flight attendants angry. everybody coming at each other. she snapped. sad. thank you panel. something to add? >> could we ask viewers to get us better video in the future? >> 23 rows of videotape could have been better. we appreciate that. thank you. appreciate your time. lets get to cnn newsroom with carol costello. see you back here tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. heartbreak and outrage in afghanistan just hours after a u.s. soldier reportedly went on a horrifying rampage in an afghan village. taliban issues a chilling threat. it vows to avenge the deaths of those 16 civilians. we'll take a closer look at what happened and the american sergeant now being held in the killings. pushing ahead to tomorrow's alabama and mississippi primaries. mitt romney gets a boost from the son of a south. comedian jeff foxworthy is stumping for romney in both

states. newt gingrich and rick santorum are fighting romney for the conservative vote in the south. tiger woods suffered a tournament ending injury. watch him after this approach shot on the 10th hole at doral. look at him. favoring that left leg. tiger withdrew after the 11th hole. he injured that tendon in the masters last year. we begin this hour in afghanistan where an american is accused of a cold blooded killing spree. the pentagon has not released the soldier's name but says he's an army staff sergeant in his mid 30s. he served several tours of duty in iraq but on his first deployment to afghanistan. he's now in custody. u.s. custody. the military says he acted alone. here's what we know. at 3:00 a.m. local time, afghan troops reported seeing a soldier leave his army outpost near kandahar. the united states dispatched a patrol to find him but before

they found him, he reached a village 15 miles away. the military says he went door to door shooting people. most of the victims were women and children. we're covering all angles of this developing story. sayer sayer is in the afghan capital and barbara starr at the pentagon working her sources. the taliban is vowing revenge. that reflects growing outrage in the streets too, doesn't it? >> reporter: it does indeed. the people in the village that we have been watching some of the images and some of the interviews coming out from the area where this happened and they are basically saying you said to trust us. you said we could trust you. and look at what you've done to us. there's definitely some anger coming from the village and today many families are burying their dead including nine children and three women and four men. there are five others who were wounded in this attack and the international security assistance forces say they have been working on those five

people in a coalition facility there in the area but there is definitely, definitely anger especially coming not only from the villagers but also from president hamid karzai who called this an act of terror and said it's unforgivable. some very strong words from the president there. what we know right now again is that this soldier is in custody but there are some disputed details of what happened. some of the villagers saying that there was more than one u.s. troop on the ground when this happened though they say only one person did this on their own. no mission going on in the area. carol? >> i'm just curious, what was the mission of the combat outpost where the suspect was based? >> reporter: well, they've been based there for quite a long time. it's gone through several people sort of being over that first canada and now the u.s. the situation is that everyone is mum on what exactly

surrounded all this. how did this person get off base without people noticing. and if you listen to what the villagers are saying, this seems to have gone on for quite some time because it happened in two different villages and the villagers saying four different houses were attacked where people were pulled out by their hair in some cases. one villager saying their child was stomped and then a gun put in his mouth and that people were just shot randomly. so there's going to be a lot of deep investigation into this by not only nato but also afghans as well. >> this isn't the case of a rogue soldier but a rogue base. the suspect was stationed in washington state and has been tied to other attacks in afghan civilians. they were accused of forming a kill team and slaughtering three unarmed men for sport. the same year the military stars

and stripes newspaper called it the most troubled base in the military. they quoted a retired general as saying there was a leadership problem. the next year the los angeles times cited a spike in suicides and called it a base on the brink. seattle post intelligence newspaper quote one veterans advocate as saying this was not a rogue soldier. this was a rogue base. this latest bloodshed is the latest embarrassment to the community. >> it will complicate missions most definitely but we're affected by senseless death regardless of how it happened. spending years away from my kids, my wife, my family, my community, you know, stressful. >> in afghanistan one government official warns the united states to not send the suspect back to the states for a trial. he said afghans are demanding swift justice and will feel betrayed if the accused gunman is whisked out of the country. barbara starr covers the pentagon for us.

i want to start there. you have the soldier who allegedly did these terrible things. the united states military has him in custody in afghanistan. at what point do they get him out of the country for some kind of trial? >> reporter: this will be a key decision for commanders to make, carol. do they hold the trial in afghanistan on a u.s. military base once charges are made against this man and if he goes to court-martial or do they send him back to the united states? we've seen things go both ways. the issue of his safety, the safety of the troops around him, the safety of any base where he's being held is going to be one of paramount concern. one can only imagine. make no mistake. he'll be handled by the u.s. military justice system and not turned over to afghans. there are very strict laws and regulations about that. i want to go back a minute and touch on the lewis-mccord situation. that base. certainly that base is a place where there have been many, many

very well documented problems. things that have gone through the military justice system but what we don't know right now -- we need to be careful of course -- is whether this suspect served at lewis-mccord at the time those other things happened or if he had the same commanders. we don't know when he started to serve with that base. >> let's talk about the mission in afghanistan. there's a new abc poll out that shows 60% of americans don't think the war in afghanistan was worth fighting. this is disturbing since osama bin laden and al qaeda use the country as its base. how will the pentagon handle this and congress and the president? >> reporter: you look at those numbers and it is concerning to u.s. military commanders because they have long said they can't prosecute a war that american people don't support. that's a real tenant in the pentagon since the days of vietnam.

but right now the policy, the strategy remains unchanged after this, which is nato, the u.s., the afghans have all agreed that combat operations will wind up by the end of 2014. there is talk about a new agreement that would keep u.s. troops there for some time after that. hunting down al qaeda. but this incident combined with the accidental koran burning incident combined with just the general unease of what you constantly hear, what we all constantly hear, and the issues that the afghan government has with all of this, it kind of makes you wonder whether it's all going to last that long and whether that remains to be seen, carol. >> it does. barbara starr at the pentagon for us. we're looking at this tragedy from every angle. less than 15 minutes from now we'll take a closer look at the mental strain facing our men and women in the war zone. a psychologist will be here to tell us how something like this could happen. how things can go so terribly

long. and then at the top of the hour, we'll talk base protocol and how it affects afghan relations with the white house. now troubling new reports out of syria. rebel activists say more than 100 people were killed across the country yesterday. the most gruesome stories are coming out of homs. opposition groups say government troops stormed into homes and stabbed to death at least 45 women and children. the government blames terrorists for the attacks. cnn is unable to verify because as you know syria bans most foreign reporting. today a funeral is planned for an american reporter killed in syria. marie was killed in homs when government forces shelled a residential area. she will be laid to rest in oyster bay, new york. onto politics now. mitt romney reaching out to

southern conservatives ahead of tomorrow's alabama and mississippi primaries and he's getting some help from one of the south's funny men, jeff foxworthy. he spoke a moment ago in mobile. >> the fact that you would stand in the pouring rain to speak with the next president of the united states tells me that you are committed. >> romney, foxworthy, will it work? >> i thought i saw -- i saw foxworthy. i couldn't see romney. i think this is part of mitt romney's strategy to reach out to voters, conservative voters in the deep south in mississippi and alabama. not his strong suit down there. social conservatives dominating both states. mitt romney not doing so well among those voters. maybe his mormon religion has something to do with it. last week we heard mitt romney talk about his love of cheesy grits and biscuits. i think this is part of mitt romney trying to reach out to

voters in both states. tomorrow primary day in those two states. mitt romney also admitting, listen, kind of an away game for me. that's what he said about those two contests. he's trying to lower expectations in alabama and mississippi. >> he's done that in a lot of states, hasn't he? let's talk about rick santorum. he's coming off a good weekend win and hoping to convince newt gingrich to drop out. is it working? >> big win for santorum in kansas. he won 51% of the vote in the caucuses there on saturday. 30 points ahead of mitt romney and everybody else. a big win there. he gets delegates. as for santorum and gingrich, i think rick santorum would love for newt gingrich to get out of the race so santorum would be the last remaining so-called conservative candidate to go against romney but he won't actually say that. take a listen to what he said on the sunday talk shows. >> the speaker can stay as long as he wants, but i think the better opportunity to make sure that we nominate a conservative is to give us an opportunity to go head to head with governor

romney at some point and hopefully that will occur sooner rather than later. we'll wait and see what the speaker decides. >> that's like hint, hint, newt, get out of the race. not happening. gingrich's campaign for a while some top aides said if he doesn't do well in mississippi and alabama, maybe that's the end. the candidate himself sounding very serious here saying he'll go all of the way to the convention. stay tuned. we'll see what the results are in alabama and mississippi. we'll talk more on wednesday about that one. >> we will. paul steinhauser, thank you. what would you do if your flight attendant told you your plane was going to crash? that's what happened on a flight about to take off from dallas to chicago. passengers say the female attendant got on the intercom screaming she wouldn't be responsible if the plane crashed. she even referred to the 9/11 attacks. please listen to this again. [ screaming ]

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primaries in the deep south wouldn't normally get this much attention but mississippi and alabama could be the deciding factors in whether newt gingrich stays in the race although gingrich insists whatever happens, he ain't leaving. a conservative columnist and former gingrich speech writer is here. welcome, matt. >> happy to be back. >> we're happy to have you. this interesting article in "the washington post" this morning said that of these three candidates, none of them really connect to the south. i know gingrich is supposed to be the closest connection but he was born in pennsylvania. he served in georgia. he hasn't lived in the south for decades.

he lives near washington d.c. so how can he connect with southern voters? >> well, let's put it this way. he doesn't sound southern but at least newt gingrich has had more experience in seeing grits and gravy and these other things that other candidates are talking about. we've got basically an even split in both states in the polls that we see today. no one has clear momentum to just carry the day. i think what it means is what you talked about earlier and that is it may be that we're going to keep seeing this thing go on and on and on. there may not be clarity that comes out of these votes in mississippi and alabama tomorrow. >> normally we wouldn't talk about these states because the primary would have already been pretty much decided. >> the republican party did this to themselves. they made all of these primaries and caucuses proportional for so long. they subjected their candidates to way too many debates that they had no control over. overexposure. running out of funds. not all of them. romney has money. santorum is doing okay.

gingrich is a stretch right now in terms of having money. he's hanging in there. and you have these super pacs on top of everything else that complicated the system. this is just a marathon miserable experience. >> speaking of miserable experiences, it's raining at a campaign stop for mitt romney. he has jeff foxworthy for him and he's not as funny in the pouring rain. nobody is. i guess what i want to ask you is that a smart move? >> i think it is. romney admitted this is an away game for him as he put it. probably not the smartest thing in the world to say. at least he was being honest about it. he has foxworthy. he's popular throughout the south and across the country. whenever you get that star power, you always have to wonder are they coming to see me, the candidate, or just coming to see jeff foxworthy. >> does it really matter? at least they're coming. >> the real question is are they going to come back and vote tomorrow and will they vote for

that candidate? right now i don't see any clear leader in this situation. i think gingrich has sort of helped himself a little bit because he is at least clawed back up to that front-runner status but he are all just neck and neck. and they are trying to hang onto texas. they know that texas has been moved back. it could be winner take all state. that's why rick santorum wants astrona newt gingrich out. i don't think santorum is thinking about this. a lot of gingrich's vote, a certain substantial amount, would potentially go to romney because they are long-term republicans. he needs to think about it before he asks the speaker to exit stage left. >> always interesting. thank you. i hope you come back. a u.s. soldier accused of killing afghan civilians, did he have a psychotic episode? were there signs there was something wrong? i'll talk to a clinical psychologist with an organization that helps military families deal with mental health issues. we'll be back.

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why would a soldier go door to door killing civilians mostly women and children. the u.s. military say he suffered a mental breakdown. let's explore that. we have a licensed clinical psychologist and founder of give an hour, her organization has created a network of mental health professionals to provide free services to military families. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. good morning. >> i just think people are sitting at home scratching their heads. was it a psychotic episode? is it possible for a person to just snap one night and decide to do such a thing? >> i think we'll learn a lot more in the coming days to understand this soldier's behavior. this behavior was an act of an irrational man. this is not something that we would expect to see if in fact he was functioning healthy in a proper way emotionally, psychologically, i suspect we'll come to understand that this is someone who is probably pretty

tormented, disturbed and that this was an act of irrationality. >> would there have been signs that something was wrong? >> well, from what i understand just in terms of his history, this is someone who has a family. he served apparently three tours in iraq and this one in afghanistan. so it's likely that when we look backward, we will see things that people say about him, changes in his behavior, reactions. messages that he maybe conveyed to people but maybe to people who wouldn't have known what to make of that. i suspect that we will come to understand there were things that had we known what we were looking at could have told us that something really horrible was brewing. >> you work with military families every day. when you hear about something like this, and maybe the signs were missed, what does that say to you about our military

commanders? are there military doctors and psychologists stationed at these bases in afghanistan? >> in my experience over the last seven years, there's a tremendous amount of effort going into trying to assist our service members there when they are in theater and here back at home. a lot of attention is being done to screen, to watch. we're addressing needs in ways that have never been done before. again overseas and back here at home. you can't really catch every person who is in this kind of psychological distress and again this is not the act of a rationale person. this is somebody who in fact did as you say something happened that triggered this kind of violence. >> what does it say to you? he turned himself in. >> absolutely. again, you know, people have said was this cold blooded murder? the behavior absolutely is cold blooded and horrific. it's irrational because clearly he knew that he was not going to

get away with this. he turned himself in. we will come to understand, i think, over the coming days and weeks what was happening inside this man's mind that led him to do this horrible act. it's a very unusual thing that we see. this is not what we typically see even from people who are struggling with post-traumatic stress. this is not how people behave. >> barbara, thank you so much for at least trying to help us understand. we appreciate it. >> thank you. turning our attention now to gas prices. they're back up and still rising. we'll tell you what you can expect to pay. that comes your way right after break. you know when i grow up,

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was that the opening bell i heard? no. it's coming your way soon though. we'll talk about gas prices for a bit. so much for a reprieve after 27 straight increases gas prices fell last week but it didn't last long. gas prices are going back up. there's the bell. hi, allyson. >> let's talk about gas prices. we are starting lower right now a few seconds into the day. let's talk about the oil prices. oil prices didn't go down much. weigh watched them fluctuate a bit here and there over the past week or so. but overall oil prices are staying high. $106 a barrel. you see the national average for gas sitting at $3.80 a gallon. guess which states are getting hit the most? the red states you see gas above $4. yellow states there is where gas prices are within a few cents of

$4. those states actually account for about a third of the country's total population. a lot of people are getting hit by these higher gas prices. an analysts says that prices actually should peak soon because gas supplies right now are strong but really the big question as we go forward is will tensions with iran ease to take that pressure off oil prices and hopefully take that pressure off gas prices as well. >> we hope so. let's talk about the markets. the dow has fallen for the past two weeks. any hope for a rally this week? >> as far as today goes, no rally. take a look. stocks are starting off pretty flat right now. not many major economic reports coming out today for investors to take direction from. europe is quiet. that could be a good thing. overall the trend remains positive. although we've seen plenty of peaks and tough valleys, the bull market actually begins its fourth year today. stocks have had a great run of it. three years ago the dow was at 6547.

it's at 12,924. it's up 97% since then. you look at the s&p 500, the nasdaq, they have more than doubled from those 2009 lows. but that's the excitement. not seeing much excitement on the board. that's an okay thing on a monday morning after daylight saving. >> that's way okay. thank you. u.s. officials apologize to people of afghanistan over the koran burning and now an american soldier is allegedly responsible for more than a dozen civilian deaths in a shooting rampage. in a poll americans are asked if the war in afghanistan is worth fighting for. 60% say no. welcome to both of you. a lot of people are coming out and saying we should just get out of afghanistan right now. why wait until 2014? why wait until the afghan security forces are trained?

we should leave right now. do you agree with that? >> no. i don't. i agree in a sense that i don't think in the long-term was this war the way we fought it worth fighting for, no, but we're in it. if we're going to withdrawal, we can't leave the region in chaos and there's questions on whether we can trust the president once we do leave. we have a relationship with pakistan too. as tragic as this shooting was, we cannot leave right now. >> so how do you mend fences, will? >> you can't. let me say this to the answer to you there. it's long past time we leave afghanistan. all of the conditions that were just described, the conditions we would leave should we immediately get out of afghanistan, would be present a year from now and a decade from now and would have been present five years from now. he can never satisfy that country coming up to some level

of stability or civil society. it's just not going to happen. we just don't have a goal that's achievable in afghanistan. >> what is the goal? he has a good point. what is the goal? i know it's to train afghan security forces but that's not a big goal that the american people would rally around, is it? >> no, it's not. it's not the american people's job to understand long-term what's in the best interest of the u.s. it's the job of the executive legislation. the job of the president to figure that out. you cannot respond to the situation emotionally. he must work with the military generals and figure out a longtime workable strategy. we don't have all of the information. we don't really understand the full conditions. we just get these news reports and we respond emotionally to them. it's up to president obama and his chief of staff and up to his military to decide the best long-term strategy. i am not in a position to communicate those goals because i'm not involved with those meetings. we have to trust that our government -- >> somebody over the last decade

ought to have. somebody over the last decade ought to have been able to give voice to what that goal is. >> i agree with you, will. just because that voice hasn't been given doesn't mean that we should abandon or lose faith in what's happening right now. i just don't want us to respond to this emotionally. i don't want us to respond to this because we're frustrated. we have to respond to this as best as we can through information that we have and i believe that president obama is doing the best that he can in working with nato doing the best he can to lead in a sensible way in the best interest of this country. >> let me just interject. saying we can't respond to this in an emotional way. most of the civilians that were killed were women and children. you have to respond in some emotional way because it's just so horrible. >> it's absolutely terrible. i actually agree that this incident -- you can't take these kind of incidents that are

possibly the result of a deviant and draw a larger issue from it. the problem in afghanistan is that we've been in this country for a decade totally and utterly purposeless and maybe with a purpose but unable to articulate it. you must tell the american people what are goal is there so that we know what we are sacrificing our boys and girls' lives for over there. you had said one thing. we might have a corrupt leader. we don't know. we do know. karzai is a corrupt leader. it looks like we spent ten years in a country where in the last couple weeks karzai said he's going to legalize beating your wives to apiepease taliban in negotiation. it's not clear why we're sacrificing our children in afghanistan. >> here's the thing, will. it's not about afghanistan either. it's really about our foreign policy in that entire region. it's about our dependency on oil. it's about a lot of things

beyond afghanistan. i think what we really need to be talking about is we need to address the tragedy that happened this past weekend but a much larger conversation needs to be about how are we handling foreign policy in that region. we've been fighting for what we think is the best thing for those people and maybe the conversation should be leave that region alone period. we've given billions of dollars to pakistani government and they actually may have been harboring the one person we've been looking for for the past ten years. we do need to communicate things better but the larger conversation and most significant conversation is what is our foreign policy in that region because what we have been doing for the past 30 years has not been working. >> is there a meeting of the minds? >> i don't know that we have a meeting of the minds. i'm not quite as hands off in the region. i think if you have a purpose, if you have a strategic objective in these countries, you should public that. when you don't have one, i don't understand why you just stay for a nurse's purposes.

>> an interesting conversation. i was fascinated listening to it myself. thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> thanks. sharing her grief with the world one month after the death of pop star whitney houston her daughter speaks publicly about her loss. creamy spinach artichoke dip, crispy garlic chicken spring rolls. they're this season's must-have accessory. lean cuisine. be culinary chic.

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one month after the world mourned the death of pop star whitney houston, bobbie chri kr opens up about losing her mom. good morning. >> good morning, carol. it was so courageous of this young woman to step forward in the way she did. it was so touching to see bobbi

kristina talking about her mother in public for the first time since whitney houston's death. bobb bobbie chri bobb bobbie kristina says she feels her mother. >> i can hear her voice, you know, in spirit talking to me and telling me keep moving, baby. i'm right here. i got you. >> wow. she says she also plans on carrying on her mother's legacy. as the investigation into her mother's death continues, i've been doing digging on this story. my sources tell me investigators have contacted all of the doctors, all of the pharmacies tied to houston and found nothing criminal so far in her death. we should have information about what happened soon. my sources telling me that toxicology results could be completed by march 23rd or so. >> in listening to that interview between oprah and

bobbi kristina, did you have a sense that whitney houston's daughter was doing okay? a lot of people are worried about her. >> she had to put on a brave face for this interview sitting in front of oprah. we hear it's a day by day challenge for her. it's not easy. her grandmother is such a strong figure in her life. we all know how much whitney houston loved her mom. she has that support system by her side. let's just hope -- we've been hearing all of the reports of alleged drug use. it doesn't appear that way right now. let's hope she continues to pull and push through. >> we hope so. an anti-obama facebook page and active duty u.s. marine is the man behind it and says he won't follow unlawful orders from the commander in chief. i'll talk to him just ahead.

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a u.s. marine sergeant is not only speaking out about the political process in this country, he's also launched a facebook page that's highly critical of president obama. sergeant gary stein says it is within his first amendment rights to do so and that he will

fight attempts to keep quiet. sergeant stein is the founder of the armed forces tea party. he joins me now from san diego. thank you, sergeant, for being with us this morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. before we get into what's controversial about your facebook page, i want to ask you about what happened troops have been under in this war. while the soldiers actions are horrible let us not forgot the many killed during the war. i want to get into more of what you mean by this. isn't this soldier's actions indeed unforgivable? >> this soldier's actions are horrible. there's not one american that would disagree with that. killing innocent women and

children is not what soldiers, marines, airmen or sailors stand up for. it's not what we're trained to do. wen you look at here, the real issue is the ptsd issues in the military and the lack of training that our senior leadership is getting to identify when soldiers, sailors, marines or airmen have issues. this soldier had at least four combat deployments. any person who that has to go through that is obviously stressed at some point. why weren't the signed picked up on by his platoon sergeant, his platoon commander? those are the questions that need to be asked. why is this happening? how can we stop this from happening? >> i want to pivot to your tea party page. you're active military.

you post political dealings on your page. the most recent, syria. if the president doesn't seek approval for military action in syria, that would be unconstitutional. you go onto say we cannot let our elected officials trample on the document that protects the right of each american citizen and is the foundation of the country. you've stated you wouldn't follow unlawful orders from the president. if he ordered military action in syria and you were ordered to go, would you go? >> if the president of the united states ordered military action without approval from congress, that's an unlawful order. that's unconstitutional. >> could the military kick you out for not following orders? >> they can kick me out for not following lawful orders. yes, they could. i've never refused to follow a lawful order. >> sergeant stein, thank you for being with us this morning.

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as you well know, march madness is here. we have our brackets filled out. game on, jeff. >> the fieldle of 68 is set. it's national bracket day. it's time to fill tout bracket, figure out who is heading to your final four. the big bracket is up here. the number one seed is kentucky in the south. michigan state in the west. over in the east, it's syracuse. and the number one seed in the midwest region is north carolina. we'll talk more about the tournament coming up in a minute. first there's other big sports headlines we want to hit on, including in the golf world, tiger woods. will he play in the masters? that's the question after yesterday at doral? look at him. in the water at ten.

he hurt it in last year's masters. nfl free agent quarterback peyton manning held talks with the denver broncos. he also held talks with dallas. those are the two favorite teams. there have been reports a dozen teams are interested. nba, lakers and celtics. who else comes through but kobe bryant? hits the jumper. the lakers lead their division. okay. we are talk iing about the ncaa tournament. the number one team is kentucky. even though they lost yesterday. they were riding a 24-game win streak. vanderbilt went on a 62-game run. the commodores stunned the

wildcats. it's the first sec title since 1951. kentucky, though, still the furthermore one seed in the south. in the acc championship game, florida state versus north carolina, the tar heels, kendall marshall, hits the three. brings unc in with 30 seconds to go. but the tar heels get no closer. this is really a battle for the number one seed. there's the number one seed, ohio state. gets a two seed. you and i bothed out brackets. you have duke, missouri, ohio state and unc. i know you love the tigers in all forms. >> any tiger mascot out there.

then you have the buckeyes beating mizzou. new mexico is like my upset pick and, of course, carolina, we'll be talking about it after each round, discussing who is doing better. we'll be discussing who is doing that. you have until halftime of tomorrow night's opening round game to join our march madness bracket challenge. join the cnn group. see if you can pick the games better than any of us. we begin this 10:00 a.m. hour in afghanistan. where an american is accused of a cold-blooded killing spree, and a strained alliance is reeling. the pentagon has not released the name, but says he's an army staff sergeant in his mid-30s. he served several tours of duty in iraq, but was on his first deployment to afghanistan. he's in custody, and the military said he acted alone.

at 3:00 a.m. local time, afghan troops reported seeing a soldier leave his army outpost near kandahar. the u.s. dispatched a patrol to find him, but before they found him, he had reached a village about 15 miles away. the military says he then went door-to-door shooting people. most of the victims were women and children. that's a strained alliance between the u.s. and afghanistan. president obama reached out to his afghan counterpart, but the phoned conversation seemed to do little. president karzai condemned the shooting spree as an unforgivable crime. brianna keilar is at the white house. so, brianna, how worried is the administration about this latest blow to the alliance? >> carol, they are very concerned. there's enough challenges with afghanistan. this is obviously something that creates a huge challenge, going further for the at mrgs.

it comes on the heels of this burnings of korans. there's also the concern of the cumulative effect hat this point. you saw yesterday how quickly president obama reached out and made a phone call he did that from the limousine from one of his daughter's game. president obama is calling this tragic and shocking and stressing -- and this is something that you're hearing a lot of administration officials hear, carol, that does not represent the exceptional character of our military and the respect that the united states has for the people of afghanistan. and he goes onto talk about accountability. i fully support their commitment to get the facts as quickly as possible and hold accountable anyone responsible, carol. >> so the apologies are out. president obama is saying justice will be done, but we

know how thingscan go in afghanistan. so what other things is the united states doing to reach out? i mean, how could they move forward and put this behind them? >> sure, i think you're right. and you can say this is the beginning of things. certainly not the end. you're seeing a lot of things on the ground in afghanistan. i spoke with a senior administration official, and they have a lot of -- their ambassador staff certainly very involved in this, and the commanders on the ground. they're reaching out, trying to talk to community leaders, local leaders and stress some things specifically that this was a lone act here. that this was not something that happened on a larger level, and that's really what nathey're trying to convince these local representatives of, carol, and also this u.s. soldier is going to be held accountable. when you talk about the challenges that the administers will face as they negotiate the terms of having them in

afghanistan over time, as there's a drawdown and they try to transition to having afghan forces take the lead, they're pointing -- the senior administration official i spoke with, pointing to the fact that a couple of weeks ago, despite the issue with the koran burning and the up roar that that caused, they say that they were able to negotiate something on the detention of afghans, that they've been working on for some time. so despite, obviously, the challenges that they've been able to take some steps toward as well, carol. >> brianna, keilar at the white house. here to fill in the blame, retired army sergeant mark -- thank you for being with us. i thought you were on the phone, but you're here live, and i'm glad. the taliban is vowing to avenge these attacks. what can the united states do to prevent that type of thing? >> well, i think every unit over there probably is in a heightened straight of alert. they're going to do everything necessary. they've been fighting taliban

for ten years. if the taliban try to attack them, they're going to be prepared for those attacks. >> i want to talk a little bit about this rogue soldier. he walked off the base at 3:00 in the morning. is that easy to do? >> it shouldn't be easy to do. and i suspect that along with the specific tragedyic incident, i wouldn't be surprise d if there's an investigation of the entire community. >> so what is the normal protocol? >> the normal propertocol is they're in a combat zone. they have defensive positions out. they've got guards out every night. they're worried about being attacked. they shouldn't be worried about

people going downtown and conducting these activities. there's a there's a lot that still needs to be answered. >> he would have had to physically walk by someone at some sort of guard station at that outpost? >> yeah, carol. i don't want to speculate on the specific facts of the situation. that's all going to come out in the investigation. it would be surprising in a combat zone somebody could walk out of the defensive position relatively easy without being noticed by somebody or finding an area that should have been guarded that wasn't being guarded. this is something we need to wait and find out. >> u.s. officials say this soldier suffered a mental breakdown. a lot of people are saying there should have been a sign this young man was troubled. are those kinds of signs easy to pick up?

>> they should be. and this is why i mentioned earlier, there probably ought to be a close look at the unit. we have senior serkts checking out the sergeants. we have officers checking out the senior sergeants. good units have a good feel for the condition of the people inside their unit, and hopefully we find these types of situation and these types of concern within a unit well before these types of incidents. and so again no rush to judgment, but that's probably one of the areas the investigators will explore as well. >> we hear a lot of posts about post-traumatic stress syndrome. in your mind, does this type of action -- i mean s that something that arises out of a condition like this? >> carol, i'm not a doctor. i wouldn't want to make a prognosis. but to suggest there's a medical condition that would cause a u.s. soldier unbeknownst to

anybody to walk off a base and conduct himself, and conduct these kind of heinous actions, there's no excuse and no medical condition for that. and if we do have soldiers in that kind of situation, the chain of command should have been able to pick that up well before this ever happened. >> this soldier turned himself in. he's now in custody. the afghan said, we should try this guy. the united states is balking at that. what do you think will happen? >> well, our soldiers go abroad under the uniform code of military justice. one of the contracts that we have with our troops is they will be tried under u.s. justice while abroad. he's entitled to having a u.s. court hear his case. we saw, for example, as recently as a couple of years ago with the cases in iraq, but these type of military justice happens

every day, being done by americans. whoo i would not want to see is this is somehow turned to a show trial. regardless of their crimes. regardless of the allegations are still entitled to u.s. justice. >> it's a complicated factor with so many women and children that were killed. so what can the u.s. military do to calm down tensions? to not make this into a legal show? to get justice? to get this guy back to the united states without some terrible violence happening in afghanistan? >> well, there may not be a reason to bring him back to the united states. most of the defendants were tried in iraq. there's a way where you can find that balance point between american justice and making certain that the people in the country understand that they are being tried. you are right. this is a heinous crime, but i think we need to take a deep

breath, and rather than turning this into a lynch mob, let's demonstrate that we can conduct an investigation and that american justice will prevail in the long run on this incident. >> hean my final question to you. our military so so great, filled with so many brave men and women. as a military person, what goes through your mind when you hear such things? >> well, what goes through your mind, as we saw going back is you have over 100,000 great young american soldiers and coalition soldiers trying to do the right thing every day. they put their values at stake. they put their lives at stake. they put their lives on the line. and then one of their fellow soldiers let them down. it really goes to the bottom of your heart. disappointment you feel with one soldier. all the profound sadness because of the burden that the rest of

the soldiers that are doing the right thing every day under tough conditions will now have to leave with because of these types of actions. >> general, thank you so much for being with us this morning. i know you're busy in dubai. we appreciate it. >> sure. >> more about the suspect now. he was stationed in washington state. the joint base is located outside of tacoma, and it's been tied to other attacks on afghan civilians. in 2010 four soldiers were accused of forming a kill team and slaughtering three unarmed men from support. the same year, they called it the most troubled base in the military. quoted a retired general saying there was a leadership problem. the next year the los angeles times cited a spike in suicides and called it a base on the brink. and the seattle post intelligence newspaper says one veterans advocate is saying this is not a rogue soldier. this is a rogue base. this bloodshed is the latest

embarrass to rock lewis-mcchord's military community. >> it's going to complication missions, most definitely. but also we're all affected by senseless death. regardless of how it happened. seven years away from my kids, my wife, my family, my community. stressful. >> a vigil is scheduled tonight in washington near the base. both the civilian and military communities will honor the afghans killed in the attack. now reports out of syria, rebel activist says more than 100 people were killed across the country, but the most gruesome stories are coming out of homes. they stabbed to death at least 45 women and children. the government blames terrorists for the attacks. cnn is unable to verify because syria bans most foreign reporting. and today a funeral is planned for an american reporter killed

in syria. marie colvin was killed when they bombed a residential area. she'll will laid to rest in her childhood hometown of oyster bay, new york. the gop candidates battling for delegates in four contests. the alabama and mississippi primaries taking the focus. rick santorum is in mississippi today. we'll hear from him a little later. mitt romney is celebrating his 65th birthday today, and he's stumping with comedian jeff foxworthy in alabama. foxworthy joked with the crowd this morning. >> i avoided politics for 53 years. my friends say, why would you get into this? the answer is, it's too important. while i don't like politics, i don't like big govtd. i love this country. >> he wasn't joking. he was pretty darn serious. newt gingrich will be speaking in mississippi in just about an hour. gingrich and santorum are trying

to push each other out of the campaign to become the only solo challenger to romney. southern states aren't pulling out the welcome mat for mitt romney. that's not stopping him from pulling out the good old southern charm. peter hamby, it may be obvious to folks what romney's problem is in the south, but why don't you tell us? >> well, there's a lot of issues here. he's had trouble with rural voters, evangelical voters, basically the southern base. it will go to a republicans, but the problem for romney is he's having trouble making the case to republican voters, and it's really come to the floor in the south.

he lost south carolina. he lost georgia, which is newt gingrich's home state. he lost tennessee, a state he thought he would win to rick santorum. . he won florida, a state that southerners, including myself don't count as part of the south. he did well in the panhandle. he won more populous counties on that coast. he also won virginia. but rick santorum and newt gingrich were not on the ballot. he defeated ron paul there so romney thinks they can pull out a win in alabama. that's the contest they're focusing on the most. >> pooelter, reporting live for us. stay with cnn for all the latest news on tomorrow's alabama and mississippi primaries. cnn's coverage of the results begin tomorrow night at 7:00 eastern. what would you do if you heard a flight attendant behaving like this on your trip?

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welcome back. remember the last time you paid attention to your flight attendant? what if she did this? i'm sure you have seen it by now. but watch again. [ shouting ] >> this was on an americans airline flight. she got on the the intercom and acted hysterical, telling passengers to get off the plane. she started talking about the plane crashing. she even referred to the 9/11 attacks. passengers and the cabin crew were able to restrain the woman, who was taken to a dallas hospital. joining me is the passenger who shot the pictures. welcome. >> good morning. >> are you recovered from that incident?

>> have i recovered? i still think about it very often. i would like to put it behind me, definitely. >> explain to me what happened and the slow realization that something was seriously wrong? >> well, it was a progression. we couldn't tell if she had an odd sense of humor, if she didn't know we could hear her on the p.a. but she continued to reference that we needed to sit down, put on our seat belts and turn off our electronics, and we had clearly already done that. it wasn't until really she started trying to communicate with the other stewardesses and to the pilot that we knew there was a problem. there was one instance where she started speaking in spanish. so like i said, at first it was difficult to see if there was a situation, if there was not, but once she referred to crashing and told the pilot if we didn't return to the gate the crash

would be on him, that we knew we had a situation on our hands. >> it was interesting to me that as soon as she said that, the passengers reacted. how many joined in to help restrain this woman? >> at first, there was an offduty pilot that was in about the third seat of first class. he got up. and that's when everyone relaxed a little bit. he addressed her. tried to take the mike away from her, and that's when the scuffle started. the other two stewardesses and pilots. two others jumped up and assisted in restraining her and tried to get her to the seat. at that point pretty much everybody had their seat belt off and was ready to react. but there were two people in the back that came running up, and i thought, wow, full-timely the. there was an air marshal or somebody on board to help us. it was really two colleagues of mine from sam's club that helped subdue the woman and brought the situation under control.

>> did you feel it was up to the passengers to take control of the situation? what did american airlines do to make you feel safer? >> they didn't do anything to help me feel safer. when we landed, we expected to have an opportunity to talk to american airlines. there were representatives there, but they just assist with connecting flights. so no one was there to tell us what happened or what was going to happen or really anything. so later on when i returned home, i received an e-mail saying for my inconvenience i would receive 10,000 extra bonus miles to my account, which really wasn't important to me. >> what do you wish american airlines would have done? >> i wish someone was there prior to us taking off. we just waited for a couple minutes, and then they said they would get a new crew. one of the stewardesses was not injured, they thought it was

best because of the situation that she get off the plane because it was a stressful situation, which kind of was a little irritating. we were in a stressful situation as well. we weren't offered the same thing. it would have been nice for someone to tell us wlafs going on before we took off. because the person that caused this commotion was able to get off the plane, and we were wondering, you know, could anything have happened to the plane? could she have done anything before we got on? it was a very stressful flight. when we finally landed, there wasn't anyone there to answer our questions or console us. >> or even say thank you. >> wow. steven, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> big banks have some big explaining to do. they're accused of manipulating interest rates. we'll explain how. next. [ laura ] maine is known for its lighthouses, rocky shore,

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big banks in big trouble again. at issue is whether or not banks manipulated interest rates. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. this can't be good for customers, alison. >> no, no, no. especially if you're looking to take out a loan. no banks have been charged with

this yet. but the department of justice is doing a criminal investigation. no word on which bank it's looking into. there's also al civil suit. authorities want to know if banks tried to influence how interest rates go up or down, more specifically. they want to know if banks manipulated what's known as this rate. that's the rate that is set in london each day to determine how much banks charge each other to borrow money. and that, in turn, influences the interest rates that are charged on loans taken out by every day people around the world. meaning rates on more gantgages credit cards, student loans or bondage bondages. other countries are involved in the investigation as well. carol? >> what happens if they're found guilty of manipulating interest rate? >> one analyst said banks could

be on the hook for billions of dollars. criminal charges and individual lawsuits are also a possibility. but it really depends on how far this thing goes. all the various investigations could take years to resolve. the banks right now, law enforcement officials. they're not commenting. but we have a bit of a reaction in the markets. alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. will his influence be enough to give him a win tomorrow?

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now. afghanistan's parliament has demanded a public trial for the u.s. soldier who went on a shooting rampage sunday, killing 16 people, including nine children. here in the united states, efforts are under way to prevent this tragedy from happening again. and the taliban has vowed to avenge the deaths. >> good units have a good feel for the condition of the people inside their unit, and hopefully we find these types of situations and these types of concerns within a unit well before these types of incidents. gas prices are more than $4 in alaska, california, hawaii and illinois. the ncaa tournament field is set. kentucky, syracuse, north carolina and michigan state are the top regional seeds. tournament play kicks off tonight.

three on the clock playing today. maria cardona, will cain and dana lewis, you are with us. >> good morning. >> we didn't know if we could get her shot up. according to a new washington poll, 60% of americans do not think the war in afghanistan was worth it. now that a u.s. soldier is accused of killing 16 civilians is the time to withdraw now? maria? >> we have to remember we already have a withdraw plan in place. it will take place in 2014. as tragic as this horrific incident was, we also should remember that we shouldn't have just a complete ly emotional

reaction to it. it was the right one to do after 2011. it was a place where the plan was hatched for 9/11. then we got into iraq. so afghanistan was the war to go into. >> will? >> it's long past time to leave afghanistan. while this story, i agree with maria, is one that is extremely sad and awful, it's not a precursor for why we need to leave afghanistan. for a decade we've been unable to answer why our soldiers are dying in that country. without that, without a purpose, i don't see why we should stay in afghanistan. i would agree, that doesn't mean you yank everybody out tomorrow. you leave as quickly as you can, in an orderly fashion. dana, you're back. >> i am here. is it my turn? i'm ready to go i actually agree

with maria on this topic, which is very odd. i agree we have a withdrawal plan in place. this whole incident has been turning me into a peace -- i want a more coherent plan as to what we're doing up until 2014. i think this should be investigated. an investigation will happen. punishment will come down. but i also think we need to stop sort of positioning ourselves, which come after us as well, and kill our soldiers. we had the u.s. trained and funded military, in afghanistan, that did that. the afghan military. so i -- long story short, i think we need to get out of afghanistan. the doomsday comic strip causing problems again. some newspapers have pulled the comic from their pages.

the question is, should they have done that? will? >> specifically to your question, should newspapers yank this cartoon? that's a question for every newspaper owners and editors. who are their customers? specifically whether or not this cartoon offends me, i would say this, i'm pro-life. i would like to see abortion gone. over with. i think we'll look back on abortion 100 years now with the same disbelief we do over slave slavery. i can't get behind anything that nan dates this kind of intrusive procedure. that the texas law, where i'm from, would require. >> dana? >> well, and again, newspapers have the right to run whatever strip they think is appropriate. and, of course, the creator has every right to draw whatever he thinks is necessary and interesting to his reader ship. that's the way they work in the open market, as they were.

that's the unfortunate side effect. there's consequences with that. if the newspapers don't want to run it, they don't want to run it. >> maria? >> i don't think stha should have pulled it. i think the issue has every right to be lampooned. they are making their own decisions with their doctors, with their families, about their own bodies. i think it reflects the overreach and the extreechlism going on in circles and wanting to take women back to the 19th century. absolutely worth lampooning. third question. jeff, you might be a red neck foxworthy is touring with mitt romney. let's listen to what he said on the campaign trail. >> the fact that you would stand in the pouring down rain to listen to the next president of the united states proves to mer you are smarter than a fifth grader.

>> we wonder what would be a good side kick for the other candidates? dana. >> he has kid rock. and he has jeff foxworthy. there's a friend that is developing with this. if they want too get behind a republican candidate, that's fine. mitt romney, who has been able to attract his share of celebrities, that's for sure. i'm just astounded by jeff foxworthy and kid rock. they were campaigning. >> thank you, dana, maria. >> let's see. i tried to come up with a list. i came up with homer simpson, lewis black. the unknown comic from the '70s. at the end of the day, carol, here's what i came up with. some of the policies that these candidates are putting forth are so laughable on their own, that i don't think they need any comedian to underscore how laughable those policies are. >> ouch. >> will?

>> it's like a test. i'll tell dana the correlation. it's a correlation of opposites. mitt romney is to kid rock and mitt romney is to jeff fox worthy. it's opposites. he would be like daniel tosh. completely crass and funny. newt gingrich would be somebody warm and endearing. i don't know. bill cosby. >> that's terrible. thanks to all of you. i'm glad we got you up and running. we appreciate it. onto other things now. one month after the death of whitney houston, her daughter bobbi kristana talks about her loss. and coming up next, a sleeper in the ncaa tournament. ] you are a business pro. omnipotent of opportunity.

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get out your brackets and get ready for march madness. they begin tuesday night with play and games. 64 teams will begin to shoot for a national title. the top seed syracuse in the east, kentucky in the south, north carolina in the midwest, and michigan state in the west. now, one of the things that makes march madness, the excitement of the cinderella team. this year murray state could be the team. here's rob marciano. >> college basketball. and kentucky go hand in hand. but when you think of kentucky basketball, the murray state racers aren't the first team that comes to mind. think again. >> we're trying to put murray

state on the map for kentucky basketball. >> a roster of players whose resumés don't match those of the bigger programs is in the midst of what can be described as a cinderella season. they were ranked tenth in the coach's poll with 30 wins and one loss. now they're looking for the magic slipper in the ncaa tournament. it's all they can talk about in this small western kentucky town. where rudy's is murray's oldest restaurant. stop for lunch and get your basketball. >> it will be awesome. >> we believe in murray state. we believe they can g all the way. >> that sentiment fuels a team. >> it's motivation for us. >> the junior guard isaiah cannon leads the team in scoring. >> a smaller school or a bigger

school, we're going to compete as if it's our last game. >> but does murray state have what it takes for a good showing in the tournament? >> we're not a one-year wonder. we've won a lot of championships. been to a lot of nca, tournaments. >> this senior was a sophomore last time they went to the tournament. he credits steve prone with keeping the team focused and be being this winning season. >> it was like a bond, like a family. more like brothers. >> i've got the best kids in the country, when you talk about character, toughness and ability. >> those qualities that are the key to success. >> it's something we talk to them about day in, day out, about how you represent the program. don't seek honor. honor will find you. that's whaped to these guys. they've been unselfish and good things were happening. >> and fans expect good things to keep happening in the

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not all politics have to be so serious. "saturday night live" knows that. here's a few political punches from seth myers' weekend update. >> mitt romney won a key victory in the ohio super tuesday primary. narrowly beating rick santorum by just 1%. specifically, the 1%. newt gingrich vowed to continue his campaign, saying i'm the tortoise. i take it one step at a time. also, if you roll me onto my back i can never get up. rick santorum today won the kansas caucus, beating mitt romney by 30%. he was expected to do well in kansas because it's all a giant square. >> i think it was more like a rectangle. joining us now is our political

editor paul steinhauser. who has the momentum heading into tomorrow's races? >> make me follow the funny guy. tough act to follow. let's take a look. it's dead even. we have alabama and mississippi. let's start with mississippi. a brand new poll from american research group. and look at this. it's as tight as it gets there in mississippi. mitt romney at 34%. newt gingrich at 32%. that's basically dead even. santorum at 22. ron paul at 8%. let's move to the east with alabama. same story. same numbers on top. basically all knotted up. santorum in the 20s. paul in the single digits. one more thick, carol. rick santorum not so crazy about teleprompters. >> it should be illegal to read them. all you are doing is reading someone else's words to people. who is he talking about here? mitt romney and president obama have been known to read off teleprompters. wh