join us tomorrow for another addition of "crossfire." "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. next, major breaking news out of malaysia. a huge setback this the search for flight 370. one of the centerpieces of this whole investigation a false lead. plus, inside the mind of a child killer. an "outfront" exclusive investigation. and the first lady gets in a food fight with the gop. republicans aren't holding anything back. let's go "outfront." >> good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, breaking news. it's not the plane. a massive setback in the search for malaysia airlines flight 370. the u.s. navy says the

underwater pings are not from the plane's black boxes. the entire search for nearly two months has focused on hunting where those pings were heard. it's a stunning setback, and rene marsh broke the news. and rene, wow is really all i can say right now. >> i pretty much said the same thing today, erin. i said wow when we learned this information, because it all boils down to this. for seven and a half weeks, we've been searching for something that simply was not there. the u.s. navy is on camera and talking to cnn tonight. we are told the black boxes were not in the search zone, and most likely neither is the plane. it was the most promising lead, and now we know it's false. new information the u.s. navy has concluded these four underwater signals were not from the missing plane's black boxes. >> from the u.s. navy's standpoint, these sounds were most likely not from the black

boxes. >> yes, i'd have to say at this point, based on all of the imagery data we've collected and looked at. if that black box were nearby, we would have picked it up. >> reporter: when detected in april, the pings boosted confidence the plane would be found. >> the full signals previously acquired taken together constitute the most promising lead. >> reporter: but now the navy says the sounds doh could have been from the search ships itself or other electronics. >> we may very well have been in the wrong place. but at the end of 30 days, there was nothing else to listen for. >> reporter: after searching 329 square miles of ocean floor, the bluefin 21's mission is over. the search continues in august when private companies take over. meantime, a new potential lead. cnn has learned a sound that could have been the plane crashing was detected by underwater microphones. >> our analysis is designed to detect nuclear events and

earthquakes. and my understanding is yes, with a view to finding if there is any evidence from impact from the malaysian aircraft. >> reporter: the united nations nuclear test ban organization has a network of 11 hydrophone stations that pick up many sounds, even ice breaking thousands of miles away in antarctica. but could it hear a plane hitting the water? >> it's possible. but the circumstances that would allow it would have to be very particular. >> reporter: well, this is a long shot because the data from the signal detected appears to be inconsistent with other data about the position of the plane. nevertheless, scientists continue to analyze it because this just goes to show they are trying to follow up on every possible lead to find something, find some sort of wreckage. and they tell us that they're hoping to share their findings in the near future. erin? >> rene, thank you. now joining me richard quest,

jeff wise and mary schiavo. it's been 83 days. these were the linchpin of much of the search the past two months. they've been looking because of these pings. this is a big development. >> it is. but you are excluding an area now. it is devastating that it's not there. but the important thing of course is they've discovered it's not there or that the pings are wrong after the event. am i making sense? it doesn't really matter now that we know they weren't the right pings because they've already searched the area. yes, it was a waste of time to search it, but now we know they weren't the pings, we can refocus and start to look at exactly where the search might perhaps move forward, which is back to the arcs. >> back to the, a based on the inmarsat data. >> yes. >> jeff, you've been very skeptical. not just to the inmarsat data conclusions, but of the pings themselves. >> right. >> everyone wants to find this plane. but your concerns have been

justified now. >> right. i mean, basically, all along, i've been saying what a lot of other people have been saying as well. it's simply that the pings did not match what we expected to hear from the black boxes. the frequencies were wrong. and the distribution on the sea floor of the pings was incompatible with what we would expect the find from the black boxes. and what really the only reason i think that any of us gave credence or the credence that we did to these pings was that the authorities were staking their credibility on their association with mh 370. so really, it became an acid test for the credibility of the authorities. they said in very strong language that we would soon fine the plane. so for me this isn't really about whether these pings are real, but how much faith do we have in the credibility of the authorities. because the only reason that we believe that the plane is in the south at this point is because the authorities have staked their credibility again on that. >> no, they haven't staked their credibility on that. >> okay. >> i'll take issue on that. >> okay. >> that turns it into a slinging

match if you like between the authorities and everybody else. they have not staked their credibility on it. they staked the fact that they believe it to be true, which is not the same thing as we are credible and you are not, so to speak. they basically said in the extremity of the moment. >> okay. >> that we believe this to be true. now, what we have learned today is that it's not true with the pings. and yes, weeks were wasted by looking in that area. >> 50 days were wasted. >> but they have nothing else to go on. let's not be too clever after the event here. they had nothing else to go on. >> although based in part on the inmarsat data and the pings started to add up and add up. and as a result, they didn't look anywhere else. they haven't been looking in other locations because of this. hold on one second. mary, i know you thought these were the pings, along with a lot of people, most people. what about the frequency was never right. the standard for the plane so-called black box 37.5 kilo hertz. the frequencies were all lower

than that. they picked some of these up for hours and hours and hours. what else would they have been? >> well, you know, now the navy is explaining it might have been some frequencies from the ship, from the towed pinger locator itself. i'm still skeptical about trackers on marine life. but they're saying from the very equipment itself could have caused these pings. and many of us were asking all along is someone checking what happens to a pinger underwater for 30 days. we have now had three months. they could have checked it twice. does a 37.7 kilohertz pinger degrade under water pressure to 33.3? and now apparently we'll never know that because these weren't the pingers anyway. but that would have been a very important question to answer, particularly now that they say it's universally accepted, interesting term by the navy, universally accepted by the search teams that these were not it. >> richard, how do you go from publicly saying we're basically sure these are it and we're looking here to we are now

universally accepting these are not it. what if it is it? >> because they're doing it in extremis. they're doing it urgently. they're doing it with a deadline of 30 days that is about to expire there is a tight schedule. >> does that mean you're also skeptical about the conclusion about the inmarsat that it's in the south? because that was also made in extremis. >> no because once they have done that work, they then sent it out to other people to check it. that work has been checked by other organizations using the raw data. >> but why would it take them 50 days after the death of what would be a plane black box signal to say it's not? by the way, the guy who made those pingers has been on the show. we called him tonight. he said look, they haven't called me yet from the navy so he hasn't commented yet. he had listened and said they sound like his pinger.

>> you were the one who is the skeptic and the cynic. i'll give you that. what i'm urging everybody else is don't just sit there now and beat up on the fact. when they're down in the ocean, they've got nowhere else to search, they're following the only leads they've got. you've got angus houston saying very stable, distinctive, not of natural origin. the australian defense forces center believed it's a description of the flight data recorder. they're doing the best they could with what they had at the time. >> so where it is then? is everything now on the table? inmarsat has now put out its data, but not its calculations. >> right. >> so? >> i would like richard and everyone else in the world to get their head around the fact that we have no reason to think that the plane went south except for the say so of inmarsat and the search authorities. and if we can't trust them to be right about the acoustic pingers, i don't think we should have excessive amounts of faith. listen, they just recently

released what they said was the raw data. that raw data was missing. the key crucial -- >> the calculations. >> the analysis, the algorithm. et cetera. >> very quickly before we go, is everything on the table now in terms of where to look? >> no, everything is not on the table. but what is important is this is how often air crash investigations go. there have been so many crashes i've been involved in investigating, and you pull out and go over it. well don't even have the wreckage yet. but you pull out and go over the wreckage time and time again. you throw out theories and investigate them. the most important thing is not to get fixated on the first theory. it's one of the mistakes of investigation. and now they're going november on to that. they're going to use the inmarsat data, because that's all they have and that's the most realistic way to look at it. they need to look for other clues and follow those up. i think they'll still follow inmarsat because there is nothing else. >> all right. thanks to all. "outfront" next, a cnn exclusive. we're going to hear from the gun store employee who sold elliot rodger one of his weapons. plus, a special "outfront" investigation into child killers.

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breaking news in the killing rampage that left six people dead in santa barbara, california. tonight for the first time we are hearing from the man who sold 22-year-old elliot rodger a gun leading up to the shooting. kyung lah is "outfront." she has the exclusive.

kyung, so you have had a chance to talk to him. what does he remember about that sale? >> this is one of the three guns sold. and this one store did sell one of the handguns. the manager of the store telling cnn that he remembers this transaction. it happened back in february. he remembers the man who would become the isla vista gunman. he says that there was nothing unusual about him, nothing particularly remarkable. they did talk about isla vista. he says that he cleared the ten-day waiting period. and when asked whether or not the gun store felt responsible in any way, because this weapon was used in a crime, here is what he told us. >> it happens from time to time. but what about the guy that sold him the knives or the swords that he used, or what about the guy that sold him the car he was then driving around, hit people. i mean, do they feel bad? or do they know he was going to do something bad with it?

i mean, we sell tools or items. i mean, it's no different than the guy that sold him the knife that he used. >> the manager says we often talk about guns, the regulation of guns, that that's an easier topic to talk about. but there are other more complicated issues at stake here. erin? >> thank you very much. pretty incredible there what he had to say. i guess the question is what motives someone like elliot rodger to kill? he is one of troubled young people who commit heinous crimes. but some say kids who kill can be rehabilitated. jean casarez has an "outfront" investigation into the mind of killer teens. >> she was very easy going. >> goofy. >> and goofy, yeah. >> reporter: beth brodie was only 15 when she was murdered, beaten to death with a baseball bat. her 16-year-old killer was a boy allegedly upset that brodie wouldn't go out with him. richard baldwin was tried as an adult for first-degree murder and given the only penalty

possible under massachusetts law, life in prison with no chance of ever getting out. for brodie's family, the sentence meant healing could finally begin. >> i knew that he was going to pay for the crime. and that made me feel better. >> reporter: now almost 20 years later, a shocking reversal. >> it's a slap in the face. we feel betrayed, betrayed by the justice system. >> reporter: on christmas eve 2013, massachusetts's highest court ruled that putting juveniles in prison without the chance of parole violates their constitutional rights. at the heart of the issue is the science of brain development. >> neurologically, the adolescent's brain is continuing to develop. starting at about age 18, even serious violence in serial offenders begin to decrease. so by the time they're in the mid-20s and late 20s, most of them are no longer engaging in crime at all.

>> reporter: to the massachusetts court, it came down to one question. if the character of a juvenile killer isn't fully formed, how can a sentencing judge determine if he or she can be rehabilitated? to the court, that is the decision of the parole board. at hearings that begin when someone has served only 15 years in prison. among hundreds of cases, this ruling could affect is the high profile killing of high school teacher colleen ritzer, allegedly raped and murdered by 14-year-old student philip chisolm. chisolm will now be eligible for parole, even if convicted of first-degree murder. and more than 60 already convicted murderers in massachusetts now suddenly have a shot at freedom. for some prosecutors, that is hard to swallow. >> we understand the human development of the brain. but there are just some crimes so heinous and so abhorrent that you have to take a different

tact. >> reporter: jonathan blodgett is the head of the commonwealth district attorney association. >> this is a converted conference room. it's now the war room. >> reporter: the war room? >> to handle the appeals. >> reporter: his office is now scrambling to prepare for unexpected parole hearings in 11 cases, some decades old. >> these are the worst of the worst of the worst. the court on that date and that decision redefined justice for 11 victims. >> reporter: one of those victims is beth brodie. >> we have to be the voice for beth, because she does not have it, because he took it away. i mean we have to fight for her. >> reporter: jean casarez, cnn, salem, massachusetts. >> "outfront" tonight, dr. jim foulan. you just heard in jean casarez's piece, these killers described as the worst of the worst of the worst. now the justice system is saying well, if you committed this crime as a teenager, maybe you changed. maybe your brain changes. maybe you wouldn't could it

again. so maybe you can go free. does that make sense? >> well, it's partially true, erin. but it depends on the kind of murder it is. i don't know of any psychopathic murderer who has been rehabilitated in their teens or as adults. some people with personality disorders like borderline personality disorders and ones that are related to lack of empathy, these are pretty hard wired into the brain. and so even though we hear about plasticit and retraining, i don't know if that's true. some people do in fact grow out of things, if you will. but not these people. not psychopaths and people with personality disorders who are violent. >> not people who are committing some of these crimes that are so horrific, you don't even want to talk about them. that case recently in massachusetts of a brutal and violent rape of a teacher and then murder. that is a -- and these kids, every time they do it, you hear about how they were an honor

role student or so nice or so sweet. that isn't a definition of the psychopath that you could have the same things going on at the same time, right? >> one sounds like he was and one sounded like he wasn't. but we like to think as a culture that we can always bring somebody back. and this laps not to be the case, unfortunately. so it really case by case some people can be and you can look at it. but in many cases it can't. so this omnibus sort of ruling seems quite irresponsible to me. >> interesting to use the word irresponsible. i know you have said there are three things that determine whether someone is a psychopath and someone can commit some of these horrible kinds of crimes. brian makeup and childhood patterns. two of the three are nature, not nurture. people are born this way? >> well people are born with a certain genetic makeup. and many are born with a certain propensity, a sort of brain pattern, a circuit that has low

empathy. and it tends toward aggression. but by itself, that isn't enough to create a criminal, a killer. so we say that the genes load the gun and the environment pulls the trigger. but in some people, many people, the bullets, the genes that they inherit are not dangerous. they're blanks. so about maybe 20% of people who have this high risk genetic composition, their early abuse can really trig their into a psychopathic pattern. >> dr. fallon, thank you. and still "outfront," a first look at google's driverless car. no pedals, no steering wheel. and a congressman working to dismantle her school initiative for healthy food comes "outfront" tonight. [ male announcer ] this is kevin. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him, he's agreed to give it up. that's today?

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have faith in this vehicle. >> the use of bowel-churning makes me very terrified. >> but it's going to half. it's going to happen. >> it's going the happen. and then when there is some kind of a secyber incident they can hack into your car and crash it. >> why do you have to be so downer on this? this is the future. this will allow mobility. this will improve speeds on the interstate. this will reduce crashes probably in the long run. ultimately, this will give people -- this will open up vistas, whether it's google, whether it's bmw, whoever it is. >> they probably can enforce following distance. so the traffic would move more financially. because now people go really, really fast and have to stop for 20 minutes. if everybody just went one speed, we'd get there faster. i would imagine you can manage traffic flow. >> absolutely. having seen this in operation, having understood the logistics behind it, having seen the theory behind it, it is terrifying, because you do put

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today president obama delivered what was billed as a major foreign policy speech. but he sounded a lot more like a man majorly on the defense. jim acosta has the story. >> reporter: at the west point military academy, it was a 45-minute lecture on the obama doctrine as the president laid out his vision for u.s. leadership in a war weary world. >> just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail. >> reporter: taking note of the two wars he has ended, all while killing osama bin laden, mr. obama fired back at accusations he has been too hesitant on the global stage. reminding his critics of lessons of going it alone. >> some of our most costly mistakes came not from our restraint, but from our willingness to rush into

military adventures without thinking through the consequences. >> reporter: instead, the president wants more international cooperation. so he is proposing a $5 billion fund to help other nations train and counterterrorism, and more assistance for rebels in syria's civil war. but he was short on details. >> i will work with congress to ramp up support for those in the syrian opposition who offer the best alternative to terrorists and brutal dictators. >> reporter: republicans argue it's the president's syria policy that is at fault. >> told the world they had crossed a red line that the president had set, and then didn't do it, it reverberated throughout the entire world. we are unreliable, and all of our allies and our enemies believe that. >> reporter: but the president argued there are tools besides military might, like the sanctions against russia after its invasion of ukraine. >> our ability to shape world opinion helped isolate russia right away. >> reporter: mr. obama told the west point graduates they may never be called to fight in iraq

and afghanistan. to a generation that hardly knows what peace looks like, that resonates. >> i think it's sort of a relief. we've been at war for a decade so far. >> reporter: the president recalled how he came to west point five years ago to announce a surge in afghanistan, anslatian escalation that went on to claim lives. >> i believe security demanded those deployments. but i am haunted by those deaths. >> reporter: and after case of strong hands at the white house maybe ready to authorize the training of syria's rebels, the administration may not be so sure once again. aides say that all that the president is prepared to say at this point is that the assistance to those syrian rebels will continue, and that if the u.s. wants to train those rebels, the administration will have to go through congress first. erin? >> and jim, you talk about it as a major speech or you used the word lecture. 45 minutes. was there anything new in this, or was it really just defending decision he has made? >> you know, i really think there was not a whole lot new in

this speech. and i know we're not supposed to say that it's the news, right? give us something new. but erin, draw a line from this speech back to 2002 when a state senator named barack obama gave an anti-war speech on the streets of chicago, and he said what i'm opposed to is a dumb war. what i'm opposed to is a rash war, talking about the iraq war at this time. he has always been really an anti-war politician. he has always been more dovish than hawkish. that has changed somewhat during his presidency, taking out bin laden, using drone strikes and that sort of thing. but really, this is a continuation of what aides call his mission statement. and that is to end wars, not start them, erin. >> interesting. if someone hasn't changed their mind in that long, a sign of strength or intransigence? we'll see. joining me now paul begala. all right, paul. so here is the question. you heard jim say look, he is justifying. he is rationalizing decisions he had made. was he too much on the defensive

today? >> no. what he was is he is finding a middle ground. that's always difficult in america where we're so polarized. he has critics on the interventionist right. senator mccain has been speaking out aggressively on this thing, saying it's a bad idea to pull out of afghanistan, even though it's been 13 years and nearly 2,200 americans killed in combat there. and then you have others saying wait a minute, why you leaving almost 10,000 troops there at a cost of $20 billion a year. i think instead of hawk-dove, the dichotomy jim drew, to quote obama, smart versus dumb. he is calling for a lighter footprint. not invade, conquer and occupy huge countries for decades the way we did under bush. donald rumsfeld once said if we have to invade 17 countries, that's fine with me. that's not the obama doctrine. president obama is saying we should have burden sharing, not go it alone. we should use smart power like drones that are frankly more lethal for our enemies and less lethal for our troops. he is trying to walk a middle ground and it's a difficult

things to do in this country. >> it's difficult because when you leave iraq you end up with a country running completely rampant. and al qaeda also gets a foothold there. this is a difficult situation to be in, to make this decision. maybe fewer troops is $20 billion that doesn't actually buy you anything. >> maybe. but the theory behind this is with that you can train up the afghans so they can stand up on their own. but the key question with al qaeda, and al qaeda seems to be resurgent in iraq, which they would not be if we had not invaded in the first place, the question becomes what becomes the best way. the choice is invade, conquer, occupy. that has been a disaster for america. we are half trillion already into afghanistan. do you know there is still -- i saw this story in "the wall street journal" there is one still one person receiving benefit checks from the civil war, the civil war, 150 years later. so we're going to be paying for iraq and afghanistan for a century. and so i think his way is

cheaper. it's less lethal for our troops and more effective in combatting terrorism. >> one thing that determines a president's legacy is foreign policy. whether americans happen to care passionately about it during his presidency or not, it does determine legacy. when you look at the way americans see this president right now, it's grim. only 38% approve his foreign policy. two years ago that was 51%. 52% of them don't trust him as commander in chief. that was 38% back in 2011. that's a pretty tough thing to hear, they don't trust him as commander in chief. >> very tough. politicians always say when they're up in the polls, they say well, the american people approve what i'm doing. they must be right. when they're down in the polls, they say i'm standing up against public opinion. i must be right. i would say this. the president believes in playing a long game. i know that. i think when they write the history of this guy, in the first paragraph, it will be that he ended two wars. and i think that's a very big thing. it's a very good thing. as i've had several of my students at georgetown serve in those wars. and i'm glad, frankly that he is standing up and say 13 years is enough.

>> what is going to happen after that in terms of a legacy? if you look at iraq, if it does continue to be in the chaos that it is where you have al qaeda running rampant. yes, you end adwar. but what is there is horrific. it's worse than when you left it. so how is that success? >> it's chaotic because we dumped the cart over and we could not put the eggs back together again. i think a whole lot of americans right now are much more interested in nation building here at home than the failed exercises in nation building in iraq and afghanistan. >> and paul, before you go, since you worked with the administration and past ones, edward snowden interview airing today said he was an undercover spy for the cia. do you buy it? >> you know, i watched that interview. i don't have any insider knowledge, i'm happy to tell you. but he did seem a little grandiose to me, actually. and perhaps he was. if so, that makes the betrayal even the greater, doesn't it? if we were a hero, he would come home and face the music, make his case in a free country, unlike russia, and defend himself in the court of law as well as the court of public

opinion. so i guess i'm not as sympathetic to mr. snowden as others. >> all right. thank you very much, paul beg gal lap. still to come, michelle oba obama's beef with republicans. coming "outfront" to face the fire next. and cnn's celebration of the '60s officially begins tomorrow. but jeanne moos has an exclusive on tv jingles tonight. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of great-tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and 9 grams of protein. [ bottle ] ensure®. nutrition in charge™. say "hi" rudy. [ barks ] [ chuckles ] i'd do anything to keep this guy happy and healthy.

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i want to check with anderson with a look at what is coming up at the top of the hour. >> we have breaking news tonight on the program. word late this evening that the u.s. navy now believes the pings thought to be the underwater signals from flight 370's black boxes are not from the missing plane. the question now is what is next in the investigation. our panel has that. there is other breaking news. live hearings going on right now. three top v.a. officials answering questions on capitol hill. questions asked from the beginning. why aren't our vets getting the care they need. we'll speak with him than. also, my interview with bob weiss and his son cooper. veronika was a 19-year-old freshman at the university of california santa barbara. they honor her memory tonight, her dad and her brother. those stories tonight and the

ridiculist at the top of the hour. >> all right. we look forward to seeing you in a couple of minutes. michelle obama slamming the gop. a rare instance of the first lady getting involved in a political fight, striking back at house republicans who want to let schools opt out of the nutrition standards that the first lady fought for. >> we're now seeing efforts in congress to roll back these new standards. and undo the hard work that all of you, all of us have done on behalf of our kids. and, you know, this is unacceptable. parents have a right to expect their kids will get decent food in our schools. and we all have a right to expect that our hard earned taxpayer dollars won't be spent on junk food for our kids. >> joining me now running a congressman robert adderhold. he is backing the bill that would let cash strapped schools back out of the regulations. the standards that she fought for were put in place to

specifically reduce sodium and increase things that pretty much we all can agree are pretty good, whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables. why would you let anyone opt out of that? >> well, a couple of things. first of all, it's really not opt out. they're granted a one-year waiver. and it's only for the schools that are finding it hard to meet. what is happening as more students are not eating the food, the participation is going down. and the students that are eating it are throwing the food away. and you're seeing just a tremendous amount of waste. a lot of schools operator on a very tight budget. they're having trouble meeting -- financially trying to meet the standards that are required by them by this act and by the usda as they are telling the schools what they have to do. this is saying if you're having a problem, that you can ask for a waiver and the usda can grant you a waiver. >> what about, though, and i'm curious. you talk about waste being an issue, the kids are throwing it away. the food, and that that adds up.

you know, i'm a new parent. i would say look, a lot of these kids, first of all, aren't getting great nutrition at home. wouldn't the answer be to say well, hey, guys, you can't leave the lunchroom until you have eaten your broccoli. you can't throw it away. >> well, the problem with these rules are so onerous, they really go beyond. i was reading an article a couple of weeks ago where a school in illinois decided to completely get out of the program because a bald egg does not meet the standards that are coming out of usda. and anything over 12 ounces of skim milk has too much fat in it for these standards. so we're not talking about, you know, feeding hamburgers and hot dogs and pizza every day to the kids. the nutritional workers in these lunch rooms, they want to provide healthy foods for their kids. they're wanting to do the right thing. and it's not like they're trying to make the kids obese. they're just -- and i'm hearing this from the people who work in the lunchroom.

those who are fighting against the standards include the school nutrition association, which sounds like a good moniker, right? but obviously gets funded by a lot of companies that supply food to the schools, for instance, the companies that supply pizza and bread sticks. you know, the way it was before it would seem to me that any standards are better than that kind of -- for lack of a better word, crap. >> the people i talk to want to create healthy lunch for their kids. again, do you think a hard boiled egg, skim milk, is that a standard that you're saying is too much? really, if you look at the standards we're not talking about feeding m & ns, and basically it is very little

catsup, the food is not tasty anymore. the kids are going to mcdonald's, they're bringing foods that are not half as healthy as the normal lunch program and it is killing the program. and a lot of these schools are having problems. and all they're saying is we're having problems. we're asking for a waiver for 12 months to see if we can improve these standards, that is all we're doing. we're not asking to completely roll back the standards. and now, she was beaten to death by her own family in the middle of a city. her crime? she secretly married the man she loved. among the 20 people who beat her with bricks police say were her brothers, her father and cousin. these so-called honor killings are common in pakistan. her father, by the way, has said he has no regrets. well, one of the great

voices of our time has died. maya angelou has passed away. in her years, she did it all. you may know her as a novelist, but she was many things, a dancer, an actress, a mother and a civil rights activist. a high school dropout who at the age of 16 became san francisco's first female street car driver. she was a professor. she spoke six languages, she had 30 honorary degrees, even though she never went to college. she had a grammy and numerous medals. she wrote a people, one of my favorites, "life doesn't frighten me." i had first discovered it and read her books like so many of you did in the high school english courses. but it was that people that i remembered. here she is talking about

courage. >> courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. >> courage, she most certainly had. tonight, we remember maya angelou, truly phenomenal. well, tonight, we'll take a look back at some of the greatest tv theme songs in history. [ male announcer ] this is kevin. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him, he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again. and now i've got to take more pills. ♪ yup. another pill stop. can i get my aleve back yet? ♪ for my pain, i want my aleve. ♪ [ male announcer ] look for the easy-open red arthritis cap.

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honestly, the off-season isn't i've got a lot to do. that's why i got my surface. it's great for watching game film and drawing up plays. it's got onenote, so i can stay on top of my to-do list, which has been absolutely absurd since the big game. with skype, it's just really easy to stay in touch with the kids i work with. alright, russell you are good to go! alright, fellas. alright, russ. back to work! so great tv theme songs stay with you long after the tv show goes off the air, classics, tonight, a celebration of the best theme songs by our own jeanne moos. >> reporter: come along with us down memory lane. from space to spies.

we'll have you crying uncle, unable to resist walking along to the '60s tv theme music. you can name that tune. in an instant. whether you lived through these shows or saw them in reruns, they need no introduction. >> i'm mr. ed. a horse is a horse of course, of course ♪ >> the thing about '60s tv themes, they're kind of cultural touch stones. >> reporter: john burlinggame should know, he ended up writing a book on the subject. when it comes to tv writing, the '60s were a bonanza, escapists' catchy tunes, designed to divert

from the vietnam war and battles over civil rights. >> hills, that is ♪ >> and while mad men, the current hit show about the '60s has such a dark theme? >> green acres is the place to be ♪ >> theme music from the actual '60s was bouncy and light. songwriters knew the importance of? >> making their point very quickly, without a great hook or melody. >> now, here is my idea. >> the late songwriter vic mizzie said that producers smiled the minute they heard his idea. >> overnight becomes a smash. >> we interrupt our theme songs to bring you something that you youngsters out there may not recognize. it is the test pattern. back in the '60s tv programming stopped late at night and they put this thing up on the screen. some theme music has legs or

should i say a really long fuse? more than four decades later the same "mission impossible" theme is still going strong. when it comes to tv theme music? >> mighty sailor man ♪ >> they're creepy and they're kooky. >> it is hard to close the door on the '60s. >> you unlock this door with the key of imagination. >> jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> some of those you have to know no matter what your age is, right? how well do you know the '60s theme songs? go to cnn.com and test your knowledge. they're not all that easy. and right here on cnn, we're very excited about it as you can tell. as always, thank you for joining us, we'll be back here tomorrow

night. and in the meantime, anderson cooper "ac360" starts right now. good evening, everyone, thank you for joining us. we begin tonight with breaking news. fallout from that sharply critical inspector general's report on the v.a. hospital in phoenix. a document that confirms what this program has been uncovering since last november. namely, the veterans have been waiting months for care and that phoenix cooked the books to cover it. the problem could be system-wide. as we're coming to you tonight the house affairs committee is in session, complete with fireworks. >> can you say anything without reading your prepared notes? and while i have your attention, can you please explain to me why we in fact have 110 outstanding requests for information, some dealing with this issue specifically, and if you want a specific one why have you not told this