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the record but duncan and phil built the car themselves, they raised over $11,000 on kick starter to buy the expenses. the car has regular automobile insurance. you need flood insurance? >> i hadn't thought of that. >> time to get sloshed, dwi driving while inindated. >> wonder what the ticket would be for that. thanks for watching. good evening, thanks for the joining us, breaking news, new concerns about domestic terrorism and developments in the story we brought you exclusi exclusively. theme park employees spending off time on camera in child sex stings. the people who keep coming north and take thing train even knowing their destination could be death, you'll meet a mother and child who survived that so-called train of death, barely
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survived and have terrible scars to remind them. we begin with breaking news. a cnn exclusive, the possibility of acts of terrorism committed by americans against americans who went overseas to wage the holey war. eric holder spoke broadly talking about that florida man that blew himself up in syria. >> this is a very real thing. last month or so the first american engaged -- became a suicide bomber. so this is not a though rs nois, it's very real. >> we wanted to know the basis and barbara starr began investigating and what she uncovered could be trouble. listen. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence and law enforce the agencies have dozens of investigations underway tracking americans who travel to syria to join the fight worried they would attack the u.s. now that they are back home or trying to get back hole.
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>> the fbi, members of the intelligence community made this a top priority and taking whatever steps they can under the law to monitor and prevent. >> the government has begun an intense effort and also trying to identify americans before they traveled to syria so they know if americans came back. u.s. officials tell cnn not all potential suspects may be on the no-fly list making it harder for investigators. and more worry, thousands of fighters in syria with european passports and able to enter the u.s. officials tell cnn not all european countries are sharing the names of all of their suspect citizens. >> we got to make sure we partner with europe so we know who is coming back. >> alarms went off with an extremist opened fire at the jewish museum in may.
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after training with isis in syria, he traveled through several countries in europe before he was arrested in france. u.s. officials said it was a wakeup call that boarders can be readily crossed. >> we're talking about potentially thousands of people here. barbara starr joins us from the pentagon. this increased concern prompted the reason stepped up security measures at overseas airports. >> that's right, anderson, in large part. you have al qaeda and yemen that knows how to make undeteblble bombs that can get past airport security. those al qaeda operatives, many now it's believe have had traveled to syria. the technology is transferred. there are americans fighting in syria. if those americans get their hands on that technology, that is the worry. they could get back into this country, if the u.s. doesn't know about them with those kind of potentially undetectable bombs. it's one of the biggest concerns right now and what is partnered with this concern, anderson, is
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they may not know where all of these americans are. the big worry, unspoken, are there americans that have come back into this country that the u.s. doesn't know about? >> we'll talk more about that. barbara, appreciate the reporting. let's dig deeper with fran townsend and phillip mud. fran, you're concerned over the obama administration's reaction. >> anderson, look, this has been a concern that the u.s. intelligence community is talking about for months now. let's remember the director of national intelligence jim clapper testified before congress about his concern about upwards of more than 20,000 foreign fighters that could what they call bleed out. that's return after having got to the fight into western europe and back to the united states, even then they were talking about dozens if not hundreds that could enter the united states. it's hard to track these guys,
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right? so here is an american who is going to go to europe, you know, doesn't seem to be a concern and then they travel through several countries to get into syria. they get the fighting experience and travel back. they often use false documents, false names. so this is a real challenge and they got to work with our foreign allies, the intelligence services whether europe or more particularly arab country whose have a better sense of who what is going on in the ground inside syria. >> it's not like americans are taking flights back from syria after having fought in syria. it's coming back from jordan or lebanon or turkey or somewhere in europe and the fighters are european and u.s. passports is alarming. at least 7,000, some as high as 20,000. >> that's exactly right -- >> sorry, phil, go ahead. >> i'm sorry. >> no, phil, for you, go ahead. >> i was going to say i think you've got to look at two
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problems here. i sat at the threat table every morning when eric holder became attorney general. there were only about 12 of us. he has to think of the thing you mentioned, volume. in my old world, three people, five people, that's a lot of people to follow. you talk about dozens or hundred whose may have received training overseas. that volume issue is significant in the terrorism world. the second issue i mentioned is time. we're in 2014 now. what if this goes into next year, the year after? the war in syria is three or four years old and you expand to 100 kids, 200 kids. that combination of the volume of kids going over and the amount of time you have to watch this problem, to me, if i were sitting at the threat table could be daunting. >> robert, you have the situation for europeans, once you have a european passport, you can travel anywhere through europe. it's not as if your passport will be checked from going to france and germany or switzerland, wherever you go, you have free access to travel. the threat for europeans and
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american targets is extraordinarily high. >> extremely challenging to add to what the guests said. you have sheer volume, the ease of travel and that speaks to that matter about working with allies about the flow. up to this point, over three years with the civil war in syria, it's been quite easy, particularly through turkey. one other alarming, we have enough alarming aspects, i think, at this point of the situation, we don't have a frame of reference for this in the west. >> what do you mean? >> if you take the foreign fighters against the soviets in afghanistan in 1970s or through the 19 80s, we exceeded the foreign fighters going into syria and iraq. we also didn't have the degree of this extreme point we're seeing executions and broad scale violence and a technical capability. >> the technical sophistication
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isalarming. >> in terms of trying to target these people, these guys overseas, are there capabilities to do that? >> sure, there is a couple questions i'd be asking. first as fran suggested, you got to have partnerships with people like the jordans and turks because every time somebody with a funny passport or perhaps an american passport cross s a boarder or goes into london and doesn't have a good explanation i want my partners to tell me. >> edward snowden traveled overseas without a family member into jordan or turkey. not a single thing i mention is illegal. that is big data, that raises liberty issues.
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>> fran, certainly allies in the middle east, governments, i mean, you talk about jordans secret service, they have an effective secret service, that's krush crucial in tracking these people. >> the allies, those closer to the problem in the foreign fighters in syria have better fidelity. they have better intelligence. primarily that's because of human intelligence network sources they can run into the country, into the problem, bring them back, what essentially becomes for us important targeting data and information we can use not only in terms of targeting with other western urn pe -- european countries, we can try to identify them before they get into the united states. >> robert, what about those in the united states? how tough is tracking them? >> according to research that we publish add few months ago, fbi figures somewhere between 70 to 100. that's believed to be conservative. >> which is a lot. >> absolutely. like i said before, whether you
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have one, two, or three -- >> that's all it takes. >> we were concerned about a hand full of somalis that went to fight and now we're talking about hundreds here. >> right, to put it in some perspective, i mean, historically, even though i mentioned before there is not a great frame of reference, the number is small for those who commit violence. the big however is it takes a few to be lethal. one thing to talk about, too, in combatting the situation is a counter narrative. the important part in the road ahead, when it comes to the local level, the family level, nine government organizations in the u.s. and west and getting in front of young men who might have that idea to go to a place like syria and iraq, that's an important aspect. >> coordinating with families and stuff, which is some of what we saw, some guys in wails, the father came out and said what they have done is terrible and anti religious. good to have you on the program.
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phillip mud, fran townson. coming up next, a terrifying angel on the immigration crisis. a mom and child that road mexico's train of death trying to get to the united states. the terrible price they paid for it. the train is getting ready to roll any moment tonight. an off duty theme park employees caught on tape in sting operations. real action and reaction you want to know about whether you have kids or not. we'll be right back.
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with deportation flights underway and plans for 250 mass demonstrations across the country over the weekend. we'll talk to an arizona sheriff at the center of some protests but first we'll go to where so many undocumented kids are coming from and some are kill the or terribly injured on their way north. gary is reporting on a train they take, some call it the beast, or the train of death and joins us from southern mexico. gary? >> reporter: anderson, there is no train like this in the world. this is the beast. it just pulled into the station. right now it's hooking up with other cars because it's going to start heading north at about 10:00 local time, which is two hours and 45 minutes from now.
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let me move up so you can hear me. however, a short time ago, it pulled into the southern mexican town and aboard many immigrants. it is called the beast or the train of death. and it's heading north arriving in the southern mexican pueblo. when it's in the journey in mexico, hundreds of migrants sit on top. many get killed or hurted while moving and that's why it's known as the train of death. many of the people on top of the train for as many as eight hours are getting off for food and water. this man is one of the passengers. he says the ride wasn't so bad, that he left honduras to find better work. like many passengers he's extremely hungry.
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most people get off the beast to go to a nearby shelter and will catch the next train but some like these guy wills stay because they don't want to miss this when it leaves. the shelter provides food, water, medical care and well-known as my grants that can spend as much time as they want here. 2-year-old richard is here. his foot was cut off when he and his mother were run over by a train wheel trying to get off. the mom of his mother emily was detached. he pulled her son off the tracks with her good arm just before her son would have been killed. she says i couldn't believe what was happening while it was taking place. one of the things i thought, if this is god's will, that's god's will. unaccompanied children share this facility with adult migrants. volunteers, many from the united states help take care of them. emily is an artist, painter who
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dreamed on practicing her craft in the u.s. i asked if they will continue their journey to the united states. she says yes so none of this will be in vein. the beast will be leaving soon. this guy is waiting for it to slow down and says he wants to go to the united states and will stay on until he gets to the u.s. boarder. the journey with no connections will take no less than 12 days, for many much longer if they make it at all. when they board, they don't know when it will start the trip to the north. it starts and stops for awhile while they get it back on track and i'll not go for a ride. i'll get off before it's going fast but it's any guess. i'm getting off now because it's starting to go fast. this is a life for the very motivated and very desperate. >> that poor little child with his mother. does the train that you just showed, does it go all the way to the u.s. boarder?
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>> sometimes it does, anderson, sometimes it doesn't. we're about 250 miles north of the southern mexican boarder, 750 miles away from the nearest part of the united states in texas and 300 miles north of us is a transit point. if this train doesn't go to the boarder, everyone gets off and there are four different train lines, one to the california area and three to the texas area. that's what usually happens. the starts and stops and it gets to the transit point, that's where injury os kerr. i want to show you how emily and richard got hurt. they were climbing down and as they were climbing down the train started moving. they were in between the cars and this train started moving and that wheel right there that rolled over the little boy's foot and the mother's arm. it's sad and dramatizing and happens every single day here in mexico. >> they still try to -- they are still going to try to come. appreciate the reporting as you have been for the last two weeks. as we said, there are demonstrations expect in 260 communities around the united states this weekend alone.
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there have already been several including in marieturrieta, californ california. in arizona, 100 miles north of the boarder a noisy crowd showed up today promising to keep the kids from being there. the local sheriff says he will enforce orders if the buses show up. he'll enforce order if the buses show up. there are complaints that some of his remarks are partly responsible for the angry crowd. here to talk about it tonight is the county sheriff. sheriff, 40 to 60 of these kids bussed to your state, you've got no information, other than that, is that right? they haven't told you anything more? >> no other information and that didn't come from officially the federal government. that's by whistle blowers and confirmed by the actual facility. >> we've seen protests on both sides of the debate there in your county. there are some questioning your
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role in all this, that you published information giving basically that you say as you just said from dhs whistle-blowers that you gave the exact location of the detention facility where these kids will be kept. from a public safety standpoint, does that make sense to do? >> the people that live in my county throughout the community have a right to know and i believe if we're in effort, not only for transparency but this significant public safety and potentially a public health issue, absolutely, i believe the public has a right to know and i would rather go on that side than secretive like this operation was done. >> what is your biggest concern, it's a small number of kids relatively speaking not release in your community. they are housed at a private facility that deals with troubled and at risk youth.
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they added 30 more staff members. what problems do you think they will bring to your county? >> well, the concern was and i've qualified these remarks that we have closing in on 60,000 unaccompanied juveniles from central america. some number, we don't know how many, has been confirmed through the screening process they have gang affiliations and other concerns and my question to homeland security was give us a sense of the profile of these individuals. the problem i have is i and my deputies have our hands full. we have the largest drug bust in the history of our state right here in my county. my county geographically is larger than the state of connecticut. we don't have enough deputies to carry out all of our duty sfwls but you say, in fact, in your press release that our federal government has failed to enforce any immigration laws. you don't really believe that, do you? i mean, they obviously, they are
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enforcing immigration laws every single day. in fact, by dealing with these kids the way, you know, they are dealing with these kids, that's following an immigration law passed in 2008. so to say they are not following any immigration laws, that's just not true, right? >> when you get a sense of what we're dealing with here on the ground in arizona every day, every week we have a situation where we enforce state laws here and we arrest individuals, not all of them are violent criminals, of course, but drug caramel members and human smugglers themself that our deputies deal with and readily reveal that they have been deported ten times, 12 times, 15 times and you and i and anybody listening to your program shouldn't be scratching their head wondering why it will be a 16th time. and the reason being, is there really, truly are no consequences and that is the problem i have where the law applies to you and to me but
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generally speaking, that the rule of law when it comes to immigration, which is no longer an enforceable action from local county state law enforcement, there really is no enforcement of the law. >> it just -- i get everything that you said in your press release, that stood out to me as something false and seems more po lit kill. seems more like a slogan than true. >> well, in reality, what are the consequences? yes, is this something -- this is not just a loophole. this is a fact. this is a gaping wide hole that is going to soon be a train, 60,000, our own federal government is saying 90,000. is there in end to this because now the president will not be able to turn away, if there is another 90,000 that come to the boarder next week or next month or over the next year, how can the president legitimately turn
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them away? >> i know you got a lot on your plate and appreciate you talking to us tonight. thank you. >> you bet, anderson, thank you. action in the wake of reporting on child sexings involving several dozen employees at popular theme parks, even though the alleged crimes did not take place at work, there are questions how those people got hired in the first place. >> also, later breaking news out of israel. emergency talks wrapping up after hamas turns down a seize fire. in new york state, we're changing the way we do business, with startup ny. we've created tax free zones throughout the state. and startup ny companies will be investing hundreds of millions of dollars in jobs and infrastructure. thanks to startup ny, businesses can operate tax free for 10 years. no property tax. no business tax. and no sales tax. which means more growth for your business, and more jobs. it's not just business as usual. see how new york can help your business grow, at startup.ny.gov "i've still got it" when you think aarp,
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front page news, top pick a,
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kira phillips investigating on sextings in the orlando florida area that swept up 42 alleged child predators since 2006 and resulted so far in 32 convictions. there is video police napping some of them. 35 of the 42 worked at disney theme parks, universal studios, and sea world. none involved children or teenager vasting parks. one of the men involved had a blunt explanation why a predator would work at a theme park. >> we know they are child brett tors. remember the bank robber, they asked why he robbed banks, that's where the money is. why do child predators want to work around children? they do that at theme parks, in schools and do you know what? the congress has tied our folk's hands. the theme parks, schools can't do polygraphs to check the backgrounds or we would have more opportunity to discover the
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proclivity of the child predator, which is really a monster after our children. i'm going to go after them with a vengeance to protect our children and we need to do that nationwide but the theme parks, the schools need help. >> so as for whether theme park haves been doing enough to weed out would be predators, the president of the center for missing and exploited children said this. >> there is more disney can do and everybody can do. it's hard to imagine a company that's tried harder to address this company than disney. >> in a statement disney said and i quote, we have extensive measures in place including preemployment and computer monitoring and fire walls. the numbers reported represent one-one hundredth of the 300,000 people we have employed and we continue to work closely as we
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strengthen our efforts. sea world and universal studios say they have zero tolerance and say they do everything they can. sheriff grady judge said child oriented businesses to polygraph would be employees. congress man ross, thanks for being with us. why do you think this legislation is necessary? >> it's another tool in the tool box. the act was passed 25 years ago and we didn't have internet access and advances we have today. we need to allow employers to find out who they are hiring if they deal with minor children in these types of situations. you know, as we saw from the earlier interviews, those that had background checks usually can get caught but if we can allow for a polygraph and when the perspective employee goes in there knowing they will be polygraphed, it allows the employer an opportunity to find
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the background out and if it prevents the next event from happening and the next victim from occurring, we made tremendous strides with our laws. >> so let me ask you about that because as you know, polygraph tests have proven to be inaccurate and not admissible in courts because of the inaccuracies. to someone that might ask why reporters can use a tool that isn't accurate, you say what? >> well, again, it's another tool for the employer to use if they so desire. look, it's not about admissibility in court. it's about finding out who you're hiring and what their proclivities are. i mean, there is an opportunity for employers to find if this is the person they want to represent them as an employer in dealing with young children and more importantly, we owe it to the parents of these children to allow for this opportunity for employers to find out if these are people that are predators on their children. >> there is the issue of privacy and this is why it's not been
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done before. you're a lawyer for disney. i'm sure you know privacy issues. what would stop them from asking other personal questions that tice not have anything to do with whether an employee is a child predator? >> the perspective employee goes in knowing there is going to be a polygraph. at that point, you kind of put your privacy issues aside because if you want the job, you go through with the interview, if you don't, you won't. more importantly, transparency is there so they can find out a background of the people they are hiring. again, these are individuals that are going to have a close relationship with minor children. we owe it to these children, we owe it to their families, we owe it to our future, again, to make sure that we do everything we can to protect them. >> would you want to limit sort of the questions that would be asked to this particular top pick? >> you know, it's not a question whether we'll legislate the questions or not. we'll leave that up to professionals. there are those professionals
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that know what questions to ask, depending on the type of polygraph that needs to be administered. we want to be able to allow the tool in the tool box to allow employers to make sure they don't have these people being employed by them. my friends at disney, universal, at all the theme parks don't want these employees. let's give them the opportunity to weed them out and that's what this legislation does. >> congressman ross, appreciate your time. thanks very much. we have breaking news tonight, late word on the emergency cabinet meeting breaking up in israel and the possibility of more military action to come and could have been another tragedy, two young children left inside a hot car at the mall saved by shoppers this time. wait until you hear where their mom was.
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tonight new signs israel could step up the ground assault. security cabinet has been holding emergency talks tonight, the talks just breaking up. a seize fire collapsed today after israel agreed to the proposal. all told israel stopped the air strikes for about six hours. officials say hamas fired four
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dozen rockets during the pause. the arm rejected the seize fire proposal flat out. also today a mortar shell fire killed an israeli man, the first fatality on israel's side. more than 19 palestinians have been killed. wolf blitzer joins me tonight from jerusalem and ben wedeman is in gaza city. what's the latest tonight? >> what we've heard is a series of large explosions from here. the latest was an iair strike half an hour ago on a senior member of the hamas polid burro. we're hearing israelis have sent out automatic prerecorded phone calls to hundreds of residents of the neighborhood which is northeast of here telling them to leave as soon as possible by the latest, wednesday morning, and to go to gaza city.
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the anticipation is there may well be a ground operation in that area, which is really quite close to gaza city. anderson? >> the word from israel is they are ready to step up their campaign against hamas, right? >> they certainly are. the cabinet, security cabinet met late into the night wrapping it up awhile ago in tel aviv. some of these under ground bunkers, tunnels that supposedly house a lot of missiles, rockets and want to go in there, you can't just do it with air power, so there may be israeli ground action. i don't anticipate a full scale military invasion to reoccupy gaza. some assaults clearly seem to be in the works. >> wolf, in terms of the seize fire proposal, that's at this
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point just dead? >> well, you know, there is some efforts behind the scenes to revival, the egyptians haven't given up and palestinian authority hasn't given up. the u.s., they are still working trying to convince hamas to accept it. if the punishment from the israelis continues and i suspect it will, the expectation is maybe hamas will expect it. >> as wolf mentioned, the palestinian president called for acceptance of the proposal and so did the arab league. can you explain why this didn't sway hamas? >> they are looking for something papble. they want to see real measures taken regarding the boarder with equipment, which has been closed for months, opened a day or two every once in awhile. they want to see a resumption of
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trade that went on between gaza and egypt and would like to see the tunnels reopen, which the egyptians have really demolished over the last year. that was a major source of tax revenue for hamas. so unless they can get something that they can hold up to the people of gaza and say this is why nearly 200 of your people, the people of gaza were killed over the last eight days, this is why hundreds of houses were destroy destroyed, at least they will get something out of it because until now, all we've seen is death, destruction and really no upside for the people of gaza who have been watching and suffering as this back and forth bombardment has been going on. anderson? >> appreciate it. wolf blitzer, as well. thanks. there is more happening tonight. susan hendrix has the bulletin. >> videos played in a boston courtroom today show dzhokhar tsarni with a gocollege friend e day after the attack.
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the friend and two others are accused of removing evidence from his dorm room. a suspect on the terror attack on the diplomatic compound in ben gghazi turned u dead. he was last seen in the custody of a local militia in eastern libya. he was apparently interviewed by the fbi over his suspected links to the 2012 attack. the f-35 fighter jet has been cleared to resume flying with restrictions. they are still looking for the root cause of an engine fire last month that grounded the fleet. this fighter is the pentagon's most expensive weapons program ever. bystanders became heroes when they stop add carjacking in san diego. when the car hit a pole, the good samaritans made the move. a woman and young child inside the car were not seriously hurt and the guy that attempted the carjacking, anderson, he's on the ground and arrested. the cops finally showed up. >> thanks very much. 18 years ago this week, twa flight 800 crashed into the
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including state actors. we thought about gaddafify and libya and looking at iraq and saddam hussein. the president was preparing to take whatever action needed to be taken. >> a huge potential crime scene. >> this investigation would have been one of the largest carried out by the fbi. i had 1000 agents working on the case. >> my fiancee was on the plane. >> my sister with her son, nine years old. >> our biggest concern was recovery of bodies. there were a lot of times i doubted the existence of god and said god, how and why could you let something like this happen? >> it's an extraordinary important report. witnessed, the crash of twa flight 800 area at 9:00 p.m.
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crime and punishment, the latest on the hot car death in georgia. what the toddlerest mother is saying but a different matter in texas. passers by saw a young boy and girl left in a car in a strip mall. the kids were crying. people smashed windows to get them out. the hotter left her kids in the car while she got a haircut. she reportedly begged the police not -- the people not to call police and the children thankfully were fine. meanwhile, in georgia an attorney for lee anna harris says she's living every parent's nightmare. her 22 month old son is dead and her husband charged with murder. we have the latest. so the attorney for lee anna harris issued a statement. what does it say? >> it says a couple things, anderson. first and foremost, it seems to be a plea for privacy on her
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behalf and also seems to be a warning not to be well, rushing any kind of judgment whit comes to the treatment of the mother. it's particularly critical of the news media, it says newspapers, television and online immediate have have fostered an atmosphere in her every word, action or emotion or failure to cry in front of a crowd is execuscrutinized for s mean meaning and hounded olympic bombing hero richard jewell when he didn't behave as some thought he should. he was accused by law enforcement and members of the media perhaps maybe being involved. he was not. he was exonerated fully but when he died in 2007 he always said he lived the rest of his life under a cloud of suspicion, anderson. >> there is no mention of her husband in the statement, right?
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>> right, and that really to me and a lot of others stood out as being the loudest not said statement. i mean, this was a woman who just a couple weeks ago stood up at the funeral of her young son and used most of that time to defend her husband and said he was a wonderful father, despite the fact he's been charged with the boy's death. so the fact that there is no mention, i mean, the letter doesn't suggest that the two are married, there is just no reference to him at all. of course, in between then, there was a court hearing where it was revealed that they allege he was having online relationships with a number of women, even as the child was dying in that hot vehicle. >> where does lee anna fit into the investigation as it stands now? >> we should stress, she is not charged with anything. again, when you pressure the authorities to say well, where is she in this investigation, they will say that she is part of the investigation but she is
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not under investigation. she has not been charged with anything, although, authorities at that same hearing did imply she made some odd and in their minds rather incriminating statements. so those statements reflected such as supposedly when she was alone with her husband on the night he was charged, her saying to him, according to authorities, did you say too much? so that seemed pretty incriminating, around soren, again, that's coming from authorities. >> and the husband is obviously not out on bail, right? he's still being held? >> correct, right. he's not out on any bail. after that hearing, it was determined he should continue to be held on the charges of murder and that bond was not given to him at that time. it appears he's going to stay there until trial whenever they may be. >> martin savidge, appreciate the reporting. "the ridiculist" is next. thritid two pills. afternoon arrives and feeling good, but her knee pain returns... that's two more pills. the evening's event brings laughter, joy, and more pain...
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time for the "ridiculist" two. weeks ago the governor was campaign inco tampa. the problem it's illegal in florida for public employees to participate in campaign events on the clock or in uniform and an official complaint has been filed. this is a bite-sized brew ha ha. the question is did the governor's office know if the policemen were on duty or off duty? it's a duty about nothing. but we want to show you how the governor is handling questions about it because this is where the duty hits the fan. it's a great example time honor political tradition of saying a whole bunch of stuff without ever, ever answering the question no matter how many times it's asked. all politicians do it but this really is a master class. take a look. >> did you really think that all of those deputies were off duty?
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>> i'm very proud last week the police chiefs endorsed me. i'm very proud that 40 sheriff haves endorsed me. i'm very proud of the support from the law enforcement, we have a 43-year low in the crime rate so we invite them to campaign events and appreciating of the ones that came. >> do you think it's a problem to have on duty law enforcement there? >> i'm appreciative of those support and those who come to the event. >> you didn't answer the question. should there be discipline? >> i'm appreciating of everybody that comes to my events and we're at a 43-year low of the crime rate. we should be very supportive of the law enforcement. >> is it okay for them to be there on duty? >> the police chief endorsed me, 40 sheriffs did. we have law enforcement come to a variety of events and i'm appreciative of everybody that comes to my events. >> is the governor appreciative
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or two what the hell were we talking about? to throw you off track except it doesn't work. it insults everybody's intelligence. teachers when a student asks you a question in class, keep repeating attendance is up, attendance is up, things are looking up. attendance is up. doctors when a patient asks if they are dying, say you're appreciative of everybody that comes to see you. governor scott was asked about this again at an event a short time ago and said his office compiles with the rules and you guessed it, he's proud that the police chief's association endorses him and people come to his events and then this. >> why do you think you have a reputation for not answering questions? >> oh, gosh, i answer questions. i get -- i have the opportunity to talk to the media a lot. i love to travel to the state. it's an exciting time to be in florida. [ laughter ] >> i don't even know what to say. indeed. i agree.
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indeed, it is an exciting time to be in florida and of course to be on the relick dck -- "ridiculist", as well. see you later for another edition of 360. witness the crash of twa witness the crash of twa flight 800 starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com 18 years aduo this week twa flight 800 exploded in the sky over the shores of long island bound for paris with 230 people on board, no one survived. the suspicion of terrorism was immediate. many described a streak of light heading towards the plane before it blew up. in the weeks, months and then years afterwards, the biggest and most intense investigation in aviation history at the time ensued. eventually, the u.s. government offered their best explanation for what happened. to this day, though, many still question if they got it right. this is