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the bedroom. and there was advice we didn't need. we ran out of time to tell you about this. this world cup had more goals in decades. is this ball the reason? that is tomorrow night. we will show you. anderson is next. hey, good evening, thanks for joining us. polls closing, a number of key primary election races, none egglier, weirder or more widely watched in mississippi. thad cochran and mcdaniel and the message that no incumbent is safe but this one has so much more. it's been marked by a promcdaniel pact ad saying cochran committed bestiality but this makes it weirder. the sen said as a kid he did all kinds of indecent things with
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animals and he said some of you know what it is. it's hard to know where a campaign goes from there, it has and it's over. very nasty surreal race at times for the gop. what's the latest? >> reporter: the latest is the polls just closed and the question is going to be whether or not thad cochran can win this republican run off, supposed to be about republicans, likely with the help of democratic voters because anderson, it's legal here. it's an open primary system and that includes the run off, so all day we have seen thad cochran supports in an organic way and overt coordinated way try to get people out that didn't vote before, not just republicans but very heavily democratic precincts in and around mississippi. these are people that voted for thad cochran over the years.
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he's been in the senate for 36 years but haven't had to do so in a republican primary. big picture despite the nastiness and bizarre nature of the race. it has been really the place for the republican party to battle out what we've seen over the past two election cycles, the concept whether it should be an establish the or anti income want fever. >> we'll check back with you. iraq, 90 american military advisors arriving there today joining 40 on the groundworking with an army widely viewed as ineffective and a new estimate says is growing and support of a central government that needs to unify but so far has not. after meeting with top iraqi leaders, secretary of state john kerry was optimistic. he spoke with jim shutto. >> i'm not taking anything i
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hear from the bank and saying wow, it's going to be solved but i'm hearing things that indicate to me if they follow through on the things they are saying, there is a capacity to have a new government that could be a unity government, that could reflect a great erica pasty for success. >> a lot to talk about with nic robertson and former deputy assistant secretary of state. the 90 military advisors, on the ground, you've been talking to pentagon officials, what do we know about what they are going to be doing and where? >> 90 came today, a total of 130 now anderson. they will start off in baghdad and stay in that area because the big concern right now is could baghdad fall to isis? unlikely at the moment, but that's what they want to figure out. the word we hear, assess. they are there to assess the situation, assess how the iraqi forces arie doing, assess the
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isis threat. the reports may not come for two or three weeks and that could be late in this because the latest estimate is isis now has about 10,000 fighters between syria and iraq, about 3,000 of them already possibly inside iraq and foreign fighters joining to boot, anderson? >> barbara, there were reports the u.s. launched drone strikes in iraq. is that confirmed? are you learning about that? >> there was no u.s. air strikes inside of iraq or on the syrian boarder. what we think happened was syria launched jet air strikes against isis targets inside of iraq leading to a lot of concern, a lot of confusion and once again, under scoring that boarder has virtually disappeared. >> there were reports they made gains against isis, is that accurate?
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>> we don't, anderson. once again, when the iraqi government is feeling the heat of international opinion voicing the iraqi army is collapsing, moral is collapsing, a quarter of the forces left the battle field, they are pushing back. today the spokesman saying they were trying to take the refinery, this biggest oil refinery in iraq, that they were well on the way to doing that and state tv put out pictures, what appear to be helicopters, government helicopters landing there. the government saying they are taking back control of two keyboarder crossings, one into syria, and one into jordan. again, no way for us to independently confirm that. also, interestingly, today, we're seeing a lot more helicopter activity. helicopters similar to those used at the u.s. embassy here, in the vicinity of the embassy and tonight, helicopters taking off again from the vicinity of the u.s. embassy deploying flairs as they were taking off. that increased activity not
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clear if it's linked to those new 90 military advisors who have arrived in country, but we haven't seen this up until now, anderson. >> david, let's talk about drone strikes and air strikes. i mean, is that the solution in terms of military involvement, if there is going to be military involvement, which would be better, drone strikes, air strikes, would they work against this enemy? >> i think the use of solely air power and solely drone strikes as being the way to solve this problem to fight this war is really questionable. there is really no record of drones being effective and conventional military advance, a season territory and air power alone has proven historically not to be enough to be successful in contesting this kind of war. >> the way isis is fighting, david, it is relatively conventional. it seems like they are moving around in pickup trucks, which could be targeted.
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they are, you know, in many cases it seems like in mosul, they are leading the governance of it to groups and to others. they do seem to be a movable target, no? >> they are a movable target, but to hit the targets and right targets, you need really good intelligence and that intelligence needs to come from all kinds of sources, not just from the air but also intelligence on the ground and you have to be able to use that intelligence effectively to take out the people who in the assets that are threatening to you, but in the case of what is happening in iraq you have a lot of people who in the sunni side of the equation who are supportive of isis but if we were to attack them, some of these people are people we were with in the past, if we took them out, secretary kerry was talking about, it gets harder. the actual employment of air is in my mind questionable unless
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you have not just intelligence assets but the ability to followup on the ground. >> david, unless you have u.s. military personnel in forward positions, i mean, this must be a very difficult thing to try to orchestrate from baghdad at this point. >> well, unless you have u.s. military, our intelligence personnel or assets there can see what is happening, especially in such a dynamic situation. if you go to the war in afghanistan in the early days, it was the presence of u.s. special forces and intelligence people on the ground that enabled our air power to be used effectively to push the taliban and al qaeda. you can't do it just with air. you need intelligence and as we found in afghanistan, if you don't follow that up with something conventional, you end up with a long, drawn out war that doesn't achieve objectives. >> in close battles, unless you have special forces on the ground with lasers guiding in aircraft to where the bombs
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should go, the chance of having civilian casualties which in this kind of war you don't want to antagonize. >> the civilian casualties are high, the chance of killing people you don't mean to kill and the ability to have the strategic impact isn't there unless you have intelligence and i would also add you have to have the ability to followup on the ground. >> right. nic, barbara, thank you-all very much. controlling not just territory, wider boarder problems. robert ford was american ambassador of syria and saw firsthand the growing influence of isis. american advisers are arriving today in iraq, is what is going on in iraq now a problem that america can solve? >> i think america can help from the margins, but the problem is essentially, a problem among
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iraqis and it will have to be solved by iraqis. >> and solved, i mean, is the political part of it the most important part of it? >> oh, for sure, for sure. if you listen to what the different elements of the sunni community that have risen up, if you read what they are saying, it's very much political grievances at the top of the list. >> you said one of the biggest things americans need to understand what is happening in iraq and syria is that it's one big conflict. >> yes. >> not two separate ones, can you explain that? >> the main group is the islamic state of iraq and syria and extends from the eastern half of syria into the western half of iraq ignoring the boarder between syria and iraq because the boarder wasn't even there. if you hit the group in iraq, say, they may retrieve back into syria, regroup, rest, reorganize and back into iraq again.
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>> is it a national security interest or national security threat to the united states? >> well, it is, no, it is, for sure. this islam make state has threatened the united states and there are jihads that are fighting with it that have promised to come after targets in the west. >> but when you talk about, you know, saying that if you hit isis in iraq, you have to deal with them in syria. that just sounds like, again, you know, mission creep, very rapid mission creep. >> yeah, this is not a problem anderson that will be solve in one day or one week or one month. this is a really tough problem now and to be honest, i see no easy choices for administration. i see no easy choices for the countries in the region and friends in places like europe to solve the problem, but we can't ignore it because the problem is actually growing bigger. >> in terms of united states
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action, it's not a short term fiction. >> no. >> is there a fimilitary soluti to this? >> no, there is not, not in syria or iraq. in iraq, they are going to -- i think administration's thrust is right to focus on trying to get a government that addresses some of the sunni arab community's concerns without surrendering to the islamic state, far from it. >> if we weren't able to do that with a trillion dollars and more than $150,000 tro 150,000 drops ground, we couldn't get maliki to do that, not to the extend we wanted to. why should anyone believe that the u.s. with 300 advisors on the ground will be able to do that? >> that's a fair question, anderson. what i would say is two things, number one, the situation in front of the government in iraq is more difficult for them now than it was, say, in 2009 and 2010.
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the al qaeda problem in iraq was much more under control then than it is now. we have more leverage promising to give help if the iraqis will move on poll lit titical issues. it's not a problem we can ignore. i didn't say there are easy choices. to stand back and do nothing, to see this cancer go further and that is not advicebl viseble, either. >> good to have you on, thank you. >> my pleasure. set your dvr to watch 360. >> coming up next, listening, reporting on new va hospital allegations getting lawmaker's attenti attention moments after his report aired. the whistle blower has more to say. the possibility what she says she saw was a crime. you've also seen the u.s. po portugal nail biter and the
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biter claims another victim and details from brazil, yes, you were thinking it, too, evander holyfield will talk about what it's like to be bitten. we'll be right back. ugh. heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing.
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them honest report, we hope it makes a difference. america's servicemen and women, va hospitals making them wait months for medical care. the fact is some have died waiting. the allegation by a phoenix whistle blower concerned what she say was done to conceal the deaths. >> somebody is going on that electronic wait list and where people are identified as being dead, somebody is changing that and saying no, they are not dead. >> correct. >> to hide the fact people died on that list? >> that's my belief. >> what would be the other -- any other purpose? >> there wouldn't be any other purpose. >> that's the key piece of drew griffin's reporting. as it was airing, the house committee of veterans affairs the in session. moments later indiana republican
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congresswoman put drew's story and allegations in front of a va official. >> i just got a note from a constituent that says there must be a cnn program on tonight and that there is a revelation, it says records of dead veterans were changed or physically altered, some even in recent weeks to hide how many people died while waiting for care at the va phoenix hospital that point to a new coverup in the new on going va scandal, de-iced quote unquote receipts removed so veterans wouldn't have to be counted as having died while waiting for care. so even to the phoenix facility four times, are you aware of this new revelation? >> i'm not aware of the revolution. i am aware the oig is looking carefully at the deaths that occurred. i do not know of any attempts to hide deaths, congresswoman. >> phoenix is still doing this
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kind of stuff and you guys have had them under the microscope and physically been there four times and this is new? >> congresswoman, i don't know the details of the acquisition. >> today we finally got a response from the va, neither confirmation or denial, spokesman saying quote the allegations made in phoenix are completely unacceptable and must be investigated. there were more hearings today from the whistle blower. drew griffin has been reporting from the beginning. >> you broke the story, the allegation someone is the phoenix va is trying to hide the number of dead there. is someone investigating this? >> the information was given to the office of inspector general by the whistle blower. she did that as soon as she noticed the records she was in charged of being changed. the inspector general's office told us this afternoon they were aware of the allegation prior to our broadcast last night. it is under review, and let me remind you of what we are
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talking about. the scheduling at the phoenix va, anderson, says until recently, she's been going through this wait list calling to check on the veterans waiting for care and in seven cases where she was personally learning that the veterans on that wait list had died, where she notate that in the record, someone she says has gone in and changed those veterans back to living. >> the fbi is going to find out what did that? >> yes. yes. the fbi will find who did that. >> will the fbi also be able to find out who changed dead people back to life and put them back on a list? >> yes. >> and they will find out that fraud was committed? >> correct. >> are you pretty confident that people are going to be charged with crimes here in phoenix? >> i would be surprised if they were not. >> i mean, it's just
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extraordinary. she says this was going on recently. >> she says it was happening up until just a few weeks ago. it's her belief somebody is trying to throw investors off the trail of several veterans who died waiting for care by hiding the fact, anderson, they died. she thinks it's a crime. we know the fbi is involved but beyond saying they are aware of the allegations, the ig isn't saying much, the fib isn't saying anything. >> and pauline still works for the va. last night she said she was scared about coming forward on the program. has she got reaction today? >> she was emotional talking to us today. she said very supportive. many co-workers are thanking her for speaking out. the only reaction she got from management, she was told to meet with a new derector this afternoon. i was cancelled. she is nervous. her going public could harm her career in the long term, as are many whistle-blowers. >> sure, understandably.
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the former phoenix va person, the one that said there is no waiting list, it was a misunderstanding, has she been fired? >> not yet. she remains on leave on the payroll. we know the va has begun the termination process with the executives there. she's apparently one of them. she is getting paid. >> drew, thanks very much. up next tonight, breaking news, polls closing in mississippi. we'll check in with dana bash and a six-term incumbent fighting to keep his seat versus the tea party opponent and soccer's alleged serial biter, we'll talk to the correspondent on the ground and evander holyfield who himself was the victim of a gruesome bite. he shares his thoughts on twitter and joins me ahead about it.
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we came on air and the race everyone is watching, the gop senate run off between thad cochran and mcdaniel. he was the favorite. dana bash gjoins me from mississippi. reaching out to voters, you've been talking to voter, what have they been saying? >> reporter: yes, he's been representing this state for a very long time, for 36 years, but that should be a good thing for people in mississippi because he uses seniority to send federal funds back home. that is the worst thing you could say to a tea party republican who can't stand the idea of federal funds being used for much of anything, but for people here in mississippi, for whom, you know, this is a very poor state who understand that they rely on federal funds, they get it.
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so that is one of the big reasons why they were able to do well juso far for some who neve voted republican in their life. they say this is a big problem for cochran and we want to vote for him. the flip side, anderson, many of them are as nervous about chris mcdani mcdaniel, the conservative republican winning and being their senator as losing cochran. >> a huge amount of money is being spent and coming in from all over the country. >> all over the country. i was talking to one operative tonight who said that it took a lot of outside money to get a lot of inside people to the polls, and it is true. about 17 million so far and my guess is by the end of the day, it will be even more than that, and the money is coming from the more traditional republican groups and funders, people like chamber of commerce, even the national right to life, nra
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supporting cochran and the tea party group. who is who of tea party groups all over the country are funneling money and manpower. when it comes to money, the story at the end of the night and tomorrow morning will be the money that the super pack for thad cochran spent to get out the vote again, not just republicans but democrats. they spent an enormous amount of money. >> the polls are closed. do we have a sense how the vote tallies are going? >> we don't. i'm looking down at my ipad now. no precincts reporting. could be another late night like three weeks ago when the primary first happened. >> appreciate the update. been a busy primary from utah to new york. john king joins me with the latest in other key races. john, the mississippi race, what does it tell us about the larger tea party versus the establish the fight across the country? >> that it is very real, that it is not going anywhere and more and more vis hill. what a nasty race in mississippi. as you just noted, in some cases
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it's expensive and some republicans worry. probably 18 million dollar or more. what if we wake up after the election day in november and a republican loses a seat? some people will say should we be spending so much money on this internal family feud? no matter what wins, the tea party had a big win in cantor's december strict, just over a week ago. they feel emboldened here and believe they have the energy tonight and no matter what wins at the ballot box, we see the impact, the house majority leader kevin mccarthy says no way to immigration and house republicans stripping out money for the export import bank. when establishment candidates win at the ballot box, the tea party advances the policy agenda. >> let's talk about the primary in new york, 22-year incumbent, he's got a chance of losing his cede. i mean, how is he in such a tough spot? >> there is a couple different
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dynamics, part of sit ethics investigates. he is still in the congress. he was not forced to step down. he says this is his last campaign anyway but some of this is what we actually see in the thad cochran chris mcdaniel challenger race. he's part of the problem. washington isn't doing anything effectively. let's have new faces. in harlem, most americans think that's the center of african american business and culture. his opponent is a dominican and lost by 1100 votes. that district is now no long erma jurorty african american. it's latino and the white population growing, too. >> before i let you go, i got to show the viewers my favorite video of the week. the most awkward painful videos from washington, capitol hill that i may have ever seen. take a look at this. it was an event for honoring scott king and congressional
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leaders link hands and seem to have been forced i don't know if it was at gunpoint to sing we shall overcome. look at the pain on some of their faces. let's just watch this. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i mean, the look on john boehner's face, mitch mcconnell's face, harry reid, how did this happen? >> to be bipartisan, carl leaven -- >> he looked miserable. >> he doesn't look too happy, either. as somebody with zero musical ability, i share their pain. you go to an event and think you'll give your remarks, be around for the ceremony and get out the door and someone thinks it would be a good idea to link
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hands and sing. >> i know, i wonder who set it up. i mean, yeah, i mean, look, you know, i'm the worst singer on the planet, so i'm not throwing stones at that. >> there is staff getting a tongue lashing. >> i bet. a political scandal involving a chief of staff, a porn star and the twitter spear and everybody talking about this moment during key cup world cull flying. looks like a bite. a player biting another player. we'll talk to evander holyfield who knows what it's like to be bitten during a match. we will call him and get his take ahead. alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence.
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welcome back, i'm not known for being the world's biggest sports fan but the world cup fun to watch. what happened today got a lot of attention, the alleged hannible l hannible lector moment. too many looks like he left bite marks on the shoulders. officials didn't see it happen. no personality was called.
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but this isn't a first alleged offense, either. it's the third time suarez is accused of biting an opponent. in a moment, evander holyfield is qualified to talk about this will join me in a moment. first amanamanda, it's incredib this isn't his first time if that's what he did this time. >> reporter: no, this is a man with history anderson but one of the most shocking incidents that we've seen in world cup history, it has to be said. but it's shocking to everybody it seems other than the man himself suarez. he said it's just one of those things. maybe that is how he views it. it's not the first time it happened and second time it happened. it's the third time it has happened. this is man whose nickname among the dutch and british media is
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the cannible. he bit another dutch player on the shoulder and it was only the stars of this season, he was serving a long suspension for biting a fellow player in the english premiere league in april 2013. at that time he was offered psychological help afterwards. he turned that down, probably not the best idea. >> yeah. >> it seems that this isn't just a run off event. >> i want to bring in evander holyfield, the former heavy weight boxing champ. evander, thank you for being with us. i saw you tweeted right after this incident, you tweeted i guess any part of the body is up for eating. as someone who has been bitten during a sporting event, who did you think when you saw that? >> it was sad because, it was
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sad in one aspect because the fact that it's been done many a times and it's an awful thing. >> yeah, i would imagine the shock of being bitten, i mean, i can't imagine the shock of being bitten. when it happened to you, did you realize what was happening? >> not at all because it was no expectation that you can get bit. you know, you can see that i leaned my head towards his ear and it was there and it happened and so, you know, it was shocking. >> and tyson not only bit both of your ears, he took parts of both of them off. i mean, has it been repaired? >> well, it have. you know, it have. it is behind me, but it's one of those things that you wouldn't think that someone would actually bite you because biting
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don't usually take place in things like that. >> that's for sure. it's soccer, too. aman amanda, he spoke to a reporter after or later on. i want to play some of what he said. >> i don't know what they have asked our coach about. the only thing i know, those are occurrences that happen on the pitch. i just collided with his shoulder. they are just causal incidents that happen during the game. >> so he's claiming he ran into the guy's shoulder? >> yeah, he is claiming that but anderson, you have to look at the pictures, he fell down on the floor clutching his face, clutching his teeth and i say that, you know, we have headbutting in soccer, we have elbowing in soccer, but the last three high-rprofile cases of biting in soccer have come from one man, mr. louis suarez.
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he's probably the epitome of a flawed genius. he won a football writers player of the year in the premiere league season and scored 30 goals but bubbling under the surface of his career has been these disciplinary issues, the suspensions, these bans. it's not just biting. he was involved in a very high profile racism case in the english premiere league and received a ban for racially abusing a manchester united player and at the last world cup he was sent off in the final for handling the ball on the goal line, denying ghana a goal that would put them into the sell my final. if that wasn't bad enough, he made a few more enemies or friends, you should say by saying well, it was the best save of the tournament, wasn't it. >> evander, are you a soccer fan? have you been watching the world cup? >> i have been watching it. you know, i am a sports fan, you
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know, soccer is one thing i do like. >> it's got to be the most exciting world cup i think i've ever watched. >> well, it's great. >> yeah. do you wish you could play soccer a little bit? >> no, no, no, no it's different. >> listen evander, great to have you on. appreciate you taking the time to be with us. thank you so much and amanda, thanks, as well. up next, major fallout after a bizarre case out of washington. a porn star tweeted an explicit photo of a congressman's top aid. details on that ahead. plus, this little girl survived a vicious dog attack, that's not in dispute but what happened at a fast food restaurant some are calling a hoax.
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well, political scandals unfolding in washington, a porn star made explicit photos public in washington. what happened here? >> anderson, this is the chief of staff for a congressman dating a woman from ohio who apair in porn movies. the relationship went sour, the actress tweeted an inappropriate picture of the man. political reports that the photo was tweeted directly to the congressman. c a statement was released over the weekend he was the victim of an attack from a woman he had a relationship with in his personal life and used poor judgment and without naming the
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woman, he said she reached out to him to apologize. he resigned and his resignation is accepted. >> why did he resign? he didn't want to bring undue attention to the congressman? >> clearly, it's a problem of embarrassment, as you know, this happened before. this actress is a part of it. she's named jennifer albah, at ruby adult star and she appear in hundreds of films, although, cnn has not been able to verify that, of course. [ laughter ] >> sorry, apparently from ohio -- [ laughter ] >> stop. >> what do we have interns all day trying to verify how many films she's been in? >> right, no, you know, i'm not going to go there. anyway, she's apparently married coon is not. >> let's just leave it there. fascinating staff.
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basically, he's lost his job. yeah, i don't get why -- i get it's embarrassing for the congressman and stuff, but he's not married, right? >> no, no, that's the deal. he's not married. she apparently is. the big question is why people in power put themselves in this position, is anybody's guess, you know, racy pictures of yourself is an embarrassing way to head for the exits. >> thanks very much. some election results now returns starting to come in from the mississippi race, thad cochran and very few pressed in. what is happening, mark? >> right now of course waiting for the votes to come in. a fuew weeks ago, this race was close, it was between thad cochran and chris mcdaniel. this race could go late, late into the night. chris mcdaniel was barely forced into the run off by .5% last week as you can see or a few weeks ago. it is very, very close right now
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votes are still coming in. anderson, also in oklahoma we're following that race up there. tw shannon, he is a republican going up against james langford in that race in oklahoma and as you can see right now, two senate races taking place in oklahoma because of the retirement of dr. coburn, a senator leaving, of course, in november but hoff is winning the republican primary there but in the other primary, there is a big battle between shannon and james langford and of course, polls will close in just a few minutes in new york where charlie rangel is fighting for his political life. he won in 2012 by less than 1100 votes. a race we'll watch all night. >> thanks. a lot more stories we're covering. gary tuchman has the 360 bull ton. >> hello to you, they are cleaning up tornado damage in indianapolis. the twister caught by armature
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photographs damaging homes and downing power lines before moving into the city doing similar damage. luckily, no reports of anybody seriously hurt. the ntsb says the pilots of 214 botched the landing of the 777 and are primarily to blame for the crash in san francisco nearly a year ago. three people killed, 187 others injured. former patriots player aaron hernandez is scheduled to go on trial in may. the victims were kill twod years ago. hernandez pleaded not guilty to the charges. at the top of the hour, don't miss our special report, downward spiral inside the case against aaron hernandez. a 360 follow, a method passed for officiating his gay son's wedding is being reinstated. he promised never to perform another same-sex marriage. they ruled the punishment
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unlawful. shafer retroactively received the salary and benefits he lost. kfc says there is no supported claims the girl was asked to leave a restaurant because she was scarring customers due to a dog attack. it was a troubling story when we heard. >> the pastor, we had him on the broadcast when he was first fired, so he's clearly been reinstated there. gary, thanks very much. coming up next, "the ridiculist" and i'm going to try to get through it. that's all i can say. hey. i'm ted and this is rudy. say "hi" rudy. [ barks ] [ chuckles ] i'd do anything to keep this guy happy and healthy. that's why i'm so excited about these new milk-bone brushing chews. whoa, i'm not the only one. it's a brilliant new way to take care of his teeth. clinically proven as effective as brushing. ok, here you go. have you ever seen a dog brush his own teeth? the twist and nub design cleans all the way down to the gum line, even reaching the back teeth. they taste like a treat, but they clean like a toothbrush. nothing says you care like a milk-bone brushing chew. [ barks ]
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time now for "the ridiculis ridiculist". we are adding an american exchange student that got stuck in a, in a, in a giant sculpture that resembles a vagina, that's right, you heard me, i said the word. before you blow up my twitter feed, i'm not making fun or women or female anatomy, i'm making fun of a guy that got stuck in a sculpture. the sculpture made of marble is
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called making love. it's worth reportedly $200,000. i'm no expert on the top pick of vaginas, arctic 'tis or otherwise. they aren't my wheelhouse so to speak but i know enough to know that you're not supposed to. [ laughter ] really? to go in feet first. all right there, fella? also, i know it's wrong to say america should not apologize for the reputation around the world but perhaps we can make an exception for, i don't know, americans that go to germany and get stuck in sculptures of giant vaginas. that's right, i said it out loud. it took 22 firefighters to get the man out. you can add that to the list of things you will not hear charlie rose say tonight. apparently, this -- at least on camera, apparently this whole
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incident was part of a dare gone wrong and there is the shocker, can you believe that, that's the part, i won't tonight, this whole storely is too painful for wolf. it reminds him of the time he got his beard stuck in some marble clev -- really? firefighters were not amused. they got him out without mechanical devices and a forceps joke was made. this incident comes days ahead of the united states facing off against germany in the world cup so thanks to the exchange student, the bar is lowered more for team usa. as long as you don't get stuck in a giant vagina, he was embarrassed, everybody makes mistakes. we blurred his face. let him move on, people. there is no need for him to be stuck or for that matter in the
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"ridiculist" for the rest of his life. that does it for us. see you again at 11:00 for good edition of 360. edition of 360. downward spiral starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com he was the all american destined to be an all pro. >> he was projected to be one of the best tight ends of his generation. >> instead, aaron hernandez is an accused killer, first one murder charge. >> get the question all the time, do you think your boy did it? no, i don't want him to have done it, no. >> then. >> aaron hernandez fired a .38 caliber revolver multiple times. >> two more charges of murder. >> it was a brutal double homicide. >> how in the world did he get here? >> i think if he had had someone at