ever to see something like this. this is like an adult jungle gym, an adult facility. definitely should have more of them. >> we let the world run out of time. you have to take time for yourself. that is what i love about this that is what i love about this place. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm about to show you something that is so disturbing, a video out of afghanistan showing the execution of a woman. and a warning this may be difficult to watch. not everyone should see this. the woman is seen on the ground surrounded by a crowd of men. then you hear the men talking.

and then after shots ring out you can hear men will cheer. human rights activists and officials are expressing horror today after what some are calling an honor killing. i want to bring in our pentagon correspondent. what are you learning about this video of the woman who was executed and the circumstances? >> well, very disturbing to watch but many officials believe it under scores the real brutality of the taliban. this woman apparently was killed, executed by the taliban because they believe that two taliban men were somehow having some dispute over her all according to the governor of the province north of kabul where she was killed. this is an area that usually is fairly calm in recent months. amateur video is very difficult to watch.

under scoring the brutality of the taliban. the local governor says the men involved apparently accused her of adultery and had her killed. they say they had court proceedings and in one hour had her executed. the two men involved were killed by a third taliban commander but afghan officials say they are looking for other people involved in this. this has led to a very strong and swift statement from the top u.s. military commander in afghanistan, general john allen who said quote let's be clear this was injustice. this was murder and atrocity of unspeakable cruelty and the taliban's continued brutality toward innocent civilians particularly women must be condemned in the strongest terms and too much progress made by

too many brave afghans. this under scores the deeper concerns and growing issue of what will happen to afghan women once u.s. and nato troops leave and the taliban perhaps reassert control in some areas. >> very disturbing. thanks so much. how common is this? a former political officer to the united nations mission to afghanistan and a professor of south asian affairs at georgetown joining us from washington. this videotape was one thing. if you have wonder is this an anomaly or common place in afghanistan? >> i guess i would like to expand the context of this a little bit. with absolute agreement that the taliban are savages. i think there is a tendency to look at this and say this is something that only the taliban

do. this is something that happens routinely in afghanistan. human rights organizations will frequently fight the number of women throughout the course of their life will experience some brutality. it is not just the taliban. the northern alliance has been equally awful in the way they kept young boys as sex slaves and continue to do so. what we are really looking at in afghanistan is the whole series of social practices that center around notions of honor. people are much more reliant upon local institutions than federal structures. we'll see not only by the way in afghanistan but also in pakistan if a woman is accused of having some sort of sexual infidelity they will go to some tribal council. it will be really dejor that they would force her to be gang

raped perhaps by the family members of the party that was aggrieved or possibly killed. it is important to not see this exclusively in terms of the taliban but this is a set of practices that has existed and continue to exist throughout afghanistan. by the way, we can ask the question what will happen when we leave but let's remember that this is happening while we are still there with a relatively large presence of troops in the country. >> so this is not a taliban driven occurrence but a cultural one that is wide spread throughout the country. then one does wonder how often something like this is happening. the only difference is here someone videotaped it and we were able to see it. if it is that wide spread culturally throughout the country and there are few perhaps that would have a problem with this taking place. >> quite frankly that is my

position on this. you may recall a number of months ago there was a woman who was ordered by a tribal to be gang raped. the reason why she was gang raped for days because a very distant cousin had engaged in some other impropriety. the way this was made right was by the family of the aggrieved sending their family members to gang rape this woman. that family did something that was absolutely brave. they gave the government a chance. they said if the afghan government can hold the individuals to account we won't kill our daughter. if the afghan government won't restore our honor by punishing the men that gang raped our daughters we are going to kill her. this had nothing to do with the taliban and also one of the individuals saying injustice wasn't going to prevail on behalf of the daughter it was

her own mother. we have to think about this outside of the purview of the taliban. we are looking at a number of practices that go on all the time in afghanistan. unfortunately some of our allies will call them strong men, they are terrorists when they don't work with us. they are equally likely to engage in these atrocities and not as likely to end up on international tellivation because they are not called the taliban. >> it is so disturbing and hard to watch and even hard to listen to the context in which all of this is being played out. thanks so much for elaborating on it. appreciate it. also from afghanistan an improvised explosive device exploding in the eastern part of the country killing six international troops. few other details are being released and we don't know the nationity of those kills.

and now to syria internal international annan arrived. activists say at least 43 people have been killed today and u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says time is running out in her view for president assad. >> the future to me should be abundantly clear to those who support the assad regime. the days are numbered. >> the syrian military says it is conducting live exercises and launching missiles to stay prepared for an attack from sea. parts of the u.s. hit by a ten day heat wave are facing another threat today, very very storms. the cold front could produce large hail, damages winds and maybe lightning. it is the same front that hammered parts of missouri this week. one person died and another

person was injured in the town of cuba. the winds were so powerful they knocked over cars and caused some buildings to collapse. let's talk about georgia where the case of a missing man has gone international. aubrey price was seen as a hero when he road in to save a small bank in south georgia that was about to go under after more than 60 years in business. he was given the job of investing the bank's money but the police say instead of doing that he stole at least $17 million and now he has vanished after leaving a rambling e-mail that hinted at suicide. very strange and something that would be in a novel. >> he is missing and so is $17 million. he is being accused of the federal government of defrauding over 100 investors of about $17 million. he was thought to be this white

knight coming in to save this failing bank only to be the one it appears to bring it down. we got ahold of the criminal complaint. it alleges he was entrusted to invest the money only to set up a dummy company in new york used to cover up what he embezzled. $17 million. >> the fbi is saying what? >> it is saying we are receiving any information that arrives locally but any updates or comments would have to come from the u.s. attorney's office in new york. that is why the complaint was filed in new york. >> those who know him, are they saying anything or thinking that he is accused of this and if he is guilty that he isn't hiding or think something more sinister? >> the feds are alleging something more sinister happened. he wrote this rambling letter saying he planned to kill himself off the coast of florida.

he was last spotted in mid june off the coast of florida. you are looking at pictures of where his offices were. now they are gone. the bank he had been trusted to direct bailed on friday. it has been absorbed by the fdic. at issue is it is missing. he has property in venezuela. take a good look at that picture. if you spot him you know who to call. >> clearly they would be watching the property there and looking to see if there are transactions that might be tied to him? >> that's a good point. in june there is a travel itinerary that pins him going to venezuela as early as june 2nd. he is missing now and again so is a lot of money. people want answers. >> incredible mystery. thank you so much for bringing that to us. appreciate it. let's talk tennis. do you have time for that?

you saw this. roger federer winning his seventh wimbledon crown. the crowd was with a lot of disappointed looks and tears because the guy they wanted to win, andy murray was beat. federer clinched his seventh wimbledon and 17th grand slam event and takes back the number one ranking spot. murray was hoping to become the first brit to win bimableden since 1936 but not this time. new information about the mysterious disease that is killing cambod yn children. nearly every child hospitalized with the syndrome has died. plus you could lose internet tomorrow. we will show you how to protect your computer from this nasty virus. this is new york state. we built the first railway, the first trade route to the west,

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hold a meeting to discuss the decision and the reper tgzs. we have more information on the mysterious illness killing children in cambodia. more than 60 have died and health officials say they made an important discovery. >> reporter: feverish and struggling to breathe this five-year-old boy is in bad shape. doctors are trying to diagnose him well aware he has symptoms of an illness killing children. nearly every child who has shown up in the hospital with the syndrome has died. so far pediatrician has treated two children both got worse by the hour and both died within a couple of days. in one case the child's lungs deteriorated within hours. are you as a doctor worried because you don't know what it

is exactly? >> for me we are informed just to inform the parents when the child you know has symptoms like high fever. >> reporter: during the rainy season here at the cambodia hospital at least 50 children a day are admitted. they usually have treatable conditions. mosquito borne illnesses explode during this time of year. the mortality rate of those diseases are far lower. in comparison at the main children's hospital in the capital the mystery syndrome has killed 60 of 62 children who were brought there, an extremely

high mortality rate. how concerned is w.h.o. about this? >> to get the diagnosis sorted out as quickly as possible so it is much easier for us to assess how dangerous or not dangerous it is for neighboring countries. >> reporter: fourl months after the first case was reported health officials may be closer to figuring out what it is. researchers have found a virus called e.v. 71 appearing in samples in more than a dozen of the cases they have tested. it was discovered in the 1960s in the u.s. it is associated with hand, foot and mouth disease. there is no known treatment for it. the world health organization does not mean the problem of the cases has been solved. a lot more analysis is needed.

in the meantime health officials are trying to make sure parents with sick children know if the child is having symptoms bring the child directly to the hospital. this family tried treating their child at home first. a week later his grandma brought him to the hospital. to her relief doctors finally diagnosed him with not the unknown illness that has taken dozens of lives in just four months. and a little piece of history at wimbledon today. male spirit present.trong it's the priceline negotiator. >>what?

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andy murray was a hometown boy, the first brit to make it to the wimbledon final since before world war ii but then ran into roger federer. i know the crowd was rooting for andy murray but did the crowd really believe that he had a chance against federer because federer seems unstoppable? >> and you know the crowd had waited 76 years for the united

kingdom to produce a wimbledon champion. roger federer we have been waiting for him to tumble off the summit of tennis for so long now. he is age 30 which is ancient in sports years obviously but he is so good. we should appreciate that we are watching the best to do it play the game right now. he is consistent. he was calm which was a great contrast to andy murray getting so flustered. he was a craftier roger federer. that was enough to win his seventh wimbledon championship. >> 30 seems to be the number of the year for wimbledon because yesterday serena williams 30. >> and there is an argument to say we just had two wimbledon champions, the two best in the gender divisions. serena was away from the game

for ten months and didn't know if she would play again and to come back and be this dominant at age 30 which is ancient. it is so impressive. >> she said afterwards there is more in me. this is really just a new beginning for her and that is amazing. i know we are talking about federer and andy murray. andy murray was very gracious and very tearful. even federer said i have a feeling he is still going to get a title. >> andy murray has the misfortune of being the fourth guy when you have the three guys who look to have a strangle hold on the sport. andy murray will be playing some of the points in his mind until he dies let's be clear about that but he has a lot to be proud of and they'll be doing it again for the olympics in three short weeks.

>> maybe when he does win we'll find out what the looking at the sky. he just will not reveal who that is and what that is about. let's talk basketball. linsanity we haven't said his name in a long time. just to refresh your memory take a look at this. >> from the mavericks players. the energy he provided. >> so now he is sort of a free agent. i say sort of because there is a real contingency that goes with that with the new york knicks even though houston is expressing an interest in him. >> jeremy is a restricted free agent meaning the knicks can pay whatever any rival team would offer. houston offered him $29 million over four years which is a great jump in salary. the knicks look to be matching

anything that any other team has to offer. jeremy offerathize unique combination of not only being a really good point guard god willing but he also could be the most popular athlete globally. he has the continent of asia in his corner and the nba was wondering at the beginning of last season what to do when yao ming is go. >> is he still linjured? >> he should be good to go by when the season starts? >> he has a bright future ahead of him. i know people are going to go linsane one more time. flood waters strike in the middle of the night killing people and displacing thousands

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we just confirmed this information. academy award winning actor earnest borgnine has died. he won an oscar for his role in the movie "marty." he was 95 years old when he passed away. joining me now is larry king.

i know you have spoken with him so many times. really starred in so many things. he had an incredibly diverse career. what is his legacy? how will people remember him? >> he was a classic character actor when you look up the word character actor you get his picture. his diversity. he can do comedy. he can be a villain. he can be the leading man as he was in "marty." that was the only movie i can remember in which he was the star and deserved the academy award playing a man living with his mother in his 40s and goes to a date and gets married. it was a wonderful, touching film. he also played the very evil sergeant who beat up frank

sinatra. frank told me he credited borgnine. he was great in "the poseidon adventure." >> the fact that he was a character actor, i wonder how much of an inspiration he was to so many who would say he exemplified i don't have to be the leading guy or leading gal. i can have a career by being a great character actor. >> character actors have more longevity than stars because they come into the picture more and there are a lot of roles

open for him. also earnest borgnine was always overweight. he was not a leading man type face. there were people who needed him in many movies. everybody is not always brad pitt. his diversity was incredible and could call on him for lots of things. i would say that he left his mark in american film and television and radio. he did a lot of radio acting, as well. borgnine will be remembered for a long time and is a classic hollywood figure with a long and deserved life. >> thank you so much for joining us. >> you're welcome. anytime. >> appreciate that. earnest borgnine dead at the age of 95. 11 states are still in the grips of an oppressive heat wave a week and a half after it began. dozens of deaths are being blamed on the high temperatures

and the heat has buckled roads. the word in wisconsin sent at least one car flying into the air right there. high temperatures are being blamed for a derailment in maryland. officials say the rail buckled. meteorologist bonnie schneider in the weather center. we are talking serious heat. it is very dangerous heat for the most vulnerable, the elderly and the young. >> we are also talking about prolonged heat. we had an excessive heat situation across the u.s. for the past 30 days. take a look at the numbers to back it up. over 4,500 daily records including yesterday washington, d.c. had a big high. and these aren't just daily record highs. these are all time record highs meaning it never gotten to the numbers you see for atlanta,

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u.s. officials say the six troops killed by an improvised explosive device in afghanistan are all american. we don't have the circumstances i.e.d. attack but know it happened in the eastern portion of the country. the attack comes moments after diplomats in japan had been working on what they would hope to be a positive future for afghanistan. you have just a little more time before malware monday hits and perhaps knocks you off the internet. there are some things that you can do to find out if your computer will be infected.

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that the power went off and stayed off. it is what we so casually take for granted. we flip a switch on the wall and the lights blaze to life all over the house. we turn the knob by the faucet and safe clean water comes rushing in. we pick up a phone and almost instantly we are talking to someone half way across the country or half way around the world. so when the power hopefully is restored to all who lost it it might be a good time to think about just how fragile our assumptions really are. throughout much of the history of this country the things we take on faith were barely imaginable, universal electricity, running water and air conditioning. it was the stuff of science fiction. the generations that came before ours fixed that. for so long this continent we live on is a tangled

disconnected all disappeared from view with the darkness of each night. so when something like the power outage happens it's a reminder to us that we are one disaster away from an involuntary trip back to primitive america. the reaction, the uneasiness to the power outage was almost primal in nature like a premonition of some nightmare scenario. the unthinkable. we flip the switch and the lights don't go on. we turn the knob and nothing comes out of the tap. we pick up the phone and hear only silence. we go to the computer and are greeted by blankness. and then in the nightmare version darkness falls. >> bob green, thanks so much.

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served the country for more than 50 years. vet veterans welcomed the vet el to its new home. it's been a month since we introduced you to military vets, most amputees, getting ready to hike the highest peak, mckinley, in denali. by the way, the mountain just over 20,000 feet tall. bad weather and poor conditions forced them to turn around. their three-week journey ended prematurely but what was add ven waur it was. i spoke with dr. kirk bauer who led the denali challenge. you almost feel great. thank you fredricka. thank you, cnn, for covering when a we think is a good news story. >> it really is pip remember

before you all began this aseptemb ascent, you talked about challenges, weather, equipment, given that many of the prosthesis get particularly cold in, you know, weather like this and the terrain, all of that would bring tremendous challenges. were those big obstacles along the way? >> i think that all of those, the cold, extreme weather, our mechanical equipment all played a part in and certainly presented all of us with challenges. would he were climbing steep noun taens and they were bending at angles i don't think they were intended to. but they did hold up sometimes we are stuck in the snow and we would literally pull out our legs and pulling sleds and always extremely challenging for us. certainly for me, and i know for

the other wounded warriors. but wrs, but what finally stopped us, was the extreme weather. 50, 60 mile-an-hour winds were where you can't really negotiate, you know, a ridge that's only about ten feet wide and it drops off for thousands of feet on either side. the snow, one time we were trying to get up to 16,000 and you know, the park service says, you are going to be negotiating thigh to waist deep snow if you get up there. and for amputees, that would just be too much. in the final analysis after trying for eight days at 14,000 feet base camp, we couldn't break through. >> that's incredible. you know, the odds are against any climber. all climbers who try it take on mount mckinley is a challenge. but along the way, what were your observations? as difficult as it was, it had to be really beautiful as well. >> it was one of the most

exhilarating, one of the most exciting experience -- you know, i got hit in vietnam in '69, so i have been doing disabled sports for over 40 years, but it was truly the most exciting and exhilarating and challenging venture i've ever been on. when you're up there, the vast snow fields, the huge mountains, i mean, there are mountains 17,000, 14,000 feet. some in the lower 48 would be the tallest mountains in the lower 48. spectacular advice of these ice fields and snow fields. and the valley below and in alaska, it was absolutely spectacular. you know, just everywhere we looked. >> wow, the images are breathtaking. how does everyone feel? >> well, you know, we were all very, very disappointed. you know, i cried. when we had to turn back. on the final attempt. we were on the glacier for 21

days. but all of us feel that the venture was a success was in the big picture what we were trying to do is inspire and motivate others with disabilities in particularly the young wounded warriors coming back from afghanistan. >> you're an incredible inspiration. we are so proud of you and proud of all of the climbers. this is an incredible challenge. not everyone can do this. you all did 16,000 feet. it is beyond impressive. sergeant kirk bauer. thanks so much. >> thank you, fredricka. they are incredible. for more on the denali challenge, visit their website, www.dsusa.org. all right, it is one of the more amazing survivor stories of the utah wildfire. phoenix, the baby golden eagle, severely burned when fire hit his nest, he is recovering. but it is way too early to see

whether or not he will ever be able to fly again. >> for him to survive something like that is outstanding. there's just no words for it. >> reporter: the story of the seagull starts on june 112th when he was photographed by kent keller. >> he is a bird bander. sew goes up and bands these birds in the nest. and that gives us longevity records, and that type of stuff. >> reporter: on this ledge of eagle mountain -- >> he was the single baby in the nest. >> reporter: on june 21st, human-caused fire began burning. thousands of acres consumed over days, including the nest site with the aeglet too young to fly. >> basically, he went back it retrieve a band and wanted the data on the band. >> reporter: he went back thinking he would find a dead band. >> >> reporter: but this symbol

of freedom was alive. >> yes. >> reporter: now named phoenix, he was alive. >> you see the shafts up here. they're still growing. but they are pretty much done for. >> reporter: phoenix has a long way to go, but his future looks promising. >> we are hoping to release him. that's our goal, to get him back out in the wild. >> wow, that is one lucky bird. wildlife experts say his rehab will take at least a year. and we will of course keep an eye on phoenix's recovery. and wishing him the best. that will do it for me, i'm fredricka whitfield. coming minutes away, you probably hear his voice. >> bye, fred. >> that would be don lemon, he is up next. have a great week. >> you too, fred. i'm not buying it. i mean, just look at him. and one more thing -- he has a spaceship. [ whirring ] the evidence doesn't lie.

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