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>r p a fierce gu or out nep out near a h international reporters are staying. reberebels say they're making r gains, a a reuters ease report says forces were seen advancing. gadhafi's government says the rebellion is failing. a government. embattled bashar al assad is giving an interview to state-run television this hour to talk about his country's future. among other things, he is expected to discuss reforms and political and economic pressure from the west. al assad faces growing calls to end his brutal five-month crackdown on opposition protesters. the families of two american hikers sentenced to prison in iran are holding out hope for leniency. iran has handed down eight-year sentencing for josh fattal and shane bower.

they were accused of spying. in a statement their fame say, quote, we appeal to the authorities in iran to show compassion and allow them to return home to our families without delay. prosecute rors are asking the woman to meet with them tomorrow. what does this mean? cnn's susan candiotti has been following this. susan, what do you know? >> well, we'll have to see how it plays out. of course there's been a lot of speculation about this case for weeks. the d.a.'s office won't comment about whether it will drop charges. on friday, prosecutors sent a her to to her and her lawyers. she's the housekeeper of accusing dominique strauss-kahn with sexual assault. ms. dialo is expected to attend

that meet. >> so in this her, did it actually spell out or say that charges might be dropped? >> actually it did not. it said they would tell her what will happen in court on tuesday. now, there are so many reasons -- only so many reasons why they would want to meet with her ahead of the court appearance. speculation that the case was going south, of course, ramped up back on july 1st, when the d.a. asked the judge to release strauss-kahn from house arrest because of the credibility issues with his accuser. >> what are those issues? >> among them the d.a. says she admits to lying on her asylum is a papers, and prosecutors says she lied on tax forms. as with any sexual assault cases, credibility of the accuser is key to the success of the case.

of course, is the d.a. is until a lot of pressure from all sides. she has repeatedly said she wants to plead her case before a jury. prosecutors say there is evidence of a sexual encounter. even the pastor of a large and influential new york church has called for the d.a. to prosecute the case. a local politician is holding a rally in support of her tomorrow. but in the end the d.a. needs to decide if prosecutors can convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, and if not, it's not a winnable case. in the meantime a lot of people have been watching the west memphis three. well, now they're beginning their first full week of freedom. the men were released from prison friday after serving 18 years for the 1993 killings of three second graders in west memphis, arkansas. new evidence raised questions about their guilt. in a move to avoid retrial, they pled guilty and accepted a

sentence of time already served while maintaining their innocence as well. now, they are focused on their future. >> right now i'm floating on the hands of the people who love and care for me, trying to help me get my feet up until me and everything. i'm just trusting god, you know, to take care of me. >> so where are you going to live? any big plans that you have? >> um, absolutely none right now. i do know in the near future -- not like today or this week or anything like that, but in the near future, i'm going to go back to school and everything. >> arkansas's attorney general and the prosecutor say they believe the men are guilty. motorcyclists are hitting the road to honor 9/11 victims. today they rode to the world trade center, and laid a wreath in memory of those who died there. the ride supports a foundation that funds college scholarships for children of 9/11 first responders. and his voice caught the world by surprise.

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back to tripoli libya. our matthew chance is in tripoli. matthew, bring us up to date. >> reporter: thanks very much. a difficult situation in tripoli. up until a few hours ago the government was trying to insist that they had the situation under control here, the gadhafi

loyalists. that clearly is not the case. all around tripoli, fierce gun battles are raging among forces loyal to gadhafi and rebels, some of whom have been reported to move in from the western town of zawir. it's not clear to us the exact makeup of the rebel groups at the moment fighting in tripoli. all i can say is there are fierce gun battles taking place, machine guns being fired, very close proximity f. explosions taking place in close proximity to this hotel. where we are reporting on this situation. it's a very, very bleak outlook indeed. according to government officials we have spoken to since last night, there are 376 people have been confirmed dead, another,000 have been injured in

what has been, by far, the most intense fighting we have seen in tripoli since this crisis began. it does seem like the battle for the capital is well and truly under way. >> matthew, has nato played a part in this latest melee of gunfire? >> reporter: nato has been conducting various air strikes against military installation. the government has confirmed that to us, the loyalists we have been speaking to say they have been striking at military outposts, trying to encourage libyan soldiers to free, but i can tell you for the most part in the very high density in terms of population areas inside tripoli most dramatically to the

west cutting off that road taking that town of zawir, cutting off the road in tripoli essentially surrounding the rebels. it will be much more difficult for nato to carry out pin did the point in areas so built up as they are in tripoli. the expectation is this will be a bloody fight. government officials say they have 65,000 well armed troops prepared to defend the city. >> matthew chance in tripoli, thanks for that update. and now there is a story out of south korea, about a young man, with a great big opera voice. he was propelled to worldwide fame after he first ard a "korea's got talent." korea picked inwinner last night, and it isn't the young sinner, about the the story is amazing we thought you would like to see it anyway. here's paula hancock.

♪ >> reporter: he may not have won "korea's got talent" but he's won the hard of a nation. his incredibility story, from the streets to the stage has touched millions around the world. he says i never thought this could happen, i never thought i should have been born. choi is a long way from where he started. he was left in an orphanage at the age of 3, ran away at the age of 5 after being bullied, and lived on the streets, fending for himself for the next ten years. up until 2006, choi was living in a container box in this neighborhood, the red light district of the city. he was living without any electricity, without any heat,

and without any water or income. he had during that time was from selling streets and gums in the local nightclubs. choi tells me there were a lot of criminal gangs in that area, and they didn't like me. i was beaten up a lot, and once they took me to a mountain, dug a hole, threw me in, and buried me. choi says he tried to kill himself several times, as he felt his life was meaningless. the only thing that gave him comfort was the music he heard in the nightclubs. he says, i felt calm when i listened to music. i would feel depressed and despair without it. music was my only friend. choi searched the internet for someone who could teach him. he found former opera singer and music teacher park song cho. park tells me his sit was was unbelievably harsh, but the

passion was very strong. i couldn't charge him for lessons when i learned what he had been through. park recommended an arts high school and helped him to pass the state examination. at the age of 16, choi went to school for the very first time. children's foundation, child fund korea, helped him secure a government-subsidized flat. his life was transformed. social worker yu is delighted he's found success, but is also worried. she says all this change happened fast. i feel this overwhelming interest might be too much for someone who's been abandoned all his life. but choi says his 'happy to have come this far. more than anything, wants his singing to give hope to others who are suffering, as he did. paula hancock, cnn, south korea. and back in this country, no order school year in atlanta, as

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scandal. cnn's julie peterson visited one school severely impacted by that scandal. >> reporter: the principal has his job cut out for him. hired just ten days before the start of classes. most of his responsibilities are obvious. >> i notice we have a cheel with severe asthma. >> reporter: like motivating. but there will be greater challenges for hims he's brought in for interim in a principal that is implicated xh a test cheating scandal. cheating by their teachers and administrators. 178 were accused of either changing answers to improve scores on standardized tests or

failing to stop the cheating from occurring. >> i think my job is to create a positive consulty. families change through marriage or through deaths. our family is clanging, but in a positive way. >> his positivity has rubbed off on the rest of us here. when you have a great leader, it guides us, and we're just following his lead, and we are supporting him 100%. >> there's one point he emphasizes when talking with teachers and staff. >> the one thing that i did not care about was the crct test. what i said i care about most is we can bring in a child with a certain set of knowledge and that they exit in may with a greater sense and a greatest understanding of the world they

live in. >> it sounds like people have moved on, the staff, the families? >> sure. i probably would be naive to think there isn't some skepticism or some, what's it going to be like? i try and be as proactive as possible. >> excellent job mischampion's class. have a fabulous friday, okay? >> you can either wallow in the past and think about things that could have happened or things that need to half. >> reporter: julia peterson, cnn. and the city's new school superintendent errol davis, earlier this weekend i asked davis how he plans to move past the cheating scandal and if he is considering eliminating standardized testing. i believe the children as well as the teachers should be judged on the body of work, not an

instant snapshot of it. but also you should understand we don't have all the flexibility we would like. many tests are mandated, some are mandated by the federal government, so we will comply with the law, but how we evaluate teachers, we'll be focused more on what value are they adding to the student and how do we measure that over time. >> what do you think the greatest memory of your school experience that you think might be missing that you hope as a new superintendent perhaps to bring back to public school education? >> well, like every person of my generation, of course, we were always smarter and more disciplined, but i think the aspect of classroom discipline is a bit different today. the challenges are different. we are a microcosm of society. we have a lot of society's challenges which doesn't exist when i was a child in our classroom. our teachers hopefully are trained to deal with -- >> so things outside of the

classroom, challenges that need to be addressed. >> absolutely. the issues of poverty and hunger we have significant number of students that we feed not only one, but two meals a day, because you really can't learn when you're hungry. >> how does that get addressed outside the classroom? if you're talking about poverty, families are strapped, it's did i, how do we as a country help address that? >> well, you know, i'm on a centralized policy maker in washington, but again we have to get this economy going. depending on what side of the political spectrum you're on, you can talk about stimulus to get it going, or you can talk about balancing budgets to get it going. probably the truth lies somewhere between the two of those. >> the atlanta public school system has launched a recovery program that offers students impacted by the scandal more instruction. the recession's most vulnerable victims are children.

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surgeons and high gennests volunteered their time. and hundreds lined up for a free mental clinic. the volunteers usually help the needy in remote areas overseas. in the midst of the recession, 1 in 5 children now live below is the poverty line. athenoa jones talked to a married couple in washington. they have four kids, and both have been out of work for now over two years. >> this is the wedding dress. >> okay. >> reporter: the ripple effects can be felt here, at the washington home of nathan and kiana wallace. >> i like this one. >> both have been out of work for more than two years. their unemployment benefits have run out. they live in public housing, and don't have to pay rent, but they have struggled to pay utilities bills and recently had their power cut off. >> we did candles, we just, you know, some days during that six-week period, it was the kids

eat or we eat. >> reporter: both of their cars have been repossessed. they'll have to come up with $120 a month for metro pass foss their four children once school starts. they once brought in $5,000 a month and say they're determined to get back on track. >> i get up with my boxing gloves on every day for them. >> reporter: according to a study, by a national charity, 1 in 5 children lived below the poverty line in 2009. the wallaces received food stamps, but run out in about three weeks. keana sells snowcones, hot dogs and candy to get by. >> do you go out here? >> you go up the street, do it on the corner. with the candies, i do it on the metro, at the subway stations, up and down the street. i do what it takes to make sure we can survive another day. >> reporter: she brings in as much as $145 on a really good

day, but that doesn't happen often. 13.9 million people were unemployed in july. nearly half of them are like the wallaces, people who have been out of work for 27 weeks or move. advocates for children and families don't want to see the focus on budget cuts hurt programs for the poor. >> we can't forget about children as we make decisions in the fiscal crisis. we can't cut these programs thinking eventually we might put money back into them. childhood is a short time. >> keana's 14-year-old daughter danielle believes things will turn around. >> first, i want to go to college for designer school, then after i graduate, i want to send my pictures in to be a model. after a model for five years, i want to open my own store, a clothing store. >> and athena jones joins me from washington. incredible numbers. what else did this study find?

>> 2394 millions children felt into poverty between 2000 and 2009, so that's essentially erasing all of the gains that had been made in reducing child poverty rates since the early 1990s. one more important statistic, 42% of children in america live in low-income families. that's 31 million kids who live in families that make less than twice the federal poverty line, which is only about $44,000 for a family of four. there are a lot of people struggling. whether or not they fall below or just above the povt line. >> you talked about how the family will need a metro card in order no kids to get to school. are they any closer to getting some assistance, getting the kind of help they need so the kids are ready? >> it absolutely is getting close. several of the children start next week, another one starts the following week. they see hold out hope. they believe it's going to work out for them.

whether it's through these odd jobs, being able to sell a few things on the streets. this week, maybe next week, they believe it's going to work out. they said it's going to be fine. >> we hope so. athena jones, thanks so much. >> thanks. a lot the at our other top stores. syria's embattled president is give an interview to state tv to talk about his country's future. among other things he's expected to discuss reforms and political and economic pressure from the west. he faces growing calls to end his brutal five-month crackdown on opposition protestesters. gunfire and explosions rocked tripoli today, as fighting intensified. a fierce gun battle broke out near a hotel where many international correspondents are staying. thousands of rebels are reportedly closing in. libyan official deny rebels are

making any gains and say thousands are ready to defend tripoli against any invasion. speculation is growing today that the sexual assault charges against former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn may be dropped. the woman making those charges has been asked to a meeting with the prosecutors in new york. and she is being called a pint-sized nancy drew. 12-year-old jessica maples solved a burglary case that police couldn't after his late great-grandmother's house was robbed, she tracked down the thief and stolen goods. jeff dohr with our aftfiliate wb reports. >> reporter: junior district attorneys learn to argue cases in the real state supreme court. they meet former prosecutor nancy grace, and the key to this

story, learn about investigating crimes. among the junior district attorneys was jessica maple, just after the forensics class, someone burglarized the home of jessica's late great-grandmother in fitzgerald, georgia. she investigated and found where the burglars broke in. the police had missed it. then she and her move investigated and local pawnshop and found her great-grandmother's property. >> we called the police station, and the investigator, he came and he was like, my gosh, how did you find this stuff here? i was coming here. and i was like, i did your job again. >> they also learned the pawnshop owners had copies of the i.d.s of the guys who sold the stuff. then, believe it or not, she and her mom drove to the guy's house and confronted him. >> he confessed? >> he confessed. >> reporter: at last word police extent haven't made an arrest? >> no. i don't know what's taking them

so long. >> reporter: the program was started 13 years ago, and this is a first. >> we're hoping she will take that lesson through life, the things she has learned as a junior d.a. >> so the young crime fighter is here with me and so is paul howard, fulton county district attorney. what an incredible story. this is very bold. you have to be produce of her. she learned a lot from your program. >> we are so proud. that's what our program is all about, exposure, taking what they learn, and put it into good use, and man, she really did that. >> you really did. so when did this happen? of course we saw the piece, but tell me about the instincts that kicked in. somebody got in there, but police said, no, there was no sign of forced entry. what did you learn from that program that made you think otherwise? >> i learned to look like twice, and go over what the police

looked at. when i did that, they were wrong, obviously. i went by the garage, and i could tell that somebody went in, because there was broken glass and fingerprints all over the place. i don't see how they missed that. >> what is the explanation? between they ever say anything about, you know what they overlooked? is it an issue of being so familiar with the property and perhaps they weren't? >> yeah, i think so. >> then you took it a step further. >> yes. >> you thought about the economic times, and what happens, something else you learned at the d.a.'s program about really knowing about the environment, kind of the state of affairs, and that helps you in the investigation? >> yes. >> so what happened? >> i thought to myself, since this is a bad economy, with the furniture, instead of keeping it e. they may want to sell it, so they had go to a pawnshop. down the street there was a pawnshop. i saw all of my grandmother's furniture inside. i got the manager, and the manager said, is this your stuff? i said, yes.

who were the people that brought it in? and he said yes. >> and they gave you that information, names, addresses. >> and i.d.s. >> then you took it further. you didn't call authorities. you said i'm going to investigate myself. >> yes, so one day me and my mom, we were driving around, randomly around the town, and we happened to pass by one of the streets where one of the suspects lived. so then i saw a man standing outside with his mom by his mom -- well, the man said hi. then my mother and i, we stopped the car and said, could you come here, please? we asked him his name. this was the exact same guy on the i.d. then we started asking him questions like, do you know that house on cypress street? he kept saying ran done things like, yeah, yeah, and we asked, did you break in? he said, no. we asked him more questions, like how old are you?

he said, 17, and then he finally admitted that he does it. >> paul, you probably don't encourage all the young folks to do this, because anything could happen, but in this case, he was very forthright and a conversation that gave real solid results. >> we certainly don't encourage people to con23r07b9 defendants at their own locations, but one of the things we talk about quite often is participation between citizens and our police department. now surprisingly, in most burglaries, they are solved when citizens are assisting the police by turning in information, just as jessica did in this instance. it's an amazing thing, because thee only 12 years old. >> so all the stuff, is it back at your great-grandmother's house? >> yes. >> even though there has not been an arrest, still no arrest of the person that you are

certain is the suspect? >> yes. >> kind of discourages? >> kind of disappointing. they need to be arrested or wharge charges are against them. >> where will it go? >> when they finally do decide to make the arrest, it appears to be the arrest case will be quite simple. all they have to do is tune into cnn. >> your program has got another feather in its cap to teach valuable lessons. how might this impact next year's programs? >> usually there are about 25 young people like jessica. what we are expecting is we'll get a lot more applications. we plan to try to take as many new people as possible, because obviously this program has great impact. >> paul howard, thank you so much, and jessica maple, hero of the week/hour/month/summer.

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thin and lightwater it lasts longer on the battery. what's new is a backlit keyboard, so you can type in dimmer environment, like what they have on the mac book pro. the new thunderbolt port, newer peripherals, faster speeds, as well as it's prebuilt with the new mac os lion, with a bunch of bells and whistles. >> and these other bells and whistles, you can dispute whether the kid really needs them. htc-evo 3-d, a smartphone for movies? >> they're kind of like a digital with his army knife even

reading e-books. what i like about it is aside from a gorgeous 4.3-inch touch screen, it shows 3-d movies, photos and games without you having to wear glasses. you won't be able to see the effect at home, because you need two eyes to see it. but it's amazing too look at. and it it can shoot 3-d video as well. another distraction from studying. then the click-free c-6, and there's also the microsoft life-cam studio, so take it away with those two items? >> sure. the last two products, one of them backs up your important files onto the tine,hard drive. you mr. ugh it in, and the click-free technology does the rest.

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j.j. jacqui jeras is here now. >> here we go. >> a very active atlantic hurricane season? >> the big is through mid-august through mid-october, and that's what we call our cape verde season. they developed into major hurricanes oftentimes. this is irene, it's a tropical storm that developed yesterday. maximum winds around 50 miles per hour. this storm is showing signs of intensifying, and everything out ahead of the storm is very good environment for it to continue to do so. it is already moving through the u.s. virgin islands, puerto rico already starting to get some of the shower and thundershowers activity. the radar is bringing in some of the first outer bands. the rainfall amounts will be heavy, too, for puerto rico it

will be especially gusting into these thunderstorms and it will head towards his pan yolo. that's haiti, where we expect the flood situation to be worse. they could see upwards of 6 to 10 inches, so that will be the big concern there for those folks. let's talk about some of the other concerns, watching and warnings are in place across the caribbean islands. the bright pink here, that's where we have hurricanes warnings, tropical storm warning out ahead of it, and strom cal storm watching for parts of the bahamas and turks and caicos. it's going to continue on a west-northwesterly turn. it's expected to be the first hurricane of the season. the sxwensity will rely heavily on how it interacts with land. the more time it spends over land, the weaker the storm will be. if it does take an outerly

track, it's more likely this will be a stronger storm. the big question is what's going to be happening here into the u.s.? it's still too early to tell. we don't want you to focus yet on south florida. the margin of error is too great. you'll have to stay tuned in the week ahead. also some thunderstorms in the northeast. we'll talk more about that coming up next in the "newsroom." okay. graphic pictures on cigarette packs. big toe baca says the pictures are unconstitutional. the legal guys weigh in. prescription strength relieft from my worst allergy symptoms. so lily and i are back on the road again. with zyrtec® i can love the air®. my son and i never missed opening day. but with copd making it hard to breathe, i thought those days might be over. so my doctor prescribed symbicort. it helps significantly improve my lung function, starting within 5 minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler

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starts next month, tobacco companies have been ordered to place graphic warning photographs on cigarette packages, but the tobacco industry is opposed to the new labeling, filing suit to stop it. yesterday we talked to our legal guys about the case, and i asked them if big tobacco has any chance in stopping the fda. >> i think they do, fred. look, this is what's going to be on cigarette packages. i don't think so.

there was an '81 study that says smoker completely ig forwarnings, but this is pretty devastating. this is a lawful business, cigarettes. if it wasn't lawful, okay, but it is lawful. five of the six big tobacco companies are saying the government has gone too far. >> they're going and saying this is unconstitutional. >> it's a constitutionally tantalizing case, fredricka, but the problem is the tobacco industry originally challenged the question of smoking may be hazardous to your health, and they lost. now they're schaleninging smoking will kill you, and they think, well, there's a big difference. no, there isn't. the constitutional basis, which i think is an intriguing one, i think it's a fascinating case. this is big tobacco being backed up with very good lawyers. at the end of the day, i think they're going to lose. >> and you can catch our legal

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that could have an impact. alison kosik has the start. >> we thought it might be a quiet week for wall street, but then europe started sneezing again. the u.s. market caught another chase of the chills. wednesdays's drop sen the blue chips below 11,000, and sent investor toss the safety of gold, and treasury bonds in the end, the dow posted a roughly 450-point loss for the week. the dow is now down almost 11% so far for the month. at the lisha? >> thanks, alison. you can say good-bye to the xhempls, too, it's part of a draszic restructuring plan. hp, which is the world's biggest computer maker says it will spin off the pc business and buy a

british software operator. poppy? >> thanks so much, felicia, ben bernanke heads to jackson hole, wyoming this week for an annual conference of central bankers. last year bernanke hinted as a new round the fed stimulus, which sparked a nine-month rally. the big question, of course, will he do it again this year? also coming up, the commerce department will release its second estimate of second quarter gdp. last month 'estimate showed very slow growth. you can bet the market will look closely for any change in the pace of u.s. growth. we'll follow it all week on c money. back to you. and a quick look at the top stories. moammar gadhafi is vowing to hold on to libya, even if it takes, quote, the last blood drops from man and woman. gunfire and explosions rocked in a fierce gun battle broke