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primetime cut for the first de debate of 2015. there is new polling just out from fox news which is running debate. you can see it shows donald trump leading by a lot. 26% to 15% over jeb bush wisconsin governor scott walker third and john kasich who is governor of the state, barely squekz in. the latest monmouth university survey earlier today showing donald trump with 26%. governor bush in that poll has second place. governor walker third. again kasich in the top ten. he is at tonight's forum which just ended. so donald trump didn't participate. an understatement to say his absence was the elephant in the room. did an of the candidates go after him tonight or address him? >> hi anderson. this is really interesting. remarkable considering how much oxygen donald trump has been taking up when it comes to media coverage and standing in the polls. we did not hear a single
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candidate address donald trump, bring up donald trump on their own. of course they were all involved in the one-on-one q & a on the stage with a radio host. the host did not ask them about trump. the candidates could have brought him up if they wanted to. they chose not to. anderson. >> what about hillary clinton. clearly can't imagine them holding back relating to her? >> no. hillary clinton and president barack obama did come under a lot of fire from these candidates. take a listen to senator lindsey graham, really slamming not just hillary clinton but also the former president bill clinton. take a listen. >> i'm fluent in clintonspevenlgtclintonspeak. you want me to translate. when bill says i didn't have sex with that woman. he did. when she says i'll tell you about bill when i got to be president. she won't. when she tells us trust me you got all right e-mails you need we haven't even scratched the surface. so i understand this crowd. i can beat them.
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>> so there you have it. harsh word from senator graham for the former secretary of state. i should till you this of course was not a debate. forum. one-on-one, question and answers. did give the candidates a chance to talk about policy positions in a concise way and practice for the debate thursday night. should tell you donald trump said he doesn't see how you can artificially prepare for something like a debate. so it sound like he doesn't feel like he needs any rehearsing. anderson. >> as you said this was open to all candidates. wasn't a cut off for participation like the debate thursday. correct? >> that's right. the idea here was to allow voters to hear from all of the candidates. really was a response to the fact that there is a cutoff with that first debate on fox. and so the organizers wanted to gift voters a chance to hear from the candidates. give the candidates a chance to take to the voters. it really was an opportunity to
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very quickly have those candidates talk about where they stand, they had, several minutes to answer a series of rapid fire questions and introduce themselves to the folks who haven't been paying as much attention to them who haven't been giving them seeing them on the air a lot. so very interesting forum. interesting that trump wasn't here. so far nothing that seems to affect his poll standings. >> thank you very much. a lot to talk about with john king and senior political reporter nina malika henderson. >> the fact that donald trump wasn't at the event. new hampshire voters usually want to see and hear from candidates directly up close. is it a big deal for him not to go? >> it has then't been a big deal so far that he does things in an unorthodox way. if you are donald trump you think the debate is later this week. the forum is sponsored by union leader, the state's largest newspaper a big conservative voice. it has a history of wanting republican presidential candidates to come in and kiss
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the ring. the publisher, joe mcquaid and donald trump had a little tension because donald trump hasn't done the obligatory ring kissing. doesn't surprise me donald said not coming. >> the new poll from monmouth donald trump had 26%. double his closest opponent the latest fox poll shows him at 26 far ahead of the feel. everyone says he is going to fizzle out. his numbers keep going up and up? >> that's right. every time we thought he would fizzle out after the john mccain thing. didn't happen. he did take a little water on in new hampshire. but overwhelmingly he seems to be gaining steam. i talked to foekdz in early state iowa new new hampshire, south carolina. one of the things they say about donald trump's campaign. one person said they doubt he would be on the ballot in new hampshire come voting time. used word like cotton candy. also talked about the kind of people that he is drawing to his
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events events. they say these people are kind of gawking at the donald trump show. that there is not a lot of grassroots commitment there. there is not the kind of infrastructure that you would have to appoint him in iowa's 99 counties or new hampshire. he doesn't have that presence on the ground. that kind of enthusiasm organic enthusiasm in many ways that a lot of the other candidates have at early stage. that's why there is still some doubt. >> all this talk whether vice president biden will jump into the primary. the clinton campaign saying they're not concerned. do you think that is really true? >> yeah, i do think it's true. that's sort of their official line. sort of their unofficial sort of off the record on the background line. also the loon ofine of most democrats. the idea if joe biden were running for president he would already be running for president. meaning there would be more activity. more on the ground activity. remember running for president isn't just about making that decision or making an announcement. it is also about this infrastructure. and we know that hillary clinton definitely has a head of steam
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in terms of that kind of infrastructure in terms of on the ground strategists campaign managers. those are the kind of things in and moves you would want to see from joe biden at this point. again, he seems to suggest that he would announce in the next couple weeks you. look back to bill clinton. didn't announce until october, 1991. but a whole different ball game now in terms of the kinds of things you have to do to prepare for a presidential race. so far at least it looks like hillary clinton its out way in front. >> do you -- i have got to ask you, john do you buy that they're not concerned? clearly the desire for him to take part who ever does want that is because of a failure of hillary clinton? >> are they worried? no. should they be concerned and watching closely? of course. bernie sanders surprised them. getting close. and making much more of a race than they thought bernie sanders
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could make. and joe biden would bring more experience than bernie sanders has. lack at this look at this. a very extremely loyal vice president. some of the obama coalition would say maybe we owe this gift. he is right. all of the money, infrastructure, those who rant obama-biden campaign are on team hillary. those getting in this late like trying to win the tour de france on a tricycle. if you are gentlemen biden watching trump. voters like authenticity says what he thinks, not reading the polls, telling it look it is. if you are gentlemen bidened by joe biden you are going to think longer. john nina thank you. >> thank you. >> how the primaries go courting for cash hundreds of millions from a tiny number of donors. the price of politics. the breaking news the alleged gunman who fled now in custody. late details.
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watching new hampshire where politics is done retail. face to face, republican wanting to be president can get a big boost from an old-fashioned newspaper endorsement which is why so many of the 17 gop hopefuls were up there selling their ideas for the country. we want to turn to another kind of gathering for another kind of presidential politics money
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politics. a different marketplace where candidates sell not just their idea but critics say they sell themselves. hat in hand to billionaires. chief national correspondent jake tapper shows us the price of politics. >> presidential hopefuls this weekend pressed the flesh at nascar, a farmer's market and for five of them the weekend was spent with fat cats at a koch brothers backed retreat at a saint regis report in california. >> you are here because you love america. >> reporter: and american politicians love them. >> money helps. money helps. i'm playing by the rules of the, of the game. the way, the way it is laid out. if people don't like it that's just tough luck. >> reporter: with no contribution limits on super pacs 2016ers are seeking sugar daddies. >> you have to raise $100,000 every single week for a full year to raise $5 million. for a sugar daddy you get a $5
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million check like that. >> reporter: super pacs behind ted cruz raised $38 million so far. 95% of it coming from just three families including one that got a lot of its dough from fracking. according to "the new york times" all this super pac cash means that only 400 families have provided about 1/2 the money in the election so far. jeb bush's right to rise pac, $103 million coming mostly from big wigs in the oil and gas industry and three former ambassadors. marco rubio's super pac owes half of the $16 million pile to two pals oracle ceo, larry ellison and former owner of the philadelphia eagles norm brayman. scott walker has $20 million in super pac funds. a quarter of it from the owners of the chicago cubs. on the democratic side one of hillary clinton's super pac, $15 million vault which is shared more evenly among big names. including $1 million each from
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dream works executive, steven spielberg and jeffrey katzenberg and george soros and j.j. abrahams and his wife. >> super pacs changed the game for 2016 presidential candidates. they have to spend a huge amount of their time courting voters and billionaires. >> reporter: the big question for all right donors what will the rich guys and gals giving the huge sums expect from the candidate who wins? >> that is the question. jake tapper joins us. along with cnn correspondent. jake the fact that about 130 families have provided half the money raised by republican candidates so far, pretty incredible how so few people control the majority of campaign spending? >> it is incredible. i think two out of three dollars raised so far going to these super pacs. there is no limits. so i think people saw the lesson of 2012 where -- some of the
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candidates like newt gingrich and rick santorum they had sugar daddies who could keep their campaigns going after regular contributors were giving money to campaigns. and now everybody wants a piece of the action. >> mraez tellplease tell me the candidates actually call them sugar daddys. >> i doubt they call them sugar daddys. >> not so much. >> the preferred term we are using on cnn. >> you were at the koch brother events. reporters were allowed in some sessions, what was it like? >> well this was the first time they have allowed reporters in. there were certain ground rules that were pretty unusual. though it was a private event. you were not allowed to identify donors who you saw. but you could talk to them about -- they've wanted to be quoted then they were able to do that. you could talk to them about what they were looking for from the four candidates. marco ruby walker jeb bush and
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ted cruz. those four are the favorite candidates. also rand paul among the group. there is definitely a level of concern there about donald trump. and certainly not a candidate the koch brothers would like to see continue rising. interesting to see how their powerful political organization comes in and deals with the donald trump problem. whether that's just by kind of boosting these four or five candidates, that they do favor, or actually coming in in a more direct way later on in the game. >> it is amazing jake the amount, the koch brothers plan on spending. they plan on spending $889 million by the end of 2016. that's more than was raised by president obama or mitt romney in 2012. >> incredible. that's the incredible thing about the super pac numbers which just came out, the $252 million that these multimillionaires and billionaires have given. the big players like the koch
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brothers. like sheldon adelson. they haven't started giving yet. they're still auditioning candidates. it's huge but small compared to what we will see. >> you mentioned donald trump. he tweet add but this this event -- he tweeted about this event. he said i wish good luck to all of the republican candidates who traveled to california to beg for money from the koch brothers, puppets? >> he's just asking the question. >> i thought it was so perfectly provocative. it's exactly the kind of fight that he wants to get in. donald trump goes around the country, he looks to say that that he doesn't have to take any one else's money. he will continually pound the candidates over and over going around the country. fund-raising. it will be up to the voters to decide whether they want someone who is entirely in control of his own ship. and his finances. or the candidates who, go around
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fund-raising. >> jake you talked to trump. it is interesting because what he says is look i used to give money to candidates. gave money to candidates. i wanted them to do thing for me. that's what's wrong about this system. you buy access. so on the one hand. made himself immune having been criticized for supporting candidates but critical of the system that his opponents are very much now having to take part in. >> and it is going to be an area where he can continue to gin up this populist anger. people that i think he is a peeling to a lot of them really don't -- appealing to a lot of them really don't like a lot of things including immigration system and dysfunction in washington. they see how big money not just on the republican side but on the democratic side as well. big money buys access. buys favors. it is going to be an interesting line of attack. especially since as you note he has given said money including giving money to help harry reid and nancy pelosi recapture the congress in 2006 for the
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democratic party. so i can't wait to hear more about what exactly he got for his campaign contributions. >> jake great to have you on. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> breaking news out of memphis where a minor drug deal led to a police officer's death. tonight after a massive manhunt that suspect is behind bars. an update on the wildfires in california. take a look. scorching more than 130,000 acres across the state. the weather has been dry all week. dry all season. which is making this dangerous. places where the flames have yet to spread. but might. and it doesn't take much. bring you a live report from the fire lines. tant. from the makers of one a day fifty-plus. new one a day proactive sixty-five plus. with high potency vitamin b12... ...and more vitamin d.
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in this evening following a two-day manhunt. it began saturday night when officer sean bolton spotted an illegally parked car. as he approaches police say he is confronted by wilbourn who opens fire. a citizen uses the officer's raidy to raidy to call for help. but it ties late. -- radio to call for help. but it is too late. [ indiscernible ] >> this is just a reminder of how dangerous this job is. >> bolton a former marine who served in iraq had been on the force nearly five years. investigators believe he interrupted a drug deal saturday night and that's why wilbourn, a convicted felon, shot the officer multiple times. memphis police director tony armstrong visibly emotional shortly after the shooting. >> as a community see say so often, there's a theme that -- do black lives matter?
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and at the end of the day, we have to ask ourselves, do all lives matter regardless of race creed color, economic status what profession that person holds. all lives matter. >> reporter: in the last four years three memphis police officers including bolton have been shot and killed in the line of duty. >> when you look at this individual -- you are looking at a coward. he is a coward. >> nick where is the suspect now? >> tremaine wilbourn 29-year-old murder suspect turned himself over to the u.s. marshals office. shortly before 5:00 p.m. local time. he was immediately handed over to local authorities, where he was being questioned by homicide detectives at our last check. police said during a press conference earlier that during his initial interrogation, he told them i am not a cold-blooded killer. i am not a coward. more now on sean bolton 33-year-old, the officer an iraq war veteran had done a combat tour in iraq overseas to come back home to the streets of memphis and beguned down. his funeral is schedule ford
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thursday. >> just awful. nick valencia. appreciate it. thank you. very busy day and weekend for firefighters all across california. this is what they're facing. nearly two dozen wildfires. getting a bidt of a barack fromreak. the golden state has turned into a tinderbox waiting for a spark. more details now. >> reporter: california burning. at least 21 major fires are raging in the parched state. the bone dry landscape, gusty winds and low humidity are creating a tinderbox of sorts fueled by lightning. daunting conditions for the nearly 10,000 firefighters battling the fires. a u.s. forest service fire fighter from south dakota was killed while working a fire in a county. the married father of two of scouting ways to attack burning fire when he became trapped by flames. as the fire ravages anything in its path. >> it looked like a bomb had went off over here.
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it's scary. >> reporter: the largest blaze, the rocky fire has burned up to 60,000 acres in three counties just north of wine country. >> there are firefighters that have 20 25 30 years on the job. that have never seen fire behavior like we have seen the last couple days here on the rocky fire. >> reporter: the reason -- fire officials say four years of drought and 100-degree heat have created conditions perfect for explosive growth. so far, two dozens homes have been destroyed. governor jerry brown, declaring a state of emergency. evacuations have been ordered more than 13,000 californians. leaving many worried that their homes may be the fires path. >> hopefully that the fire doesn't come this far and burn our stuff down. we will come back to at least something. our house still here. >> reporter: from the air you can see the intensity as the wall of flames moves across the tree-lined mountains. crews on the scene digging control lines, setting control
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burns hoping to stop the fire in its tracks by lighting brush and fuel in the blaze's path. the conditions burning like they are right now, is definitely concerning. that's why it is so important that we get public's help. prevent sparking a fire is what we need. because really one less spark this summer means one less wildfire. >> the unusual thing about the fires spreading in the cooler evening hours over the last couple days. what's it like now? >> right now, anderson. one of the big problems for them is wind. not just plain wind but shifting wind. that lends itself to all the predictability. one technique, effectively right here. back fires. they actually went in here, started a fire about 35 yard up the hill started another backfire. as you can see there is no firefighters on the scene right now. that's how confident they are that they tied in this part of the rocky fire. but we understand not far from here the rocky fire jumped
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highway 20 has burned more than 100 acres and why is that happening? because of these winds that just start swirling about in different directions. the real focus is here in northern california anderson that's where the, the crux of the fighting has been going on. >> do you get the sense that they think they have the upper hand here, firefighters? >> it is interesting. a great question. there are times when it looks like all huge large leading flanks of flame have been put out. and then somehow, some sort of hot spot smoldering log, stump, whatever, causes another flare-up. and as we said it jumped the highway. so overall, yes. but they are just so anxious about these strange winds, the behavior really quite odd. and when a wind shift is so dramatic it flip-flops on itself. goes one direction, south. then goes back to north. just makes it a real challenge. and you have got the low humidity. you have high temperatures.
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it's the devil's pitchfork if you will in terms of fire fighting. >> what are the next couple days? what's the forecast? >> well more of the same. you know it seems to cool off overnight. they get some help. and then it every single day and the last few days in the afternoon, the wind kicks up and the temperature rises. and again it's just bone dry out here anderson. four years of drought. look at the color of the hillsides. yes they should be parched in august. but you're rolling up a lot of days lot of years of really no rain. it's making it very tough. >> tough fight. paul thank you, appreciate you covering it. just ahead tonight, another american hunter accused of taking part in illegal hunt in zimbabwe zimbabwe, months before cecil the lion was killed. take a look at who the tamamerican is and why zimbabwe is focusing on him only now.
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lions. a big tourist draw and research subject. zimbabwe asked the u.s. to extradite walter palmer the dentist who allege lead paid $50,000 to kill cecil. accused of luring the lion from a protected area to do it. two local men he hired have been charged. david mckenzie joins me with the new developments. david, the second american hunter that zimbabwe is saying was involved in an allegedly illegal hunt. what have you learned about that incident? >> well what the zimbabwe officials are saying anderson that this alleged hunter who they say was an american from pennsylvania. that he was involved in a hunt which they say is broadly similar to the cecil hunt which caused such outrage. they're charging the safari group owner with poaching. but at this stage they haven't actually named any accusations against this american. nor they really said exactly how what he did could have been
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illegal. the details are very short. they seem very quick to point out that this is an american. even though this happened allegedly several months ago. >> do we have any why zimbabwean officials are talking about this now? >> well it seem to be they're saying this now because of all of the focus that's been put on the killing of cecil the lion which is really sparked this global outrage. and renewed questions about, really, is trophy hunting worthwhile? does it have a place? and is it rarely something that should be banned outright. there is a more cynical view as well. this could be zimbabwe trying to earn political points by pointing the finger conveniently at another american even though it is several months later. that is according to sourcize have spoken to in zimbabwe who say this could also be the government trying to earn quick, easy political points. we'll have to wait and see how they detail these allegations further and if they actually hold weight.
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>> david mckenzie. thanks. >> the killing of cecil has put a spotlight obviously on the controversial sport of big game hunting. august 10th animal planet is dedicating world lion day mare marathon to cecil. and launched animals are not trophies. animal planet's large predator expert, dave thank you for being with us. so trophy hunting. going for the biggest, the strongest animals, what kind of damage does it do not only obviously to the animal itself beyond the loss of an individual animal? >> yeah there is a lot of problems with it. it has an effect in the short term the big, strong animals are typically ones with prides one that fits in the social dynamic. so initially you're ruining the entire socially die naming of the eco system. long term what you are doing is you are always taking the fittest genetics out of the gene pool you are weakening the population of the species every
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time you take it big strong ones out. >> when it comes to cecil's cubs there was a report that jericho cecil's brother is alive and, maybe protecting them how hard is that for him to do that? how long would that go on for? >> you see, with cecil's death, they had a coalition of two. which would then mean they would be very capable of fighting off other intruders, other nomadic males. now jericho being one, it is only going to take another big male or a co-lgs ofalition of two or more to come in and probably oust jericho and kill those cubs so that the e-mails. it made it twice as hard for jericho to protect the cubs that he was protecting. his job to do. >> how common is that? how common is it for the brother to, you know to protect the rest of the cubs? >> so what happens is very often you'll see these male
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coalitions. so, when a male is sort of between 2 and 4 they go on their nomadic phase. they get kicked out of their pride and they're not big enough to take on their own, very often you will go off with your litter mates if there is other males. or while you are on your nomadic phase you will meet up with males and form a group called a coalition. it is those males that then take over prides. so, in a coalition, all of the males will typically protect the females and the cubs that are sired during that time. so it's part of the dynamic. >> it does seem like, as horribles it is the killing of cecil this whole episode has shown shone a light on not only trophy hunting but poaching which is a huge problem? >> yeah i think -- if you want to find a positive from a really horrible situation, that's it. it's really got a spotlight on something. and i think it's really shown the globe's position on trophy hunting. the fact that it it is a
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disgusting act that people in general aren't very fond of. which is why you are seeing this huge reaction globally this huge reaction, you know, obviously towards this one particular hunter. so there is a positive. it has gathered some awareness for us. >> dave appreciate you being on. just ahead an eye-opening look at a sex offender registry that might change the way you think in this particular case. ♪ ♪
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sex offender ridge trees are designed to help authorities keep track of sex offenders and let the public know who their neighbors are and they've may pose a threat. that's the idea. this next story however is a bit more complicated. >> reporter: for 19-year-old zach anderson it looks like it has been an idyllic summer. relaxing like any other teenager with his family on the saint joe river. but looks can be deceiving. this summer is hardly normal for zach. in fact his parents say zach can't even live in their house anymore. because his 15-year-old brother lives here too. and that's not all.
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>> like using the internet going to like if you are bored, going to walk around in a park or something. >> can't go to a mall? >> can't go to a mall to buy clothes or anything like that. >> reporter: all because zach is listed in his state's sex offender registry. >> it's like i'm an outcast with society with all the things i have put on me. >> reporter: here's what happened. zach went on a racy dating app called hot or not. hoping to meet a girl. he did. they had sex. and that's when the problems began. >> reporter: how old did she say she was? >> she told me she was 17. >> reporter: she lied. she was actually 14. by law he had committed a sex crime. he was arrested and convicted. now zach is on the same list of sex offenders as child molesters and pedophiles. and his parents say, that's a colossal mistake. >> when you heard those words --
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that your son was a sex offender what was your reaction? >> it's a blatant lie. it's not true. it doesn't even fit our lifestyle, it doesn't fit how we raised our kids. >> reporter: even the girl's mother appeared in court. testifying that she didn't want zach labeled as a sex offender because "he really is not." we also obtained this letter that the girl in question gave zach's family. i'm sorry i didn't tell you my age, she writes. it kills me every day knowing you are going through hell and i'm not. i want to be in trouble and not you. did it ever enter your mind at any time that she could be underage? >> no not at all. >> reporter: was the sex consensual consensual? >> yeah, yeah. >> reporter: but even if the girl admits she lied about her
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age and the sex was consensual as she did in court it's not a defense in the eye of current sex offender laws. and that's why the judge and prosecutor in zach's case didn't let him off the hook. judge dennis wily angry that zach had used the internet to meet a girl said "that seems to be part of our culture now. meet have sex, sayonara. totally inappropriate behavior. there is no excuse for this whatsoever." he sentenced zach to 90 days in jail five years probation, and 25 years on the sex offender registry. >> is that you? are you a sex offender? >> not at all. >> reporter: what's happening to zach sounds unusual but it is not. according to the national center for missing and exploited children, about a quarter of the 850,000 people on the sex offender registry across the
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nation were under 1 when convicted. -- under 18 when convicted. the problem say experts the sex offender registry is one size fits all. everyone on it is treated as the same threat. whether they're a predatory child rapist or a teenager who had sex with his girlfriend. >> if we caught every teenager that violated our current law we would lock up 30% or 40% of the high school. we are kidding ourselves. >> reporter: former michigan judge william buehl has been trying to fix the sex offender registry for two decades. he says adding teens just takes away resources from monitoring the truly dangerous. >> they take that example and say -- boy, we got to watch this . >> even convicted sex offenders, the very people the registry was set up to monitor, tell us their
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type of criminal behavior and mind-set is vastly different from some of these teens. >> he's not the one that we are going to have to fear. he's simply a teenager. >> ted and rose road ar were both convicted of molestation in separate incidents 20 years ago and are part of a ministry now for sex offenders. >> the registry has become so diluted that you can't identify the truly dangerous. that in itself is dangerous. >> so zach is left wondering about what the rest of his life will be like. the weight of his sentencing came crashing down. his first day back at church after he was released from jail. >> he just didn't look right. i said are you okay? he just shook his head. we went outside and i just started crying. i said what's the matter? he said i don't know who i can talk to. i don't know whose hand i can shake. and i feel like everybody is look at me. to have to deal with that and -- >> the shame.
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>> i think that's the biggest issue, is the shame of it. >> to me it doesn't seem real to me. it seems like a bad dream that i haven't woke up from yet. >> kira phillips cnn. >> we'll continue to follow his story. just ahead, breaking news in cincinnati about what was in that gin bottle that an officer confiscated before he shot and killed samuel dubose. smooth, beautiful skin is an advantage. the others can only hide in shame. introducing the new dr. scholl's dreamwalk express pedi. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
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breaking news out of cincinnati about that gin bolling that was confiscated during a traffic stop that ened in the fatal shooting of samuel dubose an unarmed african-american man. the incident was captured on the officer's body camera. here's the part we are talking about. >> what's that bottle on the floor there? a bottle of what? >> he said it was air freshener. turns out about dubose was right.
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there was not any gin in that bottle. moments after the exchange officer ray tensing shot dubose in the head at point blank range. go ahead and take your seat belt off. stop stop. >> the car rolls off and crashes to a stop. officer tensing has been charged with murder. jean casarez joins us now. do we know what was in that bottle? >> the coroner is saying they immediately sent it to the laboratory. it is a content associated with fragrance, air freshener or perfume. they are testing a number of things toxicology from the car and bodily fluids. they say they are not releasing any of the results. why are they coming out with this? >> right. >> his family said early on that was air freshener. and the stop wasn't a dui stop. the officer just gave the bottle
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back. it wasn't an issue. >> the body cam -- the officer is alleging he was dragged by the car and that's why he fired. >> here's what we do know. the other two officers assistanting officers, who also had body cams right, in the initial report it seemed they said they seemed to see him being dragged by the car. >> backing up the officer's statement. >> exactly. and then we learned late on friday that those officers have given sworn statements when asked did you witness it they said no. >> wow. so either they changed their story or clarified comments? >> or they believed what tensing was telling them. he says so many times to these officers from his own body cam, he was dragging me he was dragging me. even one officer sort of like according to the tape sort of made a hand motion like stop talk. you don't have to say any more. >> the family has made legal
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moves? >> they did. mark o'meara is their attorney out of ohio. they filed initial documents with the probate court to set up an sustain for sam dubose and have his mother be the administrator. they had to check some boxes, and a box that was checked this is open to a claim for wrongful death. mark o'meara tells me he is not rushing to the courthouse to file a claim for wrongful death but he felt this is important. and the university is going to be making some major changes in rt regard to their police force and patrolling and the family can help with all of that. he didn't go into much more but i think he wants to make a value for sam dubose's life. >> there is a murder indictment against this officer? >> this early on sometimes not because you have got a criminal trial -- >> you don't want to affect the criminal trial. >> if you get a conviction in a criminal trial then a civil case can be each easier.
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there is a time period for statute of limitation. >> jean thank you. there is more happening. ranee kay is here. >> the ferguson police officer who shot and killed michael brown one year ago this week is speaking out. darin wilson told new yorker magazine he has tried to get another police job but has been told he is too much of a liability. the 29-year-old was not indicted for killing brown. he list mostly in seclusion with his family. jimmy carter underwent a surgery to remove a small mass from his liver today. the 90-year-old is expected to make a full recovery. police in florida have arrested a mother after the case against her was highlighted by john walsh last night on the hunt right here on cnn. she was accused of kidnapping her young daughter because she didn't want her to get vaccination. her landlord called in the tip. her 3-year-old daughter lilly is
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unharmed and is in protective custody. look at this tornado that hit adams county iowa on sunday. look how incredibly lucky the people there were. nobody was hurt. >> randy, thank you very much. that does it for us. we'll see you again at 11:00 p.m. eastern for another edition of 360. cnn tonight with don lemon starts now. breaking news. donald trump surging in the polls ahead of thursday's first gop didn't. this is cnn tonight, i'm don lemon. new polls show trump leading his nearest roofls by double digits. is the real estate mogul turned presidential candidate trying to lower expectations before this week's important debate. >> i'm not a debater. i don't stantd stand up and debate like these politicians. >> tonight in new hampshire, 16 of the 17 republican candidates square off at the first forum. donald trump skips the event on
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