a massive wildfire jumps on to a highway, setting cars ablaze in california. we'll have a live update ahead. investigators piece together new information about the suspected gunman in that shooting spree in tennessee. they want to know why. also ahead, some kenyans call it a victory over terrorism. a shopping complex in nairobi reopens two years after a horrific terror attack. we want to welcome our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world who are watching. we appreciate it. i'm natalie allen. this is "cnn newsroom."

families are grieving today in the state of tennessee and authorities are scouring the life of a young man they say shot and killed four american marines. investigators found the total of four guns after the shootings in chattanooga. they say mohammad abdulazeez had three on him and a rifle was found at his home. federal authorities are treating the shooting as an act of terrorism. >> there are too many of the warning signs. the targets are identical to the targets called by isis to attack. so, my judgment in my experience is that this was an isis-inspired attack. >> that's his opinion. so far, they are treated it as a terror investigation right now. thursday's attack happened at two military sites, the first that recruiting center. several of the marines were combat veterans. when the shooting started, a senior defense official says those marines went into combat mode.

they had everyone drop to the floor and then leave through the back. reports say the marines helped save all seven lives at that center. no one was hurt there. many people who knew the suspect say they don't understand the motive. authorities are still working on that as well. over the past day, though we have learned a lot more about mohammad abdulazeez. here's cnn's drew griffin. [ shots ] >> reporter: now an official terror investigation, officials scouring every detail of mohammad youssuf abdulazeez's life focusing on the 24-year-old's time in the middle east where he may have become radicalized. >> we have asked our intelligence partners throughout the world to provide us with any information they may have concerning his travel. >> reporter: starting in 2005 he traveled to both kuwait and jordan. the "wall street journal" reports he took several trips to jordan more recently spending as much as seven months in the

country. a friend told cnn, "something happened over there. he never became close to me like he was before he went overseas." the friend goes on to say "i am sure he had something that happened to him overseas." in school in tennessee, the kid described as funny and friendly took on two tough sports mixed martial arts and wrestling. in his redbank high school yearbook he asked an intriguing question -- "my name causes national security alerts. what does yours do?" in fact his father was a subject of a post-9/11 fbi probe into donations his father made to overseas charities, but the elder abdulazeez was never charged with any crime. in 2009 there was trouble in the family. abdulazeez's mother filed for divorce. in court papers she charged her husband was physically abusive, both to her and her children. the case was dismissed. we believe they are still together. friends say abdulazeez started going to this mosque more frequently in recent months. three months ago, he began

working here at a cable and wire plant near nashville, tennessee. about the same time he had his only known brush with the law, arrested on a dui charge. the police report noted erratic driving, slurred speech, the smell of marijuana and white powder under his nose. co-workers say abdulazeez did not show up for work on monday and tuesday, calling out sick. also on monday just three days before the shooting this ominous statement, allegedly posted by abdulazeez. "brothers and sisters," he wrote, "this life is short and bitter. the opportunity to submit to allah may pass you by." still, a high school friend expressed the shock that most everyone we spoke to seems to share. >> how can this be mohammad? he wouldn't hurt a fly, but he killed people. >> reporter: drew griffin, cnn, chattanooga. >> as drew mentioned, abdulazeez traveled last year to the middle east to jordan to visit his uncle, we're told.

that's according to jordanian sources. a friend says abdulazeez came back from that trip a changed person very distant. jordan is not considered an isis hotbed but cnn's nick paton walsh told us earlier it could have been a jumping off point to another place in the middle east. >> it is a place of transits of course and i'm sure authorities are trying to work out if a trip to jordan was the extent of his travels in the region. but after that frankly, it is speculation. i think the key issue with people these days the lone wolves for example, that that radicalization could occur online back in the united states. he could simply be here on family visits and meet other people who are like-minded. it's extraordinarily hard i think, for investigators to work out what that key, pivotal moment when someone chooses to commit that crime is and who necessarily inspires it. so they'll be piecing together who he potentially met here to see if there were individuals who gave him a window on a particular ideology or suggested a particular crime to him.

but also bear in mind the violence he committed in tennessee doesn't at this stage appear to have required particularly lengthy training like bomb-making, like other previous al qaeda attackers in the u.s. have had in the middle east. this is a man who got high-powered weapons and shot them at relatively open targets. that doesn't necessarily suggest he needed to go to a training camp so to speak. people will be asking to work out whether or not some sort of ideology or the idea for the crime was hatched here in the middle east while he was here. >> and the men he allegedly shot we're learning more about them so we want to share that with you now. thomas sullivan was originally from massachusetts. he joined the military in '97 and served three hours of duty and was a two-time purple heart recipient. staff sergeant david wyatt enlisted in the marines in 2004 and served in both iraq and afghanistan. carson holmquist served two tours in afghanistan. the wisconsin native had been in the military six years. and skip wells was from

marietta georgia. he studied at georgia's southern university before becoming a marine last year. a spokesperson for his family had this to say to reporters. >> i think they're doing as well as anybody can expect. it's grief and it's shock in waves. ms. wells was watching the events reported of the events in chattanooga. she was aware that skip was in harm's way, and she was notified yesterday afternoon by a team of marines that he was actually one of the ones killed. she has gathered friends, family and support and i believe is coping. she has a lot to do and we as friends are trying to make sure she only has to do that what she has to and we'll take care of the rest for her. she has a lot of guardian angels at this point. >> that's good to know. she'll need a lot of them for

some time. many organizations help the families of fallen members of the military. if you would like to find out more about that program, for a list and more how you can help chattanooga heal please visit cnn's "impact your world" page. that is cnn.com/impact. well parts of a california highway were just reopened after 20 vehicles were destroyed when a massive wildfire jumped the freeway and they caught fire it seemed vehicle by vehicle. now, the drivers, they had gotten out. they scrambled to safety in time. some climbed a nearby mountain we're told. they were screaming, and we were told some got physically ill, probably from inhaling the smoke. they were vomiting as they ran away. officials say the brush fire grew to more than 1,400 hectares in just four hours. that's 3,500 acres. one driver says he saw traffic

come to a standstill. >> on my way southbound on the i-15 freeway, traffic was kind of backed up which is not an unusual experience for us. currently there's a lot of construction work going on right now on the i-15. but about halfway down the cajon pass i noticed that traffic had been completely stopped by the california highway patrol. you could see the flames kind of moving from the west side of the i-15 towards the freeway, and basically, we just watched it as it literally jumped over the freeway and started fire on the other side. >> as frightening as that scene looks, we are told that no one was injured. so they must have gotten out and gotten out fast in time. but the fire however is still going strong. it's now threatening about 50 buildings. let's bring in meteorologist

derek van dam. derek, you were saying earlier, it looks like something from -- >> scenes from a movie. >> from a movie set, absolutely. >> it really does yeah. and you can see just how strong the wind was over this area. i've driven natalie, on interstate 15. this is popular between los angeles and las vegas. and it really does have this trifecta of weather scenarios to bring together just this perfect kind of fuel for the flames, needless to say. and really what we've got here is very low humidity. it goes through the mojave desert for instance and temperatures regularly get above 100 degrees fahrenheit within this area. and of course there's winds that just funnel down the mountainside. so really that is creating the perfect conditions for these fires to burn so quickly. >> they are really lucky that no one, you know that everyone got out and didn't get hit by those flying embers. >> and they had, you know 70 parked cars. it made it very difficult for some of the firefighting trucks to come through and to douse the flames. and believe it or not, natalie, there was actually a drone that

halted some of the aircraft that were trying to put out the fires. so, not good news there. i don't know why anybody would want to fly a drone in that particular area. >> we're going to hear more about drone situations. >> exactly. >> i think as we push forward here. >> yeah. and it's amazing how the fire grew in size so quickly. 3:45 in the afternoon, it was 500 acres. then by 5:45 in the evening, it grew to nearly 3,500 acres. and it just shows you how quickly these things can spread. latest news into cnn, interstate 15 has reopened. four lanes in both directions. 20 vehicles were destroyed. ten of them were actually damaged. so, quite a scene in san bernardino county. and you can see exactly why this happens. we get these large wildfires, the strong winds that come off of the mountains. and it only takes, natalie, one little ember to travel across the interstate to create another fire which we call spot fires, and that is how they spread. >> i was covering a wildfire

once and we almost got the news car burned. it just turned so fast. >> do not want to be in that situation. >> no not at all. all right, derek, thank you. >> thanks. well racing fans are mourning the loss of a rising star. formula 1 driver jules bianchi has died. a family statement says the 25-year-old passed away in a hospital in nice. bianchi was admitted there after suffering a severe head injury during the japanese grand prix last october. he lost control of his car on a wet track and crashed into a recovery vehicle as a typhoon bore down on japan. protests in la paz, bolivia, turned violent friday as minors clashed with police. local media report four people injured, ten people arrested in this. for more than a week miners had been protesting against poverty

and a lack of economic development in their rural region region. the miners say it lags behind the rest of bolivia and they're demanding the government access their demands to improve conditions. seven workers at a maximum security prison in mexico have been charged in connection with the escape of the very dangerous warlord joaquin guzman also known as el chapo. the notorious drug lord broke out a week ago. mexico's interior minister says it took 18 minutes for guards to arrive at guzman's cell after they lost sight of him on surveillance video. well on friday mexican president enrique pinaeen yana nieto acknowledged the jail break has caused widespread frustration. >> translator: the government has not evaded its responsibility. on the contrary it assumes responsibility of maintaining surveillance on this criminal.

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kenya. the westgate shopping mall opened a short while ago, within the past hour nearly two years after islamist militants stormed the mall killing 67 people. that rampage lasted for more than a day. many kenyans see the reopening as a victory over terrorism. others refuse to go back inside. cnn's robyn kriel has more on the mixed reaction from survivors and others impacted by the massacre, and you've got someone who has been in the mall and shopping i guess. you join us now live from nairobi. hello, robyn. >> reporter: hi natalie. amidst the tales, the horrific tales of horror of people who witnessed unbelievably just terrible things that day when the four al shabaab gunmen attacked the mall there were also really positive stories of

heroism. and my personal favorite a story of heroism, involves abdul haji who is a civilian whose brother was stuck inside the mall the day of the attack. you arrived at the mall to try to help your brother. moments after the attack you are a licensed firearm carrier, and you decided to go in when so many people were running out. tell me what was going through your mind that day. >> well what was going through my mind was i was worried about my brother. he was stuck inside. and when i got here we didn't see much movement in terms of people going in to rescue the people who were stuck inside. and so we made a conscious decision that we had to do something for the people here and we went inside and things happened once we went inside. >> reporter: abdul, there are incredible photographs of you and the other men who ran in with you to respond who were armed. in fact you guys were sort of acting in unison. explain to me how that worked

and how you provided cover. in fact you even shot at some of the terrorists. >> yes. today i cannot recall or know -- i don't know what happened that we worked so well together because what you have got to realize is that most of the guys i met outside the westgate i didn't know them. once we went inside, we worked so well as a team. and some would have thought that we were probably trained together but we knew -- none of us knew each other. it's amazing. i don't know if it's the instinct or what happened but it just happened and we worked very well together. >> reporter: you provided cover for one another and you rescued -- some people say that you rescued even up to 1,000 people just your small group of civilians and some armed, plain-clothed policemen. but there's one photograph in particular abdul, that made me cry. it was a 4-year-old who you were

coaxing over as you were holing your gun, providing cover to other police officers at that point. she ran towards you and you saved her. tell me what happened then and the story surrounding that. >> what had happened was that her and her mother and a few other, her sisters and brothers were stuck under a table, with a few other people. and it was a very dangerous position because just prior before that photo was taken, we were exchanging fire with the terrorists. and also what the picture doesn't show was that we had also had the tear gas. so, amidst all the noise and tear gas, we asked her to run towards us for safety and she did. she was very brave. and i still kept telling everybody that portia is my hero. she's very brave and she motivated us when she decided to run towards us. >> reporter: it's wonderful that you still keep in contact with that family and many of the survivors have you and your team to thank for that day. quick question just to wrap up. the mall's obviously open. are you going to go back?

>> i'm not sure at the moment if i'm going to go back. this is the closest i'm getting to the westgate. i have mixed feelings about reopening the westgate. for me going to the shopping mall or going out with friends at the shopping mall for coffee or tea is usually a fun time, and you expect to be laughing and joking around. i don't see myself doing that at the westgate because of what had happened. i don't know if that's going to be respectful to the victims. but again, like i said mixed feelings because we need to show the world that as a country and as a city of nairobi that we're resilient, and we need to move on with our life. i'm just hoping that the westgate people will probably have a small memorial corner for the people because we need to remember the victims. >> reporter: 67 people who died that day. >> 67 people. the least they should do is put up their names on the wall. >> reporter: but hundreds were saved by you and some other very very brave civilians and,

of course police officers and first responders. thank you so much abdul haji for your time. natalie, i'm feeling very happy to have run into abdul. back to you. >> we are, too, because we certainly enjoyed hearing from him and of his heroics that day, and the people that he worked with simply simply amazing. what robyn, about the security what has changed with security to try to make sure nothing like this could ever happen again? >> reporter: well natalie, what i've noticed so far with security and abdul, you know a little bit more about this than i do but we've seen that they've got metal detectors. we've seen that they have sniffer dogs as well as explosive, actual mechanical sniffers. they're also checking cars very very extensively before getting in and have luggage scanners. i understand that the security at the mall has spent about $2 million u.s. in upgrades to security to make sure that this doesn't happen again. >> robyn kriel and abdul, your

guest. thank you so much robyn, for that story and that interview. iran's supreme leader says his country's newly brokered nuclear deal will not change iran's stance toward the u.s. during his speech marking the end of ramadan, ayatollah khomeini said the nuclear deal must go through a legal process before being approved and he asked that national officials put national interests first. the supreme leader declared that iran will continue to support syria and its other allies whether the deal is approved or not. >> translator: our policies will not change vis-a-vis the arrogant government of the united states at all. >> death to america, death to great britain, death to israel, death to the hypocrites the hypocrites meaning the nek, and finally, death to israel.

>> translator: as we have repeated multiple times, with the united states we have no talks vis-a-vis regional issues. >> that speech was made during a ceremony to mark the end of ramadan, as we mentioned, the celebration marking the end of ramadan is known as eid. groups in india hugged one another after months of fasting and contemplation. in egypt, they had morning prayers and gathered in the park to enjoy an afternoon together. and crowds of people in pakistan scrambled on to buses and trains heading home to their loved ones to celebrate the holiday. we now know the names of the four marines killed in that attack in tennessee. ahead here the careers and families of the men who were taken too soon. plus a former federal agent explains what may drive someone

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welcome back. you're watching "cnn newsroom." i'm natalie allen. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. and here are our top stories. people cried as they ran from their cars to get away from this a fast-moving brush fire in california. at least 20 vehicles were destroyed when the fire jumped a highway on friday. at least five families may have lost their homes nearby as well in this fire. officials say it grew to more than 1,400 hectares or 3,500 acres, in just four hours.

convicted boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev has been moved to the supermax prison in colorado. the facility is considered the most secure prison in the u.s. and most inmates spend 23 hours a day in isolation. tsarnaev may spend years there while appealing his death sentence. federal authorities say mohammad abdulazeez had three guns with him when he shot and killed four marines in chattanooga, tennessee, thursday. a friend of abdulazeez said he would go shooting as a hobby. meantime people gathered friday in chattanooga to pray and remember and honor the victims. and we are learning more about them their careers and their families. cnn's john berman reports. ♪ ♪ god bless america ♪ >> reporter: gunnery sergeant thomas sullivan grew up in springfield, massachusetts.

one of three kids sullivan joined the military three years after graduating high school and went on to serve in iraq. men in his unit describe him as the type of marine you would want in combat the type of leader who would regularly check on his men, not only during battle but in the days afterwards to make sure they were okay. he was wounded there, earning two purple hearts one for each tour of duty in iraq. the flag outside the springfield city hall flying at half-staff in honor of the fallen marine. thomas sullivan was 40 years old. ♪ stand beside her ♪ >> reporter: staff sergeant david wyatt was originally from arkansas and lived in chattanooga with his wife laurie and their two young children. laurie posted this picture of the two of them on her facebook page shortly after the shooting. he joined the marines in 2004 and served in both iraq and afghanistan. david wyatt was 37 years old.

♪ with the light from above ♪ >> reporter: sergeant carson holmquist was from wisconsin. he joined the marines in 2009 and served two tours in afghanistan. his facebook page features an american flag and pictures of his wife and young son. this picture shows his wife and son next to a sign that reads, "we've waited 244 days for this moment. welcome home, daddy." carson holmquist was 27. ♪ from the mountains to the prairies ♪ >> reporter: lance corporal squire wells was known as skip. he was from atlanta and studied history at georgia's southern university before joining the marines just last year. becoming a marine was a lifelong dream for skip. >> he's just a go-getter, you know? everything he did, he always put in 100% effort and he was just positive about everything. >> reporter: ethan wade and

robert young were in the rotc program with skip in high school. >> it's just been an emotional day. he was one of my good friends and he showed me right and wrong and he was a mentor and a guide, and just couldn't believe it. i can't believe what happened to him. i mean bad things happen to good people you know. >> reporter: skip wells was only 21 years old. ♪ our home sweet home ♪ ♪ >> reporter: john berman, cnn, new york. >> more details about the alleged gunman's past are starting to emerge. 24-year-old mohammad abdulazeez is described as a former mixed martial artist fighter, a top student known for his humor and being very well liked by his friends and a devout muslim who kept in touch with his roots in the middle east. according to law enforcement officials, he was born in kuwait now a naturalized u.s. citizen. jordanian officials tell cnn abdulazeez was not a citizen of

jordan but a palestinian with jordanian travel documents. abdulazeez went to the university of tennessee at chattanooga utc where he graduated with a degree in electrical engineering in 2012. officials say he was not in any u.s. databases of suspected terrorists. his only prior trouble with the law, an arrest in april for allegedly driving under the influence. abdulazeez was set to appear in court later this month. one retired federal agent thinks abdulazeez's affiliation with mixed martial arts mma, could be connected to thursday's shooting. cnn's kyung lah checked into that. >> reporter: mohammad abdulazeez swinging hard hitting the mat in an amateur mma fight. for abdulazeez and for boston terrorist tamerlan tsarnaev who boxed, their mighty moments in the ring begin to paint a

specific profile, says retired fbi agent steve moore. >> i see in certain people a feeling that they are powerless, and i don't mean powerless as a group of people i mean powerless as an individual. >> reporter: moore should know. he led the investigation into mass shooter buford furow, who in 1999 wounded five at a jewish community center. moore believes racism wasn't the real reason behind the shooting but the need to feel powerful. the undeniable feeling of power over your opponent is behind the thrill of man-on-man sports like mma and boxing. most sport fighters leave the battle in the ring. but for abdulazeez and tsarnaev there may be more at stake. moore believes for these men, this is a sign in a quest for power and seeking that power, not ideology is what drives lone wolf terrorists. >> the people who are in these organizations are really not

true believers in the religion. they are individuals who need an excuse for what's wrong in their life. >> reporter: dylann roof same sort of thing? >> dylann roof is identical. you show me a terrorist and i will show you a violent person looking for something to justify their violence. >> reporter: much of law enforcement agrees that's the potency of isis a slick social media campaign that to most americans seems ludicrous, but to someone disenfranchised who feels inept, the message cuts through. >> they give you a cake with little chocolate chips of truth, and the cake itself is poison. it touches a chord for these people. they say, you know what now, it's like africanizing bees. all of a sudden this passive thing becomes wildly dangerous. >> reporter: kyung lah, cnn, los angeles. coming up here yemen's

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yemen's ousted government says they have liberated the port city fof of aden. the announcement was made friday after fighting. yemen's exiled president praised the fighters and promised the fight to take back the country is under way. houthi officials deny losing the

city and say clashes are still ongoing. british actor and comedian eddie izzard traveled to joubertie this week to meet refugees fleeing the violence in yemen. izzard is a unicef ambassador and something, perhaps you didn't know he was born in south yemen. when aden was a british colony. we spoke with izzard about the growing refugee crisis. >> reporter: you want to talk about yemen. >> yes. >> reporter: why? >> yemen, it's -- i think out of arabic countries, it seems forgotten. down the decades, down the centuries, it gets forgotten. it's not talked about that much. it's a complicated country with a civil war at the moment. i was working with unicef and we had to go to jibuti. and refugees are now trying to get out in the thousands, tens of thousands. and there's still more refugees in yemen because --

>> is there an escape route really? >> it is the only escape route. actually there are a lot of people still trapped in there, and the houthis tribe has come down now working with the ex-president which is bizarre because they used to work against each other and now are working together. it's a complicated situation. osama bin laden's father was from the mountains northeast, and so al qaeda's still there. oh i'm not sure what we're doing here but we're trying to help. >> think the world's not interested enough doesn't care enough? >> i think they've never been interested. and also yemen, i was born there. and if everyone can see that -- >> let's take a look at this because you were pointing at that picture of aden. >> yes. i think that's what the british call keed ran mount. on the right, you can see the two peaks and the far one looks like cathedral mount. over that mountain range there, either just in front of it or the other side of it that's where i was born. and just nobody -- my parents met there. they were married there. my brother was born there in

1960. i was born in '62. i left unfortunately in '63, but my dad was there for a total of eight years. i'm going -- my plan is to learn arabic to get back there. >> okay. >> i have to learn egyptian arabic and then go back there, which may be a tricky mix because yemeni arabic is different. >> and you want to perform in yemen. >> i want to do my show. i've performed in 27 countries in my show now. i'm planning on doing 52. i'm performing in french this year doing the first tour in france. then german. i already have german going. >> so you're learning all those languages. >> yes, in spanish -- [ speaking foreign language ] >> how do you say honeymoon? [ speaking foreign language ] >> so i want to go back there and perform. at the moment, i can just say -- [ speaking foreign language ] that's as far as i've gotten. >> but you want to become fluent

enough in arabic so that you can perform your show -- >> i don't want to become i will become. my brother's going to learn it first. mark is the language expert. he learns pretty much is fluent in three. he's doing russian now and then will learn arabic and then i run for mayor of london or a member of parliament. >> i think you're the most determined most disciplined entertainer -- >> transgender people have to be determined. >> for many viewers who know and adore you know you already. 43 marathons in 51 days for sports relief in 2009. you want to get 10,000 volunteers to help sports clubs across the uk. it's a huge number. what drives you to be so ambitious all the time? >> i think i had the determination gene. is this mayor of london stuff? i don't know. yeah -- >> we're back in london. magic of television. >> but i just seem to be kind of determined p.m. i came out 30 years ago as a transgender person and now, hey, we're getting somewhere.

in america, transgender politics america is the capital of transgender politics. >> what struck you the most as you end this trip in jabuti? what's staying with you now that you've left? >> we have seen images but we've seen refugees we've seen things happen before. we've seen explosions happen before. it's the feeling that the people who have come out and they've come across -- you know the gate of tears, it's a traditional crossing route. and they don't know if they can go back. it's been tough enough for decades, for decades. i mean aden was a place, the city of aden the british, we used to go around in the colonial way and say i'll have that port, hong kong i'll have that one, put my ships in there. a bit like the americans negotiate the air bases, but they'll logically pay money except for cuba but that's history. anyway. it's the fact that the people who are over there are in the

refugee camps, 240k north of the city they have to go there to be recognized as refugees. it's 45 50 degrees, which people probably can't quite imagine, people in the south probably can, and the sandstorm every afternoon and they don't know what's going to happen in the afternoon. >> and as you know full well as the unicef ambassador, children suffer. it is also it's the most dire the refugee crisis has ever been with the highest number of refugees. but let me ask you this because this is something when celebrities such as yourself so widely admired around the world raise awareness, what's the -- how do you transform awareness of an issue, which is one thing, to having an impact? i mean because that's not always the same thing. >> no, absolutely. i mean i want -- if people are watching cnn has a great global reach. if people can google unicef and get to the website, look at the yemen pages, and then they can donate money. it is purely a money thing. we're trying to get -- we need $116 million and we have about

$15 million. we're about $100 million short in dollars. >> really? okay. >> so that's a lot of cash that we need. but i need to draw attention. there are a lot of caring people out there and the uk is really good in this way. if they can, if they do have disposable income. if they don't, get on with your lives, but if you do and you care and you can care just get involved find the website and put some money in. >> eddie izzard what a guy. go to unicef's website to find out more about what he was talking about, how you can help. getting online in cuba. the country with some of the tightest internet restrictions in the world now offers public wi-fi, but it comes at a steep price. can a business have a mind? a subconscious. a knack for predicting the future. reflexes faster than the speed of thought. can a business have a spirit? can a business have a soul?

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a lot of us take the internet for granted, but not in cuba where people there have some of the worst access in the world. but as patrick onnen reports, that like a lot of other things in cuba is slowly changing. >> reporter: surfing the internet while safergvoring a cuban cigar in havana. cuba has some of the most tightly restricted internet

access in the world. but this month for the first time the cuban government opened 35 areas with public wi-fi. university student alexis uses the new service to chat with his mom in italy, when he can afford to pay the $2-an-hour rate. it's a lot of money in a country where the average monthly salary is $20. "it's not super reasonable but it's a start," he says. "hopefully the price will keep going down." in cuba there is no mobile internet and few people have access in their homes. for a long time the only way to get online was to pay the high prices charged at hotels or crack the password of a closed wi-fi network, something some cubans have gotten very good at doing but don't want to talk about. what the people all around me are doing is getting online using the internet from this hotel. it's meant for paying customers who are mostly foreigners and meant to be password-protected. but all the same people are using it to get online.

and for the most part cuban officials are allowing them to do it. filmmaker yaiva pardo criticized the controls on the internet in her documentary "offline." "it disconnects us from the 21st century," she says. "we are being held back. we don't have the same rights that the rest of the world has." representatives of the u.s.-based connect cuba campaign say the cuban government won't fully open the internet for fear of arab spring-style unrest on the island. >> they're still very big on censorship. they're still very big on not letting too much outside information that's not filtered by the government on to the island. >> reporter: but back at the government-run wi-fi hotspot, alexis says he has simpler dreams. "one day, it will be wonderful to have internet in my house," he says. "then i wouldn't have to come out here." patrick oppmann, cnn, havana. >> change is on the way in cuba. nasa's new horizons spacecraft is sending even more amazing images of pluto after it

soared past the dwarfed planet this week. the space agency released this flyover view showing vast plains without craters. pluto also though has ice mountains, which scientists believe were formed within the last 100 million years. and they are as tall as our rocky mountains in the u.s. here's how the mission's lead scientist described it. >> what you're looking at is a scene that's about a total width about 250 miles across 400 kilometers and these mountains soar as high above their local terrain as many of the mountains in the rocky mountains do here in the united states. >> "new horizons" launched in 2006. it traveled 3 billion miles or almost 5 billion kilometers to reach pluto, and now it is delivering. those scientists are brilliant. a pilot in new jersey had no

other choice but to make an emergency landing with his plane right in the middle of a busy highway, and he did a good job with it. it was all caught on a traffic camera. jeanne moos talked with the pilot who pulled off this tricky stunt and finds out more about the ironic roadside souvenir he wants to keep from his adventure. take a look. >> reporter: you know when you're driving down the highway and you see a plane landing in your rearview mirror. okay it's not exactly the miracle on the hudson. this was sort of the miracle on route 72 huh? >> no i wouldn't call it a miracle. >> reporter: that's pilot michael barbado, whose excellent emergency landing in traffic was captured by a traffic cam in stafford new jersey. this skydiving plane carrying the pilot, two instructors and two first-time jumpers lost its own engine. did you consider jumping? because you all had parachutes on correct? >> yes. there was no chance that i was going to be jumping out of that

airplane because once you leave that airplane you have no control over where it goes. >> reporter: besides an altitude of 4,000 feet is low for jumping. the pilot came in at almost 100 miles an hour touched down on the pavement and immediately steered over to the median to avoid hitting cars. a moretorist shot the skydivers leaping and hugging in relief. the only injury the instructor's arm from the plane's wings hitting road signs. >> but the landing itself was actually soft. said wow, that's actually just like landing back at the airport. >> reporter: they don't give you a ticket do they? >> no. no. i said sorry about the road signs. >> reporter: like the one crushed under the plane reading "keep off the median." talk about plain english. the pilot wants that as a souvenir. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> he deserves it. thank you for watching. i'm natalie allen. for viewers in the u.s. "new day" is just ahead. for everyone else around the world, "amanpour" starts in just a moment.

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