away. >> an american hostage murdered by al qaeda during a rescue mission by u.s. navy seals him we ask a navy seal next hour the operators, how the operators prepare for a pigs like this and what could have gone wrong? plus, "rolling stone" magazine apologizes about his article about alleged race at the university of virginia. we will look at questions raised in the article and how that might impact other rape victims who want to come forward. and sleep deprivation is killing us. coming up, i'll talk to a sleep expert about how to get a healthy night's sleep. 6r7b89s hello, again, everyone, i'm fredericka whitfield. our top story, the u.s. hostage field in yemen. a senior defense official tells cnn a team of 40 special forces

tried to rescue american photo journalist luke somers and south african hostage pierre korkie. they were being held by the al qaeda group in the arabian peninsula. they say the navy seals team hiked six miles from their drop zone and were spotted just 100 yard away from the militant's compound. that's when a feergs firefight broke out. u.s. officials say one terrorist immediately ran inside the compound and then shot the hostages. the navy seals were able to evacuate somers and korkie and a u.s. medical team spent a half an hour on the ground in yemen trying to save them. one guide on the way to a monita u.s. ship. the other died on the ship. no special forces were killed in the operation. cnn joins us now from the white house with more on this. len, what more are u.s. officials saying about the timing of this rescue mission and why they had to take action when they did?

>> well, five u.s. officials say the timing was accelerated because their intelligence shows somers would be murdered by this morning without any interception by u.s. officials and today in a statement, president obama held that up as an explanation, why they went ahead and proceeded on this risky mission. he called it an imminent danger to luke somers. he called his murder a barbaric murder. now today in afghanistan, the secretary of defense, chuck hagel, had this to say. >> our prayers and thoughts go out to the somers' family. there was also another hostage who was also killed in that attempted rescue. and our prayers and thoughts go out to all the families involved. i do think, though, that this is

further evidence of america's continued commitment to always find its american hostages, no matter where they are, and make every effort to get those hostages returned. >> reporter: president obama monitored the raid here at the white house last night and said the white house used every tool at its disposal to get somers released. back to you. >> what more do we know about the south african hostage that was killed? >> reporter: yes, the south african man is myier korkie. we know from his employer and a facebook posting, they call it the gift of givers, they were finalizing an agreement for his release on sunday. the u.s. state department, they say they did not know this second hostage was south african. they just said their intelligence shows there were two individuals, so they went ahead with the mission. again, they said they have no

idea the negotiations were taking place for this south african hostage otherwise. >> thank you so much. so, what went wrong with this mission? i want to bring in former navy seal jonathan gillian, tell us more about the kind of planning that goes into this to hear that the commandos were dropped and then hiked 6 miles before they got to the location, this compound, they were 100 yards away from their final destination. i mean, that is just heart breaking that so much went into this. give me an idea about the risks involved with an operation leak this and what might have gone wrong here. >> well, i think now, you know, having seen so much over the past couple months about the blautd raid, we, you know, the public knows a lot about these type of snatch and grabs, where we try to go in and get a bad guy. when you are dealing with a hostage rescue scenario, you are not dealing with a bad guy. now you are dealing with a live

good guy that you have to try and go in and get and protect at the same. and that throws a whole another wrench into this problem. and i think you also see going directly on target and patrolling in. unfortunately, when you get on target, you know, you just don't know necessarily what's going to be there. it could have been a dog that barked. dogs, i'm a big dog person. when you are on an operation, they're one of your biggest problems, because they recognize everything in a neighborhood that they're used to. i think that it appears as though the operation went very well, except for that point and i just have to tell you that in my eyes, this was not a failed operation. it was an operation that had a tragic end to it as far as the two hostages doing. but i, myself, if i was a hostage, i want my body coming back and i would rather be taken out with a gun than, you know, have my head cut off.

>> hmm. you know, you say this is not a failed operation, because it didn't end up in an optimal way, of course, when everyone executed the plan, but how it will be, how will it be interpreted by those commandos involved and when they try to reflect on what went wrong, what went right, what are some of the things that they will focus on? >> you always dirt dive or hot wash an operation afterwards. we try to plan in the seal teams and special operations community, we try to plan for every contingency you can possibly think about. so in a hostage rescue scenario, you are looking, first of all, for proof of life if they are alive. you have to get that approval for the operation to go forward. ten you have to actually have a location for them. those are things that you always have to have, but when we go in, we do fleens, we think about

those things, we plan for them. when we get into a fluid situation, we can think clear. i think the way these guys will go back and look at this, they will hot wash it, go through it. these operators, they deal with a job that is so dangerous and a job that does involve death and the chance of if you don't do it right, somebody will die, so you have to really look at the from a very surgical point just like a heart surgeon or a brain surgeon. some will live. some will die. but you will give it the best shot every time and the majority of the time we do this, we do it very methodically, unemotionally, we go through the tarlt. we exploit the tarlt. we typically get what we're looking for. >> jonathan gilliam, thanks so much for your time. i appreciate it. >> it's good to be here. >> u.s. defense skts cluck hagel had a major military operation announcement while in afghanistan. he says the u.s. will keep a larger force in the country for the first few months of 2015 than it initially planned to.

hackel says up to 10,800 troops will remain in afghanistan at the start of the new year. a previous announcement calls 1,000 fewer troops. >> because as we draw down the combat mission, we have not forgotten, not forgotten what brought america to afghanistan over a decade ago. >> hagel says president obama authorized the change in four sides in order to provide military commanders flexibility. and protests pushing into the streets across the nation, demonstrators rather are angry over the lack of an indictment in the eric garner choke hold death. that i are making demands. the protests largely peaceful,

although some, three dozen protesters were arrested in dallas and durham, north carolina, for sit-ins and die-ins, they blocked many intersection, taillights stretched for mile after mile there. join me right now, nick valencia. you were in staten island, the very spot where eric garner was in that choke hold and died. what has been taking place? >> reporter: well, just a little while ago, we saw members of eric garner's family show up here to place this wreath behind me. this is the exact site as you said that eric gardner took his last breath. while we have seen demonstrationings and supporters of garner, they have continued to march throughout the city. it's a stark contrast from the images and video we have seen over the last couple of day, where demonstrators shut down thorough fairs, closed streets. out here in staten island, you can tell, it's starting to rain, it's kept a lot of people indoors. there were as many presses as

demonstrators here. behind me, you can see this is the spot as i mentioned, there's candles lit. a wreath was placed here a while ago. as far as water next, for frederica, we spoke to demonstrators and members of the action network, they held a national march in washington, d.c. they came here to announce that. they will be taking bus, anyone interested in going to d.c. they will show up with buses to transport those demonstrators and those supports of eric garner. they say this issue and this story is not going away any time soon. >> nick valencia, staten island, thanks so much for that. "rolling stone" magazine apog polley apologizes. new reaction to cnn. that's coming up.

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american hostage luke somers has been killed by his al qaeda captives. a u.s. official says a team of about three dozen u.s. commandos, mostly from seal team six, tried to rescue the american photo journalist and south african hostage pierre korkie from their captors. members from the arabian peninsula. they say somers was shot by one of the terrorists during the raid. here's cnn's brian stauter.

>> reporter: hi, fred, this is truly terrible news, luke somers was 33-years-old. like so many journalists, he was inspired to travel to the middle east to tell the stories of the people affected by the conflicts there. some say the arab spring uprising in 2011 was a specific motivator for him. like so many photo journalists, he was a freelanceer. he would do lots of photographs, the bbc and al jazeera would focus on his photographs. you see protests, political meeting, violence and ordinary lives of ordinary people there trying to go about their day, earlier, one of the other journalists who crossed paths with him spoke about luke. here's what he said. >> you know, he was really dedicated to yemen and he spent, you know, over two years there continuously, retelling the stories and documenting the

people that he met and he really, truly, seemed to enjoy it. >> reporter: somers was taken hostage in september of last 84 and after the failed rescue mission, the secretary of state john kerry said this about him. i will read it to you. he was an idealistic young photo journalist who went to yemen to practice his calling and document the lives of ordinary people there. the committee to protect journalists says this is the third death of photo journalists in captivity this year. fred, back to you. >> brian, thank you so much. so for more on who luke somers was, we are joined by sean dylan, a professor in wisconsin and taught luke. good to see you, professor. what are you remembering about luke now? >> i remember a young man who was trying to find his way in the world, like many young journalists, he was intensely curious. he was a passionate reader of

literature, would often come to my office to discuss things that he was reading. he was known in the community as a warm, sensitive, very friendly young man. >> so when you heard he had embarked on being in the middle east, given the curiosity he exhibited as a student, it doesn't sound like it was much of a surprise that he would venture to that part of the world, in your view. >> no, not at all. in fact, you know, i'm incredibly proud is i think the entire way the community college is that to be associated with luke and that luke went somewhere, where he could pursue his dreams. >> the details we are hearing about this commando reign and while it seemed like a, the best place planned, something went wrong in the final moments of hundreds of yards away from the compound where he was being held. what are your thoughts on how this happened, how this went down? >> i am grateful his government

tried to rescue him, to the people involved in it. it sound like the, that was tragic for both luke, the other hostage and two several people in that community. so i'm glad the government did something to try to save him, at least twice. i am devastated by the results. >> i imagine the entire college community is saddened by what happened to luke somers, at the same and anyway you think his life story, his journalistic purchase suits will find its way if any instruction you will be conveying to the students there? >> oh, yes, i do. luke joins a long line of boy journalism students who will mark their career and i am hoping to be a part of a group to launch some sort of scholarship or lecture in his name. it's very early. certainly the college is connected with his family.

>> professor, sean dylan, thank you so much for sharing your memory of luke somers. >> thank you. >> and we'll be right back right after this. the bed reacts to your body. this zips off so i can wash it-yes, please. it's really cool to the touch. (vo) there's no better gift than your best night's sleep. visit your local retailer and feel the tempur-pedic difference for yourself. and cialis for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment is right. cialis is also the only daily ed tablet approved

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by islamist extremists managed to flee his captors during a military raid. the 49-year-old hostage seized one of his captors bladed weapons and attacked a guard and one of his kidnappers. he was shot and wounded during the escape and is being treated in a hospital. and we're also learning more now about the woman accused of killing an american teacher in the united arab emirates. authorities there released a video showing the nighttime raid on the woman's home. >> reporter: in custody in a dramatic nighttime raid, police storm the home of the emirates woman suspected of brutally murdering a teacher and planting a bomb outside a doctor's hour, waving guns, police nap the murder suspect, identified only as a uae national of yemeni origin in her late 30s. >> this was terrorism. this woman had first gone and

tried to kill a doctor, an american dmpl it looks like she was targeting americans. this woman wanted to kill an american and she did. >> reporter: her arrest coming just 48 hours after the gruesome attack on the 47-year-old, a kindergarten teacher and mother of three, stabbed to death while shopping at this upscale maul in abu dhabi monday. the suspect cloaked head to toe in cloak and veil, caught in camera and lay in wait about 90 minutes before stabbing ryan six times with a kitchen knife and fleeing the scene. her next stop, the home of an american muslim doctor, where that same day, she allegedly planted a rudimentary bomb outside this home. police disarmed before it could detonate. it shows the assailant carrying a suitcase in and out, moments

later this suv is found driving away. inside, they find blood, more knives and what appear to be bomb-micking materials. local authorities feel the victims were targeted based on nationality alone, meant to spread chaos and fear t. woman arrested as traveled back and forth to yemen multiple times, triggering questions over her ties to terrorist organizations. >> the united arab emirates have a very efficient police force. for these groups to get through is a very bad sign. >> the incidents have everyone questioning the role of the uae as a safe haven. we are already seeing beefed up security at malls and housing complexes, where expats and locals both live together. cnn. abu dhabi. >> and back in this country, "rolling stone" magazine apologizes for its article about alleged race at uva, the university of virginia. hear what the university at the center of the article is telling

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hi, bottom of the hour now. i'm frederica with the top stories across the cnn news desk right now. about 40 million people in the phillipines are in the path of typhoon winds. it made landfall with 127-mile-per-hour winds, just before 9:00 a.m. eastern time. rain is a concern. because it may take three days until the typhoon essentially moves out to sea, dumping a whole lot of rain as it goes along. we are waiting to see if there might be more protests tonight in new york and other cities, demonstrators upset over eric garner's death at a lax of an indictment against the police officer poured no macy's in herald's square and the apple store on fifth avenue. they staged a die-in.

those protests were peaceful and brophy. president barak obama strongly condemning the killing of an american hostage luke somers by an al qaeda terrorist in yemen. militants murdered somers and a south african hostage during a rescue attempt by u.s. five seals on friday. president obama says, he ordered the raid after receiving information somers' life was if imminent danger. and "rolling stone" magazine is apologizing for its controversial article on alleged rapes on the university of virginia campus. the managing editor says, quote, in the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in the account and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced. according to magazine, jackie claims she was raped by seven men at the phi kappa sai fraternity while two more gave encouragement at a party. a short time ago, the fraternity

responded a. spokesman saying this to cnn, quote, the allegations were as surprising and shocking to them as they were to everyone else. to my knowledge, no member was contacted by "rolling stone" fact checkers, end quosa, "rolling stone" admits they did not contact the alleged assaulters to get tear account. i want to speak to criminal defense attorney mark amara, the corner and they have a suit to sue on libel based on these statements? >> like sell difficult. the bigger the organization, the more difficult it is to be a plaintiff in a libel suit. could they, yes? this is an unfortunate set of circumstances. they probably want to get behind them as soon as possible. rolling stone is not doing their do you diligence before they come out with despicable allegations against an attorney and a now individuals of it. >> so how do you interpret the

apology? because this comes, at least one week after the real firestorm of attention that came from this article in "rolling stone" magazine that, a, the fraternity wouldn't come out sooner that the uva wouldn't come out sooner and say something about this and, instead, it's the rolling stone that now says it questions the veracity of the centerpiece character of an article. >> well, they didn't do their homework. now they realize having not done their homework and coming out on quite a sensational article, that they found out that their research was erroneous. and now they have to sort of get the egg off their face. >> so you do believe there is an ad mission here, they didn't do their homework, or is there a sense that the "rolling stone" is receiving pressure from say the uva or this fraternity asking "rolling stone" to apologize.

>> not denigrateing my profession. "rolling stone" is listening to their lawyers and having to say a full admission of guilt. it really seems as tow cutting under the surface a little bit with the allegation made by the woman that without even looking at the other side, without even addressing the allegations with the alleged abusers, that they really left themselves opened to this, exactly what happened, which is an incomplete story that now puts them at risk. >> well, the article didn't mention names in terms of the alleged assaulters. instead, giving nicknames, describeing only one from that article where it says jackie's i guess boyfriend or the person that took-er to the party and was a part of this gang rape was a junior and worked as a life guard at a swimming people. is that information enough for that person who may be described to be able to turn the tables and say, you know, it's

incriminateing, the description is enough and that is my, you never got my account. so i can sue. >> as to that person, if that person exists, somebody who is a uva lifeguard if that fraternity. if you think about libel, it has to be someone specific. you can't just say the fraternity are bad people. that's not enough. when you talk about someone who can then be identified, for example, supposedly, she said that one of the people in a study group. well, a male in the study group of maybe four or five people is pretty easy to focus it. so the more you can say they're talking about med and nobody else, the more of a wall street you have against "rolling stone." and for that matter the woman. >> now "rolling stone" with this apology has absolved itself, has it protected itself in anyway against any potential lawsuits by willingly apologizing in this manner? >> the idea of making, of being remorseful, of issuing an apology and a correction, does minimize tear damage. it doesn't excloud the fact that

they are probably going to get sued. but it at least shows that once we found out in good faith we acted to minimize the damage we caused. that's a concept if tort law, which is what this is, sueing people for a wrong. you do have to go out and admit, i did something wrong. my fear in this case is that the woman that made these allegations that may turn out to be potentially false could have a negative affect on those other women who truly have been abused, domestic violence or rape, now will be more concerned that this might be the filter they have to make their complaints through. >> that was actually my next question, if this now would be a deterrent for sexual potential assault victims who will be reticent about coming forward, for fear of this, enough isn't being shared or no one will believe their story. >> it can. all of these when you make an allegation of rape, sometimes there is forensic evidence. when it's not a case like this,

it makes it that much more difficult. what i do like, if there is some silver lining to this deceit, if that's what it was by this woman is that we have now brought it to the forefront. we are now talking again about abusive women on college campuses an even though she may have lied, we don't know exactly that yet. but even if there was a deceitful maneuver by her, we are now talking about it. just like we are talking about body cameras on cops, because of eric garner. we are also talking about mike brown and young cops and males have to interact better. regardless, we are now talking ab it. those significant conversations we have to have. so the silver lining is, we will start talking about zero tolerance policies for abuse of college girls on campus. >> mark ameira, good to see you, thanks very much. >> take care. good to see you. thank you. >> still ahead, sleep deprivation. everyone has it, right. guess what? it is killing us! coming up, i'll speak to a sleep

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america from "national geographic" and national institutes of health. say they eight hours is what you should be getting. many of us never do. matthew walker studies the impact of sleep on our health. professor walker. good to see you. hopefully you got a good night's rest last night. >> i did, indeed. >> okay. so how is it that not getting enough sleep is actually killing us? >> yes, so a lack of sleep as you mentioned is a sophisticate risk fact osh for a number of health problems. in fact, if you think of the two most feared diseases in america, cancer and alzheimer's disease, sleep loss is a risk for both of those. first we know that sleep helps wash away the bad protein to build up the alzheimer's disease. that's why it seems to be a good night's sleep cleanses the brain of those bad products. we know there is a link between

cancer. it's a frightening risk. sleep loss increases your rick for developing cancer. once you have cancer, sleep loss can accelerate the development of that cancer. it's perhaps not surprising to find the world health organization recently classified shift work and the lack of sleep that you get with that type of work as a probable carcinogen, something that can increase that cancerous risk. so a lack of sleep is perhaps the most striking admission in the health conversation today. >> so that's convincing enough. so now we need to figure out, you will help us physical out how we get a good night's sleep. for starters of your tips, you say you need to set a good time you need to adhere to, a standardized time for going to sleep and waking up. that's tough for us to do in this news business. for most folks, how do we try to achieve this? >> yes, developing that routine, going to bed at the same time, waking up at the same time, helps train your brain into understanding when to expect

sleep. so try not to let that float around, particularly at the weekend. there is that danger that you sort of want to wake up later, go to bed later. on sunday night, you have to track your bed back to an earlier schedule. it's very difficult to standardize those times. it's critically important. >> okay. you are telling people, they got to lose the grip on technology, folks want cell phones near their beds. ipads fear their beds. you say that's an old no no. >> yes, the invasion of the technology in the bedroom is one of the most problematic factors in recent times. taking the gadgets can help, firstly, they keep you awake for very obvious reasons, also, there is the themation when you get into bed, you try to right the last few e-mails, make you surf the web. it produces what we call sleep pro cast nation, you are tired and sleepy, you push your bed time because you continue to engage in those devices, try to keep them out of the bedroom.

>> then you say there are things you need to do or stay away from to make sure you with completely relaxed. you need to keep your bedroom cool, 67-68 degrees, don't consume alcohol or smoke even four to six hours before bed. oh my gosh. >> that's right. >> is that realistic? >> it is realistic. keep a cool bedroom is important. your brain feeds to cool down to get into sleep to initiate sleep. so having a cooler room helps your brain with that. it's the reason that it's so much easier to fall asleep in a room that's too cold than too hot. as you said, alcohol and caffeine are problematic. caffeine is a stimulant. it tracks your brain away from sleep and keeps it active. alcohol on the other hand is problematic. many people use alcohol to try to get to sleep. alcohol is actually a sedative. so what you are doing is sedateing your brain and sedation isn't sleep. the other thing with alcohol is that it will actually fragment your sleep, so you will wake up many more times throughout the night.

finally, alcohol will actually block something called rem sleep or dream sleep. which we know is important for things like learning, memory, creativity, regulating your mood and emotion. trying to stay away from those two things, four to six hours before bed is critical. >> all great advice, hopefully, we can all get a good fight's sleep, starting tonight after hearing your advice, professor matthew walker, u.c. berkeley, thank you so much. >> thanks so much. >> all right. he helped janice dickinson write her book, which was on book shelves starting in 2002, now he's coming forward to confirm her claim that bill cosby raped her in her words. you will hear what the ghost writer knew and when coming up.

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allege tv mogul bill cosby raped them over a more than 40 year span. the most high profile is former super pod el janice dickinson. she invited me to her california home to hear her story about how cosby raped her in 1982. her attorney issued a statement when the allegations first became public reading like this, in part, janet dickinson's story accusing bill cosby is a lie. there is a glaring contradiction what she is claiming now for the first time and what she wrote in her own book and what she told the media back in 2002. i asked janet about those claims. and did you say, but this is my life experience, this is my story? >> i thought. yes, frederica, i not to have this put -- i not to have this put in the book. i wanted to out him and bust him for the rape that took place for

pe me and to describe my spiral, you know, that took place afterwards. i moved out of fork. >> do you think harper collins ever saw your version, saw that in writing, your draft, those allegations against bill cosby? >> i caught up with dickinson's ghost writer who began working with her in 2001 on her book "into lifeguard on duty," corroborated, dickinson did tell him about the alleged rape by cosby years ago, but explains why her account would have never been submitted in a written draft let alone published. >> she thought it was innocent and she, he told her he wanted to talk to her about her career in film and television. it didn't quite, that's not what bill had in mind. she wanted to, you know, went into a fair amount of detail. she was distraught. the memory was, you know, had her pretty shaken up and i told

her, i'm sorry, i don't think we can use any of this. we will never be able to get this past the attorneys at harper collins. and i apologize. she understood. >> did you ever write a draft based on her story and send that draft to harper collins? >> i did not. >> did she know you hadn't done that? >> based on our conversation, i said to her, this is basically going to be impossible to get past the lawyers at harpercollins. she also read the draft that i did turn in and she saw that material was not a part of it. >> explain to me, he took creative license, his words by instead writing in dickinson's book, cosby mad advanced but was rebuffed and cosby was a sore loser about it, not a rapist.

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this is a high profile prison. this will be our third time. sam keeps this prison running, right, sam? >> i'm here hanging out. >> he's not hanging out. he keeps everyone in line. i have become familiar with this prison. not because it housed notorious murders like manson. >> if i can conquer eight years of incarceration, i think i can become a enpre(newer. >> they pitch behind bars. >> my company for real combulers is looking for that right next sports store. >> reporter: now they're learn agnew language. code 3730. you are learning to code behind bars? >> reporter: yes.

a six month course that teaches prison technology and entrepreneurship. >> i see this program is giving me the skills, so when i get out, i have a marketable skill, where i can go out directly from prison into the work force. >> reporter: when you are behind bars for decades, are you not on the forefront of cutting edge technologies. >> i have been there 19 years, since 1995. >> reporter: have you touched a computer before this? >> never. >> reporter: here's another challenge, prisoners don't have internet access. >> reporter: as a codeer, that is critical. so we had to come up with a curriculum and a process that we could simulate the environment without actually having an online experience. >> reporter: it's a lot. they code four days a week, eight hours a day to build out tear future. >> my dream job is to be a computer programer. >> reporter: behind bars, they'll be able make a real salary. >> reporter: there is no reason why we can't teach someone at san quentin to be a very

proficient codeer. >> reporter: some inmates never step foot outside these bars him for the ones that do, the technical stillset can be a game changer. >> we are changing things from scratch and are able to build on our ideas and say, wow, we can do this, we see future. we see hope. >> reporter: lori siegel, cnn money in san quentin prison. >> getting ready for the next chapter in life. thanks so much for foin johnijo all day. cnn newsroom continues with poppy harlow in new york. >> hi, everyone, thanks so much for joining me. you are here in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with two stories out of the middle east. both on the war on terror and two deadly group of terrorists, al qaeda and the taliban. first the pentagon planning to leave an extra 1,000 troops in