tv Anderson Cooper 360 CNN May 15, 2013 7:00pm-8:01pm PDT
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this one tweet is from anthony. as one of your critics, i'm shocked to see you finally placing criticism where it belongs, the obama administration. i criticize the president when he deserves it, and let's face it, he's having a very bad week at the office. that's all for us tonight, anderson cooper starts right now. >> good evening, everyone, it is 10:00 here in boston. we came to the city tonight because it's been one month since the bombing that changed so many lives. we have new details about the manhunt of the tsarnaev brothers. also tonight the latest on the investigation, and i speak with adrienne haslet-davis, the distance instructor who lost her leg. we'll find out how she's doing
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one month into her recovery. also information about what allegedly went on inside ariel castro's house in cleveland. how the women were treated and the horror they endured. we begin tonight with breaking news on two fronts. the irs scandal and the response to the benghazi attack that left four americans dead. a short time ago, president obama spoke out on the irs scandal over charges that it singled out conservative groups and targeted them for extra scrutiny. the president announced the acting commission of the irs was fired and the president promised his administration will work with congress to make sure nothing like this happens again. listen. >> i've reviewed the treasury department watchdog's report, and the misconduct that it uncovered is inexcusable. it's inexcusable and americans have a right to be angry about it and i am angry about it. i will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the irs. given the power that it has and the reach that it has in all of our lives.
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and as i said earlier, it should not matter what political stripe you're from. the fact of the matter is, the irs has to operate with absolute integrity. the government generally has to conduct itself in a way that is true to the public trust. that's especially true for the irs. >> also today, the white house released more than 100 pages of e-mail correspondence, showing how officials came up with a response that benghazi attack. the e maims are between the white house, the fbi, the cia and other agencies showing how the talking points changed over time as officials worked on what to tell congress and the american people about the attack. joining me now are chief congressional correspondent, dana bash, jessica yellin, gloria borger and senior political analyst david gergen. dana, let me start with you. the resignation of the acting irs commissioner came out quickly after the audit was released yesterday. what do we know?
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>> that's right it came really quickly, there was so much outrage, so many unsatisfied republicans and democrats with the inspector general for not assigning blame and wrongdoing with the irs. they knew heads needed to roll. steven miller seems to be the one who got fired for several reasons. first of all, he's only the acting commissioner now, but he was the number two, and we learned this week he was told about targeting tea party and other groups a year ago. and he never disclosed that to members of congress who were investigating this very thing. >> and he was supposed to testify friday at this hearing at the house, what happens now?
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>> he's actually still testifying, surprisingly enough. he's still going to go on friday, along with the inspector general of the irs, who testified before the house weighs and means committee. he actually, according to the letter he sent internally today. he's going to stay on it until june. he's technically still an employee there. they're hoping, i can tell you according to republican sources, maybe because he is not long for this world at the irs, maybe he'll be a little more forthcoming. that may be doubtful, considering the attorney general may clear, he and others could be subjected to criminal probes. >> the thing about this is, okay, he knew about it for a year without announcing it publicly, but there must have been a lot of other people who knew about it, who were actually executing this operation against conservative groups. what's happened to them? >> absolutely. and that is a big open question. just because the guy at the top is gone, doesn't necessarily mean that justice is done, and everybody, democrats and republicans agree to that.
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our colleague drew griffin broke a story earlier today that steven miller who just resigned today told congressional investigators that two irs employees he described as rogue have been disciplined, we don't know what that means necessarilily at least two have been disciplined. another house committee has asked for the names and interviews of five specific employees. so they know -- at least have a sense of who's out there, who theyen watt to talk to, this is definitely just the beginning of the discipline, and maybe more. as john boehner said, he wants people to go to jail, we're probably far from that, but you never know. >> since they've been disciplined, we don't know if they've been fired or what exactly that means. in terms of the benghazi e-mails that were released today, what stands out to you? >> well, to a good extent these e-mails vindicate what the white house has been saying for a long time, is that the intelligence community made some of the most controversial changes in the talking points, anderson.
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for example, before the state department or the white house ever saw the talking points, they were changed in the following ways, the word attack was changed to demonstration, the world al qaeda, saying al qaeda may be behind the attacks, was taken out entirely, that was all done by the cia before either the white house or the state department ever saw these talking points, and they did it, we are told by senior administration officials because the cia didn't want to in anyway compromise the fbi investigation that was underway at the time. >> so they said they didn't want to compromise the fbi investigation. the white house is obviously hoping these e-mails show there's no political cover-up. are there any signs that republicans are satisfied with that? >> no. so already speaker boehner's spokesperson put out a statement saying this is not at all satisfactory. they are asking for more documentation. now, i am told that we have now
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received all documentation related to these e-mails that we have every single e-mail, we have all the talking points this is it. the only thing that would be left would be notes about conversations or notes about talking points which aren't going to come out. one thing you could point to is, there are other e-mails in here that could put the state department on the hook in some of the talking points changes. they called for the removal of other words in the talking points. so you could still see, if you want to, political motives for changing the talking points and so critics will still have fodder to attack the administration, which will keep this issue alive, i think, for some time to come, anderson. >> and glower yarks has anything been changed by this, cleared up? >> no, i really don't think so. as jess was saying, the republicans are unreceive satisfied, i think the only thing that's kind of clear here looking through these e-mails, is how unwieldy the bureaucracy
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is for whatever reason, whether it's infighting, whatever reason, the bureaucracy is unwieldy when it tries to come to a point of clarity, and they were dealing with classified information. some of which had been spoken about, and what we saw in this chain was something that started out as much more complex and new answered, and that wound up with a piece of information that actually turned out to be untrue. congress will continue to look into this, and i think this may move from the question of e-mails to the question of just what went wrong in benghazi as you heard greg hicks talk about it at the congressional hearings, what went wrong. what needed to change. who didn't get the support that they needed from the air. could they have gotten that support in the heat of battle, and these are the kinds of questions that i think you're going to start to hear more and more about. i mean, questions about e-mail
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and political infighting and cover-up and all the rest may take second place to the real issues here which is about, how do you prevent this from ever occurring again, anderson? >> and gloria, you've learned about a meeting at the white house tomorrow. >> yes. >> democratic strategists? what is this? >> well, they've invited in strategists, dennis mcdonagh does have weekly meetings with asorted outside groups to take their pulse. no surprise to me that this time it's a bunch of strategists who are very good at damage control. we've seen the white house -- as dana was talking about, they want to try to figure out a way and get some add vice about how to get back to their agenda. how do they ever work with republicans, after all they've gone through, and what steps the president can take proactively to convince the american public
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that he's worng issues that matter to them. so they're bringing in these strategists to kind of bend their ears. >> what's made it all the harder with the irs thing, it seems like this is early days in this scandal, there's a lot of other names to come out, there's a lot more information to come out of this, in terms of the president's second term agenda, he needs republicans, what has this done to that? >> it's a distraction, no question about it, i was talking to a senior democratic source on capitol hill today, about that very issue, the thing they're most concerned about is the issue that is the most tenuous, but also the most possible to actually get done, and that, of course, is immigration reform. noted to me that at least on the democratic side, those who are really knee deep in this, trying to get -- make sure there is a bipartisan bill that can get through the senate and eventually the house, they're being very quiet about these scandals and particularly about the irs. this is -- the irs certainly is
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a -- all of them, the most bipartisan in terms of the outrage, but if you put it all together, these are distractions and they're not very welcome at all. particularly by democrats on the hill. >> can i just jump in and point out, the president had john mccain in today, that's because that is the linchpin to keeping his agenda moving forward. if he can keep john mccain on immigration reform, and he can get immigration reform here, he has a positive, we shrunk the deficit more than expected that pushes off a fight on the debt ceiling. maybe you can get guns done, they feel like if they get some accomplishments the scandals will fade. >> we'll say. dana bash, there's a lot more in the hour ahead. coming up, boston strong, one month later, we're here what
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boston police took the black mourning bands off their badges and observed a moment of silence. boston police also put their flags back to full staff. there has been an outpouring of support for the victims. the one fund boston has raised more than $40 million to help victims and their families. today the one fund said payments will be made at the end of june. still a lot of questions and work to be done in the investigation into the bombings. the widow of the suspect, tamerlan tsarnaev, katherine russell is said to be speaking to investigators. we'll have more on that in a moment. and meanwhile, we've learned more about tamerlan tsarnaev and his brother dzhokhar, and the shootout with police. 300 rounds were fired, almost all coming from police. cnn has learned the tsarnaevs had bombs. they had only one gun between them, a pistol. drew griffin has more on what happened that night. >> reporter: this is all police knew at the time. >> officer down. >> reporter: an m.i.t. officer had been shot and killed. hours earlier, the fbi had released these pictures of suspected bombers. tensions were high all across this city. when this alert went out.
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>> shots fired at watertown. shots fired at watertown. all officers, use caution. >> reporter: get to watertown. police raced to the intersection of laurel and dexter streets to face what amounted to chaos. >> they have explosives! some type of grenades. they're in between houses down here. loud explosions! loud explosions! loud explosions! shots fired! >> the tsarnaev brothers were in the middle of the street, firing bullets, throwing their home-made bombs and in return facing a massive barrage of police bullets. two local law enforcement sources tell cnn, the tsarnaevs had just one gun between them.
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and when the older brother, tamerlan, was tackled by police, that one gun was empty. it was the moment his younger brother tried to make a run for it in a stolen suv. >> there was a lot of gunfire at that point. that was probably the highest point in gunfire. and really as soon as that -- as soon as the suv turned around in the street, it was just accelerated gunfire. all coming from the officers. >> you grabbed your iphone and -- >> yeah, i grabbed my phone, and just immediately jumped on to the bed and started taking pictures. >> reporter: andrew kitzenberg took these dramatic pictures and saw that escape. so did an eyewitness, named jane dyson from a third floor window. at that moment, she told "the boston globe" and said it looked like someone fell to the grouped and was hit by gunfire. that would have been a transit officer who was standing right here. at the time he was shot,
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tamerlan tsarnaev was lying on the street. his brother, dzhokhar, was driving away. only the police were firing. officially, state police tell us the matter remains under investigation. law enforcement sources tell cnn, officer richard donahue was struck by a bullet fired by police. only the heroic actions of his fellow officers to stop the bleeding in his thigh saved his life. it was a close call. there would be many. that's because when all the shooting finally finished, neighbors surveying the damage in and out of their homes found bullet holes everywhere. in this apartment above the street of the firefight, at this home across the street. >> this is a half block behind where the tsarnaevs made their last stand. the home has three bullets. unless the brothers turned around and fired away from police, these bullets, too, came from law enforcement. >> this is the bullet here that penetrated into our dining room.
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>> reporter: harry wasn't home the night of the shooting. but his niece was. and says she heard and felt the bullets whizzing by, inside his house. these are two bullets found in your home. >> yeah, this one here came through, that landed near our staircase, near the pedestal, and the other one up in the closet went through and exited on the other side of the staircase on the other side of the house. >> reporter: those bullets were later recovered by the fbi. on that night, officers from several police forces converged on this chaotic scene. nearly 300 rounds of ammunition were fired in minutes. almost all of them by police. a shooting barrage described by experts in just one word. contagious. >> in contagion shooting, and if you look back at some cases of the past, we find that if one person starts shooting, it immediately causes a contagion
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or other people to start shooting. >> john de carlo is a criminal justice professor at the university of new haven. he spent 32 years as a cop, 7 of those years as a police chief in bran ford, connecticut. he says he was reluctant to be interviewed, because he, like other critics of what happened on this street, still believe police responded heroically. >> in a situation like this, it almost becomes a war zone. and things that occur in the very dynamic moments of a situation like the one that was unfolding in boston and watertown are not necessarily -- no matter how hard our police work, what they are trained to do. >> reporter: de carlo tells us what several experts who wouldn't go on camera also told us. they believe police do not receive enough firearms training, and that local and state forces do not train together enough. the shooting has not dimmed the praise for police who put themselves in harm's way.
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>> it's underneath my son's bedroom. >> reporter: but at laurel and dexter streets, each bullet hole is a reminder of just how close those heroes came to causing a tragedy. >> and drew griffin joins me now. and i think it's important to point out as you did in the piece, this is not a criticism of police, but it's important to understand what happened so they can learn from it for the next time. because that contagion shooting really is an issue. >> it is an issue. it's under investigation. but also very bad for the officer who shot it. now, the middlesex county district attorney's office and state police are investigating the shooting of officer donahue. unclear if they're investigating the shooting of the homes. but there was a third shooting that night, even scarier. a black suv, unmarked car, was
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on his way to the scene in watertown, was fired upon, and hit by state troopers. as it was racing to the scene. we have a statement from the massachusetts state police, while it's still under investigation, the theory behind the report of an unmarked truck being fired upon is, yes, that in the chaos an officer or trooper or some combination of personnel mistook it for one of the two suspect vehicles. that is under investigation, that's pretty scary and pretty dangerous for all -- >> we saw it in the christopher dorner man hunts, there was one or two vehicles shot upon. it happens. thanks for the investigation. as we mentioned earlier, tamerlan tsarnaev's widow continues to meet with investigators. she is not off the hook. her future really depends on the kind of information she
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provides. and sources say the stakes are high for her, since she obviously has a 3-year-old daughter she wants to see grow up. earlier i spoke with john miller, senior correspondent of "cbs this morning." john, this news that tamerlan's widow is not off the hook quite yet, does that line up with what you're hearing? >> yes, it does. there are a number of hooks she has to jump through to get off the hook, and her lawyers are going to have to work through that with the u.s. attorney and ultimately the fbi. but it still boils down to, she was living with a person who was plotting for at least a couple or a few months in a small apartment where dzhokhar tsarnaev told investigators they actually made the bombs. so there is the question of how could all of that go on, either without her knowing about it or having at least some suspicions that things that were going on were suspicious. she has said she had no idea about the plot. >>, and you know, 30 days into
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this, from what you're hearing, how much progress are investigators actually making, trying to figure out the extent of these brothers' alleged plot, particularly any overseas connections? >> well, the overseas connections are being filled out. the fbi traveled with the fsb and got some of their documents and the results of some of their interviews over in moscow. but it appears as of now that tamerlan tsarnaev traveled to russia for six months in the dagestan/chechnya region, that he made contact with one, possibly two radical people over there. both of whom ended up being killed in subsequent attacks. that he tried to join three separate fighting groups and was rejected. one was suspicious of him. another felt he didn't measure up. the third didn't take him. so it appears he went home after that time, thinking, a., it's really dangerous here, the two guys i came to work with were killed. none of the groups want me. and i can launch my fight at home. >> and these indications that
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the wounded mbta officer was likely hit by friendly fire at the watertown shootout and at least one police vehicle came from officers, no one is criticizing the police, but they were that night particularly you said an enormous amount of pressure. and it does speak to the chaos of how things unfolded, doesn't it? >> the police are used to that criticism. they had criticized for an awful lot. but this certainly was the fog of war. you had people who were shooting at you with one .9 millimeter handgun in the case of tamerlan tsarnaev, but also a wild card here. they're throwing improvised hand grenades. that is a scene of tremendous chaos. normally in a tactical environment, you figure out where your subject or suspect, you make a tactical entrance and deploy in a planned matter. this wasn't that kind of thing. this was a kind of thing where they were engaged in a firefight, they call for help, and help comes from whatever direction it comes from. if you take officer dick donahue and his partner, they end up on
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one side of the street, many of the other officers came from the other direction end up on the other side of the street. so that's right for the possibility of cross fire. it's entirely possible he was hit by friendly fire or by one of tamerlan tsarnaev's bullets. but the bullet is still in his leg so until the doctors decide there is a time to take that out, we won't really know. >> john miller, appreciate you being on. thanks. >> thanks. we'll have more from here in boston just ahead. also, new details from the ariel castro investigation. more evidence was taken from the house where he allegedly held three women captive for close to a decade. we're also learning more about what the women may have endured. also ahead tonight, three weeks ago dance instructor adrianne haslet davis was still in the hospital. lost her foot in the boston bombings, part of her left leg and told us she would return to the dance floor one day. we're following her journey. we'll talk to her tonight. why are twice as many people choosing verizon
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we have a lot more from boston tonight, but we want to bring you up to date on the latest investigation in cleveland. officers went back into the house where the three women were held for close to a decade. one of the women just learning what an iphone is. that's how cut off she was. ariel castro is charged with three counts of kidnapping and rape. some people described castro playing loud music when they were around and not letting them
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go past the kitchen. here's what emily castro told a private investigator about going to her father's house. >> the upstairs was blocked off with a big base speaker. i figured since he lived there alone so long, he didn't have any need for those four bedrooms upstairs. i just kind of like. i was like, can i sleep upstairs in my old bedroom. he said, no, because it's cold there, blocked off, dusty, so i just was like, okay. >> just be clear, emily says looking back, all three women were inside the house at the time of that visit. tonight we're learning more about what amanda berry, michelle knight and gina dejesus may have endured at the hands of hire abductor. last night you reported michelle knight may have needed facial reconstruction after all the
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beatings, you learned more about that today? >> reporter: we spoke with an agent for the fbi here in cleveland. the agent said there is no deformity. none of the victims looked weird. except for the fact that they haven't seen the sunshine in so many years and they are so thin. keep in mind, we also learned today from law enforcement that michelle knight had been beaten by ariel castro with all sorts of objects, including hand weights. i apologize for the sirens here. certainly an emergency underway here, having nothing to do with this case, it seems. this fbi agent clarified reporting out there, there was some sort of higher arcy in the home, because amanda was treated slightly better and maybe the women were divided and not so close even though they were locked up together for so many years. all of them were walking around and talking at the hospital. they were all equally concerned about each other. gina and michelle have communicated by phone at least once since their release.
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the only reason gina and michelle didn't follow amanda out of the house that day, is because they were so afraid of ariel castro, the agent said it was not because they didn't trust amanda. anderson? >> castro's attorneys are now speaking out about their client, what are they saying? >> they talked with castro, apparently for about three hours, at the county jail, where as you know, he's being held in isolation. he will plead not guilty. they're a bit worried about whether or not he's going to get a fair trial in this area, they have no fear of repercussion about representing someone who's been vilified in this community. listen to what they told wkyc. >> i think that the initial portrayal by the media has been one of a, quote, monster, and that's not the impression that i got when i talked to him for three hours. he is a human being, and what's offensive is that the media -- and i don't mean it towards you,
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but the media and the community wants to -- wants to demonize this man before they really know the whole story. and i think that it's unfair, and it's just not equitable. >> reporter: anderson, you may remember one of those attorneys, jay schlackett represented anthony sowle, that was another high profile case. >> the term monster has been used by relatives of ariel castro who used those terms. ahead, a woman who lost her foot and part of her left leg below the knee during the boston bombing. she's determined to dance again, there's a lot of work and rehab. she can already see the future. >> when you're listening to music, do you visualize yourself dancing? >> yeah. >> it makes you smile?
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believe in boston. that's what the sign says behind me. there is a lot of pride in this city here in boyelston street where there is a memorial where still people are on this one-month anniversary of the bombings, stopping by to pay their respects. there is a lot of pride about how far this city has come and how far the individuals who
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survived the bombings have come. for so many people, this stretch of pavement here on boyleston street has a lot of meaning, a dividing line between what was and what will never be the same. 275 people were injured here one month ago. tonight, six are still hospitalized, and we think of them tonight. more than a dozen bombing survives lost limbs. among them, adrianne haslet davis, the 32-year-old dance instructor. she lost her left foot in the second explosion. her left leg had to be amputated below the knee. just a week after the bombings, i talked to adrianne in the hospital. you can't forget her determination and spirit. she is determined to dance again. i have no doubt she will. here how far she has come in just four weeks. this was adrianne just one week after the boston marathon bombings. how close were you to the second explosion? >> i was right in front of it. right in front of the business where it was. so i felt the direct impact. and it immediately blew off my left foot. >> reporter: how far away was the bomb, do you know? >> my guess would have been about five feet. >> reporter: five feet. >> yeah. we're lucky to be alive. >> reporter: her strength, along
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with that of her husband, adam, who just returned from a tour in afghanistan with the air force and was also injured in the bombing, inspired people around the world. you're determined to dance again, though. >> i am, yeah. dancing is the one thing that i do that when i do it, i don't feel like i should be doing anything else. ever. i feel so free. >> reporter: adrianne agreed to let us follow her recovery on the long road to dancing again. >> 17, 18, 19. 20. oh. >> and while she faces months of grueling therapy, her physical training as a dancer helped to better preparer for navigating the world with one leg. she also agreed to videotape her life. her new normal. >> i am getting my very first manicure and pedicure in 20 days today since the marathon. and feeling more and more like a girl, and feeling more normal,
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even though only one of my feet are getting painted. check those babies out. >> there are those simple milestones, and others that are hard. >> i'll be going home tomorrow. and it makes me really sad, because i don't feel like i'm ready. i'm nervous. and scared to walk the streets of boston. for the first time after all of this. and i've been living in this bubble of safety. now i'm just going to go out into the real world and a world with bombs. and strangers and -- memories.
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that i don't know if i'm ready to face. >> but two-and-a-half weeks after the bombing, it's time to go home. >> i really appreciate your encouraging words. thank you. >> everybody -- show them what can happen. >> thank you. >> instead of the bad guys. >> instead of the bad guys is right. >> good guys. >> totally agree. >> you go, girl. >> and the next day, despite her fears, she returns to boyelston street and where it all happened. >> after seeing the memorial and seeing people there and just paying their respects and hearing people tell me that i was an inspiration, it's very sweet, first of all, that they would want to give me their support. but i think it's also for them, it's important to see that all of us that were affected are moving on and trying to find some sort of normalcy. and for them to be able to kind of have that knowledge that life goes on after such a horrible tragedy. >> well, a lot of people here and around the country are rooting for adrianne and others injured. her co-workers at the arthur murray dance studio set up a
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fund for her expenses. if you would like to contribute, go to fundme.com/adriennefund. we're excited about following her in the months ahead. i sat down with her again today, a first time since a week after the bombings. it's been a month. how are you doing? >> yeah, i'm doing better and better every day. lots of learning about myself and kind of how to function, especially just in the past, gosh, in the past week or week and a half. since leaving rehab hospital. >> what's been the hardest part? >> i would say the hardest part on a daily basis, as far as just the function -- day to day function is just the simple things, like getting up to go to the bathroom. and showering and getting ready in the morning. just the simple little things that you have your daily routine. and in the middle of the night, if you have to get up and use the rest room, it is a task. >> so right now you're using a wheelchair. >> yeah, yeah, i am. mostly using the wheelchair to
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get around the city and such. i took a pretty bad fall about four or five days ago. i was not behaving, meaning i was hopping between the bed and the closet, because i just needed to get one thing. >> so hopping is not behaving. >> is not behaving, no. no, not at all. and i hopped and lost my footing and landed directly on to my left leg, and it was excruciatingly painful. >> so you actually fell right on -- >> i fell right on it. all of my weight right on to the top of it. all that tender muscle and stitches and -- nerves that are already painful and angry. and just screamed almost a surprising scream. where you scream and you don't really realize it's you. because it's that painful. >> does it feel real to you at this point?
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has it all sunk in? >> it's interesting. it felt so much more real since i fell. i don't know if it was me just kind of realizing physically that my leg wasn't there anymore. but it was really hard for me. i think it sort of made me realize that i was a lot weaker than i thought i was. which is a hard thing to think about. it definitely woke me up and made me realize that i am -- i need to take a little bit better care of myself and slow down. >> as you may have noticed, adrienne is not a sit back and wait kind of person. she is the first to admit, she tends to be impatient. just ahead in part two, we talk about the goal she has set for herself to dance again and how listening to music no longer makes her sad, which is a sign of healing, she says. for teaching us that you can't create the future... by clinging to the past. and with that: you're history. instead of looking behind... delta is looking beyond. 80 thousand of us investing billions...
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she is determined to hold me to that. i regret it a little bit making that promise to her. but i very much look forward to those dance lessons. here is part two of our interview. do you think about dancing a lot? >> uh-huh. >> do you listen to music? >> i just recently started listening to music again. and being able to really enjoy it. i think i realize now that i am in a process of healing more so than i was before. and i -- >> that's interesting. you're in a process of healing more than you were before. >> yeah. how do you mean? >> i think starting to see the swelling going down, and having, you know, graduated from the therapy and becoming stronger physically, because of the physical therapy and i think all of that combined, i feel like i'm closer and closer to my
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prosthetic, which means i'm closer and closer to dancing again. even though i knew all along i would be dancing, i had all these people telling me i would, i think now i'm starting to see it more so. >> you can envision yourself dancing again. >> yeah, i can. which in turn helps me listen to music and possible for me, as i said before, listen without choreographing it in my head. and because of that, it was very sad. >> so when you listen to music now, do you visualize yourself dancing? >> yeah. >> it makes you smile a lot. >> it does. it does. >> one of the things we talked about in the hospital, you had said that because you danced for so long, your foot was like a muscle. and that the prosthetics weren't really built to kind of i guess balance in that way. >> uh-huh. >> have you learned more about it? do you think you will be able to dance? >> you know, i -- i -- i definitely remember talking about that. and i don't know -- i haven't learned anything differently
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since then. so i still have that same concern, that i know i'll be able to dance, for sure. and that makes me ecstatic. but as far as dancing to the level that i was before, which was what we were talking about with using my muscle in a certain way and using, you know, the inside edge and outside edge of my foot and pushing off of those muscles and having it work the same way. i'm not quite sure yet. i have a lot of prosthetic companies that are being just as curious as i am on wanting to build and learn and sort of figure that out with me. so i'm excited to make that happen. hopefully. and kind of maybe kind of figure it out together and design it together. >> i know your husband who was injured also in the blast was relieved, because he didn't have to take dancing lessons. he was just about to start dancing lessons. has he started dancing lessons? >> he has not started dancing lessons. he has an excuse. he cannot bear weight on his foot yet.
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your only excuse is that i don't have a foot yet. >> yes, i know. i know. i mean, i want you to get a foot, but i'm nervous about our dance lessons. >> i know. i'm well on my way. it will take me a while to walk and dance again, though. you're lucky. >> i might need some -- maybe i'll take some lessons before so i can say these are my first lessons. so many people have come up to me and said on camera you're now going to have to do it. >> people have come up to me and have been more excited for you to dance than me to dance. which is funny. >> i look forward to it. >> me too. me too. >> i definitely look forward to it. a lot more happening. isha is here with the 360 bulletin. >> anderson, we have breaking news about 40 miles outside of dallas/fortunate worth. at least three homes have been flattened and at least ten people are injured after a tornado. this footage you're looking at
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is from grandbury texas. a search and rescue is underway right now. a state of emergency has been declared in the county. and a triage center has now been open. further east, the national weather service says storm spotters report seeing a mile wide twister near cleburne and north of the vista area. there are power outages and potential gas leaks. again, if you're just joining us, the sheriff's office is reporting multiple fatalities from a tornado there, here's video we want to show you coming to us from ktvt showing an overturned semitractor trailer, when you look at this, it gives you a sense of just how powerful the storm was. let's show you the scene in downtown dallas, sirens are going off, letting people know of the potential danger. a tornado warning is in effect there, until 10:15 local time. let's get the very latest on the situation in hood county now,
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sheriff roger deeds joins us now on the food. what can you tell us about the situation in hood county right now? >> the vast majority of our devastation with the homes being destroyed, that's where we have multiple casualties, i'm not sure how many multiple injuryie with people losing limbs, amputees. i'm not sure how many injuries we have. we're trying to coordinate that through the triage area and get them all the help we can get them out there. lots of law enforcement firing, ems on the scene right now. >> relocation centers 377, tractor supply up by the high school, and the first -- highway
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101 and the loop. >> you are confirming there have been fatalities, but can you not confirm a number. how wide an area are we talking about here? >> from what it looks like right now, it's about a half mile square area. >> we're seeing reports of power outages and gas leagues, what can you tell us about the situation to right those problems, those are pretty major problems. >> we're trying to get gas pumpers out there to shut down lines. we have some leaks going with high pressure lines. it's not hurting anyone at this point in time. we have multiple propane tanks in that area, trying to get loggers in there to shut the gas off. it's not blown out pipelines
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it's just propane tanks that have been toppled over and we're trying to get them shut off. >> sheriff, we're just getting some information just coming to us right now in the ft. worth area that there have been over 100 injuries and several fatali fatalities, that's according to -- we're getting -- i'm going to source that information for you right now. daze coming from matt, director of public affairs. i want to bring him in, if you can stand by for a moment. what can you tell us about the situation. we're getting these numbers of over 100 injured in ft. worth and fatalities. >> yes. we actually handle ambulances -- in the county. they have a report of multiple injuries as the sheriff indicated.
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the information we're getting right now is 100 people injured with multiple fatalities. >> what are you hearing about the severity of these injuries? they could be looking at amputees in some cases? >> we're still going through the triage process now. folks have done a wonderful job sorting through the patients, identifying those that are most seriously injured, need to be transported. or those that can be treated on scene. >> this triage center, can you give us a sense of how well they're coping right now? this is a severe situation with large numbers involved. >> certainly, and the sheriff and his team are dealing with not only a lot of unknowns.
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it's dark. in many cases there is no power. they're doing a really upstanding job of organizing things they need to identify search and rescue. identify patients that may not be able to move, be able to evacuate those patients from the triage center. >> sheriff, i want to bring you back in here, the search and rescue operation is ongoing, what can you tell us about that. you mentioned a number of flattened homes. sheriff, do we still have you with us? we seem to have lost the sheriff, as you would imagine, this is an extremely busy time for him and local officials in the area, we have matt with us, he's director of public affairs. matt, what can you tell us about the damage? we're talking about a wide area now, what can you tell us about the scale of the damage that's occurred here? >> yeah, it's very difficult to
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do that assessment, because -- really what they're doing is having to use all the auxiliary lighting, go out and do the house to house search, it's a difficult operating environment. again, you may recognize with these types of tornados, they touched down. they tend to hopscotch. the tornado you reported being a mile wide, also offers an additional challenge. they have reports coming in soon, we've been able to mobilize sources in the area. a lot of unknowns, this is truly breaking news. and the darkness doesn't help. the crews are doing a really good job to try to reach out to the folks that are faster or may be unable to get to the shelters and the triage area. we can provide you additional updates. >> director of public affair
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