4:00 eastern time monday jake tapper it is the lead. you don t want to miss it. thank you. thanks, jake. coming up, this hour she s back. jodi arias on the stand for an 18th day of questioning. she is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her boyfriend, but arias says it was self-defense. and then the boy scouts of america asking parents if they think having a gay troop leader is safe. the group s sexuality survey. and new york major michael bloomberg is trying to limit sugary drinks in the big apple, well, some mississippi lawmakers are trying to stop something like that from happening in their state with the anti-bloomberg bill. how are they trying to do that? and why? plus, we are officially on chimney watch. the cardinals are inside the sistine chapel voting for a new pope. if they decide on a new leader of the catholic church, they will release white smoke. this is cnn newsroom. for yo
surveillance tape spotted an unknown man talked to terrilynn monette. police questioned him and released him. they re not holding him as a person of interest and they have not named any suspects, but that surveillance tape did catch her leaving at around 4:00 a.m. that s the last anyone has seen of her. we know you ll keep us informed as you get information. thanks so much. nick valencia. a barge hit a gas pipeline in the louisiana bayou. u.s. coast guard says the barge was carrying thousands of gallons of fuel. they re letting the fire burn because the flames are too dangerous. the tug was pushing an oil barge when it hit the underwater line. four people on board, one severely burned. no word yet on what impact it might have on the environment. and we re officially on chimney watch. the cardinals are inside the sistine chapel voting for a new pope. if they decide on a new leader of the catholic church, they ll be releasing white smoke. we re live from rome next. [ man ] i got th
do you think this man has a case? i have. martha: who would be sued? the course, i would assume? actually what we ve come to understand, we believe because the sinkhole opened up there they may have selected a new pope. that is how we re interpreting it. martha: that s good. or the other suggestion, might have been that al gore actually was responsible for the creation of the sinkhole. i don t know. most of the time when we re dealing with these issues they have to deal with the, you know, when sinkholes like this cause tram tick damage to homes. and when there are disputes between homeowners and insurance companies over whether or not there are sinkholes or what the kind of damage is or how they would go about to repair them. martha: since you re telling jokes, there was a hole-in-one but there was definitely one in the hole in this case, right on the golf course. right. martha: ted, thank you. thank you so much. no, i was just going to say, he busted his shoulder. i m glad
the manatees are. do we think it has anything to do with climate change? i don t think anybody really knows. i ve read a number of articles, even saying this is probably not a man-made condition. but this is something different this year. there is something going on this year where the bloom is not going away and creating all of this toxin. i think it s too early to say what it is. it could be a wind direction thing where the wind is pushing this bloom against the shore rather than blowing it offshore. we need like a wind coming from the east for a while to push some of this out so fresher water can come back in and i wouldn t call that climate change. i would call it more of the way the weather patterns have been pushing all the red tide, algae blooms up against the shore rather than pushing them back out. chad, thank you. appreciate it. nasa says mars could have supported ancient life. what does that mean? we are now officially on chimney watch. the catholic cardinals are a
shepard: live in rome on continuing vatican chimney watch. if you don t want to keep an eye on the chimney 24/7 there is more modern way to figure out when we have a pope. pope alarm.com. the web site that will send you email or text message when the cardinals make their choice. the fellowship of catholic university students came up with the idea. they say more than 35,000 people have already signed up for the aletters when the web site puts it when the smoke goes up, you will know what s going down. meantime even that chimney has a twitter account. somebody last month launched a joke account for the world s most watched smokestack after pope emeritus benedict the xvith announced his resignation and since then the count for the sistene chimney has posted several tweets. including this one earlier today. cough cough, all this black smoke is making me sick. updating our top story tonight. just hours from now the century s old tradition of picking a new pope.