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The president just a short time ago addres sed the nation in an unexpected statement from the White House briefing room. He saidthe United States is, quote, "deeply concerned by reports of Russ ia's m ilitary movements."

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: And just days after the world came to Rus sia for the OlympicGames that would invite the condemnation of nations around the world. And, indeed, the United States will s tand with the internationalcommun ity in affirming that there will be costs for any military intervention in Ukraine.

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BURNETT: All right, I want to get straight to the chief national security correspondent for us here at CNN, Jim Sciutto. Jim, what areyour sources telling you tonight? I think we've got to emphasize, especially to our viewers around the world, the White Hous e has n'tsaid m uch about this and nobody expected the president of the United States to come out and make a s tatement about the Ukraine.JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the White House hasn't said much, but they were certainly worried about it and I'vebeen hearing from a num ber of officials in different agencies, different parts o f the government as their anxiety grew over the las t 24and 48 hours that something like this would happen.

You know, you saw it. We've all seen the public s tatements from U.S. officials, from Secretary Kerry, Secretary Hagel warning Russ ianot to do exactly what appears to have happened now in the Ukraine and that is, send Russian troops in. U.S. officials be lieve theseare Russian troops.

I think over time, they are getting a better handle and confidence on the number and the extent of the troops. This is a scenario thatsom e had warned me about. The idea that it wouldn't be a full scale George-type invasion, you know, tanks driving and trucks drivingacross the border.

But it would be something more s ubtle, black ops, Special Forces, that kind of things to give them a bit of cover and you also s eeingthe Russ ians creating some legal cover here. The ambass ador to the U.N. saying that these movements fall within their bilateralagreement with the Ukrainian government.

SCIUTTO: Something that I don't think we are hearing much agreement with -

BURNETT: Nobody that we've talked to thinks that makes any sens e at all.

SCIUTTO: Absolutely.

BURNETT: All right, well, Jim Sciutto, thank you very much. We are going to back to Jim as he gets more. But I want to go straight toCrimea tonight because CNN has a reporter on the ground there. Diana Magnay is there in the s outhern part of the country wheresupport for Russia is strong.

As you could s ee on that map, Ukraine is in yellow . The Crimean Peninsula is in red. Below there, American ass ess ment shows thatRuss ian military forces today landed at a Russian bas e in Crimea. Diana is there.

So Diana, you know, you've been reporting and I mean, it's been incredible, you've been reporting on phone lines that have been cut.It's been incredibly difficult to commun icate. What exactly is happening there and what have you been able to figure out about whothese troops are and what they are doing.

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DIANA MAGNAY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it is difficult to piece together what is going on and I haven't beenable to definitely confirm to you that the troops that I have seen on the ground are Russ ian becaus e they are trying incredibly hard toconceal their identity. They are in military fatigues. They don't have any kind of military insignia. The vehicles that they are using to getaround, the number plates have been removed. When you ask them, where are you from, are you Russian, there is no reply. So theyare really trying to conceal their identity. So I wouldn't be able to tell you 100 percent that they are Russian.

But the numbers and the organizers -- as you can im agine, certainly the two airports -- I was at one of the two airports that have beennot taken over because operations carried on normally, but certainly were under the so rt of command of these m ilitary units.

They were working alongs ide pro-Russian local groups who told me they didn't know who they were, they were just s ort of exchangingtea and cigarettes, but it didn't really look that way. It certainly looked as though pro-Russ ian local forces on the ground were workingtogether with these unidentified units who, incidentally, have surrounded the state TV station.

Apparently, according to the director genera l, to protect it, and we're also hearing from the main telecomm unications company inCrimea that they believe that their operations have been sabo taged so there are no landline connections or telecoms from Crimea tothe mainland at the moment -- Erin.

BURNETT: All right, thank you very much, Diana Magnay. We are going to go back to Diana as we can. As you can see the connectionthere is a bit dubious at this moment, but she's there on the ground and perhaps what she saw says more than anything else. Whenshe asked those troops to identify where they are from, what they are doing, they refused to do s o.

I want to emphas ize, this is the not the first time Russ ia has invaded a former Soviet state. In 2008, Vladimir Putin sent military troops

in the Republic o f Georgia. That led to a conflict that left hundreds dead.

Mikheil Saakashvili is a former pres ident of the Republic of Georgia. He jus t landed here in New York from Kiev this afternoon. He'sbeen meeting with leaders in Ukraine speaking to Ukrainian public. He joins m e with former military intelligence officer, ColonelCedrick Leighton and m ilitary analyst, General "Spider" Marks.

All right, great to have all of you with us. But Pres ident Saakas hvili, let me start with you. You were just in Kiev. You've been there allweek. What do you see on the ground? Are you surpris ed to hear this at all?

MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA: No, I'm not s urpris ed. Actually, Georgia was invadedby a large-scale Russian a rmy. I was warning prior to the invasion. Georgia will come and then the new Ukraine will come. Putin isfollowing his blueprint all the way through and actually coincidentally it happened bo th times du ring the times of the Olympic.

First, it was the Beijing Olympics and now it's the Sochi Olympics and actually the blueprint is exactly the same as they applied inGeorgia. Same scale, so-called unidentified troops of the Russian army and we've seen them and we know them very well. We knowtheir handwriting.

It's exactly the same thing and we are talking right now about full- scale legally and technically full-scale m ilitary invasion. That's all itis. They will gradually build it up. It's not based on some m ass scale. Putin is not even disguis ing it anymore. We are talking about21st Century invasion of 45 million people country as a response to a Dem ocratic revolution that fled to Russ ia.

BURNETT: As you're speaking, this news is just coming in. The House Intelligence Comm ittee Chairman Mike Rogers has just putout a s tatement that's very significant for people watching around the world tonight. Quote, "It appears the Russ ian m ilitary now








controls the Crimean Penins ula. This aggression is not only a threat not only to Ukraine, but to regional peace and s tability."

Russ ia's latest action is not an indicator of Vladimir Putin's interests and allies around the world. Another development there that thisis not jus t a few hundred troops or if it is they control the Crimean Peninsula.

Let me bring you in on this , General Marks, what does that mean? Does that change the game here? What does that mean for theUnited States where the president has just said today that there will be consequences ?

MAJOR GENERAL JAMES "SPIDER" MARKS (RETIRED): Erin, the rea l issue here is that Crimea is a part of the Ukra ine. The citizensof Crimea enjoy no additional sovereignty rights beyond what Ukraine would. Although, the Crimea tends to lend itself and its s upportand lean in the direction of Russ ia. That's irrelevant.

BURNETT: Right.

MARKS: That's irrelevant in this case because they are citizens of the Ukraine, we need to call it what it is, which is an invasion o f onesovereign nation of another, irrespective of how Putin has done it, either at a lower level and now with the threat of some additionalforces.

BURNETT: So Colonel Leighton, what does this m ean though for the United States? It says that there are going to be cos ts andconsequences if the Crimea Peninsula, which is part of Ukraine has now been invaded and is now controlled by Vladimir Putin.

COLONEL CEDRIC LEIGHTON (RETIRED), FORMER MILITARY INTELLIGENCE OFFICER: I think, Erin, it's going to be a situationwhere if the United States wants to s tand out to the Russian invasion of the Crimea, then they are going to have to do som ething and

there could be such a thing as embargo against Russian oil, against Russian natural gas.

There would have sign ificant effects on Europe that would have to be coordina ted with NATO. But those are s ome o f the things that wecould do s hort of military force in a case like this. BURNETT: So President Saakashvili, how bad could this get? When you werepresident of Georgia, hundreds of people were killed, tanks came in, troops came in. I mean, is this jus t the beginning for Ukraine?

SAAKASHVILI: I think it's just the beginning. Actually last time, some people were trying to argue that it's irresponsible behavior of Georgia. What would you say this time? I mean, this is a pattern and Vladimir Putin is following his pattern no matter who does what.

Actually, the reality is that it's rem inis cent of what happens in the 21s t Century, very much l ike the land by then Nazi Germany and thenof course this time exactly the way how European powers said for Poland, the United States, the United Kingdom and by the way, alsoRuss ia, together pledged to guarantee territorial integrity in 1994 when Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons.

So there's an ob ligation that the western powers who have for this not to happen. Now Russ ia blatantly violated the treaty obligationsthat the wes tern powers for this not to happen. Now Rus sia blatantly violated the zone treaty obligations. So basically we are talking --I mean, all the way through, western powers have been repeating, there is no more cold war.

But first of all, there was always cold war for Putin all thos e time. Now we are really getting to really, really hot war in Europe and this isan exceptional circumstances and wha t I'm talking about, there's a d raft that makes it easy to integrate other country's territory intoRuss ia. This is unheard of it. We are talking about Europe, 21st Century.

BURNETT: So you think that the analogy you just gave is a very powerful one. You're talking about Nazi Germany going into --








SAAKASHVILI: Legally there is not much of a difference because this guy, Vladimir Putin, now goes into another big European country,its neighbor, and wants to grab piece of its territory and make this part of Russ ia. This has gone beyond anything that anybody couldcontemplate. This is really, really serious stuff.

BURNETT: Colonel Le ighton, reply to what Pres ident Saakashvili is saying though. He is saying, look, that there is a treaty that it'sviolated. I mean, you know, the parallels here to World War II are pretty powerful. So what does the United States do if there's thistreaty? Sit back and say sanctions, is that enough?

LEIGHTON: Well, it should follow the tenants of the treaty. I agree with President Saakashvili that there are certain treaty obligationsthat the United States and NATO have when it comes to protecting the integrity of the Ukraine. Notice though that the president did notinvoke those when he spoke this afternoon at the White House nor has Secretary of State Kerry and that indicates to me that theUnited States is not willing to go that extra mile.

BURNETT: What would you say, Spider? Do you agree with that, the United States not willing to go that extra mile and, if so, to theparallel that President Saakashvili just gave, what does that mean happens next?

MARKS: Well, the parallel was very stark and it makes complete sense. The preceden t has been set. The United States clearly will notact alone nor should it act alone. The initial steps right now should be what can take place now s hort of military action that would besufficiently convincing to Putin that he needs to stop what he's doing.

We haven't demonstrated that we can do that. We certainly don't have any influence in the region, but we do have friends. We haveallies. We have NATO. We have the ability to try to influence and wedge ourselves in there. Right now the concern is that we have awaning level of influence and it needs to be reasserted and it's going to be very, very difficult for the United States to do that alone, nor

should it.

BURNETT: All right, we're going to hit pause on this. We are going to come back in jus t moment with much more of this conversation.Obviously a s ignificant question for the United States. Former head of the CIA, someone I spoke to about this with a very starkwarning. We are going to have that. President Saakashvili will weigh in .

We also have new backlash against Spike Lee. Are people now targeting his family's home because of his expletive rant ongentrification and a man in Miss iss ippi declared dead and sent to a funeral home and then a miracle happens .

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I stood there and watched them put him in a body bag and zip it up.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He was not dead. Long story short.

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BURNETT: We are following breaking news tonight. The United States believes Rus sian land forces have arrived in Ukraine's C rimearegion. That is the southern part of the country. It's a s trongly pro-Russ ia area, but it's part of Ukraine and Mike Rogers , Chairman of the House Intelligence Comm ittee is now putting out a statement saying that Crimea has not just been invaded, it's now under thecontrol of Putin's Russ ia.








Jim Acosta is at the White Hous e. Jim, the president cam e out unexpectedly today, tonight, made a s tatement threatening to pull out of the G8 meeting, which is planned for this sum mer in Russ ia if Putin intervenes in Ukraine. Is that a threat that he'll make good on? Isthat a threat Vladimir Putin cares about?

JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Right, you know, I think it's a threat that Vladim ir Putin should careabout, Erin. I think this is very serious with the senior adm inistration official who told me about this earlier this evening was saying andthat is bas ically that they are evaluating whether or not the United States would go to the G-8 Summit and what the senior official says,Erin, is that other European allies would als o put this under consideration as well.

So the United States is basically saying, according to the senior adminis tration officials that, we not only might we not go to your partyin Sochi later on this June at the G-8, but we may keep our European friends from going as well. And I think that is a significant threat.

Keep in mind, Erin, President Obama canceled a bilateral meeting with Vladimir Putin last year before the G-20 Summit. Remember,he was suppos ed to go to Moscow and s it down with Putin before the G-20 Summit and then canceled that. This would be asignificant worsening of relations between the United States and Rus sia.

And I think the United States -- and I think the White House is trying to communicate that. Not only saying that the G-8 might beaffected, they are talking about trade and commerce between the Un ited States and Rus sia being affected. Some o f these thingscould happen organically. For example, the goodwill that Russ ia built up after the Sochi gam es. The U.S. is s aying, that could beaffected as well.

BURNETT: All right, Jim Acosta, thank you very much. Of course, just to emphasize again, there is a treaty that Russia is privy to, that

the United States is privy to, to respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Now Russia has violated that.

Our correspondent, Ian Lee is in Kiev tonight. Ian, we are seeing pictures of what -- these are YouTube pictures here of Russ ianhelicopters over Ukraine. House Intelligence Comm ittee chairman in the United States here now says Crimea is under Russ ianmilitary control. You know our colleague, Diana Magnay in Crimea were having som e trouble there even with the communications.What options does Ukraine have right now because where you are, in Kiev, the government is in disa rray.

IAN LEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, that's exactly right, Erin. They are trying to react to what they are saying isRussia trying to annex the Crimea? The options they have are limited. We know that in a fire fight, a full out war, they cannot match thefire power of Russ ia. So what they are moving is more diplom atic moves. One of these includes going to the U.N. Security Council.

Well, Russia has a veto in that council. So it's unclear wha t they hope to get out there. Moscow is very concerned about the ethnic

Russ ians in the Crimea. They have said that they have feared that they could be oppress ed or discriminated agains t. Well, here inKiev, the Ukrainian government has asked the E.U. to send obs ervers here to say, listen, you can bring others to here to make surethat nothing happens to ethnic Russians in the Crimea.

Also, the Ukrainians here keep saying, we have this peace treaty, which you guys were talking about that was s igned by the U.K., theUnited States, Rus sia, and Ukraine. They said they'd give up their nuclear weapons , their territorial integrity will remain and that's onething that officials are saying, where are the people now who s igned that agreement?

BURNETT: All right, Ian Lee, thank you very much. That's going to be a very big question in the White House and in Washington, D.C.I'm back now with the former pres ident of the Republic of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, his coun try was invaded by Vladimir Putin in2008 along with our military analyst, retired Major James "Spider" Marks and former military intelligence officer, Colonel Cedric








Leighton.

All right, good to have all of you. Back with us, Pres ident Saakashvili, let me as k you this question. Vladim ir Putin, according to Hous eIntelligence officials here in the United States, controls the Crimea Peninsula now tonight. What will the Ukraine do about it? You'vebeen in Kiev all week. You've been with oppos ition leaders. Are they able to fight back? Are they going to resis t?

SAAKASHVILI: Look, Ukraine is a very, very peaceful country and these people were really trying to put the whole thing together. Theyreally reached out to Russian s peakers in Ukraine and east of Ukraine mostly joined these protests so there was no pretext for Russ ians try to do that.

I mean, the whole thing is that they were trying to sell this s tory to the west and by the way, I mentioned one has to remember that partof Germany came in to protect. Russia invaded my country to protect so- called to protect - they also suffered because they had toleave the territory because there was ethnic cleans ing involving also those ethnic groups .

So Russ ia us ing brutal force, they claim to be provoked, but this claim is not valid. Now, Ukrainians, I think they were starting to bringin a new interim government. The whole thing was very going very peaceful. I met with all of the leaders . I had a long conversation.Peaceful intentions to carry out Democratic changes, open up Ukraine over to Europe.

That's exactly what Vladimir Putin cannot forgive them because if they go democratic like European and the United States, he had toact on this fall sense of protecting more people. So what Ukraine has occurred like Georgia has conside rable army.

BURNETT: So they will fight back?

SAAKASHVILI: They gave up nuclear weapons, but their officers are very good and by the way, the Russian Army is Ukrainian. So it'snot so clear how Russ ians can force those people to fight against their homeland. The point is, that's the worst thing to get to thesituation where we might get real war between two big European countries, like Russia and Ukraine.

By the way, when we talk about what Americans can do, look, you don't -- even if you don't send tanks, you can certainly expel Russiafrom G-8. You can send back to Putin banks and corrupt officials, including Putin hims elf, he's the most corrupt person in the world. Itcan all be s eized. It's doable.

When European Union and sanctions people s tarted to attack him. So jus t don't send tanks and bu t at least send tanks to Putin'sbanks and accounts and other s anctions because, you know, I heard the president saying it will cost him. I've heard this said by alsoprevious adminis tration after the Georgia invasion. Well, did it really cost him? If it had cost him, it would not have done Ukraine. He'sgone on a rampage and he will act without impunity.

BURNETT: Colonel Leighton, to what President Saakashvili, just s aid that there were no repercus sions the other time Vladimir Putindid this. I wanted to play what the former head o f CIA General Hayden just said to me. He is General Hayden.

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GENERAL MICHAEL HAYDEN, FORMER DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY: He went into Georgia in 2008. Importantly, Erin,he really wasn't punished for that. That took place in August of 2008. By January of 2009, we have a new president and there is notime in the penalty box for Putin with the new p resident. It's all about reset.

BURNETT: Right. Reset, be friends.








HAYDEN: Yes. So he got to do that and really didn't suffer too many adverse cons equences.

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BURNETT: General Leighton, is what the problem is right now? Is the world now s uffering from the fact that Vladimir Putin invadedGeorgia and had no consequences?

LEIGHTON: Absolutely, Erin. Really the historical ana logy can be b rought back even further than the (inaudible) in London andCzechoslovakia. It can go all the way back to the Rhine Land when Hitler invaded the Rhine Land in 1936. Same exact thingshappened and becaus e there were no consequences for Hitler knowledge can go back to when Hitler invaded in 1936.

Same exact thing happened becaus e there were no consequences for Hitler, the res t is, bas ically as I say, history. World War IIstarted the way it did and it became a real imbroglio for all of the western world and this could happen again in the Ukraine.

I hope it does n't, but we have a real s ituation where the Russ ians are going to look at the excuse of protecting their ethnic minority,their kindred spirits in the Ukraine and the Crimea especially in the eastern part of the country and that is where they are going to usethat excuse and they are going to try to cow tow to them when it comes to this kind of a political s ituation. It's a very dangeroussituation right now.

BURNETT: General Marks, will this becom e a war? Will that become an appropriate word to use?

MARKS: I don't think it will become a war. What we're really seeing is Putin really doesn't care at all what we s ay or what the

international community says. He's very much in tuned to what we do and dem onstrate. There are a num ber of things, as we'vediscus sed, econom ic, financial, and diplomatic that should be the precursors before any type of military action.

However, simultaneously, the United States s hould be in the United Nations in NATO and galvanizing an international body that isprepared to take action to isolate and to try to narrow this challenge that we have to paint it the way it is, which is an invasion o f oneforeign country into another.

Now, the Russians have a really strong case for the Crimea because they have an agreement with the Ukraine. That's where their black sea fleet is located.

BURNETT: Right.

MARKS: So Sevastopol is the only warm water port that Russ ia has . Every other port in Rus sia right now is covered with ice. So this isextremely important to me . They think they have a sphere of influence and they have rights that allows them to act with a certain degreeof impunity.

SAAKASHVILI: Sevastopol is very small. It doesn't look like safeguarding their base in Sevastopol. It's much wider.

MARKS: Of course, Mr. President, what I'm suggesting is that Sevastopol is where the Black Sea fleet is located. It's a warm water port. It's significant. It's extremely important to the Russians and this is where they can conduct influence in the region.

SAAKASHVILI: The people that they brought in, they were not from Sevastopol. These were Russian regular like special troopsbrought in from Russia.







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MARKS: Of cours e.

SAAKASHVILI: By mil itary transport and the other thing we're talking about --

MARKS: We are in agreement here.

SAAKASHVILI: One thing s hould be known. In Georgia in 2008 after the reaction was quite late, Putin was stopped a t the entrance of our capital by a huge unit who showed, but the international community outcry. George Bush s ent four fleets. The initial planes wereput on alert prepared for no fly zone over Georgia and that's what stopped Putin from a --

BURNETT: So that's what Obama is going to have to do.

SAAKASHVILI: There have been many different options he can consider. I'm not saying that's the situation for sure but certainly weshould consider all of the options because U.S. security interests are at stake. If this war in Europe collaps es now, the U.S. will be introuble. The United States is one of the main guarantors and benefactors of this order that exists today in Europe and if it goes to hell,certainly American interests would be at great risk. BURNETT: Well, we'll leave it at that. Thank you all very much. Appreciate it.Obviously a very significant moment right now for the world, for the United States, for Russ ia, for Ukraine.

Still to come, a m ass ive winter storm about to bring snow, ice, and freezing rain to more than 100 million Americans . We've got thatnext.

And Philip Seymour Hoffman's caus e of death was just released tonight. We have the mix of drugs that were found in his system.

And back from the dead literal ly, this is an incredible s tory, a man declared dead, wakes up in a body bag at the funeral hom e.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hallelujah. We thank him right now.

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BURNETT: March is com ing in like a lion. One hundred million Americans now facing one of the biggest winter storms of the year.

Snow is a lready falling in the Midwest as the s torm marches East, it could bring a foot of snow that will result in delays andcancellations around the entire country and around the entire world.

Chad Myers is OUTFRONT.

So, Chad, what could we expect from the storm over the weekend?

CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: You know, it's slamming into California right now. It looks like a big hurricane out there,although I haven't had dinner so to me, it kind of looks like a ho-ho.

It's s pinning around out here to wes t of San Francisco, every time one of these white bands goes by, you get s ignificant rain. And that's







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what we've had all day in L.A., one rain shower after another.

Now, obviously, storms don't stop when they get into California. It's going to continue into the Rocky Mountains and eventually all theway from there into the Northeast, with a snows torm for Monday. Now, there will be snow in the Midwest for Saturday and Monday but itgets to cities in the Northeast on Monday. The red there, flash flood warnings already. There's s ome m udslides going on out therebecause of areas that have been burned.

When you burn the trees down, the trees don 't hold the dirt in anymore and it becomes a muds lide. That's what we have right now, thestorm m oves off to the eas t later on tonight and into tomorrow. Here's Sunday night. We're seeing s now already into New York City.

Now, I don't know yet where this big snow is going to be and no one really does because it's s till three days away. But let me tell you,

there's going to be a s wath of snow through the Midwest and into the Northeast that will be a foot deep. It's a wide swath. Kansas City,St. Louis . Let's pretty likely.

Now, farther off to the east, this is where we just don't know yet. Will it be New York City, models are trending towards Philadelphia,Boston, and D.C. for right now, but still at three days away, Erin, you can't tell whether this is going to go left or right just yet.

BURNETT: That's the problem I have with this winter, Chad, nobody knows. It just shows you the power of nature. But it's beenamazing how little we've known. Thanks so much to Chad.

And now a story that is so bizarre you won't believe it's true but it is. A 78-year-old m an in the state of Missis sippi declared deadWednesday by a coroner, hours later as his body was about to be embal med, yes, it was at a miracle. The man started moving insideof the body bag.

David Mattingly is OUTFRONT.

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DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Resting in comfort, 78-year-old Walter Williams was in hospice careprepared for the end of a long life in Lexington, Miss iss ippi. He seem ed to sleep peacefully away Wednesday night.

EDDIE HESTER, WILLIAMS' NEPHEW: They put him in a plastic bag, zipped him up and took him and put him in the hearse.

MATTINGLY: His family had already been grieving for hours when s omething happened.

SHERIFF WILLIE MARCH, HOLMES COUNTY: I asked the coroner what happened and he said there's a miracle.

MATTINGLY: Williams began kicking inside his body bag. He was n't dead.

MARTHA LEWIS, WILLIAMS' DAUGHTER: So it was not my daddy's time. I don't know how much longer he's going to grace us andbless us with his p resence, but hallelujah, we thank him right now! Right now! Thank him.

MATTINGLY: And Williams' revival couldn't have happened at a better time. He was already in the embalming room.

BYRON PORTER, PORTER AND SONS FUNERAL HOME: He was not dead , long s tory short.







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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So he missed it by how much?

PORTER: I don't know. I don't know.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A couple minutes , maybe?

PORTER: No. No. More than that. We defini tely was not going to do anything to him . UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Once you saw that hewas alive?

PORTER: Right, that he was not deceased.

MATTINGLY: The coroner speculates that an in de fibrillator impl anted beneath the skin on Williams chest may have somehow jump-started his heart after he was in the body bag. Rushed back to the hospital, this lifelong farmer is described as weak but talking -- witha little more time, apparently, left in this world.

David Mattingly, CNN, Atlanta.

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BURNETT: Pretty incredible, huh?

Well, ahead, backlash over Spike Lee's com ment. Did vandals target his parents' home over Spike's expletive-filled rant againstgentrification?

Plus, he's one of America's m ost popular retailers, J. Crew about to sell ou t to another country?

We'll be back.

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BURNETT: Potential backlash against Spike Lee, just days after the movie director went on an expletive-filled rant on gentrification inNew York City, someone vandalized his parent's home in Brooklyn. Police say "Do the Right Thing", the title of Lee's 1989 film aboutracial tensions, was spray-painted in his father's hom e. The house next door was als o vandalized. The front door glass shattered.

Neighbors told CNN they believe it was in retaliation for Lee's rant that was against gentrification. Here it just -- it went on for more

than seven minutes, but here's a quick clip of how it went down.

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SPIKE LEE, FILMMAKER: So why did it take this great influx of white people to get the schools better? Why's there more policeprotection in Bed Stuy and Harlem now? Why's the ga rbage getting picked up m ore regularly? We've been here?

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BURNETT: D.K. Smith is the man who ignited this firestorm by asking Spike Lee that question on gentrification, and he's OUTFRONTtonight. We talked about this earlier this week.






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D.K., obviously, you grew up in that neighborhood , you know, where Spike Lee was . There's this vandalism at the home. Themes sage: do the right thing. The house next door vandalized, the glass broken with the logo of his production company put up.

So, clearly, this was targeted at spike. Do you think this is in retaliation for those comments?

D.K. SMITH, QUESTIONED SPIKE LEE OVER GENTRIFICATION: I think it's neces sary to give it a bigger context. You know, Spike wasinvited to Pride to Black His tory Month. Pride was one of the leading art schools in the world. It's the leading art school in the worldbecause of the diversity and creativity and also of view points.

And so, before the ques tion was asked to Spike, there was 90 m inutes o f him giving a great background on history on how he got into

film, on his struggles of growing up in Brooklyn, filled with expletives because that's Spike's style. So, when you heard these outtakes,you know, and you hear it with expletives, it was a friendly, humorous, respectful exchange.

BURNETT: Right.

SMITH: And people that, you know, m aybe heard him go off and get very impas sioned about gentrification, that was just a very sm allpart of the whole evening and certainly anybody who would retaliate or do anything like that to someone's property, they are all the waywrong.

BURNETT: They are all the way wrong bu t this is interesting because when we talked about this earlier in the week and you talkedabout that neighborhood and you talked about ways that you had been treated, you know, the whole iss ue, right, is that it was an

African-American neighborhood, it was gentrified and you have white peop le moving in, the whole s ituation changes .

You talked about racism that you've experienced in that neighborhood.

SMITH: Yes, gentrification is a hot issue but nothing justifies de facing and vandalizing somebody's property. That's not how we roll inBrooklyn, Erin. That's really what it comes to. That's not how we roll.

BURNETT: Right.

SMITH: Even when we have a problem.

BURNETT: I'm jus t saying, I can't imagine it really surprises you in the sens e of some of the s tories that you've talked about thathappened to you were pretty horrible.

SMITH: People get im pass ioned about things and that's why I thought it was important to bring some context to that evening. Youknow, that it wasn't just Spike breaking out and ranting. And the salty language m ight have you believe that.

But he told a warm s tory about his g randparents that was filled with the sam e kind of salty language. So, that kind of retaliation andvandalism, it's not jus t acceptable. It's not what we do in Brooklyn. It's never how we handle things and I can't speak for Spike but I'msure he's going to be outraged by that.

BURNETT: I'm s ure he's going to be outraged by that. By the way, we spoke to Spike Lee's brother and I want to play a quick clip of that. Here it is.

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Oops, sorry, actually, we don't have that. But anyway, he said, Spike shouldn't make his arguments so personal. That he s houldn't letthe world know where his family lives as part of this.

But as you point out, this was an event that was sort of built around the neighborhood.

But what about the broader is sue here and I want to ask you this because obviously Spike Lee's parents s till live in the neighborhoodwhere you live. Spike Lee, though, has become s o succes sful. You know, he's left the neighborhood, right? He has a $32 m illionmans ion, I'm sorry, on the Upper East Side, among m any homes.

So, how does that play? When you get all that money, you don't stay.

SMITH: You know, that's the problem that's in the black community that goes beyond Spike Lee and s omething that we need toaddress . We become very successful and we move from the suburbs , you know? We're not back in the community, we're not beingleaders front and center.

I mean, you know, I have many friends who write big checks to all kinds of causes and I say, you might do better just to show up, justto show up at a m entoring event.

BURNETT: Interesting, interesting point.

SMITH: So, we really need front and center. We need role models and we need to be in the comm unity. So, I think that's the bigger issue.

BURNETT: All righ t. D.K., thank you very much. Good to see you again .

And coming up, we now know the cocktail of drugs found in actor Phill ip Seymour Hoffman's body when he died. We have that justcame out, a late breaking news before this program. And a cab driver from Minnesota goes Hollywood and could be an Oscar winner on Sunday. A ride along, incredible story right here OUTFRONT, coming up.

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BURNETT: Let's check in with Anderson with a look on wha t's coming up on "AC360."

Hey, Anderson.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Hey, Erin. Obvious ly, we're clos ely following the breaks news out of Ukraine and Rus siatonight.

Crimean TV says these are Rus sian he licopters flying low across Ukraine. The Ukrainian government is calling it an invasion, as youknow. The just departed U.S. ambas sador to Rus sia called the situation dire. We'll have live reports from Ukraine.

We'll also discuss what the options are for Ukraine and how our allies are responding including the U.S. Also tonight's American journey. You're going to hear from the firs t openly gay player in any of the major sports leagues , Jason Collins of the Brooklyn Nets.Rachel Nichols has an interview since his return to the NBA. You'll hear from him tonight on "AC360".

Those s tories and tonight's "Ridiculist" and a lot more at the top of the hour, Erin.






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BURNETT: All right. Anderson, we'll be looking forward to that. We'll s ee you in a couple of mom ents.

First though the lead pirate in the thriller "Captain Phillips ." His name is Barkhad Abdi. If you didn't see the movie, he plays Musiopposite Tom Hanks. He's up for best supporting actor at the Sunday's Academy's 86th awards .

Poppy Harlow recently caught up with the Somali actor in his hometown.

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POPPY HARLOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In the bitter cold and snow of Minneapolis --

(on camera): Do you ever get used to the cold?

BARKHAD ABDI, ACTOR: It's ha rd to get used to the co ld.

HARLOW (voice-over): -- emerges one of this year's b iggest Hollywood sensations .

ABDI: Look at me.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sure.

ABDI: I'm the captain now.

HARLOW: Twenty-eight-year-old Barkhad Abdi ad libbed that now famous line as Musi, the lead pirate in a blockbus ter "CaptainPhillips" with tom hanks.

The Somali imm igrant is a natural on screen, but his journey to stardom has been anything but.

(on camera): Is this the route you used to drive?

ABDI: Yes. I drive a lot.

HARLOW: Abdi he drove a town car for a living, barely able to pay his rent. He left war-torn Somalia at 7, emigrating to Yemen thenMinnesota.

ABDI: I remember the war. Guns everywhere.

HARLOW: At just s ix years o ld, he lay in bed in Mogadishu , identifying guns by the sound of their shots.

COOPER: Pirates, armed Somali gun m an holding an American hos tage.

HARLOW: When the Maersk Alabama was hijacked in 2009, Abdi watched, stunned.

ABDI: Just shocked by this whole pi rate scene.







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HARLOW (voice-over): Destiny and determination.

Poppy Harlow, CNN, Minneapolis.

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BURNETT: An endearing guy.

Well, next, the cocktail of drugs that killed Philip Seymour Hoffman. We'll have that and the other top s tories we're watching on thisFriday night, next.

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BURNETT: Stories we're following on this Friday. We finally learned what caused actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's dea th. Hoffmanfound dead in his apartment with a needle in his arm earlier this m onth. Today, the New York City Medical Examiner's Office said theactor died with quote acute mixed drug intoxication including heroin, cocaine, and painkillers in his system. The death was des cribedas an accident.

Retailer J. Crew is reportedly in talks to s ell itself to a Japanese company. "The Wall Street Journal" reporting tonight J. Crew lookingto sell for as much as $5 billion. The paper's s ource cautions the talks are in very early stages and could fall apart. But the buyer isJapan's Fast Retailing which owns brand you may be familiar with, including Theory, Uniqlo and Helmut Lang.

SeaWorld has lodged a complaint with the Labor Department, alleging the inspector sent to investigate a trainer's death in 2010leaked information to the producers of "Blackfish." That was documentary critical of SeaWorld which has aired several times on CNN.SeaWorld alleges that the inspector had a bias , that she engaged in une thical behavior. Now, among the evidence are pictures of theinspector with the producers of the film at the Sundance Film Fes tival. "Blackfish" will air tonight at 11:00 Eastern, right here on CNN.

Thanks so much for joining on this Friday with all the breaking news . We're going to see you back here on Monday.

In the meantime, "ANDERSON COOPER 360" starts right now.

COOPER: Erin, thanks very much.

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