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>> thanks very much. that's it for me. thanks for watching. you can follow us on twitter. tweet me. you can also tweet the show. join us again tomorrow right here in "the situation room" or dvr the show so you won't miss a moment. erin burnett outfront starts right now. next, fiery train cash. dozens of passengers injured. an eyewitness is outfront. nearly 100 christians abducted by isis. where are they tonight? will will isis spare their lives? let geese outfront. the breaking news investigators at the site of a
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terrifying train derailment outside los angeles will release new details. the crash has left passengers fighting for their lives. it happened before down when a truck turned into the path of an oncoming train. the conducting doing everything to stop but there wasn't enough time. the truck sheered in half bursting into flames. it caused five cars to derail and three toppled on their sides. 28 passengers are being treated for injuries to head back and neck. three of them in critical condition. a truck is coming along and turns on to the train tracks and drive for a bit. how did that happen? >> reporter: it comes down to confusion. that's what investigators are telling us right now. he thought the train tracks were
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a road. i want to explain to you if you look over my right hand shoulder here. you can see this is what's happening right now. they're trying to right those train cars. there's been one that's been completely removed. you can see the cranes are lifting one. directly parallel to what you're looking at is the roadway. there's only one car length separating the railroad tracks from the roadway. it's easy to get confused when you consider it's pre-dawn hours. 5:45 in the morning. the driver turned. he got stuck. he could not get out. the conductor slams on the brakes. the emergency brakes opinion hits the horn but it was too late. the car simply was a barrier. the train barrelled through, collided and there was the fire and the cars derailed. it was frightening for all the people in this valley who heard that explosion and who also saw that ball of fire climb into the
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sky. >> when we see the video it's remarkable that only 28 people were injured. when we're looking at what you're just showing. the condition of the cars on their side that there were only 28 people injured. at this point we know people are fighting for their lives but no one has died. what is it that kept passengers safe when you look at a fire ball like that? >> reporter: unfortunately, it's something this community has learned from experience. there's been terrible derailments in the past ten years or so. there's a new technology being used. it's collision energy management technology. that prevents the train cars from crumpling. more people will live. because the cars remained in tact and tipped over many many more survivors. this could have been a lot
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worse. erin. >> it is a miracle. thank you very much. within seconds of that crash and the fire ball that we just saw, witnesses were on the scene to help the injured passengers. commuters going to work. 5:45 a.m. jumped out of thinkereir cars. many of the survivors were wrapped in blankets. one of the men who risked his own life to help others rushing into that fire is ted maloney. ted is with us tonight. investigators say that the truck accidental turned on to the tracks. there's the tracks and a little sliver there and a road so that maybe the driver of the truck was confused. you saw the crash. what did you see? >> i heard the horn of the engineer blasting. i looked up and saw the huge fire ball. i didn't see the truck. i seen the fire ball. >> when you saw that fire ball
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what did you think might have happened? what went through your head? >> i knew there was a vehicle that exploded into flames. i grabbed my cell phone and dialed 911. >> you also jumped out of your car and ran to help people. you ran into rescue people that when you saw the fire you thought could be dying. what made you do that? what made you run? >> i heard people screaming. there were some people picking strawberries came over and i asked them to help me. they lifted me into car that was on its side. i jumped in there and screamed is there any bleeding and looked for a first aid kit and found lady that had head injuries that was pretty banged up and kind of comforted her. i put a sweater around her neck
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and another coat on top of her. just held her hand and told her help was on the way. everything's going to be okay and just tried to keep her talking to me. asked her where she livered. her name. where she worked. >> she'll never forget you. when you were on that train, how many people were in that car when you went in and it's on its side. what did you see? >> i counted seven people in the car. two men were standing up and the other four were laying down. i just wanted to see who was bleeding to addminister first aid to the worst one and that was the lady i was comforting. they were in state of shock. >> i'm sure they were. i'm sure you were. did you happen to get her name? are you going to stay in touch with this woman or sort of
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you're her guardian angel and you came and helped her? >> her name was cat. i got that out of her. she lived in oxnards and worked in downtown los angeles. like does she have pets. where does she work? she kept saying where's my purse. i found that and picked it up. everything spilled out of her purse. put it into her bag and slipped it on her arm and comforted her. >> when you think about what happened this morning and you ran into that train to try to help. the fire ball that you saw, we were just talking about the shock. there was a train crash on the east coast. six people died with a woman in an suv. here you have a big truck, three cars topple and there are people fighting for their lives. you were there. are you shocked that no one
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died? do you think it's a miracle? >> i'm really surprised that nobody died. the cars were strewn all over the road. there was car laying on fifth street in the middle of the road. one of the train cars was out on the highway. >> it's amazing. of course, i know that woman cat and others are so grateful to you. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> today's derailment comes three weeks to the day that a train in new york smash into that suv. six people died. how dangerous are america's rail crossings? bryan todd is out front. >> reporter: as crash investigators arrive on the scene of another accident between a car and a train. in california it was the truck driver who took a wrong turn. >> whether than might the right turn, it turned on to the railroad tracks. >> reporter: the truck driver was unhurt and safety experts
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say was fortunate to have gotten away. >> the power of a train impacting a vehicle is the same as a car crushing a soda can. >> reporter: libby snipe of the rail safety group operation lifesaver say highway grade crossings where railways cross roads are often lethal intersections. the government says fatalities at railroads crossings have decreased about 75% in the u.s. since the 1970s. there are still about 2,000 incidents a year at those crossings. more than 200 people were killed at the intersections last year and a train hits a person or a vehicle every three hours in the u.s. why? >> we think drivers are very distracted be their cars. crossings like this when the drivers approach, sometimes
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they're in a hurry. people feel very rushed and think they can beat a train. >> reporter: other factors, there aren't standard barriers or signals at every crossing. trains are quieter and faster than they were. vehicle drivers make tragic miscalculations. >> what don't people understand about the speed of train? >> in a train is coming this way, it can take a train a mile to stop. that's the length of 18 football fields. if a train seeing something on the tracks it can't necessarily stop in time. >> reporter: if you're stuck on track, some steps are obvious. try to get the vehicle off the track. if you can't, exit the vehicle and run. cnn, washington. next as many as 100 christians kidnapped by isis. where are they tonight? 30 weather related deaths in
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an american woman kidnapped in nigeria today. she was abducted yesterday from a school. she was teaching there. the fbi is trying to find her and rescue here. arwa is out front with the story. what can you tell us about how she was captured? >> reporter: it does seem as if this was a carefully orchestrated kidnapping according to the police commissioner. not too far away. five men scaled a wall offense a school where her office was based. they whisked her away to try to clear people out of the area before disappearing into the mountains. there's an investigation under
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way. it's unclear how many resources they can really dedicate to try to somehow secure her release or even rescue her. her abductors asked for a ransom slightly upwards of $300,000. >> what do you know about her and what she was doing in nigeria? >> reporter: she was running an ngo that was helping some children of the nomadic tribe. trying to educate them and providing them with some other assistance that they did not have before. very much focused on humanitarian work. unclear why she would have been targeted except for the fact that the police commissioner is saying this was carried out by a criminal gang perhaps looking to benefit financially from her. the concern at this stage is that if that ransom is not paid
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she could perhaps be sold off to the highest bidder. the state where this kidnapping took place is not one that's particularly known for having extremist groups operate within it. it's quite far away. great concerns as to what her fate is going to be. >> arwa when we hear about nigeria, you think about an islamic extremist group. it is possible she could end up in their hands if she's not already. is that still a question? >> reporter: it's still very mump a question that's out there. the police commissioner saying this was carried out by a criminal gang. she could perhaps end up changing hands. there are large parts of nigeria that are incredibly lawless. the authorities are stretched very thin. their hands quite full.
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we did speak with an intelligence official who says there were cells of another organization that do operate in this state but at this point in time everything is very murky. >> thank you very much. joining me now the former navy seal john mcguire. arwa was talking about how organized this assault was. five men scaled the wall offense this school. they planned this out. they were organized. how hard does that mean a rescue mission would be say for seals? >> let me start by saying my heart goes out to her and her family. it's a tough situation. i served in the '90s. our men and women in the military today are so much more capeable and getting better every year. the commissions that we do, they're dangerous and tough missions. that's why not everybody can do what we do. the further away the less information we have on the ground the more difficult it
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is certainly dangerous. >> british construction worker and six foreign nationals were captured in nigeria in 2013. they were killed. all of those hostages died. perhaps, at least, because of a rescue attempt. rescue attempts have been tried before. one was tried as we know for the american hostages in syria. they missed them by day. one was tried in yemen. again, hostages were taken and ended up dying. should seals go in in a case like this? >> we should know if it's seals or army special forces or who does it. i think all americans are important. that's what we train for. it's in my opinion that we should protect all americans. i would say yes. if the opportunity is there or we have a chance of success, i think that's what we do and we
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should do it. >> we keep hearing about these horrific hostage situations and a lot of them of innocent americans, kayla mueller, the aids worker who was working near syria. now you have phyllis trying to help children. is it riskier being an american overseas? >> there was a time in our country where our enemies were afraid to take americans hostage. i think the world is changing. we appear less strong or less of a threat. i know that if you reward negative behavior you're going to bet more. release in a low level deserter for five high level terrorist operatives or paper doesn't look like a good deal and can only encourage or embolden our enemies. >> thank you very much. breaking news now, severe weather across the nation. at least 30 deaths in tennessee alone due to the weather.
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it's only going to get worse. ice is now covering roads from texas to the carolinas. there are accidents everywhere. as we said 30 deaths in tennessee. tonight 62 million people across the southern united states are going to get another big hit. jennifer gray is out front. how bad is it going to be? >> we're going to see more of the same. that's the bad news. this is the fourth storm in ten days that we're going to be looking for as we go through tomorrow through thursday morning. you can see the tail end of the storm we have been watching today is pushing off the north carolina coast. a lot of tiesicing conditions during the day. we had quite a bit of snowfall in downtown raleigh. now next system is on its way. it's going to impact places like dallas tonight on into los angeles overnight into tomorrow morning and impact mississippi, alabama, georgia, tennessee, south carolina and north carolina by the time we get to to thursday morning. by the time we get to the wee
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hours of tomorrow morning and your rush hour we're going to see possible snow in dallas. ice anywhere from lufkin to shreveport. the drive home is going to be very rough for portions of southern arkansas and even north georgia getting in on the action tomorrow afternoon beginning and it will taper off by the time we get to thursday morning it will push off the north carolina coast. by thursday around lunchtime. snow accumulation. we're expecting more snow than ice with this system which is the better news. a lot of these areas in south don't have the proper equipment to get the snow off the road. we're expecting more trouble. dallas could see an inch or two. as we head into the east we could see six to eight inches of snow in the georgia mountains. even forecasting one to three inches of snow in downtown atlanta, the metro area and we could see quite a bit around
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coastal north carolina even up towards norfolk. the cold air is not going anywhere any time soon. we'll continue to see bitter cold across much of the country. that does include the north, northeast getting a break. temperatures are still awfully cold. we'll be at 32 in boston tomorrow. new york city even in the 20s thursday and friday. >> terrible news because i'm sick of the cold like i think everyone is. isis abducted dozens of christians. nearly 100 now. we have seen the evidence of what isis does to its hostage, does to christians. will these be spared? another new twist in the road rage murder. the district attorney my guest. we'll be right back. th... ...it's fast. tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue ...and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum, tum tum tum...♪ smoothies! only from tums. major: here's our new trainer ensure active heart health. heart: i maximize good stuff
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nearly abducted by isis. nearly 100 christians in northeast syria were kidnapped. about 700 more families fled.
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they escaped by going to a church. jim sciutto begins our coverage. what's going to happen to these kidnapped christians? we have seen this horrific beheading video of the 21 egyptian christians who were murdered in libya. >> based on isis's past bloodthirsty practice the sad fact is it's unlikely they will be spared. we have seen there before. that's the view of u.s. officials and the view of officials in the region. it serves isis' interest. they get a brutal propaganda bump from the kidnapping. they'll parade the people they have captured and sadly from the brutal death that they film as well that served their propaganda purpose ppsspurposes. it's sad they'll unlikely survive this. >> you have to state the facts
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as they are. in a sense, jim, this would be a game changer. we saw 21 christians, that shocked the world because it wasn't just one person or two people. it was 21. you're talking about nearly 100 people. >> yeah. keep in mind in the case based on past practice as well they tend to kill the men and subjugate the women and children to marriage or something. look at all the people who fall on their target list. it's christians but remember we had the minority faith and ancient faith in iraq who were some of the first victims of isis. we've had muslims opposed to the muslims that make up isis. even sunni muslims who buydon't buy their brutal interpretation of the faith have been targets as
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well. this is a message to the christians in the region but also to the west. >> thank you very much. the author of standing alone, an american woman's struggle for the soleul of islam. the president said that isis is islamic. you say that's wrong. i know you have analyzed two of the isis videos. in what way can you show us? >> well i had the same question several weeks ago. i had a colleague that speaks arabic and we spent weeks
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studying these videos. the sad truth is the islamic state is very much islamic. they ground their justification for their violence on the koran, the sayings of the prophet muhammad and the science of the end times. in the last video the man executioner takes a knife -- >> this is the video of the 21 christians that we heard about that you're referring to? >> exactly. he stands behind them in bent position and he said that jesus is coming back to earth and will pray behind the muslim messiah. they will proceed to jerusalem and the world will be saved. i study the recruitment video. what they teach is that christians and other who is do not think like them practice a
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philosophy of the belief of entity equal to god. that's why christians have a target on their back. that video of the children. you can see the children in prayer and they are behind a prayer leader. what does he have in front of him but two assault rifles crossed in front of him and so i would argue that in fact what these men are worshipping is an extremist, violent interpretation of islam but it's an issue of a theology and they're not just a depth cult. they are an islamic death cult. >> what do you say to that? >> they are a death cult that uses islamic language. nobody has a question about that. it's challenge the muslim world is taking up. i'm really pleased to see the degree to which several muslim and arabic countries have engaged this battle and
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promising to engage it further. the question was should the president have called them islamic and the answer is no. the president is our commander in chief. he's leading a coalition, a political coalition of groups. including many countries. he's trying to push them as you listen to his speech to take the steps in their own countries to snuff out the conditions that have spawned this movement. the president is a representative of -- least christian. despite the fact that several people in the country don't think he is he is a christian. he doesn't want to give them that to say i'm engaging you on your ground. no the ground i'm engaging you on is bombs from the air and ultimately troops that will go in hopefully from other countries that will defeat you. >> when you're talk about how he's working with moderate muslim leaders, this is a question that's central to this
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issue. this is a wealthy country. we have reported on this country. >> i know you don't think the president should use the world radical islam but if he doesn't do that does that absolve a moderate regime from stopping the funding of terror that's coming from that country? >> the president is engaging everybody who he believe, i think correctly so is part of the problem or should be part of the solution and he's pushing them in the right direction. he wants them to engage further in this coalition. he wants them to stop the funding but he wants them to be fully engaged in supporting the effort to snuff in movement out. i believe it can be snuffed out.
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we're not going to defeat it by having different ideas. when they step out of line and commit criminal acts you punish them. that's what this president is doing. i think he's taking some pretty interesting and creative steps. that meeting here in washington was a very important step forward in bringing these countries together and designing a sdragtrategy to move forward. >> i think that this strategy of which james talks about is ineffective. a root cause of this ideology in the word isld is the same language. violent ideologies that we are fais facing. we studied mind comp. we wanted to know what the battle plan was for hitler.
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we are fools if we don't study the koran that fuels the islamic state. we have the battle plan. they are very clear they are following the battle plan that's been laid out by islamic scholars throughout history. we would sell ourselves short if we don't study it fully. you have to know your enemy. part of the enemy is the religion they are practicing. we should not -- i want to say this idea that we are going to give them an ideology victory is very shortsighted. the greater propaganda victory will be if we say clearly that they're extremist interpretation is one that we do not follow and we move forward with rejecting that interpretation and saying clearly that this is unacceptable. >> the president has no business
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saying he doesn't follow that because it's not his religion. >> nobody can call it out. >> james, should he call out those leaders? you're funding this stuff. why are you doing that? should he call them out? >> he did. >> you're giving the leaders a pass. >> i don't think so. did you hear the speech at the state department. >> i know you had translater with the arabic but did you listen to the president's speech. >> i was in the room at the white house when president obama gave his speech there. i heard the cheering of so many people who are part of the muslim lobby who are arguing this position that this has nothing to do with islam. >> i'm not part of the muslim lobby and i cheered for it. >> james, if i could just finish. my point is that we are going to sell short our country and our national security and our foreign policy if we continue to
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simply make decisions based on political correctness. >> that's not what this is about. it's about military strategy. the president had every muslim leader in that room at the state department and talked to them about democracy, reforming their country, about increasing rights for women, about ending all of the very practices that in fact you feel upon this movement. >> what good is that talk from the pulpits of our mosques we're hearing intolerance? >> that's your job as a muslim. that's not the president's job. >> that talk is useless. we need to name it to tame it. >> that's what your job is. the president is the commander in chief of the u.s. that's what he does. >> i will hit pause on that there. thanks very much to both you have for a fantastic conversation. we look forward to your feedback. do you think the president should call this radical islam or not? what we're learning about the relationship between the suspect and the victim. the district attorney on the case is outfront.
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a new twist in the road rage murder that left a mother of four dead. questions about whether it could have withinbeen part of a drug deal gone bad. tammy meyers would purchase things from the suspect. >> every day that goes by i miss my wife. >> he did not have follow my wife home and murder her. >> 19-year-old nowsche is facing murder charges for killing tammy meyers. out front, clark county district attorney steve wolfson. his office will be prosecuting this case. thank you for being with me. i appreciate it. the meyers family said tammy's death was the result of a road rage incident with a stranger. there was the week long man hunt and they admitted they knew him the entire time. do you know the exact relationship between the victim
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and the suspect? >> there's been a lot of speculation about the relationships between the parties. all i can say is a preliminary hearing date is set for march 10th. that's when we plan to present the evidence in a court of law. that's when hopefully the truth will come out and we can learn a lot more about the case. >> eric nowsche says she shot in self- self- self-defense. here is how he put it? >> is he going to say i was defending myself? >> yes. >> did he indicate he was afraid for his life? >> yes, he was afraid. >> do you have any point of view at this point as to whether it's possible it was self-defense? >> well, we base our prosecution on the evidence. the bottom line is this 19-year-old chose to equip himself with a handgun around 11:00 at night. there was some altercation or
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interaction between mr. nowsche and miss meyers. he admitingly to two other people and the physical evidence seems to support his statement that he shot and killed an unarmed woman. the law of self-defense allows a person to use force and sometimes deadly force if they are faced with a degree of force that a reasonable person would be in fear of. it has to be force that would give them the legal ability to use deadly force and i don't see that in this case. >> you don't see that in this case. okay. one thing we know again is that the family story has changed multiple times. the bottom line, i come back to this. they knew who eric was. they didn't tell anyone for a week. the question i have for you could the meyers family be held responsible for with holding such crucial information? >> i'm not going to accept the statement that they knew it was eric nowsche that they committed
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this murder and failed to tell the police. i don't believe that to be the case. we have conflicting statements. we have a family in distress. they lost a loved one gunned down by a 19-year-old in a stupid senseless murder. >> they knew he was in the car. that's what i'm confused about that they didn't share his name. >> i'm not sure that's the case. i'm being up front with you. we heard a lot of statements. people say a lot of things. it's a fluid case. it's an ongoing case. people will be put under oath and asked question about what they knew of certain circumstances. >> that's interesting if they had shared it. that would go against lot of what we heard so far. there is another suspect still on the loose. what do you think his involvement might be?
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>> well we know from the physical evidence as well as mr. nowsche's own words he was the passenger. this was the drive by shooting. he shot out of a moving vehicle at an unarmed person. we know that somebody had to be driving the vehicle. under the law an aider and abetter is equally as guilty as the principal of the crime. we're very interested in talking to the driver and potentially a third passenger. we're not sure. certainly the driver. the driver has certain culpability in this case and that's why it's an active ongoing investigation. >> thank you very much. we appreciate your time. we'll be following the story. >> sure thank you. next a man hunt on tonight for the so-called black hat bandits. this is pair of arms and dangerous men. they are suspected in a string of bank robberies. the fbi is releasing this video exclusively to outfront. we'll show it to you so you can
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robberies in the past month alone. joe johns is outfront. >> reporter: caught in the surveillance video taped exclusively by cnn. a well coordinated bank robbery in suburban annapolis, maryland. fbi on the hunt for two people dressed in black from head to toe and considered armed and dangerous. they're smart, skilled, and disciplined. agents try to catch them before somebody gets seriously hurt. >> these guys are the worst of the worst. i've seen bank robbers no one knew except the teller knew the robbery occurred. here we have individuals throwing on the ground the individuals and now need to be brought to justice and soon. >> reporter: these guys have done it again and again, seven times now in virginia and maryland wearing disguises, brandishing guns. earned their own nirkck snake. the black hat bandits. fbi has gun public with the
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video because the crimes have gotten increasingly outlandish and law enforcement wants as many eyes on them as possible. >> they're members of our community. they take off the masks, pick up on them in that chain. >> reporter: each is like clockwork. in out, gone. not known whether a third accomplice is driving a getaway car. >> the banks, the weapons they use, these individuals knew what they're doing. >> reporter: the fbi keeping with policy would not comment on how much money the bandits have stolen but a posted reward for them now stands at $30,000 and goes to whoever gets the government the right tip in the case. erin? >> joe johns, pretty stunning video. all right, outfront next. the cnn journey to find jesus. you heard me right. plus allegations of sexual
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he didn't vanish. without leaving a trace. >> for the first time in
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history, we're able to place these relics. >> grasp something that changed the world. >> this is really the moment of truth. >> this is the story of jesus. >> a rock upon which the church is built. >> icon of a scientific obsession. this extraordinary defiant and archaeological piece. >> what do we really have here? why did judas betray jesus? >> somebody chose to write this. >> the science does matter. is this jesus? >> what are the clues he left behind? faith, fact forgery. finding jesus. premieres sunday night at u on cnn. >> tonight cnn is airing special report on the shocking allegations with dozens who accused bill cosby of sexual assault. here's a preview. >> he offered me a large white
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bill. >> i blacked out with cosby mounted me. >> he drugged and raped me. >> you are such a perverted creep. >> bill cosby has not been charged with any crimes. yet gone from one of the most revered entertainers. >> the host of no laughing matter inside the cosby allegations tonight at 9:00. alisyn you've been interviewing these women and some of what they say is graphic. they do not mince words. >> absolutely. there have been at least two dozen women who have come forward and they can speak in very graphic detailing. you'll hear that tonight about their memories of these alleged incidents with bill cosby. it's interesting. their stories are all eriely similar. cosby hasn't really responded. his lawyers have but he hasn't.
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what's here that hasn't been heard before is how he allegedly perpetrated these crimes. there was a ritual and they all talk about that. >> thank you so much alisyn. we should say bill cosby declined cnn's request for an interview but in recent months his attorneys vehemently denied the accusations of sexual assault but don't miss no laughing matter. it's tonight at 9:00 with alisyn here on cnn. and anderson starts now. good evening. thank you for joining us. we begin tonight with breaking news. the "american sniper" murder trial. the question of whether the defendant eddie ray routh was sane or whether it was murder in the hands of the jury. closing arguments just wrapped up. the defense seeking to show mr. routh was in the grips of a psychotic episode when he pulled the trigger. attempting to prove he knew what he was doing. ed lavandera is outside of the courthouse in texas. he joins