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from. what? yes! >> there were sightings of the two bad guys richard matt and david sweat. someone thinks they saw them. >> these fugitives have been on the run for more than two weeks. will the new leads bring them to justice? we begin with cnn sanra guenin. what are you seeing there? >> good morning. overnight state police tactical units, all terrain vehicles setting up perimeter here focussing their search on the area called owl's head. it's about 30 miles due west of the prison where the inmates escaped from. we're learning more about the lead that brought them here. i got off the phone with the franklin county district attorney that a witness checking on an unoccupied cap bin allegedly sawed someone run into the woods. he said the cabin was obviously burglarized. the search was con transed in
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the mountain view area. this is a wolf pond road. now the search area here is in a pretty rural area. it's in upstate new york in the adirondacks adirondacks. there's a lot of vacation homes and trails like hiking trails. the kinds of things police have been focussing their search on for more than the two week stretch. while the search continues here and in other places the investigation continues as well. we're learning over the weekend that a 57-year-old corrections officer who worked on the block was a guard on the block where the two inmates were housed he has been placed on paid administrative leave after he received a painting that one of the inmates made behind others. we know other paintings were made. one given to the prison
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seamstress who has been charged with helping the two inmates escape. this man's attorney tells me 100% he did not know about the plan to escape and is cooperating with police. they searched his home over the weekend. he hasn't yet been charged. >> let's hope the searches leads to getting the two guys. to south carolina and the church at the center of the deadly has massacre. the church reopened the doors with unity and love on sunday. as we learn more about the suspected shooter's past and the link to the online racist men fest manifesto. what have we learned? >> reporter: the focus here in charleston all weekend has been on remembrance and healing. even though the racist manifesto surface surfaced after it was posted on a website regionstered to dylann woof. behind bars this morning awaiting his bail hearing for murder charges set for october.
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>> what is your age? >> 21. >> this as investigators are looking into a 2,000-word racist manifesto on a website registered to the suspect written before roof killed nine people during a bible study inside charleston's south carolina historic emanuel ame church. the author writing he became fixated on the black on white crime after trayvon martin's death. there he found, quote, pages upon pages of these brutal black on white murders. it's not clear what incidents he was referring to. the manifesto continues, quote, someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world. i guess it has to be me. >> how we can be better. how we can do more. >> in charleston sunday marchers joined hands to form a unity
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chain in memory of the nine victims. on sunday morning church bells rang throughout the historic city. ♪ ♪ inside the emanuel ame church the theme was healing not hate. >> we as a group of people can come together and pray and work out things that needs to be worked out to make out our community and our state a better place. >> the funeral for reverend clementa pinckney is expected to take place here in charleston on friday. funeral arrangements for the other victims of the massacre are expected at some point in the coming days. meanwhile, it's worth noting that the council of conservative citizens is condemning the killings but they're still standing by the inflammation content on their website. >> all of this as you said the
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funerals begin this week. we'll be watching that. ali that thank you so much. in the wake of the charleston church massacre many people are pushing for the confederate flag that is flying over south carolina's capitol to be taken down for good. we are live in columbia south carolina. anna? >> reporter: good morning. you can see that flag over my right shoulder while it is so calm today it is not waving but it is next to the confederate war memorial. this is where it ended up after a heating debate in 2,000 with the bigger flag being removed. after the charleston church shooting and new images appearing showing the suspect dylann roof holding the confederate flag in one hand and a gun in the other hand there are louder calls now to get rid of the flag all together from this property. in fact there was a huge rally here at the state capitol over the weekend and some 1500 people
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turned out protesting the flag saying it represents slavery and segregation and really does promote racism and hatred. and now the 2016 presidential candidates are also feeling some pressure to take a stance on this issue. south carolina is home to the first in the nation or first in the south presidential contest, so we heard from like democratic hillary clinton come out and call for the flag to be removed. on the republican side it's been a bit more dodgy. jeb bush said the flag belongs in a museum but the other candidates danced around offering an opinion saying it's up to the state to decide this issue. i want you to listen to what a couple of candidates had to say on the sunday shows this weekend. >> i think the opinion of people here in south carolina and having them work through this difficulty is much more important than -- >> what is your opinion? be. >> for those running for president everyone is being baited with the question as if somehow it has anything to do whatsoever with running for
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president. my position is it most certainly does not. >> here is the bottom line. for the flag to be removed, it requires state legislative action and right now the legislature is not even in session. we have heard from one republican lawmaker who plan to sponsor legislation in january when lawmakers return to try to have the flag removed. the governor is calling on everybody to be patient for the issue saying the state needs time to heal. >> time to heal could be code for the pressure to get rid of the flag to calm down as well. thank you very much for that. the main headline coming out of this horrible massacre in charleston has been the role of love. we have seen the worst and we have certainly now seen the best. the city of course is reeling from the loss of nine of their own. they're moving forward and it's how they're doing it that is really becoming a model for who we should be. a big leader is mayor joseph
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riley. he's been running things in charleston for four years. mayor, you've had to be a leader under the worst of seconds. let me ask you, what about this situation, as horribles a its own, in your time there since 1975, have you ever experienced anything like the reaction out of this type of horrible killing like what you're seeing now? >> well, we've never had a horrible event like this, chris, and the reaction is so heart warming it is love overcoming hate and, you know, right here in front of the church yesterday and the hot sun, thousands of people black and white were together while they were praying inside. 15,000 walking on our bridge holding hands in unity. black and white together. churches all over -- my catholic church after church yesterday and after i had been here they came and prayed the roseary here.
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each denomination doing something absolutely pure overflowing of grief -- people have been crying their eyes out. black people white people asian people, hispanic people. that awful man thought he was going to divide he had the most opposite effect. and the generation connections has never been stronger. we had a hurricane 25 years ago, and people responded similarly when you're down you can do one thing. you can stay down or get up and fight. and here they're getting up and loving and they say no to hate and yes to love. >> it's an interesting contrast in that mayor.
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an hurricane is an act of god. okay. this was the opposite of an act of god that took place in god's house. and ordinarily when there is a killing of this nature which is not foreign to the south and not foreign to the country, frankly, there's a period of intense anger and outrage after it about attacking the ideas that spawned it. this time the transition to overcoming the anger with love seems so fast. to what do you attribute that? each event was different. there's nothing quite like this in a sanctuary where they were praying and studying the bible. but we worked over the years during my time as mayor building connections and bonds of love, and working in every neighborhood. our police are friends with neighborhoods. we attacked affordable housing in every neighborhood. we opened the doors to include
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african-american people on boards and commissions and working in the city and affirmative action issues and minority business opportunities and what we did and taking care of the homeless and just having a continued message of openness so that there isn't a part of our community that feels alienated. there's not people that feel they haven't been, you know looked after or not that we don't have plenty to do but we have 180 neighborhood councils. this is not a huge city and every neighborhood is connected. people come to see me whenever. so we work hard to build these bridges and i think, you know, disasters catch you where you are. if it's infrastructure issue or this kind of issue catch you where are you. and i think the community and the work the citizens have done
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where we were we had a foundation so that the response would be love and heart ache and not violation. there there's no question that inclusion is the order of the day. and you're saying you were set up for that. that's great and now one of the manifestations of why it happened. people are saying let's save the politics for after the healing. i think that's a cop out. all the healing is going on and all this love literally waiving above you is this flag or as said to me this weekend, that damn flag. you know from your time there, not just as mayor but before the flag was reintroduced when the civil rights laws started coming up. that's when the battle flag came back. you know what it represents. the polls being what they are. you know what it means to people especially black people is it time for the flag to go if you really want to move forward?
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>> most certainly. the flag should be gone. it should have been gone before and should be in a museum. you know it was above the capitol the u.s. state, american flag the confederate flag. i lead a march 110 miles to columbia four days black and white people together, and we got the flag removed from the capitol. unfortunately, the legislature and their effort to comprise then put a smaller flag in front of the capitol. but as i wrote yesterday or said yesterday and said so many times. the trouble with that is this flag, as you mentioned was appropriated as a symbol of resistance to civil rights progress in the '60s. it's not just the flag of the history or fallen soldiers. it's a flag you see emblems on
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hats of big gots like that. the flag needs to be removed from the state capitol, put in a museum a part of history so we can move on. >> mayor, thank you very much for being an example of everything that is right in leadership in a time of crisis. we wish you the best. we'll stay on the story. and we'll do our best to show the healing. >> thank you! and your dad was a wonderful example to me. >> thank you, mr. mayor. i appreciate it. all the best to you down there. the supreme court expected any time now to issue critical rulings on obamacare and same-sex marriage. justices debating which states are eligible for federal subsidizes through the fact and their decision could mean a loss of health care coverage for millions of low and middle income families. the high court also deciding whether gay couples have the constitutional right to marry, and if states should be required to recognize same-sex marriages from other states. sad news to report former white house executive chef has been
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found dead along a hiking trail in new mexico. officials say the 61-year-old's remains were found along a hiking trail in the mountains where he disappeared last week. now detectives have not yet determined a cause of death. mr. he was with the white house for 11 years cooking for the clinton and bush administrations. from terrible news to good news. jordan spieth is the 2015 u.s. open winner. not only is he just 21 but he has won the last two big majors in golf. almost never happens in the same year. so part of the story is also how dustin johnson lost it. spieth double bogeyed -- two over par on the 17th hole. look like about a three-shot lead too young couldn't handle the moment. then he birdied 18. dustin johnson needed the 12-foot putt to win the championship. what does he do? leave it is short!
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that's okay. he's only 4 foot away from bringing it -- oh! that's when the pants pitch, my friends. that's where the pants pinch at 21 spieth becomes the youngest open champ since bobby jones in 1923. >> congratulations. that's fantastic. >> the thrill of victory and thing a any of defeat. >> yeah. that's a great story. in the wake of the church massacre in charleston some people say it is time for the confederate flag to come down. we continue that conversation right after the break. i'm caridee. i've had moderate to severe plaque psoriasis most of my life. but that hasn't stopped me from modeling. my doctor told me about stelara® it helps keep my skin clearer. with only 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses... ...stelara® helps me be in season. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and increase your risk of infections. some serious infections require hospitalization. before starting stelara® your doctor should test for tuberculosis. stelara® may increase your risk of cancer. always tell your doctor if you have
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new this morning president obama makes bold statements about racism on a radio show and he uses what some consider offensive language to do so. what do the statements mean to charleston and the debate over the confederate flag? let's talk about this with a former south carolina state representative and attorney. thank you for being here, mr. sellers. >> thank you for having me. i want to get to the president's interview. it was released. he sat down for a radio interview with mark marin. first, he speaks candidly about racism and he uses the n-word to do so. so listen to this. >> racism. >> racism. we're not cured of. clearly. it's not just a matter of it not
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being polite to say -- it's not just a matter of overt discrimination. we have to -- societies don't overnight completely erase everything that happened 2 to 300 years prior. >> what are your thoughts on what he says there? >> well, i thought the president was correct. he didn't mince terms. we're talking about racism being more than just a passive use of a derogatory term. we're talking about constitutional and systemic racism. i think people fail to realize the long shadow that slavely, jim crow and segregation have in this country. we're slightly over 50 years away since the 16th street bombing where the four little girls were killed. we're just not even 50 years away from the assassination of martin luther king from robert f
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kennedy, from the massacre. when you think about these things you understand in this country we made progress but we still got a ways to go. >> and yet, i mean, this is all being said by the country's first black president. you know you take many steps forward and steps back. i mean it is a complicated relationship that we have with racism in this country, but what did you think about the president using the n-word? was it just for shock value? >> no i think that he was being honest in his assessment. to be completely honest i don't really care about those people who use this term just passively in some sense of just having their own racist dialogue. this conversation has to be much bigger than that. this conversation has to be much deeper than that. and, yes, it's complex, and yes, it's difficult but the president hit at the heart of the matter. this is not just about verb age. this is about action. it's about the fact that my good
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friend clementa pinckney will be lying in the state capitol but you have the confederate flag flying. it's about all the language and the symbols and things that are much deeper than that. >> we had a guest on pat hines the president of the south carolina league of the south. they believe in the confederate flag and they believe it flying they believe it honors their forefathers who lost their lives in the civil war. let me play for you his justification >>well we don't think that it's a symbol of hate number one. we don't hate anyone. if you see any of our literature we don't preach hate about anyone. we support the well being and independence of the southern people. that's where our nationalism comes in. we don't focus on that. >> what about they believe it's
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honoring their fore bearers who fought the fight. >> i want the gentleman to know that i'm a part of the quote, unquote, southern people. i completely understand wanting to honor individuals. i want to honor those nine people who died in that shooting on wednesday. i mean i want to honor henry smith and samuel -- and emmett till and martin malcolm, and rose. we can't have the symbols of devisiveness. the flag was put up as a resistance to civil rights progress. it's not as if the flag was put in the late 1800s or the beginning of the 1900s. no. it was put up during the middle in resistance to the progress we were making as a country. the flag is more than just something that flies at the hint of the slightest wind. this flag every time you pass it every time you take a deep breath turned it reopens those old wounds. it's hard to make progress educationally, socially
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economically when we're still dealing with the issues from the '40s, '50, and '60s. >> do you suggest because it flies at the state capitol that somehow influenced this depraved gunman to believing his own message somehow? >> well, i'm not -- and i've said this before. i'm not under any illusion. the flag didn't reload that .45 five times. the flag didn't have him sit in the bible study for an hour but the flag did give him a banner under which to justify his actions. that's a problem. i hope the country recognizes that's a problem. when all the cameras leave, when this story passes or there is another news break for something else we will still be in south carolina toiling in the vineyards every day so this back-breaking constitutional and systemic racism that has developed and morphed into the generations of poverty are alleviated. we're going to be fighting the same battles. one of the battles, the first
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battle on the forefront is the battle to take the flag down. >> mr. b aka ri sellers, thank you. thank you for having this conversation this morning. >> we want to know your take. please tweet us or post your comment on facebook.com/newday. the federal government is backing pope francis' position on global warming. an apa administrator helped craft the pontiff's climate change. she's going to be live on new day coming up. okay guys, we've got two cars here. we're going to start watching a movie in the chevy malibu. ♪ (kids laughing) he's flying ok guys, pause the movie we're going to watch the rest in the toyota camry. hit play again ehhh. what happened? you can't watch the movie. ugh... no network connection. who wants to go back in the chevy malibu? me! let's go! peace out! chevrolet. the first and only car company to bring built-in 4g lte wi-fi to cars, trucks and crossovers.
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all right. here we go with the fiver things to know. the search for two escaped killers shifts again. the manhunt centered on owls head new york. 25 miles west of the prison they escaped from more than two weeks ago. the south carolina church at the center of the deadly shooting massacre reopened sunday with messages of hope. this as we learned the suspected shooter is linked to a online manifesto.
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this morning the supreme court could issue its rulings on obamacare and same-sex marriages. justices decide lgd which states are eligible for health care subsidizes and if gay couples have a constitutional right to marry. nearly 2,000 firefighters battling a massive wild fire in san bernardino forest. hundreds of structures are threatened. 21-year-old jobrdan spieth becoming the youngest golfer to win the u.s. open since bobby jones in 1923. for more on the five thins s -- things to know visit online. the grandson of the cofounder of the terror group hamas is in the fight of his life. he's gay, lives in canada, and is christian. he's now fighting deportation.
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lori segal spoke with him. here is his one-on-one story. >> this is tuesday night for john calvin. his favorite gay bar, his favorite people. bin go and dancing in his current hometown in canada. for calvin it's better sweet because it might not last. he's fighting to keep from being sent from canada to the west bank. he said it's also a fight to stay alive. >> if you are sent back what will happen to you? >> it's a certain death. >> calvin is a christian convert. he's also gay. he said where he comes from is a deadly combination. he's the grandson of founder of hamas. he has five uncles in and out of prison for committing acts of terror. >> my family was very extremist. islam and hamas were the things
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that my family reinvolved around. >> at 14 he ran away from home illegally crossing the border to israel. he was arrested and sent to an israeli prison where he had an experience that changed his life. >> i was sexually assaulted by another fellow. i'm sorry. >> it was his treatment after the attack that he said turned his core believes upside down. israeli prison guards showed him compassion. >> for me that was the moment when i started breaking off from my believes. >> when he came back home he said he stafrted looking for meaning outside ma masshamas and found it in an unlikely place christianity. when his father found out, he said he tried to organize an honor killing. >> my father has actually sentenced to put me to death.
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>> calvin fled to canada where he applied for refugee protection. that application was denied. >> the evidence consisted of him essentially carrying some messages he hasn't read from one of his uncles to another one of his uncles. there was evidence someone had given him a handgun. he wasn't involved in any acts of terror. >> we called calvin's father. he denied being a member of hamas and said he never tried to kill his son. then he made a damming reference to saddam hussein's son-in-law who was killed after he defected. >> our family is no less dignified than saddam hussein's family. his faith may not be different than traitor general who is son-in-law of hussein's. >> the implication? he could be killed by the community. the canadian government would not depend specifically on calvin's case but a risk
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this morning a new report from the epa sounding a similar warning. we don't take action wild fires, extreme temperature changes, and storm surges well they could become the norm. here is agree that mccarthy who met with vatican officials earlier this year. thank you for joining us. >> it's great to be here with you. >> i understand you met with the pope's climate team. what was your take away from the meeting? >> we did. well we knew that the pope was serious. we wanted to let him know that the u.s. is taking strong domestic action, and we wanted to let him know there was hope that we could change the future if we take action now. >> in terms of the pope's view on the matter how is it changing the dialogue here? >> i think it is changing things. i think he stood up and made it a significant moral responsibility. he's reaching many many people with that message, and i think it's an opportunity for us to globally responsible to this challenge which deserves the
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needs of global response. as our report shows. >> it's interesting to see how highly politicized this topic is and even with the 2016 presidential contenders we're seeing them come out and make some statements. jeb bush for his part essentially saying he's not going to take matters of economic policy from the head of the catholic church. it does bring up an interesting question. is this outside the pope's purview? >> i don't think so. this is a moral issue. in fact it's one of the biggest issues of our time. it's about how we treat the natural resources that we were given to be stewarts of and how we make changes in order to preserve a future for our kids. if you look at the report that epa put out today, we take a look at what unmitigated climate change results in in terms of impact to the u.s. and then we take a look at what global action can mean in terms of benefits to human lives, to our property to the safety of our communities, to the natural
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resources we love and to the economy of this country. it's pretty startling information. people should pay attention to it but it's hopeful as well. because if we take action now globally we can make a significant difference in the quality of the life of our children and we can make it a safer, healthier place for them to live. >> we know the president is paying attention. how will the pope's -- how will the epa report how do you think that -- well i guess there's the hope and the reality of how it's going to impact the policies that he chooses to implement domestically. >> i think we have to look at what people are feeling today. the pope two years ago stood up and said climate change is a moral responsibility. we have to take action. he said domestically we're going to come out strong, but we're going to do that with the global community and hopes that leaders can get together and make this global action happen. so epa is moving forward with domestic action as other parts of the administration are. we're going to show that the u.s. is providing leadership. we're going to bring that global
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action to the table. we're going to meet our responsibility and we're going to avoid the damages that otherwise would happen if we continue to have our heads in the sand. >> okay. so heads in the sand. you probably get a chance to make this argument all the time. dinner parties, at the bus stop et. cetera et. cetera. i'm going to give you a chance to do it here. how do you convince somebody as you say, has their head in the sand who says i don't buy it. i don't believe it i think it is a bunch of trief rhetoric. how do you convince somebody that says no climate change isn't what it is made out to be? >> most of the people on the street ask us why we're not doing more. businesses forward and say government isn't doing more? >> fair enough. the critics are vocal. >> the critics are vocal are deniers. the rest of the people want government to provide the leadership we were brought here to provide which is to keep them
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safe and healthy and to hand the world to our children in a shape that we can be proud of. climate change is not a belief system. it is a fact. this is science. so epa is putting the science on the table. we're providing all the information. we're showing that in fact if you actually take action today, you will save significant lives. thousands of lives every year. you are going to save precious resources that we all care about. you're going to address issues of extreme drought, you're going to reduce the amount of acreage that is destroyed by wild fires, and this is an important issue that we all need to erase. it's not political. it's science. we can do it. we always have. >> gin amc cara mccarthy, thank you very much. how we can prevent a global catastrophe before it happens. you can get more information at
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cnn.com/2degrees. again cnn.com/2 degreedegrees. >> it's a horrible laundry list that the charleston massacre brings to mind. aurora, columnbinecolumbine, newtown, and charleston. all mass killings carried out by young white men with obvious problems. is it a coincidence? if not, why do we keep seeing it? we'll discuss with someone who has an answer.
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unfortunately charleston now has to be added to the list of -- when we think about places that are marred by shootings by young white males whether it is newtown, aurora now here. we keep hearing about this and the person who commits the crime seems to fit a demographic. is it just coincidence we decide to cover? here is somebody who understands this. he's the author of "columnbine"columbine." >> our impression is the mass shootings are carried out by young 20 something white males. is that accurate? >> not completely. that was my impression too. because because, when you look list of them. mother jones -- >> how do they define mass shooting? >> i believe they did it as anyone with more than four
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killed. had to be a gun involved but could be other types of death like one involved in fire as well. didn't have to be completely shooting. >> what did they find? >> if you look at the top ten, which are the known ones we see on television. i think we're seeing and basing our judgments off of. we haven't seen the other 60. those there are seven are white, one black that is recent a couple of years ago, and two asians. thing my mind i brushed as the asians as aberrations, you know, the black more recent. i was thinking, you know all white. if you look at the whole list, it turns out that whites and blacks are pretty proportionate to their list. latinos are nowhere to be seen. if they are they're close to the bottom. asians continue to be represented more than two and a half times all the way through out. >> i wish we could make sense of this. i wish that everything you're
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saiding could lead us to a prediction and we could stop it. i don't know if the race is as important as the personality characteristics. do you see a pattern in the personality characteristics? >> there's other patterns in there. there's interesting things that the age group. >> first of all, male of the 70 68 were male. we know that. males do most of the gun violence especially that age range. >> yes, yes. age is very important. if you look at the list i was surprised i color coded here. almost all of them fell into one of two categories. one is sort of late adolescence sort of like 18 to 22 that, you know just post adolescence. the other group is in their 40s. that second group is much bigger. especially as you go lower down the list. you can't see here there's, like 20 in a row who are in their 40s. >> how many are seen as having been predictly mentally ill? >> they're scattered. this data had looked like at
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least half them. i'm not sure i trust all their conclusions here. particularly in columbine -- >> you don't think they were mentally ill? >> depending how you define it. dylan was depressive. eric was just a psycho path. one of the big problems there is almost all these end in suicide or death of the perpetrator so it's harder looking back to get good data on that. if you include depression really, really heavily, you're talking about mental illness in terms of schizophrenia or somebody who doesn't understand. >> addiction that isn't treated properly not taking their meds it's as dangerous as anything. >> yes, it is. if you include that much more than half. >> chris and i share an opinion about not saying the gunman's name if we can avoid it. we try not to say the name because it is our impression they're seeking media notoriety.
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is that accurate? >> i believe so. i wrote a piece for buzz feed about that that caused a lot of controversy. and the picture except when we're trying to catch it. anderson cooper and megan kelly have a strict edict about that. >> i think we started it. >> great. thank you. i think it is a huge part of it. if you look at the list there's two groups the smaller events are the ones who are practical. it's a revenge, a workplace, a boss a girlfriend. >> they're getting back at someone. i'm interested in the stranger shooting. >> yes, which is most of the top ten. and most of the big ones. they don't care about any of the people involved. they're just bodies. they're doing it as a spect call and over time they have learned they need to get in our top ten or they have to do something more horrific like
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going after little kids like at newtown or going in a church. it's theater. and, yes, the more we can rob them of the satisfaction. i think it's crucial. >> dave cullen thank you so much. the book is "columnme"columbine." >> show you're going to love yourselves through it and disfuse whatever hate. thank you very much. this has been a tough day. there's a lot of tough news. you know what happens on this show. the good stuff coming up next. ny wrinkle creams come with high hopes, but hope... doesn't work on wrinkles. clinically proven neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair with the fastest retinol formula available, it works on fine lines and even deep wrinkles. you'll see younger looking skin in just one week. stop hoping for results, and start seeing them. rapid wrinkle repair...
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