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good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. answers on benghazi. merely eight months of the attack on the american consulate killed four americans including the ambassador to libya chris stevens, no one has been brought to justice. crucial questions still remain. today vice president joe biden joined secretary of state john kerry to honor those killed on the attack on september 11th unveiling their names inscribed on a wall at the state department. >> u wish we didn't need a wall like this. i wish i could tell all of you and all of you brilliant young personnel up there, i wish i could tell you we're not going to add anymore names to this wall. i wish i could say that with certainty. but. the truth of the matter is there will be more. there will be more. but with god's guidance and a

little bit of luck, there will be fewer. >> a little bit of luck. are we relying too heavily on luck? are we any closer to holding someone accountable for the american lives lost? chris lawrence has an out front investigation. >> reporter: the state department is honoring the four americans killed in benghazi. >> it's a hard day. it's a day that brings back pain. >> reporter: but just this week the white house called it ancient history. >> but let's be clear. benghazi happened a long time a ago. >> reporter: the mission was attacked on september 11th, less than eight months ago. the fbi is still searching for the attackers and just released this video in arabic. it's an appeal for the public to help find three men who were at the mission when it was attacked. >> how confident are you that putting out these pictures is really going to pay off? >> it's worth a shot. they are not exactly high

fidelity pictures. i'm not sure it's going to help that much. they look like a lot of people running around the world. >> reporter: steve is a former pentagon official and retired special forces officer. he fears the trail to find the attackers may have grown cold. a tu neegs man was arrested and then released for insufficient evidence. they interviewed a man detained by libyan authorities. and sources say western intelligence agencies now believe three al qaeda ap ratives from yemen were involved in the benghazi attack. >> are you confident in how the obama administration has handled benghazi before, during and after? >> no, i'm not. i'm not one of those people that are going to scream cover up and conspiracy and all that stuff. it's just we don't have all the information yet. >> chris, watching your report, there's obviously so much frustration by a lot of people. are there any leads? someone was talking about how

the trail may have gone cold. are there leads on those operatives that could have been involved? >> they did trace them to northern mali, but there the trail went cold. you did a ton of reporting a few months back on mali. one of by-products of that it drove a lot of the militants out and created a chaotic situation. if these militants just happen to be in benghazi and join in the attack afterwards that's one thing. but if they were sent thousands of miles away, that shows a significant level of coordination. >> significant level of coordination, which is perhaps more than anyone thought could be possible. chris lawrence, thank you very much. bob bayer and a former operative and army general james spider marks. general mark, let me start with

you. eight months since benghazi. the administration put out photographs of people that they thought might have information and also said, look, we think these three men who were there that night may have been partly responsible. is this the way it should go or is this too little too late? >> i think it's way too late. i don't know it's too little. let's look at history a little bit. eight months is a long time. we had a reward out for information about saddam hussein. we had a reward for osama bin laden. and within 48 hours we had good pictures of the tsarnaev brothers and information on all points bulletin, if you will. within 12 to 15 hours we started to round those guys up. it's been eight months and we haven't gotten anything in terms of the murder of a u.s. ambassador and three other great americans. so i think it's very, very slow. something must be up. and certainly we can discuss

what those possibilities are. >> let me ask this though. to the point about how much time has past. we intercepted a phone call from al qaeda-linked operatives in libya who were calling somebody saying "congratulations" in arabic. but if they knew all that then and those guys spent a few more days in libya, why didn't they find them then? >> erin, i think the problem with libya is it's a mess. it's getting worse by the day. you've got numerous jihady groups all over the country training. the central authority in tripoli is limited to a few square blocks. benghazi camps all over. it is such a mess in libya, it's never really been able to form a central government. in any of these investigations,

you need the local police, local intelligence services to go to to check out leads. we just don't have them. >> what do you think about that, general? this is perhaps not mistakes that were made, but just an impossible situation. >> it's not impossible. i would totally agree with bob in that it's completely chaotic in libya and under those circumstances of chaos, you've got to drop a lid down on it. the united states has to walk in and start doing its really strong investigative work. we had leads early on. why they went dry or why they ended up into cul-de-sacs, if you will, do an about face and come back out, there might have been -- i'm not sure there's evidence we're aware of, but the number one mission was to try to round up missiles. maybe there was a buyback program. i don't know that. i'm not suggesting there was an iran deal, but there might have been and the united states has to really dig at that and the

investigation has taken quite some time to try to uncover some of this information. we have to get it out to the light of day and hopefully that will happen this week. >> republicans are holding hearings now. they will be holding one next week conning to put the pressure politically on the. to try to find out who did this. from what you're saying, bob, are they ever going to be able to find who really did it or not? >> you know, i don't think so. this isn't like the boston bombing. it's not even like 9/11. i worked the libya target before. it's really hard because it's a tribal country. there's so many factions. the fact is we can't get people on the ground. it would be great if we could, but it's too dangerous. >> thank you both very much. we appreciate it. and all of our viewers, we know a tlot of you have strong opinions on this. we will be covering this next week. still to come, the national

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in hughouston. they have a three-day convention, that's a big deal. part pep rally, part victory lap after. >> we know how they play the game. president obama or michael bloomberg or some other official trots out on national television to scold and shame us suggesting that there's something wrong with owning firearms. >> where we see tragedy, barack obama and michael bloomberg, they see opportunity. >> the politics of emotion, it's the opposite of leadership. it's the manipulation of the people by the politicians for their own political ends. >> out front tonight, host stephanie miller and michael method veg. good to have both of you with us. the perfect pairing here. is the nra winning? americans supported background checks. a bill by a conservative and a

democrat and it didn't get through. pretty much everyone credits the nra or blames the nra for that. >> i don't think that you either credit or blame anybody. what i would do is blame the obama administration for making this a priority. this is the meaningless, distracting, stupid debate. honestly it is. i'm embarrassed by both sides. because we have real problems. you were just doing a great piece on benghazi. we have problems with north korea. we have problems with syria. we have big problems with the budget and the economy and we're talking about background checks as if it matters. it doesn't matter that much. and all of the passion it and all of the focus that president obama decided to make on this issue, i do think was political exploitation. he hadn't talked about gun issues one bit during his campaign. i think this was a huge political mistake on the part of the president. >> do you think he's lost a lot of political capital? do you think this was a mistack

to use as capital in this way? >> well, you know what, it matters to 90% of the american people. so you want to call that being political, that's fine. we have problems around the world. guess where else we have problems? newtown, connecticut, aurora, colorado, we have a lot of problems here. that's why all of these senators that voted against background checks are seeing their numbers plum et and the senators that had the courage to vote for it are seeing their numbers come up. there's a reason why pat toomey said the reason republicans didn't vote for it is because they didn't want to be seen as helping obama. they are happy to not help grade schoolers. >> i don't believe we're reading the same polls. there was a new poll out at the end of last week. people are just about evenly divide on whether they want stricter gun control or whether

they want it to be the same or even looser regulation. the point is that most people, they may express we would like to see this. but the only people this would impact are legal gun owners. and i do think there's a lot of passion and resentment on the part of one-third americans who own firearms and it's only one-third of americans who own firearms. people are angry that all of this would change their lives, but it won't necessarily have any impact on anyone else. you mention aurora and newtown. there's nothing in this legislation that would have prevented either adam lanza or any other killers from doing their dastardly deeds. >> we should just do nothing about gun violence? >> no, i think we should absolutely do more for the treatment of mental illness. there should be easier to put people in commitment situations in mental hospitals. i think we should have increased law enforcements. i think there should be more care with security in schools. but the idea that gun regulation

is actually going to cut down crime, bh we had the assault weapons ban we had it it for ten years. there are studies that showed when we had the ban on assault weapons, it it didn't work. >> that's not true. that's where it tripled. after the assault weapons ban expired. we absolutely have those numbers. >> simply not true that they went down after the ban was instituted. >> simply is. it simply is true. >> okay. take a look at the government's own figures, stephanie. it simply isn't true. >> i have looked at many figures is there a reason why there's so little gun violence in countries all over the world and here we have a carnage that's more than we are losing in iraq and afghanistan? do you think there's nothing wrong with that? >> there is something wrong with it, but i will tell you one of the tightest gun regulations

anywhere in the country is in the city of chicago, which has some of the highest murder rates. >> that's a false equivalency. you can get guns anywhere quickly right outside of chicago. >> i have to hit pause there. thank you for a great conversation. i have to hit pause because we have breaking news right now. two u.s. officials are telling cnn that israel has conducted an air strike into syria. western intelligence agencies are reviewing classified data and they believe israel conducted the strike today or late yesterday. pentagon correspondent barbara starr has more on this it breaking news. >> two u.s. officials confirming to me that u.s. and western intelligence agencies are tonight reviewing classified data showing indications that they believe israel did conduct an air strike into syria. the other data point that they are looking at is the lebanese are reporting in the last 24 hours 16 israeli war plane

flights over lebanese air space coming into lebanon violating the air space going towards that syrian border. so clearly something has happened here. u.s. officials say they need to get more information about all this. they are not confirming it publicly. as for the israelis, they are not confirming it either. but they issued a statement saying, quote, we'll do whatever is necessary to stop the transfer of weapons from syria to terrorist organizations. we have done it in the past and will do it if necessary in future. we know that the israeli position is they will strike at syria if they see weapons being transferred from syria to hezbollah forces in lebanon. >> let me ask you. there have been reports that secretary hagel said there were chemical weapons used in syria that had formerly been a red line for the u.s. do you know whether the israelis

struck a chemical weapons facility? >> two officials saying they do not believe chemical weapons, per se, were involved. they see no evidence of that. they feel strongly they would know that specifically. what they are looking at is the israeli vow that they have made to strike at syria if they start to transfer those weapons out to hezbollah in lebanon or other terrorist organizations. also they don't believe that these israeli war planes actually entered the air space to conduct the strike. typically they stay outside air space and can shoot in. >> barbara starr, thank you very much with that breaking news on an israeli air strike on syria. still to come, new evidence in the boston bombing investigation. and you'll meet a man who made a decision before the bomb went off that saved his life and that of his friends. plus the canada you don't know. a tour of our neighbor to the north. maybe you'll see something you

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fire officials are giving us new numbers of the raging wildfires that are burning in the los angeles area. now burning across can 18,000 acres, the fire has crossed part of the pacific coast highway and there are new evacuation orders tonight as the winds shift. as of now, 4,000 homes, hundreds of businesses in ventura county are at risk.

the blaze started yesterday morning and traveled 9 miles to the coast in one day. things are a little calm where we are right now p, but a huge change from earlier as this moves so quickly. >> reporter: it's almost doubled in size from the last report that the fire department gave us. it was at 10,000. now it's 18,000 acres. a very large fire. but we are hearing that there is a bit of good news. 20% containment. we had been reporting throughout the day that it was 10%. firefighters beginning the turn to begin to contain this fire. so 20% containment. that is some good news. what firefighters are dealing with, things on this flank have become relatively calm. this hillside was on fire through much of the day. you can still see some of that

heavier black smoke over that hill. this is still very much an active fire. 4,000 residences are under a threat. there are evacuation orders in effect and firefighters are going house to house trying to save homes. a difficult fire. much of this is being fought in the canyons. firefighters, though, saying what they are seeing now is a turn in the weather. you notice the wind season as high as we saw throughout the day. things are beginning to shift very slightly. erin? >> thank you very much, reporting there and hopefully some good news on the containment. still to come, the latest on the boston bombing. and why there will be a funeral for suspect number one. customers thought they were eating lamb, but it it wasn't. we'll tell you what animal it was. and the video of reese witherspoon's drunken rant is released. speaking of strange video, we do

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we start the second half of this show with stories we care about where we focus on our reporting from the front lines. i want to begin with a statement that we have obtained from one of the more than 100 detainees of a hunger strike at guantanamo bay prison. in it the detainee who has been held for more than a decade says he's lost 42 pounds. attorneys say they tried to get the declaration submitted in another case but weren't able to do that in time. since then they have been wrestling with the justice department to release his account to the public. calls to close guantanamo has been growing. in three days thousands of people signed a petition started by a prosecutor asking the president to make good on his promise to close it. the problem is even the people recommended to leave there he hasn't been willing to send them away. and it's unclear where they could go. today was the fourth day of jury deliberations in the trial

of the philadelphia abortion doctor charged with four counts of first-degree murder. the jury asked for a description of the four babies he's accused of killing as well as guidance on legal definitions. authorities allege some of the infants were born alive during the sixth, seventh, and eighth months of pregnancy. deliberations could end early next week. if found guilty, he could be sentenced to death. pie the ras haven't had a successful hijacking in nearly a year. there's been a 75% decline in attac attacks. much of it attributed to crews defending themselves better. thousands of pirates are now in jail in 21 countries. piracy is on the rise on the gulf of guinea. if you thought horse meat scandal was stomach turning, how

about this? you go to a restaurant to get some lamb. but it's not lamb, it's rat. they seized 20,000 tons of bogus meat for passing fox, mink and rat off as beef and mutten. in some cases the chemicals were used to process chicken claws. when we told jeremy russell of the meat association and says he's never heard such a practice. 638 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? today good news. u.s. added 160,000 jobs in april. stocks rose today. although the dow didn't manage to close above 15,000 for the first time. for the week though, pretty solid. and now our fourth story. new evidence in the boston

bombing investigation. explosive residue was found at the apartment of tamerlan tsarnaev and his wife katherine. residue samples tested positive in at least three areas of the home. the kitchen sink, the kitchen table and the bathtub. deborah feyerick is in boston for us. what's the significance of this find? a lot of evidence on explosives. >> reporter: what it does is it simply substantiates what we have been told by a law enforcement source that they believe the bombs were built in the home. and it could be the pressure cooker bombs, but don't forget there were smaller devices like pipe bombs that the two men had and used during that shootout in which tamerlan tsarnaev was killed. and again, we're talking residue. not talking about huge explosive material. we're being told residue testing positive for the presence of explosives. in terms of what we're learning, that's what the source is tell

ing us. >> i know we learned yesterday that the younger suspect who is in custody told investigators the attack was planned for july 4th, which was a significant revelation. have they found evidence they were planning an attack on that date or not? >> reporter: well, what we have right now is we have a statement from dzhokhar tsarnaev, who allegedly told investigators they were looking at july 4th. but they have no physical evidence yet that they were going to actually target any event on july 4th. it doesn't mean it couldn't have happened. it just means right now there's no evidence it was going to happen. one thing you have to think about, and it's something i have been talking to people about today, the way this was executed, the technical, the logistical execution of the plo, the way the two men walked behind one another and then one stayed while the other continued, the timing of this, how they were communicating, how one blast was able to go off and

the other one went off. you look at all this and this is what sources will tell you is trade craft. they learn how to do this and they do dry runs to make sure this happens. so the suggestion that they randomly picked the boston marathon a day or two before it doesn't fit with what we have been seeing on all those tapes of how this all happened. >> certainly doesn't seem to. a quick follow-up. they are still looking at people to try to find out whether anyone was involved. they are focused on the widow of tamerlan tsarnaev. >> reporter: well, they are. if she was in this apartment while the devices were being built or whether the ingredients for these devices were present, she may have known what was going on in the apartment and never said anything. whether she was a co-conspirator or saw and said nothing or what statements she's making, they are looking at that very closely. this was a very small apartment.

it would be hard to get away with something in that apartment. >> deborah feyerick, thank you very much. there's anger in boston as we learn the funeral for tamerlan tsarnaev is actually going to be held in wooster, which is just outside the city. brian todd is out front with the growing controversy about the burial. >> reporter: he's causing emotional turmoil, even in death. tamerlan tsarnaev's body finally claimed by his uncle and sisters drew protesters to one funeral home and that home only had him for a few hours. >> send him back to russia. >> reporter: the director of the funeral home in wooster, massachusetts, which currently has the body says he's had trouble finding a cemetery that will take him for burial. he will be buried in the general boston area. we went around boston asking people how they felt about that. >> it's too sad for words. it's too sad. he shouldn't be here. he should never have come if he had had never come, none of this

would have happened. he had every advantage he could have here. he shouldn't be buried here. >> i don't really care where he's buried. to me, he's dead already. how much more can you punish him? to me, it's too petty. >> reporter: the issue of how to bury tsarnaev is also hugely controversial, especially within the muslim community. as for leaders here at the islamic society of boston mosque in cambridge where the brothers sometimes prayed, they want nothing to do with funeral. they no longer want to talk about it. as one official here told me, they understand the tsarnaev's family's pain, but they are devastated by this entire experience. after midday prayers at the mosque in brooigtton, i asked why so many top officials including him won't preside over tamerlan tsarnaev's funeral. >> addressing his issue over

addressing the concerns over the commonwealth of massachusetts, it doesn't balance out. we don't touch it to be respectful in regardful of all the sentiments out there. >> reporter: so in place of traditional burial, he says he would advise the family to have a relative or another layperson pride. do it privately with the traditional rights of washing the body, shrouding it, praying, placing him in the ground. >> do you think he should be buried in massachusetts or in the united states? >> you know, i don't know what his nation status is. but if he's not from here, i think he probably should go back to his nation to be buried. >> reporter: aside from the questions of how and where tamerlan tsarnaev is buried, there's also the continuing question of when. the family spokeswoman says relatives will not bury the suspected bomber until an independent autopsy is conducted. erin?

>> brian, thank you very much. still to come, a survivor comes out front. he and his friends were three feet from the second bomb. one split second decision by jared saved their lives. plus a tour of canada. bourdain, beer, beaver. what's not to like? and the video of reese witherspoon's drunken rant is released by police. we'll guf you a chance to make your own judgment. >> you better the not arrest me. are you kidding me? i'm an american citizen. try e-mail marketing from constantcontact. it's the fastest, easiest way to create great-looking custom e-mails that bring customers through your door. sign up for your free trial today

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more than 260 people were injured in the boston marathon bombings. many will live the rest of their lives with permanent injuries. jared was standing three feet away pr the second explosion. he was severely injured. he spent more than two weeks in the hospital and he's now at a rehabilitation facility on the long road to recovery. that's where we caught up with him. >> we will be testing your muscle strength. we're going to look at the wound. >>. >> reporter: 35-year-old jared

clou ri is slowly getting his life together. he was standing three feet from the second bomb when it exploded. he was hit with 40 pieces of shrapnel and plastic. three weeks ago jared was on boylston street watching a friend run the boston marathon. here he is moments before the first blast. that's dzhokhar tsarnaev just a few feet to his left. jared says he and his friends started running away from the first explosion but had to jump over the railing to get into the street. >> i got my right foot up and my left foot up and i'm a pretty nimble guy. i stop for just a split second to tell the young lady here jacki, who is my friend's girlfriend, jackie, get your butt in the -- boom. >> the second explosion came 12 seconds. his decision o jump over the railing likely saved his life.

he says two off duty says policeman came to his aid. >> he says you're going to be okay. i tell him, you tell anybody that. he says, yeah, believe me when i tell you, there's worse out here than you. and that's when i remembered my friends and i said, oh, my god, my friends are all dead. >> jared considers himself blessed and lucky. his three friends were standing near him. while they all survived each of them lost a leg in the explosion. i spoke to him just before the show from hospital in boston. i asked him how he's doing. >> i'm actually doing unbelievable. i got a lot of shrapnel and a couple more surgeries in my leg, but you know, from five days ago if you could have seen me, i'm 100% better. and u actually walked down here.

it's the longest walk i have taken. but i'm blessed compared to some of the other victims. >> i know you mentioned another surgery. you have had surgeries. doctors have had to remove the nails, plastic, the things that are so hard for all of us to comprehend. you still have 20 bbs inside your body. can you feel them all? i mean how painful is it for you? >> i have a spring behind my right knee that the surgeon told me they can't get out and they have to try to the let it work out. i can feel that almost, i think. i don't know if it's nerves, but i get sensations definitely in my right leg where the 20 bbs are. but it's just kind of funny. normal things you try to do and your body tells you no, that's not going to work.

so i can feel it. >> you're a carpenter, you're a professional pool player. it was amazing, you're in the new england pool and billiard hall of fame. you're a guy who was so physical. this explosion has changed you with your arms and your hands. is your goal, are you hopeful you'll be able to go back to your job and your life as it was? >> yeah, and to be honest with you, i haven't really thought about that. i have three friends that i was with that day. there was six of us, and three of them lost their legs and lost one leg each. two of them are still getting surgeries in the hospital. my job after i get this done is to stay with them so we can leave boston the same way we came. >> when you all were together that day, you were all side by side. you were three feet away from second explosion. you heard the first one. you were trying to get your friends to safety.

there was just one act of god, one moment that made your fate different than your friends. you were up on that rail trying to get your friends on to the street. if you weren't on the rail, you would have lost a limb or may not even be here today. what do you remember about that moment? >> i was pretty aware the whole time. i remember everything. by the grace of god, for lack of better words, i happen to be there that split second the bomb went off. i hesitated just long enough to tell jackie to get her butt in the street. it just went off and i got shrapnel underneath from my butt to my ankles in both legs. but i mean, even that is a m miracle. that's the best place i could have taken it. so i'm truly a blessed human being. my friends, you know, my friends are blessed too.

they know it. we're all breathing and we were all standing, like you said, side by side within four feet of that and we're all breathing. and my thoughts and my prayers and everything i do during this goes out to the people that did lose their lives and their families, and i want them to know that i'm going to, you know, i'm not going to let them be forgotten, either. >> jarrod, i know it will be your mission and your friends', you have this beautiful friendship that is going to last forever, but you've had high profile visitors, michelle obama, the cast from "wicked tuna" and you're a serious fisherman so that was special. the world is watching right now. eventually obviously that changes, but you are going to keep fighting this and your friends will keep fighting this. what do you need the most, for the long term, what do you need the most? >> i feel like i got everything i ever wanted or needed right now. a larger glance of what i need

the most, i would like the world to stop giving those guys air time 24/7 and look at the good that's happening in the recovery and pieces like you're doing right now, erin, on what's the good that's happening. that's what i need and i think that's what the world needs is to not let those guys win. you know, just -- i know we have to have the coverage and the people want to see that, but to be honest with you, i don't even know those guys' names. i haven't thought about them. only in interviews do i even think about it. but every time the tv's turned on, that's what's on there and i just, you know, maybe we could go 50/50 instead of 24/7 bad guys. >> for more on jarrod's recovery and our full interview, please go online to our website. also, how you can help the survivors of the boston marathon. there are lots of things you can do. go to cnn.com back slash

outfront and learn more. this just in. president obama is using very strong language about syria's chemical weapons. he actually just made these comments to reporters traveling with him in costa rica. obviously significant with breaking news tonight. i want to play it for you. >> if in fact we see strong evidence that we can present and that allows us to say that the syrian military and the syrian government is using chemical weapons, then that is a game changer for us. >> unclear what game changer means. the president when asked about his comments in follow-up questions said quote, he didn't see how putting boots on the ground would be good for america or syria. obviously every word the president says about syria is being scrutinized and this comes as two u.s. officials this hour tell cnn's barbara starr that the u.s. believes israel has actually moved and conducted an air strike on syria today or yesterday. i want to check in with

anderson cooper for a look at what's coming up at the top of the hour. >> we'll follow up on that breaking news. sources telling cnn israel launched the air strikes into syria. also, a second wildfire roaring just outside los angeles. we'll speak with men who have been in the middle of the fight. remarkable pictures. also, extraordinary perspective to what it's like both as a three decade fighting fighting wildfires and a documentary film maker. also, the mom who disappeared 11 years ago dropping her kids off at school and then vanishing. now we are learning new details of the life that brenda was living in the last 11 years. the time from when she left her hometown outside philadelphia and reappeared this week in the florida keys. i'll speak with a friend who says there's much more to the story than the picture she has painted to police of a life of hard knocks living on the run and homeless on the streets. she says her life was actually not that bad at times. out drinking with friends. those stories, new developments as well tonight in the boston bombing case and the "ridiculist." a lot to cover at the top of the

hour. >> looking forward to seeing you. now to tonight's outer circle where we reach out to our sources around the world. tonight, we go close to where a lot of you are, canada, with focus of this weekend's parts unknown. i asked anthony bourdain why he chose to visit our neighbor to the north. >> canada suffers from this sort of ill-defined nebulous entity in the minds of so many people in the states and i think to some extent, in anglo canada, there's a struggle as well to say who are we. the quebecoire do not suffer from this program. they know who they are, they know how they are different, they have their own language and their own culture. they are obstinate about it if not outright militant in some instances. in my personal experience, this often leads to good food. there will be food porn. there will be gluttony. there will be drinking.

>> what is not to like? "parts unknown." catch it all this sunday, 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. video of reese witherspoon's arrest and drunken rant has been released and we told you about last night, the apology. so we had to follow up. [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient burial ground. [ ghosts moaning ] surprise -- your car needs a new transmission. [ coyote howls ] how about no more surprises? now you can get all the online trading tools you need without any surprise fees. ♪ it's not rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade.

every night we take a look outside some of the day's top stories to find what we call the "outfront" outtake. last night we showed you reese witherspoon apologizing for her drunken rant and at the time we pointed out how genuine it was. she admitted her mistake, took full responsibility and vowed to make amends to the people she wronged, apologizing to the cop who arrested them. it appeared to be the perfect way to apologize but we hadn't really seen what she did until today, when we actually saw what she did so let's show you. >> ma'am, what did i just tell you to do? >> i would like to know what's going on. i'm a u.s. citizen. i'm allowed to stand on american ground and ask a question i want to ask. you better not arrest me. are you kidding me? >> nope. i told you -- >> i'm an american citizen. this is harassment. you are harassing me. i have to obey your orders? >> yes, you do. >> do you know my name, sir? you don't need to know my name?

you're about to find out who i am. really? i'm being anti-american? >> yep. >> i'm sorry. i'm absolutely 100% sorry. i had nothing to do with that. >> so now do you think her apology was appropriate? let us know. have a great weekend. "ac 360" starts now. good evening, everyone. tonight, breaking news. an air strike on syria and from the california wildfires, video like you have never seen before from as close as you can get and still survive the fires. also, the dead bombing suspect and his wife, new developments on both and new evidence their home was a bomb factory. later, the jury finally gets to decide whether jodi arias killed her boyfriend in self-defense or murdered him in cold blood. blockbuster closing arguments and only on "360," the friend who lived with the missing mom, brenda heis, during some of the 11 years she was presumed dead an