a handful of fighters carry badly wound eed comrade on a stree stretching. bashar doesn't fear god this woman shouted. all the men were slaughtered. now refugees scramble to board trucks to escape. some will likely find refuge with relatives in nearby villages. others may try to leave syria altogether. children looked out for one of the trucks clearly affected by all they witnessed. the cameraman repeated again and again the world should see what is happening in syria. the children have seen the ferocity of the fighting between the free syrian army and government troops intent on a crackdown. they can't see clearly is what kind of a future they're going to have in their own country. it isn't only the refugees from that single town, it's an

estimated two and a half million syrians driven out of their home. they remain desperately in need of aid. there are no safe havens. clearly the military is making a frontal assault on the opposition. we can only expect the situation to grow more desperate in the hours and days ahead. don. >> jim clancy, thank you very much. top of the hour. i'm don lemon in for brooke. just a short time ago mitt romney appearing to make a birther joke while stomping in michigan. listen. >> i love being home in this place where ann and i were raised. where both of us were born. ann was born in henry ford hospital. i was born at harper hospital. no one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. they know this is the place we were born and raised.

>> was this a joke? we'll play all of it for you. i'll tell you what both sides are saying in moments. first, a stunning shoot out in front of a new york city landmark. police say the gunman who opened fire today outside the empire state building does not appear to have a criminal record. mayor michael bloomberg says authorities are still double checking jeffrey johnson's history. crowds of tourists were waiting to get into the worldous us ter 9:00 a.m.nmanned new york city police reacted swiftly and killed the suspect. a man dressed in a miss suit carrying a briefcase. police say tear-old johnson had already shot and killed a former co-work eighers we wounded that gunfire. a new yorker saw the chaos when it erupted while walking to get a cup of coffee. >> i was scared and shocked and literally shaking. someone said there's been shots

fired. someone had, man had been chasing another man down the street and shot him dead on the corner. when walke across the street i saw a woman had been shot in the foot. she was in the shock sitting there. there were cop cars and ambulances literally in 30 seconds. i normally walk across the street like nothing and i see there's blood on the corner. a woman's foot was covered in blood. i looked across and there was an ambulance and people were taken another woman in there into the ambulance. >> new york city mayor says the gunman intentionally went after police. >> the perpetrator pulled his gun out and tried to shoot at the cops. whether he any bullets or n to be determined. how many he shot earlier to be determined. we know the cops fed ba. e tapeows the the gun out an trng tol the ce ofrs go l to maggie lake s be tracking the sry very benning.

talk to us a jeffrey johnson. laid ofom's o.what e y? >> reporter: that'righ he was a dner the. we're starting to get a bit more of the picture from neighbors th knehim. he seed like a quite nice guy. he's not the type of person you would necessarily notice walking past you or feel afraid of. he was dressed in a business suit carrying a briefcase which we know from police was full of more ammunition. neighbors say that he loved animals. he was not very talkative. they didn't know a lot about him. he kept to himself. when they would see him, he always stopped and had a nice word to say. what we know in addition to being laid off, johnson allegedly had a history of a

problem with this co-worker. they exchanged allegations of harassment of some sort. we don't know the exact details. there was a history of the problem with a this particular co-worker that he decided to target this morning in the middle of a very ordinary rush hour time that people were headed to work. >> we heard from the mayor and police commissioner that some people were caught in the cross fire. how are things now? >> reporter: we are starting to get back to normal. if you look over my shoulder here, the people back in this area, this is one of the most crowded areas of midtown manhattan. the people were here throughout. they had blocked off the whole city block. we are finally starting to see traffic head through fifth avenue. those that were wounded had no idea what happened. we've seen coming into cnn witnesses that took video with their phone. you can see that people were just absolutely shocked. we heard from witnesses, some of them didn't know what happened at first. thankfully all of those that

were wounded in local hospitals, none of them have life threaten injuries. >> thank you for your reporting. if there if there's one person been on warpath urging stricter gun control laws, it's new york mayor michael bloomberg. he was on the radio talking about gun control before the shooting happened. it's no surprise he slipped in a few words about the subject during his news conference. >> new york city is the safest big city in the country. we're on pace of a record low number of murders this year. we are not immune to the national problem of gun violence. >> today's shooting someone of at least three mass shootings we've seen this summer. after the movie theater massacre in colorado, mayor michael bloomberg gave his view on gun control to piers morgan. >> everybody preserves the right to use guns for hunting or sport

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seeing now. >> reporter: last hour when i talked to you we had torrential rain coming down. now the skies have lightened and the rain has stopped. as you know that's the typical pattern. you get the bands that come in. you get torrential rain and it stops for a while until isaac arooi arriv arrives. this is a country that is so prone already to disaster unfortunately. you have the devastating earthquake in 2010. you have hundreds of thousands of people in the capital of port-au-prince that are vulnerable to a tropical storm and the rain. that's the biggest concern. we drove across the mountains mountainpele they not exely at's pof t pblem. they are expecting a foot ormor. maybe up to 20 inches in downpours. that rain comes rocketing down

the mounsided slams into the towns. that's the real concern here, flooding. they've had flootding in the past aptds lost lives in the past. worried it can happen again. we know the worst is still to come. >> are you able to get reports o on the radio as to what may be happening in other parts of haiti? >> reporter: well, we've driven across from port-au-prince to where we are. it's only about 31 miles. we pass through a number of towns. in every one of them you get the sense that people are not really that concerned. there have been announcements on the radio. the government has been warning people to take precautions and stock up on food. there were allow speakers being hauled through the streets where they were telling people. still, many folks did not seem concerned and did not seem to be taking it seriously.

that's a real worry for the emergency personnel here. >> thank you. we appreciate it. chad meyers is here. has the potential to be a two or a three, right? people are saying, hey, if it comes it comes or some of them are not aware of it. >> not a two or three for haiti. this could be a 60 miles per hour storm for haiti, maybe 70. marty is right here under the e right along the south coast of haiti. this large area is moving his way. he had rain. it's now stopped but another very large and dangerous cell is heading his way. then this entire cell is heading right into port-au-prince. it will rain between now and 10:00. it could rain five inches. right on top of those people with the tents. let me get rid of this. i'll put it into motion so you can see how this big streamer is going to slam right into the dominican republic.

into the d.r. there could be flooding along the d.r. coast. that's going to slide into the ocean and all of that rain is going to come in quickly. it's not a hurricane yet but could be as soon as it leaves cuba. >> 60 to 70 miles per hour -- >> in a tent. rain going sideways. tent stakes flying in the air. it's something i can't imagine these people are going to go through. it's going to be over around 3:00 a.m. between now and then it just gets worse. >> stay tuned. we'll have the latest. thank you. to the campaign trail. mitt romney makes a birther joke while he's out on the stomp. just like that, the political conversation shifts from business to birth certificates. what the obama campaign is saying, next. tap... pinch... and zoom...

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mitt romney attempted to make a joke during a campaign stop in his hometown this afternoon, a birther joke. here is him telling it. >> i love being home in this place where ann and i were raised where both of us were born. ann was born in henry ford hospital. i was born at harper hospital. no one's ever asked to see my birth ser fif ccertificate. they know this is the place we were born and raised. the obama camp says throughout this campaign governor romney has embraced the most strident

voices in his party instead of standing up to them. his decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across america. the latest round comes three days before the start of the gop convention in tampa. it's there that mitt romney picks up the torch for the republican party. sunday, cnn will air a 90-minute documentary on the life and politics of mitt romney. it was put together by gloria borjer. here is a sneak preview. >> reporter: two years into romney's term as governor of massachusetts he sets his sights on something bigger. something that would mean a legacy, health care. >> he'd not had a major achievement that he could point to as some big political success in a future campaign. he needed something to say i had

done this and it was a big deal. >> reporter: rom know decided to push for health care to cover everyone in the state and that mean mandating for everyone to buy health insurance. >> he felt it would be wrong for the economy and wrong for our business sector to pose a mandate on employers, to require them to provide insurance for their employees. he felt it important that people take responsibility for their own health care. >> reporter: it was his big moment but now a liability republicans oppose any mandate. >> it's ironic that the bigst thing he achieved is something he almost never talks about. >> reporter: no less complicated the politics of abortion. while romney was opposed to abortion he ran for governor supporting abortion rights.

once in office and presented with stem cell legislation that would, in romney's view, have the potential of destroying embryos,' changed his mind. >> i realized what sounded good in a campaign, when i became the governor and be the person who would sign a piece of legislate which could take human life, i couldn't do that. >> reporter: democrats say it was about ambition. >> he wanted to run for president of the united states. he understood that somebody who was pro-choice or pro-gay rights or anything in terms of progressive stance would lose. >> i didn't see it as a fl flip-fl flip-flop. i think you saw the tension between personal beliefs and a public persona. >> gloria joins me now. that looks great. >> thank you. >> the issue of flip-flopping it's a major contention for

romney even until this day. >> it does. it also dogs him from the right. we saw that during the primaries because if you are a social conservative and against abortion then you look at mitt romney and you go, you know what, i don't really know what you believe because what you were saying in massachusetts was quite different from what i see on the campaign trail. you saw him explain it there. why he changed his mind. some people will never believe it was out of conviction. some people will say because it's politically opportune. >> when i interview people when ever they do documentaries on people, there's always an ah-ha moment. was there anything that struck you about the man himself, his family and his politics? >> well, i discovered an awful lot about mitt romney in reporting this documentary. i discovered thin about him i didn't know because heare

s about the we wereucky engh to he m talk ut them. firsofll, his mormon th. the fear is in a campaign being a mormon will be a liability. that's why he had toive a spee on fit enean last time around in 2007 wh wt do itm it ed mfortae he w g church, the head of his congregationhein hus t a of 3 ebe mormons don'tave any ergy. you have the people in his congregation. ndey fpeist to kn.s is somethin u erican pple - >> you're right. 've been talking to the cam ngey trng tow bane about doing this interview for quite some time. it was very difficult to get because we said we want to talk about who mitt romney is as a man and discuss his faith. now i thinkading hecoonhere's a

unless they trust you and feel like they know who you are. >> and they can relate. >> alex said voters are happy to give you the keys to the car but they want to make sure you can get them there safely. i think you get to this point and the convention is their moment for them to tell mitt romney stories. i would venture to say that you're going to see a different kind of romney from the one we've seen on the campaign trail. hopefully, you'll get a real glimpse of that romney in our piece because he was different from the way i usually see him on the campaign. >> i remember 18 months back talking to you when we were out doing iowa and all over. the question would be are people

excited about this. this is when people start to pay attention now. i believe this is a moment when the convention starts. >> right. the convention is the moment for the campaign to try and control their message and say, these are the people we want to put on monday night. these are the people we want to put on tuesday night. these are the people we want to be the character witnesses for our candidate. you're going to see that from the republicans. you're going to see that from the democrats. >> it's the pep rally time. go team. >> yes. >> romney real. this eastern. make sure you watch gloria and wolf. my colleague brooke baldwin will be at the republican convention. she'll be anchoring live from tampa. kicks off on monday. speaking of tampa, the city along with the rest of florida on alert as isaac comes barrelling north. tonight it's haiti that's right

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governor of florida, rick scott assuring nervous republicans that their national convention in tampa won't be derailed by soon to be hurricane isaac. he said they might get wind and rain. that said tampa pishofficials a not letting their guard down. we're going to talk to one now. thank you for joining us. despite what the governor says and despite what the forecast indicates, how are you preparing for this hurricane? >> good afternoon, don. thank you. the city of tampa has activated the emergency operation center.

members from our local community as well as state and federal agencies are currently staffed in the emergency operation center and we are preparing, we're working together and collaborating around the clock for this potential weather event. >> our meteorologist chad meyers is here as well. by the time anything gets to tampa, what are we looking at? do we know what the winds are? >> those storm is going to be a 75 miles per hour minimal hurricane to the west of tampa. what bothers me about this is every single computer program makes a turn to the right north of florida into georgia. what if that turn is 100 miles farther south or the storm slows down a bit but all of a sudden you have all these people there. they are all these backup plans and everybody that walks into a tampa hotel this weekend should have a little notice. if this, then this. there should be a little p

placard. >> are you advising people of what they should do? >> definitely. we've been working with the rnc host committee to provide visitors with as much information as possible. we've been getting the word out and letting everyone know should something like a severe weather event happen that we're prepared and we're very optimistic that everybody will go extremely well. if it does not, we're prepared for that as well. >> you're not to the point where you're setting up shelters and all of that? >> no here in the city of tampa or hillsboro county. it's looking like a poorly organized system. it has a lot of land to go over. that's going to hopefully decrease intensity. what we're hoping is it does not

directly impact this eventr tampa bay. >> you're hoping that and a whole lot of other people. >> there could be more of a small tornado threat than a hurricane threat in tampa. some of these hurricanes will, little spawn, little tornadoes. always have a plan. if you're going to tampa this weekend, don't go without a plan. >> thank you. we're moving on now. we're getting video of the shooting outside the empire state building. it's giving us a better idea of what went down exactly. that's next. great shot. how did the nba become the hottest league on the planet? by building on the cisco intelligent network they're able to serve up live video, and instant replays, creating fans from berlin to beijing. what can we help you build?

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poli sayn ffre johnson killed former co-worker before new york police shot and killed him. e videhowse w wer shot during the le. if you don't wit you shouldaway. brooksoinss mike, that video is unbelievable to watch. you see the chaos and what's going on there. ou see that person in the gray suit. that could have been the gunman. from what has been described as two officers who were there on anti-terrorism patrol on duty there was notified by a construction worker who witnessed the shooting, the initial shooting and they confronted the man. he pulled a weapon on them first and they fired at him. it was all on tape. >> a little more. another warning. a little bit more of that video.

let's take a look. you saw two people laying there. the question is why? disgruntled. what are you finding out about this guy? >> he was laid off a year ago. what has been going on in that year, don. that's what i want to know. what has been going on between h hizan import company just right around the corner from the empire state building. has this been an ongoing dispute between jeffrey johnson and this company and maybe this one employee who was killed today. what has been doing on? was there any indication? these are things investigators will be looking into. has he been coming out of the store.

has he been writing you? could this have been prevented because did they have any indication this could happen. >> let's talk about the investigation. 14 rounds. officers fired 14 rounds and some of the bullets may have grazed bystanders. >> it's tough. i've been involved in situations where someone has pulled a gun on me. you are trained to draw your weapon or return fire. he pointed his .45 k.45 caliber officers first. they fired upon him a number of times. you shoot at the threat until it's not a threat anymore, until the person is down. we saw officers standing over which we believe is the gunman with guns drawn. two officers there. could this happen again and other people get hit? yes. you try to concentrate your shots at the person you're shooting at. you're standing out there in the open yourself. >> new york city is so crowd.

>> you know how it is. >> a friend had never been said let's go to the empire state building. . it's so packed you can barely move. if you're trying to shoot at someone, it's crowded. >> here it is 9:00 in the morning. people getting their coffee. we heard from some of the eyewitnesss who were out getting coffee and who witnessed everything. they saw people who were shot in the foot and the leg. none seriously shot by police by some stray rounds. >> that's the good news. thank you. >> thank you. a hospital smack in the middle of a war zone trying to keep men, women and children alive. we'll have an report from inside the emergency room. look at those toys. insurance must be expensive.

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more than a year we've been showing you images out of syria. always with a warning their will graphic and disturbing. a count this week of all the syrians killed. activists say by a government at refuses to give up power. on monday 168 people killed. on tuesday, 230 people killed. wednesday, 184 people. thursday, 200 people dead. today, the death toll so far

146. we know at least 25 of today's victims are children. look at the totals. it's like an airliner going down every day this week. right now there's no sign of the bloodshed ending. jim clancy got inside one hospital in the largest city of aleppo. here is his exclusive interview. this exclusive video and a warning to you. he's about to show you may disturb you. >> reporter: screams of pain. pleas for help and prayers inendate an emergency room in aleppo, syria. a woman exploded as they waited in line to buy bread. now they wait for someone to treat their wounds, to save their lives. >> there's many wounded people. >> reporter: in the heart of this chaos the doctors and staff

are becons of calm. take note of that. if any of them are arrested they know they will be executed almost immediately by the regime. it's going to be another record day for the hospital. men, women and children of every age suffering from every kind of wound imaginae come here for help. >> 150. >> reporter: they are keeping score here. each patient treated is another small victory in war where innocent civilians are the targets. some will be quickly patched up and sent home. others will undergo major surgery that will mean the difference between life and death. spanish journalist spent 20 days documenting the real life drama as the medical staff fights to keep this hospital open. people are depending on them.

>> translator: why all this? what's this bad president? aren't we his people? >> reporter: syrians denounce assad. >> where does he think he's bombing? >> reporter: residents say they sleep in shelters, wait for the next bombing and this their living nightmare. others stand and fight. there are times when even the hospital cannot save them. near the hospital enters they bid farewell to a comrade in arms. he's going to paradise the fighters shout. there's nothing here. these doctors and their assistants face risk ever bit as dangerous as fighting on the front lines. if capture, execution and they know the regime is out to get them. doctors recount how military

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akin, he made the comments about legitimate rape holding a press conference. we'll carry it live. >> i don't think we will carry it live. if he were to announce he was dropping out of this race, that would be huge news, it would set the stage for claire mccaskell would have an opponent to more likely put her on the ropes. if he's staying in the race, if that's all he's doing, just to announce he's determined to stay in the race, we'll listen to it, we'll monitor what he has to say. if there's anything newsworthy we'll report that to our viewers but we're not going to take it live in the situation room if he's doing routine news conference just to say what he's been saying over the past few days. because we believe the news comes first. if there's nonews, we're not going to be interested in what he has to say. if he were to announce, if we got word he's about to announce he's dropping out of the senate

race, that would be huge news. the republican establishment, the tea party movement, all of the leaders around romney and paul ryan, they'd be thrilled if he were to listen to what they've been telling him. >> for something he's already said he's going to do. wolf. >> many times. >> very well said. thank you, wolf. we'll be watching and although guys will be monitoring the news conference happening at 5:15. >> seven time tour de france champion lance armstrong said he is giving up the fight but what does this mean for his legacy? (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line,

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cycling legend lance armstrong may be closer to losing his seven tour de france titles. the u.s. anti-doping agency said today it will move to have armstrong stripped of all seven titles, this after armstrong said enough is enough and decided to end his battle against the doping charges. armstrong says he is innocent of all doping allegations but he's

not going to fight it anymore. john joins us from new york. is he trying to have it both ways? he says he's innocent of all the charges. if he didn't take the drugs, why not keep fighting? >> you do wonder that. i think this is a cleverly spun tact he's taking where he's not going to pursue this, not go through arbitration. he's not made an admission of guilt either. his tact is, hey, believe what you want to believe. he knows he has a lot of people in his corner. he bowed out without real determination one way or another. >> is he kind of thumbing his nose at -- he has a strong personality and is not the warmest of guys. is he thumbing his nose at the people going after him? >> absolutely.

even his statement yesterday wasn't contrite at all and using wos like "witch hunt." i think he sort of knows the reality of the situation, which is he has a lot of supporters out there, i think mostly because of his work with cancers and he's done a good job with the foundation. he's done a good job also of sort of these are agenda-driven, sort of the terminology he's using, agenda-driven bureaucrats. he knows he has a staunch group of supporters. >> it's a turning point in a turf war between sports agencies. another group says the usada doesn't have the authorities to strip armstrong of his titles. who else may weigh in before this is resolved? >> this could end up back in the courts. it's pretty clear and this has already been before one judge that they do have the authority to do this. i think that we'll see how deep pocketed armstrong -- we'll see if we're done staying out of the

courts. but basically the way it is now, armstrong as said, look, do what you want to do, i'm out. this is my white flag. we'll see if this is going to stick. >> last night i tweeted what happens to the yellow arm bands, in all seriousness because lance armstrong has a fitness empire, he raises millions for cancer charities. how could it affect livestrong? >> we talk about marketability