vee eve events. tonight they're holding a candlelight vigil in the parking lot of that temple. the rampage was just one. as a result, didn't receive the attention we might otherwise have. which is why we wanted to let them know our thoughts are with them tonight. "ac 360" starts right now. look out lance, you got company. another alleged sports doper speaking out. will the yankees alex rodrigez speak up? how real is the threat zm. >> an exclusive and chilling look through the eyes of an assass assassin. one who lost track of how many he murdered. an american teen takes us inside the ruthless drug cartel that he killed for when he was just 15 years old. we begin with the biggest sports doping story since lance armstrong. the highest paid major leaguer ever. number five on the all time home

run list signing autographs today. he once denied ever using steroids, then denied using them after 20034. now he's suspended for allegedly using them since then. accused of having ties to b biogenesis. a. rod drew a suspension without pay. late today he spoke to reporters. >> i'm fighting for my life. i have to defend myself. if i don't defend myself no one will. >> he play during his appeal. he's playing tonight in chicago, where jason carroll joins us. b.j. quinn has been following this story. >> when we saw alex rod reegs ez walk into the room about an hour or so ago, he seemed to be holding back emotion. it was also evasive, in terms of answering specific questions. in terms of whether he used

performance enhancing drugs. he was denied it before, asked about it again tonight. wasn't going to get into it. didn't want it to disrupt the process that was going on. he did talk about what this entire ordeal has been like for him. >> the last seven months has been a nightmare. it's been probably the worst time of my life for sure. i am thrilled and humbled to have the opportunity to put on this uniform again and to play major league baseball again. >> well, as humble as he is. major league baseball was clear about why they hadn'ted up this suspension many they released a statement where they spelled out some of the details saying the suspension is based on his use and possession of numerous forms of prohibited performance

enhancing substances, including testosterone and human growth hormone over the course of multiple years. it went on to say that rodrigez attempted to cover up the violations and also obstruct their investigation. rodrigez once again has repeatedly said he did not use performance enhancing drugs. he wants everyone to "take a deep breath and have a time out" so the ordeal can play itself out. >> a lot of people thought coming into today that rodrigez was going to be given the ultimatum, either except your suspension or we'll ban you for life. were you sunshined that wasn't the case? >> all along it wasn't clear that baseball really believed it could have a lifetime ban upheld by an arbitrator. whatever suspension they brought, unless alex rodrigez agreed to something ahead of time, it was headed to arbitration, he said he was going to fight it. you would be asking an arbitrator who's new on the job

to take an unprecedented step. baseball hasn't had a case like this before. the longest suspension anyone had had before was 100 games. this more than doubles that. >> you've seen some of the evidence against a. rod, how strong is it, do you think? >> what we saw was pretty compelling. my colleague mike fish and i have been working on this since last summer. we did obtain some documents from the clinic. some of them are written by tony bosh, the founder of the clinic itself. just that was compelling, it would not have been enough for baseball to change the relationship. tony bosh provided more than baseball expected. texts, e-mails, voice mails, establishing what baseball believes they can prove was a longstanding relationship where

bosh treated a. rod individually, would go to his home to inject him. in addition, which is what brings this case to the side of all these other -- there were 12 other suspensions, all of which were accepted by players, they said his efforts to obstruct this investigation. >> how great are his chances in fighting this suspension, based on what you've seen? >> well, i mean you would -- based on baseball's labor history, based on what we've seen of the evidence, based on what's been described to us. maybe he would have success in reducing it, have you a player who's 38 years old, who's had surgeries on both hips, on his knee, who was struggling in single a. pitching, even a 100 game suspension, 150 games, which would be massive. bring him close to 40 years old, when he's trying to get back on the field. he's looking at the end of his career. even if he's successful in reducing some of it, which would seem like his best shot, he

doesn't have much left. >> how do you think this changes the perception of him. i'm reminded of the investigation into lance armstrong who denied doping for years before finally coming clear clean. do you think people will end up labelling rodrigez the same way they have armstrong, a liar or a cheeder? >> well, it's a different case, lance's level of true believers was something else. people inspired by the story of how he overcame cancer. with a. rod, he was different, he was a man without a country. he left seattle and went to texas with that huge contract. he never fit in there, he went to the yankees obviously. he was never considered a real yankee. it wasn't like he had this beloved fan base out there to begin with. in 2009 he admits or confirms a report that he doped when he was younger, but he said it was for a limited time. if anybody felt that they could forgive him then, he's just

blown that up now. >> jason, to that point. he's been combative throughout this process. part of the press conference tonight, what was he like throughout it? >> he was really subdued. i mean, there's no other way to say it. he was not combative, at least in this particular outing he was not. he kept saying repeatedly he would be able to say more at a later time. kept saying repeatedly that he didn't want to disrupt the appeals process and wanted that to play out. what i also found interesting was the reaction outside here to rodrigez. i heard you guys talking about the fans. you saw him selling some autographs before the game got underway here tonight.overwhelming majority of the fans who were out here tonight say it's time for rodrigez to hang up his hat. >> if the suspensions were upheld, how much money are we talking about? how much money is this going to cost him is it. >> if it's the entire 211 games he's looking at a number of

little factors in the contract that kick in, but about $34 million. >> there's incentive for him to try to get this whittled down? >> plenty incentive, and plenty incentive he serves to get back on the field. he's owed a total of $100 million of this massive contract he signed with the yankees. >> thank you for being on the program. i want to dig deeper now into this case. by the time federal agents showed up at his door, he was supplying 300 ballplayers with peds. thanks for being here. >> no problem. >> what was your reaction to what happened today. >> it's typically rod's superstar, fight, fight, fight,

let the lawyers take care of everything. >> fight because of the money? >> yes. because of the money and ego. these guys are ego driven. >> how easy is it to get around the testing. if you know your body and the schedule of testing. >> if you understand youred aboutdy body and know how drugs react in your body, it's not that difficult. if you want to do something that will give you that edge, it's out there. there's plenty of people out there to help you do routine blood work every day, as you take the injections in the offseason. learn your levels, learn how fast it gets out of your system. >> they're doing routine blood work every day? >> i would imagine so. if they came to me, that's what i would do. >> you have to monitor that closely to not get caught? >> yes. hgh is something they still have no ideas about, and nfl has a

problem with, everyone has it, it's a great -- it's something that helps your body recover and that's the main thing these ballplayers want. >> it's been reported you helped major league baseball with this investigation. >> yeah. >> what did you do? >> well, i -- me and major league baseball are never on the same page, but one of the investigators that i grew up with is now part of the team, and he -- as a courtesy of growing up in the bronx i turned -- he turned to me, and i've led him in the right direction, and told him what to look for, what not to. and how to approach things. it looks like it's working. >> when you watch a ball game now, can you -- do you have a sense of how many people. how widespread is this? >> well, it's gotten a lot, lot better. since the '90s and early '00s. the problem is, growth hormones are still a major factor. back in 2001, i started changing

all those guys from anabolics to hgh. >> why were you encouraging them to go to hgh. >> it's healthier, it's not detectible. >> it doesn't show up in tests? >> it's hard. it's something that doesn't leave markers. i'm not a scientist, i'm not a doctor, i know so many people have been tested for drugs and never got caught with it. it's something that helped recuperation. when you add anabolics, that's when you really grow your muscle. >> the testosterone? >> yes. >> that's why the biogenics was big. he used testosterone and peptides. >> what are peptides? >> it's a couple different compounds they have of growth hormones, and it's really not the compound, it's missing a couple things, when you inject it in your body, it's supposed to fill in the markers and it acts just the same way, it

doesn't leave -- test positive. >> to really crack down on this, do you have to have somebody who comes forward? i mean, is testing enough? or do you have to have someone on the inside who comes forward? >> the reason baseball is where it's at right now, the union finally -- and the players, i applaud them they're coming forward, and saying enough now. as long as the union doesn't get in the way of the testing, the testing program will work. and the game will be clean. will it ever be clean, no. because there's always the next guy, the next chemist finding things out. but if the two work together, the program, what they have now should work a lot, lot better now. just because what the union is not fighting as much. there's some areas on testing they have to fight. but something blatant like this, 12 guys didn't fight it? >> what about the nfl, i did pieces for 60 minutes a while

ago on players who were using, it didn't seem like they were proactive in testing. >> no, and i met some nfl players, their problem is growth hormones. they're huge these guys, they need recuperation, they play only once a week, gives them time and it works. i mean, they're trying these blood tests and stuff, i can't see it working, i don't understand -- as i'm talking to people, i've taken growth hormones, i know people pass test all the time. >> you were -- feds came knocking on your door. did you ever think you would get caught? >> yeah -- >> did it seem easy at the time. >> growing up the way i did in the bronx when you do something wrong, sooner or later your time runs out, it was just a matter of time. in a way i did, when i wrote my book, i said it was a comfort and a relief, it got so big for me. players were telling other players.

>> you were dealing with so many. >> and my phone would never stop, i was hiding it from everyone. the only people who knew i was doing what i was doing, were the players themselves. and i would never tell on another player. i didn't tell my wife, i didn't tell people in my family. finally when it came to an end, in a way it was a relief. >> i appreciate you being on. thank you very much. >> no problem. >> if this were about baseball or a celebrity with credibility problems, it won the be 45wouldt be the story it is. how do nonathletes manage to do it, without getting in the same trouble athletes do. the answer includes a loophole on steroids. >> reporter: this is the body of a man who uses performance enhancing drugs. virtually the same ones connected to lance armstrong, marion jones and alex rodrigez,

this man is not a professional athlete. jeffrey is 74 with the rock hard body and he claims a mental sharpness of a man half his age. >> everyone's going to age. i'm not against aging. i'm against getting old. >> and he claims no one has to with daily rigorous workouts a strict low cash diet and injections of testosterone and human growth hormone. >> we use it to improve health, to slow disease and prevent disease. and to improve quality of life. i'd like to think i'm blazing a trail for the baby boomer generation. >> a journey that a family physician began years ago. this was him before supplements. this is him today. >> how does this doctor keep looking younger and younger? the answer is cenegenics health

program. >> part of the exploding anti-aging industry that relies on testosterone and hgh. last year they report they made $100 million in revenue. they're treating baby boomers looking for anyway to turn back the hands of time. the hormone is not an approved treatment for anti-aging. how does cenegenics not break any laws? by focusing on a natural loophole of sorts. >> we're all about correcting deficiencies and getting levels up to a healthy level. >> his patients who are given hgh suffer from growth hormone deficiency. one of the approved reasons for taking hgh. patients here go through apy tuohy terry grand test. >> cenegenics said that was his

problem. like all the patients who take the hormones. he's monitored and tested four times a year for his testosterone and hgh intake. he now feels like he's 40. that comes with a hefty price tag. all this can cost up to $15,000 a year, cash only. >> my health is first, and whatever it costs me is worth it. >> if you think this is too good to be true, you're not alone. many doctors agree, saying, sure, there may be short term gain, but there will be long term cost. >> it's a fallacy to say that even in low doses these drugs are not harmful. >> a professor of medicine at boston university school of medicine would not talk specifically about cenegenics. it's a critic of the anti-aging movement. >> i do believe that giving growth hormone for anti-aging is quackery. >> hgh in particular can enlarge

organs, cause high blood pressure and even trigger cancer. >> what do you say to the medical community who says you're just selling a bunch of voodoo and this is dangerous because it's untested. >> we do not know what the long term consequences are going to be. >> what's wrong with just getting old? >> it's an argument a lot of doctors use, but who wants to get old if you don't have to. >> if next year, for some reason you get cancer, will you blame these supplements? >> no, i will not. >> he will continue to be the poster grandpa of a company and a movement that believes the riskier move is to turn away from this fountain of youth they found in diet, dumbbells and drugs. >> fascinating stuff. let us know what you think, follow me on twitte twitter @andersoncooper. an update on the massive terror alert, and whether it's a

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there's an answer tonight to what got american officials so spooked about a possible terror attack they issued a global travel alert.

lawmakers on both sides of the aisles went on tv talking about how credible they believe the threat to be. the deciding factor was a message from the al qaeda leader to the leader of the yemen affiliate telling him to do something. u.s. officials telling us there may be several sources of related intelligence, including electronic intercepts, web postings. bottom line, the alert is still on. 19 embassies are going to stay closed for the rest of the week, and questions are growing about al qaeda's reach. we're going to talk about it with peter bergen and paul cook. what do you make of the latest intelligence between al qaeda's top leaders saying do something. >> well, it's really very concerning when you have the top leader of al qaeda. it sends a message to do something, not clear what that something was, whether it was something in yemen or perhaps u.s. embassy's there.

it's led to great concern from u.s. counter terrorism, anderson. >> the guy who's head of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. how dangerous is he, what do we know about him? >> he's part of the inner circle. you can interpret the fact that al zawahri is reaching out to the yemen affiliate is a sign of al qaeda's weaknesses, we're also reporting that this guy has now been reported al qaeda's number two. back in pakistan, where the core is located there's no one else to appointed. the leadership of al qaeda central has been decimated. they're left with a weak or nonexistent bench. can you make another interpretation of this reaching out to yemen, we are so weakened that we have to look around the world for somebody else to step up to the plate. that group itself is very weak in yemen, they've tried to do numerous attacks outside the

country and they've never succeeded. >> there have been expanding drone strikes in yes, ma'amen? >> yeah, they've devastated about 30 of the top leaders in yemen. unfortunately, they've yet to find the extremely capable bomb maker, but this bomb maker has not been able to implement any successful attack against an american target. >> and yet despite what peter is saying here, you do have this travel alert, you have all these embassy's closing, a lot of politicians over the weekend saying, the chatter is reminiscent to the chatter we heard before 911, before we heard about this communication chain today, does that seem to be compared to the same chatter before 9/11. >> i don't think it's related at all. we have a serious threat because of the credibility of the information. i think it's fair to go out, despite the vagueness of this, it's fair to go out and say, you need to take precautionary steps. compared to what i witnessed in

2001 and 2002 when i sat at the threat table at the cia. to be in washington as a politician, and to screw americans into the ceiling about a threat that's comparable to 9/11, i don't believe it. be concerned but don't over react. >> al qaeda was on its heels, i think that's the quote. do you believe that's still the case? is one interpretation, that peter -- one idea that peter forwarded, is that this is a sign of desperation on the part of al qaeda central, trying to tell al qaeda to do something? is that your read on it? >> my read is that al qaeda is on a long decline, americans perspective of time is short. we measure time in this country in terms of months, years. al qaeda, when i talked to people debriefing al qaeda detainees. al qaeda talks about the decline

in terms of centuries. there will be episodic threats that we're seeing today. we should not confuse that, though, with the resurgence of the al qaeda organization. >> the white house wouldn't say whether the u.s. homeland was a potential target. was that out of an abundance of caution? or wouldn't we be seeing amped up security here if that's the case in. >> i think so, there's no indication that the u.s. homeland is a target. the epicenter of this threat seems to be in yemen and beyond that in the middle east. and south asia. >> beater, benghazi hadn't happened, do you think the u.s. government would have responded the same way this time? >> i mean, do we -- the thought experiment is, benghazi hadn't happened, clearly this reaction would be different. >> no one wants to sit at some congressional witness table describing an attack that could have been averted because there

was information in the system. everybody -- the state department itself is saying, in an abundance of caution, we're closing these embassies, it doesn't mean there's some ultraspecific threat against 19 different facilities that are closed over the coming week. without benghazi, the reaction, i think would be different. the political costs of benghazi to the obama administration, as you know, was very, very large. and that is the political context here. >> what happens now? does the u.s. wait this out? does the threat go away? at some point the embassy is open? >> this is fascinating. when we're going to remember from yellow to orange back in '03, '04, '50, we used to sit there and watch the threat matrix drive us, to escalate the threat warning. and then you'd say, how do we get out of this, in this case, something we haven't talked about, the american government has said, the travel warnings

will expire, that's the american government saying, we're not sure whether we can mitigate this strength, we're not sure whether this will decline, we want a way out, and the way out is to say, there's an end date on the threat. >> appreciate you being on. a bride on her honeymoon killed. several others injured, a man plows a car into a popular california board walk, all of it caught on tape. a 360 exclusive, two americans justine agers who became drug cartel assassins, they talked for the first time how they were recruited to kill. >> in all, how many people did you kill? >> i have no idea. >> no idea? you lost track? >> i guess so. >> could you guess or are we talking like 10, 20, 30, 50? >> between 20 and 30. [ tires screech ]

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the man shown in surveillance video being held on a $1 million bond after using is this car as a high speed weapon on the venice board walk. a newlywed on her honeymoon was killed. more than a dozen other people injured. the board walk was packed with tourists. the timing and what witnesses

told police raise the obvious question. did the suspect plot the attack to inflict maximum damage. >> surveillance videotape from a nearby restaurant shows the suspect's car plowing into people on the crowded venice board walk and swerving around barriers. >> he just drove and took that left turning down the board walk. gottis war scattering. bodies were flying in the air. people were screaming and it was absolute may hem. >> the driver got out of his car, casing the popular board walk. he gets back into the sedan and floors it. >> he had to have pressed his foot to the gas pedal -- pedal to the metal. his tires started screeching. he was looking for blood. >> an italian tourist on her honeymoon was killed and others injured in a scene a quarter

mile long. all of the wounded have been released from the hospital. nathan campbell of los angeles has been charged with murder. just two hours after this horrifying hit and run, campbell surrendered to police in neighboring santa monica. he told them, i think you're looking for me. the woman killed, 32 years old from italy. the italian consulate says she and her husband were married july 20th, and that the new groom was by her side at the time of the accident and tried to pull his wife away from the speeding car. if there is a motive in this carnage, police aren't sighing right now. they did say that campbell was bent on evil. cnn los angeles. >> that's unbelievable. there's a lot more we're following tonight, isha is here with a 360 bulletin. >> john mccain and lindsey graham are in cairo to meet with interim leaders as well as

muslim brotherhood leaders. president obama asked the senators to make the trip. graham said the egyptian military can't keep running the country and pushed for democratic elections. several thousand supporters of morsi marched through downtown cairo today, calling for him to be reinstated. they're threatening to try to keep cnn and nbc from hosting republican primary debates in 2016 unless the networks cancel upcoming specials about hillary clinton. both cnn and nbc say they will move forward with the special. anderson, meet the world's first stem cell burger, compliments of london scientists. it took years of research and $330,000 to develop. volunteers said it's close to meat, but not really juicy. it needs fat, salt and pepper. the university professor who

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chilling is an over useds word, but this story warrants it. we reported on child assassins, american teenagers acting as hitmen for a mexican cartel. it sounded unbelievable but it was very real. they sat down with ed lavandera for their first face to face interviews. here's what they told him. >> reporter: look into the eyes of gabrielle, you see a babyfaced 21-year-old, and then he blinks and you see something back. these tattoos on his eyelids. a window into the soul of a drug cartel assassin. >> in all, how many people did you kill? >> no idea. >> no idea? >> you lost track? >> so out of the world, man, when you're in mexico. >> could you guess, are we talking 10, 20, 30, 50? >> between 20 and 30.

>> reporter: gabriel says he was 15 years old when i was recruited to kill. he was part of a secret crew of hitmen living in laredo, texas. along with this man retta. they spoke from texas prisons where they're serving life sentences for murder. they both say they worked for miguel angel trevino. >> he's not going to tell you to do something he won't do himself, that's why a lot of people follow him. >> how much control do you think he had of nueve laredo? >> absolute control. >> he was 13 years old when two friends brought him to nuevo laredo, just across the border

from texas. in an instant i went from being a 13-year-old to a killer. >> we pulled up, ien cot believe what i was seeing. people getting tortured, killed, decapita decapitated. it was kind of hard to believe. i knew that day my life had just changed forever. >> he then says an argument broke out. miguel trevino broke out wanted to know why retta was there. trevino handed him a gun, they stood over a man tied up on the ground. >> what did they tell you to do? >> to kill that person. i have to do it. if i don't do it, i know what's going to happen to me. >> an then after you did it, you shot him? >> yes, sir. >> how many times? >> multiple times. >> a 13-year-old assassin was born. the first day i had to take somebody's life.

that's a day i'm never going to be able to forget. after that i had no life. >> you kept on killing after the first time at that ranch? >> i had to. that's what a lot of people don't understand. >> that's what retta says now, in this police interrogation video. the young killer relished the deadly power he wielded. he bragged to a laredo police detective, that killing made him feel like superman, taking the gun out of his hand was like taking candy from a kid. how in the world did it come to this for two american teens? cardona and retta grew up here on lincoln street, a few blocks away from the mexican border. this is the neighborhood where they became friends. like many people around here, they each had families on both sides of the border in mexico and the united states. they could easily move back and forth between both sides. and as it turns out, that's exactly what the drug cartel was looking for. as a teenager, he started stealing cars and selling them

in mexico, then he started carrying drugs and weapons across the border, working his way up the cartel ranks to become a hit man. cardona dropped out of school in ninth grade. >> it was great. >> did you feel like you could do whatever you wanted, you were untouchable? >> yeah, it gives you that sense. you can do whatever without being touched or having that sense of power. >> cartel leaders supplied him with thousands of dollars a week, a mercedes and a house. the money was seductive and intoxicating for these teams who came from the ram shackled streets of a texas bored town. >> you enjoyed the money, but did you enjoy the kill something. >> we did enjoy the money. you don't earn joy when you're doing. >> it didn't seem to bother you that much? >> no. >> cardona and retta say they would wait for the phone to

ring. a cartel member would give them a name and they went hunting. each time these men say they were paid 5,000 to $10,000, sometimes more, depending on how big the target was. >> did you think you were the king of the town? >> at that time, you never think it's going to end because it keeps on doing. >> reporter: eventually laredo police caught up to them. >> i couldn't take it any more, that's one of the risks i took, that ien cot take it any more. it was real hard for me, i wasn't living my life. >> it's fascinating to hear from these guys. they don't really seem to show much remorse at all, except for themselves. what's the most time you spent interviewing them? >> one of the things i thought really stood out to me, is that i expected to hear from them, that whenever they would carry

out these assassinations, these attacks, they were well planned they had been well trained. both of them said there wasn't a lot of planning, they would get a call, there would be a name, and think would go find the person, it wasn't like they were trailing the person. that should offer a lot of pause to people. that's where innocent bystanders can be gunned down by accident. the other thing that stood out to me, retta told me he often gets fan mail, young men asking him how he got into that world and asking him for recommendations and making connections for them out there in that world. and that i should think would leave people with pause as well. >> one guy's smiling as he's recounting the killings and stuff. ed lavandera, thank you. paula deen's empire is taking some hits. an extortionist is trying to get millions from the chef.

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$250,000 no details on the terms of the deal. relatives of ariel castro removed musical instruments, tools and other items from the convicted kidnapper's house in west cleveland ahead of its scheduled demolition later this week. gina de jesus made a surprise appearance at cleveland's puerto rican parade. emancipation proclamation, he spelled it wrong. he said he was cheated. very one word for the judges. >> really? >> you have to spell things correctly. it wouldn't have been fair to the other kids. it wasn't fair for him. >> they could have cut him some slack. he put in an extra t and he was

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time now for the ridiculist. we deal with vanity license plates, particularly the system in which some are rejected. our station in florida did an expo say on this, license plates that didn't make the cut. cu-nhell. gun safe rejected. gun play rejected. >> i get they don't want them driving aaround with cunhell but

what about these? >> old fart and horn man. >> horn man good, old fart denied. >> what about big turd and big johnson. >> big johnson was approved big turd rejected. >> who wanted to drive around with big turd on their license plate. already a bunch of unique and somewhat questionable license plates on cars already. see food. krakhed. and help to pea, possibly belonging to a urologist about. >> you know what's coming, we have to play the seinfeld clip.

>> i got my new plates, but they mixed them up. and i got someone's vanity plate. >> what do they say? >> assman. i'm cosmo kramer the assman. >> can i help you? >> yeah, dr. cosmo kramer, proctologi proctologist. >> okay, thanks. have a good day. >> i don't think that license plate would make it past the florida committee. nor would this one. >> maybe if i was someone like you i could have a new start. >> whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. did you see my license plate. >> and so tobias, hoping to straighten out his image, set out on a flew start. >> think about it for a minute, i'm sure you'll get it. we salute you on the ridiculist.