call from a gas station did he turn around to cross back over the bridge again. police would stop him moments later.

the best that i could describe was a ski rope type. the woven type and it was my guess about 24 inches long. >> no. >> williams denies there was any such cord. >> because if that rope had been in the station wagon that night, i'm sure they would have taken it. >> the fact that i didn't confiscate it didn't make it go away. >> the nylon cord would never be seen again. >> could have been the murder weapon as far as i know. >> fbi supervisors decided to let wayne williams go that night. >> we didn't have a body.

secondly, there was no who saw wayne williams outside of his car. there was no one that saw him throw anything overboard. >> two days later, only a mile downstream from that bridge, another body. after two years, one suspect now, wayne williams. >> when we come back, the lie detector test. >> the surprise that he didn't beat that. he was convinced he could beat a polygraph test. he was like i'll be darned. the guy we have been looking for for two years. hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol

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the second day after wayne williams was seen on the chattahoochee river bridge, the body washed up downstream. he was a down on his luck drunk. 28 years old, but small, weighing under 150 pounds. again, the medical examiner said he could have been killed with a choke hold, trapping the neck in the crook of the arm. his would be the last body found in the atlanta murders. the 27th male victim. at his funeral, wayne williams's father homer took this photo for the atlanta world newspaper. on june 3rd, the fbi brought wane n for a long night of questioning. wayne agreed to a lie detector test. >> he was as composed as you can get. get 26 bodies in the woods, he had total control. >> richard was the fbi polygraph

examiner. >> i don't care what you were throwing in the river, if it was a body. >> he told williams in advance what he would ask him. did you kill him and did you kill him that night and did you throw him into the chattahoochee river. i said wow, this is it. >> wayne williams flunked all three questions. >> this test reflected you did kill him and it was his body you threw off the bridge that night. >> the polygraph measures sweating, heartbeat and blood pressure. all rise with tension. >> the breathe a little faster and have a hard time getting your breath. you sweat more. he did all of those. >> williams took the test three times and failed each time. >> i said i'll be darned. you are the guy we have been looking for for two years.

he was convinced he could beat a polygraph test and said what's this question? that's pretty good. did you cause the death of nathaniel peter. he said what's this question? did you throw his body into the chattahoochee river. >> with the media waiting outside the fbi, the mayor spokesman was called in to handle the press. >> in comes homer williams. >> he asked homer why he was inside the building, trying to get a scoop on the suspect. >> he said no, that's my son. i thought oh, geez. >> homer said -- >> they detained him and impounded by car for littering. i said that doesn't sound right.

littering? he was driving over this bridge and he stopped to throw garbage and. >> we asked about him throwing garbage off the bridge and he denied his father said that. >> your father said you stopped to get rid of some trash. >> no, my father never said that. i never said that and my father never said it. >> while father and son were inside the fbi, evidence technicians were combing the williams home. the to be fiber expert led the search. in wayne's bedroom, he took clippings and from a yellow blanket. >> the yellow blanket was located under wayne's bed. >> on the floor, a green carpet. this is a blow up of those carpet fibers. >> they are the only company to

produce a fiber like this. >> larry peterson was still in the dark. >> i had no idea there was a ridge. >> he had been called to the fbi office to help search this station wagon. not told why. then he spotted fbi techs returning from their search and so he went out to the home to snip fibers for himself. >> i saw the green carpet. >> did you feel this is it? >> i really didn't. >> it was a middle class home, a young man living with his parents. peterson thought -- >> i'm going to run this back to the lab and just look. i saw the green carpet and once i put it underhe microscope, i knew instantly that was it. >> i knew they had the killer? >> i knew that was him. i made hundreds and hundreds of comparisons to various suspects and environments before and nothing was even close until that night.

>> did you stand up from the microscope and scream we caught the guy? >> i did want to say oh, my god. >> still, williams was allowed to go home that night. >> i was in the area. >> in the morning, wayne called in reporters and tv crews. they agreed not to show his face. >> he asked if it was dropped in the river. nothing. >> he acknowledged he failed the lie detector test and asked about the victims, williams said this. >> some of these kids in places they don't have no business being at certain times of the day and night. some of them had no home supervision and they are running around on the streets. you are doing that, that is not giving anyone a license to kill, but you open yourself up for all kinds of things. >> we asd what he meant.

>> when you say that's not giving anybody a license to kill, but you are opening yourself up for all kinds of things -- >> my point is very simple. if you are out roaming the streets like some of these victims were, you put yourself in a position for bad things to happen. >> for days the district attorney was reluctant to take wayne williams to court based on fibers alone. while he hesitated, the fbi, police, and media all kept a watch on wayne. he showed an angry face to a cnn camera crew. >> i am telling you to quit following me. at this point you are following me and you are on private property. if i were you, i would get the hell out. >> on father's day evening, 1981, detective arrived to arrest wayne williams for the murder of nathaniel.

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wayne williams would go on trial at the start of 1982. testimony would last almost two months. it would be a trial like no other before. case built on fibers. no fingerprints or murder weapon or no apparent motive. the jurors had three choices. guilty , innocent, or not proven. this time the verdict is yours. mary welcome was wayne

williams's defense attorney. >> good morning. how are you? >> this was her first murder trial. >> what was he like when you met him? >> a most unlikely killer. >> yeah? why? >> he didn't appear to be the kind of person that could strangle anyone or had the strength to. >> to her, williams seemed gentle, child-like. >> one day i left him in jail and said is there anything i can bring? he said would you bring me some bubble gum? >> williams was charged with and tried for only two murders. nathaniel and kater. his body was nude, but his hair was caked with mud. >> digging through that silt, i was able to recover dog hair and fibers close to his scalp.

>> the dog hair was consistent with sheba, the family dog. in his hair was an unusual green carpet fiber. under a microscope, peterson could see the boomerang shape like those in the williams family carpet. this is an actual piece of that carpet which the fbi said was quite rare. >> it has an unusual carpet finer and manufactured for a limited amount of time and a 10--year-old carpet. >> on jimmy, the other victim, he found yellow rayon fibers stuck to his cotton shorts. fibers consistent with the blanket under wayne's bed. >> i personally took the cutting from the yellow blanket that was under the bed. >> this evidence contains the yellow blanket fibers that he clipped that night, magnified by our own video camera.

when larry peterson had returned that june for a second search, a couple weeks later -- >> there was no yellow blanket that i could find. >> there a lot of things in your case that disappeared. had a lot of disappearances. yellow blanket. >> yes. >> disappeared. >> in the first place, that was never a yellow blanket. >> there were fibers. >> alleged to have come from a yellow blanket. nobody has produced a yellow blanket. quite simply and i am being blunt, there was no yellow blanket. >> or maybe you got rid of it between the first time they search and the time they came back. >> if i was a police officer, i would have confiscated the blanket too. doesn't make sense. >> they were allowed to bring in ten other deaths. among them, patrick bald czar, jo jo bell to try to show a pattern. >> this is a chart showing fibers recovered from the body

of patrick baltazar. >> fibers consistent with the bed spread and hair from wayne's dog and a leather jacket. >> the jacket was as i recall hanging in his closet. >> and he told the jury two human hairs were found inside patrick baltazar's shirt. >> they were consistent with originating from williams. >> then eric middlebrooks and the fibers stuck to his tennis shoe. this is a blow up that was in a car williams was driving that year. >> this puts him in the interior of the 79 ford and the trunk of the ford. >> did you ever meet any of the young men who were victims? >> i did not. >> never any? >> no. >> it's possible they were not in contact with this enronment.

>> the fiber evidence is your biggest obstacle. >> that fiber evidence may well have been manipulated in this case. point blank and simple. simple because they had a suspect that was and manipulation no doubt continued even after my trial up until this point. >> there were just too many fibers placed on too many bs. >> mike in blue seen here the night of the verdict was one of the jurors. >> what would the chances be of finding the same, all of these fibers? the chances would be just astronomical. >> this witness, robert henry did place williams with the very last could have. he said he saw him leaving this theater with williams on the night of the bridge incident. henry has no doubt about what he saw.

>> they were holding hands like male and female. if you are holding hands with one of my coworkers, what am i supposed to do? turn my head? the next time i saw him, he was in the courtroom. >> when wayne williams took the stand, he swore he never met nathaniel. he said he saw them and wayne testified he was home sick and asleep in bed. his mother and father now deceased backed him up. homer williams said he had the white station wagon until almost midnight. under cross-examination in his third day on the stand, wayne williams blew up at prosecutor jack mallard. >> he was completely different. immediately he started attacking. he came out of the chute like a bull. when he said you want the real wayne williams, you've got him. all of the jury understood that,

yeah. >> i was probably my own worst enemy. i was an arrogant idiot at the time and i played right into these people's hands. i could see the shock in the jurors's faces and is this the same? i could see that. >> patrick's stepmother was watching in court that day. >> i am like this man has to be crazy. this man -- he is like he is saying, i killed him, but you got to prove it. can you prove it? he was doing everything he can to outsmart everybody. it was like i did it, but can you prove i did it? >> camille bell, usef's mother said he was innocent. he said the last day convicted him. >> when he fired off, they were ready to say well okay, he does have fire.

>> when you got angry with the prosecutor, you said you are a drop shot. >> i called him a drop shot. >> what's that mean? >> quite simply a drop shot is a guy who is not worth much of anything. drop him and get him out of the way. in other words, you are useless. >> we reminded wane that he called core black children on the streets the same thing. drop shots. >> that are does not make me a murderer because somebody was a drop shot. that does not make wayne williams a murderer because somebody is a street urchin. come on. we are talking about murder. the fact is i didn't kill anybody. >> the jury didn't come back until late the second evening. the verdict? guilty on both counts of murdering the two adults. williams was sentenced to serve two life terms.

>> people only wanted to look at the negative side because they wanted in their hearts for this case to be over and wayne to be the monster and they wted closure at any cost. >> leaving court, homer williams walked by the prosecutor's table. >> here looked at us and called us sons of bitches. >> still to come, no verdict in the deaths of any of the children. >> even if it takes 30 trials, i don't care. prove it. [ female announcer ] chair climbing isn't a professional sport, but it takes real effort and pampers cruisers with 3-way fit. they adapt at the waist, legs, and bottom for up to 12 hours of protection. play freely in pampers cruisers. who are these guys? oh, that's just my buds. bacon, donuts.

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>> defense attorney mary welcome did not expect the guilty verdict. >> i was questionable. >> what do you think the jury thought? >> murders have continued in atlanta. shootings of black men and stabbings of black women, but not strangulations like before. not black youths dumped far from where where they were killed. detective harris would stay on the police force another 25 years. we aed him how many more children were killed the way they were in the 80s? >> none that i recall. none that i can recall. >> wayne williams's appeals would drag on for years and he almost won the first one. supreme court justice george smith helped write a ruling that would have reversed the verdict. >> the evidence didn't support it. that's what he did find originally. >> but the five other justices resisted.

>> when we met, they pitched a royal fit. they were not going to recovery turn the conviction. >> in the end, all the justices except smith agreed to uphold the conviction. williams said the court was bullied into making its u-turn. >> i think the pressure came from as high as the white house. >> not so, said george smith, now retired from the court, but still practicing law in his 90s. >> i can't imagine that it happened in the case like this. i can't imagine having any case like this. >> smith did write a descending opinion and said the fiber evidence fell short of specific certainty and the prosecution should not have been allowed to use the pattern evidence on ten other murders. >> i said similarities of the crimes in this case is a fact. all of them are dead. >> smith was denounced on the floor of the georgia legislature.

>> i was the n lover. you know what the n stands for. >> mary agreed when justice smith wrote the defense attorneys were ineffective. >> we were rendered ineffective and incompetent because of the lack of funds and the lack of time and the lack of resources. absolutely. >> things did go wrong in the trial that should not have. an ambulance driver suggested a motive for wayne williams. this from cnn's report at the time. >> he said williams asked him once, had he considered how many blacks could be eliminated by killing one child. >> unknown to either side, he was not his real name. he had a criminal record. >> he testified under a false name. had an extensive arrest record under his real name. >> i'm not sure we knew that at the time. or it was disclosed to us.

>> he was eight blocks away from where he was found. >> larry was a retarded youth. this witness said she saw rogers slumped over in a station wagon as wayne williams drove away. another person also saw rogers in that station wagon at that same intersection that day. he helped the police artist draw this sketch. it does not electric like wayne williams. however, the defense never called the other witness to ask about the sketch. >> no, i don't remember seeing that. supporters of wayne williams say there was one murder that shows the fiber evidence could be faulty. the death of 12-year-old clifford jones left by a dumpster in an aloe a summer night in 1980. some of those unusual green carpet fibers were on his body, yet another boy said he saw a coin laundry operator kill clifford jones.

he said the boy was not believable. >> he exaggerated. he was open to suggestions. if you said that mickey mouse was up there and he sense that you wanted him to say that, he said yeah. >> wayne supporters point out the laundry manager failed two police lie detector tests, but few are aware of a third test given by the fbi examiner. the result? >> in layman's terms, he passed. >> only days after wayne williams was convicted of killing two adults, the police commissioner closed the books on 21 other murder victims, declaring they too were killed by williams. most were children. among them, clifford jones and usef bell.

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four years after the trial, robert henry would change his story about seeing the last victim holding hands with wayne williams. in this affidavit henry wrote if

my life depended on it, i could not say the man i saw with him was wayne williams. our producer confronted henry with that affidavit. his signature is at the bottom. >> that's my handwriting. >> whose words are those? that are. >> they are not mine. >> whose are they? >> i would rather not say. >> in the summer of 1986, henry was in prison here. when he said an associate of wayne williams came to see him and told him what to write. >> when you said i cannot id the face of wayne williams as the man i saw with nathaniel, are those your words? >> what i was told to say. >> by? >> i would rather not say. it might cause a problem. >> could you id the face of wayne williams. >> the person i saw holding his hand was wayne williams, the man convicted.

>> henry passed a lie detector test before he took the witness stand. when his visitor came to see him, henry was serving five years for sex crimes. his false affidavit was used in court appeals. wayne williams lost each time anyway. >> to this day, is there any question who you saw? >> no, there is not. >> it was? >> wayne williams. >> robert henry is not the only one whose story changed back and forth over the years. so has wayne williams. at trial, williams testified he was home all evening, sick in bed when henry said he saw him holding hands and now williams said he has a different alibi for that evening. >> i was at a place called hotlanta records in college park. >> williams said he drove to the office near the atlanta airport. he had taken photos for this poster the night before. he went there to turn in this

invoice to get paid. >> we delivered a bill and a statement of services. we cut a check and it was probably about 9:00 or 9:30 when i left that location. >> we're reached hotlanta's owner now living in los angeles. >> we call and when he came, i went back and wrote the check behind the desk. that's where the checkbook was. >> williams didn't stay that long. not as late as 9:00. >> it wasn't 5 minutes or ten minutes. we spent maybe a half hour or something like that. >> how did wayne get to the office? >> he drove. i think he had his dad's car if i'm not mistaken. >> wayne's father homer testified he had the station wagon until almost midnight that night. but an investigator for the defense said told him long ago this was a lie. >> he told me he had the car and the guy didn't is have the car.

wayne said i had the vehicle and i didn't want to corrupt my dad's testimony so i lied about it and said i didn't have it on the stand. >> what make this is important is what time robert henry said he saw wayne and nathaniel together. >> it was about 9:15 to 9:30. it was on luckie and forsythe street. >> you were in bed until 10:00 p.m. you were so sick your mom o had to help you. >> i was sick. this is where the confusion came. i got back from hotlanta records probably about 9:00 or 9:30. >> there is no one to corroborate that even if his mother were still alive. wayne said she probably didn't see him come in. >> he was out that night, no question in my mind. he was not at home. he was out and about.

>> less than six hours after henry saw williams, police heard a splash under this bridge. his body washed up downstream two days later. there was no dna testing then, but now there is. new evidence. >> remember the two human hairs found inside 11-year-old patrick's shirt? in 2007, the hair fragments were sent to the fbi's laboratory in virginia. the result? the lab said they found this dna sequence in 29 out of more than 1100 samples of african-american hairs in its database. less than 3%. most important, wayne williams's dna had the same sequence. >> i think being the possible donor. >> the fbi's dna expert said

this finding is as strong as it can get with this particular type of testing. >> did you kill 11-year-old patrick baltazar? >> i didn't kill him or anybody else. >> did you ever meet him? >> i did not. >> never been in contact with him. >> i don't know him. >> we offered to show the dna findings to the stepmother, sheila. >> i can't read it. please don't make me read it. oh, my god. >> so we told her what the fbi report said. wayne williams didn't be excluded as the source of those two hairs. she listened. then this.

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>> when we returned to prison for our final interview with wayne williams, we had one question he was not expecting. what had written about being recruited for espionage training as a teenager.

at a secret government camp hidden in the woods where he was given what could amount to a license to kill. >> it's called finding myself. what's fining myself? it reading like an auto biography. >> go ahead. i'm listening. >> it's an account of your cia training. >> we are not going to get into that. >> why not? >> we are not going to get into that. >> i have a copy of that. >> we are not going to get into that. >> by his account, he was fresh out of high school, just 18 years old when he was approached by an associate of an old world war 2 spy living in the atlanta area and was initiated into a secret world. >> you are not going to answer a single question on this?

>> no, ma'am. >> is it fake? >> no. >> did you work for the cia? >> i'm not getting into that. >> in these pages he said he spent his summer weekends in those words, learning how to handle plastic explosives and hand grenades and something more chilling. >> i will do the talking part and you can answer the part you want. you write how you fired rifles and submachine guns and assault weapons and grenade launchers before you learned unarmed combat techniques through this training group over weekends. is it true or is it false? >> i'm not going to comment. >> you are 19 years old. you are saying you worked for the cia. you have been recruited. >> i will let the document speak for itself and i cannot comment. >> did you work for the cia? >> i can't comment. >> copyright by williams.

is this an auto biography? >> i cannot comment on that. >> in his own words wayne williams said this was part of a secret plan to send young black agents into the worst trouble spots in africa in the late 1970s. he wrote that he finished training and then withdraw from the program. >> either this is a true story and you have been trained in basic tactics, ex-filtration techniques and weapons use and unarmed combat that includes a deadly choke hold or if made up. >> where did you obtain that? >> i can't tell you that. >> there we go. >> you know the news man, you knew the answer before you asked it. is it true? it's got your name on it. were you trained in unarmed combat and could you grab somebody bigger than yourself and put them in a choke hold?

that's what that is. >> i'm sure there other things rather than putting somebody in a choke hold. >> when i say what does that mean? that's one of the things on their list. top two. >> i went down there. >> so are you trained in that? >> let me say this. >> i am asking such straight forward questions. >> i understand, but i ask you to understand my position on this. let's say that that were true and that were the case. let's just say that i had some experiences that i do not want to comment for reason that is the documents say. the fact is, what does that have to do with the situation today? >> everything. >> you tell me. >> for has everything to do with it. a big part of the conversation

when i talked to your lawyers is could wayne williams grab somebody, did he have the strength. he's not a big guy. could he grab someone in an unarmed combat technique and kill them? your attorneys would say you met him. he's not a big guy. if you are saying yes, in fact, i was trained by the cia which is what this do you want necessary a nut shell on weekends when i was a teenager and i am trained in the choke hold technique, that's one thing. if you are telling me no, that never happened, but you are writing a long fantasy about being trained for the cia in weaponry and the choke hold technique, that takes it a whole other direction. >> remember doctors said at least two victims and perhaps more were probably killed by choke holds. >> do you know how to kill somebody with a choke hold? that's a straight forward question.

i can answer it. my answer would be no, sir, i do not know. >> let me say something about that. >> it's a yes or no answer. >> no, it's not. >> not until the end of our prison interview did we come close to a real answer. >> it's actually a very simple question. can you kill someone with a choke hold? >> you possibly could. >> i know for a fact i could not. i know you are being facetious, but i could not. were you trained as a teenager to do this. i get cia and you don't want to talk about it, but it's off the record. >> let me state this for the record. i think in the paper that you have and i will say this. it says there was contact with a certain program. i will say it was the junior officer training program. which was run by a certain agency and you are correct.

i never said that i worked for them. >> now who is splitting hairs. were you trained -- >> that's all i'm going to say. >> were you trained in these techniques? >> that's all i'm going to say. >> here acknowledged it was cia training, but said no more. so is this true? or only a fantasy in his mind. the mind of the man a courts found to be a killer. we will leave that question with you. the verdict is now yours to decide in your own mind. again, the choices are guilty , innocent, or a third choice, not proven either way. in a few moments, we will show you the verdict that our audiences reached when this documentary was first broadcast. before that, a look at the answers from those who lived through the terror 30 years ago.

>> the prosecutor. >> obviously guilty . >> the defense attorney. >> not proven. one way or the other. >> the fbi agent in charge. >> guilty of two double homicides. >> she'll is baltazar. >> he could have killed all of them. >> the supreme court justice. >> not proven. >> the witness. >> guilty . >> camille bell. >> innocent, but stupid. >> that are first task force detective. >> no maybes. guilty . >> the right man is in jail. >> the original audience verdict is guilty , 69%. innocent, 4%. not proven either way, 27%.

from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, this is "early start weekend." fires in oklahoma raging out of control. tens of thousands of acres scorched. those numbers could go up. plus, 100 million miles, $2.6 billion. nasa's "curiosity" rover expected to land on mars tonight. later, monday marks one of the most significant military operations in history. tens of thousands killed, a nation brought to its knees. we talk to the last surviving crew member of the plane that dropped the bomb on hiroshima.

it is sunday, august 5, good morning, everyone, i'm randi kaye. in oklahoma this morning, conditions say it is condition critical. more than a dozen wildfires are burning. there is plenty of fuel for those fires thanks to the drought. as of now, at least 120 structures have been burned, and hundred of homes are still threatened. >> stayed as long as i could, and i had to get out. when i left, the fire was right at my back door. i don't even know what to think right now. i'm -- i'm just numb to the whole deal. >> got all the way up then it jumped over to the other neighbor on the west. and it's -- dang near took out my whole barn and hayfield. everything. our retirement.

everything we own is here. >> joining me on the phone is kelly cane, public information officer for the oklahoma department of emergency management. kelly, we spoke yesterday morning at this time. have things improved any at all? and how many people at this point have been evacuated? >> well, we had three kind of major evacuations that were in place yesterday. i don't have any updates this morning on how those fires are doing, but we do know that some of those areas may have fortunately received a little bit of rain which my have helped the situation. and so hopefully they're doing a little better. but yesterday was a very critical day for wildfires. we know that we lost a lot of homes in oklahoma. and it's going to be a hard situation ahead for people. >> do you know how many homes you've lost? >> no. we'lprobably have more information today. right now we still know we have

about 120. but we were receiving reports yesterday that, you know, the fires were moving quickly through some of these areas. we know we're going to see some updates today. >> is it any closer to getting under control? were there any new fires that flared up overnight? >> not so much overnight. we know they're still working on the fires from yesterday. like i said, you know, with the humidity last night from some of the storms that were kind of pushing through, we hope that that was able to help the situation and make it a little easier for firefighters out there. they have been stluch a tough time the last couple of days. so far we're waiting to hear more details. >> i know that as of yesterday we spoke with you. we also spoke to a reporter on the ground who said they were looking for someone who might have thrown something out of a pickup truck that may have caused this. and this may be an arson fire. any more confirmation or word on whether or not they found this person? >> i haven't had any word.

it's hard to believe someone would do something like that. we're just kind of waiting for more info. >> all right. appreciate that, kelly cane. thank you for your time. good luck trying to get that under control there. to more severe weather now. we're keeping our eye on a pair of tropical storms. the first is tropical storm ernesto. the storm is packing 60 mile-per-hour winds as it heads south of jamaica. tropical storm florence is farther out. still 515 miles from the cape verde islands out in the atlantic. florence is expected to fizzle out before it gets close to the u.s. in legal news, reports that jarrod lee loughner may plead guilty in the shooting of congresswoman gabby giffords. the shooting killed six and wounded 13 others including giffords. the "los angeles times" reporting he will enter a plea on tuesday. the attorney's office says they can't confirm or deny the

reports. two race car drivers are trying to spread the word on a missing kids case in iowa. elizabeth collins and lyric cook disappeared last month while riding their bikes. they're 9 and 10. the drivers are from iowa. and they will have pictures on their cars when they race in pennsylvania today. now to outer space and an exciting nasa mission nearing its destination. the "curiosity" rover is expected to make it to the surface of mars late tonight. the rover launched last november. the first images from "curiosity" are expected a few hours after the landing. to politics now and mitt romney's renewed attack on president obama over the economy. he called the latest jobs report a hammer blow to the american people. he sat down to talk more about it with gloria borger who caught up with him at a campaign event in indiana. >> reporter: democrats say right now this should be the time for

more federal spending on things like education, on things like infrastructure because the public sector has really been taking a beating here. so it -- couldn't you make the case that now is the time for something more dramatic? >> i can absolutely make the case that now is the time for something dramatic, and it is not the time to grow government. it's the time to create the incentives and the opportunities for entrepreneurs and businesses big and small to hire more people. and that's going to happen. you're going to see that happen in this country, but not under this president. >> you can see much more of that interview coming up on cnn "state of the union." at 9:00 a.m. eastern here on cnn this morning. president obama has his surrogates out on the trail this weekend. that includes his sister who was at an event in wisconsin. >> we have less than 100 days to tell the story of this administration, should to think

about unearthing the important stories about how individuals in this country have been affected in positive ways. >> the president himself has taken the weekend off for his birthday. he turned 51 yesterday. shifting gears a bit now. it is hard to believe, but half a century ago today the iconic marilyn monroe was found dead in her l.a. home. the world's fascination with the tragic hollywood star has not faded. performers from madonna to lady gaga have emulated her signature pin-up style. yes, she even has thousands of twitter followers and more than three million facebook fans. so we want to hear from you about marilyn. what's marilyn monroe's lasting legacy 50 years after her death? you can tweet me, @randikayecnn. i'll read responses later in the show. look out, team usa. team g.b., great britain in case you didn't know, road its way to

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turning to the olympics where team usa continue to top all other nations in the standings, but only by a slim lead. the u.s. has 54 overall medals including 26 gold. china right behind with 53 total medals and 25 gold. and a big night for olympics host great britain. team g.b. as it's called, snagging six gold medals, vaulting into third place. south korea, germany, and france round out the top six. and in what was likely his last race, michael phelps displayed the talent that's led many to call him the greatest swimmer ever. the 27-year-old winning a

record-setting 18th gold medal in the men's 4 by 100-meter relay and ending an olympic career that began 12 years ago in sydney. alex thomas is at olympic park for us this morning. good morning. so have we really seen the last of phelps at the olympics? i mean, is there any chance you think that he might come back maybe four years from now in rio? >> reporter: sorry to dip into my bag of sports cliches, randi, but never say never. it's the only way you can say it. he could well change his mind. i think, though, it's not just the 12 years he's been competing from sydney. you have to consider that this is someone that's been training his whole life. although he's only 27 years old, young by many standards, he's been working at this since a very young lad, indeed. it does take it out of you. all those early morning starts. the hours of grueling training. if you think of another swimming legend, australia's ian thorpe,

the so-called thorpedo, he decided to come back for the london games but couldn't rediscover his speed and didn't qualify here. he was okay with that. i think he's going to continue swimming because he enjoyed it when he came back. that could happen to phelps. but if that was the last time we saw him in an olympic pool, he went out with a golden finish. he's even presented with a special award saying greatest olympian on it, and phelps said, "i finished my career the way i wanted to." you described him as the greatest swimmer ever. i would say it's all about the numbers for me, he's the greatest olympian ever. >> no doubt about that. on this stellar sunday, track and field in the splight. first the battle to be the fastest man. we know that usane bolt is ahead. who will join him? >> he blew minds four years ago, smashing the world's 102-meter records by winning gold in both events. the men's 100-meter finals

always exciting. when bolt was disqualified last year, americans tyson gaye and justin gatlin are back from a drug span. and the unheralded ryan bailing who ran yesterday's heat, 9.88 seconds, which would have been good enough to win gold in the 1992 games. all sorts of names in the mix. it's going to be absolutely mouth-watering. look out, too, for the women's 400 meters final. america's sonya richard ross trying to make up for her disappointment four years ago, leading with 60 meter today. she tightened up one of her hamstrings and got overtaken by britain's runner, a local girl from london. all the home fans will be cheering her on. sonya richards ross looking in exceptionally good form. she caused controversy by calling on olympic athletes to get paid for the games. at the moment they don't. here's what she said earlier

this week. >> there was a time that i believed the olympics was about just doing it for the love of your country and patriotism. that has changed. there's a lot of money exchanging hands around these games. i don't see my peers and the athletes -- they don't see my peers and the athletes struggling to make a living at the sport. i don't think it's greed or patriotism. it's the realization that the olympics has changed. i think that we should be considered, as well. >> reporter: after a super saturday, as they called it, i'm terming this stellar sunday. 23 golds across so many sports. loads to look forward to. if i missed anything, go to our web site, cnn.com/olympics, our live blog is excellent. keeping everyone up to date. >> i'm always tuned in to that live blog. alex thomas, thank you very much, appreciate it. looking for life on mars. nasa is closer to getting answers as the "curiosity" rover closes in on the red planet. we'll check out the mission.

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who loves space. that is because the "curiosity" rover is close to reaching mars. it's expected to land late tonight around 1:30 in the morning, actually, if you're planning on staying up for the big landing. our john zarrella has more on the mission and what nasa hopes to find up there. >> reporter: the grand canyon. each layer of rock represent a period of history. it is a perfect place to see how earth evolved over millions of years. on mars, if you're looking for evidence of life, you go to a very similar place called the gale crater. here the layered rock provides a history of mars back to its first billion years. >> that period of mars history is a mystery to us. it's also the most exciting history for us because that's when it was most earthlike. >> reporter: that's when life is most likely to have developed. so gale is where nasa's "curiosity" rover is going. between a mountain and the crater wall. >> we're landing right between those two and kind of the only

patch of flat ground. >> reporter: you could call "curiosity" the sherlock holmes of rovers, with a capability to do science that's more than just elementary. >> this mission really asks one of the most fundamental questions you can ask, is there life on any other planet besides earth. >> reporter: "curiosity" does not have the capability to detect life itself unless life should stand up and wave at the camera. the 2,000-pound rover can detect what none of its predecessors could. its laser scans for tantalizing targets. its hammer drill breaks down rock and deposits tiny samples in "curiosity's" on-board kennel psychiatry lab. the lab can sniff -- chemistry lab. the lab can sniff out carbon, a key to life. >> one of the goals is to look at key ingredients that life requires. water, of course, is one of the things we always look for on mars. >> reporter: scientists believe if water ever flowed on mars, it might have been inside gale crater.

the vast majority of "curiosity's" tasks will be orchestrated by scientist on earth. but when you're 150 million miles away, there are some things "curiosity" might have to do on its own. >> the rover will be able to make decisions whether it can drive over an obstacle or if it needs to drive around an obstacle. >> reporter: the rover's mission is expected to last about two years. at the end of it, scientists hope to finally understand whether mars could ever have sustained life or maybe even still does. john zarrella, cnn, pasadena, california. an 87-year-old man is busted. and wait until you find out what police say he did, and he says his family was in on the whole thing. that's next. everyone has goals.

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checking stories across the country, we begin in washington state with the transformation of a veteran cemetery. it was so run down that weeds covered the tomb of the unknown soldier. a group of volunteers got to work. it all started when a retired marine took his grandson to visit and was shocked by what he saw. he asked a community activist to put out the call for help. >> took my grandson here a couple years ago. i wanted to show him the tomb of the unknown. and i was really embarrassed. >> there was an elderly gentleman at the front gate waiting to come in. this guy was a world war ii

veteran, a korean veteran. and he's walking with an oxygen container and says, how can i help, todd? >> organizers plan to renovate the entire tomb and the surrounding grounds. two san diego men are under arrest in a high-end burglary ring bust. they're accused of stealing a $250,000 ford gt, and that's not all. they made off with jewelry, two porsches and a picasso. they allegedly chopped up the car to resell its parts. only 4,000 of those are on the road. >> actually quite rare. there's not a whole large market out there for vehicles as rare as a ford g.t. like this. they're not that easy to sell. you can't really drive around the streets in them. that type of thing is something we don't see very often. >> both men have pleaded not guilty to felony theft charges. heartbreak in western massachusetts. a lightning strike destroyed an elementary school. more than 100 firefighters helped put out the blaze.

two suffered injuries. no one was in the building. students will have to attend other schools in the area when classes resume in a few weeks. in the business of growing marijuana, this 87-year-old denver man is facing drug charge but says he did nothing wrong. police even allowed him to keep some of the weed that he grew. reporter megan fitzgerald with kusa tells us what this is all about. it's a beneficial thing. it is very beneficial. >> reporter: growing marijuana. >> there's four people legally here. >> reporter: edward begunovich tells us it's a family business. his daughter is even in the mix. >> i was a caretaker for 24 people for the last year or two. >> reporter: the reason he says his household had documentation to grow. but there are rules and guidelines that have to be followed. a police affidavit says officers raided the back yard. they described it as a forest of

marijuana trees. they estimate around 500 plant were growing back there. >> this is where the greenhouses were, here, both of them. they took all the plants. >> reporter: he gave investigators state medical marijuana documents, but they only allow him to have 231 plants. agents say he was over that amount by 269 so they hauled him off to jail. >> it don't make sense. there was no crime committed. we didn't do nothing. we're trying to be legal. >> reporter: now these pot plants are what's left of the family's marijuana supply. an amount begunavich says really hurt his pockets. >> how do i feel? i lost a lot of money. that's the worst part. >> that was megan fitzgerald our affiliate, kusa. begunavich is due back in court august 16. a man apparently tries to fake his death but gets caught days later when he's pulled over for speeding.

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hour now. some view it as one of the touchstone issues really of our nation's culture war. i'm talking about abortion, that is. now the debate has been revived, of course, thanks to a new arizona law that people on both sides say is really just the latest in an increase in anti-abortion legislation across the country. athena jones has our report. >> reporter: the fight over abortion rights took center stage again this week. this time in arizona where a judge temporarily prevented the state from implementing a law that would criminalize abortions after 20 weeks. >> maricopa county wants to argue that roe v. wade should be overturned. >> the resolution would be for the court to say that roe is no longer good law. >> reporter: abortion rights groups say it's the most restrictive law in the country. it's exactly the kind of legislation abortion opponents have been calling for. >> many of us have known people that were born at the stage that we are trying to make abortion illegal, at the 20, 22 weeks. so it's a common sense and

compassionate thing to do. >> reporter: advocates on both sides point to a growing number of state laws restricting abortion, with much of the increase coming in the last two years. something of great concern to pro-abortion rights groups. >> at some point, women and providers are going to cry uncle and say i can't do it anymore. >> reporter: abortion opponents say they have the momentum. according to the goodmacker institute, 55% of women at reproductive age live in one of the 26 states considered hostile to abortion rights. neither side is backing down on the center issue in the culture wars. arizona is just the latest battlefield. >> we're reporting today inside mississippi's last abortion clinic. >> reporter: a law in mississippi requiring that doctors at abortion clinics be certified ob-gyns with privileges at local hospitals was set to go into effect last month, threatening to shut down the state's only clinic until a judge issued a temporary restraining order. a virginia law sets up new

regulations for clinics such as requiring five-foot-wide hallways. a move opponents say is meant to shut clinics down. the guidelines are still under review. for most voters, abortion won't be the most important issue in the presidential election this fall. even so, the outcome in november will surely shape the debate. athena jones, cnn, washington. here are some other stories that may have been off your radar. some are calling it historic new legislation. police in new york now required to collect dna samples from everyone convicted of a crime, even minor misdemeanors like jumping a subway turnstyle. previously only felony convictions could get you into the data base. a remorseful thief? this sounds like the plot of a tv show. in canada a burglar had a true change of heart. not just returning what he stole from one family's home, but leaving them $50 and a written apology. take a look. he wrote, "i made the worst mistake of my life. i can't put into words how sorry i am." neighbors say they were upset at

first, but the letter really tugged at their heartstrings. and locally there's no shortage of opinion. >> the judge and jury, is he? well, i think obviously we all have troubles in our lives. but it doesn't excuse someone to break into your house and do that. maybe in his mind he's making some restitution. >> i don't know what i would do if it happened to me. >> reporter: a tough one. >> it is. but i'd be glad to get my goods back again. and finally this guy, raymond roth, was pulled over for speeding in florida last week. you're probably asking why is this news. well, everyone thought the 47-year-old was dead. drowned in long island beach. but allegedly he faked his own death before cleaning out his wife's bank account and driving hundreds of miles south. in afghanistan, teachers have been injured and even killed just for helping young girls learn to read and write. a cnn hero says she is not

afraid. she's founded a girls school in afghanistan. find out why 9/11 was her inspiration. her story next.

to syria now. look at what it feels and sounds like to be in the middle of a city under fire.

[ explosion ] [ speaking native language ] >> you're looking at shattered streets in syria's largest city of aleppo. rebels say government artillery and warplanes have been pounding them for hours. they are bracing for a showdown with the regime. all this as secretary of state hillary clinton now plans to head to neighboring turkey within days because of the worsening crisis. so let's bring in cnn's muhammad jamjun. good morning. the rebels say government troops are advancing on aleppo. what is the situation? >> reporter: good morning. members of the free soiyrian ar tell us they know two columns of troops are heading toward aleppo. we've been hearing from activists that the syrian regime military is sending in

reinforcement. we've gotten reports the past few days that equipment and troops have been arriving in aleppo from different parts of the country. the expectation is that this major battle for aleppo that has been looming for some time now has not yet really begun. we've heard today also from members of the free syrian army, from opposition activists in aleppo that the government is deploying heavy weapons and trying to drive out rebel syrian fighters from different parts of aleppo. the most populated city. the commercial hub of syria. and that they are pounding several neighborhoods in aleppo with rockets, with mortars, that they are using warplanes on different neighborhoods, as well. the concern is, as i said a minute ago, that the main battle for alep oh has yet to begin. it's not just activists and residents in aleppo that have suggested this. members of the international community have expressed a lot of worry. an increasing amount of worry these past few days in saying that they don't think that aleppo has yet seen the worst of the violce that it will

encounter. >> and the rebels are saying they control large parts of aleppo. is there any way to verify that that's true? the regime, of course, saying that it's killed and captured dozens of what they call terrorists. >> reporter: it's hard to verify, randi. there is a propaganda war going on in syria now along with the civil war that's going on. now the rebels have claimed to take large portions and significant parts of the city under their control. every time a claim like that emerges, you have syrian state television flashing banners saying that these neighborhoods are now back under the control of the regime, that they've killed and/or arrested scores of terrorists. they always use the phrase "armed terrorist groups" in describing opposition fighters in syria. that's where it's difficult to verify these claims and these counterclaims. we've seen so much footage from certain reports and amateur videos on line the past few days showing that rebel fighters are in the streets of aleppo. that they are engaging in urban combat with the regime forces.

but exactly who is in control, which neighborhood, we don't really have an accurate -- an accurate description of that at this time. randi? >> and muhammad, as we said, the secretary of state, hillary clinton, planning to head to turkey for talks on the crisis. is there anything to indicate that this could actually make a difference as to what's going on there in syria? >> reporter: there's really not, randi. sadly, you know, amongst this -- all this diplomatic flurry of activity that's been going on these past few months, the meetings, whether it's the u.n. or whether it's kofi annan or whether it's secretary of state hillary clinton traveling to different parts of the region, the fact of the matter is it has not stopped the deteriorating situation in syria. the civil war has only gotten worse. the humanitarian situation there is only deteriorating. so while secretary of state hillary clinton is heading to turkey on saturday which turkey is an integral player in trying to solve the syria crisis, there's no indication that it

will do anything to really make the situation on the ground at all better. randi? >> muhammad jamjoon, thank you very much. acid attacks, poisoned water, and the daily fear of violence keeps schoolgirls and teachers in afghanistan fearing for their lives. while terrorists try to keep them from getting an education, this week's cnn hero is fearlessly giving them one and opening minds in the process all for free. meet rasi ajan. in afghanistan, midwest of the girls have no -- most of the girls have no voice. they are used as property of a family. the picture is very grim. my name is razia jan, and i'm the founder of a girls school in afghanistan. when we opened the school in 2008, 9 % of them could not write -- 90% of them could not write their name. today 100% of them are educated. they can read. they can write.

[ bell ] >> i lived in the u.s. for over 38 years, but i was really affected by 9/11. i really wanted to prove that muslims are not terrorists. i came back here in 2002. girls had been the most oppressed, and i thought i have to do something. it was a struggle in the beginning. i would sit with these men and tell them, don't marry them when they're 14 years old. they want to learn. how you do write your father's name? >> e-i-s -- >> after five years now, the men, they're proud of their girls when they themselves can write their name. very good. still, we have to take these precautions. some people are so much against girls getting educated. we provide free education to over 350 girls.

i think it's like a fire, it will grow. every year my hope becomes more. i think i can see the future. >> jan was nominated by a viewer just like you. so if you know someone who's making a difference in your community, visit cnnheroes.com to nominate them. your nomination could help them help others. remembering hiroshima. tomorrow marks the anniversary of the anola gay dropping the first atomic bomb. we'll hear from the only remaining crew member who was there when the mission made history.

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45 minutes past the hour. tomorrow marks a major day in american history. it will be 67 years since the world changed forever with the dropping of the first atomic bomb on hiroshima, japan. it effectively ended the war in the pacific and ushered in the atomic era. the bomb was carried by the anola gay, a modified b-29 bomber. there is only one surviving member of that crew. we had a chance to speak with him. he is navigator dutch van kirk. >> if you were of that age at that time, you knew you were going to be in the war. i know i didn't want the army. that was -- that sort of thing. i knew i didn't want the navy because that was in the water. so, no, i had -- just a few, little bit of flying experience. and i loved it. my name is theodore jay van kirk, and i was a major.

i probably -- i think i probably flew about 15 missions out of england. then i got transferred down to north africa where i completed the rest of -- 5. if you made 25 missions, you were either the luckiest person alive or the german pilots were lousy shots. in my case, the german pilots were lousy shots. i was down in new orleans when i got a call from tibbets. i met him before i flew out of england. the best day of my life. he saved my life a couple of times. he says, i'm organizing a new group. he says, i can't tell you what it's about, but he says, if it works we're either going to end or officially shorten the war. and he says, i want you to be my group navigator.

i got orders to report to the silver plate project in wendover, utah. we trained primarily to make the rapid turn and running away from the bomb. that was our primary training. that was our biggest worry -- was getting away from the bomb. you know, how do you get away from a bomb? you drop the bomb, the bomb goes this way, you go this way. but you had to make a rapid turn. tibbets practiced, he could make the turn in less than a minute. you're at 30,000 feet now. he's in a 360-degree bang, a very sharp bang for a b-29 at that altitude. >> three, two, one, now. >> we knew the time was approaching and everything else because they had had the test explosions in new mexico.

they finally briefed us for the mission and everything else. they briefed us that we were going to go out and drop the atomic bomb and everything of that type. and we'll get some sleep. how the hell they expected you to -- to tell you you're going out and dropping the first atomic bomb, then get some sleep is beyond me. tibbets and i were in the same poker game. we obviously didn't sleep. >> it is a fascinating tale. that is just the beginning of the story. next, we'll hear more about the day of the mission and the image that stuck in dutch van kirk's mind when he visited japan after the war. this is new york state. we built the first railway, the first trade route to the west,

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tomorrow marks the anniversary of the bombing of hiroshima, japan, 67 years ago. there's only one survivor from the anola gay, the plane that dropped the bomb that day. dutch van kirk tells us more about the mission and the lasting memory of the devastation. >> we get down to the airplane, that's the first thing. as the 245 comes in, the takeoff. the first problem was getting off the ground. we were heavily overloaded. just before 10,000 feet, went back to the bay and did the final arming of the bomb. and said, didn't that make you nervous? i said, hell, i never saw ray. how much more nervous could i get. and we're about 30,000 feet. i could see the outline of japan. the miles away. went in, turned the westerly

heading, and called tom fairapy and say, if you don't see it now, you're blind. the city of hiroshima's up there, and you could see the bridge, our aiming point. it took the bomb 43 seconds from the time we dropped it at 30,000 feet until the time it exploded at 18,000 feet. the first thing you saw was that large white cloud that was up well above our altitude. if you looked down to the city of hiroshima, it just looked like a pot of running oil covering a city. >> the world will know that the first atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima, a military base. if japan does not surrender, bombs will have to be dropped on her war industries and, unfortunately, thousands of civilian lives will be lost.

>> there was nothing celebratory it it at all or anything. we're just dropping another bomb. ♪ >> crowds gather in front of the white house awaiting the announcement of japan's surrender from president harry s trum truman. >> the japanese have officially laid down their arms. they have signed terms of unconditional surrender. >> and the news triggered the greatest celebration the nation has ever known. >> it would have been another year -- years before the war would have been over. the point is, we dropped the bombs and saved a lot of lives. we and the japanese would have had a bloodbath if we had invaded japan. and they knew we were coming. they knew where we were going to land, and they had their guns waiting for us. a lot of people went up to japan

after the war to visit hiroshima and nagasaki. and nagasaki, when we landed there, all the japanese commander wanted to do was present his sword. wanted to surrender. but while in nagasaki, i saw probably one of the saddest sights of war. we were standing around just chatting, at a bus stop there in nagasaki. the city was destroyed. leveled out. and the bus come in and stopped and everything else. and this japanese soldier got off the bus looking for his h e home. what do you say to that man?

it was a sad moment in my life. >> the bombing of nagasaki came three days after hiroshima. harry truman's grandson is in japan attending ceremonies around the anniversary. he offed a silent prayer for the hiroshima victims at an event yesterday. [ female announcer ] the coffee house.

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