this relationship looks finger licking good. >> my buddy. >> my buddy. my buddy. wherever i go he goes. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn. >> my buddy and me. >> new york. >> that does it for me. be sure to join us every weekday at 4:00 p.m. on cnn. at 4:00 p.m. on cnn. the news continues next on cnn. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello i'm don lemmon. breaking news from iraq where a united nations official the is telling cnn that an american said to be held captive for months has been turned over to the u.s. embassy in baghdad. two political leaders in alli

sadr's movement. no active duty military personnel have been missing in iraq. we'll continue to update this story when we get new information as it becomes available here on cnn. the army soldier accused of killing 16 civilians in afghanistan is in fort leavenworth, kansas. it has stunned people in and around washington's joint base lewis-mccord they are having a hard time understanding how the man could be accused of this atrocity. dan lewis has more now. >> reporter: don, this is a soldier who served four tours of duty, three in iraq and one in afghanistan. there is speculation that all that time in a war zone may have contributed to him being emotionally unstable. his attorney tells cnn that two years ago robert bales suffered

a traumatic brain injury when his vehicle went over a roadside bomb and the day before the alleged rampage that bales saw a soldier get seriously injured. the neighbors who live in that community where robert shared a home with his wife and two children they say they saw no evidence that he was capable of such a rampage. take a look. >> i was completely blown away. i was devastated, heart broken. i mean -- i completely shocked. i would describe him. he was super fun to hang around with. kind of the life of the party kind of guy. super loving, friendly to everybody he met. great with his kids. i just -- i don't -- i don't see how this has happened. >> reporter: of course everything in robert bales's background will be analyzed in

dissected. in 2002 he was accused of sauling an ex-girlfriend. that charge was dismissed because he underwent anger management counseling. right now everybody is trying to look at his background to see what was there. at this point we are not seeing a lot. >> people are seeing the pictures and they want to see him in video at least. when will we see him in court? >> reporter: we know that he has to face a magistrate within seven days of getting to fort leavenworth, kansas. he got there last night. we are looking about six days from now before we see formal charges. we are wondering whether or not his wife and family will be with him in court. >> six days. in just under a week, then, maybe something. thank you, dan simon. susan cadiotti is in ohio, the soldier's home state and speaking to people who knew him

and she will join us here on cnn very shortly. afghans are not likely to get the kind of justice they want for the massacre victims. [ yelling ] their anger boiled over today. hundreds marched through the city demanding that he be brought back to afghanistan for trial. karzai met for a second time with the victims' families. they want to see him tried in afghanistan. president karzai opened surveillance video of his remote base. he says that afghanistan is at the end of its rope with the u.s. moving on now to politics and is it a busy st. patrick's day for the republican presidential hopefuls. mitt romney is holding a rally in illinois. the this is live pictures

courtesy of ksdk. it is a town hall going on now. rick santorum on the trail too. he has seven events in missouri and illinois. and earlier today he didn't hold back in the criticism of romney's record as massachusetts governor. >> in the case of governor romney he gives away that issue. he put forward bill that was the model for obama care. and then advocated that at the federal level and then denied that he did it. not only was his policies bad you can't trust him to tell the truth. >> mitt romney had a quick swing through puerto rico this morning before heading to that illinois town hall you saw earlier. romney is optimistic about a win in the puerto rico primary. new revelations about the pardon issued to inmates by haley barbour in his last days

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one person says it is appalling and they were treated like kings. >> reporter: days before these two mississippi killers were pardoned by haley barbour they were issued brand new driver's licenses even though they were still incarcerated working as trustees at the governor's mansion. how do two inmates get driver's licenses while they are in custody of the prison system? haley barbour's chief security officer says that he drove both men over to the driver's license office himself. barber's security chief suggests that the licenses would help them find jobs. but why else would they need them? to drive their newly purchased cars of course. cnn has these reports from the mississippi attorney general's office which deets how they had cars ready for them the day they were pardoned.

barber's wife contacted a dealership regarding the purchase of vehicles for hooker and gatlin. the inmates had been brought to the dealership on january 6, 2012 in a black ford crown victoria to complete paperwork for the sale. january 6 is the day their pardons were signed but two days before they were released. the salesman stated he delivered both vehicles to the governor's mansion. >> a state representative calls the governor's pardons in his words way out of bounds but the state department of public service says to its knowledge no policies were broken and the mississippi supreme court ruled they are legal. one of the most influential voices in american politics under pressure like never before. rush limbaugh tries to weather the storm he created. some advertisers have jumped

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rush limbaugh love to stir up trouble and boy did he ever find with the these comments. >> what does it say about the college co-ed susan fluke who goes before a grogsal committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex? what does that make her? it makes her a slut, right? it makes her a prostitute. she wants to be paid to have sex. >> it took a while but he did apologize but that didn't stop the outrage from women from the left and even from some in his own political allies and it didn't prevent a bigger problem for limbaugh. advertisers bolting from his show. reports from a handful to a hundred. he says he is not worried. but the network says they are suspending national advertising

for two weeks. what does that mean? and what is the truth about one if not the voice of american conservatism. goldie what is the truth? is rush's show in jeopardy? >> he's in trouble. you know, don, you know i own an advertising agency in atlanta. we buy media on behalf of national and global brands. and for a brand as controversial and let me get this straight. rush limbaugh is a brand and a business. so for my brand to invest in his business under this dark cloud isn't going to happen. i would be breaking my fiduciary duty. it would be not strategic on my part. and many of my colleagues are not doing it. >> the reason i wanted to do this segment is not because -- one side or the other that rush should be taken off the air. it's a freedom of speech thing.

we'll talk about that. but i want to know what the truth is. rush is one of the leading voices of conservatism. if one of the leading voices on the left is in trouble we would want to know. what is the difference between saying i'm done or we're suspending advertising? >> well the truth is he lost 140-plus advertisers who are suspending or terminating their relationship with him. let's look at cnn could an organize like cnn afford to lose 140 advertisers? no. when he says he is not in trouble he is not telling the truth. he never apologized or gave the advertisers a road back. >> why not say we're terminating rather than saying suspending advertising. >> that allows me to do a couple of things. it allows me to keep my base of buyers. if i have conservatives who are

buying my soap i want them to continue to buy my soap. i say suspend so i can back away. but if i get far enough away from it, if he does apologize and his brand does improve i reserve the right to go back. >> rush's power and influence, is that over? i want you to stand by. we'll talk about that after the break. including media hype about hate speech on the left. is that fair and balanced reporting? we're back in a moment. i care . i think it's a cool car. i think it's stylish and it makes a statement at the same time. and i've never had a car like that. people don't totally understand how the volt works. when the battery runs down the gas engine operates. i don't ever worry about running out of battery power... because it just switches over to my gas engine. i very rarely put gas in my chevy volt. i love my chevy volt and i've never loved a car. ♪

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. back now with goldie taylor. goldie's rush's power and influence? >> just like with glenn beck. his platform is likely to change. glenn lost his show on fox news. but he has a show on another channel. you can't sustain a nationally syndicated deal. >> he has gone to twitter for the first time? why is that? >> that is when public relations people say you have to get into your audience and show these advertisers what they are getting. >> now to the left. there is hate speech there and ed schultz has used similar names and bill maher has given money to help reelect president obama and the president's own advisers hedge when it comes to

maher. >> understand these words that maher has used in his standup act are a little bit different -- not excusable but different than a guy with 23 million radio listeners to malign a young woman for speaking her mind in the most inappropriate, grotesque ways. >> goldie? >> i don't care. now bill maher is not a democrat. he doesn't speak for the left. but i don't care whose mouth and under what context slut comes out of i'm offended. i think it takes integrity to indict your friends for the same crimes you would charge your enemies with. i will differ with my colleagues when they say that bill maher is not comparable. i think that kind of speech

lobbied against women in any context is just unconscionable. >> i don't want to put words in your mouth. the is it more insidious when it -- i don't mean maher exclusively. a lot of people can do that, comedians. >> there is comedic license that we can take out here in popular media but there comes a point when it goes too far when you malign and demean people of a different religion or gender or race. i think there is a point where the line goes too far. rush limbaugh has reached that line. >> when you think of similar situations remember the situation that happened to don imus. he is back on the air now. liberals -- correct me if i'm wrong do they circumstancele the wagons as much as republicans. and african-americans are very forgiving. >> i think it's very forgiving.

in imus' case they gave heart felt out in the public extended apologies and they seemed truly, sincerely sorry for what they said. and you haven't seen the behavior continue. you didn't see that from rush limbaugh. but in terms of circling the wagons, african-americans specifically have -- in this psych graphic you tend to want to forgive. you saw chris brown and o.j. simpson. when we knew they were guilty of certain acts we wanted to give them that grace and opportunity to redeem themselves. >> is this a slippery slope when it comes to this advertising thing and freedom of speech? >> this isn't free speech. this is business. if he wants to go on the street and say sandra fluke is a prostitute, he is free, really to do that. but there are consequences. this is business and a radio show. i think it is ironic that social

capital. people voted with their feet. this is what capitalism is about. >> thank you, goldie. great conversation. goldie, we're going to talk about this story of a teenager killed while walking down the street that is happening in florida. you are hearing it on social media and i am as well. she will join us tomorrow with that questions and answers. appreciate it. a network for kids is taking on a problem that is hoping grown ups will solve. bullying. 125 to 30% of kids say they have been bullied and some share their stories in a program by the cartoon network. >> ugly, fat, jesh. >> ears. >> fish lips. >> you're fat and stupid. >> you have no life. >> stop bullying speak up aims for kids and parents to do just

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coming up on half past the hour i want to get you caught up on your headlines. the army has identified the soldier suspected of a mass killing in afghanistan as staff sergeant robert bales. we learned that he played football and granted from a high school near cincinnati. he faced a criminal assault charge in 2002. he has been described as a loving husband and father. he is now in solitary confinement in fort leavenworth, kansas. afghans are demanding he face justice in afghanistan. a united nations official is saying that an american said to have been held captive for months have been turned over to the u.s. embassy in bugd. the man was handed over to the u.n. by the movement led by

muqtada al sadr. the man's name is randy michael. they claim he was held for nine months and captured in battles. but a pentagon official says to the best of their knowledge, no akdive duty u.s. military personnel have been missing in iraq. some indiana students are finding out just how lucky they are today. this is an ef-4 tornado slamming into their school. watch how the tornado pulverizes the gym and destroyed the front hallway. about 80 students and staff were there when it hit. syrian activists found victims of a recent attack by thugs in the city of homs. 32 children and two women were found tortured and brutalized. half of the children have been returned to relatives since most of their parents were killed in

the massacre. of course that is far from the only tragedy reported in homs. over the past month we have seen several videos that appear to show killings and atrocities committed by security forces in opposition neighborhoods. new footage is among the most disturbing yet. we should warn you you are about to see scenes that are very hard to watch. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: the men crouch as they move across rooftops. crawling through holes they smashed through the walls. it's taken them nearly a week to get this far, to reach a house on a sectarian fault line that runs through homs. we are rescuing the bodies of the mourners. what they find is shocking beyond description.

the first body that of a woman. in the room next to it, bodies crowded into a back corner as if they were trying to hide. the dead child's face a mask of fear. blood spatters the walls. let the world see, the voice claims. look at this massacre in just one house. he curses the shias and others. the video is said to have been shot in february. a look people, look he says overcome with emotion as he too curses the regime and the world. the camera pans over to show more bodies slaughtered in the bathroom. suddenly, on another floor, a tiny whimper. the child cries out, clearly

terrified. he comes into view having to crawl over a body lying in the doorway. he must have been hiding for days. don't be afraid. you're safe now. don't make a sound one of the men tells the boy. it's not known who killed his family or why. but the men who found the bodies are sure this was a sectarian massacre carried out by thugs allied to the we ha allied to the regime. >> there is a behind the scenes look at the dangers and the heart break. 72 hours underfire airs tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. iran's nuclear research program has raised concerns worldwide. israel says it its existence is at stake. and while iran is interested in

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before the break we told you how israel might attack iran and what sites might be on the list of targets. all of this talk is having an impact on the lives of iranians. joining me is is a journalist. this is a perspective that we don't get to hear often the voices of the middle class as opposed to the government, right. the mood of iranians are they worried about war or worrying about being able to survive? >> i think the situation right now is that the iranians have been living under heightened anxiety as the obama

administration said these the toughest sanctions targeting the banks and that has put the economy in a tail spin and ha means rising food prices. they have been living with that for a long time and on top of that comes this heightened anxiety and talk of war and possibly israel striking these nuclear plants across iran. >> they are concerned about getting along every day. eating, paying their bills, providing for their families. but i wonder if they live in fear of the government or of what the -- what someone else might do like what israel might do. >> i think it is all those things. imagine us living under -- we went through a recession in our own country. imagine we lived under those stressful economic conditions with this real fear in our hearts of our own government and

the repression by the iranian government in the last two years and fears of war coming to our country. >> the u.s. and iranian governments are at odds do iranians like americans? >> what we heard in all these interviews is that we want -- iranians told us that we want americans to understand our country. we have a rich history and culture and many of them felt that americans had amer perception of what iranians were really like. one woman told me i think most americans think we are all terrorists and we want to kill people and like the taliban in afghanistan and we're not that way at all. there was this feeling i got from talking to people if only there was more people to people connections then maybe there wouldn't be such bellicose talk about iran. >> fear because of the unknown. i want to read this a quote from

a former teacher. iranians honestly think they look at us like terrorists like the ones that are portrayed in the movies that we wear burqas and don't allow women to drive and that we are all terrorists. >> i think some of that comes from the fact that there is so little news coming out of iran. we hear the rhetoric from the united states and the iranian government and israel. but we don't often get to see pictures of ordinary life any ran or talk to people on the streets. i think there is that disconnect. the persian new year's began on tuesday. will it be tempered this year? >> normally it's a big deal and families get together and people have feasts. one woman who lives just south of the underground nuclear reactor that richard was talking

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our planet's final frontier. he is not the only person taking the voyage to the point. this, in cameron's eyes is the other. his submersible, deep sea challenger. it took the national challenger. it took scientists and the national geographic years to make the sub able to withstand pressure at the sea's depth. >> flies like a sea horse. you know how it stays upright, you have a little fin on the back. >> we want to tell you more about d.t. challenger. it weighs 12 tons. even owe it's on its side, it's actually 24 feet high. it powered by specially created lithium batteries. its body is made up of a foam developed by a team of scientists. that color is kawasaki green.

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10:30 at night to wait for a store to open at midnight or out at 3:00 in the morning waiting for a place to open up. i don't know. >> i asked you during the break, i was like is it any different than the ipad original that i have? and you said -- >> yes. >> "oh, my god, yes!" >> i know, i was pretty abusive. the screen is unbelievable. it's easy to say it's just got a better screen. but i've got mine here. it's pretty amazing. it's got this thing called the retina display. the resolution, you can't distinguish the pixels. it's like looking at a glassy magazine. >> there are many other companies who do tablets. some of them do it very well. is it the way that they shape the message? is it a cultural phenomenon to have someone like the co-founder standing in line. does that help fuel the following? >> it does but i think it's all about execution. for me the reason that i have an

ipad and i've reviewed a lot of other tablets. we review them every week. the reason i use the ipad and love the ipad, the apps are better, the overall experience is seamless. they kooep pace with the processes speeds and screens with anybody else. if you're comparing tablets in this price range, it's the best by far. the screen is gorgeous and the apps. the reason people continue to buy the product and line up, it's overall experiences makes it more fun. >> oh, my gosh, i need it now! >> christina warner is one of those people. >> i am. >> we really appreciate it. thanks for being such a good sport. >> thank you. >> president barack obama, he took time to enjoy the st. paddy's day. he raised a pint of guinness this afternoon at a popular bar in washington. he wore a moss-colored jacket to

avoid getting pinched. he does claim some irish roots. you may recall he visited his great, great, great grandfather's hometown in ireland just last year. before the president grabbed that beer today, he got in on a little fun with the family, the first family. they dyed the fountain in front of the white house green. so that's how it looked right there. pretty green, huh? sort of reminds you of those green slushies at the 7-11. remember those? this was at the request of the first lady. perhaps she's a little home sick for the chicago tradition, which is the chicago river. folks die the river in chicago green. look at that! i remember when i lived there i was saying what is going on? is it algae? what? it's kind of cool look, right? beautiful. this always draw as crowd, by the way. it's very popular. the tradition started more