[Carol Costello, Cnn Anchor:] Happening right now in the NEWSROOM, flight scare. Sewing needles, yes, needles, found in sandwiches on Delta planes flying into America. One passenger was hurt. This morning, find out what the airline is doing about it. Big bus. Two continents, three tons of cocaine, and 200 pounds of marijuana. A major haul by the Coast Guard and the Navy and It's happening right now. CNN will take you on board that ship. Caught on tape. Breathtaking rescue as a 7-year-old dancing on a third floor window air conditioning unit trips and falls. Hear from the guy who caught her. And how would you like to lose a few pounds? A new weight loss pill is about to be approved. It's called
[Sandra Endo, Cnn Correspondent:] Hi, good morning, Carol. That's certainly something authorities are looking into. The FBI and local law enforcement in the Netherlands are trying to find out how those needles got into those turkey sandwiches. Two of the needles were found by passengers, and one was discovered by an air marshal. When Delta found out about the needles in the food, the airline says it notified all 18 flights from Amsterdam to stop serving the sandwiches. Here's what one passenger who got one of the contaminated sandwiches said when he spoke to station KSTP.
[Unidentified Male:] I bit down on it so that I wasn't biting down on the on the sharp side but on the flat side. It could have been, you know, a bad injury. Orally. But had I taken a big swallow and swallowed that down, I'd have a needle inside. And that would be very concerning to me.
[Endo:] Gate Gourmet is the company which provided the sandwiches to Delta and a spokesperson for that company says the sandwiches were prepared in Amsterdam. In a statement, she goes on to say, "This is a terribly upsetting situation. First and foremost is the safety of the traveling public. There's nothing more important to us at all than the safety of the passengers and crews." Now the Transportation Security Administration says it's closely monitoring the investigation into what happened as well as the security protocols being conducted by the air carrier and the airport authority Carol.
[Costello:] So the company that makes these sandwiches says it also provides food to other airlines. Is there a concern about food on those other flights?
[Endo:] Yes. That's a good question. Gate Gourmet said it's fully cooperating with the FBI and local authorities in the Netherlands and it's also conducting its own full-scale investigation. Now the company says it does provide food to other airlines but have received no other reports or complaints.
[Costello:] Let's hope they don't. Sandra Endo reporting live in Washington this morning. Also this morning, no sign of two missing Iowa girls. One family member says it's as though they disappeared into thin air in broad daylight. Eight-year-old Elizabeth Collins and 10-year-old Lyric Cook are cousins, and they have not been seen since going on a bike ride Friday. Their bicycles were found by a lake, but the mother of one of the girls doubts they would have gone there on their own.
[Unidentified Female:] It's not an area that they frequented. They didn't go far from home, either of the girls. They mainly stayed around the Evansdale area that my sister lives in. So it's just it's just not kind of like them to go that far. Definitely out of their character.
[Costello:] CNN's Jim Spellman is covering the search effort in Evansdale, Iowa. Any luck yet?
[Jim Spellman, Cnn Correspondent:] Unfortunately no, Carol. Take a look at this lake, it's called Myers Lake. They began draining it yesterday. They think perhaps by late tomorrow or Thursday, they'll have all the water drained out of here into the river. It's really grasping at straws, though. I spoke to an investigator a few minutes ago who told me it's like these girls evaporated. They don't have any sign of foul play. But they had about a thousand volunteers out here over the weekend searching through fields and trails, everything they can think of around here, with absolutely no sign of these girls except those two bikes and a purse found near the bikes. No sign of any kind of struggle near there. So they want to be sure they drain the lake just in case. They don't think that they're going to find anything else in here. But without much else to do, that's their focus today Carol.
[Costello:] So they have no witnesses who saw the girls, you know, on their bicycles getting off at the lake, or no clues like that?
[Spellman:] Yes. No clues like that at all. Take a look at this, Carol. This far corner of the lake over here is where the girls were. And it's such an unlikely spot for somebody to be abducted from. There's a bike path that runs along the edge of the lake, and you can see an interstate just on the other side of it. You can clearly see most of the bike path from the interstate. And just along the side of the lake here people are are people's homes. And there's people all around here. If you were to take somebody from that wooded area where the bikes were found, you would have to walk about 15 minutes just to be able to get out of this area. And so it's just a very unlikely scenario that somebody would be able to just, say, snatch them off of the bikes. So they're really they're looking for a new way to approach this case. But without any clues to go on, it's going to be tough. They have brought the FBI in to try to bring their resources to bear and try to make some sort of progress Carol.
[Costello:] Jim Spellman live in Evansdale, Iowa, this morning. George Zimmerman, he's facing new accusations. He's already charged with second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin. You know that. Well, now a woman claims Zimmerman sexually abused her for about a decade and says the abuse started when the two were children. A Florida judge has released an audiotape of her accusation.
[Unidentified Female:] It started when I was 6. He's about almost two years older than I am. He would reach under the blankets and try to do things. And I would try to push him off, but he was bigger and stronger and older. It was in front of everybody. And I don't know how I didn't say anything. But I just didn't know any better.
[Costello:] The woman identified as witness number nine said the abuse went on for years. CNN has reached out to her father, who said the family would not be speaking to the media. In the meantime, Zimmerman's attorney, Mark O'Mara, spoke exclusively to CNN's Piers Morgan.
[Mark O'mara, Attorney For George Zimmerman:] Well, on the face of it, you're right, they seem damaging. Of course, as you've mentioned, my frustration is that they are absolutely not relevant to anything that is at hand in the true case. They are not admissible. They're not can't get it into a courtroom nor will it get before a judge in any way. So the frustration that I have is these allegations which George contends are untrue. Now we need to spend our resources and time rebutting them, and actually we're in a difficult if not delicate position of deciding how much we attack the source of this story, or just leave it be and move on to what really counts.
[Costello:] The judge says Zimmerman can disclose the nature of his relationship with witness number nine, but her identity cannot be publicly revealed. The actress Jada Pinkett Smith is on a personal mission to give voice to victims of human trafficking and sex slavery. In about 20 minutes, she'll be testifying about the problem on Capitol Hill. Pinkett Smith says she used to think of human trafficking and sex slavery as an over-there problem, wherever there is. But her daughter Willow saw the Kone 2012 video about a Ugandan warlord, and she did some research, and then she told her mom the trafficking problem is also happening here. And she's right. The State Department says as many as 27 million people are enslaved worldwide, and the FBI estimates 15,000 to 18,000 of them are right here in the United States. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding the hearing. The panel wants to develop a strategy to try to stop human trafficking over the next 10 years. Pinkett Smith went on CNN's "STARTING POINT" before she headed to Capitol Hill.
[Jada Pinkett Smith, Actress/activist:] I think at this point it is about educating yourself and realizing how it exists. And today we'll be talking about the TVPA, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which has not been reauthorized on a federal level quite yet. And so we want to push to make that happen. And then of course we have the case act in California for this November. We'll be pushing to make sure that that bill gets passed. It will be the toughest anti-trafficking law in this country. And so those will be our two actions.
[Costello:] You can see her daughter, Willow, beside her. We'll bring you some of Pinkett Smith's testimony live. We expect to hear from her in just about 20 minutes. We are all suffering through record heat this summer, and a drought is already gripping more than half the country. The end result, fewer crops making it to harvest, and all of us likely will be paying high food prices. Higher food prices, I should say. The Agriculture Department says only 46 percent of Iowa's corn crops are in good condition. Compare that to 82 percent just a year ago. This problem is front and center in Iowa. In less than an hour, Iowa's governor, Terry Branstad, will meet with local farmers in several state and federal agencies. Our own Chris Welch joins us by phone. He is in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Tell us what it looks like there.
[Chris Welch, Cnn Correspondent:] Well, Carol, a lot of people, and primarily farmers right now, are really on edge of their seat. You mentioned the heat
[Costello:] So, Chris, can the crops be saved? Are we past the point of no return?
[Welch:] Well, you know, most farmers here I spoke to in Iowa say all is not lost. I spoke to one who said, you know, in a good year, he can get, say, 200 bushels of corn per acre. This year, he still thinks he'll have a harvest but it will be reduced by about 25 percent. And that hurts him, you know, in a few ways. Take a listen.
[Derek Mullin, Farmer:] This is our personal business. It's right out our back door. As soon as we walk out of our house, we see our investment. And when it goes downhill, it does take a toll out. You know, when the hardest part about this is that you can do everything just right planning dates, work hard at putting in a good crop, have a good stand established, and when mother nature works against you, then it all seems like it was for nothing.
[Welch:] And that's farmer Derek Mullins' saving grace is the fact that he does have federal crop insurance. But Carol, he says that really only goes so far.
[Costello:] Yes. Chris Welch reporting live from Iowa. Thank you. Cronyism. That's Mitt Romney's new line of attack against President Obama. But would Mitt Romney bar donors from his administration?