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that's it tonight. ac 360 starts right now. good evening, john burman here in for anderson tonight. keeping them honest big time on a story, a scandal really, your money, money that you thought was going to help wounded veterans, but instead was lining a fund-raiser's pockets. now, as a result of our investigation, there is action in this case. serious action, you'll only see it here. also tonight, why you might be facing even tighter security at the airport. officials now talking about a new vulnerability, we'll talk about what it might be and what is being done about it. and later, left to die in a hot car, his father charged with murder, now another shocker. police have questioned the mother and have learned some eye opening information from her. we begin, though, at the airport and inside the huge intelligence and security operation that has kept us largely safe there since the attacks on september 11th.
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there have been some close calls, the shoe bomber richard reid, the underpants bomber, each trying to exploit blind spots in the system, which is why you take your shoes off at the airport now. and go through full body scanners. tonight, though, officials worry there might be a new vulnerability. let's get details from jim. >> they are homeland security's most dreaded threats. explosive devices hidden in objects from shoes to toothpaste tubes and undetectable by airport security. now, the u.s. is considering new airport security measures due to increased concerns that terrorists from al qaeda and the arabian peninsula or aqap are developing new bomb designs to fool current security screening. >> we remain concerned about the capability of some of these elements to develop weapons that
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could be thwarted by our current security systems. >> officials tell cnn there is no imminent threat or blot. the department of homeland security is working to address the new plot. >> the department of homeland security is regularly reviewing our security procedures to adapt to the threat that we -- that is faced by our transportation system. as advisories are required to adequately inform the traveling public, we'll make those announcements. >> peter king discussed the threat on abc's this week. >> a number of airports do not have the types of security they should have. anyone that will be having someone who can fly to the u.s., they have to increase their security, we're going to be pushing it, but overseas airport security is a real concern. >> this is the man believed to be behind the threat. aqap master bomb maker ibrahim al asiri. asiri and terrorists trained under him will improve designs of new explosive devices, such as shoe bombs that could fool
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screening systems. the threat has grown all the more severe as chaos in syria and iraq has created a safe haven from terror groups to train, plot and recruit westerners to join their fight. >> allowing them to pool up in syria, to have safe haven, the size of indiana, syria and iraq. i mean al qaeda minded individuals that now have an army, that is as dangerous a time for an al qaeda threat to the united states as i've ever seen. >> jim shoo sciutto joins us now. what's the scope of these fears, are we talking about u.s. airport security or international airports as well? >> really both, you're talking about direct flights into the u.s. your security is only as good as the security at those airports, right? that's where the screening takes place, so it would be something that would be done in conjunction, and we've seen in the past. this has been a concern of counter terror officials for a
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number of months now. they know that aqap is constantly approving these designs. it was toothpaste tubes around the olympics, they're constantly adjusting, constantly looking for new intel and responding to that intel, and this is another case of that. >> ever adapting, jim, thanks so much. let's get to the results of our exclusive keeping them honest investigation on charity fraud. the charity that has been claiming to help disabled veterans is under fire. forced to restructure its board of directors and the for profit company behind it. it now faces a precedent setting fine. if you've watched 360 over the years, you know all about our commitment to america's fighting men and women. the outfit that distributed chefs hats and candy and other knickknacks instead of something actually useful to veterans. small and somewhat absurd of the bigger problem here, more than $100 million in donations going
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into the pockets of private fund-raisers instead of helping vets. tonight the new york state attorney general says enough is enough. it's really all because of drew griffin and producer david fitzpatrick's reporting dating back to 2010 when they first tried to find out where all your donations had been going. >> this organization raised $30 million in funds, supposedly to give to the veterans. >> that was drew griffin in 2010, standing outside the washington, d.c., headquarters of the charity, demanding answers to where all the millions of dollars in donations, up until then had gone, here he is in louisiana, knocking on the door of the charity's president. >> we've agreed to talk to you, answer -- >> nobody's agreed. so here is the question, it's $64 million raised over three years. >> thank you so much. >> and none of the money has gone to any veterans, ma'am? >> and here again, drew is at a
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small veterans shelter in birmingham, alabama, where some of the donations turned out to be not money or anything that charity actually needed, but candy. >> the great thing they sent us was 11,520 bags of coconut m&ms. >> and at each step along the way, the private fund raiser denied anything was wrong, that the way they took in donations and kept almost every single dime of it was just fine. here's mark shallhoff reading a prepared statement. >> this is not making millions off the back of veterans. this is helping charities do good. >> you will see a very different story. here's senior investigative correspondent drew griffin with an exclusive report, keeping them honest. >> it's one of the largest settlements ever recorded by the new york attorney general's
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office. for deceptive charitable fundraising. they've agreed to pay fines, change the way they do business possibly set a new and much more transparent course for charities across the nation. the attorney general eric schneider man calls the private fund-raising firm despicable in how it has deceived the mostly old and gullible out of hundreds of millions of dollars. >> some of these pleas were heart wrenching. they were hoping some poor particular veteran get a car and a better life, and we've now learned through our investigation, that in some cases those stories were totally fabricated. that the foundation at issue had never helped the veterans they used in their ads. >> quadrica will pay a fine and0
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that's how new york's attorney general describes this company. but they're still in business. >> right. and promising to do much better, in a statement to us, quadriga art, which is a family company, says an uncle who helped run it has resigned, the president, the nephew says, we have taken
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responsibility for the mistakes that were made, we deeply apologize for our actions and have taken steps to ensure that this situation will never occur again. as for disabled veterans national foundation, the woman who slammed the door in our face gone. as are the founding members of our group, they go on, a spokesperson says, this is very significant and positive step for the dvnf that will enable us to improve the services we deliver and increase transparency with our loyal donors. if they just did anything, it would be an improvement, john. >> is it wrong that i'm so surprised these two groups took in more than $100 million and did so little to help disabled vets that they both survived? >> this is the frustration that david fitzpatrick, my producer and i have had since we began this reporting on these charities. the laws in this country on fund-raising, on nonprofits, on these charities, are so weak, you can literally get away with just about anything.
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i'm not kidding. that's why the best advice to anyone who is donating money is to not believe anything that comes in a direct mail advertisement, i wouldn't send a dime to anybody who sends you an advertisement from a direct mail campaign for a charity. and then check out the charities you are giving to. you can go on charity navigator, charity watch dog. check it out, just don't give money to these people, they are keeping almost all of it. >> drew, it's great advice, terrific reporting. thank you so much. make sure you set your dvr so you can watch 360 whenever you'd like, next for us, the supreme court hands president obama and advocates say millions of women a big defeat on what obama care covers and also the president takes new action that could divide -- could invite i should say, more court challenges. the question tonight, is he doing what all presidents do? or is the constitutional law professor exceeding his constitutional powers? and later, we do have breaking news, we're just
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getting in this video. this is israel tonight. retaliating for the abduction and the killing of three teenagers. stay with us.
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the supreme court has the last word on what is constitutional. today a sharply dwi vided court ruled on one such case, striking down the requirement that family owned companies in this case, hobby lobby pay for insurance coverage for comprehensive birth control, saying it violated a federal law protecting religious freedom. at issue in this case are specific birth control methods, including plan b, the company did not object to other forms of contraception, including birth control pills and condoms.
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it was a 5-4 decision that they framed in terms of religious liberty calling it sharply limited. the center is notably ruth bader ginsberg says, the ruling invites more companies to seek more religious exemptions to more laws. jeffrey toobin joins us. so does gloria boringer. this was billed as the biggest decision of the term. it was going to perhaps determine whether or not corporations had religious rights. it was going to weigh-in on obama care, change it for the future here. we have a 5-4 decision, what have we actually learned from this now? >> we've learned a lot, john. we learned that corporations can assert the right to freedom of religion, we never knew that before, that was something that some courts had suggested, but now we know we can.
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also we know that thousands of employees of hobby lobby and thousands of other women are now in the position of losing part of their birth control benefits. part of their health care benefits. their right to certain forms of birth control, and in a larger sense we now know that corporations can assert the right that they don't want to pay for certain kinds of medical procedures, and the courts are going to have to sort out which procedures employers can take away from their employees. this is going to be a complex and lengthy undertaking. it's just begun. >> we know there will be a lot more questions and a lot more cases going forward. what we also know is, this is not a decision that the white house wanted. this is something that rules against them and against their interests. however, whenever you have something like this, there are people who say, democrats will fund-raise off of this, this could galvanize women voters in the midterm. what do you make of that? >> both are true.
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first of all, obviously the white house did not want this decision, because it's another chink in the armor of obama care which has been sort of whittled away from all angles. and what they also know, however is that this is an issue they can keep pounding at, because the question of women's reproductive rights, what are the rights of a corporation versus a person are things that could be used in a political campaign. the obama administration can issue some regulations which would find a way to pay for this kind of contraception through health care subsidies or the exchanges this the second thing they could do, i think they're going to find a way to raise this on the floor of the democratic controlled senate, have a vote on it, even though they know that it will fail. but they can remind voters heading into 2014 about the so-called war on women, we spoke
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about during the last election, and hopefully increase that jernd gap to their advantage. >> there was a lot that went on in washington today, not just the decision from the supreme court, this announcement on the issue of immigration. i want to you listen to part of the statement the president made at the white house today. >> as we speak, there are enough republicans in the house to pass an immigration bill today. i would sign it into law today. and washington would solve a problem in a bipartisan way. but for more than a year republicans in the house of representatives have refused to allow an up or down vote on that senate bill or any legislation to fix our broken immigration system.
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>> the president saying that congress won't pass legislation so he's going to take presumably executive action after the summer here. the constitution's not exactly written that way. what can he actually accomplish here? >> well, it's very hard to know. one of the things he announced today is that the department of homeland security under his orders will move assets from the interior of the country to the border. there's no doubt that that's constitutional. when you start changing the rules about who can get into the country and how long they can stay and what the conditions are for where they can stay, and spending money for the care and feeding of particularly young people, that's where things start to get more dicey, because it is under article one of the constitution the right of the congress to pass laws and the right of the president to execute the laws. but those terms are not necessarily self-evident and the
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supreme court has twice in the past week said, you know what, president obama, you reach too far with recess appointments and here in the hobby lobby case, so, you know, it's perilous. >> gloria borger, jeffrey toobin, thanks so much. breaking news, new pictures just in of the air strikes tonight on gaza, retaliation for the kidnapping and killing of three israeli teens. we will take you live to this developing story and some very tense territory. (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities.
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deaths that three israeli teenagers breaking news tonight. that the fbi is also investigating. the bodies were found today in the west bank, the fbi is investigating, because one of the young men held a dual american and israeli citizenship. moments ago, we got new images tonight. explosions from israeli air strikes. reportedly 20 of them mainly against hamas training compounds. ben wedeman joins us now. ben is in the west bank, we just showed the pictures right now of those explosions in gaza. israel clearly beginning to take retaliatory action. what can you tell us about this? >> this comes as no surprise the action in gaza. we heard the israeli deputy defense minister saying that hamas will be eradicated. given that hamas controls the gaza strip, it's not surprising that's the target. there's been a lot of rocket
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fire out of gaza, israeli air strikes over the last few days, what we've seen overnight is some intense air strikes. i just got off the phone with someone in gaza, saying that as far as he knows, they've hit a variety of training facilities and other military facilities belonging to hamas and other factions in response. we had a variety of rockets fired out of gaza this evening as well as mortar barrages, so it definitely looks like we have an escalation on the way. this is really just the beginning, john. >> what do we know about the investigation itself. how did israel end up finding the bodies of these teenagers that have been missing for more than two weeks? >> they went missing at about 12:30 on the 12th of june, focused mainly in the southern part of the west bank and within the city itself.
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now, what's interesting is, that apparently what happened was, the first body was discovered this afternoon at about 5:00 p.m. local time by volunteers, people who are affiliated with it. not far from here. apparently one person went out to a field and found under a bunch of rocks a body he contacted the israeli army, and police they came over closed off the area, found the other two bodies, this was in an area that was only about a 15 minute drive from where the original kidnapping took place on the 12th of june, and in a field that had already been searched by the military and police. >> quickly, israel insists that it thinks that hamas is responsible for these deaths, is hamas claiming responsibility, though? >> no. hamas praised the kidnapping, but did not claim responsibility. there were in the initial days
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after the kidnapping, there were a variety of claims of responsibility, but none of them could be verified. now, what's interesting in this case is that there is not unanimity among israeli security officials that this was an operation that was approved by the higher echelons of hamas's military wing, many of them believe that the two individuals that israel has pointed two may have been affiliated with hamas, but it may have been an ad-hoc operation, they were basically targets of opportunity, not necessarily a preplanned operation. >> ben wedeman, could be a long night for you in the west bank, thank you so much. there is a lot more happening tonight. susan hendricks has an ac-360 bulletin. >> the company is recalling 8.4 million more vehicles worldwide, mostly for faulty ignition
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switches which have caused at least 13 deaths. gm offered to pay at least $1 million to the families of those who died. the automaker said it will give another $300,000 for each surviving spouse independent to be determined by the earning potential. oscar pistorius' trial resumed today. a panel of doctors found that he was not mentally incapacitated when he fatally shot his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. and rob ford is out of rehab and back on the job. he asked for forgiveness and pledged to keep serving his constituents. yosemite marks its 150th anniversary. the celebration included a groundbreaking for a project that will restore a grove of 500 sequoia trees, and have been called nature's masterpiece, certainly looks that way. >> one of the most beautiful places on earth. just ahead for us, a stunning revelation in the investigation of a georgia toddler's death in a hot car,
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a judge will decide if there's enough evidence to keep justin harris in jail while prosecutors build their case. the georgia father as you might remember is charged with murder and second-degree child cruelty. it's not a dispute he left his 22-month-old son cooper in an suv in the broiling heat for hours that ultimately killed the toddler. prosecutors alleged murder. harris says is just a horrible accident. cooper's funeral was on saturday. in the surprise of many, his
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father took part in the service from jail. martin savidge has more starting with a new piece of information that has surfaced in the investigation. >> the new revelation is stunning. the mother of 22-month-old cooper harris says she also researched on the internet how children die in hot cars. it follows a similar draw dropping admission by the boy's father. he stated he recently researched through the internet child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur. he said he was fearful this could happen. it did happen less than two weeks ago. police say justin ross harris left his son strapped in a rear facing child seat in the back seat of his suv for close to 7 hours in the parking lot at work. temperatures hit the 90s that day. the father says he forgot to
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take the boy to day care. harris was seen at lunchtime, returning to the vehicle and placing an item in the front seat before going back to his office. dad's being held without bond, charged with felony murder and second degree child cruelty, so far no charges have been filed against the boy's mother. police made the documents public saturday. the same day hundreds gathered in alabama for little cooper's funeral. his tiny casket was red, his favorite color. no cameras allowed, but reporters could attend. leann in a harris defended her husband during her child's eulogy saying, am i angry with ross? absolutely not. it has never crossed my mind. cnn's nick valencia was in the church. >> what got the reaction was when she said ross harris is a wonderful father, and everybody stood up and started clapping. it was an unprovoked moment.
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>> then cooper area father spoke via phone from his jail cell. >> you could hear him sobbing over the phone. trying to catch his breath. that got very emotional for people in the crowd. >> you remember some of what he said? >> he said thank you. he thanked those in the crowd for not only supporting him, but also supporting his son. >> what was to be a service to remember a child, also became a defense of the father charged with his death. leading even those attending torn by anguish and allegations. >> i mean, he could have left the car and not seen the little boy if the boy was sleeping or -- i mean, it could have. he could have been distracted. so -- but i do have questions about it. martin savidge joins us now. the mother's eulogy at the funeral, it's really the first we've heard from her. what else did she have to say? >> it was very unusual i have to say. it wasn't so much talking about
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her son but talking about her husband. and openly having to answer the questions that have come about. one of the other odd things in that eulogy, she put together a list of things she said she was happy that her son did not live to see his first heartbreak. that ordeal of who to sit with at lunch in those awkward middle school years. she said he wouldn't have to suffer through the death of his grandparents or parents die. i will miss him with all my heart. would i bring him back? no. to bring him back in this broken world would be selfish. they are a very deeply religious family. john? >> thank you so much for that. joining me now, a former fbi agent, mary ellen o'toole.
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sunny hostin, not only did the father search on the internet for what temperature in a car could chill a child. we know the mother did some kind of internet search along those lines as well. >> sure. i'm a parent, i have a beautiful wife. we are loving parents who tend to be neurotic, i can't imagine ever doing a search like this. >> i can, and i think there are going to be first time parents that relate to that, i can tell you that when my children were born i did searches on drowning deaths because we go to a lot of pool parties. if i then take my child to a pool party and my child drowns, did i plan that? was that intentional. you have to look at it that way, but i will agree that it's going to come down to the timing. did he search. a week or a month before, it's awfully strange. >> it's awfully strange and it's awfully strange if he went into his office after he left the boy in his car and did it then. i think it's really about motive in a case like this, we know this happens so very often.
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we know last year, over 40 children died this way. i think if you're the prosecution and you need to prove this case, although motive is never an element of the crime, you've got to be able to go to that jury and explain that there was a divorce battle, a custody battle, a life insurance policy. you have to give the jury something i think to hinge. >> i understand they may need a lot more than these internet searches, but these internet searches seem to me to be something the police and prosecutors can look at and say, we need to do a lot more investigating here. >> i think that's absolutely right, and i think that we will learn more about the theory of this case on thursday, when there's the probable cause hearing. the government will have to show that a crime has been committed and the defendant committed that crime. i'm still reserving judgment as i've said all along. at least until thursday. when we hear, what is the theory?
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>> i want to talk about the funeral now, and the father calling in during the funeral. you know, how important do you think that is? do you think that strikes investigators as unusual? >> i think that will strike investigators as unusual. what they'll have to do is they'll have to develop a baseline of this father's behavior, what was he like a month, six months before this happened? and so is this behavior that he manifested at the funeral consistent with who he is? or is it inconsistent. as they begin to build this tapestry, they will compare the behavior in the scene and how he acted when he notified authorities, and they'll compare that to the baseline of behavior, otherwise you can't interpret it correctly. >> what about the fact the mother spoke up for him at the funeral. does that also matter? >> it absolutely does matter.
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again, on the surface, it appears so odd, so inappropriate, but we don't know what her overall behavior is, so there has to be a baseline of behavior that's developed about the mother and the fther and you can compare that and say, is this out of the ordinary for the mother or is she just kind of a quirky person? it's easy to jump to conclusions, but you have to have something to compare it to. >> when i was a prosecutor and had cases, murder cases, rape cases, i didn't put too much stock in defendant's reaction after something took place, because we don't know how we would react when something like this occurs. i sort of disagree in the sense you do want this profile, and you want to be able to explain the behavior, i don't think when you're trying these kinds of cases in front of a jury, you can really explain this kind of behavior.
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>> last question here, the police are saying, the fact in this case at this point don't just point to simple negligence. does this mean you think they have to have more than these internet searches? >> they're going to need to have more, but the fact that we're seeing it unfold the way we are suggests to me as someone that has case material. they do know more about what lead up to this, they have more information about the background, and other pieces to the puzzle we don't have yet. >> thank you so much for being with us. we really appreciate it. coming up, a new warning for militants trying to establish an islamic state in iraq. breaking news about what the united states is doing about it right now. quicken loans will pay your mortgage for an entire year.
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more breaking news tonight, the pentagon announcing it sent an additional 200 military personnel to iraq to provide security for the u.s. embassy, the baghdad airport and other facilities. these troops are in addition to the up to 300 military personnel the president had already authorized. this amid new threats and declarations for the militant group isis. the group has declared a caliphate and is calling on muslims to swear allegiance to it. the group has posted several propaganda videos on line. a jihadist speaks mostly english and says there's no army in the world that can withstand the soldiers of islam.
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it shows what appears to be men being held captive inside. the building is then blown up. >> this is the police station -- >> now, in this video, the jihadist gives a tour of a border area, and points out american vehicles he says were captured from police. >> people in the west, keep giving and we will keep taking it. look how much money they spend. look at this big car. american ford. >> senior international correspondent arwa damon and former fbi supervising agent join me now. this new video we have from isis, it's a little unusual, it's almost like a guided tour through the conquests of isis
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right now on the border between iraq and syria. very well produced, what do you make of it? >> well, isis unlike other groups, very good with social media, very good in producing the high quality videotapes. and they use it not only as propaganda, they use it also for recruitment and fund-raising, they have been extremely successful with the media operation, they have various entities inside the group that focus mostly on media, for example, when they announce the destruction of the borders between syria and iraq, when they announce the establishment of the kalaffa, they announced it in english, french, arabic, russian, german. now they are talking to a global audience. >> the young man in this video speaks nearly perfect english. arwa damon i want to bring you in here, it strikes me he is a young man. we're used to seeing al qaeda videos in the old days.
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with osama bin laden, al zawahiri. this is, you know, a guy in his 20s, more of the rank and file of the isis movement. do you think that's significant? >> i do think it is, we're also seeing very clearly just how much further isis has evolved since the days when al qaeda was the most feared terrorist organization. not just in terms of the type of propaganda they're putting out, but in sheer numbers of people, especially westerners that they've managed to attract by far surpassing in the iraqi and syrian battlefield, any sort of appeal and flow of foreign fighters that al qaeda and iraq for example was ever able to attract. additionally when it comes to these videos, they circulate so widely and so quickly on the internet, not just pushing forward. isis' message in terms of its appeal to potential jihadis, also even more importantly spreading that message of fear and terrifying the population.
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>> we talk about the evolution of isis. now, isis says they want to change their name, they want to be known as the islamic state. they established a kallafat. leave aside that's offensive to many muslims. and laughable to many others. is this proof that they are delusional? >> it's proof they're delusional, also at the same time, i think we have to look at this, not as establishment of a new state, not as establishment of kallafat. we have to look at it as a split in the global jihadi movement. no other organization is allowed to exist except under bahadadi. al qaeda is not allowed to exist. taliban is not allowed to exist. now, the question is, will these groups pledge bahai to al qaeda. or will they fight each other?
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the other point is, what will they do? will they try to carry out a terrorist attack? to prevent further jihadis to go toward isis. >> i want to focus on what's going on inside the border of iraq. you just went to karballah, that is one of the holiest cities around the world right now. it's also a city that's not that far. despite it's a shiite city, not that far from the sunni strong holds. what's the latest on the ground there? >> we just got back from a trip there, bearing in mind too, that the spokesman for isis in a message that was put out last week was very blunt in saying, let's keep marching, it's not about the battle raging right now. the big battle is yet to come, and that is going to be for baghdad and karballah. karballah being home to one of shia islam's holiest sites. imam hussein and his brother. great concerns on the ground
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there. any sort of attack that would cause any sort of damage to that shrine would set off catastrophic sectarian bloodshed, not just necessarily in iraq, across the entire region as well. and that is what people are so concerned about, because the potential outcome of this would by far surpass any kind of bloodshed that we saw ravaging iraq back in the days of the sectarian war here. the province of karballah is right up against the province of al anbar. that is a sunni strong hold, a lot of reinforcements being put into place there. speaking to people around the shrine, they are very frightened, very worried and in the words of one young man, he put it quite simply saying, iraq, we do not deserve this. >> thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it, guys. >> coming up for us, quite a
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in the realm of in flight airline emergencies, this definitely ranks among the strangest. the united flight to california forced to divert to wichita kansas after an emergency evacuation slide deployed inside the plane at cruising altitude. passengers say they heard a pop, then a hiss, and then some reached for their cameras. renee marsh has the details. >> shocked more than 33,000 feet
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in the air. when an emergency slide accidentally deploys, inflating in the rear of a united airlines boeing 737. >> you heard a bang and a hiss, more than 100 people on board, united flight 1463 from chicago o'hare to john wayne airport in southern california. was forced to make an emergency landing in wichita, kansas. >> everything's fine. we want to get on the ground and have someone look at it. everybody is fine. >> passengers heard a popping sound before the rear of the slide filled the rear of the plane. taylor martinez tweeted this picture of the slide, writing, scariest flight of all time. experts say many factors could have caused this. >> the possible causes really are the mismounting of the slide
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by the maintenance personnel, they're going to be looking at the pressurization of the unit that inflates the slide. they're going to be looking at the mounting brackets, everything that goes into how this slide is put into the airplane. >> the faa says there was an issue with the plane's door and they're investigating. >> we have highly pressurized gases, they're inflating something at a very rapid rate. this slide takes up an awful lot of room. if it deploys at the wrong place on a landing, could block an exit. which would be critical to a passenger evacuation. >> it's happened before, last november, a slide deployed on a jet blue plane, hitting a flight attendant to the wall. that incident is still under investigation. in a proactive move, they decided to replace the emergency slides on their fleet with a new
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design. when the new design is available, the fleet will be retrofitted. in the meantime, in the latest case, the airline tells us, all passengers were seated so no one was injured. renee marsh, cnn washington. m. >> that does it for us. the cnn special report "downward spiral" inside the case of aaron hernandez starts right now. he was the all american destined to 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. >> you're questioned all the time, 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. it was a brutal double homicide. >> how in the world did he get here?