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2 Teens Lose Arms in Separate Shark Attacks; Search for Prison Escapees Grows to 800 Officers; Prison Worker in Jail as Convicts Elude Manhunt; Dallas Police Attacker's Parents Speak Out; Jeb Bush to Announce Bid for Presidency. Aired 6-6:30a ET

Aired June 15, 2015 - 06:00   ET

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JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Two teenagers mauled in separate shark attacks.

[05:59:13] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He just came up and took his arm.

JASON HUNTER, EYEWITNESS: Blood in the water, coming over with the whitewash. Kid was in shock.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Day ten of the search for two cold-blooded killers.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mitchell gave the men hacksaw blades, drill bits and special eyeglasses with lights.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She told investigators that Matt made her feel special.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's at the (UNINTELLIGIBLE), rigged with explosives.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We believe this suspect meant to kill officers.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you have any idea?

JIM BOULWARE, FATHER OF DALLAS SHOOTER: No. No.

HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: You know by now I've been called many things by many people. Quitter is not one of them.

JEB BUSH (R), FORMER GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA: Jeb is different than George. Jeb is who he is. My life story is different.

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ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo, Alisyn Camerota and Michaela Pereira.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: And good morning, everyone. Welcome to your NEW DAY. It is Monday, June 15, 6 a.m. in the East. Chris is off this morning, and we do begin with breaking news. Two teenagers attacked by sharks, just 90 minutes apart on the same

stretch of beach in North Carolina. Both victims -- one, a 13-year- old girl and a 16-year-old boy -- suffering very serious injuries and losing limbs.

MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Authorities say the popular beaches in Oak Island will be open today. However, they're encouraging people not to go in the water. Let's begin our coverage with Chad Myers at the center -- the weather center in Atlanta with the very latest on conditions there.

My goodness, what a story, Chad.

CHAD MYERS, ams METEOROLOGIST: Yes, it's a fishing pier. It's a popular destination. People in the water, and people fishing around it right here on the coast of North Carolina, Ocean Crest fishing pier, a very treacherous and dangerous place this weekend.

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MYERS (voice-over): A frightening scene at a North Carolina beach. Two swimmers losing an arm each in separate shark attacks a short time apart. At 4:15 p.m., a 13-year-old girl was attacked first. Then, less than 90 minutes later, a 16-year-old boy suffers yet another attack. Officials are not certain if both attacks were by the same shark.

HUNTER: Blood in the water, coming over with the whitewash. The kid was in shock; he was still coherent, lost -- took it clean off. I saw what was left of what he had.

MYERS: Helicopters air-lifting both victims to a local hospital, both critical.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Both of those victims did sustain life-threatening injuries.

MYERS: Each having an arm amputated. The 13-year-old girl also sustaining serious damage one of her legs. Both are now out of surgery and in fair condition.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I've been here 16 years. This is the first time something as major as this happened.

MYERS: Both incidents occurring at high tide near Ocean Crest Pier, a popular destination for beach goers and fishermen. Officials say that the beaches will be open today, with the sheriff's department monitoring the coastline.

TIM HOLLOMAN, TOWN MANAGER, OAK ISLAND: Oak Island is still a safe place. We'll monitor the situation. This is highly unusual. Maybe to be a little more beach-oriented tomorrow instead of in the water until we get a better handle on the situation.

(END VIDEOTAPE) MYERS: No lifeguards on duty and there haven't been for many, many years. This is a wide-open area here from about Cape Fear. Here's Ocean Crest fishing pier. The other attack last week only about 12 miles away. I know they say that the beaches are open, but stay on the sand today until their figure this one out, guys.

CAMEROTA: Oh, gosh. So scary, Chad. Thanks so much for all that information.

Turning now to the manhunt for those two escaped New York convicts. It is entering its 10th day. Eight hundred law-enforcement officers are involved. This morning, New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, is set to launch a formal investigation into that prison break, and the prison worker who allegedly helped the inmates is in court, again, a few hours from now. So our coverage of the other top story begins with Polo Sandoval. He is live at the search area in Morrisonville, New York.

Polo, any clues?

POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Alisyn, no clues at this point as the search now entering week two. Investigators say that they really will not be slowing down. In fact, many of them still manning some of these checkpoints in and around this upstate New York area. And really, Alisyn, if you take a look at the numbers, much of the story is there. You see at least 800 state, local, federal law enforcement officers are following up on at last 870 leads. Many of those come again from around the region.

The focus of this search has been about 13 square miles, only a few miles from the prison facility in Dannemora, New York. Yesterday, we heard from Governor Andrew Cuomo, who says the reality is we don't have any idea where they are.

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GOV. ANDREW CUOMO (D), NEW YORK: We don't know if they are still in the immediate area or if they are in Mexico by now, right? Enough time has transpired. But we're following up every lead the best we can.

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SANDOVAL: Back out live in upstate New York, and I'll tell you about a seven-mile stretch of a major highway still remains closed. Officials say they don't plan to open it, probably, until at least this evening. People that are expected to head to work, schools are opening again today. Everybody will have to be going through some of these checkpoints, Michaela. At this point, with the weather conditions worsening, this really is becoming a test of endurance for these hundreds of officers here on the ground, Michaela.

PEREIRA: Sure it is. Tensions still running high there. We can understand that. All right, Polo. Thank you.

Meanwhile, the prison worker who allegedly helped the two inmates escape, she's due back in court this morning. New details are emerging about the plot she's accused of helping to hatch before getting cold feet.

CNN's Sara Ganim is live at the courthouse in Plattsburg, New York, with more for us -- Sarah.

SARA GANIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Michaela.

Yes, Joyce Mitchell is here today, expected in court for a pretty routine appearance on charges that she helped these two inmate escape from prison.

But before she was arrested, she told authorities her plan was to run off with them, to meet them in the middle of the night, pick them up and drive to a location that they had picked, almost seven hours away.

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[06:05:09] GANIM (voice-over): This morning, Joyce Mitchell, a former prison employee, is waking up behind bars...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You are Joyce E. Mitchell?

JOYCE MITCHELL, FORMER PRISON EMPLOYEE: Yes.

GANIM: ... charged with promoting prison contraband and criminal facilitation. This as new details are emerging on the brazen plan hatched by prison convicts Richard Matt and David Sweat.

ANDREW WYLIE, CLINTON COUNTY DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Having access to the...

GANIM: Authorities tell CNN the inmates may have been sneaking out of their cell in the middle of the night to explore the prison's inner walls.

(on camera): Any indication on how they knew how to get out?

WYLIE: The extent of time period that they could have been out of their cells at night, down in the tunnels, it's a great question that, you know, we hope to get answered.

GANIM: Mitchell told police she was to pick them up around midnight and drive to a location seven hours away. The local district attorney says the convicts had a specific destination in mind.

Sources indicated Mitchell had befriended both men. The three were going to run off together. She told authorities Richard Matt made her feel special. However, Mitchell got cold feet and never showed up.

WYLIE: One of the reasons why she didn't show up was because she did love her husband, and she didn't want to do this to him.

GANIM: Her husband, Lyle Mitchell, also works at the prison and knows the men. He, too, was questioned about the breakout. But it was Joyce Mitchell who, police say, brought the men chisels, hacksaw blades, a screwdriver bit, and lighted goggles to help them break their way out.

If convicted, Mitchell faces up to eight years behind bars as the two killers remain free.

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GANIM: Now, over the weekend, Joyce Mitchell was moved from a facility here, the Clinton County Jail, to another facility in a different county about two hours away. The sheriff told us he didn't want her to be a distraction here while that manhunt continued -- Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: OK, Sara. Thanks for all that reporting. So here to give us some insight now is former parole officer, Neil Tallon. He worked at the Clinton Correctional facility for 16 years and knows it well.

Mr. Tallon, thanks so much for being here.

NEIL TALLON, FORMER PAROLE OFFICER: It's nice to be here.

CAMEROTA: Are you surprised to hear that authorities believe that Joyce Mitchell was somehow able to sneak into that prison hacksaw blades and chisels, among other things?

TALLON: Well, hacksaw blades and chisels, they're small items. And they could be brought in. All the staff brings their lunch in every day in lunchboxes and different things. And not all of it is gone -- they don't check it out that well, I'm sure.

CAMEROTA: But they don't check it out? In other words, the prison workers are not going through a metal detector of some kind every day?

TALLON: No. When I worked there, they had no metal detectors. You had 150 years where there was no escape from this prison. And, you know, it was normal business to bring your lunch in. They don't have a cafeteria where you can go to eat in there. It's part of everyday work. And I'm sure people could bring those types of things in. But those are small items. She must have needed something bigger to bring in to cut through that steel.

CAMEROTA: I mean, well, one of the theories is that there was a construction crew. There were construction crews who were working in the prison. And one of the theories is that these inmates would go and take the tools from the construction workers, use them at night, and then return them. But, of course, the big question for that is, how could people not have heard them using power tools of some kind? What's the answer?

TALLON: Well, there would be no answer for that, because that would be an impossibility. They had to be doing the cutting while the -- while the daytime noise was going on with the construction. Then maybe they could have done it. But at night, you would have heard that all over the cell block. And there's correctional officers in the cell block. And, you know, that just couldn't happen that way.

CAMEROTA: Because one former inmate... TALLON: It would make a lot of noise.

CAMEROTA: Right. I mean, one former inmate told us that the way it would be covered is that there was so much noise in that prison, even at night, that the prisoners would play music. They had boom boxes, and that it was a really loud scenario. Let me play for you what he told us and get your response.

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MICHAEL ALIG, FORMER CLINTON COUNTY PRISON INMATE: They have these things that they attach to their -- to their boom boxes that make them very loud. And they're so loud, they would rattle -- they would rattle the gates on the cells. The first night you spend in prison, you -- that's the first thing you notice, is like what is going on? It's like New Year's Eve every night.

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CAMEROTA: Is that true, Mr. Tallon? Is it very noisy?

TALLON: Well, I was a parole officer. And I worked during the daytime. I went in through the cell blocks and interview the inmates. I knew a lot about the cell blocks, but I wasn't there in the middle of the night.

But even in the daytime, when they would have TVs going and different music, you would be able to hear construction equipment going. So, I think that they probably did it during the daytime when that other construction.

[06:10:10] And, you know -- and then when they got through those walls, then maybe at night they could do a lot of work that was muffled because of where they were doing the work, maybe. But that's going to be all brought out in the investigation. Nobody really knows for sure. But I'm sure the authorities in the prison would know now, pretty much, how it all happened. But...

CAMEROTA: And Mr. Tallon, do you think there were other people involved besides Joyce Mitchell?

TALLON: I would say that -- necessarily not. If they got some bigger equipment in there, they probably could have done it just through what she would have offered, I would have thought. I wouldn't think it would be -- I wouldn't think it would be a conspiracy with more than one person.

CAMEROTA: I mean, having worked there, as you did, and having known many of these people, as you did, who work in the prison, what do you think should happen to her?

TALLON: Well, that -- well, it's pretty serious. If anything happens to any civilians out in the outside now, I -- you know, I don't think anybody would have any mercy on her. That's a very serious thing she did. There's been trouble with staff in the past, but nothing to this

magnitude, and nobody ever escaped. There's been people who were fired for getting too close to inmates. And, you know, not at this level, where two dangerous people -- and people -- I've heard people say, well, they were in honor block. Well, that doesn't mean they were honorable people. Honor block, a lot of people are in there who have committed murders. It's just that they're usually good inmates. They've got long sentences. They're serving 20 to life. And they -- they get along well in prison. They get along well with the staff. And to have something like this is just beyond the pale. This has never happened before. It's all new to us.

CAMEROTA: And maybe they will rethink the honor block.

TALLON: Prison has been very -- prison has been very successful in 150 years. This is -- you know -- so, this is just one thing out of a million that has happened.

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CAMEROTA: You're right. Clinton Correctional -- go ahead.

TALLON: Yes. They 'll make some initial changes, but I don't think it will change the big process, you know?

CAMEROTA: Yes.

TALLON: It seems to work, mostly.

CAMEROTA: Neil Tallon, thank you so much.

TALLON: So I think a lot of -- yes. OK.

CAMEROTA: Thank you for all your information. Great to get your insight. We appreciate it.

Let's get over to Michaela.

PEREIRA: All right. We turn to Dallas now. We're learning more about the attacker who unleashed a barrage of gunfire and planted explosives outside Dallas police headquarters over the weekend.

James Boulware's parents say he reached his breaking point after a bitter custody battle, blaming police for taking his son away. CNN's Nick Valencia is live in Dallas with all the latest for us -- Nick.

NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Michaela.

Investigators spent the weekend digitally mapping this crime scene. This is the exact spot where 34-year-old James Boulware carried out his attack against police, eventually being shot and killed.

This is a man with a troubled history, haunted by mental-health issues. We spoke to his mother, who talked to us about her son as well as how police handled the situation.

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JEANNINE HAMMOND, MOTHER OF JAMES BOULWARE: I think they handled it wonderfully well until at the very end. And I think they burned him up. And I'm not sure -- and I don't know whether he was still alive or not. And I resent that. If he really was dead, then I can understand why they did it, because I wouldn't want to touch a booby- trapped car, either. But I would never set a person on fire.

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VALENCIA: Fourteen police officers with the Dallas Police Department are on administrative leave. That's standard operating procedure when they're involved in a shoot-out. Many of them just thankful to be alive.

Meanwhile, the medical examiner here will continue their autopsy on the suspect this morning -- Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: OK, Nick. Thanks so much for that.

Well, Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, of course, set to make official what we've known for some time, that he will be running for president. CNN's Alina Machado is live on the campus of Miami-Dade College, where Bush will make his announcement this afternoon.

What do we know, Alina?

ALINA MACHADO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Alisyn, it's going to be no big surprise, but Jeb Bush -- Jeb Bush is expected to officially launch his campaign for president right here in just a few hours on the campus of the largest college in the country.

Now, he will be joining a crowded field of GOP candidates, and leading up to today, his campaign released a couple of videos, basically introducing Bush to voters and also talking about his accomplishment as Florida governor.

In those videos, the campaign also unveiled the campaign logo, which interestingly enough, consists of just Jeb's first name. So it's Jeb and an exclamation point, and it makes no mention of the Bush last name. And it's also the same logo that he used when he ran successfully for governor in the '90s.

Now, here's some of what he had to say in those videos.

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[06:15:10] BUSH: I'm proud of what we accomplished in Florida. Proud we were able to make a difference, to change lives. We led; we reformed; we got results. That's what's missing from Washington. The D.C. crowd talks about what's wrong with America. I see what's right. They talk about problems. I see solutions.

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MACHADO: Now, the latest CNN/ORC poll has Jeb Bush just behind Marco Rubio and just ahead of Mike Huckabee and Scott Walker, suggesting that he's not going to have an easy path to the Republican nomination -- Michaela.

PEREIRA: We'll be talking more about this this morning. Alina, thank you so much for that.

There are conflicting reports this morning about the fate of a key terrorist. The U.S. launched an airstrike Sunday targeting Mokhtar Belmokhtar in Libya. The Libyan government said Belmokhtar was killed. U.S. officials have not confirmed that, yet. The Islamist terrorist was charged in a 2013 attack on a glass facility in Algeria, killing some 37 hostages, including three Americans.

CAMEROTA: All right. Let's talk entertainment. "Jurassic World" taking an enormous bite out of the box office. The fourth installment in the hit dinosaur franchise raking in a record $511.8 million globally, making it the first film to ever top half a billion dollars in its opening weekend.

Here in the U.S., it earned $204 million. That's the second biggest domestic opening ever. The first was "The Avengers" in 2012.

PEREIRA: Those dinosaurs still wreaking havoc.

CAMEROTA: Will you go see -- do you like seeing scary dinosaur movies?

PEREIRA: I like dinosaurs. I don't like scary dinosaurs.

CAMEROTA: You like the nice, cute, Barney.

PEREIRA: Friendly. The cuddly ones. Yes, exactly. I'm glad you understand me.

CAMEROTA: I understand; I do.

PEREIRA: The father of the Dallas gunman says his son was pushed to the breaking point. What exactly caused him to snap, and why was his anger directed at police? A psychiatrist offers her perspective next.

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[06:20:48] BOULWARE: I knew we was angry with the police. He blamed them for taking his son. I tried to tell him, the police didn't do it. The police were doing their job to enforce the laws.

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CAMEROTA: That was the father of the Dallas gunman killed after a shooting rampage outside police headquarters on Saturday. His parents tell CNN he had a history of violence and mental illness. They say he reached his breaking point when he lost custody of his son.

Joining us now is psychiatrist and author of "Screen-Smart Parenting," Dr. Jodi Gold.

Dr. Gold, great to have you here. Do you see this as just another sad case of someone's mental illness leading to violence?

DR. JODI GOLD, PSYCHIATRIST: Well, I do, but I'm also really struck by how the whole mental-health system barely was triggered in this case. Often what we see is people falling through the system, but they're in the system. In this case, it doesn't even seem like he got very much mental health help.

CAMEROTA: Let's look at his mental-health history. We know a little bit about it.

He suffered hallucinations. This is according to his parents. He talked about the FBI in a paranoid way. He sometimes tried to call them. He talked about the Sandy Hook shootings. He made references to school shootings. He threatened suicide. He had precognitive dreams, meaning he believed that he dreamed things before they happened. His parents said that actually, it was after things happened, but he believed he was dreaming them before they happened. What are parents supposed to do when you see these symptoms?

GOLD: What's so shocking here is that he was clearly psychotic. He had what we called altered reality testing (ph). He had persecutorial delusions, where he thought people were trying to attack him. He had grandiose delusions, where he thought that he could see the future. And he was clearly prone to violence, that we know.

I think his parents tried to get him help. Our system is not set up to help people who we know are mentally ill and are violent, but yet don't seek to help themselves.

CAMEROTA: But what does that mean? What else is our system doing? If our system isn't set up to help people who are mentally ill and violent and keep them from hurting other people or themselves, what is the point of the system?

GOLD: Well, I think in this case, there could have been more done. I think often that's the case. But here, it sounds like the evaluations that he got were very cursory and very short. I do think that it is the responsibility of people who know to try to get him more of an evaluation. What you would want to have done is to have a real psychiatric evaluation over a period of time.

CAMEROTA: Well, it does sound as though he had some classification for his mental illness, because when he was 14 years old, his mother says he was hospitalized for a brief time. He was in a mental hospital, and he was possibly identified at that time as schizophrenic. So that often presents, as we know, in teenagehood [SIC]. And then what? How do people manage their schizophrenia so that they don't become violent?

GOLD: Schizophrenia is a really difficult illness, because it's lifelong. And what we do know is the more involvement you have with your family and your parents, the better outcome it is for schizophrenia. The more alienated you become from your family, the less likely you are to get the care you need, long-term.

CAMEROTA: Can you be medicated?

GOLD: Absolutely. What's so sad here is that, had he gotten the treatment he needed, had he been medicated, this could have been completely treated and prevented.

CAMEROTA: You know, this isn't the first case that we've seen like this. I mean, we just -- just in recent memory, James Holmes, the Aurora movie theater shooter; Newtown, obviously. It -- we hate to give the impression that mental illness leads to violence, but does mental illness lead to violence, as in these cases?

GOLD: Not always. Not at all. There's lots of schizophrenics who are involved with their family, who are engaged in the mental health- care system and who live very normal lives.

However, when they become alienated and we're unable to engage them -- I'm struck by the fact that I know the family knew that he was ill, but didn't have much treatment.

CAMEROTA: What could they have done?

GOLD: Well, I think they were frustrated, and I think they tried. The trick is if you can get someone into a psychiatric emergency room; sometimes if people are a threat to themselves or others, you can hospitalize them. In some states we have laws that allow you to medicate people that are a threat to themselves and others.

CAMEROTA: But you can't hospitalize them forever.

GOLD: No, no, no.

CAMEROTA: They have to come out and have to have some sort of coping skills, and then what?

GOLD: Well, what we want to do, in our ideal world, is that we would sort of take a psychosocial approach. We would address his medical needs. We would address his psychological needs. And he really needed his social needs met. He was unemployed. He didn't have a caseworker, as far as I know, to help him navigate that. He wasn't on medication. He wasn't in treatment. In order to treat chronic mental illness, you really need a comprehensive approach.

[06:25:09] CAMEROTA: And is that happening in this country?

GOLD: Well, it does, if you have a very involved family, and you're able to get into a system that can engage you, or a system that can mandate it. In this case, even though the judicial system knew that he was a threat to others, and his family knew that he was mentally ill, there was no mandated program for him. There weren't caseworkers. There wasn't a mobile crisis unit that was at his house. There's a lot more that could have been done.

CAMEROTA: Dr. Jodi Gold, it's tragic to see another case like this. And let's hope that the system can somehow accommodate people like this.

GOLD: Yes.

CAMEROTA: Thanks so much for all the information.

GOLD: Thank you.

CAMEROTA: Let's get over to Michaela.

PEREIRA: All right, Alisyn. His name is Bush, but is that enough to stand out in a crowded field of Republican presidential candidates? Our political panel weighs in on what Jeb Bush needs to do going forward.

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[06:30:04] PEREIRA: Good to have you back on this Monday. Well, heavy rain is pounding the East Coast as a tropical system in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to add insult to injury to parts of Texas recently hard hit by flooding.