up next, john roberts sitting in for anderson cooper. thanks, wolf. and tonight, separating health reform fact from fear, and a town hall meeting with a big difference. president obama. he attended one today in portsmouth, new hampshire. and a guy outside packing heat, carrying a sign calling in so many words for death to tirades. the quotation of thomas jefferson. out in the open, a handgun. legal according to state law. meantime, at the office of georgia congressman david scott who took on protesters the other day, someone painted a swastika out front. as you will see in a moment, anger was erupting at town halls across the country. that said, there were moments of clarity, and we hope to add some of our own tonight. first, president obama at portsmouth high school in new hampshire in his own words. >> i don't think anyone should be in charge of your health care decisions but you and your doctor.

i don't think government bureaucrats should be meddling but i also don't think insurance company bureaucrats should be meddling. that's the health care system i believe in. one woman testified that an insurance company would not cover her internal organs because of an accident she had when she was 5 years old. think about that. that covers a lot of stuff. you know, they're only going to cover your skin. dermatology, that's covered. nothing else. let me just say, there's been a long and vigorous debate about this, and that's how it should be. but i do hope that we will talk with each other and not over each other. because -- where we do disagree, let's disagree over things that are real, not these wild misrepresentations that bear no resemblance to anything that's actually been proposed.

i need your help knocking on doors, talking to neighbors. try the facts. let's get this done. >> i don't want inflation to skyrocket by just adding this to the national debt, so i'm wondering how we can avoid both of those scenarios. >> i've said i won't sign a bill that adds to the deficit or the national debt. okay? so this will have to be paid for. that, by the way, is in contrast to the prescription drug bill that was passed that cost hundreds of billions of dollars by the previous administration and previous congress that was not paid for at all. >> why have you not used the bully pulpit to chastise congress for having two systems of health care, one for all of us and one for them? >> if we don't have health care reform, the gap between what congress gets and what ordinary americans get will continue to be as wide as it is right now. >> president obama this afternoon in new hampshire.

the tone entirely civil. not the case this morning in lebanon, pennsylvania, where now democratic senator arlen specter got an earful. >> you want to be led out of here, you are welcome to go. but wait a minute. now wait a minute. now wait a minute. >> you have awakened a sleeping giant. we are tired of this. this is why everybody in this room is so ticked off. what are you going to do to restore this country back to what our founders created according to the constitution? >> it wasn't the only heat directed at senator specter in lebanon. he did, however, soldier on, holding another town hall in lewisbu lewisburg, where the tone improved. somewhat. we sent "360's" gary tuchman

there to understand why people are so riled up. >> you are in the land of the free and home of the brave. >> reporter: the words of one woman both angry and concerned. >> i am very, very, very scared. i believe we are going down i think this health care reform act is a vehicle not for health care. this is a vehicle to take us down to a path of total socialism and totalitarianism. >> reporter: at this louisburg, pennsylvania town hall held by senator arlen specter, it's apparent many americans see health care reform as an effort to harm the american way of life. >> herman goebbels said, as you'll remember-e was hitler's advance man. he says tell a lie, make it a big one, repeat it often, and it becomes the truth. >> reporter: health care and hitler? most would agree it's a stretch at best, deeply offensive at worst. but words are weapons to many of the people attending these

meetings. they demand to be heard and care enough to show up way in advance. >> first of all, they're pushing it too fast. it needs to really be thought over. >> reporter: i asked this woman what concerned her. >> the cost. taking my liberties and rights away from me. >> reporter: president obama says your liberties and rights won't be taken away. you can keep what you have. do you not believe him? >> i do not. >> reporter: why? >> because he has not told us the truth about many other things. >> reporter: so you just don't trust the man? >> absolutely. i do not trust him. >> reporter: it's a common theme here. lack of trust in the president. lack of respect for many of the men and women who represent them in washington. >> i'm here to hear senator specter say that he'll accept the same health care that he's going to try to give us. >> reporter: so you want senators and congressmen not to get any better health care than you get under this new plan? >> what are they? are they, you know, someone special? >> reporter: there are supporters of health care reform here but their numbers are much smaller, their voices not as loud. >> i think we need it

desperately. >> reporter: many of the people at these town hall meetings who are against president obama's vision of health care reform say they are the silent majority. of course, if they are the majority, what happened on election day when the man who made no secret of the desire for substantial change to the health care system made it to the white house? apathy is not an issue right here. there are periods of time where there's complete quiet in the room. but it doesn't last more than a few minutes before people start yelling or shouting angry comments. but this one was hard for anyone to disagree with. >> i want to just express to the press this is not a republican or a democrat. this is an american. >> reporter: an issue that continues to snowball during congress's summer recess. >> gary, when people come to these town halls and they have this discussion and the tempers start to heat up, do they leave

those meetings actually angrier than when they came in the front door? >> reporter: well, when the opponents to reform left this auditorium today at bucknell university, certainly they're not very happy. but they don't for the most part seem to be angry. and one of the reasons for that when we asked people is that there's a grudging respect for the senators and congressmen who come, knowing they'll be badgered and hold these hearings. we're in the middle of the state of pennsylvania today. arlen specter represents the whole state. so most of the people are from pen. but yesterday we were at a hearing with congressman steve rothman from new jersey. many of the people were not from his district. they said our congressman didn't have the guts to hold a hearing. today the second row right behind me an opponent of reform said to senator specter, this quote, i can't believe you run for this office. and everyone kind of laughed and we certainly haven't heard a lot of laughs at these town hall meetings. >> there certainly are a number of democrats holding these meetings despite the fact that many of the democrats are -- claire mccaskill in missouri, another one who took the heat today as well.

gary tuchman. thanks so much for that. given all the heat directed at the president and his party at these town halls, the question is politically at least, why even bother? one view is that "ac306.com. check it out. join the live chat. coming up next, dr. sanjay gupta answering fears and concerns about health care reform with the facts. also, more searches in the michael jackson case. zeroing in on his doctor. lisa bloom and jim moret digging deeper on that. tonight on "360."

we have been talking tonight about health care reform. president obama's effort to quell the anger and get the message out. questioning at his town hall this afternoon in portsmouth, new hampshire was skeptical at times but it was totally calm. other town halls have run the gamut. we've been showing you some of what senator arlen specter dealt with today. moments of rage but also genuine doubts about the cost of health care reform. >> social security, bankrupt. medicare, bankrupt. medicaid, bankrupt. you're taking our kids' future and -- post office. and taking our kids' future and driving it right into the toilet. we cannot afford this. period. keep the government out of it. we're doing just fine. thank you, sir.

>> well, i have made a commitment here today earlier that i will not vote for a plan that adds to the deficit. >> earlier, you heard president obama reiterating his own version of that pledge. he also reminded people the enormous price tag covers ten years, not just one, something opponents rarely mention. that said, there are many objections, some more reality-based than others. "360" m.d. sanjay gupta is keeping them honest tonight. he and i spoke earlier. >> all right, sanjay, let's tack that will first one, cost. arlen specter said he won't sign anything that adds to the deficit. the president said the same thing. senator claire mccaskill has said the same thing. but the congressional budget office tells a different story when it comes to the cost. >> they do. they say it's about $239 billion of potential addition to the deficit. and that was, i think, a wake-up call for a lot of people who are really paying attention to the numbers. it is hard to piece this all together. what i can tell you, john, we have talked about this. i've read through the house bill in its entirety. the way it's written

specifically is they say that unless the finance committee can come up with certain money to try and offset some of these deficits it's not going to pass. what i think is a little bit more nebulous, john, is the idea that in the long run through ideas like prevention, adding more wellness dollars to try to keep people healthy in the first place, how much money is that going to save, is that going to help offset things in the long run. >> let's listen to this exchange at claire mccaskill's town hall today. >> can you promise that my tax dollars will not fund abortions? i can tell you that there is not one word in this bill that would allow federal tax dollars to be spent on abortions. >> all right. as you can see, a very hot-button issue. sanjay, from what you've read of the various bills out there, is she correct? >> somewhat correct. and this is confusing, again. but let me try to break it down this way. this is how i understood it. there is an amendment out there that basically says there will

be no subsidizing of abortions by any private health care plan within this exchange. what it does not say, john, is it prohibits the moneys being used by the public option. there is a hyde amendment for people that pay attention to this sort of thing saying no federal dollars can be used toward federally subsidizing abortion. and supporters of this public option say that applies here as well. >> the final thing we want to get into is whether or not people will be able to keep their own insurance. the critics of the plans say people will be forced into this public health care plan and a study done for the heritage foundation by the lewin group says 88 million people, at least 88 million people will be forced into the public plan. let's listen to this exchange from president obama's town hall in portsmouth today. >> i still worry that if we go to a public option, period, that the private companies, the insurance companies, rather than competing -- because who can compete with the government? the answer is, nobody. my question is, do you still as yourself now support a universal

plan or are you open to the private industry still being maintained? >> the only thing that i have said is that having a public option in that menu would provide competition for insurance companies to keep them honest. >> so it would seem clear, sanjay, that at least some people are going to go into a public plan. big question is, how much would that take away from the private plans? how much would it undercut it? and what number of people would eventually end up in the public plan? >> that's right. that study quoted, john, has numbers varying from tens of millions to over 100 million possibly going over to the public option. a lot of supporters of the public option say, look, we have the u.s. post office and yet we have fed-ex and u.p.s. so you can have private and public competition all existing at once. there's also this idea that not everyone is going to be eligible for the public option. just because it's cheaper doesn't mean everyone qualifies for it. having said that, there is this idea still that the public option could start to grow larger and larger. it could become more all-inclusive, all of that on

the backs of taxpayer dollars. and that might eventually crowd out private insurance. and those are the sorts of argument and counterargument right there. >> dr. sanjay gupta helping to straight ten all o straighten it all out for us. appreciate it. >> thanks, john. the cost of doing nothing. the staggering amount of waste in health care. i think it's millions? billions? think higher, way higher. tom foreman's running the numbers for-u keeping them honest. also, the latest search involving michael jackson's doctor and the powerful drug that no one should get outside a hospital. jackson was reportedly getting at home.

as you have no doubt noticed, who could miss it, the debate over health care reform seems to be get louder each and every day. as the decibels climb, here at "360" we are committed to filtering out the racket and focusing on the facts. so tonight we are digging deeper on a new number recently thrown into the debate.

$1.2 trillion. according to the accounting firm price waterhouse coopers, that's how much of our health care dollars are flat out wasted each and every year. it's also fully half of what the u.s. spends each year on health care. how could we be wasting that much money? and what's it being wasted on? well, tom foreman tonight keeping them honest. >> reporter: john, this study by price waterhouse coopers identifies what it calls three key areas of massive waste. and the first is us. medical problems related to obesity such as heart disease and high blood pressure cost our medical care system $200 billion a year. problems related to smoking over here cost us $191 billion a year. if we just took better care of ourselves, this study suggests we could save as much as a half trillion dollars that the government and we are currently

spending on our problems. the second big area of waste is clinical problems, doctors and nurses sometimes prescribe the wrong medicine. they overmedicate. they make other mistakes, too. patients use emergency rooms for some problems like sore throats that ought to be handled by the regular doctor. the cost of all of that, more than $90 billion. in addition, this study found that sometimes doctors overcharge because they can make more money from it but also sometimes they're so afraid of malpractice lawsuits they order many tests and procedures to protect against possible accusations they overlooked something. the cost of that, $210 billion a year. that's why senators in support of reform like maryland's ben cardin are being confronted in town meetings by people demanding that legal reform be part of any health reform package. >> why isn't tort reform a part of any of these bills? >> of course, the study also found sometimes doctors just overcharge because they can make

more money that way. and finally, this study found waste in operational cost. just filing the papers to collect for insurance companies costs up to $210 billion a year. one case the researchers cite is johns hopkins in baltimore. 700 different health plans. employers and other groups are involved in paying the bills there. each with its own rules and paperwork. all of these combined areas could add up to $1.2 trillion in waste or, as the study notes, more than half of our health spending. john? >> staggering amount of money. tom foreman for us tonight. tom, thanks so much. coming up, authorities raid a las vegas pharmacy used by michael jackson's doctor. what were they looking for there? that's coming up in a moment. but first, erica hill joins us now with a "360" bulletin. hi, erica. >> john, eunice shriver, the sister of president john f. kennedy, is being remembered tonight as a tireless champion of the disabled. she died earlier this morning at the age of 88.

shriver was the fifth of nine kennedy children. she was also mother to maria shriver, who is of course california's first lady. in 1962 mrs. shriver founded the summer day cam than grew into the special olympics, which today operates in 170 countries. costa rica's president oscar arias is sick with swine flu. government officials say he fell ill on sunday, complaining of sore throat and fever. he was diagnosed today with the h1n1 virus. the president's overall health is said to be good. on his doctor's advice, though, he's resting at home this week. talk about a jolt from general motors. the company today saying its chevrolet volt car will get an estimated 230 miles per gallon. yes, 2-3-0. the electric car is expected to go on sale next year. gm's ceo predicts the triple-digit mileage will be a game changer for gm. we'll see. it is a boy for grammy-winning singer jennifer hudson. the 27-year-old oscar winner giving birth yesterday to her first child.

david daniel otunga jr. the publicist released the news today. the baby is reportedly named after hudson's fiance and weighed in at a healthy 7 pounds 14 ounces, john. >> great they have good news in that family. >> they could use it. >> erica, thanks so much. next up on "360," a new raid in the michael jackson death investigation. police search a pharmacy in las vegas. are they getting closer to an arrest? the latest just ahead. and later on, teen killers working for the drug lords and living in the united states. the shocking story from this side of the border coming up.

a major new development in the michael jackson death investigation. police raiding a pharmacy in las vegas. a source tells us it sold the powerful anesthetic propofol to jackson's personal physician, dr. conrad murray. another source says dr. murray gave jackson propofol on the last day of his life. dr. murray is the subject of a possible manslaughter charge in the case. jim moret is the chief correspondent for "inside edition." he's also an attorney. so is cnn legal analyst lisa bloom, and both of them join me now. lisa, the search of this pharmacy comes just a day after the coroner's office said it was withholding the results of the autopsy including cause of death at the request of investigators from the los angeles police department. what do you make of the timing of the raid on the pharmacy at the same time that the coroner's office is saying we're at a crucial point in the investigation? >> well, i think it's good news for dr. murray. good news that may be short-lived. but at this point the police

don't feel enough -- that they have enough to go forward and arrest dr. murray. they're holding up the disclosure of the coroner's report and toxicology results and continuing to investigate and continuing to investigate propofol, which is the drug at the center of this dispute. apparently, they don't feel they have enough yet to connect all the dots and to indict or arrest dr. murray. >> jim moret, do you know what they were looking for at applied pharmacy today? >> they're looking for records of the drugs sold by this pharmacy presumably to the doctor. and specifically looking for diprivan. lisa is an optimist, i think. if i were dr. murray's attorney i think i'd be holding my breath right now because i think they're making it very clear that they're looking solely at dr. murray with respect to this propofol, and they may be looking at other doctors as well, but with respect to the manslaughter investigation i think he is solely in their sights. >> a question i had in all of this, and lisa, maybe you can answer this. is it unusual for the coroner's office to cooperate with the police department and withhold the results of the autopsy and

the toxicology report? we look back on so many case that's involve criminal charges, or at least criminal investigations, and the coroner's office told the public the cause of death. >> everything about this case is unusual. you are right, john. from beginning to the end. in most cases there isn't such intense public interest in the coroner's report, so it just gets issued as a matter of course. in a high-profile case it's not unusual for the police to ask other agencies to hold back information. police need to have some confidential information when they're doing an investigation. they can't have all the cards on the table. so that makes sense. but from dr. murray's defense point of view, again, if the coroner's working too closely hand in hand with law enforcement that's an argument he can use at trial. the coroner is supposed to be an independent agency composed of scientists issuing scientific results. they're not supposed to be at the beck and call of law enforcement. i'm not saying they are. all they're doing is withholding the report at this point. that's the kind of defense case that could be building. >> jim, the search warrants over the last few weeks looking into a number of potential charges. manslaughter being the most serious of them.

as far as we know. do you think that there's any chance that dr. murray could be charged with manslaughter? >> i do. i think that clearly that's what investigators are looking at. you're talking about a drug you simply can't get a prescription for and also a drug that you can't administer to yourself. so you need somebody there. you also have reports that the doctor admitted he administered this drug to michael jackson in a setting that is medically unsound. no doctor would do it outside of a hospital or clinic setting. therefore, they'll hold the doctor responsible if, in fact, he gave the drug that killed michael jackson to him the night before he died. >> what do you think about potential manslaughter charges, lisa? i mean, if you were defending conrad murray, do you think you could get him off if he were charged with that? >> jim's clearly right about the propofol. it should not be administered without safeguards and outside the hospital setting. the problem is is the propofol the only medication of significance in jackson's system? i mean, if there are, let's say, 10 or 12 medications and if, as i expect, the coroner's going to say that jackson died from an

interaction of toxic drugs, then it may be difficult for law enforcement to pin all of this on dr. murray. and remember, legally they have to prove causation. they have to prove that dr. murray's actions were the cause of death or a significant cause of death, and that means they have to link it all on the propofol. and remember, that's the drug that they're continuing to look at in this pharmacy search today. i just don't think they have it yet. they may, but i don't think they have it yet. >> and if they don't charge him with manslaughter, plenty of other things they can charge him with. overprescribing, prescribing to an addict. jim, is it your sense the lapd wants to make an example of this man? >> i think that they've got a lot of pressure on this case. i think that early on they didn't secure the property for four days nap was clearly a mistake in this case. i think they're going very methodically. and not to make an example but they really need to get some result and some result that won't have a public outcry because clearly something horribly wrong went on in michael jackson's house the night before he died. >> jim moret and lisa bloom, it's always great to catch up with you. thanks so much for joining us tonight.

>> thank you. >> much appreciated. and let us know what you think. join the live chat at ac360.com. next, an american soldier serving his country and allegedly serving a mexican cartel. did he murder for them? also, secretary of state hillary clinton in the democratic republic of congo seeing the evidence of an unthinkable crime. anderson's dispatch from africa when "360" continues. while i was building my friendships, my family, while i was building my life, my high cholesterol was contributing to plaque buildup in my arteries.

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tonight, an american soldier is under arrest for allegedly working as a hit man for a mexican drug cartel. the soldier, michael apodaca, is stationed at fort bliss in texas. authorities say the 18-year-old and two other men allegedly killed a fellow cartel member in may after he was exposed as a government informant. all three subjects face capital murder charges. this is not the first time a u.s. citizen has been accused of being an assassin for mexican drug lords. with the promise of money and power, young people on this side of the border are recruited into a world of violence. ed lavandera has tonight's "crime and punishment" report.

>> reporter: look at the elaborately tattooed eyes, the cold eyes. the faces of admitted murderers, young americans killing for mexican drug cartels. but it took many murders in laredo, texas to track down gabriel cardona and rosario reta. one of the first victims was moises garcia, gunned down while he helped his pregnant wife and 3-year-old boy into their car. then the bodies began to pile up. seven murders in a year-long stretch but when investigators found fingerprints on a cigarette box in the shooter's getaway car, the chilling truth unraveled. the truth about gabriel cardona and rosario reta. >> they were very good at what they did. they were professional at what they did. >> reporter: assassins is what they were. how gabriel cardona and rosario reta evolved from average american teenagers into hit men is laid out in court records and these police interrogation videos obtained by cnn. in this tape reta happily

details how he carried out his first cartel assassination at the age of 13. "i loved doing it. killing that first person. i loved it. i thought i was superman," said reta. detective robert garcia is the man sitting across the table from reta. >> that's one thing that you wonder all the time. what made him be this way? >> reporter: like many americans, these teenagers started hitting the canteenas and bars just across the border in mexico. and that's where investigators say the cartel was waiting to recruit them. these kids were easy targets for the cartel. the two started living the high life. they got tattoos honoring santamuerte, the grim reaper-like saint honoring drug traffickers. cardona had eyeballs tattooed on his eyelids. and markings covering reta's face. they should have been in school here but investigators say they dropped out and joined the cartel's payroll. they drove around town in a $70,000 mercedes. they were paid $500 a week as a

retainer to sit and wait for the call to kill. then they could make up to $50,000 for a hit. prosecutors say cardona and reta were hit men for the zetas, a group of former mexican special military force that's at the time were doing the dirty work for the notorious gulf cartel. >> it told us they're already here. they're sleeper cells. they're already here in the u.s. not just in laredo. they're throughout the u.s. >> reporter: in cardona's interrogation he tells detectives the zetas are moving their operations deeper into the u.s. cardona says he knows of hits carried out in houston and dallas. cardona and reta are in prison now serving long terms for murder. but before they were arrested federal authorities recorded a phone call between the two young men. cardona brags about killing 14-year-old inez villa rheal, the innocent cousin of a cardona enemy who's also murdered. cardona laughs about torturing both, making guiso, or stew out

of their bodies in large metal drums. villareal and husband cousin have never been found. but before he ends the call cardona says there are three left to kill. three three left. [ speaking foreign language ] it's a reminder the cartel's work never ends as they recruit the next generation of killers. ed lavandera, cnn, laredo, texas. >> cartels recruiting americans to kill. will we see more of it? joining us now is fred burton. he's a counterterrorism expert as well as a best-selling author. so let's look at this latest case, this arrest yesterday. private michael apodaca, an 18-year-old battery recruit stationed at fort bliss, texas. accused of being a hit man for the juarez cartel. does it surprise you? >> john, it doesn't surprise me in the least. if you look at the business, it is a dirty business and the informant that was killed was clearly an operator for the juarez cartel. and then the group that was put

together to actually carry out the assassination on u.s. soil, there's information that that individual was also an informant with the u.s. authorities. so this kind of twist and turn in this business is not unusual, but the fact that it's taking place in el paso on u.s. soil should be a wake-up call for all of us here in the united states. >> i would certainly think so. fred, to what extent have these cartels begun to either infiltrate or recruit from u.s. military and law enforcement? >> we have seen reports of this in the past, john, specifically with the national guard with cartel recruitment of individuals. look, there's so much money to be made in this business that the informant length is very broad within the public service sector, within all facets of society when you start looking at some of these border towns. so the fact that you have a u.s.

army soldier that was hired to do this is also not surprising. >> this fellow who was assassinated, jose gonzalez, he was living in el paso, living a fairly open life. people thought he was involved in legitimate businesses. also believed to be a u.s. informant. they got to him pretty easily. they found him out and got to him pretty easily. what does that say about who you can and cannot trust? >> well, it shows you the internal security and intelligence collection capabilities of the cartels. that they're capable of identifying u.s. government assets that should be protected. this is the kind of person that should not be killed on u.s. soil. now, it shows you their intelligence collection capabilities. it shows you their reach. it shows you their counterintelligence and their surveillance capabilities. if they can kill u.s. government informants, they can pretty much kill anyone they want and get away with it. >> as you mentioned, this was a hit on the american side of the border in el paso. hits like this happen all the time on the mexican side of the border.

what does it say about the potential for the violence in this country to increase and spread beyond border towns? >> well, i think we are already seeing that. we have the downstream drug supply network in atlanta is being controlled by the mexican cartels. we have had a whole series of abductions in phoenix. the phoenix police department has done a wonderful job looking at those. we have problems in los angeles as a result of this. there really is no city that's not untouched today with this phenomenon. and as you move closer to the border, you have more of the violence. their ability to reach out and touch these individuals is much more opportune for them. >> not an encouraging picture that you're painting for us tonight. fred burton, it's good to catch up with you. thanks so much. >> thank you. next, secretary of state hillary clinton calls it a crime against humanity. women becoming prey in congo. anderson reports with a story that you won't forget. and the sentence is in for myanmar opposition leader an sun

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secretary of state hillary clinton's trip to africa continued today with a deeply emotional visit with the victims of a brutal civil war. the secretary toured a refugee camp in the democratic republic of congo. it is home to thousands of families who have fled a conflict that has claimed millions of lives. it's also a battle in which rape has become a weapon of choice.

and it is used by soldiers and rebel forces alike. they rape women. they rape children. secretary of state clinton calls it a crime against humanity. she wants it to end. but if anything, this reign of violence is getting worse. anderson traveled to the democratic republic of congo in 2006 to report on this horror. the stories are devastating. but they are stories that must be heard. here's anderson's "360" dispatch. >> reporter: at a busy hospital in goma a silent little girl sits on a stoop. she's 5 years old now but still cannot speak of the terrible thing that happened to her. two years ago, when she was just 3, she was gang-raped by soldiers. >> children as young as 3 years old are getting raped? >> yeah. >> reporter: that's crazy. >> very crazy and we -- it's difficult to understand the social causes of this event, but we think that people are so disappointed.

they've been in a dictatorship for years. now they all -- so they lost all the hope and they start behaving like animals. >> reporter: dr. luke malimo has a hospital ward full of girls and women who've been raped and developed fistulas, holes in their vaginas or rectums that make it impossible to control bodily functions. >> reporter: why do so many rape victims here develop fistulas? >> we think that the first reason is that the rape is too violent. some of them they will use after raping the lady they will use maybe -- they use a weapon, a knife or even a piece of wood, and some of them have been shot on after being raped. >> reporter: so women aren't just getting raped. they're not just getting gang raped. they're often being shot internally afterward or people putting objects inside them, knives, clubs. >> yes. yeah. they're being raped but some of

them, mainly those who develop fistula tell that after being raped they will be shot on or just be traumatized by a weapon. >> reporter: dr. malimo is able to repair the physical damage done by rape in some 70% of cases, but some wounds, physical and psychological, are impossible to heal. >> translator: i was raped by three men, soldiers. they also shot me in my right arm. when it was happening, i thought i was dying. i was seeing death in front of me. i didn't think i would live. >> reporter: angela was raped in front of her children. this is all a burn? she says her attackers also burned her daughter. we agreed to protect their identiies because of the stigma still associated with rape in the congo. >> translator: people in the neighborhood just point fingers and say, you are a raped woman and you are infected with aids. >> reporter: angela lives in a compound with her three children and other rape survivors, who say they can't go home. they're supported by a charity called heal africa. this is the one meal that angela's kids will probably have today.

she and her children have been living here in goma for the last five months. angela would like to be able to return to her home village, but that's simply impossible. the men who have raped her are likely still living in the area. they of course have never been brought to justice. and she really has no home to go back to. her husband has now kicked her out of the house because she was gang raped. >> translator: he heard i was raped and he just said, go on your own. i don't need you anymore. if we live together, you now might have hiv. so you might infect me. >> reporter: like many rape survivors here, angela's future is at best uncertain. >> translator: the only thing i need is some land so i can build a house. i might die and i want my kids to have that castle. i'm hoping for a miracle. >> reporter: there are few miracles in the democratic republic of the congo. the men who rape are rarely brought to justice, and the women who survive must simply try to heal. >> a devastating account of the atrocities that continue to be committed right now in the congo. as for angela, the courageous woman at the center of that

report, we were hoping to speak with her today or at least find out where she is. unfortunately, we were unable to locate her. we hope and we pray that she and her girls are safe. and there are so many stories like angela's. you can hear one girl tell hers at ac360.com. next, the latest in the crash above the hudson river. divers recover more wreckage and search for clues to the tragedy. also, $65 million worth of jewelry stolen in broad daylight. we'll tell you where it happened and who police are searching for. - others buy the car of their dreams. - ( beeps ) during the lexus golden opportunity sales event, you can do both. introducing our best offers of the year on the vehicles intellichoice calls "the best overall value of all luxury brands." it's an opportunity today. it's a lexus forever. you all want to run your businesses more efficiently,

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as always, no shortage of news tonight. let's get the latest now on some of the other stories that we're following. erica hill joins us again with a "360" bulletin. hi, erica. >> hi, john. the search for bodies in saturday's new york air collision is now over. crews today bringing the last two victims ashore. a crane pulled their plane out of the hudson. in all, nine people died when that plane hit a helicopter above the hudson river last weekend. we are getting our first look tonight from inside the men's prison in chico -- chino, rather, california. this is a view of the damage from rioting over the weekend that left 250 inmates hurt, 55 of them seriously. that violence appears to have been racially motivated. overseas the military government in myanmar sentencing

opposition leader aung san suu kyi to 18 more months of house arrest. she's of course a nobel laureate and the face of the country's pro-democracy movement. according to the court she violated terms of her previous house arrest when an american swam across a lake to her home for an uninvited visit. both secretary of state clinton and the u.n. secretary-general as well as the dalai lama condemning that sentence. newly released surveillance pictures tonight of a massive jewel heist in london. two men caught in the middle of an armed robbery that netted them, get this, about $65 million in schwag. the pair, who are still at large, are considered to be armed and dangerous. and up in the sky off the south carolina coast it's a bird, it's a plane, oh no, it's 96-year-old pauline sherman and her great granddaughter. parasailing side by side. great grandma pauline, by the way, has never even driven a car. it's only the second time she's been on a boat. but she thought why not try it? john, her granddaughter, not her great granddaughter, who went parasailing with her, actually said they're going to have to invent something for her to die of. she's an inspiration to all of us.

>> 96 years old and still going strong. >> mm-hmm. >> that's a lot of fun, too, going up in a parasail. all right. here we go. no our "beat 360" winners. our daily challenge to viewers, a chance to show up our staffers by coming up with a better caption for the picture we post in our blog every day. tonight's picture, here it is. white house chief of staff rahm emanuel reads to students during a reading for the top event at the department of education. he was joined by education secretary arne duncan and white house domestic policy counsel melody barnes. staff winner tonight,ric. his caption, "the administration's new strategy on health care town hall forums." a lot of backtalk from the kids. our viewer winner is bob from ma macelon, ohio. i hope i got that right. his caption, "and this, kiddies, is the new health care reform bill that you'll be paying for for the rest of your lives. and don't forget, social security will be broke too." >> so many of both the staff and viewer submissions had to do with health care and town halls today. >> i wonder why.

couldn't be that it's captivating the imagination of the nation, could it be? >> no. >> bob, your "beat 360" t-shirt is on the way. still ahead on "360," a birthday blowout that took a terrible turn. just remember, pranks are always fun until someone gets hurt. and candles are fire. the shot is just ahead. and later, president obama face fi face to face with angry americans at a town hall meeting. what he told them and what happened with the guy outside who showed up with a gun. (announcer) take your time to find the right time

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okay, erica. tonight's shot is proof that some birthday celebrations

really are unforgettable. this video just now getting traction on youtube, three years after a familiar birthday ritual went terribly wrong. take a look. ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ happy birthday, dear rich ♪ happy birthday to you >> rich escalante's birthday party started off well, nothing too wild. cake and candles. the usual singing. but things took a terrible turn, which you saw there, when the silly string and glitter hairspray ambush started. rich singed his eyebrows and suffered minor burns on his ear. his sister told us his wife bought the supplies but didn't think the flammability issue all the way through. >> well, as long as you're not spraying it directly into the candles, then in theory there shouldn't be a problem. >> it was probably the hairspray more than anything. >> you think? >> i think the silly string itself might be flammable. i've never tried to set it on

fire. but i could assume that. >> i'm guessing that would go up in flames. >> i think the propellant from the hairspray probably was the real culprit. >> i think it was the glitter. >> men shouldn't be wearing glitter anyways. erica, great to see you tonight. see you again tomorrow. you can see all the most recent shots at our website at 360.com. and coming up at the top of the hour, president obama's day at a health care care town hall meeting. is silly string abuse a pre-existing condition? we'll get some answers ahead on "360."