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bagram air field along with susan rice and the president also brought along a surprise guest, country music star brad paisley who gave a concert for some 30,000 troops there. mr. obama talked to the troops about what they have achieved in afghanistan and what the future may hold for them. >> and once afghanistan has sworn in its new president, i'm hopeful we'll sign a bilateral security agreement that let's us move forward and with that bilateral security agreement, assuming it is signed, we can plan for a limited military presence in afghanistan beyond 2014. because after all of the sack k kri fiss we have made, we want to make sure that afghanistan can never again, ever be used again to launch an attack against our country. >> and this is the president's
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fourth trip to afghanistan as president. so this trip comes on the memorial day weekend but also comes a few days before president obama lays out his foreign policy agenda. it also comes just ahead of the next round of afghan elections. the white house is hoping to work out a new security agreement with the country's next president. you heard barbara starr at the pentagon. why now is the president there? >> well, next month in afghanistan, they are going to have the runoff election. both candidates have said that they will sign a security agreement with the united states and the security sitting agreement with hamid karzai has not signed. that is crucial right now for u.s. troops to be able to stay in afghanistan after the end of the year. so this is a time in which the president wanted to go and thank the troops clearly on this memorial day weekend and their families for the sacrifices that they make. remind the u.s. that there are
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30,000 troops still serving in that country and also get an update from his commanders on the ground. now, if the new president executes that greem agreement, president obama needs to decide how many options are on the table ranging between 3,000 and 10,000 roughly the president has to talk to his top commanders face-to-face and give him an idea of what may be needed. fred? >> the number is still to be determined. 3 to 10,000. what is the limited number? we heard the president said a limited troop presence. what would their role be? >> there's no question that combat forces will be out of afghanistan by the end of the year. that's even a nato agreement at
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this point. the president is talking about a responsible end to the war in afghanistan. that is really the u.s. role ending in the war in afghanistan, something president obama had promised as a candidate that he would do, bring the war to an end. does it change the security situation perhaps right away? the u.s. troops that would be left behind will have the job of helping train, advise, and assist afghan forces to make sure that they can really take over. afghan military forces doing pretty well. most people will tell you afghan police forces, those in those remote villages, towns, cities across afghanistan. still, a lot of corruption, a lot of misconduct and it's the stability on the local level in afghanistan that is really going to be crucial to keep the taliban and al qaeda at bay and right now that's very problematic, fred. >> and barbara, people always
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find it fascinating that the president, this president or any other president can do this and in the cloak of darkness, surprise visit to a place that is still in the face of danger and how they are able to execute this even though this has been something in the planning for a couple of months. but is there any way of detailing, you know, how does the president descend into an area like this, remain their safely. now that the world knows it, we're seeing live pictures as opposed to publicizing it once the president has already left the area? >> well, you know, we saw this with president george w. bush going several times to iraq, afghanistan president, president obama. let me note in history, president lyndon johnson went to south vietnam at the time to visit the troops there. it's so important for a commander in chief to be seen with his troops. the secret service does a lot
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for weeks ahead of time. any time the president leaves the country but especially when they go to a war zone. between the secret service and the u.s. military, there's a very good understanding of what needs to be done to keep the air space safe, the area around the president safe. but make no mistake, he landed in darkness, he will leave in darkness. he goes to one location. the very large base which they can completely control who goes in and who goes out. this is not a country where any president of the united states is getting ready to start moving around any time soon. >> barbara starr, appreciate it from the pentagon. and while the president was embarking on this trip, he was also briefed on that rampage taking place in california. six men and women were killed during friday's murder spree near the university of santa barbara campus. a white house spokesman says that the president's and first
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lady's thoughts and prayers go out to those that lost a loved one because of the horrific shooting. the president will be getting continuous updates throughout his trip. all right. new insight into what motivated the man behind that deadly rampage in california. there was a key warning just moments before he opened fire. a manifesto more than 100 pages long. the chilling details, next.
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his murder spree during the university of santa barbara campus. the first to be gunned down was a uc student who signed art history and archaelogy. cooper was shot outside of a sorority house. she was with 19-year-old veronika weiss who was also shot and killed. she was a graduate from thousand oaks, california. and 20-year-old christopher martinez was in a nearby deli when rodger walked in and shot him dead. rodger's first victims were his roommates who he stabbed to death at their apartment in isla vista. the men were stabbed repeatedly with all they are saying right now, sharp objects. in addition to the six deaths, 13 other victims were hurt. most were shot. four were hit by the suspect's car. authorities are verevealing mor
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are elliot rodger and his murderous plots. investigators are searching his parents' home related to the guns. three handguns in all were found in his wrecked car, all bought legally in three different cities. he also had more than 400 rounds of ammunition. authorities say rodger had been planning this killing spree for at least a year. they say he was suffering from an undisclosed mental illness and was under the care of mental care professionals. rodger left evidence behind, including a seven-minute youtube video and, in it, rodger rants about being rejected by girls all of his life. he announces his intent in that video to commit mass murder. >> tomorrow is the day of retribution.
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the day in which i will have my revenge against humanity. >> that disturbing youtube video wasn't the only warning sign. rodger also e-mailed a 140-page manifesto to his parents and at least one of his therapists before the shootings took place. and we've also learned that his parents were frantically trying to find him when they heard of someone opening fire. pamela brown is live for us in santa brar santa barbara, with exclusive new insight into this tragedy. pamela, tell us more. >> reporter: well, a representative with the sheriff's office just walked out not long ago and said that any moment now we'll learn the identities of the three people stabbed to death inside elliot rodger's apartment. we'll bring you that information as soon as we get it. fredricka, we've been speaking to a close friend of the rodger family by the name of simon estare and he walked us through in great detail what elliot
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rodger's family went through before and during that shooting rampage. he says that on thursday elliot apparently spoke to his father and said that he was looking forward to seeing his family this weekend. and then friday night, at 9:17 p.m., pacific time, the mother received this e-mail with the manifesto attached to this -- 140 pages attached and she was one of a couple of dozen people that elliot rodger had sent this manifesto to. she instinctively went to his youtube page after reading the first page and that's where she came across the retribution video where he talks about slaughtering women at the sorority house. the mother called 911 and alerted the father about what was going on and they were on their way to santa barbara when they found out about the shooting and learned that their 22-year-old son was behind it.
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fredricka, of course, now we're looking at whether red flags were missed, whether anything fell through the cracks. we know that there was a welfare check by the police back in april. they went to check on him because the mother couldn't reach him, she saw that he posted some troubling videos on youtube so she alerted the therapist who then alerted the police. his family views this as a missed opportunity. as soon as i saw the cops, the biggest fear i ever had in my life overcame me. i had somehow discovered what i was planning to do and reported me for it. if that was the case, the police would have searched my room and found all of my guns and weapons along with my writings about
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what i plan to do with them. i would have been thrown in jail and denied a revenge on my enemies. i can't imagine a hell darker than that. this is a man who was clearly disturbed. >> what do we know about his mental health history? >> reporter: well, according to this family friend, he's been seeing a therapist on and off since he was 8 years old. in high school he apparently saw a therapist just about every day. at the time of the rampage, had he been seeing two therapists. it had been implied over the years that he suffered from asperger's and the parents are going through undescribable grief. they really cared about the health of their son. they felt like he was in good hands and, of course, now in light of what happened, they are asking themselves that question,
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could they have done more? >> i can't imagine the anguish of those parents. thank you so much, pamela brown. part of elliot rodger's shooting spree and stabbing spree was captured on a surveillance camera at one of our crime scenes. kyung lah is live in isla vista, california. what does this video show, kyung? and this was video captured after the stabbing of his roommates, right? so this involves mostly the shootings? >> reporter: you're right about that. it's what people are referring to as the third scene. it's the ivy deli mart. the owner had seen the gunman before. he was a customer. he had come here, he had shopped. but on friday night he came here with a gun and he began firing inside. he did not step inside the store. he was shooting from outside. it was all caught on the store's surveillance tape. it was obtained exclusively by
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cnn. a normal friday night at the ivy deli mart checkout line when suddenly -- >> i'm scared just looking at the cameras. i was like, oh, my god. >> reporter: the surveillance camera is capturing the moment at his store. customers ducking a. glass door shattering while people run. one woman tries to reach out to a victim and calls 911 as bullets fly overhead. the gunman is just outside, mere feet away, intent on killing. >> there's two bullets that came in through the counter down here. >> you can actually see through. >> holes punctured the walls, riddle the glass, chunks of counter missing. >> that's a bullet fragment. >> yes. >> reporter: where did that come from. >> the back. >> reporter: christopher
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martinez bled to death on the floor as his friends try to keep him alive by giving him cpr. >> it was very horrible. i saw some of it and i couldn't finish. you cannot see the whole movie. >> multiple gunshot victims in front of the ivy deli. >> reporter: then the gunman drove to this apartment complex. where ellen cotton recorded the barrage of bullets on her iphone. >> it was horrible, sad, i'm still like in shock that this happened here. it was so random. >> reporter: the video that we have that we can't show you shows when chris martinez was shot and the thing that's remarkable about this is you see his friends trying to give him cpr. you see them comforting him. we also referred to that woman calling 911 on the cell phone. all of this is happening while the bullets were flying
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overhead. such bravery even in the face of such horror. >> that's heartbreaking. i'm seeing people come in and out of the shop right there. what is happening there today? yesterday we saw a cordoned off area. very different scene today, right? >> reporter: they are trying to get back to normal but it's such a short period of time since this happened. and if you look over here, you can see that people are stopping here at a memorial site. they've placed candles and pictures and a lot of flowers. and it's not just here. this entire community is affected. we've seen this type of memorial outside of the sorority house. they are trying to honor the people killed and injured and also as you see these people walk into the store, trying to get back to normal. fredricka? >> that's going to be a tough road ahead for sure. kyung lah, thank you so much.
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a very poignant moment there. that memorial is being set up makeshift right there in isla vista, california. overseas, pope francis and an historic trip to the middle east. he says it's purely religious but in a minute we'll look at why it may have some political overtones. i bought a car, comes over... and you're like. if you're getting... a good deal or not. led up... truecar.com. all the information... you should be paying.
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all right. pope francis is continuing his historic trip through the holy land. the pope kicked off his trip in jordan yesterday by meeting with king abdullah. the pope made a dramatic gesture towards moving the middle east process forward. he invited the palestinian authority to come to the vatican for peace talks. this trip has been characterized by the vatican as a strictly religious one. the pope is also scheduled to meet with the leader of the orthodox christian church. so what should we take away from this historic trip? joining me now is father edward back, a priest and religious commentator. good to see you. so in this three-day visit to the middle east, pope francis is hoping to encourage interfaith dialogue. has he already done that, just by the look of the huge crowds
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that have turned out? >> well, fred rericka, what has been obvious to me is what has happened in the last two days has been largely political. so unlike the three previous popes that have come to the middle east, pope francis enters first into palestine, not into israel. he greets the palestinian priest first and today that striking image. he stands at that separation wall and touches it and prays there. he doesn't say anything. i had a palestinian friend of mine say that he was hoping for a reagan gorbechov moment. this cannot stand, this separation, the oppression of the palestinian people cannot stand. so this unscripted moment there.
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second unscripted moment, he invites both presidents to the vatican on june 6th to pray for peace. who know what is will come out of the mouth of the pope next but these two things were the most striking images thus far of this trip. >> well, very significant and, like you said, the symbolism speaks volumes. it may speak louder than any spoken word. so what do you suppose provoked the pope to do this now on this 50th anniversary of pope paul, ii? >> well, pontiff means bridge builder and he's saying not walls, we need to build bridges and he's going now to speak to the patriarch of the orthodox
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church. it was only 50 years ago with pope paul xi in jerusalem that they began that hasn't happened in 900 years. so this is an anniversary to commemorate that. so this pope will pray with the current patriarch and then going to sign a document that says they will work for further unity, building bridges, not walls that divide. and so i think what is very interesting is he's living up to his name. he's saying that we are about peace, reconciliation, healing, building bridges and he's doing it politically and tomorrow we're going to see that he's doing it religiously. >> and in your view, you know, you talk about the political message that he's been sending from the very beginning. how about the choice that he made to also travel with a rabbi and with the sheikh, both of
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whom he knew during his time in argentina. this is not a new epiphany. >> he was known for his interreligious dialogue in argentina and both of these men were friends with him in argentina. he invited them to accompany him. by the way, this has never happened before. they are traveling together and just there being together, the three religions, he is saying that we have to work together. this is one god. we worship one god. we need to come together as communities of falth so it's very popular and these are friends of his. and he's breaking down walls, again, that say unity is his voice. >> father edward back, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thank you, fred. all right. coming up, next, president obama's surprise visit to
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me president obama is spending part of this weekend in afghanistan. there he is. thanking the troops for their service. talking about the mission and what will happen after most of these troops leave. >> once afghanistan has sworn in its new president, i'm hopeful that we'll sigh a bilateral security agreement that will help us move forward. and assuming it is signed, we can plan for a limited military president in afghanistan beyond 2014. because after all of the sacrifices that you have made, we want to make sure that afghanistan can never again, ever, be used to launch an attack against our country. >> the president's visit comes
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right as so much is at stake in afghanistan and here at home. joining me now to talk about it is c nchlnn military analyst ge "spider" marks. what does this do for troop morale? why is it so important that a commander in chief does this. >> that's a great question. not only is this significant but it's important for the commander in chief, the individual charged with leading our military, to lead from the front and, in fact, that means the world to them and still they have a support of the commander in chief and also at the end of the day need to make sure that they
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can execute their missions and make sure that they have jobs to do. it's uplifting and allows you to keep for just a second a sense of accomplishment and you also have to keep your eye on the ball. >> of course, the president got huge cheers from the troops when he said that the war will be winding down by the end of the year. how do you reconcile that with him saying that the u.s. plans to keep some troops in afghanistan after combat missions have ended? >> well, you know, you look at it -- fred, i'm smiling because you look at it from several perspectives. from the perspective of the soldier when your boss' boss says this is your last tour, it's a high-five moment but at the same time what they have to
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do is execute an agreement that allows u.s. forces to remain in afghanistan, to continue the good, hard work, the sacrifices of so many so that the united states has a presence and can be there. it doesn't look like anything that we recognize but they are moving down a path and there will be a runoff here in june. it's important for the united states not to do what it didn't in iraq, which is not establish a status force agreement and walk out of iraq. we're certainly there in iraq but we are not there in any sort of official capacity and we need to make sure that we can do that in afghanistan. >> general james "spider" marks, thank you so much for your perspective. on the west coast in california, a community is still reeling after the mass murder in that college town and it's generated a lot of comments from social media as well.
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this led to a blizzard of comments on social media. they are trying to make sense out of america's newest mass murderer. nick valencia is here with what people are thinking and really no one can make sense of what took place. >> no. the theme is sadness, confusion. i read a post and they said that you read about these shootings at or near campus shootings and you never think that it will happen to you. i want to read a sample of reaction of what happened. sarah luther, whose friend is one of those shot and injured in friday night's shooting says, please pray for nick and all of those harmed by the ucsb shooting. i want to show you a photo of nick. he's still recovering at a santa barbara hospital. this is a photo of nick that says, spraying for cheeks. get better, kid. he couldn't say enough nice things about nick. so we're hoping that he gets better. this is from a man offering
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condolences for a friend's family. chris michael martinez was killed at the hands of the shooter on friday night. he posted life is but a vapor. we don't know how many days or hours we have with our loved ones. we are grieving with a friend the loss of her son and the isla vista rampage from last night. our hearts are broken with her and her family. >> my heartaches deeply for isla vista, where i spent five years of my life. and "this is my home." she's still shocked by what happened. "he came into my home and hurt innocent people." i'm tired of people not respecting this place where i live, this place i love. finally, you're talking about the candlelight vigil. 4,000 united and standing
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strong. i was also there in isla vista. you're looking at the photo there. if you have tweets to add to the conversation, we'll try to get your comments on the air. >> not enough can be said about the kind of grief and shock that people are going through. >> it's truly unthinkable. >> it really is. thank you so much, nick. >> sure. we'll have more on the mass murder coming up and the investigation that continues. also straight ahead, ukraine appears to have a new president. he's known as the chocolate king. but is he really the people's choice? we're live in ukraine.
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from one of those areas in donetsk. nick, what was election day like there? >> reporter: a climate of fear and intimidation imposed by those who don't want to see this part of ukraine stay part of ukraine and declared it as part of its own separate state and local officials say about a quarter of polling stations are opened and only one in ten people were able to cast vote who could have at those places. and we saw today how many people struggle to get an opportunity to cast their vote. this is what voters got in donetsk city, a closed door at polling stations. this is what people in power look like at a pro-russian valley in the very city center and it sounds like this. dozens of separatist militants on truck but one truck was different. full of gunmen from chechnya.
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what you're about to hear is a startling insight into how involved russia may be here. these men are not only chechen but one said he was a russian policeman. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: vladimir putin says that these elections should be respected but armed men got here without putin's government knowing about it. near donetsk, people tried to vote but the ballot papers were burned by separatists earlier. those guarding these polling
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stations said about 20 people have come here and tried to vote and are unable to do anything here. the allegiances are changing fast. this the home of a steel magnet, a local power broker, besieged by protesters who wanted handed over to screparatists. they're protecting the people from danger they claim. his pockets are deep but his influence waning. so few pro-yukrainian voices. the ground of the new president to take a stand shrinking fast. very uneviable job, really. nobody with blood on their hands. you said he's an experienced politician. he has known in the past to have good links with moscow and needs
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all of his diplomatic and negotiating skill to bridge the huge differences here and the outstanding question of what do all these men, these pro-russian, pro-separatists fill about thes wimilitants goi? fred? >> thanks so much. appreciate it. all right. back here in the u.s., firefighters are getting better control over a wildfire in arizona today. but it could still double in size before they'll be able to fully contain it. the fire near sedona already burned more than 13,000 achors and people living nearby are ready to evacuate at a moment's notice. and overseas, pope francis is wrapping up the second day of his historic day to the middle east on a visit to the west bank, the pope made a dramatic gesture toward moving the middle east peace process forward. he invited the leaders of israel and the palestinian authority to come to the vatican for peace
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talks. he ends the day in jerusalem and then tomorrow he spends time meeting with political and religious leaders including israel's prime minister. for a pope that prides himself on being accessible, this trip was a huge security challenge. here's ivan watson. >> reporter: the holy city is getting ready. festooned with the flags of the vatican and its leader pope francis and as always, security is a major concern. >> our units and representatives will be fully manned here. more than 20 officers watching. >> reporter: mickey rosen feld gives me a tour. with more than 320 cameras around the old city, the police can cleesely monitor the pope's every step. >> we are capable of seeing every different area for a specific individual. >> reporter: he says the main
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threat to the pope comes from israeli extremists. >> our units dealing with criminal incidents. price tags as they're known. the majority of incidents over the last few weeks have been against israeli arabs, one or two, unfortunate incidents against churches. >> reporter: this month, the catholic church in jerusalem expressed alarm about the recent upsurge of acts of vandalism known as price tags. hebrew graffiti with anti-christian slurs. ahead of the spoep's visit on sunday, some shopkeepers in the old city tell us they have been ordered to close the businesses from saturday night until monday. >> it's always the big issue of security. everything goes back to security now. they could make security with shops open but don't want to do it. it's easier to ask us to close, you know. >> reporter: the palestinian authority's ambassador to the
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vatican fears the stringent security measures may turn the old city into a ghosttown. >> i cannot understand to the holy father from his complications. i cannot understand to see the streets of jerusalem empty. >> reporter: for the purposes of crowd control, israeli security prevented many christians from attending easter services last month. some christians here expect the same could happen when the pope arrives in jerusalem on sunday. >> when someone like the pope comes, you expect -- you expect to be on the streets and to be able to have visual contact with him, and for faithful people and people of -- that love to see the pope, i mean, that's very important and that's frustrating when this does not happen. >> reporter: there's also pride here. and hope that pope francis can bring support to this ancient
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>> i know it's a little late but i was in the neighborhood. thought i'd stop by. >> a surprise memorial day weekend visit to the troops in afghanistan. earlier today, he landed at bagram airfield with the team of as vazers. aifrs one also had country music star brad paisley on board to give a concert for some 32,000 troops stationed there. mr. obama meantime talked to the troops about what they have achieved in afghanistan and what the future may hold. >> and once afghanistan has sworn in its new president, i'm hopeful we'll sign a bilateral security agreement to move forward. and with that bilateral security agreement, assuming it is signed, we can plan for a limited military presence in afghanistan beyond 2014. because after all the sacrifices we have made, we want to preserve the gains that you have helped to
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