to newsroom international, i'm suzanne malveaux and we are taking you around the world in 60 minutes. and in 30 years not one execution, but that could change now with gambia with the president vowing to kill all of the country's death row inmates by mid september. and people in a mexican kults are destroying schools they say were built by the devil. >> but first, haiti in the path of the tropical storm isaac expected to make a direct hit on the dominican republic and haiti by tomorrow night. we are talking about strong winds and torrential winds creating extremely dangerous condition. i want to bring in chad meyers who is tracking isaac from the cnn weather center and what do we know about where it is going to hit and how powerfulf? >> the first place it will hit is santo domingo and not foreye, but the high winds and the rain and the flooding, and then it moves over the mountain range

and goes to port-au-prince. what is new with port-au-prince? nothing but what is old. there are people living in tents because of the hurricane that happened years ago. this is what tropical storm isaac looks like. it is not that impressive and still a tropical storm, but over the last few hour, it is more colorful and more colorful means higher cloud tops which means that the storms are bigger, higher, stronger, and getting more organized. that is what we are in for, with this storm for the next couple of days. we go right to the track. it is 200 miles due south of san juan puerto rico and making some squalls there in puerto rico, but not the big story. the big story is as it moves across santo domingo and though it is not the eye of the storm or the center of the storm, there is going to be a lot of rhine and could cause flooding. that is a category 1 hurricane almost directly over the city of port-au-prince and literally blowing the tents apart and blow ing the people's lives apart

because of the wind, 60, 70, 80 miles per hour and driving rain goi ing across. let me show you this, because if you have not been on google earth, this is the devastation between d.r. and haiti, which is right there. we will zoom into the town there and big city and lots of concrete which is part of the problem when it was built. stones an concrete and when the earth shakes like it did, it falls down. every single dot that you see the there, blue and white, those are tents that you might put up to keep you off at a picnic, and those are tents. this is a palace. and because there are so many here of these, it is hard to get a handle on these, and every place there is a public place, there are tents put up for people to live in all of the way through here and all of the way along the highway. another thing that haiti has unfortunately going for it is that they have cut down most of the trees. now, many areas trying to get the trees back planted, but the deforestation with 15 inches of

rain may also cause flash flooding and some of the wear the going right down to haiti and think about the problems with rain and dysentery and people altogether like that and the rain and the wind over the population density living in canvas. >> and chad, when you talk about the population density and you see the picture of the tents that you were showing us, that is a 421,000 people who are still home leless. >> is that the official number? >> yes, 421,000 in haiti and it is going to be unbelievable the kind of situation they are dealing with there. chad, real quick here. and this is going to impact a lot of countries potentially and go down the list, if you will, of those who are going to be hit. >> well, the next place after it leaves haiti, it will go back to the south coast and go the cuba and along the spine of cuba and that is going to be a town that could see some flooding as well. back into the gulf of mexico, and west of tampa, and florida,

itself, and the western peninsula, could be left or right and it could be a direction and these things changed overnight and so far it is turning to the left and takes it into the gulf of mexico of the united states and that make a little breathe of a sigh of relief for some of the people on the east coast of florida, but then the entire gulf coast back in the cone as of now. >> all right. thank you, chad. i want to go to haiti, because alex has been in haiti working since the devastating earthquake that chad mentioned. alex, you are on the ground there, and give us a sense of how people are preparing for this and how concerned they are knowing that this is coming. >> yes. i have a little bit of a bad reception, suzanne, and good morning. what i can tell you now is that the focus is on the people living in the camp. the red cross is looking at actually after one fourth or 25% of the camps and it is roughly 100,000 people for which we have been preparing ourselves actually for years. so immediately after the storm,

if the needs are confirmed, we are ready to assist those people with shelter and non-food item and medical care. >> alex, how are you doing this? because you have people living in the flimsy tents, and are they physically moving the people from the tents into secure structures? >> well, the majority of the red cross has been working in a kcap and we have been taking measures for a long time, and we have a dig ditches, and we have prepared the people with early warning system, and we have trained people inside of the communities an inside of the camp in first aid. we have prepared evacuation route for the people to go to the designated places designed by the asian authorities. >> alex, we know that people are concerned and this could be a very, very big problem for the people suffering in haiti. we want to keep in contact with you as the storm comes closer.

thank you, alex. i want to go from the stormy waters of the atlantic to the other side of the world with another threat called typhoon that is expected to dump lots and lots of rain, and people are preparing and places sandbags around the houses and the businesses, but the flooding is not really the only risk. we are talking about mud slides also which is a very big threat. and moving on to gambia. the president of gam bee ya says that all of the kun are the's death row prisoner s wis will b executed by september. the tiny african country is surrounded by senegal, and now people around the world are outraged by the announcement. michael holmes from cnn international is joining us. micha michael, explain to us why the president of gambia has said that i will go forward to move forward in gambia and execute

all of the people on death row. >> by the middle of next month as well. >> what is going on? >> well, it seems crazy, but he said a speech a few days ago and he said no way that my government will allow 99% of the population to be held ransom by the criminals, so what he is saying uptick in crime and violent crime in gambia and he is aing -- and he is saying that this is his way of dealing with it. everybody on death row, we will hang them by next month and this is a couple of weeks. he came to power in a kcoupe, ad he ruled with a iron fist and no dissent tolerated in gambia, and he said that he can cure aids with a her ball body rub and bananas, and this is the type of guy we are dealing with here. >> and what is the reaction and the response? people say, okay, they are on death row, and we don't need them and don't care or is this some sort of solution that is

taking place in their country? >> no, the people there are stunned and the people outside are stunned as well. enormous condemnation from the human rights group, and the french government has spoken out and i'm waiting for the british response, because it is a former british colony and hear what they have the say, but senegal, as you say, encompasses gambia and the human rights group has condemned him for how he has repressed people. they say no public freedom in gambia and this is another example of it. >> when you think of people on death row in the country, you think of murderers and rapists, and serious crimes and are those the crimes of criminals on death row in gambia? >> yes, but a small amount of drugs can get you the death penalty and terror offenses and treason, and treason is a death penalty as well, but he is using it a as political tool to hit at the opposition, and intimidate, and he even suggested that homosexuality should be on the

punishable by death offenses. >> you say that the human rights groups are trying to jump in here, but anything to do because it is a sovereign country and this is what is going to do. can they change it? >> well, it is a sovereign country a and if he wants to do it, he can do it, but the thing to be done if the governments want to put economic pressure and this is a country that is not rich. he is looking for oil, but he has not found any. a huge peanut crop, but the country needs money and aid and it gets a lot of the aid and military aid from the united states and social programs as well. that is the route if the world is going to do something, they need to put a little bit of economic pressure, and he has done it before, and we will touch on it. it was a couple of years ago where he said the same thing and it didn't happen. so everybody is hoping with their fingers crossed that he is bluffing again. and a raid to kill osama bin laden was secret, but now a former navy s.e.a.l. reveals

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is reporting. the opposition is saying now that more than 100 people were killed across the country today. mostly in damascus. a report on state-run television says that an attack in aleppo killed a number of rebels. the syrian government calls them terrorists, and international leaders are talking about what odo about all of this and not if, but when bashar al assad gives up power in syria. they will meet in italy to talk about humanitarian projects and rebuild rebuilding this country with the hope that president assad leaves. for the violence in lebanon for the fourth straight day. lebanon has the same intents and ethnic and religious intents that is happening next door in syria. sunni muslims are fighting the allawite troops in lebanon, and

the bloodshed in syria is aggravating things in that country. seven people died in street fighting this week in trip low. well, a book about to hit the shelves is thor story of the death of osama bin laden written by someone who says he was there. this is a personal account, and this is a former member of the s.e.a.l. team 6, and the elite group dropped in on bin laden's compound last may, and you remember in a span of 26 minutes they killed bin laden and the courier and his brother and then one of bin laden's son and then on the third floor, shot and killed osama bin laden himself, and taken to a navy ship, and buried as bin laden was identified. and the publisher says that he is not using his own name in the book, and using a pseudonym. i want to talk to fran townsend

about this, our security contributor, and we know a lot about this raid, and we have read about it and seen it in numonum o numnu numerous details. what would you expect? >> well, as you know, we have a security clearance and the members of the navy s.e.a.l. team has taken an oath to protect information that comes to their possession by virtue of their access. this is not information, because he was there, this is not information and knowledge that is his. in essence the government used it rightly as their property. their information. and they can control public access to that for many national security reasons and interests. and so he has no right to make public the details of that raid and the operational information necessary to do that without getting approval, and anyone who wants the write a book has to

put it through a security clearance process so that the government gets to review their own information and decide what is appropriate for public dissemination. >> and he did not do that, and now, of course, the government is very concerned and worried about this. is there anything, fran, that the government can do? can they track down the former navy s.e.a.l. and find him and prevent the book from being published? >> well, i imagine, suzanne, that they are looking at the options right now. of course, they could go to the court to seek an injunction to prevent the publication, which in some ways that increases the public interest and likely book sales, and so they have the make judgments about what they are willing to do. the s.e.a.l. runs the risk of having not gone through that proce process, if he, even if it is inadvertent and he reveals classified information that is defense-related, he could face a criminal prosecution, and not simply sort of having his security clearances revoked and all sorts of penalties he could

face, and the worst of which could be criminal. >> and fran, help me to understand this, what are the kind of specifics that would be revealed in a book like this that would put either special ops people or their missions in trouble. >> well, the easiest one for people to appreciate is that he could reveal the identities of his fellow team members. we are hear ing thing that he d do that and he goes to length not to do that, and often the guys take cell phone pictures and things when they are out on an operation, and he could reveal the training and the planning that went into it, which would be incredibly operationally sensitive for future, and put at risk future operations and future a operators going in harm's way and how they learned about the information and what they knew about the intelligence and what the s.e.a.l.'s relationship was with the intelligence community and how did they hide themselves from the pakistan military in order to get in, and what was the technology and the trade craft that allowed them to do that, and all of these things were part and parcel of the

mission which are classified, sensitive national security information that the government will go to great lengths to try to protect. >> and you know, fran, this is one of those things where the country, a lot of people celebrated when they saw, okay, this terrorist responsible for 9/11 was taken out by the special ops, by the military and a sense of pride and people want to express in some ways that they felt good about this. and well, there is this one guy who has opened up a paintball park in minnesota which is weird, and it looks like the bin laden compound and you can go ahead for the price of admission strap on a jacket and infiltrate the compound and kill a man that is dressed like bin laden and as a public, should we do this sort of thing and where the public can learn to appreciate what is going on here without divulging classified information and when you see something like that, what do you make of it? >> well, look, we ought to be

clear about what that is. that is a form of entertainment, and god bless the spirit of capital i capitalism in this country, and somebody saw an opportunity to make money and provide entertainment. it is no difference of there are video games where you can pretend to be a soldier and p pretend to be an afghan. call of duty. so there are all sorts of entertainment things that sort of model themselves off of the war on terror and the hunt for bin laden and the conditions in afghanistan and iraq, but that is all it is. it is entertainment, right. so we don't discourage that, and people have the freedom of speech, and the commercial freedoms here in this country, but it is nothing more than that. the notion that a s.e.a.l. who has operational untsing and could make that public and put others in the future in harm's way is wrong and that is the difference. >> all right. fran townsend, good to see you as all. thank you, fran. quick question for you, if you had to put a price tag on

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the eiffel tower is impressive according to some brand new research, it is also the most valuable monument in all of europe, but the price tag might shock you a little bit. we go the richard quest to talk about this. richard, love it, love the eiffel tower, but can you act l actually put a price tag on this? >> have passport, will travel. can we put a price tag on the eiffel tower? well, we didn't put the price tag on. it was the commercial institute for manza and branza in italy who was putting a aesthetic value and they came up with $445 billion as being the brand value of the eiffel tower to france and the french economy. now, that is a lot of money, i will tell you, but some 7.5 million people a year go up and down which we worked out and how many was it?

19,000 a day have to go in and out of the eiffel tower. now, coming behind the eiffel tower, from love, from rome, we have the coliseum. and now the coliseum in rome was $114 billion in value to the italian economy, and coming up at the rear was the tower of london with $89 billion in value. if you want to know where the white house stands in all of this -- >> yes, i do. >> -- well, it was this was a survey about monuments in europe. and in case you had not noticed the white house is not in europe, but they did add and some people are not really as familiar with the travel world and they did put the white house in the list, and you are certainly familiar with the white house, and it is just $69 billion. so i'm afraid that the white house is below the tower, below the coliseum, and way down from

the eiffel. >> and these are bragging rights and you are trash talking now? >> the eiffel tower is the most valuable brand monument in the world at half a trillion. >> and you know, the washington monument because of an earthquake is still closed and they were not able to reopen it, and it is one of the treasures here, but yes, 1600 pennsylvania avenue and lovely place to tour and work, but, yeah, i guess not as valuable as the eiffel tower, huh? they are not serving snacks up at the top. >> and -- snacks at the top! you heathen. the jewels vern restaurant at the top of the eiffel tower does not serve snacks at the top as you put it. i suggest you stick to pretzels in the baseball park. >> all right. richard, we will have to leave it to you, and i will get back to you with the trash talking. we have to go to mitt romney who is at an event talking about the energy policy change.

>> number two, we have to make sure that our schools are world class. this nation invented education, and we have to fix the schools and make them the best in the world. number three, we have to have more trade. we need to open up trade with latin america and other parts of the world and crackdown on cheaters like china when they crack down on and steal jobs with unfair trading practices. and four, we won't get individuals to risk and start hiring people starting enterprises if they believe that america is going to become greece so we have to be serious about cutting the federal spending and encouraging growth and finally balance the budget in the country. and number five, we have to c m champion small business. we have to help small business keep their taxes competitive, and get regulators to see the job as to encourage business and not crush it, and take off that big crowd that is scaring away hiring from small business that

i'm talking about obama care and we need to repeal it and replace it with something that helps to bring down the cost of health care. now, i want to go a little deeper for a moment as i talk about the number one objective which is energy. if if i'm the president of the united states, in a few months here, i will set a national -- i will set a national goal of america and north america, north american energy independence by 2020. north american energy independence by 2020 and that means that we produce all of the energy that we need in north america and there are a number of things that i want to do to make it happen. it is achievable and this is not some pie in the sky thing. this is a achievable objective and i have a chart despite the wind, it is holding up here. and these guys have held up with every piece of weight this you k

can think of, but on the left-hand side, you will see a bar there that represents that you can't read the write, because it is too far back and i can read it from here, and that bar shows you how much the total demand in the united states is right now, and right now we are making 15 million barrels a day and producing in america, 15 million barrels a day and the rest we import. so we are producing one-third and importanting one-third. and then we see that there are various sources and down there is a bar represent iing conventional sources, and then a gray slice there which suggests that the kconventional sources meaning that the well wes have, and the fieldings that we have, and the technologies that we have are going to see a little reduction in production over the next ten years. and so we are going to have to make up for the resdhung and add to it. how do we do that? well, offshore drilling and add 2 million barrels a day in offshore drilling and tight oil

which comes from places where you have to use the fracking technology to do it whether it is in north dakota or right here in new mexico, tight oil is a another source. and that is another 2 billion barrels a day. and anwar in alaska will add more. and natural gas liquids aped you know that natural gas is ooh booming as a source of energy. as you produce the natural gas, you will get liquids and those liquids can be refined and used to create gasoline for automotive purposes as well, and that is another 2 million barrels a day, and then we come to the biofuels whether ethanol or biodiesel will produce 1 million barrels a day of additional capacity and then we come to canada. canada has oil sands, and we are going to take advantage of that and build the keystone pipeline and make sure we take advantage of canada's great energy sources, and the last bar there

is mexico. mexico, i'm not counting on any increase there. they have actually been declining slightly, but by virtue of a new president there, and conviction on the part of both parties in the most recent elections there to encourage relationships with us, we will find ourselves to work with mexico and share our technology and know-how to held hp them to be -- help them to be more prod productive and add to the net production of neshg, and you can see the net is 2020, we can produce 20 to 28 million barrels a day, and we won't have to buy any oil from the middle east or venezuela or anywhere else that we don't want to. now you might wonder how in the world am i going the do those things because the opportunities have existed for a long time, and we just haven't taken advantage of them. and so there are some things that i want to do differently that makes it possible for us to

achieve the improvements in production from the sources i have described. number one, on federal lands. on federal lands the permitting process to actually drill and get oil or gas is extraordinarily slow. and interestingly on the state lands and private lands, state regulators have streamlined their permitting process and the evaluation of environmental process, and safety processes, and they have found a way, because they compete, states do, with one another and they found a way to do a job in a more efficient way. for instance in north dakota, it takes ten days to get a permit for a new well. in colorado, it takes 27 days, and that is to get on state land, a permit or private land, but do you know how long it take takes the federal regulators to get a permit on your land? an average 307 days. so here is what i am going to do. aim i am going to have the states take responsibility of permitting on federal lands.

now, of course sh, the process going to have to be reviewed and approved by the federal government and overseen and monitored, but we will have state regulators and not just regulate the oil production and gas production on the state and the private landsb, but also federal lands, and that will improve the creation of new oil wall wells and gas wells and get the production to the people who need it. i also want to note another way to get more production and that is with regards to the offshore sources. right now the federal government has been holding offshore development, and what we are going to have to do is to speed that up and make it possible. so i want to put together a five-year leasing plan to lease the offshore sources, and make as part of it the carolinas and virginia and the gulf and have targets and the companies that do the drilling responsible for hitting the targets and if not, we will have corrective measures, but we are finally going to also make sure that we implement state-of-the-art safety procedures for the

offshore drilling and assure that as we put in place the regulations and the procedures, they are designed for safety and not designed to stop drilling for energy resources. using the law to stop production of energy is not in the best interest of the united states of america and our people. number three, i want to establish an energy partnership with canada and mexico. we need to work together with th them, and work collaborately and have a fast-tracked process to make sure that the infrastructure projects are approve and in particular get the keystone pipeline built as one of the infrastructure projects to take advantage of the resources. and number four, it is about time that we get an accurate inventory of the energy we have. the president talks about the fact that we have 2% of the world's oil reserves which is a dramatic understatement of the oil reserves, because it is seven times that amount or more, so i want to authorize a new

seismic study of the onshore and offshore resources to find out what we have and where we have it, and require those who have these surveys and seismic surveys in private hands to collect them and look at them and share ththem with one anoth and have an understanding of the energy resources. and that is what mitt romney would be running through. and we will run that through a powerful fact check with alison kosik. and also, some of the leading powerful women in the nation and the world. where to go for extra help, how to live better with the disease. so many questions, where do you start? alzheimers.gov. the answers start here.

mitt romney calling for more drilling and fewer regulations when it comes to his u.s. energy policy. and now romney just outlined the plan moments ago at a speech in hobbs, new mexico, and he says that it will make the country independent by 2020, and i want to bring in allisison kosik fro

the new york stock exchange and he is talking about deregulation and states in particular virginia and north carolina, battleground states to open up to more drilling, and is that realistic energy independence by 2020? >> well, it is. and what is funny is that with the analyst who said that everything that romney is talking about, we are already on the way to energy independence. you look at what has happened in the united states for the past six years or so, and the amount of oil we produce here at home has gone up while we have imported less oil. today, more than half of the oil that we use is actually produced here in the u.s., and the oil that we do import, it may not come from where you think it does. more than half of the oil that we import comes from the western hemisphere, and talking about from canada, and mexico and venezuela and the caribbean and 22% of the oil that we import, suzanne, comes from the middle east. i talked with one energy

director at the nonpartisan center for strategic and international studies in washington, d.c. and he told us that he thinks that the romney plan is too simplistic and too o one-dimensional and he says that what needs to be happening here is to gain this energy independence is that we need a combination of increased p production, of new efficiency standards and alternative energy, and he agrees that the u.s. is well on the way to being independent of mideast oil, and he says that, you know, some of the things that romney is talking about there would be too much red tape to get through. one example is that romney was talking about more drilling or more production from mexico, but the interesting thing is that in order to do that, it would require mexico to actually change its constitution just to allow that to happen, suzanne. >> well, it is interesting, because the president used to talk about the addiction of foreign oil, and now the obama administration is emphasizing renewable energy and wind and

solar and explane how they differ, the obama administration plan and the romney plan? >> well, one thing, romney is putting a certain date on it, and he is saying by 2020 in the next eight years he sees us energy independent, and obama administration is not putting a date on when it would happen, u but the president is talking about the all of the above approach and expanding production and the use of alternative energy including wind and solar and biofuels and clean coal, and the president's plan also focuses on the consumption side of the equation. by doing this, and by putting aggressive fuel e kconomy standards in place, you look at what the automakers have agreed to, and the higher fuel efficiency standards to reach 54 miles to the gallon by 2025 and one point of major difference between obama and romney is the keystone pipeline which brings oil from canada to u.s., and president obama veto ed the constriction plan and romney clearly supports that new

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>> reporter: another day, another confrontation. at this small community of new jerusalem in southwestern mexico, the tensions have been red hot for weeks. most of the residents of new e jerusalem belong to a religious sect figg public education. >> translator: that school. it is not that we are against education, but what happens is that the people are using the school to introduce to the community things that are bad like fashion, immorality, vice and alcoholism. >> reporter: back in july the members of the cult went as far to destroy the only government school building located in the town. they say that the virgin of the rosary whom they worship told them that the school buildings were built by the devil and were to be demolished. other residents of the new jerusalem are asking the government to intervene, because they want the children to go to school without fear of being attacked. >> translator: we hope that the government will do something about it, although we haven't seen anything yet.

we may have no other choice but to defend ourselves. >> reporter: the school year was supposed to begin monday, but since the school building was destroyed, some teachers tryied to start classes in private houses, but officials said that those trying to attend were pelted by stones from the group. >> translator: we want to keep teaching, but we need security for ourselves and the community and the children. >> reporter: and meanwhile, where the community is located, they are considering dispatching police to intervene in the dispute. >> translator: i ask those people, the spiritual leaders of the community to take action to solve the problem, but otherwise, with all due respect, we will have to act against them. rafael romo joins us, and you always bring the most interesting stories and the interesting and the strange stories. first of all, this cult is disturbing and anything that the community can do, and the school is closed and everything at a stand til? >> well, they can. they have met with the

government where this town is located yesterday. the government is meeting today with the cult at the town in an effort to try to find a solution, but the bottom line, the government says, children will start classes next monday. they were supposed to start them last monday, and they say if there is no agreement, they are ready to send the state police to make sure that those kids are safe on their way to school, and they are going to hold classes in private houses or any way they can, and even mobile classrooms they are willing to bring to the community so that the children caught in the middle can begin the school year. >> how powerful is this cult and how were they able to do this? >> it is very powerful actually and 3,000 people live in the town, and more than half of the 3,000 people belong to the cult. they have a history of 40 years in that town. they were founded by a former catholic priest in 1973. so they control public life.

they control the institutions, and they controlsecurity. nobody can go into the town which is basically a fortress without permission from the authorities there. so they control the way that people live, what they eat, what they listen to, and the government is now saying, that's to wh comes to not allowing the , at t cu pful e far and this town is marginalized is that the power is koconcentrate in the town and perfect conditions for a cult to flourish. isolated, impoverished communities in this remote area of mexico, and really no likelihood that the influence will extend beyond the borders of that small fortress. >> give us an update when you have one, because i want to follow-up on this story. >> okay. and you know angel a merkel and oprah are powerhouse women, but who is the most powerful women? we will tell you. investing in the revitalization of a neighborhood in the bronx,

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