NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- As Hurricane Gustav neared Louisiana's coast Monday morning, forecasters warned that the storm could stall over Louisiana and northeast Texas for several days, which would "exacerbate the threat of heavy rains and inland flooding." Water from a canal in New Orleans, Louisiana, floods a road as Hurricane Gustav makes landfall Monday. Southern Louisiana's barrier islands and coast reported hurricane force winds and heavy rains from Gustav, which was centered about 80 miles south of New Orleans and about 20 miles south-southeast of Port Fourchon, Louisiana, at 8 a.m. CT. Power went out about 6 a.m. in the western part of downtown New Orleans and in the French Quarter 10 minutes later, CNN correspondents Chris Lawrence and Anderson Cooper reported. The eye of Hurricane Gustav made landfall near Cocodrie, Louisiana, about 9:30 a.m. CT, the National Hurricane Center said. Gustav's top winds weakened to 110 mph, downgrading it to a Category 2 storm, the hurricane center said.  Watch water overflow banks of Industrial Canal » Earlier predictions of a Category 4 storm,  which would mean winds of at least 131 mph, and fresh memories of Katrina, which came ashore in 2005 with 127-mph winds, fueled the evacuation of 2 million residents from New Orleans and other parishes. But Gustav never regained the strength lost over Cuba, and by Monday morning hurricane center forecasters said its cloud pattern looked "a bit more ragged."  Watch New Orleans man explain his sad reason for staying » The latest discussion published by the hurricane center forecasters said computer models show "Gustav or its remnants slowing to a crawl" over northeast Texas over the next three to five days. "Such slow motion would exacerbate the threat of heavy rains and inland flooding," the forecasters said. Watch water spill over canal levee » With hurricane-force winds extending 70 miles from the center, the islands and shoreline are already in reach of Gustav's fury. Sustained winds of 91 mph and gusts of 117 mph were measured in Southwest Pass, Louisiana, during the 4 a.m. hour, the hurricane center said. CNN's Ali Velshi was hunkered down in a house on Grand Isle, Louisiana, where only a handful of people remained. When high winds first kicked up about 3:15 a.m. Monday, the barrier island's electric power went out, Velshi said. A storm surge of at least 14 feet is expected there, he said.

Question: What made landfall near Cocodrie, Louisiana?

Question: What will it do to Texas?

Question: What category storm was it?

Question: what time did this occur?

Question: What is stalling over northeast Texas?

Question: What made landfall?

Question: What downgrades it to a Category 2 storm?

Answer: Hurricane Gustav

Answer: "exacerbate the threat of heavy rains and inland flooding."

Answer: 2

Answer: 8 a.m. CT.

Answer: Hurricane Gustav

Answer: Hurricane Gustav

Answer: 110 mph,

Summary:
NEW: Eye of Gustav made landfall near Cocodrie, Louisiana, about 9:30 a.m. CT .
Gustav stalling over northeast Texas would "exacerbate" inland flooding, warns NHC .
Hurricane Gustav's 110 mph winds downgrade it to a Category 2 storm .


NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- As floodwaters washed away homes in the Lower 9th Ward, Robert Green watched with horror as his mother got swept away in the storm. Robert Green stands on the porch of his family's FEMA trailer in front of his new home earlier this year. Four months later, Green and other family members found Joyce Green's remains in the splintered wreckage of the house where they left her. Robert Green's granddaughter Shanay also drowned the night Hurricane Katrina hit. Green spent almost the entire last four years living in a small FEMA trailer on his land, sharing his story with anyone who came through the Lower 9th. One of the people he met was Tom Darden, executive director of the Make It Right Foundation, Brad Pitt's nonprofit vision for building green, sustainable houses in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. Only a handful of homes have returned to the Lower 9th, one of the areas hardest hit by the killer storm. "We have 14 neighbors and feel crowded," Green said "But we have 3,000 houses that are gone, and we would love to see those houses come back." Darden and Pitt felt compelled to help provide Green and his family a second chance, and on July 9 Green officially became a proud homeowner once again. Getting a fresh start has helped Green and his family deal with the tragedy that turned their lives upside down and took away their loved ones. "That's what gave me the strength to endure all that we've been through," Green said. "People constantly coming by, volunteers constantly coming by. People that really care about us and let us know that we weren't in this alone. It gave us the hope that one day we would come back and be a community again."  Watch as Green talks about his family's tragedies and life in New Orleans after Katrina » The Make It Right Foundation has built 15 homes in the Lower 9th so far; the group's goal is to have 150 built by the end of next year. Darden said the program is designed as a hand up, not a handout. "We ask the families to contribute as much as they can afford," he said. "On average that's been about $75,000, but we work with the families very closely to make sure that a family is not spending more than 30 percent of their income towards housing costs, and that's how we ensure they are affordable." Safety and energy efficiency are among the group's primary concerns. "[The houses] are all elevated at least above Katrina-level flooding. A family has the option to build even higher than that if they want. We've got hurricane-resistant features like impact-resistant glass, or a certain type of fabric that protects the windows," Darden said.  See photos detailing the features of the Make It Right homes » Another of the driving forces instrumental in rebuilding the Lower 9th Ward in a sustainable fashion is Global Green, the American arm of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's Green Cross International. "Immediately after the storm, we saw a failure in government in every level: local, state and federal," said Matt Petersen, president of Global Green. "There's still so much work to be done that we can't wait, we can't rely on the federal government. "This is an era where I think the citizens of this great country need to take responsibility for our nation, and it starts right here. How we respond affects the future of our country." Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, knows mistakes were made in the efforts to get people back into their homes, both in the Lower 9th Ward and other devastated parts of New Orleans. "We have to be more flexible, we have to be more responsive, and make sure the programs don't just work in theory, but they will work for families," Donovan said. "We've been very focused in

Question: How many families did Brad Pitt's Make It Right nonprofit assist with housing?

Question: What did the HUD secretary say?

Question: Where does Robert Green live?

Question: Who did Robert Green lose in the hurricane?

Answer: 15

Answer: "We have to be more flexible, we have to be more responsive, and make sure the programs don't just work in theory, but they will work for families,"

Answer: Lower 9th Ward,

Answer: his mother

Summary:
Robert Green lost his mother and a granddaughter in Hurricane Katrina .
Since then he has lived in a FEMA trailer in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward .
This year he moved into his new home thanks to Brad Pitt's Make It Right nonprofit .
HUD secretary: If it weren't for nonprofits, there would have been little or no progress .


NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- As the storm raged outside her hospital room four years ago, an equally consuming force hijacked Alesia Crockett's mind: deep depression. Alesia Crockett, who suffers from bipolar disorder, ended up in a hospital hours outside New Orleans. For days, Crockett lay in darkness and a tangle of sweaty hospital bed sheets, one among hundreds of desperate patients trapped inside Charity Hospital in 2005, while outside, Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath battered the city. Crockett had been admitted to Charity's inpatient mental health unit after having a psychotic episode. She had struggled for years with bipolar disorder, an illness that causes her to volley between euphoria and profound depression. She said she barely remembers Katrina. "Most of the time, I was in a fog, but I do remember some things," Crockett said. "Where my room was, I could see thousands of people wandering, and I could see the waters rise." Crockett, and many other New Orleanians suffering from chronic mental illness -- and those with what is called "soft depression," or nonchronic mental illness -- say Katrina may have relented days after it hit New Orleans proper, but their mental health issues have not. "Four years later, everything is not all right in New Orleans," said Dr. Jan Johnson, a psychiatrist who treats Crockett.  Watch more on New Orleans' mental health crisis » While mental health problems grow, the resources to treat those problems continue to wane. A report about mental health issues in New Orleans after Katrina, published in early 2008 in the journal Psychiatric Annals, lists the number of inpatient psychiatric beds in greater New Orleans at 487 before the storm. Since Katrina, that number has declined to 190. Most of the remaining beds are dedicated to patients unable to live independently. That leaves what the report's authors describe as a "paltry" 17 beds for acute mental health care in New Orleans. "The situation is unconscionable, atrocious. I can't use enough bad words to describe it," said Johnson, who is an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the Tulane University School of Medicine. "Patients are not getting care, they are sitting in emergency rooms for days, and that's just an inappropriate place for psychiatric patients." For two years following Katrina, after being rescued from Charity, Crockett's illness was controlled with medications. Then in 2007, she stopped taking them, and she had another episode. "She came to my clinic and was psychotic and really a danger to herself not able to care for herself," Johnson said. "And I had nowhere to hospitalize her." After leaving the clinic, Crockett bounced among three local hospitals before being transported to the closest medical center with an available psychiatric bed, several hours outside of New Orleans. "I can remember being in the back of an ambulance, and I kept thinking, 'This is taking so long,' " Crockett said. "I didn't know where I was going. I just remember seeing the sky turn from daytime to nighttime, and we still hadn't gotten there." Crockett is far from alone, Johnson says. "The system has been in horrible shape for a while," she said. "We had our problems even before the storm, but comparatively, we had it much better then. It's very frustrating." And the consequences of not finding a bed for acutely ill patients can be deadly. In January 2008, a New Orleans police officer was killed by a man suffering from psychosis due to schizophrenia, New Orleans police said. The officer, Nicola Cotton, approached 44-year-old Bernel Johnson for questioning about a rape. A struggle ensued, and Johnson overpowered and killed Cotton with her own gun, police said. As it turns out, Johnson was no longer under psychiatric care and was not taking his prescribed medication. Cotton's death trained a spotlight on the deplorable condition of the New Orleans mental health system -- for a moment -- said Rep. Neil

Question: How many psychiatric beds for inpatients did they have before the storm?

Question: Who was slain by a mentally ill man?

Question: how many beds before?

Question: what spotlights the city's need?

Question: what city faces a crisis?

Question: What is New Orleans facing a crisis of?

Question: what does new orleans continue to face?

Answer: 487

Answer: a New Orleans police officer

Answer: 487

Answer: Cotton's death

Answer: New Orleans

Answer: mental health

Answer: mental health issues

Summary:
New Orleans continues to face crisis of mental health needs, resources .
Study: Before storm, area had 487 inpatient psychiatric beds; now,190 .
Police officer's slaying by mentally ill man renewed spotlight on city's needs .


NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- At the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, some of the best music happens miles from the Fairgrounds, hours after the crowds have gone and the last of the crawfish bread has been consumed. Shamarr Allen, Mark Mullins and Ben Ellman sport the Midnite Disturbers T-shirts as they perform. It happens with the arrival of Midnite. At 1:18 a.m., Bonerama -- a brass-funk rock band lead by three trombones -- has just finished a 90-minute set that started with a soulful, passionate original tune written by bandleader Mark Mullins, and concluded with a cover of Jimi Hendrix' "Crosstown Traffic," complete with the trombones running through wah-wah pedals. Suddenly the crowd of about 75 clears out of the way as a dozen musicians parade in the room. Dressed in black shirts, they are the Midnite Disturbers, a Jazz Fest supergroup whose appearance is as infrequent as a lunar eclipse. Each member of the Midnite Disturbers fronts his own band, and the artists are rarely in the city at the same time. The band was started by New Orleans drummers and longtime friends Stanton Moore and Kevin O'Day. In the weeks following Katrina, O'Day had moved into Moore's house, where the two hit on an idea. "We realized we had never had our own band together, and we decided to invite all of the best horn players we know to play with us," O'Day said. Each artist has a name, printed in red, on his shirt, following the command "Listen to": Smokey Johnson ... Brian O'Neill ... Henry "Red" Allen. They're the band's predecessors and mentors. Although probably little known outside the Crescent City, they're the musicians who shaped New Orleans music: masters of their craft. Modern-day masters in their own right, the Midnite Disturbers live up to their name, splitting the night with their loud, hard, funky jams. There are up-and-comers Troy Andrews and Shamarr Allen, and veterans such as Mullins from Bonerama, Stanton Moore and Ben Ellman from Galactic. Their black shirts are drenched with sweat by the time they finish playing. "Its an honor to play with such veterans because it's confirmation that I'm doing my thing on a level to where people are noticing the hard work that I have been putting in," said trumpet player Shamarr Allen. "Playing with this kind of band keeps you on your toes. It's more interesting and challenging to try to understand everyone's musical approach and find a spot for yours to fit. "That's the beauty of it," he said. "How to sound good, have fun, listen to each other, entertain a crowd, and stay on the same page at the same time. It lets me know, if I'm not there yet, I'm on my way to being one of the big boys." The Midnite Disturbers will be at Jazz Fest -- of course -- holding down a 5:55 p.m. slot Saturday afternoon. And then, when it's over, they'll be gone -- ready to get together when the moon beckons.

Question: Are the disturbers  scheduled to play Jazz Fest Saturday afternoon?

Question: What kind of music does Midnite Disturbers play?

Question: Where are the Midnite Disturbers from?

Question: what style do they do

Question: What group does brassy funk, New Orleans style, calling attention to influences?

Question: who is an all star band

Question: When is the Jazz Fest?

Answer: The Midnite

Answer: Jazz

Answer: New Orleans

Answer: brass-funk rock

Answer: Midnite Disturbers

Answer: The Midnite Disturbers

Answer: Saturday afternoon.

Summary:
Midnite Disturbers is an all-star band of New Orleans musicians .
Group does brassy funk, New Orleans style, calling attention to influences .
Disturbers scheduled to play Jazz Fest Saturday afternoon .


NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Before a cheering crowd at a town hall meeting in New Orleans, President Obama fired back at critics who accuse him of accomplishing little in his nine months in office, saying "I'm just getting started." President Obama speaks at a town hall meeting at the University of New Orleans on Thursday. "I never thought any of this was going to be easy," said Obama, speaking at the University of New Orleans in his first visit to the Gulf Coast city since taking office. He poked fun at his critics, asking, "Why haven't you solved world hunger yet? It's been nine months. Why?" "What'd I say during the campaign? I said change is hard," Obama said. "Big change is harder. ... I wasn't kidding about it being hard." "Those folks who are trying to stand in the way of progress ... let me tell you, I'm just getting started," he said. "I don't quit. I'm not tired. I'm just getting started." Before taking questions, Obama discussed the recovery effort in New Orleans, a city struggling to get back on its feet after Hurricane Katrina. "It has now been just over four years since that terrible storm struck your shores," the president said. "And [in] the days after it did, this nation and all the world bore witness to the fact that the damage from Katrina was not caused just by a disaster of nature, but also by a breakdown of government, that government wasn't adequately prepared and we didn't appropriately respond." Obama said that when he took office, he pledged to make Gulf Coast rebuilding efforts and disaster response top priorities of his administration. "So far, I'm pleased to report that we've made good progress," he said. "We've got a long way to go, but we've made progress." He said he has sent more Cabinet members to the Gulf Coast than any other region -- "not just to appearances, but to listen and to learn and help you move forward." Also, he said, his administration has helped eliminate red tape and turf disputes in order to get stalled programs moving, and freed up $1.5 billion in recovery funds. He said his administration is tackling "corruption and inefficiency" that has plagued the New Orleans Housing Authority for years -- remarks that drew applause from the crowd -- and has helped move families out of emergency housing, helping homeowners rebuild and helping renters find affordable options. The government has also invested in supporting health centers and recruiting primary care providers, nurses and other professionals to fill shortages left by the 2005 hurricane, he said.  Watch bloggers debate Obama's handling of New Orleans » Before the meeting, Obama toured the Martin Luther King charter school -- the first charter school to reopen in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, the hardest-hit portion of the city. The president called the school "an inspiration for this city." However, "it's clear how far we have to go before we can call this recovery a real success," he said, adding that much remains to be done to repair roads, hospitals and schools and rebuild neighborhoods. "We will not forget about New Orleans," he said. "We're going to keep on working." He also touched on the economy and on health care reform. "Too many Americans have waited too long for this to happen," he said, drawing wild cheers from the crowd. "We are going to pass health care reform by the end of the year." Meeting the challenges faced by the nation, he said, "requires diligence and perseverance and patience ... it requires a renewed spirit of cooperation among our citizens." He took questions from the crowd on topics ranging from the school dropout rate to immigration. One man asked Obama, "Why is it four years after Katrina we're still fighting with the federal government for

Question:
What was said at the university?
What did he say at the univerisity?

Answer: "I'm just getting started."

Answer: "I never thought any of this was going to be easy,"

Summary:
NEW: "I never thought any of this was going to be easy," he says at university .
President not visiting other Gulf Coast areas damaged by Katrina in 2005 .
Some local Republicans have decried Obama's visit as too short .
But White House cites other visits by him, senior officials since storm .


NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Drumsticks in hand, Derrick Tabb has found a way to transform New Orleans children from troublemakers to tuba players. Derrick Tabb's program provides free tutoring, instruments and music instruction to more than 100 students. Tabb, wearing a gold chain and a baseball cap, doesn't look the part of a typical band teacher. But every weekday evening in the French Quarter, he beats out the rhythm on his music stand as students play their chosen instruments. In doing so, he gives them an alternative to New Orleans' rough streets. "I tell everyone I'm competing with the drug dealers," said Tabb, 34. His program, The Roots of Music, offers free tutoring, instruments and music education to more than 100 students. Vote now for the CNN Hero of the Year Reformed class clown Terrence Knockum credits Tabb with changing his life. The 15-year-old tuba player joined the band eight months ago, when he was failing in school and "heading up the wrong road," said Tabb. Today, Knockum is the band captain. He hopes to make music his career and teach it himself one day. "Before, I was getting in trouble," Knockum said. "Now ... when I come here, I'm learning how to play the horn, be disciplined and, you know, just work hard." Tabb can relate. During a rebellious phase in junior high, his band teacher became his mentor and helped him get back on track. "He saved my life," recalled Tabb, a professional drummer with the Rebirth Brass Band, one of the city's most popular acts. Now Tabb, a New Orleans native, strives to keep young people on the straight and narrow in the city with the nation's highest murder rate, according to FBI statistics. "When all you've seen is the drug dealers and the killing, you know, they think that's cool," said Tabb, adding that many young people wind up in trouble because they have nothing else to do. The type of music support systems that helped Tabb years ago have been struggling since Hurricane Katrina; musicians scattered after the storm and budget cuts ended many school music programs. As a result, Tabb chose to target 9- to 14-year-olds with his program. "That's just the most vulnerable time of your life," he said. "If I catch them now, I can hold onto them for at least four or five years and guide them the way that we want to guide them." Students meet from 4-7 p.m. every weekday, year-round. They work with tutors on schoolwork, practice their music and eat a hot meal before heading home. Through funding from donations and sponsors, Tabb's group is able to provide bus transportation, instruments and food for free. He calls it his "no excuse" policy -- "you don't have no excuse why you're not here," Tabb said. With a 90 percent attendance rate, his formula seems to be working.  Watch Tabb and The Roots of Music program in action » Tabb attributes the success in part to the nature of music. "You're constantly learning something new," he said. "That's what keeps the kids coming back every day." Since getting underway last year, The Roots of Music has already exceeded Tabb's expectations. The band marched in five Mardi Gras parades this season. The program also helped students improve their academic performances, with 85 percent having raised their grades in at least one class; some D and F students have become A students. And there are more than 400 children on the waiting list. Tabb said he's assembled a "dream team" of musicians to help teach the students, and he personally works with all the beginners. No previous musical experience is necessary -- many students don't even know the names of the instruments when they start -- but youngsters like 9-year-old Lauren Washington, who plays the flute, learn fast. "It

Question: what is provided by the program?

Question: What are the benefits of the organization?

Question: What did Derrick Tabb start?

Question: What does the program do?

Question: who started The Roots of Music?

Question: who have marched in Mardi Gras parades?

Answer: provides free tutoring, instruments and music instruction to more than 100 students.

Answer: work with tutors on schoolwork, practice their music and eat a hot meal before heading home.

Answer: His program, The Roots of Music,

Answer: provides free tutoring, instruments and music instruction to more than 100 students.

Answer: Derrick Tabb

Answer: The Roots of Music

Summary:
Derrick Tabb started The Roots of Music to help the city's young people .
The program provides free instruments, instruction, tutoring and food .
Students have marched in Mardi Gras parades, improved grades .
Vote now for the CNN Hero of the Year at CNN.com/Heroes .


NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Hurricane Gustav didn't pack the wallop of Katrina three years earlier, officials said Monday, but they urged almost 2 million evacuees to stay away from the Gulf Coast for another day. A man walks past a storefront that collapsed as Hurricane Gustav passed through Lafayette, Louisiana, on Monday. "Tomorrow is not a day to start coming back to the city of New Orleans," Mayor Ray Nagin said Monday night. "Power lines are down all over the city; there's a significant number of homes and businesses that are without power," Nagin said. Still, he said, Gustav didn't do the damage feared a few days ago, a possible repeat of 2005's Hurricane Katrina. "I'd probably call Gustav, instead of the mother of all storms, maybe the mother-in-law or the ugly sister of all storms," Nagin said. Across Louisiana, more than 800,000 people were without electricity, and some may not see it restored for two weeks or more, Gov. Bobby Jindal said. At a news conference with Jindal, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff urged Gulf Coast residents who evacuated to stay away until damage could be assessed. But even those who fled faced hardships. About 2,700 people who took up short-term residence Monday in the Louisiana State University Agriculture Center in Alexandria were told that the buildings generator power was not reaching the plumbing system, meaning no showers and no flushing toilets, said John Barnett, head of the facilities. "It's really crowded, and everybody's just trying to do their best," said Kesha Harlow, who was there with her daughter, 8, and her son, 2 months. "We're just waiting for the storm to blow over." Gustav roared from the Gulf of Mexico into southern Louisiana on Monday as a Category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of 110 mph, bringing fierce winds and heavy rains from the Alabama-Florida border west into Texas. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, two people were killed when a tree fell on the house where they were staying after they had come from farther south to escape the storm, officials said. A man was killed in a similar incident in north Lafayette, Louisiana, officials said. Four hospice patients died while waiting for air ambulances to evacuate them from southern Louisiana, according to Richard Zuschlag, chairman and CEO of Acadian Ambulance. Gustav was blamed for more than 60 deaths in the Caribbean, including 51 in southwestern Haiti. At 10 p.m. CT, Gustav was a tropical storm with sustained winds of 60 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. In New Orleans, Gustav drove sheets of water over the protective levees around the Industrial Canal early Monday afternoon, but the walls appeared to hold up under the onslaught as the winds faded. Up to 6 feet of water spilled into an industrial park in the Upper 9th Ward late Monday morning, pouring through small gaps in the concrete flood walls before receding in the afternoon.  Watch water spill over the levee » But as the storm eased, inspectors from the Army Corps of Engineers and parish levee boards went out to check on the earthen walls and have found nothing to raise alarm, said Col. Craig Gunter, a Corps of Engineers spokesman. iReport.com: See one reader's footage of the levee "The levees all held up," Nagin said. "I was hoping that this would happen, that we would be able to stand before America and before everyone and say we had some success with the levee system." With the water level in Lake Pontchartrain north of the city rising, the Army Corps of Engineers closed flood gates on the 17th Street Canal and the London Avenue Canal, two areas that caused some of the more severe flooding during Katrina. Official feared late Monday afternoon that a private levee south of New Orleans was in danger of failing, but water levels receded, and sandbagging efforts appeared to have paid off. "We have stopped the bleeding, and I am very encouraged by what we are seeing," Plaquemines

Question: Where you can watch breaking hurricane news live?

Question: What is suggestion for 2 millions people there?

Question: How many evacuees were urged to stay away while damage is assessed?

Question: What was  downgraded to tropical storm?

Question: How many homes lose electricity?

Question: What were evacuees encouraged to do?

Answer: (CNN)

Answer: to stay away from the Gulf Coast

Answer: 2 million

Answer: Hurricane Gustav

Answer: 800,000 people

Answer: stay away from the Gulf Coast for another day.

Summary:
NEW: Gustav downgraded to tropical storm .
NEW: About 2 million evacuees urged to stay away while damaged assessed .
800,000 lose electricity, may take weeks to restore, Louisiana governor says .
Watch breaking hurricane news live on CNN.com .


NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- The Orleans Parish district attorney said he plans to look into deaths at a New Orleans hospital in the days following Hurricane Katrina, but stopped short of calling it an investigation. Staff at Memorial were accused of hastening four patients' deaths in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "My office has not reopened an investigation into the deaths at Memorial hospital" after Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, Leon Cannizzaro said in a statement released Friday. "As district attorney, I have a legal obligation to evaluate statements regarding possible criminal activity in this jurisdiction," the statement said. "I am making that kind of evaluation, but that does not constitute an investigation by this office." The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported in a story Saturday that Cannizzaro will interview New Orleans coroner Frank Minyard and possibly other pathologists on the coroner's staff regarding the deaths of Memorial Medical Center patients. But the newspaper quoted Cannizzaro as saying an investigation would involve convening a grand jury and bringing in witnesses to testify, and he does not at this time have plans to do that. After speaking with the coroner, the district attorney said he would decide whether a more in-depth investigation is necessary. Cannizzaro's spokesman, Christopher Bowman, said Monday the DA's office had no further comment beyond the Friday statement. According to the Times-Picayune, Cannizzaro's conversation with Minyard was prompted by an article in The New York Times last month that quoted two doctors as saying that they gave Memorial patients morphine and other drugs in the days after the hurricane struck, knowing they would die. Cannizzaro told the newspaper he would be "remiss in his responsibilities" if he did not talk to Minyard about information in the article. "That doesn't mean I am opening an investigation," he said. Katrina roared ashore near the Mississippi-Louisiana state line on August 29, 2005, rupturing three of New Orleans' protective levees and putting about three-quarters of the city under water. Then-Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti Jr. launched an investigation after officials from Lifecare, an acute-care facility operating on the seventh floor of Memorial, reported allegations that several seriously ill, mostly elderly patients had been euthanized by medical staff at Memorial as the floodwater rose around the hospital and conditions inside deteriorated. In 2006, Foti ordered the arrest of Dr. Anna Pou and two nurses, Lori Budo and Cheri Landry, on preliminary charges of second-degree murder in the deaths of four patients. Former Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan, who under Louisiana law was responsible for prosecuting crimes, gave Budo and Landry immunity in exchange for their testimony. In July 2007, the grand jury refused to indict Pou. Foti said his investigation revealed that the four patients -- ages 63, 68, 91 and 93 -- were given a "lethal cocktail" of morphine and midazolam hydrochloride, both central nervous system depressants. Pou, Landry and Budo all denied the charges, and their attorneys said they acted heroically, staying to treat patients rather than evacuate. In an interview with Newsweek magazine in 2007, Pou admitted giving the patients drugs. "If in doing so it hastened their deaths, then that's what happened," she said. "But this was not, 'I'm going to go to the seventh floor and murder some people.' We're here to help patients." The grand jury never heard testimony from five specialists who advised Foti that the patients were deliberately killed with overdoses of drugs after Katrina struck. All five were brought in by Foti's office to analyze the deaths, and concluded the patients were homicide victims. After the grand jury refused to indict Pou, Jordan called the case closed and said he would no longer pursue it. If Cannizzaro does decide an in-depth investigation is warranted, it could affect the outcome of a lawsuit in which CNN and The Times-Picayune are seeking the release of Foti's investigative file into the deaths. CNN was the first to report the allegations of euthanasia, six weeks after the hurricane. The case

Question: Who closed the case?

Question: What was alleged at Memorial Hospital?

Question: When were the first reports of allegations made?

Question: What is being alleged occured at Memorial Hospital after hurricane Katrina?

Question: Who reported the allegations six weeks after Katrina?

Question: Who declined to file charges?

Answer: Jordan

Answer: hastening four patients' deaths in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Answer: six weeks after the hurricane.

Answer: were accused of hastening four patients' deaths

Answer: CNN

Answer: Eddie Jordan,

Summary:
Post-Katrina euthanasia was alleged at Memorial Hospital .
Grand jury declined to file charges and case was closed .
Different district attorney deciding whether to reopen investigation .
CNN first reported allegations six weeks after Hurricane Katrina .


NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Two newlyweds are fighting for the dismissal of the justice of the peace who refused them a marriage license because they are of different races. A Louisiana justice of the peace refused to perform a marriage for Beth and Terence McKay. "We've retained an attorney, and we're in the process of taking the next steps in order to make sure that (the justice of the peace) loses his job," Beth McKay told CNN's "American Morning" on Monday. She and her husband, Terence McKay, stepped into the national spotlight when Keith Bardwell, a justice of the peace for Tangipahoa Parish's 8th Ward, refused them a license. They ultimately got a marriage license from another justice of the peace in the same parish. Despite a national uproar and a call by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal for him to lose his license, Bardwell, 56, said he has no regrets. "It's kind of hard to apologize for something that you really and truly feel down in your heart you haven't done wrong," he told CNN affiliate WAFB on Saturday. He insisted he is not racist and does not treat black people differently. He said he does not perform mixed-race marriages because he is concerned about the children of such marriages. Bardwell did not return calls from CNN. Beth McKay, 30, said she was speaking with Bardwell's wife by phone about getting a marriage license and was "shocked" to be asked whether they are an interracial couple.  Watch how justice's decision shocked couple » "She said, 'Well, what's the deal? Is he black, or are you black?' And so I answered her question, and then she just said, 'Well, we don't do interracial marriages.'" Terence McKay, 32, told CNN, "Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but he's absolutely wrong on all aspects of his stance." McKay added, "If it wasn't for interracial couples today, we wouldn't have our president. So for him to take that outlook, that's still like 1800s or something." "A lot of people have come up to us and said, 'You know, we're in interracial relationships as well,' not just black and white, and just encouraged us to stand up for our rights and to speak out against things like this," Beth McKay said. The incident "caught us completely off guard," said Terence McKay, "and we're just trying to live our lives." The National Urban League called for an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, saying in a statement that Bardwell's actions were "a huge step backward in social justice." The U.S. Supreme Court tossed out race-based limitations on marriage in the landmark 1967 Loving v. Virginia case. In the unanimous decision, the court said that "Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State."

Question: What was problem with getting marriage license?

Question: Where were the couple from?

Question: What was judge concerned about?

Answer: because they are of different races.

Answer: Louisiana

Answer: children of such marriages.

Summary:
Couple were denied marriage license because they are of different races .
Justice of Peace Keith Bardwell said he was concerned for kids of biracial marriages .
Louisiana couple eventually got married by different justice of the peace .
Beth, Terence McKay hire lawyer, want judge to lose job .


NEW YORK (CNN)  -- A New York hospital worker was suspended for failing to report the gunshot wound of NFL star Plaxico Burress, a hospital spokeswoman told CNN Monday.

New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress arrives at the 17th police precinct in Manhattan on Monday.

The spokeswoman, Kathy Robinson, gave no further detail on the New York Presbyterian Hospital employee.

"We can confirm that the individual at New York Presbyterian Hospital, who was responsible for failing to report the incident, has been suspended," hospital spokeswoman Robinson said.

Burress has garnered media attention recently for accidentally shooting himself with a gun he is accused of bringing into a crowded New York night club.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg slammed Burress on Monday, saying it would be an "outrage" if the Giants receiver isn't prosecuted "to the fullest extent of the law" after the shooting with a gun that authorities say he owned illegally.

Burress, 31, was arraigned Monday on two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. He could face up to 15 years in prison, the Manhattan district attorney's office said.

Alicia Maxey Greene, spokeswoman for the district attorney, said Burress is not expected to enter a plea until a court appearance in March.

Burress' attorney, Benjamin Brafman, said he expects Burress to plead not guilty.

Bloomberg, speaking at a news conference, made clear he wants Burress to face jail time.

Noting a law that automatically sentences an offender to at least 3 1/2 years for illegally carrying a loaded handgun, Bloomberg said, "It's pretty hard to argue the guy didn't have a gun and it wasn't loaded. You've got bullet holes in and out to show that it was there."

The mayor also lashed out at New York Presbyterian Hospital for failing to inform police about the incident. He called on the state attorney general to "go after" the hospital for a "chargeable offense."

The district attorney's office said the hospital is under investigation. The hospital said it also is investigating the incident and promised to cooperate with authorities.

In the incident Friday night, Burress suffered a wound to his right thigh and was treated and released from the hospital, the Giants said in a statement released over the weekend.

Sports Illustrated reported that Burress had accidentally shot himself with a gun he was carrying while at Latin Quarter, a sprawling nightclub in Manhattan.

Brafman said his client "understands the seriousness of the situation, and he's addressing it in a responsible fashion." Brafman also said Burress is "physically OK and mentally OK." He added that he does not know when Burress may be back on the field.

Bloomberg, who has long fought against illegal gun ownership, said public figures "make their living because of their visibility. They are the role models for our kids, and if we don't prosecute them, to the fullest extent of the law, I don't know who on Earth we would. It makes a sham, a mockery of the law."

Turning his ire to New York Presbyterian Hospital, which treated Burress, Bloomberg said officials "didn't do what they're legally required to do" -- inform the authorities of the incident.

"It's a misdemeanor. It's a chargeable offense, and I think that the district attorney should certainly go after the management of this hospital."

He also called on the hospital to fire those whose responsibility it was to alert the authorities. And Bloomberg added, "I would question why the management didn't have training in place and didn't discipline them immediately. It's just an outrage."

The hospital later Monday afternoon issued a statement acknowledging that "not reporting a gunshot wound is a clear violation of our policies and procedures."

"We take this very seriously, and are conducting a thorough investigation into why this gunshot wound was not reported to the police department in a timely fashion. Appropriate disciplinary action will be taken. We are in full cooperation with the mayor's office and the police department,"

Question: Who is the New York Mayor?

Question: What is the Mayor accusing the hospital of?

Question: What did Michael Bloomberg call for?

Question: What is a clear violation of our policies?

Question: Who is accused of having the gun?

Question: Who is the mayor of New York City?

Question: What did the mayor criticize?

Question: What team did Plaxico Burress play for?

Answer: Michael Bloomberg

Answer: failing to inform police about the incident.

Answer: Burress to face jail time.

Answer: "not reporting a gunshot wound

Answer: Plaxico Burress

Answer: Michael Bloomberg

Answer: New York Presbyterian Hospital for failing to inform police

Answer: New York Giants

Summary:
Plaxico Burress accused of taking gun into a crowded New York night club .
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants vigorous prosecution of NFL star .
Mayor also slams hospital, Giants for their response to the Burress incident .
Hospital: "Not reporting a gunshot wound is a clear violation of our policies."


NEW YORK (CNN)  -- A four-story residential building collapsed Sunday in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, and at least four people suffered minor injuries, according to the New York City Fire Department. Firefighters and other personnel arrive in the Fort Greene neighborhood on Sunday. The cause of the midday collapse of the building on Myrtle Avenue between Ryerson and Hall streets was not immediately known. All residents of the building were accounted for, authorities said. Three people were given medical attention at the scene and a fourth person was taken to a Brooklyn hospital, said a fire department spokesman. It was not clear whether any of the injured lived in the building. The New York Department of Buildings said residents in six adjacent buildings were told to leave those structures as investigators worked to determine the cause of the collapse.   Watch video of the rubble » A spokeswoman for that department confirmed that the owner of the collapsed building was cited in May after inspectors noticed several vertical cracks on an exterior wall. Watch video of the rubble That case was scheduled to be heard Monday by the city's Environmental Control Board, which handles citations issued by the buildings department.

Question: When was owner of building cited?

Question: Residents of how many buildings told to leave?

Question: What happened to the wounded

Question: what collapses

Question: Where did the building collapse occur?

Question: Who is told to leave buildings

Question: What did inspectors see

Answer: May

Answer: six

Answer: a Brooklyn hospital,

Answer: A four-story residential building

Answer: of Brooklyn,

Answer: were

Answer: several vertical cracks on an exterior wall.

Summary:
Residential building collapses in Fort Greene area; 4 people have minor injuries .
Residents in six adjacent buildings told to leave those structures .
Owner of collapsed building cited in May after inspectors saw vertical cracks on wall .


NEW YORK (CNN)  -- A longtime employee and vault manager for a jewelry company in Long Island City, New York, stole millions of dollars worth of gold and gold jewelry from her employer over a six-year span, the Queens district attorney has alleged. Teresa Tambunting, 50, of Scarsdale, New York, is accused of stealing as much as $12 million from Jacmel Jewelry, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement Wednesday. At an arraignment Wednesday, she did not enter a plea to charges of first-degree grand larceny and first-degree criminal possession of stolen property, the district attorney's office said. She was released on $100,000 bail and will return to court May 19, the office said. Her attorney, David Kirby, did not return phone calls seeking comment. Tambunting, who worked for Jacmel for 28 years, has returned about $7 million worth of gold, but $4 million remains missing, according to Brown. "The defendant is accused of establishing a virtual mining operation in Long Island City which siphoned off millions of dollars' worth of the precious metal from her employer," Brown said. Police say Tambunting -- whose job responsibilities involved monitoring the vault in which fine gold, finished products and raw materials were stored -- confessed that for several months last year, she hid gold in makeshift slits in her purse. An inventory in January revealed that as much as $12 million in merchandise was missing, Brown said in the written statement. After an investigation, Tambunting arrived at the jewelry company's offices wheeling a suitcase containing about 66 pounds of gold, an estimated $868,000, the district attorney's office said. In February, about 450 pounds of gold was taken from her residence, the office said. Tambunting became vault manager in 1991, the office said. The dates of the alleged thefts were not immediately clear. The value of the gold returned fluctuates because of the rise and fall of gold prices. However, the charges are based on what Jacmel claims it lost: $3 to $12 million, according to the Queens district attorney. Jewelry manufacturer owners often find themselves in precarious circumstances when protecting their companies from thievery, said Benjamin Mark, who owned a jewelry manufacturing company in New York for 20 years. "Unless you have metal detectors where every single employee removes their shoes and belts, you can't be certain," said Mark, who now operates a one-man business. "Stealing jewelry is relatively simple." Jacmel Jewelry is one of the country's largest manufacturers and distributors of popular price jewelry, according to its Web site. It employs more than 1,000 people worldwide, according to its president, Jack Rahmey. Rahmey said he is cooperating with authorities. Tambunting faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

Question: For how many years has the vault manager been woring for Jacmel Jewelry ?

Question: How many years in prison is she facing ?

Question: how much money says the district attorney says he has returned

Question: What did she confessed to the authorities ?

Question: What did the district attorney say?

Question: how many years in prison you can get if convicted

Question: Where did the vault manager work?

Question: Who hid gold in her purse?

Question: How long did she work at Jacmel Jewelry for?

Question: How many years in prison could she get?

Question: How much gold did she return?

Question: Who confessed to hiding gold in her purse?

Question: Who worked for Jacmel Jewelry for 28 years?

Answer: 28

Answer: 25

Answer: about $7 million worth of gold,

Answer: hid gold in makeshift slits in her purse.

Answer: not enter a plea to charges of first-degree grand larceny and first-degree criminal possession of stolen property,

Answer: 25

Answer: a jewelry company in Long Island City,

Answer: Teresa Tambunting,

Answer: 28 years,

Answer: up to 25

Answer: about $7 million worth of

Answer: Teresa Tambunting,

Answer: Teresa Tambunting,

Summary:
Vault manager worked for Jacmel Jewelry for 28 years .
Authorities say she confessed to hiding gold in her purse .
District attorney says she's returned about $7 million in gold .
She could get 25 years in prison if convicted .


NEW YORK (CNN)  -- A man accused of entering New York's LaGuardia Airport with a bag containing wires and batteries, sparking suspicion and leading to a large-scale evacuation, was ordered Saturday to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, a prosecutor said. LaGuardia Airport's Central Terminal is being treated as a crime scene. Scott McGann, 32, appeared in court after authorities said he walked into LaGuardia's Central Terminal Saturday morning with what was determined to be a fake bomb. The terminal was reopened after several hours. Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said McGann was charged with placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in the first degree; placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in a transportation facility; and making terrorist threats. McGann appeared in court Saturday, but his arraignment was postponed, Brown said. McGann is being held without bail. "The defendant is clearly a very troubled young man," Brown said. "As a result, the Court has directed that he be examined to determine whether he has the capacity to understand the proceedings against him and assist in his defense." Earlier, officials said McGann wouldn't speak to his lawyer or anyone else. His next court appearance is scheduled for Thursday. McGann allegedly arrived at a checkpoint in the terminal at about 4:50 a.m., carrying a backpack and refusing to answer security questions. Authorities said the officer at the checkpoint was informed that a suspicious package was attached to the bottom of McGann's backpack, and that McGann allegedly grabbed what appeared to be a trigger device with a red button connected to the backpack. McGann allegedly pressed the button several times before a Port Authority officer grabbed the trigger and the package away from him. The package turned out to be a device consisting of batteries, cylinders and electronic components that could have been used to make a bomb, Brown said, but the bomb squad found that it didn't not contain any explosives. McGann had a ticket on a United Airlines flight to Chicago and a seat on two other connecting flights with his final destination Oakland, California, according to a law enforcement official close to the investigation.  Watch passengers talk about the confusion » McGann has three prior arrests in the New York area, the source told CNN. The most recent involved June charges of tampering with evidence and resisting arrest. He was also arrested twice in 2008, the source said. Port Authority spokesman John Kelly said McGann "was just acting crazy." The arresting officers described McGann to Kelly as "extremely disheveled and dirty," in a "near catatonic state" and "staring off into space," Kelly said. McGann had been homeless for at least a year. Authorities evacuated the terminal after 5:20 a.m., and allowed passengers back in to all areas except Concourse C by midmorning, Kelly said. The concourse was reopened shortly before 11 a.m., according to Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Holly Baker.  Watch the chaotic evacuation scene » Authorities had stopped flights from taking off or landing at the airport, but by a little after 9 a.m., flights resumed, Baker said. Central Terminal is one of four terminals in the airport, which is in the borough of Queens. It is about eight miles from Manhattan. The incident disrupted travel plans for many passengers, and caused American Airlines to cancel 16 flights, said an airline spokesperson. American Eagle, Continental Airlines and Southwest also reported delays. iReport: Watch crowds start moving back into the terminal CNN i-Reporter Jose Ojeda, 24, had been sitting on the tarmac on a plane headed to Chicago, Illinois, when the evacuation was ordered. "We were all ready to go," Ojeda, of Bronx, New York, said of his flight, which he said had been scheduled to leave at 6:10 a.m. "They didn't make any announcement other than, 'You need to evacuate,'" he said. "I thought it was standard procedure, but then once we got out of the plane, they kept pushing us back and back, out of the terminal out of the actual airport.

Question:
Whcich airport was evacuated?
What charges does the suspect face?
what must the suspect undergo
What is the age of Scott McGann?
What resumed after the evacuation
What age is the suspect?

Answer: York's LaGuardia

Answer: placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in the first degree; placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in a transportation facility; and making terrorist threats.

Answer: a psychiatric evaluation,

Answer: 32,

Answer: flights

Answer: 32,

Summary:
Suspect must undergo psychiatric evaluation before court appearance .
Scott McGann, 32, of New York, faces 3 charges, including making terrorist threats .
Man had bag stuffed with wires and batteries, appeared intoxicated, official says .
Flights resume at busy LaGuardia Airport after evacuation ends .


NEW YORK (CNN)  -- A new lawsuit alleges that convicted swindler Bernie Madoff financed a cocaine-fueled work environment and a "culture of sexual deviance," and he diverted money to his London, England, office when he believed federal authorities were closing in at home. A new lawsuit alleges Bernie Madoff financed a sex-and-drugs workplace with investors' money. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in New York's State Supreme Court, was brought on behalf of former investors and seeks unspecified punitive damages and compensation. Beyond that, it offers a look at what the plaintiffs' attorneys say was once Madoff's multimillion-dollar empire and what is now his world in a federal prison in North Carolina. Among the allegations in the 264-page lawsuit are that during the mid-1970s, Madoff began sending employees to buy drugs for company use. The complaint alleges that some employees and investors were aware of the drug purchases, and that BMIS [Bernard Madoff Investment Services] was known by insiders as the "North Pole" in reference to the excessive amount of cocaine use in the work place. Attorneys Joseph Cochett and Nancy Fineman filed the complaint based on an investigation, including a four-hour interview with Madoff in prison in July, that they conducted for former investors. They also allege that major financial institutions, including KPMG, the Bank of New York and JP Morgan Chase, were aware that Madoff was transferring stolen funds to his London office for personal purchases. According to the complaint, Madoff transferred funds to London to buy extravagant personal items. "In 2006 Madoff thought the end was near because the [U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission] investigated. He realized he had to change things up so his focus shifted to London," Fineman said. "We know that KPMG were the auditors for the London branch and that money was used to buy yachts and Bentleys, they are supposed to look at related-party transactions. KPMG should have noticed these as a red flag." Officials of KPMG and the Bank of New York did not immediately respond to calls from CNN Wednesday evening for comment on the lawsuit. JP Morgan Chase spokesman Tom Kelly said, "We do not comment on pending litigation." The alleged illicit behavior outlined in the complaint did not stop at drug use and extravagant spending. Company parties consisted of topless entertainers, and some employees had affairs in places such as Madoff's own office, the lawsuit says. Madoff was fond of escorts and masseuses, and used money stolen from investors to pay them, according to the complaint. Madoff was convicted of operating a Ponzi scheme and defrauding thousands of investors. He pleaded guilty in March to 11 counts, including fraud, money laundering and perjury, and was sentenced to 150 years in prison. Prosecutors have said it was the largest investor fraud ever committed by a single person, totaling billions in losses to investors. Before Madoff, 71, was transferred to Federal Butner Correctional Complex outside of Raleigh, North Carolina, he lived a life of luxury. The lawsuit states that he had multimillion dollar residences in Manhattan, Montauk on New York's Long Island; Palm Beach, Florida; and Cap d'Antibe, France. The complaint includes details of Madoff's drastically different life now in prison. He lives in a cell where he sleeps on the bottom bunk while up top sleeps his 21-year-old cellmate, who is serving time for drug crimes, according to the lawsuit. Madoff's recreational activities consist of walking around the prison track at night, and eating pizza cooked by a convicted child molester, the lawsuit says. Madoff now spends his time with infamous inmates, the lawsuit says, including Carmine Persico, a former organized-crime former boss, and Jonathan Pollard, a convicted spy for Israel. Many of his fellow inmates are in prison for drug and sex crimes, according to the lawsuit. Going after large financial institutions that allegedly allowed Madoff's scheme to flourish is the goal of Fineman and her associates. "Our goal of meeting with Madoff during the investigation is to get as much money back from responsible parties

Question: stolen money was used to pay for what?

Question: Who sent employees to buy drugs for company use?

Question: What are lawsuits seeking?

Question: what did madoff do

Question: When did the employees start buying drugs?

Question: what is the lawsuit about

Question: Who cooks Madoff's pizza now?

Question: what does madoff do now

Answer: personal purchases.

Answer: Bernie Madoff

Answer: unspecified punitive damages and compensation.

Answer: financed a sex-and-drugs workplace with investors' money.

Answer: mid-1970s,

Answer: alleges Bernie Madoff financed a sex-and-drugs workplace with investors' money.

Answer: a convicted child molester,

Answer: federal prison

Summary:
Lawsuit seeks punitive damages, compensation on behalf of former investors .
Starting in '70s, Madoff sent employees to buy drugs for company use, suit alleges .
Lawsuit: Madoff used money stolen from investors to pay for escorts and masseuses .
Madoff now eating prison pizza cooked by a convicted child molester, lawsuit says .


NEW YORK (CNN)  -- A police officer chasing a theft suspect was fatally shot Thursday night by another officer after he failed to drop his weapon when ordered to, authorities said. Officer Omar Edwards, 25, was not wearing a bulletproof vest and did not fire a shot, authorities say. Authorities said Officer Omar Edwards, 25, was shot three times. The incident is under investigation. Edwards was in plainclothes and carrying a handgun as he chased the suspect past a police car. Authorities said the officer who shot him said he didn't realize Edwards was a police officer. Edwards had just left the Housing Bureau Station House on East 124th Street, said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly at a news conference Friday. As Edwards approached his vehicle, he saw a man rummaging through it. Edwards took out his gun -- a Smith and Wesson 9 mm -- and chased the alleged thief, 43-year-old Miguel Santiago, said NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne. Meanwhile, a police cruiser with a sergeant and two officers, including Officer Andrew Dunton, had just turned onto 125th Street from 1st Avenue. Santiago ran in front of the unmarked vehicle as it approached halfway up the block and the vehicle stopped. The officer in the front passenger seat got out of the vehicle and shouted for Edwards to stop running and drop his weapon. According to Kelly, the officers reported that, after the command was given, Edwards turned toward Dunton with his gun in his hand.  Watch Commissioner Kelly describe the shooting » Dunton fired his Glock 9 mm six times, hitting Edwards three of those times -- once in the left arm, once in the left side and once in the back, according to police. Emergency crews responding to the scene found Edwards wearing a police academy T-shirt under his clothes and found his police shield and ID in his front left pants pocket, according to Browne. Edwards, who lived in Brooklyn, was recently married and had two small children, according to CNN affiliate WABC-TV in New York. On Friday, his relatives remembered him as a good person who achieved what he set out to do. "He was a wonderful, wonderful child from when he was small," his father, Ricardo Edwards, told WABC. "His desire was always to be a policeman and to play football," his uncle, Jerome Harding told the New York TV station. "And he did accomplish both, because he plays for the Police Department." Edwards was pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital at 11:21 p.m. Thursday, according to Kelly. "Tragic accidents like this are another reminder of the dangers our police officers often face as they keep our city the safest big city in the nation," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday. "Rest assured we will find out exactly what happened here, see what we can learn from it so it may never happen again. All the city's prayers are with Omar Edwards and his family." Five eyewitnesses, along with 20 people who reported hearing gunshots, were interviewed by police. The officer who fired the shots has 4½  years' experience, authorities said. The officers involved have been placed on administrative duties while the shooting is investigated. Police later arrested the alleged thief on suspicion of breaking into Edwards' car.

Question: Who shot Omar Edward?

Question: What was Omar Edward occupation?

Question: Who was shot by another officer?

Question: How many shots did the officer fire?

Question: What did the subject try to steel?

Question: Where was suspect trying to break into?

Question: What was Edwards chasing?

Question: When was Omar Edwards shot?

Question: Name of the person that was fatally shot?

Question: Who fired six shots?

Question: What did he fire?

Question: How many shots were fired?

Question: Who is Omar Edwards?

Answer: Officer Andrew Dunton,

Answer: police officer

Answer: Omar Edwards,

Answer: three times.

Answer: vehicle,

Answer: vehicle,

Answer: a theft suspect

Answer: Thursday night

Answer: Omar Edwards,

Answer: Dunton

Answer: Smith and Wesson 9 mm

Answer: six

Answer: Officer

Summary:
Authorities: Omar Edwards, chasing a suspect, was fatally shot by another officer .
Edwards, in plainclothes, witnessed suspect trying to break into his car .
Another saw his pursuit, jumped out of unmarked vehicle and fired six shots .
Officers placed on administrative duties while shooting is investigated .


NEW YORK (CNN)  -- A potential victim became a compassionate counselor during a recent robbery attempt, changing the would-be criminal's mind -- and apparently his religion. Surveillance video shows storekeeper Mohammad Sohail holding a robber at bay with a shotgun. Storekeeper Mohammad Sohail was closing up his Long Island convenience store just after midnight on May 21 when -- as shown on the store's surveillance video -- a man came in wielding a baseball bat and demanding money. "He said, 'Hurry up and give me the money, give me the money!' and I said, 'Hold on'," Sohail recalled in a phone interview with CNN on Tuesday, after the store video and his story was carried on local TV. Sohail said he reached under the counter, grabbed his gun and told the robber to drop the bat and get down on his knees. "He's crying like a baby," Sohail said. "He says, 'Don't call police, don't shoot me, I have no money, I have no food in my house.' " Amidst the man's apologies and pleas, Sohail said he felt a surge of compassion. He made the man promise never to rob anyone again and when he agreed, Sohail gave him $40 and a loaf of bread. "When he gets $40, he's very impressed, he says, 'I want to be a Muslim just like you,' " Sohail said, adding he had the would-be criminal recite an Islamic oath. "I said 'Congratulations. You are now a Muslim and your name is Nawaz Sharif Zardari.'" When asked why he chose the hybrid of two Pakistani presidents' names, the Pakistani immigrant laughed and said he had been watching a South Asian news channel moments before the confrontation. Sohail said the man fled the store when he turned away to get the man some free milk. He said police might still be looking for the suspect but he doesn't intend to press charges. "The guy, you know, everybody has a hard time right now, it's too bad for everybody right now in this economy," said the storekeeper.

Question: Who grabbed the shotgun?

Question: Who faces man wielding baseball bat?

Question: How much is being offered?

Question: Where was the store?

Question: After what did he want to become a Muslim?

Question: What did the man with the bat do?

Question: Where is Mr. Sohail from?

Question: what was wielded?

Question: what was offered?

Question: who has the gun?

Question: What did Sohail give to the theif?

Question: What is the religion of the man?

Question: What did Sohail do when the man started crying?

Answer: Mohammad Sohail

Answer: Storekeeper Mohammad Sohail

Answer: $40

Answer: Long Island

Answer: a recent robbery attempt,

Answer: demanding money.

Answer: Long Island

Answer: baseball bat

Answer: $40 and a loaf of bread.

Answer: Mohammad Sohail

Answer: $40 and a loaf of bread.

Answer: Muslim

Answer: gave him $40 and a loaf of bread.

Summary:
Long Island storekeeper Mohammad Sohail faces man wielding baseball bat .
Sohail grabs shotgun; stunned man begins to cry, says he has no food at home .
Man's story tugs at Sohail's heartstrings, and he offers man money, bread, milk .
After act of compassion, man says he wants to become a Muslim like Sohail .


NEW YORK (CNN)  -- A rarely seen portrait of Michael Jackson is on display inside a Harlem luxury car dealership. Macky Dancy, a partner at Dancy-Power Automotive, said the oil painting titled "The Book" is believed to be the only portrait for which Jackson sat. The oil painting titled "The Book" is on display at Dancy-Power Automotive in Harlem, New York. A different portrait of the entertainer was among items auctioned from his Neverland Ranch in April. It is not clear whether Jackson sat for that painting. The painting on display in Harlem belongs to Marty Abrams, a friend and customer of the owners of the high-profile dealership. The 40-inch by 50-inch portrait, by Australian painter Brett Livingstone-Strong, sold for $2.1 million in 1990. Abrams acquired it as part of an unrelated business deal in 1992 and had it stored. The painting shows Jackson sitting in Renaissance-era clothes and holding a book. Jackson sat for the portrait because he was a friend of Livingstone-Strong's. The painting was unveiled at the Dancy-Power Automotive Group showroom on Thursday but was removed Friday because of crowd concerns. It returned to the showroom floor Monday morning. Dancy said the painting's owner chose the showroom because it's near the Apollo Theater in Harlem, where the Jackson 5 won their first taste of fame by winning Amateur Night in 1967. He said Abrams hopes the painting in some way can raise money for charities in the Harlem neighborhood. Dancy said Abrams is not necessarily interested in selling the portrait. When news broke about the resurfacing of the painting, Dancy said, he received a phone call from representatives of Livingstone-Strong, the artist. Now, Dancy said, "We are in the middle of possibly putting together the artist with the painting again. Maybe for some auctions or charitable shows or something of the sort." The showroom features Rolls-Royces, Ferraris and other pricey cars and is famous for its celebrity clientele.

Question: Where is the painting displayed?

Question: The painting shows jackson holding what?

Question: which is close to Apollo Theater?

Question: What does the painting show show?

Question: What type of painting did michael jackson sit for?

Question: What is the only painting Jackson sat for?

Answer: Dancy-Power Automotive in Harlem, New York.

Answer: a book.

Answer: the showroom

Answer: Jackson sitting in Renaissance-era clothes and holding a book.

Answer: oil

Answer: "The Book"

Summary:
Oil painting said to be the only portrait for which Michael Jackson sat .
Painting is displayed at Harlem-based automotive showroom .
It shows Jackson in Renaissance-era clothes, holding a book .
Partner: Painting's owner chose showroom because it's near Apollo Theater .


NEW YORK (CNN)  -- A technical snafu left some Visa prepaid cardholders stunned and horrified Monday to see a $23,148,855,308,184,500 charge on their statements. Josh Muszynski noticed the 17-digit charge while making a routine balance inquiry. That's about 2,007 times the size of the national debt. Josh Muszynski, 22, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was one Visa customer aghast to find the 17-digit charge on his bill. Adding insult to injury, he had also been hit with a $15 overdraft fee. He noticed that his debt exceeded the world GDP while making a routine balance inquiry on his online Bank of America account. According to his statement, he had spent the profound sum in one pop at a nearby Mobil gas station -- his regular stop for Camel cigarettes. "Very, very panicked," he jumped in his car and sped to the station. Had they perhaps noticed any "outrageous" charges come across their books recently, he inquired of the cashier there. She checked the records. They had not.  Watch the story of an astounded customer in Memphis, Tennessee » Muszynski wondered aloud what he might possibly have asked to purchase for such an astronomical price. "Can I buy Europe on pump 4?" He next called Bank of America, the issuer of his Visa prepaid debit card. The bank kept him on hold for two hours, during which time he contemplated the impossibly bleak financial future that might await him. He also felt a stab of fear that he had saddled all his unborn grandchildren -- and their grandchildren -- with a lifetime of debt. "Down the generational line, nobody would have any money." Finally, a bank representative told him that the $23 quadrillion charge -- and the $15 overdraft fee -- would be stricken from his account. Muszynski compared the giant debt reprieve to receiving "an amazing Monopoly card that says, 'Bank error in your favor.' " In a statement, Visa said the rogue charges affected "fewer than 13,000 prepaid transactions" and resulted from a "temporary programming error at Visa Debit Processing Services ... [which] caused some transactions to be inaccurately posted to a small number of Visa prepaid accounts." The company assured customers that the problem has been fixed and that all falsely issued fees have been voided. "Erroneous postings have been removed ...  this incident had no financial impact on Visa prepaid cardholders."

Question: What is 2,007 times the size of the national debt?

Question: What did the card issuer say?

Question: Who had a $15 overdraft fee?

Question: What is the reason behind the charge and fee?

Question: How much is the overdraft fee?

Question: What did the card issuer blame?

Question: What is the charge about 2,007 times the size of?

Answer: a $23,148,855,308,184,500 charge on their statements.

Answer: Visa said the rogue charges affected "fewer than 13,000 prepaid transactions" and resulted from a "temporary programming error at Visa Debit Processing Services

Answer: Josh Muszynski,

Answer: "temporary programming error at Visa Debit Processing Services

Answer: $15

Answer: "temporary programming error at Visa

Answer: the national debt.

Summary:
$23,148,855,308,184,500 charge is about 2,007 times the size of the national debt .
Visa customer in New Hampshire, also hit with $15 overdraft fee, finds out online .
Statement said he'd spent the big sum at gas station where he buys cigarettes .
Card issuer strikes charge and fee, blames "temporary programming error"


NEW YORK (CNN)  -- A top Baha'i official has criticized Iran's claim that the six imprisoned leaders of the religious minority were held for security reasons and not because of their faith. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government has been accused of trying to eliminate the Baha'i community. Bani Dugal, the principal representative of the Baha'i International Community to the United Nations, called Iran's assertion "utterly baseless." "The allegations are not new, and the Iranian government knows well that they are untrue," Dugal said on Wednesday, quoted in a news release issued by the Baha'i movement. "The documented plan of the Iranian government has always been to destroy the Baha'i community, and these latest arrests represent an intensification of this plan." Iranian government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said the people were detained for "security issues" and not their faith, Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency said. Elham said on Tuesday that the Baha'is were members of a group working together "against national interest." "The group is an organized establishment linked to foreigners, the Zionists in particular," he said. The arrests of the six last week and another Baha'i leader in March sparked sharp condemnation by the Baha'is, the United States, Canada, the European Union and humanitarian groups. The Baha'is say the latest arrests are part of a pattern of religious persecution since 1979, when the monarchy of the Shah of Iran was toppled and an Islamic republic was created in the predominantly Shiite nation. The Baha'is say they have been killed, jailed and "otherwise oppressed" only because of their religion. "The best proof of this is the fact that, time and again, Baha'is have been offered their freedom if they recant their Baha'i beliefs and convert to Islam, an option few have taken," Dugal said. Dugal said Iran's practice of connecting the group to Zionism, the underlying political philosophy of the Jewish state, was a "distortion" and an attempt to "stir animosity" among the Iranian public. The Baha'i World Center, which the movement refers to as its "spiritual and administrative heart," is in the Acre/Haifa area in northern Israel -- a location that predates the founding of the state of Israel since it was formed during the Ottoman Empire's rule of Palestine. The Baha'is explain that their founder, Baha'u'llah, "after a series of successive banishments from his native Persia, was exiled, with members of his family and a small band of his followers, to the Turkish penal colony of Acre in 1868." Dugal said the Iranian actions were the "most recent iteration in a long history of attempts to foment hatred by casting the Baha'is as agents of foreign powers, whether of Russia, the United Kingdom, or the United States and now Israel all of which are completely baseless." Dugal said the government's philosophies are based largely on the idea that there can be "no prophet following Mohammed" and that the faith "poses a theological challenge to this belief." They say Baha'u'llah is regarded by Baha'is as "the most recent in the line of Messengers of God that stretches back beyond recorded time and that includes Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Krishna, Zoroaster, Christ and Mohammed." The Baha'is-- regarded as the largest non-Muslim religious minority in Iran -- say they have 5 million members across the globe, and about 300,000 in Iran.

Question: who was arrested?

Question: What did Bani Dugal say?

Question: The representative said the claim was what?

Question: Bani Dugal said the government is trying to destroy who?

Question: Where were the minority leaders arrested?

Question: What did Baha'i officials deny?

Question: How many leaders were held for security reasons?

Question: who is trying to destroy the community?

Answer: of the religious minority

Answer: "The allegations are not new, and the Iranian government knows well that they are untrue,"

Answer: "utterly baseless."

Answer: the Baha'i community,

Answer: Iran's

Answer: held for security reasons and not because of their faith.

Answer: six

Answer: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government

Summary:
Baha'i official denies Iran claim that six of its leaders held for security reasons .
The religious minority's leaders were arrested at their homes last week .
Baha'i representative to U.N. says Iran's claim is "utterly baseless"
Bani Dugal says Muslim-run government is trying to destroy Baha'i community .


NEW YORK (CNN)  -- After huffing and puffing up 354 steps to the newly reopened Lady Liberty crown, Aaron Weisinger figured it was time to pop the question to his girlfriend, Erica Breder. Aaron Weisinger proposes to Erica Breder on July Fourth inside the crown of the Statue of Liberty. "The Fourth of July has always been a favorite holiday, so that was part of it, " Weisinger said. The couple flew to New York from San Francisco, California, after managing to be among the first 240 people to snag the tickets to the Statue of Liberty crown for its reopening after September 11, 2001. Weisinger got down on one knee inside the narrow, 8-foot-long deck inside the Statue of Liberty's crown, asked Breder to be his wife and offered her a sizeable diamond ring. "I believe I was silent for several minutes. I was so excited," Breder said. Then she said "yes." Both said their families came to the United States via Ellis Island. "My great-grandparents immigrated [from Russia and Hungary]," Weisinger said. His fiance's relatives arrived from Hungary. "The thoughts behind the statue and freedom and liberty allowed our parents and great-grandparents before us to have the wonderful lives that we do," Weisinger added. Breder said she was thrilled to make the long climb up a steep spiral staircase to stand inside Lady Liberty's crown. "It was fantastic, much smaller than we had anticipated. The view's fantastic," the newly engaged Breder said. New safety measures include double handrails, glass stairwell partitions and careful crowd control, according to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Now, only three groups of 10 visitors per hour are guided up to the crown by a National Park Service ranger. That means only about 87,000 will be able to visit each year. In the past, it took visitors at least an hour and a half to climb from the base to the crown. Now, it takes only about 15 to 20 minutes. A new engineering study showed that there had to be changes to make it easier to exit the crowded staircase. Crown tickets can now be reserved online up to a year in advance, but the statue will close again in two years for additional renovations.

Question:
what are the safety measures
whom did he propose to
What did Weisinger do?
what did breder sAY

Answer: include double handrails, glass stairwell partitions and careful crowd control,

Answer: Erica Breder

Answer: pop the question to his girlfriend, Erica Breder.

Answer: "yes."

Summary:
Aaron Weisinger proposed to Erica Breder on July 4 inside the Statue of Liberty .
Couple among first people to see statue's crown since reopening after 9/11 .
"I believe I was silent for several minutes. I was so excited," Breder said .
New safety measures include double handrails, stairwell partitions, crowd control .


NEW YORK (CNN)  -- After spending nearly 28 years in an irreversible coma, heiress and socialite Martha "Sunny" von Bulow died Saturday in a New York nursing home, according to a family statement. She was 76.

Sunny von Bulow is pictured during her 1957 wedding to Prince Alfred von Auersperg.

Von Bulow was subject of one of the nation's most sensational criminal cases during the 1980s.

Her husband, Claus, was accused of trying to kill her with an overdose of insulin, which prosecutors alleged sent her into the coma.

He was convicted of making two attempts on her life, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. He was acquitted in a second trial.

His retrial in 1985 received national attention.

"We were blessed to have an extraordinarily loving and caring mother," said the statement from Von Bulow's three children -- Annie Laurie "Ala" Isham, Alexander von Auersperg and Cosima Pavoncelli -- released by a spokeswoman. "She was especially devoted to her many friends and family members."

Martha von Bulow was born Martha Sharp Crawford into a wealthy family. She inherited a fortune conservatively estimated at $75 million, according to an article on the von Bulow case posted on truTV.com's Crime Library Web site.

In her early years, she drew comparisons to actress Grace Kelly.

She became known as Princess von Auersperg with her first marriage, to Prince Alfred von Auersperg of Austria. That marriage produced two children: Alexander and Annie Laurie.

The von Bulows married in 1966 and had a daughter, Cosima.

On the morning of December 22, 1980, family members found Martha von Bulow unconscious in the bathroom of the family's posh Newport, Rhode Island, home. She never regained consciousness.

She had been hospitalized a year earlier after lapsing into a coma but recovered, according to the Crime Library site. Doctors had diagnosed her with hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar.

Prosecutors accused Claus von Bulow of twice attempting to kill his wife by injecting her with insulin.

The case also led to a major motion picture, "Reversal of Fortune." Actor Jeremy Irons won an Oscar for his portrayal of Claus von Bulow.

Famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, who won Claus von Bulow a new trial on appeal after his conviction, said in a statement Saturday that Martha von Bulow's death is "a sad ending to a sad tragedy that some members of her family tried to turn into a crime. We proved overwhelming[ly] that there was no crime and that the coma was self-induced. We saved his life, but could not save hers."

Claus von Bulow's defense team maintained that Martha von Bulow's alcohol use, among other factors, caused her coma.

Dershowitz said he had spoken with Claus von Bulow, who now lives in London, England. Claus von Bulow was saddened by his former wife's passing, Dershowitz said.

The family statement said Martha von Bulow is survived by her children, their spouses and nine grandchildren.

Alexander von Auersperg and Ala von Auersperg Isham, who had sided with prosecutors against Claus von Bulow, filed a civil suit against their stepfather after his acquittal. The case was settled out of court in 1987, according to a 2007 article in the Providence Journal newspaper in Rhode Island.

Claus von Bulow had agreed to waive his claim to his wife's money and to a divorce in exchange for the suit being dropped.

The von Bulows' daughter, Cosima, sided with her father.

Vanity Fair writer Dominick Dunne, who covered the von Bulow case, told the New York Daily News in 2007 that Sunny von Bulow was moved from Columbia Presbyterian hospital to a private nursing home in 1998.  Watch Dunne recall case Â»

Ala von Auersperg Isham served for a time as president of the Sunny von Bulow Coma and Head Trauma Research Foundation, according to the Providence Journal. An offshoot of that organization, the Brain Trauma Foundation, still operates in New York, the newspaper said.

The family statement notes that Martha von Bulow actively supported the Metropolitan Museum of Art,

Question: What was the verdict in the second trial?

Question: Where did Claus von Bulow live?

Question: How many children did the Bulow's have?

Question: Where is Claus von Bulow living?

Question: What lawyer spoke for Claus von Bulow?

Question: Who is Claus von Bulow accused of killing?

Question: What was Claus von Bulow accused of doing?

Question: How did von Bulow try to kill his wife?

Question: Who had a conviction overturned?

Question: With what method did Claus von Bulow attempt his crime?

Question: Where is Claus Von Bulow living now?

Question: How many grandchildren did Claus von Bulow's late wife have?

Question: How did von Bulow try to kill his wife?

Question: When was he acquitted?

Question: What made Claus von Bulow sad?

Question: Who was accused of trying to kill her?

Question: Who is she survived by?

Question: Who was acquitted in the second trial?

Question: What happened in his second trial?

Question: Where does von Bulow live now?

Question: What is Claus von Bolow accused of?

Answer: acquitted

Answer: London, England.

Answer: three

Answer: London, England.

Answer: Famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz,

Answer: "Sunny" von Bulow

Answer: trying to kill her

Answer: with an overdose of insulin,

Answer: Her husband, Claus,

Answer: overdose of insulin,

Answer: London, England.

Answer: nine

Answer: overdose of insulin,

Answer: in a second trial.

Answer: his former wife's passing,

Answer: Claus von Bulow,

Answer: her children, their spouses and nine grandchildren.

Answer: Claus von Bulow

Answer: He was acquitted

Answer: London, England.

Answer: attempting to kill his wife by injecting her with insulin.

Summary:
Husband Claus von Bulow was accused of trying to kill her with insulin overdose .
Conviction overturned on appeal; he was acquitted in second trial .
Claus von Bulow, living in England, is saddened by former wife's death, lawyer says .
She is survived by three children and nine grandchildren .


NEW YORK (CNN)  -- American radio talk-show host Michael Savage said he wants an apology from Britain's home secretary and his name removed from a list of people banned from entering the United Kingdom. American radio talk-show host Michael Savage calls the British government's description of him "demented." "I've heard from British attorneys who are salivating to set the record straight and win quite a large settlement should she not remove my name from the list," Savage said in an interview broadcast Thursday on CNN's "American Morning." Savage was referring to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, whose office recently excluded 22 people from entering the country because the government feels they have been "stirring up hatred." The British government has cited Savage -- who is on the list under his real name, Michael Alan Weiner -- for "seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence." Savage has made controversial statements against homosexuality, illegal immigrants from Mexico and Islam. He said that "borders, language and culture is the real message of 'The Savage Nation,' " his radio talk show. "I'm a patriotic American, and if that's a crime in England, God help us all," he said.  Watch as Savage says he wants to clear his name » Savage's daily radio show does not air in Britain but is broadcast nationwide in the United States. Savage rejected the British government's description of him, calling it "a demented attitude." "She lumped me in with known murderers and terrorists, people who have been in prison for killing people," Savage said of Smith. "I've been on the air for 15 years, three hours a day, five days a week. I have never, ever promoted violence. There has never been one violent incident attached to my show." Smith has said she is determined to keep those who "spread extremism, hatred and violent messages" out of the country. "Coming to the UK is a privilege, and I refuse to extend that privilege to individuals who abuse our standards and values to undermine our way of life," Smith said. "Therefore, I do not hesitate to name and shame those who foster extremist views, as I want them to know that they are not welcome here." The Home Office has named 16 people on the list, saying it was not in the public interest to disclose the names of the other six. Included on the list are:

Question:
What is Savage known for?
Where was Savage banned from entering?
What does Savage want?
what is he known for
what did he say
What is Savage's occupation?
Who was banned?

Answer: radio talk-show host

Answer: the United Kingdom.

Answer: an apology from Britain's

Answer: "seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence."

Answer: wants an apology from Britain's

Answer: radio talk-show host

Answer: Michael Savage

Summary:
Radio talk-show host Michael Savage wants British home secretary to apologize .
Savage, 20-plus others banned from entering Britain for "stirring up hatred"
"I'm a patriotic American, and if that's a crime in England, God help us all," he says .
Savage known for controversial remarks on homosexuality, illegal immigrants, Islam .


NEW YORK (CNN)  -- An air traffic controller was joking with a woman about a dead cat just moments before a helicopter and small plane collided over the Hudson River in August, according to a recording released Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration. The wreckage of a plane that collided with a helicopter is lifted on August 11 from the Hudson River. There were no survivors from the August 8 crash, in which three people died aboard the Piper Saratoga PA-32 fixed-wing plane that collided with a helicopter carrying six people, five of them Italian tourists. The FAA in August confirmed the air traffic controller at New Jersey's Teterboro airport, who initially handled the flight of the Piper before handing off to Newark controllers, had "involved in apparently inappropriate conversations on the telephone at the time of the accident." The controller and his supervisor, who was not in the building as required, were suspended. "While we have no reason to believe at this time that these actions contributed to the accident, this kind of conduct is unacceptable, and we have placed the employees on administrative leave and have begun disciplinary proceedings," FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said at the time. The recording, released for the first time Thursday, caught the air traffic controller at Teterboro airport having a giggly chat with the woman, suggesting she grill the dead cat she apparently found. A source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN the woman was the controller's girlfriend. "That thing was disgusting," she says, to which the controller responds, "Chinese people do it, so why can't we?" The exchange, which lasts about six minutes, is interrupted by a controller at the Newark airport, who asks the Teterboro controller for help with air traffic. "Hey, Teterboro ... would you switch that guy, maybe put him on a two-twenty heading to get away from that other traffic please?" the Newark controller is heard saying. The Teterboro controller seems to be juggling both conversations, telling to woman to "hold on real quick" while asking the Newark controller to repeat the request. "Can you switch that (Piper) PA-32?" the Newark controller said. Neither is able to communicate with the pilot of the Piper, with the Teterboro controller saying, "He's lost in the hertz." The conversation between the Teterboro controller and the woman continues as she mentions that it seems her friend is doing "a lot of babysitting." Seconds later, the crash occurs with no survivors. The National Transportation Safety Board has said that before the accident, Teterboro controller had switched control of the Piper plane to Newark tower, which the pilot never contacted. Raymond Adams, head of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, is representing the Teterboro controller. He declined to comment Thursday, except to say that "the FAA has previously stated that the conversation had no connection to the crash." The controller is still on paid administration leave pending further investing by the FAA, he added. The helicopter was taking the tourists on a 12-minute Liberty Helicopter Sightseeing Tour around New York, while the plane carrying three individuals was headed for Ocean City, New Jersey. Controllers lost contact with the plane at 11:53 a.m. as it flew at an altitude of about 1,100 feet. The FAA released the recording after a request from The Associated Press citing the Freedom of Information Act.

Question: How many survivors were there in the August 8 crash?

Question: Who did the controller joke with on the recording?

Question: who revelead the recording

Question: when did helicopter crash

Question: who was joking

Question: What was controller joking about on phone?

Question: Who revealed recording of air traffic controller just before fatal crash?

Answer: no

Answer: a woman

Answer: Federal Aviation Administration.

Answer: August 8

Answer: An air traffic controller

Answer: a dead cat

Answer: Federal Aviation Administration.

Summary:
FAA reveals recording of air traffic controller just before fatal crash .
On recording, controller joking with woman on phone about what to do with dead cat .
FAA spokeswoman: "The kind of conduct is unacceptable"
No survivors in August 8 crash of helicopter, small plane over Hudson .


NEW YORK (CNN)  -- An employee of a luxurious New York hotel has been arrested in connection with the slaying of a woman in one of the hotel's residential condominiums, police say. The Jumeirah Essex House is a landmark on Central Park South in New York. Derrick Praileau, 29, faces second-degree murder charges in connection with the death of Andree Bejjani, 44. Police said Bejjani, who was originally from Lebanon, had moved to New York from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and had been staying in a residential condominium at the Jumeirah Essex House since August. Bejjani's nude body was found Saturday afternoon on the 10th floor of the hotel on Central Park South. Her throat was slashed, authorities said. Police have not revealed a suspected motive for the slaying. "This incident occurred in one of the private condominiums at The Essex House complex," the hotel said in a statement provided to CNN. "Our sincere condolences go out to the victim's family and we have offered our full support during this difficult time." The statement continued: "We understand that a hotel employee has been arrested pending charges in conjunction with this incident. We continue to fully cooperate with the police throughout their investigation." A message left with Praileau's defense attorney was not returned. The hotel referred to Praileau only as an employee, but the New York Daily News said he was its housekeeping manager, citing Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. The 44-story Essex House opened in 1931, a landmark Art Deco building. It recently underwent a $90 million renovation. The hotel has more than 500 luxury rooms and suites, along with several privately-owned residences. One six-room unit is currently on the market for $8.25 million.

Question:
Where was Andree Bejjani found?
Who was Praileau?
What does Derrick Praileau face?
who caused this crime
Who was found dead on Saturday?
how much old its Andree Bejjani?

Answer: 10th floor of the hotel on Central Park South.

Answer: housekeeping manager,

Answer: second-degree murder charges

Answer: Derrick Praileau,

Answer: Andree Bejjani,

Answer: 44.

Summary:
Lebanese native Andree Bejjani, 44, found dead in condo Saturday .
Derrick Praileau, 29, faces second-degree murder charges .
Police commissioner tells newspaper that Praileau was housekeeping manager .
Authorities have not revealed suspected motive .


NEW YORK (CNN)  -- An explosion outside a Starbucks on the Upper East Side of Manhattan sent frightened people running into the street early Monday. Police investigate an explosion in a Manhattan Upper East Side neighborhood. The explosion blew out the windows of a Starbucks coffeehouse at East 92nd Street and Third Avenue at 3:25 a.m., according to New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. A "low-order improvised explosive device" exploded after being left on a wooden bench in front of the coffeehouse, Kelly said. The blast could be heard many blocks away, according to CNN affiliate WABC-TV of New York. Seven people were briefly evacuated from the building above the Starbucks, Kelly said, but no one was injured. The interior of the Starbucks sustained no damage. It's too early to tell whether Monday's incident is connected to other minor explosions in New York City in recent years, including ones at the British and Mexican consulates and another in Times Square, Kelly said. He did note one immediate similarity between the detonations: All occurred at roughly the same time of night. He said the police would continue to analyze other similarities. However, Kelly also noted that Starbucks has been the target of low-grade explosions in other cities. Police plan to examine surveillance cameras for information that could lead investigators to the perpetrator, he said.

Question: What happened at a Manhattan Starbucks that sent people fleeing?

Question: What were police investigating?

Question: Where was the starbucks located

Question: What damage was done to the starbucks

Question: What connections are the police investigating

Answer: An explosion

Answer: an explosion in a Manhattan Upper East Side neighborhood.

Answer: Upper East Side of Manhattan

Answer: explosion blew out the windows

Answer: other minor explosions in New York City in recent years,

Summary:
Minor explosion outside of a Manhattan Starbucks sends people fleeing .
No injuries reported from the blast; Starbucks damage limited to broken windows .
Police investigating whether explosion is connected to other pre-dawn blasts .