>> felicia taylor, thank you. we'll check back with you. >>> people worldwide are mourning the death of actor james gandolfini from an apparent heart attack in italy. the 51-year-old gandolfini turned the mobster stereo type upsidedown with his portrayal of tony soprano, a convicted mobster who saw a therapist. a gangster prone to panic attacks. a man who understood beauty and brutality. >> you know why we're here. any doubts or reservations, now is the time to say so. no one will think any less of you. because once you enter this family, there's no getting out. because family come before everything else. >> a soprano's co-star says gandolfini was an incredible friend and actor. >> jim was a very humble guy. he had no airs about him. he did what he had to do and he put it all out there and that's what i think made him great. he was as down to earth as anybody could be. he would do anything for you if you asked him to do you a favor or you needed something. he was right there. it's a tragic loss that we have, we lo

felicia taylor, cnn, new york. felicia taylor, cnn, new york. >>> "a.c. 360" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good evening. a very busy night tonight and paula deen is dump bid the food network after making a video apology, though, what she was apologizing for remains unclear and tonight i interview alan chambers, the president of the longest

felicia taylor, cnn, new york. felicia taylor, cnn, new york. >>> "a.c. 360" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good evening. a very busy night tonight and paula deen is dump bid the food network after making a video apology, though, what she was apologizing for remains unclear and tonight i interview alan chambers, the president of the longest running ex gay group exdus international. tonight he gives the first interview since going public with that apologiyapology, so w lot to get to. >>> edward snowden is alleged to be hiding in hong kong. the complaint in the eastern district court of virginia charging him with the following, theft of government property, unauthorized communication of defense information and classified intelligence with an unautorooized person. two of those counts falling under the act, and now the process to bring him back from hong kong underway. >>> paula deen now and more breaking news. minutes ago she reacted to losing her food tv cooking show in a statement she says and

felicia taylor there. >> no problem. >>> i don't even know why i come here. nothing else to do i guess. >> do you think it would help if you went some place so you could rest up a while? >> you mean like vegas? >> no, not vegas. some place where you could be looked at. >> tony soprano and his long-suffering therapist. for six seasons on hbo she tried to get through his thick skull the reasons why he was a sociopath, a racist, a gluten, and a killer. >> just to name a few things. millions of "sopranos" fans around the world. >> i liked his character. i liked he was in therapy. >> humorized it if you like. james gandolfini is dead has now spread around the world. he was in something like r50 tv shows and movies, but that one show "the sopranos" made him and that character a superstar everywhe everywhere. >> yeah. i want to bring in our correspondent in rome. of course he was in italy when he died. and his huge character made a big deal about his characters being italian. italian-american. he was in italy at the time. how are people responding? >> people are ver

felicia taylor, thank you so much. >>> coming up, a 13-year-old boy, that's right, accused of killing his half-sister by practicing wwe wrestling style moves on her. well, he's now facing murder charges. and then, the daughter of former yankees manager joe torre makes a nice catch. she was in the right place at the right time, caught a child falling from a building. you're going to hear from her coming up next. and, a child born deaf hears for the first time. amazing story up ahead. this is "cnn newsroom." >> daddy loves you. daddy loves you. can you hear daddy? la's known definitely for its traffic, congestion, for it's smog. but there are a lot of people that do ride the bus. and now that the busses are running on natural gas, they don't throw out as much pollution to the earth. so i feel good. i feel like i'm doing my part to help out the environment. well, everything but palm trees, sunshine and fruity drinks, that is. ...and we inspected his brakes for free. -free is good. -free is very good. [ male announcer ] now get 50% off brake pads and shoes at meineke. >>> a group of senat

say to them well i can imagine where william hague travels the when he travels the world every drop felicia taylor in singapore employs his lover through and i travel the world people ask me how come an independent country has grown as ruled by a government and ever elected two of the three younger you spoke on the seven the choice mixed you know to vote for government and our independence and i think the work of our. well some polls show almost a third of scots would like to break away from britain with support for a yes vote reaching its highest level in two years though around sixty percent would still vote no with one in ten scots still undecided as what jonathan shafi he's from activist group the radical independents campaign who explained to me why he thinks scotland should go it alone what we have just knows we have waste men start a cabinet of millionaires who are unleashing the most brutal package of a state see that this country's ever seen so our public services are being decimated our services are being privatized and there's a democratic question as well i mean no one has given

it could have been a lot worse. >> diane swonk and felicia taylor, thank you so much. facebook stop was among the losers despite the unveiling of a new video sharing app similar to twitter's vine app which features six-second video sharing. yahoo! says its high pro feel purchase of pum bler is complete. they played $1.1 billion for the micro blogging service. >>> the nsa leaking controversy has race questions about getting top secret clearance. we learned that the private firm that conducted snowden's background check is under criminal investigation. the allegations go far beyond any problems with snowden's vetting. cnn pentagon correspondent chris lawrence has been digging on this story. chris? >> jake, today's congressional hearing produced a stunning admission about this company, usis based right here in virginia. a government watch dog told senator john tester this contractor may not have done a thorough investigation on edward snowden. >> are there any concerns that mr. snowden's investigation by usis may not have been carried out in an appropriate or thorough man

felicia taylor has the details. ♪ everybody say yeah yeah yeah >> producers of the broadway musical kinky boots have good reezing to shout yay. the show has the most tony award nominations this season and istrokemaking more than a million a week at the box office. a little star power may be going a long way. the show was written by pop sensation cyndi lauper. other broadway shows believe it's all about the casting. >> you can have a star read the phone book and you would sell out. so sometimes the content of the play doesn't matter because they're going to see the celebrity. >> broadway is brimming with hollywood heavyweights. >> my wife can recite all of the stops on the long island railroad in a conductor's voice? >> you have people like bette midler and tom hanks who star in a limited engagement of a play, that brings them in all from over the world. >> for the stars, it's a new challenge. >> there's a sense of legitimacy to broadway, and a sense of truly if you can handle a broadway schedule, broadway critics, broadway audiences, and the -- there is a sense of longevity that it provid

i want to get to felicia taylor at the new york stock exchange. explain what happened there to trigger the second day of selloffs. >> the debate has begun as to when that tapering, that slight pullback, and i do mean slight. he's not taking all of the stimulus out of the market at once. traders discussing whether or not it's going to happen in the next month or possibly 2014, what that does to the market. we were down about 380 points before the closing bell. so we have come back a little bit and that is a good sign. but some traders say these kind of selloffs could continue because the debate is going to continue. but what we've really got to focus on is the economy. are we seeing enough positive signs in the economy? so far it's a very mixed picture for the federal reserve to feel confident enough to begin that slow tapering down. the answer is not really. they need at least three monies of positive economic news for him to begin that stimulus pullback. jake? >> thank you so much. so what do the markets mean for you? we're joined now by my frien