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and dater. a live interview with the sheriff's office, straight ahead j a child with autism bullied by the people entrusted to protect him. his teachers. i spoke with the boy's father who says he captured the abuse on tape. and remember andrea yates, the texas woman who drowned all five of her children, she's now in the mental hospital, but she's asking to be allowed out once a week. i talk with her attorney this hour. back to the tense standoff to catch a double murder suspect in seattle. the fugitive, 41-year-old peter keller, is believed to be holed up inside a makeshift bunker near seattle. he's believed to be well armned and well supplied. he's wanted for killing his wife and daughter. sergeant larson, first tell us what is happening so far today? have you made any progress or any contact? [ inaudible ]
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>> you know what? we're going to fix that connection to sergeant larson there. she's in a remote area, of course, trying to reach this guy at that bunker. so we'll get that as soon as we can and get it to you. in the meantime the secret service has a new code of conduct coming in the wake of the prostitution scandal in colombia. the new rules say the agents on assignment in other countries still have to act like they're in the united states. they're forbidden from having anyone else in their room, there will be a list of places they have to stay away from and no drinking of alcohol ten hours from reporting to duty. we're told a th arthur huntington is the one who had the argument with the prostitute about the money.
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panetta says there's no silver bullet that will destroy al qaeda but there's no question the u.s. is more secure with bin laden gone. >> they said that they have kia and confirmed that it happened. so that was the moment when we knew that all of the work that had been done was paying off. i think the one thing all of us feel pretty good about that were involved in this operation is that as a result of what we did, america's safer. >> panetta was cia director during the aid which happened almost exactly one year ago. an obama re-election campaign ad is rubbing john mccain the wrong way. mccain says it shamelessly tries to score political points. the ad features former president bill clinton. here's a portion of it. >> he had to decide, and that's
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what our president is to do. you hire the president to make the calls when no one else can do it. >> to that mccain said shame on barack obama for diminishing the memory of september 11th and the killing of osama bin laden by turning it into a cheap political attack ad. fresh violence across syria has left 13 people dead. as the clashes rage, a ship with weapons was intercepted in the mediterranean. syrian state meet ya says the weapons are in tended for opposition fighters. cnn's arwa damon says the attacks are another blow to the peace plan. >> reporter: at this specific time kofi annan's peace plan may be considered dead since at its very essence its core is at a cease-fire and that, quite
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frankly, has not materialized. ever since the so-called cease-fire, oppositionists say syrian government forces have killed hundreds of people, oftentimes in neighborhoods right after they were visited by u.n. monitors, and the syrian government has said it has cataloged countless violation in what it is calling armed terrorist groups including explosions in the capital damascus on friday, one of them being carried out be i a suicide bomber at the very center of the capital itself. and there are also some grave concerns being expressed by u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon expressing his dismay at developments inside this war-torn nation. by monday there's supposed to be 30 monitors at the very least, 100 by the end of the month, calling for 300 in tote achlt
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although many say it's hardly going to be enough to begin enforcing any source of cease-fire. opposition activists are increasingly warning that if the cycle of violence continues as it has for more than a year now and if they continue to not have true western or international backing they may just be forced to turn to islamic groups all of them underscoring that this is not an option they would have never wanted to enthor tan but one they might just have to look toward if they want to save themselves. up in of this bodes well for see ya or for the region. arwa damon, cnn, beirut. >> back to that tense standoff to catch the 41-year-old peter keller is believed to be holed up inside a homemade bunker. he's well armed and well supplied. he's wanted in the killings of his wife and daughter. yesterday they tried to force him out with tear gas but it
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sunlt clear if it went deep enough to have any effect and s.w.a.t. says they won't force the issue be i going inside. in the words of one sergeant, there is no urgency. we have him contained. they describe him as a survivalist with a doomsday attitude. his wife and daughter were found dead in their home. some people who knew the family are shocked and others are just angry. >> he just adored her. he'd spontaneously go over and hug his daughter. >> i hope he exists because i want him to know what a bullet feels like. you know, i can't stop being angry. you know. they were amazing people. >> authorities say they will stay outside that bunker for days, maybe even weeks, however long it takes, and, of course,
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we're working on getting a live report from that scene. we'll bring it to you as soon as we get it. an outraged father goes public be a secret recording that he says documents his child being bullying not by other kids but by teachers. >> oh, boy. knock it off. go ahead and scream because guess what? you're going to get nothing until y until your mouth is shut. shut your mouth. >> we'll tell you what happened to the teachers and we'll speak to the father next. s. fifindndining g yoyou u ththe e isis a allll w we e do. wewelclcomome e toto h hot. cuban cajun raw seafood pizza parlor french fondue tex-mex fro-yo tapas puck chinese takeout taco truck free range chicken pancake stack baked alaska 5% cash back. right now, get 5% cash back at restaurants. it pays to discover.
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a little girl runs across the street by hisself right in the path of a huge truck. she gets trapped underneath the truck. but amazingly she walks away with only minor injuries. so incredible. there's a manhunt under way. this is new surveillance video from nurse night. they demanded the clerk open the cash register and shot him in the arm. you see it there. they then fired shots at a couple of customers in the store before leaving. none of the customers were hurt. blees say they may be responsible for a string of recent robberies. outside the eyes of carrying parents. many feared what many fear. bullying in the hands of a caregiver and this team a teacher. the child was unable to complain about it, tell his father about it. mary snow has more on the father'sest to uncover the truth. >> reporter: 10-year-old akian
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cha fitz was diagnosed with autism. his father says it isn't the condition but the bullying by the workers charged with caring for him. he's hoping the other children won't suffer the same. the problems starting this year when he was told his son had punched a teacher and an aide. >> i never seen him hit anybody. >> reporter: frustrated by a lack of answers cha fitz put a recourting device in his son's pocket during the course of a school day. he was stunned with what he heard on it. >> what was your reaction when you first heard that tape? >> that night when i listened to it, i just shattered inside. >> reporter: more than six hours were recorded. shay fitz said the toughest part
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was listening to akian. he has a little natural anxiety. may i see dad after mom which is his way of asking -- to be reassured he's coming back home. >> are you going to look at any books in the library or just the sculpture? >> reporter: chaifetz said he went immediately to his son's chilly hill school and credited the superintendent for act quickly. the district undertook a thorough and rigorous investigation and responded swiftly and appropriately. she said there were specifics she couldn't legally address, adding i want to assure our parents that the individual wlos were heard on the recording raising their voices and inproposely addressing children
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no longer work in the district. chaifetz says he felt he had no choice but to go public. >> every child is worthy of defense and respect and that no one deserves to be treated with cruelty and to be humiliated and that we need -- we who can speak for them need to stop it by changing the law, by exposing people who bully kids. >> he's dissatisfied with the action. he claims one of the teachers wasn't fired but transferred to another school. the superintendent's office wouldn't address that question and referred us to a statement it preefsly sent out. mary snow, cnn, new york. >> so disturbing to watch. in a statement released by kellial tenberg's torn, she denies making any of it. quote, with regard to at least
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a fare recorded his son being bullying. >> there's been no incident since then. he's just a joy. i was thinking here before just thinking of him and smiling. he's such a happy kid. i heard that video and got as angry as the first time i heard it and my heart broke again, each time i hear that. >> what do you feel when you listen to that? i mean that is just outrageous if that's going on in that classroom. >> you know, it is -- as a fare and i'm sure any parent, when you hear your child in december stress and you can't be there to protect them, it's the worst feeling in the world. one of the reasons why i went forward was to one day show him that people care, that what they did to him was wrong. in addition to hopefully reaching out and showing what an epidemic bullying is. they -- what was especially vile about this situation is that all the children in the class had
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verbal impairments so none of them could tell their parents and the staff ran wild, saying whatever they wanted, venting on these children, which to me is the ultimate act of a coward who when you pick on them can't not only fight back but talk back. my son learned to fight back and he was really -- a message to me saying help. it was a cry for help. >> how did you know that something was up? what made you wire up your son? what did you learn? >> when we started getting notes back, that immediately to me showed something was wrong because he's such a gentle and loving human being. and we had meetings with the school. they brought a behavioralist in. the baehavioralist never saw
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anything. once that happened i nor there was something going on in thin class was spefringly setting him off. the only things i could do is put a audio recorder in his pocket, which thank god i did. otherwise he'd still be there today being tormented. >> most parents say they send their kids to skoir and worry about them being bullied by other students. you've exposed here quite a case. stuart chaifetz, thank you very much for your time. please, as you do release some more of that video -- that audio tape, we'd like to have you back on. thank you. >> thank you so much. if you'd like to sound off on this story or any story about bullying, tweet me any time. you can find me on twitter @randikayecnn.
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right now? >> well, a swat team came in here about a couple of hours. they had a s.w.a.t. team in. they switched out. let me tell you, randi, this is a pretty tough bunker to get into. it's built into the side of a hill and it's a very steep hill. it's built right into the leg so it's hard to get up to it. they've got the chopper circling around. it's been surgeling around all this morning keeping an eye on it and dropping off supplies to the tactile team. they believe it's very dangerous. they do believe keller is in there because they did see some lights on in that bunker last night and some signs that tell them that there is some sort of life going on there. so this is a tactile situation and they're working very hard to try to get in. >> and, bob, what about tear gas? we understand they tried it
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once, they weren't sure if the tear gas got all the way in to him. any word that they may try to do that again? >> well, what they did was they launched some tear gas in there yesterday, and nothing really seemed to happen. they believe that keller may have a gas mask on. you've got to remember this the a guy that has fortified himself and he's been working on this thing for eight years so he could have any manner of protection, am moe, gas mask, things to protect himself. i'm thinking they won't do that again today but you never know. they keep changing things as they go. >> he's a survivalist, he's well prepared. how long do you think investigators can wait this out? >> well, they have told us that safety is the number one thing here and they are prepared to wait it out because this is in
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an area, although this is very rural out here, there are communities around -- surrounding it. so they want to make sure that everyone who lives out in this area is safe, not to mention the tactical teams themselves. they've got supplies, bring in supplies and wait this thing out. this is a guy that believes that the end of the world is coming and that was his motive, they believe, for him hunkering down in that bunker. >> bob robuck of our affiliate kiro. when we come back, we're going to talk about andrea yates. do you remember her? she kill her five children, declared mentally unfit. we'll tell you why. slip. we imagined a vehicle that can increase emergency braking power when you need it most. and we imagined it looking like nothing else on the road today.
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violence. they say a ship with even weapons was intercepted in the mediterranean. the weapons and the attack are another blow to a shaky cease-fire meant to end 13 months of unrest. player with the detroit tigers could be charged with a hate crime after reportedly getting into a fight with man outside the hilton hotel in new york city. cnn's affiliate wnbc says outfielder delmon young made an anti-semitic remark. police are investigating whether they need to elevate the charge to a hate crime. andrea yates is asking for some of her freedom back. she became infamous in 2001 after murdering hur five young children. she was eventually declared insane. but now her doctors say she should be allowed to go to church outside where she lives. but the court will have to
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decide. i spoke with her attorney. >> reporter: she's a woman in search of redemption. nearly 1 years after filling a bathtub at her houston area home and methodically drowning her five children. >> she's a very spiritual per n person, reads the bible constantly. >> for more than five years andrea yates has been locked up inside a texas mental hospital, but now her doctors say she's made such progress that they'd like to grant her request to attend church outside the facility once a week. her defense lawyer george par numb says a congregation has agreed to let her come. long before that awful day in 2001 andrea appeared to be a healthy, happy mother. she home schooled her children. but in the years leading up to the murders, andrea became delusional. with each birth it got worse. she hardly made sense when talking with a psychologist before her trial.
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>> cartoon characters were talking to us. >> the cartoon characters? >> saying, hey, kids, stop eats someone's candy. >> reporter: before the murders she had been hospitalized televise attempted suicide. her defense team says she suffered from postpartum. she thought the only way to save them would be to kill them. >> what loving mother would want their children to burn in hell. >> reporter: on june 20, 2001, andrea waited for her husband rusty yats to leave for work, then filled the bathtub, holding each child one by one under the water. the oldest, noah, was 7. the young guesest, mary, just s months. when she was done, she called
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911. >> are you having a disturbance? are you ill or -- >> yes, i'm ill. >> do you need an balance. >> no, i need a police officer. yeah, send an balance. >> reporter: andrea later confessed. >> after you drew the bathwater, what was your intent? what were you about to do? >> drown my children. >> reporter: at her 2002 trial, she was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison, but after it was discovered a key prosecution witness had lied on the stand, andrea got a new trial. at her 2006 retrial, a jury found her not guilty by reason of insanity. she and rusty divorced in 2005. as part of her divorce settlement, andrea yates was given permission to be buried in equity to her children here at this cemetery outside houston. in all these years, she's never been able to visit their graves. and even if she is allowed out to attend church, she still won't be able to come here, but her attorney tells me he comes to visit the grave site every
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year on the children's birthdays because their mother can't. her attorney says andrea has been treated for depression and still takes medication for her bipolar disorder. it will be up to a judge to decide if she's well enough to attend church. >> this is a woman who drowned five of her children. >> i understand that. >> why on earth should she be allowed to do anything, let alone attend church? >> my belief is that if you're not mentally cull accountablpab you're not responsible for those acts. >> she had a dark history with region. her troubles got worsed after they became friends with a traveling priest. he convinced them to give away their belongings and move into a 34 340-foot bus. >> are you concerned that she may be influenced by the church?
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>> no. they happened to be the images that were voiced upon her ill mind. she's not that way now. >> george parnum says all she wants is a stable church. >> i'm curious. does she have any guilt sth. >> she mourns and feels a great deal of remorse and perhaps she can equate that into guilt. >> try as she may, all the prayers in the world may not be enough to aswauj the guilt such a horrific crime. and once again it will be up to a judge to decide on andrea yates' request go to church that decision can come any day now and we'll let you know when it happens. listen to this. some teens are getting drunk on
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i don't know about you, reynolds, but i might be hightailing it out of town right now. >> why take a chance? when you have a mountain that's got fire coming out of the top, it's usually the time to head the a safer place. that's always my thought. when you live in that area or live near the ring of fire, you deal with volcanos quite a bit. another thing you deal with quite a bit, earthquakes in rancho kook a money ga. it was a 4 hnt 1. not exactly a monster of a earthquake. not unusual that have that anywhere along the san andreas fault. sit tight. speaking of things shaking, you're going to have windows rattling across parts of
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oklahoma and texas. it could give you a chance of thunderstorms, maybe some that could reach severe levels and you can't rule out a tornado for texas and oklahoma and even parts of the valley. places here in atlanta. when you head to the extreme southeast in florida, look for a chance of thunderstorms. we'll have some backups there. snow falling still in parts of the central and northern rockies. i happen if you happen to be tuning in from jackson hole and up toward yellowstone park, you should be okay. not the case where memphis is going into the mid-80s. 82 in houston, 41 in billings, 68 in san francisco, 76 in los angeles, and 6 0 degrees your high expected in new york. that's a quick look at your forecast, randi, let's send this back to you. >> this is about my favorite story of the day. in the meantime, forget beer and liquor. some teens are getting drunk by guzzling hand sanitizer.
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most of them are even posting it on youtube. take a look that you've got to pay $5 for the cameras. >> no. >> that is just hard to watch. as you can imagine, drinking it is extremely dangerous. in fact, emergency rooms around the country are seeing more hospitalized because of it. why are they drinking hand sanitizer and then bragging about it? i asked our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. >> who would have thought. it's so disgusting but there's a lot of alcohol in it. you drink two ounces of hand sanitizer and you're getting three ouncing of 80-prove tequila. they don't necessarily just drink it straight up. they add ingredients to make it taste better. some have figured out how to separate the gel from the
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alcohol. >> and they're putting this all out there on youtube. it others are seeing it. it's gaining popularity. how many kids are doing this? >> we don't know how many. most of the kids who called the poison control center, theynded up being fined. maybe they went to the hospital and got i.v. fluids but every so often you got a kid who got seriously ill. alcohol poisoning can kill you. >> what is a parent to do or even so sight? it's not like you're going to wipe off the hand sanitizer off the store shelves. what should a parent do? >> if you should worry about your child drinking too much, if you've seep evidence, this is possibly the time to take it off the counter and put it somewhere where they can't find it. >> two words of viets, soap and water. >> we don't need hand sanitizer. it's a wonderful product but you don't need it. >> now my favorite story of the
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day. a stray pup cactus jack is now home. he was found stuck in a cactus covered in spines but someone rescued him after hearing him cry and the good samaritan pulled out a bucket full of spines. so many people wanted to adopt him they had to hold a lottery and the lucky winner was sara. she says she was touched by cactus jack's story. >> this story just was heart-wrenching, heartbreaking, but the thing that just drew my heart to it was the fact that he just kept wagging his tail. >> his new owner is now debating whether or not to change his nachlt isn't he just adore snbl check out this 200-pound bear dangling from a tree, holding on for dear life. there he goes. he drops onto a thick mat below. this is at the university of kohl in boulder. students apparently spotted the
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sleeping bear napping in the tree. they called wildlife officials. they came and tranquilized it, causing it to fall but safely fall out of the tree. they tagged it and released it into the colorado wilderness. i'm happen the bear is okay. you don't hear much about kazakhstan. they love it now. coming up we'll tell you why. that's why we developed bayer advanced aspirin with micro particles. now we're challenging you to put it to the test. visit fastreliefchallenge.com today for a special trial offer.
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kazakhstan. >> my government sent me to us of a to make a movie film. >> well, kazakhstan, turns out, banned the movie because it mocked the people. but now the country is showing it some love. so the kazakhstan government changed their mind. >> exactly. huge turnaround. they said, just this week, we thank you, borat, because tourism has increased ten fold. >> who knew there was tourism in kazakhstan. >> the foreign minister says the following, with the release of this film, the number of visas issued by kazakhstan grew ten-fold. i am grateful to borat for helping attract tourists to our country, kazakhstan. >> i find this fun because they banned the film and you had the
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huge embarrassing situation when the wrong anthem was sung at some event. >> an olympic event. it lauds pimps and prostitution. let's listen. let's take a look. ♪ >> the only person who probably realized was the athlete herself. >> you can see it on her face. >> but it has been rectified since then. that is not going to happen again. >> no, i don't think so. so i guess if kazakhstan can benefit there must be other places that can benefit when movies are done? >> oh, yes. twilight. don't you want to go to folks, washington frrks the twilight tour. >> exactly. >> you can go to the rainiest
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city and see what bella saw and you might see a vampire. >> you think. >> you could go to new zealand. to lord of the rings you gould to 150 places on the official tour of the "lord of the rings" and tour the middle earth. >> if you wanted to do this, how do you do it? >> there's one website called movie-location.com and it will give you any movie you want to see or any location you want to see. for example, if you're dying to know where "the sound of music" was shot, that's the number one location, off to austria. >> let's go. cnn room continues at the top of the hour with ail i sop kosik who's in for fredricka whitfie whitfield. >> so the legal guys are going to be with us through the noon
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hours. they're going to be talking with us about all the salacious headlines. and we'll be talking about a woman who was fired by her boss after she donated an organ. trying to get congress to students to try to get congress to stop student loan rates from doubling in july. accusations going back and forth on capitol hill this issue has become too politicized. can you agree with this, randi, no matter what your politics are, if you're taking out a student loan, you need toss that under control. we're going for find out some ways to do that and ways parents and grandparents can chip in as well. fredricka whitfield on assignment. she's in new orleans for the jazz and heritage festival. some cool tidbits from that. >> doesn't sound like a tough assignment. >> beach boys, cee lo green,
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steele pulse, two weekends of jazz and heritagefest. talking face-to-face with musicians and masterminds behind bringing thousands of people here every year. >> so look for fredricka's jazzfest report today and sunday. she looks like she's having fun out there. >> she does. i'd be having fun, too. >> nice and warm. >> new orleans a great town, great place for jazzfest. we'll see you in a little bit. coming up much more right after this break. zza parlor french fondue tex-mex fro-yo tapas puck chinese takeout taco truck free range chicken pancake stack baked alaska 5% cash back. right now, get 5% cash back at restaurants. it pays to discover.
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group of iraq veterans will finish up the last leg of a bike ride. president bush led them through 30 miles of a rough canyon for the second leg of that trip yesterday. that's pretty impressive. some of the vets had been serious wounded in battle, some lost limbs, others have posttraumatic distress disorder. now to the nation's capital where a family said a funeral home cremated their father but gave them someone else's remains. the box had someone else's names on it. the funeral home claims it's the right remains but labeled them wrong. the family wants a dna test. an 8-year-old helped stop a burglary. he was playing video games when a strange erika into his house and grabbed his mom's purse. >> when i seen his face, i thought, that's nobody i've ever
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seen before. he came in, yanked on it, and i yanked back. he yanked harder. he ran out the door. >> his dad chased after the suspect. the man ran into a busy highway, turns out, and was hit by the car. he's now in the hospital. by the way, that purse, well, it had no money in it. first secret service prostitution scandal in colombia and now this. a brazilian woman said three marines and embassy staffer hired her for sex last december but an argument ensued. she said the brazilian driver then ran her over. a reporter spoke to her and her attorney. >> reporter: photos show a broken collar bone and what appears to be tire marks across her abdomen. she uses these pictures to tell her story. she said she worked for three years as a call girl and stripper at apple's in brasilia.
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september 29th, she and three co-workers left with a group of americans from the u.s. embassy security team. we had drinks and chatted then each set a price. in brazil, prostitution is legal. the police report says the men, three marines and one embassy employee called for an embassy van and driver to pick them up, but the lengthy police report has contradictly accounts about what happened next. after they left this strip club in the van, she says she was violently thrown out of the car by one of the marines after she argued with the brazilian driver of other witnesses say she was rudely forced out. the marines say she simply stepped out of the car and injured herself when she tried to get back in. everyone agrees the van took off while she was holding onto the door handle. that's when it dragged me and ripped the skin off my leg. i let go and the back tire ran
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over me, literally right over me. according to the police report the van stopped and the other women got out. then with the embassy staffers inside, the van drove off leaving her in the road. this week in brasilia u.s. defense secretary panetta shed said these men were disciplined. >> they are no longer in this country, they were reduced in rank and were severely punished for that behavior. i have no tolerance for that kind of conduct, not here or any place in the world. >> reporter: questions about prostitution made for awkward moments at the u.s. state department briefing. >> members of the foreign service are prohibited from engaging in notoriously disgraceful conduct which includes frequenting prostitutes and engaging in public or promiscuous sexual relations or engaging sexual activity that could open the employee up to blackmail, coercion or improper influence. so the degree to which any
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employee requires investigation, that's the standard they are held to. what a subject to be talking about on bring your kid to work day. >> reporter: she says she's no longer working as a prostitute but turned down money because it wasn't enough for the hospital, broken ribs and punctured lung. meanwhile her attorney is preparing a civil suit. it's not a question of money will it's a question of honor and reputation, he says. if money will make them suffer and recognize how much pain they have caused, then let it be money. he says brazilian prosecutors are considering criminal charges against the americans including assault. but since the men are no longer in the country, it's not clear whether they would ever face trial in brazil. shasta darlington, cnn, brasilia. well, if you don't pay a traffic fine, you should buy a red light camera in las cruces
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new mexico you could have utilities cut off. the city will shut off water, sewage, gasoline. that's because violators have racked up an estimated $2 million in debt over the past three years. the city says it is fed up. residents have already begun receiving final warnings. a school in california is using dogs to help kids learn to read. teachers say the therapy dogs help take away the anxiety of learning to read because the animals won't june a child when they make a mistake. the school started the program two months ago and say it's been a huge success. the kids, well, they like it, too. >> it helps me relax and it helps me read the book. >> so cute. a recent uc davis study found kids who read to dogs once a week can improve their skills. by the way, the dogs are volunteers and have to pass a test to enter the program. cnn continues now with
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