hello, everyone, thank you for joining us. i'm don lemon. we're going to start in iran where two american men could spend the next eight years in prison. josh fattal and shane bauer were detained two years while hiking near the iranian border and charged with spying. here's the very latest from islamabad pakistan. >> this is a verdict that will probably surprise a lot of people outside of iran who expected josh and shane to be released after they have spent more than two years in prison waiting for this lengthy case to be completed.

and it's a report that will deeply disappoint the parents of josh and shane who were deeply hoping this or deal would be over for their sons. it appears that this or deal is finally over. a court in iran has convicted bauer and fattal of spying and trespass and sentenced them to eight years in prison, three years for trespassing and three years for spying, a charge that the men and their lawyers have been declaring all along. his attorney says he was ain't ware of the verdict until he heard it in the media. he says he's not going to comment until he's spoken to court officials. of course this is a case that made worldwide headlines shortly after the hikers were detained in july 2009 and it has increased tensions between iran and the u.s. and this verdict certainly won't help relations between washington and tehran.

but analysts say this case is far from over. the lawyers have 20 days to appeal the verdict and don't rule out the possibility that iranian authorities will release shaun and josh. an american journalist was also detained by iranian authorities, convicted of spying and sentenced to eight years in prison. and she was released shortly thereafter, it is the holy month of ramadan when islamic governments tend to pardon individuals who have been convicted of a crime. don't rule out the possibility of the iranian authorities releasing shaun and josh despite the conviction. violence has engulfed the city of homes, witnessness say

21 people have been killed since friday. one witness described it as, quote, a real war. people are afraid to leave their homes because of snipers. cnn is unable to independently confirm these details. a television interview with the syrian president tomorrow. militants in gaza today responsibili responded to major -- the israeli military says it was targeting tunnels used by militants to launch attacks on israel. more than two dozen missiles launched from gaza smashed into israel today killing one person and wounding at least 12. rebels in libya appear to be one step closer to tripoli. opposition fighters have pushed government forces outside the gates of zawiyah but artillery

and mortars could still be heard inside the city. one fighter said an offensive was possible by the end of the week. the government meanwhile nearly denies that libyan leader moammar gadhafi is scheming to leave tripoli and u.s. officials believe he's preparing for a last stand. the gun fire and explosions they have heard today are some of the loudest since the war began. let's talk some politics now and the man who's grabbing headlines in the race for the republican nomination. governor perry promoted his jobs record in texas. >> there's not anybody else in the race including the president that has created as many jobs as i have. 750,000 net jobs, new jobs have been created in the state of texas while i've been the

governor. the president has overseen 2.5 million jobs lost. and we have done it by simply putting some principles into place that work. we keep the tax burden as low as we can upon those job creators. we have a regulatory climate that is fair and predictable, a legal system that doesn't allow for oversuing, and at the start of the thing, you don't spend all the money. >> and as for the president, a white house advisor tells cnn that president obama is making progress on the jobs plan he's expected to announce after labor day. he's vacationing with his wife and family. he'll continue working on the jobs plan through next week. if you missed wolf blitzer's one-on-one interview with president obama earlier in the week, you have another chance to hear his thoughts on the economy, republicans and his prospects for a second term. make sure you check out "the situation room" at the top of the hour right here on cnn. up next, the west memphis three, freed from prison the

same day they pleaded guilty to murdering three children. the little known legal strategy that allowed them to go free. and a deadly tornado strike in the midwest. and the severe weather is not over yet. that one day on the red hills of georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. i have a dream today! [ male announcer ] chevrolet is honored to celebrate the unveiling of the washington, d.c., martin luther king jr. memorial. take your seat at the table on august 28th.

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jason baldwin, damon echols and jessie miskelly are free men today. they were just teenagers when they went to prison for killing two little boys just three years ago. now they are out thanks to a highly unusual plea deal in which they admit guilt.

>> reporter: after more than 18 years behind bars t men known as the west memphis three find that freedom has a bitter taste. >> this was not just -- they sent us to prison for the rest of our lives, and we had to come here and all they said was that we'll let you go only if you admit guilt. >> they get out of prison to proclaim their innocence but only -- the west memphis three go free, but not free of the world murder. >> it's not perfect, it's not perfect by any means, but at least it brings close dwrure to areas and some aspects. you know, we can still bring up new evidence, we can still continue the investigations we have been doing, we can still

try to clear our names, the only difference is we can do it from the outside instead of having to sit in prison and do it. >> reporter: and after they were entire young adult lives spent in prison, what do they do next? they also have the relentless hatred of some of the families of the murdered children. in this outburst, a father yells to the judge, he is opening a pando pandora's box. >> i don't think it will make the pain go away to the victims' families, i don't think it will make the pain go away for the defendants' families. >> prosecutors say the case is closed, they have their killers and their guilty pleas. but others, including the father of one of the murdered boys say they still want answers.

>> i have been on their side and i have been fighting for them hard since 2007 when i realized i was wrong. and i had to make many amends to people, but i'm still standing and fighting for justice because they're innocent. they did not kill my son. >> the west memphis three saved from a lifetime behind bars, now facing a lifetime of questions. david mattingly, cnn, jones borrow, arkansas. >> it is quite an unusual strategy and if you're confused about how a person can plead guilty to murder and then be set free. we're going to clarify how it works with cnn's holly hughes. police in florida arrest a 17-year-old. they say he was hoping to outdo columbine. here's a question, are teens more trouble nowadays? that discussion is next. that one day on the red hills of georgia, the sons of former slaves

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okay, you know, it has been a week with parents shaking their heads over what could have happened after the arrest of a florida man's son for allegedly plotting to blow up a school. >> i seen these pictures on tv, it bothered me. you know, where's his mother at? you know? what's going on? and i don't know what he did, i have no idea what's going on with them. >> that man's son, 17-year-old

jared cano was arrested by tampa police for plotting to out do columbi columbine. he had a minute to minute plan to set up bombs at his high school. we're going to go to our human behavior expert dr. wendy walsh. it's jared cano this week, last week we covered a story of another young man accused of stabbing to death the principal of his private school because he put him in a class that he didn't like. are young people more violent today compared to previous generations or are we just reporting on it more? >> i think we're just reporting on it more. i didn't see any trends in the statistics to see this giant spike, but america compared to the rest of the world has far more violent weapons related crimes with teens because of course we have pretty loose gun control here, so there's far more violence regarding using

gun fire and there's also been a big spike in girl teen violence and date teen violence. but in general, it's just that we're covering it more. and people are aware. >> there are more cameras around, media is bigger, there are more media outlets. seriously i i don't remember, i may be wrong, i could be wrong, but i don't remember kids having such access to guns when i was a kid and at least not automatic weapons. >> yeah, that's the main thing, is that we have so many weapons in our culture, but you know having said that, don, when i was growing up in a relatively smallish city in canada, we had our local catholic high school gun shooting with kids and we have pretty gun control in canada, so it can happen anywhere. >> people have guns in their home, my grandparents and my dad had guns in their homes, but they were just little weapons. our affiliate wfts is reporting

that facebook pages have popped up, free jared cano and save jared cano and police have concerns about young people perhaps copying what cano had been plotting. is this more common in teenage sners. >> exactly what we're doing encouraging other troubled teens to potentially be copycats, most of these facebook pages are not condoning the crime, but they're wanting to show sympathy and empathy with a young man who had it out for the rest of the world. >> how are we exacerbating this, wendy. >> the more you cover crime, the more it gives people who are, let's say a little bit mentally unstable may get some ideas.

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when we're talking about encouraging kids. >> i'm not blaming the media in any way, but it's just a causal link, the more you cover this stuff, the more unstable people have access to more information about things that they can do. >> it's just the facts. it's just the facts. >> one doesn't cause the other, it's just a casual link. >> a lot of sorrow for the country group sugar land to report. >> moments before we were about to take the stage, a huge gust of wind blew in and collapsed the entire stage wounding over 40 people and killing five. in honor of those people who were wounded and those beautiful lives that were lost, we ask you to stand and join us now in a moment of silence. >> such a sad story, jennifer nettles was referring to the tragic indiana interstate fair collapse last week.

sugarland performed thursday in new mexico obviously still shaken from the tragedy. dr. wendy, you know, this is as i said, just a terrible, terrible tragedy here. it's a strange position for this group to be in. many of the people injured were in that sugar pit they call it, the group of sugarland's most devoted fans. even though investigators say it was an overpowering surge of wind that caused the stage to collapse. explain this guilt, how do people get through these emotions? >> we'll have a version of survivors guilt even when they have certainly nothing to do with the deaths that happened. it's just a feeling like oh, could i have prevented this in some way. >> if we weren't playing there, these people wouldn't have been there. >> right, exactly. what they're doing by grieving with the public and grieving with their fans, is very helpful.

because what do we do at funerals and wakes? we come together. so they're dealing with this tragedy the best way they can. >> sometimes accidents, these just happen. we feel sorry for everyone involved and we wish them the very best. this is very disturbing to me and i'm sure to most people. a former child actor cory feldman told night line that pedophiles were everywhere in showbiz. and he blames a pedophile for the death of his friend cory haim, what do you make of these revelations from him? >> well, you know, i certainly can't talk about any specific case because i wasn't there, but i can talk in general about the kinds of climates that pedophiles are able to operate in. any time there's a closed system where there's a hierarchy and rules very much like hollywood and in hollywood there's sort of narcissism reigns and individual pleasures sort of reign and they're used to spoiled babies getting whatever they want in hollywood. in addition to the kind of children that are dropped into a very adult world in hollywood

send to be very precocious and very intelligent. so a pedophile could rationalize it with like, he's not like any other 13-year-old, he's grown up, he's really an adult in a kid's body. >> there's no rationalization. >> terrible rationalization, but i can understand how the environment, if this is in fact true can create an epidemic of pedophilia that cory is claiming exists. >> i hope there's more investigation into this because that is terrible. >> he's very specific. he said there's one mogul out there who should be arrested right now and he can't say his name. >> but he said one mogul. but why isn't he naming specific names? because this is a terrible thing to do to a child. >> exactly. well, you'll have to ask him, don, get him on your show. >> thank you, that is a good, good response to that. and we will do that. but, hey, i'm wondering why isn't he naming names if he's accusing somebody of doing this.

let's talk about this new study, you and i have talked about this. and i don't think it's anything knew, except for the study, nice guys finish last in the workplace and if you want to succeed in business or in work, you've got to sort of be a hard, you know what. >> actually i looked very closely at the study and the keyword they use is disagreeable people make more money over the long run. this is a self-report study, they extrapolated data from two different studies, they tended after 20 years to make a lot more money. disagree doesn't mean rude, impolite, angry or can't get along with. it means an ability to believe in yourself during contract notions. when the boss makes the offer, if you have the ability to disagree and say no, i think i'm worth this, then you'll make more money. >> the person who goes, i don't think so, ends up making more

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let's get you caught up on the headlines right now. state media in iran report two american hikers have been convicted of spying and sentenced to eight years in prison. josh fattal and shane bauer were detain fwod years ago while hiking near the iranian border with espionage and spying. sarah shourd was also arrested but was arrested last year. tanks rolled into the city. residents are terrified to step outside of their homes. at least 21 people have been killed since friday despite claims by president assad. cnn is unable to independently confirm events inside syria. survivors of the massacre on

norway's island. 69 people were killed in the shooting spree and a judge ordered he be held in solitary confinement for another four weeks. fast and intense flooding in pittsburgh claimed the lives of four people including a mother and her two children. the young girls were 12 and 8 years old. emergency crews found the fourth body today. rescuers told our affiliate wtae that the water on the street was at one point nine feet high. and pennsylvania's not the only state experiencing overwhelming rain. illinois is getting pounded as well. plus there's some tropical threats that we're tracking right now. meteorologist jacqui jeras is joining us now from the severe weather center. tell us what's going on, nine feet. >> that's a lot of water and it's so hard to tell how deep the water might be on a road in

front of you. we have had a lot of shower and thundershower activity across the midwest. a severe thunderstorm watch across parts of lower michigan right now. take a look at these pictures that we have from you that were from chicago earlier this morning from the same storm system. the air and water show has been going on. it started at 10:00 but they had to stop it at 10:30. but the police did step in and helped guide the crowd to safe places. there were an estimated 2.2 million people. the show did resume after the storms passed and nobody was injured and chicago, you're looking a lot better right now. in wisconsin, one person was killed, this was yesterday due to what's been confirmed now as a tornado, an ef-1 flattened a mobile home, hundreds of trees have been snapped off and caused damage in northern wisconsin. let's talk about where the storm system is moving right now and we're real concerned about what's going on in detroit. a severe thunderstorm warning is in effect for you and it's really in particular the northern half here, up into the

suburbs, damaging winds in excess of 60-mile-per-hour can be expected so stay indoors, this warning in effect until 6:00 local time. we still have problems at the airports in chicago because of those storms earlier in the day. ground delays around 1 1/2. let's talk about the tropics because heads up southeast, if you have been tuning out because i was talking about the midwest, you need to pay attention to this, this very well could become our next storm and could potentially become a hurricane. and the southeast needs to pay very close attention to where this thing is going to be tracking in the next five to six days, the hurricane hunters are tracking into it as we speak. it very well may become tropical storm irene later on tonight. the forecast models are showing a very strong consensus bringing it through the caribbean and up towards possibly the southeastern u.s. we have had eight named systems, not one of them became a hurricane, not one of them

causing too many issues, we do have harvey out there that's affecting central america and mexico right now. could be an interesting time next weekend, don, you and me. >> that last one didn't even give rain to texas. >> that's why we like you, you're nice. >> you heard the report, nice guys finish last. >> yes, they make less money. how a little known legal strategy allowed the west memphis three to walk out of prison flee but still pleading guilty of murder. tens of thousands of children, literally starving to death, victims of famine and war. but the drought extends across kenya as well, where one group founded by a 2010 cnn hero has spend up its efforts to reach thousands of the youngest victims. as millions struggle across the drought ravaged horn of africa and what the agency is calling

the worst humanitarian disaster in the world, mary's meals is in the middle of crisis. >> we have been working in northern kenya for about four years now. we have seen the situation worsen steadily. today one-third of the children are malnourished and so we have a real situation of life and death and because of that, we're trying to desperately to expand our program to reach more children at risk. >> since 2006, mary's meals have been feeding thousands of young children. >> we want education to be the ladder out of poverty for the whole commune. >> mary's meals has responded to the crisis by feeding an addition 4,000 children daily. the kind of important global work for which magnus was named the top ten cnn hero last year

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all right, breaking news here on cnn. you're looking at live pictures now, this is libyan state run television, you're looking at the government spokesperson. he's saying that there are no advances on tripoli and that everything is fine, everything is safe. although we're getting reports far there is gun fire and

explosions that is among the loudest that have been heard since this has all started and it comes as rebel fighters are inching closer to tripoli, again, you're looking live. let's get those pictures back, it's live at libyan state-run television. what he has been telling sus that everything is safe. he's joining us live from tripoli. matthew, i understand that you're hearing gun fire, what is the truth here? nothing as the spokesman says or is something actually happening? >> reporter: the spokesman hasn't said that nothing is happening, what he has said is that there have been some small armed gangs in several parts of tripoli that have been the cause of the violence, that the gunshots and the rpg explosions that various residents around the city have been reporting and what we have been hearing from this hotel in the center of the city. what he's saying is that those

armed gangs have been put down and the situation has been put back in the control of colonel gadhafi. and as he says this, this is still fierce cracking gun fire going on behind me right here. it comes and goes every few minutes, but there's clearly many areas in tripoli that are very unstable indeed and there's gun fire taking place between various armed gangs. what we don't know, is these armed guns, clearly their opposition figures, they're rebels, but we don't know these are people that have risen up from tripoli or have come from outside of tripoli. >> this is from yesterday, matthew, explosions from tripoli, according to the latest reports, sounds of gun fire and anti-aircraft fire, that's this evening, that's from several sources there.

and residents are reporting fighting in several neighborhoods and that opponents of moammar gadhafi are in the streets. he's saying he's downplaying the advances of rebel forces and say basically saying everything is okay, there's no need to worry about anything and that's what i mean, what is the truth here? are those rebel forces advancing? is there no need to worry or is it something else? >> reporter: i think he quit talk about a rebel advance, so the fighting in, for instance, zawiyah and having full control over that city. that's not happening. it will be very difficult for these rebels to break out of zawiyah and cover 30 miles of ground. what we're hearing in tripoli tonight is something slightly different. we seem to be experiencing several neighborhoods where

opposition figures appear to be rising up and according to the government spokesperson here, those small armed gangs have been suppressed. i don't get the sense that we're witnessing the start of a rebel, kind of advance on tripoli, this is something different and indeed, rebel spokesmen in the western region have already said that tonight is the night that the uprising stars in tripoli, so clearly this may have been something that has been coordinated with the rebel command. >> matthew chance reporting live, also sarah sidener is reporting. make sure you stay tuned to this broadcast. in the meantime, a group of mississippi teenagers accused of beating a black man, next, new developments in this racially charged case. my mother made the best toffee in the world.

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all right, it is a kind of heartless act that's a reminder of the jim crow days in the south. but it's right now happening as i'm speak. a 19-year-old sits in a mississippi jail cell, accused

of murdering a man because he was black. james c. anderson was just 49 years old and now federal investigators are getting involved as this has now become a capital case. we want to warn you that some of the images in this story are very disturbing. cnn's drew griffin is in des moines, iowa. he's working on another story now. he joins us live with this. drew, why is this now a capital crime? >> as the investigation went on in mississippi, jackson, mississippi, the investigators found out that the victim in this case, james craig anderson was robbed before being beaten and killed. and it's because the murder took place in the commission of a crime that you polluters there can file a capital murder charge which makes him eligible for the death sentence, so it was the addition of being robbed which is why that capital murder charge was filed yesterday. >> but i have only one thing to

tell the media, and that is go to brandon, mississippi and get those other five murderers who committed such an horrendous violent act against my beloved brother james craig anderson. now run and tell that. >> doan. that was the emotional plea of barbara anderson young, james anderson's sister, as you know, since this crime happened, not a single member of anderson's family has come forward to say anything. she finally broke the family's silence yesterday, with a plea that we having hearing ever since we aired the surveillance tape, that gruesome surveillance tape which shows james anderson being run over by a large ford pick-up truck. that video went viral, there were many people calling for more charges to be filed.

there were seven teenagers in all who have been charged with this. there were two charged. but the federal government is now involved. precisely to see if federal rights, civil rights, hate crime legislation can be used in mississippi against those other people because right now they have not been charged with a crime. >> drew griffin, we're going to be following this story, thank you, very much, drew, we appreciate it. let's go to holly hughes, he's an attorney and a former prosecutor, federal prosecutor here. you said the feds will get you on this charge? >> the feds will enact the death penalty. when they seek it, they typically get it in the federal system because seek it sparingly, it's not like we hear a lot of state cases and this is going to be a hate crime, don and the reason why they need to get a hold of those other five teenagers who haven't been charged because they're going to need to testify about an ongoing pattern of prejudice.

these are folks that hung out with these two, they need to be able to say in the past he's made these kind of statements, he's used racial epithets and once they can establish that this is a pattern and not just a one-shot deal, then they can show that it is race based, it's biassed, it's prejudiced and it falls under the hate crime statute. >> the west memphis three, three men tonight, they got 18 years in prison. they had to plead guilty of murder in order to be set free. that's unusual. how does that work? >> right, this is sort of an anomaly in the law and it's what i like to call very plainly hedging your bets. there is a case called alford versus north carolina, the united states supreme court basically said we will let a defendant enter a guilty plea but still proclaim their innocence. and the reason they're going to be able to do that is that while

i will not admit guilt in this crime, and i won't say i did anything, i will recognize the fact that the state could find me guilty, might find me guilty, and i don't want to roll that dice. so to state the state the cost of a trial and in this case it would be a retrial. they would be trying something that's 18 years old so. the supreme court has said, okay, if you'll accept responsibility, realize that it could go either could go either it's kind of a 50-50 -- >> but how do they clear their names now? because even the father of the young men says they're not guilty. >> right. remember, there's three victims here and one of the fathers does say that and has said that for a very long time and several of the mothers have come out and said we think these three young teenagers are innocent. and of course now they're young men, they're in their 30s, don. they've been in prison for over half their lives. what they're going to have to do is hire investigators, hit the street, interview people if they want to clear their name. and the sad fact is the evidence

is gone, it's degraded, and if some drifter did this 18 years ago they may never clear their names. >> this is going to be one of those cold case files. and then something odd, something unusual, maybe the smallest thing is going to trigger something and we'll be talking about it in a decade or so. >> absolutely. >> it'll happen. >> we'll follow it. >> let's go to washington now. talk about a murder. it's very odd. people have been trying to explain this one to me. an elderly socialite is the victim here. her much, much younger husband has been charged. tell us about this. >> this is viola drath, and this lady is so well known and accomplished. she is from germany, a very famous writer. met an army colonel way back when, married him, came to the united states, and became quite the famous author and socialite and community activist. she did a lot of volunteer work. after her husband passes, she meets up with this -- she's in her 70s. he's in his 20s at the time. snok she meets up with this man who calls himself muth, is his

last name. they get married, and he has -- it's a marriage of convenience. and he has a history of abusing her for several years. the 22 years they're married there had been history of abuse. she's found dead. he doesn't report it for about 12 to 15 hours. and then he starts talking to the press and saying oh, she died as a result of falling down the steps. police took a closer look, she's got some serious head trauma and he's the only one in the house. >> a little fishy. now they're looking at -- has he been arrested? >> he has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder because by the way, as soon as she's found dead he comes up with a forged document, runs to the family and says, oh, she's dead, i get this money. completely forged. >> imagine that. >> yeah. stinks a little, doesn't it? >> thank you, holly. appreciate it. straight ahead here on cnn, scary moments at a rodeo. a horse gets out of control and crashes through fencing and screaming spectators try to jump out of the way. you'll see the video coming up. >> uh-oh. i really had a choice. snack on this. progressive's "name your price" tool showed me a range of coverages

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birth to a healthy little girl named harper. dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, atlanta. the headlines right now. state media in iran report two american hikers have been convicted of spying and sentenced to eight years in prison. josh fattal and shane bauer were detained two years ago while hiking near the iranian border and charged with espionage and trespassing. a third hiker, sarah shourd, was detained and freed last year for medical reasons. air strikes have reduced parts of tripoli to rubble. a spokesman for libya's rebels says the revolution has begun tonight in the capital. there are reports of clashes in neighborhoods throughout the city. cnn teams in tripoli say explosions and gunfire among the loudest they've heard. the government says tripoli is safe despite a few dozen rebels sneaking into the city. coming up at 7:00 p.m. eastern, the latest from libya. also, questions intensify over

congresswoman maxine waters and why she says she's ready to unleash on the president on the same day she made her comments the white house released an executive order which promises to promote diversity in government and beyond. did it have anything to do with her? i'm going to ask. and i know this interview is going to generate lots of interest in social media. so make sure you connect with me on twitter, on facebook, on my blog, cnn.com/don as well. an out-of-control horse scatters fans at a rodeo. ♪ what a scary sight. this horse crashed through the fencing at a rodeo in adams county, illinois. the horse and the rider were the first out of the gate at last night's event. incredibly. incredibly, no one was injured. the horse is okay. and just in case you're wondering, again, no one was injured. the horse is doing okay as well. anth