your granddaughter. she remine minds me of you so much. i love you very, very much and miss you always. >> erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, breaking news. the first republican candidate to bow out of the race. it's not donald trump. his support tripling in a new iowa poll. do voters really want a man who calls himself an entertainer? police question a man in connection with the arizona highway shootings. are investigators closer to catching a deadly shooter? new video shows the moment a tennis star was pushed to the ground. did he go too far? let's go "outfront." i'm jim sciutto in for erin

burnett. the first republican presidential candidate drops out of the race. the field now down to 16 after former texas governor rick perry suspends his campaign. at this point, four years ago perry was the gop frontrunner. in fact, 41% of republicans at the time thought he would be the gop nominee. the exact same number who today believe that donald trump will be their party's choice. today, donald trump's numbers are reaching a new high. trump nearly tripling his support in the key state of iowa just since july. trump's lead showing that his blistering personal attacks are not turning off voters. trump launching a new defense for his jabs at carly fiorina and saying he made them as an entertainer. >> many of those comments are made as an entertainer. as everybody said, it's a much different ball game. >> joe johns is "outfront" tonight. why is rick perry leaving the

race? >> reporter: it comes down to money and momentum. the perry campaign was struggling for cash and buzz in the early voting states. part of the dynamic here is about donald trump and how he is has been dominating the republican field. and the headlines since he got into the race. latest candidate to take a big swipe at trump was carly fiorina. the latest twist in the bitter battle for the republican nominati nomination, former ceo carly fiorina, once attacked by democrats as a corporate jet conservative. >> a million dollar yacht and five cor five corps rat jorate jets. >> reporter: fiorina officially set to come face to face with trump and the other top contenders on the main stage of the debate next wednesday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. many waiting to see whether

fiorina will address trump's rude comments about her this week. the frontrunner telling "rolling stone" would anyone vote for that? can you imagine that the face of our next president? she's a woman and i'm not supposed to say bad things, but come on, are we serious? trump often doubles down on his most controversial remarks. this time he seemed unsure how to address the criticism that he is again disparaging women, making comments about the looks of the only woman on the republican side of the race. >>. >> marv: many of those comments are made as an entertainer. as everybody said, as an entertainer is a different ball game. >> reporter: before that he offered a different explanation. >> it's not presidential -- >> i'm not talking about look. >> reporter: despite his latest comments directed as a woman, trump has strong support from republican women voters right now according to the latest poll. as for fiorina, she hasn't been keen on directly addressing

trump's comments. >> i'm not running because i'm a woman. i've never been a token in my life. i don't expect people to vote for me because i'm a woman. i expect hem to vote for me because i'm the most qualified candidate to do the job. >> reporter: perhaps because fiorina has weighed in about the looks of a female opponent before. >> barbara boxer briefly on television this morning and said, what is that hair? so yesterday. >> reporter: in 2010, she was running for the senate and eventually lost to barbara boxer. as we enter the final weekend before the cnn debate, donald trump is headed back to the stump in iowa. a rally in boone and a trip to see rivalry. >> his numbers jumping there. former rnc communication

directi director doug high and jeffrey lord. jeffrey, i would like to begin with you. you heard donald trump defending his comments about carly fiorina's face saying he made them as an entertainer. he is running for president. is he in your view acting presidential? >> sure. sure. you know, he is an entertainer in that sense. he was on television for a long time. towards the end of his term, president reagan was interviewed by i think tom brokaw who asked him about being an actor and being president. reagan's answer was something to the effect that i don't know how i could have done the job without it, without his acting background. in this day and age of television and mass communications, it does help. these things help. i think he was quite frank about it. >> i want to give you a chance to pipe in, doug. i saw you shaking your head. having an acting background is

one thing. the difference is the nature of the comments we are hearing. against women, against latinos. is it presidential? >> no, it's not presidential. keep in mind today is 9/11. there was a tweet from donald trump's tweet. he is play the role of a bad guy. he is doing that very well. meanwhile, what we are not talking about when it comes to trump on any level are issues. this is where the press, dana bash did a great job whether she asked him questions on -- when they were on the border together. he had trouble answering questions on specific issues. if you are a republican candidate, don't worry about the name calling that donald trump gives or receives. focus on why he supported the single healthcare plan, why he supported partial birth abortion. if you do those things and you stick to those things, you can beat donald trump, especially now that we are past labor day

when voters start to focus on real issues. >> you mentioned a tweet by donald trump. to be clear, that came from 2013. s.e., i want to talk to you. this new poll shows trump dominating the gop field. it's 27% support. that's up from -- up by 10 points since july. i wonder, in this climate of anti-washington sentiment, throw the bums out kind of sentiment, do you see in those numbers evidence that voters would prefer an entertainer to a typical washington politician? >> trulmp is doing well at the moment. he is also the candidate most republicans would not vote for. i think that registered is republicans who are responding to poll calls are divide on this. some like the entertainment and like donald trump is a so-called outsider. i wouldn't go so far as to call him anti-establishment. i think he has been cozy with the establishment. i think the rest of the

republican voters recognize that he is probably unelectable in a general election. the angst over washington ins e insiders existed in 2012 as well, remember. and conservatives weren't all that happy with mitt romney. he still won the nomination. he didn't go on to win the general election. but for better or worse, the establishment candidate or candidates generally end up doing fairly well, despite some civil unrest within the base. >> jeffrey, i want to give you a chance to respond. what's your response? >> yeah. jim, one of the -- i thought very interesting statistics deep in the internal side of the poll in iowa, 87% of republican potential republican caucus goers in iowa said they would

prefer somebody who had no washington government experience, period. and then it went across the board to different categories, men, women, evangelicals, it was higher than that or in the 90s. that's a pretty amazing statistic. i think that that gives you a pretty good snapshot of the energy out there that's fuelling the trump and to some extent the carson campaign and the fiorina campaign and ted cruz. >> there are other non-washington candidates in the race. ben carson is one of them. i'm just curious, how do mainstream candidates who are tarred with that washington brush, how do they break through, particularly as we have the debate coming up next wednesday? >> sure. if they are a governor, focus on what they did on that state. that's true whether you are talking about jeb bush or scott walker. even jim gilmore for that matter. if they are a senator, rubio and cruz and paul, they haven't been a creature of washington for a

long time. they can talk about that. we should step back for a minute. i ran communications for the iowa caucus last time. i can tell you, iowa is not going to determine necessarily who is going to be our nominee. what it does is it winnows down who our nominee will be. it's like the first round of the ncaa tournament. also, let's remember, if we go back four years ago about this time, rick perry was the leading republican candidate. people thought rick perry was going to be our nominee. as we learned today, rick perry is not going to be our nominee this time around. keep that in mind as we talk about trump all the time, even if we're not talking about donald trump in policy, which is what's going to matter to voters in the long term. >> what's your response to that? 41% four years ago virtually today thought ruk pick perry wa going to be the candidate. we know how that turned out. the same h41% believe trump wil be the candidate. >> rick perry stumbled and

stumbled of his own doing. donald trump, everybody thought donald trump had stumbled. and he hasn't. he keeps going. when these incidents or whatever you want to call them, his poll numbers go higher. i don't think they are comparable at all. people have a different impression of donald trump than they did of rick perry. rick perry attacks for being a cancer on the republican party. he's out of the race. >> donald trump's unfavorables are high as well. people actually don't have a very positive view of him, even as he is doing well in the polls. >> we have to leave it there. thank you for joining us tonight. "outfront" next, the second republican debate five days away with trump taking center stage. will his rivals double down on their latest attacks against him? as the number of possible highway shootings in arizona grows, police are being

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i don't think history is a good guide for that. >> reporter: calibrating their message. >> he doesn't believe in anything other than donald trump. he is a narcissist. >> reporter: in the first debate, the differing tactics taken against trump led to a massive reshuffling of the field. jeb bush with his strategy of staying out -- >> i'm done. i'm through. i gave my views. i think that we need to be much more hopeful and optimistic about our ideology. >> reporter: was overshadowed. he has seen support plummet. may be looking to tee up a standout moment against trump to stop his slide. carly fiorina -- >> i didn't get a phone call from bill clinton before i jumped in the race. did you get a phone call? i didn't. >> reporter: whose strong debate performance helped earn her a spot on the main stage this time around. >> they have to make a decision here. go negative on trump and take him down or offer something positive and introduction yourself in a positive way to

the public. that might benefit that you win eventually when trump faulters. >> reporter: a fresh spotlight on ben carson. aides say he won't back away from drawing distinctions with trump. >> i'm not going there. next question. >> reporter: but will not go after him in a personal way. the debate stage is unforgiving, creating a series of make or break moments for the candidates that can soar -- >> i have as much experience in the congress as jack kennedy did when he sought the presidency. >> you are no jack kennedy. >> reporter: or flop. >> a lot of static. >> i can't. the third one i can't. sorry. >> reporter: leaving a lasting memory tied to each candidate for better or for worse. 24 million people watched last month's debate. for the candidates, especially the ones that are struggling, this is their best chance to reach out to a larger audience

and get momentum as they try to move forward and away from the summer of trump. >> huge platform, no question. ben ferguson, talk show host and loni chen. he helped prep romney for the presidential debates. ben, i want to begin with you. we have seen several of the candidates milwauk s make a cou going after trump. the debate, a huge platform. is this the best way to make their market in the debate? >> i think it depends on you as a candidate. for example, ben carson, if i was advising him, i would not tell him to change. the way that he has been handling himself, people don't look at him as some sort of trash talker. i think for him that would actually be a bad strategy. if you look at carly, she's actually pretty good at it. if she goes after donald trump, especially after he treated her this week, i think in her

situation she could capitalize on this and really make even more of a name for herself. you have to be true to who you are. i don't think you want to get in a game where you are somehow getting outside of what you really are as a candidate and as a person. i think carson is an example of, if he comes out with really solid ideas and challenges donald trump on ideas or lack of substance, that's where it could catapult him. you have to look at each one of the candidates as who they are as an individual. chris christie, when you are on the end like he is, i think you throw serious punches at donald trump. you have nothing to lose there when you are in this position, because i think he is under performed up to now. that may be for him a good strategy. >> i wonder, you prepped mitt romney for the 2012 campaign debates. this is a different field from 2012. certainly seeing that with the fron front-runner. does the public want to see a shouting match up there? do voters want to see a shouting

match? is there a benefit in coming across as an adult? >> you know, i don't think voters are looking for a shouting match. i don't think that's what they desire. that having been said, if there is an engagement between two candidates, if two candidates do begin to get into it, i think the public values a candidate that can stand up for themselves, that can counter punch. i don't think it does any good to get up there and to not be able to respond or to look weak. i think that could be the biggest concern. the difficulty with trump is he is just such a wild card. you don't know what he is going to do. that makes prep very, very difficult. it also makes a strategy premised on what trump is going to do very difficult as well. >> no question. ben, in the past, candidates faced a risk of some sort of flop or fumble. the oops moment for perry. a campaign can faulter. does trump run the same risk? he is teflon don.

has he rewritten the rules that he doesn't have that same kind of risk as he goes into this? >> i think he has rewritten the rules in the fact that he can say whatever he wants to say and people continue to put it in the category of, that's straight talk, that's blunt talk, that's a non-politician. he could get himself in serious trouble is if someone challenges him on an actual aspect of foreign policy or domestic policy or taxes and he can't come up with a good enough answer. and then everyone piles in on the lack of maybe experience in that area. we saw that when he was doing a radio show earlier this week. it made big headlines because it wasn't an i got you question. it was a basic question that donald trump did not know how to answer. that's where he could get himself in huge trouble. >> on foreign policy, couldn't identify leaders. i want to ask you, a lot of eyes are going to be on carly fiorina. she's the most recent target of a trump blast here. the comments about her face.

five days to go, there could be someone else. looking at her and how she has risen, she's on the main stage, what is her best strategy here? directly address that issue, go after trump on it? is that the best idea? should she kind of rise above it? >> you know, i think her response has been pretty good. i think her strategy has been to rise above it. the comments are outrageous. the outrageousness speaks for themselves. i think for carly to come out and be aggressive in terms of confronting him may not work to her advantage. she needs to stick to character. it's very, very difficult to try and force a conflict on it. i think it's out there. there may be a different opportunity on a different issue for her to confront donald trump. if that occurs, i think she would be great at doing that. she has done a good job confronting hillary clinton so far. ultimately, her big question mark is going to be how does she translate her performance from the jv stage to the main stage this time? i think if that transition goes well, it will serve her well.

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v sara sidner is "outfront." >> reporter: after nearly two weeks with 11 vehicles hit with bullets or jectileprojectiles, e questioning a man in connection with the shootings. >> we are calling him a person of interest. we really wanted to talk to him about a lot of things. it's fair to say this will probably come up. but we basically want to spend some time with him and find out what he knows. >> reporter: the man along with a woman were detained at a traffic stop. they released the woman but continued questioning the man. what led you to tip related order was this something that investigators figured out? >> it's reasonable to say it's a combination of the two. >> reporter: no one has been arrested. police are still asking for citizens to call in tips. this as two other incidents, one along highway 17 and another off interstate 10 are being investigated to determine whether they are linked to the recent shooting spree. interstate 10 has been a target

zone. cars to big rigs have been hit during all times of the day and night with no apparent pattern. jackson is one of many troopers driving the shooting zone. he says the department is adding resources to the investigation. >> it's never a one man situation. that's from the troopers to the police department to the citizens. it's a total team effort. >> reporter: this is not the first time police and the public here have had to deal with serial roadway shootings. a decade ago eight people were killed as two gunmen stalked the road. that took more than a year to solve. the man heading the current investigation was working at the police department during the shootings. >> that was what they called aid serial shooter case. they were driving down roads and with a shotgun they were shooting people walking down the street and killing them. >> reporter: after two weeks -- that was then.

this is now. in talking to investigators, they say that basically having this case involved within a couple week would be unheard of for a serial shooting case such as mind the public it took 15 months to solve the case in 2005. >> let's hope it doesn't take that long this time. sara sidner out there by the highway. "outfront" tonight, former fbi assistant director chris sweker and arthur roderick. he was involved in the d.c. sniper attacks. they have a person of interest. they are questioning this person. what are officials likely to be asking? >> it's interesting that the previous speaker brought up the fact that they want to talk to him about a lot of things. there might be other crimes involved here that he could be a suspect in. obviously, they want to go over where has he been over the last couple of weeks. where has he been during the time frames of the shootings and

try to backtrack there. i'm sure they are searching the vehicle, looking for any type of physical evidence. but you have to remember that -- they have to verify any of the phone calls, any of the leads coming in. i know that during the d.c. sniper case, we looked for a white van for 2 1/2 weeks. it turned out to be a blue chevy capri. >> the early leads can be wrong, misleading. certainly, early suspects can be wrong as well. we have to keep that in mind. what other things would they be looking for? you heard the police chief there saying there was a combination of tips and what they found in the investigation that led them to this person. >> i think it's good that we have people calling in. i think people calling in can also keep in mind that this individual might not be an eyewitness to the fact that they saw somebody drive down a road or they saw a shooting. it could have been something somebody said three or four or five months ago about getting on

the highway and committing some type of crime. if people keep that in the back of their head and if anybody has had past conversations with somebody who mentioned that, police call the local tip line. >> chris, what's interesting about this case here is that you still have people driving along this what's become a dangerous stretch of highway. they might have someone of interest, but they don't know they have the shooter in custody. is that a mistake? >> no. it's not a mistake. i can guarantee you that the highway patrol and other state and local law enforcement are out there doing mobile surveillance, static surveillance. they are on buildings. they are traveling the highways. that's mainly to suppress the shooter, to make sure that they are not out there doing this again. i have a sense that we're not going to hear from the shooter for a couple of days, if it is one shooter. of course, there's always forensics. they are going to be entering all of this data from the expanded shells -- excuse me,

the expanded rounds if they have recovered some into a national database and hope to match that with some other weapon. >> one other odd thing about this -- this could just be luck, right, in that you haven't had anybody hit, thankfully, by bullets yet. do you have past cases where shooters looked to hit rather than to hurt, to terrorize, in effect, without hurting? what's your view, particularly you arthur with your experience with the d.c. sniper case? >> the d.c. sniper case was quite a bit different. he was shooting at individuals that were more or less in a static position. it's very difficult -- if a vehicle is moving at 60 miles an hour, it's very difficult if you are shooting from the side to be able to pick a driver off or pick a passenger off. i do believe we have been very lucky up to this point that nobody has been seriously injured. >> chris, in your view with the fbi, you heard local police call this a case of domestic

terrorism. and it is terrorizing, no question. you are firing shots at a busy section of highway on a major american city. as you look at this, what kind of suspect do you profile if you are profiling, what kind of suspect would police be looking for? >> well, first i think he is misusing the word domestic terrorism. it's committing violence to put your ideology on the public. we don't know what the motivation it. it isn't necessarily domestic terrorism yet. there's a lot of other aspects to this case. these suspects could be anybody or suspect could be anybody. they could be in the neighborhood. they could be -- this could be a gang initiation. people throw objects off of overpasses all the time. highways are notorious for this type of activity. not necessarily shootings but we

do see this type of activity pretty -- it's pretty prevalent. >> we know the police are working with their local gang unit to explore exactly that possibili possibility, that possible connection. chris, arthur, thanks for your views on this. "outfront" next, highway shootings day and night. how will police track down this serial attacker? can other sniper cases offer some clues? new surveillance video showing former tennis star blake body slammed by a police officer. ♪ [music]

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send a chilling feeling along drivers. a series of shootings around interstate 10. the shots seemingly coming out of nowhere. >> any time you have multiple shootings against american citizens on a highway, that's terrorism. they're trying to frighten or kill somebody. >> reporter: one person, a 13-year-old girl, has been injured. highway shootings like this are not uncommon. the most notorious in recent memory was the d.c. sniper attacks in 2002. a three-week rampage that drove a stake of fear around the nation's capital. >> terrifying at this particular point. you don't know which way you are going, who is going to shoot. >> reporter: ten people were killed, three critically wounded. the attacks carried out by john allen mohammed and lee boyd malvo. charles mccoy unleashed a series of 24 sniper attacks along interstate 270, around columbus,

ohio, one person was killed. >> we watch people here driving up and down the road. just because you are in your car and moving, maybe a decent speed, you are a sitting target. >> any time you are in a vehicle, you are trapped. >> reporter: the chief has spent more than 30 years in law enforcement. he investigated hundreds of murder cases and at least a dozen different highway shootings for the dallas police department. he says each shooter's motive may be different but they all have one thing in common. >> they're not going to stop shooting until they are captured. i think these people are going to be more taking more chances because i think right now they are getting off on what it is they are doing. >> reporter: last year a gunman shot nine cars on the highways of kansas city over a month. >> the glass from the back and hit us in the back of the head. >> reporter: after police work, a 27-year-old was charged with carrying out the attacks. the chief says serial highway

shootings are some of the hardest crimes to investigate. >> you don't know whether you are looking for one suspect or you are looking for multiple suspects. you don't know whether or not the individuals are shooting from a platform, are they shooting from a vehicle like the beltway sniper? are they shooting from a building? >> reporter: like this time in arizona when a shooter could be out there lurking, there's no such thing as a peaceful drive down the highway. tonight at least 107 people are dead and more than 200 others are injured after a crane collapse at the holiest site in the muslim world. this is the moment the crane plunged through the roof of mecca's grand mosque in saudi arabia, coming down on worshipers in the middle of evening prayers. officials believe severe storms and heavy rain could have been a factor. the collapse comes just a week before more than 2 million people flock to mecca for

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tonight, we are seeing alarming new video of the violence arrest of a former pro tennis star. the video shows james blake right there standing quietly when a plainclothes officer slams him to the ground. they admitted he had the wrong person. jason carroll is "outfront." as we look at this video, walk us through. what do we see? >> reporter: you can see the way after looking at that video why james blake felt the way he did.

let's show some of that video again. you can see he was standing there in front of the hotel there on wednesday. that officer rushes him, grabs him, throws him to the ground. within seconds, he is in handcuffs. he was held there for about ten minutes. you don't see that on the videotape. that happens after. while he is there on the ground, according to blake, he kept saying, there's no audio but he kept saying, what are you doing? why am i here? he says at no point did the officer identify himself. he said at no point did the officer say why he was taking him down, why he was under arrest. again, he was undercover, according to blake at no point could he see a badge a shield, anything at all that would identify this man as an officer. you can imagine the way he felt as he was there on the ground. then was taken into handcuffs. also i should tell you, in terms

of what police are saying about this, the police union says that this officer actually acted in somewhat of a proper manner. he was going after a suspect. obviously, this is a case of mistaken identity. but that he was going after what he thought was a suspect and he took the man down simply because he thought he might be a flight risk. also saying that the police union saying that they regret any embarrassment or injury suffered by mr. blake. also, as you know, the mayor and police commissioner apologizing for this incident as well. >> we have learned more about the cop. prior allegations of excessive use of force by him. >> there are actually from what we have gathered here two civil suits where the officer is named in both of those suits. you see a picture of him there. he is 38 years old. there was no admission of wrongdoing in any of those -- either of those civil suits. one thing is interesting about this. we just found out that as of

today, a settlement conference for both of those cases have been scheduled. that was scheduled today. both of these cases at least two years old. so what's interesting is while there seem to be not very much legal movement with so what's interesting is while there seem to be not very much legal movement it with either of the civil cases as a result of seemingly what we are seeing today, there has been some movement in the two civil suits. >> jason carroll in new york. joey jackson, you look at the video, you see the violence. what i don't see. you don't see him showing his badge, asking for his i.d., is that, not just proper police work, is that legal police work? >> no. what happens is -- we have to know and understand police have a difficult job. they want to go home at end of the day. we get that, however there is a certain type of protocol associated with making a stop. now going back to whether the stop is proper.

if somebody identified him and says i am 1,000% sure it's that gift. certainly the police have a proper and legal basis to go off. and to do what is called a pat frisk. and they do that for their safety. >> that's different from tackling him. no questions asked. >> exactly. the legitimacy of the stop, okay. it's the tactics that is associated with the stop that causes pause. there is a use of force continuum. that continuum would suggest any force used has to be proportionate to any threat that is posed. >> he's not running away there. >> it doesn't appear. >> it's troubling and problematic in it is one thing to make inquiries and say we have reports of or maybe you get backup, maybe you surround him concerned for your safety. outright tackling him, it is seemingly without basis. that's what the frustration is here. >> so you look, he had a history of allegations, the two civil suits. reading some of the details. someone riding their bike on a

sidewalk. tackles them there. arrests the wife. took the bike away. that kind of thing. when you see the history. what's next for an officer in a case like this? >> the issue how that is going to impact the current civil cases and this case. those go to prior bad acts. now any type of civil case is always an allegation against someone. then you are going to settlement discussions no add motion of liability. jason was speaking to in his report. you are always concerned with regard to other things coming out about an officer because then it is admissible. it is admissible it goes to common plan, common scheme, it goa goes to intent. absence of mistake. there are legal bases to get in other bad acts you engage in. frankly, backing up. understanding the allegations you have to look at whether the police department should have had him in position to begin with. based upon the history. >> joe jackson. enlightening.

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we are looking at live pictures of the 9/11 tribute in lights at ground zero. those beams of light of course representing the towers lost that day. 14 years ago. one of the most beautiful memorials on the 9/11 anniversary. for many of us each 9/11 anniversary send us back to that morning, 14 years ago now and the first sight of our nation under attack. i was in washington, remember going to the roof of my building to see a thick cloud of smoke rising from the pentagon. and hugging a neighbor i didn't

know as she cried. i think of the people i knew and didn't know who were lost that day and today was filled with tributes to the victims. at ground zero, they read their names all 2,977 of them. they laid wreaths at the pentagon. and at shanksville, pennsylvania. at the white house, mr. and mrs. obama stood for a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., the time that the first plane hit the twin towers. the president spoke later to members of the armed forces who have given so much in the wars borne out of that day. a . >> that evening, i have very vivid memories of giving sasha a bottle and rocking her to sleep while we were watching the aftermath of those attacks. and like i think everybody here, you know, although most of you

were a lot younger, you know it gave you a sense for the first time in my lifetime, that our homeland could be vulnerable in that way. in each place there are large memorials now to honor the dead on every day. and for generations to come. but it is our memories that can be most enduring. now there is what has risen literally from the ashes. a refurbished pentagon, the freedom tower, and from the freedom tower last night by luck or providence that a rainbow stretched high into the sky. many of us here at cnn took it as a sign of hope a and for that tonight we're thankful. thank you for joining us. i'm jim sciuto. i will be back next week. ac 360 up next. before we go, live pictures of the 9/11 tribute lights at ground zero next to the freedom power. again the beams of light

representing the towers we lost that day. we will never forget. good evening. thank you for joining us. a very full hour ahead. for the first time anywhere, a former navy seal talks about the classified mission to rescue beau bergdahl. and rudy giuliani joins us. live pictures of lower manhattan. breaking news about a presidential hopeful this time around who seems to be quickly losing hope. here's what former texas governor rick perry said late today before members of the conservative eagle form in st. louis. >> when i gave my life to christ, i said your ways are greater than my ways. your will is superior to