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i'm erin burnett. out front on this friday night, breaking news, a beheading on american soil. the fbi investigating a griz lee murder in moore, oklahoma. according to police, the suspect, a 30-year-old walked into the plant with a knife and beheaded the first person he saw. prior to being fired, witnesses tell police he was trying to convert co-workered to islam. in a moment, we are going to speak with the sergeant with the moore police department. first, martin savidge with the story. >> sounds like he's running around out here. that's a gunshot. >> reporter: horror in oklahoma. a knife wielding man killed the first person he saw, 54-year-old colleen hufford, cutting off her head. >> he assaulted her with a knife. he did kill colleen and did

sever her head. >> reporter: according to police, he began attacking a second woman when he was shot and stopped by an armed executive who was a reserve sheriff's deputy. >> it could have gotten worse. he didn't stop until he was shot. >> reporter: initially, it was described as a workplace dispute. he's seen here in a mug shot from a previous arrest was fired from the company that day. the police investigation turned up red flags, causing some to wonder if there's more to the attack. nolan converted to islam and tried to convince others at work to join him. recent calls asking sympathizers to strike back. part of the coalition out to destroy the organization has law enforcement agencies across the country on alert looking for so-called lone wolf threats. in oklahoma, the fbi is now investigating nolan's social

media footprint, trying to determine if this vicious, deadly rage was revenge over a lost job or a far away conflict that has now hit the heartland? >> erin, we should point out nolan survived being shot. he's in the hospital recovering. he may have the answers that law enforcement local and federal need to know. >> martin savidge, thank you. sergeant jeremy lewis is with the moore, oklahoma police department. what can you tell us about what took place inside that food distribution center? >> once the subject was fired from his position, they were actually in a different location. the human resources building is separate. he got in his vehicle, drove to the main entrance, hitting vehicle, exited his vehicle.

as soon as he entered the business, he came in contact with the first victim and immediately attacked her and killed her, which ended up severing her head. he then went to the next victim and was attacking her. you can hear on the 911 tapes, this all occurred very quickly as far as both attacks. the off duty deputy came in to play shortly after he began attacking the second victim and ultimately shot him, stopping the attack. >> when you talk about that he beheaded the first victim, i mean it's horrific to hear, happening in the united states, in oklahoma. do you know what weapon he used? >> he used a knife that, i believe, was provided at the business. they used this as a produce type, a large produce warehouse. they package and produce produce

in this business. a very large facility. the knife was used in his line of work. >> according to what you have said so far, i understand he had been released from prison in march of last year. have you learned anything about what happened behind bars, anything that might have raised a red flag about what happened today? >> all of those things, his past, you know, the past few years, the past few days are both being looked at by our detectives and also the fbi. the fbi is covering the portion of his background and getting more information on this individual and exactly what he has been involved in. that is part of the investigation and they have not given information at this time. >> have you been able to speak to him? he is shot and alive, but is he able to answer questions at this point? >> the last word i have, which

is an hour or so ago, he was coming out of sedation. they were going to attempt interviewing him as soon as he was coherent enough to understand what is going on. >> during this attack, did he say anything? you were talking there were a lot of witnesses. did he say anything? >> that is part of the investigation. there's been reports he had said something during the attack. i have not been given that information. >> when americans hear about a beheading in oklahoma, it is shocking. it brings to mind the recent incidents in syria with isis, the horrific beheadings that have happened to three people. do you believe that it is possible that this was a copycat attack? >> once we started investigating this initially, and started finding out some of the thing that is he had been involved in, some of the things he had been

saying, we contacted the fbi and got them involved. it was obviously something we needed assistance in that type of investigation. >> i understand. when you say the things he had been doing and saying that caused you to bring in the fbi, what were those? >> well, he had just -- trying to convert fellow employees into islam and then it gets into more detailed thing that is are under investigation and are part of the reason why the fbi is involved and i'm sorry, but i can't comment on that. >> i understand. is it fair to say they are related to religion or not? >> it would be fair to say they were related to the reason why we have the fbi involved, yes. >> thank you very much, sergeant lewis, i appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> i want to bring in cnn counter testify richl analyst,

phil mud. you heard the police department saying they brought in the fbi right away, in part because the suspect tried to convert people to islam, the things he said. things that were related to that. what does that tell you? >> look, in this situation, i have a guess. my guess is we have an emotion individual fired from his job. he's seen tv, something on the internet about beheadings, and this is the way to act. what i think is irrelevant. if i'm in the fbi, i'm on the edge of my chair. we started military action less than a week ago in iraq and we have a beheading in the united states. you have to prove the negative. i want to know who he e-mailed, who he talked to, what he said on social media. i have to figure out whether what i suspect is that he's emotionally deranged is true. i don't know that yet. >> to you, obviously, the fact that this is a beheading, it looks like a copycat attack.

it's hard to imagine it is anything else. obviously, we don't know at this point. >> i have to agree. you can't look at this and judge as anything other than a copycat attack. that's a reason to be worried if you are in the fbi. in some ways, it's irrelevant if it's connected to isis or not. we have an individual who's seen isis videos and decided to use them in his act of violence. i go back ten to 15 years ago. i was evacuated from the white house building after the anthrax attacks. i moved over six years later. i transitioned over to the fbi. we were still getting anthrax hoax letters five, six, seven, eight years later after the fall of 2001. when you see this, you have to worry about copycats regardless if they are connected to isis. >> shocking to hear this. >> it is. >> it's a week after the strikes began, but still shocking.

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u.s. central command confirms there are new air strikes going on at this moment. fighters and bombers are in the air over syria. this as u.s. officials confirm al qaeda linked terrorist leaders survived earlier strikes in syria. those strikes were intended to take out those leaders. part of a group, before they executed an imminent attack on the united states. american fighter jets took off on mission after mission from the "uss george w. bush." a remarkable moment was caught on camera. a cnn exclusive showing a fire fight between isis militants and kurdish fighters.

>> reporter: isis has been making progress. a few more miles each day. take a look at that. >> cnn international correspondent phil black is out front. you were in the middle of the fire fight and there were people behind you cheering as they got an advantage over isis. how far away were you from the fire fight? >> reporter: erin, it was just a across the syria/turkey border. earlier, they were the scene of a fierce battle between isis forces attempting to advance and local kurdish fighters desperately trying to defend their homeland to slow the isis advance. they were successful, to a degree. we saw the forces trying to advance down a hillside. they came under heavy fire. they were forced to pull back to a ridge drop.

there, where they were seeking shelter, they came under heavy incoming fire. the local fighters were able to direct a line of fire at them. from a distance of a couple miles, we saw extraordinary scenes as the isis fighters took hits, they took casualties. some were injured. we saw them carrying their fellow injured soldiers away. things were not going well for them. it was only toward the end of the day, as dusk was falling that they lost a taste for what they attempted to do and fell back further, behind the hill beyond our line of view. it was an extraordinary battle. one that represents part of an isis offensive through this region, toward a significant town, a few miles to the west of here. this major offensive by isis through this ethnically kurdish region triggered a humanitarian

crisis. last week, estimated some 200,000 refugees from syria crossed the border into turkey here seeking shelter, fearing what isis would bring, the brutality they are known for. some of them we have been speaking to waited too long, waited until the last moment. actually seeing them, seeing the fighting. in some cases, describing situations to us where they lost loved ones through isis gunfire and artillery fire as well. as isis is advancing here, the question that is asked, where are the international air strikes and international air power that is striking isis across other areas of syria? erin? >> that is the crucial question. phil black is sitting there filming that fire fight as you can see a couple miles away over the border into syria. he's talking the air strikes and

the questions the kurdish refugees have. the fight is going on, where are the strikes when the fighters are there. u.s. coalition launched 200 air strikes in iraq, 43 in syria since the war on isis began. earlier today, secretary of defense, chuck hagel, said the united states wants assad gone. >> there has been no coordination, nor will there be with the assad regime. this regime, president assad has lost all legitimacy of the government. >> will the air strikes end up helping the assad regime stay in power? tom is out front. >> reporter: in war ravaged syria, bashar al assad is teeteri teetering. it seems like a push by rebels

will topple him. president obama knows it. >> assad needs to go. >> reporter: but, that was in may of 2013. this was in 2012. >> he needs to step down. >> reporter: and in 2011. >> the call on assad to step down. >> reporter: now, america's new enemy number one in the region is isis and the syrian equation has been turned upside down because isis also opposed assad. that mean ifs the u.s. led coalition defeats isis, assad could benefit. the government is praising the u.s. led intervention saying syria supports any international counterterrorism effort. no wonder some experienced military experts are looking at the opportunities a few years back. >> that wauz time, if we acted decisi decisively, we might have seen a more moderate regime replace assad. >> reporter: fighters in rebel

groups, which is white house is counting on, allies in the ground war are sharply criticizing the campaign, suggesting it is already helping assad. will the ground troops pull together and have enough muscle against assad if isis falls? >> there are tens of thousands of rebels we are training and won't be in control. the fact is, none of us know where this is going. >> reporter: assad is presiding over a wrecked country, facing harsh international sanctions, not enough jobs, fuel or supplies. his bank accounts have been frozen. the u.s. administration talks tough about him. >> you drop barrel bombs, gas people, torture people. how do you imagine having a legitimacy to govern that country? this is not about assad now. this is about isil. >> reporter: that seems to be the key to this equation right now, erin. as long as isis and the united

states vent their fury against each other, the assad regime is getting a pass. erin? >> tom foreman, thank you. i want to bring in ed rice of california. thank you for being with us, chairman. i want to ask you, attorney general, eric holder, in an interview this afternoon reiterating words that are very striking about the plot that those air strikes were supposed to thwart. some of the leaders survived that strike. he is say thag group was in the execution phase of a plot. is there anything more you can tell us? that word execution, obviously, adding to the words they used, immine imminent. not words americans want to hear. >> we know the key bomb maker for al qaeda was involved or we suspect his involvement in a

training program which they were recruiting from the united states and from europe, young men, in order to learn from some seasoned al qaeda professionals who had this type of training. new techniques in bomb making with a specific intent, as we have heard, of trying to hit jet liners and carry out attacks in the united states and europe. the reason the targets were picked for the attack was because they were the admissions facility, the training centers, the barracks in which the young men were housed. the attempt is to disrupt the ability of al qaeda to carry out that mission. they were brought down from senior al qaeda actually gave the order to go into the region and, you know, meet with these young recruits. >> right. >> that hold the western passports. that's the totality of what i know of the mission. >> i want to ask you about those

people with western passport that is could be coming home now. on the issue of them being in an execution phase of a plot and we are learning today the senior members of al qaeda survived the strikes, do we know whether the plot was indeed disrupted? >> i think we presume it was disrupted. we know some of the senior leadership were killed. you are right, some, apparently, survived the attack. the key now is to follow up, which is being done as we speak, with very high level of intensity through that region in order to try to saturate those who may have survived the first -- the first with additional attacks. also, our intelligence community will be able to tell us more about the extended nature of al qaeda's other plans.

>> do you believe the air strikes are working, though? i know you supported that. obviously, you said they targeted the facilities. some of the senior leaders survived. are the air strikes successful? is that a fair word to use? >> it's to say many were taken out, not all of them. it is possible to say that. it is possible to say it institu constitutes it. to degrade their forces is very, very helpful. that was done here. it has to be an ongoing effort of very intense campaign. a lot of it an air campaign, in which you do not allow them to regroup, have sanctuary. >> people coming home, to the

united states, in some cases. the white house said dozens of americans traveled to syria to fight t. director says they only know of 12 in syria fighting. yesterday on cnn you said 300 americans were fighting with isis. the numbers are all over the map. the question is not to criticize, but to say, do we have any clue how many americans are there? >> yes. the difference in the numbers we are talking about is the difference between the numbers we suspect and the numbers we know in fact are there. so, the dozen or so, those are the individual passports we know the names and locations, you know, of those individuals. we know when they came over the border from turkey. we know where they are. the others are the suspicions of those who have gone to turkey and have disappeared. >> understood. >> very important. thank you for clarifying that. very important to understand.

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for the missing 18-year-old student who could be hoping for rescue tonight. jeanne casarez is out there. he's landed and going to jail. >> reporter: he just arrived. he is being processed right now. i said what about his fingerprints? they are being taken now. mug shot just about to be taken. now he's in custody. it's all about now finding hannah graham. emergency dispatch operators are working around the clock to field tips to help find university of virginia sophomore, hannah graham. >> folks that they they have seen something, whether it be a description of her car o individual, those types of things or a location. >> reporter: 2400 tips have come in so far since the 18-year-old disappeared two weeks ago tonight. >> i will go ahead and add this

to the information you previously called in. if someone needs to call you they will get in touch with you. >> the dispatch center had unexpected visitors. >> her parents stopped by to let our folks know how much they preernted the effort they are putting in to help them find their daughter. >> reporter: police admit they have no idea where graham is. >> my understanding is she was wearing black or dark colored capri-type pants, close fitting and white shoes. her iphone, an iphone 5s, i believe, had a pink case. if you are inspecting your property and you come across something that fits the description of those items, please do not touch them. >> reporter: with jesse matthew, the suspect in her disappearance now in custody, all eyes are on finding graham.

>> a realtor who is in the region, you know you are responsible for the sale of a piece of property that is vacant, we want to ask you to go back to that property and inspect it. >> reporter: a local realtor immediately took action. >> we have vacant listings. there's corners that someone could hide something. i came up and did a look around. we are trying to find her. >> reporter: the search area is vast. the city of charlottesville is ten square miles. the county is 740 square miles with a lot of farmland. her friends chose to stay silent. one of her dearest friends said hannah is one of the kindest people i have ever met. when you meet her, she touches your soul. she lives life to the fullest with passion. she dives into it with her whole heart. she will drop anything to help a friend.

now, members of this community, people she's never met are dropping everything to help her. i understand when hannah's parents went to the dispatch center and walked into the room as everyone is fielding tips, hannah's mother took the lead and addressed them, thanking them and overwhelmed they were trying to find her daughter. it was an amazing moment. her parents delivered cookies and cupcakes to the workers working overtime. erin? >> they are holding out hope. thank you so much, jean. i want to bring in paul along with our law enforcement analyst and former fbi assistant director. tom, let me start with you on the issue of where hannah graham might be. i know, obviously, time is not on the side of her being found alive. there are instances. jaycee due guard, michelle

knight, all the women from cleveland, they were all, everyone thought they were dead. they were all found alive. is it possible? >> it's possible. erin, he might have taken her to a vacant house, as mentioned or some location like that and somehow set up a situation where she could be a prisoner there, tie her up, put her in a locked room or basement and she could still be alive based on that. >> i mean, we are all hoping for that miracle. they haven't found, obviously, a body, paul. and, given the situation that this man fled so quickly, given what we have learned, they thought they would have more information by now. >> yes. i think they did. of course, the one thing they are hoping for is they can get information out of matthew that will reveal where she is. so, i'm sure that they have been working on that since he was apprehended in texas.

but, probably without success from what we see. >> obviously, without success z. tom, at this point, what do they do? right now, he's getting his mug shot taken, probably at this moment at the jail. what are they able to do now that they couldn't do before to find out what he knows? >> they will try to question him now and see if he will talk to them. they may have more information to question him with than they did before. remember, at the beginning of this, the chief was frustrated, chief longo because the commonwealth prosecutor said there wasn't probable cause to charge him related to the disappearance. then they got results from forensic examinations whether the car, apartment or clothing and issued the warrant for abduction. so, you know, the prosecutors and chief longo himself, is an attorney, have been conservative. what did they learn when they

went ahead and issued the abduction warrant? that means they learned something that they felt took it over the line and gave them enough probable cause to issue the warrant. >> what did they learn? when they didn't have enough information toi issue the warrant, they had seen him and didn't have enough. they got something new. one thing they got this week was forensic evidence. they have not told anybody what is in that evidence. is it substantiatandard not to that information? >> it is. i have to add, one thing they got after he left the station when he came in to be questioned and asked for a lawyer. they say he fled the scene. they were in pursuit and he sped away. that's consciousness of guilt. you can argue that in court. that added one other thing to the stack that they had. they had evidence that he had been with her. that might have been enough to

support a warrant, an arrest warrant. this is a very low standard for an arrest warrant. is it enough to support a criminal charge in court? that's the question. >> it is the question. tom, my other question is, given what has happened here and they searched the car and the apartment, they have had the search going on, what do you think the significance is that they have not found a body, yet? >> well, i know that, but you know, the significance is there could be body fluid, blood, other indications on his clothing, which would be very significant. you know, they haven't found her, therefore they haven't found her clothing, but they have his. to go back in that apartment, if they pull the clothing he was wearing, there could be physical evidence from her on his clothing that that could be, you know, a very important thing. they wouldn't have had that forensic result that quickly.

>> he's charged with abduction, not killing her. it suggests, i think, that the evidence is lacking. >> still lacking on that. thank you both very much, of course. as it has hunt continues to try to find hannah graham live. up next, a doctor using an hiv drug on ebola victims. here is the thing. it actually seems to be working. plus, new york to beijing in half an hour. it's coming and soon. introducing a pm pain reliever that dares to work all the way until the am. new aleve pm the only one with a safe sleep aid. plus the 12 hour strength of aleve. looks like we're about to board. mm-hmm. i'm just comparing car insurance rates at progressive.com. is that where they show the other guys' rates, too? mm-hmm. cool. yeah. hi. final boarding call for flight 294.

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>> we are in rural africa. a worker carrying our camera. going deeper, still more sick patients. children. >> i have to use every cell to save people's lives. this is our central supply room. >> reporter: for the doctor, desperate times call for desperate measures, while the world waits for a proven ebola drug, he's experimenting with an hiv drug. >> calling for everyone not to die. i think i need to try this medication. >> reporter: this is as close as i can get to the ebola isolation unit. i want to introduce you to four young women, elizabeth, susan. they came with ebola and were

given the hiv drug. now they are able to walk around. how do you feel now? >> reporter: the doctor tried to drug on 15 patients and remarkably, only two have died. across west africa, it's killing add a rate of 70%. in this group, 7%. is it possible an effective treatment may have come from here? >> it's highly possible. >> reporter: we reach out to top scientists in the u.s., does the approach make sense? they say yes. ebola and hiv cells are a lot alike, but they want more proof. >> reporter: in the united states, some doctors say don't use a drug until you have a study. what do you say to that? >> listen our people are dying and you are talking study. it's the motto of doing all i

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more than 1800 flights were cancelled today after a contractor started a fire and attempted to commit suicide at an air traffic control center in illinois. all it took was one man's actions that caused the entire problem across the united states. but that could happen again, this group includes virgin airlines and virgin america. he has a new book "virgin way." i asked him when supersonic travel is coming back. >> well, we're building airplanes as space ships. we will initially send them into space. and then in time we'll be

manufacturing space ships, which will go tremendous speeds around the world and start transporting people around the world in our space ships. and hopefully we'll be transporting them at speeds which will make concord look quite slow and quite old, which it is today. >> right, it sort of is a relic of history. but i mean, how fast is that if you want to go up in the atmosphere and go to beijing. i mean, how fast is fast? >> fast if we can pull it off, 18,000 miles per hour, which means we can go anywhere in the world in half an hour. so fast is very fast. >> fast is very fast. >> the trouble is the time it takes to get through airports -- >> once you're on the plane it will be very, very fast. and the view you will get is sectacular. i mean, we're going to have big windows and you're going to be able to look back and see the --

you know, the earth as you can from space. so it will be the ride of a lifetime. >> it will be the ride of a lifetime. and is everything on track when you look at the virgin gallactic, you know, the space ship that you're getting ready to go on this year. is it on track for this year? >> it is hopefully on track for this year. the test flight into space will be before the end of this year. >> okay. >> and myself and my son will start the program in the spring of early -- early spring of next year. >> you have said you always worked from home, and are for a flexible work environment. but you're also an incredibly demanding boss, you need to be, with 50,000 employees around the world. you need to be. you have all of these businesses. you're not letting people sit around and do nothing. so how do you balance that? let everybody still be flexible and get everything out of them? >> if they find it fascinating

and interesting and treat it like human beings they will get their work done. you know, we've actually just introduced a new system which we're experimenting with, with all of the head offices around the world. and we've said you know, take a holiday as you want, take as much holiday you want, we're not going to check how much time you take off, whether it is a birthday or any other day because you have a special reason, just do it. we're not going to check up on you, we'll see how it works. look, in america, the amount of holidays people are given in the states is dreadful. how do you find time to get to know your children if you're working with very, very little holiday time that you're given in the states. >> all right, richard branson, thank you very much. all right, let us know if you think it will work, the vacation time, will it be abused or transform the u.s. for the better. "outfront," lisa ling goes "outfront" with a look at the

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connecting a so-called sugar daddy with a sugar baby is as easy as clicking a mouse. this week, lisa ling goes inside the world, sugaring, it has a name. with the premiere of her new series "this is life" take a look. >> when i met rich, it was just effortless. >> all right, taylor, don't you laugh. >> we just hit it off. >> oh, that was a good shot. >> thank you. >> i don't want to use the term love at first sight but something along those lines. >> can i ask you how old you are? >> i'm 32. >> i'm 69. >> if you forgive me for saying, i mean, there are a lot of people who might say what a dirty old man. >> i am a dirty old man. >> and lisa ling joins me now, so these women are essentially being paid, getting gifts, so

they negotiate their relationship and that is what makes these relationships different from say other on-line dating services. and you know, it is not a new story, older men wanting to date younger women. but most of the women who respond to sites like these are ambitious themselves. they have aspirations of wanting to be owners and ceos of their own companies. they just see it as a way to be their own mentor or finance their situations in their life. >> are they comfortable with the word prostitution? >> they're not comfortable with it, they say during the course of the representative they say they may consider negotiating, or maybe they won't have sex at all. they just want to gain a mentor and be a friend, and be arm candy in some cases.

this is lisa ling, every one of these stories is different. maybe you have a strong opinion about sugar babies and sugar daddies, but i have to tell you lisa ling will make you look at it a different way. "ac360" starts right now. good evening, thank you for joining us, we begin with a terrible crime with isis beheading westerners on a regular basis. police in moore, oklahoma say this man beheaded a former co-worker and wounded another at the place he was just fired from. his name is alton nolen. this is an explosive story, we're taking care not to get ahead of the facts, local authorities are telling us this and turn to the fbi for help. they say today's horror ended