woman, kyra phillips, next in the "cnn newsroom." north korea opens its doors to the bill clinton private citizen on a private mission to free two americans. incredible pictures from a secretive state. general motors did it. chrysler did it. now detroit public schools may go where no school system has gone before. bankruptcy. we'll do the math. and we'll talk trash with a couple who's sworn off garbage for a year. reduce, reuse, recycle, and compost, compost, compost. hello, everyone, i'm kyra phillips, live at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. you're live in the "cnn you're live in the "cnn newsroom." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com well, the world is talking about bill clinton's surprise trip to north korea, but now the whole world is asking what will he get and what did he come for? the 42nd president is trying to win the freedom of two american

journalists who were captured in march and sentenced to years of hard labor. the white house insists that it's a solely private mission and denies clinton carries any message from president obama. cnn's jill dougherty watching all this from the state department. jill? >> reporter: well, kyra, the focus of former president bill clinton is definitely very simple. complex, but simple. which is to free those journalists. he is not there to do any negotiating on any other subjects. and already he seems to be making some progress, at least we've seen these dramatic pictures of former president clinton meeting with the dear leader, as he's called, of north korea, kim jongjong-il. these are photographs that are really quite rare. sometimes onlyi ianalysts pore photographs like this to figure out the condition of the dear leader who had a stroke last year. and now they're meeting face to

face. the focus, as i said, is to free those journalists. and we are told by a source who is very close to the efforts to free those journalists that this actually began quite a while ago. when there were essentially four candidates for going to north korea. one would be bill richardson, the governor. another john kerry, the senator. of course, al gore, who is the head of that company, the media company that these women work for, and finally bill clinton. the white house determined that bill clinton would be the best person because he is an individual person now. not a member of the government. but as i said, kyra, his job is very specific, nothing else but to try to get those women back. >> all right. jill dougherty. i know you're following that for us. and we just want to give you a quick look at how we got here. laura ling and euna lee were arrested march 17th after allegedly crossing into north korea from china. they were working on a story on human trafficking for al gore's startup media venture, current

tv. then in june the pair was convicted of illegal entry and so-called hostile acts. in a close trial they were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor. now, let's go ahead and chart the clinton connection. you've got ling and lee and they work for current tv which is owned, of course, by al gore. and then al gore was clinton's vp, the former president, married to secretary of state, hillary clinton, now in africa. no role, by the way, in bill's private mention. so, you can see the connection to all the players going on right now in this. so, is this just one big photo-op or a turning point in one of the world's more dangerous disputes? let's ask our international security analyst, nuclear weapons expert also and president of plowshares fund, he joins me live from washington. joe, let's just lay it out here. bill clinton usually when he sets his sight on something means he's already got something in the works. so, are we going to see him coming back to the u.s. with these two journalists? >> i would say it would be a failure if he did not arrive

back in the united states either with the two journalists or with an ironclad commitment for their release in the next few days. bill clinton has been at dozens of summits as president and hundreds of meetings since then. he is not one to undertake this trip without the deal already negotiated, an understanding already arrived at. and let me add another person to your circle of connections there. you may have noticed in those pictures with president clinton is john podesta, bill clinton's former chief of staff, and the man who oversaw the obama presidential transition team. so, close connections to clinton and to president obama. >> so, you know, in -- in -- we really haven't seen a president manage good relations with north korea, to say the least, with kim jong-il. what is it about bill clinton? give us a little bit of the path to the present, and what is it about him? what did he do? how did he form this

relationship? and why is he the one that more than likely will come back with these two young journalists? >> well, first, bill clinton is a power player. of all the people you mentioned, bill clinton is by far the most prestigious political figure that you could choose to send to north korea. number two, he had a successful relationship with north korea as president. almost went to war over their nuclear program, but then in 1994, negotiated a deal that froze their plutonium production. north korea did not produce plutonium, did not produce bombs during the rest of the clinton administration. under the president bush administration, that deal fell apart. and north korea tested nuclear weapons. tested long-range missiles. now has, we believe, about 10 -- 6 to 10 nuclear weapons. so, president clinton is the last president to successfully contain the north korean nuclear program. and, finally, of course, it's not lost on anybody that his wife is secretary of state and that officials who used to work

for him in the defense department are now working as assistant secretary of state, kurt campbell, as the point person for north korea within the state department. so, the connections and the history, all point to bill clinton being the right man at the right moment. >> final thought -- is this a bit awkward, you know, secretary of state, hillary clinton, this is sort of her area, in is sort of what she's supposed to be doing, right? but then there's this kind of fine line between the obama administration not wanting to negotiate with people like kim jong-il and, you know, her husband that may actually broker this deal? >> well, yes, we've had this envoy system develop in the obama administration and it's proving to be quite successful where people like richard holbrooke on afghanistan and pakistan and george mitchell, and it has been used by presidents in the past. whether by design or by accident, the obama administration seems to have played north korea just about right. largely ignoring them for the

first eight months. not rewarding their bad behavior. not reacting to their provocative statements or actions. and now about two months of relatively quiet, moderate north korean behavior and the involvement of china -- you heard the secretary of state praise china just a couple of weeks ago -- you now send in a real power player to hopefully negotiate the release of the journalists who never should have been arrested in the first -- the first place and help reset u.s./north korean relations, refreezing that nuclear program. and if things work out, we could see the beginning, again, of the dismantlement of that nuclear program. >> well, stand by for breaking news. we'd like to see that in addition to this power player bring home two journalists. always good to talk to you. thanks, joe. >> my pleasure, kyra, thanks for having me. >> you bet. president obama is spending part of his 48th birthday with a few of his favorite senators, in fact, most. the senate democratic caucus is having lunch at the white house to look back on the past six months and plan the next. cnn's elaine quijano is there.

and, elaine, i expect health care to be on the table in addition to maybe a little backtalk about what's happening in north korea? >> reporter: perhaps, the economy, health care, perhaps a little of north korea. but also we're told by white house press secretary, robert gibbs, kyra, that the cash for clunkers program is going to be high on the president's list of agenda items. why? well, president obama is going to reiterate, we're told, his support for this program and the fact that he wants to see the senate go ahead and extend it. now, how does the president support doing that? well, by taking already approved funds from the department of energy and energy-efficient programs. the bottom line is they believe the cash for clunkers program has been a success on the economic front and it's a success they believe on the environmental front. they say consumers are saving money with this program. it's accomplishing the mission of taking some of these older, polluting vehicles off the streets. so, they have definitely want to see it continue. and, of course, this is all happening against the backdrop of the senate getting ready to

head out of town for the august recess at the end of the week. so, we're told cash for clunkers, kyra, going to be at the top of the agenda. kyra? >> all right, all kinds of interesting topics for all 60 senators, you're saying? >> reporter: yeah, you know, not all 60 senators. we're told they three senators, senators byrd, kennedy and mikulski won't be ascending health issues. senator micullski broke her ankle, we're told by robert gibbs, so she won't be there. 57 of the 60 democratic senators in the senate expected to be on hand here today, kyra? >> all right, elaine quijano, thanks. we want to know what you think about the second 100 days of obama's presidency. and then tune in to cnn's "national report card" only on cnn. hoping to hear anything about their loved ones. that's the situation for the families of three americans being held in iran. the three apparently were hiking in a scenic part of northern iraq when they crossed the

unmarked border into iran and were arrested. that was on friday. and an iranian lawmaker is now quoted as saying he thinks they came over as spies but their case is under investigation. of course, it's not easy to get them out and swiss diplomats are working that ank, because u.s./iranian diplomacy still really doesn't exist. some would-be terrorists had big plans for australia, plans that landed nowhere and landed them in jail. the police arrested four men that planned to attack a military base with automatic weapons and take out as many soldier as they could and go out in a blaze of glory. >> the men were planning to carry out a suicide attack on the defense department in australia involving an armed assault with automatic weapons. details of the planning indicated the alleged offenders were prepared to inflict a sustained attack on military personnel until they themselves were killed.

>> agents have been watching these guys for months and made their move early today. they raided nearly 20 places in melbourne. the four men in custody are all australian citizens of lebanese or somali descent. several other people are being detained and question. ? now, in north carolina, the alleged tar heels terrorists, are making their way through the legal system. remember these guys? seven member accused of going overseas to kill people. they are in federal court for a detention hearing and an eighth suspect is believed to be in pakistan. back in washington the senate is gearing up for a final debate on judge sonia sotomayor, president obama's pick to replace david souter on the supreme court. now, you've heard the talking points from the hearings, the committee vote, and countless interviews and talk shows, but the floor debate sets the stage for a make-or-break, up-or-or down vote on thursday.

they set the tone. >> judge sotomayor is certainly a fine person, with an impressive story and a distinguished background, but a judge must be able to check his or her personal or political agenda at the courtroom door and do justice evenhandedly as the judicial oath requires. this is the most fundamental test. it's a test that judge sotomayor does not pass. >> the nominee has more than enough votes to be confirmed. and some will come from republicans, but not many. look who's back in the huddle. not in an nfl huddle yet. small steps first for michael vick.

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vick talked to the lansing eagles for about 15 minutes, then did some passing drills. he ended a 16-month sentence for dogfighting and hopes to resume his pro career. he once played for the coach. and he said vick talked to the team about making mistakes and doing right. this weekend vick will reportedly attend a humane society event in atlanta. maryland police arrested a couple who lived together, worked together and allegedly abused children together. more now from jesse sternman from our affiliate wmar. >> reporter: the scooter parked in front of this house looks like a sign of children at play, but police say what happened inside this home was far from innocent fun. they say the couple living inside, john nicklas and shannon honea were sexually abusing kids, taping the acts for use as child porn. >> anybody in this kind of business, in public service, we

see a lot of sickening things and this was sickening. >> reporter: the victims assaulted here in essex and in hotel rooms in atlanta and elsewhere. court documents show the couple have background's as paramedic and they found prescription bottles in the basement bedroom. one victim abused there was reportedly unconscious during the assaults. >> i can't believe that they did that. >> reporter: neighbors were astounded by the news which had cops seizing dvds and computer equipment from the house. it's evidence that's led to even more questions. >> the unfortunate thing that we know we know that we have three very young victims and we don't know who they are. >> reporter: that's why baltimore county police are asking parents to take a good look at john nicklas and shannon honea, if there's a chance your kids or someone you know have spent time with them, they want you to call. >> what's paramount is to first identify the victims and make sure that justice is served with these people. >> well, the officer that was in

that piece actually joined our t.j. holmes for a live update. here's what he told us -- >> is there any reason to think, i mean, did they do something in their careers or anything else that would just constantly put them in contact with children? >> well, that's something that our detect identifies are certainly looking in to and that's why we need the public's help, neighbors, friends, family to contact us. thousand, we are conducting a lot of interviews to try to put that together. but unfortunately, you know, knowing that there's a lot of children in that neighborhood, knowing that they have been through several states, leads us to a lot of concern. we have partnered up with the federal bureau of investigation assisting us in this, because we do believe we do have victims in other states. >> well, if you have any information on those two suspects or think that they've had contact with your child, you're asked to contact the baltimore county pd's crimes against children's unit.

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well, the next 32 hours could make all the difference in the fight to save one canadian town from a raging wildfire. flames have charred more than 20 square miles on the edge of the town lillooet, northeast of vancouver. some 2,300 people have fled

their homes. crews are trying a back-burn maneuv maneuver, burning off trees between the town and the edge of the fire. more 30 wildfires are burning in that province. some firefighters from australia are now coming in to help fight the fire. hot, dry weather in one part of the nation. a line of storms dumping rain elsewhere. chad myers tracking it all. chad? >> and we focused a lot, kyra, on portland and seattle and all of those u.s. towns that had all that heat last week and the week before. well, you have to realize that all that heat went all the way up into british columbia, as well, they were suffering with the same type of 90, 100-degree heat, drying out the woods and making everything tinder dry, and any spark causing those fires. those fires have been going for a while. but they didn't get any better when the temperature was 100 degrees for sure. we have showers and thunderstorms zooming in through indianapolis. i'll zoom in and kind of give you an an idea. the bow slammed through indianapolis in the last half hour. what does that mean, that means on the leading edge of this bow,

that's where the winds are the strongest and the bow was right through indianapolis on the north and south side of town. we know there has been some damage, although probably not as much as could have happened with another ten miles per hour. because the damage goes up exponentially when you go from 55 to 65 to 70 miles per hour. most of the wind gusts somewhere between 55 and 68. louisville, you've had quite a bit of damage today from flooding. not from wind. just an awful lot of rain has come down in your town today. talk about a couple more things i want to get to. enrique and felicia. here's the west coast of the u.s. two tropical storms, and that one right there, that one's up to 70 miles per hour right now. enrique, just the one off to the east. it's 60 miles per hour. and then felicia, which is the strongest storm, just went up in the past half hour or so. felicia all the way up to 70 miles per hour with wind gusts all the way to 85. and one more thing, i know you think there's not going to be a hurricane season in the atlantic, but, trust me, there

will be. one area of interest way out here. here's south america, there's the u.s. there's africa. right there, number one, that number one says, an area of showers and thunderstorms several hundred miles from the cape verde islands. any significant development is expected to be slow, but it looks pretty good right now. we'll keep watching it. it's a long way from the u.s. or the caribbean, but, you know, this is where they start. >> yeah. >> so, we'll keep watching. >> you never know sometimes where they're going to go. >> you bet. stormpulse.com if you want to go to this website. >> okay, stormpulse.com, got it. if we're not watching you. thanks, chad. >> sure. president obama has vowed to close the prison at guantanamo bay, cuba. but what about the detainees? cnn's jeanne meserve said one possibility is to house them and try them under one roof. >> reporter: the possibility that guantanamo detainees might be headed for the military prison at ft. leavenworth has kansas officials in an uproar. >> transferring terror suspects here places a bull's-eye on this

community. >> this is a bad idea. on an artificial, hurry-up timeline. >> reporter: administration officials say ft. leavenworth and the maximum security prison in standish, michigan, are being considered as possible multi-purpose destinations for detainees that could contain courtrooms for both federal criminal trials and military commissions, and house, in one place, detainees now being sorted into three groups. those being held for trial, those being indefinitely detained, and those cleared for release but without a country to take them. in standish, michigan, where the unemployment rate stands at 24%, the maximum security prison is slated for closure. some local officials support using it as a detainee facility to preserve jobs. but michigan congressman pete hoekstra disagrees, saying turning michigan into a terrorist penal colony is not the way to improve the economic situation. for now, the white house is dodging the argument. >> well, i don't know to the

degree to which they've gotten into specifics siting, and certainly no final decisions of any sort have been made. >> reporter: housing and trying most of the detainees at one location could reduce costs and avoid the risk of moving suspects for trial. on the other hand, moving prosecutors and judges and forming a jury pool could be a challenge. but probably nowhere near the challenge of overcoming local opposition. jeanne meserve, cnn, washington. so, you call this a recess? house speaker, nancy pelosi, campaigns for health care, far outside the beltway. ll world. you're you. aarp understands that. that's why they endorse products from top companies... so people 50 plus can choose health coverage options... as unique as they are. aarphealthnow.com... call or visit for free information that let you select the coverage you want... and skip what you don't.

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well, the speaker of the house is about to speak out on health care reform, but not in d.c. nancy pelosi is home in san francisco at the start of a month-long recession that may feel more like a sales trip. she and many of her colleagues are making their cases for and against the democratic reform plans and getting earfuls from the public. here's where things stand right now. reform bills made it through three house committees before the august break.

but the full house has yet to vote on any of them. then in the senate the so-called gang of six from the finance committee is still trying to hammer out a bipartisan bill, but has given up the goal of finishing by the end of this week. now, the sticking points in both houses come down to costs for employer mandates and a so-called public option patterned on medicare. well, if you want your brain to work well when you're older, keep an eye on your cholesterol now. new research sos that having high or moderate levels of your cholesterol in your 40s can raise your risk of developing dementia as you age. a new study found that people with cholesterol levels of 240 or higher increase their risk of getting the incurable brain disorder by 66%. those whose cholesterol levels were between 200 or 239 increased their risk by 52%. well, they say that blondes have more fun, but redheads apparently have more pain. a new study shows that carrot

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do you have the widely varied prices across the country. for example, you might pay $6,000 for an operation in one state and $17,000 for that same operation in a different state. so, there really is no set pricing. even when it comes to medicare, for example. what we're hearing are some specifics. for example, there would be caps on out-of-pocket expenses, deductibles and co-pays. there would be complete coverage when it come to preventive care, things like screenings and things that keep people healthy in the first place. but, again, to your point out of all the committees and proposed bills, we're not hearing anything about set pricing across the board. that's something that they're just not talking about. now, having said that, when we talk about this idea of a public option being available, a government-run option, available for people who cannot afford health care right now, in some ways that does have an influence overall on prices. if the public option is setting certain prices, that's going to have an influence on private insurers as well. a couple of specifics about the

public option, they say that no payment rates lower than medicare, as it is right now, and no payment rates higher than all the average rate of the plans in the exchange, this public/private exchange where people can go sort of buy health care either the public plans or the private insurance plans. so, i think the best way of characterizing this while there is no set price, there may be an influence overall on prices. now, keep in mind a couple of things. none of them that are going to qualify for the public option. the overall amount of income that you spend on health care insurance has to be above a certain percentage, above 11% or 12%. so, if you're making $100,000 a year, for example, if you're not paying $11,000 or $12,000 a year towards health care insurance, you're probably not going to qualify for the public option. so, it's not going to be for everyone. there have been some criticisms overall for the plan. people say, the critics say, look, if you have the public option on the table, it will be able to unfairly compete with private insurance companies and eventually start to crowd out private insurance companies.

now, supporters say, look, there's no other way to achieve one of the goals people have been talking about for so long, which is to increase access to coverage. now, the supporters say you simply can't do that 2002 a public option. it's the beginning of august right now. i'm telling you all these things with full knowledge within a few weeks or a month or so it's all likely to change again. but that's a look, cindy, at how things stand right now. back to you. teenage boys taken out on of their hopes and trained for terror. you're going to hear their stories only on cnn. ♪ [ female announcer ] arthritis targets your body where it's weak. where it's vulnerable. ♪ tylenol arthritis works with your body to block the pain, without interfering with certain high blood pressure medicines like aleve sometimes can. ♪ so you don't just feel better,

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all right. let's talk bankruptcy. bankruptcy, rather. you've heard of chapter 7 and chapter 11, right? but have you ever heard of chapter 9? it's rare, and it's kind of scary. it might be the only way out for detroit schools. has it really come to this? we're pushing that forward next hour. boys as young as 13 brainwashed and trained to kill. pakistan says it's rescued about a dozen of them from the taliban. but as cnn's stan grant reports from mingora, they are anything but free. >> reporter: pakistan's military says these are the lot of souls from the pakistan terror. the boys told me they were stolen from their families, abused, beaten and brainwashed by the taliban.

"the first day they beat us. then they made us exercise. they made us run and told us, you will wage jihad." "they told us that the army is against the koran, it is against islam. they said, wage jihad against them." the pakistan military gave cnn limited access to these boys. the army says they rescued them during heavy fighting with the taliban in pakistan's swat valley. their faces are covered. their identities protected, because of the possibility of retribution. the youngest is only 13. we can't independently verify their stories, but doctors say they have no doubt about their trauma. the boys themselves each told me how they were kidnapped by the taliban. "i was coming from the shop to my house. i had some stuff with me. they said, put your stuff in the car.

they said, should we drop you in the village or in the square? when we reached the village, i said, i want to get off here, but they blindfolded me and put a hand on my mouth." other boys say they were snatched working in the fields. in militant camps they say they were being trained to be suicide bombers, to do the taliban's killing. would you kill for god? "yes," he says. in the right circumstances or the wrong circumstances, would they kill? >> they wouldn't even feel it. >> reporter: they'd kill and they wouldn't feel it? >> they probably wouldn't have an empathetic response to what has happened. >> reporter: these boys have been so badly damaged by this experience, psychiatrists say, it's difficult to know exactly how they are feeling. the doctors say some are psychotic, some psychopathic and some pose a very real risk. >> the statements to the army was that if he had a flak jacket, that he would have

committed suicide. >> reporter: the doctor tells army chiefs they are just the tip of the iceberg. after talking to the boys, she believes there are possibly hundreds of others just like them. are the boys brainwashed? >> yes, of course. they're brainwashed against you and me. >> reporter: the army hopes the boys will one day be able to be rehabilitated and returned to their families. but the doctor says they should be under closure valence at least for the next decade. >> these children, except for two, don't certainly give me any indication that they are rehabilitated. so, if you're going to gauge their future on the perspective of today or where they are, that future doesn't look very rosy, does it. >> reporter: but the doctor does not blame these boys. they are the innocent victims, she says. all they are left with, they told me, are the voices in their heads, voices of the taliban,

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eight items in these shoebox. a pet food medicine. a couple of pieces of tape. >> a squeaky toy run over by a lawnmow lawnmower. >> reporter: it has had its challenges. >> you need to go to get a cup of coffee and you need to find out what kind of plastic they use or to see if it's recycleable or take your own cup. >> reporter: they are taking baby steps. they are still obviously using their cars, but they say when they make trips to portland to a recycling center it's usually when they're headed to washington to visit relatives. >> we're on the way, let's drop it off. how can we combine things as much as we can? >> reporter: they say that anybody can live trash-free, but research first. >> research what's recyclable in your facility and then go to the grocery store and making sure you are only buying products that are recyclable? >> we're doing something good and feels good for us to do it. >> but can they do it? if you want to know more about

the green garbage project, keep it right here. i'll be talking to amy korst to find out how they are doing. we don't know if cash for clunkers has legs or will sputter to a halt by the end of its second week. but this much is clear, for the clunkers, this is really the end of the line. jason carroll has proof. and i must warn you, if you love old cars, you may find this report a bit disturbing. >> well, kyra, one estimate shows some 120,000 cars were traded in under the cash for clunkers program. a lot of folks have written in asking if those trade-ins are not supposed to go back on the road, where do they end up going? well, kyra, we finally have an answer for you. >> reporter: major automakers reporting a boost in sales, thanks to the government's cash for clunkers program, consumers giving thanks, too. >> you know, i got $4,500 for this vehicle. >> dealers are happy for it. >> reporter: officials numbers not in yet. but already tens of thousands of

owners have dumped their old cars for new ones. what happens to the old ones? a fluid put into the engines at the dealership makes them unusable. what's next? >> so, this is the first step where they come in over here. >> reporter: most end up at salvage yards like this one in ridgefield park, new jersey. >> it has definitely helped our business out. >> reporter: he takes us on a step-by-step process. >> this one comes in from teterboro over the bridge. >> reporter: this is an example of the clunkers for cash that you're getting, right, these three? >> yes. basically on this normally if it wasn't a clunkers car. i could save the doors. probably the air bags, sell them. >> reporter: the government program doesn't allow every car part to be recycled, because they don't want certain parts back out on the road. what's the next step? >> well, step two when any car comes into our facility, we put it on this rack over here. >> reporter: evaluation complete. step two.

>> draining, rear-end fluids, brake fluids, all the fluids are trained here in this area. >> reporter: the next step is to recycle the items that are allowed. in this case, the tires,case, tt particular converter, the battery and the radiator. these are the only items that the program allowed to be recycled. next step, it has to be crushed. once it resembles a metal pancake, it is done, ready for the final step, ready. >> to little pieces about that big. then, it gets exported to any metal recyclers overseas. >> reporter: if you had to give your assessment, what would it be? >> it has built relationships with the dealers and helps us to get every little bit you can out of a car. >> reporter: there have been some concern that some of the

trade-ins have been sold through auctions and do end up out in the streets. some questions are just about how fuel efficient some of the new cars being bought are. not in question the financial success of the program. as you can see there from the story, the salvage yards are making money. the consumers seem to be happy, at least for now. kyra? >> jason carroll, thanks so much. four decades ago, the killings and message of violence shocked the nation. what charles manson followers are saying now. so what do you think?

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this coming sunday marks an emphasis anniversary. 40 years ago charles manson and his followers began a deranged killing spree. some of manson's followers want to end their days free and are begging for parole. here is ted rowlands. >> reporter: the psychopath who carved a swasty ka into his for

head is 74 now. his eyes are as dark and penetrating as they were when the world first met charles manson. it has been 40 years since the messianic mad man and his disciples slaughtered seven people. it began right here on a quiet cul-de-sac overlooking beverly hills. in the 1960s, a much smaller house was at this address, home to two rising hollywood stars, director, roman pol lansky and his wife, actress, sharon tait. at 26, she was young, beautiful and 8 1/2 months wheg napregnan the killers arrived. four members of manson's cult went on a murder spree and left a message and the word pig. the scene was horrific. there would be more to come. the next day, manson accompanied

the group to the home of a supermarket executive. the house look very much the same as it did when the manson family entered the property and tortured the couple before killing them. again, more krip particular words in blood like helter skelter. >> the manson mur ders were the iconic crimes of the 1960s, incorporating everything from the sexual fast sin nations to the beatles music of the day. >> reporter: manson was a 5'2" meg glow maniac. he portrayed himself as a hippie and musician. he tracked the lonely, desperate and troubled, mostly women who traveled with him across the state until they moved into abandoned building on an old movie set outside of los

angeles. what was behind the murders. >> manson said he did it to try to start a race war. his theory was that blacks would win in a race war against the whites. they would be unable to govern and he would emerge and take over. >> reporter: in 1971, manson and four of his followers were given the death penalty but the sentences were commuted to life when california abolished capitol punish over the years, he has turned his parole hearings into a circus filled with wild antics and rambling. he will likely die in prison, a fate other members of the so-called family, want to avoid. susan atkins, who has terminal cancer was denied parole last year. leslie vanhouten was denied freedom. >> i was raced to be a decent human being. i turned into a monster and i have spent these years going back to a decent human being and i don't know what else to say.

>> reporter: ted rowlands, cnc leaks los angeles. michigan can't seem to get a break. how bad are things there? detroit school system is staring down the barrel of bankruptcy, $259 million in the hole, sinking enrollment, less money from the state and an outbreak of corruption, all conspireing to bleed the system i.d. they are flirting with chapter 9 bankruptcy, letting them toss out labor agreements and helps them deal with creditors. let's bring in poppy harlow. she spent some time in detroit and saw the problems up close. what is the city doing to try to turn things snarnd can they? >> the question of whether they can, that is still up in the air. they are being very proactive. they are hired an emergency manager, he used to work in the

d.c. school system. he is now in detroit. since may, he has closed 29 schools and plans to shut more of them to cut costs. also, he laid over more than 2,400 people and is exploring a banks ru bankruptcy option for the school system. one parent i spent the day with said she is not okay with the current system. take a listen to fredricka turner. >> my daughter has never attended any detroit public school. it is because of this. as a concerned parent, my daughter would never go to a detroit public school as of now. where as i felt comfortable as a child going to school. i don't feel comfortable to allow her to attend a detroit public school. >> they live in the suburbs and her daughter goes in school outside of detroit. you are looking at her old high school, which is closed down, windows broken, boarded up.

we have seen since 2000 that enrollment has fallen by 44% compared to a decline in about the same period of time in population in the city of just about 3%. when you look at the graduation rate, it is staggering to 58% graduation rate in detroit proper versus 76% statewide. >> we hear about chapter 11 all the time but not chapter 9. so what's the upside right here? >> what chapter 9 is, it is similar to chapter 11. instead of a corporate restructuring, it is a municipality restructuring. like with general motors and chrysler, this could allow the school system to renegotiate its debt, tear up the relatively expensive union contracts, giving the system a fresh start. it would be the first ever bankruptcy for a u.s. school system. some cities have seen their systems come close but haven't seen it go through.

>> should detroit public schools file for bankruptcy? i want to redo a quick comment. first of all, howard, i feel like filing for bankruptcy is a waste of time unless you have a plan to reduce cost without reducing benefits. james said the city and state should adequately fund the school to begin with. keith wrote, as long as we have declining tax bases due to sluggish housing market, our public schools will struggle for funding. we want to know what you think. logon to my facebook page, facebook.com/poppyharlow. people are up in arms over the situation. the school year starts in about a month. >> you have been such a great job too going to michigan and following up on all these stories. >> thank you. >> it is important to us, also, poppy. >> keep us informed. >> this is the hartland of america and we need to keep doing our best. >> something has to be done to

save that area. thanks, poppy. do you have any solutions for detroit? hit me with a twit at twitter.com/kyracnn. breaking news now on bill clinton's diplomatic trip to north korea. abc is reporting that the former president has met with the two american journalists that he is hoping to take back home. we haven't been able to confirm that yet. what we do know, clinton is shall di -- what the white house insists is a private mission with no overtures from president obama. laura ling and euna lee were arrested march 17th after crossing into north korea from china. they were working on a story on human trafficking. they were convicted in june of illegal entry and so-called

hostile acts. in closed trial, they were centersed to hard labor. for a former u.s. president, bill clinton, is on pretty good terms with the state. let's get more insight from christian amanpour. why is he the best man for this move? >> reporter: clearly because of his high profile. it was obviously a high profile visit in order to try to secure the release of these two journalists. many have said that it is unlikely president clinton would have gone and put so much, not just personal prestige but the prestige of the united states and of course the prestige of the presidency on the line if he

was not to come out with those two journalists. that's not yet confirmed as to whether he is but many are saying that is unlikely that he would have gone unless he was pretty sure that things would be resolved. the very relevant matter here is that he did meet with the leader of north korea, kim jong-il, who as you know as as we have been reporting, for many months, almost a year, has been reclusive at the very least and in poor health according to many who have better understanding of that situation. it comes at a time when north korea and the united states have very tense relationships, especially north korea with the rest of the world, because of its ramped up nuclear testing and nuclear activities. there was a test of a nuclear device over the last several months and several ballistic missile tests. that has but north korea on the wrong side of the international community with heavy duty

sanctions imposed on them. we don't know whether president clinton went with anything other than a human tary mission to get the journalists released who were working for the news station of his former vice president, al gore. whether he took any message or brought back any. the white house is denying he took any message from president obama. but to go back to 1994 under the clinton's own administration, jimmy carter went to north korea to resolve and diffuse a crisis at that time. he went as ai priva private cit. >> i apologize that for that. we are monitoring the white house briefing. just as you were explaining the situation here in north korea, we are listening to that white house briefing seeing if, indeed, they are going to say anything about north korea as well. we are monitoring that.

so, while we are doing that, let me follow up with one thing that you said christiane, there has been so much focus on bringing these two journalists home. you added to the positive feedback we have been getting from a lot of various leaders within politics that have dealt with north korea saying bill clinton wouldn't be going over there unless he had strat jooized some sort of deal and would be bringing the two journalists home. pushing it forward, that's the bigger picture. christiane, stay with us. it is going to be a photo op on the president's birthday. he might be celebrating somebody else's brother as well. does it look like helen thomas shares the same birthday as the president. it looks like she does.

happy birthday. >> you have to blow it out to make it come true. >> happy birthday to you. >> will you tell us your birthday wish? >> helen wished for world peace, no prejudice. she and i also had a common birthday wish. she said, she hopes for a real health care reform bill. i will leave it up to you, helen, how you want to distribute the cupcakes.

>> how often does that happen, when a journalist gets a one on one visit from the president of the united states sharing a birthday? helen thomas and president barack obama. she is a little older than the president, though. she is turning 89. the president is turning 48. now, how is she going to cover the precedent objectivesident o he came out and gave her a smooch and some cupcakes. i don't think chuck e. cheese will be visiting helen thomas. we will take you back to the briefing with robert gibbs. >> we didn't tell her ahead of time. we don't tell people ahead of time. we didn't call helen and tell her we were coming out here. all right.

now, let's -- now that we have had the main event, let's get to the more mundane topics. >> president clinton's trip to north korea, is it fair and accurate to say that president obama supports this move? >> we put out a statement this morning. i put out a statement that this was a private mission that we weren't going to comment on while the former president was on the ground in north korea. as a result of that, i don't have anything more to add on this at this time. >> you can understand why people can see this as a possible opening for further discussions with north korea. you understand why that is there? >> i understand. this, obviously, is a very

sensitive topic. we will hope to provide some more detail at a later point. our focus right now is on ensuring that the safety of two journalists that are in north korea right now. >> i am going to be selfish and take the second question z more like your third but go ahead. >> it appears the unemployment rate where the president is going tomorrow in indiana has worsened since the last time the president was there. why is the white house going there and what do you hope to accomplish? >> the unemployment rate has gotten worse in elkhart since the president was there in february. it has gotten, i think you could probably count on the one or two hands the places where the unemployment rate has improved in those few months. obviously, we have seen and you

saw this in the gdp figures, a tremendous downturn in our economy over the past many quarters. you saw a revision of even quarters where there was some modest growth. now, there was a decline in the economy. the president will use this event. >> we want to break away and talk once again about north korea before we were joined by the president there wishing helen thomas a happy 89th bird day. christia christiane amanpour, thanks for sticking with me. were you able to see that while you were standing by? >> reporter: i can't see it but i want to make a comment on what you said. i wonder if she can cover him objectively after that. i am going to refer you back to the nixon administration when he came out in the press room and

c congratulat congratulated her in being named the first women in the white house core and she had no problem responding by asking him a tough question on the ongoing water gate affair. i think helen thomas has earned her stripes in the credibility department. >> amen. did she get a kill from the president at that time? obama gave her a big kiss on the cheek. >> reporter: i don't know about that. >> point well made. we will turn away from helen thomas' 89th birthday same as president obama's who turns 48 today. we were talking about bill clinton and you who he is over in north korea trying to negotiate the release of the two journalists. a lot of people are wondering could this be more than just release of two journalists? could this mean some sort of break through in a relationship

between kim jong-il, who a lot of people here in the united states, including the obama administration, were wondering if he was still healthy and alive? could something happen here? could there be a breakthrough with regard to a relationship and this ongoing threat of nukes back and forth and a volatile relationship? >> reporter: it is hard to tell. you saw robert gibbs basically deflect that question and insist it is a private visit. the same thing was insisted about president carter way back in 1994 who went and met with kim il-sun. there was an agreement between the united states and korea on the nuclear issues. north korea has long claimed

that its desires for nuclear energy and it wants to provide cash-strapped and energy-strapped nation with the kind of fuel that it needs. that hasn't been forthcoming yet. that's some of the problem with some of the problems in the relationship between the united states and north korea. but, you know, over the let's say 2008 period, between summer, 2007 and most of 2008, there was a thawing. that's when north korea stopped its nuclear program. it stopped processing, reprocessing plutonium. it allowed the new york fill harmonic to come in. there was a real moment where they thought the diplomacy was going to work under the auspices of the state department. this was going along in a

farrell interesting way. then, it came to a grinding halt after last summer when kim jong-il fell ill. it is unclear how this is going to be resolved. there are many who believe that diplomacy should be tried again. right now, north korea has been flat for heavy u.s. sanctions. >> thank you, christiane amanpour. captain michael scott speicher's remains found in iraq but his family is still hoping to find answers in washington. having the right tools is crucial

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iran says that the three americans they are holding might be spies. friends and families say they were in the wrong place at the wrong time and didn't know they were in iran until soldiers surrounded them. the three were hiking friday in northern iraq, crossed unmarked border into iran and were arrested for illegal entry. iranian lawmakers say they think they came over at spies. diplomates are working to get those american free. some would-be terrorists with al qaeda's ties had big plans for australia that went nowhere. they broke up a plot and arrested four men who planned to acan ta a military base with automatic weapons to take out as

many soldiers as they could, then, go out in a blaze of glory. >> the men who were planning to carry out the suicide terrorist attack, details of the planning indicated the alleged offenders were prepared to infliblth an attack on military personnel until they themselves were killed. >> agents have been watching these guys for months and made their move early today. they raided nearly 20 places in melbourne. the four men in custody are all australian citizens. in north carolina, the alleged t alleged tarheel terrorists were planning to go overseas and kill people. they are were federal court today to learned if they will be

held until trial. the family of navy captain michael scott spiker, getting briefed by the pentagon brass. the remains found in iraq are those of capta speicher. the family believes he might have survived the crash. the evidence suggestion he died on impact. like his family, his home town has kept his memory alive for 18 years. john zarrella talks to folks in jacksonville, florida, about sunday's big news. >> reporter: on an overcast monday, people stood solemnly holding american flags and paying their respects as the hearse the drove by carrying the remains of a marine corps private killed in afghanistan. >> we are here to honor this fallen hero. to let the family know that we

care. >> reporter: in jacksonville, they continue caring no matter how many years go by. for 18 years, they kept alive the name scott speicher, navy pilot, shot down in the first night of the gulf war, never knowing when he was alive or dead. a banner still flies above a station. his name is etched on a veterans memorial wall. he will always be remembered. >> this would be the first gulf war when this was put up there. >> reporter: a retired naval aviator knows his family. in all these years, his widow talked only once to a national magazine. there is a reason, he says. >> joann has focused on her family and her kids and done a wonderful job of taking care of them and raising them to as close to a normal situation as possible.

>> reporter: she remarried and the children attend state universities. they were on hand when the governor extended free tuition to children of missing soldiers. for the speicher's, still some questions have not been answered. >> any information we can learn about what happened when he ejected and to the point whether he died we think is beneficial. >> reporter: there is a headstone at arlington national cemetery with his name on. where he will be buried has not been public. he has, after 18 years, finally come home. jo john jarezarrella. a man and his cadaver dog chased them for two years. we will later find out if he this is his former mission has been accomplished. it could be a hot august and a long recess for lawmakers. that's what happens when you

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a lot of nasty storms causing problems all over the map today. meteorologist, chad myers in the cnn severe weather center tracking it all. another line of weather moving into louisville. not like they didn't have enough in the overnight hours. there is the city, a line east/west right along i-64. i boxed this area up. a thousand here with another zero, 63, 10,000 lightning strikes in every hour. it is just coming down again.

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captured america journalists laura ling and euna lee. they are hopeful that they will be back in the u.s. as soon as tomorrow. the source says that clinton plans to leave for home tonight. it has been a pretty remarkable day of diplomatic star power in what's generally considered the world's most secretive state. look at these pictures. the white house is insisting that clinton's message is private ond no message or over ve vert yurs from president obama. they have been in prison since march. the headlines unconfirmed by cnn by the way that a government source is telling abc news that he is hopeful former president clinton may be flying home any time now with two americans, long detained in north korea. we will keep you updated every step of the way. back on the hill. the next to last step in the confirmation of sonia sotomayor.

the federal appeals judge from new york is on the verge of becoming the 111th justice of the suchlt see preem court and the first hispanic. she is the subject of floor debate in the senate leading to an up or down vote probably sthurs. the top senate democrat says it is a moment to us week. >> a long ten weeks ago, president obama made mystery when he nominated the nation's first his stpanic to be a justi of the u.s. supreme court. judge sonia sotomayor is an american of tremendous qualifications. her academic record and her career experience really are second to none. >> the nominee has more than enough votes to be confirmed and some will come from republicans but not very many. >> zt speaker of the house is speaking out on health care reform, not in dc, nancy well

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many consider it one of humanity's deadliest killers, malaria. they believe they are about to solve the mystery of how people got it. dr. sanjay gupta breaks down the

details. >> deep in the jungles of africa, nathan wolf is on the hunt, a pathogen hunter, looking to unlock the mystery of the source of malaria. he has been at it for more than a decade hunting the forest to take blood samples of animals they kill. through the blood samples and work with research animals, wolf says he and his team have solved the riddle. >> there is a particular chimpanzee in here, max. what has he taught us about viruses. >> what we found in max and the ivory coast is malaria pa parasites. we discovered it came from chim pansies. >> malaria comes from

chimpanzees, we can say that are to sure? >> yes. >> how hoard was it to hunt malaria? >> it was pretty exciting for us to nail it. >> they nailed it by first identifying strains of malaria found in chimpanzees. it turns out they are nearly identical. the chimpanzee strain is older. all of that suggestion they pass malaria to humans. there is an interface so important because they can actually exchange viruses and pathogens. how does that swapping take place? more importantly, what can they do about it? knowing the origins of a disease, even the close relatives to it, could be a huge step toward stopping it. more than 30 years ago, scientists used a close relative

of human small pox found in coys to reeight a vaccine for humans. they believe it is a major break through. >> we know very little about the diversity of microorganisms. we are just beginning to sort of describe this iceberg wechlt know a lot is under walter. it is part of the excitement time for those of us out there trying to discover these things. >> one reason this study is getting attention, the high stakes, malaria kills more than 1 million people each year. many of them children. the victim of a shocking gang rape that took place in this phoenix shed is about to get some diplomatic help. liberia's ambassador wants to meet with the 8-year-old girl

and the four boyce that attacked her and the girl's parents. they say that liberia doesn't condone rape and the girl should not be shunned. her story has sparked global outrage. you can read about ton my bog at cnn.com slash kyra and listen to my interview with liberia's president and see how she feels about this case. the woman regarded as the first african america supermodel has passed away. nigh o naomi sims broke barriers and appeared on the covers of "life." she was an entrepreneur, starting her own costume lines. she died of cancer on saturday. she was only 61 years old. every shoe. allon. every book. every cereal. well, maybe not every cereal.

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their trash man is going to love them for sure. this couple is trying to can pretty much all of their trash for an entire year. amy korst joins us on the line to talk about the green garbage project. amy, think a lot of people think are you crazy? can you really do this? >> we north crazy. i truly believe that we really can do this. >> so i know you have a website up. you are giving people tips. tell me what you are doing.

i know you just started the process. you are going to do this for a year. tell us how you plan to do this. >> well, we decided to start on july 6th. it will run until july 6th, 2010. we are in the fifth week of our project. the project took a lot of front-loading and research on mine and adam's part before we were able to sit down and start our project. now that we have gone out and bought tup perwear or located food stores, it has become easy to live by producing virtually no garbage. we have a many tiered system set up. like most americans, our garbage company picks up our recycling each week. they take what you would expect them to take, newspapers, cans, some plastic bottles, things like that. i've also found a recycling facility near me that takes a

lot of unusual or rarely recycled materials like milk cartons, septic containers which are like juice boxes or soy milk containers, aluminum foil, et cetera. so we have several different bins set up in our house to sort our recycling. i also have a small bin allocated for our burn trash. we do burn anything that is clean, dry, untreated and organic, things like black paper or match sticks, go in that pile for us. >> we wanted to get you on record. we are going to track you for a year and check in with you about once a month. we want folks to check out our website, greengarbage project. best of luck. we'll be tracking you. you can check out amy's blog on

our blog as well at cnn.com/kyra. you can go street to hers which is the green garbage project.com. for two years, they had one mission, find captain speicher. their search came up empty. now that the pilot's remains are found, a flood of emotion.

now, the fight for afghanistan from the vantage point of the 82nd airborne u.s. troops coming off their

deadliest month of the war as they try to dislodge the taliban from their strong hold in the southern provinces. ed to the 82nd airborne commander says, fighting the taliban is not by itself the key to victory. >> the true center of gravity is not the taliban but the willing support of the afghan people. here we are working hard not only to counter the enemy's propaganda but to anticipate and expose them. we are doing this by taking a proactive approach to seize and retain the initiative by preempting events and exploiting opportunities. >> the families here at home affected by that fight in afghanistan, that's what rick sanchez has taken a look at all week, a vee neat perspective. through the eyes of one family and what it means to lose a son. >> it's amazing. we are getting a lot of comments from people on twitter and

myspace and facebook. right now, it is what, about 10, 12 minutes before the hour. right now, there is a young man named anthony lightfoot. right now, he is being buried at arlington national cemetery. his parents, his family have allowed our cameras to be there. in fact, they have asked us to be there. mrs. lightfoot also invited me to her home. she wanted to tell me her story about how much she misses her son and who she was and what she is going through now as a result of his death. our cameras were also there at dover, delaware, when his remains first arrived july 31st. it's a tough story to tell. there are so many americans that think that it is the kind of story that maybe we don't want to get too close to. others argue maybe we should. maybe we should know.

this mother decided we should. here is what she had to say to me. just a little part of it. >> i guess they say when one person comes to the door, they have been injured. when two people come to the door, they have been killed. and two people came to the door. >> so a representative from the military knocks on her door. he is escorted by a chaplain. when she knew that those two people were at the door, she pretty much sensed that there was something going on. she still didn't believe it. there is that handsome young man, anthony and some of his family members. that's the tattoo she just put on she says she will carry with her to the grave. it is the most important thing she has left as a remembrance of her son. >> we are going to have this in 30 minutes or so. it is very touching. it is very real. most of us don't know what happened when someone dies over there. i am going to take you through

the process of what is actually called a dignified transfer, through her words, in her loss. it is pretty special, kyra. >> you say that some people don't agree we should get that close. i am with you. i totally disagree. first of all, the war in afghanistan is because of 9/11. innocent people were killed and now we've got our men and women over there fighting and dying every day, years and years later. and we have got to stop using numbers. we have to continue to put a face on those young men and women. we can't forget. >> that's the point she makes. as i family member, if i decide that i want to share it with people, i should be allowed to share it with people. that's what she said. as long as your coverage is respectful and dignified and i don't anyone would expect anything else from cnn. >> i look forward to the coverage this week. we will make sure we talk about it this hour for the rest of the week.

♪ the first few days of august have been deadly for u.s. forces serving in afghanistan. behind the casualty numbers, faces and families, as rick and i were just talking about, we now salute our fallen heroes. army chief war nopofficer dougl m.vose was killed last week. his brother, sister, father and grandfather all served in our military. the family of army specialist, anthony m. lightfoot is preparing for his burial at arlington cemetery. that 20-year-old from riverdale,

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first trit car make kers an now detroit public schools may be filing for bankruptcy. earlier this hour, we told you about the school district being $259 million in the red. we asked you to tweet us your ideas. new jersey wrote, all bankruptcy is about outflows versus income.

taxes down, spending should go down. here is a solution, leave the old rundown schools, go to modern empty car manufacturing plants and give real life examples for the students. what's the student for detroit schools? patients. schools need to stop being political instruments and go back to education only. the three rs, which most people no longer remember. i remember, it is reading, wrighting a wrighting and arithmetic. a fallen soldier comes hope. what his mother wants you to remember. a rare and inside look, a cnn exclusive. >> no, no. >> the anger on display we have seen since the obama presidency continues. what is really