0 in the room with him. this morning we re learning more about what drove that gunman to do it. new this morning on the one-year anniversary of george zimmerman s arrest in the shooting of trayvon martin. his mother penned an open later calling it the day the justice system failed. a huge tiger shark steals his catch, the whole thing caught on camera. it s thursday, april 11th. starting point begins right now. our starting point this morning, right now a powerful storm sweeping east after causing fierce tornadoes. the first one hit around 8:00 p.m. in hazelwood, missouri. debris in the streets, trees top tomorrowled over. missouri s governor declared a state of emergency. then in arkansas, a twister traveled 30 miles through van buren county. that s about 75 miles north of little rock. at least 33 homes and a popular church were wrecked there. cars just tossed off the highway. four people injured. luckily no deaths have been reported. it s mostly a rural area. still, nerves
0 im to say all of that? no, he s right though. thank you so much for joining me today. i m carol costello. cnn newsroom continues right now. hello, everyone. i m ashleigh banfield. i want to go to tampa, florida, whose couple s grandchildren were snatch and whisked off to cuba are about to speak live to reporters. earlier today those boys, chase and cole s alleged kidnappers, their own parents named josh and sharon hackin, appeared in court. it was via video teleconference from the county jail. a jail that they re not going to be leaving for at least a few more days, and possibly a lot longer than that as well. i m joined now by cnn s viktor blackwell who has been on this story all weeklong. as well legal commentator danny sovalis. i understand we may actually see the children along with their grandparents at this live news conference that s scheduled to happen at my moment. yeah. any moment right now. we ve been told by the sheriff s office here in hillsborough county that th
grandparents, robert and patricia hauser. robert spoke for the pair and he talked about the anticipation of having those boys back at home. listen. right now we re just looking forward to sitting, getting them in our arms and hugging them and being with them, getting them home where they ll be safe again. now we re told that medically, physically, they re fine. it will take some time to determine if there are any psychological scars of what happened over the last week. but we also know that there was a question yesterday after patrick oppmann of cnn spotted and spoke with the hakkens. what now? will the cuban government extradite them, send them back to the u.s., because the extradition between the u.s. and cuba, inconsistent, unpredictal. he also talked about the cooperation of the government. in talking to the state department, and our coordination, you know, with the u.s. officials with the
each. accounts with burglary and battery for each, that patricia hauser was bound, according to authorities. and an extra count, a federal charge for joshua hakken, that flight to avoid prosecution in the process of leaving to avoid those charges. so a litany of charges that he s facing now. no question about that. victor blackwell, thanks very much in tampa for us this morning. at this moment, the u.s. and japan have all eyes glued on south korea. go ahead. we re on you now. according to one u.s. official, the white house believes the test firing of a mobile ballistic missile by the north could be imminent. jim clancy monitoring the latest developments for us. he joins us live from seoul. reuters reporting that south korea has asked china to stop, to step in and help. that s right. the foreign ministry announced they approached beijing as well as moscow, asking the two biggest trading partners really
and being with them and getting them home where they ll be safe again. reporter: we have been told that those grandparents and the boys will make themselves available to talk more about this ordeal starting last wednesday when the grandmother, patricia hauser was bound and those boys were taken all the way up to the point now that they re back home. they were told medically, physically are fine, but it will take some time to determine if there are any psychological scars from their last week, this really terrible ordeal. john? kids back with the grandparents, which is terrific news. what about the parents? what about joshua hakken? what charges might he face now? there was a question about the wife. it s a mystery. was she involved? was she a victim of the kidnapping? what do we know now about her involvement? reporter: police believe she indeed was involved. we ve got the list of charges. this goes for both of them. two counts of kid p napping for each. two counts of interferenc