over birth control health coverage in the senate. time to play reporter roulette. we begin with don lemon in tornado ravaged harrisburg, illinois. don, we just got word now that a kansas man as died from injuries he received during a tornado there bringing the death toll from all these different states now to 13. tell me a little bit about where you are, what you see. and how many homes were destroyed in harrisburg. >> oh, a lot. and that's an understatement. two to 300 homes. destruction everywhere, and everyone you speaking to pretty much when you hear the whole thing where it says it sounded like a freight train, it sounded like a freight train to i allot of people. they say it sounded like a truck was heading straight for their homes. destruction everywhere you look. on that ridge up there in that neighborhood, that's where the six people died here in harrisburg, illinois. and as we come around here, we can show you the destruction.

starting with the mall. there's a big walmart over there. here is a strip mall. this was a cell phone store if you walk in here, you can see there they are, cell phones, all the inventory still here. it is well guarded with police help. i have to tell you, instead of looking at the daniel and destruction like this here's what people are looking forward to, to the clean-up as you can see the workers over there cleaning this town up. they're putting on new roofs, they're securing what they have. and all the things that are not in the good enough conditionton withstand a little bit of wind, they're going to bull doze it and tear it down. here's the interesting thing though that we're hearing, brooke. you can talk to chad meyers about this. another storm system is brewing, and they're preparing for that one, as well. >> yep, we're hearing friday, don lemon. thank you so much. want to move long next on reporter roulette.

nick paton walsh is in afghanistan for us. two more american deaths there. nick, what do you know? >> we now have six americans killed in about the last week by men in afghan army uniform turning their weapons on them, the psychological impact on american soldiers who have to work hand in hand with afghans every day is bound to be significant. the details from today are still sketchy. isat confirmed two nato personnel killed, one by one of the gunman being an afghan soldier, the other apparently a language instructor working at this base in the south of afghanistan. an afghan official gave more details saying that this language instructor was there to teach the afghans english, had apparently been there for a year and they found documentation upon him to suggest links to the taliban suggesting perhaps this was a long-planned operation. they confirmed that both of the dead were, in fact, americans. now, i should point out this goes right to the heart of the key point of america's exit strategy here. they have to be able to trust

the afghan soldiers they're working alongside. they're training to take over security across the country. without that, nato can't withdraw. and with these instances, three now in just over a week, one of wiltwo americans were shot dead in the heart of the securest part of afghanistan's interior ministry are really beginning to erode that trust. if that happens, that could put the exit strategy in trouble here. >> nick peyton.walsh, thank you. c next, lisa desjardins on capitol hill for us where the senate stopped this controversial birth control health insurance measure. the vote was close. what happened? >> that's right. you know, this is a very private matter. contraception, health care but a very public battle today by a vote of 51-49, the senate tabled a republican measure that basically was trying to block president obama's contraception idea. let's get specific. this was the bill today a measure by roy blunt that would

allow employers to opt out of any health care coverage that they found morally objectionable. that could be anything but, of course, that, includes contraception. that will idea was blocked. it was tabled again, 51-49. so that bill right now, brook, that's dead. but the fiery words we heard today on the floor, those are still ringing. >> the issue here is protecting the conscience clause and the religious beliefs of the american people. >> every step of the way, it seems as if there is an assault on women's reproductive choice. >> this it is tyranny. it is the political bullying of a religious group. >> it would allow any employer to denehealth service to any american for virtually any reason. >> having a conscience clause exemption used to be something that democrats and republicans all agreed to. now, it's not. >> we defeated an amendment that would have historically taken

away something that women in this country have counted on for decades. and that's the ability to make their own health care choices. >> you know, brooke, i'm a very proud cnn radio reporter. so whenever i hear sound like that of a passionate debate it, always perks my ear up. i want to tell you about one other sound bite i heard while listening today. susan collins got on the floor and seemed to blame everyone. she said this has become nothing but an election year political football. there could have been a compromise but simply wasn't. brooke. >> lisa, thank you so much live for us on capitol hill. that's your reporter roulette on this thursday. in a culture of heated politics, he was one of the loudest voices and now we have learned andrew breitbart has died. there is still a lot here in the story that we don't know the yet. but piers morgan interviewed him less than 4 hours ago. piers is going to join me live next. commended colace capsules.

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if you didn't believe it before, you definitely should now. google is watching you. in fact, starting today, the internet giant has a new privacy policy that many would say it's actually anti-privacy. dan simon explains how this, would and how it could change everything about your life online. >> a senior attorney at google keith enright helped draft the company's controversial new privacy policy. >> it's about improving relevance and using information that you've shared with google to make google products and services more useful for you. >> it does that by keeping track of all your activity across all of google sites like youtube, gmail and maps. it takes that is information and builds a profile of you to

display more relevant ads and search results. >> we'll treat you as a single user across all our products combining information you've provided from one service with information from the others. >> that's what frightens is privacy watchdogs, they worry that one company will know too much about us. attorneys general from 36 states wrote a blistering letter to the company calling the company's new policy an invasion of privacy. and others are sounding the alarm that there's no way to opt out. >> if there are things that you want to keep private about your life, those records are all in there. >> but google calls that untrue. and says the criticism is unfounded. now it's going on the offensive trying to erase a perception that it's violating users' rights. >> it's really about delivering the best service we can to users. based on our experience with users we know that a consistent seamless experience across all of our products and services is going to deliver the most value for them. >> he points out that users will still have a wide set of privacy

controls. search results can be deleted or edited. users can decline targeted ads and log out of their accounts and use google services anonymously. >> so what's all the fuss about? >> i think it's largely based on misperception. people think something is happening that is not happening. >> google may only have themselves to blame for some of the skepticism. last year it agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the ftc over charges the company used deceptive tactics and violated user policy with its now shuttered social network called buzz and more recently found to have circumvenned privacy controls on apple's safari browser that invited more scrutiny. >> we want to the deliver products that delight users and they find extremely useful. if we're not delivering our services in a manner that's consistent with their expectations and what they're looking for, our competition is only one click away. >> google knows it still has convincing to do but thinks when

people take the time to read the policy, they'll appreciate what the company is trying to do. at a time when so many of us are sharing our lives on line, google concedes it's important we know what they're doing with our private information. dan simon, cnn, mountain view, california. >> if you want to get around google's new privacy settings. here's how. first you have to sign into your google account. for many of you, this is your gmail log-in. then type google.com/history. type it into your web browser. then a page will come up with a button on it that says remove all web history. that's what you need to click on. after you do that, you have to click okay. you clear the web history. google has collected for you. your history will stay cleared and disabled unless you decide to turn it on again. coming up, young college student is killed in a hit and run. what is this story an apol jill have to do with nascar? that's coming up and on the

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joliet. an alleged confession totally comes out of the blue and brings the cold case killing of a young college student back in the headlines. melissa lech was killed by a hit and run driver in illinois nearly four years ago. her family never gave up the quest to find the driver. so last fall, they teamed up with nascar driver conway who put lech's photograph on his race car. just this past sunday, the doorbell rang and a young man was there and allegedly confessed. sunny hostin is on the case. do we know more about who this young man is, and did he come

forward because of this fas car? >> this is remarkable. apparently yes, he did come forward because of the nascar picture and information on the trunk of that car. his name is david mccarthy of naperville, illinois. he's 27 years old. and he told melissa lech's sister michele lech that he saw the nascar thing and i want to say that was driver kevin conway who helped that family and he told her sister that he did see the nascar thing and that he wanted to clear his conscience. now, he didn't apologize for it though, brooke, and he didn't say that he was going to turn himself in to police. and he left her home, but the savvy family got the driver's license plate number of david mccarthy, reported to police and he was arrested shortly thereafter. so really just bravo. i think to nascar driver kevin

conway because as you mentioned, this was a cold case four years, no one had come toward. and because of him, i think that's why we have an answer for this grieving family. >> so though if he's not apologizing, doesn't appear to be turning himself in to police, do the police have any other evidence against him whatsoever? >> they do not appear to have any other evidence against him at this point. i mean, he did also tell her sister michele lech that he stopped after he hit her. and that she was still alive on the ground on the road and that he got scared and drove away leaving her still alive but obviously gravely injured. so at this point, he's been charged with leaving the scene of an accident clearly and also with charges related to her death. so really just a tragedy i think for this family but at least they have a bit of closure. >> since though we're talking four years ago, would the legal system be tougher on him

potentially? >> you know, i think so. i think so. i think that's indicated by the fact that he left the scene of the crime. some would think, well, it's such a great thing that he came forward but this is four years later that this family has had no answers. and so i suspect that they're not going to be easiest on him. i think they're going to be tougher on him, brooke. >> let's move on to this one. we talked about those gruesome warning labels that the fda, food and drug administration wants to make tobacco companies put on their cigarette packs. this judge has now said, nope, can't do it. that's unconstitutional. he says the requirement violates the cigarettemakers first amendment rights. so here are some of the pictures they would have put on the labels. what's the judge's rationale here? >> you know, the judge's rationale is that this is unconstitutional because of the first amendment. and also that the images sort of go beyond i think informing the public about the perils of smoking cigarettes and sort of places the onus now on the

company to push forth the anti-smoking government campaign. and the judge found that that was just toot far. and, of course, the cigarette companies or rather the government is appealing that decision. so it's going to be many, many years before we see these labels, these types of labels on any cigarette packs. if we ever are to see them. it's interesting, brooke, you know, i trav quite frequently and i've seen these types of labels all around the world. so the united states is not unique in wanting to have these kinds of labels on cigarettes. >> yeah, we've done the segment before. they show them in brazil, i know canada for sure. obviously the cigarette companies didn't want the photographs. what about just the warning labels themselves or even the images the government does want? how do they feel about that? >> it strikes me that they have the problem with the images because they are so very graphic because we know on cigarette packaging, there are some warning labels, cigarettes can

cause cancer or may cause cancer, hazardous to your health. so that sort of warning is already on many cigarette packages. i think their issue is really with the very graphic images, but again, we see these all over the world. the united states is really one of the only countries that doesn't have this sort of graphic labeling on cigarette packages. >> sunny hostin on the case, thank you so much. coming up in 60 seconds, piers morgan joining me live on the sudden death of andrew breitbart who love him or hate him, no doubt absolutely impacted today's political climate. piers just interview the him 48 hours ago, less than that. stay right here.

we mentioned this before but it bears repeating ha andrew breitbart never shrank from a fight. is the conservative blogger died overnight in los angeles of what his lawyer's calling natural causes. he was only 43 years old.

and no two ways about it, he relished verbal combat. this was vintage breitbart shot last month in washington when he was confronting the occupy movement. >> behave yourself! behave yourself! behave yourself! behave yourself! you are freaks and an-i mals. you're freaks and animals. behave yourself! behave yourself! >> this isn't some isolated incident wherever he went, the volume seemed to go up. one of his final public appearances happened just two days ago right here on cnn. piers morgan sat right across from him in the studio and analyze tuesday's republican primaries for both arizona and michigan. piers is now on the phone with me. and piers, when he was sitting right across from you, did he show any signs of being sick when you talked to him? >> not at all. in fact, quite the opposite. we made a joke of the fact that he looked really good.

we said that on air. i'm just as shocked as anybody about what's happened. i mean, he was a fascinating character. complex. you know, very divisive. he was always great television. that's why he was part of our regular panel after all the primaries. and he was part of four people all of whom gave a great contribution. but you always knew with andrew, he had a ferocious brain, incredible energy. i didn't agree with a lot of what he said but i loved the passion with which he said it. i think he would have been i suspect quite taken aback by the incredible reaction to his death. but i think that is a testimony to his drive, his hard work and the fact that he put himself right at the center of the new kind of internet coverage of politics, which has become very important. >> part of his legacy, though, i mean some of his biggest most influential puck raking appeared to cut journalistic corners. howard kurtz saying he leaves

behind a mixed legacy. mixed. what do you think of that? >> i don't think he would quibble with that. he made high profile mistakes, the shirley sherrod thing being the most glaring. i think when you live on the edge, it's not conventional journalism and is something that would wind people up. "the washington post" did a line today which i quite liked saying that breitbart's lesson was if you're not making the left mad, you're not making a difference. i think he felt that there was a kind of progressiveness through the kind of attack journalism that he did online. you know, it wasn't everyone's cup of tea. he made a lot of enemies. i read a quote from him himself which i thought summed him up. he said i love my job and fighting for what i believe in and having fun while doing it. i love reporting stories that are complex to report. i love fighting back, finding allies and enjoy making enemies. there's been a big fury today with some people reminding those paying tribute to him that when teddy kennedy died, he was the

fir firstors publicly berate him. i don't think he would himself expect to be received like a saint today. but the fact that he died at 43, he's a father of four, a very loving family guy away from his political work, i think is a real tragedy and he'll be a huge loss i think to a lot of media outlets who enjoyed his contributions. >> just want to reiterate the line in the post. if he was not making the left mad, he was not making a difference. you had him on what, tuesday night? as part of your primary coverage. what did you find just, i don't know, absolutely most compelling about him? >> the thing i liked about him was the passion. you know, i like anyone in politics who has a genuine passion. i think he believed in what he said. you know, i think he did cut some corners. he wasn't a conventional journalist. he wound up a lot of people the way he went about what he did and he took a great glory and pride in exposing people and bringing them down. that isn't everybody's cup of

tea. butloved his passion. certainly his contributions to my post primary shows, the midnight shows we did after all the primaries were always very compelling, very ar tick to you lat. he had a very good understanding of the republican party and all the issues that it was facing. i think you see by the tributes from rick santorum and newt gingrich and mitt romney the effect that he had to the conservative party and to the movement. a lot of people today will realize there's actually life will be a little bit be the duller without andrew breitbart and politics i think will be a loser. >> and just 48 hours ago, you say he looked good and there was nothing about him that signaled that he might have been sick? >> yeah, i mine -- i don't know what has caused this to happen. i don't think we know the official reason. >> natural causes is what his lawyer says. >> right. i assume it was a heart attack or something like that. it's sad for him and his family.

it's a young age for someone to go. he worked at a ferocious pace. people told me he didn't sleep much and he was always on the go. as you saw from the clip that you played earlier, he could be very angry and passionate a lot of the time. that was what fired him up. that i guess takes a toll on a body over a few years. but this is no age to die. i personally have really enjoyed working with him since the start of the year. he's always been a fantastically good value as a guest even though i disagree with a lot of what he said. i think that was the reason that he was very good at what he did. he inspired a reaction but he did it from an informed point of view. whatever you say about him, you couldn't deny that andrew breitbart knew his stuff. >> piers morgan, appreciate it. don't forget to watch "piers morgan tonight" right here on cnn. coming up next, kyra phillips gets candid and reveals how she got pregnant with twins after the age of 40. don't miss this. [ laura ] maine is known for its lighthouses, rocky shore,

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if you follow celebrity moms, many of them are very open about the problems with infertility. stars like nicole kidman and brook shieldses have all gone public about their trouble getting pregnant. for many women, by the time you turn 45, the chance of getting pregnant is 1%. kyra phillips talks with a doctor who's trying to beat those odds. >> if you don't hear, just freeze the eggs. >> the ivf day starts with ultrasound monitoring, checking ovaries for development of eggs.

blood tests and then going upstairs and retrieving eggs, using surgery, getting those eggs into the lab. >> dr. jamie grifo may sound like an ordinary fertility doc. >> freeze the eggs. >> but he's not. he's one of the world's leading scientists with the knowledge to stop a woman's reproductive clock. >> when you first discovered you could do this, what was your reaction? >> well, when we had our first baby from it, it was very exciting. because we knew that this would help a lot of people. >> grifo uses a tech teek developed within the last decade called vittorification which freezes eggs about 100,000 times faster than the old method. it's still considered experimental by the american society for reproductive medicine. >> we weren't very good at freezing eggs. the ice crystal damage to the cel was the problem and using the vittorification technique

where you dehydrate the cell and flash freeze it without ice crystals allowed it to survive the freezing and thawinging process so it could be as viable as if it had never been frozen. >> he is the director of nyu's fertility center. since using this fair little new egg freezing technique, he has seen a surge in new patients. there are now more than 900 frozen egg cycles safely secured in these liquid nitrogen thanks. he's made it his life's work to tell women when it comes to having children, you've got options. >> would deserve fair to say you're actually stopping that biological clock from dicking for a moment? >> well, we're freezing that reproductive potential in time. so you know, if a 30-year-old freezes her eggs, she freezes her 30-year-old potential. >> that's important because as a

woman gets older, the quality of her eggs diminishes. making it hard irto get pregnant. and many experts would suggest if you're a woman who wants to wait to have kids, you should freeze your eggs in your late 20s or early 30s. so how did i meet dr. grifo? i was 42 years old and wanted to get pregnant. and it was under his watchful eyes i was blessed to have these beautiful twins through traditional ivf. it was during my pregnancy dr. grifo told me about vittorification. >> it's hope, not a promise. it's an option, not a requirement. it allows women to be more thoughtful about how they conduct their lives and how they will think about their fertil y fertility. >> does it tie in at all. >> women like 37-year-old catherine cooper. >> the information that i'm looking for is a project. >> who has a high-powered job in new york's frenetic banking

industry. with two sisters and a really tight family, catherine knew she wanted a family. she also wanted a career. babies would have to wait. >> how do you balance your want for a baby but also your want to have a really successful career? >> the balance part is tricky. so obviously, i really want to have a baby. i just don't want to have one right now. >> reporter: so her gynecologist sent her to dr. grifo, the leading specialist in the new york area. >> she brought up the fact that my fertility was going to decline rapidly over the next several years and that i should consider freezing my eggs. >> reporter: she decided to take the leap. but it took three months to get an aappointment. then catherine started the process to harrest the most eggs she could, a daunting series of hormone shots.

>> once i had everything all mixed up i'm looking at this needle thinking i know that's the wrong need. it's so big. so i decided to insert it halfway and hope for the best. >> bottom line it, wasn't easy. >> no. no, it wasn't easy. >> after two weeks of ramping up egg production, catherine's lucky number was 13. >> that's 13 chances at having a baby. >> sure, yes. i think the odds are pretty good if i choose to use them, plus, it's not as if i'm doing this because i'm infertile. i don't know that i have fertility problems. i'm doing it to create options in my life. >> reporter: 13 options, frozen in time until catherine says go. so considering the cost, the shots, what it felt like, it was not an easy process. was it worth it? >> completely worth it. no doubt in my mind. worth it. >> i was thinking about this,

you're like the ultimate you the ladies man. you have gotten so many women pregnant. >> well, you know. >> have you ever thought of it that way? >> no, other people have. >> but actually, dr. grifo is very old fashioned. he hopes his patients like catherine can conceive naturally, but if they can't, he's at least been able to freeze a little bit of hope. >> kyra phillips, cnn, new york. >> ultimate ladies man. kyra phillips is going to be hosting a special on infertility and the quest to have a baby-sated afternoon 2:30 eastern time right here on cnn. coming up next, a priest denies a woman communion during her own mother's funeral. why? because she's gay. she is barbara johnson and she is standing by for me. she's going to tell me what she wants to happen and find out what the church told her.

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help. but a maryland woman says the death of her own mother, a priest made her feel worse. she is barbara johnson and she says during her mother's funeral mass on saturday, father marcel guarnizo denied her communion because she is a lesbian. here is what the archdiocese is saying. ny issues regarding the suitability of an individual to receive communion should be addressed by the priest with the that person in a private pastoral setting. the arnl diocese is looking into the incident and will handle this as a personnel issue. joining me now barbara herself. i just want to welcome you and offer my condolences for your mother. i just want to begin with saturday. it's obviously one of the worst days of your life. the passing of your mother, her funeral mass. and just take me back there, your first in line to receive communion and what does the priest do? >> i approached father marcel to receive communion.

and at that moment, he placed his hand over the bowl containing the eucharist and looked into my eyes and said, i cannot give you communion because you live with a woman. and in the eyes of the church, that is a sin. at that moment, i was stunned. and i think i must have stood there for it seems like forever. i think i was like expecting him to change his mind. it just felt unreal, and then i walked away and was met by my partner, my brother who tried to console me at that point. >> so as you're seated and ultimately deliver the eulogy in your mother's memory, the priest did something else. can you describe that? >> i was facing the congregation. so i wasn't aware at the time until i returned to my seat but as i was delivering the eulogy in celebration of her wonderful life, everyone told me that father marcel left the altar and

did not return until just as i was finishing my eulogy. >> did you have any conversation with him ahead of time about the situation, about his personal feelings toward you? did you have any conversation whatsoever? >> no, we had a conversation, but it was not about his feelings or about the church's teachings or about my state of grace. the conversation that we had in advance, i was accompanied with by my partner and at another time by my brother. that conversation was strictly about the fact that father guarnizo did not want us to do two eulogies as had been planned with the music director at a meeting two days prior. we had informed him prior to the mass that there wouldable two you'll gists. he said there should only be one and that they do it all the time at which point my brother said well, we don't do this all the time. >> i want to point out that you got this letter from a high ranking member within the

archdiocese. he had heard about what happened. i want to read part of this letter says, "i am sorry that an what should have been a celebration of your mother's life was overshadowed by a lack of pastoral sensitivity." barbara, is the letter enough to now sort of walk away, leave this alone or do you still want the ministry to take some kind of action? >> my family and i are very appreciative of everything all of the outreach that we've received from the archdiocese. and from father lahood of st. john norman's. however, we believe that the only reason to be talking about this still is because we would not want any other family to go through what was the worst experience on the very worst day of all of our lives. . so we believe it's important that father marcel is removed from parish life. >> have you had any conversation with him since all of this has happened, since this has been written about? and just how are you feeling?

>> i extended myself to father marcel through an e-mail over the weekend. and i have -- i've had no response from him. my immediate response to this whole incident was anger and upset. and my first thought was that i would never return to the church. in the days that have followed through a lot of prayer and an outpouring of support and love from many devout catholics and the clergy themselves, in the person of monsignor michael fisher and bishop.nastaut, it's actually strengthened my faith in the church itself. and the last thing that anyone in my family would ever want would be to turn away catholics at this time because my mother loved that church with all of her heart. >> so in the end, has strengt n strengthened your faith, yet you still would like for him to be

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there will be many in this deep red area here. if you look, brooke, that's exactly where that weather was the other day. there may be storms in southern illinois, in southern indiana, parts of kentucky, into tennessee, mississippi, alabama and georgia. this weather could be just as strong we saw the other day. >> just as strong? >> and certainly f-3s, and maybe more tornadoes tomorrow than there were a couple days ago. >> let's hope not. chad myers, thank you so much. >> you're welcome. now to more news after the break. we'll be right back. maybe this vacation wasn't a good idea vacations are always a good idea ♪ priceline negoti - - no time. out quickly. you're miles from your destination. you'll need a hotel tonight we don't have time to bid you don't have to bid. at priceline you can choose from thousands of hotels on sale every day. save yourself... some money

it goes without saying being the president is a pretty stressful job. i see you laughing. dealing with the politics of washington, pulling the country out of a deep recession, but then comes the pressure of tossing out the first pitch. in this new interview, the president reveals what that is

like. joe johns? >> i can't imagine. >> how are you doing? i miss you. >> i miss you, too. you're doing an incredible job. >> we're talking about bill simmons here, and i've actually thought about it, what it must be like to be president, who is not a professional athlete, you put a ball in your hand, how many thousands are watching. what if you throw it the wrong way or something? you look stupid. here's the president talking about t by the way, he talks about wearing a -- >> bulletproof vest. it makes sense. >> who knew? check it out. >> it is about the most stressful thing. >> if you ground it it's on youtube the next ten years. >> absolutely, and you have to wear this bulky vest, and what happens is they just hand you the ball. they say here, you walk out. if you had three tries, you would be fine, right? you would throw a fast strike

somewhere in there, but if it's the first ball, each time i go up there, my thinks is i'm going to blaze this thing in, but if i throw a grounder, that's a problem, so i end lofting it up a big. >> a change-up. >> yeah, it clears the plate, but it's not what you would like. >> it clears the plate. >> republicans, no problem. baseball, tough. >> thank you, joe johns. see you on "the situation room" talking politics. meantime i do want to see you, i do want to share with you the crisis in syria becoming an issue. we heard mitt romney sounding off about this just this morning. >> with regards though syria, what do you say serb the administration says, they had assad was a reformer. assad a reformer? really? as he's murdering his own people

in. >> quick fact check. the obama administration says president asaid fits the definition of a war criminal and not a reformer. be that as it may, it is bucking an issue. i want to go to cnn's senior international correspondent nic robertson for us in syria, in the southern neighbor of lebanon. in the homs and the neighborhood known as baba amr. tell me what's happening. >> the free syrian army have done what they call a tactical withdrawal. they pulled out of the baba amr. they say they didn't want to put the civilians in any more harm's way. they pulled out leaving about 5,000 civilians, but 2 doesn't matter which way you put the language, they were beaten out by assad forces, bigger, more

militarized, tanks on the streets yesterday noises finally defeated, beaten out of the baba amr. now the concern is what happens to the rest of the people. the activists already saying government forces going in there house to house, taking anyone men over 12 years old. we're talking about young boys as well, brooke. >> concerns about the civilians, also concerns about potentially arming the rebels. should we arm then or not, is one of the questions. listen to some sound. this is secretary of state hillary clinton testifying just yesterday. >> when zawahiri of al qaeda comes and supports the opposition, you have to ask, if we arm, who are we arming? how would we get the arms in there? what good would art and military tanks do? >> it was a similar question i know we asked when it came to the opposition in libya. are we getting any better picture now of who these rebels are?

>> we were getting a slight le better picture. in homs, for example, people described if you like, a better educated, more sophisticated, more secular type of free syrian army fighter. in other parts, more rural, a lot are more conservative. there have even been videos released in the last week by groups that look very much like al qaeda in iraq, operating under a different name. u.s. officials say small numbers of al qaeda in iraqer making their way to the fight in syria. we have seen suicide bombings. so many there are elements of al qaeda in iraq now, but they are the minority, the vast majority are young men often well educated young men, rural farmers, on the not well educated, but they don't have