To force them. Military observers were blocked. This is the second straight day they have been stopped at a checkpoint managed by pro russian gunmen. Hours earlier, russia sank a second of its old navy ship to completely sale off a Ukrainian Naval base. That means several are trapped. They are completely out of service. In the meantime, in moscow, the parliament gave its support to crimean lawmakers that want their region to split from ukraine and join russia. Crimeans will vote in a referendum nine days from now. They say no sanctions will reverse their support. All that despite an hourlong telephone conversation between president obama and president putin. Mr. Obama pressed for direct talks between kiev and moscow. Both sides say that aides will continue negotiations. 175,000 jobs were added in february. It was a good month to be an accountant, architect or i. T. Person. The strongest hiring came in those areas. Why the higher Unemployment Rate . People were feeling better about their chances of finding work when they reentered the labor market . The ex girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius testifying about their relationship. She said the blade runner carried a gun all the time and slept with it nearby. She also said he thought he heard suspicious sounds at night back when they were together. Oscar woke me up and asked me if i had heard it. I said, it must have just been from the storm. There was a storm that night. So he got up with his gun and he walked out of the room. Is that the early yes occasion or were there other occasio occasions. There was probably one or two occasions where he woke me up to ask me if i had heard something, my lady. Now, he claims he shot and killed steenkamp in the bathroom because he thought she was an intruder. Court back in session on monday. The armys top sex crimes prosecutor himself accused of committing Sexual Misconduct at at Sexual Assault prevention conference. He groped a female lawyer. Some say it is an epidemic of Sexual Assault in the military. Sg. Fears of a serial killer stalking the washington, d. C. Suburbs. People in alexandria, virginia, told to be on their guard. They have linked bullets from three unsolved killings. A music teacher shot and killed after she answered a knock at the door. The fbi has sent in a profiler to help detectives get an idea of who they are dealing with here. Lets get more on our top story. Escalating prices in ukraine. For the second straight day, International Observers are turned away from entering crimea, the epicenter of this crisis. Our anna coryn is there. With us, is charles and anna. I want to start with you, anna, on the ground there. Whatest latest y wh thats the latest you are seeing on the ground there occupying crimea . Reporter we are getting unconfirmed reports at least from the Ukrainian Defense ministry that there is Something Like 30,000 Russian Troops now here in crimea. We are at a military base yesterday. We certainly saw hundreds of soldiers obvious will i nly not the russian uniform. There was no insignia. They were flying the russian flag and had russian license plate. They told us that 700 Russian Troops had arrived last week. We are getting reports that there is only going to be more in the coming days. Obviously, in the leadup to the referendum, we are counting down to the referendum which will take place on the 16th of march wiscons which will allow the citizens to decide if they want to stay with ukraine or break apart. Tensions rising here. In he dissent whatsoever, any voice other than that of prorussian supporters, is knocked down straight away. That seems like a much higher number than we have been led to believe of the number of troops in crimea. We have video that shows a group of masked men attacking a freelance journalist in crimea. You see them wrestle this journalist to the ground, point a gun at him, steal his phone. You can see it happening right there. The journalist told cnn he was using the phone to video the armed men after he watched them steal equipment from a tv crew. Are you seeing any evidence of a crackdown on journalists . Have you experienced anything like this . Reporter there certainly does seem to be a crackdown on the media. We know about the tv stations that have been shut down because they are giving a message other than the prorussian message. That has happened over the last 24 hours. He witnessed these paramilitary masked armed men taking away tv equipment. He took a couple of photos. One came up to him and forced him to the ground and put a gun to his head and took his camera and phone. This is a worrying trend if you like. We had our own experience yesterday. The hotel told us we could no longer broadcast. We had to shut down straight away or we would be kicked out. There is pressure being applied whether it would be from the local militia or the crimean government. We know they are extremely pro russian. They want to see the russian return returned to the motherland. There has been a crackdown on any dissent taking place here ukraines Prime Minister said separatists and other traders, your actions are unlawful. He is calling people that want to split from ukraine and go to russia as traders. They are being welcomed as heroes in moscow. Crimea might very well vote to become part of russia. The leaders in ukraine calling them traders. This, to me, sounds like there are some irreconcilable differences here. In crimea, we seem to be moving quite rapidly toward the session of declaration of independence and a move toward russia. The Russian Parliament has indicated they would welcome that move. Here in the United States and in the european union, we are kind of putting together increasing, escalating sanctions to tell the russians thats a nogo. These two sides are irreconcilable. This is not going to lead to blood shed in the sense that it is hard to imagine that ukraine would attack the Crimean Peninsula too keep it inside the country. Thats because the military balance between russia and ukraine is very lopsided. We seem to be headed down a quite dangerous road. Lets hope it does not lead to blood shed. Does it create an awkward situation for the United States in a position to argue against the right to selfdetermination . In general, the u. S. Stands by selfdetermination when it occurs in the consensual way. So, for example, czeheck coslovakia split up. In canada, it was voted down. In yugoslavia, s it occurred. Whats worrying about whats happening in the Crimean Peninsula and ukraine, there is no constitutional structure for this declaration of independence. As a consequence, we may be heading toward an outcome that leaves the peninsula in limbo. Technically, part of ukraine but russia sees it as part of russia. Then, where do we go . The russians have been no supporters of selfdetermination in the past. Charles, great to have you with us. Anna, in crimea, thanks so much. Military strategy, is there one for ukraine. I will be joined by james spider marks, as a u. S. Warship now heads to the region. Ahead for us at this hour, the famous orkas, the killer whales, the highlight of so many trips to seaworld. New legislation to ban the show. Is this a black fish backlash. The conversation about her mortgage didnt start here. It began on her vacation in europe on the day she arrived in london. Someone set up a bogus hotspot, stole her identity and opened some credit cards in her name. But shes not worried. Checking her Credit Report and score at experian. Com allowed her to better address the issue. And move right in. Experian. Live credit confident. ™ theyre about 10 times softer and may have surface pores where bacteria can multiply. Polident kills 99. 99 of odor causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains. 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Black fish backlash, hours from now a california lawmaker will unveil a proposed bill to put an end to seaworld san diegos famous shamu show. It would ban using killer whales in any show. He was moved to draft the bill after watching the cnn documentary black fish. So many people saw it. So many people were moved about i it. Seaworld has not commented. Joining me to discuss this are tory dunnan and jane velezmitchell. Tory, i want to start with you. What would this proposed law do . John, first of all, it is really important to put all of this into perspective. Note the fact that seaworld does have this major presence in san diego california. Lets talk about what this would do. To would reportedly prevent seaworld from using killer whales in shows. Thats the big headline, as well as potentially ban captive breeding. Reports are that bloom was, indeed, moved into action after watching the documentary black fish. Seaworld had dubbed this all as prob begpropaganda. I reached out to seaworld and the spokesman tells me they havent seen the specifics of the legislation yet. Once they do, they plan to issue a response a little bit later on in the day. We know there is a lot of legislation that gets to the table. Any sense this has a real chance of passing. John, it has really been called a bold proposal at this point. I mentioned sort of the impact seaworld has in san diego, california. We have got to wait to hear what this state lawmaker has to say later on in the day and kind of get a Temperature Check of people and their responses to this. Then, well just see where it goes from here. At this point, it is just proposed legislation. Thanks, tory. This proposal deals with killer whales and orkas. There are dolphins or seals and sea lions. Would this potentially impact them at some point . I hope so. I believe this is a turning point for the Animal Rights movement. We are going to start to look at a lot of animals that are ex plo exploited for human profit. The secret is out. Tilican weighs in at 1,000 pounds. That would be like you spending your entire life in a bathtub. Dont you think you would get a little agitated, violent and go a little psychco. These animals in the wild travel long distances. They travel in pods of 30 and have a very important connection to their mother and often travel alongside their mother the whole life. To rip them from the wild is obscene. To breed in captivity is equally obscene. We are taking a look at this issue. Kudos to black fish and cnn for putting this on. Now, the siecret is out. What you are talking about seems to go beyond just performance. You seem to have issues with the very idea of animals in cap hits which would include zoos. It would include a lot of things. There are millions of pigs kept in gestation crates. Pigs are highly intelligent. They are more intelligent than dogs. If you did it to a dog, you would be charged with animal cruelty. We have a twotier system of justice with animals. Some like dogs and cats, we care about. I do believe that Animal Rights is the emerging social Justice Movement of the 21st century. We c we can judge a society about how we treat the voiceless and helpless. This is a litmus test for civilization. As we said, they are talking about right now in california is orkas. Jane velezmitchell, we always like having you and your fashion. Ahead at this hour, he changed the discussion about marijuana in america. Our dr. Sanjay gupta, wait until you hear what he says about cannibus and why he calls our government irresponsible. Because it offers a superior level of protection. And because usaas commitment to serve current and former military members and their families is without equal. Begin your legacy. Get an Auto Insurance quote. Usaa. We know what it means to serve. To truck guys, the truck is everything. 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For me as the reporter, i get to look at the guy thats looking at the science, traveling around the world, talking to people, saying, let me challenge you on this science and look into the labs and all of that. The patients out there, the parents of these children are incredibly frustrated. They live in their home states where they dont have access to these medications. They see it potentially working for their kids. They cant get it. It is really frustrating. I use the word drakonian. It is an overused word. I think it perfectly describes this. We feel like we have gone back to the dark ages where politics has trumped science. There are times there is a fi fi failure to look at this. We shouldnt even use the word marijuana. Lets call it something completely different. Marijuana was a pejorative term since it was used. It was to conjure up images of these sexcrazed teenagers. It was for immigrants from mexico that were coming in, the local weed, all that kind of stuff. Cannabis is the scientific name. Some of them dedicated their lifes research to this topic. They call it cannabis. It is the scientific name. It gives it the respect it deserves. It is a small thing. It goes a long way towards changing the discussion. You have spent so many times with so many people in your first documentary and the second one for whom cannabus has made a huge difference. We show the kids with epilepsy. Those are clearly dramatic stories. There is a situation where they have come out and said, there are 3 Million People that have epilepsy in the United States of which about onethird, 1 million, are treatment resistant. Modern medicine isnt doing it for them. I dont want poem eople to say,s is a rare kid treatment. A woman with ms. Muscle spasms and the pain so debilitating she was confined to a wheelchair. She is now taking a medication paid from cannibusi. The fda called marijuana a schedule 1 substance, more lethal, threatening and evil, if you will, than cocaine or methamphetamines. Those have medical value. Pot doesnt. You point out this is a real issue. We have some sound bites that indicate that. Marijuana is one that they say has no medicinal value. It is the politics of pot hitting policy against patients, trapped in the middle, sick, qualified people who want medical marijuana but cant get it, because it is illegal. Cant they change this, cant a stroke of the pen change this problem . You are a practical person. I dont know you really well. You would like me if you got to know me. You are pragmatic and you look at this and you say the same thing that i do. This is baffling to me. There are so many problems in the world. I know there are so many nuances here. There is nothing about this that makes it a schedule 1 substance. A schedule 1 means it is in the most dangerous class of substances, the most addictive and highly abused substances and has no medicinal value. Neither one o those statements is true. 1936, we joke about refer madness. We are calling this cannibus madness. I dont know whats galvanizing the opposition. It doesnt break down along scientific, political, gender or age lines. There is this thrust to not allow this to happen. This is a very important discussion to be having. Your driving it. Thanks for doing that. There is so much more to learn in sanjays documentary. It is provocative, informative and it will be controversial, weed 2, cannabis madness premiers tuesday, march 11th at 10 00 p. M. Eastern right here on cnn. Ahead at this hour, u. S. Warship on the move. Russian vessels continue maneuvers. Routine or dangerous games as this crisis in ukraine rages on. [ girl ] seriously . Thats a lot of music. Seriously. Thats insane. And its 15 bucks a month for the family. Seriously . 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The russians are cementing their hold on the Crimean Peninsula. Several navy vessels are trapped out of service. In moscow, the parliament gave their support to lawmakers that want to split from ukraine and join russia. They will vote on a remember endumb nine days from now. They just told us the alliance can help ukraine modernize and strengthen their law enforcement. Ukraine noits a member of nato. Their military is no match for russias military. What is nato trying to do. Whats the strategy . I dont know that nato is explicitly recruiting ukraine. What nato has is a strong, vested interest in that area. They offer to help the ukraine and modernize the force and bring it into the 21st century and working as a member of a coalition, a bunch of different nations working together, which the rest of nato does as a matter of routine. Thats something ukraine needs to consider. Nato is wise to continue to offer it. H they are saying the russians have 30,000 troops in crimea. What i dont know is how many of those troops were based in crimea anyway as part of the black sea. 30,000 Russian Troops on that peninsula. That seems like an awful lot. What you need to focus in on is not just 30,000 in crimea but the for forces from russia that have not gone into ukraine. Point im making is putin has from the outset demonstrated an almost laserlike focus. He has reinforced success in crimea. If he would have wanted to take crimea, he would have done that by surprise and with mass and with an overload of forces last week. I can guarantee you, he is probably not going to go for the larger part of it. He is reinforcing what he has in crimea and thats whats most important. Ukraine needs to figure out what their next steps look like with crimea not as a full member of ukraine. It is an outrage. There are political autonomy issues. I get that. What were looking at is that crimea is going to become some part of a larger rush qua thats going to be determined illegitimately with this referendum coming up. I think thats a fait accompli. You are being the voice of calm here saying the Russian Military is showing restraint. Ill let you be the voice of calm once again. The uss truxton heading to the black sea. It is part of a deployment scheduled before the crisis. Is anything ever retune when you are dealing with a crisis like this . Oh, of course not. No, no, no. Conditions are entirely different. Look. This destroyer deployment and destroyers dont go by themselves. It might be the truxton that you see. If somebody was to do something untoward and to put at risk that crew and that ship. The conditions are entirely different now. Crimea now essentially belongs to russia. A lot of forces in crimea. The International Community is paying attention to this. This deployment was determined to be underway weeks, if not months, ago. Of course, conditions are different. You have to exercise some extreme caution. It is absolutely within the variety of the United States and all members to can assess international waters, which is what the black sea is. You said exercise extreme caution. What kind of orders do you think the commander of that vessel and the other troops are under right now . Behave calmly. Dont do anything provocative. Behave calmly is not an order in the military. It is a good stab on your part. The issue is forced protection is rule number one. If the crew of the truxton is at risk at any moment and the commander on board that ship has the authority to determine that level of threat, he has ever authorization to engage to protect his ship, not to advance any Additional Missions but to protect what he has. It is very tense. These sailors have been trained for years in terms of how to do this. They know what they are doing. It is a matter o assess and see the environment. Thanks for setting me straight, spider, on military terminology. Not every day you get dressed down by a military general. No, no, no the at all. Ahead at this hour, a woman sits in her garage for six years. Why . Because she is dead. How is it that no one knew, no neighbor, no familiar pli . Is this really possible . Thats next. Spokesperson the Volkswagen Passat tdi clean diesel can go 795 highway miles on a single tank. Huh. So you could drive from los angeles all the way philadelphia with just three stops for fuel. Thats just a hop, skip, and a jump. Try that in another midsize sedan. Its more of a hop. A skip. A jump. A leap. Maybe a schlep. Probably a hurdle. A little bit of a trek. Avo during the tdi clean diesel event, get a 1,000 fuel reward card and 0. 9 apr for 60 months. Time for our hot flash stories. Ashleigh banfield is here this afternoon. We brought you here because you have a lot to say. Interpret that as you will. Just like my mother. Interpret that as you will. We are going too view a shocking story out of michigan, the body of a woman found in her car. Authorities believe she had been sitting there in the garage for six years dead. Maybe more than six years. Apparently, her bills were getting paid through her online bill pay. Her neighbor cut her grass for her but apparently never checked on her. She was known to travel a lot. People did not think much of it. We are told when they didnt see her. But six years is a long time to be in a garage and have no one notice. You think. What i find strange is that they actually did a welfare check on her. Police came to the house. You have heard of these things. They come to check and see that everything is okay. Apparently, this he didnt seem to think it was a problem there was no answer at the house. They didnt do anything more thorough than that. The other thing i find really troubling. Does she have in he friends . Was there not one friend in her life or Family Member that might have thought, i havent heard from her in a while . As you said on many levels, how could someone go missing for six years and have no one connected to them who would check on them in some way . This is sort of a weird medical fen om nphenomenon. She is found in the back seat of her car in her garage. Her skin was completely intact. She didnt decompose. She had automatic bill pay that went on and on. No one noticed she wasnt paying her bills. It works until your bank account dries up and then they come check on you for real. En o the subje on the subject of money, a story out of vegas. A gambler loses 5,000. He is suing the casino. He says he shouldnt have to pay the debt because he was drunk, very drunk, so drunk he blacked out. He says the casino should have stopped serving him booze when they saw how drunk he was. You know legal stuff. Does that make any sense to you . Im going to go on the record right off the bat saying the casino is not talking because they know they are involved in litigation. I cant get the full story from the casino. I know this. They have the video all over the place in every casino. I think there will be a tale of the tape. It will make its way into the courtroom if they ever see a courtroom. I have a time to settle. I have a tough time with a drunk argument about everything. I dont think i have ever seen one where somebody gets one back from the casino. It is very rare. How do you spell respect . President obama had some trouble with it at an event with aretha franklin. When aretha first told us what rspe kct meant to her. Had this been dan quayle, would we be making a much bigger deal out of this than we are . I was thinking he was crazy like a fox, wanted to show us off. If you ask me how i spell respect, berman. I get hot flashes when people spell. I am bad with the matte. I will not do any live math. 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My fellow conservatives, the future of this nation is upon you. It belongs to you all right. That place was going nuts, as you can see. The other big story thats been coming out of cpac is something of a request for a political resurrection from new jersey governor Chris Christie, who in his speech took some swipes at, well, the media. Lets listen. We have to stop letting the media define who we are and what we stand for. Because when we talk about what were for, no matter what state were in, our ideas win. All right. I want to bring in our chief congressional correspondent, dana bash, and the host of cnns reliable sources, ryan stillter. Dana, let me start with you here. Rick perry. Wow, that was something huh . It was something. I was here, he was in the room. It was quite a speech and quite a response that he got from the crowd. Particularly since it was the very first speech of the day, and usually it takes some time to get the crowd going. I said in a tweet that the crowd here didnt need coffee, the way he was getting them going. And look, he knows how to give a speech like that. Youve probably seen it before, john. Youve been on the road and covering campaigns and in which he has been a part. And that was the guy who many republicans, most republicans, were expecting to show up in 2012. Thats why there was so much buzz around him back then. And there was a lot of disappointment that in the series of many, many debates that republicans had, he not only didnt do that, but he fumbled a lot, particularly on the issue that he was just talking about in that sound bite you ran, which is the concept of the ideas coming from the states, the policies coming from the states, and that governing should really come from the states. Remember when he was trying to say that departments should be abolished and couldnt remember the second or third. So that was really what that was about, a very different thing. And i have to share something quickly. Our peter han bee just ran into governor perry in the hallway and said i hope this speech here lets people look at me and give me a Second Chance and quickly caught himself. And i said, if it is in fact i decide to run. No kidding. Its clear rick perry thinks hes a better candidate than 2012. A lot of republicans from texas and elsewhere think he is a better candidate and its clear he is considering a run. Brian stillter, lets talk about the other future possible president ial candidate in 2016. Chris christie. What do you do when times are tough . You take a swipe at the media. Brian, you cover the media. What do you make of this . Yes, and he did so very effectively. He mentioned the media more than almost any other speaker yesterday at the conference. There does seem to be this sense i dont know how well it can be documented with data. But at least anecdotally, a sense of a comeback for Chris Christie among his fans, among a conservative group. And i think george will brought that up very interestingly on fox news earlier this week. Lets play the bite where george will is talking about msnbc and Chris Christie. Msnbc has been a great benefit to christie. Msnbc has at most a onetrack mind and it has been just obsessed with him. And my enemys enemy is my friend so a lot of people are warming up to him. There is obviously a lot more reporting to come about Chris Christie and the various scandals in new jersey. But that point is very important, i think. That if you rally against the media, and in particular against msnbc, youre going to score a lot of opponents with conservatives. It should be noted Chris Christie has a lot of friends in the media too, that gave him awfully nice coverage. So in some cases biting the hand that feeds him. And by the way, a whole lot of reporters at cpac covering the conference, even though theres lots of media criticism that comes out of these gatherings, there is also a ton of coverage of it. We can take a few punches. Dana, theres another story again just coming out over the last few minutes about this conference and another big speaker, paul ryan. Explain to me what happened and why hes now apologiesing for something he said. Thats right. Its certainly an unfortunate incident for paul ryan, who gave quite a moving speech. I was here, listening to it yesterday, talking about in this part of the speech about the concept of the people, even children want to do things for themselves. A republican ideal, from his perspective, and talked about a story that he said that was related to him from the secretary of children and welfare back in his home state of wisconsin. That a boy was coming to school, he was getting government assisted lunch. But he wanted a brown paper bag like everybody else, because it shows that their parents or at least somebody cares about them. It turns out that that story is something that was in a book several years ago, and that it is something that paul ryan threw he himself has posted on his facebook, apologizing for saying he did not realize that. That this is actually something that this official in wisconsin had relayed to him at a congressional hearing last year and didnt realize that it wasnt in fact something that apparently happened but was from a book. Its unfortunate, because this isnt the first time Something Like this has happened to paul ryan. You remember during the 2012 campaign, there were issues with questions about a marathon time he ran and other things like that. It was really given the fact that he gave a like i said, i was here, a very powerful and moving speech about this, and also just ideas in general, something that is clouding that bigtime now. All right. Dana bash, Brian Stelter, thank you so much. Paul ryan did put that statement on facebook for everyone to see. Youll have much of more on Brian Stelter on reliable sources this sunday, 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific time. In our final thought, an interesting tribute, a tribute to a man who made a huge contribution to baseball without ever hitting a pitch or stealing a base. It came in the operating room. What did he do . He invented a type of surgery. Dr. Frank job died yesterday in santa monica at the age of 88. He was an Orthopedic Surgeon who pioneered tommy john surgery. Tommy john, it looked like his career was over after he had a serious elbow injury, a ligament in his throwing arm snapped in 1974. But dr. Job, this man, took a chance, and performed a ligament transplant, took a ligament from his forearm, put it in his elbow, and a year later, tommy john came back as good as new. In some cases, even better. John pitched 14 more years. 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