>> there you go. see i can keep up with the cool kids of the onion. is it the onion or just onion? i think it was the onion. i really was kidding. love is gentle, love is kind, let's give the fifa guy a break, at least tonight on the ridiculi ridiculist. that does it for us. we'll see you at 11:00 p.m. eastern for another edition of 360. breaking news, 35 years starts now. the following is a cnn special report. ♪ >> i dedicate the cable news network. >> good evening i'm david walker. >> and i'm lois heart, now, here's the news. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> approximately four shots were fired at the president. >> the massacre of hundreds of thousands. >> president reagan has endorsed german reunification. >> for 35 years we've been

everywhere. >> the skies over baghdad have been illuminated. >> this is one pocket of turmoil in the egyptian capitol. >> and every story. >> there's nothing subtle about the horrors of this war. >> liftoff of the space shuttle mission. >> a major malfunction. >> i'm going to interrupt this broadcast. >> police believe that o.j. simpson is in that car. >> in danger. >> let's go. >> and under fire. >> 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 for more than three days. >> i've been seeing dead bodies in the streets in mississippi. >> as far as we can see under blue sky. it's totally level. >> 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. >> 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 that we get the cover stories that have a happy ending. >> making news. >> can you talk to us, please? >> and breaking news. >> i can't move. >> what is going on in ferguson, missouri, in downtown america.

>> here come flash, bangs and canisters coming at us. >> 35 years of cnn. >> cnn. >> cnn. >> this is cnn! hello, i'm wolf blitzer, there's a lot of memories in that sequence you just saw. when ted turner launched the first 24 hour news network in 1980, many thought it was a bad idea. some referred to cnn as chicken noodle news. more people get their news from cnn than 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 tense 58 hour drama that played out live on cnn in 1987 after baby jessica fell down a well. >> what started as a child's

innocent game turned into a child's terror. >> when we found out the local station had live coverage, we jumped on it. >> jessica tumbled down a pipe and landed in a small area about a foot wide. she was trapped 20 feet underground. >> this is a gripping story and it's not going to be resolved quickly. blow out all the commercials. >> she's upset and crying. as long as she's crying, we know 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 help. we're trying to shoot over the fence. do you have a ladder we can 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. jessica can be heard to call to her mother. you could not widen the well she was in, and you couldn't come in at an angle. >> they drilled a shaft parallel to the one jessica 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 always to remember that we're in your care. >> this is a gripping story, because it's about a helpless little baby who had a name. who had family there, with a whole community gathered around, trying anything they could to get this baby out. it's a great story. >> flood lights have lit the backyard. >> as the hours went on, you thought the chances of her

surviving were less and less. >> ratings took a huge jump, people are calling their mother-in-law, hey, turn on cnn. people who had never watched cnn before, are going to cnn. >> a two inch hole was drilled into the carve earn where jessica has been trapped since wednesday. >> in midland texas, they're in the final stages of what appears to be the imminent rescue of jessica mcclure trapped below -- >> sent a medical worker down who was going to recover, you could see the lines tightening, we knew it was going to happen. >> we're expecting to see jessica just any moment now. [ cheers and applause ] >> she's alive, man. holy [ bleep ]. >> i was very fortunate, during all of my years at cnn, to cover a lot of interesting stories.

>> you can see the 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 when there's a major news event. you know that cnn's going to stay with it. >> the applause for the paramedic who just brought her up. people have worked very hard to come to a very happy ending. i'm tony clark, reporting live from midland, texas. something is happening outside. >> you're right something is happening. war is breaking out all around you.

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>> the government has ordered us to shut down our facility, we are shutting down our facility. >> we've heard the orders, we have our instructions from headquarters in atlanta. >> good-bye from beijing. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> the events in east germany are moving ever more swiftly. >> after 27 years in prison, nelson mandela is now free. >> the skies over baghdad have been illuminated. >> in 1990, the u.n. ordered iraqi leader zam to remove his troops from kuwait or else. he refused. as the u.s. prepared for war, so did cnn, the small staff in baghdad, and unique technology called a floor wire that kept them connecting to cnn's newsroom, broadcasting live as operation desert storm began.

>> an explosive development here in the gulf. >> war is imminent. >> i don't think that the world really accepted cnn until the first gulf war. >> the president had laid down the gauntlet and he basically gave us a window of what was going to happen. >> we had prepared everything for it, i recall that during this time of preparation i'd wake up from my sleep about 3:30 i the morning, thinking this is ridiculous, planning to cover a war? with television? it's unheard of? >> it was very, very worrisome for all of us at cnn, because we had producers. we have camera crews. we had three reporters, bernie shaw was there, john holliman,

peter arnett, they were all there. the management at cnn, ted turner and tom johnson were under enormous pressure from colin powell, other u.s. officials. once the air war starts, we don't know if they're going to be okay. >> our responsibility is to our worldwide audience. we will stay, we will cover this war as best we can. and we will report on the war. >> military experts say a night air attack is the likely scenario for the start of any fight. >> that night i was at the pentagon. i had a chance to see two very senior pentagon officials almost running through the halls, they couldn't say when this was going to begin, because that could endanger u.s. troops. >> it was shortly past midnight baghdad time and i was walking past the open window and coming

down from the sky looked like silver paper. i knew instantly what it was. it was radar jamming jaff. >> tonight the battle has been joined. >> as soon as that started filtering down to the ground all hell broke loose. >> i was walking by the control room and i could hear the commotion. i walked in and there it was. >> our team in baghdad was restricted. they weren't going to get much information. the only thing they could do is report what they were seeing. >> we're going to bernard shaw in baghdad. >> out of my mouth came the words. >> something is happening outside. >> you're 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. >> we've now been on the air 20 minutes? >> now, the sirens are sounding for the first time. the iraqis have informed us -- >> the light goes dead. >> they cut the line. >> everybody is stunned and it's totally silent. you can feel the tension in that room. >> john holliman said it's the battery, the battery is dead. >> our biggest fright was the bomb had hit the hotel where they were. >> hello baghdad. >> there was a hush in the control room. >> we're running around trying to find the batteries. holliman does a work around. >> hello, atlanta. >> we come back on the air. >> atlanta this is holliman.

i'm going to continue to talk to you as long as i can. >> and there's a collective sigh, and you can see shoulders drop down as the tension leaves people's bodies. >> the whole world was watching. we were the only ones who had reporters from baghdad. >> i look up, cbs and abc are taking cnn. stations around the world are taking cnn. >> the iraqis shut down cnn, they invoked censorship. on friday morning we packed up and we started to leave baghdad. news, especially television muse 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

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>> as far as i'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks. >> verdicts against the four police officers charged in the beating of rodney king. >> ethnic cleansing goes on within view of united nations controls. >> an explosion underground in the garage section of the world trade center has killed three people. hundreds of people are being evacuated from the twin towers. >> the whole south side of the building is going up in flames literally before our eyes. >> 4 million people driven from their homes by war. >> the oklahoma governor's office says at least 19 people are dead, hundreds of others injured and rescuers continue the search for survivors in the rubble of the ap murrah federal building in oklahoma city. >> in june 1994, football legend o.j. simpson was charged with the grizzly murders of his wife

nicole and her friend ron goldman. o.j. simpson the fugitive from justice, a nine month trial and a stunning verdict that became one of the most watched dramas in cnn history. >> this is cnn. >> i understand we're going to go to a live picture in los angeles. this is i-5. police believe that o.j. simpson is in that car. but nobody is pulling this car over. >> there's s.w.a.t. we have s.w.a.t. on the way. >> the helicopter is trailing it, they're going south through orange county. >> 911. >> i have o.j. simpson in the car. >> i'm sitting in washington describing this. i didn't know l.a. very well, they gave me a map of l.a. >> cars somewhere by disneyland. >> come on, man. just tell me.

>> can you confirm that o.j. simpson is arrested. >> yes, sir, he is in custody. >> finally, after more than 7 months of relentless publicity, the double murder trial of o.j. simpson will unfold before the only people who really count in deciding his fate, the jury. >> no one talked about anything else but the trial. that's all can you talk about in the coffee shops, in the restaurants on the street. >> council, please be seated. >> simpson's defense team. >> in other developments. >> the extraordinary nature of the simpson 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 mania is spreading across the nation's heartland. >> i knew the defense team, the prosecution team. i would have dinner with one side and breakfast with another side every day. you. >> say on your oath that you have is not addressed any black

person as a niger or spoken about black people as niggers in the past ten years? >> he is the key witness in their case, he is the one that allegedly found the glove. >> and the pivotal moment, of course. >> that's people's 77. >> was the self-destructive act by chris darden, the co prosecutor who decided on his own to have o.j. simpson attempt to try on this bloody glove. boy he was a great actor. i can't -- it's hurting my hands. it was unbelievable. >> when yeltsin arrived from russia, he got off the plane and he said to clinton, do you think he did it?

that's how much the world knew -- when you think about it, he was the most famous person ever charged with murder. >> o.j. simpson in a knit cap. >> i remember johnnie cochran -- >> putting on this silly cap that's an image i think will be forever in my mind. >> if it doesn't fit, you must acquit. >> simpson, would you please stand and face the jury. >> orenthal james simpson not guilty of murder upon nicole brown simpson. >> the next night, johnnie cochran was on my show. with us on the phone now is o.j. simpson, if he had got booked for that day -- >> how are you? >> i'm doing fine. >> can you do next tuesday? and we'll tape you, and we'll run it as soon as this dies down. >> pretty soon i'll have all --

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>> what the election law folk call a hanging chad. >> the hand count is expected to begin shortly here in a room behind me. >> the plane has crashed into one of the towers of the world trade center. >> it was the day that changed the skyline and a nation. 9/11, a day unlike any other in cnn's history. the collapse of the twin towers, the pentagon burning, the field in pennsylvania that became hallowed. thousands of lives lost in the deadliest attack ever on american soil. amidst the tragedy, cnn's anchors and reporters shared with viewers their shock. their sadness, and the terrible images we will never forget. >> we saw a plane crash into. >> it was described to me as the size of 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 we saw smoke coming out. and everybody started running out. >> my producer carl said, are you listening to the radio? and i said, no. he said, you should. he said a plane just crashed into the world trade center. >> i didn't know if it was a big plane, a small plane. an accident, deliberate. >> but when the second plane hit the south tower, i think we all knew, it's the act of terrorists. >> i started driving toward the bureau. i could see people in washington were driving the other way. people trying to get out of washington, people were freaking out. >> at the pentagon, a plane or a helicopter has crashed. and the pentagon is being evacuated. >> 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 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 that there's another plane maybe going toward the capitol, another plane wanted 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 tell you, i

cannot 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 planet earth who had access to a tv is that a clock started ticking. once that first tower fell, you knew that the second tower was going to fall. >> flight 93, newark to sfo, has crashed in pennsylvania per united airlines. >> some very brave passengers attempted to take control of that plane because they knew from phone conversations that they had had with family members the world trade center had been attacked. can you imagine the courage? >> there had been attacks in two american cities, new york and in washington. the trade centers here in new york had been hit by airplanes. in washington there is a large

fire at the pentagon, the pentagon has been evacuated. and there's, you can see perhaps the second tower. 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 where we were broadcasting from. >> you can see how tough it is for anyone to sort out the magnitude of what this city endured as well as what washington endured today. >> when the wind shifted, you could smell the jet fuel, you could smell metal burning. >> it's 1:00, 2:00 in the morning, it was late, i was tired. and i was crying, and i was thinking about -- my daughter was in middle school.

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i reported a few minutes ago about a second wave of attacks. they're being described as more intense. >> on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes in afghanistan. >> we have a little problem on the space shuttle colombia. it's been out of communication for the past 12 minutes. >> my fellow americans, this day has brought terrible news, the columbia is lost. there are no survivors. >> more explosions have rocked baghdad after an unprecedented

bombardment a few hours ago. u.s. forces have unleashed their long awaited and punishing air assault. >> in spain at this moment, they are still counting the bodies at least 190 people are dead. >> hundreds are reported dead in sri lanka, as a powerful earthquake off indonesia triggers devastating tidal waves across parts of asia. >> like every other american citizen, i deserve a fair trial, 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's a simple name. for 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 powerful storm hit. when the wind and rain subsided 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. their reports filled with dismay, grief and eventually ang anger. a powerful hurricane appears to be setting its sites on the central gulf coast. >> the winds are just incredible here in new orleans. we can see the roof of the superdome has been shredded. >> this may be the easy side of the storm, it does not feel very easy right here on the banks of the mississippi river. >> it's a very strange feeling covering a hurricane, particularly one that was this

size. got there really just as the first rainfall was starting. >> the winds have really picked up here. >> i had a satellite truck with me, a crew with had he me and we were kind of on our own. >> it's coming apart as we speak. >> went to a walmart, bought some supplies. >> i was in a walmart earlier in the day, and people just come up to you in the walmart and they're like, have you heard about my town? >> the woman at the walmart said to me, you should go to the gulf coast of mississippi, because we haven't been in touch with our relatives in waveland and no one's reporting from there. when i got do waveland it was unlike anything i had seen before. block after block was gone. people were starting to return and see their lives gone. it's devastating. i mean -- actually, it's --

>> i went out with this recovery team. we went to the house of a family, once you stepped on their porch, you could smell them. everything was ripped apart and things were on the floor and it was very chaotic, and then they found them. >> these four people, man, wife and two children have died in this home. >> they had drowned in their living room. it was a husband, wife and two of their kids were special needs kids. there was really nothing they could do. they marked an x on the door and put the number 4 for the number of bodies that were inside. and then they closed the door and they left. >> a levee break the size of a football field is slowly flooding new orleans. >> i am looking over a scene of utter devastation. entire neighborhoods, the water has come up to the east of the houses. >> we got out there, you could hear the screams of people still being trapped in the attics. >> we came across people

punching holes in the attic spaces because water filled up all the way up to their 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 essentially row across from the parking deck across the street to the ramp at charity hospital. >> we made it safely. >> this is what a charity hospital looks like in the middle of a natural disaster. >> you get into charity hospital. you realize that it is as bad if not worse as has been described. it was completely crowded. there was a smell in the air. when you started to walk around the hospital and realize that the staircase is now becoming filled with bodies as a result of what was happening there that you needed to start reporting. >> this is the parking deck between charity and tulane hospital, patients over the last several days have been trying to

get out of here. >> one of the images that stuck with me the most is these people bagging patients who had been on ventilators who no longer had power. they would take shifts, you couldn't fall asleep. sometimes the patient would be awake or at least cognizant to know that literally my entire life right now is dependent on whether or not this guy can keep bagging this bag of air into my lungs. >> for the first time now, you can hear and see the choppers, to try to take some of these patients out. >> when the helicopter first landed, the tulane patients started to be evacuated. keep in mind these doctors are sitting here with critically injured patients still. tulane got all their patients and staff out, before they began to evacuate charity hospital. and we know that patients died while waiting. and that's something that i don't think ever leaves you. >> we want help. we want help.

>> some of these people have been waiting outside now for more than three days. >> no food, no water, helicopters flying over our heads. >> let's fix the biggest crisis in the history of this country. >> you know, someone actually said this to me in the days after katrina. they said, you know, this is all going to be forgotten. it's all going to be cleaned up and washed away and forgotten. but i certainly will never forget what i saw, and i don't think a lot of people who were there. i don't think any of them will forget either. there's 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. >> 13 day-old baby, they're begging for a doctor. >> and now another major story developing in the gulf of mexico, 11 people are missing an

-- 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 outs of aurora, colorado. 12 people have been killed and another 38 wounded at the screening of "the dark knight rises." >> this is ocean water. there are waves in the streets of downtown atlantic city. this is where i am. >> there were thousands of law enforcement personnel on the ground. they do believe that he is in this area. they're 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 turned 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 down to boston. apparently there's been an explosion at the boston marathon. i am told -- >> it was big, it was -- i saw a big amount of smoke come up. >> and you know you saw 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 able to get an impression of who they believed 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 this thursday morning, we got wind they had a photo. >> good afternoon. >> they were going to make this dramatic 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 lone wolf crazy person scenario, if two people are together, practicing, potentially buying these products together or selling -- assembling 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 car jacking 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 gun shots. >> 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 ear piece in and waiting to go on with wolf. and then all of a sudden i heard that -- [ sound effect ]

just unmistaken. rapid fire. what the hell was that? was that guns? knew exactly what that was. what sounded like multiple assault rifle shots to me. sounded like police emptying their weapons, rapidly fired and all of a sudden it stopped. we're seeing some police activity. i'm by watertown right by the arsenal and school intersection. >> so fitz ran to the sound of the shot. and the next thing you know, he says, drew, they're surrounding a boat. there's a boat. >> david fitzpatrick, our producer, is on the scene. david, what are you seeing, again? >> anderson, i see armed police units with guns still resting on the trunks of their cars. i see half a dozen, maybe eight guys in s.w.a.t. uniforms. >> it was about two hours later, i think 8:00, that he finally gave up. >> when dzhokhar 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, that's because he had a sniper's rifle trained at his head.

>> captured, terror is over. it was a tweet from the boston p.d. it was -- 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. 35 years ago, bruce jenner was an olympic champion. now it's goodbye bruce. hello caitlin. this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. what's it like to change your life with the whole world watching? just ask caitlin jenner, from olympic champion to reality tv star, captured on the cover of "vanity fair" by photographer to the stars, annie leebo vits. >> soon as the "vanity fair" cover comes out, i'm free. >> now that her secret is out, will she live happily ever after? >> i want to begin with what she said about t