>> wolf, it is an honor to work with you. thank you. >> thank you. >> wolf blitzer. that does it for us. now here is "breaking news" 35 years of cnn" with wolf. >> the following is a cnn special report. >> i dedicate a cable news yet work. >> good evening, i'm david walk walker. >> and i'm lois hart, now here is the news. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> approximately four shots were fired at the president. >> the massacre of hundreds of thousands. >> the president has endorsed german reunification. >> for 35 years we've been every year. >> the skies over baghdad has been illuminated. >> this is one pocket fz turmoil in the egyptian capital. >> there is nothing subtle about the horrors of this war.

>> liftoff of the space shuttle mission. >> obviously a major malfunction. >> police believe that o.j. simpson is in that car. >> israeli officials believe he will try to use restraint. >> you can see the people below trapped on the mountain. >> covering the devastate. >> i'm outside of this pediatric hospital. just take a look inside. >> we want out. >> some people have been waiting inside for three days. >> i'm seeing dead bodies in the streets here in mississippi. >> as -- as far as we can see under blue sky, it is levels. >> princess diana, has died, george zimmerman not charged with anything in this case. >> about a third of the building has been blown away. >> there has been a second explosion. >> what normally would be the

world trade center is no more. >> two possible suspects in the boston bombing. >> and triumph. >> the rescuers are making progress literally by inches. the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. >> it is so rare to begin a cover story that has a happy ending. >> making news. >> director, can you talk to us please. >> and breaking news. >> what is going on -- in ferguson, missouri, in downtown america. >> 35 years of cnn -- >> cnn. >> cnn. >> cnn. >> this is cnn. hello, i'm wolf blitzer,

there is a lot of memories in that sequence you just saw. when ted turner launched the first 24 hour news network in 1990, many thought it was a crazy idea. some referred to cnn as chicken noodle news. not any more. 35 years later, more people get their news from cnn than from any other global news source. cnn is the place where the world gathers to follow breaking news and to witness extraordinary events. some that impact the lives of millions. and others that focus on just one life. >> like the ten 50 hour drama that played out live in 1987 after baby jessica fell down a well. >> what started as a child's innocent game turned into a rescue effort to save her life. >> when we found out a local station had a live truck, we jumped on it. >> jessica was playing hide and

seek and she was trapped 20 feet underground. >> i could see it was a gripping story and it won't be resolved quickly. blew out a whole lot of commercials. stay until it is over. >> she's upset and crying. as long as she's crying, we know that we have a chance. >> it has gone frustratingly slow. >> when we got there, i started knocking on doors, and i would say, i'm tony clark from cnn. we're here to cover the rescue attempt of jessica mcclure, i need your hem. we're trying to shoot over the fence. do you have a ladder we could use. you knock on another door, and say, i hate to ask you this, but can i use your phone? that was the day before cell phones. >> cameras and microphones have been dropped down and jessica could be heard to call to her mother. >> and you couldn't widen the well and you couldn't come in at

an angle. >> they drilled a shaft harrah lel to one she fell in. >> you had to drill a parallel well that someone could get through. >> the rescuers are making progress literally by inches. >> it was scary. >> lord help us all to remember that we are in your care. >> this is a gripping story because it is about a helpless little baby who had a name, who had family there. >> with the whole community gathered around, trying anything they could to get this baby out, a great human interest story. >> as the hours went on, you thought that the chances of her surviving were less and less. >> the ratings took a huge jump. people are calling they are mother-in-law. turn on cnn. people had never watched cnn before are now going to cnn.

>> a hole was drilled into the tavern where jessica mcclure has been trapped since wednesday. >> in midland, texas, they are in the final stages of what appears to be the imminent rescue of jessica mcclure. >> they sent a medical worker down who would recover. >> and you could see the lines tightening and you knew what would happen. >> we are expecting to see jessica mcclure just any moment now. >> she's alive, man. holy --. >> i was very fortunate during my years at cnn to cover a lot of interesting stories. >> you can see then enthusiasm. you can hear the applause. >> this is one of those that is very special because it does have a happy ending. that helped solidify our

presence to the public that when there is a major news event you know cnn will stay with it. >> at plause for the paramedic -- at plause for the paramedic that just brought her up. >> they worked very hard to come to a happy ending. i'm tony clark, reporting live from midland, texas. something is happening outside. >> you're damn right something is happening. war is breaking out all around you. a complete, and tasty new way to support... your energy... immunity... and metabolism like never before. centrum multigummies. see gummies in a whole new light.

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goodbye from beijing. >> mr. gorbachov, tear down this wall. >> the events are germany are moving ever more swiftly. >> after 27 years in prison, nelson mandela is now free. >> the skies over baghdad has been illuminated. >> in 1990. >> the u.n. ordered saddam hussein to roof r remove his troops from kuwait or else, but he refused. as the troops prepared for war, so did cnn, in bagdad, a four wire kept them connected to the cnn newsroom, broadcasting live as operation desert storm began. >> an explosive development here in the persian gulf. >> there is no place for this sort of naked occasion into today's world.

>> the failure of the geneva talk has convinced the pentagon that war is imminent. >> i don't think the world really accepted cnn until the first gulf war. >> the president has laid down the gauntlet and he gave us a window of when it was going to happen and so we had prepared everything for it. i recall during this time of preparation i would wake up from my sleep at 3:30 in the morning and i would say this is ridiculous. planning to cover a war with television. this is unheard of. >> it was very, very worrisome for all of us at cnn because we have producers and camera crews in baghdad. three reporters, bernie saw, peter arnette, the management at cnn, tim turner and tom johnson were under enormous pressure from colin powell and probably from the president, get those

guys out because once the air war starts, we don't know if they're going to be okay. >> but our responsibility is to our worldwide audience and we will stay and we'll cover this war as best we can and we'll report on the war. >> military experts say a night air attack is the likely scenario for start of any fighting. >> >> that night i was at the pentagon. >> i had a chance to see two senior pentagon officials almost running through the hall. >> they can't say when this would begin because that could endanger u.s. troops. >> it was past midnight dagd time and i was walking past the open window and coming down from the sky, the black sky, it looks like silver paper and i knew instantly what it was. it was chafe. radar jamming chafe. >> tonight the battle has been

joined. >> and as soon as that chafe started filtering down to the ground. >> all hell broke loose. >> i was walking by the control room and i could hear the commotion and there it was. >> our team in baghdad was restricted. they couldn't get much information. they could only report what they were seeing. >> but it doesn't show me signs of it. >> we have to go to baghdad, secretary. we're going to bernard shaw in baghdad. >> out of my mouth came the words -- >> something is happening outside. >> you're damn right something is happening. war is breaking out all around you. >> the skies over baghdad have been illuminated. we're seeing bright flashes going off all over the sky. >> the walls were shaking, the windows were vibrating. the concussions were blowing us against the wall. >> so we've now been on the air

20 minutes. >> now the sirens are sounding for the first time. the iraqis have informed us. >> and the line goes down. >> they just cut the line. >> everybody is stunned and it is totally sile ipt. and you can feel the tension in that room. >> and john said it is the battery. the battery is dead. >> and our biggest fright is the bomb had hit the hotel where they were. >> the line is dead. >> there was a hush in the control room. >> everybody is running around trying to find the batteries and hollowman does a work-around and we come back on the air. >> atlanta, that is hollyman. i'm going to try to talk to you as long as i can. >> there is a collective sigh and you can see the tension leave everyone's shoulders. >> i look up and cbs, nbc and

abc are taking cnn. stations around the world are taking cnn. >> the iraqis shut down cnn. they invoke censorship. so on friday morning, we packed up, and we started to leave baghdad. news, especially television news, is logistics, logistics, logistics. you can go anywhere in the world to cover a news story. >> let's describe to our viewers what we're seeing. >> but if you don't have the capability of getting that story out, there is no news. >> we're going to a live picture in los angeles. o.j. simpson is in that car. >> we were the o.j. simpson network, period.

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any king. >> ethnic cleanses goes on within view of the patrols. >> in the garage section of the world trade center have killed hundreds of people. and hundreds are being evacuated from the twin towers. >> the whole south side of the building is going up in flames literally from our eyes. >> people have being driven from their homes by war. >> hundreds are missing and people search for more in the rubble of the building. >> in june 1994, football legend o.j. simpson was charged with the murders of his wife nickel and her friend ron goldman. what happened next? o.j., the fugitive from justice, the nine month trial and a stunning verdict that became the most watched dramas in cnn

history. >> this is cnn. >> we're going to interrupt this call. i understand we're going to a live picture in los angeles. this is interstate 5. police believe that o.j. simpson is in this car but nobody is pulling that car over. >> that is metro. we have s.w.a.t. on the way. >> police helicopters trailing it, south through orange county. >> 911, what are you reporting. >> i have o.j. in the car. >> and i'm sitting in washington describing this. and i didn't know l.a. and so they gave me a map. >> they are near disneyland. >> come on, man. >> can you now confirm that o.j. simpson is arrested. >> yes, sir, he is in custody. >> finally after seven months of relentless publicity, the trial of o.j. simpson will unfold before the only people who count

in deciding his fate, the jury. >> no one talked about anything else, but the trial. that is all you could talk about in the coffee shops, in the restaurants, on the street. >> simpson's defense team. >> in other developments. >> the nature of the case -- >> between 8:00 and 4:30 we were the o.j. simpson network, period. it was the first reality show. it really was. >> cato mainio is spreading across the nation's heartland. >> i knee the defense team and the prosecution team. would you have dinner with one side and breakfast with one side the next day. >> and you say you would have -- and spoken about -- in the past years -- >> that is what i'm saying. >> he is the key witness. he found the glove. >> and the pivotal moment, of

course -- >> and that is people's 77. >> was the self-destructive act by chris darden who decided on his own to have o.j. simpson attempt to try on this bloody glove. >> boy, he was a great actor this day. oh, i can't -- oh, the gloves -- oh, it is hurting my hands. it was unbelievable. >> both of them told me that when yet zin arrived from russia. he got off the plane and said to clntd, do you think he did it. that is how much the world knew. when you think about it,ez was the most famous person ever charged with murder. >> o.j. simpson in a knit cap. >> i remember johnny cochran.

>> putting on this silly cap, an image forever in my mind. >> if it doesn't fit, you must acquit. >> will you stand and face the juror. >> not guilty of the crime of murder in violation of penal code section -- >> the next night, johnny dock ron, his lawyer, was on the phone with me. >> if we had god on that day, we would have bumped him. >> and we'll take you and run you as soon as this is down. >> i have enough to say to everybody and to hopefully answer everybody's questions. >> he said i'll come on your show soon and tell you the whole story. >> what was it like with the kids today?

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into the atlantic ocean. >> the bombing at centennial olympic park this morning was an evil act of terror. >> the french government has informed all of us that princess diana has died. >> i would not -- i did not have sexual relations with that woman, miss lewinsky. >> earlier today, two masked gunman wearing all black began shooting at least 18 people. >> the u.s. coast guard is conducting a search for a private aircraft that apparently has now gone overdue. >> the election left what is called a hanging chad. >> a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the world trade center. >> it was a day that changed the

skyline and the nation. 9/11. a day unlike any other in cnn history. the collapse of the twin towers, the pentagon burning, a field in pennsylvania that became ground both horrible and hallowed. thousands of lives lost in the deadliest attack ever on american soil. amidst of the tragedy, cnn's anchors and reporters shared with viewers the shock, the sadness, and the terrible images we will never forgot. a plane crashed -- >> it was described as a 747. >> we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the world trade center. >> we heard a big bang and then we saw smoke coming out and everybody started running out. >> my pro-russian ducer call--

producer called and said have you listened to the radio and i said no and he said you should. >> he said a plane just crashed into the world trade center and i didn't know if it was an accident or deliberate. >> i think when the second plane hit the center. >> i think we all knew it was terrorists. >> people were all freaking out. >> at the pentagon, a plane or a helicopters that crashed, and the pentagon is being evacuated. >> ted was also a friend of mine and his wife died in the plane that hit the pentagon. and she called him before they hit the pentagon on her cell phone and he to tell her that two buildings had been hit in

new york. and they said goodbye to each other. she knew they were going down. >> the boston airport, like airports now across the entire country, is closed. >> all air traffic in the united states has come to a halt. >> and then we heard there was another plane maybe going toward the capitol, and another plane wanting to go to the white house. people were running out of the white house, people were running out of the capitol. >> there has just been a huge explosion. we can see a billowing smoke rising and i can't -- i'll tell you that i can't see that second tower. but there was a cascade of sparks and fire and now it looks almost like a mushroom cloud explosion. >> and then what happened to me and what happened to every person on the planet earth who

had action to a tv, is that a clock started ticking, because once the first tower fell, you knew that the second tower was going to fall. >> newark to sfa has crashed -- >> some very brave passengers attempted to take control of that plane because they knew from phone conversations from family members that the world trade center had been attacked. can you imagine the courage? there have been attacks in two american cities, new york and washington. the trade centers here have been hit by airplanes. in the pentagon, it has been hit by an airplane and been evacuated. and the front tower, the top portion of which is collapsing. >> good lord.

there are no words. >> it was so eerie to stand on the rooftop we were broadcasting from. >> you can see how tough it is for anybody to sort out the magnitude of what the city and what washington endured today. >> when the wind shifted, you could smell the jet fuel, you could smell metal burning. >> it was 1:00, 2:00 in the morning, it was late and i was tired. and i was crying. and i was thinking about -- my daughter was sort of in middle school, and i thought, god, her world is going to be totally different. it is going to be totally different. >> 9/11 forever altered the soul of our nation. we could never again take for granted our sense of security.

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i reported a few minutes ago about a second wave of attacks, being described as more intense. >> on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes in afghanistan. >> i have a probable on the space shuttle columbia, it has been out of communication for the past several minutes. >> the columbia has lost. there are no survivors. >> more explosions have rocked baghdad haver a bombardment, the

u.s. forces have unleashed their long awaited air assault. >> in spain, at this moment, they are still counting the bodies, at least 190 people are dead. >> hundreds are reported in dead in sri lanka after a tsunami left tidal waves across asia. >> like every other american citizen i will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told. >> we find the defendant not guilty. >> four separate, yet simultaneous explosions striking the transit system there. >> the real concern is the wind and the rain and any flooding that may cause. >> katrina. to many it is a simple name. but for the people of the gulf coast it means so much more. for them it represents death and destruction and the nightmare of

august 2005. hurricane katrina. cnn teams were positioned across the southeast united states as the storm hit. when the wind and rain sub vieded they found utter devastation. homes, neighborhoods, families wiped out. more than 1800 dead in alabama, florida, georgia, louisiana and mississippi. it was more than some cnn reporters could even bear. the reports fill with dismay, grief and eventually anger. >> a powerful hurricane appears to be setting its sights on the central gulf coast. >> the winds are just incredible here in new orleans. we can see the roof of the super dome has been shredded. >> this is the easy side of the storm but it doesn't feel easy here on the banks of the mississippi river. >> it is a strange feeling covering a hurricane, particularly one of this size,

got there just as the first rainfall was starting. >> the winds have picked up here. >> i had a satellite truck with me and i had a crew with me and we were kind of on our own. >> went to like a wal-mart and bought some supplies. >> i was in a wal-mart earlier in the day and they came up and said have you heard of my town. >> and a girl at the wal-mart said have you gone to the central coast and we haven't been in touch with anybody at wave land. >> when i gov to wave land, it was unlike anything i've seen before. block after block was gone. people were returning to see their lives gone. >> it is devastating. i mean, um --

i went out with this fema body recovery team and we went to the house of the family and the last team was bane and you could the porch you could smell them and everything was chaotic and mud everywhere and they found them. >> these four people, a man and wife and four children have died in this home. >> they had drowned in their living room and it was a husband and wife and two of their kids were special needs kids. but there was nothing they could do. they marked an x on the door and put the number four for the number of bodies on the door that were unside and then they closed the door and they left. >> a levee break the side of a football field is slowly flooding new orleans. >> i am looking over and seeing utter devastation. water has come up to the eaves of the houses. >> we got out there, you could hear the screams of the people being trapped in the attics.

>> people were punching holes in the attics spaces because the water fills up to the homes in the attics. >> what are we doing now? >> we're going to charity hospital. >> is this area safe. we heard about the snipers earlier today. >> no. not really. >> we had to get a row boat and row across the parking deck across the street into the ramp at charity hospital. >> okay. well, we made it. safely. >> so this is what a charity hospital looks like in the middle of a natural disaster. >> when you get into charity hospital you realize it is as bad if not worse than it described. it was completely crowded. there was a small in the air and when you started to realize that the staircase is being filled with bodies as say result of what was happening there that you needed to start reporting. >> this is the parking deck between charity and tulane hospital. people have been trying to get

out of here. >> one of the images that stuck with me the most was people bagging patients who were on ventilators that didn't have power and they took shifts and the patient would be awake or cognizant to know that me life was depending on whether or not this person could keep bagging this life into my lungs. >> for the first time you can see and hear the choppers to try to take the patients out. >> when the helicopter landed the tulane patients started to be evacuated. keep in mind the doctors are sitting here with critically injured patients. tulane got the patients out before they started to evacuate charity hospital and we know that patients died while waiting and that is something that i don't think ever leaves you. >> some people have been waiting

outside now for more than three days. >> we have no food, no water, helicopters flying, it is ridiculous. >> get off your -- and let's do something and let's fix the biggest god damn crisis in the history of this country. >> someone said this to me in the days after the katrina. they said, you know, this will all be cleaned up and washed away and forgotten and i don't think i will forget what i saw and i don't think a lot of people who were there, i don't think a lot of them will forget either. there has been an explosion at the boston marathon. >> it went from being an explosion, to being a bomb. >> the fbi admits they don't know.

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and cnn can now project that barack obama, 47 years old, will become the president-elect of the united states. >> this was a neighborhood in port-au-prince with apartment buildings. now it's the worst devastation i've ever seen. >> 15-day-old baby, begging for a dprp doctor.

>> and now toot major story developing in the gulf of mexico. people are missing after an explosion and fire on an offshore oil rig. >> this is one pocket of turmoil in the center of the egyptian capital, but it is throwing the entire country into a political crisis. >> we're following breaking news out of aurora, colorado, 12 people have been killed and another 38 wounded at the scr n screening of "the dark knight rises." >> this is ocean the water. there are waves in the streets of downtown atlantic city. this is where i am. >> there are thousands of law enforcement personnel on the ground. they do believe that he is in this area. they've been bringing people in. >> marathon monday. boston's favorite day. for thousands of runners and fans, a moment of triumph. but on april 15th, 2013, two pressure cooker bombs turned the marathon to murder. three dead.

hundreds wounded. suspects on the run. all eyes turn to cnn, to witness an unfolding tragedy, a desperate manhunt, and a city struggling to recover. >> thank you so much for being with me. i'm carol costello. more than 27,000 runners are running in today's boston marathon. more than a half million people are expected to line the course. >> let's go now to boston. apparently there's been an explosion at the boston marathon. i am told. >> it was big, it was booming. i saw a big amount of smoke come up. >> and you know you saw in the moments after the blast, people, civilians, you know, making tourniquets and saving people's

lives. >> a lot of the injuries being on the lower part of the leg, which indicated a bomb that was close to the ground. >> i started working the phones, because i've got a lot of sources in law enforcement. and one of the first significant pieces of information i got was that the paramedics were seeing ball bearings fall out of some of the wounded. >> here on the ground in boston, the fbi admits they don't know. they don't know if this is domestic or foreign, they don't know if it's lone wolf or a group. >> it went from being an explosion to being a bomb, to being something that was created based on an al qaeda recipe. >> president obama made it clear today, the bombings in boston are being investigated as an act of terrorism. >> and it was late tuesday, early wednesday, that they were a i believe to get an impression of who they believe the bombers were. the problem is, they didn't have the names of these two individuals. they had no idea who they were. >> but on that thursday morning, we got wind that they had a

photo. >> good afternoon. >> they were going to make this droumt announcement and ask for help. find these guys. >> we are releasing photos of these two suspects. the photos and videos are posted for the public and media to use, review, and publicize. >> this rules out the kind of lone wolf, crazy person scenario. two people are together, practicing, potentially, buying their products together or selling together. they're also planning their escape. >> we worked all through that night, up until the 10:00 news, and just about 11:00, our phones are going off, crazy. crazy. >> oh, my goodness. all units, respond. officer down, officer down. >> get on it! >> over at cambridge, a cop was shot. >> police are investigating a fatal shooting of m.i.t. campus police officer by two men, who then committed an armed carjacking in cambridge. >> we hear the scanner, and it

is hells bells, everybody to watertown. >> because there has been a major shoot-out. >> guns drawn and we have heard multiple gunshots. >> one of the bombers is dead. the other one had escaped. >> i was driving over 100 miles an hour. cops were passing us. >> we get to watertown. >> the police here have warned all residents, not only to not come outside, but not to open their doors to anyone. >> you had police cars, you had military vehicles. >> patrols of cops, going through watertown, that looked like army squads going through afghanistan. door-to-door, yard-to-yard. >> we heard numbers between 9,000 and 10,000 law enforcement personnel on the ground. >> it was an ongoing emergency. it was all happening in realtime on-camera. >> i think i still had my earpiece in. and waiting to go on with wolf, and then all of a sudden, i heard it, just unmistakable.

rapid fire. >> what the hell was that? was that guns? >> knew exactly what it was. >> what sounded like multiple assault rifle shots to me. sounded like police emptying their weapons. rapid fire and all of a sudden it stopped. we're seeing some police activity. i'm at weatertown. so fitz ran and then the next thing he says is, drew, they're surrounding a boat. >> david fitzpatrick, our producer is on the scene. what are you seeing? >> i see armed policemen with guns still resting on their cars. i see about a half a dozen, maybe eight guys, s.w.a.t. uniforms. >> it was about two hours later, about 8:00, that he finally gave up. >> when dzhokar tsarnaev comes out of that boat and he's surrounded by hundreds of officers and federal agents and he's got a red dot on his

forehead, and that's because he had a sniper's rifle trained at his head. >> captured. terror is over. that was a tweet from the boston pd. it was intense. it was intense. >> i'm trying to find the real story and getting that out, and having people understand that, i think, is really important to me. >> that's what we do. we want to bring the story to the viewer. we want you to see it. >> there's very few networks that devote the kind of resources to tell these stories. and that stay with the story. and that arrive at the story, as quickly as cnn does and stays at the story as long as cnn does. even after a lot of other people have left, cnn is there. i'm proud to be a part of that. >> where is malaysia airlines flight 370? >> this is the final resting place of mh-17. >> another very disturbing video. an intentional act.

>> and the protesters have moved all the way down there. >> democracy is not there without freedom and freedom is not there without freedom of the press. >> this is cnn. it is breaking news of our own. 35 years after the founding of cnn, never-before-seen video from texas of the aftermath of deadly floods, homes ripped from their foundations. cars tossed around like toys. we're going to go live from the flood zone for you. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. we also have the latest on the shocking past of a reality tv star. reports that josh duggar, one of the stars of tlc's "19 kids and counting," allegedly molested 17 underage girls when he was a young teenager. now advertisers fleeing and the future of the show is in doubt now. the scandal shining a spotlight on his family's ultra-conservative fundamentalist