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thanks for watching. see you back here tomorrow night. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin with a stunning new report on the use of torture, not by some middle east dictator, but by the united states government. published after years of research and accounts by many in the government and a scathing review of interrogation techniques used after 9/11. the senate intelligence committee concluding the methods of torture were far more extensive than previously known, more brutal than officials have said, and that they didn't work. also detailed today how high-level officials from the
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cia misled the white house, members of congress, and the american people time after time about what was really going on. keeping detainees awake for days, in stress positions, repeatedly water boarding detainees and sexually abuse family members, aggressive use of rectal tubes. the list goes on and on. this is from just the summary of the report. the details are certainly hard to listen to. but they're important to know about. we're going to go into more detail in a moment. first there's breaking news tonight related to this. a warning tonight about what repercussions could be coming from terror groups here in the united states. our justice correspondent pamela brown joins me live on the latest with that. what do you know about the terror warning? >> the fbi and dhs sent out a bulletin, anderson, warning law enforcement agencies across the country that terrorists may try to exploit the findings as propaganda and use it as a recruiting tool. and it could spark online
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reaction. so the big concern here is that as it picks up steam on social media, it could inflame extremists. though i want to emphasize the bulletin said it is unlikely we could see violence in the near term. law enforcement sources said there's no intelligence indicating threats related to this memo, anderson. >> the fbi director was asked about it this afternoon. >> he was. he had a round table session with reporters. this is one of the first questions out of the gate to him. he said at that point earlier this afternoon he actually hadn't read the memo yet. basically, look, he said this doesn't relate to the fbi. but he did say the concern in the fbi is what this memo will generate any activity from overseas or home-grown terrorism. >> pamela brown, thanks very much. the senate intelligence committee spent five years looking at more than 6 million pages of cia documents and released 525 pages of the
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summary today. and within that conclusion, the incredibly grisly details. barbara starr reports. >> reporter: the brutality is shocking. the report reveals at least five detainees were subjected to what it calls rectal feeding. interrogation procedures that went on for months. at least one detainee died from hypothermia. >> stripped naked, diaper, physically struck and various painful stress positions for long periods of time. they were deprived of sleep for days, in one case, 180 hours. >> reporter: one detainee had his lunch pureeed and poured into his rectum. he eventually attempted to kust his wrist, chew into his arm and cut a vein in his foot. much of the information kept from president george w. bush's own secretary of state. >> there are cia records stating that colin powell wasn't told about the program at first because there were concerns
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that, and i quote, powell would blow his stack if he were briefed. >> reporter: a former top cia official says some details were held close, but that the agency did not engage in torture. >> absolutely not. absolutely not. i mean, people of conscience can disagree on this, but the people who are on the front lines who are actually engaged in trying to defend america against terrorists, they have to rely on the legal advice that they are given. >> reporter: some of the worst abuse occurred at a secret location called cobalt where detainees were walked around naked or shackled with their hands above their heads for extended periods of time. cia office ers took them down hallways slapping or punching them.
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abusebata repeatedly water boarded became completely unresponsive with bubbles rising through his open full mouth. internal cia records called chkd shaikh's water boarding a series of near drownings. torture that wasn't even effective according to the report. >> it produced little useful intelligence to help us track down the perpetrators of 9/11 or prevent new attacks and atrocities. >> reporter: the cia issued a lengthy and detailed statement saying the program was legal and gained the country useful intelligence but acknowledging mistakes were made. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >> a spokesman for former president george w. bush said his only statement about the report is what he told cnn's candy crowley this past sunday. here's what he said. >> we're fortunate to have men and women who work hard at the
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cia serving on our behalf. these are patriots. and whatever the report says, if it diminishes their contributions to our country, it is way offbase. and i knew the directors, i knew the deputy directors, i knew a lot of the operators. these are good people. really good people. and we're lucky as a nation to have them. >> if you read the report though, he wasn't even informed about these methods until 2006 and then expressed reservations about them. dick cheney dismissed the report before it came out. he was a proponent of what he called enhanced interrogation techniques after the 9/11 attacks. he told "the new york times" yesterday he still thinks they were totally and absolutely justified. told the times about the senate report, quote, i hear they portray this as a rogue operation and the agency out of bounds and lied about it. i think that's all a bunch of hooey. joining me now, former chief prosecutor for terrorism trials at guantanamo bay, and peter
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bergen, and jeffrey toobin. that's not how i read the report. this was a bunch of rogue people. this is actually not a bunch a couple of bad apples at the bottom. this is stuff that came from the top. time after time, you have cia officers who were involved in the interrogations saying, this suspect has no more information. this stuff isn't effective. we should stop, or voicing concerns about it. and being told by higher ups, no just keep doing it. we think this person has more information. >> i don't think it's hype to say there's never been a day like this in american history. we didn't treat the nazis like this. we didn't treat the viet cong like this. this is without precedent in american history. and it came from the top. now, actually, that's -- that is one thing that is somewhat ambiguous. it came from the top of the cia. what is peculiar about the report is that the role of the white house is somewhat mysterious. but the idea that somehow cia
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agents on the ground decided to do this on their own is clearly wrong. this was a cia-wide operation. >> colonel davis, you said you're not aware of one plot averted or one life saved because of this program. when you read this thing, every time, and the cia has put forward all these cases, and a lot of politicians and put forward all these cases, the bush white house and others, saying it was the hunt for osama bin laden. everybody saw that movie where torture resulted in information that led to bin laden. the capture of jose padilla, the second alleged shoe bomber. and multiple instances, people have pointed to that enhanced interrogation that is really torture led to these things. this report categorically goes through these and says each time, actually they had the information before this person was even tortured. >> you're exactly right. what you cited, or what you held up as the best examples of what torture did for us.
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even if you accept those as true, whichive think is a real stretch, particularly in the case of khalid shaikh mohammed giving up the information that gave up osama bin laden, if you look at all the minuses that we incurred, the damage that we've done, the cost that we've incurred, it's going to take decades to undo the harm. i think it outweighs any potential good anyone can cite. >> the shear, the number of lies told by leaders of the cia. again, according to this report. peter bergen, i mean, you had michael hayden testifying in front of congress, essentially quoting this report, lying to congress about the humane treatment people were receiving. people in the white house talking about humane treatment. the biggest bone of contention between this report and the cia's account is, if these techniques were necessary to find osama bin laden. the report says they weren't. the cia said they were. you say what? >> well, i've read the section of the report about the hunt for bin laden. and it's very, very convincing.
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i mean, the burden of proof is on the other side i would say on this issue. because this report is heavily annotated. the footnotes are rich -- in fact, this is the most detailed account of the intelligence breaks that led to the courier, that led to bin laden. i've written a book on the subject and have investigated this at great length and talked to many of the people involved. and this report is very, very useful. and it may make a convincing case, anderson, information about the courier that led to bin laden came from either people who were in the custody of other governments, or came from intelligence that was already in the system from signals intelligence and human intelligence. i think the burden of proof is really on the other side. who are claiming that coercive techniques led to bin laden. i think the report on this issue is very convincing. >> it is interesting, though, peter, because a lot of conservatives have pushed back, saying we shouldn't release
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this. these were scary times. one of the arguments they made, which is interesting, is that there were a lot of politicians on the left who at the time were saying, you know, were indicating that they kind of knew this stuff was going on, and they basically just wanted the cia to do whatever it took to keep america safe. now they're saying politicians are coming forward saying they're outraged by this. >> yes, there's obviously a lot of politicization around this. but i think that we're a long way from 9/11 now. we're able to look at this more rationally. i think that there's a huge body of scientific evidence, and also other forms of evidence showing that non-coercive uses. the one who blew up the trade center in 1993 and killed six people, attempted to bring down the towers, he gave a completely full confession. he was captured in pakistan on the plane home to an fbi agent by a guy named brad garrett.
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that is not untypical. any fbi -- one thing is really interesting to me, assuming the people involved in these decisions, they weren't fbi agents, they weren't federal prosecutors, in a sense they watched too many movies, where the baddie gives up everything because they're abused. that's not how real interrogation is perceived. >> michael hayden said everybody is carefully vetd. this shows a lot of people, they are psychologists who had no experience in interrogations. they were contractors, who had shady back grounds and shady records. some who created companies that were making millions of dollars off this. >> by the way, a company that made $81 million. $81 million. >> no, no, that's absolutely right. when you see kind of the shear number of lies associated with this, that the american people were told, i mean, time and again, that this was a humane program, were you -- what else surprised you about this report? >> i don't think there was
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really anything in it that surprised me. i think for the public, just the scope and the pervasiveness of the program probably was a bit breathtaking. i think one thing that did surprise me, that you mentioned, is the contracting out. the extent to which these weren't agents. these were government contractors doing this for profit. and in the case of the two psychologists, richly rewarded for reverse engineering the siri program. we talked about this report here in the u.s. if i was advising the people that are identified in the report, my advice would be vacation domestically. because here at home the president can choose the -- look forward, not back approach. but these crimes have universal jurisdiction. they're war crimes. anywhere outside the u.s. is not obliged to follow our lead and look forward and not back on this. >> it's shocking when you read this, when you envision nazis doing this, and i hate to say this, the khmer rouge doing this, it's not that far removed
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from stuff they were doing. rectally feeding somebody to the point violently beyond any medical necessity, water boarding. >> it does sound like stuff people saw in movies and thought they would try out. it's not something that the government has ever sanctioned. >> is that true that some of these guys can be arrested? >> the answer is, almost certainly not in the government. the idea of universal jurisdiction, there was one celebrated case where the dictator of chile was arrested in london. but that has never really been replicated since then. i think it's extremely unlikely, but it is at least theoretically possible. >> more on the cnn website about it. quick reminder, set your dvr, watch 360 whenever you want. the results of the year-long investigation into armed security guards. wildly different rules state by state that let security guards carry guns and sometimes with deadly consequences.
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hired guns. drew griffin tonight has the story. >> reporter: berg was gunned down in the parking lot of a miami strip club in june of 2012. he was unarmed, sitting in a pickup truck when he was shot and killed by an armed security guard. this is that guard. being brought into court, now charged with murder. and facing a father who can't understand why his son has been taken away from him. >> you murdered my son, man, for nothing. he was trying to get away from you. he was trying to get away from you, man. you kept shooting him. you kept shooting him in his back. >> lucas shane kendall has a history of alcohol abuse, a dui conviction. he was kicked out of the navy. after the shooting, the jail psychiatrist diagnosed him with anti-social personality disorder.
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and a recent diagnosis by court-ordered psychiatrists of unspecified schizophrenia spectrum, and other psychotic disorder. yet on the day donald bird's son was shot and killed, lucas kendall was fully licensed by the state of florida to hold a badge, and a gun. >> when you've got a young security guard, they get any opportunity to use their weapon. it's there. >> reporter: details of the shooting, as chilling as the moment donald berg met his son's killer in court. kendall arrived on duty early, seen here in this surveillance video on that june night. wanberg and his friend were sitting in a pickup truck in the parking lot. kendall told police he thought they were rolling marijuana. he approached the truck and claims bird and smathers were looking menacing. one of the men threatened him, he says.
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and both car doors opened. kendall claims he felt his life was in danger, and believed one of the men had a weapon. he fires at least 12 shots, hitting bird eight times, including four shots in the back as burg crawled under the truck. the shooting left burg dead and michael smathers paralyzed. police say no gun, no weapon was found in that truck. kendall calmly called 911. >> how are you doing? >> there's a shooting at the mall. >> was anybody shot? >> yeah, two people are shot. >> where is the gunman now? >> i am the gunman. i'm a security officer here. he tried to shoot me. >> reporter: security guards, even though many may look like police officers, by and large don't have arrest powers, and don't report to the public. an investigation by cnn and center for investigative
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reporting, finds the armed security guard industry is kind of like the wild west when it comes to oversight. you can become an armed guard in 15 states with no firearms training. nine states don't bother to run an fbi criminal background check. 27 states don't even check to see if someone is banned by federal law from carrying a gun. unlike police officers, the requirements to become a licensed armed guard across the u.s. can be so lax. in kentucky you can become an armed guard simply by arming yourself and calling yourself one. >> there's no training requirement, no licensing requirement. a security company simply needs a business license. just like the florist down the street has. but instead of selling flowers, they're selling guard service. >> reporter: security industry veterans pat alexander and steve run a security guard training school. they blame security firms more interested in making money than
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paying for proper training. >> they need warm bodies to put on the street to make money by the hour. they don't want to have to go through all of the training procedures to wait to get that body out there. >> reporter: only four states require security guards to pass a psychological evaluation. florida is not one of them. ki wan bird's mother, arlene, surrounded by his father and sister, believes florida granted an armed security guard license to a man who was crazy. >> he feels justified in saying that he was defending himself. >> he's sick. >> reporter: ken cal could have been disqualified from becoming an armed guard from getting discharged from the navy after several alcohol related offenses. but he didn't disclose that on his application. and the state issued him a license. so who did hire lucas kendall? this man, the owner of the now
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defunct security company that hired him. >> drew griffin from cnn, how are you doing? why did you hire lucas? did you do any screening of him? >> excuse me. we're leaving right now. it's nice to meet you, though. have a great day, thank you. >> reporter: the burg killing isn't the only case involving one of our ariano's armed guards. two other lawsuits alleging his guards were negligent have been settled. his attorneys said lucas kendall had all the required training and background checks when he was hired. but in florida, that's not much. security guards are required to attend one week of training, and 3 1/2 more days to carry a gun. kendall told police it was self-defense, and told the court he didn't want a lawyer. >> how is it that you expect to represent yourself? >> i'm not going to represent myself. i refuse to participate in that
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charade. >> i would advise you to do things the easy way. you want a trial. >> i don't want a trial. this is a charade. >> reporter: kendall is ruled incompetent to stand trial. kendall's mother chris believes her son had no mental issues prior to the shooting. >> my son is the victim in this whole thing. he's been attacked in jail several times, beaten, ribs broken. he's had stitches on his face. they had to put him in isolation for longer than 15 months. isolation. nobody stays normal in isolation. at that amount of time. >> reporter: it has been two and a half years since arlene berg's son was killed. the family is still waiting for a trial. >> my son was crawling underneath the truck trying to get away. and he stood there and continued to shoot. but yet and still, he feared for
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his life. how? how? >> incredible story. drew griffin joins me now. this seems like it could happen again. >> there are a million armed and unarmed guards in this country. >> a million. >> a million. that is nearly double the amount of police officers we have. yet no national standards, no national requirement for an fbi background check. in many of these states, the licensing agency, when there is an armed guard shooting, they don't even bother to investigate it. so lucas kendall could get a -- somebody like lucas kendall could get a license today, absolutely. >> there is a second report to this report we'll air tomorrow night. >> the oversight is so poor in a state, that they had a guy who was actually barred from possessing a gun. granted a license at the same time with disastrous consequences. >> that will be tomorrow night on 360. thank you, drew. if you have a comment on this story, we want to hear from you. go to cnn.com/investigations.
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breaking news tonight, live pictures from the grand central terminal in new york. protesters continuing their call to an end to police violence. it's the seventh day of demonstrations of the grand jury decision to not indict the police officer who used the choke hold on eric garner. the protesters aren't the only ones making their voices heard. over the past week, pat lynch, the president of new york's police union, has been staunchly defending the grand jury's decision and the officer who arrested eric garner. he's blasting new york mayor bill de blasio's comments. >> we've had to talk to dante for years about the dangers that he may face. we've had to literally train him as families have all over this city for decades. in how to take special care in
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any encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him. >> mr. lynch accused the mayor of throwing the nypd under the bus. last night, we heard part one of my interview with him. it generated a lot of reaction. tonight, 35r9 two. you said the mayor has thrown police officers under the bus. how has he done that? >> what you had is the mayor right after the grand jury had made their decision, put on the backs of the new york police officers, decades of racism. and that's just not true. i have 31 years in the new york city police department. and have never once heard a radio call what race are they, what color are they, where do they live. it's never, ever happened. >> you don't believe race is an issue with new york police officers -- >> it's a majority/minority police department. we're out there in the city of new york. it's made up of everyone. we're doing our job well. we have thousands and thousands of interactions right outside this building as we speak.
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we're not looking at who the person is. we're looking at the behavior that leads to the interaction with the police. that's the question. the behavior and why someone called the police in the first place. >> i talked to eric adams. he said that the way the police, when he was on the force, the way the police police in brooklyn in some communities of color is different than they police on park avenue. >> that's absolutely not true. look, there's racism in everything. there's racism in every profession that's out there. but the majority, our police officers are going out doing the job. they're not really asking who it is. they're getting a call of a crime. those calls come from the community. in this case, in staten island, it was the community that called, it was a chronic location. they went to the community council meetings and complained. we were sent there because the merchants asked us to be there. >> but if everybody has inherent vices, vices that sometimes they're not even aware of, aren't those amplified amongst those who have power over
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others? >> no, i don't believe so. you have to look at the numbers of cases that police officers deal with every day. a majority of people leave satisfied. we're not asking who they are. it just doesn't happen. >> i grew up believing, look, the police are there to protect me. and i knew policeman paul on the corner. i talked to a lot of african-american parents who live in a different part of town that i grew up in. and they have a completely different perception of the police. >> and i can understand that. >> even if you're saying it's not correct, the fact that perception exists is so widespread. >> i can understand that frustration. i can understand when you watch a video and you just see a portion of it. i can understand being outraged at what you're seeing, not understanding all that went into it. not seeing the whole video. or what led up to that video as well. so i can understand that. but that's why we need to have this dispassionate conversation about it.
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not have ralbble-rousers discussion about it. we can disagree, but maybe we can come to a nice meeting about having a real conversation. not rowdy blocking the street. >> to an african-american parent out there who foals like, you know what, i have to have a conversation yet again with my teenage son about how you carry yourself in front of a police officer. >> i can't place myself at anyone's kitchen table how they feel, nor would i disrespect anyone by telling them that. but what i will say is the neighborhoods in the city of new york are much safer than they were a few short years ago, because a police officer was willing to put himself or herself at risk for their sons or daughters. don't put ourselves or hang around with people that will put us in a position of getting in trouble. again, it's the behavior that leads to the interaction with the police. not who you are. >> i appreciate you being on.
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>> thank you. >> he said he doesn't speak for all police officers. our next guest was watching, and he reached out and asked to come on the program and respond to what mr. lynch said. he's a former st. louis police officer working on police and racism reform with the naacp. he joins me tonight. when you hear mr. lynch there saying racism isn't an issue within the nypd, is it possible that there's any police force in this country, who are some degree racism isn't a problem? and if so, how widespread do you think it is? >> i don't think it's possible, anderson. there are departments that serve in large urban areas where race isn't an issue. we have too much history. we have too much evidence. for him to say in reference to a statement made by another former new york city officer, i believe who is currently serving in government up there -- >> eric adams, the borough president. >> that they police differently
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in their community than other communities, i believe it was mr. lynch, to deny the reality of his fellow officers and deny the lived reality of millions of brown and black people all over this country. >> did you see that yourself when you were a police officer? >> absolutely. >> not just different strategies of policing, but different ways of interacting? >> just a different approach immediately. on the part of some of the officers in our department. when it comes to dealing with black people on the street. for him to say that when you receive a radio call, we don't ask what color the person is, you don't have to. you see that when you arrive. to say you've been doing a great job when that particular department, i believe, if i'm correct, has settled over $1 billion worth of complaints against excessive force and other police misconduct in the last 10 or 15 years. i don't know what he's talking about. yes, it's an honorable profession. but we have people in this profession who willfully and
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knowingly and maliciously violate people's human rights, civil liberties and civil rights every day somewhere in this country. and it is time to have a dispassionate and honest discussion about exactly that. he's right about that. i saw the segment with him and you last night. he referenced the fact we put our lives on the line. how dare you question what we do. you signed on for that. i signed on for that. because we took a job, where we risk our lives knowingly doesn't give us a license to recklessly risk the lives of the people that we serve. and in the film you saw with mr. garner being taken down, the only individual whose life was at risk in that encounter was mr. garner. >> there was a study back in 2000 by the justice department, among other things it highlighted discrepancy between what white officers and african-american officers, 57% of african-american officers thought that african-americans and other minorities from giving unequal treatment. but only 5% of white police
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officers thought that african-americans were given unequal treatment. that discrepancy to me is very telling. >> i think it's very telling, too. i think it goes to the filters that we have when we see ourselves, and what we do and why we do it. the fact is, we have ample evidence now with the proliferation of videotapes, cell phones, and everything else, for mainstream america to see how widespread this problem really is. >> you believe part of the problem is that police investigate police. they're investigated by their friends. their friends are the ones having to give the punishment, so they're essentially protected and immune to harsh punishments, even from prosecutors who have to work with them in the future. >> absolutely. that's not hard to understand. is there any entity that we trust to investigate itself, particularly when there could be punishment at the other end of the investigation. if wrongdoing is found. we definitely need to have an
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independent entity established everywhere that can provide some oversight, and more importantly, some accountability, some punishment, a consequence, a real consequence for officers that abuse their authority and violate the rights of the people they serve. now is the time for that. >> i appreciate you being on. thank you. >> thank you. torrential rain, flooding, high winds, the nor'easter slamming the east coast. one day so far. we're tracking the storm. it's going to go on. new call to end police violence in new york city from protesters. you're looking live at tonight's demonstration at grand central terminal. turn the trips you have to take, into one you'll never forget. earn triple points when you book with the expedia app. expedia plus rewards. and cialis for daily useor you. helps you be ready anytime the moment is right. cialis is also the only daily ed tablet approved
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welcome back. the wild weather, a nor'easter is dumping a miserable mix of everything, heavy rain, snow, powerful winds from parts of pennsylvania to points north. already roads are flooded in a lot of areas. tonight 20 million people are under storm warnings or advisori advisories. here in new york we're seeing record rainfall totals, more than three inches of rain at jfk today. close to that amount in several other locations. this is only the beginning. it will be a long-lasting
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onslaught. jennifer gray joins us now from the cnn weather center with more. what areas really were the hardest hit? it was miserable here in new york city. >> it was miserable. we have two sides of this. we have the rainy side and the snowy side. we have snow anywhere from virginia up to northern maine. we have rain anywhere in the carolinas up to southern maine. hardest hit areas as far as the snow goes is where it's still happening. because it has been coming down for quite some time. and so the snow is going to continue to come down for the next day, maybe even more, anderson. then as far as the rain goes, the hardest hit was anywhere from new york city to boston. >> a lot of flight delays obviously. >> if you were anywhere from new york city to boston you could have been sitting at the airport for four hours or more. now we're seeing an hour and a half delays at jfk and newark. and one of the reasons, look at these wind gusts. 45 to 50-mile-per-hour gusts.
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if you are sitting at the airport, trust me, you do not want to be flying in that. >> what are you expecting for tomorrow morning? >> this is going to linger. we still have the winter storm warnings in effect. all the way from upstate new york to northern maine. that's going to be in effect through wednesday. we still have those flood watches in effect. they are starting to come down a little bit. new york city was included earlier. no longer the case. but still, a couple of thops flood watches and warnings still in effect. we are going to possibly see up to a foot of additional snowfall. upstate new york could see the same. and an additional four to eight inches of rain in portions of maine. this low is just being stubborn. it's taking a while to get out of here. that's why you're going to see the snow linger for the next couple of days. >> jennifer gray, thank you very much. if you're waiting for a flight, i hope you get on it soon. susan hendricks has the 360 in business. we start with quarterback cam newton.
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he's hospitalized tonight with two fractures in his back. the former heisman trophy winner was involved in an accident a block in the panther stadium. that is video of the aftermath. witnesses say they saw cam newton's truck flip over four times. officials say the driver of the other car involved in the crash has minor injuries. we have new video showing the aftermath of the plane crash into a home in gaithersburg, maryland, sunday morning. this is video shot by one of the first witnesses on the scene. three people on that small private plane were killed. also, three others were killed inside of that home. a mother and her two young sons. on capitol hill, m.i.t. economist jonathan gruber apologizes for what he calls thoughtless and sometimes insulting comments about obamacare. he created a firestorm when he called american voters stupid for a lack of transparency about the lost financing, led to its passage. prince william and his wife kate, the duchess of cambridge,
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paid their respects at the 9/11 memorial and museum in downtown manhattan today. also they attended an nba game last night. there was a photo-op of lebron james and duchess kate. an uproar to that, because apparently his sweatshirt was full of sweat and you're not supposed to hug the princess. >> you're not allowed to hug the princess when you're sweaty or at all? >> not at all. she seemed to be a good sport about it. people are in an uproar. >> who's in an uproar? >> british media. >> british people. okay. >> we're not. >> all right. susan, thanks very much. just ahead, an attack at a brooklyn synagogue, caught on video. a 22-year-old student stabbed before police actually killed the attacker. take a closer look at your fidelity green line
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tonight new video of another fatal shooting by new york police, this time inside a brooklyn synagogue. it happened overnight. the video is another window into what police officers face on the job. the split-second decisions they have to make and the range of ways they respond to a violent crime. the man who was killed was armed with a knife who had already attacked someone, according to witnesses. the stabbing victim is in stable
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condition tonight. what's most striking about the video is that the officer's repeated attempts to try to convince the stabbing suspect to drop his knife and give himself up. here's rosa flores. >> reporter: a chaotic scene between new york city police and a suspect armed with a knife inside a brooklyn synagogue early tuesday morning. >> [ bleep ]! >> reporter: police say the suspect had just stabbed this man in what they call a random attack. the 22-year-old struck in the left temple with what police say was a 9-inch knife with a 4 1/2-inch blade while in deep study at the habad world headquarters. >> he ran out. >> reporter: the man who captured it all on video, doesn't want to show his face. but he wants to share what he witnessed. >> it was shocking.
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the guy was trying to stab people for no reason. he's not demanding anything. he's just saying he wants to stab somebody. >> reporter: the standoff lasting several minutes. the police telling him repeatedly to put down his blade. meanwhile, a bystander off camera trying to play arbitrator. >> he's trying to negotiate with him. >> reporter: also asking the suspect to put down the knife. that didn't work either. >> he was grabbing the knife again in front of the cop. >> reporter: police say the suspect lunged toward the officer before the officer took a shot. and didn't miss. shooting the suspect in the chest. >> don't move! >> he wouldn't give up. >> reporter: the suspect identified by police as 49-year-old calvin peters later pronounced dead at the hospital. cnn, new york.
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breaking news. nick is at grand central station in new york, where a protest is going on right now. nick, what's the scene right now? >> anderson, early on in the last hour, we saw this group grow from the intimate group to now well over 100. people are demonstrating here. they say they want reform in the police department. they want to call attention to the death of unarmed civilians. they say it's been a systemic problem for decades in this city. >> so nick, you're saying there are about, what, 100 people there right now? >> reporter: yeah, there's about 100 people here right now. they've been by and large very peaceful here, anderson. the police have allowed them to sort of fluidly move through the city. so far they've been chaptering things like, i can't breathe. they're drawing attention to
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eric garner and mike brown. >> appreciate the reporting. >> nick, thanks very much. that does it for us. videos gone viral starts right now. the following is a cnn special report. >> the following is a cnn special report. >> good evening. i'm keira phillips. you've seen the videos countless time, images caught on tape. amazing rescue, death defying acts, killer weather, and outrageous criminals. but what are the real stories behind those pictures? what really happened before and after that camera started rolling. find out in videos gone viral. close calls, unexpected brushes with death. and when they're caught on camera, these death defying acts go viral. take for example these two girls filming
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