well, the three cleveland women who were rescued after being held captive for a decade have been reunited with their families. police say amanda berry, gina dejesus, and michele knight are in good physical shape. they re being questioned by a special fbi interrogation team. three brothers are in custody including ariel castro who owned the house where the women were held. they are expected to be formally charged today. cleveland police visited the house at least twice, and this morning they are facing questions about their handling of the case. vinita nair is in cleveland this morning. good morning, vinita. reporter: good morning, anne-marie. we re also learning more about what transpired. in the home on see moymour stre. the details are gruesome. one woman said she was pregnant numerous times and beaten so she would lose the pregnancy. one of the rooms in the home had chains hanging from the ceiling. amanda berry, gina dejesus, and michele knight, the three women held capt
kids alone - a 14 year old son and 8 year old daughter. she a very nice mother she always take care of our kids reporter: the coming days will bring more pain for the alcantara family. accepting that, brings abner to tears funeral plans and visitation services will take place. instead of celebrating mother s day and abner s birthday reporter:the two would be married for 15 years at the end of the month. abner cannot cope with the love of his life. now gone. it is very hardcan we stop now? in san lorenzo justine waldman kron 4 news. pam: aldrin her-.43 year old fell-o-meana her-on-ga. together they have two childrena 13 year old girl and a 10 year old boy . today the son expressed his feelings of grief to his father. reporter: worked as a senior clinical new one to the mother s day and i do not have a mother. reporter: lab scientist for kaiser permanente in oakland. is said to have beena cheerful, giggly person.who had a knack for making people happy. it was the h
rear tires. the limo was only supposed to carry eight passengers. but nine women were inside when the fire broke out. pam: we now have a clearer picture of who was killed in the deadly limousine fire. here the victims. neriza fojas. from monterey. michelle estrera. from fresno. jennifer dublin. anna alcantara from san lorenzo. felomina geronga . from alameda. we spoke to both the husband of alcantara and geronga. as you imagine, they are devastated. (crying) everything that you can ask for for a wife. take care of your family, what used to have them. no one will know when they re on to be taken from you. pam: geronga went on to say he wants to know where the driver was. when the car caught fire. and why he didn t get his wife out.and there is some question of exactly what happened when. tonight we re also learning that one of the surviving victims of the limousine fire. is giving a different account of the fire. nelia arrellano says, she tried to get the limo driver to
to be a news conference scheduled for 9:00 eastern time. and we expect that the mayor, the chief of police, could be a lot of questions answered there. we also know that much of this neighborhood remains off limits and there s a reason for that. because, one, a lot of federal help is coming. this investigation, as they say, just starting. and also they re bringing in search dogs. they won t say why. christine? okay, thanks so much, martin savidge in his hometown of chief and. we re going to get new details from the cleveland department of public safety this morning. we re requesting to bring you that news conference live, 9:00 a.m. eastern. just an incredible story. six minutes past the hour. an air force commander who was supposed to be in charge of preventing sexual assaults has been accused of committing one. defense secretary chuck hagel reacting with outrage and disgust to the charges brought against lieutenant colonel jeffrey krusinski. cnn s barbara starr is following this d
often a silent sexual crime that happens every day in the u.s. military. lieutenant colonel jeffrey krusinski had been in charge of a section of the air force s sexual assault prevention and response program only since february. he made this video back in afghanistan. this is lieutenant colonel jeff krusinski from nato training mission afghanistan. reporter: he was immediately removed from his pentagon post after being arrested early sunday morning for allegedly approaching a woman in a parking lot, and fondling her. it s a huge embarrassment for the pentagon, which has been racked by the scandal of sexual assault. the pentagon is expected to announce an increase in reported sexual assaults in 2012. but, as always, officials say it s not entirely clear if that is due to an increase in incidents, or more victims becoming more comfortable in reporting what is often a crime kept silent.