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found. police are investigating whether it was a revenge murder. and right now, the white house releases its annual list of who makes what, but when you look at the salaries for both men and women, the numbers don't necessarily add up. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello, i'm jim sciutto reporting from washington. wolf blitzer is off today. millions of people are bracing for a stormy and potentially dangerous july 4th weekend. tropical storm arthur, the first named storm of the 2014 atlantic hurricane season is now churning off the coast of florida as we speak. it's expected to bring heavy rain and fierce winds to the carolina coast tomorrow. and as it marches north, arthur could grow into a category 1 hurricane. here's what it looks like from space. nasa astronaut reed wiseman couldn't resist tweeting a

picture of the storm. saying, quote, it looks mean. joe johns is on north carolina's outer banks, right in the cross hairs of the hurricane. tracking arthur from cnn's headquarters in atlanta. no one knows it better than you. how bad is it expected to get? sorry, we're not hearing chad there. we will come back to him when we fix that audio problem. first, i want to go to our joe johns, who is out in the outer banks. can you tell us what you're seeing there now? you're starting to see the outer rings the storm coming through there? >> to be honest, it's another day at the beach at least so far. want to give you an idea where i am. this is kill devil hills, north carolina. to the south down there is cape hatteras, north carolina. the cape hatteras national seashore. they're under a hurricane watch.

the beaches are supposed to be closed around 9:00. the lifeguards left their posts. at kill devil hills, hundreds of people getting in a little bit of extra sun. i talked to a lot of those people. they told me doesn't really matter to them because here in the mid-atlantic, people are acuss topped to hurricanes this summer. still, a fourth of july weekend, 250,000 people are expected here. authorities are making plans in case that storm does hit. the governor talked a little bit about that earlier today. >> again, use common sense, stay out of the ocean and sound throughout the duration of the storm. riptides are very dangerous. no matter what your level of experience is in the water. again, i don't want you to put at risk not only yourself but also people who may try to help you, especially our emergency

operation workers. this is no time to be selfish or pretend to be brave during a storm for short-term adventure. >> this storm will move in and move out fairly quickly, nonetheless, some fireworks celebrations for july 4th have already been rescheduled to saturday or even to monday. and there be are some concerns on the economics side here about cancellations by people at hotels and houses who are just planning to stay for the weekend. we'll just have to see about that it now let's go to chad myers. >> it's going to go downhill for a while there. the next couple of days will really start to make the waves significant. from cape hatteras to florida. this is going to be just like the governor said, all the way through here, i can't have you in the water for any reason because there's no reason to be in the water when you're going to get rip currents like this, on shore waves and winds 70

miles per hour push the water up on to the shore. that water piles up along the shore and then, that's fine until the sand bar fails. when the sand bar breaks, all of the water that's up here rushes up all at once. you're standing there in a perfectly nice kind of wavy bath tube and then all of a sudden, that water completely leaves you and takes you with it. there is the storm. i've been talking to producers all day long about this landfall thing. it may not make landfall, maybe 20 miles offshore. but the closest approach to nag head will be 3:00 a.m. friday morning. just after midnight thursday, that doesn't mean on thursday that nothing's going to happen. the entire beach here south of nags head all the way down to wilmington will be bombarded with these waves and with this rough, rough surf. friday landfall, if there is one, but thursday is the worst weather that you're going to get there in north carolina, especially south of the cape.

it goes right over cape hatteras, right through nova scotia. there's sand bars. on the east coast, the sand bars are here. kind of that lighter area i've dawn through there. the water washes over the sand bars and piles up. you don't even know it because you're just swimming in it. it's only maybe 5 or 6 inches higher than the rest of the ocean. all of a sudden the sand bar fails right there and all of the water that's here by all these waves you're playing in all along the beach, all a sudden that fails. we the sand bar fail, the rip current rips you out and you don't even know it. there's no time to react. that's why you can't be there at all. it's nice and calm until it's not. >> we always look at the path of the storm and where it's tracking, but this is a big storm, so even if the path doesn't make landfall, a lot of the effects of the storm do too. there are a lot of airports along the coast there. i wonder if you have a sense of how much this is going to affect holiday travel in the next days?

>> when you see winds at 60 miles an hour, waves, wind. the storm is not even close. there will be roads. there will be bridges. there will be ferries completely shut down. you're going to get to the ferry stop and go, i guess we can't go any further. so don't even try to get to the carolina coast until saturday. by then, it's over. so you wasted a day. go watch the fireworks in your hometown hometown. it's that big of a difference between 24 hours or not. it's going to be the most beautiful place in the world, but friday afternoon, maybe not so much. >> by saturday, we'll still get a weekend. thanks very much to chad myers. we'll keep you updated. we'll move overseas now, where the death of a palestinian teenager is adding to simmering tensions between israel and the palestinians. police are investigating now whether he was killed in retaliation for the killing of three israeli teens. the palestinian teen's body was found in woods near jerusalem according to the palestinian

news agency. it was, quote, charred and bore signs of violence. skirmishes have broken out as angry palestinians threw rocks at israeli security forces. the israelis responded with grenades and rubber bullets. in the neighborhood where the violence broke out. ben, how tense is the situation there now? >> it's extremely tense. these clashes have been going on since the early morn, as soon as news spread of the killing of of this young palestinian boy. now, at the moment, it's quiet, because weem come to the end of the daily ramadan fast. we just heard the mosque just a moment ago. so at the moment, it's quiet, but we're expecting as soon as everybody's had their evening meal, trouble could begin again. it's not just tense here, jim. also in other parts of the city, we're hearing of smaller clashes.

but it definitely -- this is the tensist -- this part of town has been since i can recall. and that's a few years. >> we now have a full audio and transcript from this chilling phone call that was made by one of the kidnapped israeli teens. according to media, one of those three, 16-year-old galid, made this call to police on june 12th. i'll have our views have a quick listen to this and then come back to you. [ speaking foreign language ]

>> it's really remarkable, ben. now there are reports that israeli officials believe that during that -- possibly during that phone call or soon after is when those israeli teens were killed. in other words, they were killed very soon after they were picked up. what are you hearing now about what israeli officials believe? >> well, they believe that first of all we know they were killed soon after they were kidnapped on the 12th of june. that's been known for a few days now. as far as the call itself goes, of course, there are persistence reports that in that call there's the sound of what could be gunfire. now, it's really hard to make out anything in that tape beyond some basic -- very basic stuff,

but regardless of the contents, what is really causing ripples in israeli politics and criticism of the police is the fact that this call was made at about 10:30 on the evening the 12th of june. and it wasn't until 5:00 a.m. that israeli army in the west bank was alerted to a kidnapping. and to add to that, according to reports in some reliable israeli newspapers, the parents started calling the police. they made 54 calls between the time they started to suspect the children had gone missing until the army actually was alerted and started taking action. so already we know the police officers had been dismissed for mishandling this affair and i think probably more heads are going to roll, jim. >> incredible, just thinking of the criticism of the government response as well with all the anger swirling there.

i know there's been a lot of debate inside the israeli government about how intense the military retaliation would be for the killings of these three israeli teenagers. is the israeli government any closer to deciding what they're going to do, how much and where they're going to do it? >> well, we understand they're going to hold, this evening, the third security cabinet meeting in three days to discuss the options. so this is unusual. for instance, last night, they were in cabinet session until late into the morning. and unlike normally the case here, no leaks are coming out. we heard initially that prime minister netanyahu said that they were going to do three things, pursue the kidnappers, crack down on hamas in the west bank, and operate against hamas in the gaza strip. but beyond that, it's not clear what they're going to do.

obviously, there's a lot of disagreement. a lot of debate within the security cabinet as to what to do, because the fear is that, you know, they've gone to war with gaza and hamas twice already. very little was achieved. many within the security establishment are starting to ask, if we do it again, what can we realistically accomplish, and if israel does somehow weaken or unseat hamas, would takes their place. there are far more radical elements in gaza than hamas. jim. >> always hard questions. one of them, how far this tit-for-tat violence is going to go. ben wedeman, right in the middle of it, in jerusalem. the killings of the three israeli and palestinian teens pose a danger in a volatile region. we'll talk with cambassador nicholas burns. also, assessing the iraqi military forces. willi will they step up if isis

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and welcome back. investors are watching the dow, wondering if today is the day it closes above 17,000. the dow briefly bumped up against it yesterday before slipping back. the 17,000 figure is mostly psychological and does not mean anything special as far as the markets are concerned because it is already a record level. president obama is having lunch with a group of economists looking for ways to boost growth and increase job opportunities for more administration. the administration has revealed salary information for the men and women who work inside the white house. despite the president's recent focus on pay equality and raising the minimum wage, it appears many women in the white house still lag behind their male counterparts by about $10,000 a year. our athena jones is live at the white house. i know you've been crunching these numbers.

>> it's true, women do lag behind their male counterparts. i think we have those figures. on average, male staffers here at the white house made about $86,600. that's versus $78,400 for the average woman. that's a gap of 13%. i asked the white house about this. they said the pay dispirarity i because there are more women in junior lemplle inior lemplle e junior lemplle vel positions. they also told me men and women in equivalent roles earn equivalent salaries and over half of our departments are run by women. they say don't look at the salaries in the aggregate, pay attention to the specific roles people are filling and in that case, the men and the women match, those salaries match. >> i see, so in other words, a man and woman working in the same job, they're going to get the same salary but there are fewer women in the senior positions that get the bigger salaries. >> exactly. that's what they said. >> so how about when you look at the white house, who be maes the

most? i think folks back home are curious. we know the president makes $400,000 a year. how about the folks working for him? >> the people who make the most are the people who have the title assistant to the president. that's about $172,000. there are 22 people at the white house, 11 men and 11 women, who make that figure. $172,000. in general, if you look at the staffers across the board here at the white house, they, on average, make more than the average american. jim. >> yes, that's the other thing, i'm sure a lot of other folks back home look at the salaries in the 80s and they're thinking, that sounds property were pretty good to me. president obama is at the top of a new poll but it's not welcome news. quinnipiac university asked more than 1,400 voters to rank the presidents since world war ii and 33% said obama was the

worst. george bush got 28%. nixon, 13%. our political editor here. this is the poll, i mean, when you look at the sampling here is there a lot here to this poll? >> very legitimate poll. getting a lot of buzz. let's take it and look at some of the caveats here. president obama is in the public consciousness right now. he's in the white house. of course, he's going to be seen favorably by some and unfavorably by others. quinnipiac asked the same question in 2006 when bush, his predecess predecessor, was halfway through his second term. he came out on top as the worst president since world war ii. remember, bush number two in this poll, obama number one as the worst presidents, they're governing at a partisan time. one other thing, who is the best president in this reagan, right. bill clinton, 18, jfk, 15%.

>> when you look at bill clinton, one thing i was thinking, you hear from historians all the time, this changes very quickly. the president who is hated who has low ratings when he left and then people say, maybe he wasn't such a bad president. is there precedent for people over time starting to like presidents more? >> our poll from a couple weeks ago said that george bush's favorable ratings have risen up to where he is now. >> thank you very much, paul steinhouser, as always. another story at home, 140 immigrants arriving every 72 hours. that's what the police chief in marietta, california, was told to expect in the coming days. >> they're not born here. they're not born here! they need to go back to mexico. >> it is expected to ignite more scenes like this one. a wall of angry protesters

blocked three buses of undocumented immigrants yesterday. they were traveling from texas to the border patrol station. but they were forced to turn around. with the flood of undocumented immigrants coming into texas, some are being sent to other states for processing. the immigrant crisis will be the focus tonight of a town hall meeting in marietta, california. on saturday, we're going to look at immigration through the eyes of an undocumented worker. he is a pulitzer prize winning journalist living in america illegally. now he is risking everything by coming forward and telling you his story. "documented," a cnn film, saturday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern. up next, security options in iraq. the u.s. is beefing up the airport and embassy in baghdad. will iraqi forces do their part? plus, a tropical storm is threatening much of the east coast. at the height of the july 4th travel holiday season. it could become a hurricane by

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our barbara starr is at the pentagon. this is an important part of the military advisers sent into iraq by president obama, assessing whether iraqi forces will stand and fight and what are they finding now that they're on the ground? >> it's very preliminary but sources are telling us that the initial reports are that baghdad, the iraqi forces, mainly shia, will stand and fight, they believe, stand and fight and defend the capital. that could not be more important because of course it is baghdad and baghdad international airport that is so important to the u.s. if fighting comes to the capital, if the u.s. embassy were to come under attack, that airport in baghdad is the only way to get americans out. so it's going to be crucial for the u.s. to have the confidence that iraqi forces would stand and fight in baghdad if the fighting came to the capital. it is very preliminary. what the advisers still must do

is really get, we're told this, get eyes on and try and assess iraqi forces. will they -- do they have leadership? do the troops have confidence in their commanders? do they have sufficient equipment? these are the kinds of things they'll look at, making recommendations to the pentagon about what the next steps might be. jim. >> i just flew through the baghdad airport last week and i was thinking, how close are those isis fighters to the airport there. there's one question about will iraqi forces keep isis from advancing. i suppose the next question is can iraqi forces take back the massive part of the country, a third of the country that isis now controlled, is that already something that advisers are looking into? are they focusing now on not giving up any more ground? >> well, that's really interesting, because the facts are right now, the u.s. talked about putting advisory teams in the north, putting an operation

center up there, sending advisory teams up there. none of that is happening now because basically we're told there's no iraqi military force in northern iraq to assess. the iraqi forces are largely gone from so many of those areas. so it is going to be very problematic by all accounts for the u.s. teams to get into northern iraq and to figure out what to do there because the iraqis are not even there right now and no indication, at least at this point, that they can or will mount the kind of massive wholesale attack that would be needed, current attack, to take back that massive swath of northern and western iraq, that would be a very tall order. >> incredible to think that's the status quo. isis controlling a big part of the country. thanks to barbara starr at the pentagon. the july 4th holiday could be dangerous for much of the east coast. arthur is churning and marching

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welcome back, i'm jim sciutto reporting from washington. we have breaking news out of the department homeland security concerning passenger screening at airports. we've just learned the department of homeland security could announce new airport security measures as soon as today due to increased concern that terrorists are developing explosives designed to avoid detection by current security screening. we're told these would apply to airports in europe, in the middle east, elsewhere around the world that are not up to this current threat. i'm going to bring in our justice reporter evan perez to talk more about this. this is a story you and i have been looking into for some time. how severe do we think this threat is, one, and two, how much of a change will it be for screening measures? >> well, they're talking about additional screenings at these airports in the middle east. especially the middle east and europe.

the concern is really aqap, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. >> and their famous bomb maker. >> and they've basically been working on new bomb designs, the u.s. believes, and according to intelligence, they believe these bomb designs are possibly able to evade detection. so out of an abundance of caution, they're going to increase screenings at these airports. this is not going to effect what passengers are able to bring on board their flights, but this is just something they want to do. talking to your sources, i'm sure, this is a big security threat, you know, and they know that these guys are working to -- changing their bomb designs to be able to defeat the procedures that are already in place. so they're trying to make sure they can counteract that. >> the concern is direct flights to the u.s. the security in the u.s. only as good as the security at those airports. mideast europe even as well. >> these are airports that i think, you know, raise

particular concerns because they believe these are the likely places where these threats could come from. >> i know you and i have talked about this. they know they're constantly trying to get past security measures. they know what the measures are. i'm sure they tested them out. how confident do you think dhs, the other counterterror agencies are, the changes they make can counter the changes that we know the terrorists always make. this is a running battle they have to fight. >> the thing is, you want to make these security measures strong enough to be able to deter obviously the terrorists. at the same type, yime, you wan bring comfort and you don't want to cause too much disruption, prevent people from taking flight. it's a balancing act. they're really -- they're trying to strike here. >> it's measures you can see, measures you can't see. like, thanks very much, our

justice reporter. new changes, security measures to come. as we head into the busiest travel weekend of the summer, a major storm is threatening to make a mess the july 4th holiday for millions of people along the east coast. tropical storm arthur, the first named storm of the 2014 atlantic hurricane season, is churning off the coast of florida now, and it's expected to bring heavy and fierce wind to the carolina coast tomorrow. it could grow that a category 1 hurricane. that will likely happen, we're told, tomorrow. will ming to be, north carolina, to nags head will likely see the worst of the storm, including damaging wave, and dangerous riptides for swimmers. officials are busy preparing for this storm. joining us live from kill devil hills on the outer banks, right in the cross hairs, we have warren judge, the chairman of the dare county board of commissions. tell me now, as you see it coming your way what are the biggest concerns about this

storm? >> our biggest concern is the road conditions on hatteras island. >> now, what do you tell people to prepare? i imagine, as the storm gets worse, stay off those roads. >> well, we ask everybody, visitors and residents alike, to stay tuned to all of our news outlets here in the county, the county website. we have direct e-mail responses to any your inquiries. telephone bank. newspapers. the local newspapers cover us, the radio stations. we ask everybody to get themselves -- to make themselves aware of what's going on, to listen to reports, and to stand by for instructions from us. right now residents and people's businesses -- we ask people to put up loose items and begin to prepare for the high winds that will reach us along around midnight thursday night. but today we want everybody to

enjoy themselves, have a good time, but keep an eye and an ear open as things develop. we have great means of getting information out, but we also need the folks to pay attention and to follow the advice of the emergency operations center. >> i always know it's a tough balancing act for you, because on the one hand, you want people to be prepared. you want to prevent damage and injury. on the other hand, you want people to enjoy the weekend as best they can. how do you manage that now? is it really just about giving the latest best information up to the minute? is that how you get the word out? >> absolutely. our county manager and his team are well trained, experienced people that are taking care of all the mechanics behind the scenes. we have a dedicated top notch public information officer who takes all of that information and gets it out to the public. we ask the people to do two things.

one, to enjoy themselves, but more importantly, to be safe. and to listen to the warnings. and to follow all of the instructions that will come over the next couple of days. >> all right, well, good luck to you. i know you've got a tough job in the next couple of days. coming up next, israeli police investigate the killing of a palestinian teenager. was it revenge for the deaths of three israelis? we'll discuss what this all means for an already tense region. later, the new secretary of defense. goalie tim howard comes out on top, even if the u.s. team didn't. for bringing us together. find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust.

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built for business. israeli authorities are investigating whether the death of a palestinian teenager was a revenge killing. was it in retaliation for the kidnapping and killing of three israeli teens? just moments ago, white house press secretary john earnest said this about the death of the palestinian teen. >> the united states condemns in the strongest possible terms the heinous murder of palestinian te teenager muhammad. we send our condolences. israeli prime minister netanyahu has called upon palestinian authorities to identify as quickly as possible to identify the perpetrator's moments behind this heinous act and we hope to

see the guilty parties brought to justice. we call on the government of israel and the palestinian authority to take all necessary steps to prevent an atmosphere of revenge and receipt tri retr. people who take acts of vengeance will destabilize a volatile situation. >> it has triggered skirmishes between israeli security forces and palestinians. joining me now via skype is ambassador nicholas burns with great experience over there. also, former u.s. undersecretary for political affairs. listening to josh earnest, you can hear the deep concern in his voice. it's a concern i've heard from others in the region i've been talking to. you know this region well. how quickly could a tit-for-tat situation like this escalate? >> well, jim, it's a very dangerous moment. the united states of course

recognizes this. israeli anger over the murder of the three israeli teenagers is understandable. and when prime minister netanyahu asks for justice to be done, of course everyone would, in the u.s. government, would agree the killers need to be brought to justice but peacefully and through civil means. the last thing of course that anyone wants to see between the palestinians and the israelis is escalation of violence. >> john kerry tweeted earlier today. i'm going to share that with our viewers. in his words, the world has too often learned the hard way that violence only leads to more violence. it applies to another debate going on in israel which is how hard to hit back against hams which the israeli government blames for killings of these teens. where do you think that's going to go? how hard do you think israel will push back? do you see another conflict in

gaza over this? >> we've already seen the pushback. we've seen israeli air strikes. this is a pattern between israel and hamas for many years. obviously hamas is at the root of problem for the middle east. it won't accept the peace and it won't refrain from violence. israelis have a right to defend themselves. it's the u.s. wish and it's the right thing to get these parties back to the negotiating table and not to see another rocket war or the type we saw a couple of years ago develop between hams and israel. you remember the secretary of state hillary clinton had to know go negotiate the end of that rocket war. >> you mentioned getting them back to the table. it was only a few weeks ago john kerry's he layen efforts for getting into the negotiation table ended those talks. can the u.s. get involved here with any effect? >> i don't think it's realistic

to assume that somehow informal negotiations can take place but convincing them to refrain from violence, to deal with each other, i mean, here the palestinian authority in ramallah with prime minister netanyahu, to rebuild that relationship. the middle east is at a very, very unstable and violent phase. you have just north of israel and syria, isis has established a caliphate in northern syria and western iraq. prime minister netanyahu gave an important speech where he warned radical islam is on the doorsteps of israel. so i think the israelis here have larger strategic interests than just the situation with the palestinians. i think the prime minister is focused on that. >> the new reality is just incredible, it's territory controlled by eye sisis, right e doorstep of israel. thanks, ambassador nicholas burns, join s us live via skype

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violence, executions, behindings, and maskers. now they are extending reach to followers outside of the area. now a rare interview with militants considering joining. this is the call to jihad as militants establish a territorial foothold stretching from syria to iraq. as this propaganda video shows, isis hopes it will sweep the region. it is reaching extremists in other parts of the world. these three young men have travelled to syria for jihad. >> i have a brother here, and another brother here. they agreed to speak to us on

skype with if we don't show their faces. >> i'm from the south of england. i grew up in a middle class family. life was easy. but you cannot practice islam back home. we see it all around us, and we can't do anything about it because we are living by the laws. >> we met him and his friends as so many of the young men do online. they i they post instagram f photoing of guns. they have committed maskers and acts of terror so extreme that even al-qaeda disavowed them. i asked if his family knows what he is doing in syria. >> they're not happy with me

being here, but i give them islamic propagation, and they see the reality of here, they hear the reality from me what they don't hear from the bbc. >> so how many like him are out there? thousands all across europe. there is estimated 700 from france, and in russia, about 800. here in the uk almost 400. these numbers are quite high, but these are only the movements they can track. the actual numbers may be higher. like this 22-year-old american. authorities say last month he packs a truck full of explosives, drove it to a syrian army position, and detonated killing himself. >> he was the best person i have met in my life. he had the best character.

and i knew this operation would give him a chance to go into the enemy and kill much of them and be killed in the process. he told me if i go, don't go back to england. >> he says he too wants to carry out a suicide attack inspired by his friend. but when i ask if he would return to britain and carry out an attack back home, he says no. >> if i go home, it will be when i go to europe and the blood of islam is flowing down the street. i don't expect to come home. >> i ask if he will now join isis in iraq and he says he is considering it. >> we have an islamic state now. >> the call to jihad is too strange to resist for him and others like him. the isis threat at home,

alarming story. comes up next, the u.s. may have lost to belgium, but tim howard is still a winner. his story coming up.

they're calling him the new captain american. i'm talking about the u.s. national soccer team goalie tim howard. he set a record for saves in a loss to belgium yesterday.

today he talked about the heartbreaking loss and what he plans to do next. >> you play your best and you still get beat. at the end of the game we created two ip credible opportunities and we could be right there, right in it, it could have been a definite scenario this morning, but it's not meant to be. >> you are popular, what are you going to do with all of this? how are you going to handle it? >> take it in stride. i'm going to go home, relax, hide away, get more tattoos, just be me. >> a tough loss. i was watching like you, i bet. it was still an inspiration to many. and being an inspiration is tim howard's true passion. >> he is the anchor of team usa. at age 35, hymn howard is still at the top of his game.

as his new jersey high school, no one is surprised. >> he could anticipate where the ball would be next. >> nothing he does surprises me. when you see timmy howard doing things right, you as a teammate or coach want to up your game. >> he played basketball and soccer at north brunswick high school. he went on to major league soccer and he was recruited by one of the best known sports teams of the world. >> when he got the call from manchester united, it was a win for all of us. >> for howard, fate also meant responsibility. he lent his body to peta for this anti-fur campaign. >> tim called us one day and

said he wanted to volunteer with the organization. >> howard had been diagnosed with terrets as a child. he said it was an obstacle he never let stand in his way. >> i may not make it as a professional footballer, but i don't want the reason to be this syndrome. so it is something that i live with every day and for me, now, in my life it is like breathing to me. if i woke up one day and didn't have it, it would feel weird. >> he has done work with children and their families for the new jersey center and is he needsing his name to the new tim howard program. >> to the kids at his former school, he is a role model, too.

>> that hallway is the same that tim walked, that locker could be the same locker. and it's right there on tv every other day. >> carroll costello, cnn atlanta. "news room" with brook baldwin starts right now. thank you, great to be with you this afternoon. i'm brook baldwin and we begin with tropical storm arthur making it's way up the east coast and is on track to make landfall on friday, fourth of july if will most likely strike as a category one hurricane. look at these images from space. this is from an astronaut, posted on twitter. tracking arthur's path ahead