over the last few days. again those opinion polls say that most people believe that israel won't act without the u.s. and that if it were to act it wouldn't take so much about it. >> thank you so much for that update. dallas lead reyes announcing a second night of aerial sprays. more than 15 people have died in texas from the west nile virus. this next story, we want to warn you the next item does contain graphic video that may be upsetting for some viewers. we're showing the video because it reveals how police handled a controversial case and a major issue in saginaw, michigan. it shows police shooting and killing a man with a knife.

officers filed 30 bullets when they killed milton hall. his family says he was mentally ill. >> reporter: a joint investigation is under way. amateur details what happened during the final moments. the video is graphic. this amateur video purchased by cnn and not made public until now captured the confrontation between six saginaw police officers and milton hall, a 49-year-old man who suffered serious mental health issues. hall had just had a run in with a convenient store clerk. he was in a stand off with police and holding some sort of knife. a female officer is heard shouting. >> put the knife down. >> put the knife down. >> reporter: if you listen carefully hall is heard continuing to yell at police. >> call 911.

>> reporter: hall seems agitated but not intimidated by a police dog. heard on the tape, a witness describes what he sees. >> in a karate stance about to go ham on them. >> reporter: everything comes to a head. local media report 46 shots were fired. cnn counted the sounds of 30 shots on the video tape. anthony witnessed the shooting. >> all of a sudden, pow, pow, pow, pow, and he dropped. pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, and he drops. i was about where that blue van was. i was parked in my van. >> reporter: tabitha perry saw it too. >> i heard them say put the

knife down. >> do you believe the officers were justified in what they did? >> no i don't. there was a better way to do it. >> reporter: perry is not alone. hall's mother said saginaw police overreacted. >> emotionally i have a lot of pain. i'm stunned that six human beings would stand in front of one human being and fire 46 shots. i just don't understand that. >> reporter: on the day of the shooting, july 1st, the police chief defended his officers actions. >> this is someone that from our understanding has a long history not only with police from our department but with the county, known to an assaultive person. >> reporter: members of the community have voiced outrage about the hall community not satisfied with the police

investigation into the officer's response. we showed the video of the shooting to city council man. >> i can see why people are traumatized at looking at something like that. we need answers. >> reporter: braddock has been critical of what he calls the slow pace of the investigation. >> could it be that investigators are trying to make sure they're doing a thorough job and that's why the investigation is -- >> i'm sure that has something to do with it but it should be a top priority. >> reporter: the michigan lead investigator would not discuss the case but instead us to the saginaw county prosecutor who said i can't tell you when the case is going to be completed. the matter is being investigated by an independent agency, the michigan state police. hall's mother feels she knows the answer to the question of whether police used too much

force. >> it appeared to be a firing squad dressed in police uniforms, and there was another way. they did not have to kill him. >> this case raising lots of questions about how officers might deal with mentally disturbed people. just hours ago susan malvo talked with an expert on mental illness. >> what we would ask officers to do is observe the behavior. we teach them to identify behavior that could be indicative of someone having a mental illness. we want them to use verbal deescalation skills. introduce themselves and begin questioning, lines of question that would help to engage the individual and hopefully to deescalate the crisis. police officers are trained a

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that same period and only 22% of those jobs have been gained back. why is that? it's likely not discriminating if someone is single or married but here is are a few reasons. one economist made the point that married people can take a little more time to find the right job. they have a spouse that has a job so they can rely on that second income and take a little more time to find the right job. also what weaver seeing is that younger workers are getting jobs. people 35 and under have gained far more jobs than people between 35 and 55 and younger workers are more likely to be single. also important here is flexibility. younger people tend to be a little more flexible in terms of moving somewhere else. maybe they don't have to move a family. also they will sometimes take a lower salary just to get a job. that's backed up by this pugh

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cnn is learning of ramped up security measures at nato headquarters in afghanistan. barbara starr at the pentagon. barbara. >> extraordinary measure ordered by general john allen. the u.s. general that commands all troops in afghanistan. this is because of the so-called green on blue incidents where afghans are attacking u.s. coalition forces. allen has ordered all troops to carry their weapons fully loaded

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thnchts has become the worst wildfire season in the last ten years. close to 44,000 fires have blackened more than 6.5 million acres according to the national interagency fire center.

right now 13 states, all in the west, are battling large fires. that includes these flames in california where authorities ordered evacuation. people are also trying to get away from fire in washington state. >> reporter: fred, firefighters still trying to get a handle on this. the worst fire in central washington in decades. they have about a third of it conta contained. some residents have been allowed to go back to their home but here on the northern flank they're not going back any time soon. firefighters are hitting that hill hard. this almost a week into the fire people who have survived it are telling their stories. >> the fires started over on the right hand side. it shadowed that mountain so fast. we went out to get our horses and the fire was just over here.

i told everybody i said don't panic, don't scare the horses. let's take our time. we got all die. all of a sudden the wall of flames come over the ridge. it just came up over the ridge like 100 foot high. i said let's don't panic, but i think we better hurry. >> reporter: nearly a thousand fire fighting personnel along with a slew of military personnel and aircraft geared to help contain this fire which probably won't be until next week. the other issue is the weather today and this weekend. excessive heat warnings today with temperatures expected to reach 100 degrees. over the weekend thunderstorms in the cascade, erratic winds and some lightning that could cause more in the way of wildfires. fred. >> thanks so much. difficult days ahead for the victims of these fires. dan simon talks with several as they return to what's left of their homes.

>> it's the worth i can imagine. >> reporter: elaine lives by lers. a retired care giver to the elderly, she had a small farm to help pay the bills. along with losing her home she also lost most of her animal, dozens of pigs and dogs their barned carcasses could be seen everywhere. >> what's the hardest thing about coming back? >> the animals. they had to have suffered. >> reporter: some of the pigs survived. elaines family is trying to take care of them as well as combing through the rubble to see what could be found. >> i'm alive but that's what it feels like. >> reporter: the fire about 90 miles east of seattle has so far destroyed 60 homes and forced

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fraternizing in the office has cost a top executive his job. an investigation found he had an inappropriate relationship with a 6-year-old female employee. the woman's ex-boyfriend tipped the company off to that relationship. he did say it was consenual joey jackson is on the case. if the relationship involving a boss or a supervisor is

consensual is it as much a dilemma as when it's not. >> it gets dicy. issues could occur when the relationship is nice and everyone is friend and fine it's all good. the problem becomes if there's an argument or a fight now it may center around was it sexual harassment? that presents the problem. the additional problem is other ployees begin to say am i being treated unfairly, unproperly. are they getting special treatment? companies don't like it. it comes down to liability at the end of the day. the companies don't want to pay out. stockholders don't like that. >> we understand it wasn't the young lady who filed the complaint but the boyfriend of the young lady and underscoring it was a consensual thing. most companies will define what

an inappropriate relationship is. is it pretty given or uniform? >> inappropriate means anything other than professional. once it gets out of the realm of professionalism where there's some socializing that leads to intimacy it presents a sticky situation and you have ex-boyfriends filing complaints. avoid the problems. they prevent the policies and they drive the conduct of the people who work there whether you're an employee or a supervisor. >> here is another hot case. a woman said she got third-degree burns after sitting on a hot marble bench at the dallas cowboys stadium. this happened two years ago. now she is suing the team and the owner for mental anguish, physical pain and disfigurement.

joey, she was treated for burns. is this a case? >> so many puns can come from this. hot seat, hot topic, everything else. ultimately what happens is this stadium or any stadium you have a duty to provide conditions that are reasonably safe for the people to go there that are entertained. if you violate that duty of care and there's no notice, if a bench is going to be hot or a seat is going to be hot, put warning there that says hot seat. don't make it so that it attracts this heat such that a person can get these burns. it's unbelievable. if she did ts the burn, there's going to problem for the dallas cowboys. >> will she have to prove that there are other people, alleged victims who suffered the same way that she did? >> you know what, that goes to the issue of evidence. in any type of lawsuit obviously

there are skeptics particularly the one that was defending against it. what a surprise you're the only one making these claims. what you raise goes to the issue of proof of whether she can provide it. even if she's the only one and it was unreasonably dangerous, she sat there an she was burned, she has a legitimate lawsuit particularly since they did not warn it could be ver hot. >> all right. thanks so much. >> am i off the hot seat now? >> i think you are at least for now. animation and all. have a great weekend. >> you too. a michigan court rules harassment case. it involves a university student. a former assistant attorney general and postings on an anti-gay blog. 've been some goo. and some difficult ones. but, through it all, we've persevered, supporting some of the biggest ideas in modern history. so why should our anniversary matter to you? because for 200 years,

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that's exercising my first amendment rights, anderson. that's not following anybody around. i don't live anywhere near to ann arbor. i've been down there three or four times. >> have you been to his house and videotaped? >> i've protested outside of his house, yes. >> do you consider yourself a bigot? >> absolutely not. i'm a christian citizen exercising my first amendment rights. >> anderson cooper also spoke with chris armstrong who said he never thought he'd become a victim of bullying as a college senior. >> yeah. i think it was surprising. i honestly can't speak for a lot of things that were said because they weren't my words. again, i understand that the things said about me are not my issue. >> you think this is more about the person doing it? >> yeah. it's an issue of bully at large.

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resulted this brown pleadsing guilty to assaulting her. >> it was a weird confusing space to be in. as angry as i was, as angry and hurt and betrayed i just felt like he made that mistake because he needed help. who's going to help him. nobody's going to say he needs help. everybody's going to say he's a monster without looking at the source. i was more concerned about him. >> the interview airs sunday night on own. curiosity watchers, you're in luck. nasa just conducted an update of what its rover is up to. chad meyer has been keeping an eye on mars and curiosity. >> it's doing well up there. it hasn't moved yet. it's happy. it's running. >> it's very slow. it's part of the plan. >> a snail goes faster than that.

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beganism by women. phil, the sentencing is getting worldwide reaction. what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, some significant international condemnation on this two-year sentence for these women who performed that protest in a major moscow cathedral earlier in the year. the united states says the sentence is disproportionate to the actions of the women. the european union says the same because further to say it is deeply troubling that they would get a two-year sentence for a peaceful although controversial expression of their views. and the eu demands that this sentence be reviewed and reversed. these are firm words. unlikely to make a difference. >> it's the case the sentence would be two years but they would actually serve ess? >> reporter: we know that the time they have already spent in custody will count towards the sentence. that's going onto six months now. it could potentially be reduced on appeal. there's not necessarily any

reason to feel particularly optimistic about that. so it looks like these women are going to spend at least a further 18 months or so in jail. all three are young women twochlt of them are the mothers of young children. and the supporters say that's pretty unusual because the russian legal system is usually weighted in favor of leniency when it comes to mother who is have children at hom >> so you do have to wonder, you know, phil, whether some artists like madonna to bjork whether that came out and impacted the sentencing. >> reporter: i'm not sure if it impacted the sentencing but i know it helped the morale of the women and their families and legal teams and so forth. a big part of what has kept them going through this is the success they have had in actually spreading the message. five, six months ago no one had heard of them or knew these women. now they have grown to become very much a global icon, if you like. global symbols both in names.

those colorful clothes they wear during their performances are now known around the world. not only are they known, it means their message is known as well. for that reason they feel no regret about the action they took that day despite what is a pretty tough punishment. >> all right. phil black in moscow, thanks so much. other international stories that we're following, this one in south africa. hundreds of police are patrolling the spot where they opened fire on platinum miners armed with knives and rocks killing 34 of them. south africa's police commissioner say officers shot in self-defense as the miners charged at them. but today wives and daughters of protesting miners marched and chanted slogans as they demanded answers from the police. south africa's president cut his trip short to a regional summit in neighboring mozambique to rush to the scene at the bloodshed of the mine. that's where we find cnn.

>> reporter: i'm at the scene of a crime that shocked south africa and the world behind me. more than 30 people killed when police clashed with striking mine workers on thursday as you can see behind me, forensic experts still combing the scene looking for evidence that still left behind here. so many unanswered questions to who fired first. the police say they were attacked by the striking miners who had been refusing to go to work since last week friday. and this violent wage dispute really spiralled out of control before thursday ten people had been killed. some in the most gruesome manner, hacked to death, some set alight. earlier i spoke to a reporter who witnessed thursday's drama unfold. and this is what he had to say about what he saw. >> we saw a whole group of them,

police officers, carrying massive guns, r-5s we understand. and they just moved in immediately. now -- >> reporter: were they provoke snd. >> that's the question i think i've tried to answer time and again since last night. we cannot say to you that the police were provoked. yesterday the police were clear that today we're going to disarm them and remove them from the hill because the gathering is legal. >> reporter: this miner tells me that it is the police who provoked the miners and not the other way around. were you here? did you witness it? did the miners shoot the police first? >> translator: there's no worker that attacked the police. in south africa we are supposed to be free, but people who are fighting for their rights are being killed. whether what they did was legal or illegal, they should not have died. all they want is a wage

increase. all right. los angeles police are looking for a man who stole a high-end sports car right off the sales lot. police released this surveillance video from july showing the suspect sitting in the driver's seat of a 2008 maserati. he asked the salesperson what the engine sounded like. while the salesperson held the door open, the engine turned on, the suspect put the car in drive and took off. police released this image of the suspect and are asking the public for any help in locating him or the car. so how about this for a fast commute? new jersey to new york in just 30 seconds? wow. or vice versa. that's the red bull formula one car hitting 190 miles per hour through the lincoln tunnel. the race car made the mile and a half long trip between the two

cities in just under 30 seconds. this all done by red bull racing to promote the grand prix of america race scheduled for next year in new york city. and perhaps you remember this. ♪ >> all right. if you've been wondering what the president thought of this mash up of him singing the run aiway smash single "call me maybe," you've got the answer. the president called in to an albuquerque radio station, kob. and when asked if "call me maybe" was his favorite song, he replied this way. >> i know your real favorite song has got to be "call me maybe." you can tell us. it's okay. >> you know, i've never actually

heard the original version of this song. i saw this version when they spliced up me of a whole bunch of different speeches that i made. and they kind of mashed together an obama version of it. but, you know, it looks like a cute pop song. >> well-done. his version now has more than 23 million views on youtube. all right. when republicans gather in tampa for their convention later on this month, among the hordes of people covering the event will be three cnn ireporters. each bea out more than 200 entries. let's meet them. begin with elizabeth loughton of virginia. she volunteered for every presidential campaign since 2000. >> 495, the beltway that separates those in d.c. from the people they represent. i came to d.c. with a single mission. to stand up for those who live outside of this highway. back then we were told hope and change was the answer to it all.

nearly four years later obama has squeezed the hope out of all of us. >> now tmatt sky in new york who says he findsed gop race fascinating. >> you had michele bachmann, her man cain, tim pawlenty dropping out before he had a chance. rise and fall. it wasn't that enthusiastic, but it was there all along. and as we shuffled through all the candidates ultimately ending up with newt gingrich, finally down to rick santorum, romney was the guy. so it will be interesting to see if the party is able to unite behind him. >> and then there's alexanderson of minnesota. >> this will be my first vote in a presidential election. and i'm realizing that the future of my nation will depend on my generation. as a college student in freelance video journalist, i've seen firsthand the importance of communication amongst my generation. internet, twitter, facebook and youtube have all effectively connected a generation unlike any time