it's because of this. a 7-foot 20-pound bowe a constrictor wrapped around her engine. she wanted nothing to do with it. so a man who had pulled over to actually help her out is the one who called 911 for animal control. all right. hello again, everyone. i'm fredricka whitfield. these stories topping our news. we'd begin with what would be any mother's worst fear. mexican police think they may have found the man of an american missing for the last six months. harry deaver disappeared in a violent part of mexico during a motorcycle trip. his mother is there to try to identify the body. our alexandra field is following the developments. after all this time, alexandra,

what will take place to try to confirm the identity? >> fred, this is going to come down to dna. this mother has waited a long time and she may have longer to wait. the dna testing op the remains found could take two months. that's why harry devers' mother has traveled to mexico herself. she wants to learn anything else that she can learn at this point. her son disappeared back in january. that's the last he was heard from. at the time he was in the middle of a motorcycle journey from the united states with plans to head down to south america. he wanted to by in brazil for the world cup. but back in mexico back in january, he was headed to a beach down zee watt ta anywayio made famous in "the shawshank redemption." the last time his loved ones have heard from him. now mexican authorities are saying they've found his motorcycle and found remains in a shallow grave. that grisly discovery was made

300 miles southwest of where harry deaver was last seen. >> oh, my gosh. now what? how are authorities trying to piece together details or even look more into his messages that he left during his travels? >> well, this has been really a long, slow, painful process, fred. i spoke to harry deaver's mother back in january and his girl friend. they were having difficulty because they were in new york and this happened in mexico. they were trying to get any authorities to help. that's why his mother had in fact gone down to mexico over the winter to try to gather whatever leads she could find. why she's back there again. but they're being told right now it's the dna testing that will allow police to make a conclusive i.d. to determine whether or not this is harry deaver. >> thanks so much, alexandra field. keep us posted. moving to the middle east where hundreds of gaza residents are fleeing their homes after

israel dropped leaflets in northern gaza today warning residents to move away from hamas sites to avoid air strikes. it helped 150 u.s. citizens leave gaza and get into jordan today. israel says it's already hit what it calls more than a thousand terror targets. yet rockets from gaza keep coming. the gaza health ministry says 368 have died and most are civilians. ben wedeman spoke to people as they tried to get their families to safety after the warnings from israel. >> reporter: the clock is ticking. it's time to go. israel ordered the inhabitants of this area in northern gaza to leave by 2:00 p.m. sunday. hamas told them to stay put. "i don't answer to them" says ahmed. "i do what's best for us."

he's sending his family to safer ground in gaza city, relatively safer, that is, although he'll stay behind. luckily he caught a taxi to take them away and not a moment too soon. these children have heard the crash of shelling and air strikes for days now. but it still tafs them. this is the third time in the last five years ahmed's family has had to flee their home. >> like almost everybody in this area we're leaving, too. it's dangerous. there's some people staying behind to basically guard their houses. but as the man back there told me, 80% of the people in this area have already left and at this time the deadline to leave ends in 35 minutes.

on the drive into gaza city, empty streets and rubble from the israeli air strikes. by taxi or mostly by foot, the people fleeing the north are heading to united nations schools, more than a thousand in this school alone. food has yet to be provided. the only source of sustenance, a water tanker. this family of 15 fled their home at 2:00 in the morning. "we told the kids, get up, get up. we walked all the way here. this baby needs milk, but we don't have any. we have nothing, not even safety. there's little to do here but wait until the fighting stops and they can go back to their homes. if they're still there. ben wedeman, cnn, gaza city. on the israeli side of the border people are also fleeing the conflict.

diana magnate has this story. >> reporter: kibbutz is 880 meters from the fence. the explosions rip through the evening airs. the deep thud of an israeli air strike. the shorter crack of outgoing fire and the hiss as a missile streaks past us. we just heard a rocket go very, very close over our heads. these playgrounds aren't full of children any more. they've all moved to a kibbutz in northern israel hoping it will be safer there. though just friday morning a rocket came in into the north from lebanon. the people tell me they're not just scared of rockets. they're scared of militants from gaza tunneling in. this man runs the security. now that operation protective edge is under way, he carries a gun.

he has a dim view of hamas. >> unfortunately here hamas, the civilians, they hide behind the civilians. here is a soldier on the front. and all the civilians in the shelters. and the other side, the civilians outside and hamas inside the shelters. >> it turns the out what we heard was an anti-tank missile. it had hit a military jeep in the base next door injuring two soldiers. israeli tanks fired back, but the rockets from gaza keep coming. >> reporter: you can hear another one of the red alerts. there was a mortar that came over yesterday and hit that building. this is the moment where you look for the nearest shelter and get inside it. each house has its own shelter. this is our own shelter. she says she'll spend the night

in her safe room. her husband and daughter all tucked up there together. they're sorry it's come to this. >> we used to have a good relationship with them. we had friends in gaza who were even at my wedding. and we used to go into gaza an saturdays and eat humus and sit down at the beach. most of the people there want this. >> reporter: but now the call from the leadership on both sides seems more like a battle cry even as the people pray for their liveses to go back to normal. diana magnate, cnn. israel's iron dome defense system has been credited with keeping civilians there safe. in a minute, we'll show you how it works. moderate to severe crohn's disease is tough,

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israel is warning residents in parts of northern gaza, move away from hamas sites. it's an ominous sign of more strikes in the future. earlier today israeli troops went into gaza to raid a missile launching site. wolf blitzer got the details from a spokesman for the israel defense forces. >> we utilize our special forces in order to do special missions. the site that we attacked is deeply involved with the long-range rockets that have been showering tel aviv, showerishowe showering north of tel aviv, showering jerusalem. so we thought it was necessary to utilize special forces to carry out a special mission. indeed, they made their mission. they were able to succeed in their mission. there was impact and the conflict with terrorists there on the site. we have few scratches and grazes but nothing substantial. >> on the israeli side. >> palestinians we had air support on site as well and the palestinian terrorists, they

paid a heavier price. >> was this an isolated incident or will there be more israeli, as they say, boots on the ground? >> we can expect these type of activities taking place. the ops that happen below the radar, in and out, swift missions, quickly, concise and very precise at what they're doing to get that added value to safeguard. >> so there will be more of these operations. what about tanks, armored personnel carriers, formal invasion of gaza as has occurred in the past? >> we're explored that possibility. but in the last five or six days we have brought up the forces. indeed there's a substantial force on the border with gaza. if the order is dpichb, we're prepared for that type of activity. >> was that the reason you're leafletting and telling folks to get out. there's a half million people, it's almost impossible that they'll all be able to escape. what's your goal here? >> the area that we've announced

that people should leave is a lot smaller than that about the town of beit laeha. that is a main staging point for rockets against israel. there's a lot of hamas deeply invested in that. it's some energetic palestinian commander on the ground there that thinks he can launch rockets at israel freely. we have to deal with that problem. that's why we're suggesting for their own good, keep away from ham hamas, move out of that town because we intend to target it. >> the italians, elderly, young, they won't be able to leave. >> we hope they'll abide by our advice. it's an absolute necessity. the terrorists launching rockets from beit laheya are at risk. we announced our intentions to do so late last night. there's a timeline.

unfortunately, due to the operational concerns, i can't point at the specific hour, but indeed we expect the people to leave. >> within hours, can we say that? >> i would say so, yes. >> when you go into that be beit laheya areas, tanks, from the sea, a limited commando operation or a much more robust military operation? >> we'll have to leave that for the operation itself. >> there are growing fears israel and hamas are edging toward an all-out war. according to the israeli military more than a hundred rockets have been fired in the past week. nearly 150 of those have been intercepted by israel's sophisticated system called the iron dome. how does it work? here's cnn's tom foreman. >> reporter: just as hamas has improved the range of the rockets it's firing into israel, israel has improved the performance of its iron dome

missile defense system. so much so that israeli authorities are claiming 90% success in neutralizing the threat from missiles from gaza and those aimed at tel aviv and haifa. how does sth work? the first phase is detection. any time rockets rise up and head toward israel, high tech cameras and radar systems and computers start looking at them, figuring out how big they are, how fast they're moving and importantly where they are headed. because simultaneously, the analysis and targeting phase is entered here. that means if these are headed off into the sea or into rural areas where they won't hit anything, they just let them go. they don't care. let them fall to the ground, but if they spot one of them headed toward buildings or a city where people would likely be hurt. then the destruction phase is key. that means that these computers

and radar systems reach out to batteries of missiles on the ground in israel and they launch them automatically sending these missiles out here that are each about ten feet long racing toward the incoming threat. each one of the defensive missiles has 24 pounds of high explosive on them. when they get close enough, they blow up, obliterating everything in that air space. this is not cheap. this system was originally developed by an israeli defense company, but the united states has kicked in $235 million to expand the iron dome. by the way, each of these costs about $62,000. but the goal here for both israel and the united states is to make the system even better at intercepting bigger missiles further away at higher altitudes. you know what that's all about. that's making sure that maybe this system can become a defense system for both countries against more robust enemies in the world. >> thanks so much, tom.

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the sole survivor of a shooting rampage mustered up the courage to speak at her parents' memorial service. cassidy stay seen on the left side of the family photo there suffered a fractured skull when a bullet grazed her head. she pretended to be dead until the alleged suspect, her aunt's ex-husband, left, then she called 911. cassidy has been hailed as a hero for telling police where the gunman was headed next. at the memorial she quoted her favorite movie. >> in the prisoner of askaban dumbledore says that happiness can be found in the worst of times if one only remember to turn on the light. i know that my dad, bryant, emily, beckett are in a much better place and i'll be able to see them again one day. thank you all for coming and showing your support for me and my family. stay strong.

>> police found the suspect, ronald lee haskell, near her grandparents' house. they arrested him after a chase and three-hour standoff. in the moments before trayvon martin was shot and killed in florida back in 2012, he was on the phone with a friend named rachel jeantel. george zimmerman went on trial and was acquitted in the shooting death of trayvon one year ago today. well now a year after that acquittal, david mattingly sat down with jeantel and found out how trayvon's death and the trial have had lasting effects on her. >> reporter: rachel jeantel was on the phone with trayvon martin when his fatal encounterwith george zimmerman began. a year ago we watched as she made no secret of her feelings during a combative cross-examination of the defense in zimmerman's trial. today i find her working hard to put the past behind her and to deal with lingering regret. were you blaming yourself when

george zimmerman went free? >> a little bit. >> reporter: did you think you should have said something different? or acted differently? >> yeah, act different. >> reporter: you think the jurors didn't take you seriously? >> yes. they judge how they talk, how they look, how they dress. >> reporter: and they were judging you? >> yes. >> reporter: and that was the beginning of an astonishing turnaround in rachel jeantel's life. >> what sort of issues did she have to deal with? >> post-traumatic stress. she was suffering from post-traumatic stress. >> reporter: ron vereen is a miami attorney who organized a support group called the village providing rachel with counseling to deal with the grief of losing her friend and intense tutoring to overcome problems in school. no one knew it at the time but when 19-year-old rachel took the stand she was barely able to read and write beyond the level

of a third grader. she pushed back. i saw what happened when somebody gets on your bad side. i don't know if i would ever want to be on your bad side. >> no, you don't want to cross. >> reporter: but her tutors didn't give up and neither did rachel. these photos taken in may marked the moment their work paid off. rachel donned a cap and gown and collected her high school diploma. >> she credits what has taken place since what happened in the courtroom to trayvon martin, all the good things. the fact that she's graduated, she said i kept my word to trayvon that i would do this. >> reporter: she's also keeping a promise to herself, by having the last word for people who criticized the way she talked and acted on the witness stand. they're implying that you're not very smart. >> yeah. you can't say that. you can't judge a book by a cover. >> reporter: she's had to do a lot of growing up and learning how to take responsibility for

her actions. rachel jeantel says she believes george zimmerman should do the same. what do you say to george zimmerman right now? >> he know he did wrong and you got to admit up to it. to me you're not a man. george zimmerman, you're not a man. that's still a little boy. >> reporter: we attempted to contact george zimmerman through his attorneys but there's no reply. rachel jeantel still has a lot of work ahead of her. more growing, more tutoring and plans to go to college. there are several careers she's got in mind. but after her experience there's one line of work she can definitely rule out. let's set the record straight. i'll ask you straight out. >> straight out. >> reporter: do you want to be an attorney? >> no. >> reporter: david mattingly, cnn, miami. and cnn gets unique access to a new york police department forensic lab. we'll show you the state of the art equipment and how officers

are using it to solve cases. the science behind the hunt, next.

bottom of the hour now. welcome back. i'm fredricka whitfield. actor and comedian tracy

morgan is back at home after being released from a rehab hospital center. had continues to recover from a car crash that left him critically injured last month. officials say a walmart truck rear-ended morgan's limo on the new jersey turnpike. the crash killed his friend and injured two others. morgan is suing walmart over the incident. the federal government has doled out billions of dollars to people who don't deserve it. the money included payments for tax refuns and unemployment benefits to social security and medicare coverage that weren't legitimate according to a government watchdog agency. the mistake cost american taxpayers $106 billion last y r year. wow, sudden rush of hail the size of golf balls! pouring down on folks visiting a beach in russia. a sunbather shot this video after the weather went from over

100 degrees to just 70 in minutes triggering this violent storm. some folks screamed and ran for cover as the hail expensefied there. reportedly there were no injuries, thankfully. tv chef buddy velsatro and his wife had to be rescued from a boat that got lost in heavy fog there. he posted an instagram photo of the incident. authorities received an emergency call for help after his boat nearly collided into another boat in the dense fog. a rescue boat found them and towed them to safety. valastro says he wants to thank his rescuers by, of course, baking them a cake. john walsh has helped law enforcement capture more than

1200 fugitives over the year. technology is playing an increasing role in the search for suspects. alexandra field has the science behind the hunt. >> reporter: the hunt is on for the most wanted among us. in our global era, the challenge seems broader than ever. >> a lot different than in the 1920s and '30s when you had john dillinger or bonnie and clyde commit a crime in one state and it was a big deal for them to just cross state lines. that's what's changed over the year, the ability to travel all over the world fairly easily and economically. >> reporter: but along with the emergence of the worldwide manhunt, the science behind chasing criminals has evolved, too. >> you can run but you can no longer hide. >> reporter: from your image captured virtually everywhere down to your fingerprint, technological advancements have given them more sophisticated

tools to work with. we take you inside the nypd's closely guarded crime lab, a frontline for capturing criminal. it shows detectives a clearer picture. so do evolving computer programs adding greater detail to tracing ballistic evidence. advances in dna analysis are widely considered the most meaningful step forward towards solving more crimes. but the forensics are just pieces of the increasingly elaborate puzzle. you really can't escape the cameras. they're virtually everywhere. windows that can capture potential crimes. and with evolving facial recognition technology they could be used to capture more suspects. but we're all leaving our very own well marked digital trail. from electronic data embedded in many of our digital images to our cell phone records, electronic banking transactions and all that social media activity, it's the indelible diary. >> what they had not planned in advance about being a fugitive

and don't have literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash, false identities, possibly false passports that can enable them to travel around the world. having the means and the ability to cross borders, they're going to have a huge problem staying a fugitive for a real long time. >> reporter: the search net is wider, sometimes global, but our communications are making suspects easier, in some ways, to find. law enforcement officials say advances in the way they can now communicate with each other makes it even tougher to hide. >> we're inventing new ways to talk with each other, to communicate with each other, to be more efficient, to change information in general. >> reporter: alexandra field, cnn, new york. you don't want to miss "the hunt" with john walsh. it premieres tonight 9:00 eastern right here on cnn. a mayor who saw his fair share of scandal is opening up about his life and about the successes in politics as well and civil rights. marion barry wants people to

know who he is and what his legacy should be. he joins me live from washington next. but first, it's time to honor those making a difference in their community. today a simple hashtag on instagram is now changing lives in atlanta. here's cnn's chris cuomo. >> reporter: photographer tim moxley had an a-ha moment on instagram in 2012. >> i was noticing that, you know, there were certain photos that told, you know, a bit about people, a story about people's lives in city. >> reporter: he brainstormed with fellow flaphotographers an they created their own hashtag. >> we love atl is a hash tag that we created on instagram for people to show about their life in the city. >> reporter: but when people continued to submit to the hashtag, they came up with a new plan. >> we had the idea to buy a breadtruck and turn it into an art gallery.

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oh, what a week it has been. perhaps you saw my seven-minute interview with comedian joan rivers last weekend. which didn't end quite like i expected. she walked off the set. and something else i didn't expect. the mileage that moment, hers, mine, ours, would get. joan rivers what a pleasure, you look so fabulous. i'm so underdressed. >> oh, you're not underdressed.

it's hot and it's a steamy summer weekend. that's a nice way to put it. >> it started out as a nice light-hearted -- what is it about the year 2013 that you focus on? compliment-filled interview. you have been a trail blazer in so many different ways. with iconic comedian joan rivers, out with her 12th book. "diary of a mad diva." you write this. i'm back in l.a. for a minor cosmetic procedure. >> taking all that skin off the table and we made a little person that walks right beside me. i'm never lonely. >> reporter: still lots of humor. then the tone changed. even with your fashion critiquing, while it's very mean in some ways. >> it's not mean. it's not mean. >> really? not mean? >> it's not mean. i tell the truth. i'm sure i said the same things that all your viewers say to their friends siing next to them

on the couch. >> reporter: just four minutes into the chat. do you feel like there are boundaries ever? >> let me tell you -- >> even if it gets uncomfortable. >> life is very tough. if you can make a joke to make something easier an funny, do it. and maybe you take the worst thing in the world and make it funny, it's a vacation for a minute from horror. >> and people love to laugh. that's why people love you. but there was no love and laughter in reminding her about animal rights activists who crashed rivers' book signing two days earlier. you knew there would be animal rights -- >> this whole interview is becoming a defensive interview. >> no! >> are you wearing leather shoes? >> yes! >> i don't to hear -- you're wearing fur. >> i'm not an actress. >> you're eating chicken. you're eating meat. i don't want to hear this nonsense. >> reporter: interview over. >> stop it with and you do this

and you're mean and -- you are not the one to interview a person who does humor. sorry. >> are you serious? it was the beginning of something else. that walk-out moment was everywhere. more than 14 million results from a google search. going viral. making headlines from the washington post all the way to australia. the hypocrisy of a comedian who dishes but didn't take it. the news reporter who pushed buttons. immediately fodder for jokes minutes after it went to air. >> i said i promise i won't walk off the set. >> oh, thank you, thank you for that. we'll try to keep it nice and amicable. i appreciate that. no shark bites for me. >> this -- i can't, you're not dealing with a comedian correctly. no, i want fredricka whitfield to interview me. where is she? >> please don't walk off. >> and conjecture from the ladies on "the view". the three of you guys are all

comedians. for you guys to talk to joan is probably a lot easier, you speak the same language. you asking the same questions comes off a lot differently. >> give her a break because the hot lights must have been melting her face off. >> joan will take a lot. it takes a lot for her to snap like that. having watched it, i just thought -- i would have -- you know, lighten up a little bit, freddy. >> to joan rivers herself helping to keep it alive on "access hollywood." >> she should save us money because we put her on the map. >> at least a thank you note or something. >> and with david letterman. >> i watched it. it didn't seem to me like she was that tough on you. >> she was asking negative questions. >> negative questions. it's a funny book. >> talking about the book. >> talking about the book. >> what kind of questions she was asking that were negative, though you're wearing a fur

coat. >> you're wearing fur! >> that moment between rivers, the 81-year-old comedian, tv show host and entrepreneur, and me, the news reporter. >> this woman, this news anchor person -- >> serious anchor person. >> she wouldn't talk any further with me, but had lots of fun welcoming, if not inviting, this fresh material at every chance. and along the way, revealing something else that got under her skin during our chat. >> how old are you? >> i'm near 50. >> i'm sure you've had your botox. >> i've had nothing yet. not that i don't need it. >> no, you look like a chicken. she claimed she had nothing. i don't like when a woman says i've done nothing. they're 49 years old. they're talking through the part in the hair. i've done something. so that ticked me off. the woman has hemorrhoids behind her ears. i mean, she's been pulled.

>> she thought that i was being dishonest and that's what made her mad. she said that on letterman last night. it's the best compliment i could ever get because that's okay, coming from you, joan rivers. truth be told it's now right up there as one of the most talked about interviews ending abruptly with an exit. now getting lots of laughs from the very comedian who didn't find any humor in it one week ago. >> i've walked off one show already this week. don't. >> hopefully we can put all of that fun behind us. new week now and new hope that the next time ms. rivers and i connect, there will be no mixed messages. all right. coming up next, we're going to talk to another author out with his memoir. marion barry, you know him as the former mayor of washington,

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in a city full of big and influential names, it's hard to have just one name come to mind when you say washington, d.c. but when you think about the city itself and the local politics, there is no question. former mayor marion barry is synonymous with d.c. from his start in the civil rights movement to being a hands-on councilman and mayor to the infamous drug bust in 1990 that changed everything. now barry, a d.c. city councilman, wants you to know all of it from his perspective. his new book "mayor for life: the incredible story of marion barry jr." is on shelves right now. right on page one he says, most people don't know me. they don't know my work ethic and they don't know me as a person. they know me from ten-second sound bites. joining me right now the tell us more is former mayor marion

barry. good to see you. >> thank you, fredricka. i'm glad to be here. i watch you from time to time. >> oh, good, i'm glad you check in from time to time. so this comes across as amazingly honest, revealing, very personal. this is a journey through your civil rights movement, your d.c. political career, the drug bust, the fall, the hurt, that you and many experience, the climb afterwards. and i really am kind of simpl y simplifying here but you say, quote, i want people to gather the truth from me rather than from a t-shirt. elabora elaborate. >> first of all, i wrote this book so i could describe me. everything's written about me but not by me, and so this book starts at the beginning of 1936 when i was born to a sharecropper's son. >> in mississippi. >> my mother went to the third or fourth grade. i lived in a house without any

running water, without any lights. it's an overcoming book. everything i've tried to do, i've tried to be an example as to how you can overcome and how you can educate people. people don't know how hard it was growing up. it was tough growing up. i grew up without hardly any money. >> you said it was your mom, your mother is the one that taught you courage from the very beginning. >> my mother taught me courage because she was a domestic, and in the south, domestics go in the back door and the domestics are called by their first name. my mother said to white people after you get through with the work ethic by what you do, i'm not going through the back door. i'm good enough to take care of your kids, cook your food, clean your house, clean after your dog, i'm going enough to come through the front door. and by the way, my name is not maddy, it's ms. cummings.

that's a rare thing. i'm 78 years of age. i've had a rich life. not just 15-minute sound bite, but when you say washington, d.c., everybody knows. when i came here in 1965, washington was a sleepy southern town. no high rises, no anything. no new buildings on the avenue except the fbi building. look at washington now. i laid the foundation. >> you can take the credit for that because as a visionary -- what a lot of people didn't realize when you came to washington, d.c., you were a civil rights fighter, you know, foot soldier, and it was being part of the, you know, snik that brought you to washington. but you didn't really set out to be a politician, but politics became part of your life once washington opened something up for you.

what was that? >> i have no role models about politics. in memphis where i grew up from age 8 until i finished college, there were no black commissioners, no black mayors, no black anything. it was run by all white people. i had no role models, but i got in the civil rights movement, i started seeing the world on a much broader scale. i saw human rights much differently. when i came to d.c., i came here to raise money and lobby the congress. i couldn't wait on that because too many problems here. as i said, all of downtown, our neighborhoods have been transformed because of my blueprint. i appointed herb miller who was living downtown, but more importantly i brought hope to the hopeless. >> and that really is your legacy. washingtonians know that, they experience that, it's remarkable in your book you talk about many

governors and mayors thing about five or six dreams they want to carry out. you said you want to do something for those underserved communities. i want to try and help young people who can't get jobs get them. and in the end you take credit for the 100,000 jobs that young people got and increasing minority contracts in the city from 3% to 47%. so people associate you with those, really with those accolades in large part. you think people have forgotten that in washington or people outside of washington don't know that. >> people outside of washington don't know that. but in washington, i have worked hard for the people and i'm beloved by the people. a "washington post" poll showed 81% of black people look up on me very favorably. and 52% of all the people look upon me favorably. and now the only close person in jack evans from ward two, a

white person, he's at 35%. i didn't get elected because of my name. i got elected because i work hard for the people. i've produced tangible results. 100,000 young people. that's a lot of young people to dpi give jobs to. everybody knew that i was a job czar. they knew that i would fight for the underdog, i would fight for the tenant, welfare mother, the disabled, i fight for gay and lesbian rights. i do all of those kind of things. people don't -- they just see the sound bite of the vista, let me put that right away. first of all, i've not been convicted of anything at the vista. >> this is the vista hotel. this is the 1990 drug bust. >> right, right. set up by the fbi and been proven that way. 9 out of the 12 jurors voted to acquit me on all charges. >> you write in this book very frankly, you draw that

correlation that all those things you did for the underserved community and assisting in a large way to the black community, you draw a real correlation between that and the design of this drug bust. >> i also don't want to be known as just working for the underserved. i've created a strong black middle class in washington, d.c. i've created people like bob johnson who got the franchise for the b.e.t. cable, i helped him get that. >> and putting that building on rhode island avenue. i remember that very clearly. >> got the city to lease all that land out on new jersey avenue, new york avenue where they located for a dollar, got them started. i made more millionaires who were black than anybody in this country. anybody in this country. by giving them opportunities. >> it's all in your book. it really is an inspirational book, very personal and very

revealing. "mayor for life" the incredible story of marion barry jr. >> people can order this book by amazon.com. amazon.com. all over the country, you ought to buy it, read it. they say it's easy reading. omar tyree did a heck of a job writing the book with me. i just feel great. god has been so good to me. >> we were so glad that you were able to be with us and share your story. we appreciate it very much. congratulations on your book. >> amazon.com. amazon.com. >> we'll be right back after this. when you run a business, you can't settle for slow.

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okay. the excitement is building for a scoreless final right now. but guess what? something tells me because miguel marquez is coming up now in the "newsroom" there's going to be a happy ending to this game depending on whether you're root for germany or brazil -- argentina, sorry. >> i'm having a heart attack watching this game. i'm really sneaking peeks.

these guys are taking care of me here. that's the difference. >> so it's really exciting when there's no score? >> oh, my god. these guys are killing each other. it's unbelievable. it's just run, run, run. the most amazing game ever. many i'm literally going to -- my heart is going to pop out of my chest at any moment now. >> no, please, let's not let that happen. >> that would be bad. >> yeah, that would be pretty nasty. you have fun with it. now i get a chance to watch the game and get into it. >> go get it. they're still playing. >> okay. well i'm out. bye, miguel. >> take care. >> ciao. >> you're in the cnn newsroom, i'm miguel marquez. we're waiting for the world cup championship match to conclude. when it does, we'll take you live to rio. the winning and losing countries. even a watch party right here in the usa. plus a member of team usa joins us live. all of that ahead. but first we're focusing overseas. israel is