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brooke baldwin. >> randi, thank you very much. hello to you. i ow you've been following the story. here's the headline. it is over. the crime spree of a heavily armed, dangerous band of siblings ended today in colorado. they have come to be known as the dougherty gang. take a good look here. you have a big sister, her two younger brothers. here they are. we have some brand new pictures to play for you here. these are images just in from southern colorado where all three were arrested a few short hours ago. the crime spree ended just as it began. bullets flying and a high-speed chase. i want to bring in the sheriff of pueblo, colorado, not far from the images where the three were caught. sheriff taylor joins us on the phone. sheriff, congratulations here. take me back to this morning and this tip that led to the trio's arrest. what happened? >> caller: well, we got some information out of our neighboring city, canyon city
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last night, this morning. they gave us some information that they had been seen in the area there, purchasing there or attempting to purchase stuff from a local store. we have some information first that they may be wanting to go camping or get up in the mountains somewhere. we subsequently in the morning we got a tip from a retired dow officer, department of wildlife officer, that he had seen a white vehicle matching the skripg back into a campsite and an individual that was hurriedly taking down the camp. so based upon that information and the information from canyon city, i sent deputies from the fugitive and civil unit here at the sheriff's office to check out that campsite. on the way up there, one of my deputies observed the vehicle at a small convenience store and ironically enough, it's in my hometown. >> your hometown where this whole thing ends. we're looking at pictures of their car, this car that was
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spotted sort of tail up on this guardrail. a number of perhaps your own deputies there. connect the dots for me. between being spotted at this convenience store and this car ending up half flipped over, what happened next? >> caller: well, we spotted them at the convenience store. we contacted the state patrol because the proximity to i-25. which is the main artery that goes down north to south in colorado. so before we could get our resources in place, they took off followed by the sheriff's officer, sheriff's deputy followed them. the patrol then engaged in the pursuit. they went about another 20, 25 miles south to a little town called walsenburg, colorado. that's where the accident occurred. during the chase, there were shots fired by the individuals in the vehicle at the law enforcement officers. >> were shots going both ways? from what i was understanding, i was watching a press conference
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in florida, pasco, county, it said the sister grace lee in her arm. brother tried to run. can you confirm that for me? >> caller: all i can confirm is that the officers were shot at. any of the other details i'm not able to relate to you at this time. >> are the officers okay? >> caller: no law enforcement officers were injured. all three passengers were injured, different amount on each person. so they are being treated right now. after they are treated and released, none of the injuries were life-threatening. >> have any of the siblings, were any of them talking or shouting? what have they said? i know they've said colorful things in the past to law enforcement? >> caller: like i said, right now, we've got about four agencies, including federal agencies involved in this. we're trying to sort everything out. we have three different crime scenes, as you can imagine, to coordinate. any of that information that was going to come out as we all get
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together and we hot wash this thing and figure that out. >> sheriff, stand by. i just want to show our viewers this map. just remind everyone that this thing started in the south, police have been tracking and sheriff's deputies tracking these three siblings for more than a week now. you can see the map. bottom right-hand corner. the siblings are wanted in florida for allegedly shooting at police about a week ago. that's where this whole thing began. up to georgia, authorities say that the siblings are the suspects in this armed bank robbery. in fact, reports they were firing high-powered rifles in the ceiling within that bank. yesterday colorado police and this sheriff's department here got a tip that the siblings were spotted out buying a tent in this camping store in colorado springs. sheriff, back to you. back to this morning. can you tell me anything about this car and what your team found inside? >> caller: you know, i really can't. the cbi, the colorado bureau of investigation is going to process the vehicle. like i said, here in colorado,
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we work very, very closely with each other, different entities are doing different pieces of this investigation to include the federal bureau of investigation. local police down in walls en burglary were helpful as they crashed outside their city. we need to have a little bit of chance to get together and compare notes and figure out everything that's happening and assign different people. we have three different crime scenes, we have a lot of law enforcement officers involved. these guys are going to be -- when they have to write all the reports. >> i understand. no i understand. >> caller: as much to the public as we can. >> lots of jurisdiction. i'm a reporter, so i have to ask you the questions. a lot of us are curious. >> caller: no, i understand. >> tell me this. i was talking to a guy from the fbi yesterday. we were talking about the long distance they've traveled and if they're trying to evade authorities, you're going to alter your appearance. did they do so? >> caller: none at this time.
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that will come out in the hot wash. different entities doing different things. i don't necessarily have all the information. >> do you know what happens next? do they stay in your state of colorado? do they head back home to florida, georgia, do we know that yet? >> caller: as soon as they're released with a clear medical, they'll be booked into the public county jail. subsequent to that, our district attorney will get involved and see what charges they face within our jurisdiction and the people of the great states of georgia and florida i'm sure want them to answer for the crimes there. >> i'm sure they will. sheriff kirk taylor, thank you for filling in some of the spaces. we had so many questions there. thank you. to another story here. yet another volatile day on wall street. the dow down 323 points. a lot of red there on that screen. let's go to alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. we saw an update yesterday. fear, volatility, alive and well at the markets this afternoon. >> reporter: exactly.
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never left. we're into that witching hour, the final hour of trading. we're going to see the volatility pick up a bit. what you're seeing, brooke is trading driven by fear and emotion. you know, it's not the most rational kind of trading that investors are taking part in here. the reason is because many investors, they feel they're flying blind. no one really has any idea of what's coming next. they don't know where the economy is headed. so it's that uncertainty that's really playing out in the market. because, usually the market moves on fundamentals, usually economic data or earnings data. all that is out of window at this point. instead, we're seeing a vicious cycle of negative momentum feeding on negative momentum. it just doesn't seem to stop today. >> negative momentum but there is one number that a lot of people like see going up. gold prices, what were they, above 1800 bucks? they did pretty well. >> reporter: they briefly topped $1800 an ounce for the first time. they settled around $1776.
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they hit a record high at their settling. you know, here's the thing about gold. you know, people have fear about where the economy is headed. so that fear is sort of pushing people to put their money into safe places. where is the safe place? where is the secure place to invest? put your money in gold. this is why analysts say they see gold topping $2,000. if europe's debt problems aren't fixed and our economy doesn't bounce back and we're not just seeing this in gold, brooke, we're seeing this on the yield, on the ten-year treasury bond. that hit a record low. that's interesting because these bonds are the very thing that standard & poor's downgraded. but people are throwing money into treasuries because they have nowhere to park it because they don't have the stomach for stocks at this point especially when you see the really wild swings in the major averages, brooke. >> you watch the numbers every day. do you have gold bricks hidden in your mattress? >> reporter: i wish i did. years ago, gosh, i wouldn't be
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sitting here now. i would be in the bahamas. >> you would be on the yacht with alley develaba ali velshi,? >> right. the last couple of months, partisan bickering in washington has become the norm. but the latest spat between the gop lawmakers and the white house, this is over a movie. we're going to explain in a couple of minutes. and this: >> the rioting that has crippled london for days finally may be ending. even after a huge police deployment, scotland yard is coming over heavy criticism. that's next. [ jon ] we don't just come up here for the view up in alaska.
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the markets with us, which i know you have if you've heard what the wall streets are saying, they're waiting for the government to show it can make tough choices. tough choices on the budget. tough choices on the debt. here we go. the so-called super committee, this debt busting panel of congress now is starting to take shape. here's what we know. senate democrats patti murry, max baucus, john kerry. senate republicans, john kyle, pat tomb i, rob portman. judd hencer ling, fred upton and david camp. those are nine of the ultimate 12 people charged by congress to agree on at least a trillion and a half dollars in federal debt reduction. hard to overstate the importance of this especially given the erratic ups and downs we've been watching on wall street. let's go to joe johns in washington. like i said, nine of the 12 names now officially out. we're waiting on house minority leader nancy pelosi to name her
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choices. time is wasting. what's keeping ms. pelosi? >> honestly, she has until next tuesday to make decision. we've been check not guilty with her. there was speculation that she would take her time and react to the choices of house speaker john boehner. we're told there are plenty of people among democrats in the house of representatives who want to do this job, brooke. nonetheless, we do know there are some potential downsides. what if you have to sort of give up your principals to compromise and face the voters in november, next november. that could be difficult for some members. but they say they've got plenty of people who want to do that. >> okay. plenty of people who want to do it. as you look through the names, the debt busting committee today. i see key electoral states, two members from michigan. congressman upton and camp. also senator toomey.
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joe johns, do you think that's a koe incidence? >> if you look at the individuals, the two members from michigan, they are respectively, the chairman of the house ways and means committee, the chairman of the energy and commerce committee. pat toomey from pennsylvania, the senator has been for years and years and years in washington, even before he came to the senate. one of the loudest joyces on the issue -- voices on the issue of holding the line on taxes. that was when he worked with the club for growth here in the washington area. so i guess what i'm saying to you, and also the senator portman from ohio, another member named to this committee. he was the former budget director for president bush. so they're just people who happen to come from the midwest, but also have really distinguished themselves in this very area where some of the knowledge could be useful. >> speaking of louder voices, the name a lot of folks
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considered really a lock for this committee is this guy. paul ryan. the house republican's budget cutting guru. why no paul ryan? >> reporter: he actually put out a statement to clear up the rumors or whatever and said, hey, i asked not to be on this committee. he says the budget committee is going to have some things -- some important things to do over the next several months. he would frankly rather not be there. there is that issue of paul ryan being a bit of a lightning rod for controversy. he didn't say anything about that, but we all know it's true. perhaps it was better he stayed off of that just in the interest of potential compromise. >> just in time today, we have a poll out. i want to share with viewers, that it shows 62% of americans want higher taxes on the wealthy. just 34% back no new taxes. that's a position adopted by the republicans. the republicans including hencer ling named to this committee. let's listen to him. this is the congressman from
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last week. >> there are those who still called for job-killing tax increases from the federal government. it is not going to happen. >> so joe johns, these folks on the debt busting committee who have said really thus far no new taxes, not no how. are they likely to change tunes now that they have massive, massive responsibility to compromise, try to reach an agreement? >> reporter: it's really hard to see how they're going to do that. the poll you mentioned, which shows america is watching and listening, plus they really got people's attention with that downgrade over the weekend. so there's a lot of pressure building on both sides of the aisle as they get this committee together for them to come to some solution because at the end of the day, if they don't, there's going to be a big problem because some very deep cuts to social programs and defense sort of goring the bulls of both sides will kick in if
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they don't figure it out. >> another potential 500 to 700 billion in defense. joe johns, thank you so much from washington. it's a small consolation for the 30 american families, coalition forces say they have killed the militants involved in shooting down that helicopter saturday morning in afghanistan. >> does not ease our loss, but we must and we will continue to relengthlessly pursue the enemy. why the mission is far from over in the general's own words. movies here. one that doesn't have a script yet has a congressman demanding an investigation. that's next. goodnight, outdated. goodnight old luxury and all of your wares. goodnight bygones everywhere. [ engine turns over ] good morning, illumination. good morning, innovation. good morning unequaled inspiration. [ male announcer ] the audi a8, chosen by car & driver as the best luxury sedan
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really going on in the white house the fateful moments when osama bin laden was shot and killed in a top secret raid. but a group of hollywood filmmakers are apparently working to depict that moment. the chair of the homeland security committee thinks the white house could be up to no good. about a highly classified mission that some members have not been fully briefed on. we'll hear more from congressman peter king of new york next hour live on the show. stick around for that. first, barbara starr, to weigh in on this from her cnn post at the pentagon. barbara, i have the copy. i have read this letter if from congressman king he sent out calling for an investigation. he says specifically an investigation in classified briefing regarding this matter from the defense department and the ci a's inspector general. this information shared with filmmaker katherine bigelow. first, do we know, has bigelow been to washington? has she been to the pentagon for this film? >> reporter: what we know is
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officials are telling us that katherine bigelow, the award winning director of that movie the hurt locker about the war in iraq has spoken with administration officials about her team's new project to make a movie about the raid that killed osama bin laden. she, by all accounts, has had some meetings, has talked to people about it. what we are told here at the pentagon is her project is still, we're talking hollywood, in the development phase. she doesn't have a script yet or specifics yet. she's developing the project, possibly developing the script to go ahead and make the movie. not unusual. there is right down the hall from where we broadcast here in the pentagon, maybe 20 steps away, is a hollywood liaison office, which works with filmmakers, with television networks that want to make programs or movies about the u.s. military, works with them to give them advice and thoughts and if they want to pay for it, possibly with approval, even
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giving them some military equipment. they have to reimburse for that very long-standing tight relationship between hollywood and the u.s. military. but did she get classified information? i got to tell you, i think it's not very likely. >> that seems to be perhaps one of congressman king's biggest questions. i'll ask him next hour. we have heard from the white house from jay carney addressing that saying yes they help the media, whether journalists like us or filmmakers, directors. i want to play a snippet from today when he was asked about the pending investigation. >> first of all, the claims are ridiculous. when people, including you in this room, are working on articles, books, documentaries or movies that involve the president ask to speak to administration officials, we do our best to accommodate them to make sure the facts are correct. that is hardly a novel approach to the media. we do not discuss classified information. i would hope that as we face a continued threat from terrorism,
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the house committee on homeland security would have more important topics to discuss than a movie. >> so barbara, i realize you may not have the answer here, what is congressman king's beef, exactly? >> reporter: well, i any a lot of members of congress are concerned they feel they never got the full briefing. all the classified details about the bin laden raid. a lot of it is still very close hold. but you know, i would make this point. we've talked to eye lot of movie directors, a lot of authors who come and get briefings who may interview the president of the united states for their book. nothing says they're getting classified information. but you know, every time they talk to these people, they may get additional details about what happened. you ask a question, you get an interesting answer. something you didn't know. a little color, texture, background. you know, i'm sure it's very valuable to every author, to
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every filmmaker, every director to talk to as many people as they can because you always, even as a reporter, every time you talk to somebody, you get just a little bit more. brooke. >> of course. brar barbara starr, thank you. as we're speaking, cnn has gotten april statement from katherine bigelow as barbara pointed out for the hurt locker. here's what she told the entertainment unit. let me look at the e-mail. the project about the decade long pursuit of bin laden has been in the works for many years and integrates the collective efforts of three administrations including president bush, president clinton, bush and obama. as well as by the defense department and the cia. the dangerous work of finding the world's most wanted man was carried out by individuals in the military and intelligence communities who put their lives at risk for the greater good without regard for political affiliation. that was an american triumph, heroic and nonpartisan. there's no bias to suggest that our film will represent this enormous victory otherwise.
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i'll read part of that to congressman king when he comes on next hour and see what his issue is specifically with this particular film. maybe it's more directed at the cia and defense department will ask him. congressman king next hour. what is more troubling to congressman peter king that the white house may have consulted on a movie about the death of bin laden or that the movie is coming out the month before the presidential election next year. we'll talk to congressman king next hour. next to this. a movie, hitting theaters today, tells the story of black women working in white homes. this goes back to 1961 from the perspective of the help. the stars say the phenomenon portrayed in the film hasn't gone away. it just has a new face. my interview with these two women coming up. [ waves crashing ]
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they brought home the bodies of those 30 americans who died in last weekend's crash. this photograph was taken at dover air force base there in delaware. of that 30, 22 elite navy s.e.a.l.s. were among the victims and the pentagon, this is now expected to release the names of those troops in the coming hours. coalition forces say the taliban leader and the insurgent who fired upon that chinook helicopter were killed in a precision air strike on monday. i want you to listen now as commander john allen explains exactly what happened. >> as you know, last friday night we lost 30 american service members when a chinook helicopter went down in the war duck province. we're deeply saddened by the loss of these magnificent americans. these fallen warriors represented the best of america. we're on a path towards achieving our goals in afghanistan and we will face the obstacles ahead with a steadfast determination to prevail. to that end, at approximately
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midnight on 8 august, coalition forces killed the taliban insurgents responsible for this attack against the helicopter which we assess was an rpg round. this does not ease our loss but we must and we will continue to relentlessly pursue the enemy. all across afghanistan the insurgents are losing. losing territory and leadership, losing weapons and supplies, they're losing public support and across afghanistan more and more insurgents are losing resolve and the will to fight and they face relentless pressure from coalition and increasingly afghan forces. >> and while we have been paying special attention to the deaths of the 30 u.s. troops in that crash, commander allen says to remember the eight afghans who died as well. activists in syria, they are reporting more deaths today as the hands -- at the hands of government security forces. today the united states is taking action against the syrian regime.
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stories now. in syria, activists report more deadly violence across the country has troops depart ha ma. the u.s. slapped sanctions on a syrian bank and mobile phone company and could call on president al assad to step down once they consult with the security council. u.s. drone strike in pakistan kills 20 people. pakistani intelligence officials say two missiles hit near the border of afghanistan. pro-taliban militant group is the target. the group is believed to be behind a number of attacks on the u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan. in los angeles, two men
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plead not guilty to felony charges relating to that beating of a san francisco giants fan back in march. marvin norwood and louie sanchez have several charges against them. the beating put 42 year aeld paramedic bryan stowe into a coma. he is still in serious condition. family members say he's been responding to their voices. hot weather, extreme drought prompting leaders in texas to resort to extreme measures. look at this, all the soil is cracking. the three major reservoirs that provide drinking water for half a million people have just about dried up. construction started this week on what they're calling water reclamation facility. it will turn sewage wastewater into drinking water. experts say the water will be safe to drink and actually taste better than what comes out of the reservoirs. the facility will be finished by late next year. look at this with me.
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this is an unreal image. this is a truck -- tractor-trailer struck on a freeway. imagine if he was stuck in traffic there in houston. obviously this held up rush hour yesterday. police say it was a total freak accident. no one was injured but it took hours to clear the freeway. transportation officials say repairs could cost into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. jurors in ohio recommended the death penalty for convicted serial killer anthony so wal. the judge will deliver his ruling friday morning. last month, the jury convicted him of 11 counts of murder and 70 other charges, including abusing corpses and kidnapping. the first two victims' remains, 11 altogether, discovered in 2009 inside his home. in some cases in the walls and in his backyard. next, my interview with viola davis and octavia spencer, stars of the new movie, "the help" out in theaters today. our conversation was less
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hollywood and more personal. >> what disturbs me than no one else. i would like to write something from the point of the view of the help. >> hear why the film meant so much more than a movie role for these actresses. stay with us. let's get a quick check of the dow. it is down now even further than last time. down 412 points. remember yesterday it finished in positive territory. we're 24 minutes away, 23 minutes away from the closing bell. we'll check back in with alison kos kosik, new york stock exchange in a moment. there's another way to help eliminate
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you see the numbers behind me. we were in different territory yesterday. the dow down 430 points. alison kosik, let me get back to you. we closed in the triple digits in the positive territory. what gives? >> reporter: i mean, this is what's known as the witching hour, brooke. the final hour of trading. we're in the final 20 minutes. it usually gets really rocky. look at that number. down 416. yesterday we were up almost just as much, 429. can you say a big 180 here? what you're seeing is investors at the end of the day, 20 minutes from the closing bell. they're saying you know what, i'm taking risk off the table. i don't want to go home with stocks in the mix. i will feel better going home knowing that i cut my losses. you know what i find interesting. i looked at how many trades are going through here today. volume, the number of trades going through here, it's unusually high. everybody kind of not taking vacations. they're sticking by their portfolios. they don't want to miss the boat if one of the stocks goes down. they want to sell before that
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happens. so i'm noticing that as well. look, in just a few minutes we're talking, just to show you the volt tivolatility. down 388 points only. >> i know you've been talking to traders what are they telling you, alison? >> reporter: i did ask them what they're feeling and they make the comparison back to the financial crisis of 2008 and they say we're not so scared. back in 200 they were scared to go home. >> are they using the r-word? >> reporter: they are using the r-word. what you could be seeing is the market factoring in, the growing likelihood that we could be headed toward a recession. you're seeing the market correct for that reason. the r-word is definitely being thrown around here at the stock exchange. there is great concern that we're head today a recession, into a recession. >> alison, we're watching the numbers with you. we'll check back in with you momentarily. i want to switch gears here. you know, i'm fortunate enough
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to live in a place with a lot of history. while we have come a long way here in atlanta, there are still stories about the south that remind us that the civil rights era is a very new chapter in our contemporary history. of those stories, one of them really comes alive this weekend in the movie, it's called the help. it depicts white upper class women in jackson, mississippi and the black maids who kept their households running in the 1960s. i sat down at a southern institution. if you like fried chicken, you'll like this place. mac and cheese. mary mac's tea room. i sat down with davis and octavia spencer. i couldn't help but thinking a short few decades ago, our conversation at that restaurant could have never happened. >> was there any moment where either of you said, i don't know if i want to slip on a maid's uniform each and every day and go to work for this movie? >> not for that specific reason. i was excited about the fact that the story was being told
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from this perspective. >> the perspective of what? >> the african-american maids in the '60s. because prior to then or prior to this moment, all of literature and the majority of films where we are represented during that time period is pretty much as facilitators of information, not really -- not much depth. we definitely didn't have a voice. this was a different type of film. >> i had trepidation because i feel a great responsibility depicting images of black women that i feel are derogatory. >> hold on. >> i love creating characters that are complicated, have layers. but i didn't necessarily believe that people would get abilene because of that. >> i'd like to do a book of interviews about working for white families. i'd like to show what it's like to work for, say, elizabeth. >> you know what she do to me if
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i was telling stories on her. >> i was thinking we wouldn't have to tell her. >> was it an amalgamation of ladies. >> amalgamation, absolutely. absolutely. i mean, filming in mississippi, two miles from the tallahatchie river where the body of emmitt till was found six miles down the river, 12 miles from ind know la, the birthplace of the citizens council and being in a movie set in 1961, yeah, you're swallowing some pretty heavy duty emotions on a day-to-day basis. >> you were cognizant of your geographic location and the historic significance. >> i think the people forget too, how much you felt invisible, when you were a person of color. so you go through years and years and generations of feeling invisible, generations of not exploring one's dreams and hopes and then you have a whole
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cyclical pattern of generations just kind of doing what their mothers did and what their grand mothers did and what's so wonderful l. about this movie is someone comes into the midst of that. >> all rightment i'm going to do it. but i need to make sure she understands this ain't no game we playing here. >> i think it definitely informed the performances. it helped to bring about the angst, anger, the gamut of emotions that you go through and it also built a great bond between not only viola and myself, but our white counterparts. because we all were uncomfortable. >> these women raised white children. we love them and they love us. but they can't even use the toilets in our houses. >> min any, are you in there? >> you are fired! >> i had read that there were homes in green wood, mississippi, where they would still have help, african-american women dressed up in maid uniforms from head to
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toe and did you see that while you were filming there? >> absolutely. >> was that surreal at all? >> los angeles, greenwood, mississippi. there's help today. >> everybody's help. i'm help. >> the new help is defined by mexicans and guatemalans and we see it all the time. we see it in new york city with the nannies pushing the carts in central park west and park avenue. it's just the way it is. >> i'm going to write my stories down and read them to you. they're no different than writing down my prayers. >> let's talk about the evolution of ms. skeeter and abilene. describe that relationship and how it evolved through the film. >> i think that i really start beginning to trust skeeter when she asked me if i ever dreamt about being anything else. >> did you know as a girl growing up that one day you would be a maid? >> yes, ma'am, i did. >> do you ever dream of being
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something else? >> my father passed away an he groomed and trained horses for 25 years and he hated it. i never asked him what his dreams were, ever. >> do you regret that? >> absolutely. and i think that when skeeter asked abilene, who is 51 years old, born in 1911, the granddaughter of a house slave, did you ever dream of being anything else? i think that that throws her for a loop. >> why is this movie relevant for us? what is the take away? >> the relevance is, i think it's teaching people to find within themselves the courage to change, in fact changing their own lives. >> sometimes you have to dare not to fit in. dare to, you know, tap into something bigger than yourself in live. >> these characters are so humanized and they go on a journey and they're ordinary women who become these
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extraordinary people by the end of this story. >> octavia and viola, thank you again for sharing sweet tea and sharing your stories with me. i always enjoy hearing from you. we'll put that interview on my blog. go to cnn.com/brooke. share your thoughts about the women and the movie. the movie opens today. bring tissues if you see it. night is falling in great britain. the suburbs around london are still on edge after multiple days of riots being day five. hear the emotional words from a father who lost his son and wants this violence to end. ze td or because heavy duty made motor trend's 2011 truck of the year. no, it was good because you told us so. consider this a thank-you. the chevy model year wrap up. get in on our greatest model year yet. right now, combine the all-star edition discount with other offers for a total value of $6,000.
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britain's prime minister to rioters and looters in london where it's just about 9:00 p.m. there. certainly the night has fallen. prime minister david cameron says they are taking the streets back. they're cracking down on the crisis. britain is reeling from four nights of trouble embracing for what could be a fifth tonight. police are told to use whatever means necessary including plastic bullets. they're readying their water cannons. and for those who have criticized police for being too lenient, take a look at this video here. this is from youtube in manchester. it shows police chasing down a group of rioters there in the street. one of them hits the alleged rioter with a baton several times there. you see under the light now, manchester police are investigating the matter and says the circumstances surrounding the video is not yet known. but talk about the police force now increasing. now some 16,000 officers are trying to restore order in london alone. hundreds of people are under arrest for looting and arson in
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multiple cities. ireporter says the streets of england now remind him of the conflict in the middle east. >> i can hear helicopters above me all around. hear at least ten of them. sounds like i'm in beirut or some middle eastern conflict. i have never witnessed this in the uk. i could have never imagined this. it looks like the gaza strip here right now. grenades going off left, right and center. >> i do want you to know our correspondent in london dan rivers is right on the ground around the area of birmingham. we're told there are security issues so we can't speak to him right now. as soon as it's safe for him to hop on television, we'll have him do so. it has been another wild ride on wall street. we've been watching the numbers here. dow continues to dive down 482 point nous. and with the trading day winding
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day today. let's get through another couple political items. cnn.com/situation room blog. i write about something you might be interested in. will president obama rip a page from president clinton's playbook back in 1995-96 when he was engaged in the strategy called triangulation. i'm just going to leave it like that. maybe people want to be read it. let's talk about the new cnn-orc polls coming out. we asked two provocative questions on taxes. should the deficit reduction bill increase taxes on businesses and higher income americans? look at this. 63% say yes. 36 brs say no. in other words, a clear majority would like some increased taxes on those who can afford it. that goes into the supercommittee debate that's about to unfold. another quay question, should the deficit reduction bill include major cuts in domestic
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spending. 57% say yes. 40% say no. so a clear majority on that as well. the other poll on the presidential contest, rick perry is going to announce that he's running at least informally on saturday in south carolina. then iowa. in this poll, romney is still ahead with 17%. .ery is at 15%. closely behind the margin of error. so already these two guys emerging potentially as the front-runners in this race for the republican nomination. rick perry hasn't even formally announced yet but we expect him to do so, to make his intentions clear this weekend. everyone thinks he's going to run. could be a wild run for the republican nomination. >> thank you. i do want to leave where we left off there, talking and looking at the markets here. we are nowless than three minutes away from the closing bell. this is quite a 180 from what we saw this time yesterday. now the dow down 532 points.
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i want to bring in jason weisberg, the son of ted di. i've been talking to your dad for the last couple of days. he's been trading for 43 years. how long have you been there? >> about half that. >> you've been looking at these numbers with me. i can't make any sense of it, can you? >> i can't make sense of the volatility. the trend clearly makes sense. >> how sow zo? >> a lack of faith in the, i guess, the political wherewithal of the current people that are sitting in office and the loack of confidence the investment community has in them. >> so you're specifically saying these numbers are directly tied to washington. but i'm sneaking a peek at cnn.com. the fear is about european debt crisis resurfacing. i know that is also part of this
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dialogue. fears of default in italy and spain. mega economies over in europe. that has to play a part as well. >> well, it does. it certainly plays a part, but i think it really plays a minor role compared to the bottom line is that our u.s. treasury takes in $2.8 trillion a year. we ran into the first financial crisis and it was because people were buying things they can't afford. the same rules apply to our government. we tried to rewind that and get people to buy what they could afford. and the government needs to take a hard look at what they can afford. we have a lot of programs that are in place that have been in the place since world war ii. a lot of entitlement. pras that were put in place for a reason and we don't need them now. >> let me interrupt, and just
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hear the closing bell here and we'll pick it up in a moment. [ bell ringing ] >> yesterday we were up some 429 points. i have alison kosik standing by and poppy harlow as well. would you believe i had a dinner conversation about qe3, quantitative easing. i don't want to get into mumbojumbo. that was one thing people were looking for the fed to do when
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they came out with that statement around 2:15 yesterday. if you can, explain what that is and why perhaps part of that attributes to the lacklustre numbers today. >> well, it could. you know, we're talking about the announcement that we got from the fed yesterday about 2:15 in the afternoon. the fed sets monetary policy. they're able to do quantitative easing, which means buying up a bunch of bonds, injecting economy with a stimulus. they've done it twice already in the past year. some folks were expecting they would announce they were doing it again yesterday. they did not say that, so you might have seen some market disappointment to that. but brooke, i want to reiterate there's no rationality. we saw stocks rise 429 points on the dow and the s&p 500 even more than that. we had a killer last hour of the session. now we've had the exact opposite reaction. we've seen a major selloff today. in the last hour and even the final minutes. >> what is driving this? >> there is nothing driving it. i just talked to a man who is short on stocks, whiches
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basically he makes money when the market is doigoing down. he said this is all macro. this is not necessarily about one statement from the fed. this isn't about individual stocks or companies and their earnings. as we've seen for a week now, these companies are doing great overall. their earnings, some of them are record. that's not reflected in the market. he said this is all macro economic. he says this is big fears about europe and sovereign debt. there's a lot of question it is about if france is going to be downgraded just like we got on friday night. he said fear and greed is driving this marketplace right now. you see stocks get really chip. investors come in, pick them up and then you see them sell off again. there is simply no rationality to this market. the statement we got from the federal reserve yesterday, brooke, was very, very bleak. and we saw the biggest rally we've seen in weeks. it doesn't make any sense. >> it makes no sense. if we all had answer, we would
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be on a yacht somewhere because we could figure it all out. i think jason would agree with me. jason, i'm just curious, when you were there on the floor of the new york stock exchange, back in the fall of 2008 when it was so, so bleak post lehman, i mean, are we at a place where we really should start comparing what it was like then, how we fixed it and where we are today? >> well, i will tell you that it did feel back then like it was a financial apocalypse. it doesn't feel like that now. the problem is, and poppy touched on it earlier, is that this is really momentum driven. and there's a void of bids and offers. when you see the momentum players that have been -- the fast money guys just want to do the quick trade. when they go to buy a stock or sell a stock, there are no corresponding bids or offers to what they're trying to do. so it's very easy to move stocks very violently and in a very quick fashion. it's reflected in the indexes. we didn't have that back then.
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it was everyone trying to jump out of an exit at once. where here, twl's just no real long-term interest. >> so then given what you just said, let's say fast money guys aside, let's just talk about your normal american who's got some money in stocks and they're looking at these numbers again today. you know, yesterday they were thinking phew, today not so much. how does this affect him or her? >> well, other than an acute case of motion sickness, i think that if people can't -- they don't have the wherewithal to handle the beta or these large volatility swings. they probably don't want to be in the market. or they probably want to take some money off the table and limit their exposure. >> a little cash on hand? >> until it normalizes. >> jump in. do you want to ask jason a question? >> hey, jason. i don't know how you're getting through the day down there. but i have more and more people
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coming to me and saying, you know, how much of this is triggered because of the marketplace right now, there are all these electronic trades and the big trading shops are selling at certain prices, buying at certain prices. the average investor is coming to me saying i feel like i can't win in this marketplace, like something is rigged. this is the new reality. how much of this would you say is attributed to automatic buying and selling? >> i would say 95%, you know, and that's not a scientific percentage, but one of the outcomes of 2008 and more recently the flash crash where the government got to the bottom of nothing. without the short tick rule, forcing people to short sell on a plus tick and having a fragmented marketplace with all the algorithms and alternative trading mechanisms, it makes it
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very difficult to price things property. that pricing inefficiency is being reflected in the trading activity that you see today. the only way to do that is to try to kind of create a more central environment for trading. there needs to be some form of consolidation and trading venues and platforms to make it a little more sane. >> i think this is a very scary reality for people that are seeing their 401(k)s or iras or pensions hit so hard. you say this is 95% due to what big institutional traders and the folks on wall street are doing with the automated technology? and people need to be aware of that. this may be a game you just can't play in right now. >> poppy, just to that point -- >> jason, go ahead. >> it's not only institutional players. this really involves high
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frequency traders and event-driven hedge funds. these aren't the fidelities of the world. they're not participating in strategies like this. >> i do want to bring aliso alison kosik. as you said jason it doesn't feel as financially apocalyptic as it did in 2008. alison as we talk about the r word, recession, is all the volati volatile we've been seeing for weeks, is this leading to more worries about another recession? >> and what's funny is you've got jason on the phone and i literally walked up to him today and asked him that. he said no, but he is in the minority. others think you're seeing the growing likelihood of another recession being priced into the market as we speak. we're watching it happen. seeing these huge just
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jaw-dropping plooufs that i realize are computer generated. we saw just now at the closing bell, we saw a 150-point move down within minutes. it's truly incredible, brook. >> like we said, i think the headline sums it up, the fear is back. thank you all. the dow down 519 points here. again as i've been saying, echoing 2008. thank you all and now -- watch this. >> it is suddenly the most powerful group in washington. six republicans, six democratser s all sitting in one room determining what gets cut and who gets scared. this super congress now taking place. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. >> there's no preparing for it. >> revenge for the war zone attack that left 30 americans dead.
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on wall street, they want a sign from government that they're serious about getting their books in order. which brings us to the so-called super committee. joe johns is parsing through some of the names here. joe, who do you have? >> hey, brooke. well, max baucus, chair of the finance committee, thought to be a deal maker. john kerrykerry, probably one o most controversial names we've heard so far right there is the senator from washington patty murray. she's also the person who runs the senate group that tries to elect democrats to the united states senate. she's taken some heat. jon kyl of arizona, he's a member of the leader shp, also a member of the senate finance committee. pat toomey, this is a freshman
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united states senator who's a republican. also ran before he came to the senate, the club for growth, a conservative organization interested in, among other things, keeps taxes down. rob portman, former budget director for if the bush is a senator from the state of ohio and gets some credit as trying to reach across the aisle. even got some credit just today from his democratic counterpart, the senator from ohio. now on the house side, among the republicans, the first one that stands out is jeb hensarlin. that's where we stand so far. there are three more members to be named. those are given to us by nancy
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pelosi. she has until tuesday to do that. looks like she's kind of keeping her powder dry for now. >> okay, so far 9 out of 12. that's who's in. let's talk about many who aren't in. paul ryan, the republican debt-cutting guru. where is he? >> he said he didn't want to do it frankly. i mean, he is the house budget chairman. he's also kind of a lightning rod. probably attract some controversy. he kwam came up with a budget plan that didn't go anywhere and actually it would have cut more from the budget than this, you know, idea that they came up with and passed in order to raise the debt ceiling. he said he didn't want to do it an he has plenty to do as house budget committee chairman and that's why we don't see his name on the list. >> okay, thanks but no thanks from paul ryan. let's see what the country is saying about cutting the debt. hooer's a poll released just today.
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should deficit reduction include cut to the military? 53% say no. domestic cuts, 57% yes. medicare, social security, 35% say cut them. 64% say no way. one 63% say yes, raise the taxes on the wealthy and so-called job creators. joe johns, it sounds as if the american people and wall street and the ratings agencies are unanimous, folks in washington, do what you got to do but do something. do you think the message is getting through there? >> well, that's the speculation. i mean, when these people get together in a room, there's going to be a co-couacophony of voice. these guys are going to start
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feeling the pressure to go ahead and do something. if f they don't, if they get to the point around thanksgiving and then christmas and they haven't completed this work and come up with an agreement, well, then we could have a bunch of cuts that go into place sort of automatically. these are the triggers that affect both democratic interest and republican interests. and they could be a lot more harsh than you know what these guys could do in a room. >> trigger mechanisms, the president this week hoping whatever you want to say, pressure, urgency, forces this committee to cut and compromise. joe, thank you very much. now watch this. >> first of all, the claims are ridiculous. >> is the obama administration leaking top secret information about the raid that killed osama bin laden. are they giving out these classified details to a hollywood movie director? congressman peter king is calling for an investigation. the congressman is going to join me live next.
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a big potentially blow-up a new one, appears to be brewing in washington. in the middle of this is representative peter king. what we're talking about is this film, the killing of osama bin laden both blessed and aided by the obama administration, due to the released about a month before the election next year. congressman king, none too thrilled about any of this. why not? what's the issue? >> well, the issue is that ever since may 1 -- and by the way, i gave president obama tremendous credit for carrying out the operation.
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this is not a partisan shot at president obama at all. but for the last 90 day, we have had sensitive information on top of sensitive information being released by this administration. so many press reports about cia operations. the fact that there were navy s.e.a.l.s at all. the fact that there was going to be a cia operation back to the compound to examine the helicopter. i've been contacted by so many people in the intelligence community over the last 90 days outraged over so much sensitive material, and not just me. secretary gates, admiral muller. they have made public statements saying how too much information has come out and it's time to shut it off to find out on top of this the administration is
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cooperating with a hollywood movie. >> let me get to that. >> i read your letter, talking about this potential investigation. the quote that the movie mablgemablger -- makers are getting classified information from an administration that tried to put more people in jail for leaking classified information than the bush administration. here was jay carney's response. >> first of all, the claims are ridiculous. when people, including you in this room are working on articles, books, documentaries or movies that involve the president ask to speak to administration fishes we do our best to accommodate them. to make sure the facts are correct. we do not discuss classified information and i would hope as we face a continued threat from terrorism the house committee on
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homeland security would have more important topics to discus than a movie. >> congressman king, your reaction? >> well, obviously someone wrote out a statement for jay carney and he has no idea what he's talking about. they have leaked classified information for the last 90 days. >> can you share how you know that definitively? >> there's no one else that it would be coming from. the fact that you can look at press reports of a doctor in pakistan in jail today because nb in the administration said how we were using him, we talked about for instance the article in the "new yorker" last week, the administration said the administration was going back in to try to retrieve the helicopter, they announced that before the operation was carried out. there's been all this information -- i'm on the
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intelligence committee. two days after the operation, we received sensitive information. more than ever, we were told this could should not be released, ever. >> katherine bigelow has been to the feng. she worked on this film, she's now changed the story line because of this death of bin laden. i know she met with -- they have a mu sooe liaison in the pentagon who reads these scripts. she met with the undersecretary of intelligence who i am told, and i'm quoting, went out of his way not to reveal any classified information about the ride. so some people coming forward saying with everything going on in washington, sir, this potential investigation, isn't it a little silly? >> how can you say that, we're talking about relegaling classified information that would put american lives at
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risk. they have such a horrible track record. it's embarrassing what they've done. it's putting lives at risk. that's why so many people in the intelligence community have been outraged with what they're doing in the last 90 days. if we can't trust them to keep classified information the last 930 days, how can we trust them dealing with a hollywood script writer, especially someone involved in a previous movie where the defense department had to break off their contract with her because she gave false information "the hurt locker." i asked for a report back on what steps are being taken to ensure that absolutely no sensitive or classified information is given to hollywood. >> this movie when you look at the timing comes out in october, before a massive, massive election in our country.
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how do you feel about that? >> that's almost a secondary issue except it puts a cloud over the whole project. i've been told by people in the intelligence community and cia, they were never, ever told that this was going to come out three weeks before the election. and that took them totally by surprise and some of them look upon it as a breach of faith. >> peter king, we thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. thank you. >> the manhunt is over. three sibling fugitives, armed, dangerous, on the run, right now behind the bars. wait till you hear how this whole bust went down this morning. we're going to hear from the slft ne sheriff next and we will go back to wall street where the markets take a look -- oh, look who it is. teddy weissberg. if you're nervous about the numbers, teddy has the answers. level to help your engine
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youth. to me you get in markets like this, it's always upsetting, always very disturbing. it gets real expensive, investors get nervous. you find yourself doing a lot of hand holding and you really don't have any hard answers that people are looking for. it's just a process that you have to go through. i neen markets do this from time to time. it's never quite understandable or explainable, but it is a knee-jerk reaction, of course, to all the negative issues that are swirling around us, both economic and geopolitical. and it's -- the market will just find its levels. stocks will tell us when they're ready. perhaps that's not so far away, but we'll just have to wait for that to happen. >> you've been the voice of calm here. it's tough to be calm when you have money in the market and it's down 519 points. what is your advice today?
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>> first of all, we were up net-net down 100. it was 500 today and up 400 yesterday. but down is still down. i think the advice would simply be the same. it's not a zero sum game. the sun will come up tomorrow and there is value being created all around us in the stock market and for those folks who have a little patience and still have some money left, perhaps there's some opportunities here that will prove to be very rewarding at some point down the road. unfortunately, we have to get through all the issues that we're dealing with economically in this country at the moment, not the least of which are the downgrades and all the problems we're having in washington in dealing with some of these problems. but this, too, shall pass. markets don't go to zero. maybe we're going lower. i don't know. nobody has a crystal ball.
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but, you know, we'll all get up tomorrow, life will go on and i think it should be viewed more perhaps as a potential opportunity than rather than something to scare people to death, which it's doing at the moment. >> it is indeed. i appreciate your optimism, but for a lot of people the fear is pervasive. now to a story a lot of you have been following. the dougherty gang was busted a couple of hours ago in colorado. the crime spree that put them on the fbi's most wanted list ended pretty much as it began. bullets flying and a high-speed car chase. that chase ended in a crash. take a look at these images. that's the dougherty's car, smashed up, nose in the dirt, up against the guardrail. i did speak to the colorado sheriff who spotted the car at a convenience store. take a listen to him. >> we spotted them at the convenience store. we contacted the state patrol
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because of the proximity to i-25, which is the main atry th -- artery that goes north to south in colorado. before we could get our resources in place, they took off, followed by the sheriff's deputy followed them. they engaged in the pursuit and went another 20, 25 miles or so south to a little town in colorado where the accident actually occurred. during the chase, there were some shots fired by the individuals in the vehicle at the law enforcement fiofficers. >> were shots going both ways? i was watching a press conference in florida and that press conference they said the sister was shot in her arm. >> all i can confirm is that the officers were shot at. any other details, i cannot
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relate to you. >> are the officers okay? >> no law enforcement officers at all were injuried. all three passengers were injured a different amount on each person. they are being treated right now. after they are treated and released -- none of the injuries were life threatening. >> we have now learned one of those injury, it was the big sister, grace lee, she was the one who hopped out of the car after it crashed on the guardrail. she was shot in her leg. lee grace, excuse me, who tried to get out of there, shot in her leg. the dougherty's crime spree began more than a week ago in florida with a shootout with police. they're also wanted in georgia for an armed bank robbery. now this. >> this does not ease our loss, but we must and we will continue to relentlessly pursue the enny. >> we will tell you what happened during this kill mission. plus there's breaking news with
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>> we are getting word that police found a teacher dead in a classroom. police have detained a 17-year-old student. of course, we're making phone calls, monitoring the investigation, updates as soon as we get them. i do have an update now on the nation's deadliest single incident in the war. officials have killed the insurgents that took down a chinook helicopter saturday morning in afghanistan. 30 u.s. troops were killed in last week's crash including a number of navy s.e.a.l.s. but the number of s.e.a.l.s killed, that is changing. barbara starr, we initially thought there were 20 s.e.a.l.s onboard. how is that changing? >> well, for some days now since this happened, the u.s. military indicate 2d 2 navy s.e.a.l.s
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onboard that helicopter. what we now know is there were 17 s.e.a.l.s, five sailors, navy personnel who had more conventional jobs but were working with the s.e.a.l.s at that time. things like dog handlers, communication specialists and we are not forgetting the air force and army personnel onboard. not 22 s.e.a.l.s, 17 s.e.a.l.s. nonetheless, as you see their faces, their has been a response from the u.s. military to the insurgents in afghanistan. general john allen, the top u.s. commander in the war briefing pentagon reporters earlier today said that overnight on monday, they conducted an air strike against a compound and they got the insurgents and in particular the shooter that they strongly believe was responsible for all of this. listen to what general allen had to say. i'm sorry, i guess we don't have that sound. my apologies.
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general allen saying they launched an air strike and got the taliban insurgents responsible for all of this. but, you know, still there are going to be questions as the investigation goes on about so many people onboard one large, slow-moving chinook helicopter. a lot of questions about how all of this happened, especially because we now also know that helicopter as it flew in to land came under fire from multiple directions. so they were really caught. 30 souls lost, all remembered. the investigation has an awful lot to look into now. >> so many americans celebrating this particular navy s.e.a.l. unit just a couple of months ago. coming up next, an american disappears in aruba. we're told the guy she's traveling with is behind bars. the mysterious messages they left behind and how they met may break this case wide open.
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or visit your local liberty mutual office, where an agent can help you find the policy that's right for you. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? sunny, we want to begin with this woman here, missing in aruba. take a look at her picture. her name is robin gardner from maryland. she was last seen on august 2. and i know a lot of people -- look, it's easy to do this, drawing parallels with natalee holloway, but it's important to point out. these are very different circumstances here, are they not? >> they really are. the man she was last seen with, she met online. they actually traveled to aruba
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together. both from maryland. that was a different circumstance than natalee holloway. this woman is 35. natalee holloway was a teenager, on her senior trip. met someone from aruba and has never been found. >> she goes to aruba with -- who is he, what do you know about him? and what are police looking for from him? >> certainly they want to know what happened. he was the last person that she was seen with. his name is gary jordan kngiord. they went snorkling together august 2. he claimed she never came to short. he does have a criminal history, brooke, in maryland. two women, one, his ex-wife, they filed orders of protection against him. so perhaps a violent person. and the aruban police certainly have him for questioning.
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>> so they're questioning h him. now something i didn't realize you could have, dogs in a courtroom. it makes sense. there's a case of rosy the therapy dog. rosy here was allowed to be in a witness box to comfort a teenage girl who was on the stand testifying that her father had raped her and not only that, actually got her pregnant. so her father was convicted, but now lawyers for the father are crying foul. why? >> they sure are. she spiked this legal debate saying possibly rosy swayed the jury. perhaps the jurors thought she was certainly telling the truth because she needed the therapy dog. but i will say this. i've tried a lot of child sex crimes and the most difficult thing for prosecutors is to get that victim, especially children on the witness stand to be face to face with the perpetrator.
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i think this is a natural extension of other tools prosecutors have used. there's typically a children's victim advocate in the courtroom in the line of vision for a child while testifying. >> does it happen often? >> i wouldn't say often, but it started in about 2003. there's been this growing trend. you see it in arizona, you see it in idaho, see it in hawaii. this is the first time you have seen it in new york. and this is a very important case. i think this will end in appeal. i think the highest court of new york will look at this. but again, i think it's just the mat natural progression of trying to make sure victims of brams are comforted while on the witness stand. >> sunny hostin on the case. >> i started cpr on my own son. my face was covered in blood. my hand was covered in blood.
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>> want to take you live to birmingham, england. here it would be a fifth night of looting and riots in and around the streets of london. you don't have the helmet, you don't have the vest on. i'm going to guess at least the situation where you are has improved? >> yeah, it's improved dramatically here. we're in a gas straation. this is where three pakistani men were killed by a car that mowed into them. they were here trying to protect this gas station from looters. you can still see a group of young pakistani men here who doing the same job.
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they say jobs have been smashed. there are police all up and down the streets. and the community itself has been out in force and so far it seems to be working. >> what do you think the tipping point is for the violence to the quelled where you are. is it the presence of 16,000 police officers. is it people raising their brooms and wanting to take back the streets. what is it, dan? >> i think it's a combination of all of that. but particularly the police flooding the streets in london as well.
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a massive increase in the number of uniform officers on the streets. i think the message got out to the people perpetrating this violence that the community is not going to stand for any more as well. i think they would be met with a stiff resistance here and a lot of other places as well. >> as you pointed out, this is one year out of the olympics in london. did you know the obama administration has not called on syria's president to resign at least thus far. but the u.s. making moves that will make bah shir als
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knew to syria as the fatal violence continues to rage across the country, the u.s. is planning to ask syrian president bashar al assad to step down. we want to go to jill dougherty live for us at the state department. jill, how soon do you think the u.s. may be calling for president al assad to leave? >> well, soon. nobody knows. we will probably hear from the white house, from the president on that. but you can hear in everything that other officials, senior officials say at the state department, at the u.n., et cetera, they're getting very close. i mean, it is a matter of time. i think you would have to say at u.s. behind the scenes, and publicly, has been really trying to drum up a lot of support
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diplomatically, to get other countries to come onboard. and especially some of the northeast, the arab countries that normally might not want to say something about president assad. he's been his own worst enemy in that sense. every time people look at the screens, you see what's happening in syria. based on that now, the united states knowing that the arab world is coming around to this and is supporting them really feels that it's going to be very close. >> that's interesting. so perhaps because of king abdullah's remarks cent s rece maybe that's why we'll hear from president obama. take a look at the syrian military, apparently shooting at people. we can't actually see this in the video. i want to show you these images. there are reports of even more
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people being killed in the northwestern part of syria today. and also today, as jill knows, the u.s. slaps sanctions on a mobile phone operator. explain these sanctions to me and how by doing that maybe perhaps, you know, helping prevent more images like this in syria. >> well, in order to do this crackdown, they need money. president assad needs money. and the way they are doing -- the world community, the united states are trying to squeeze him is by sanctions and also just hurting him and the regime as much as they can. so the first one on the commercial bank, that's the commercial bank of syrian and the syrian lebanese commercial bank. they provide to a syrian service
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that produces missiles and also to north koreans. the charge here is they're helping to spread weapons of mass destruction. so that's the first one. if if they can cut that, that would be huge. and the other is cell phones owned by the regime. >> and now golf fan, watch this. >> you love loaded questions, don't you? >> tiger woods taking interesting questions, perhaps some of which are loaded. find out what he would and would not answer live next. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] with the most advanced engine in its class, 50 horsepower, dual overhead cams and fierce acceleration, the gator xuv 825i will shatter your expectations.
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this is steve williams, 12 years on tiger's bag, 72 wins including 13 major championships. recently dumped by tiger. now working for sunday's winner, adam scott. and judging by his remarks, steve williams is not happy with mr. woods. listen. >> i was absolutely shocked that i got the boot to be honest with you. i catered to the guy for 13 years, incredibly loyal to the guy and i got short shifted. very disappointing. >> when steve was your guy, he never talked to the media or very rarely talked to the media after an event. last week he said a lot of things, were you surprised by that? >> yeah. >> mike three in the front please. >> that was tiger woods. sort of speaking today from the atlanta athletic cup.
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i guess you could say tiger has been pretty tight lipped about the divorce from steve williams, would you say? >> yeah, it's been typical tiger, i would say. he's been an exhert at averting the questions. he addressed it without addressing it. caddies do get fired all the time, but in steve williams' defense, this became a real personal matter. they had bungee jumped together. this became a real personal matter and he felt he wasn't treated fairly. the golf fans are out there chanting the names of the caddy. what are we to read? is tiger just that unpopular.
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>> really, it's a great career move to be fired by tiger woods. what is how popular he is right now. we all thought tiger was going to change. his personal crisis was going to trigger a metamorphosis. i'm sure those close to him hoped for that. i'm sure steve williams hoped for that. i guess it's slower to happened than some people would have liked. >> last question, do you think tiger has a chance of winning this? >> i think he has a chance. he hasn't played well since his
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