. And the government in Iraq, as you know, is transitioning, new minister of defense, new ministers of the interior, et cetera.

So General Dempsey will get a sense at both the strategic level. The United States and the coalition contributions, how they're being accepted in Iraq, and then getting down to the ground level to talk to the U.S. troops and get what we call the straight scoop on their sense of how this is working out.

JOHNS: Now, as you know, he is not ruling out U.S. ground forces in Iraq. Here's what he told the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday. Listen.

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GENERAL MARTIN DEMPSEY, JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN: I'm not predicting at this point that I would recommend that those forces in Mosul and along the border would need to be accompanied by U.S. forces, but we're certainly considering it.

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JOHNS: Now, do you think this is the kind of thing where this visit will actually sway his decision on whether to send in the ground forces?

MARKS: Well, you'd hope, you'd hope, that he'd gather, Joe, more information from this visit to be more confident of what he's getting back in D.C. and a better understanding what the real conditions look like.

So yes, absolutely, you'd hope it would sway his decision, that decision or that recommendation. Again, it's not his decision, but his recommendation to president and the secretary of defense.

Whether it makes sense to increase the numbers or to move those soldiers and embed them with Iraqi units that are in direct contact or have the mission to engage directly with ISIS.

JOHNS: Speaking of ISIS, they and al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, Al- Nusra, have been battling each other for more than a year now. And now we've got word that these two groups have actually come to some type of agreement, to go ahead and stop fighting to perhaps even join forces. How do you think that is going to change the coalition strategy?

JOHNS: Well, I don't think it will change the strategy at all. What you have, as you just described, is this confluence of activities that are very difficult to sort out on the ground. So if two elements now died to make peace, what that is, they have agreed they have a shared enemy.

That's either Assad or that the United States in its presence and efforts of the coalition to the country, and the government in Baghdad as well. So, what you have is all of these elements that are coming together.

All that means is that the U.S. strategy -- it really means, Joe, the U.S. strategy has to have a level of persistence that this administration has mentioned in reference. But it really needs to lay out what those specific time lines look like. What those expectations are.

This truly is a long engagement. It could be a generational engagement. It's certainly going to go beyond this administration and well into the next administration. We have to be able to establish and define what that new normal looks like in terms of our engagement in this part of the world.

JOHNS: A lot of uncertainty, too, there and that new normal could change quite a few times. Thanks so much for that Major General "Spider" Marks, always good to see you.

MARKS: Thank you.

PAUL: The former Navy SEAL who says he shot and killed Osama Bin Laden may have words of steel, but now tells CNN he is worried the Pentagon might prosecute him for speaking publicly about the 2011 raid on the al Qaeda leader's compound in Pakistan.

JOHNS: In his most extensive live interview today, Robert O'Neill sat down with CNN'S Jake Tapper, and not only described the harrowing mission, but also the criticism he's been facing for breaking his silence about killing the most wanted man in the world. Here's part of that interview right now.

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JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST, "THE LEAD": Before you walked into that room on the third floor where you thought Bin Laden was, what went through your head?

ROBERT O'NEILL, FORMER NAVY SEAL: Well, there were two of us left on the stairs going up. We knew we had to go up there because they were doing something, we assumed rigging explosives, vests to blow themselves up. So, when we went up, my thought wasn't of, we're about to shoot this guy and be heroes. My thought was, we're going to blow up, let's get it over with.

And we went up there to do that, but with the thought that, you know, we will die if he blows up, but he will die, too, and that is worth it.

He was not surrendering. He was sort of moving and just based on the level of threat of him not surrendering, and of him having a vest, I engaged him. I shot him twice in the head. He fell to the floor, I shot him one more time and I killed him.

TAPPER: What did it feel like?

O'NEILL: The sense was recognition. First of all, the idea of him, and he's a threat, and then I had to shoot him. It wasn't the first time I've done that on a target before. I recognized the individual we were after which is Osama Bin Laden, and I engaged.

At that minute, it was just -- it felt like it was the initial threat that I had to take care of and then there were more threats. Threats are just potential unknowns. It wasn't until the room was fully cleared and there were more SEALs in the room that it kind of hit me. I had a moment of pause.

I talked to a friend of mine who was in the room, he came up to me, and he put his hand on my shoulder. I said, what do we do now? He kind of smiled and said, now, we go find the computers. I said, OK, I'm back. That was quite a moment.

TAPPER: The Pentagon is, I'm sure, watching every word that you are making publicly, are you concerned at all about a prosecution, about them taking issue with you for violating, in their view, the nondisclosure agreement?

O'NEILL: That does concern me and if this comes up, I will address it. Right now, like I said, I think I did this in way that doesn't violate any tactics or any rules.

TAPPER: Do you think you're a hero?

O'NEILL: I think I was part of a team full of heroes.

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PAUL: You can see the full interview with Robert O'Neill, by the way, and Jake Tapper, on cnn.com/thelead.

JOHNS: Still coming up from snow to bitter cold, Meteorologist Jennifer Gray is tracking the big freeze as it spreads to a lot of unlikely places.

PAUL: Yes, hunker down and stay warm today, certainly -- plus, the cancellation of a major TV appearance as race allegations resurface against Bill Cosby.

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JOHNS: It's redonkulous out there. It's so cold. We're waking up to record-breaking temperatures this morning.

PAUL: Can I tell you, though, there aren't a whole flood of people looking as darn good as Jennifer Gray does in 30-degree weather. Jennifer Gray is in Atlanta's Centennial Park. There's a wide shot of it. It is beautiful. There is no doubt about it. The Christmas tree's out. Do you see it?

JOHNS: Getting started a little early, don't you think, Atlanta?

PAUL: Please, everybody is going to start too early. Jennifer Gray, we're trying to zoom in on you there. Look how pretty she looks.

JOHNS: You look great. Are you cold?

JENNIFER GRAY, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Hi, guys. Yes, it's pretty cold out here. I almost feel bad because there are places waking up this morning much colder than Atlanta. We have a thermometer where we're, 30 degrees here in Centennial Park.

The current temperature at the airport right now is right at freezing, so yes, cold in Atlanta, temperatures 10 to 15 degrees below normal. The rest of the country, though, some areas, 30, 40, even 50 degrees below normal, we've shattered records all week long.

Let's look at some video. A lot of areas received their first measurable snowfall of the season. This is Garden Valley, Idaho. Look at that. Pictures are gorgeous, but some people are like, man, this is early.

We saw considerable snowfall in some places in the Midwest, in the northern plains as well already digging out. We're still about five weeks away from the official start of winter.

So let's look at those current temperatures because we are starting out around freezing here in Atlanta and other places in the Midwest and the northern plains single digits, 6 degrees in Billings, 12 in Cheyenne, 7 in Minneapolis.

You know, and if you think about Minneapolis, we dip below freezing on Monday. It could be another week or so before we get to freezing again. Temperatures have been well below and will continue to be that way all the way through the weekend and much of next week.

Hang in there Minneapolis, you will eventually warm up, but that's not going to be said with no snow. You are going to get more snow as we through the weekend. Some areas 2 inches to 5 inches, 4 to 6 on the side of Sioux Falls and some in the Dakotas getting some of that.

We are also going to see some in Kansas, Nebraska, getting some snow. Even places in Missouri. So moving on, we are going to see another blast of cold air just when you are wanting to warm up, forget about it.

We are going to reinforce those cooler temperatures by the beginning part of next week. That's going to move into the southeast, the northeast, some places in the southeast and northeast are going to be even colder next week.

Look at Atlanta's high temperature on Tuesday. That's a high, guys, 38 degrees, we'll see temperatures in the single digits, teens and 20s across much of the Midwest and northern plains as we go through the week.

And then low temperatures are even more shocking. Look at this, temperatures below zero. Rapid City this morning, this is your low temperature, zero on Monday. So, guys, this is a deep freeze that is going to last another week.

The good news is, the week of Thanksgiving, it looks like things are finally going to warm up.

JOHNS: I'm totally going back to the northeast where it's warmer.

PAUL: Yes, right. Jennifer, thank you so much.

GRAY: At least there's no snow here in Atlanta.

PAUL: Yet, yet.

JOHNS: This is supposed to be a milder than normal winter. What's up with that?

PAUL: Jen, can you answer that, I thought it was going to be a worst winter than last?

GRAY: Well, you know what? We're getting an early start this winter. You know, hopefully, it's nothing that's going to foreshadow what we're going to see. Time will tell, of course, yes, some people have already broken snowfall records and temperatures in November. It's crazy.

PAUL: All righty, Jen, thank you so much, go get warm for a little bit until we talk to you again.

We have a lot of other news that we want to get to you too this morning. Here's the "Morning Read."

JOHNS: Rape allegations against iconic comedian Bill Cosby will just not go away. The latest evidence for Crosby, his appearance on the "David Letterman Show" last Wednesday has been canceled. Cosby reportedly addresses the allegations in an interview with NPR that airs later this morning. We'll bring you that as soon it comes available.

PAUL: The family of Liberian national that died of Ebola at a Texas hospital has reached a confidential settlement with that hospital. Thomas Eric Duncan went to a Texas Health Resources Hospital in September with Ebola symptoms. He was misdiagnosed, though, and sent home. A fund will be set up to assist Ebola sufferers in hard hit West Africa.

JOHNS: In business news, less pain at the pump means more money in your pocket. Right now the national average for a gallon of gas is about $2.90. You're paying less because the price of oil dropped below $75 a barrel in four years. It's down right now about 31 percent since June.

PAUL: In sports, the NBA commissioner now says he supports legalized sports gambling. In an op-ed in the "New York Times," Adam Silver said the U.S. should allow gambling on pro-sports as long as there are strict regulations to keep it safe and legal. Silver is now the first major sport executive to come out in favor of legalized gambling.

JOHNS: And President Obama is blasting Russian aggression. They're all smiles for the camera, but are Cold War tensions resurfacing of world leaders gather in Australia? We'll take you live to Brisbane.

PAUL: And the next time you see a small plane flying overhead, could it really be the government spying on our cell phone calls?

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JOHNS: President Obama is getting a warm greeting from Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, but while they're all smiles, Mr. Obama is blasting Russian President Vladimir Putin. Leaders of the world's most powerful nation, in Brisbane for the G20 Summit, but Putin brought a fleet of warships with him.

PAUL: Let's get more now from CNN senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. Jim, thank you so much for being with us. Are Russian warships -- I mean, are they really off the coast of Australia right now?

JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: They are, and I'll tell you about that in just a moment. But I wanted to hold this up first before I do anything else. Check this out, Joe and Christi. It's the front page of the local paper here.

It has the Russian bear and a kangaroo putting up their dukes with one another. So that sort of sums up the attitude here with respect to Russian president, Vladimir Putin. It's been the G19 plus 1 very isolated Vladimir Putin at this G20 Summit.

The Russian president has gotten the cold shoulder in the leaders here in Brisbane. And the summit's host, the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, sent only low-level officials to greet Putin at the airport.

Aides to Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper say he told Putin, I guess I'll shake your hand, but you need to get out of Ukraine. We now did see President Obama walking into dinner just a little while ago with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, they were deep in conversation.

And in the video, you could hear the words cease-fire so we are waiting to hear more about that conversation. Meanwhile, the president piled on Putin in a speech earlier in the day mentioning the downing of Malaysian Flight 17 and vowing that the U.S. will take on a lead role in standing up to Russia. Here's what the president had to say.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: We're leading and dealing with Ebola in West Africa and in opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot down of MH-17, a tragedy that took so many innocent lives, among them your fellow citizens.

As your ally and friend, America shares the grief of these Australian families, and we share the determination of your nation for justice and accountability.

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ACOSTA: Now, Russia, as you said, Christi, raised tensions at the summit by positioning some naval ships off the Australian coast. Moscow said they were there in the area for Putin's security. Australia responded by sending their own warships to keep an eye on the Russians.

Now we should point out, besides Putin, there are other big topics at the summit such as Ebola with the G20 leaders here releasing a joint statement earlier today encouraging nations who haven't joined the fight against the deadly virus to start doing so.

And the battle against ISIS is also a top priority here, guys, something President Obama will be discussing with leaders from Australia and Japan tomorrow. I know you're just getting your day started over there, but we're ending our day here.

And the president will end his trip here at a news conference or holding a news conference before heading back to Washington. That also happening tomorrow here in Australia, but it may be overnight four guys. We'll have more on that tomorrow.

JOHNS: You know, Jim, does the cold shoulder really do any good? When you see a situation like this, and everybody is turning their back on Putin, it doesn't seem like he gets the message?

ACOSTA: No, and actually, Joe, earlier this week when we were in Myanmar, the White House staged a news briefing on the road and deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was there and he acknowledged very frankly that at this point this has not changed their calculus.

That Vladimir Putin while the sanctions against Russia have created, you know, big economic pain for Russia. And they're feeling it with respect to the ruble, the value of the ruble has gone down considerably, it has not really changed what is happening on the ground in Ukraine.

So it is sort of something that bedeviled leaders here and really been a big problem for President Obama, something that he's not been able to solve thus far. What they're saying at the White House, Joe, is that they're going to continue to apply pressure and isolate Vladimir Putin.

They kicked Vladimir Putin and Russia out of the G8, as you know, Joe. It became the G7. They can't necessarily do that here at the G20, but he's certainly felt -- Vladimir Putin has certainly felt like persona non grata since we've been on the ground here in Australia -- Joe.

PAUL: Jim, that's a good point, you talked about the message that he sent, that President Obama sent really to Russia in his speech. What about China, what has the relationship been there?

ACOSTA: You know that has been fascinating to watch during this trip, Christi, because we went into China earlier this week thinking what is the president going to come out of this trip with.

And lo and behold, on the last day at that news conference, with the Chinese President Xi, they announced this big climate deal, and you know, there have been some Republican critics saying, well, it doesn't really force China to do all that much.

With the White House saying, look, they got one of the biggest polluters in the world, the U.S. and China being the biggest polluters in the world to come to an agreement to start lowering carbon emissions over the next decade or so to sort of reverse some of the effects and bring down the effects of climate change.

And they do feel like that was part of the accomplishment. We did hear the president praise China in those efforts in that area. But the president also said in his speech, we still need to see how china's going to play count road.

They still need to play by the rules when it comes to trade and human rights and so forth. But there has been a warming of that relationship, no question about it.

JOHNS: Jim Acosta, senior White House correspondent, really logging a lot of miles on this trip. Thanks so much for that.

PAUL: Thanks, Jim.

ACOSTA: That's right. Absolutely, thank you.

PAUL: Well Ferguson, meanwhile is on edge, waiting for the grand jury's decision about the officer who shot Michael Brown. Now, this morning, just released audio, providing more details about the deadly brief encounter between the officer and the unarmed teen.

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PAUL: Always so good to have you with us. 32 minutes past the hour. Just relax, it is Saturday after all. I'm Christi Paul.

JOHNS: Stay in bed if you can. I'm Joe Johns.

PAUL: You didn't get ...

JOHNS: I didn't get to stand ... (LAUGHTER)

PAUL: Hey, listen, we want to get right to some breaking news overnight here. Newly released police dispatch tapes do seem to shed new light on the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.

JOHNS: And these radio calls were obtained by the "St. Louis Post Dispatch," and they indicate that this encounter between Brown and Officer Darren Wilson who is white really lasted only about two minutes. They begin just before noon on August 9TH, when "The Dispatcher" reports, quote, a stealing in progress. Seven minutes later, Wilson radios in with an offer to help hunt for the suspect. And then two minutes later, Wilson said he's, quote, "on canfield with two." Referring to a street near the shooting scene. A minute later, a witness reportedly tweeted that he just saw someone die.

PAUL: And also new this morning, the "Post-Dispatch" release new surveillance video. Take a look at it here. This is Wilson just two hours after the shooting. He's there in the white t-shirt leaving the police station. There is other officers and a union leader who are with him there. A grand jury is expected to decide any day now whether to indict Wilson in Brown's death.

JOHNS: So, now, let's bring in Cedric Alexander, he's the president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives. Good morning, Cedric.

CEDRIC ALEXANDER: Good morning, how are you?

JOHNS: Good, good. Listening to this audio - do you get a sense of a take-away from it? What does it mean for the case?

CEDRIC ALEXANDER, NATIONAL ORG. OF BLACK LAW ENFORCEMENT EXECUTIVES: Well it's very difficult for me, for anyone I think at this point, to draw any conclusions around that piece of video. I think what's going to be critically important is this, is that the grand jury is going to look at all of this evidence together. And they're going to make sense of it in terms of its entirety in the context in which everything occurred. And I think in all fairness, we're all going to stand by and we're going to wait and see what this grand jury finding is going to be, as we go forward, Joe.

JOHNS: And while you're standing by, what advice are you giving to police officers around the country, police departments, frankly, on how to handle sort of the ill feelings as a result of no decision to indict?

ALEXANDER: Well, you know, what's critically important here, regardless of what the outcome is of the grand jury, I think what's important is that police agency across this country and communities across this country, Joe, that is - to continue to communicate with each other. Have open dialogue. Hopefully, they've had great relationships in communities and police long before this incident. But I think at the end of the day, what Ferguson has shown all of this the criticality and the importance in how much it is for all communities and for all police agencies and criminal justice systems across this country to have a firm and stable relationship with its community members.

And that's what makes the difference when you have an issue to occur in your community. You can stand together, you can make plans together. And you can confront these issues. Hopefully, that does not emerge into something in which we don't ever want to see and that's civil unrest.

JOHNS: Now, an attorney for Brown's family Benjamin Crump spoke yesterday with our colleague Erin Burnett. Listen.

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BENJAMIN CRUMP, BROWN FAMILY ATTORNEY: You want him to be able to get his trial by jury because somebody say something. Think about all the things they said about Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager. So we all - I think it's fair for him to get his due process, but also, we need Michael Brown to get his due process, and if he gets this indictment, he's going to have a chance to have the best lawyers. He's going to have the chance to have the best defense possible. But if he's not charged, you do look to Michael Brown's family and say, where is their due process, when will they get a chance to have justice for their unarmed child who was killed?

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JOHNS: OK, so, you get that, right? He's basically saying the Brown family cannot get justice if Officer Wilson is not charged. Do you buy that?

ALEXANDER: Well, we have a judicial system, Joe, in which we're all going to have to respect and we're all going to have to make sure, as best as we can, and hopefully, in that community as well, too. That at the end of the day, whatever the grand jury findings are. We all are watching. We all have been very attentive to the issues that are there. There's a lot of hurt. There's a lot of pain in that community, and certainly with that family, with the loss of their son. But we're going to have to depend on our judicial system and our leadership in that community as questionable as it maybe to some people. And as we move forward, we're going to make some -- some determination is going to be made as to what the outcome of this case is going to be, and then we'll move forward from there.

JOHNS: But you got to have a sense of the language. The kind of language that's going to be used to talk to people and to talk people down if they're upset. What are the words that need to be said to bring a community together, as opposed to tearing it apart?

ALEXANDER: Well, it's important to remember, and it's important for all of us to remember, and I say this not only to you, but I say this across the country to everyone that's listening as well, too, in an incident such as this, we have to work together. Violence is not going to resolve anything. Peaceful protests, of course, is very much accepted as our First Amendment right. But I think at the end of the day for all of us, Joe and Christi, I

think that we have to sit down, we have to work together, we got to start talking about as we move forward, how we're going to change relationships in this country between police and community. Because in some communities, there certainly needs to be a great deal of work that needs to be done. And in other communities, they have already role modeled some of the great work that's being done out there, as well, too. So, in terms of peace, regardless of what the outcome is. As a nation, as a country, we're all American citizens. We have to find a way to work through this but we've got to find a way to work through it in a very peaceful manner.

JOHNS: Cedric Alexander of NOBLE, thank you so much for that.

ALEXANDER: Thank you, Joe.

PAUL: Thank you, Cedric. And as they just mentioned, we're talking about Michael Brown's parents. They are back in the United States now. They'd been in Geneva, Switzerland, testifying before a U.N. committee about their son's death. Brown's mom spoke with reporters at the airport.

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LESLEY MCSPADDEN, MICHAEL BROWN'S MOTHER: Thank you for supporting us and praying for us. And getting justice for our son Michael Brown. I know while we was gone, there were some more things said and discovered and uncovered. But god is with us, he's still with us now, he's going to continue to be with us.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PAUL: Now, Brown's parents asked the U.N.'s committee against torture to recommend Wilson's immediate arrest as well as an investigation into police brutality in the U.S.

JOHNS: Chuck Hagel says the U.S. nuclear program has some serious issues and needs a big makeover. We'll tell you where the problem lies. And how much this major overhaul is going to cost, coming up next.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's been a couple of months since Marin Cilic won his first career grand slam at the U.S. open, becoming the first Croatian ever to win at Flushing Meadows. He recently told CNN's Amanda Davis that he's watched the match back ten times since then, as the magnitude of his achievement continues to sink in.

MARIN CILIC: When I came back, I realized how much it had effect on the people. Of course, it was one of the best moments of Croatian Sports, ever. I didn't think that people are going to be -- that, it's going to change their life for that week, month or those days. But everybody I saw was extremely happy. They were unbelievable proud.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Where is the trophy?

CILIC: The trophy still hasn't come, believe it or not. And it's being made still in New York. So hopefully, in the next week or two, it should be here.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Have you ever got a spot ready for it?

CILIC: Yes. Yes, I do. It's going to be -- it's going to be at my apartment in Zagreb and I'm going to have to polish it for sure every day.

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JOHNS: Here are five things you got to know for your "NEW DAY." Number one, students in West Virginia University are mourning the loss of their friend. Police found 18-year-old Nolan Birch unconscious at a frat house Wednesday. He died yesterday at a local hospital. Now, the university has suspended all Greek activities on the campus.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This does not define him at all. Whatever happened, this does not define him.

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JOHNS: Officials are not giving out details about the incident as they continue the investigation.

PAUL: Number two, a doctor infected with Ebola is on his way from Sierra Leone to a Nebraska hospital as we speak here. He's expected to arrive at the Nebraska Medical Center this weekend. He's a legal permanent resident of the United States. Now, doctors at the Nebraska Hospitals have successfully treated two Ebola patients already. Freelance cameraman Ashoka Mukpo and Doctor Rick Sacra.

JOHNS: Number three, the man accused of grabbing a Philadelphia woman off the street and holding her for three days could face life in prison. Delvin Barnes appeared in court yesterday. He pleaded not guilty to kidnapping charges. The woman's abduction was caught on video and sparked an intense manhunt by police as well as the FBI, they tracked him down and the victim using Barnes' car GPS system.

PAUL: Number four, the famous Philae comet lander might stop working today. The space probe made history this week when it landed on a small comet 310,000,000 miles from Earth. However, it's been a race against time right now to gather information before its core batteries died. Scientists were hoping solar energy would power the space probe, but apparently, it's just not getting enough sunlight to charge a secondary battery.

JOHNS: Number five, this could be one of your worst nightmares. Imagine that everyone thought you were dead and then you wake up in a funeral home. It happened to a 91-year-old woman in Poland. A doctor declared her dead, then she woke up 11 hours later in cold storage. She's home now and doing fine. Authorities are still investigating what on earth went wrong there.

PAUL: Really wrong.

JOHNS: Yeah.

PAUL: Let's say. My goodness.

JOHNS: So, you say narcolepsy?

PAUL: Oh, my goodness. And that poor family.

Listen, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the U.S. nuclear program, he admits, has some problems including a lack of resources and manpower.

JOHNS: He says it needs a major revamping and it's going to cost billions of dollars to fix it over the next few years. Our Tom Foreman has more. Tom?

TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Christi, hey, Joe. This new report from the Pentagon would be dismaying to many people in the military, and alarming to many others.

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FOREMAN: In the dangerous world of nuclear missiles and strategic bombers, it's hard to imagine a simple hand tool could be a problem. But the Pentagon review found supplies were so neglected, workers at three nuke sites were sharing a single specialized wrench for more than 400 missiles.

CHUCK HAGEL, U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY: Now, how did they do it? They did it by federal-expressing the one wrench around to each base. They were creative and innovative and they made it work, but that's not the way to do it.

FOREMAN: The Pentagon is now acknowledging many such troubles including an inspection regiment that knit-picked insignificant details while ignoring potentially serious issues like leaky hydraulic seals on aging missile blast doors. Making it impossible to close them properly. A culture of inefficiencies, micro management and daily shortages in equipment, qualified personnel, facilities and funding, even badly outdated helicopters being used to service nuclear operations. Choppers that came into service under President Nixon during the Vietnam War.

HAGEL: We just have kind of taken our eye off the ball here, and if we don't fix this, eventually it will get to a point where there will be some questions about our security.

FOREMAN: Officials say these problems grew in part from the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, which forced the Pentagon to choose between sending resources to battle or to the nuke program.

HAGEL: When you have to make a hard choice like that you're going to support the war fighter, and you make it as best as you can. FOREMAN: Still, embarrassing lapses have resulted such as an incident

last year in which a missile bay door was left open and unattended while one crew member slept and another went for food. And more recently, reports of missile officers cheating on proficiency tests.

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FOREMAN: Fixing all of this will not be cheap. The Pentagon currently spends about $15 billion a year on its nuke program. It will have to increase that by about ten percent. And even then, undoing the damage could take years. Christi. Joe.

JOHNS: Tom Foreman, thanks for that.

PAUL: Thanks, Tom. So, let me ask you, what do you think here -- is big brother spying on your cell phone calls right now?

JOHNS: A lot of people would probably say yes. The federal government is using technology on planes that can track your cell phone use. We'll explain coming up next.

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PAUL: Well, it turns out the federal government may be tracking your cell phones.

JOHNS: Small planes can fly overhead and gather data from most of the U.S. population. CNN's Pamela Brown explains to us.

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PAMELA BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The U.S. Marshal Service put special devices on small Cessna planes as a way to locate criminals, according to "The Wall Street Journal." These devices dubbed "Dirt Boxes" are supposed to trick cell phones into thinking it's a cell tower.

DEVLIN BARRETT, WALL STREET JOURNAL: The system is designed to pick up a ton of data because it's looking for a needle in a haystack. But to find that needle, it has to actually for a brief period of time look at every other piece of hay in that stabbing.

BROWN: The special equipment in the planes scans thousands of phones. When it finds the target's phone, the equipment locks on and uses that information to find a suspect's location.

CHRIS SOGHOIAN, ACLU: The advantage of the drone airplane or helicopter is that they can just search a much larger area much faster and thus necessarily get information on a huge number of innocent people.

BROWN: The device is similar to this commonly used cell-site simulator known as the stingray. Government officials say it's intended to be used with a defined, legally authorized purpose in serious violent crimes. The CNN has learned that technology was used in the capture of El Chapo Guzman, the former head of the notorious Sinaloa cartel. And one of the most wanted men in the world. SOGHOIAN: This is a military technology, originally designed for the intelligence community in Special Forces that has trickled down bit by bit to law enforcement and eventually the state and local law enforcement, too.

BROWN: In a statement, the Department of Justice would not confirm the existence of the technology but says any investigative techniques which the marshal service uses are for the apprehension of wanted individuals and not to conduct domestic surveillance or intelligence- gathering. Pamela Brown, CNN, Washington.

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PAUL: Government officials say they would obtain a court order or a search warrant before using the device. Anyone's data who is not the suspect is supposed to be discarded, but it's not clear right now how that's done nor how often.

JOHNS: Yeah, I'm sure a lot of people have a question about that, too.

The moments before the killing of Michael Brown captured on police dispatch tapes will have the newly released audio and hear directly from Darren Wilson, the officer who shot the teenager who was unarmed.

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UNIDENTIFIED BOY: Chicken nuggets, French fries, (INAUDIBLE) and a milkshake, my daddy ordered the same thing as me. That is my daddy.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My friend's father he was murdered. They have a bond, it was just a bond that a lot of kids don't have with their father.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I love my city, I have lived here all of my life. But people here are having crisis after crisis. I believe that the violence in this city and grief are directly connected.

UNIDENTIFIED BOY: I feel said that somebody hurt my dad.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A child's grief can be very different from adults. They can easily lose their identity and their security and that shift can be very dangerous.

There you go, write your feelings. How are you feeling today?

Our program provides that safe place for a child to recover.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hello. How are you doing?

MARCH-GRIER: Our volunteers help the children explore their feelings.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why did you choose red?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was angry when my dad passed away.

MARCH-GRIER: And talk about healthy ways of coping.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Get that anger out.

MARCH-GRIER: We teach our children that it's OK to cry.

His brother died, so he's feeling really sad.

Grief is truly a public health problem. We have got to begin to address it.

Coping is how we deal with our feelings.

We're helping to heal wounds and bring families back together again.

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PAUL: A remarkable lady right there.

JOHNS: Absolutely.