suicide bomber or hotel guest. at least six guests are dead as are two attackers. and we also now know that 53 people were injured in the twin attacks. six of them are americans. none of the injuries is believed to be life threatening. our dan rivers is in jakarta and has more on the investigation, including a man police believe may be behind the bombings. >> reporter: they're still reeling from the death of their close friend from australia. they almost attended the same networking breakfast at the hotel, but this isn't the first time they've come close to being caught up in a terrorist attack. >> we've been very close to it three times. we were meant to be with a dear friend of ours who was injured in bali, major bombings there. i canceled at the last minute. and then we were here in the last bombing and we could have been here yesterday morning. >> reporter: even more

incredible, this security guard, who was severely burned in the bombing of the marriott six years ago. and he was on duty again on friday. luckily escaping with minor injuries this time. he says, "i couldn't believe the marriott was bombed again. the terrorists must have a fixation with this hotel." jakarta's governor visiting the survivors in hospital conveyed a sense of outrage here. >> not only inhuman but more than that. i think it is something that -- unimaginable actually. >> reporter: this security guard was the last person to speak to the marriott suicide bomber. he describes how he challenged the man who told him he had to deliver something to his boss in the lounge where a business meeting was taking place. as this cctv footage shows, the man was allowed to pass the guard, wheeling his suitcase across the lobby. seconds later, a devastating explosion. the police say the explosives

were similar to those used in the past by this man, noordin top, a notorious terrorist mastermind with links to islamists jemaah islamiyah. police blame him for a string of bombings in indonesia over the past decade. security has remained tight here at both hotels while the police continue their investigation and while the president of indonesia pays his tribute. this has done immense damage for indonesia's reputation internationally. now synonymous once again with the terrorist outrage in the capital. dan rivers, cnn, jakarta. to afghanistan now, where the u.s. military is confirming the deaths of two crewmen in the crash of an air force jet. according to a military spokesman an f-15 fighter plane went down before dawn this morning in the ghazni province southeast of kabul. it adds with a the crash was not caused by enemy fire. the pilot of the second jet

flying with the f-15 confirming such. well, here at home, the way it is will never be the same, not after the loss of news legend and broadcasting icon walter cronkite, who passed away last evening at his home in new york city. cbs says the 92-year-old cronkite died surrounded by friends and family. our own anderson cooper looks back at a man and a career unparalleled. >> reporter: for so long, for so many of us, he was the most trusted man in america. >> and that's the way it is. >> reporter: walter cronkite covered the world and, in an age of fewer channels and fewer newscasts, he changed the world as well. >> looking back on it, i think i was so lucky i just happened to fall into the right things at the right time and it worked beautifully. >> reporter: he was born walter leland con cite jr. in 1915. he was a beat reporter before joining united press in 1939. when the first troops stormed

nornd normandy, he was there. >> as dwight eisenhower told me sitting on this wall on the 20th anniversary of d-day that he thinks of the grandchildren that these young kids will never have. and that's something for all of us to think about. >> reporter: when we think about walter cronkite in generations of broadcast journalists have and will continue to, we think about his tenure at cbs, a company he joined in is 1950. 12 years later he became the anchor of the "cbs evening news." in that chair, in that role, he came to define what an anchor was. he told america the way it was. who can forget november 22nd, 1963. cronkite reported and reacted to the horror in dallas. >> from dallas, texas, the flash apparently official. president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time, 2:00 eastern standard time, some 38 minutes ago. >> reporter: in 1968, after

returning from a trip to vietnam, his conclusions may have helped alter the course of history. >> it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of vietnam is to end in a stalemate. >> reporter: the opinion reached president johnson, who reportedly said, if i've lost cronkite, i've lost middle america. >> his approach to news was, when news happens, get as close to the story as you possibly can and then tell people about it in language that they can understand. walter spoke like the average person. it wasn't all literary, flowery kind of language. people don't talk that way. and walter didn't either. >> reporter: walter, it seemed, was always there. for the moon landing. >> man on the moon. oh, boy! whew, boy. >> reporter: for watergate, for mideast peace breakthrough. humble, honest, straightforward and never made himself a story

even on a winter day in 1991 when he sat in the chair for the last time. >> old anchormen don't fade away. they keep coming back for more. that's the way it is friday, march 6, 1991. i'll be on assignment and dan rather will be sitting here for the next few years. >> reporter: good night, mr. cronkite. good night and god speed. anderson cooper, cnn, new york. we are continuing to hear from people who are impacted by walter cronkite throughout the day and i'd also like to hear from you. what are your thoughts and opinions and feelings about walter cronkite? you can reach out via facebook. e-mail us at weekends@cnn.com or send your comments to my blog as well as at cnn.com/newsroom and click on fredericka. president obama, like millions of americans, is likening walter cronkite's death to that of a family member. but more pressing for the president this weekend is defending the democrat-backed health care overhaul that critics charge is far too expensive.

>> those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor, that some bureaucrat will choose for you. that's also not true. michelle and i don't want anyone telling us who our family doctor should be, and no one should decide that for you either. under our proposal, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. if you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. period. end of story. >> they propose to pay for this new washington-run health care system by dramatically raising taxes on small business owners. small businesses create jobs. approximately two-thirds of new jobs in the last decade. with a shaky economy and the need for new jobs, the last thing the president and the congress should do is impose new taxes on america's small businesses. new taxes on small business would cripple job creation, especially jobs for low wage earners.

>> health care will likely be one of the main topics as president obama holds a news conference wednesday evening at 9:00 eastern time. of course cnn will bring you live coverage of those remarks. almost six months and president obama's approval ratings are not exactly what they used to be. we'll look at how and why they have dipped. mr. evans? this is janice from onstar. i have received an automatic signal you've been in a front-end crash. do you need help? yeah. i'll contact emergency services and stay with you. you okay? yeah. onstar. standard for one year on 14 chevy models. my daughter was with me. i took a bayer aspirin out of my purse and chewed it. my doctor said the bayer aspirin saved my life.

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and it felt cool. starting to feel maybe like spring, going back to spring or maybe summer depending where you are. reynolds wolf in the weather center. it's actually welcome, not bad. i liked it. >> it's a great change. like someone got the calendar and flipped it to october and here we are. we've had times in atlanta in october i can say, for example, halloween where it's into the 90s. that's not the case today. we're not getting into the 90s. looks more like the 80s. for much of the nation, a much-needed cooldown. a week or so ago in dallas we had temperatures there in the triple digits around 104. that didn't factor in high humidity. 69 in chicago. 72 minneapolis. 83 in memphis. memphis also sweltering this time of the year usually in the 90s on union avenue near graceland. not the situation for today. washington with 82 degrees. if you go out west, it still feels like summer in phoenix and las vegas, temperatures in the triple digits in las vegas and in los angeles temperatures about where they should be this time of the year.

there's a reason for the cooldown. the reason is actually pretty simple. we had a frontal boundary that em tended from the great lakes, marched down to the gulf of mexico and right behind it you've got this reinforcing shot of cool air that's continuing to march its way to the south. as it moves on down, we're going to feel those comfortable conditions and the chilly temperatures during the nighttime hours back into the 30s and 40s for parts of the great lakes, in the southeast 50s and 60s. by the time we get to late sunday night and early monday morning, some places could experience record low temperatures. so amazing this time of year. >> the sweaters again. >> one other thing to mention later this afternoon we could see storms bust out especially parts of texas, oklahoma, kansas, maybe even colorado, new mexico in the late afternoon hours. >> putting those umbrellas to use. thanks so much. health care reform, job creation, fighting global warming. president obama has an ambitious agenda, a lot on his plate. but his approval ratings have actually slipped a bit trying to tackle all these things.

earlier i talked about new poll numbers with our deputy political director paul steinhauser. all right, paul, just seven months into the presidency, just shy of. already a dip in his popularity. what happened? >> yeah. i guess it's almost natural. after you start out the presidency all shiny and new but running the white house is not that easy. take a look at this. this is our cnn poll of polls. what we did here is we averaged the most recent polls. five national polls done in july. you can see the president's approval rating 57% of americans give him a thumbs up. 36% disapprove. that 57 is a drop of four points from just last month in june. i think one reason is the economy, more concerns about the economy. some of that deterioration is coming from independent voters, fred. >> and how well or poor did his predecessors do in comparison? >> interesting. our polling director put this together. take a look, you can see. this president exact same number as george w. bush back in july

of 2001. >> six months in. >> yeah, six months in. bill clinton back in july of 1993, he was at 48%. george herbert walker bush, 2 out of 3 americans gave him the thumbs up about six months into his presidency and ronald reagan, six out of ten approving of how he was doing as president back in july of 1981, fred. >> all right. and we'll have to check those numbers again in a month or two because we know they'll change again, right? >> they will. >> paul steinhauser, thanks so much. good to see you. >> thank you. and then after four days of grilling, the president's supreme court pick might find out tuesday if she actually gets the job. if she is confirmed, sonia sotomayor would be the first latina supreme court justice in u.s. history. her chances look pretty good. three gop moderates including the party's senior senator richard luger of indiana were quick to throw their support behind her. and one group watching the sotomayor confirmation process very closely, students who will

be graduating from law school only about a year and a half from now. i sat down with four of them from emory and the university of georgia schools of law to get their take on this week's hearing. as law students, you've all talked about in your classrooms about being prejudicial, applying the rule of law. these are things that we heard during the hearings. >> i'll say personally i didn't always agree with sotomayor's decisions that she handed down and i think a lot was made of some of the extra judicial comments that she had made that some people wanted clarification about. >> was it fair play to focus on the definition of her personal experiences, her application of her life experiences and weigh that with her law experience? >> i think it is fair game. the republicans really didn't have anything to point out in her judicial record other than the ricci case, which was a very closely decided case in the

supreme court. >> of what you witnessed this week during the hearings, did it inspire you in your pursuit in the field of law? did it in any way maybe kind of stoke the fire of, hey, one day i want to become a supreme court justice, especially because of what i saw? >> i think that judge sotomayor's nomination, in general, is an inspirational story. where she came from, how hard she worked, the tremendous amount of achievement that she was able to achieve, i mean, that's the american dream. >> and we heard justice ginsburg say not too many months ago that it's lonely being the only woman on the bench. >> and i think you see in cases, for example, the strip search case, which i can't remember the name of now. it was important even though you have justices applying broader legal concepts, it was still a

13-year-old girl who was strip searched. and i any it was valuable to have someone who had been a 13-year-old girl on the bench when that decision was made. >> why is it that type of case where we're talking about life experience, then -- >> right. >> -- in another sense. why would that not be disputed yet to say wise latina woman? is that life experience that did ruffle feathers. >> i think it was her comparison, her statement that a wise latina woman would make a better decision than a white male. i think -- at least my perception is that is the difference -- that's the statement that really ruffled the feathers. >> the feathers was her last comment. so those students have a lot more to say. you'll be hearing a lot more from them throughout the day including 4:00 p.m. eastern hour. sonia sotomayor of course faced a lot of questions, critical comments before the senate

judiciary committee all week. most seemed convinced she will make a good supreme court justice, but we want to know what you think. today at 4:00 eastern time we're breaking down judge sotomayor's word, what she said, what she didn't say and we're also getting your thoughts. post your comments on our blog at cnn.com/fredericka, on facebook at fredericka whitfield cnn. or you can call us. this is a new feature. you can leave a voice message by calling this toll free number right there, 877-742-5760. be part of the discussion today 4:00 eastern time. we'll get your comments in so many different fashions on the air. okay. is there such a thing as giving too much? african-american women putting themselves out caring for their families and their communities. how that self sacrifice could be taking is a toll on their health.

well, it's considered a taboo topic among african-americans, so black women don't often realize, they, like millions of other americans, are suffering from depression. our soledad o'brien explains. >> reporter: terry williams is a successful publicist who has had a long list of top tier clients.

on the surface, she always looked like she had it together. but on the inside -- >> it was so dark. it was the hardest thing in the world to jus just get up, to shower and to dress and to put the mask on, because you had to put the mask on. you had to walk out that door and pretend that all was well. >> reporter: even a background in social work didn't help terrie see she was suffering from depression. you're a social worker. you know what that means. >> exactly. >> reporter: how come you didn't know that's what you had? >> you don't. you just don't. >> reporter: some mental health experts say there's a reason black women often don't recognize they're depressed. >> it's definitely something that hasn't been talked about in our culture and so people don't know what the signs and symptoms of depression are. >> reporter: because it's

unrecognized, depression often goes untreated. and some health experts say ignoring their mental health may be causing black women's physical health to suffer, contributing to high rates of heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. >> and it has to do with, i call it the body screaming. you know, somehow, it has to get out. something has to break down eventually. and so we are breaking down in numbers that are astounding. >> i think i'm vulnerable to -- >> reporter: it was after a mental breakdown that terrie williams got help in the form of therapy and medication. >> i was highly irritable. i snapped at people. >> reporter: she decided to share her story in a book. and with audiences around the country. she's been moved by the response. >> when i speak about it at these events, i can't tell you the number of people who come up to me afterward and say, that's my story. in tears. >> how many of those people who say, that's my story, too, are

black and female? >> overwhelmingly female. black female. black women carry the nation, carry our community, you know. we're nurturers. we're caretakers. and feel like we have to be there and do for everybody. >> reporter: brenda gallion is the oldest of five children and was the one the family turned to after her siblings became ill and her mother was diagnosed with cancer. she cared for everyone but herself. she was worn out and gaining weight. >> i don't recall ever crying. i did not have time to cry. so 65 pounds could have been mostly tears, you know, just stuff on the inside that wasn't or i didn't have the ability to get out. >> reporter: it never occurred to brenda to see a therapist, like so many generations of black women, she turned to god

instead. >> we grew up in church. and when things were beyond what i thought i could handle, i would pray about it. >> reporter: dr. michelle balaman i had understands because she's an ordained minister. she tried to build a bridge letting women know they're not turning away from god by turning to help. >> i preach god can heal in many ways, the same way you go to the doctor to get your leg fixed if it's broken, you can go to a therapist. you need to put your own gas mask on first so that if you're going to be taking care of all these other people, take care of yourself first so you can do a better job at it. >> reporter: now with her own gas mask in place, terrie williams hopes her work can help others begin to heal themselves. >> when you hear somebody else and their tears start to flow or you feel the emotion, it's other

people talking. that's gold. >> reporter: soledad o'brien, cnn, new york. and our special correspondent soledad o'brien will be bringing us a new look at being black in america. "black in america 2" premieres next week july 22nd and 23rd only here on cnn. you know you've set the standard when a whole school of journalism is named after you. coming up, i'm talking with the founding dean of the walter cronkite school of journalism. blv something new is happening at ethan allen

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last night at the age of 92. his influence on generations of journalism students has been profound. nounding dean of the cronkite school of journalism, christopher callahan joins me from phoenix. good to see you. the school of journalism at the astate university. when you heard the news last night, given the journalism school is the namesake of walter cronkite, how did that news strike you? >> well of course we all knew this was coming. walter had been in declining health for the last few months. nevertheless, still very painful. a great shock. faculty and students started coming to the building. we were flooded with calls and e-mails of people, students, alumni, faculty, news leaders around the country remembering the person who we believe was the greatest journalist of our time. >> let's talk about what it means for so many students as they walk through the doors there and they're reminded, they see walter cronkite's name every day. it sets the standard, particularly for broadcast

journalism. but journalism as a whole really but broadcast journalism in particular. can you see it in these students as they walk with a certain level of pride knowing that they're at a place with cronkite's name on it, that somehow, in some indirect way, if not directly in some ways, that they are touched by him, his legacy? >> absolutely right, fredericka. there's a great sense of pride in our students and our alums in the fact that they are part of the cronkite school and of course most of them have had the opportunity to meet with walter. walter would come out on a regular basis. we would do the cronkite award every year. he would meet with faculty. and of course his favorite part was meeting with his students. >> what was that interaction like to see cronkite and these students? >> it was very, very special. you would have walter in a room talking to maybe 150 or 200 students. and there was a great affection, respect. and really love both certainly from the students to walter and

then walter to the students. he had such a passion. >> would you remember -- sorry to interrupt you. would you remember some of the questions perhaps some of the students would ask him? what did they want to know from him? >> yeah. and really it was so interesting, because it always covered journalism past, as you would expect, but also journalism present and journalism future. and walter would, of course, tell the students about all of his extraordinary experiences in journalism through the years. he would give the students his sense of where journalism was today. and then where it was going. and it was -- it's just an enormous opportunity for these students to be hearing that sort of knowledge from mr. cronkite. >> a lot of these current-day students at cronkite's school of journalism weren't around to even see him at his work. they were able to reference historically how he covered it, et cetera. but did you feel like even with that kind of distance that they still felt a connection, they felt like he was -- he was, yes,

bigger than life, but he was also a man that they could draw from? >> at a really deep connection. and of course walter had that ability with whoever he met to make you feel special, to make you feel that you're the only person in the room. and the students certainly felt that. and in our journalism curriculum, it is designed largely around the great values that walter embodied for so long and so well, the values of accuracy, integrity and objectivity in our journalism. >> and i know all those students really feel a sense of pride, a bigger than license of pride that they had this one-on-one interaction with this bigger than life man, walter cronkite. christopher callahan, thanks so much, of the walter cronkite school of journalism, at the arizona state university. thanks so much for your time and thanks for your memories of walter cronkite. >> thanks for having me. well, it is indeed also a

big day for space. and a couple of astronauts there. they stepped out of the air lock moments ago to step -- to start, rather, their first space walk of this mission. it's the first of five and they're attaching the final piece of a space laboratory to the international space station. the shuttle "endeavour" docked there yesterday. nasa was a little worried about some space debris that was heading in their direction, so they fired off the shuttle's thruster to move the station simply out of the way. well, this is a special weekend. happy birthday, nelson mandela. he turns 91 today. and there's a special mandela dayual star concert tonight at radio city music hall in new york. but the former south african president won't be there. as cnn's rob yiin kernow report he's at home inspiring others with his birthday wish. >> reporter: nelson mandela's

birthdays are traditionally big celebrations with mandela at the center of the party. but this year, on his 91st birthday, mandela is staying at home with his family. instead of gifts, he wants people to spend time doing good for those around them. his charity marking july 18th, his birthday, as mandela day and his wife says they hope it's the beginning of a social movement that will continue long after he's gone. >> it is a brilliant initiative to remind all of us -- let me say every one of us, that -- the values which he represents, is something which is with us, too. >> so how can we be more like mandela? what are the things we can do in our own lives, particularly on mandela day, that can, you know, make a little bit of him shine off on us?

>> you care about others. you care about their well-being. you want them to have a real smile, they feel worthy. they are loved. they're cared. and that's what you can do. >> reporter: his daughter, zenz i had, agrees. >> it's up to you whether you prefer to help your neighbors or help at a soup kitchen, whether you prefer to go help at a hospital. it's all about that, about living the legacy, because now he's handing it over to future generations and to us. >> reporter: and that's the best birthday present for a man whose tastes are simple. >> what we saw recently with the death of michael jackson is the outpour of love and good will and good messages and -- towards him and his family. and what we also hope is that -- we want mr. mandela to experience it while he's still around. we want him to see the outpour of love and goodwill while he's still around. what better way to do it than

participating in a day like mandela day? >> reporter: however, for those who really want to give him something this birthday, his personal assistant has a few suggestions. >> simple thing like a good pair of slippers, a blanket, something that makes his life more comfortable. a good book or autobiography. he enjoys reading. good music. simple things in life that still makes him happy. ♪ nelson mandela >> reporter: robin kernow, cnn, johannesburg, south africa. among those wishing mandela happy birthday, cedric suesman with the southern center for international studies, the cousin of the late ellen souzman who challenged south africa's apartheid and visit s. mandela in jail weekly. he's joining us. >> thanks for the invitation. >> this is a fantastic birthday celebration, as is every birthday, particularly for this man, nelson mandela. his legacy is extraordinary.

however, he is still in a very indirect way incredibly influential worldwide and in south africa. how does he achieve that? >> well, i think he's left a huge legacy is his ability to forgive and reconcile differences, which sets a standard for leaders, not only in the rest of africa, but also in the world. and that carries great weight. but i'd like to give you a little anecdote. two, actually. one to show his huge humanity and the other his loyalty to friend. the first a personal story. you mentioned helen. she passed away on the first of january this year. and to everyone's surprise, mr. mandela paid a condolence call on his daughters and family after the funeral. some days later. >> it really underscores the loyalty -- >> this was a huge loyalty. and he actually spent most of the interview with helen's great

grandson on his knee. it was just a huge indication of his humanity. another loyalty was also to the party, to the african national congress. and just before the recent elections, party leaders from the anc, a number of influential leaders split away to form a new party in opposition. everyone wondered who mr. mandela would support. and it was surprising because some of these leaders were his old colleagues and comrades. jacob zuma, who was by then the head of the an cd leader of the party invited mr. mandela to his last political rally. >> and people were watching really because they feel like he's the grandfather, the father of the country, so to speak. and where mandela throws his support, the commoner would likely want to throw their support. >> and to everyone's surprise, he came to the rally. he supported jacob zuma.

and i would say as much because of his loyalty, he always said, i am a servant of the party. and that probably accounted for a lot of the anc's success in winning 66% of the vote. but there's another legacy. 17.6 million people voted in free, fair and totally peaceful elections. that says a huge standard. >> he inspired an incredible momt not just in south africa but worldwide. how many people do you know whose birthdays are celebrated on this scale as his is. on the 91st birthday for nelson mandela, cedric suzman, thanks soap for joining us. >> thank you very much. >> of course new york city celebrating at radio city music hall for a concert this evening as well. all right. thanks so much mr. suzman. appreciate it, nice to meet you. >> thank you. michael jackson's ex is suing a friend -- quote/unquote" friend over e-mails. michael vick's home con fint is about to end.

you can bet our legal guys have plenty to say.

all right. somebody finally for yard. my favorite legal mind and

richard hermann, we're back together again. >> welcome back. >> thanks so much. i'm feeling good. i missed you all. we have so many cases, so many cases, so little time. let's get straight to it. talk about michael jackson, that investigation now is kind of turning in another direction. the ex-wife, debbie rowe says, you know what, i'm ready to sue because someone she says misrepresented her in the form of an e-mail. richard, explain. >> well, apparently this newscaster who interviewed her several times said she was a friend claimed debbie rowe sent e-mails saying she doesn't want the kids and wants money and is not going to pursue it. she got offended. you know this is so transparent. they delayed monday again. they're working out a confidential deal. she's taking money here. >> you're saying in connection with the custody hearing that was supposed to be monday, now it's delayed. you are seeing a connection here? >> yeah. i mean, basically what's going to happen. custody will be resolved. rebika white, who is the defendant in the defamation case, that's going nowhere.

but this is what rebecca white does. she sells stories, a lot of nothing. >> and she's been sued before, which would mean she's got some pretty deep pockets to have been sued over and over again. >> she's got no money. doesn't mean anything. keeps the visibility up to settle the custody case. >> it's been a while. i'm sorry, richard, but we've got so many cases and i have to zoom through them. michael vick home confinement and, poof, time went just like that. monday he's out. what does this mean, richard? >> what it means is in the spirit of nelson mandela's birthday, how about some forgiveness and humanity. >> what? >> this guy has got to be able to go back into the nfl. >> you know what going to happen? >> i think it will happen. in a year. >> starting monday, the bracelet is off and the offers start coming? >> the bottom line is everyone -- you've heard nothing from any nfl team. we are a nation of forgiving people. it's up to roger goodell, the commissioner. we don't know where he's going to go.

he may wind up back in the nfl. i don't know what the message is for that, but that's what we're looking at. >> okay. go ahead. >> sorry. another nfl player, late nfl player, steve mcnair. now there's an arrest involving the brpurchase of a gun shouldn have happened. >> possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is a crime. that's what the charge was. he admitted selling the gun to the woman who shot mcnair, but he said he didn't know she was going to shoot him. it's a violation of his parole, his probation. he's going to have a big problem. >> avery, this last one is for you because i know how hot you were on the supreme court nominee, sonia sotomayor. how do you think she did this week? >> she did great. actually, i was looking forward to the hearings. it wound up as a sequel to "grumpy old men." that's what it was. >> but are we seeing perhaps a happy ending for her come tuesday now? >> she slides in with roughly 80, maybe 90 votes from the senate. she's in wonderful shape. did a great, great job.

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a few minutes before the top of the hour. here's a quick check of what's happening now. tragedy in afghanistan. a u.s. military -- the u.s. military, rather, confirms two crewmen were killed today in the crash of an f-15 fighter jet in ghazni province, southeast of the capital. it's not believed to have been caused by enemy fire. and security is tight in jakarta today in the wake of suicide bombings at two luxury hotels in indonesia. the remains of at least one more person have been found. that brings the number of victims and bombers killed to nine. police believe a known terror mastermind may be behind the attacks. all right. let's check in with reynolds wolf, not this time to talk about weather, what's happening in your neck of the woods but let's take a beautiful journey west. >> went out to yellowstone national park. had the opportunity to go out and do a story on the super volcano. yellowstone is situated in a jind caldera or a crater and alt

yellowstone you have the old faithful geyser. it's been erupting in that park some 600,000 years. i had a chance to meet a park rarcher out there. an amiing person. i'd like you to get a chance to meet him. >> reporter: it's the reaction you hear nearly every 90 minutes at yellowstone national park and after 43 summers at the old faithful geyser, sam holbrook still finds it equally inspiring. as a park ranger he observes each eruption, takes note and explains the phenomena to the thousands visiting each and every day. >> each erupt lasts about four minutes generally. but one minute up high and about 130 feet. then it starts down the last three minutes it's coming back down. >> reporter: for sam, there are lots of questions. >> 7:05, plus or minus ten minutes so you've got about an hour. >> thank you. >> reporter: how many times are you going to get that question each day? >> you're out here roving for about two hours at a time and

people stand and watch me answer that question. they say, you should put a sign on your chest. don't you get tire of that? no, i never do. you're talking to people and that question comes up and then right after that, two or three more questions. and so -- >> reporter: let me guess. it's when does the guyer erupt. the second is -- >> where's the bathroom. >> how many gallons of water does it squirt out? >> how many gallons of water? 8,000 gallons of boiling water every hour and a half. >> reporter: sharing that information is all natural for this former science teacher. whe where. >> where else can you find a job where you're outdoors, talk to people, see the light turn on in their face, give them information. they're so excited about it. i am flild to be here. people say how do you get a job like this? i'm not going to tell you. grab you a seat here, folks, because it's going to fill up. >> reporter: and while he calls it a job, he definitely doesn't think of this as work. >> and i'm 77 years old, so how much longer have i got to work a

40-hour week? i don't have to work a 40-hour week but i love it here. i would probably do this for nothing, but don't tell the parks service that. >> reporter: fitting words from a man as true to this park as the old faithful geyser itself. >> okay, sam, unfortunately now everyone knows he'll do it for free. if you get a chance -- you have to meet him if you get the opportunity. his wife works in the gift shop. they've been there 40 years. he's a wonderful guy and a real treat to mete. >> and you know how fit he is. all that walking and at 77. >> he's the man. >> he is the man! all right, reynolds. you are, too, for getting a chance to go see it and meet him. >> no question. very lucky. >> thanks so much. appreciate it. well, sonia sotomayor, people can't stop talking about her. is she a shoo-in? tuesday when the senate judiciary committee is set to vote. we're breaking down judge sotomayor's words, what she said during the hearings and what she didn't say. we want to get your thoughts. post your comments on our blog at cnn.coed