[John Berman, Cnn Anchor:] A twisted tale of love gone wrong, when a Texas doctor is accused of poisoning her lover's coffee.
[Christine Romans, Cnn Anchor:] Plan B is now an option for all. The Obama administration drops its fight to keep the controversial drug out of young people's hands.
[Berman:] And splash landing. An epic stunt fail when a Jeep proves no, folks, it is not meant to fly. Maybe swim but not fly.
[Romans:] Welcome back to EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans.
[Berman:] And I'm John Berman. Thirty minutes after the hour right now. We are finding out more this morning about the stunning charges facing renowned cancer doctor in Houston. Prosecutors say she poisoned a colleague, spiking his coffee with a chemical commonly found in anti- freeze. That doctor was also her lover. CNN's Ed Lavandera is following the story for us.
[Ed Lavandera, Cnn Correspondetn:] Dr. Anna Maria Gonzalez Angulo is a breast cancer specialist researching the most aggressive forms of the deadly disease at a MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. She was featured in this Susan G. Komen Foundation video highlighting a day in a life of a breast cancer doctor at one of the most respected cancer hospitals in the country.
[Dr. Anna Maria Gonzalez Angulo, Cancer Doctor:] One of my aunts died with lung cancer when she was 35 and I was 10. So that was when I made my decision this is what I wanted to do.
[Lavandera:] Which makes the allegations swirling around her more stunning. Houston police investigators said she tried to poison her lover, George Bloomenshine, a fellow cancer doctor at MD Anderson as well. [on camera]: According to court records, back in January, George Bloomenshine was behind these gates at the home of Anna Maria Gonzalez Angulo. According to those records, she made him a cup of coffee, he started drinking it but told her it tasted too sweet. She told him finish that first coffee and she'd put Splenda in it, but that she would make another one. He drank both cups of coffee, 16 hours later he was in the emergency room. [voice-over]: Bloomenshine started losing his balance, suffered slurred speech and loss of motor skills. According to the court records, doctors found ethylene glycol in his system, a potentially deadly chemical used in antifreeze. But MD Anderson officials told investigators it's also a chemical commonly found in labs at the cancer center. Defense attorney Mark Geragos says it could be a tough case to prove in court.
[Mark Geragos, Former Prosecutor:] What you always have to take a look at what the prosecutors will always look at in a case like this is the motive. Why did somebody want to do it and why did they want to do it in this way, and rule out other environmental factors. That's where the defense is always going to go. Was there a motive? Would somebody have done this? Do they have the character to do this?
[Lavandera:] A lawyer for Gonzalez Angulo says she's, quote, "completely innocent" and that these allegations are, quote, "totally inconsistent with her personal and professional life." Neighbors around her gated home say she is a quiet woman who kept to herself. George Bloomenshine survived but he's suffered severe damage to his kidneys, even needing dialysis to try and repair the damage. Ed Lavandera, CNN, Houston.
[Romans:] All right. Let's go back now to Istanbul where protesters are battling with rioting police, firing tear gas and water cannons to try to get the protesters out of Taksim Square. The protesting lobbing Molotov cocktails and rocks back at police. Police firing back, the battles going on for hours now, it's so bad that our crew in the square now wearing their gas masks to protect themselves from the tear gas wafting through the air. Prime Minister Erdogan is set to meet with protest leaders tomorrow.
[Berman:] More NSA secrets will be revealed soon. That's what a reporter for "The Guardian" is promising as the source of the leak, Edward Snowden, goes back into hiding. He's vanished. Snowden is still said to be in Hong Kong, but where very much a mystery this morning. The White House now saying it welcomes the debate over the electronic surveillance programs that Snowden exposed and the White House said it's open to changes if the national debate shows the public wants them. Federal agents are still building a case against Snowden and FBI officials says computer forensics would factor in a major way if the investigation keeps moving forward.
[Romans:] Powerful storms continue to spin off tornados across the U.S. Officials in Howard County, Maryland, that's near Baltimore, believe a twister touched there around 6:30 last night. It downed several trees. It destroyed a garage and a shed in the town of Woodbine, Maryland.
[Berman:] The extreme weather absolutely continues to across the country. There are heat waves out West and storms spinning out of control, tornadoes to the East. Indra Peterson is here with the forecast. What can we expect today?
[Indra Petersons, Ams Meteorologist:] Yes, definitely. We're still going to be looking at more wet weather our in the Northeast. But that system currently is starting to lift out, but it kind of stalls out right around Maine. So, you can heavier amounts rain expected in the next 24 hours. They are about two to four inches. The farther to the south, we'll see those numbers down, only about one to two inches, for northern portions of New York today. As far as the severe weather, it shifts today. We're going to be looking at the slight risk area in between the warm, moist air by the warm front and the cold, dry air in Canada. So, that sliver in between coming from Montana, all the way through Indiana, that's where we're looking for storms to be firing up as we go through the afternoon today. But, again, just a slight risk. The other big story really is the heat. I mean, look how much of the country is dealing with this above normal heat, all of that continuing to spread all the way to the east today, so very dry air out there, now a little bit more moisture, of course, towards the Gulf. There, you're going to have the hot and humid air. But we're really talking about the fire danger. I mean, look at these temperatures, we saw some record 99 degrees in Denver, we saw 100 for a record in Salt Lake, you add in the heat index and, of course, this feels like triple-digit heat. So hot and dry or hot and humid. We know which one is worse, hot and humid.
[Berman:] It has been a destructive season for weather, to be sure. Indra Petersons, thanks so much. Of course, the tornadoes in Oklahoma some of the worst damage.
[Romans:] Oh, yes.
[Berman:] We know the names of all 21 people who died in last month's Oklahoma twister. The Oklahoma medical examiner releasing the list of those killed by the EF5 tornado on May 31st, including six children who were killed, another 115 people were treated at hospitals. The National Weather Service says the tornado at 2.6 miles across was the widest ever to hit this country.
[Romans:] BP and the Coast Guard announcing the cleanup is complete in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, three years after the worst oil spill in this nation's history. Coast Guard officials say the shorelines of those three states have been restored as close as possible to conditions that existed before the Deepwater Horizon disaster. There is still, of course, cleanup work to do along Louisiana's 84-mile coast where tar balls are still washing up. So far, the spill has cost BP more than $30 billion.
[Berman:] The FBI is investigating a telephone threat that forced schools in Newtown, Connecticut, to be placed on modified lockdown. Nearly six months after the Sandy Hook massacre, parents raced to pick up their kids after receiving an e-mail Monday informing them of a threat against staff and students at the Holly School. That's less than two miles from Sandy Hook. All of the districts locked their doors for about an hour. And even though nothing was found teachers and parents had to relive the nightmare.
[Unidentified Male:] People have changed, people are kinder and I think Newtown people who work and live here, they've been through enough, they just need to be left alone.
[Berman:] Two days from now, House Republicans John Boehner and Eric Cantor plan to meet with families from the Newtown strategy. Spokesman wants to hear their stories and discuss ways to reduce the culture of violence in America.
[Romans:] Hillary Clinton welcome to Twitterverse. She already has more than 300,000 followers. Her first tweet, thanks for the inspiration. I'll take it from here, refers to supporters who created the Twitter and Tumblr accounts, "Text from Hillary," very funny. But it's her bio that maybe the most telling. It includes: dog owner, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, glass ceiling cracker and here's what gets Berman so interested TBD, three little letters being interpreted as a sign she'll make a run for the president in 2016.
[Berman:] Every step of the way, every few months, there's a little hint, a little crumb for people to keep them interested. It feels deliberate to me.
[Romans:] I think she could wake up in the morning and walk out the front door and people would say, "It's a sign she's going to run!"
[Berman:] And it would be, absolutely would be. It would definitely mean something. Thirty-eight minutes after the hour right now. And more appeals and more prayers this morning for Nelson Mandela, raising concerns that his condition this morning is very fragile. The former South African president and anti-apartheid revolutionary has been in the hospital since Saturday. He's still in intensive care. He's been fighting a reoccurring lung infection. You know, he had tuberculosis while he was in prison for 27 years. Family and friends are gathering. His ex-wife canceled a speech to be by his side. His estranged ex-wife and their daughter arrived for a visit yesterday.
[Romans:] It's not often you can look at a picture and say that man changed the world. He changed the world, everyone praying for him. Meanwhile, in Mumbai, India, rescuers looking for survivors under a collapse apartment, at least seven people were killed and six injured. Authorities think a dozen, at least a dozen more people are trapped. It was believed this building gave way after heavy monsoon rains pounded the areas.
[Berman:] All right. Do not try this at home. You know, they didn't really seem to think that one through. It was a group of Canadians always the Canadians they tried to jump a Jeep over a swimming pool. So, as you can tell, it didn't make it, it wound up in the pool instead, no one was hurt except, as I suppose you can say, the pool. The man who posted the video insists the Jeep still runs fine. Perhaps they'll think twice before trying that again. Although, you know, in Canada, you'll never know. We'll have to talk to George Stroumboulopoulos to find out if, in fact, there's a rash of these Jeep crashing into pool incidents across Canada. All right. Coming up, Plan B gets an OK from the White House. The administration changes course. It will let the drug be sold over the counter to all.