very, very gruesome. One of the women saying she was forced to starve when she became pregnant. She says at least five times. He starved her, would punch her in the stomach, she would miscarry.

And when the baby Jocelyn was born, they put the mom, Amanda Berry, into a plastic kids pool for the mess to be easier to clean up and told her if that baby dies, I'll kill you. At one point the baby did stop breathing and they had to -- she actually resuscitated the baby.

So, it's just horrific. Repeated rapes and the mistreatment that went on inside that house.

And in about 20 minutes, we're expecting suspect Ariel Castro to be arraigned. Here's a live look at the courtroom. We're going to a quick peekat that again. And that's going to happen live at 8:30. We're going to take that live for you as well.

John Berman is in New York. He has the rest of today's top stories -- John.

JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Thanks, Zoraida. And, again, we will get back to Cleveland the minute that arraignment begins.

But there is other news. New this morning, a possible break in the disappearance of missing Michigan mother Jessica Heeringa. Police now say her blood was found outside the ExxonMobil station where she disappeared. She disappeared on April 26th during her shift there.

Investigators say they only found a small amount of blood. Her family has been notified.

In just a few hours, Jodi Arias returns to court as the penalty phase in her murder trial begins.