accused of grabbing a woman in a parking lot. that incident happened just near the pentagon. that service member also worked to prevent sexual assaults and was in a court appearance last week and he did not enter a plea. meanwhile you asked about what officials are doing, the pentagon is outraged by these allegations and are acting swiftly and lawmakers are equally concerned. a new york senator says she plans to introduce legislation this week to remove chain of command influence from prosecution of such offenses. all right. shannon travis in washington with this story that keeps on going and in some cases getting worse. appreciate it. attorneys for cleveland kidnapping suspect ariel castro say their client is not the monster everyone claims he is. and they re now revealing how they plan to defend him. pamela brown tracking the latest developments in this case live from cleveland this morning. a lot of people who have been following this story are surprised by what they re
first time we ve heard this type of story. it s because it s not the first time. i mean, in april, just as recently as last month we had two tragic incidents. we had one situation where a 4-year-old boy in tennessee shot and killed a 48-year-old woman accidentally. we had another situation in new jersey where a 4-year-old accidentally shot and killed his 6-year-old playmate. so certainly this will raise a lot of even more alarms than it already has. shannon travis in washington for us this morning. thanks so much. i was reading about this story because the little picture of that little girl just strikes you. it says it was a child s rifle. the mom had no idea it was loaded. she said that was really the tragic mistake here is that it was left loaded. all right. 35 minutes past the hour. new this morning, north korea escalating tensions with the united states after sentencing on american citizen, kenneth bae, to 15 years of hard labor. the tour guide from washington state is
was present. the fbi says those tests generally take between 24 to 48 hours. the boston marathon bombing was on monday. this potentially poisonous letter to senator wicker on tuesday. it s reasonable to wonder are they somehow linked? the chairman of the house homeland committee security committee congressman mike mccall, said there s no evidence whatsoever that these two are linked. just a coincidence, you think? he s not saying whether it s a coincidence or not. he s just saying right now that the evidence doesn t support any sign at all that these two things are linked together. so he s not speculating. all right. shannon travis in washington. thank you so much. let s get straight back to boston now, chris cuomo and john berman are there continuing their conversation. hi, guys. thank you, christine. having a little audio problem but we re back. we re going to take a break. when we come back we re going to keep talking to fran and juliette. there s a lot to be learned from th
someone shent sent the sheriff a package with a bomb in it. fortunately police got to the bomb before it got to the sheriff. a bomb squad neutralized the bomb last night. this happened in flagstaff some 150 miles outside phoenix. the u.s. postal inspector screened the suspicious package and called police. that employee told the local news station they evacuated the post office as a precaution. of course the investigation is ongoing. the flagstaff police, u.s. postal inspectors in the city, and the fbi are involved. the sheriff s office says there s already been progress in addition to forcing his prisoners to wear those pink underwear, you ll remember that he s a hero to many conservatives for his tough anti-immigration stance. critics accuse him of civil rights violations. but the 80-year-old sheriff has steadfastly denied those accusations. shannon travis as you said, a hero to some, a lightning rod to others. shannon travis in washington for us this morning. police in taiwan eva
heavy rain at times. also some delays in philly, boston, minneapolis, due to the wintry weather there, and in detroit. so we have another nasty day to get through before things improve over the weekend. christine and john? it s almost like we skipped the month of the season of spring and went right into summer with the heat that we ve seen. you re absolutely right. all right, thanks samantha. new this morning, get this, a mail bomb addressed to controversial sheriff joe arpaio in phoenix. thanks to a savvy and suspicious employee the package never made it past the post office in flagstaff. but now a federal investigation is under way to find out just who sent it. cnn s shannon travis in washington with the latest. and shannon, what can you tell us about this? john, of course we re talking about sheriff arpaio. he s the tough talking arizona sheriff who became famous for forcing his prisoners to stay in those tent houses and to wear those pink underwear. we re trying to figure