Reporter during his brief Court Appearance Joshua Cooper was assigned a temporary public defender. However he told the judge that he has a job, taking home 700dollars a week and intends to hire a private attorney. Reporter the charges stem from a recent incident at his fairfield home where cooper lives with the babys 17yearold mother. Fairfield Police Allege that it was here that cooper bit the nose of the baby boy out of frustrationbecause the child wouldnt stop crying. Me in my heart i dont think he did nothing like that reporter outside the court room coopers mother who you see here declined to speak to the media. Reporter however a man describing himself as his uncle had this to say reporter describe the joshua that you know the joshua i know is fun loving, do back flips, play basketball, football, never knew he would do Something Like this i dont believe he did that reporter Joshua Coopers bail has been set at 750 thousand dollars. He is scheduled to be back in court for a prelima
First to say this about gay people telling reporters if someone is gay and he searches for the lord and has goodwill who am i to judge. When asked what kind of church he dreams of pope francis said quote we cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. This is not possible. I have not spoken much about these things and i was reprimanded for that. When we speak about these issues we have to talk about them in a context. The teaching of the church for that matter is clear and i am son of the church. But it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time. The conversation continues tonight with Andrew Sullivan founder of the dish. International scholar annemarie slaughter president of the new American Foundation and democratic strategist and cnn political commentator cornell belcher. Sebastien younger will be in our fifth chair shortly. Andrew i read a lot about this on your web site today. For me it was a terribly moving day
Indonesia deployments. And france is joining own the ground in malaysia sending a team to kuala lumpur right now. The search area now covers large areas of land including extremely remote regions. Crews are looking along two corridors. One to the south, the other to the north reaching up to kazakhstan. Satellite signals picked up for flight 370 seven hours after the contact with the pilots also being reexamined. But malaysian officials announced it is possible the last satellite contact could have come from the plane on the ground. A u. S. Official intelligence is leading toward the theory they the pilots are possible. Well talk more into the jets disappearance. Andrew stevens is in while mary is here. And also rejoining us is jack barker, a former spokesman for the faa. Andrew, bring us uptodate on the new information that is being gathered as they continue to look for the plane or at least look for clues as to how this happened in the first place. We have the investigation ongoing he
Self defense forces. Russian forces have seized part of a ukrainian missle defense unit. They are trying to find a solution. We have reporters on the ground in ukraine, russia, and washington this morning covering all the angles. Lets begin with cnn white house correspondent. What are you hearing from the white house this morning . Reporter nothing this early at this point. Today john kerry is going to meet with his counter part, the Russian Foreign minister. Leaders there are expressing concern at not seeing russia at this point at the table to talk about this situation. That talk between secretary kerry and the foreign minister, as far as we know at this point, is expected to go forward in a matter of hours. Everyone is hoping that that does continue. But the views between the u. S. And russia have sharply die verged at this point over what has happened and continues to happen in ukraine. Madeline albright called russias view of this delusional. Saying as you mentioned, those soldier
Trial run for an upcoming attack. His son killed 26 small children and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Now, peter lanza says he wishes his son had never been born. The shocking, gutwrenching interview the first time this father speaks huge medical raising huge questions. The simple test that can predict whether you will get alzheimers. Do you really want to know the answer . Hello, there, everyone. I am john berman. I am michaela pereira. 11 00 a. M. In the east, 8 00 a. M. Out west. Those stories and much more right now at this hour. Investigators appear to be no closer to explains how a jumbo jet could vanish into thin air. The u. S. Is sending a second jetliner. The plane disappeared early saturday morning. 239 people on board, including three americans. Hopes were dashed a short time ago when malaysias state news agency reported that a sample taken from an oil slick spotted in the South China Sea was not aircraft oil but rather a kind of oil used by cargo ships. There hav