Suspected Serbian Military Commander Arrested; Dominique Strauss-Kahn's New Digs
VELSHI: Breaking News right now out of Serbia. Police in Serbia arresting a man suspected of being former Serbian Military Commander Ratko Mladic. He is the highest ranking war crimes suspect still at large from the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. Apparently, this man has been arrested in Srebrenica, which is in Bosnia because he was the - the chief of staff of the Bosnian Serb army, thought to be responsible for really what was a genocide. They killed 7,000 men and boys, Muslim Croatian men and boys.</s>ROMANS: And bringing this man to justice -- to face justice has taken years and years, in part because there has been suspicion that inside of Serbia, there has been those within the military perhaps --</s>VELSHI: Hiding him.</s>ROMANS: -- who were hiding him.</s>CHETRY: Because they had a $10 million bounty on his head, and international manhunt. And still he's found right there, at the site where prosecutors claim it all happened. All right. Well, we'll continue to follow the latest on this as we get new details, a new information on exactly how this capture took place.</s>ROMANS: Ratko Mladic -- someone they think is Ratko Mladic arrested in Serbia. We'll have more for you. Also, the old IMF boss waking up this morning in spectacular new digs. Dominique Strauss-Kahn spending the night in style perhaps, settling into a sprawling three-story townhouse while he waits for his sexual assault trial to begin.</s>CHETRY: Yes. And here it is. We have a live look this morning at Strauss-Kahn's 6,800-square-foot luxury townhouse in the Tribeca section of Manhattan. If you're looking at it and you're not from New York, you're thinking, what, that's luxury?</s>ROMANS: That looks like a garage.</s>VELSHI: That's just unheard.</s>CHETRY: It looks like a garage. Right. The amount it costs even to rent this room, complete with a spa and home gym.</s>VELSHI: Deb Feyerick is with us this morning. Deb, if you're going to be under house arrest, I guess this is the house you'd like to be in.</s>DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know, the very rich simply live differently than the rest of us. Let me tell you about this. Yesterday., I got a text around 7:30. It said DSK on the move. Dominique Strauss-Kahn receiving the type of police security, take a look there, not unlike that given to presidential candidates. Ironic, given that he was France's leading contender up until weeks ago. Now, a black Lexus SUV took him about 30 blocks north, that's a mile and a half, to Tribeca and a 6,800-square-foot townhouse, a $50,000 a month rental. That's a rental, $50,000. That is on top of the $200,000 that he's paying for his own court ordered security, a condition of his home detention. So, he's paying a quarter million dollars altogether every month. Now, although it is near some of the best restaurants in the city including De Niro's hot spot Nobu, Strauss-Kahn's movement are largely confined to court, religious services and meetings with his lawyers. The townhouse, you can only see the outside there, three-story, got its own garage, boasts a state of the art in-home theater, with six leather recliners, a gym, spa, roof deck with a grill and wet bar in the master bedroom. So, really, who needs to leave home anyway? But in all fairness, Strauss-Kahn was turned down by one building, they didn't want him, and then was kicked out of another. A "New York Post" columnist calling him the Parisian pariah. The former IMF chief is out on $6 million bail. The courthouse is in easy walking distance, though he'll likely drive. It's scheduled to be there next on June 6. It appears the district attorney has added some senior prosecutors to its team. And the alleged victim has added some heavy-hitters to consider a civil suit.</s>CHETRY: One question people were asking, do taxpayers foot anything, foot the bill in any way, shape or form? I mean, even with security?</s>FEYERICK: They do not. All the security -- that was one of the conditions of home detention. His wife is very wealthy. Her family is sort of an art family, sold Picassos, a lot of these famous paintings, before these painters were famous. So, no. She's got the money. But it's not costing taxpayers.</s>VELSHI: Is there some --</s>FEYERICK: And because they're heavy hitters, it would cost more than it normally would have.</s>VELSHI: But is there something other than just liking to live in luxury that's important about this place that he's chosen? Because you can't -- I mean, the rental markets actually, you know, there are places available in Manhattan that don't cost this kind of money.</s>FEYERICK: Yes, exactly. This is what they could get. Really, this is what they could get.</s>VELSHI: Because people knew they had --</s>FEYERICK: It had to be a sort of self-contained. OK. That means it was a townhouse. It had to not have a back exit. It had to be in a controlled environment. And his security people signed off on this. And the judge OK'd it. So, he didn't just sort of move willy-nilly.</s>CHETRY: Right.</s>FEYERICK: The judge had to sign off, saying OK, does this meet every single criteria in terms of making sure he does not get out.</s>CHETRY: And the other question, too, as you said, he has a roof deck. I mean, technically that's outside. Is that -- I mean, can they stipulate what's off limits, alcohol. I mean, you said there's a wet bar in the bedroom. Can they make those parameters?</s>FEYERICK: Technically not. Again, he says that he will be exonerated, he's going to plead not guilty to these charges. And he's got the money. So, technically, no --</s>VELSHI: Right. And he can live wherever he wants.</s>FEYERICK: He can live wherever he wants. He just can't move at ease anymore.</s>ROMANS: All right. Deb Feyerick -- thanks, Deb. New testimony painting a disturbing picture of the Florida mom accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter back in 2008. Casey Anthony's former boyfriend testified yesterday that Casey seemed happy and having a grand old time the day prosecutors allege she killed her daughter Caylee. A neighbor also testified Casey asked to borrow a shovel. Meanwhile, there was a heated exchange between the Anthony's attorney and reporters. Here's a look.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can we ask if you plan to invite Casey to the stand there?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on, guys.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get out of the way. Get out of the way.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You guys know we're here.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get out of the way.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: With an outburst like that, that's kind of unacceptable, Jose, don't you think?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Don't push us out in the street.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get your hand off of me.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jose, so you're pushing people around now. Is that what you're doing?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Out of my way.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're committing an assault.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, I'm not. Your thug here has --</s>ROMANS: Anthony is back in court today.</s>CHETRY: He referred to the security guy as a thug. I guess the camera -- it appeared that the cameraman accidentally tripped him, which sort of set off the defense attorney. But this is the type of publicity --</s>VELSHI: This is a case that is truly remarkable. By the way, we've got full coverage on HLN and --</s>ROMANS: People are obsessed with this case right now. I mean, there have been three years of sort of conflicting stories, now a bombshell defense.</s>VELSHI: Right, because we hadn't heard this type of --</s>ROMANS: And now, if you weren't sucked into that case by now, a tragic end, twisted case. Now a lot of people are.</s>VELSHI: Well, the search for the missing goes on in Joplin, Missouri, the missing an unaccounted for. There's an estimate right now from officials there that there are 150 people still unaccounted for following last Sunday's deadly tornado. Missouri's governor has dispatched additional state troopers to Joplin to help speed up the process of trying to identify remains and also assisting those still looking for missing loved ones. That storm killed 125 people in Joplin.</s>VELSHI: All right. Check out this video showing the force of the Joplin tornado. Here's a family's backyard trampoline. Some toys can be seen. It could be a backyard anywhere. Now, look at it being ripped apart by the tornado. Trampoline picked up and shoved against the house. Just look at the wind hurling objects at the camera. Really get a sense of how cars and people were just sucked up and thrown hundreds of yards. According to the time codes on this video, the wind started picking up at around 5:39p.m. The landscape forever changed. Five minutes later at 5:44. Pretty amazing.</s>ROMANS: Wow. Let's get a quick check of the morning's weather headlines. For that, we have Rob Marciano in the extreme weather center. And you look at every piece of debris flying around there, Rob, always says that is so dangerous, the smallest little piece of debris. This is how people get injured and killed by these ferocious storms.</s>ROB MARCIANO, AMS METEOROLOGIST: And, you know, when we talk about these storms and we talk about one town getting completely demolished or one house getting wiped down, then another one being left unscathed, it really -- a lot of it has to do with luck. I mean, case in point, last night, we had 81 reports of tornadoes. I mean, that was an outbreak that we had last night. A lot of these tornadoes were pretty big as well, and at very, very populated areas. As of right now, zero fatalities from last night's storms. So, that right there is something to be thankful for. And it gives you an idea just, you know, how hit and miss this kind of activity can be. All right. We're going to start to ratchet back now as to the severity of the storms that we're forecasting for today, and especially as we get over the weekend. Here's the storm. It's winding itself out just a little bit. Right now, there are no watches out and no warnings out. OK? That's another thing to be thankful for. I don't know if this is going to last all day. I think we've got a pretty good chance of seeing some severe weather, some storms across parts of the Tennessee Valley heading to Huntsville, and to north Georgia. These aren't severe yet. And as this moves through and the sun heats up the ground again and the actual cold front starts to push off to the east, that's when we'll see the threat for severe weather start to get a little more intense later on today. So, here you go, we're starting to elongate this system, and push it off towards the east. As it makes its way over the Appalachians, that's when it really lose a little bit of its punch. But today is going to be another day. We've got a slight risk of seeing severe thunderstorms. I have to ask for the Storms Prediction Center. We do have some delays to talk about. If you are traveling right now, 30-minute delays or 40-minute delays I believe in Chicago. It could get up to an hour there. Rain in Detroit and Cleveland, 30 to 60- minute delays there. Thunderstorms later on this afternoon in Atlanta, you can expect delays there 30 to 60-minute delays, with thunderstorms of the non-severe variety expected across parts of Dallas. Here you go. Here's our storm making its way slowly off towards the east. Very warm and humid ahead of it, that's going to be the main driver I think because the winds aren't quite set up as well for tornado. And then we're looking at another system rolling into the Pacific Northwest. The whole thing that started this event was a very cold, strong upper low system that unusually this time of year, that moved into the West Coast late last week and now traversing across the rest of the country. Sixty-one for the high in St. Louis today. It will be 81 degrees in Atlanta and 79 degrees in New York; 90 for the high temperature in D.C. Any thunderstorms that get there later on tonight and tomorrow. Well, that may feel good and hopefully won't be quite that severe. Guys, toss it back to you.</s>VELSHI: All right. Rob, thanks so much. We're covering two pieces of international breaking news. A man thought to be Ratko Mladic, the chief of staff -- the former chief of staff of the Bosnian army when the Srebrenica massacre took place in 1995. A man thought to be Ratko Mladic is now under arrest in Serbia. Also, some violence in Yemen breaking out. Separate incidents. We're going to go to Zain Verjee after this break to find out what's going on in the rest of the world. Stay with us. You're watching AMERICAN MORNING.