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it for charity. we hope you find it enjoyable, laughing at all of us. find out who won at 9:00 right here on cnn. and thanks so much for joining us. and be sure to dvr "outfront" any day, anytime. thanks for joining us. a freight train carrying crude oil has gone off the tracks and it's burning out of control right now in west virginia. the governor declared a state of emergency. you see the fireball right there. we're working to get as much information as we can on this breaking story. we're going to bring you the latest details shortly. also tonight, a dangerous night on the road in places where snow rarely falls, like it's falling tonight. and more snow in new england. we'll have the latest on all of it. we begin with another country joining the battle against isis. egypt bombing isis targets in libya for a second time late today, after the kidnapping beheading of 21 egyptian
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christians there. this is from one of those isis propaganda videos the victims being led ondo the beach to their death. barbara starr joins us now from the pentagon where the late ect ectest. these targets, do we know what they were going after? >> good evening. the egyptian government is saying it went after a number of isis targets, training camps, other isis facilities in and around the eastern libya city of durna. this is a well-known stronghold of militants in libya. now they say they are isis. they are clearly in adherence to isis. at this point, we don't know if they're central members of the isis organization. egypt denied any claims that there were civilian casualties saying the strikes were surgical and precise against very specific targets that they went after earlier today. anderson. >> i want to be clear, that's coming from the egyptian government not u.s. officials, or outside --
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>> yeah that's right. i mean i think it's exactly what you would expect the egyptians to say at this point. they have no evidence of civilian casualties and they took great care to be surgical you know this is a case where we will see if there are any credible claims that emerge in the coming hours and days. >> right. we don't have people on the ground obviously there due to security concerns. is there any indication barbara, that these strikes are part of a wider campaign against isis targets in libya. >> the egyptian government making it very clear how very angry it is at this mass murder of 21 christian egyptian men who went into libya looking for work very low-wage work. the egyptian government moving very quickly to begin these air strikes. the question is going to be as our own reporter has pointed out, how long can the egyptian military keep this up. they have limited number of stocks of bombs, that they need
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to drop to get after these targets and destroy them. of the question is going to be are they going to need resupply. is that resupply going to come from the united states. >> it's also to try to understand how they have isis central, operating in iraq operating in syria. looking into who carried out the latest killings. >> well that's exactly right. you know as far as this take goes they are looking very closely frame by frame especially at a man in the center of the tape. he's wearing camouflage. not the type of black loose-fitting gear that you see others in the tape wearing. so they're looking to see who he might be why he speaks such good english. but also is this a sign that isis fundamentally is expanding to libya, and there are signs of them or their adherence in places like yemen, afghanistan, and pakistan. >> barbara starr, appreciate the update. we're obviously not showing the video.
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look at the still video, seeing a man burned alive earlier, and listen to cleric sunni, and shia condemning isis at morning prayers. and what the terror group hopes to achieve without a single ally elsewhere in the world. joining us "new york times" david kirkpatrick, and peter bergen who has just written an item about the kind of war that isis hopes to start. so david, these killings what's the reaction been like on the ground in egypt? >> well it's very very moreose. a cloud is hanging over the whole country. i feel like anywhere in the country you walk into a room you see everybody hang-dog today. it's such a shocking thing to see not only the loss of life but a killing in this way. this kind of gruesome theatrical brutality really takes a toll on people. >> peter, it's hard to
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understand i think, for a lot of people what isis is hoping to achieve with these kind of killings. i mean if you're trying to look at it rationally you might think they would try to get support across the middle east rather than what it seems like they're doing, which is alienating themselves and growing a list of enemies. >> yeah. it's not an effective strategy to keep adding to your list of enemies. now isis has added the egyptians, previously the jordanians the united states and a very large coalition pretty much ethnic and religious group in syria and iraq. so you would think, what's the point here. but the way they think about the world, they believe we're living in the end times, a sort of apocalyptic view that the final battle for the soul of islam is being played out. and in fact their english language magazine is in a town that muhammad said the final battle between islam and the crusaders would take place.
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and, you know isis has that town. in their view that final battle is coming too. then it really -- they're not behaving in a way a rational group would. they're behaving in a way that an apocalyptic death cult would. >> so if they're thinking about the world in those terms, peter, the people that they are actually trying to reach out to i mean this kind of brutality, this kind of horror in terms of gaining new recruits that's what it's all about. it's not about attracting a mass audience. >> i guess not. you know you would have thought it would repel a lot of people. but even in the united states we've seen teenagers in colorado and teenagers in chicago trying to join the islamic state. luckily they were headed off at the airport before they could do that. but the point is that you know in some people's mind the islamic state is creating the perfect caliphate, despite all
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this terrible violence. that accounts for the fact that they're the most successful terrorist group in terms of recruitment in the modern era. >> david, in terms of libya itself i think a lot of people kind of haven't made paid that much attention to it since the benghazi attacks, certainly even since gadhafi was overthrown. how chaotic has it become? >> the funny thing is there's still money there. the libyan central bank has $1 billion in cash reserves and it continued to pump out money to civil servants to teachers to doctors, to municipal workers. so the country continues to grind on in a way, even though there's been a total collapse of authority. each little city is its own city/state now. and each town is controlled by its own militia. what we have are two coalitions of militia. that's all it is. there is no central authority in either one, really fighting
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against each other for control of the country, ultimately for that bank. >> peter, is there an understanding how -- or among people you talk to how much the isis affiliates in libya are connected with core isis in iraq in syria? >> well i think the beheadings of these egyptian cops points to a rather tight relationship. because in this english language magazine we saw pictures of these prisoners. then we saw this video from isis central. and to me, that indicates very much they're in touch with the folks in libya. of course go back to the first iraq war, anderson you know the united states found that the largest number of foreign fighters that went into iraq by overwhelming numbers was from eastern libya, the very place where this is all playing out. so that link between eastern libya and iraq and al qaeda in iraq has been there for almost a decade. >> david, is that what you're hearing as well talking to people in egypt or elsewhere
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about the connection? >> yeah especially in eastern libya. as i understand it you know there are now three different groups around libya who have pledged loyalty to these groups. the group i think is largely a group of returnees who have been fighting with the islamic state in syria. so that's an especially connected group. i'm not sure how deep the connection goes where these people were apparently executed the western part of the country. >> david kirkpatrick, i appreciate you joining us, and peter bergen as well thank you. coming up next another act of terror another city in europe another possible connection to isis being investigated. we'll go to copenhagen where police killed a gunman at a deadly rampage at a free speech meeting and outside a synagogue. and the tanker train explosion, which not only shot flames high into the air, but caught part of a local river on fire.
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synagogue where he shot and killed a guard there. he was later gunned down by police. people were leaving flowers and paying respect in both locations. the president offered condolences and expressed solidarity with the danish people. in paris, the killer was apparently motivated by radical islam, and perhaps by isis in particular targeting people who would speak out against jewish people. you'll hear from one of the intended targets. this time a swedish cartoonist who is on al qaeda's hit list who said for him, there's no way out. the terrible episode unfolding. >> saturday just after 3:30 in the afternoon, a free speech forum interrupted by this. >> yes, it is freedom of speech. but at a turning point -- but why do we still say but, when we -- [ gunfire ] >> cnn cannot authenticate the recording obtained by the bbc.
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but on it more than 20 shots occurred. a filmmaker is killed. three officers injured. the assumed target cartoonist lawyera, on al qaeda's most wanted list for his satirical drawings of the prophet muhammad. >> bang bang bang and very quickly we could understand that something was going on. they rushed to the scene and threw me into a storage room, together with a chairman. and we were put under a table there. and we were guarded by eded by policemen with drawn guns. >> a manhunt is launched. police say they're familiar with the suspect. a little over nine hours later, on a sunday morning, another attack. shots fired outside a synagogue. a woman inside celebrating her daughter's bar mitzvah, when the
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guests were taken to a safe room. >> 15 children a lot of them without their parents there. classmates of my daughter. and a lot of them were crying, and panicking. >> out on the sidewalk two police officers are wounded. 37-year-old volunteer guard and basketball fan, dan, is shot in the head and killed. the shooter evades police again. >> we stand here in front of the jewish synagogue in copenhagen. we are devastated today. a man has lost his life in his service of that synagogue. and we are devastated. our thoughts go to his family. we are with them today. but our thoughts go to the whole of the jewish community today. >> police finally manage to corner the suspect just before 5:00 a.m. outside this apartment
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complex. police say he opens fire. they fire back killing him. >> two innocent people have lost their lives. and five police officers are injured. the pictures and accounts of these events will not easily be fb gotten in denmark. >> nor should they be. for more on what the investigation is revealing about the killings as well as the killer's possible allegiances, we're joined by a reporter in denmark. what is the latest with the investigation? >> reporter: anderson we know from authorities that the suspect had been on danish authorities' radar for a while because of his gang ties. it's becoming increasingly clear that he also had extremist ties. just before the shooting here last weekend he apparently posted his allegiance pledged his allegiance to isis on his
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facebook page. also we spoke to a former classmate of his, a recent classmate who said he vows anti-west views. he had been released from jail a couple of weeks ago for a violent crime he had committed. there are indications that he had been radicalized in jail, similar to the paris suspects. there are a lot of parallels drawn between what we've seen here and the paris attacks. there's a growing concern of radicalization in jail and violent criminal gang members spilling over and becoming jihadists as well. one official here said it's becoming a phenomenon here. >> it could be so much worse, we heard earlier from the woman we spoke to in of the report who was inside the synagogue. a lot of children inside that synagogue because of the bar mitzvah of her daughter. he didn't actually get into the synagogue, is that correct? i mean during the shooting outside, did he then run off?
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>> that's our understanding. in fact she got very emotional during our interview, anderson and started crying because she basically said if it weren't for dan, the victim here who was killed, and perhaps others would have been injured or killed inside. what we have found out is that he shot him point-blank right outside of the synagogue and ran away after that. but they said they were having a celebration, a bar mitzvah for her daughter inside that synagogue, dancing, having a great time and all of a sudden someone ran in and said, go down to the safe room. it was a horrifying two hours. i asked her if after this experience she wanted to leave denmark denmark. she said no i'm danish and i'm proud to be danish. >> thank you. the swedish defense university and a former islamic extremist who now battles extremism.
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magnus the apparent target of the first shooting who i'll talk to in a few minutes, is on the al qaeda hit list just like "charlie hebdo." >> the fact that they had most of the security inside the venue, suggests that they could have perhaps had a perimeter security ring around the event. but they've had this event behind me here several times before and nothing had happened. so i think that they rested all their laurels a little bit too much. but they responded with fire. and that was critical to prevent another "charlie hebdo" like in paris. >> in terms of what we now know about the would-be terrorist in this what do you make of him? what stands out to you. you and i have talked about this the threats of young people whether they're directly connected to a terror cell or not, it almost doesn't matter at
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this point. >> no anderson, it doesn't. one thing we've learned of the attacker is it seems like he served some time in prison and he must have interacted with some people that radicalized him in prison. it's a huge gaping big black hole across europe. we have a disproportionate number of citizens in prisons, and many of our prisoners are yet to come to grips with this sheer extent of the radicalization. >> magnus there were warnings about the shooter before red flagged to security services last year. do you have a sense of how much he was being tracked or how much he was on their radar? >> he wasn't on the radar. i think they thought he was more of a gang member than anything else. >> do you find a lort of crossover, especially in denmark, between gangs and extremists? >> yeah it's one of the distinguishing features in denmark.
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you have criminal gang members who have an interface with extremist elements. he had an m-95 which is an automatic rifle used by the military. very difficult to get ahold of in the black market. there was an arms cache stolen 44 rifles stolen in 2009. it may be one of those. but he at least had access to weaponry which made him very lethal terrorist. >> and magnus the police are not as heavily armed, or at least the police on the scene there were not, is that correct? >> well the police were armed. you had the armed police officers who were screening the people coming into the building. you had the danish security service who were protecting lawrence wilks. the security service protecting also lawrence wilks. they had a heavy armed presence inside. but nothing really on the outside.
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not enough. when he came to the jewish sin synagogue synagogue, he pretended to be drunk. he approached the guard and two police officers who were outside. and he sort of pretended to be drunk and he walked up and shot the guard in the head point-blank. and injured two of the guards. two of the police officers in the arm and the leg. then he disappeared. >> i imagine the uptick in the anti-semitic violence we're seeing not just the shooting in copenhagen or paris, it seems like more and more every other day, there's some kind of incidence. >> yes, it's hugely unfortunate. i think europe is reaching a stage where we're reaching a crisis point with our fellow jewish citizens. unfortunately, jihadists, not only are they going for soft targets, but within the soft targets, they are contacting those who symbolize the
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civilization rhetoric that they ascribe to. cartoonists are, of course one. but in both instances jews were also targeted. because that's because they can both be see the clash of the civilization rhetoric. >> there were people inside the synagogue at the time of the shooting. what impact has this had in denmark? >> it's had a massive impact in the sense of outpouring of sympathy sadness, huge amount of love for the jewish community. you see the flowers outside. it's just like behind and continuously coming people long after midnight just visiting paying their respects. there is a debate about how much security the synagogue should have. and of course there is the
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prime minister she was visibly moved when she visited the synagogue. they're taking this very seriously. and they want this to -- they want to be very strong in supporting and making a safe environment for the jewish community. >> i appreciate you being with us magnus and majin as well. you heard from lawrence wilks there, believed to be the target in the initial attack in denmark. we'll talk to him now about what his life is like on the al qaeda hit list. he's on the run, in hiding tonight. we'll talk to him ahead. introducing... a pm pain reliever that dares to work all the way until... the am. new aleve pm the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour strength of aleve. you can't predict the market. but at t. rowe price we've helped guide our clients through good times and bad. our experienced investment
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we spoke a moment ago about how the killer and others have been targeting people in the al qaeda hit list. in a moment you'll hear from lars vilks who could have been killed on saturday. but first, randi kaye on the list itself. >> reporter: the poster reads wanted dead or alive for crimes against islam, published by al qaeda. those pictured are primarily people who have criticized or sa
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tirized the muslim faith. punishable by death. 1988 this man publishes the satanic verses, highly critical of islam. protests erupt. bookstores in the u.s. and britain and a newspaper are bombed. ayatollah khomeini orders muslims to kill rushte. >> i think in many cases, some people may think because nobody's killed me nobody's going to kill me. actually that's just not true. i wish it were. >> reporter: 2004 a dutch filmmaker produces "submission," a movie which criticized the treatment of women in islam. a few months after the film's release, he was shot to death and stabbed and nearly decapitated in amsterdam. his killer a 26-year-old dutch islamist, serving life in prison. his partner in that controversial film is also on the hit list.
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plus curt westerguard, 2005 the danish cartoonist draws an image of the prophet muhammad with a bomb in his turban. muslims across the world are outramout outraged. westerguard receives numerous death threats. eventually a man wielding an ax enters his home but he survives the attack. 2011 "charlie hebdo" names editor in chief for the next issue. their offices are firebombed, but no one is hurt. >> translator: one has the impression everyone is driven by fear. that's what the small handful of fundamentalists wants to do, govern through fear. >> reporter: tragically last
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month he and two others are killed inside the magazine's office. more than 50 shots are fired. also on al qaeda's most wanted list, lars vilks. 2007 the swedish artist sketches a series of drawings depicting the prophet muhammad as a dog. protests erupt. vilks receives death threats and an al qaeda affiliate offers up to $150,000 for his assassination. in 2009 a plot to kill vilks is stopped by law enforcement. among the plotters three americans, one of them a woman named colleen morose who is dubbed jihad jane. in the attack this weekend on the free speech forum in copenhagen denmark, vilks narrowly escaped death again, escaping unharmed when a gunman opened fire. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> and he's now said to be in hiding. by phone now joining us mr. vilks himself on the shooting
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and what it's like to live the rest of his life as a target. mr. vilks, i know you're in hiding right now. how concerned are you for your safety the safety of those around you? >> well i've had bodyguards for a long time so i trust that they are professionals. i feel very safe. >> so you don't worry about your personal safety? >> no. no i think it's -- i mean they're good. i've been around with these guys for a long time so they're handling the situation carefully. >> what went through your mind when you first heard the gunfire at the forum that you were speaking at in copenhagen? did you immediately think -- did you immediately know what was happening? >> no. no. it's kind of a surrealistic thing. you know we heard a bang bang bang. and what's going on here. is it a firework.
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i mean, there was -- in my thinking the bodyguards reacted quickly. suddenly i was drawn off the seminar table there. and they took me out into a storage room. and was put on a table there, surrounded by bodyguards with drawn guns. and then joined by a police officer who was wounded. but still in fighting spirit. and it went very quickly then. >> in terms of firepower, you said that the gunman was actually better equipped than the police. i believe he had an automatic weapon. do you believe the police should have had stronger weapons? would that have made a difference? >> yeah. yes, it would. see, the point is that when you fire -- they were firing through the glass.
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because there was a glass entrance. and his gun was more efficient on the glass. and the police had handguns. these are very -- it's very difficult to actually do something from a distance at the same time shoot through glass. >> i know you have been on an al qaeda hit list the same list the editor of "charlie hebdo" was on and certainly others and i'm not going to press you for details, but do you feel -- like you said you've been under protection for a long time since 2010. do you think the threat to you, to other free speech advocates, has changed significantly over the course of the last several years? >> yes. i mean when i got these bodyguards it was a new division that they didn't have before. so there's much more need for security today. in the beginning of this year it has reached a really high point. and i've just got to know that i
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would not be able to return to my home. so they would put me away somewhere else. >> for you, there is no going back. purely on a security level, this is the reality for you. >> once you get on the islamists' list and you're pointed out, you cannot -- you can't withdraw. because there is no forgiveness. you are pointed out and you are bound to die in these people's eyes. and there's no way out. >> mr. vilks, i appreciate you taking the time to speak to us. and i wish you well. thank you. >> thank you. bye-bye. >> no way out, he said. breaking news fire in the sky after a train carrying crude oil derails in west virginia explodes. a live update ahead.
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more information now on the breaking news from the top of the broadcast. a train pulling 110 cars of crude oil derailed in southern west virginia. you see the result a massive
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fireball there. at least one home catching on fire. people have been evacuated. a state of emergency now in effect. it's happening in west virginia. the video from the crash, the fireball is massive. what's the scene like now? >> reporter: well actually we just got done talking to a state trooper here a little bit ago. he tells us that the fire is finally starting to die down a little bit. unfortunately, though the heat as you can imagine, is still really intense out there. they cannot get crews in there to really investigate this. they're hoping to do that come tomorrow when hopefully the fire will die down more. driving in here a couple miles from the scene you can see the black cloud in the sky. when that eruption happened, we were there for one of those explosions. we were talking to some people across the river when one of the explosions happened. the heat was just so intense. and it just shot right up into
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the sky. it's obviously a major, major crisis that they're working with here. >> there have been mosh one explosion? >> reporter: yeah. from the people we were talking to actually they had just told us that they witnessed another explosion a few minutes before we got on scene. we were actually talking to someone about that about what he had witnessed before we were on the scene. at that point the fire crews came over and told us that we had to leave. we had to drive a couple miles down the road. right now we're at a high school where a shelter has been set up for people who have evacuated here. >> have there been any reports of injuries or fatalities? and also how is the weather impacting the response to this? >> reporter: obviously the weather is slowing things down. right now it's about 20 degrees. it's been snowing all day. there's snow on the ground. that will definitely have an impact. but you mentioned injuries we heard that one person is being checked out, possibly for some
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inhalation problems. but no other real serious injuries and no fatalities. so as bad as this looks, and as bad as this is for the water system right now, where water treatment plants are shut down 2,000 customers in the area will lose water tonight. that could obviously have a major impact. but with no real serious injuries or fatalities to report a lot better than what it could have been here anderson. >> mat heckel, thank you very much. anderson the man accused of shooting to death three students in north carolina last week was indicted today on first-degree murder charges. police say the incident may have been tied to a parking dispute. but they're also looking at the possibility it is a hate crime. all three victims were muslim. disgraced cyclist lance armstrong must pay $10 million to a sports promotion company for three of his tour de france
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championships. armstrong was responsible for an unparalleled pageant of perjury, fraud and conspiracy due to his use of performance-enhancing drugs. fireworks and more celebrations in north korea today to mark what would have been the 73rd birthday of the dear leader kim jong-il. he died three years ago. the current leader his son, kim jong-un, took part in the remembrances. all of this is meant to give the perception his government is strong with no cracks. quick programming note. coming up next on cnn at the top of the hour stay tuned as i host the cnn quiz show in honor of president's day. three anchors will put their trivia knowledge to test and they'll raise money for charity. if you ever wonder what trash talking sounds like in this scenario, here's a look behind the scenes. >> jake tapper takes this really seriously. martin van buren. >> that is correct. >> you guys are going down like
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jurors in texas today heard the taped confession of the man accused of murdering chris kyle the subject of the blockbuster movie "american sniper."
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they said he suffered from psychosis and didn't know right from wrong at the time. his confession right after the killing contradicts that. >> reporter: in the videotaped confession from two years ago, eddie ray routh looks far different than he does today. he's dressed in the same clothing that he wore to the gun range. one of the investigators said he even noticed bloodstains on routh's boots. this was recorded just after routh surrendered to police after a car chase and a few hours after the killings. routh starts with a rambling and incoherent answer when he's asked what happened. he says i keep talking to chris. there's a few dozen chriss in my world. every time i talk to another man named chris, or get sent to another man named chris, it was like talking to the wolf you know? the ones in the sky are the ones that fly, you know what i mean, the pigs. routh becomes obsessed with talk of his soul. you can't just keep letting
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people eat your soul up for free. it's not what it's about. it's about having a soul in you for yourself. and there are tons of people that are eating on my soul right now. the detective asks who did you shoot first? and routh says the one i could clearly identify. he's talking about chris kyle here. i knew if i did not take out his soul he was coming to take mine next. about the handcuffs being uncomfortable. he's left alone and tries to put on a pair of glasses. he asked to speak with his mother and asks for a cigarette. and when he doesn't get one, pops off, doesn't anyone spoke anymore? he said i fled. i didn't know what else to do. my adrenaline was so high.
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i didn't know what was right, or what was wrong. the investigator would come back to this nearly a half dozen times leaving routh alone and coming back to ask him repeatedly if he knew that killing kyle and littlefield was wrong. after first answering he didn't know each time after that routh says he knew it was wrong. the detective then asks routh what he would like to tell the victims' families. i would tell them i'm sorry for what i've done. prosecutors say the tape shows routh knew what he was doing. >> these are citizens. you know right from wrong. >> we learned investigators didn't do a blood test on the shooter. is that significant? >> i think it might be interesting. at least interesting to see exactly what kind of role this detail plays when the jury
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begins its deliberations. prosecutors have been making a big deal over eddie ray routh's recreational drug abuse and alcohol use, and they brought it up several times, that he had smoked marijuana earlier in the day before the killings. now it turns out that there is no blood test. so no way of really telling this jury what amounts of marijuana were in his system what amounts if any of alcohol, any of that kind of bloodwork that could bolster their case on this. so it will be interesting to see exactly what kind of role what kind of significant role that might play when the jury begins its deliberations. >> he looks a lot different in court than the video. >> strikingly different, yes. up next mountains of snow and bitter cold in boston. but also in places far beyond a lot of people in the path of the snowstorm. details ahead. the road. it can bring out the worst in people. but the m-class scans for danger... ...corrects for lane drifting... ...and if necessary, it will even brake all by itself.
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a shot of snow coming down on the north lawn of the white house. a short time ago, president
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obama in air force one arriving. new england, boston area simply cannot catch a break this winter. the snow's gotten 95 inches of snow this area. snowiest month ever on record. minus 3 degrees. people in the boston area not alone in their suffering. windchills throughout the northeast are making it feel as cold as 40 below. not just the north, 55 million people currently under windchill warning or advisories. more than a dozen states from kansas to oklahoma to north carolina and washington, d.c. area bracing for, experiencing snow, sleet and ice. what's it like there now, will? >> reporter: well anderson i've never seen anything like this. 7 1/2 feet of snow since january 23rd. a lot of it is ending up here at what was an empty lot, until three weeks of snow event after
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snow event, including this big blizzard over the weekend. trucks have been scooping up snow all over the city and bringing it here. it has created a mountain of snow. that's not overstating it when you look at the fact that the heavy equipment that is scooping this snow is dwarfed by the size of this. it really is overwhelming for the city of boston. all of the snow they need to remove it. people will be going back to work many of them after the president's day holiday tomorrow. transportation still isn't running at capacity. it could be another 30 days of snow removal like this before they're able to get everything up and running again. that's only if there isn't another blizzard. all the snow going from that mountain to this large snow melter. it's a machine where they dump in 150 tons of snow every hour. it comes out, you see there, they dump it in the sewer. it speeds up the process, but still not enough to handle all of the snow that has been dumped on the city of boston. the flow of trucks is continuing the snow removal effort here in
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boston here tonight. but they still have a long way to go. >> will thanks very much. we'll see you all again 11:00 p.m. eastern. right now, the cnn quiz show starts. enjoy. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com . welcome to the cnn quiz show, president's edition. we'll test our anchors' knowledge all things presidential. you at home can play along. they'll face off against each other. at stake, a cash prize of $40,000 divided between the charities of their choice and maybe at stake maybe their