faking it. stop acting like this is a war. if it is, then go in and take out the cartels if they can find bin laden you know where these guys are. stop pretending. just do it. keep the conversation going, facebook.com/carolcnn. thanks as always for your comments. and thanks for joining me this morning. cnn "newsroom" continues right now with kyra phillips. >> 8:00 on the west. headed to the u.s., seized on the high seas, we're aboard the ship that's hauling the goods. terror in tuscaloosa, bullets flying, people running for their lives. more than a dozen people reported injured in an alabama bar. and a newest pill that promises to magically melt away the pounds. is it for you? our medical expert weighs in. so when yahoo! started searching for a new ceo it made perfect sense to pluck the person who was a part of

creating search as we know it. she was one of google's first employees. first female engineers, and also responsible for the look and feel of the popular search engine that we use every day. oh and let me add two more impressive stats. marissa marissa mayer i 37 and about to be a mom for the first time. >> i wonder what's going to be harder, yahoo! ceo or first-time mom. >> you tell me. i'm not a ceo or mom. you're a mom. i n't know. i think having a baby and running a company and trying to put on a massive turnaround is going to be pretty challenging. look this is a woman that i've interviewed a number of times since 2009. she's incredibly impressive. she manages down to the detail, kyra, so if anyone can do it she can. yesterday was a huge day. i want to show you two tweets from marissa mayer she tweeted out. another good piece of news, zach and i are expecting a new baby, going to have a son in a few

months and tweeted this, i'm incredibly excited to start my new role at yahoo! tomorrow. that makes today her first day. i sat down with her last in october at the fortune most powerful women's conference and what's interesting, kyra, i can tell you, this "fortune" is reporting now she's the youngest ceo on the fortune 500 list. the youngest at 37 years old. when i sat down with her in october we talked about whether she was itching to do something different. take a listen. >> any thoughts about venturing out on your own marks ris sa? >> well, i have been really lucky at google because every time that, you know, i sort of feel like i've got the handle on things, there's some sort of new and exciting opportunity and challenge and for me, now it really is local and maps and it's an area that's been just incredibly changing quickly, a lot to do, a lot of things working well, a lot yet still on our plate. there's always interesting challenges and as long as i'm challenged i'm very happy in my current role.

>> so that's the question, was she still challenged or not? you know, when eric smitsd gave up the raines and lirry smith came, they didn't promote her to vice president. she had been there 13 years. i got off the phone with patty seller at "fortune" and said marissa had been getting a lot of calls from companies trying to recruit her but she hadn't been getting as many lately because a lot thought she would stay there forever. she had been there 13 years. >> yahoo! has been struggling a while. what's the thought process? is she the woman that can turn things around? >> the question i had when i saw the news too, why would you take a job like this, it's so hard? the answer to that is, she's very consumer facing. she was the most sort of consumer facing person at google in the media the most, the face of the products and said she wants to make yahoo! products much more innovative and

delightful. the pr on this has been very good. think ability this, kyra, if she manages to come in and be the fourth ceo in the last four years for yahoo! and turn this company around, she's going to be revered. if she doesn't, no one can, right? that's the thinking here many are saying that, you know, four other ceos couldn't do it in the last few years, so if she can't, maybe it's a structural problem at the company. if she can do it this is going to be one of the biggest corporate turnarounds we've seen in a long time. she has to compete with newer entities when it comes to search and advertising. not only take on google she has to take on facebook right now, really head-on. >> we'll be watching it closely, that's for sure. poppy harlow, thanks so much. police are on a frantic search right now to find these two little girls in iowa. 8-year-old elizabeth collins and 10-year-old lyric cook who are cousins and they left to go on a bike ride on friday. four days later nothing. nearly 1,000 volunteers searching the area, but still,

no trace of these little girls, except their bicycles which were found near a lake just hours after they were reported missing. >> it's very baffling to understand how someone got off with a 10-year-old and an 8-year-old at the same time because it's as though they disappeared into thin air in broad daylight. >> now after searching the lake authorities are now draining it looking for any sign of the little girls. jim spellman on the ground there in everybodyvansdale, iowa. any new clues, anything? >> well, we do know that the fbi has brought in two scent dogs and last night they were able to get samples of scent from the girls' shoes and we know they got some sort of hit on them. we have no idea yet where that's led them or if it will become a meaningful part of the investigation. this wooded area of this lake, myers lake, is where the girls' bicycles were found. they are, as you mentioned,

draining this lake. they don't think they're going to find anything in here but they want to be absolutely certain that there's nothing in this lake that will help their case. what's interesting is, the families told us that this is not a place where the girls came a lot. here's lyric's mom talking about that. >> from my understanding they do not know that area. maybe elizabeth and some friends had ridden down there at one time. >> one time. >> but no, it's not an area that they frequented. they didn't go far from home either of the girls, they mainly stayed around the evansdale area that my sister lives in. it's just not kind of like them to go that far. >> reporter: an investigator here told me this morning that it's like the girls evaporated. they're really trying to find any sort of thing they can that will start this investigation in a direction towards finding the girls and bringing them home safe, kyra. >> this is a pretty tight-knit

community. were there any witnesses everybody pretty much knows everybody. >> reporter: yeah. absolutely. no witnesses. it's what's baffling so many people. this is an open public area. there's a freeway that goes right by the bike path where their bikes were found. people live there. their backyards are against the lake on this side. about 1,000 people out of a town of about only 5,000 came out to help on this search over the weekend and they were not able to find anything. just about every business in town you'll find a flyer like this here. everybody is coming together trying to support these girls are girls and this family. it says don't stop believing until they come home. kyra? >> jim spellman. >> thanks so much. >> sheriff deputies say there are no signs of foul play. the fbi and iowa department of criminal investigation as jim mentioned have joined the search now. in alabama right now, police are holding a news conference on their hunt for a suspect who went on a shooting rampage at

this tuscaloosa bar that you will see here in just a second. there it is. the shooting actually went down shortly after midnight here at the copper top bar. affiliate wvtm spoke with hospital officials and say more than a dozen people were injured. at least one person now in critical condition. >> so loud couldn't tell what was going on. then the next thing you know we started getting away from the gunshot like going towards out front and that's where all the shooting really took place at. and it's like, all you seen was sparks and people ducking and glass busting and, you know, we never saw the guy shooting. >> take a close look at this surveillance video from just outside the bar. you can actually see the suspect wearing a baseball cap backwards, carrying a gun through the parking lot. witnesses told the tuscaloosa news the bar was packed with 80 to 90 people when that shooting began. of all the times i've been live in iraq what went through your mind? >> what do you do about the

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quite a successful anti-drug operation led by the u.s. navy and it netted 7500 pounds of cocaine and several hundred pounds of marian pa. all of it headed to the u.s. and the streets of our cities and towns. confiscated drugs arrived in florida today aboard the "uss nicolas." john is joining me now from jacksonville beach, via phone. this wasn't just one seizure though, right? >> no, it wasn't, kyra. this was over a almost five-month period, five different interdictions and on these navy frigates this particular one, "uss nicolas" always a u.s. coast guard detachment attached to these and this particular one they were able to board four different vessels over this period to gather this material and it's estimated to be about $93

million in wholesale value and on the street it's estimated to be valued at about a quarter of a billion dollars. this is all part of "operation martio" which began in january and it's a multiagency within the u.s. government and it's also working with 14 other countries to help stop the flow of drugs coming into the -- into central and south america and the united states. >> you know, it's pretty incredible, we've seen the coast guard and the navy involved in all types of maritime operations. tell me about this anti-drug operation, how common will this become, will they be working together more on trying to stop, you know, as we know, a very tough mission? >> what's really unique about "operation martio" there's always been a drug interdiction in the southern hemisphere of the united states trying to stop the flow of drugs from central

and south america into the united states. there's always been the coast guard was always the lead agency and the navy operated independently from the coast guard. in this particular operation, they have now, working together amongst each other and with other nations' coast guards and law enforcement agencies, so within the just the first seven months the fact that they've brought in over a billion dollars worth of drugs has been an incredibly successful and what's even more unique is what they've told us that over time, the navy ship, when they're in these indictments has a u.s. coast guard law enforcement attachment these are the guys specially trained over years to go on and identify drug runners and be able to board their ships and they're specially trained, so a navy ship will run up a coast guard cutter flag, warship will then transition from being a military drug operation,

military warship, to becoming u.s. coast guard and these drugs that you can see on board of the "uss nicolas," was over this -- over this five-month period among these six different interdictions that they were able to nab, this large amount of drugs. >> so john, before i let you go, let me ask you, i knowthe coast guard has trained s.w.a.t. teams now and then, of course, you mentioned, you know, the navy has incredible assets with these warships, but still, these drug cartels have unbelievable amounts of weapons. so what has been the talk with regard to just the aspect of danger and how dangerous these missions can be and can the navy and coast guard combined with their training and obviously the weaponry they have, go up against some of these drug cartels? >> well, exactly. i mean these small ships, they -- the small boats tend to

run the drugs across these bays of water, whether off nicaragua or off colombia, they're in the smaller boats, they're no match to a large cutter or a navy warship. but when they see these ships and they have awac airplanes in the air identifying particular drug runners in the area, they deploy a coast guard plane with these special coast guard -- they're all special operations and they're fully armed and they go on-board these ships and they are in complete war coverings with bullet-proof vests so they go on knowing that these people are going to be armed and they go and they are very professionally trained to deal with the drug runners. >> john, thank you so much. this is the latest success for the u.s. navy by the way in stopping drugs. a few weeks ago, a strike group led by the aircraft carrier "uss nimitz" caught several transport boats carrying drugs off mexico.

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two americans kidnapped in egypt have been reunited with

their families in israel. we're told boston area pastor and liz sa alfonse are in good condition. they were abducted with their egyptian tour guide on friday in the sinai region when gunmen actually boarded their tour bus headed to israel. we're told for four days they moved around the desert and didn't think that they would get out of there alive. but they put their faith in god. let's head to syria where, quote, the battle for damascus is coming. those are the words of an ex-syrian army colonel who's now fighting to topple president bashar al assad's regime. opposition groups say that fighters are bracing for a major showdown for the syrian capital, the shelling explosions and assaults around damascus have grown fierce over the past few days. three activists recently sneaked into a damascus neighborhood too and say what they found was a massacre by the hands of government forces.

i want to tell you the footage you're about to see is from those ac ttivists who managed t smuggle it out of damascus. it took two weeks. the images are graphic and disturbing. arwa damon explains the danger and desperation to try to get the story out. >> reporter: the power is out in the streets of duma. the three activists and their escorts don't dare shine a light. there is a sniper lurking. gunfire in the distance forces them to pick up the pace. >> [ inaudible ]. >> reporter: the activists are part of the opposition's media operation. they smuggle themselves into the damascus suburb last month. and risked their lives to

document this. a massacre said to have taken place just hours earlier. among the corpses strewn about, that of a little girl. a man points to one of the bodies and says, he was executed. a civilian. points to a second corps and adds, this is his cousin. shot because he tried to save him. residents are readying the bodies for burial. blood soaking through the funeral sheets. the the names of the deceased hastily scrawled. it's a grim routine syrians in areas that have dared stand up to the regime have grown accustomeded to. the bodies unceremoniously

dragged away and placed alongside others. residents say syrian security forces searching for weapons in some buildings wiped out members of several families. s this man described what happened in one instance. they had two rooms they put the men and women in, he says. from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., the living were trapped with the dead. it was an execution. they asked where are the guns. there are no guns, was the response and they executed them one after the other. at least 45 were killed in this one attack residents say. information cnn cannot independently verify. in the morning the media team picked their way through rubble strewn streets but they would not be able to leave duma. the assad regime siege intensified.

the government bombardment relentless. many more were killed. the team that filmed this at the end of june was trapped inside duma for more than a week and it's taken this long to get the footage smuggled to lebanon. all that effort, all that risk to give the world a glimpse of syria's narrative of horror and despair. >> arwa damon monitoring the developments out of beirut, lebanon. you mentioned this is just a glimpse of what is actually going on. >> it most certainly is, kyra. there's been fighting throughout damascus, very close to the heart of the capital. the seat of power. bashar al assad's seat of power in and of itself for the last few days. opposition activists have been describing it as the most intense fighting that has been taking place. the images coming out quite dramatic showing

street-to-street guerrilla warfare. that story you saw, that is just a fraction of what it is that people are going through inside syria and the lengths that these opposition activists are going to try to put their plight into the international spotlight. of course, the aim of all of this, the reason why they're taking this risk, is that they're hoping that at the end of it, the international community is going to somehow unite, is going to rally, and somehow bring about an end to the fighting because the death toll only grows more devastating by the day, kyra. >> we're going to be following it closely, arwa damon, thanks so much. al assad's government has blamed the violence on armed terrorist groups as the conflict began 16 months ago. [ man ] ever year, sophia and i

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there is no question that america needs more energy but there is plenty of debate about where and how to get it. drilling for oil in the arctic has been off limits until now and after years of lawsuits and

resistance from environmental groups shell has actually been given the okay to drill off the icy coast of northern alaska. the first new offshore drilling oil project approved by the government since the 2010 bp disaster in the gulf of mexico. shell is spending up to $20 billion, but there's a lot of challenges and risks. miguel marquez takes us in-depth on the fight for oil in the arctic. >> reporter: for millions of nesting birds, for seals, walruses, whales, and countless sea animals the arctic is the cradle of life. a short but intense summer with 24 hour sunshine. in the winter, another world, a place of subzero temperatures, ferocious winds and a frozen landscape, yet this harsh, but delicate place, is changing. look at this. from nasa, ice covering the