>> ted olson was a friend of mine and his wife died on that plane that hit the pentagon. and she called him before they hit the pentagon on her cell phone and he had to tell her that two buildings had been hit in new york. and they said good-bye to each other. she knew they were going to die. >> our cnn special report breaking fuse 35 years of cnn, airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. thank you, everyone for watching my colleague wolf blitzer who you saw, starts live right now. hello, i'm wolf blitzer, 1:00 p.m. in washington 6:00 p.m. in london 8:00 p.m. baghdad, wherever you're watching from around the world thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news a report on the u.s. transportation security administration the tsa,

revealing some truly stunning security lapses at u.s. airports and says undercover agents managed to smuggle mock be explosives and weapons through airport checkpoints and able to do it 95% of the time. details of the widespread security failures are coming to light right now in a brand new report from the homeland security department that was supposed to be released later this summer. let's bring in suzanne malveaux working the story for us. these are shocking statistics. >> it really is. it's alarming. what we have before us here it should be noted is a classified report leaked to us it's a preliminary finding. there are some holes in the report we're just not privy too. what we have is pretty damming here. the department of homeland security's office of inspector general conducted a series of tests with their officials, called the red teams, posed as passengers trying to pass through security with realistic looking explosives or weapons. so tsa officers failed 67 out of

70 tests, more than 90%, to identify and confiscate these items. so they actually got through security so the tsa also does these kinds of tests to see if there are holes in the security system and how they can be addressed. they've been doing this now 13 years, so the tests by the very nature are designed to make it very hard for the tsa to succeed, but even former homeland security officials, they are very alarmed by what they have found here wolf. >> are changes being implemented, i assume they are, to fix this problem? >> department of homeland security secretary jeh johnson trying to get on top of all of this this leak his department putting out a statement this morning, through a spokesperson saying in part i'm going to read this to you, that the numbers in these reports never look good out of context. but they are a critical element in the continual evolution of an aviation security system. so it goes on to say, that they have already implemented a series of actions to address these issues raised in this

report and they also emphasize as well that there are multiple layers of protection that the tsa uses. so they're seen unseen some examples they're not just screening at checkpoints but have random canine screenings reinforced cockpit doors, air marshals armed pilots all that that goes into the security system. as you can imagine, this gets out and leaked it's not complete but it is pretty damming. >> 67 out of 70 times, failure. that's not good at all. thanks very much. hopefully they'll learn from that and fix the problem, fix it -- >> they say they're starting. >> thanks very much. the government's bulk collection of millions of americans' phone records has ends at least for now. but according to some brand new poll numbers, most americans want that authority restored. take a look at this. this is a brand new cnn/orc poll being released for the first time this hour. look at this. 61% of americans want the patriot act to be renewed. that's the law that has allowed

the bulk collection of phone data. 36% say it should expire. however, americans are split over the impact of allowing it to expire. 44% say it would increase the risk of terrorist attacks here in the united states. 52% say the risk would stay the same. our correspondent athena jones is following the developments on capitol hill. tell us what's going on because these are really dicey moments up on capitol hill. >> yeah. interesting numbers there, wolf they sort of reflect the debate we've been seeing since last night when the senate came in for the rare sunday session. there was heated debate on the floor on both sides of the issue. right now we do expect the senate to vote later this week possibly as soon as tomorrow on that bill that already passed the house some time ago. the usa freedom act. that bill would reinstate these programs but when it comes to that most controversial one, the bulk phone data collection it would make some important changes. it would take that data out of the hands of the government out

of the hands of the nast and leave it with the telecommunications companies. that is the bill that we expect to be voted on in -- as soon as tomorrow. we also know that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell wants to see changes to make sure the program can still function if you make the switch interest the government to telecommunications companies. he wants to have amendments vote on amendments that would require those companies to inform the government of any changes in their data retention policies. the fear being that these telecommunication companies don't want to be involved in this and may decide not to hold on to any of that data. he wants an amendment to that bill that would change that and also offering amendments that would require the director of national intelligence to verify that this new system they're setting up whereby the telecom companies hold on to the data works. that's the sort of thing he wants to see changed. of course if the senate makes changes to this bill that then they have to send it back to the house of representatives and have to consider those changes. this is not over yet but it's

been some dramatic moments these last few days. wolf? >> athena we'll see what happens with the give and take in the senate and the house. lots at stake obviously right now. thanks very much. let's bring in our chief political analyst gloria borger who is watching what's going on. rand paul the senator from kentucky a republican presidential candidate, one of nine officially running for the republican presidential nomination he's been leading the fight against renewing this patriot act. he's getting a lot of criticism from fellow republicans, marco rubio also running for the presidency saying allowing any of these programs to expire is a mistake, but that's what is happening. as a consequence of the reckless spreading of misinformation and political posturing. he's clearly referring to what he would describe as rand paul's activities. >> post during going on in the united states senate how could that be. of course that's what he's saying. what rand paul is trying to do is appeal to his particular slice of the republican party and that is probably not marco

rubio's slice. in our poll we're just leasing today, wolf when you look at republicans, 73% want the renewal of the collection of phone data. democrats 63%. independents less so. he wants to get that slice of republicans who don't support the renewal of the collection of phone data he wants to get libertarians, for example, in new hampshire independents can vote in a republican primary. he might like to get some of those independent voters who are more skeptical of this collection of data. so he's going after his own slice of the pie. but there are what a handful of people now running for the presidency from the united states state, so we're going to see a lot more of this kind of thing play out there. >> because the argument that is being made politically from rand paul's perspective, he's going against the grain of mainstream republicans who want to be tough on fighting terror? >> yeah.

and -- yes, he is. what he's also trying to do i'll tell you this wolf if you look at another poll number that we have we kind of looked at younger voters here and we asked if the law is not renewed, the risk of terrorism here in the u.s. will increase and if you look 18 to 34-year-olds say only a quarter say it's going to increase. but over 65 plus 60% say it's going to increase wolf. so you see the huge generation gap there overall and again, rand paul going for his particular slice. the question going forward is how does he survive in the republican presidential primaries? we know he's anti-establishment but with mainstream republicans going to continue to vote very heavy on defense, very hawkish, three quarters of them would send ground troops to combat isis how does this strategy

take him forward is really unclear? >> created a stir last week when he accused republican hawks of being responsible for the creation of isis really. >> that's right. when you accuse republicans who are largely accusing the president of that same thing, it may not go over well with the republican base. i think, you know, he may have taken it a step too far. we'll have to see. i'll tell you one thing, you're seeing him on the senate floor there, he is raising a lot of money off of this. we do not know how much yet, but i guarantee it's a lot more than he would be raising otherwise. >> he thinks it's probably a good political strategy. i think it's sin near. >> is it a good strategy or isolate him so much wolf that he is regarded so far out of the mainstream that he can't pivot back. >> all right. gloria thanks very much. an injury to the united states secretary of state john kerry could sideline him for weeks or months. he'll speak to a new states

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or separated. since there is a lack of direct communication between the u.s. and the houthi rebels information clearly is not readily available. separately oman's official news agency reports an american was transferred from yemen to oman today. the taliban five will not be going anywhere at least not yet. senior taliban leaders were released from the u.s. prison camp at guantanamo bay in cuba in a prisoner swap of the american sergeant bowe bergdahl qatar has agreed to extend a travel ban while discussions regarding a long-term solution are being worked out between the u.s. qatar and afghanistan. meanwhile, bergdahl could face a life sentence after being charged with desertion. also happening now, the u.s. secretary of state john kerry is on his way back to the united states after being seriously injured in an accident over the weekend. the state department says kerry is flying home from switzerland

aboard a c-17 u.s. military aircraft. this flight will have special medical personnel on board as a precaution. kerry fell broke his leg while cycling in the french alps on sunday. his injury could impact several critical discussions including the ongoing nuclear negotiations with iran and international talks on how to combat isis. our global affairs correspondent elise lab bot is joining us from outside the boston hospital where kerry is expected to be treated. secretary kerry's personal physician from boston he flew over to geneva to be back on the return flight aboard this transport plane. tell us what's going on. what's the latest you're hearing? >> that's right, wolf. dr. dennis burke who actually did a hip replacement for secretary kerry a few years back flew over there to make sure that he could assess the situation and accompany the secretary back to the united states where he will set his leg. secretary kerry broke his femur

yesterday when he was riding his bicycle in the french als which is a short tour of the tour de france. now secretary kerry i'm told is in good spirits but clearly this is a big setback for the secretary with a lot of diplomacy as you mentioned. the iran talks going on scheduled to open the u.s. embassy to cuba in the coming weeks and he's going to be missing a big conference this week on isis. so clearly the secretary is saying he wants to get back to work as soon as possible but a very serious injury. he's expected to arrive tonight at massachusetts general hospital right behind me but then he will be assessed and he expects to get back to work if not actually in the state department certainly making calls which he's already doing, wolf. >> will he require major surgery on that right leg? >> i'm told it's not going to be a major surgery. what they're talking about is setting the leg. he broke his femur which is a

very serious break in the leg and it's right near his pelvis and he had his hip replaced so it's a little complicated which is why the doctor that actually did that surgery, flew over. but i don't think it's going to be any major surgery. we're told the prognosis is certainly a long recuperation might have to have some physical therapy. how that will interrupt his work and travel schedule remains to be seen. he could be laid up for a while, wolf. >> all right. that's what they say. thanks very much. up next we're going to speak with the new state department spokesman john kirby about kerry's prognosis, the impact on critical diplomatic efforts and a lot more. much more coming up right after this.

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let's get back to the latest developments involving the secretary of state john kerry. right now he's being flown back to the united states from switzerland after breaking his leg in a cycling and biking accident over the weekend. let's bring in the brand new state department spokesman john kirby, who's over at massachusetts general hospital in boston. thanks very much for joining us. the last time i spoke and our viewers will remember you were the chief spokesman at the department of defense and moved over to the department of state. welcome to your new assignment. obviously a critically important assignment. first of all, how is your new boss doing? >> he's doing very well wolf thanks for asking. he's as you said flying back from geneva right now. i spoke to him this morning, in very good spirits and disappointed about the break and injury never a fun thing, but he's in good spirits and working hard. he was on the phone with various foreign ministers this morning, talked to general allen, he will

pipe into the anti-isis coalition meeting tomorrow. he'll pipe in remotely. he's staying very active. >> this was a meeting that's scheduled in paris to meet with a coalition fighting isis, supposed to lead the u.s. delegation. i take it the deputy secretary of state anthony blanken will lead the delegation now, is that right? >> the deputy secretary will go over to paris and physically be there and represent us at the meeting. i want to stress again, secretary kerry will be participating, he will just be doing it remotely. >> who will do the final month-long negotiations with iran right now, with the foreign minister of iran there's an end of june deadline to is and get the deal going? is the secretary of state going to be able to do that from the hospital? >> the secretary is going to stay actively engaged in leading these negotiations wolf nothing will change about that. nothing will change about our commitment to the june 30th deadline. obviously he's got to have some

physical therapy, he's going to have to work through recovery. he will approach that aggressively. i can tell you and he made this clear this morning, he's going to be actively engaged just as he has been. >> deputy secretary blanken go over and physically be present for the meetings with zariff? >> well we haven't made that many final decisions about the arrangements or follow-on talks. we know june will be a busy month with respect to the negotiations but there hasn't been any really final details set on locations, times, places. we'll work that as we get to it. secretary kerry will stay in the lead for the negotiations on the united states side. >> is he going to need surgery? i guess that's the key question because if he needs surgery that's going to keep him out of commission a little longer right? >> well like i said, he's coming back tonight. dr. burke is with him and will do follow on analysis this evening and tomorrow and make whatever decisions he needs to make in terms of procedure. i don't know what the procedure

will be. i think you heard' lease report a little bit ago there will have to be something done to set the bone but exactly what that will entail we don't know. we'll let dr. burke decide and speak to that. there will be a recovery period that will require some physical therapy. there's no question about that. anybody who breaks the thigh bones has to go through that. thetary knows that and he will follow the advice of his physicians, of course, but i can tell you he plans to work his way through that regiment aggressively and stay at work throughout it. >> what exactly happened? because i've heard conflicting reports he was driving along sort of a mini tour de france and all of a sudden he hit a curb and spilled over? is that what happened? >> yeah. he was in the early just the beginning of a ride that was going to take him on a leg, one leg, of the tour de france in the french alps. they didn't get very far before he did bump into a curb and fell and that's where the break occurred. >> he never lost consciousness

though right? >> no. he was alert throughout. never lost consciousness. no other injuries other thanes the break itself. he stayed alert and conscious throughout the whole ordeal. the transportation to the hospital. he was on the phone making official phone calls even yesterday afternoon after being in the hospital. so he was very much engaged right from the very beginning. >> all right. >> i can also say -- >> go ahead. >> go ahead. i was going to say, he was also very grateful for the medical care he received in france and in geneva. everybody reabouted swiftly -- reacted swiftly and professionally. >> i speak for all of our viewers in the united states and around the world, we wish him a speedy speddy recovery from this injury. admiral kirby, i'll call you john i know you, we're going to take a quick break and continue our conversation. a lot going on with isis and what's going on with houthi rebels. stick around. a lot to discuss after this. many wrinkle creams come with high hopes, but hope... doesn't work on wrinkles. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair has the fastest retinol formula...

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. welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. we're continuing our discussion with the new state department spokesman, retired admiral john kirby, joining us from boston right now. john elise, you heard a report saying at least four americans are being held by the houthi rebels in yemen. what can you tell us about these americans? are they safe? are they going to be released? >> well we do know that there are several americans being held by the houthis as elise reported

and we are very concerned about that. there's not a lot i can talk about in terms of specifics but tell you that we're working very hard as we do elsewhere around the world to try to secure their safe return. >> is there any conversations that goes on between the united states and those houthi rebels? are they all indirect? >> well again, i don't want to get too much into the details here on the kinds of efforts that we're expending to get the americans released. i can tell you there's a lot of energy and effort being put into it at the state department and other departments to get them released. >> the iranians have influence. >> they have connections to the iranian regime no question about that in terms of support and financial and otherwise. yes, there are connectionses there. >> let's talk about iraq what's going on the war against isis right now. the speaker of the iraqi parliament says that iraqi troops -- elite iraqi troops were directly ordered by someone

to abandon, to evacuate ramadi even though they outnumbered those isis rebels by huge numbers. what can you tell us about that? that's very disturbing as you well know and you served in the military you served in iraq you know what's going on? >> yeah. listen i've seen those reports myself wolf. i would be loathed to speak for the iraqi government or what kind of command and control might have been exertd over those troops in and around ramadi. that's really something for the iraqi government to speak to. but what i can tell you is that we remain committed to trying to support our iraqi partners there in anbar province and elsewhere in iraq to go after this deadly enemy. nothing will change about the support we expend to help them move forward. particularly in anbar is moving forward, working with the sunni tribes and iraqi government in baghdad to try to get isil out of that week our pentagon correspondent barbara starr, and you know her well she reported that there are serious

consideration being given to arming some of the moderate sunni/iraqi tribes those militias directly because they're fighting isis and maybe arming directly even the kurdss up in northern iraq. where does the state department come in on all of this? because so far, there hasn't been direct ship mpts of -- shipments of weapons to the kurds or moderate sunnis because it goes through the central government in baghdad. >> the policy still is to work through the iraqi government in baghdad to provide those kinds of arms munitions and materiel support to other places inside iraq whether the kurds up in the north or sunni tribes in the anbar province area. that said we're always looking at ways to try to do that more efficiently and more effectively and i would tell you we're constantly looking at that ways we can improve the delivery of that materiel to those fighters. right now we're still working through that. we would anticipate even if there are changes, that that still would be done in full

coordination and consultation with the iraqi government in baghdad. >> do you think the iraqi government prime minister haider al abadi and his government would support, would allow the united states to go ahead and arm directly the sunfys and the kurds? so far they've always resisted that. >> right. i wouldn't want to get ahead of decisions that haven't been made yet. this is an ongoing, very fluid campaign. nothing has changed about our policy that we will work through prime minister abadi's government to provide that kind of arms and materiel. >> the situation in syria looks really, really awful, it's been going on now for what four years, and hundreds of thousands of people have been killed millions made homeless refugees internally externally and now we're getting these reports isis making even more gains inside syria this week. nearly -- we're also told nearly 1,000 syrian rebels who have already been approved to take part in u.s. military training a thousand of them this report

suggests have already dropped out. what's going on over there? >> well look we know that isil considers syria force place in their campaign. it is largely where they sustain themselves, recruit, and they have, obviously, territorial ambitions there in syria. we know the situation in syria is very complicated, much more so in some ways than it is in iraq and that's why it's really important that -- and the pentagon can speak to this better than me -- working on this train and equip program for moderate syrian opposition so they can take the fight to isil inside syria, we know we will have to provide support in that regard and we're working our way through that. as for this report on the thousand as i understand it -- that it's not so much that they have dropped out as that that's been a threat made that they could, look we are committed to getting the syrian moderate opposition trained and equipped to go after isil and try to try to work to seek eventually

towards a political solution in syria which is the right answer here. it's a complicated environment, no question about that but nothing has changed about our policy. >> retired u.s. navy admiral john kirby making the move from the pentagon to the department of state, good luck with the new assignment. we'll welcome you back to cnn early and often. thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf good to be here. >> pass along our best wishes for a speedy recovery to the secretary of state as well. still to come more on the iraqi sunnis call for help in fighting isis. they say they want washington to bypass baghdad and get them the military assistance they say they critically need. nick paton walsh on the scene for us. we're going live to iraq.

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isis attacked a joint iraqi security force base earlier today killing 34 iraqi police officers that happened just west of the town of samarra. officials say isis fighter drove a tank rigged with explosives into the base detonating it near a stack of ammunition. 48 people were also injured. the battle against isis involves more than just the iraqi army on the front lines. the army is aligned with shiite militia and moderate sunni tribal fighters. their support is clearly vital. as nick paton walsh learned, the sunni tribesmen feel abandoned

by the central government in baghdad. >> reporter: at these sandbags is exactly what iraq needs to stay together as a country. you can glimpse the flag of isis extremists from iraq's sunni minority. holding them off here the man the u.s. says a key to victory. moderate iraqi sunnis who will die to rid their hometown of isis. if america is to send help to the sunni tribes in anbar here is where it is most badly needed. they have been in combat with isis for months and now the enemy is just across the the river. but they have been without pay for months. some have made of cheap metal and chipboard. no one has come to help us he says. the government is not helping anything. we buy our own weapons. such people like isis another says are not sunniss, no

they're enemies that want to destroy, not build. the local mayor of the town around which isis swarms and fires mortars daily, sees his enemy on the tv screen. this long distance camera shows the mortars slamming into isis positions and was paid for by locals themselves. they say baghdad, whose officials are often shia and distrust sunnis has ignored months of their pleas for help. now, they arm themselves. we buy them he says there are lots of weapons for sale on the iraqi market whether it's from the previous army or what isis took from this army as they put it up for sale through a third party, even some things come from iran and are sold directly. here is where local volunteers are trained and armed. but again, we're shown the chipboard, 500 of them they

say. this man was trained by the u.s. nine years ago, then to help them fight al qaeda here. now, they want america's help again. we want the americans to arm us directly he says. if they give it to the government, they'll take what they want and give us the tired weapons, the good stuff they keep. outside the hospital you can see the help they are getting. an ambulance from sunni saudi arabia. inside three injured through a mortar that hit off duty young fighters playing football the day before. another died. this town feels abandoned, despite broad recognition it is vital they win. >> nick paton walsh joining us live from baghdad right now. as you know isis's seizure of ramadi was a blow to the fight against the terror organizations. u.s. officials have openly criticized the iraqi security forces. the u.s. defense secretary ash

carter saying they showed no will to fight and now the sunni speaker of iraq's parliament is launching an investigation. what is he alleging? >> well he told us in an exclusive interview, that he basically had learned that there was a point during the defense of ramadi done by a group known as the golden division elite special forces trained heavily, some of them by the united states well equipped at some point they received an order, he doesn't know who gave it or whether they came up with it put in their own command structure, to pull out of ramadi. they're launching an investigation to work out who gave that order and, of course after they pulled out, they were the bulk of the iraq security forces doing the defending, but what the speaker of parliament and the most powerful sunni politician arguably in iraq remember so much politics here comes down to whether you're sunni or shia sect here he says he believes haider al abadi the

iraqi prime minister had no knowledge of that order to withdraw from ramadi. effectively saying there was a political call made somewhere in the military or political circles of the iraqi elite, to pull out, the people defending ramadi. that feeds into many critics here who say that the predominantly pro-shia government in baghdad simply didn't auto invest enough in defending ramadi and some suggest they're happy to let it fall because it's a sunni heartland of which they have little interest. buy into that you wish and many baghdad and military officials point out they fought tooth and nail to hold the area but there seems to be an abiding consensus somewhere at one point they did leave and this accusation will go to the heart of the parl men betry inquiry into this and the sensitive issue at the heart of the future of iraq as a nation because sunni politicians have a responsibility to those who they

represent in the sunni community who feel disenfranchised says if a ramadi is to be retaken it should be by sunnis but it's shias closing in right now and that is potentially more sectarian here in iraq wolf? >> thanks very much. nick paton walsh reporting live from baghdad. here in the united states there's yet another name that has just been added to the list of republicans running for president of the united states. we're going to tell you about today's new member to the race. that's coming up after this. [ man ] look how beautiful it is. ♪ ♪ honey, we need to talk. we do? i took the trash out. i know. and thank you so much for that. i think we should get a medicare supplement insurance plan.

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the list of republicans who have officially declared they're running for president of the united states got longer today. senator lindsey graham kicked off his campaign in his hometown of central south carolina. he touted his national security credentials, took a swipe at president obama's foreign policy. >> we made some dangerous mistakes in recent years. the obama administration and some of my colleagues in congress have substituted wishful thinking for sound national security strategy. every day the headlines attest to the failures of the obama/clinton policies. it is sad for me to report to you, but barack obama has made us less safe. >> joining us live from the town of central south carolina our chief congressional correspondent dana bash.

so dana how does for gran graham cut through all the noise out there, so many other republicans are already running for president, more expected to run. how does he get traction? >> look, it's not easy. >> look, it's not easy. he has a pretty good fundraising base. when he ran for re-election and won against many odds especially in his primary here in south carolina he did that by raising millions and millions of dollars. a lot of it in new york from people who agree with him about the stance against iran being very tough on iran. and the other way that he is going to do it is because he is basically on tv a lot. i mean that's just the reality of it wolf. he has a very big platform. he has a pretty big megaphone, being a very prominent foreign policy voice. that's what he intends to use. i have to tell you that's why he is running. it is no secret to him that he is barely registering in the

polls, but he made it very clear in the way he talked about national security being incredibly hawkish, incredibly aggressive on the world stage, that he wants to try to influence the debate in that way within the republican party, wolf. >> as you know senator graham enters the race for the white house as "the des moines register," bloomberg politics poll shows scott walker with a seven-point lead in iowa over other republican challengers. here's the question. how much do we read into these early polls? iowa the first political contest coming up early next year. >> reporter: not a lot. i mean it is incredibly early. having said that when it comes to scott walker he seems to have a special place in iowa voters' hearts and minds. he was born there. he kind of speaks midwest. he's a governor from there. he is the kind of person the kind of republican that they like but it is very very early. and you talk to walker aides,

they actually wish he wasn't doing so well there because they're afraid of peaking too early because it's easy to fall when you're out there and people are kind of taking shots at you. but bottom line is that these polls at this stage of the game are important for momentum and for fundraising. if scott walker can show to people that he can do well this early, people who have deep pockets, that matters pretty much more than anything else in addition to kind of helping to generate the slow boil if you will of heat on the ground in places like iowa. >> dana thanks very much. dana bash reporting from south carolina today. other news we're following, cnn has learned that the former speaker of the house of representatives, dan nisennis hastert, will be arraigned this thursday. if he chooses to attend it would be the first public appearance by hastert since the federal government announced the case against him last week. hastert is charged with evading

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hi i'm ted turner and this is cable news network. >> exactly 35 years ago today at 6:00 p.m. eastern, a brand new 24-hour cable news network aired its very first newscast. cnn has been on the air covering every major news story ever since. >> i dedicate the cable news network. >> good evening. i'm david walker. >> now here's the news. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> approximately four shots were fired at the president. >> massacre of hundreds of thousands. >> president reagan has endorsed german unification. >> for 35 years, we've been everywhere. >> cnn, beijing. >> the skies over baghdad have been illuminated. >> this is one pocket of the turmoil in the egyptian capital.

>> on every story. >> there's 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. >> in danger -- >> quick, let's go. >> -- and under fire. >> israeli officials say -- [ gunfire ] >> you can see the people below trapped on sinjar mountain. >> covering the devastation. >> i'm outside this pediatric hospital. just take a look inside. >> some of these people have been waiting outside now for more than three days. >> i've been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in mississippi. >> as far as we can see, under blue sky, it's totally leveled. >> the drama. >> princess diana has died. >> george zimmerman not charged with anything in this case. >> the terror. >> 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. >> usa! usa! >> it's so rare to have a cover story with a happy ending. >> making news -- >> director helmand, can you talk to us please? >> and breaking news. >> i can't move. i'm not going to resist a police officer. >> what is going on in ferguson missouri in downtown america. >> here come flash bangs and canisters coming up at us. >> 35 years of -- >> cnn. >> cnn. >> cnn. >> cnn. >> this is cnn.

>> and breaking news, 35 years of cnn, airs tonight 9:00 p.m. eastern. the news continues next on cnn. hi there. i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn here on this monday. we begin with a little bit of breaking news. a potentially catastrophic failure at dozens of the country's busiest airports. this shocking revelation coming to us that undercover agents have been able to smuggle mock explosives and weapons through u.s. airport check points. and this wasn't just an isolated incident. they apparently tried this over and over and over. and 95% of the time -- let me repeat that -- 95% of the time the tsa failed and these agents were able to get those banned items through security. the details of the