>> thank you, jay leno! something to laugh about, about the debt debate. >> even with the late night writers this has to be tough. we who do this for a living in news find it tough to have to continue to have this conversation every day with incremental or no developments so i give credit to those guys. >> especially if they pass a short-term agreement and hammer away a couple more weeks. >> we will start "american morning" early. i want to be able to tell you something different is going on. unfortunately, we didn't do it today. tomorrow, we will try it again. over to you, kyra phillips in the "cnn newsroom"! >> i'm thinking to myself, it's true. every single day we are trying to figure out how do we show americans why we need to care about this every single minute. thanks, guys. trying to get more creative as we hit 9:00 a.m. on the east coast and 6:00 a.m. on the west. breaks news. a braen crash in southern morocco. 78 people reported killed. it crashed into a mountainous area and bad weather may be to

blame. the debt crisis, here you go. the deepening stalemate. president obama reaches out to a new player and the game is you. in norway, breivik's father wish his son would have killed himself rather than slaughter dozens of people. bp has a big turnaround. the company raked in more than $22 billion in profits for the quarter! the debt, minute-by-minute, the nation inches closer to the brink of twault. the countdown less than seven full days before the federal government runs out of money and unable to pay its bills. in washington a stark message is delivered between the president and the speaker of the house. their parties are desperately divided and you and i are about to pay the price. we are covering all of the angles from wall street to the white house. ali velshi getting really creative and looking at the cost americans could face even before time officially runs out.

of course, dan lothian with the politics and the posturing. ali, let's start with you. the markets open this hour, okay? how is the debt issue going to impact things today and the rest of the week? i know yesterday, you kept saying give me a little more time and i'll let you know when to worry but how many times can we say that? we are not worried yet. we are watching. i'm watching this every minute. when asian markets open i watch it all around. basically, stock markets are betting that washington will come to its sense and there will be a deal. that means if we get a deal you might see some run off in your 401(k) or i.r.a. if we don't get a deal you'll get a sharp reaction? stock markets and effect your stock investments and 401(k). it will affect those companies that need to borrow money. i want you to think back to 2008 during the credit crisis. the companies affected the most were those who had to borrow money when lending shut down. internationally. you know what happens when companies can't borrow money?

they dot first thing that they can think of. they do the most effective way of cutting costs and that is to cut jobs. the danger here is a few-fold. one, it will cost you in your stocks and, two, interest rates could go up and that would bring home prices down so it's an opportunity if you're a buyer but if you're a seller, that's bad. most importantly above all of that if companies pay more to borrow money you know they are not already not hiring if they have money. if it costs them more, they could lay off again. a danger that the failure to increase this debt ceiling could push us back a little bit from this recovery that we are in right now. >> dan lothian, you're over there at the white house. as for the president, what is he going to do today? >> reporter: well, first of all, nothing on the president's schedule at this point having to do with debt and deficit. he does his typical meetings with senior advisers and a whole host of other issues. but i can tell you that a senior administration official tells me that they have been having conversations with congress. those continue.

and that mirrors what we have been hearing from democratic republican sources that the talks are still on the way to hopefully find some area of compromise. clearly, both sides have said, you know, they don't like each other's plans. and so maybe there's something that can be found in the middle. the white house has been optimistic all along and that optimism continues. one senior administration official tell me a short time ago they hope, quote, sanity will prevail. that is sort of the mood here at the white house this morning. as we get closer to that deadline. >> i don't know. you got a lot of people saying this is insane and they are saying it all across the world. ali, dan, thanks. now cnn deputy political director paul steinhauser weighing in on the debt limit. paul, what are presidential candidates saying? >> reporter: they are all republicans, right? i guess you can imagine they are critical of the president, not of john boehner. the first one was from tim pawlenty. here is what he said. president obama is lecturing the

country instead of leading it. michele bachman says shame on president obama for casting the american people aside as collateral damage as he continues his political gamemanship with the national debt crisis. they are critical of this president and you know where they stand. they are republicans. remembered the president last night and john baper last night b boehner last night. any poll conducted the last couple of weeks american people want compromise. this is from our most recent poll. when dealing with the gop, the president should and look at that. two-thirds say comom rather than stand up for his beliefs. go to the next number when it comes to the gop in dealing with the president what should they do? look at it. nearly 7 in 10, same thing. compromise. compromise instead of standing with your beliefs. that is what the american people want. i don't know if we are getting that here in washington. >> then you got the owner of the new england patriots saying congress should learn a thing or two from the nfl.

we worked out a deal and get our football. a lot of people are saying, coeo on. we are talking about the debt ceiling. what is more important? >> reporter: i bumped into a lot of people who are happy having the nfl back. take a listen. a quick sound bite from yesterday when they came to that agreement. this is from robert kraft, the head of the new england patriots. take a listen. >> i hope we gave a little lesson to the people in washington, because the debt crisis is a lot easier to fix than this teal was. deal was. >> reporter: i'm glad he was joking there. a lot easier. the nfl we are talking about $9 to $10 billion a revenue every year. i think this is bigger with the debt ceiling, don't you, kyra? >> a lot more. paul, thanks. your next political update in an hour. always get all of the political news 24/7 at cnn/politics.com. the norway attack suspect is a little bit surprised he he was able to pull it off and wasn't killed doing it. that is according to anders breivik lawyer. his client still has to undergo

psychiatric testing but everything about the tests indicates he was insane. breivik's father thinks his son is mentally ill and has pretty much disowned him. >> translator: i'll never have more contact with him. in my darkest moments i think rather than killing all of those people, he should have taken his own life. >> those are strong words from a father. >> translator: they are but thinking about what has happened, i get so upset and i still don't understand that something like this could happen. no normal human being would do something like that. glenn beck is weighing in on the norw waway tragedy. zain, talk about what he is saying. >> reporter: his comments are creating fight the firestorm. what he has basically said is to compare the youth political labor camp on the island in norway to the hitler youth in

germany. alone to exactly how he put it on his radio show. >> as the thing started to unfold and then there was a shooting at a political camp which sounds a little like, you know, the hitler youth or whatever. i mean, who does a camp for kids that is all about politics? disturbing. >> reporter: that's a weird comment to make, kyra, because there are politically oriented camps in different states in the united states. actually, glenn beck is the founder of the 912 project who does that. he founded it back in 2009. there's a lot of reaction on cnn.com. one person says this in response to glenn beck's comments about the hitler youth comparison. he is a disgusting guy who lies constantly. he calls himself a conservative, that is not conservatives stand for. another person says this. what an utter, heartless creepy thing to say. >> zane, this isn't the first

time that glenn beck has caused this kind of controversy and not the first time he has referenced hitler or the holocaust either. >> reporter: no, kyra. he does it a lot and has, in fact, in the past. i was looking at an article in wp that says in the first 18 months that glenn beck was on fox he and his guests invoked hitler 147 times. they also used the word nazis an additional 202 times. kyra? >> zain verjee out of london, thanks. the debt crisis and your wallet. you could soon be paying a lot more for a home loan as well. we will talk with a financial expert after the break. when a bear attacks some teens on a survival course in the alaska wilderness, guess what one of them did? just punched the bear in the nose. >> did it stand up? >> once. after i finished one person, it stood up and looked for somebody else. got him. square, right in the middle, square in the middle of the face. >> he saved his buddy's life.

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checking stories across the country. we are hearing from one of the teens malled by the bear in the alaska wilderness that happened during a 30-day survival course. the instructors are left the teens in the wilderness by themselves and victor martin says the bear ran off appear he just punched it in the face. >> right in the middle. square. right in the middle of the face. it was terrifying but prayer helps. >> in florida, a group of fishermen caught a massive 650-pound shark. reeling in was no easy task. it took them more than two hours to land the 13-footer. soldier from missouri being

called a hero. he pulled passengers from a burning bus after it crashed into a tractor-trailer truck in update new york. sergeant jacob perkins was on leave and driving home when he spied the two vehicles on fire. my natural reaction was just to go straight under the bus and make sure everybody was off. i'm just glad the military had me trained and prepared for the situation. >> driver the tractor-trailer was killed. 30 people on the bus were injured. even if congress gets its act together on raising the debt limit, the damage may have already been done. two credit agencies are threatening to downgrade the nation's aaa credit rating. bottom line when it comes to borrowing money it's going to cost us all more. joining me is greg mcbride a financial expert. greg, let's start with somebody who is trying to say get a home loan right now. should they be worried? >> i don't know that you necessarily were worried by it.

you certainly want to be paying attention to this. if you have the opportunity to lock in your rate, you may want to do that now so that you're not at the whim of whatever may or may not happen out of washington and the subsequent impact that could have on special rates. >> you do say lock in now. we were kind of looking at the possible numbers here. let's say you wanted $200,000 loan, interests rates up half a percent. you'll say $61 more per month. if rates go up 1%, talking about 124 more dollars a month. you say definitely lock in now. what if we already have a 30-year fixed mortgage? that can't change. it's just if we wanted to refi or if we have an adjustable rate like i do, right? >> that's exactly right. if you're in market for a loan, you want to lock now. if you have a fixed rate mortgage then you're insulated from higher interest rates. if you have an adjustable rate loan, yes, you are subject there to potential move to higher interest rates like credit cards, student loans particularly on the adjustable

rate side. >> student loans, a concern as well? >> yeah. mainly they are we are talking about private student loans. the federal student loans adjust in july ironically. you would be insulated from that the next 11 months or so but on the private student loans the rates could march higher if market rates are moving up. >> interesting point. now, if credit freezes altogether? >> well, then we have got real problems. the precedent for this is 2008 when the financial system was really on the brink, what caused that? it was when lending froze. nobody wanted to lend to anybody. if uncle sam defaults nobody wants to lend to anybody. that is when we have problems. it's not the price of credit but the access to credit becomes a problems and we could find ourselves in another recession and our retirement accounts would be suffering because you would have a sharp sell-off in financial markets.

>> how likely is it that that will really happen? >> let's hope it's unlikely. financial markets are behaving as if it's still unlikely. a little bit of whistling past the graveyard here. stock markets still hanging in there pretty well. treasury yields are still really low. even is acting as if the deal is going to get done. we are running out of time. this is the last week of july. if things don't move quick, i think financial markets will get nervous this week. >> greg mcbride, thanks for weighing in. >> you bet. everybody is watching. we will get reaction from overseas next. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement, if your car is totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. liberty mutual auto insurance. no, it's just for new people. hey ! chocolate, vanilla or strawberry ? chocolate ! chocolate it is !

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entertainment headlines for you. a small funeral no amy winehouse today. autopsy failed to pin down the singer's cause of death so we are waiting for the toxicology reports to come back. in the meantime, fans are snapping up her music. sales of her album "back in

black" were up 37 fold in the hours after her death. after a month of online silence, arnold schwarzenegger is tweeting again. he posted a message thanking people for their support as his son christopher recovers from a bad surfing accident. the boy is doing much better and will be back at full speed soon. despite their shared love of ink, jessy james and his wife have split up ahead of their planned summer wedding. allan chernoff is at the new york stock exchange. a new boarding policy at american airlines. allan, we understand. so how is it going to work? >> reporter: that's right. no longer the back-to-front boarding at american airlines. if you have an economy ticket you will board randomly but a few tricks how this works. if you want to eninsure you're one of the first people on the plane the "the wall street journal" has advice. they say check in as soon as you

can because it basically is first come, first served, unless you're willing to pay more. yes, the airline is more than willing to accept money from you to be in that first boarding group. so, kyra, yet another way that an airline is tacking on a fee, raising its revenues. these guys are doing whatever they can to maximize those revenues. >> they want to get their money. you know, allan, we fly all the time. you know how certain people will do anything to board that plane first. for some reason, they just think they are going to get there faster if they are the first ones to be seated! >> reporter: that's right. what they are also trying to do these days, you know, so many people are lugging these huge suitcases, those roller suitcases that just fit into the overhead bin. what has been happening is that with the traditional system, you've got four people trying to shove those monsters into the overhead bin at the same time.

so the idea here is that, okay maybe spread it out throughout the plaep. american did a two-year study and found it actually is a few minutes faster. a few minutes can be important in getting a plane away from gate as rapidly as possible. >> we will see how this works out. i don't know, allan. i think it could get a little crazy. meanwhile, everyone is watching the markets wondering what is going to happen in light of everything that is happening with the debt ceiling negotiations. >> reporter: that's right. indeed. growing anxiety on wall street. no panic just yet, but certainly in the back of traders' minds, and i've spoken to a few this morning, they are saying they are going to do a deal, right? they are going to get this done. the real threat, kyra, is is not just that they don't raise the debt ceiling, but that the credit rating agencies are dissatisfied with any last-minute plan that goes through washington, because there will still remain the threat that the credit rating

agencies lower the credit rating for the u.s. of a. . fwe lose our aaa status that will cost all of us, all of the taxpayers will have to pay more because the u.s. government will have to pay more to borrow money. it's a really big issue. it's going to become much more prominent as the week progresses if this is not all resolved. >> a lot of people weighing in even overseas. allan chernoff, thanks so much. zain verjee, we were talking about this yesterday. i think the british financial secretary yesterday calling us nutters. i have never heard that word before, but basically we are losing a lot of street cred when it comes to our politics because of, you know, the bickering back and forth. >> reporter: right. nutter, otherwise also pronounced nuers means this is crazy. get straight to the headlines here. this is what the independents say in the uk.

raising the debt ceiling may not be enough to prevent financial disaster. it says with drama of an episode of "mcgyver." the items action series president obama -- primed to rip through the financial markets one week from now. check this out. wj wnel says structural change will only succeed if it's a company by a moral argument unabashed cultural defense of the free flis system that helps americans remember why they love their country and its exceptional culture. one thing i want to point out, too, kyra. china, saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have been running surpluses. they have been buying u.s. treasury bonds because of that aaa rating. that is something that we need to keep our eye on to see what the credit rating agencies actually do, because these countries are going to end up wanting to find another home for

their money and they are really worried. they do not want the u.s. to default because it will hurt them because they hold so much. >> a lot of people that are concerned about that. zain, thanks so much. first, a suspect in the norwnor way massacre saying he did it alone and now he is saying he had help. what is going on? was there other terror cells going on in this attack? talk about that after the break. locks are coming off and the football players are headed to the football field today. a player's perspective from one of their own in 12 minutes. so, what are we going to do with this? i don't know. the usual? [ blower whirring ] sometimes it pays to switch things up. my - what, my hair? no. car insurance. i switched to progressive and they gave me discounts for the time i spent with my old company. saved a bunch.

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checking top stories. president obama making a prime time address to the nation last night. oregon congressman david wu says he won't be seeking re-election. mounting calls for his resignation after a series of incidents including an inappropriate encounter with teenage girl. nfl players expected to report to training camp after a four-month lockout ended. in norway police won'ting announcing the names of the victims for now but they be announcing when and how the names will eventually be published. anders breivik, the suspect in that attack, apparently said two terror cells helped him carry out the attacks but it isn't clear if he was in contact with

them. his attorney says breivik used some kind of drug before the attacks on friday. cnn's michael holmes is in oslo. michael, what exactly has he been saying to his lawyer about how he pulled this attack off? >> reporter: this was a really fascinating insight into the mind of anders breivik, what his lawyer was saying. he said that breivik was sorry that he had to do what he did, but he said it was necessary to stop what he called a revolution in europe. he said he's in a war, a war that will go on for 60 years and it won't be until then that people will understand what he is doing. i mean, just remarkable sort of look at the mind of this guy and speaking of his mind, when asked if he was insane, the lawyer said the whole case has indicated he is insane, however, he did not say when he has made any decision about whether instant would be used as some sort of defense when this

eventually gets to trial. he says he has shown no remorse for victims and believes he's in a victim. he has pled not guilty because he didn't think he did anything wrong. the other theory on pleading not guilty gives him a platform for which to continue to talk about his sort of twisted take on reality. of course, he's claiming that europe, western europe and this country is being colonized by islamic immigrants. >> meanwhile, michael, just the scene behind you, wow. look at all of the flowers and the people that are lined up. tell me what is happening right now this minute behind you. >> reporter: yeah, this is extraordinary. we were here last night. there was a massive march, people who marched down from the city center down here to the oslo cathedral. the police put it up to 200,000 people and everyone had a flower. it was a remarkable tribute. what you got here is a carpet of

flowers. thousands and thousands of them. norwegian flags and handwritten messages and candles lit to mark this spot. it's a very emotional scene, a very somber mood here. we have been here all day. you've had people coming in the dozens just sort of filtering through, silently, placing flowers and little comments and lighting candles. she moving scene. kyra? >> no doubt. michael holmes, appreciate it. president obama urges americans to call their lawmakers and demand that a deal gets done. so many people answered that challenge actually last night. the number of congressional web sites were overwhelmed. so among the lawmakers affected, two prominent republicans john boehner and michele bachman. on the surface, the two parties seem as bitterly divided as ever. >> the american people may have voted for a divided government but they didn't vote for a dysfunctional golf.

>> the sad truth the president wanted a blank check six months ago and he wants a blank check today. this is just not going to happen. >> the plans of course, have huge differences but some similarities that inspire a bit of optimism. christine romans breaks it down. >> reporter: let's begin with senator reid's blueprint. it cuts 2.7 trillion over the next decade. a big piece of that is what senator reid calls the winding down of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. that will save a trillion dollars. now republicans have called that a gimmick, a savings from wars that are winding down, even though, by the way, the same savings were counted in some republican budgets. reid's plan would not reform or cut medicare, medicaid, social security. also no changes to taxes. it would raise the debt ceiling by 2.4 trillion dollars. that would be enough to fund the government through next year's election. the boehner plan is considered more short term. it would raise the debt ceiling

in two different steps. the first step would happen immediately raising the ceiling by a trillion dollars and spending cuts of 1.2 trillion over ten years. and get us to next year, right some we need a second vote to raise the debt ceiling again by another $1.6 trillion. that second increase would be contingent on more cuts. another $1.8 trillion in spending cuts and have to be agreed to by a bipartisan committee. >> so far, the debt stalemate has been a drag on the stock markets but not as bad as some of the experts predicted but only five trading days left before the august 2nd deadline that issue is likely to have more of an impact. the deal is done. football is back! but are the players ready? let's hope so because, apparently, a number of them are heading to the practice field today. we are going to talk to coy wire about that straight ahead.

the nfl lockout is over.

you're actually going to get your football. right now, players are stuffing their duffel bags and heading to practice this morning. we got lucky before atlanta falcons linebacker coy wire hits the field. he talking to you. a lot of guys are saying i don't want to spend all sunday with my wife now. that is terrible! isn't that awful? >> i haven't heard of that and don't agree with it all. that the worst parse of prison camp -- i mean, training camp. >> the truth comes forward. >> did you hear the laughter in the background? the women are getting a kick out of that. let's get serious here. >> okay. >> you right there in the middle of it all. did you think for a moment, oh, my gosh, we may not have a season? or did you know something was going to happen and you were going to strike a deal? >> i'm a glass halfful type guy, very optimism and positive. i knew this was going to happen. no way we could let a wonderful opportunity to keep america's greatest game moving and going

towards a positive direction for the fans and for the future of our game. so i knew we would get it done. it was just a matter of time. it went down to the last minute with y but we did it. >> you sound like a politician. i feel like i should vote for you for president. did you have other players calling you up saying, coy, make something happen. you're killing us. we are not going to get the money and do what we want to do or what we love, or was everybody hanging bap back and letting you do your thing? you had to be getting pressure some somewhere. >> there was a broad scope of issues. the economic aspect pecket was one part of it. i think people focused on that and talking about players make a lot of money and why are they arguing over the dollars of the game. that was a small part of it. a lot of issues to it, like workers' compensation and health benefits and players' safety and that thing. >> a life span of an nfl player

is three and a half years and talk about the head injuries and the controversy about the helmets. you come out winning with regard to life after football on this deal, right? >> absolutely. a lot of steps were taken in the right direction for players' safety, health and wellness of the players. it's not the concussions, the big hits that you see on tv where guys get knocked unconscious that cause the problem. they do cause a problem. but more specifically, it's the repetitive hits, the tiny little hits every day, day after day, that a player takes over the course of a career. and a lot of guys have been playing since they were 7 years old like myself so you have to think about all of those repetitive hits to the brain that controls the entire human body and causes you us to be able to speak and act and thinking in a rational manner and that is the damage this has caused and our brain is precious. we only get one of them so we need to take care of it. they did a lot of great things. the nfl owners did a lot of

things about hearing our concerns and correct anything that could be corrected to make progress for health and safety for the players. >> it's kind of like our business. i mean, you never know how long it's going to last and you have to value every single moment while you can and enjoy the ride while you have it. final question today. you're heading on you to prap. are you ready? do you feel behind? have you guys listen keying up with practice and keeping in shape? >> we have done the best we could. we had a group of guys who got together this off-season right here in atlanta and we trained with jim lawner who is here in atlanta and we tried to mimic as much as we could the off-season program that our atlanta falcons organization would have us do, jeff fish and his training program, they do a great job of preparing us so we tried to mimic that as much as possible. our whole goal was to be able to be ready and be prepared to have a good foundation so when we go back to get together again with our coaches and our staff, they are going to have a good foundation. they are going to have a good product to work with. we hope we didn't disappoint

them or let them down. we will be ready to roll for ourselves and the city of atlanta. >> the fans are standing by waiting to see. good luck this season. >> thank you. >> all right, coy. straight ahead, unbelievable story about a georgia mom whose son was killed by a drunk driver as they crossed the street. now she faces up to three years in prison for jaywalking. ware we are taking you live to the courthouse after a break. with dha and essential nutrients also found in mother's milk. purina puppy chow. there are some things we know for sure. there will still be weddings, still be babies, and still be bright futures. that's why new york life has been helping families plan for the expected and unexpected for 166 years. backed by the highest ratings for financial strength, we're safe and secure. so you can be too. give your family the gift of a secure financial future.

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checking stories across the country. governor jerry brown signed off on california's dream act. the law makes it easier for undocumented students to get private financial aid. it's aimed at helping kids who are brought here illegally by their parents and had no say in the matter. he just called to say i love you. oh, and i do. a california couple gets married over the phone. the groom is a medic in afghanistan and his fiancee back home couldn't wait to tie the knot so they did it by proxy with his mom standing by as a witness. five detroit companiesing offering employees 3,500 toward rent or $2,500 toward a mortgage. all they have to do is move downtown and trying to beef up the city's dwindling population. a georgia mom faces up to

three years in prison for jaywalking. she was crossing a street with her three children and her son was hit by a drunk driver and killed. now she could spend more time in jail been the drunk driver. david mattingly is live at the courthouse in marietta, georgia. a lot of people wondering how this is even possible, david. >> reporter: rockle nelson is described as a young mother, a working mother and a student. she had gone to the grocery that night with her small children and taken a city bus. they were relying on public transportation. they were on their way home. they got off bus and attempting to cross a busy four-lane road. nelson was injured along with a doubt and 4-year-old son was

killed. the hit and run driver was sent to jail and served six months and now out on probation. a lot of people thought that should be the end of that sad and tragic story but it wasn't. nelson, herself, was prosecuted and found guilty of second-degree vehicular homicide, reckless conduct and not using a crosswalk. jaywalking. this case has generated a great deal of outrage. this woman rockle nelson has gone on national television pleading with the judge not to separate her now from her surviving children. she has a lot of supporters claiming to have generated 125,000 signatures on a petition asking the judge to set her free. she is going to be sentenced today. she faces a potential maximum of three years in jail. so we are going to see very shortly if this cobb county,

georgia, judge follows through with that, or if he decides to give her her freedom back. but, kyra, this is a case where this woman who has already lost so much could now potentially lose her freedom and contact with her children. so a lot of people watching this case to see what this judge decides to do. >> we should know something in less than 45 minutes, david. let us know as soon as you hear something. thanks. men have been hardest hit in the current recession. we are going to talk about the factors behind what some people are calling the man session right after the break. i type in. and he gives me a variety of options. would you like to have a look at a map, my lad? ah, why not? shall we check on the status of your knighthood? yes. again? yes, again, please! thank you. with my digital manservant, i'll never be homesick again. would you like me to put the kettle on, sir? no, i'd like you to get rid of that ostrich. it's been here a month. [ male announcer ] think, type, go. with just type. only on the new hp touchpad with webos.

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so here is something interesting about the recession. men have been hardest hit by the job losses and the longer they are out of work, the harder time they are having get back in the

game. cnn money's poppy harlow is joining us lifg live from new york. i guess the new word now is man session? >> reporter: a good way to put it. it's a troubling statistic that came out in a mckenzie study saying 20% of american men are not working men are not working today, up from 7% back in 1970. this isn't just because of a lack of jobs. this is also counting those on disability, those that are incarcerated, those that rely on their spouse's income. but it is a troubling statistic. when we look at the unemployed right now, we have 14 million americans out of work. but in the recession, take a look at this chart. this shows you what happened. men lost 5.4 million jobs in the recession. that is that steep drop off on the blue line. women, on the other hand, lost 2.1 million. why is that? in large part, because we saw such a decline in construction and manufacturing jobs that are really male dominated. but we also talked to the ceo of

manpower. they're a huge employment firm that works with companies around the world. here is his take. take a listen. >> well, we have an issue. there is no doubt about it. and the longer we have the long-term unemployed, even for what we consider the highly skilled position, the shop floor is not the same shop floor for that position two years later. we are still going to have this skilled mismatch of what companies are looking at to get the highest skills and what is really out in the marketplace. and the u.s. is not alone in that. it's just exacerbated because of the low demand that we're seeing in the u.s. >> so what he's saying, kyra, is the problem now in this so-called recovery is that we have a skills mismatch. and i think this is exemplified in a company like google. they said earlier in this year they're going to have their biggest hiring year ever. they told us on the phone yesterday there's a huge lack of engineers in the united states,

simply not enough people with the right skills to fill those jobs and that the talent pool in this country is pretty small for what they're looking for. that is a very, very troubling thing when you look at this recovery and how many jobs we need to see added, kyra. >> that's the number one priority on everybody's mind is jobs right now. popi, thank. the postal service releases a list of post offices for possible closure this year in just minutes at 10:00 eastern. and groups advocated for protecting the poor in the budget deficit talks hold a prayer vigil in washington. that starts at 12:30 eastern. and dr. jill biden, wife of the vice president, addresses military service members and their family at 7:00 eastern in louisville, kentucky. we're following lots of developments in the next hour of "cnn newsroom." let's check in with dan lothian first. hey, dan. >> hey, even though it appears both sides are very far apart, the white house remains optimistic that common ground

can be found before that august 2nd deadline. we'll have more details at the top of the hour. >> i'm ted rowlands. students behind me are coming to see who is the best at defending against hackers. we'll have a live report on cyber security coming up next hour. hi. i'm zain verjee in london. glenn beck has made some terror atta comments about the terror attacks in norway. we'll talk about that next. a congressman accused of inappropriate contact with a teen girl. house leaders say they want an ethics probe.

the texas rangers and their smoking hot bats. the rangers put up at least three runs in the first three innings against the twins. then tacked on two more in the later innings. 27 hits in all. final score, 20-6. check out don kelly of the detroit tigers. believe me, he doesn't run fast enough for his shoes to catch fire like this. the hot game in the fifth inning

of the tigers game. no harm, no foul, a lot of laughs. at a nascar race the other nice, there was some prayer. jeanne moos reports. >> reporter: it was the best of prayers, it was the worst of prayers. >> lord, i want to thank you for my smoking hot wife tonight. >> reporter: it was a prayer unlike any other. >> lord in heaven -- >> hail mary full of grace. >> this prayer was full of cars, nascar. >> so we want to thank you tonight for these mighty machines that you brought before us. >> reporter: baptist pastor joe nelms was giving the prerace invocation. some are calling it the first sponsored prayer brought to you by -- >> thank you for the doejs and the toyota, thank you for the fords, thank you for sunoco racing fuel and goodyear tires. >> as one critic posted on youtube, i am certainly not a religious man, but i'm pretty sure product placement in a

prayer equals a straight ticket to hell. but pastor nelms isn't bothered. >> i can ensure you that there were no endorsement deals, but i am not against them. anyone that wants to send money to our church, i'll be happy to use it. >> in jesus man, boogity, boogity, bigty, amen. >> what does boogity mean? >> it's southern for get to it. >>ite the catch phrase used by a well known nascar announcer to start a race. but the prayer started critics' engines. it's making a mockery of prayer. he's just being a clown. he's being sacreligious. the pastor said he wants to get folks who don't go to church thinking. >> maybe not all christians are stick in the muds. >> admirers called it the best prayer ever, putting the fun back in fundamentalism. >> lord, i want to thank you for

my smoking hot wife now, lisa. >> that sure rings a bell, ricky bobby, thanking the lord in talladega nights. >> my red shot smoking wife, carly, who is a stone-cold fox. >> the pastor says he recently saw "talladega nights" on tv and got the idea to use it. as for his wife, she said this -- >> i'm a smoking hot wife and i don't care how many times he says it to a big crowd or a small crowd, i'm enjoying it. >> reporter: this pastor has no issues with the separation between church and track. jeanne moos, cnn -- >> in jesus name, boogity, boogity, boogity, amen. >> reporter: -- new york. and it's 0 o'clock a.m. on the east coast with tb 7:00 a.m. out west. the debt crisis and the deepening stalemate, president obama reaches out to a new

player in the game one. bad weather may be to blame for a military plane crash in southern more rocco. 78 people killed. it's not clear if there are sibl civilian among those killed. congressman david wu will not seek re-election after being tainted by a sex scandal. he's accused of making sexual advances toward a teenager. we begin this hour with the debt crisis, of course. minute by minute, the nation inches closer to the bripg of default and the countdown less than seven full days before the federal government could run out of money and be unable to pay its bills. but in washington, stark messages delivered in the duelling speeches by the president and the speaker of the house. their parties are desperate lly divided. you and i are about to pay the praise. dan lothian is at the white house. what is the president going to do today to push for a resolution? >> according to a senior

administration official that the conversation continues with members of congress. exactly what they are talking about, what potential deal would be out there is unclear at this point. what we know, at least publicly, democrats have been unable to embrace what republicans are pushing, republicans, unwilling to embrace what democrats are pushing. but nonetheless, senior administration officials are saying that, quote, they hope sanity will prevail. time is running out here. it's unclear what can get done in time for that august 2nd deadline, kyra. >> and kate, a growing sense of urgency from the public, are you getting the same sense there on the hill? >> i would say absolutely yes. i talked to a couple of lawmakers, democrat and republican and both of them expressed, really, amazement that they could not believe that we've gotten this close to the deadline. they said despite all that they know in their years in congress,

they couldn't believe we've gotten this close to the deadline. on that note, house speak john boehner, he's put forth that bill which puts it on track for a vote in the house tomorrow, wednesday. on the flip side and the other side of the capital, harry reid, senate majority leader, democratic leader harry reid, his bill is still out there, but it's unclear when that vote could see a vote. there seems to be a desire to allow the house vote to happen on the boehner bill before they move in the senate on this bill put forth by harry reid. but again, we're not talking about a lot of time left. >> kate, dan, thanks so much, guys. let's go from the politics to the page. we could be days away from feeling the first impact on our wallets. ali velshi, when are we going to be in trouble? when should we be truly worried? >> you will see alarm bells going off on my head. i'm going to use a hurricane

analogy with you, kyra. sometimes they say these a 30% chance or a 40% chance that hurricane could hit. that's what this is. but if there's a 30% or 40% chance a hurricane can hit, you want to buy some plywood, have some water and know your escape route. you want to know what to do if it gets serious. i'm watching markets right now. they're waiting. they're not committed to fear at the moment. they think, as kate and dan just said, the smart people in the room seem to think a deal is going to get done. the problem is, there are a whole bunch of people who clearly, american legislators, who do not seem to have a full understanding of litting this debt limit lapse. i'll tell you what they are. back in 2008, lehman brothers collapsed and everybody in the room, smart people, thought you know what? the markets will absorb it. this is bigger than lehman brothers collapsing. who knows whag going to happen. number one, the stock market will start to drop precipitously. if our markets are closed, it

will happen in europe or asia. number two, we'll get that debt downgrade if we don't upgrade the debt limit. might even happen otherwise. that causes the cost of borrowing to potentially go up. that's borrowing for our government and borrowing for home loans. that means if you have an adjustable mortgage rate, it could go up. could be more expensive to get a car loan, a student loan. if mortgages become more expensive, we already have -- we got number these morning to show a little bit of a housing recovery. mortgage rates start to go up, that could bring that down. in my mind, this is the biggest issue, companies could find it more expensive to borrow. when companies run short of money or can't borrow what they want or it costs them more, what's the easiest thing that companies can cut, kyra? it's jobs. we can't afford that right now. i wouldn't be gambling with this. if i were on capitol hill, i would say i don't know which way it's going to go, i don't want to be on the wrong side of history. >> ali velshi, thanks.

stay tuned for the updates. at the bottom of the hour, we're going to check in on wall street's reaction. norway attack suspect is, quote, a little bit surprised he was able to pull it off and wasn't killed doing it. that's according to his lawyer, actually. anders breivik says that -- or his lawyer says he still needs to undergo psychiatric testing, but that everything about this case, quote, indicates that he's insane. breivik's father thinks he's mentally ill and has pretty much disowned him now. >> translator: no, i'll never have more contact with him in my darkest moments. i think rather than killing all those people, he should have taken his own life. >> those are strong words from a father. >> translator: they are, but thinking about what has happened, i get so upset and i still don't understand that something like this could happen. no normal human being would do something like that. >> adding to the fire here, glenn beck is weighing in on the

norway strategy, criticizing the culprit and the camp that he attacked. zain verjee joining us once again from london. what he's saying is getting a lot of people upset, zain. >> it sure is, kyra. he is comparing the summer camp where kids died to the hitler youth in germany. listen to exactly how he put it on his radio show. >> as the thing started to unfold and then there was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the hitler youth or whatever. i mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? disturbing. >> it's strange that he would actually say that, kyra, because there are quite a few politically oriented camps in the u.s. by the nine-12 project which is an organization founded by glenn beck himself back in 2009. people are make comments on cnn.com. here is just a couple to give

you a flavor. one says he is a disgusting guy who lies constantly. he calls himself a conservative. that's not what's conservatives stand for. someone else writes, kyra, what an utter, heartless, creepy thing to say. >> and it's not the first time that glenn beck has referenced hitler and the holocaust and gotten people pretty upset. >> no. he tends to use it frequently. i was reading a washington post article. for the first 18 months he was on fox tv, he and his guests invoked hitler 147 times. that article also says he used the word nazi an additional 202 times. kyra. >> zain verjee out of london, zain, thanks. when a bear attacked some teens in the alaska wilderness, one of them just kicked it in the face. >> did it stand up? >> once. after it finished with one person, it stood up and looked for somebody else. right in the middle, scare right

in the middle of the face. >> we'll tell you what else the teen res saying as we go across the country. and accusations of an inappropriate encounter, now this congressman says he won't run in the next election.

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himself. victor martin says when the bear attacked his buddy, he came to the rescue. right in the middle. right in the middle, square, in the face. it was terrifying, but prayer helps. and in florida, a group of fishermen kau caught a massive shark, 650 pounds. it took them more than 13 1/2 hours to reel in the 15 footer. we expect our soldiers to be heroes, but listen to this one. this guy pulled passengers from a burning bus after it crashed into a tractor trailer in upstate new york. sergeant jacob perkins was on leave and returning home when he spotted the two vehicles on fire. >> any natural reaction was just to go straight on to the bus and make sure everybody was off. i'm just glad that the military had me trained and prepared for this situation. >> the driver of the tractor-trailer was killed. more than 30 people on that bus were injured. democratic congressman david wu is facing allegations that he made sexual advances toward an 18-year-old that is not the first sign of trouble for wu.

cnn's brian todd has the details. >> reporter: an embattled congressman sees his own party's support quickly slipping away over alleged sexual misconduct. david with you of oregon faces a possible house investigation headed by nancy pelosi. he's fighting off call toes resign. this after a report in the oregonian newspaper saying a young woman had called wu's office in the spring accusing him of aggressive and unwanted sexual behavior. jessica brady has been reporting on wu's troubles all year for the newspaper "roll call." >> we know she is about 18 years old, she called mr. wu's congressional office back in the state. sounded very distraught on the phone and said that she was the subject of an unwanted sexual encounter of him. she's the daughter of one of his old college friends and a campaign donor. >> the oregonian said according to an unnamed member of his

staff, he admitted to an sexual encounter, but said it was consensual. wu's aides said he didn't want to speak to us on camera. he did issue a statement saying this is very serious and i have no desire to bring unwanted publicity, attention is or stress to a young woman and her family. this is only the latest twist in a pattern of behavior from congressman wu. he admitted to seeking help after strange behavior in his campaign last fall that he said was brought on by being a single parent and the death of his father. back in december, he sent this picture of himself to a tiger costume and his staff. he reportedly said it was around halloween. but a report in "the oregonian" said his staff became so concerned with what they described as his erratic behavior in public and private that they surged him to seek psychiatric treatment. the paper said he refused. >> how toxic is he for the

democrats? >> they moved very quickly. they remember what happened with anthony weiner. about a month ago when that dragged out and it was a drag down on democrats, they want to cut this off as quickly as possible. >> reporter: although congressman wu has so far resisted calls to resign, there are reports that he won't run for re-election next year. brian todd, cnn, washington. and david wu's office has now confirmed to cnn that he will not seek re-election. peter baychez, editor of "the oregonian." peter, you've been on top of this story from the begin. tell us about congressman wu's reputation before this story surfaced. >> congressman wu has been in office for some time, seven terms, and is well known to people here in portland. he's always been a bit of a character. his issues have not necessarily been in the mainstream. he cares deeply about technology

and has been outspoken on issues involving china, of course, because he was the first chinese-american elected to congress. but i think in general, people here -- he's in a pretty safe democratic district. the republicans haven't mounted particularly effective candidates to oppose him and he's coasted to re-election. people here justly like david wu, i think. but i don't think anybody would tell you he's the most effective congressman that's ever represented the portland metropolitan area. >> members of his staff has expressed concern over what they would call erratic behavior. wu himself admitted that he's gone into mental health counseling. do you think ice likely that he'll resign? >> well, we're reporting this morning that he's at least hinted to senior members of the house minority that he might consider resigning. i think david wu is a survivor. he has been. he's been through a lot,

certainly, personally and on some level professionally. i know him fairly well. i certainly don't want to try to get inside his head. i think he would like to ride it out to the end of his term, but as we just reported, the pressure certainly is building on him, both from the local democratic establishment here in oregon and certainly from the house minority leadership. >> peter bhatiaw thanks so much for joining us today. >> sure. my pleasure. great to be with you. >> likewise. straight ahead, comedian dave chappelle, he balled so badly, he quit telling jokes and just started texting. we'll have details from a first person's account, someone who was actually there.

the standup comedian dave chappelle is apologizing for a poor performance last friday. he was on stage when apparently hecklers started rattling him,

rattling him so much that he barely cracked a joke the entire set. here to tell us exactly what happens, a.j. hammer. what was going on, a.j. [ >> first of all, kyra, i'm one of those guys that gets annoyed at the start texting at the comedy table. imagine if you get to a comedy show and the meade comedian starts texting. a lot of long, awkward silences during what was supposed to be this performance. and chappelle has now publicly apologized for his performance or lack of performance. you probably remember dave chappelle from comedy central. take a loot him in action right now. >> i study white people, following you around grocery stores. they freak out. i try to peek in the car. they always say, get away from my car. what are you looking at? chicken and gibblets are over there. you must be lost. these are vegetables. >> now, that was from a comedy special. chappelle's tv show wasn't just

edgy, it was outrageous. it was a huge hit. but, of course, you probably know the story. at the height of its popularity, sh pell decided he didn't want to do it anytime and a report $50 million transact. people are speculating it had to do with drugs or a nervous breakdown. and dave said he just didn't want to do the show any more. kyra, i understand one of cnn's own was right there on the scene tweeting a play by play during the performance on friday. >> do we expect anything less, a.j. [ stay with me. our roland martin was there. what the heck happened? because this doesn't -- it's not like him. >> first of all, this was a comedy show that featured about seven comedians, a former

all-star with the miami heat. he's been doing this 15 years. and when dave came out, thunderous applause, standing ovation from the audience. then he had people who were yelling, dave, we love you, we love you, and at one point dave was like, man, can you guys stop talking back to the stage? then there were some people in the first three rows who began to heckle him to some degree. people were hollering, do greg james. he was like, look, go buy the dvd. and in talking with him the next day, in talking with his folks that night, even other comedians, they said that he can't stand heckling. he doesn't like when people are trying to get involved in the middle of the show. so he pretty much shut down. so he started saying, this going to be a war of also. people were videotaping, he's texting. clearly web apologized for it. he said he had a bad attitude. but from the audience

standpoint, they should have been more respectful and let the man do his work. i thought he would have simply, like the other comedians, dogged them like crazy and move on. he didn't. >> roland, let me ask you, did you have a chance to ask him? were you up front with him? because a.j. brings up a good point. we remember when he took a break from the show, he was offered a big deal and he didn't take it. there was talk that possibly he was dealing with some type of addiction. >> no. but there was talk of maybe naerveus breakdown sfp. >> no. >> did you ask him, what was the deal? >> first of all, we can talk about what happened six years ago. you know, he's been looking at stepping back on to the stage after six years. he's been away for quite some time. look, the guy wasn't high. he wasn't drunk. he wasn't having a nefbus breakdown. >> you asked him that? >> first of all, i asked him that. i talked to the other comedian. i talked to the folks that were there. the guy was ticked off. in the middle of the show, he said this is going to be a war of wills. i was nothing by time.

so he was just upset with the folks there. you know, a lot of comedians don't like people taping their work because other comedians steal jokes and stuff. i think he recognized in retrospect that he could have handled it a different way. but that's what it was. it was soared of weird. he was on stage for 40 or 50 minutes. he came up the next night, he introduced thelo green, cracked a few jokes, referenced, of course, what took place on friday night and he plays on the 14th if a couple of weeks. he's setting a whole new routine. hopefully the performance in a couple of weeks, folks will have an opportunity to hear it. dave chappelle, everyone knows and loves. but having talked to me in the middle of the set about what i'm covering on cnn. i was like, i'm not trying to

talk, dude. tell us a joe. >> oh, come on, ro, you like a little publicity. >> i was like, let's hear some jokes, though. >> take me to the show next time because i'd love to see it live. >> no problem. no, you're too loud. you're too loud. >> i might get in trouble. thanks, roland for skyping in. all right. a pack is buying ad time in iowa to drum up write-in votes for texas governor rick perry jt upcoming poll. we're going to be talking about that and also just don't forget if you're you can get cnn streaming live on your phone, your computer or your ipad. check it out. cnn.com/video or just download our new app and it's a little bit of delay here on the ipad. but look, refresh the app. you go up here to the live peg

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we didn't have lielts. just checking. last night, president obama and john boehner gave different views over raising the nation's debt limit. the deadline for raise that ceiling, august 2nd. and democratic congressman david wu says he will not run for re-election next year. for all you football fans, the game is back. players are expected to begin head to go practice fields across the country today. the players approved a 10-year deal with team owners yesterday that ended a four-month lockout. political buzz, your rapid

fire look at the hottest political topics of the day, three questions, 20 seconds on the clock. and playing today's democratic strategi strategi strategist, roger zimmerman, john avalon and will kain. first question, president obama makes a prime time appearance trying to put john boehner on the defensive. did it work and are we any closer to a deal? i think i know the answer to this from all of you. robert. >> yes. of course we're going to have a deal. and while the president gave a fine speech last night, the problem is it was a month too late. because the only issue on the table now is whether we have a long-term solution or the republicans have their way and provide a solution that puts our full faith and credit of the united states in the middle of an election cycle. mcconnell and the candidates said they were poepzed to that. now they seem to be for it. that's putting party first and the country second. >> will. >> you know, kyra, the president has been reduced to cheering from the bench of his own team.

judging from the speech on friday and then again last night, it seems like he's bought the hype that he's the only adult in the room. he's adopted this tone of condescensi condescension. i think he's contributing to the drawing of the sides. so he's out. now we have reid and boehner working on their own plans. i suspect we'll get a vote done. >> john. >> no, i don't think we should assume a deal will get done. we have competing partisan plans competing at the 11 hour and no obvious path to compromise. that's just hypocrisy and a lost opportunity. >> all right, guys. subject number two, pac buying radio ads in iowa urging people to write rick perry's name on to the iowa straw poll ballot. when will rick perry just run? >> there's a website that allows people to vote on future events.

it suggests rick perry has a 33% chance to win the republican nomination. this site has a pretty good history. so i would say his strategy right now of slowing playing it is working out for him. >> robert. >> kyra, it's only madness if you're a political consultant trying to get a job with this guy or it's madness if you think a swaggering texas governor who advocated withdrawing his state from the nation and has a $27 billion deficit is a credible candidate for president. that's madness. >> john. >> he does not explicitly advocate succeeding from the unit. rick perry is a flawed candidate, but a check the box favorite among conservative populist. if he comes in, he was coaless the far right. i don't see how he doesn't get in at this point. it's not clear how he can win a general election, however. >> now ten seconds each on this one. oregon rep david wu is accused of a sexual encounter with the

teenager. he says he did nothing illegal. this seems worth than anthony weiner, yes, no, or should democrats be trying harder to force him out? sorry about that. go ahead, robert. >> what do you want to go, kyra? >> i was just -- i was actually thinking about that for a minute going, okay, we don't want to talk about how bad something is. both situations are pretty darn bad. the bottom line is, should democrats try harder to force him out because of what he's being accused of? will, go. >> yeah. i'll say this. i don't think of anthony weiner any more, kyra. i think of dominique strauss-kahn. so before we all jump to action and condemnation, let's make sure all the accusations are cool. >> all right. robert. >> look, if any of these allegations of any credibility, i hope the police haul his butt out of the congress and do an investigation. to nancy pelosi's credit, she is

treating this like the anthony weiner's case, with an investigation, and i am told others are calling for his oust. >> okay. robert, that's what you're saying your sources are telling you on this. >> set your clock on the this. nine weeks, another nine weeks, another sex scandal, we have a problem. but right now, the reason this isn't getting the attention is we don't have serial photographs coming out, just one of them in a tiger suit, which is weird enough. when will the strangeness end? >> never. strangeness will always continue when it comes to politics. look at you three. john, robert, will, thanks, guys. i love you three. you know that. let's talk business, shall we? allan chernov is live at the new york stock exchange, following the market, wondering what's going to happen as these debt talks continue, allen. >> kyra, that's exactly the question everybody on wall street is confronting right now. for the moment, tweeters seem to be saying, you know what? we've seen this high wire act

before and we know it all turns out just fine at the end the. the question is, will it actually turn out okay? even if washington is able to raise the debt ceiling, will we be able to avoid a credit downgrade from the ratings agencies? what is a real threat and it could become more ooh a factor as the week progresses. right now, the dow jones industrial average off about 78 points. not a big deal. 3m is pulling the dow lower. wall street is a little disappointed over the aspects of that conglomerate. u.p.s. is pulling the market lower. that stock down by 5%. 3m is off by 4%. kyra, one other interesting note, the u.s. treasury bond market is the bond market that really should be most responsive to this whole debt ceiling issue. guess what? right now, u.s. treasury bonds

are trading high er. some analysts are telling me they're stunned to see that happening right now. very bizarre right now. >> industrials down 76 points. allen, thanks. stil since the terror attacks, workers have been working around the clock. only now are they coming to terms with what has happened. >> i've been very concentrated about it work that we are doing and try to keep the -- my emotions a little bit away from in this. >> more from the rescuers right after the break.

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all right. we're hearing from the lawyer and the father of the norway should itting suspect. the attorney for andres breivik says the whole says suggests his client is insane. as for his father, a retired diplomate, he says he's sorry his son is still alive. >> translator: no, i'll never have more contact with him. in my darkest moments. i think that rather than killing all those people, you should have taken his own life. >> those are strong words from a father. >> translator: they are. but thinking about what has happened, i get so upset and i don't understand how something like this could happen. no normal human being would do something like that. >> as for the search and rescue workers, they are just not coming to grips about their feeling with regard to the attack. here is cnn's diana magney. >> it's a painstaking task and a grim one, scouring the dark waters of this norwegian field for the few of those still listed as missing and for clothes, shoes, anything

belonging to those who met their deaths here. tommy odegard has been leading the red cross's search operation since friday evening. >> when does it begin to sink in what has happened? >> well, i'm not sure if things have sunk in yet. i've been very concentrated about the work that we are doing and tried to keep my emotions a little bit away from this. so maybe it will take some time until they -- >> just across from the island, a family lays flowers for the dead. rolf lee tells me he's heard enough about the twisted thinking of this man behind the massacre, the hatred he reveals in his manifesto and splashed across the world's press. >> his message should not be

spread too much. it's not good thoughts. he wants the whole world to see and imagine his thoughts and i think that's not the best way. >> what did you think when you read about his manifesto? >> i was scared. i think this is hitler number two. >> for five minutes, we have driven by this cutting which has graffiti on it saying things like white power, die black people and a swastika. it makes you wonder if breivik acted out on his far right ideologies. but how many people in this society feel the same way as he does? odegard seemed to busy to watch the news or to read much about the killer. >> i guess all other people know a lot more of circumstances and things surrounding this than i do because i haven't been watching any news at all. this is what we have been doing all weekend, searching for

people. >> reporter: the police have revised the death count down from the 9 first feared dead and said they hope to finish their investigations here by sundown on monday. but norway as a country will long be searching for answers as to how this green and pleasant land could have bred such a monster. cnn, norway. fighting back, it's cyber crime. a bit of education goes a long way. in three minutes, we're going to show you how young folks are learning how to battle those cyber bandits.

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camp. is this a crash course in cyber security? >> well, you know what? all these folks here have been invited here because they have some knowledge. i've been listening in on the class, way over my head. these are the good guys and they are basically lirning how to combat cyber crime and hackers which, of course, is a huge problem in this country and around the world. they're from around the country. richard over there is from colorado. matt here is from minnesota. basically, these students have been invietd here to take part in what is called the u.s. cyber challenge and they'll compete on friday to see whokt get the furthest in terms of a hacking exercise. and part of the mentality is act like a hacker and you can defeat a hacker. dr. annie sobol is not only a physician, but she used to be the director of homeland security in the state of new mexico. you know all about security. you're with the university of missouri. why is it so important to educate these young minds in the cyber defense field? >> well, there are a number of

reasons. first of all, these kids are the best of the best. they're very interested in applying their skills and talents to address u.s. national security problems. so we want to train them and hone those skills so they can be part of the u.s. cyber security team. and that means governments, academia and private sector. >> we've heard of hacking exercises lately at sony and the cia and the u.s. government. this is a huge problem and a big certain, is it not? >> absolutely. computers are ubiquitous. they're part of everything we do, every activity in our life, whether it be our finances and banking, our water utilities, our day-to-day shopping at a major distributor. everything we do is run by computers. and we're trying to train these individuals to do like you said and really look at potential problems before they occur. >> and one of the things that they're doing, kyra, is taking on the mind-set of a hacker as

they're going through the different exercises and the best hacker at the end of the week, actually, wins a scholarship, if you will, and learning those skills helps combat the hackers, which is a huge problem around the world. >> ted, a question for ur both. you know, in our business we always try to get hands on internships. as i look at these kids and we hear right now that they're the best and the brightest, are departments like dhs keeping an eye on these students? will they get a chance to move into full time jobs, to internships and hands-on experience with take what they're learning here right into working for our security? >> absolutely. this is one of five camps going on this summer and they've been doing it for years. and one of the things they're doing is lool looking for talent. and, doctor, the best of the best get plucked up by the united states. >> yes, they do. the reason these kids -- and i call them kids because they're kids at heart. they're innovative, they're

playful and they know they have great jobs ahead of them. >> that's one of the other things. a lot of these great minds that go into computer technology, want to develop video games, things like that, are an attempt to push them into joining the team, if you will, the cyber defense team so that we can have the best and the brightest on our side against the hackers. and these are the best and the brightest and believe me, sitting here for about 20 minutes, you realize that they're speaking another language. >> i know where your kids will be going to camp, ted. thanks a lot. the texas rangers add add five in the fourth and at least three innings in the first three. 27 hits in all. this is the final score. 20-6. talk about being on fire. check out john kelly of the detroit tigers. believe me, he doesn't run fast

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