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when charlie was just 5 years old. >> she got out of my life early, and let me scuffle for myself. and then i became my own mother. >> while manson blamed his mother, author jeff win blames manson. >> charles manson was born evil. little charlie was taken in by loving relatives. the problem was that charlie himself was a rotten little kid from the word go. >> tomorrow night. make sure you watch. that's it for us tonight. i'll see you back here tomorrow. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening. thank you for joining us. tonight, more signs that the trump campaign has staying power. more trouble for the republican establishment. national polling from fox news showing a 2-1 trump looid lead over his nearest rival, 2-1, ben carson. he is followed by ted cruz. jeb bush now at number four.
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and there are other signs that the trump campaign is very serious about winning in ohio and nationwide. including for weeks now donald trump has been saying he can solve the illegal immigration problem and make mexico foot a big part of the bill for it. he just hasn't said now. now he has. one of his proposals would change a pillar of the constitution saying if you are born in this country you are a citizen. he would want to eliminate birth right citizenship. other key points, tripling the number of i.c.e. officers. cutting off money to sanctuary cities. a nationwide e verify system for employers to cheg on immigration status of would be hires and making the mexican government pay for the fence or wall along its northern border. if they don't, the plan calls for seizing millions of dollars of money that illegal workers send back to mexico every year. campaigning in iowa, donald
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trump down played the fact it has taken him a while to come up with the voters. >> i think the press is more eager to see it. i think the voters like me, understand me, know i'm going to do the job. when you put out policy like a 14-point plan, a lot of times in the first hour of negotiation that 14-point plan goes astray. >> that's one reality, another has the immensity of the border and the job of sealing it shut. gary tuchman. >> can a wall be built along the border shared by the united states and mexico and be impenetrable like donald trump says he wants? it helps to know precedent. there are some tall border walls like this in arizona. they are challenging to go over, through, or under. but it happens all the time. they are not impenetrable. but this is harder to pass than this. this much more commonly seen border fence along the mexico/u.s. frontier, railroad
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ties, a seven-foot fence, barbed wire, but barbed wire is easily cut and if someone is motivated to go through this desert inn southeast earn arizona they can get through. we'll give you an idea of how easy this is to cut. not only is the barbed wire gone here. so is the fence and only railroad ties. under the railroad tie and they are in the united states from mexico. obviously a big wall keeps people out much better than this does. you can build much more big wall along the border. but can you build a continuous wall from the pacific ocean in california to the gulf of mexico in texas? the answer is no. there are a number of reasons for that. firstly, the fact that there are many ranchers who own land along the border who would have to sell land to the federal government. then you have indian reservations on the border. then you are dealing about the
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issue of topography. steep terrain, mountains, streams, make it impossible or nearly impossible to build a 15 or 20-foot krooet concrete or steel wall. you can build a fence like the one that's here right now. but once you got to this fence you would always have a gap right here, a wall on this side, all on this side and immigrants going under this fence. donald trump says to believe him when he exclaimed nobody will get through the wall he will build. but the facts on the ground indicate it be a promising that is challenging to keep. gary jins us from the border. that 20 foot steel wall, how often do people scale that? >> it used to be every day. of the but right now this area, this part of nogales arizona has 27 border patrol preps. not just looking at cameras, they are eyeballs are on this wall. they go to the west and to the
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east, but before they had the 24/7 presence people would go over the wall every day. they treat the poles like trees. they hug it. slither up the foal and come over to this side and slide down like a fire pole. >> jeb bush is weighing in on the trump plan speaking late today in south carolina. governor bush said it's not realistic. >> this is not about the big permit this the room. this is about how do you fix problems that are broken? we need to start solving problems instead of just saying how bad things are. i appreciate the fact that mr. trump now has a plan, if that's what it's called. but i think that the better approach is to deal with the 11 million people here illegally in a way that is realistic. and to have border security that is done in the right way to lessen the number of people crossing our border. >> that's jeb bush today in
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charleston. joining us, alex cassianos, katrina pierson and patty so lease doyle. alex, this plan of trumps, sure there may be hid headlines here but in terms of policy, how realitiesic is it? >> about as realistic as one of the big neon signs on one of donald trump's buildings. not much. >> why? >> well, this is one of the biggest expansions of federal power that anyone has ever proposed in american history. donald trump would need an army of armed federal agents with guns from washington to deport 11 million people. he'd need that same army to start deporting children who were born here in the united states and are now american citizens. he says he is going to stop people from sending money back
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to their home countries. does that mean he is going to give washington the power to open our fedex packages? he is now interfering with american business saying if you want to hire a visa candidate, someone to come over here and do technical work, guess what, it's going to cost you more because washington and i says so. he is not a small government conservative. donald trump thinks bigger government is great as long as he is running it and not those stupid politicians. so this is i think a very unrealistic plan. >> katrina, you are a trump supporter what do you make of this plan. to alex's point, trump says there is 34 million -- assuming there is 11 million undocumented immigrants this this country arc lot of them have kids who are american stips, are you going to deport american citizens? >> anderson, the only thing that's unrealistic is what is happening today where we have a porous border -- >> my question is, do you support the deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants
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and their u.s.-born american citizen children? >> well, i fully support trump's plan. it makes very much sense to address the issues we are having. we don't need a 6,000-page comprehensive immigration reform to kick the plan down the road. >> do you agree with throwing out 11 million people. >> what are we supposed to do, are we supposed to continue to allow millions of undocumented people to continue to come into their country and gain the social services? >> armed federal agents throwing out 11 million people. >> armed federal agents? i don't quite. >> as well as their children. >> i don't quite think the trump plan says we are going to send armed federal agents. now we are just into the scare tactics in politics. these things have been done in the past. they can continue to be done in the future. in fact, his policy states we start with the criminal aliens currently crowding our federal
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prison system. that's where we start. >> patty, what do you make of donald trump's plan? >> he will wi-- well, i agree w alex and katrina here. he gets no specifics on this plan. i guess i'm glad that he is finally put together some policy for us. but as they say, the devil is in the details. and this detail is high on rhetoric, low on facts, and really very expensive. so he doesn't say how he's going to pay for mass deportation. it's going to be $400 billion. he doesn't have the money for it. he says he is going to have mexico build the wall. but you know what, mexico is not going to pay for the wall. and this constitutional amendment that he is going to need to address the birth or citizenship is just not going to happen in this polarized political climate we live in in
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washington, d.c. there's just no facts to support his thesis here. >> katrina dew do you believe really that he can get a constitutional amendment passed to end birth right stip citizenship? >> i don't think you need a constitutional amendment if you enforce the constitution. the birth right citizenship in the 14th amendment came for slaves. it wasn't for anybody just to come here to give birth and become an american citizen. that will be debated and will go to the supreme court and that's where that decision will be made. but you are right, this is not going to go very well in a bipartisan way in washington, d.c. that's why trump is campaigning to the american voter. as we know, the numbers show the majority of the american public opposes amnesty and they fully want something strict and tough to be done on illegal immigration. donald trump has put out a plan that actually champions the american people. the american worker. american families are finally being prioritized by a
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presidential candidate. so we should be happy that we're having this discussion because if we weren't we would be looking at another way to kick the can down the road to bring in more people that don't belong here that's continuing to hurt american children. >> alex in a general election, how does this fare, what does this do to the republican party if trump is the nominee. >> let me just say wow, even republicans wouldn't say that barack obama hasn't been arrogant enough to rebright the constitution in that way. right now, this hurts the republican party. if you think the republican party hasn't alienated enough hispanics and women and young voters, donald trump's immigration plan is going to be great for you. you are going to love that n. a general election, though, trump is not going to be the nominee. when he leaves, he will be defeated by an antitrump. so there will be a cleansing that will go on once he is -- >> that's what the polls are showing. >> done with the primaries. and i think you will see a new and better and more optimistic
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solution-oriented republican party going into the general election. >> katrina, again, i come back to the 11 million. how do you see that happening? how do you see -- i mean, there is -- lots of people would support that. but just on a logistical basis, how do you get rid of that many people, including some of their children who are, you know, kshly in the school system, have been here for many years and are u.s. citizens? >> well, i think you would have to debate that process. that's what this is all about. the idea is out there for people to discuss. it's not going to be one person deciding who goes and who stays. there is going to be a process put in place a criteria that needs to be met. just like he talked about with refugee status where all you have to do is check five boxes and you are automatically given asylum. >> this sounds like the democrat party we have now. we are from washington and we have a plan for you. donald trump is not an antiwashington guy.
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he just thinks the wrong people are running it. he's all about more power from washington telling us how to live your lives. he is a big corporate saidis. >> if that were true all the washington pundits wouldn't be out there trying to get him now. >> the conservatives are. >> up next a poe text tensionally bruising element for hillary clinton. hundreds of e-mails are under krut me, the attorney general's take on that. the exploegs in bancock. caught on security camera footage. ♪"once there was a hushpuppy" by dan romis man kind?eitlin ♪ are we good? go see. go look through their windows so you can understand their views. go find out just how kind
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new and agreeing e-mail headaches for hillary clinton. she recently opened a snap chat account and says she loves it because the messages as she put it disappear all by themselves. the former secretary of state got laughs for that line, not by republicans, however. when it comes to the e-mails she stored on private server at home when she was this country's top diplomat there might be less to smile about. today the state department said it will put hundreds more of those messages under review
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because they might contain classified information. late today i asked our attorney general about that. >> how big of a problem do you think this is for her, whether it's politically or legally? >> i think potentially it could be a serious legal problem. obviously a lot remains to be seen. there is a possibility that classified information may have been existed on her server, may have been compromised to some degree. and obviously, to the extent it is a legal problem, or even if it's not a legal problem, i think it does create some political challenges for hillary clinton. i mean, she was the secretary of state. it is a position of great responsibility. and i think one would have to question the judgment exercised or the lack of judgment exercised in this particular case. but, again, there is a lot of facts that remain to be uncovered. so i think it's just a question of allowing the fbi, allowing intelligence agencies to do their job and let's get a better understanding of what actually happened here. >> as for the clinton e-mails,
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cnn justice correspondent pamela brown joins us with more. >> we've learned that 305 documents were clip's private server have been flagged for further consultation from various intelligence agencies to determine whether they do contain any classified information. now, this is coming from a state department court filing that says out of a sample of approximately 20% of clinton e-mails reviewed so far, approximately 5.1% were recommended for referral. and this comes at a time, anderson, when the fbi is investigating clinton's private server. the bureau was determining how it was configured and whether classified information was willfully mishandled. one official i spoke with today says that anyone connected to the server could be part of the investigation depending on where it goesful still plimary at this point. >> do we know why these particular documents were flagged? what stood out about them? >> i've been asking officials because of course the court filings doesn't say specifics about them.
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but i am told they were flagged because they may contain information that could be cause for concern to intelligence agencies if their release is part of the information for freedom act. that is why they are being handed over to the agency so classification experts can look at them and determine whether or not they can be released to the publicful it's not always clear-cut what is classified and what's not. as one official said, it is it's more of an art than a science. >> pamela, appreciate the reporting. joining us, kevin madden, paul begallo, and jeffrey toobin. jeff, is it possible she could face criminal charges. >> i think that's removement i think this is a serious political problem for her because the investigations are not going to go on for weeks. they are going to go on for months. she made a dumb decision conducting her official business
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on this private server and it is certainly going to be the case that there is classified information found there. the definition of classified information is extremely flexible. bureaucracies overclassify all the time. >> right. >> we know, we know they are going to find classified information. that's going to be embarrassing but i don't see any scenario where that turns into a criminal case against her? >> kevin, do you agree with that? donald trump keeps saying look, look what happened to general portrayas, this potentially could be far worse. >> look, i think they are going through a careful review of that. as pamela alluded to during herpes, they are looking at all the intelligence agencies are looking at this and they are scrubbing it. if they find this information that shows that there was, you know, mishandled classified information and that there should be some prosecution for that, the fbi and others at the department of justice will have to take a look at that. but, i think jeffrey is right. this is much -- all of that
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legal questioning and the drip, drip, drip of the investigation, that creates a huge political challenge for hillary clinton. so many more voters will call her trustworthiness into question. and as a result, she is going to have a harder time convincing the american public that -- and even probably within her own party, that she is the best person for the job of being president. >> i want to share what she has been saying about this. now it's kinds of changed. paula, you don't think this e-mail issue is going to make or break the election. i want to play back what she said about this e-mail issue in march and what she is saying now. let's listen. >> i did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail. there is no classified e-mail. >> i did not send nor did i receive material marked "classified". >> so she has changed the language there. and as we know, you know, language does matter. >> really. >> well, with the clintons -- >> and with the journalists, too. >> with any politician.
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>> nonsense. >> nonsense. >> baloney sandwich. i'm cleaning up my language because this is a family show. she didn't say she sent anything that was classified. then she said marked classified. that's how you know that it was classified. if you want to make that a special report, i suppose we can. >> that's not true. classified information is the information itself. if you have the diagram to a nuclear bomb, that's classified whether you have it marked "classified" or not. and public officials are supposed to know the difference. now, the problem is, it's very hard in many areas to know what's classified or not. but just the mark is not what makes something classified. you know that. >> i understand that. i didn't do national security but i worked this the white house and i know that the government classifies stuff that i think as a citizen the public aught to know. beyond, that it's very elastic. what it sounds like what is
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happening now is post facto. intelligence agencies are looking at this material and deciding whether they want it to be released to the public. that's not the same as getting the information, seeing it's classified and then sharing it. >> let's talk to the politics of this then. paul, how are you concerned are you about the drip, drip, drip of this. >> we are 448 days away from the election. if 440 days from now we are still talking about it, that's not good. but not now, not this far ahead of the election, at some point the voters are going to say who is going to be better for me, who is going to help me get a better job, make more money, protect me and my associate when i retire, things like that, that's what the election is going to be about. >> i would argue that it is harder to get to that conversation when you can't get past the trust factor. that's one of the biggest problems that we are seeing right now. i think if you go back -- in that first press conference that hillary clinton did a couple of months ago, there were a number
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of statements that were made emphatically that have turned out not to be true. i think because of that there may be very lasting, almost permanent damage to that relationship between her and the voters on the issue of trust and she will never get to that conversation that she is hoping to have about whether or not she is going to help people on the issues they care about. >> here's my prediction, your party is going to ride to her rescue. your party always does. there is this permanent committee on benghazi. yesterday, the chairman of the committee admitted that the e-mail stuff has nothing to do with benghazi, but we are going to plow through it. they have already spent more time investigating this than congress did investigating pearl harbor or iran contra or the assassination of president kennedy. they are going to hold hearings. i hope they do and i hope she testifies. what people will see -- not with
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the fbi, not with the lejtd mat inquiry that's going on. but when the partisans get involved, the republican congress will not help themselves they are going to make themselves look partisan and save hillary's bacon. you watch. >> that may be the case. but the problem for hillary clinton here is that there is no easy way to simply be done with it. >> right. >> sometimes when you have a document controversy you just say okay put them all out there. but she can't do that because the question is are they classified or not. >> right. >> now, it may be that this turns out to be no big deal, and you know, paul is probably right, we won't be talking about this in october of 2016. but it doesn't have a clear ending point. and that's always a problem. >> that's true. >> paul, did you say there is 448 days. >> that was the count. i looked it up right before -- >> wow. >> even i don't keep that in my -- >> that's stunning that we are that part away. i knew that intellectually, but hearing it. >> it's almost tomorrow. we've got to get to work. i have got to raise money for my
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super pac. >> thank you kevin, and jeff as well. we'll talk to you maybe once or twice more in the next 448 days. right side. when we come back more signs donald trump is concerned about winning it all. and in california we'll show you with firefighters are up against as well as all the people now living within the range of flames.
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firk first caucuses in february demands a strong organization. by early appearances mr. trump is attempting to build one. details from randy indicate in the hawk by state. >> reporter: donald trump is doubling down on iowa and the gamble seems to be paying off. he spent about an hour on the ground at the iowa state fair over the weekend, enough time to shake a few hands and grab a pork chop on a stick. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: only adding to the belief that trump is serious about winning iowa. can donald trump win iowa? >> yeah, i think he can. >> reporter: craig robinson is founder of the iowa republican blog. >> it's been a whirlwind, donald trumpesque where he takes the whole state by storm whenever he dezends. >> reporter: the trump campaign in the hawk eye state is in overdrive. his team opened the first iowa state headquarters in west de minute to and the trump bus is
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on the move across the state. the campaign advertises the bus's schedule, invites iowans in for freebies, then aids get their information adding to the rapidly growing list of supporters and volunteers. what do you think it is about trump that eye eyans are attracted to? >> i think it is a new view. i think it's broken, it needs to be fixed. >> reporter: the latest cnn orc poll shows trump leading the republican pack with 22% support in iowa. no wonder he is digging no. he now has ten full-time staffers here. gop hopeful scott walker has just half of that. even though the iowa caucus isn't until february and the election more than a year away. trump's campaign says it has too many volunteers to count. they are pouring in so fast the campaign can hardly keep track of them all. a good problem to have in a key state. it helps that trump isn't a stranger here. he was in iowa the day he
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announced he was running for president. >> i'm a fan. i love john wayne. >> reporter: he has been back to visit the john wayne birth place museum, attend a rally in os ka louis audio and a family leader sum it in aims. >> they are bringing people into the process where they will go to beer festivals or wherever there is people gathered, park their trump bus and people will come out as people who self identify as people who are interested. i think that's smart. >> reporter: and trump is doing his part to make sure iowans feel the love. fresh off his trip to the state fair a posting on his facebook page read just got back from the iowa state fair. record crowds. phenomenal people. thank you, iowa. i will never let you down. >> and randy joins us from des moines. are they any closer to picking caucus leaders in eye with? >> they are. we met a couple of them today. it's important they get the caucus leaders on the ground long before february of that's one thing those who are watching
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the trump cane are saying the campaign is doing right. they are starting the process early. not waiting until december or january. they find these people, these people will pull these people out in the middle of january and february when the caucus take place. it's freezing and they need them on the ground and they need to get those people to get people out to vote on caucus day. >> i heard there is an unofficial poll. >> they have the cast your kernel vote here at the state fair. how it works is this. they have a jar, and each jar has a candidate's name on it at the booth here and this is the trump jar. anyone who comes to that booth is given one kernel. and they put the kernel into the jar that belongs to the candidate of their choice. the vote right now, trump has 23% and hillary clinton is behind him with 18%. seven jars are already full for
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donald trump. they each hold 1,000 kernels. that's 7,000 votes for donald trump here at the state fair. it's not very official. they have only been wrong twice. it's not official, but every other time they have picked the president of the united states, believe it or not. except twice. >> earlier i had a chance to speak with the iowa state co-chair woman for the trump campaign. you might recognize her from the apprentice. tanna, jeb bush on friday in iowa made kind of a swipe at your boss saying you have got to be here, you can't helicopter in and leave. i'm wondering if, obviously, traditionally in iowa, it's all about retail politics, it's spending time on the ground, meeting people, shaking hands, talking to people at small events and that's what helps win the iowa caucuses, gets people to show up. are you hearing that criticism of trump from people you talk to? >> absolutely not, anderson. people love the fact that he landed in his private helicopter. they gave helicopter rides to
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kids. of course, mr. donald trump doesn't do anything the usual boring way. he does everything, puts flare on everything, and he brings in the trump factor. so people loved the way he arrived at the iowa state fair. >> let me ask you, we've seen huge turn out in -- basically wherever he goes, as he is quick to point out. a lot of people interested in his ideas. a lot of people sporting him. but there is also some people we have talked to at these rallies to just want to be part of the experience. they are not sure what they think of him but just kind of want to be there. how do you get people from coming to an event because they want to see a celebrity and be part of the trump experience to actually then taking the next step to of supporting him as a candidate? >> that is a great account, andan. the answer is so simple. if they come because they want to see a celebrity or if they come because they want to see what is this donald trump buzz all about, all they have to do is sit in their seat, relax,
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like i say, buckle, sit back and enjoy the ride. because mr. trump does all the selling himself. the minute he opens his mouth. the minute he tells people what he is going to do for this country. he is so authentic. he is so real. people see it. they believe it. and they are buying it and they are going to come and vote for him. >> i wanted to ask you about something you said about him. you said if you go after him, he is sending in the missiles. of course if he becomes the president he is going to change his tune. right now he doesn't need. to do you think as president he would have a different tone? >> absolutely. right now, he has to show his strength. that's what people love about him. he's strong, he will not back down. he is a tough negotiator, he will not apologize if he hasn't done anything wrong. this is like if you are starting to date someone, you have got to let them know who you are, you are in the going to take away my fishing trip.
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guys establish their position. i'm going to win, i'm going to do what i said i'm going to do. but when he becomes the president of course it's going to take a more relaxed approach because he won't be on the defense. right now he has to be on the defense. >> you don't think he is going to be on defense if he becomes the president, won't be be attacked left, right, and center. >> of course. but he won't be on defense, is he real, is this just a stunt, all those things taking away from his purpose. he wants to make america great again. if everybody would let him talk he will tell you how he wants to do that. but when the focus is on the other things we are missing the opportunity to hear how he is going do that. >> tanna, i appreciate you being on. >> thank you, have a great day. >> at least 20 people are dead after a bomb ripped through a touris area in bang dock. we'll have an update on the investigation as well as the aftermath. also ahead, serving for
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at least 20 people are dead, more than 100 injured after a bomb wech nofr bank dock in thailand. police have not side whether they believe the attack was on specific target but it exploded near a buddhist shrine in the middle of a popular tourist area. what's the latest, andrew. >> reporter: the forensic teams are searching the area. behind me, there has been forensic teams sweeping out towards us. i've been here two or three hours. a couple of new developments. i can tell you we've become aware of in the last hour or so the government has been telling the state-run news agency that they received a warning, anderson, of an attack. now, they didn't say that they had any specific data, where that could take place or even when that could take place. out is the device was pipe bomb wrapped in white cotton. remember, this attack happened
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at the peak time, the time calculated to do most damage, 7:00 p.m. in the evening, when people were coming out of the offices and going home. when the tourists were converging on that shrine. the death toll we are hearing is 20 at the moment, three chinese nationals confirmed dead, one thy, and one filipino. >> do investigators have any idea who could be behind it? >> at this stage officially, no. what they are asking, or what they have said that they think this may have been a target, deliberate target because it is a tourist hot spot. this is one of the biggiest places in bangkok, actually. you get a mixture of people shopping, there is big shopping centers all around here. there is also -- there is also that shrine where you get a lot of chinese tourists, particularly, coming here. the implication here of course is if you hit tourism you hurt the economy. but nothing official at the moment. anderson there is a lot of other theories. is it from insurgents in the
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south a long running insurgency. the political division we have seen so many years on the streets of bangkok being played out in a different deadly way. t for chinese muslims would be making a revenge attack because some of the wiga were kicked out of bangkok just a few days ago but nothing official. >> are heightened security or precautions being taken elsewhere in the city? >> they say they are -- >> just lost andrew stevens. a live report from bong bangkok, thailand. search remembers planning to resume their work in indonesia looking for debris from an air service flight that went down with 54 people on board. happened in remote mountainous area in the eastern part of the country. there was no distress call but the plane lost contact with air traffic volley on country. rene marsch joins me with the latest. what have authorities -- have
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they said exactly what happened, why the plane went down? >> we know, anderson, that search teams are 95% sure that the debris and plume of smoke they spotted coming from the mountainside is indeed debris from this indonesian passenger plane but they are having a problem move gating the mountain to get to the crash site. bad weather today stopped the process. they will try again tomorrow. but we won't learn more about the cause until they get to the debris and plane's recorders. we know this is an 27-year-old plane, which is an older plane, but if it's properly maintain it could fly perfectly fine. the question is, was it properly maintained. >> the airline -- what type of safety record does it have, not great? >> it has been involved in 19 serious safety incidents since 1992 according to one aviation database. in 2007, it was banned from flying in the european union.
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in fact, all indonesian carriers are restricted from operating in the united states. that's because the faa says the country's safety and oversight does not immediate international standards. oftentimes that's an issue of aircraft inspections as well as pilot training. keeping in mind, anderson, this weekend's crash, it was the third major plane crash to happen in indonesia in just eight months. >> wow. renee, i appreciate it. coming up, the irs admits that criminals got ahold of a whole lot more people's tax forms than they first announced just a few months ago. also ahead, more than 25,000 firefighters battling fires in ten states tonight. the latest on a live update from california next. i'm caridee. i've had moderate to severe plaque psoriasis most of my life. but that hasn't stopped me from modeling. my doctor told me about stelara® it helps keep my skin clearer. with only 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses... ...stelara® helps me be in season. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections
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firefighters are dealing with dozen of wildfires throughout much of the western united states topped and the heat and dry conditions and the heat and dry conditions are making the environment difficult. 19 fires burning in california. nine other states are fighting fiery battles. paul vercammen reports. >> reporter: in the west, high
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temperatures, winds, drought creating the perfect firestorm. more than is the,000 firefighters battling fires in ten states. the national preparedness level at five, the highest. two dozen fires sovereicovering washington state. in which i land. >> it was unstoppable. >> reporter: other residents not as for fortunate, dozens of structures and more than 50,000 acres burned. 1,000 residents evacuated. >> we thought it was a little fire and it spreaded and spreaded and the winld got paster. >> reporter: in california, 13,000 firefighters are trying to extwing ish two dozen blaze. a southern california heat wave fuelling this fire in castaic. in mont bellow a suspected arson fire caused major traffic jams. walls of flames exploded over the road. the lincoln fire came from
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