and that's it for us tonight. be sure to be here monday for the republican presidential primary debate live from new hampshire. that's monday night, beginning at 8:00 eastern. coming up on "piers morgan tonight," the republican candidate that is getting all the buzz at the moment, even though he says he is definitely not running, new jersey governor chris christy. also coming up, the man who may be the funniest and he is definitely the nicest guy in late night television, jimmy fallon. they're all coming up on "piers morgan tonight." now here is anderson cooper. >> thanks. keeping them honest. a regime that doesn't just murder and torture its own people. tonight a regime that continues to arrest its children, torturing them and murdering them. the regime of bashir al assad in syria. they try to hide their crimes by keeping reporters out, but the video continues to emerge. this is what syrian soldiers do to helpless handcuffed prisoners.

>> this is what syrian soldiers do to a helpless elderly man. >> this is what the regime does to its people who are protesting. [ gunshots ]

video today from a damascus suburb. right now syrian soldiers and government thugs are on the brink of exacting bloody retribution on an entire city. and their leader, bashar al assad according to the neighboring prime minister of turkey taking all this very lightly. tonight for whatever it's worth and whoever can do something about it, we want to show you the truth of what is happening in syria. the pictures are hard to look at, i know, but people are risking their lives to take these images. they are dying so that you and i may know the truth. this is exclusive video, new video of a recent protest. a peaceful protest in northern syria, photograph bade dissident who managed to escape to turkey. thousands of unarmed men, and then gunfire, chaos, and carnage. the massacre neither the first nor the last.

they appear to be escalating. in fact, today helicopter gunships firing on protesters. we can't independently confirm this, but you can clearly hear machine gun fire coming from the helicopter and reaction from someone on the ground. and not far from there, the syrian military has launched an operation on the border city of jesser al shagor. refugees refute that. in any case, syrian forces have been marching toward the town. reported burning fields and firing on anything and anyone in their path. we have no video of it yet, because the syrian government is keeping the media out. but we do have new video tonight of the swelling refugee camps over the turkish border. that's what you're looking at right now. and these unfortunate syrians may in fact be the lucky ones. a western correspondent near the

camp says refugees are telling her that the syrian regime tried to stop them from leaving, holding its own people captive and worse, much worse. this is the body of testimony mar al sahari, returned to his family after a month in captivity. like all amateur video, we can't independently verify it, in part because syria won't allow us in. his body is missing an eye and several feat, we're told. his family says his leg and neck was broken. he was kneecaped as well, shot not to kill but inflict excruciating pain. tamir was just 15 years old. he was reportedly arrested on the same rally attended by hamza al khatib. this is hamza's body. cigarette burns over his body and his penis was cut off. hamza was only 13 years old. he and tamir and others taken in, tortured and murdered and weeks later returned to their families, not so parents with mourn and bury them, but as a tool of terror, as a warning to

others. tow the line or we'll take your kids. days after hamza was returned, signs that in that respect, terror works. his father and uncle appeared on syrian state tv, full of praise for the dictator bashar al assad. >> what can i say? best president ever. thank god he gave us everything we've ever asked for. the first thing is the president promised us reforms. god willing, they will come soon, tomorrow or the day after. i mean, these reforms are for the citizens. and they have been well received. and we were very happy with the president. the president is very close to the people. and he has offered them a lot. and he has said, god willing, he will give even more. >> later on, a family member who we are not naming told us that the family was threatened to make those statements. that's what terror does. it no longer works, though, against everyone all the time. this is a funeral march for tamir. hundreds taking part, just as thousands of others do all across syria, men, women, and children.

it's hard to watch, and no wonder who will be the next person to fall, who will be the next person taken? this week amnesty international came out with the chilling testimony of a former member of syria's elite republican guard. he and his unit got the orders on april 23rd to confront a violent gang. what he found he says is something else, not a violent gang, but 2,000 unarmed protesters including women and children chanting "peaceful, peaceful." those were the words the protesters were speaking. what he then witnessed he says was a massacre. he could not stop it and he could not take part. he and five others threw down their weapons, he says. he is now on the run facing a death sentence for exertion. but he is the exception. as we said at the top, the people now wait for word on their town's fate at the hands of syrian forces. the religions continue to pour across. almost 30 years ago, the dictator bashar al assad's father, hafez al assad faced a rebellion from the muslim

brotherhood, he handled it by killing 10 to 20,000 people. history written in blood, history repeating itself every day in syria. tonight the white house issued a statement. the united states strongly condemns the syrian government's outrageous use of violence across syria today, and particularly in the northwestern region. there must be an immediate end to the brutality and violence. earlier i spoke by internet phone with human rights activist, dissident and fugitive in her own country. we almost didn't manage it. the regime has been shutting down internet service, trying to keep word from getting out of the country. we lost the conversation shortly before the conversation and soon after, but we managed to find a narrow window to talk. rezan, we have found another video of another young boy allegedly tortured and mutilated by security forces. his name was tamir. do you know what happened to him? >> tamir was arrested the same day when hamza was arrested. he was disappeared, the same circumstances like hamza.

nobody knew where he was until about a few days ago when his body was delivered to his family. he was tortured awfully. he was shot in his eye. his neck was broken. he was burned with cigarette on all his body. he was shot in his two hands and two legs. every few day we have a new person, new detainee who was in detention. his body is delivered to his family, was dead under torture. so it's happening all the time. >> so -- they want people people to see what they have done to these kids, to adults, to people who they have tortured to scare people? >> it's a message. it's a message of revenge, of hatred, to make people more scared about their sons, about their children, about their beloved people, not to go on in their revolution. >> the regime, of course, denies this. it says these kids were if they

got shot, they got shot by armed gangs during protests, which a, there is no evidence of, and also, it's important to remember that all of this began in dara with the arrest of children who were graffitiing signs against the regime. so all of this began when the regime started snatching children. >> that's right. because the regime doesn't want to take the responsibility for the crimes, the security commit. they commit the crimes and then they come on the official media and deny this crimes. >> i've also seen now a video of what looks like syrian soldiers kicking and beating an elderly man who is on his knees defenseless. i was amazed that the soldiers would shoot this video, and that this would get out, that they would want this to be seen.

>> you will be surprised that most of these videos, the soldiers and the security members themselves, they sell it for money. they don't feel it's that they are committing the crimes. they even don't care about the regime itself. they just give it for money. >> amnesty international says that syrian soldiers are being told to fire on unarmed protesters. we've certainly seen this in video after video. but they have actually interviewed most recently one syrian soldier who was able to escape who refused to fire on civilians. are there many soldiers who are refusing to fire? >> everywhere, every city, dozens of soldiers refuse to participate in attacking the cities and injuring the people as a result, they were killed. until now we have about 300 names of soldiers got killed because of that. >> have you heard any word from your husband who was arrested

and has disappeared? >> no, eheard nothing about him. i just heard some rumors that he got tortured very badly, and he is in very bad situation. i don't know if it's just messages by the authority for me to put more pressure on me. i really don't know. >> how are you able to keep going? how are you able to stay strong and optimistic? >> i see the freedom very close. i can't wait to see it really and to feel it really. we just continue, just go on until we reach there. we're almost there. >> rezan, stay strong. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> imagine the courage of that woman to speak out. her husband has already been taken, already been arrested. she says she is getting word he

has already been tortured. likely he is. yet she still is willing to speak to us every single night to reveal what is happening. she is on the run. she is hiding for her life right now. and yet she continues to speak out. it's extraordinary. as we head, reporters aren't allowed into syria. joining us from just over the boarder in turkey, ivan, the video we showed of thousands of men peacefully walking down a long road and getting fired on. you got that video for us. how did you get it? >> this was an activist who came across the border thursday night, anderson, smuggled himself across the border into turkey, and shared that with us. we spoke with him. he described the security forces basically mowing people down. and you could see that in this video. he challenged any syrian official to claim that these activists had weapons, saying they didn't even carry knives. they even kept their flag poles short. and then he said he was going back into syria to participate

in protests after friday prayers. we spoke to him a couple of hours ago. they had those protests, and he said security forces once again opened fire on the thousands of people who were demonstrating against bashar al assad's regime, and even opened fire from helicopters. he says he was shot in the right thigh. he was talking to us from a friend's house. he was too scared to go to a hospital because he fears assad security forces could try to arrest him there. >> and ivan, that's a well-based fear. we have heard repeatedly from people that basically, you can't go to a hospital if you get injured, because security forces will come to the hospital, and they will take you. they're even taking the beds of the dead because they don't want a funeral to be held for someone that they've killed because that might create more protests. >> listen, anderson, if you want any evidence of what the syrian

government is doing, just look at the hospitals here in turkey, where there are scores of syrian refugees, people who have fled their own country with bullet wounds, with shrapnel wound, and they have come to a neighboring country for treatment in their hospitals because they're afraid to be in their own country. not only that, more than 3800 people, most of them fled to turkey in just the last couple of days. and they're all telling the same story again and again. the turkish authorities aren't letting us meet with them directly. they are terrified that their own government is trying to butcher them. and we look at videos like the one that this brave man shared with us, who is now laying in bed, i guess, with a bullet in his thigh. it's -- i mean the evidence kind of laying right in front of us. we were hearing from refugees and activists across the border. claims on friday that the syrian security forces were riding through villages, firing their tank cannons, and setting fire

to wheat fields. last night our time, late at night friday night as we were driving back, we saw something burning in the distance. i asked our driver, is that syria? he said yes. it looked like a field on fire. allegations that the syrian military forces are setting fire to the very fields that these people rely on for food, for sustenance. >> and how many people have now come across the border? and what happens to them? >> more than 3800 so far. the turks now are erecting a third refugee camp to deal with this influx. they feel many more will come across the border. the turks have been helping these people, bussing them, basically, from the border to these refugee camps. one of them in an abandoned tobacco factory in a turkish border town here. they're providing them with tents, with food, with water, with medical care as well.

what is strange is the turks team very uncomfortable with the media getting anywhere near these refugees. and friday night refugees were protesting in the camp, a camp of more than 1500 people. they were chanting down with the regime. there was a man crying because he had heard that his brothers had been killed in this town of maritz on the oman, and then the turks put up plastic barriers to block us from being able to see these refugees. another one saying he was going to good on a hunger strike because everybody -- because of the massacres going on in his town. a lot of terrified syrians who want the rest of the world to know about the butchery that is going on in their country right now. >> ivan, i'm glad you're there on the border. thank you for reporting for us tonight. there are a lot of we know syrians inside syria who are watching this broadcast, and who continue to watch it. so i'm glad we're able to give some information what has happened to their fellow countrymen who have crossed over

into turkey. let us know what you think. we're on facebook. you can follow me on twitter @andersoncooper. i'll be betweening tonight. up next, more than 24,000 pages of e-mails. one e-mail praises candidate barack obama weeks before she started not praising him. also tonight, striking testimony as to how the prosecution thinks little caylee anthony died. will it persuade the jury that duct tape was part of the murder weapon? can they tie it to caylee's mom. >> anderson, you probably heard about tracy morgan's homophobic rant. well, tonight we'll tell you about his apology and reaction to it, including from his bosses at nbc. that's coming up on "ac 360." okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle --

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travel, plenty of messages about the media focus on her family, and a official at her pack saying they show a very engaged governor being the ceo of her state. but this e-mail did stick out. august 2008, quote, he gave a great speech this morn in michigan, mentioned alaska. he being candidate barack obama. stole our energy rebate $1,000 check idea, stole our tc-alaska gasoline talking points, et cetera. she adds we need to take advantage of this. write a statement saying he is right on. here is a portion of the speech that she was e-mailing about at the time. >> i believe we should give every working family in america a $1,000 energy rebate, and we should pay for it with part of the record profits of the oil companies are making right now. over the next five years, we should also lease more of the national petroleum reserve in alaska for oil and gas production. and we should also tap more of our substantial natural gas reserves and work with the canadian government to finally

build the alaska natural gas pipeline, delivering clean natural gas and creating good jobs in the process. >> again, for the most part, she liked the speech. that was before she was involved with the race. august 4th, three weeks later, john mccain chose her to be his running mate, and from there on out, candidate obama and later president obama could do no right. >> our opponents say again and again that drill willing not solve all of america's energy problems. the fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. we will. drill, baby, drill. >> barack obama and senator biden you have said no to everything in trying to find a domestic solution to the energy crisis that we're in. they have said no, no, no, no to the domestic solutions. there is nothing stopping us from achieving energy independence. that a good old-fashioned election can't fix. let's send the white house this message. let's drill, baby, drill, not stall, baby, stall. president obama, it scares me. it saddens me that the ceo of

our nation does not understand that inherent link between the conventional sources of energy that we're dependent upon and our security, our prosperity, our freedom. >> there is somebody in the white house who doesn't get it. he doesn't understand the need to be energy-secure. >> he is absolutely on the wrong track. it does come down to drill, baby, drill, in addition to all of the above energy policy that really is nonexistent in the obama administration. he doesn't know what he is doing when it comes to energy. >> well, sarah palin before and after. again, 24,000 pages of e-mails came out today. with us now drew griffin who is in alaska who has been digging through them. drew, what was the big delay in, excuse me, releasing these e-mails? what was the argument to not release them? >> well, it was a huge task. obviously, alaska didn't want to take on the dollars that it would take to go through this search. they said they spent over a million dollars on it. and i think the delay was also

that they wanted the alaska law department to look individually at each of these e-mails and determine whether or not there was an attorney-client privilege or whether there was this policy privilege that they have in alaska which basically protects lawmakers' privacy when they're discussing policy issues, kind of to stir, excuse me, honest debate over policy issues. so they had legal issues for each one of these. 2200 or so were withheld. a lot of them that we're seeing are redacted or eliminated all together. but that was the holdup. it was legal on alaska government's end. >> no doubt opponents of sarah palin will be salivating over these things, looking at them very closely. is there anything there that is going to give them ammunition against sarah palin? >> you know, i think there is little minutia, stuff about the suntanning bed at the governor's

mansion, or whether or not somebody is paying per diem here or there. but overall, anderson, i've got to tell you, the impression i have, and i've gone bleary-eyed this afternoon reading these, this is the sarah palin i was promised about when i first came up here when she was named the vice president. this is the sarah palin, her staff, her family, her friends supporter told me about. a very engaged, very smart-seeming, very kind and supportive person who is all wrapped up in the business of being the best governor she can be in alaska. and i'm kind of scratching my head why we did not see this sarah palin when she was running for vice president. >> in the e-mails, is there any indication she has that she is going to be selected for vice president? because that would be interesting just to see as she starts to realize she is going to be vice president, just how she reacted to it. >> you know what is stunning, and we're just going through those e-mails now. in fact, kathleen johnston just

found one about going to the republican national convention and making plans for it. i'm convinced now she had no idea, none, until the very end. she was talking about just her going to the convention with one staffer, no need for todd to go. that way todd and trig can stay here and we don't have to make those travel plans. she was actually invited on larry king's show the night before she was to be nominated, and the topic was to talk about potential vice presidential candidates. and she was telling her staff, well, if we can squeeze it in, maybe we should do that. it seems clear to me that she did not have any idea until the very end. >> right. >> at least based on the e-mails i've been reading that she really didn't think she was going to be picked. >> drew, very briefly, i've gotten some tweets from people saying look, these are private e-mails. why should people have the right the read these e-mails? what is the argument for releasing them? >> well, they're -- they're not private e-mails. some of them do come from sarah

palin's private account. but she was using that private account for state business. these are e-mails between sarah palin and state executives, her staff about state business. they made it very clear that those that we're not seeing, a couple thousand or so were very, very personal in nature. now some personal ones i did see, i came across one where willow palin grabs her mom's blackberry and is arranging a playdate. and a friend finally said how did you get your mom's blackberry? cute things back and forth. so there are personal e-mails. but these are things that mainly relate to state business. and that's why they're being released. >> drew, appreciate it. thank you very much. if you want to read the e-mails yourself, you can find them on cnn.com. potential candidates get together monday night for a debate. we're going to bring it to you live from new hampshire at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. we'll be doing a live version of

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a lot happening around the country and the world tonight. isha is back. >> at misrata, at least 31 people were reported killed today. and more than 150 were wounded as forces loyal moammar gadhafi. blasting member countries for what he said were shortages in military spending and political will. cia director and defense secretary leon panetta is in pakistan for his first visit since navy s.e.a.l.s raided osama bin laden's compound and killed the al qaeda leader. panetta is expected to reaffirm u.s. commitment to cooperation with pakistan against al qaeda. and an old-school apology, using pen and paper.

apparently congressman anthony weiner. cnn found this note in his queens apartment building and it read this. to our neighbors, please forgive the inconvenience of all the press outside. i am sorry for all i have done that has now impacted you. hopefully it will soon pass. anthony. well, for those who managed to sleep through this entire week, he is of course anderson talking about his twitter sexting scandal. >> oh, is that what he is talking about. >> in case you missed it, were under a rock or something. >> have you seen our shot tonight? >> i have not. >> the shot tonight has gone viral very fast online. it was released by a guy named robert geoffrey. when he was nine years old in 1991, his family took a trip to a casino in hampton beach, new hampshire. at the casino they let guests lip-synch. robert picked madonna's song vogue. take a look.

♪ yeah, it goes on and on for the entire song. this kid like knew the entire dance routines from the video from her vogue video. it's quite -- it's a fun video. he is 29 years old now. he posted it on his -- is it vermeo? >> i don't know. anyone know? vimeo. it shows you how in touch i am. but he says madonna changed his life, continues to inspire him, just as she did 20 years ago. if you want to check out the video, check it out online. it's fun to watch. >> and he can shake his hips. got some good moves. >> wow. the amount of time he must have spent to memorize that. anyway. back to the serious stuff. up next, a scuttle a at the course out where the casey anthony murder trial is taking place. look at this. >> stop it, stop it!

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on crime and punishment, chaos at the courthouse where the casey anthony murder trial is taking place this morn. more than 100 gather for a chance to get inside and watch. before 1:00 a.m. someone tried to cut the line. police were called and removed three people. here is what happened at 5:30 a.m. >> stop it, stop it! >> goddamn it, wait! >> i don't get this. >> crazy. a woman was knocked down as people ran up to line up in a different area. she was taken away in an ambulance. then as the line formed again, more tension as some people were pushing and shoving each other. only the first 50 people in the line are allowed inside the courtroom. when testimony got underway today, the focus was once again on the skeletal remains of casey's 2-year-old daughter caylee. the chief medical examiner testified that there was no evidence of an accidental drowning as the defense is saying, because no child should

have tape on its face when she dies. she called it homicide. >> reporter: casey anthony cried in court again after graphic photos of her daughter were shown. the day after court ended early, because casey claims she was ill after more photos were displayed. today the focus was on the medical examiner. who doesn't believe the defense's claim that caylee accidentally drowned in the family pool. and her mother panicking, decided not to tell anyone. dr. jan garavaglia's take, it never happens that way. >> 100% of the time when the person finds the child, they call 911, because there is a chance that that child might live. >> reporter: and that is one of the reasons she answered this question this way. >> do you have an opinion as to the manner of death in this case? >> yes. >> what is that opinion? >> homicide. >> reporter: casey anthony went from crying to angry, grumbling to her attorneys, who weren't pleased either. >> so the bottom line is when you say, and you place a label

homicide by indeterminate means, you're saying that circumstantial evidence to you says that it probably was a homicide? >> not probably, i think that is the only logical conclusion based scientifically on some of the scientific information we have, based on observational information we have about homicides and children dying. >> reporter: the medical examiner says not reporting the alleged drowning and dumping the body in the woods were key reasons for her declaration, and something even more damaging to the defense. >> there is no child that should have duct tape on its face when it dies. there is no reason to put duct tape on the face after they die. >> reporter: the prosecution is now saying the duct tape found on the skull of little caylee was the murder web that caylee was suffocated.

this forensic anthropologist created a computer-generated video using this picture. we can't show the picture, because it includes her skull. but it shows how the duct tape could have been situated on caylee's face. >> would the single piece of tape if applied in the position shown on the video been sufficient to have covered the nose and mouth and made breathing impossible? >> yes. >> reporter: once again, the defense was upset. upset the judge allowed the video to be played. >> the only reason you have shown this to this jury is because that may -- i guess it's to demonstrate that it's possible that this could have occurred. >> correct. >> and when we say this could have occurred, i mean it's possible that a piece of duct tape could have covered her mouth and her nose? >> yes. >> when you say it's possible, it's also possible that it was not? >> correct. >> reporter: the duct tape is proving to be crucial evidence. why if little caylee drowned

would she have duct tape on her face like a mask? ultimately the defense will have to give a satisfactory answer to that question. the heartbreaking evidence that has been put forward certainly does not help casey anthony. on this day prosecutors showed a picture of caylee with her mother, wearing the same shirt she appeared to have on her decomposed body. the shirt had the sadly ironic words "big trouble." gary tuchman, cnn, orlando, florida. >> let's get more insight on today's testimony. but before we do, i want to warn some of it is very graphic. what we're talking about, you may find it difficult to listen to what our experts have to say. earlier i spoke with jean casarez and forensic dr. michael hunter. jean, you say this was a huge day for the prosecution. how come? >> the duct tape became front and center in this trial today. we heard through argument that prosecutors are going to say it was the murder weapon. duct tape was found with the

skull, but it's become a issue of fact. the jury is going to deliberate on this. was the duct tape over the mouth and nose of caylee, or was the duct tape just to seal the bag maybe? that's what the defense is saying. here is the critical thing, anderson. the forensic anthropologist was asked was the duct tape applied before decomposition of the little body? he said yes because the jaw area always separates from the skull as a body decomposes. but that duct tape, the forensic anthropologists testified held the two together. >> but jean, they weren't able to tie the duct tape to casey anthony? >> no. now that's a big point right there, because we don't have any testimony, even circumstantially truly at this point that places that duct tape with casey anthony. i think it's going to be found in the home, but the strongest, anderson, would be that the car was backed into the garage. the neighbor testified two days in a row after caylee went

missing, and that casey had never backed the car into the garage ever that he had seen. >> but wasn't there some video of casey's father using the same kind of duct tape to put up missing posters? >> that's exactly right. so i think the duct tape is going to be traced to the home because those posters that a local orlando affiliate shot when everyone was trying to find her, her family was putting the posters up. and that duct tape matched the duct tape on the remains. but still, we need to see circumstantially could casey have been close to that duct tape. >> so there is video right now we're just zooming in on that duct tape. dr. hunter, if the medical examiner can't say how caylee died, how is it possible for her to say that she believed caylee was murdered? >> yeah, well, she is saying she can't determine necessarily a cause of death given the condition of the remains. they're skeletal. the pathologist has very little

to work with. >> there is not a lot of soft tissue, basically just skeletal remains? >> right, exactly. we like to have soft tissue where we can find injuries inflicted injuries, trauma, it allows us to typically say with very good certainty this is what happened. this is the cause of death. in cases where you have skeletal remains, you're not able to do that. but keep in mind, anderson, that as a medical examiner, as a forensic pathologist, we don't simply do autopsies and look at the autopsy and say well, there you go. there is your cause of death. we are experts at determining a manner of death. and we'll use all that information gleaned through the investigation up to the point where the body is found. the information about the vehicle, the information about how she was possibly packaged and found. we use all of that, and that allows us to form an opinion as far as the manner of death. and in this case, the manner of death is clearly that of a

homicide. >> the fact that duct tape, dr. hunter, let's talk about the duct tape which jean brought up. the fact it was found around the mouth and the nose, to you is that clear evidence of homicide? that that was the cause of death was suffocation? >> no, no. it's not clear evidence. i don't think it was clear evidence to the medical examiner here. she refused to say that it's suffocation because of the position of the duct tape. that's possible. but when you think of the use of duct tape, there are other uses of that. certainly i've come across cases where duct tape is used not necessarily as the mechanism of the homicide, but in order to have the body or what the body is placed in be more easily transported. duct tape is used to bind a body. the fact that you have it up around the mouth certainly makes it somewhat suspicious. and duct tape has been found to be used in homicides of young individuals.

i mean it definitely does occur. but another explanation, this body had been at the residence for an extended period of time decomposing. i think it's reasonable even to suggest that duct tape was placed over the mouth and nose simply because those are the areas where the fluid is initially going to come from. >> that's where decomposition fluid initially comes out of first? >> right. and that's going to happen very early on, within at least the first couple of days. maybe within a day you're going to have fluid coming from these areas. so if she is deceased and you have fluids coming from the areas, i can understand an argument to be made that duct tape was placed around those areas to simply stem the flow of that fluid. it is suggestive, certainly, just by itself in its position of possibly the mechanism. but the medical examiner certainly wasn't going to go all the way and say this had to be suffocation because of where the duct tape was placed. >> jean, prosecutors also showed

an animation superimposing caylee's picture on a picture of the skull and the duct tape. why was that such an important piece of evidence? >> well, it was allowed by the judge. and what it did -- and we've seen this in documentaries before, where they take a person's picture, and they took caylee's and they superimposed the actual skull, and then the actual duct tape that prosecutors say was over the mouth and nose. why? to show the jury that one piece of duct tape could cover the nose and the mouth. now anderson, that will show that it could be the murder weapon. but also, i think it's going to show that one piece of duct tape was sufficient to cause the death. and anderson, there were three pieces of duct tape. prosecutors are going to say over that mouth. that's aggravating factor legally. they would use that in the penalty phase. >> jean, yesterday casey supposedly got sick halfway through the day, was excused from court. today she was openly emotional, weeping when a prosecutor said her daughter's bones had been chewed on by animals.

are the jurors watching her closely? >> you know, they aren't, because they're so engrossed in the testimony. but what i did see today, and it was right when a sidebar was called, when the testimony was that it was animals that had taken the little parts of caylee and dispersed them into this huge wooded area, i saw one juror who i think is going to be instrumental in deliberations. he is a teacher. he teaches government. and he said he wants to be on this jury because he wants to be able to talk to his students about it in the months and years to come. he said he was watching casey anthony cry in court. and i saw him taking notes in his notebook. and he was looking at her demeanor. what it means, we don't know. but he was taking note of it. >> jean casarez, i appreciate your reporting and mike hunter as well. thank you. >> thank you. still ahead tonight, tracy morgan apologizes for his anti-gay rant. but was it a real apology? was it tonight? tonight his 30 rock co-star tina

fey is weighing in. tonight he is back and he has something he wants you to see.

we have the ridiculous in a moment. let's check with isha with the 360 bulletin. >> in arizona crews will set controlled fires to try to control the fire that has already destroyed 29 homes and scorch in order than 400,000 acre. the blaze is about the size of houston, and just 5% of it is contained. the death toll from last month's

tornado in joplin, missouri is now 151. the coroner says at least one of the most recent deaths was caused by a rare fungal infection that struck at least eight people injured by the twister. charla, the woman mauled by a chimpanzee nearly two years ago is recovering from a full face transplant last month. her doctors in boston revealed the news today. they said nash also received a double hand transplant, but it wasn't a success. actor and comedian tracy morgan apologized today for anti-gay remarks he made during a comedy act in nashville. prominent gay rights groups had demanded an apology, but human rights act is urging the "30 rock" star to go even further and quote, make amends, though it wasn't specific on how. late today the chairman of nbc entertainment and tina fey, executive producer of "30 rock" issued statements condemning morgan's remarks, all very disturbing and disappointing. >> the weird thing about his apology is he didn't actually

address anything he said. he just made this blanket thing of i'm not a hateful person. >> we'll see if it's enough. tonight on the ridiculous, i hope you're going to watch this ridiculous, because i think it's funny. tonight on the ridiculous, a repeat appearance and new developments from a man named william tapley. or as he is also known, i always mess that part up. william, what are you also known as? >> also known as the coprophet of the end times. >> that's right. that is right. i confuse him with the second evening to feel aapocalypse. we put him on the ridiculist last week because he has a problem with the denver international airport. that's right, the denver international airport. now i know a lot of people have gripes with airports. i get that. unfortunately, the lock on the eagle eyes overhead bin appears to be a little loose. >> this program is a continuation of my series on the denver international airport. and especially the murals and the art contained therein.

because they are evil. they are signs of satanism. and on this program, i will point out the many of them are phallic symbols. >> oh, make yourself comfortable, folks, because he is just getting going. this guy sees phalluses more than anthony weiner's tweet videos. >> this is actually the figure of a naked woman, and the crotch is form bade bird form. but right opposite the woman is a penguin. and a youtuber pointed out to me that this sign on the penguin's cage constitutes a phallic symbol, and in fact represents the male genitalia. >> dam those youtubers, not to mention those pesky penguins and their general tailia. anyway, william is upset with us because he says we were making fun of him. for the record i don't think i make fun of anyone on the ridiculist. i like to think i'm having fun with you. the one-wing dove of the rapture

doesn't quite see it that way. >> now wait a minute, mr. anderson cooper. >> yeah. that's never a gad start. >> it's really not that funny, mr. cooper. >> actually, it is. but preach it to me, brother. >> okay. so let me spell it out for you, mr. cooper, or in this case, let me draw it out for you. >> oh, no, no, no, please do not draw it out. >> now if you had taken art class, mr. cooper, you would know this is a female private part and this is a male private part. >> i'm pretty sure you don't have to take an art class to know that. a quick trip to the bus station, you should be all set. >> but i'm going to mark it for you so that you may see it very clearly. let me assure you, that mr. leo tanguma is no michelangelo. this is pornography. this is not art. >> all right. first of all, i had no idea

penguins have that big a package, did you? how do they even waddle? second of all, those of you watching should know that the man he mentioned, the artist named leo tanguma, we e-mailed him for comment healthcheck didn't get back to us. not wanting to mix it up with the sign of the armageddon isn't a true artist, we don't know what it is. i'm willing to let the rapture claim victory on the dirty dirty penguin packing heat. but fails to back up any other claims about hidden phalluses at the airport. >> many of the shapes on the horse's tail and mane are phallic shapes. >> whatever you do, no do not get william the conquerer get started on the outdoor baggage handling area. >> the outdoor area is the n the shape of a phallus. outside the testicle area and out here the phallus. >> however william wants to handle his baggage, that's his

business. i don't want an argument. i don't want to ainge typical fifth beatle of the beelzebub anymore than i already have. what can we do for you? >> mr. cooper, it is time for you to take me off your ridiculist. >> i'm going to go with no on that. sorry coprophet of the end times. mean you no harm, but you will always live long, and i mean long on the ridiculist. we'll be right back.

good evening, everyone. tonight keeping them honest. a regime that doesn't just

torture and murder its own people. doesn't just shoot them down in the streets. tonight a regime that continues to arrest its children, torturing them and murdering them. the regime of bashar al assad in syria. they try to hide their crimes by keeping reporters out, but the videos continue to emerge. this is what syrian soldiers do to helpless handcuffed prisoners. >> this is what syrian soldiers do to a helpless elderly man.

>> this is what the regime does to its people who are protesting. [ gunshots ] video today from a damascus suburb. right now syrian soldiers and government thugs are on the brink of exacting bloody retribution on an entire city. and their leader, bashar al assad is according to the prime minister of neighboring turkey taking all of this, in his words, very lightly. tonight for whatever it's worth and whoever can do something about it, we want to show you the truth of what is happening in syria. the pictures are hard to look at, i know, but people are risking their lives to take these images. they are dying so that you and i may know the truth.

this is exclusive video, new video of a recent protest. a peaceful protest in northern syria, photographed by a dissident who managed to escape to turkey. thousands of unarmed men, and then gunfire, chaos, and carnage. [ gunshots ] the massacre neither the first nor the last. they appear to be escalating. in fact, today helicopter gunships firing on protesters. we can't independently confirm this, but you can clearly hear machine gun fire coming from the helicopter and reaction from someone on the ground. and not far from there, the syrian military has launched an operation on the border city of jisr al shughour. the regime has been promising punishment on the city after 120 security forces were killed there several days ago, it says by armed thugs. refugees refute that.

saying some of the troops rebelled after refusing to fire on civilians. in any case, syrian forces have been marching toward the town. reported burning fields and firing on anything and anyone in their path. we have no video of it yet, because the syrian government is keeping the media out. but we do have new video tonight of the swelling refugee camps over the turkish border. that's what you're looking at right now. and these unfortunate syrians may in fact be the lucky ones. a western correspondent near the camp says refugees are telling her that the syrian regime tried to stop them from leaving, holding its own people captive and worse, much worse. this is the body of tamir al sahari, returned to his family after a month in captivity. like all amateur video, we can't independently verify it, in part because syria won't allow us in. his body is missing an eye and several teeth we're told. his family says his leg and neck was broken. he was kneecaped as well, shot not to kill but inflict excruciating pain. tamir was just 15 years old. he was reportedly arrested on

the same rally attended by hamza al khatib. this is hamza's body. hamza showed signs of beating and gunshot wounds, cigarette burns over his body and his penis was cut off. hamza was only 13 years old. he and tamir and others taken tortured, murdered, and then weeks later returned to their families, not so parents with mourn and bury them, but as a tool of terror, as a warning to others. tow the line or we'll take your kids. days after hamza was returned, signs that in that respect, terror works. his father and uncle appeared on syrian state tv, full of praise for the dictator bashar al assad. >> what can i say? best president ever. thank god he gave us everything we've ever asked for. the first thing is the president promised us reforms. god willing, they will come soon, tomorrow or the day after. i mean, these reforms are for the citizens. and they have been well received. and we were very happy with the president. the president is very close to the people.

and he has offered them a lot. and he has said, god willing, he will give even more. >> later on, a family member who we are not naming told us that the family was threatened to make those statements. that's what terror does. it no longer works, though, against everyone all the time. this is a funeral march for tamir. hundreds taking part, just as thousands of others do all across syria, men, women, and children. it's hard to watch, and no wonder. who will be the next person to fall, who will be the next person taken? this week amnesty international came out with the chilling testimony of a former member of syria's elite republican guard. he and his unit got the orders on april 23rd to confront a violent gang. what they found he says is something else, not a violent gang, but 2,000 unarmed protesters including women and children chanting "peaceful, peaceful." those were the words the protesters were speaking. what he then witnessed he says was a massacre. he could not stop it and he could not take part. he and five others threw down their weapons, he says. he is now on the run facing a

death sentence for exertion. but he is the exception. as we said at the top, the people of jisr al shughour now wait for word on their town's fate at the hands of syrian forces. the refugees continue to pour across. almost 30 years ago, the dictator bashar al assad's father, hafez al assad faced a rebellion from the muslim brotherhood, he handled it by leveling the city of hama, killing anywhere from 10 to 20,000 people. history written in blood, history repeating itself every day in syria. tonight the white house issued a statement. the united states strongly condemns the syrian government's outrageous use of violence across syria today, and particularly in the northwestern region. there must be an immediate end to the brutality and violence. earlier i spoke by internet phone with human rights activist, dissident and fugitive in her own country, rezan zaitouneh. we almost didn't manage it. the regime has been shutting down internet service, trying to keep word from getting out of the country. we lost the conversation shortly

before the conversation, and lost it soon after, but we managed to find a narrow window to talk. rezan, we have found another video of another young boy allegedly tortured and mutilated by security forces. his name was tamir. do you know what happened to him? >> tamir was arrested the same day when hamza was arrested. he was disappeared, the same circumstances like hamza. nobody knew where he was until about a few days ago when his body was delivered to his family. he was tortured awfully. he was shot in his eye. his neck was broken. he was burned with cigarette on all his body. he was shot in his two hands and two legs. every few day we have a new person, new detainee who was in detention. his body is delivered to his family, was dead under torture. so it's happening all the time.

>> so they're -- they want people to see what they have done to these kids, to adults, to people who they have tortured to scare people? >> it's a message. it's a message of revenge, of hatred, to make people more scared about their sons, about their children, about their beloved people, not to go on in their revolution. >> the regime, of course, denies this. it says these kids were if they got shot, they got shot by armed gangs during protests, which a, there is no evidence of, and also, it's important to remember that all of this began in dara with the arrest of children who were graffitiing signs against the regime. so all of this began when the regime started snatching children. >> that's right. because the regime doesn't want to take the responsibility for the crimes, the security commit. they commit the crimes and then

they come on the official media and deny this crimes. >> i've also seen now a video of what looks like syrian soldiers kicking and beating an elderly man who is on his knees defenseless. i was amazed that the soldiers would shoot this video, and that this would get out, that they would want this to be seen. >> you will be surprised that most of these videos, the soldiers and the security members themselves, they sell it for money. they don't feel it's that they are committing the crimes. they even don't care about the regime itself. they just give it for money. >> amnesty international says that syrian soldiers are being told to fire on unarmed protesters. we've certainly seen this in video after video. but they have actually interviewed most recently one syrian soldier who was able to escape who refused to fire on civilians.

are there many soldiers who are refusing to fire? >> everywhere, every city, dozens of soldiers refuse to participate in attacking the cities and shooting the people. and as a result, they were killed. until now we have about 300 names of soldiers got killed because of that. >> have you heard any word from your husband who was arrested and has disappeared? >> no. i heard nothing about him. i just heard some rumors that he got tortured very badly, and he is in very bad situation. i don't know if it's just messages by the authority for me to put more pressure on me. i really don't know. >> how are you able to keep going? how are you able to stay strong and optimistic? >> i see the freedom very close. i can't wait to see it really

and to feel it really. we just continue, just go on until we reach there. we're almost there. >> razan zaitouneh, stay strong. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> let us know what you think. we're on facebook. you can follow me at anderson cooper. i'll be tweeting tonight. up next, more than 24,000 pages of e-mails during sarah palin's time as governor, including one mail where she praises barack obama a few weeks before she started not praising him. also tonight, striking testimony as to how the prosecution thinks little caylee anthony died. will it persuade the jury that duct tape was part of the murder weapon? can they tie it to caylee's mom? that's the other question. and maybe up to 8 in a day., or...choose aleve and 2 pills for a day free of pain. enjoy the flight.

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tonight the e-mails of sarah palin. these are 24,000 pages of e-mails from sarah palin's half term as governor of alaska. it took official requests from six news agencies, including cnn to get alaska to give them up. we've been going through them, and so have many news organizations. so far there have not many blockbuster. they record her frustration with questions about her family's state-paid travel, efforts to

link a figure in a corruption scandal to her predecessor, plenty of messages about the media focus on her family, and they show a very engaged governor of her state. but this e-mail did stick out. august 2008, quote, he gave a great speech this morn in michigan, mentioned alaska. he being candidate barack obama. stole our energy rebate $1,000 check idea, stole our tc-alaska gasoline talking points, et cetera. she adds we need to take advantage of this. write a statement saying he is right on. right on. here is a portion of the speech that she was e-mailing about at the time. >> i believe we should give every working family in america a $1,000 energy rebate, and we should pay for it with part of the record profits of the oil companies are making right now. over the next five years, we should also lease more of the national petroleum reserve in alaska for oil and gas production. and we should also tap more of our substantial natural gas reserves and work with the canadian government to finally build the alaska natural gas pipeline, delivering clean

natural gas and creating good jobs in the process. >> again, for the most part, she liked the speech. that was before she was involved with the race. august 4th, three weeks later, john mccain chose her to be his running mate, and from there on out, candidate obama and later president obama could do no right. >> our opponents say again and again that drilling will not solve all of america's energy problems. the fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. we will. drill, baby, drill. >> barack obama and senator biden you have said no to everything in trying to find a domestic solution to the energy crisis that we're in. they have said no, no, no, no to the domestic solutions. there is nothing stopping us from achieving energy independence. that a good old-fashioned election can't fix. let's send the white house this message. let's drill, baby, drill, not stall, baby, stall. president obama, it scares me. it saddens me that the ceo of our nation does not understand

that inherent link between the conventional sources of energy that we're dependent upon and our security, our prosperity, our freedom. >> there is somebody in the white house who doesn't get it. he doesn't understand the need to be energy-secure. >> he is absolutely on the wrong track. it does come down to drill, baby, drill, in addition to all of the above energy policy that really is nonexistent in the obama administration. he doesn't know what he is doing when it comes to energy. >> well, sarah palin before and after. again, 24,000 pages of e-mails came out today. with us now drew griffin who is in alaska who has been digging through them. drew, what was the big delay in, excuse me, releasing these e-mails? what was the argument to not release them? >> well, it was a huge task. obviously, alaska didn't want to take on the dollars that it would take to go through this search. they said they spent over a million dollars on it. and i think the delay was also that they wanted the alaska law

department to look individually at each of these e-mails and determine whether or not there was an attorney-client privilege or whether there was this policy privilege that they have in alaska which basically protects lawmakers' privacy when they're discussing policy issues, kind of to stir, excuse me, honest debate over policy issues. so they had legal issues for each one of these. 2200 or so were withheld. a lot of them that we're seeing are redacted or eliminated all together. but that was the holdup. it was legal on alaska government's end. >> no doubt opponents of sarah palin will be salivating over these things, looking at them very closely. is there anything there that is going to give them ammunition against sarah palin? >> you know, i think there is little minutia, stuff about the suntanning bed at the governor's mansion, or whether or not somebody is paying per diem here or there.

but overall, anderson, i've got to tell you, the impression i have, and i've gone bleary-eyed this afternoon reading these, this is the sarah palin i was promised about when i first came up here when she was named the vice president. this is the sarah palin, her staff, her family, her friends her supporters told me about. a very engaged, very smart-seeming, very kind and supportive person who is all wrapped up in the business of being the best governor she can be in alaska. and i'm kind of scratching my head why we did not see this sarah palin when she was running for vice president. >> in the e-mails, is there any indication she has that she is going to be selected for vice president? because that would be interesting just to see as she starts to realize she is going to be vice president, just how she reacted to it. >> you know what is stunning, and we're just going through those e-mails now. in fact, kathleen johnston just found one about going to the

republican national convention and making plans for it. i'm convinced now she had no idea, none, until the very end. she was talking about just her going to the convention with one staffer, no need for todd to go. that way todd and trig can stay here and we don't have to make those travel plans. she was actually invited on larry king's show the night before she was to be nominated, and the topic was to talk about potential vice presidential candidates. and she was telling her staff, well, if we can squeeze it in, maybe we should do that. it seems clear to me that she did not have any idea until the very end. >> right. >> at least based on the e-mails i've been reading that she really didn't think she was going to be picked. >> drew, very briefly, i've gotten some tweets from people saying look, these are private e-mails. why should people have the right the read these e-mails? what is the argument for releasing them? >> well, they're -- they're not private e-mails. some of them do come from sarah palin's private account.

but she was using that private account for state business. these are e-mails between sarah palin and state executives, her staff about state business. they made it very clear that those that we're not seeing, a couple thousand or so were very, very personal in nature. now some personal ones i did see, i came across one where willow palin grabs her mom's blackberry and is arranging a playdate. and a friend finally said how did you get your mom's blackberry? cute things back and forth. so there are personal e-mails. but these are e-mails that mainly relate to state business, and that's why they're being released. >> drew, appreciate it. thank you very much. if you want to read the e-mails yourself, you can find them on cnn.com. still ahead, new apology from congressman anthony weiner, this time to his neighbors in his new york apartment building. at least the note has weiner's name on it, we should say. we'll tell you what it says

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country and the world tonight. isha is back. >> the bloodiest day this month. that's from a doctor in the western city of misrata. at least 31 people were reported killed today. and more than 150 were wounded forces loyal to moammar gadhafi pounded that besieged city. at his farewell speech, outgoing defense secretary robert gates criticized the

alliance, calling it poorly equipped to deal with challenges and blasting member countries for what he said were shortages in military spending and political will. cia director and defense secretary leon panetta is in pakistan for his first visit since navy s.e.a.l.s raided osama bin laden's compound and killed the al qaeda leader. panetta is expected to reaffirm u.s. commitment to cooperation with pakistan against al qaeda. and an old-school apology, using pen and paper. apparently congressman anthony weiner. cnn found this note in his queens apartment building and it read this. it said, "to our neighbors, please forgive the inconvenience of all the press outside. i am sorry for all i have done that has now impacted you. hopefully it will soon pass, anthony." well, for those who managed to sleep through this entire week, he is, of course, anderson, talking his twitter sexting. >> oh, is that what he is talking about. >> in case you missed it, were under a rock or something.

up next, a fight broke out at the courthouse where the casey anthony murder trial was taking place. look at this. people fighting with each other, knocking a woman down, all to get into the courtroom. inside the courtroom, we should tell you, new testimony about the remains of 2-year-old caylee anthony. the chief medical examiner testifying why she ruled caylee's death a homicide, even though she can't say what exactly the cause of death was. it's connected to the duct tape that forensic experts say was wrapped around caylee's mouth and nose. the latest from the trial ahead. [ artis brown ] america is facing some tough challenges right now.

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on crime and punishment, chaos at the courthouse where the casey anthony murder trial is taking place this morn. more than 100 people were gathered for a chance to get inside to watch the testimony. before 1:00 a.m. someone tried to cut the line. police were called and removed three people. here is what happened at 5:30 a.m. >> stop it, stop it! >> wait! >> i don't get this. >> crazy. a woman was knocked down as people ran up to line up in a different area. she was taken away in an ambulance. then as the line formed again, more tension as some people were pushing and shoving each other. only the first 50 people in the line are allowed inside the courtroom. when testimony got underway today, the focus was once again on the skeletal remains of casey's 2-year-old daughter

caylee. the medical examiner in the case, the chief medical examiner testified there was no evidence of an accidental drowninger as the defense is saying no child should have duct tape on its face when she dies. she called it homicide. here is gary tuchman. >> reporter: casey anthony cried in court again after graphic photos of her daughter were shown. the day after court ended early, because casey claims she was ill after more photos were displayed. today the focus was on the medical examiner. who doesn't believe the defense's claim that caylee accidentally drowned in the family pool. and her mother panicking, decided not to tell anyone. dr. jan garavaglia's take, it never happens that way. >> 100% of the time when the person finds the child, they call 911, because there is a chance that that child might live. >> reporter: and that is one of the reasons she answered this question this way. >> do you have an opinion as to the manner of death in this case? >> yes. >> what is that opinion?

>> homicide. >> reporter: casey anthony went from crying to angry, grumbling to her attorneys, who weren't pleased either. >> so the bottom line is when you say, and you place a label homicide by indeterminate means, you're saying that circumstantial evidence to you says that it probably was a homicide? >> not probably, i think that is the only logical conclusion based scientifically on some of the scientific information we have, based on observational information we have about homicides and children dying. >> reporter: the medical examiner says not reporting the alleged drowning and dumping the body in the woods were key reasons for her declaration, and something even more damaging to the defense. >> there is no child that should have duct tape on its face when it dies. there is no reason to put duct

tape on the face after they die. >> reporter: the prosecution is now saying the duct tape found on the skull of little caylee was the murder web that caylee was suffocated. this forensic anthropologist created a computer-generated video using this picture. we can't show the picture, video, because it includes her skull. but it shows how the duct tape could have been situated on caylee's face. >> would the single piece of tape if applied in the position shown on the video been sufficient to have covered the nose and mouth and made breathing impossible? >> yes. >> reporter: once again, the defense was upset. upset the judge allowed the video to be played. >> the only reason you have shown this to this jury is because that may -- i guess it's to demonstrate that it's possible that this could have occurred. >> correct. >> and when we say this could have occurred, i mean it's possible that a piece of duct tape could have covered her mouth and her nose? >> yes.

>> when you say it's possible, it's also possible that it was not? >> correct. >> reporter: the duct tape is proving to be crucial evidence. why if little caylee drowned would she have duct tape on her face like a mask? ultimately the defense will have to give a satisfactory answer to that question. the heartbreaking evidence that has been put forward certainly does not help casey anthony. on this day prosecutors showed a picture of caylee with her mother, wearing the same shirt she appeared to have on her decomposed body. the shirt had the sadly ironic words "big trouble." gary tuchman, cnn, orlando, florida. >> let's get more insight on today's testimony. but before we do, i want to warn some of it is very graphic. what we're talking about, you may find it difficult to listen to what our experts have to say. earlier i spoke with jean kaz sarcasarez, who is coveringe

trial for "in session" and dr. michael hunter. jean, you say this was a huge day for the prosecution. how come? >> the duct tape became front and center in this trial today. we heard through argument that prosecutors are going to say it was the murder weapon. duct tape was found with the skull, but it's become a issue of fact. the jury is going to deliberate on this. was the duct tape over the mouth and nose of caylee, or was the duct tape just to seal the bag maybe? that's what the defense is saying. here is the critical thing, anderson. the forensic anthropologist was asked was the duct tape applied before decomposition of the little body? he said yes because the jaw area always separates from the skull as a body decomposes. but that duct tape, the forensic anthropologists testified held the two together. >> but jean, they weren't able to tie the duct tape to casey anthony? >> no. now that's a big point right there, because we don't have any testimony, even circumstantially truly at this point that places that duct tape with casey

anthony. i think it's going to be found in the home, but the strongest, anderson, would be that the car was backed into the garage. the neighbor testified two days in a row after caylee went missing, and that casey had never backed the car into the garage ever that he had seen. >> but wasn't there some video of casey's father using the same kind of duct tape to put up missing posters? >> that's exactly right. so i think the duct tape is going to be traced to the home because those posters that a local orlando affiliate shot when everyone was trying to find her, her family was putting the posters up. and that duct tape matched the duct tape on the remains. but still, we need to see circumstantially could casey have been close to that duct tape. >> so there is video right now we're just zooming in on that duct tape. dr. hunter, if the medical examiner can't say how caylee died, how is it possible for her to say that she believed caylee was murdered?

>> yeah, well, she is saying she can't determine necessarily a cause of death given the condition of the remains. they're skeletal. the pathologist has very little to work with. >> there is not a lot of soft tissue, basically just skeletal remains? >> right, exactly. we like to have soft tissue where we can find injuries inflicted injuries, trauma, it allows us to typically say with very good certainty this is what happened. this is the cause of death. in cases where you have skeletal remains, you're not able to do that. but keep in mind, anderson, that as a medical examiner, as a forensic pathologist, we don't simply do autopsies and look at the autopsy and say well, there you go. there is your cause of death. we are experts at determining a manner of death. and we'll use all that information gleaned through the investigation up to the point where the body is found. the information about the vehicle, the information about how she was possibly packaged and found.

we use all of that, and that allows us to form an opinion as far as the manner of death. and in this case, the manner of death is clearly that of a homicide. >> the fact that duct tape, dr. hunter, let's talk about the duct tape which jean brought up. the fact it was found around the mouth and the nose, to you is that clear evidence of homicide? that that was the cause of death was suffocation? >> no, no. it's not clear evidence. i don't think it was clear evidence to the medical examiner here. she refused to say that it's suffocation because of the position of the duct tape. that's possible. but when you think of the use of duct tape, there are other uses of that. certainly i've come across cases where duct tape is used not necessarily as the mechanism of the homicide, but in order to have the body or what the body is placed in be more easily transported. duct tape is used to bind a

and move a body. the fact that you have it up around the mouth certainly makes it somewhat suspicious. and duct tape has been found to be used in homicides of young individuals. i mean it definitely does occur. but another explanation, this body had been at the residence for an extended period of time decomposing. i think it's reasonable even to suggest that duct tape was placed over the mouth and nose simply because those are the areas where the fluid is initially going to come from. >> that's where decomposition fluid initially comes out of first? >> right. and that's going to happen very early on, within at least the first couple of days. maybe within a day you're going to have fluid coming from these areas. so if she is deceased and you have fluids coming from the areas, i can understand an argument to be made that duct tape was placed around those areas to simply stem the flow of that fluid. it is suggestive, certainly, just by itself in its position

of possibly the mechanism. but the medical examiner certainly wasn't going to go all the way and say this had to be suffocation because of where the duct tape was placed. >> jean, prosecutors also showed an animation superimposing caylee's picture on a picture of the skull and the duct tape. why was that such an important piece of evidence? >> well, it was allowed by the judge. and what it did -- and we've seen this in documentaries before, where they take a person's picture, and they took caylee's and they superimposed the actual skull, and then the actual duct tape that prosecutors say was over the mouth and nose. why? to show the jury that one piece of duct tape could cover the nose and the mouth. now anderson, that will show that it could be the murder weapon. but also, i think it's going to show that one piece of duct tape was sufficient to cause the death. and anderson, there were three pieces of duct tape. prosecutors are going to say over that mouth. that's aggravating factor legally. they would use that in the penalty phase. >> jean, yesterday casey supposedly got sick halfway through the day, was excused

from court. today she was openly emotional, weeping when a prosecutor said her daughter's bones had been chewed on by animals. are the jurors watching her closely? >> you know, they aren't, because they're so engrossed in the testimony. but what i did see today, and it was right when a sidebar was called, when the testimony was that it was animals that had taken the little parts of caylee and dispersed them into this huge wooded area, i saw one juror who i think is going to be instrumental in deliberations. he is a teacher. he teaches government. and he said he wants to be on this jury because he wants to be able to talk to his students about it in the months and years to come. he was watching casey anthony cry in court. and i saw him taking notes in his notebook. and he was looking at her demeanor. what it means, we don't know. but he was taking note of it. >> jean casarez, i appreciate your reporting, and dr. mike hunter adds well.

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allegations of rape. cnn documentary reveals a side of the whistle-blower you haven't seen. he talks with journalists who team upped with assange to expose the inner most secrets of the u.s. military. >> reporter: so i've come here to london to the headquarters of the guardian newspaper to meet up with some of the journalists who were holed up for weeks in a bunker with julian assange as they sifted through the secret cables and documents that were eventually to become known as the iraq and afghanistan war box. what were your impressions of assange the man when you first met him? >> he didn't behave like earthlings, you know. he would stay up all night tapping away at his laptop. and suddenly he would keel up and the button the jacket up to the neck and crash where he lay. >> reporter: the more than 90,000 documents revealed a side of the afghanistan war hidden from public view. >> we started coming across really interesting information about collusion between the

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every day millions of kids around the world pick through huge piles of trash, hoping to find enough scraps to sell to buy food for their families. these kids can spend their entire lives scavenging at city dumps unless they can manage somehow to get an education. that's where this week's hero comes in. here is elena duron miranda. >> translator: currently in argentina, there are a lot of children working. in bariloche, most children work recovering waste from the garbage dump to sell for a small profit. they can be very small children, 3, 4, 5 years old. all parents want a better life for their children than what they had. but there are times when the whole family has to work and try to make ends meet.

my name is elena duron miranda. i founded an organization to help the boys and girls of the bariloche trash dump to get out so they no longer have to work there to survive. when i arrived in argentina, it hit hard to see so many small children picking through garbage. many of these boys and girls have dropped out of school. i decided that i had to do something for them. we try to be as fully integrated as possible there is a school tracking group, a psychologist and a social worker. we work with the family and the value of putting them in school. any time we get a child close to school, it is a seed we're planting. you hope not to see the child on the street again. if he returns, we go after him. education is our start to break