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isis says it is responsible for the murderous rampage at a hotel and in kuwait. new york police believe they are closing in on escaped murderer david sweat. the other fugitive richard matt has been shot dead. >> cheers and hugs on one side outrage on the other. the u.s. supreme court's ruling to legalize same-sex marriage.
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>> hello, everyone. welcome to our viewers in the ice and around the world. i'm michael holmes. first to my colleague becky answerens who's in tunisia with more on the horrific terror attacks. becky. >> thank you, michael. dozens of people are dead and hundreds more are wounded after terrorists strike three countries. isis says it was behind friday's assaults in kuwait and here in tunisia. france also rocked by violence. a mosque a factory and hotel were the targets. a gunman opened fire killing at least 38 people at this seaside resort in sousse tunisia. kuwait has declared today a national day of mourning in the wake of a suicide bomb attack at a shiite mosque killing at least 27 people and wounding hundreds
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and a man on france's terror watch list is believed to have triggered an explosion at a u.s. owned factory near lyon. he is also accused of leaving a severed head on a fence outside of that factory. >> this hotel here was a chaotic scene. isis claims the gunman was an engineering student who is from a nearby town. the prime minister said his targets were all around him. >> the terrorists moved in to the impeer yol hotel and entered carrying a weapon inside of an umbrella. he got in to the imperial beach, pulled out his gun and started shooting randomly. >> at least one witness said the gunman fired steadily for 30
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seconds. french tourist describes what she saw. >> i was on the beach and about 50 100 meters from the resort. within i don't know space of two minutes, a guy walked on to the beach and dropped what i seen was an umbrella. it was a massive gun of some sort. like in the army. he was firing and i got quick possible look to my right and seen this and shouted run, there's a gun. >> outside here on a busy morning outside of here. what do we know about what's going on inside of that hotel? >> what we are seeing becky and we are seeing it all around us is exodus. buses. i have lost count of how many filled with tourists not just from this hotel but from all of
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the hotels in the region. clearly filled with tourists who decide as a result of the events here to end their holidays early and head home. perhaps understand blichlt inside the place is shut down. more security police come and go. a military presence here this morning. >> what do we know of the details of the attack yesterday? >> what we are hearing from the interior ministry as they have heard from witnesses it started on the beach. you can imagine the scene. family s. hundreds of people along the long stretch of coastline including their holiday when suddenly this man started shooting. all of the witnesses say they thought it was fireworks. they didn't know what they were hearing. then came the panic, the flees for their lives literally. and what the interior ministry said they didn't stop but made his way to the swimming pool in to the lobby and car park behind us here. this is where he was eventually stopped. >> this is terrifying. our viewers will be well aware of area like this is absolutely
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full of hotels here. some 100 hotels just in this area alone. tourism so important to this country. you were in tunisia three months ago when gunmen attacked the muz seem in tunis. this is a soft target as that was. >> indeed. tourism is so important. the number one industry in this country really. after that attack a lot of people around the world there was concern what it would do to the industry the country and political stability and that sort of thing. a lot of people said we are still with you but here we are again, less than four month s later, western tour ists have been massacred here again. another holiday. this has to do damage. not just in perception but reality that tourism, the economic strength and perhaps the political stability of this country, as well. >> 38 dead at the hotel behind
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me. to kuwait a country that hasn't seen a terror attack on its soil in over two decades. sadly that's no longer the case. isis is claiming its behind the explosion that ripped through a shiite mosque in kuwait city during friday prayer. the group is calling it a suicide bombing. that blast reportedly killed at least 27 worshipers and left 200 more wounded. this video shows the aftermath inside the mosque rubble and blood seen scattered across the carpet. saturday is declared a day of mourning there in kuwait for the victims. for the latest i want to bring in cnn correspondent joining me live from amman in jordan. what is the reaction been from authorities there? >> well becky, what we are hearing from the kuwaiti state news agency saying the interior ministry is interrogating a number of people suspected of
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involvement in the attack on the imam mosque. 200 wounded. devastating attack for a country that's been immune to the kind of violence sectarian violence we have seen in countries like neighboring iraq for example for the shia minority there. it's a shock for the entire nation as we have heard from people yesterday, from witnesses. also the government there say this is not going to impact that solidarity an national unity they see in their country. of course becky, it is a classic kind of tactic by isis. they are trying to stoke the sectarian divisions, trying to inflame the sectarian tensions we have seen in this region. really spreading and really translating in to bloodshed, like we have seen in places like iraq syria and yemen.
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becky, very similar attacks we have seen taking place in saudi arabia n the eastern part of the country where there's a shia minority there. targeting shia mosques there. real concern now this is a real message from isis saying they are able to strike even countries that thought they were relatively immune from this sort of violence. becky? >> warning from the militants group that those countries who are involved in this international coalition fighting them across syria and iraq would be in focus and targets for them. kuwait saudi, the uae for example. whaeps what happens next? >> well of course these countries have been concerned about this situation. there's concern about this -- about the group's ability to strike within these countries,
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whether it is people inside these countries or attacks carried out from those returning who may have taken part in fighting with syria or iraq. we would expect the countries would be on high alert a message from isis that it is able to strike at anytime, anywhere. whether it is a coordinated attacks or attacks inspired by this extremist group. we are seeing this new kind of terror attack taking place across the world. of course concern for these countries, becky. but again, real reminder here, that to defeat and fight group it is not only the military solution we are seeing take place in iraq or syria. more needs to be done on the ideological front and fighting the group's ideology and ability to recruit so many and carry out attacks like this. >> jomana thank you.
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live from our london bureau a professor of middle eastern politics at the london school of economics and regular guest on cnn. there seems to be no evidence of tactical coordination between these attacks in tunisia here in france and in kuwait. certainly a common thread. your analysis. >> you are absolutely correct, becky. there's no -- we don't know. no seemingly coordination for the attacks but i think there is a threat running through the three attacks yesterday. it is a traveling ideology. it is a spreading ideology. a mutating ideology and that's the ideology that the global jihadist movement. so you have different parts now
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of militants. you have the islamic state that most likely carried out the attacks in kuwait. a classical suicide bombing against a shia community. we have seen multiple attacks against sheia mosques. the attack in tunisia is the most alarming and strategic opposed to tactical. it is a strategic pattern emerging in the last few months to attack the nerve center of the country, to paralyze the government to bleed the economy. to basically derail the transitional process. tunisia is one of the most promising countries in the arab world. by target ing the economy and as your correspondent has made it very clear, the economy, the tourism sector is the nerve center of the economy. it employs 500,000 tunisians. 500,000 tunisians and employment
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in tunisia is almost 40%. in march and now it seems to me these networks extremists are really targeting the strategic nerve center of tunisia and successfully and that's why it is very alarming. >> the authorities haven't named the young engineering student that isis says was responsible for the attack on the hotel behind me in which 38 people were killed. we don't know for example, whether this young man was trained in libya. one telling me the libyan isis those militants associated with isis in libya seem to have a strategy of focusing on training sympathizers in countries, neighboring countries like here in tunisia and in egypt. perhaps with the intention of drawing these two countries.
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for example nato interwar. and when you talk about the kuwait attack as well what we are seeing here is as much the militant group isis doing internal issues and aggravation within these countries as it is tachly targeting westerners and others at these mosques and hotels. >> well becky, yes. we don't have the information yet. we know that what happened yesterday is a strategic target. we know what happened in march in ton nis nis was a stra teej ic target. so this particular attack is strategic, not tactical. we also know that libya has emerged as a major source of supplies of weapons, of training and fighters. and even though they don't have the information, it seems to me
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that the message, the networks the militant networks whether al qaeda or the islamic state basically is really trying to paralyze the tunisian economy to break down to bring down the government. first you are attacking the nerve center of the government and secondly you are punishing western citizens who are part of the so-called u.s.-led campaign against isis. so you are hitting two targets. you are hitting the fragile tunisian government that has social and economic problems on its hands and westerners who believe they are part of this particular coalition against you. that's why even though we don't know yet the identity the ideological identity of the attacker we know the goal is strategic and we know the strategic pattern emerged even though we don't say anything
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about the attacks in lyons. you have certain individuals who take jihad or jihadism in to their own hands and basically carry out attacks. in the last few months in particular the top leaders of isis have made it clear that if you don't join the islamic state in iraq and syria you must take action in to your own hands. you must carry out the so-called individual jihad. as you said earlier we have separate parts now of militancy. organized networks. separate inspiration and mow ty vags and of course classical isis attacks in kuwait and saudi arabia and yemen attacking basically places of worship particularly in the months of ramadan, the holiest month of islam. this tells you about the insidious nature of this ideology and this particular group.
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>> viewers, stay with cnn. we will have more on the terror attacks later this hour. for more news let's get back to michael holmes in atlanta, georgia. >> we will check in with you later in the program. now to a landmark ruling. the u.s. supreme court has legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states. it was a split decision. five judges voting in favor. four conservative judges against. gay rights supporters welcoming the historic decision outside of the nation's top court. several same-sex couples prenltedprenlt presented cases. barack obama quickly hailing it as a civil rights victory. >> this morn ing the supreme court recognized that the constitution guarantees marriage equality. in doing so they have reaffirmed that all americans are entitled to the equal
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protection of the law. people should be treat equal, regardless of who they are or who they love. >> not everyone's celebrating. we will show you anti-gay marriage protesters outside of the supreme court on friday. many other americans believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. chief justice john roberts wrote the dissenting opinion saying the court redefined the view of marriage that had been accepted throughout history. the governor of alabama traditionally a conservative state making the same argument to cnn affiliate wbic. >> we have to go obviously by what the courts say, but i certainly can disagree with them and i do. i think this is an incorrect ruling. i think it should be left up to the states. if government should be involved in marriage at all. >> authorities in hot pursuit of
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>> welcome back everyone. to the u.s. state of new york now. we are following developments this manhunt for those two escaped killers. law enforcement sources say police may be closing in on convicted murderer david sweat. sweat's accomplice richard matt was killed in a shootout with a border patrol tactical team on friday. authorities set up a prim er the in the area but they say they don't actually have eyes on sweat at the moment. we have more now on how police are trying to track him down. >> the search for the remaining fugitive david sweat is only expected to intensify throughout the night. investigators are focusing much
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of their efforts here in franklin county new york. not far from the canadian border. investigators have said from the beginning if a major crack in the case happened it would be with the help of the eyes and ears of the public. that's how investigators were led to an area not far from where i am standing here. a tactical team that essentially comprised of federal agents faced off with one of the agents richard matt. officials say he was armed with a shotgun. they confronted him friday afternoon. shots were fired. officers forced to shoot and kill this convicted killer. the main search is now trying to track down this remaining fugitive. as for the people who live in a few homes along this rugged remote landscape, many people not spending the night here anymore. folks trying to stay with friends here going with what investigators and authorities have been asking the folks that are choosing to stay behind they are locking the doors as investigators continue to track
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down this man who was serving time for shooting and killing a sheriffs deputy in 2002. so investigators are taking no chances tonight. they are heavily armed as they continue to scour the woods here in upstate new york. >> david sweat, a convicted cop killer is likely growing more desperate and may not go down without a fiechlt earlier we spoke to cnn contributor about the likelihood that sweat will come out of this alive. >> there's no question about it. these were two very dangerous people. david sweat fired and shot a deputy sheriff 22 times. i mean these were people, these two individuals were clearly murderers and had nothing to lose. the fact that nobody else, no civilian was hurt is absolutely miraculous. the key now is to bring sweat in alive. whether or not that's possible, i don't know. we're hearing he is very
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dehydrated. he is probably suffering from dysentary. he is probably fearful right now. he knows matt has been shot. he's got no place to go. it's only a matter of time. so if he was smart he'd put his hands up and walk in to the open where he would then be arrested. he -- to go back to a prison under these circumstances is probably not an easy thing but it's far better to do that than being shot to death. >> police say they are looking in to several leads on david sweat's whereabouts an have over 1,000 officers in the area to try to smoke him out. extreme heat easing a bit in karachi, pakistan. the temperature on friday only 37 degrees celsius, 100 degrees fahrenheit.
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that's down from a high of 44. the heat wave claiming more than 1100 lives so far. hospitals overflowing with patients suffering from extreme dehydration. the elderly and the young are the most affected. >> we are following breaking news. of course the terror attacks on three continents. up next we will head back to tunisia, live with becky anderson with more on the mass shooting at a luxury resort there. try new aveeno® sheer hydration. its active naturals® oat formula... ...goes on feather light. absorbs in seconds... ...keeps skin healthy looking... ...and soft. aveeno®. naturally beautiful results. you know, when i started my business, a lot of people didn't believe in me. but things took off when i got a domain and built my website all at godaddy. now i can tell the doubters to stick it. hey, honey. stick it! stick it! stick it! nana? hi... stick it! can you give your mommy a message for me? stick it!
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i'm becky anderson in tunisia for you. an update on the top stories we are following this hour. dozens of people are dead and
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hundreds wounded. isis has claimed responsibility for the murders at this tunisian resort and a kuwait mosque. french authorities say a man on terror watch list was behind the explosion at a u.s.-owned factory. two people were wounded and a decapitated body was found. law enforcement sources say officers in upstate new york may be closing in on escaped killer david sweat. a massive search is underway for the fugitive after his accomplice richard matt was killed in a shootout with authorities on friday. both men broke out of a maximum security prison three weeks ago. and gay rights supporters u.s. supreme court legalizes same-sex marriage across all 50 states. supporters welcome the historic decision outside of the nation's top court. the justices split 5-4 in a ruling. the government in the attack here at the hotel behind me is
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said to be an engineering student from a nearby town. a spokesman for the interior ministry said he was in his 20s and specialized in electronics for his master's degree. he wasn't having terror connections an his parents are being detained. i is also believed he worked in the tourism industry and may be how he knew the hotel's layout. no indication of foreign travel on his passport. isis claims it is behind the attack. two u.s. officials think the terror group inspired the student but didn't dispatch him. let's bring in our senior international correspondent nick peyton walsh who is joining me. i know the hotel is closed. a couple of hours ago you had a chance to go in. what did you see. >> you can walk through the lobby to the beach, the scene of the massacre. last night, in the dark, you could see military humvee parked
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there. minimum police presence. remarkable giving the global attention it is getting. we see not that many police officers around the hotel itself. the access one could get from walking straight in there was open as well. a lot of guests at the hotel still in the lobby there. they are at the scene of the crime they have witnessed and had to wait hours to leave. the tourists with nowhere else to go they can't simply go home. they had to wait to get out. there were fears of more than one gunman and people are coming to terms with what they have seen and their own losses and i'm afraid to say the gruesome detail but they are still washing with the blood of the victims away behind us. >> what do we know of the details of this attack? at one stage, there it was thought there was more than one attacker. >> it is still possible there is
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more than one individual involved in this. they say there is one gunman. it appears the gunman wasn't targeting tunisians, more focusing on foreigners. we know from what we can see on the video that he seemed to make his first approach along the beach front to the hotel. that's where the shooting began. he moved up from there through the pool side a large pool area typical to many hotels after the beach and then the lobby here. more tourists and guests of the hotel were shot in this car park area. he appears to have tried to run to the right side where he ran in to security forces. minimum information at this stage. there's a name which we are not releasing until we are absolutely sure about it. but a 24-year-old man who is said to have a good attendance record at school. perhaps hung out with the pot smoking crowd. so that fits in the behavior you
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have seen in the attacks. they have a history. maybe finding radicalism that emboddens their life strategy. >> it didn't seem he had evidence of foreign travel some talk he may have been before ta piece of information came out, may have been trained in libya. most likely a sympathizer to those who are working the isis feat. this tourism industry is so important to this economy. there is something like 100 hotels an here. we have seen buses all morning taking tourists away. how important are these soft targets to a group like isis? >> look at the response in this town. it is struggling to understand what to do. this is a place where giving out -- has been the major trade not worrying if there is an isis attack on the hotel .
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you can imagine the impossible task of militarizing a place like this for the possible of one lone gunman. there is nothing on his passport that he went abroad. but a massive border between here and libya. a lot of people sympathizing with isis in tunisia. some say around here as well. the equipment and training the influences he would have required to do this and then the task of how does a country dependent on tour ism. you don't want to come to a place where you have to walk past armed men to go to beach. how do you deal with that issue particularly what is happening in libya which is a civil conflict compounded by isis. finding a space to establish their own. >> thank you very much. as nick was talking, did actually see a police van behind me.
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as nick rightly points out very little security presence here given the weight of this story. i want to get you to kuwait which is waking up to the aftermath of the first terror attack in that country in more than two decades. an explosion at a shiite mosque killed 27 and wounded 200 others. it happened during friday prayers, traditionally the busiest time of the week. isis has claimed responsibility for its calling a suicide bombing. today has been declared a day of mourning for the victims. ben weidman has the latest. >> cell phone video shows worshipers walking through a dust and rubble filled interior many with their white robes splattered in blood. the mosque had been full of worshipers there for friday prayers during the whole month of ramadan.
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when the suicide bomber detonated his explosives. a cnn producer went 0 the hospital where most of the injured were taken. >> we saw people crying and screaming. the whole country is in shock. >> i think what we are seeing is part of an isis, ramadan offensive. ramadan started last week. traditionally these acts occur during this month. >> kuwait has not seen attacks of this kind, despite its proximity to iraq. some analysts save see the attack as an intent to further stoke sectarian conflict in the region. it is unfortunate that the jihadist terrorists in this case isis stand to gain from exacerbating the tension between the shiites and sunnis in the region. >> it was reminiscent of two other bombings in saudi arabia also on fridays and claimed by isis. on may 29th, the suicide bomber dressed in female clothing was stopped outside of a shia mosque.
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the bomber set off explosives killing himself and three worshipers. a week earlier, a suicide bomber detonated himself at a different shia mosque killing 21 worshipers. ben wedeman, cnn, amman. >> well french authorities are investigating the motive by the terror attack at a gas factory on friday. a man set off a blast injuring two people. authorities then found a severed head hanging from a fence at the factory with islamic writing nearby. officers found a decapitated body who authorities say is the suspect's body. they later took that suspect in to custody. michael, you can see there's a lot of activity here now behind me. the hotel where 38 people lost
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their lives yesterday here in tunisia. hotels are now closed. we see buses going in all morning. a lot of activity. another bus coming out now, taking tour ists away from what was a murder site. very frightening experience for everybody involved. >> i was there, i think 2011 and you know, it was then real oasis in many ways in the region for european tourists. there were thousands and thousands of tourists who loved to go there for the beaches and the atmosphere and the comparative stability. what have you been feeling there? what's your sense among people that you have been able to talk to? >> yeah. you talk to the taxi drivers and people working in the hotels here and when we got up this morning -- it's now, what quarter to 9:00 in the morning. when we got up half past 5:00
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we got up late last night. it was very quiet, it would be at that time but now when the street would be bustling with tour ists walking from the hotel to the shops just beyond me here nobody around apart from the media. the hotel closed. you are right. the impact that an attack like this will have on a small town like this -- there are 100 hotels i'm told just on this strip alone. this is a strip of about 15 20 minutes. probably take a half hour, 40 minutes to drive the main drag here. clearly an enormous impact on things here. look this is a government that's struggling any way. under the weight of an economy that is really, really struggling. a lot of poverty and a lot of unemployment. when i spoke to one taxi driver this morning, he's actually the
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head of the union of taxi drivers here in this region. he said, look these youngsters are unemploy ed and a lot of poverty in the region despite there is a big tourist industry here. they get influenced. they said it is up to the parents, he said to keep their kids around them and stop them from being influenced by this sort of extremist ideology. when you have problems this country has, clearly these kids are looking to the wrong sort of information at this point. but, yeah this is -- this was a country post 2011 of course which looked like it might be the successful story so far is a democratic feature is concerned it is trying but struggling. and this is a soft target. >> it is. still one of the healthier economies in africa of course but with tourism around 20% of gdp this will have an impact.
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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. now to greece where the prime minister alexis tsipras has called a referendum on whether to accept a new bailout proposal from the euro group. the country votes july 5th, but the existing agreement expires next tuesday. tsipras calls the current proposal a quote blackmailing ultimatum and he is urging people to vote no. >> translator: it was asked of the greek government to accept a proposal that puts new heavy burdens on the greek people. and under mines the growth of greek society and its economy
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that not only maintains uncertainty and increases social inequalities. >> if greece does not make the $1.5 billion payment by tuesday, it would become the first developed economy to default on the imf. history made in the u.s. same-sex marriage becomes legal across the country. the u.s. supreme court ruled on friday the states can no longer ban marriage between gay and lesbian couples. the nine justices were split 5-4 in that decision. we'll show you now the colors of pride. the rainbow there splashed across the white house in washington. a tribute to the court's historic decision. cnn's justice correspondent pamela brown with more now from washington. >> celebrations erupted on the steps of the supreme court. right after the decision was handed down.
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♪ oh say does that "the star spangled banner" ♪ >> they led the crowd singing the national anthem. ♪ >> the supreme court was divided on the issue in 5-4 split decision. right leaning justice kennedy broke the majority opinion saying, quote, no union is more profound than marriage. it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice and family. saying gay couples ask for equal dignities in the eyes of law. the constitution grants them that right. the lead plaintiff and face of the historic case fought on behalf of his marriage to his now deceased husband john. >> it is my hope the term gay marriage will be a thing of the past. that from this day forward it will be simply marriage. i love you, this is for you, john. >> reporter: an incredible moment, he received a phone call from the president while live on cnn. >> i want to say congratulations. >> thank you so much, sir. >> your leadership on this has
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changed the country. >> i really appreciate that, mr. president. >> the u.s. is now the 21st country in the world to recognize same-sex marriage nationwide. >> this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all loving same-sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land. >> the opposition to the decision was strong. reading from the bench chief justice john roberts said, quote, do not celebrate the constitution. it has nothing to do with it. and justice clarence thomas said the court's decision is at odds not only with the constitution but the principles on which our nation was built. today history was made on behalf of all americans who argue that marriage is a fundamental right for everyone. >> today's ruling from the supreme court affirms what millions across this country already know to be true in our
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hearts, our love is equal. ♪ >> reporter: pamela brown, cnn, washington. >> and now back to the latest developments in the maun for two escaped fugitives in the u.s. state of new york. after three weeks on the run, one of the convicted murderers, richard matt on the left there was killed on friday in a shootout with border patrol tactical team. authority s now in hot pursuit of the other escapee, david sweat. police say they are looking in to several leads on his whereabouts but still have not located him. he was a revered pastor and lawmaker. clementa pinckney was remembered on friday by thousands including the u.s. president. more on that when we come back. you know, when i started my business, a lot of people didn't believe in me. but things took off when i got a domain and built my website all at godaddy. now i can tell the doubters to stick it. hey, honey. stick it!
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. u.s. president barack obama delivering a moving eulogy and political message on race in america at the funeral for the man on your screen reverend clementa pinckney. he was the pastor gunned down during last week's massacre at a
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historically black church. cnn's martin savidge with more. >> a charleston arena became a sanctuary and a crowd of 5500 its congregation. remembering those gunned down in a racially motivated massacre in one of the nation's es oldest black churches. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the service was more celebration than somber. noting the gunman's intent to divide people by race did the opposite. >> someone should have told the young man. he wanted to start a race war. but he came to the wrong place. >> reporter: for the president it was personal. clementa pinckney helped president obama's campaign. >> he embodied the idea that our christian faith demands needs, not just words. >> the president's eulogy quickly went beyond the victims to challenging a nation to confront the issue of race, guns and even the confederate flag. >> removing the flag from this
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state's capital would not be an act of political correctness. it would not be an insult to the valor of confederate soldiers. it would simply be an acknowledgment that the cause for which they fought, the cause of slavery was wrong. >> the nation's first african-american president didn't stop there. the brought up the issues of voter rights and hiring practices, all seen anew in the aftermath of the killings. >> maybe we now realize the way racial bias can affect us, even when we don't realize it. so then we are regarding not just against racial slurs but also the subtle impulse to call johnny back for a job interview but not jamal. >> also in the audience were federal and state lawmakers and
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two presidential candidates were there. and the president seemed to speak to them, warning that america cannot forget. >> it would be a betrayal of everything reverend pinckney stood for, i believe, if we allow ourselves to slip in to a comfortable silence again. >> reporter: the president ended by noting how the people of charleston had risen above hate. how the victims' families had forgiven the killer. all showing grace and amazing grace. ♪ amazing grace how sweet the sound ♪ >> martin savidge, charleston, south carolina. >> thank you for watching everyone. i'm michael holmes. becky anderson will join me shortly for another round of cnn newsroom.
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