modern warship. until you realize there's enough steel in the earth' core to build 2 billion death stars. before you worry one of the empires would start building it before we do, it would take 830,000 years and 85$852 quadrilli quadrillion. 360 starts no u. we begin tonight keeping them honest in the syrian crisis. also we have tonight the best look yet. the clearest picture possible in what life in the city of homs is like. how people live in reality that their own government is trying to kill them and is succeeding. first let's give the latest. sharp statements from the obama administration as countries, friends of syria, met today in

tunisia. that's footage from the meeting. they spoke about the violation that claimed 91 lives today. there was a warning for the assad regime. >> assad can still make the choice to end the violation, save lives, and spare his country from descending further into ruin. but if he continues to reject that choice, we and the syrian people will keep pressure on him until his deadly regime cracks and collapses, because it will. i'm absolutely confident of that. >> earlier today president obama called for greater pressure on assad. >> all of us who've been seeing the terrible pictures out of syria and homs recently recognize it is absolutely imperative for the international community to rally and send a clear message to president assad

it is time for a transition. it is time for that regime to move on. and it is time to stop the killing of syrian citizens by their own government. >> despite the words, the killing goes on. at least 91 lives today. more than 100 yesterday according to activists. this was the 21st day of the bombardment for people living in the section of homs. in the middle of this, crews from the red cross were able to evacuate a small number of women and children. the two wounded western journalists remain in homs. so do tens of thousands of ordinary syrians men, women, and children. cold, starving, and under the gun. what you're about to see is the work of a french photo journalist working with jonathan miller from britain's channel 4. manny went into homs and bore witness to things nobody should have to see. bombed out homes, starving

people, wounded children. >> little girl and her brother both badly wounded. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> no one can bear to tell her her father and youngest brother are dead. >> her father is dead. children being orphaned, kids being killed. we see it every day. the carnage caught mostly by cell phone cameras. the people making these videos using the only weapon they have against the regime, the simple truth. and they are risking everything to do this. as a little boy explains in a

home so cold you can see his breath. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> he died filming demonstrations. that child, so many others face more than tanks and rocket fire. they face hunger every single day. >> down the street is a long cue for bread. you can no longer get to shops and neighboring districts. [ speaking in foreign language ]

>> a couple of blocks away, where many belong to the president's sect. >> the picture is grim. cold, hungry people being shelled in the words of marie colvin. pictures of people who are killed but not yet defeated. >> friday is protest day. it's almost a carnival atmosphere. but it's a carnival after defiance as the people of homs tell their president what they think of him. mothers, children, fathers, and fighters. this mass of humanity dances for its freedom. >> these are really some of the clearest pictures yet that we have seen out of homs.

that defiance is finding an outlet, a limited one so far in the home of the free syrian army which is made up of army defectors and civilians going up against tanks and troops with small arms. they are outgunned and outmanned. many captured that fighting as well. [ gunfire ] >> they're attacking the building across the road. headquarters of the secret police. manny, the film maker, finds himself at the heart of the fire fight. [ gunfire ] >> urban guerrilla warfare like

this is relentless and terrifying. they take crazy risks. but they still find time to look out for manny. back at headquarters, the battle is raging. free syrian forces have detonated a bomb below the rooftop position where government snipers are trapped. after more than 12 hours, the snipers are still putting up a fight. [ gunfire ] >> casualties are mounting.

a minibus ambulance, then a breakneck race to a makeshift hospital. free syrian fighters have entered the government security building. >> it's room-to-room fighting now. stairwell-to-stairwell. [ gunfire ]

>> it's a humiliation for president assad. with bullets still flying, fighters make off with boxes of much-needed ammo. >> really gives you a sense of the intimate nature of the fighting. room to room, street by street. it paints a picture of a situation for which there may not be any easy answers or simple solutions. i talked about it with cif officer robert bear. he's currently an intelligence columnist. also ann marie slaughter. you wrote for the new york times today in which you argue for foreign military intervention. you call for a basically no kill zone. explain that. >> what i'm proposing is the countries of the region. turkey, jordan, saudi arabia.

essentially provide the army to create zones close to borders that would be no kill zones, would be close enough for humanitarian quarters. to enable them to do that, you'd have to give them very good intelligence, communications, special forces on the ground, and some weapons. but not the kind of flooding weapons in that is being proposed and i think most of us think will result in a long civil war. >> bob, you've actually suggested now for kill zones. what does that mean? >> well, it doesn't sound good. but the syrians right now are considering sending their heavy armor into these cities and using heavy artillery -- >> against the people. >> against the people in a last ditch effort to take these cities. and there'll be no limits to the

violation. about 10,000 people were killed. we don't know. if they do that, i don't see how the international community can't react and hit this armor. this syrian free army can't do it. we should consider that possibility if it really does get that bad. >> so for when you call, say, a kill zone, you're saying above a certain line you send tanks, the syrian regime, those will be destroyed. >> once the tanks cross into homs or any other city that's rising and they're turning against the population, you have to hit them from the air. and only we can do that. >> ann marie, how does this not escalate? how does this not become a situation where countries all around syria start to send in weapons to the forces that they support? the various different ethnic groups, religious groups they support, political groups. how does it not escalate?

>> well, i'm not sure that any of us have proposals that don't have a risk of escalation. i'll just say. i probably would support bob baer's recommendation. but i don't see any chance right now the international community is going to accept it. i think the point of the no kill zones is that you actually could get areas at least to protect the cities that are not now under a siege. and the other assumption is that many, many, many of the syrian army soldiers actually would defect if given the chance and given a safe place to go. so it's a partial solution. it doesn't save homs. but i think it's better than doing nothing. >> bottom line, do you think it's possible to really stop the slaughter in homs or do you think it's just a matter of time before the regime has succeeded there? >> i have to say, i am not optimistic for homs.

the time to have started trying to save homs was probably a month ago. i mean, there's one encouraging sign. secretary clinton said today that the u.s. government was in touch with a number of people or there were reports of many around assad who were really getting very nervous that they hadn't signed up for this kind of slaughter. it is possible we could still see an implosion from the inside. other than that, my concern is to make sure there no more homs or as few as we possibly can manage. >> i think it's going to get a lot worse. i think this is a long haul with syria. the sectarian divisions are dividing this country. there's no easy solution. and it's not just a matter of regime decapitation. it's a long, long haul. >> because there are christians inside syria who say if assad

goes and the sunnis take over, we're going to be slaughtered. how do you alleviate that concern? >> i talk to the muslim brotherhood. they ask me why doesn't the united states do something. they're worried about the sectarian problems. what are you going to do about the -- and the syrian brothers said we're going to kill them. what do you think? i said what do you expect? >> appreciate it. thank you. let us know what you think about the images we showed you tonight. follow me on twitt twitter @andersoncooper. up next, the candidates trying to make political hay out of the pump. and later something strange is happening again to those young girls in upstate new york town. first it was a mysterious twitching. now just as my stesteriously

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tonight, high prices at the pump. and the presidential candidates are trying to cash in politically. candidates as you'll see in both parties and sitting politicians as well, just about everyone who wants to turn pain at the pump into gain at the polls. we're keeping them honest tonight. first 234e facts. nationwide, the average across the nation is $3.65. up 11% for the year. that's almost double since president obama took office. republican candidates are pointing that out trying to turn it against the president. they're also making a lot of vague promises. here's newt gingrich at wednesday's cnn debate. >> i developed a program for american energy so new future president will ever bow to a saudi king again. and so every american can look forward to $2.50 a gallon gasoline. >> speaker gingrich like rick santorum blame high prices and president obama's so-called

failed middle east policies. and to put the pipeline from canada to the gulf of mexico on hold. >> think about what this president is doing. here we are now facing coming up into summertime. when if we had a pipeline being built right now and it could be being built right now. right now the president could sign an order to build that pipeline. we'd have the construction jobs and the knowledge of the industry that this would be coming online. >> senator santorum has gone on further saying about the obama administration, quote, they want higher energy prices. they want to push their radical agenda on the public. speaker gingrich has put a policy up saying drill here, drill now, pay less. house speaker john boehner recently held a closed door strategy session with republican members. according to "the new york times," he told them quote, this is a debate we want to have. there are problems for blaming

any president for prices at the pump. prices nearly doubled under president obama. but economists both liberal and conservative point out a key reason why the prices were low when the president took office. the recession. people drove less, flew less. demand lowered. "business week" crunching numbers reports that domestic oil production is at its highest level in eight years. however, some of that production was approved before president obama took office. important to note that. oil imports are down as well. critics including the american petroleum institute claims it is slow in new drilling leases and permits which can impact future production. in any case, experts we've spoken to say there's not much this president or any president can do to effect gasoline prices. the price of gasoline depends on

global demand. the price also spikes up when rogue nations like iran make threatening noises and the middle east erupts. it rises because the american economy is growing again. just yesterday president obama tried to call out his critics. >> there are no silver bullets short-term when it comes to gas prices. and anybody who says otherwise isn't telling the truth. anybody who tells you that we can drill our way out of this problem doesn't know what they're talking about. >> that may or may not be, just in case you only think we're keeping republicans honest. keeping the president honest, campaigning didn't stop when he was running for president. >> on gas prices, john mccain's part of the problem. mcand bush support a drilling plan -- mccain will give more tax breaks. he's voted with bush 95% of the time. barack obama will make energy an

urgent priority. >> in fairness, mr. obama's plan for energy differs sharply from the gop talking points. but it's based on the same assumption that presidential policy makes a difference at the pump. he wasn't the first democratic candidate to do what republicans are doing now. 2006 usa today headline reads democrats blame bush for higher gas prices. is this just a case of what's gas for the goose is gas for the gander? joining us is rich galin and strategist hilary rosen. apologize for the pun there. you say the price of gas is absolutely a winning issue for republicans. you think this is a winning issue for republicans? >> oh, yeah. it's a winning issue for republicans because there happens to be a democrat in the white house. if the situation were reversed, it would be a winning issue for the democrats. to protect the president to this regard, every president since

richard nixon has said elect me and we'll have energy independence. first of all, we're not going to have energy independence. two of the three biggest oil traders are mexico and canada. but the other side of this thing is that it is -- there is no reason for in terms of demand for oil prices to be spiking to $109. it is all as you said in the leadup to this, it is all geopolitical. you have nigeria, iran, all these places where traders say i need to protect myself moving forward and are bidding the prices up. but there's no demand reason for this. >> hillary, it is hypocritical for the president to be pushing back on republicans for using the same kind of rhetoric he used when he was running for president against bush. >> you know, i looked at that ad. you're right, anderson. it would have been hypocritical if that's what he said. but what he said was that

republicans are in cahoots with big oil so to the extent that prices do drop, oil companies don't give consumers the benefit of dropped prices. and that really is because the republicans are being funded by big oil. when you look at a plan like mitt romney's, it's it doesn't oil because his super pack is funded by the koch brothers. >> the reason, hilary that republicans say gasoline prices have risen so far is because they dropped so far. oil went down to $35 a barrel at the beginning of the recession. >> right. if you want -- >> the price is what the price is. >> and what i'm saying is when the prices went down, when the prices go down, consumers can get the benefit. but oil companies have made record profits now. and nobody is dealing with the fact that they're making these record profits as the prices go

up. it's not that they're paying it all out. wait. let's just go back to the things that politicians do have control over. if we all agree that presidents can't control the price at the pump. what president obama has done is he says we're going to depend less on the pump. so he doubled the fuel efficiency standards for cars. and got everybody together, the auto makers and consumers -- >> but that's not going to change anything today. >> it does. it changes demand. rich, i let you talk. let me talk. >> let's not -- guys, let's got talk over each other. both just stop on this topic. i want to switch gears for a moment. i want to show this event that mitt romney held in michigan today. i want to show images from it. it was attended by about 1200 people in a football stadium. i guess they moved it to the stadium because the other venue was small. but there was about 65,000 seats in this stadium. most of them were empty.

in terms of the optics of this, was this a big mistake? this was a big speech he was meant to make. a lot of folks, just the sound of it, just sounded like he was talking to no one out there. >> of course. there's got to be something between 700 seats which is where the venue is and 65,000 seats. you'd think somewhere in the city of detroit there was something in the middle. but i think -- i was following this on twitter all day. and you would have thought listening to the national reporters that this was the biggest mistake in the history of american politics. it was not a good optics. and you're showing it right now. it was not a favorable thing. but once people listen to what romney said in terms of what with he's proposing moving forward, that if anybody cares about it -- i'm not sure many do -- but if they listened to what he said instead of how many empty seats there were, they

would be favorably disposed. >> hilary, the other thing reporters focused on and whether -- i don't know if this is fair or not -- was he mentioned his wife drives a couple of cadillacs. that's the other thing a lot of reporters were talking about. is that just the media looking for something to attack this guy on? >> well, it's -- he's a little out of touch. i've got a couple cars here. she's got a couple cars here. and in california we've got a couple cadillacs. it's that tone deafness that has followed him along this trail where he doesn't realize that actually most people just have one car. and when he talks about oh i get to have cars from every one of the detroit automakers, i think that that makes people cringe a bit in the sense he's out of touch. and he probably doesn't care about the price of gas because he's filling all of those cars with gas. one quick point on fuel prices, which is this focus on getting

away from oil, alternative energies whether it's natural gas, whether it's solar or wind. the republicans have simply not invested in this, and that is because the oil companies have held them hostage in congress. so there's not the investment to get us away from being so dependent on -- >> okay. i'm short on time. rich i want you to respond to that then we got to go. >> that is correct. we should have other alternative methods of powers our vehicles. one of those is natural gas. i think the president has spoken of that. i am for that. especially in heavy duty trucks, that would make a huge improvement. i think we need to look to alternative fuels. >> we end in agreement. >> that's right. the tragic suicide of tyler clementi when his roommate spied on him.

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♪ up close tonight the trial in new jersey following the tragic suicide of tyler clementi. who jumped off a bridge days after his roommate allegedly used a web cam to spy on him and

his encounter with another man. facing 15 counts including invasion of privacy. at the heart of the case is whether ravi's alleged actions constituted a hate crime. whether bullying motivated pri prejudice against gay people. a jury is going to have to decide. here's more about what happened on day one of the trial. >> former rutgers university student ravi dharun headed into court. dharun used a computer web cam recording cle mean tooe with another man. they heard different views of the case. >> just because we do something stupid and make mistakes,

especially when we're young, it doesn't mean we're hateful or we're bigoted, or we're criminal. >> prosecutor julie mcclure laying out a starkly different view saying dharun not only recorded tyler but tweeted more would follow. >> these acts were purposeful. they were intentional. and they were planned. and i will suggest to you that beyond that, they were mean spirited, malicious, and they were criminal. >> the prosecution called their first witnesses, students who knew dharun. some testified dharun and his friend molly wei who is now cooperating with the prosecution had offered to show their video clip taken of cle mean tooe with the man. >> did there come a time that you saw something on the screen? >> yes. >> can you tell us about that? >> it came up for a split second. it was a quick video. you saw two males leaning up against the bed making out.

>> what do you mean by making out? >> kissing mouth to mouth. >> okay. what was he telling people? >> he was telling people how he set up his web cam to view tyler's actions that night. >> but during cross examination, some same students say they could not remember comments? >> saying any displeasures he was having with tyler? >> no. he actually told me tyler was a nice guy. >> sitting in the packed court, dharun's family as well as clementi's. tyler's parents telling cnn in an earlier interview, each day in court is a painful one. >> i also just try to focus on the judge and prosecutor and what's being said and try not to let my mind go to too many different places. >> in the past when you've

thought about mr. ravi, is there anger in those thoughts? hurt? >> i wouldn't say anger. i would characterize it as i'm heartbroken. i'm heartbroken at what happened. and about the loss of my son and how it happened. breaks my heart. >> understandably. jason carroll joins me live now. now the defense is saying he never cyber bullied tyler. can we expect to hear how the planned to record him? >> what we'll hear from the defense is the case of a young man who was really worried about this older man that tyler was bringing into the dorm room and perhaps that's the reason that this web cam had been set up. i think from the prosecution, it's clear. what they're going to argue is that the evidence will show through twitter, through witness accounts, through the web cam that this was harassment that ultimately ended in a young man's death. >> jason, appreciate the

reporting. still ahead, a 360 follow-up. has a medical mystery been solved? there's a follow-up on the girls in new york who formed a syndrome close to tourettes. at least eight people were killed and 27 hurt in afghanistan as protests continued for a fourth straight day. the theofury is over the burnin korans. president obama has apologized to afghan president hamid kar i karsai. how quickly iran can produce an atomic bomb. says iran has amped up efforts to key nuclear sites. when inspectors were in iran last week. and take a look at this. it may be the world's shortest man. 22 inches long, 72 years old and

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a 360 follow tonight to a medical mystery we've been covering closely. parents were terrified when a dozen teenagers at a local high school developed strange ticks resembling turrets syndrome. most of the affected teens were girls. this video was last october after she was taken to the hospital. her mom said her epilepsy got

worse after the ticks started. she appeared to have a seizures. >> these have seizures she's had since she was kids. >> no. these are from the ticks. >> these are a different kind of seizure she develops? >> these are a different kind of seizure. >> okay. do we need to call paramedics? >> yes. no. no. it's okay. it's okay. >> her mom said she was fine after the seizure was over. some of these teens were diagnosed with something called conversion disorder. a mass hysteria. physical response to stress, kind of mass hysteria. many of the girls and their parents were not satisfied with that answer. even though health officials ruled out any environmental cause. activist erin brockovich sent a

team to test for chemicals. there was never really able to explain what suddenly appeared in just mostly young teenager girls. the mystery deepened when a 36-year-old woman in the same town seemed to develop the same type of ticks. she said as a teenager she was at the high school. >> at this point i have to have faith in my doctors. all the lab work and cat scans and mris i've had done have come back within range within the normal range limits. so if it ends up being environmental, then does that mean that i don't have hope of getting better? you know? these are thoughts that go through my head.

>> that was march fitzsimmons three weeks ago. today we learned that marge's symptoms have improved so much she's returned to work full-time. the doctor who has treated her has been treating the teens. three of the girls are back to normal. and five others are improving significantly. does that mean the mystery's been solved. dr. drew has also been covering this extensively. i talked to him earlier about this development. >> the health of these girls seems to be improving. are you surprised by that? >> actually i'm not for a couple reasons. one, we fully anticipated if this was a conversion reaction or a mass hysteria, it would naturally get better over time even with no treatment. and they were getting some specific treatment which can accelerate the recovery. the other issue was whether this was an autoimmune system that can happen after an infection. and several of the girls got

treatment for that as well. they took antibiotics and steroids. it can accelerate the recovery obviously. and sometimes the interventions will act as a placebo. if it's strictly conversion can also accelerate the recovery. >> we folk to some of the doctors saying a lot of the reason these girls are improving are based on trust. trust of patience and the doctor. some resisted the idea that this was some sort of mass hysteria or conversion disorder. >> that's one of the more -- i was in a hospital for a decade. one of my responsibilities was to deal with conversion reactions and rule out potential medical causes and deliver that message if i found them to the family and the patient. and there's a very specific, we

call a countertransference. you get a specific feeling when the family comes at you and don't like that diagnosis. some of the moms, i discussed that particular fact with them. i didn't get that feeling i usually get. that's what led me to kind of look around for other causes. >> for people watching, when they hear it's mass hysteria, that doesn't mean they were faking it, right? >> it absolutely does not. it's a subconscious thing. it's not as though they are aware they're doing these things. that's when somebody does something willfully and consciously to manipulate the system. at no point had anyone said this is malingering. when conversions occur and they occur in a mass setting, it's often in an isolated community. it's often younger women. and it's often very dramatic. >> what about all the attention

that the girls have been receiving? could that have exacerbating their symptoms? >> i think it could have. there hasn't been as much media attention to that town. maybe that helped this settle down. it's a double edged sword. the media attention allowed us to direct resources up to them. they got treatment, you've got erin brockovich up there who uncovered the spill. there were things discovered because of the media that might benefit the town overall. >> you say we may never know exactly just what the cause was. >> yeah. it's not as though we'll ever have some smoking gun, some specific test, some specific finding that will tell us absolutely that's what it was. in my mind as i walk away from this or watch this wind down, i still in my instinct tells me it's some combination that yes conversion was here. i always believed that it was part of the story. but that some of these girls may

have had a biological problem to begin with that triggered this. again, it's an important message. you never call something a psychiatric diagnosis until you have categorically ruled out biological problems. >> so you think there may have been a biological issue with one or two of them but then the others kind of, it was more of a conversion reaction to it. >> that's where my bet would go. >> interesting. dr. drew, thanks. >> thanks, anderson. up next tonight, looks like jerry sandusky accused of enthusing kids could have more legal troubles coming his way. we'll explain that way. and a fortune in coins found at the bottom of the ocean. i'm not sure exactly what happened here last night. i was out helping people save money on their car insurance.

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the ridiculist is just ahead. but first susan is back with a bulletin. >> it appears federal prosecutors are looking into the sexual abuse allegations against jerry sandusky. penn state says it has received a subpoena seeking information about the former assistant football coach. jerry sandusky is under house arrest as he awaits trial on dozens of sexual abuse challerg. a he is cue helicopter fell

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time now for the ridiculist. tonight we're adding a group of people we're calling newsroom extras. like extras in movies except they don't know they're on camera and aren't paid for it. from the university of florida, i encourage you to keep your eye on the background. >> students can register for the lottery starting tomorrow and registration is hope until friday. the uaa will notify the winners of the lottery and then vouchers can be picked up through tuesday. students with more than 90 credit hours will get the chance of getting tickets. everyone is welcome to sign up. live from the newsroom, wuft news. >> that was posted online. the young journalist in the background making the copies seems to have a great sense of humor about it.

she said she'd been working in a dark editing room for hours, went to the printer to pick up papers, didn't realize the bright light she was staring at was on top of a camera. she calls it one of her funniest moments. i love how adorable it is. you're frozen then disappear. you take heart in knowing it could have been a whole lot worse. take a look. >> experts say it is also important to keep the bedbugs out of your home. the best way when you stay in a hotel. you may want to use a plastic bag like this one. >> oh. oh. the thing about working in news, you have to pick your stories very carefully and you have to pick your battles. >>. [ speaking in foreign language ]

>> i love his response. he just leaves. the real fun starts when you leave the newsroom and you go out for live shots. that's when every tom, dick, and drunk harry shows up. sometimes dressed like chickens. >> we have more coverage of hurricane ike coming up. there's a lot of people in houston a couple bars are still open. >> i have to say, i was lucky with that one. at least the guy had some clothes on. >> we've been out for a couple hours. >> it's cold out here. >> some people are just out of their minds. what are you going to do? it's nuts. >> it's one thing when the story's light hearted. what happens when someone takes the focus off someone covering a serious story. like kim kardashian's wedding. >> as for the wedding, a lot of the details are kept underwraps. kim will be wearing vera wang. she's going to be marrying her nba beau, player kris