krp new yo . >> reporter: new york. >> you can always tweet me. that's it for us. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >> "outfront" next, the white house under fire. the press secretary today getting grilled by reporters on benghazi. why his briefing may have raised more questions than answers. and a dna match between ariel castro and the 6-year-old child found in that house, more on their relationship and what it means for the legal case against him and the death penalty. and what's it like to grow up with a monster in your life? the daughter of a serial killer is "outfront" with her story. let's go "outfront." >> good friday evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. the president's press secretary is under fire. >> that is not a single adjustment as you said back in

november. that is a major, dramatic change in the information. >> no, he acknowledged that your initial confrontation of the white house is involved to some extent and mischaracterization of the extent to the which the white house was involved. >> listen, i think it's really important to -- again, what role did the white house play not just in making but directing changes? >> the topic was benghazi. this was not a friendly friday press briefing. there were sparks, tension, and the press secretary explaining himself got snippy. >> jim, if i could -- i answered this question several times. i'm happy to answer it again if you'd let me answer it. the intelligence community led by the cia -- john, can i finish? you had a long time there. >> adding to the drama. the prescheduled press conference was delayed twice. carney finally arrived at the podium three hours later than first planned. a lot of tension in the room when he walked in.

why? because a lot was at stake, everyone. today we formally learned that the white house and the state department were heavily involved in the editing of the talking points used by the administration following the attacks in benghazi. something they previously denied. in fact, today jay carney doubled down saying the white house made only one edit, changing the word consulate to the word diplomatic post. the thing is there were 12 rounds of edits. among the first thing taken out of the draft is islamic extremists with ties with al qaeda participated in the attack. jim acosta who you just stlau was in the room asking questions and he's "outfront" tonight. that was an intense press briefing. we don't usually see them like that. >> that's right, erin. and i think that's because of what the white house said back in november when jay carney went to the white house press briefing and told reporters that only a single adjustment had been made and then when you go through the e-mails, you discover very quickly, erin, that several adjustments were made and that they were not stylistic as the white house said repeatedly.

they were content based. they had to do with victoria newlyn indicated in one e-mail that there was a concern about even mentioning this group that was linked to al qaeda because that might lead members of congress to beat the state department for not heeding cia warnings. and you heard jay carney repeatedly throughout that briefing to day say it was the cia that was drafting these talking points. but the reality is, erin, is that, yes, the cia was drafting the talking points but it was an interagency process. there were a lot of people involved including the white house, including the state department and this was a product that really all these folks should be held responsible for and i think that's why you heard so many questions today. i think that's why the questions got heated. that's also why you're hearing from members of congress saying they would like to see new hearings. the senate foreign relations committee, the republicans on that committee put out a statement this evening saying there needs to be another hearing.

>> pretty amazing, they said they wanted to take something out because congress may beat the state department up for not heeding cia warnings. the original draft included that the cia had warned prior. you asked a lot of questions, jim, of the press secretary. you had a prior exchange with him. i want to play a little of that for our viewers. >> that is not a stylistic edit. that is not a single adjustment. that is a major, dramatic change in the information. >> i appreciate the question and the opportunity again to make clear that the cia produced talking points as a result of an interagency process on the -- that saturday morning. and in -- >> you say talking points. >> jim, let me just finish. and from that, we -- >> from pressure from other parties that were involved. >> there were numerous statements. >> jim, you and another reporter

were bringing that up. >> i think there is a sense among all reporters in that room that there was a loost spt of sg going on. you try to get into it. speaking of spin, you hear them trying to politicize the process of saying this all goes back to mitt romney, the gop candidate last fall. when he did, in fact, try to politicize this. but what the white house is saying and what was said in the state department e-mails that other members of the administration, they were making political considerations. they were making political calculations. and when they were to go to susan rice. there are talking points to be laid out. they really defy the political

considerations as part of this process. they say this is because we want to preserve the integrity of the investigation. they said that all day long today. but if you look at these e-mails, it does feel like there is some politics also involved as well. erin? >> jim acosta, thank you very much. nick barns, former secretary of state for political affairs. ryan, you just heard jim acosta say it went to five and they say the administration was not political about this. certainly when you hear the state department saying we took out the fact that the cia had warnings about terrorist attacks in benghazi because they thought they would get beaten up. he is clearly political. two days ago the white house jay carney said something he said before. the only edits that were made by anyone at the white house were stylistic and nonsubstantive and our jim acosta questioned that aggressively to day and jonathan ka karl. i want to play both of them. >> you said that the only changes that were made vee yacht

white house or state department were stylistic and sang wiingle. that is not a stylistic edit. is it a stylistic change to take out all references of previous terrorist attacks in benghazi? >> it's not a stylistic change. >> it's not. but also say this. victoria newland is a professional. >> the spokeswoman for the state department that wrote that e-mail. >> she was under a democratic and republican at mgss. i don't blame her. the cia wanted it to be known that they had provided warnings about how dangerous eastern libya was becoming. i think that it behooved the white house to let the american people know that there were warnings as well. i think that's why there is a lot of frustration and anger. the state department is going to look after itself. they want to make sure they're not undermining themselves. but to the extent the white house is involved in this process, i think that was important information that shouldn't have been left out. that there have been warnings. >> nick, why would they have taken that out?

there were warnings. we've reported on them before. that was in there. it left the c.i.a.'s hands saying that there were warnings of these attacks. and then it got removed by the state department, according to the reporting now by someone in the administration. how is that justifiable? >> well, i don't know all the facts. i'm sure that no one knows all the facts right now. i'm not in washington, wasn't part of the administration. all i can say, erin, is i've been in the position as state department spokesman. certain republican administrations as well. and in general, it's not unusual, in fact, it's very common, for administrations of both parties to have a process for talking points on any issue as new information is developed, as new people look at something. it's not unusual to have talking points for a public appearance to be gone over six, seven, eight, or nine times. i don't find that unusual. i also agree that victoria newland is one of our finest diplomats and a person of real integrity. so i wouldn't jump to conclusions here until all the facts are known.

and obviously, there will be more hearings. much of this will come out. what disturbs me as a former diplomat is now the attention is completely off embassy security. we have embassies that are on point and risk for the middle ea east. the congress ought to be voting for security. >> it's a very fair point that edit es will be made. there was an aggressive denial. jay carney implied that any blame to changes in the talking points, yes, there were edits. they only made that one. he was sticking with. state department and, you know, it was muddy. if you have a problem, blame the cia. here's jay. >> the cia was the agency that made changes to the edits and to the talking points and then produced the talking points. the cia on saturday morning said we're going to draft these

points. i mean i would ask the cia. the cia -- >> he pushed back. i want to play that quickly. >> the original version included references to al qaeda. the original cia version included extensive discussion of the previous threats of terrorist attacks in benghazi. those were taken out after the cia wrote its initial draft. >> and the cia wrote another draft. >> based on input from the state department. >> but here's what i've been saying. >> do you deny that? >> how can you blame the cia? someone did take it out. >> you can see why resentment builds in this situation. i think it's fair to say we absolutely, all the folks on the failures in diplomatic security that occurred before the benghazi incident. here's the thing. it was cia personnel who were under attack in benghazi and when it seems the cia is being left to hang in this situation

can you see why there is a lot of resentment. it's not purely because political part zanz on the other side are trying to make hay out of it. a lot of people internally as well who are frustrated with the sense that they're being held accountable and blamed. >> nick, you would agree with the bottom line? republicans were making politics out of this in the fall. there were clearly politics from the administration as well. this was an election season. they didn't want this to blow up either. >> well, you know, i think -- i don't know what the inside baseball was. all i know was that it was a confusing week. there are a number of other american embassies under -- being demonstrated against that week across the arab world. there were some -- there was a hateful video out there and definitely a terrorist attack in benghazi. since i've served in government, erin, i can understand why the administration would have trouble piecing together over several days exactly what happened in benghazi. but it's clear now. it was a terrorist attack. a specific group attacked our

embassy. we lost four great public servants. i think we should take the politics out of this and focus on embassy security. >> all right. we're going to leave it right there. everyone, please let us know what you think and whether you think there should be more hearings to determine why changes were made to the c.i.a.'s assessment. still to come, what dna results tell us about the relationship between the cleveland kidnapper and child, a little girl 6 years old found in his home. plus, tensions between the cleveland neighborhood where the women were found and the police department. and "outfront" investigation. and what it's like to live with a monster. the daughter of a serial killer, serial killer known as the happy face killer who killed eight women comes out front. ♪

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new details tonight in the case of the three women who escaped from captivity in cleveland. the fbi began boarding up the crime scene as they're wrapping up their search for evidence at the home of ariel castro, the suspected kidnapper. this comes as state investigators have confirmed through dna testing that castro is the father of amanda berry's 6-year-old child. police believe she was born in the house where they say castro was holding berry captive. our susan candiotti is "outfront." what else have investigators learned from his dna? they've been doing exhaustive festing. >> reporter: right. not only that he is the father of that 6-year-old little girl but they also run his dna against all other insolved crimes in the state of ohio found no match. but they're also running it against the fbi data base to see whether he might be linked to

any other unsolved crimes throughout the united states. no results back on that as yet. erin? >> and, susan, do you have any idea where ariel castro is tonight? >> well, he is still in the jail here, the county jail. the conditions are described to me like this. he is not on a suicide watch. he's on suicide prevention as any high profile inmate would be. there is someone watching him 24 hours a day sitting right outside his jail cell which is just outside of a pod of other jail cells. so someone's looking at him through waindow in a steel door in a cell that is nine by nine and equipped with a bed and a toilet and sink. that's about it number access, of course, to television of any kind. erin? >> thank you very much. of course, we're waiting to see as we have reported he is confessed to some crimes. we don't know which ones or how many. and whether there will be some sort of a plea.

ariel has been charged with four counts of kidnapping and four counts of rape. the attorney general told me there will be a lot more charges. now that there are proof that he is the father of amanda berry's daughter, will all the charges hold up? "outfront" tonight, a criminal defense attorney joins us. through dna testing, they proved he is the father of the 6-year-old little girl. there are reports that 6-year-old girl misses her father. there is a relationship there. he can be charged with kidnapping his own child even if she was conceived and raped by a woman he was holding captive? >> this is a very, very difficult question. there was a big controversy about this a few years ago, the parental rights of rapists. because two-thirds of american states really have no laws about this. there is always a fear that a rapist would come around and demand joint custody of this child. well now can this individual, can castro be charged with kidnapping her because she's his natural child? i say yes because judges are allowed to interpret the law where there is a gap, a hole in the law. and here i think a judge could say by raping this woman, by

holding her captive for ten years, you through criminality conceived this child and, therefore, you forfeit your parental rights. that's how i would view it if i were on the bench. it's a difficult question. i don't know how a court will look at it. >> all right. obviously a crucial question. thank you very much. of course, there are also saying they're going to consider going for the death penalty. it will be a crucial question whether they can prove that. the cleveland police are facing tough questions about their handling of this investigation. why was melissa knight's name, for example, removed from the missing person's data base just 15 months after she vanished? plus, inside the mind of ariel castro. we're learning new information tonight about his past. and 16 days after the factory collapse in bangladesh, a miracle. [ female announcer ] from more efficient payments. ♪ to more efficient pick-ups. ♪ wireless is limitless.

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the cleveland police department is facing serious questions about handling of the three missing women held captive for a decade. we now know that police also removed misch i will knight's name from the missing person's data base only 15 months after she disappeared. authorities say though that they were just following protocol which is if they can't reach the family, the entry is canceled. but this is not the only instance where neighbors in this part of cleveland accused police of dropping the ball. tom foreman is "outfront" with the tensions between the police and the community. >> reporter: jubilation greeted the rescue but now frustration is rising from neighbors who say over the years they heard frantic pounding on the walls, saw mysterious faces in the windows -- >> it just crazy. >> reporter: a naked woman in

the backyard. >> bethought it was funny at first. and then we, like, we thought it was weird. so we called the cops. >> reporter: and from police who insist some of the incidents people now remember simply never happened or at least were never reported. >> there is no evidence to indicate that any of them were ever outside in the yard in chains without clothing or any other manner. >> reporter: cleveland's crime rate is well over twice the national average according to the fbi. citizens groups repeatedly criticized the police for not paying enough attention to the most crime riddled and poorest neighbors citing the case of anthony sole arrested four years ago with the bodies of 11 murdered women on his property. so it resonates whether people on seymour avenue say even when police came nothing happened. >> he knocked on the door like 20 good hard times. there was no response. they got back in the car and

went up on their way. >> reporter: yet, police insist it's just not true. no one ever called about anything in that house and they never let up in the hunt for the missing women. >> they checked every single lead and if there was one bit of evidence, one shred of a tip, no matter how minute was, they followed it up very, very aggressively. >> reporter: there were other potential red flags. domestic violence accusations years ago involving his ex-wife, some of which he didn't even show up in court to answer, his occasion allen counters with police on other unrelated matters but nothing that ultimately led investigators into his house. it is so maddening some criminal psychologists suggest some people may now be remembering things they never clearly saw and calls they only wish they had made. >> part of what we know about memory is that it's very biassed. what we call false memory syndrome is literally a scenario

where a person thinks they remember something in a particular way and it didn't happen in that way at all. >> reporter: this, however, is clear, precisely how things did happen on seymour street will be debated a long time. "outfront," tom foreman, washington. so to get inside the mind of a monster. what may have caused him to commit the terrible acts he's accused of? plus, a woman who knows firsthand what it's like to live with someone who's been aconvicted of horrible crimes. it was her father. the daughter of the man known as the happy faced killer. he killed eight women over five years of her childhood. she's out front with her story. and a grammy nominated christian rock star facing charges. he tried to hire a hitman to kill his wife. ♪ [ male announcer ] start with a dodge dart. now give it a "tiger shark" engine and 41 mpg. good. now add some of this. and that. definitely him. and her.

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welcome back to the second half of "outfront." on a friday, we start with stories where we focus on our own reporting from the front lines. tonight, want to begin with the amazing news in bangladesh. 16 days after that factory building collapsed, ten days since rescuers gave up hope searching for signs of life, a survivor. i'm alive, the 19-year-old called out. it took an hour before they could pull her from the rubble.

she was taken to a hospital shortly after. the death toll meanwhile is 1,043. not including eight others who died in another factory fire this week in bangladesh. in a recent report, the government citing a deadly fire last year at a factory said it was taking steps to increase factory worker safety. the problem is without unions or people in the west being willing to pay more for clothes, they might not happen. officials have released the death certificate of boston marathon bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev. he was pronounced dead at 1:35 a.m. due to gunshot wounds of torso and extremities and blunt trauma to head and sourtorso. he has been buried in virginia at a muslim ceremony. that upset some residence. officials are looking into the legality of that burial. the owner of the funeral home said he was washed, in a shroud and put in a plain wood enbox.

>> in mally, two attacks in the region. military officials say three suicide bombers carrying explosives inside water bottles blew themselves up at a checkpoint this morning. a fourth was shot and killed. 300 miles away, two car bamers were killed when they charged a military camp. the colonel with the west african force says he believes the attacks are far from over. soldiers are currently getting all the help from the french and are not capable of fighting the islamists on their own. tonight the irs is under fire for admitting it targeted tea party groups seeking tax exempt status. an irs director said many cases were grouped together for further review because they had names like tea party and patriot in them. but she blamed workers for taking a short cut. it wasn't political bias. former irs attorney tells us it's possible they tried to centralize some cases to optimize processing. but says the question that remains is why did the irs apply

extra strcrutiny to the applicants? they call it inappropriate and added an investigation is on going. it has been 645 days since the united states lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? the treasury department reported that the u.s. government ran a budget surplus of $113 billion in april, $54 billion more than the same month last year and the biggest monthly surplus in five years. a chilling picture continues to emerge tonight of who ariel castro is. and the abuse his victims allegedly endured in his cleveland home. police say dna tests prove that castro fathered a child with amanda berry, she, of course, one of the women freed this week from captivity, the one who ran out the door and made that call. we're also learning new information tonight about castro, how he was brought up and what made him into the man that he is. martin savage is out front. what you have learned about his early days which could be important? >> it is important, erin.

i also want to point out here that as we research and do this investigation, it's not trying to find any reasoning for what he does. we're not trying to give him excuses for what he has been accused of. but we did want to know who was he before the world knew him as what many people accuse him of being a monster? and so we started talking to relatives. we started talking to people in the neighborhood. he was born in puerto rico in a very small rural town, eventual will y ly made his way to cleveland when he was 6. even though his father was a successful businessman, ran a car dealership down the street, he didn't have any real influence on castro's young life. the father really wasn't around. he was raised by his mom. he lived on the streets herement he worked pretty much in this community. went to school here. and then in high school he made it all the way to tenth grade and thn he dropped out. but one of the things he loved to do in high school, wrestling. after he dropped out, he couldn't find a job sow taught himself how to play the bass and then he became part of a band.

he traveled around the cleveland area performing in nightclubs. and this is what many people tell us. there were sort of shy person. he got on stage, he was gregarious and outgoing. >> we also know he has this incredibly dark side. the violence and the court documents against his wife. and there are other residents in his life. so you begin to see a clear picture here and you begin to see a man differently. you see him not just as when he was a monster but when other people looked at him and just a neighbor. >> you talk about how his dad wasn't around much but had a car dealership. the notes they found in the home that ariel castro allegedly wrote where he talked about being abused as a child, is there any evidence that that happened at this point or do we not know? >> there are a number of family

members. is this really possible? we saw the note and he claims happened to him in his life. >> they had heard of this before that they ever knew of this before. there was any relate they've could have been involved. they say they know him. >> still so many questions. when you put that together and hear what mart sin saying and then you know what this man is alleged to have done, it is impossible to put those two things together. and ariel castro's children are now trying to process the kidnapping and rape charges against their father. one of castro's daughters angie greg spoke with our lori siegel about how she is coping. >> my father's actions are not a reflection of everyone in the family. they're definitely not a reflection of myself or my children. we don't have monster in our blood. >> you would call him a monster? >> yes. yes. there will be no visits.

there will be no phone calls. he's dead to me. >> "outfront" tonight, melissa moore, her father is the serial murderer known as the happy face killer. he killed at least eight women, signed his anonymous confession letters with a smiley face. he is currently serving life sentences in prison. of course, she saw him there with her when she was just a little girl. melissa. thank you so much for coming "outfront." we don't have monster in our blood. you were just a teenager when your father did these things and then when he was convicted. did you have a hard time conveying that about your family? >> i did, erin. what was really difficult was when the news broke i was 15. i went to high school the next day after i found out about my dad. and then to my surprise, my peers, my friends, their parents had watched the news, too, and so when i arrived to school that next day, they were advised by their parents to not associate

with me, to not be my friend. and so i took this like guilt by association and i thought well maybe there is something wrong with me. why are they dissociating with me? not that this is my dad and that's the reason why. i started to internalize it. >> i mean it must be terrifying. you look at that. you don't understand it's someone that you loved and then you see these things and so horrific. you know, your father did these -- killed these eight when you were the ages of 10 and 15. how long was it before anyone would treat you normally after that? >> well, i started to keep it a secret. i changed high schools. i did change my last name like my dad suggested. he asked me to change my last name while he was in prison. actually, started jail when i went to go visit him to find out if this was really true. was this really the case that he was wanted for all these murders? i had a hard time believing it. and then so after i talked to my

dad and then the first thing he said to me is change my last name, i knew that this was true. that i had to settle into this new reality that my life was no longer going to be normal. >> i mean melissa, it's impossible to imagine what you went through. yet you have with grace. in that interview with lori siegel, she talked about her feelings towards her father. yours were complicated. here's angie. >> love doesn't go away. but i just don't feel it right now. and i, like i said, i can't forgive him. like there is no way. you know, the main emotion that i have besides gratitude that these girls are home is disgust. you know? when i really sit down and start thinking about him, i literally want to vomit. >> melissa, you were last communicated with your father when your 17. you're 33 years old now. have you ever been able to forgive him? >> forgive is complicated.

i -- i feel what angie feels. i feel disgust for my father's actions. i feel embarrassed. but i was also a victim of abuse and violence, i witnessed it. it sounds like from what i've been reading that she's also witnessed her mother being abused. and those are things that you can't erase. and so when i think about amanda berry's young daughter, i think about what her future lies, what is going to happen to her? i can only reflect on my life and for me, there has been a light tend of this grim circumstance. i found a happy new normal. it's maybe different than your normal or anybody else's normal. but it's way better than the horrific childhood i grew up. >> and, of course, you know, you have children off your own. you have your own life now. you know, also another thing that angie said is even though she knew her father was beating her mother and you were talking about that, she would never

thought her father could do something like this. i mean she's in the moments of grief and terror right now. but here's how she expressed that feeling. >> why did you take this girls and why did you never leave? and why did you never -- why didn't he ever feel guilty enough to let them go? >> so do you -- did you ever have suspicions about your own father? i mean you were between the ages of 10 and 15. you obviously have a lot going on in your own life at that point. did you ever have suspicions? >> i did, not to the fact that he was a serial murderer. but when i was 6 years old, he tortured my animals in front of me. and mind you, he was my dad. he's my only frame of reference as with amanda berry's little girl. her dad castro is her only frame of reference. so i thought that was normal but it didn't feel right. that's the best way i can describe it. but when i heard the news that my dad had strangled and killed

his fiancee, then i had the memory back of when he killed and tortured by strangulation the stray cats that came on our property. that's when i knew -- and that's when it sunk in that he's really capable of killing people. >> melissa, i know this is a hard question to ask. you know, humans are -- human feelings are so complicated. do you still love your father? >> i don't know if i would use the word love. there is a parental bond there. so that's why i cut communication with him via phone and via letters. when i would go to the mail box and i would see a letter that was from him, it would bring back to the surface that oh, yes, i do have a dad and that he is serving time in prison. and that oh, yes, he is a serial killer that i -- that my normal life is interrupted then. so as i cut that communication, those feelings diminish and i can live my normal life that way. if i continued on talking to him, he's still playing

psychological games and trying to control and manipulate me. so i have to cut ties. and that's the only way i can recover and move on. that's what i feel like is best for this family, too. >> and just before we go. since do you have your own children and, you know, we look at this little girl now, this 6-year-old girl. who is the child of ariel castro. how do you talk to your children about who their grandfather is? >> and that's a tough thing. you want to protect their innocence. you want to make them believe that there really aren't monsters under the bed. that everybody is a good person. you don't want to diminish that reality that they have for just a short period of time that as my daughter she's almost 12 now and she's curious. she wants to know more. and she does know that he's in prison and that he's killed multiple women. she doesn't know the details. and there's no way i can protect her from that knowledge with me being an advocate and going out and speaking, those are some of

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a religious rock star charged with trying to hire a hitman. he will likely have to put his christian music and career on hold after police arrested him this week for an unholy crime. attempting to take out his wife. michelle turner is "outfront" with the story. ♪ >> reporter: tim lambis is best known for the frant man for the christian heavy metal band as i lay dying. he is a full fledged rock star with a big following. >> they've been on the biggest tours. they tour with the biggest bands. the perception of tim and the band is that they were the nicest, coolest, chillest dudes. >> reporter: so when san diego authorities arrested and charged the singer this week for attempting to hire a hitman for

$1,000 to kill his estranged wife, no one could believe it was the same guy. >> just absolute shock. >> reporter: the 32-year-old father of three appeared in san diego county superior court thursday to face the felony count and hear the allegations against him. >> he senlt an embarrass to her telling her he doesn't love her and does not want to be with her anymore. he also told her that he no longer believes in god. >> megan murphy lambis with who he shares three adopted children filed for divorce in september after eight years of marriage. according to the "l.a. times," she alleged he was emotionally distant, preoccupied with body building and touring and said he spends money irresponsibly including on numerous tattoos. the prosecution claims he asked members of his gym if they knew anyone who could murder his wife. police were tipped off to the request and set up a sting

operation. >> he gave a hitman, posing, you know, our undercover agent an envelope with $1,000 for expenses, pictures of his wife, the address where she is living including gate codes on how to get in and wrote down specific dates where he could go kill her. >> reporter: lambis pleaded not guilty. reading in part, the legal process is taking its course, and we have no more information than you do. there are many unanswered questions, and the situation will become clear in the coming days and weeks. nischelle turner, cnn, los angeles. now nuclear danger. the united states has the second largest stash of nuclear warheads in the world after russia. just eat one of these -- one of these, everybody, is capable of

killing 100,000 people or more. one weapon, more than 100,000 people. even more concerning, this week, 17 airmen guarding the nuclear launch controls of the base scored a deeper performance. they were stripped of their duties. our kyung lah went to the heavily guarded facility in the middle of nowhere north dakota, and tonight she's out front with an investigation into what the military is doing to fix this crisis. >> buried beneath these pristine north dakota plains lie america's missiles and the people who control them. now under fire, the nation's nuclear missiles, were they ever compromised? >> no, they're not. >> reporter: you don't believe they were ever? >> they were never compromised. >> reporter: our questions to commander vercher, those at minot naval air force base. teams of two enter the silos 100 feet underground, this immense door locking them in. in 24-hour shifts, they sit with

the launch button to land based nuclear intercontinent tal missiles that stretch through a complex the size of new jersey. now we're learning some of the officers with their fingers on the button fell short. >> we take those seriously, and we expect that we'll be at 100%. >> reporter: he's talking about this. cnn obtained the executive summary of an extensive outside inspection of the missile wing issued in march that found performance was marginal for the intercontinental ballistic missiles operations, or icbm. still satisfactory overall, but the grade the kwequivalent of a "d." the air force says it was marginal performance in the classroom and in simulations. the report triggered an immediate overhaul. 17 out of a total of 170 miss e missileers decertified, taken out of these critical rooms and sent back. a deputy commander ranted about,

quote, rot in the crew force" and that the unit needed a reset. >> are we talking about guys falling asleep at the switch? what are we talking about here? >> i think the e-mail yourself that you're referring to, you have a very capable leader, assessing his own force internally, as we said critically, what you would expect, and that leader is making the determination that there's some things that you need to change. >> reporter: those are very strong words. >> i think strong and appropriate words from a commander with very serious responsibilities and very high standards. >> reporter: it certainly seemed to alarm quite awe few people in washington as well. >> respect for all airmen. >> reporter: two days of congressional hearings this week where lawmakers demanded answers from military brass. >> with all due respect, if this were the nuclear navy, somebody would be cashiered out. >> reporter: if there's a threat, the president picks up the phone, calls you guys, and there has to be an immediate response. this is certainly very alarming.

people are asking, how could this happen? >> what you see is not in an operational environment. in a day-to-day training environment, the standard is not being met by a small portion of the force. >> reporter: a very high standard that the colonel says has a very small margin of error. all 17 of the decertified airmen are being retrained and could eventually be back on the job hovering over the nation's nuclear arsenal. kyung lah, cnn, minot, north dakota. every night we take a look outside the at the day's top stories for something we call the out front outtake. our story comes from chicago, specifically the city's airport, which has a problem with grass. o'hare has a lot of dense grass and brush apparently. they launched a bid process for someone to cut it. goats won. a chicago area restaurant is sending 25 goats to eat the airport grass. they eat a lot of grass. look, i get it. right now you may be laughing.

this is, after all, the second busiest airport notorious for congestion, and now they have the time to vet and hire a bunch of goats. there might be an important reason. the reason is the world series victory. in 1945, chicago cubs fan and owner of the billy goat tavern was asked to leave wrigley field during a game because his goat smelled so bad it was bothering other people. as he left, he allegedly cursed the team. since the goat curse, the cubs have never won a series. what better to end the goat curse than welcome goats to the airport? maybe it's time for a world series win. it's 1,887 days since president obama signed an executive order to close gitmo. so why is it still open? is ♪ the trucks are going farther. the 2013 ram 1500

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gitmo, a word known round the world. the guantanamo bay detention camp opened by president bush in january 2002 continues to operate under president obama despite this promise. >> and promptly to close the detention facility at guantanamo. >> it's been 1,570 days since that promise, and gitmo, of course, is still open. not one of the 86 detainees cleared for release has been released. and while president obama hasn't put new detainees into gitmo, he

has put a lot of money into it, about $150 million a year, and 4,700 people have been killed in u.s. drone attacks, some of whom might otherwise have been gitmo bound. but the president is frustrated. congress has blocked his efforts to close the prison. gitmo is at a tipping point. detainees have been on a hunger strike for 100 dadys, dozens fe with feeding tubes. the story matters. that's why next week on this program we'll bring you an investigation from outside the prison. "ac 360" starts now. welcome to a special edition of 360, "vanished." we all watched the incredible discovery of three missing women in cleveland, and the investigation into what happened to them continues. kidnapping and rape charges have been filed against kidnapper ariel castro. dna confirms he is the father of amanda berry's daughter, born