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Tape. The person who filmed the video is a hero. What happened before that tape started rolling . Lets talk live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you for joining me. We begin in South Carolina where outrage is growing after a policeinvolved shooting leaves an unarmed black man dead. This understanding that we dont want to be divided amongst a race. That was the scene just moments ago on the steps of the North Charleston city hall where a rally is taking place. The officer in question now in custody and charged with murder. An fbi investigation has been launched after that shocking video filmed by an unanimous source shows the deadly encounter. I want to warn you, the video youre about to see is disturbing. The man, 50yearold walter scott, you can see him running from the officer. This incident began with a traffic stop over a broken taillight. That officer, Michael Slager firing multiple times at scott as hes running away. As i said slager has been charged with murder. Cnns Martin Savidge is in North Charleston in front of city hall. Tell us more martin. Reporter theres a demonstration going on as you so pointed out. Its under the broad banner of black lives matter. There are people here from the local community and elsewhere. Theres probably several dozen people. Theyve been expressing a number of points of view. One of them has been that there should be the stepping down of the mayor of this community. Also they pointed out that there is a difference between the racial mix of the Police Officers which is about 70 white, versus the community which is about 50 africanamerican. And then on top of that there is just the anger over the shooting itself. Heres some of what was said. This has been a long standing affair. This has been a long standing occurrence and something that weve had to live with. What youre going to hear is the passion of the people right now. Not reacting to a video like you might be reacting to but reacting to a live situation and opportunity to finally share with the world and finally put the spotlight on North Charleston city hall. Its time. Its time. Reporter theres been talk that it is time for change. Thats pretty much what people have been saying here. No one is espousing any kind of violence. No one is espousing any kind of actual physical anger. They say change is needed here. Change politically. Change in the attitude of Law Enforcement and change in the attitude of local media which they say has too often been on the side of Law Enforcement and ignoring the side of victims. Martin savidge reporting live from North Charleston South Carolina. That officer is charged with murder. The department of justice, the civil rights division, is working with the fbi to figure out exactly what happened and so are we. With me now, hln legal analyst and criminal defense attorney joey jackson and former new York City Police detective harry. Harry, you watched this tape a lot. At any point as you watch that tape did you say to yourself this officer is in fear for his life . No. No. This was definitely not a justified shooting. I cant even see why the officer would have drew his weapon. This man was definitely running away from him. In a situation like that where he automatically drew his weapon and fired eight times at this man, i mean im just as shocked as everybody else seeing this video. Theres no way this officer can justify. He has zero defense in trying to protect himself from prosecution in this case. One of the most disturbing aspects in the case is the officer fired seven shots and then he paused and fired again. You dont learn that at the police academy, do you . Well i cant tell you why he fired eight shots, seven shots, paws paused and fired another shot. I dont know whats going through his mind. I cant understand it at all. Okay. We dont know what started it all, right . We know that this mr. Scott was pulled over because his taillight was broken right . Why would he get out of the car . Well what ive read is apparently theres a warrant out for him for back child support. Its really funny. People run for a lot of stupid things. You know, i had it happen to me before. At the end of said what are you running for . This is nothing. Im taking you in and youre out. Here apparently the guy didnt want to be arrested. Ran off. They got into an altercation where the officer tased him. Apparently the taser didnt work or he got the taser away from the officer. Still, he was running away from the officer. All he had to do was wait for his backup. If the officer did not want to fight him, thought he was too big or Something Like that all the officer had to do was follow him. Run behind him. Wait for his backup to come and then take the guy in custody. When youre going to arrest someone because you go back to your police car and you find out theres a warrant out for this guy, is it protocol to arrest him yourself or do you wait for backup . It depends. I have made many arrests on my own. It depends when someone starts resisting arrest the whole thing changes. Now you can be this guy can hurt me. It depends on how you feel as an officer. I used to call for a backup first and then place the person under arrest and if we got an altercation, my backup would arrive on time. Thats when i was by myself. Most of the time its two officers in a radio car. In North Charleston its one. That could be a problem. Maybe if there were two officers here this may not have happened today. There are protests going on right now at city hall. People are angry. Yet this officer has been charged with murder. Some people wonder what more do you want . He has been carol. If you examine it you have to look at the law and match it to what the officer was doing. There are three things that need to be evaluated here. The first thing youre going to look at is the immediacy of the threat. Was there imminent danger to the officer such that he might have been justified in drawing that weapon much less using the weapon. Second thing you turn to is the proportionality of the threat to the force that was used. Did he act in a way that was grossly disproportionate to any danger or threat posed to him. The third thing you look at is the reasonableness of the conduct. I think thats what ultimately a jury will be looking at. To the credit of this community, there was an arrest here. There was a charge here. And the mayor even is saying you know what . When youre wrong youre wrong. Ultimately we have a system of justice. It will be left to that system of justice. When you examine that against the backdrop of the three things i mentioned to you and then the other troubling facts, the shots to the back. The fact that when you look at the entire video you see the officer looking at and placing what appears to be some type of weapon next to the body. The fact that hes unarmed. So many things are troubling about this case. I think the people in that community are wondering theres been a lot of Police Shootings in the state of South Carolina. I have some statistics here thanks to paul callan. South Carolina Police fire their weapons at 209 suspects in the past five years. A handful of officers were accused of pulling the trigger illegally but none has been convicted according to an analysis by the state newspaper. Its rare for an officer to be found at fault criminally for shooting at someone. In this case theres video, right . If you live in that community, you would wonder how often does this happen and what dont we know . We cant really say that. 209 shootings and nobody held accountable in any of them . Do you know how many shot were white . Im just saying making turning this into a racial issue. We dont know if its a racial issue. We dont know what was in that officers mind at the time. Would he have shot the man if he was white . I dont know. Anybody who says they do know is lying. They have no clue. I have no clue. White, black or green, we can evaluate that video and make the judgment that the actions are unreasonable under those circumstances particularly when youre not close. The person is running away. Theres a distance. 10 15 20 feet. I dont know. We dont have a measurement. The department of justice is going to investigate that very thing. Is it racially motivated . That will be hard to prove. Unless this man says i did shoot him just because hes a black man, all right, its insane. You know that the standard of proof for a civil rights violation is very very high. Its high. Intentional deprivation of a right. If you look at this its just very troubling why shoot . The person is running away. What was the other justification and sometimes, harry, you just have to look at the surrounding circumstances to get what the intent of the individual was and to your statistics there about South Carolina shootings, i think we could agree that its very difficult anywhere to sort of get Police Officers i dont want to say to have them held accountable, each situation is different. Law enforcement officers you know what they have to act under split second direction. This person seemingly had time to act and that was the choice that he made. I dont know it was the proper choice. You cant go on the assumptions there were that many shootings, all the shootings were bad. You cant go under the assumption that all shootings were good. Im sure they were investigated. They were either exonerated or went to jail. Thats the system we have to work with. We cant make an assumption because there are so many shootings a lot of them are bad. I will say this. The officer in this video didnt appear stressed out at all to me. He appeared very calm. Supposedly he dropped that taser near the victims body to cover up his crime. Couldnt that be a cultural problem . I dont know if thats a cultural problem. I know thats a problem. If he did in the video you really cant see what hes picking up. I cant tell if thats a taser or not. Im sure were going to find out whether or not there was a taser or not. This officer did go back to where he first fired the shots and grabbed that taser and put it down near the body this guy is in enough trouble the way it is. Hes going to jail for the rest of his life. The fact that hes picking up anything and bringing it next to the body is troubling and goes to what we call a consciousness of guilt. If what you did was proper and appropriate, why do that in the first instance. We dont need to assume in this case. Why . Because of these things. Cell phones. People have them out. That recorded exactly what we see. Should we believe our lying eyes . The reality is that it seems to suggest what we say, we see. Period. I have to leave it there. Thank you so much to both of you for your insight. I appreciate it. Inside attack. A member of the Afghan National Army Opens Fire killing a u. S. Soldier. An investigation now under way. Well talk about that next. Okay, listen up im reworkin the menu. Mayo . Corn dogs . You are so outta here aah [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of greattasting ensure. 24 vitamins and Minerals Antioxidants and 9 grams of protein. [ bottle ] ensure®. Nutrition in charge™. Most of the products we all buy are transported on container ships. Before a truck delivers it to your store, a container ship delivered it to that truck. Here in san diego, were building the first one ever to run on natural gas. 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Military in position outside of the building we understand as well. Now, this meeting ended and the u. S. Diplomats and military came out to take the helicopters according to Afghan Police that normally ferry them around that area. Thats when what were told by afghan officials an afghan soldier on top of an Afghan Military vehicle opened fire with a heavy machine gun. In these situations because these insider attacks called green on blue instance in which rogue Afghan Security forces attack nato personnel because they are increasingly common and theres Guardian Angels in place which is security detail of u. S. Soldiers whose job is specifically to protect u. S. Soldiers as they interact with Afghan Security forces. Imagine that surreal departure. It seems the security detail would have fired back because the afghan assailant was killed. Two other Afghan Security forces were injured. Its unclear if they were also involved in the attack or quite how that came to be. As we know at this stage, one u. S. Soldiers killed. Thats the first for u. S. Forces since december and possible there are other members of the Coalition Forces there injured. Mostly u. S. In that area. Polish too. Unclear nationalities here but a stark day really. A reminder of the threat now still in place for our u. S. Forces on the ground even though the mission is so much more limited and extended by the white house by an announcement a few weeks ago but americas longest war drawing to a close with this chilling Insider Threat against u. S. Personnel. Fatal for one american soldier today, carol. Nick paton walsh reporting live for us. Thank you so much. Still to come in the newsroom, day two of deliberations in the boston murder trial under way. Jurors sending back questions to the judge as they try to reach a verdict. Well talk about that next. When youre living with diabetes steady is exciting. Only glucerna has carbsteady clinically proven to help minimize blood sugar spikes. Im a bull rider make it part of your daily diabetes plan. So you stay steady ahead. Right now jurors are behind closed doors trying to decide the fate of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. On tuesday the jury debated for more than seven hours. No verdict was reached but jurors did send two questions back to the court. Lets talk about that. Lets bring in Deborah Feyerick and im joined by hln legal analyst and criminal defense attorney joey jackson. Welcome to both of you. Welcome back joey. Deborah, we know what those questions were. There were two notes. The jury is paying close attention to the language and precise language being used. They had a question to conspiracy and to aiding and abetting. They wanted to know whether conspiracy was a single event or it would take place over a continuing amount of time. The judge said its not limited. Its over time. They also had a question about aiding and abedtting and whether that was two separate ideas or one. The judge said it was one. So when you think about what they asked about, conspiracy it applies to count one, using weapons of mass destruction and using a bomb to destroy a public place and destroying public property. Two are Death Penalty eligible. When you look at the verdict sheet, the verdict sheet has the counts that are listed and then they have to vote on subcategories and they wanted to know if they find him guilty of a particular charge do they then have to go to the subcharge. Can they say yes hes guilty of using a weapon of mass destruction or find that he killed all of them individually. The judge said they had to be unanimous on all of that. They are asking about conspiracy questions intrigues me. They are thinking very hard about whether the brother convinced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to commit these crimes. I like the fact that these jurors are asking questions like this. It certainly is our system at work. These are people who you look at the nature of the heinous act could certainly phone it in and say its enough for me this person enacted so much devastation upon our community ill go back and vote guilty. Theyre not doing that. What does conspiracy mean . An intent to agree. Do the two have to agree to commit an act. Is it over a period of time . Is it not . Could you aid or not abet or is it one and the same . Its significant they are going back to determine do the facts match the law which would match that verdict sheet. Judy clark is probably saying to herself maybe a small glimmer of hope . Its interesting. Because shes the one who said look tamerlan brought the pressure cookers and the backpacks and it was tamerlans fingerprints all over this. So now they are basically saying okay that conspiracy does he have to have physically touched that or is just knowing this was going on knowing his brother was doing this does that mean he aided and abetted. Its parsing language on serious death eligible accounts. The jury may or may not decide whether hes guilty of all of them or some of them and then the Death Penalty phase of the trial begins. Its interesting. Before the trial starts all of them were asked how they felt about the Death Penalty. It was interesting to read some of their comments at the time. So juror number 138 on the jury is a white man who works for the water department. He said death can sometimes seem like an easy way out. It can go both ways i guess. Juror number 395, executive assistant at a Law Firm Says i thought i was against it but once you think about it things change. Then theres juror 229. A homemaker. If you asked me this question 20 years ago i would have said definitely not. So while some might think because of the heinousness of these crimes that it would be easy to sentence someone to death, it really isnt until you have to do it right . Its so true carol. You see it from their comments. What do you want on a jury . You want people like this who can be openminded and say ill kill. Its a consideration. Ill keep an open mind. Its difficult. I may apply it and may not apply. These jurors are Death Penalty qualified. All those people who came into the courtroom and said under no circumstance would i apply the Death Penalty, theyre not on this jury. Those with open minds are sitting there. So judy clark is trying to paint this kid as somebody who is enslaved to his brothers beliefs but people in boston feel he should not get the Death Penalty because that would mean he would become a martyr. It would be a much harsher penalty if he spent the rest of his life in prison. Why didnt she go that route . That goes to the whole do you believe in the Death Penalty or not believe in the Death Penalty from a philosophical point of view. The reason she didnt go that route is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for all intents and purposes thought he was going to die that day. The note he wrote in the boat he was jealous his brother died and he did not. He thought okay god has a different plan for me. Im here. Ill tell my story of why i did this. Judy clark says he was brainwashed. Some people say, look let him rot in prison. Why give these want to be jihadies cause to come and do this since theyll reach heaven and reach their own version of paradise. So it is an interesting question about whether he should stay in prison. Thats what the anybody who said im against the Death Penalty, theyre not sitting on that jury right now and judy clark said keep an open mind just as you just said. Well see more about that when the penalty phase begins. We can presume there will be guilty here and well hear about mitigating and why shouldnt you put him to death or why should you put him to death. Should be interesting. Thanks so much. In the meantime another jury is trying to decide the fate of former nfl star aaron hernandez. 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This is a season for us to speak out. We sit around and we talk. We talk and we sit around and our voices are silent. This is a season. This is our opportunity to speak out and let everybody know whats going on in North Charleston. The brother of the victim is speaking to cnn about the moment he learned of his brothers death and the message he has for Police Across the country. When i first heard something bad happened to my brother, i just thought that he had went down and maybe had gotten injured at the traffic stop. And when i learned that he was dead i just couldnt believe that Something Like that would happen from a traffic stop. I know that he didnt have anything you know, tremendous happening to him in his life. What could have happened . Gone wrong actually. I would like for america to know that we want this to stop. I would like for cops to be accountable and let them know that if they try this again, somebody may be watching so they need to think twice before they fire their weapons. An attorney for the scott family say they do plan to file a lawsuit. Still to come in the newsroom, broken lamps, fiery roads, life in the Clinton White house. Brianna keilar has the story. Reporter if the walls could talk what if the staff could talk . They are. Theyre talking on the record about recent inhabitants of the white house in the new book the residence. Well give you the dish next. An help you find a great deal on a hotel room. However, it wont help you if you lock yourself out of your hotel room in your underpants. Than ks captain obvious. No need to thank me, since i havent helped you in the slightest. Big day . Ah, the usual. Moved some new cars. Hauled a bunch of steel. Kept the supermarket shelves stocked. Made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. Whats up for the next shift . Ah, nothing much. Just keeping the lights on. laugh nice. Doing the big things that move an economy. See you tomorrow, mac. See you tomorrow, sam. Just another day at norfolk southern. If you are the president or first lady your secrets may not be so secret after all. A new book titled the residence inside the private world of the white house is spilling the beans on the most intimate president ial moments of bill and Hillary Clinton. Its got some pretty shocking revelations. Cnn senior Political Correspondent Brianna Keilar has read the book cover to cover. She joins us now to dish. Its a very interesting book. It pulls back really the curtain on the white house and you get to see every day that many recent first families have gone through. You learn who is the most particular nancy reagan, perhaps the most peculiar resident lbj and most paranoid many members of their staff said it was the clintons. As bill and Hillary Clinton prepare to fight their way back into the white house, a new book reveals details about the explosive arguments they had inside its halls. There was blood all over the president and first ladys bed. The blood was bill clintons. What did they think had happened . Everyone on the staff said that they were convinced she clocked him with a book. Reporter in an interview at the time clinton dismissed rumors she had thrown a lamp at the president. I have a pretty good arm. If i threw a lamp at somebody you would have known about it. Reporter insiders say the Monica Lewinsky scandal left her reeling. One summer day hillary was escorted to the pool. She wouldnt have to see secret service agents. No staffers. She didnt want to see anyone. She specifically said that. And so he was so proud he was able to make this happen. Reporter just a few of the juicy tidbits in a largely on the record account of life behind the scenes in the white house. Kate anderson interviewed dozens of former maids, chefs, florist, butlers and doormen dating back to the kennedy years for the residence inside the private halls of the white house. Their accounts of life at 1600 pennsylvania avenue ripped from the script of the cbs series Downton Abbey and the lack of privacy in the white house is a constant theme in the book. They describe bill and hillary as the most private first couple they worked for. I had staffers say the clintons were the most paranoid first family they ever had to work with. They didnt ever fully trust the staff. It took them a year to carry on a conversation while staff was in the room. The clintons had the white house phone system rewired to make their own calls instead of going through an operator. They were worried about people listening in on their phone calls. Clintons ultimately did get on with the staff and the book reveals sweet moments. For instance in the height of the lewinsky scandal, carol, there is a pastry chef who says that Hillary Clinton would call frequently to get her favorite dessert and he took a lot of pride in providing her that comfort and then also its interesting to note the female staff at the time in the res residence made it known they were happy that Hillary Clinton had relegated bill clinton to the couch. I dont know. It strikes me as wrong that the white house staff is dishing like this. You would think they would sign papers preventing them from doing that. I wonder if there are some protections now and maybe there might be in response to this book. I think its important to note that there are a lot of very positive antidotes in this book as well. But of course you get these more salacious tidbits and those are things that people focus on so much. You really do get a sense in the way a lot of people are infatuated with Downton Abbey you get a sense of the every day and its an interesting look inside. Im going to read it. Brianna keilar thanks so much. Question now, will this provide more fodder for Hillary Clintons run for the white house . In an interview with politico paul took direct aim at Hillary Clintons character and honesty saying theres a lot of stuff there that is going to shake the confidence of americans in her ability to lead in an honest fashion. Rand paul went onto say i think a lot of americans are going to say that doesnt pass the smell test. With me to talk about this and more democratic strategist former Communications Director for john edwards and also joining us cnn political commentator who is the executive editor of the national review. Welcome to both of you. Thank you. Thanks for being here. Chris, have you read the book yet . Its not going to be on my mustread list. I can tell you that right now. Come on. Why . Well i mean listen i love gossipy stuff as much as anybody but this is what this is. Its gossip unsubstantiated rumors and its 25 years old. My goodness. Are we really still talking about this . Most americans have moved on. I get that it makes interesting fodder for some people who live for this stuff, but in terms of how it influences voters and their opinions about whom theyre going to support for president , it wont have any impact. Do you agree . Monica lewinsky has come back into the public eye as well. I think that its going to remind americans of what maybe they didnt like so much about clintons first time around. I think the much bigger issue is whats happened since bill and Hillary Clinton have left office and about the enormous fundraising machine they built about the Clinton Foundation and some donors. These are interesting questions. I think the issue around having your own private email server i think theres a sense that these guys arent so accountable and that they spent a lot of time around very wealthy people rather than around the people who actually made them political successes in the first place. Those are much more interesting questions politically than the fact they might have been paranoid about staff. Paranoid which makes sense by the way. The paranoia thing might tap into the most recent email crisis because that would make you understand about why Hillary Clinton might have had that private server in her home. I think its a bit of a stretch. The email issue is i understand why republicans are going to fixate on this because to be honest they wont run on policies and positions. If rand paul thinks hes going to become president of the United States by having positions that are against the civil rights act, against pay equity womens equality thats not a winning agenda in 2016. Republicans will fixate on every angle of attack. If secretary clinton runs and it looks like shes going to shes going to have to answer those questions. I do not think that these are going to be defining issues because at the end of the day, its a choice between the two parties in particular the two candidates is so stark in terms of what kind of future they want to create that that becomes the deciding factor and not whether she had character does matter. There are a lot of democrats who feel a bit awkward about the fact they may have Hillary Clinton as their nominee and people think, gosh who else can we get in the mix . Theres a new generation of Democratic Leaders who dont necessarily have this kind of baggage. I think with all due respect, speaking as a democrat i can tell you that i dont hear a lot of nervousness about secretary clinton being the nominee. I have to say that your old boss is someone that challenged democrats on a wide range of issues. The concern is that there are many moderate voters who may have been democrats in another era and White Working Class voters who Hillary Clinton doesnt really speak to. I think its legitimate to want to have a real debate within the party about Hillary Clintons choices, about the Clinton Foundation about who they spend their time with. Its perfectly valid for people to raise those issues. No problem with having a real debate. Its not all republican and democrat. Im looking forward to the debate in the republican primary to see rand paul and ted cruz and jeb bush thankfully well have a robust debate because well have a ton of candidates. Will very have that on the democratic side . Were going to have that on the gop side. If you mean by robust debate youre arguing about positions that are antithetical to what most americans believe its notabout laying out a vision that reflects the reality that the country moved in a new direction. Theres a spectrum of opinion among democrats and legitimate to want those issues out and i think there are a lot of people that dont feel Hillary Clinton speaks to rank and file democrats. I have to leave it there. There is no expect rumspectrum of opinion on the republican side. I would say that you were right a minute ago. Very narrow field. Thanks to both of you. Hear from republican president candidate rand paul on the situation room with wolf blitzer at 5 00 p. M. Eastern. Still to come the u. S. Is rushing weapons into yemen. Well talk about that next. Lets take a look at your credit. I know i have a 786 fico score, thanks to all the tools and help on experian. Com. So how are we going to sweeten this deal . Floor mats. Clear coats. Youre getting warmer. Leather seats. And this. My wife bought me that. Get your credit swagger on. Become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. Fico scores are used in 90 of credit decisions. The United States is speeding up its weapons delivery to saudi led forces in yemen. An International Division of the red cross is set to deliver 16 tons of humanitarian aid as desperate civilians flee. This is the coalition delivering yet another blow to rebels. Our Senior International correspondent Nic Robertson is in saudi arabia near the border with yemen with more. Hi nic. Reporter hi carol. There have been saudi coalitionled air strikes against the capital and against the houthi strongholds in the north. Intense fighting in the south. Doctors without borders who run a hospital there say they are desperately short of medical supplies. They say theyve been able to land a boat in that port town containing 2 to 3 tons of medical supplies. The red cross is trying to land their medical supplies. Havent been able to do it so far. We are hearing as well that the United States from the deputy secretary of state is saying that there will be an increase in the supply of ammunition to the saudis and sharing of intelligence not actually giving target lists but helping to review their target lists to reduce collateral damage. All of this happening, the u. S. Secretary of defense saying that in all this chaos, al qaeda is taking advantage. The situation is still an obviously very unsettled and there are a number of different warring parties as your question indicates. Houthies are one. Aqap is another one that seized the opportunity of the disorder there and the collapse of the Central Government and of course aqap is a group that were very concerned with as the United States because in addition to having other regional ambitions and ambitions within yemen, we all know that aqap has the ambition to strike western targets including the United States. Reporter we have just been getting unconfirmed reports from the Regional Security source that al qaeda has in the port city on the south coast here taken several naval vessels, seven fast navy small intercept boats and two coast guard vessels. This is whats happening. This is how al qaeda is taking advantage of the situation. Nic robertson reporting live from saudi arabia this morning. Thank you. Ill be right back. Headache . Motrin helps you be an unstoppable, letsrockthisconcert likeits1999 kind of mom. Back pain . Motrin helps you be the sideplanking keepingupwith yourgirlfriend eventhoughyoullfeelit later kind of woman you are. Body pain . Motrin helps you be an unstoppable, icantotallydothis allinonetrip kind of woman. When pain tries to stop you, theres motrin. Motrin works fast to stop pain where it starts. Make it happen with new motrin liquid gels. Ride away by roy orbison begins to play i ride the highway. Im going my way. I leave a story untold. 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Officials say it will be a couple days before they finish processing the scene. Blue bell ice cream expanding a major recall over listeria concerns. Pints of banana pudding ice cream made in a facility in oklahoma are among products being recalled. Others include butter crunch mint chocolate chip, homemade van aylail mint chocolate chip, homemade van aylailla and dutch chocolate. Prince harry thinks selfies are a royal pain. They may be all the craze from the red carpet to the white house to the vatican but the young prince thinks selfies are just bad. Heres jeanne moos. Reporter it took a prince to put his royal foot down moments after one australian fan tried to sneak a selfie with prince harry. He gently but firmly said no. Someone finally willing to exercise selfie control. Even the queen has been caught in selfies though its been said her majesty photo bombed these two field hockey players. They say they posed where they figured she would walk by. Watch the fan in washington, d. C. Make a beeline for prince charles. Shake his hand. Pose. And then celebrate. First, let me take a selfie. Reporter no one is immune from the pope to the president and the vice president. Mr. Obama even joked around with a selfie stick as he did some stick to promote healthcare. Selfies have been around since before they were called selfies. In 1966 the first space selfie was taken and back on earth skyscraper selfies are popular and below ground in the pit of a volcano, george put on a horse mask and snapped a selfie. From horses to lions from lions to bulls, this guy was taking selfies during the running of the bulls. But the prince took the bull by the horns and said you may not take a selfie. When it comes to just say no to selfies, the red headed prince rules. Jeanne moos, cnn, new york. My favorite prince. Thank you so much for joining me today. Im