and wants to get rid of it. our question of the morning coming your way. goats on a roof. need i say more? news room begins right now. good morning to you. thanks for joining us. this morning we begin with a question both chilling and deadly serious. is someone putting politics ahead of your safety? the fbi is investigating the leaks of classified information and whether the white house is behind them. even leaders of the president's own party are voicing grave concerns about the amount of secret information now being made public. >> avalanche och leaks and it is very, very disturbing. it has dismayed our allies. it puts american lives in jeopardy and puts our nation's security in jeopardy. if you look at terrorism intelligence is fundamental to knowing what is going to happen and prevent it from happening in the first place. >> some of the information is coming from recent articles in the new york times which details the drones and cyber attacks. paper is defending itself this morning. in about ten minutes we will talk with scott shane all about this. let's go overseas to the crisis in syria and reports of a government slaughter of civilians. some of the images posted online are so horrifying we are going to show you something less graphic instead. these are homes allegedly torched by the troops as they move from village to village. for most americans it is a fight that should remain distance. according to a poll 61% of americans say the u.s. does not have responsibility to act in syria. zain is in london. she has a closer look for us. >> reporter: good morning, carol. another day and another massacre in syria. opposition activist is saying that 78 people have been killed. i just want you to take a look at pictures. some of them are still pretty graphic. cnn cannot confirm their authen tisity. there has been a lot of fighting going on. there are bodies of men, women and children. everyone is totally charred. the opposition says government forces made it happen. the government is saying they didn't do it. meanwhile the united states is trying to rally the international people to really put pressure on syria. the problem is that two key players, russia and china are saying no there should be no intervention at all. it would be totally unacceptable. and what they really want to see is the international community kind of continue the mediation strategy. as you can see syrian government doesn't really care what the world thinks. you can pull out the diplomats and put sanctions on. they are kind of doing whatever they want. >> people just keep -- it is a sad situation. people just keep dying. defense secretary panetta is in afghanistan. the biggest surprise may be his warning aimed at neighboring pakistan. al qaeda linked terrorists have established safe havens there. >> we are reaching the limits of our patience here. and for that reason it is extremely important that pakistan take action to prevent this kind of safe haven from taking place and from allowing terrorists to use their country as a safety net in order to conduct their attacks on our forces. >> pakistan had once been a critical u.s. ally on the war on terror. relations soured after the white house kept secret its plans to kill osama bin laden inside pakistan. the alliances more strained over recent u.s. drone attacks. taxpayers the navy says a simple vacuum cleaner may have caused $400 million in damage to a nuclear submarine. the uss miami was undergoing work in a ship yard when a fire broke out. investigators believe the fire started in a vacuum cleaner used to clean work sites on board the sub. this next story sure to be a cautionary tale. a massachusetts judge sentenced a teenager to a year in prison for texting on a cell phone as his car crashed and killed another driver. this is a landmark case. we get details from a cnn affiliate. >> negligent operation and injury from mobile phone use guilty or not guilty? >> guilty. >> reporter: the guilty verdicts against 18-year-old aaron devoe under score the devastation of two families. the jury found the teenager caused the death in february of 2011 because he was texting when he crashed into him. the victim's daughter addressed the court. >> i wake up at night and hear my dad talking to me. i get up and look for him and he wasn't there. >> reporter: the victim's girlfriend still struggling with her injuries sustained in the crash pushed for jail time. >> i don't think he knows what he has done. >> reporter: he apologized. >> i made a mistake. if i could take it back i would take it back. >> reporter: his attorney and mother ask for compassion. >> my son didn't intentionally want to hurt anybody. >> reporter: from the prosecutor and the victim's family equally pained for words. >> the hardest thing i had to witness was watching my brother take his last breath and leave us. >> there are people's lives who were ruined by this. >> texting is just one danger competing for a driver's attention. those concerns over distracted driving are demanding the attention of our government. the department of transportation will announce a new initiative against distracted driving. we'll take a closer look in the next hour. a new measure of the economy. the government's number crunchers say unemployment fell slightly last week. 377,000 americans are filing first time claims 12,000 fewer than the week before. the nation's jobless rate and the economic recovery are sure to be topics. ben bernanke will testify before the joint economic committee of congress. nfl players and families are filing a class action lawsuit saying the league tried to hide the problem. the widow of a former atlanta falcons player has joined the suit. ray easterly committed suicide in april after suffering brain damage for two years. >> the early symptoms that ray displayed were insomnia and depression. i had no idea it was due to the brain trauma that he had suffered during football, didn't really know about it until 2010. and it was hard to go through for 20 years. he suffered greatly. >> she says she doesn't want current nfl players to suffer. she wants the league to provide testing and treatment for players showing symptoms of dementia and alzheimer's. the thunder beat the spurs. one is getting an honor of sorts. a giant replica of james harden's beard has been hung on the front of an oklahoma city building. what a difference a church reprimand makes. a nun's sex book is selling like hot cakes. we'll tell you how it has gone from ubsecurity to the top of amazon's best selling list. but with three kids, being home more really helped. man: so we went to fidelity. we talked about where we were and what we could do. we changed our plan and did something about our economy. now we know where to go for help if things change again. call or come in today to take control of your personal economy. get free one-on-one help from america's retirement leader. made with only milk... cream... a touch of sugar... and pure natural flavors. coffee-mate natural bliss. from nestle. add your flavor naturally. ...more talk on social security... ...but washington isn't talking to the american people. 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[ yawning sound ] opening bell on wall street just about to ring after yesterday's fantastic days. the market playing the waiting game. awaiting chairman ben bernanke's testimony. ringing the bell this morning the ceo of health care trust of america which is celebrating its listing on the new york stock exchange. stories we are watching right now. anger grows on capitol hill about potential intelligence leaks. >> an avalanche of leaks. and it's very, very disturbing. >> senator dianne feinstein says the leaks are putting lives in jeopardy. don't expect to see a romney bush ticket this call. former florida governor says under no circumstances would he be mitt romney's running mate. let's talk more about the leaks. republicans accuse the obama administration of putting classified information out there for gain. the white house denies it. maria's politics lean left and will leans right. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> i wasn't very polite. >> you are always polite. >> republicans are saying that the obama administration is leaking these secrets about their drone program for political gain. do they have a case? >> it is definitely worth a question. i don't know about making a case but it is worth a question. it seems to be a bipartisan question. you just played a clip. we can add up the list and it is getting long. you are talking about president obama's kill list with the drone list of terrorist targets and talking about the iranian cyber attacks and the level of detail involved. you can go back to the osama bin laden raid which had a lot of detail in it and the double agent story. that is four stories with a great amount of detail. we should be very concerned about why that information is getting out. if it is some kind of painting president obama in a positive light you are at least worth asking questions. >> senator feinstein does not believe these leaks are coming from the white house. >> all i said is it is worthy of questions. >> i agree with will in that it is worth the question where i think the republicans is going way overboard is that they are already accusing the white house of having done this on purpose and having authorized those leaks. i think that goes way beyond. i think we should all put on the table or at least i believe that democratic as well as republican administrations take classified information and security of our national interests and our assets of our troops very, very seriously. to accuse this of being done on purpose is way over the point. i believe the question has to be asked. >> so let's talk about it from a journalistic standpoint. isn't it fair also, doesn't the public have a right to know that this drone program is going on? it does have moral implications. isn't it something that the public ought to know about? >> this is never an easy question to answer. we have to balance national security interests against those with the public being fully informed. i enjoy reading the details of the stories about the cyber attack is absolutely fascinating. it is not just enjoyment but useful knowledge for me to know some of these things. you have to balance that against national security. what that does to jeopardize the program and i'm not sure those are being struck right right now. >> the obama administration is investigating and the fbi has launched an investigation. it is not like the obama administration isn't aware. >> of course. they read the papers, too, and they have also said that they have shared in some of these briefings some of the scenarios that have happened. but they have been very clear. and i believe them on this that in none of that has there been an authorized leak of classified information. and i think that is key. i agree with will that this is always the balance of a robust democracy where you balance the people's right to know about what their government is doing along with the national security interests. i think that that is always a healthy debate to have. i would like to point out that the reporters themselves have said that none of this information has come from either the white house or top democratic officials. a lot of it has been because of the worm actually went public. we have to be clear about what has been said and leaked and where there are questions we should ask those questions. >> there is an article this morning defending itself against dianne feinstein's charges. i'm going to read you a paragraph from that article. the obama administration's has been -- usually on the condition of an nemity. mr. obama spoke about the strikes in pakistan in january arguing they were aimed at al qaeda. so it seems as if the obama administration at least wants something known about the drone program. it makes no bones about it but says we have to stop these leaks. >> again, i think that points to the balance that i think will and i are talking about. let's be very clear. none of that was classified information that either the president was talking about or either the white house or top administration officials. if there is a consistency that needs to be fixed. if there are leaks going on that is the question and that is the investi