newsroom. have a great weekend. >> you know what we do now? ♪ what a story that is developing in georgia, from petrified witness to prime suspect. have you heard this story? eight murders, eight family members in this georgia mobile home. the thing is, the guy who called 911 and reported it is now the prime suspect. how did police crack the case? more details in a live report. and who can have a problem with the president talking to the nation's school children? well, apparently, a lot of peop people. some call it a presidential pep talk. some say it's brainwashing the

youth of the country. two different views on obama's speech. we want to know what you think about the whole debate. have you been chiming in. continue to do on our blog, facebook and twitter as well. we will be talking to you as you talk to us. good morning to you all from the cnn center on a cnn saturday morning for september 5th. happy labor day weekend. >> i'm brooke baldwin in for betty. we're laboring so you don't have to. 10:00 a.m. eastern time. waking up in chicago on you early birds for the west coast. chicago always a shot out there. thank you for starting your saturday with us. let's get to some of the top stories here. i want to first talk about health care reform. pretty huge development we want to get right to. cnn learned the white house is now considering writing its own legislation and word is, a new plan can come out as early as this week. for more on that, kate bolduan, live for us in the nation's capital. kate, i know you have your sources. you have been working on them. what are you hearing about the administration drafting their own legislation? >> hey there, brooke.

pretty interesting developments going on. cnn has learned the white house is quietly talking about drafting its own health care bill, a sort of contingency legislation, if talks fall apart on capitol hill. this move, a possible reversal in course for a white house that has long left it solely to congress to write this health care reform legislation. as we have all been talking about. the white house late friday does stress that no final language has been written. a white house spokesperson saying in a statement, quote, the president has been reviewing all of the various legislative proposals but no decision has been made about whether formal legislation will be presented. and sources close to the process say again that the plan -- this plan we're now talking about, is still unclear. but it is a fine, brooke, in addition to this coming wednesday's speech before congress, the president is clearly ready to get more involved in this. >> so a lot of questions, a lot

of lacking in clarity as to what might be found inside this legislation. but explain, we're going to learn a new vocabulary here. trigger option, public option. might that be included? what does it mean? >> it sounds like we're making words up, but we're not. we promise. this is what we're hearing. while things are moving, we're hearing the key to this is that the white house is leaning against including the public option that we talked so much about in their draft, and leaning now more towards something like a trigger option. as you mentioned. this is an idea that moderate republican senator olympia snowe has long pushed for. the public option would not kick in unless insurance companies neglected to make necessary reforms. these are reforms including stopping -- stopping the insurance industry has long used like using pre-existing conditions to deny coverage and hence the trigger if they don't make reforms, then the trigger kind of kicks in. the obama administration could send such a plan that we're now talking about to the hill some time after the president's

speech to congress next week. brooke? >> very interesting development there, kate bolduan on top of all things in washington there. you're on it. you're on it. we're on it as well. we want you to watch wednesday night. cnn lr carwill be carrying the president's health care address live, 8:00 eastern time, write it down, on wednesday. >> that's wednesday. he has another big speech to make on tuesday. the president will be talking to the country's younger folks, the students of this country. you would think a school speech not going to be too stressful, is it? well, turned into pretty political minefield here for the white house and everybody seems to have taken a side on this thing. >> it's the president talking to students, you know. the embrace of technology as a young student, i would have been so excited as a kid to have the president talk to me, so i think it's a great opportunity for our students and we're going to embrace it. >> trying to bring his news to

the school and, you know, with scho school kids and things. no, i don't think it's a. >> idea for him -- a good idea >> paul, explain to people what the problem is. it's not necessarily just the speech. it was the stuff that came along with it. >> exactly, j.j. stuff that came from the department of education. they put it up on their website. it's a lesson plan that would accompany or go along with the president's speech. this is what did it. it urged students to write letters to themselves how they can help the president. that's what sparked all of this. it got on talk radio. as you can see from some of the sound there, this is something people have been talking about across the country. those on the right picked up on it and say the president may be trying to push his political agenda with students. >> and all of the controversy back and forth doshgs we remember what the actual intent of the speech was in the first place? >> the white house says this is all about trying to get the

president to motivate the most of their time in school and stay in school, the president points out that almost three in ten don't make it to graduation. it's more of a pep talk, they say, as school is beginning for students to make the most of their education. >> okay. we want to put this up. this guy's been around a lot here. steve russell, the republican state senator from oklahoma. i'm going to give you a quote of what he said. we will put it up for our viewers to read. it says, as far as our concern this is not civics education. it gives the appearance of creating a cult of personality. this is something you would expect to see in north korea or saddam hussein's iraq, end quote. how do we get there? >> this is the climate we're in nowadays. we saw with the health care debate of the town halls as well, there are -- there are some partisans on many extremes and they speak loudly and they get media attention. that is one of the reasons why these kind of events pick up steam, t.j. >> explain to us, this is nothing new. it's not like the first time a u.s. president has ever spoken to school children. >> the white house points out

ronald reagan back in the 1980s spoke to students and george herbert walker bush, the first president bush did it, in 1991. i will say if i remember correctly, there was pushback by democrats in congress in '91 when george herbert walker bush made the speech. >> have we seen back in those cases -- i haven't seen it anywhere yet, that any of those speech speeches, all of the other materials i get, suggested materials accompanied any of those speeches by the former president? >> you know, that's a good question. i don't think so, but i don't have a good answer. >> i deposit thiidn't think so . sure would have heard about it by now. so finally, what is the white house trying to do now to correct what they think may be a little bit of a mistake here with this younger audience? are they admitting that maybe we -- with some of the material, the language at least, wasn't was it should have been? >> the white house sources says it was inartfully expressed. that language about writing the president to help him out, that has totally been changed.

the other thing white house press secretary robert gibbs says is that is that come monday, what the president will be saying on tuesday will be up online. so parents across the country, the white house says, can read the words the president will be speaking and make their own opinions tooz wheth opinions whether they want their kids to hear the president. >> big controversy bunabound. good to see you as always. tough not to have any controversy when it comes to the president. we are definitely hearing from you. you're blocking about it. you're writing on our facebook pages. we have been wanting to know, what do you think of this whole controversy and the idea of the president submitting this lesson plan? i want to read you a couple things here. first from sharon. sharon wrote in and said, are the people who are so upset about the president's address just as concerned about the curriculum in the schools? i am not even an obama supporter but i admire him trying to reach out to the younger generation and acknowledging them. kind of like this next one. have you seen this?

this is from mccartney. president obama can't speak to them, but they can watch spongebob and hannah montana all day? puh-leeze. >> that makes a good point. who would you rather the president listen to, the president or spongebob? >> sponge sfwhob. >> also one more from that says i am not a democrat nor republican. it seems that no matter what the party is in control, the other party tries to its best to undermine the other. have we really come to this, to point of diminishing a "stay in school" speech? >> and many of these conservatives who oppose president obama's speaking to students have for gotten that president reagan did the same thing back in the '80s. he used his speech to push for his tax cuts. >> this sounds like 1984 to me, i don't approve. we thank you for your comments. keep them coming. we are reading them as they come in. we appreciate you chiming in

this morning. switching gears here. talking about what's going on in georgia. an awful story. nearly a week later police in southeast georgia finally have a suspect in the murders of eight people in a single mobile home. guess what? the suspect, the son of one of the victims. our own sean callebs is live for us this morning at the glen county police department in brunswick. sean, it's so tough. this is an ongoing investigation. covering stories like this. it's tough to get police to talk. are they given any kind of indication as far as the motive is concerned? >> no. that's one of the things -- and there are several -- that were simply kept in the dark of the police chief here in clinton county, holding a news conference last night saying he knows that people may be a little frustrated but he's not going to talk about any kind of motive. he said two significant pieces of information came out late friday and that is what led to the arrest of 22-year-old guy heinze jr. guy was arrested after making the 911 call. he was the one who found the victims in a mobile home park. he was charged with tampering with evidence, with obstructing

justice as well as possession of drugs. police chief said this is something that is really touched this entire area. >> the most heinous crime we ever had in the community. i think we all know that. i think that speaks for itself. much more than that, i don't want to comment. i don't want to say anything that would be inappropriate. there's still a lot going on right now. the family's going through their grieving process and i just want to leave it alone right there. >> heinze is accused of killing his own father, guy heinze sr., as well as five family members and two family friends. he remains locked up here. he was arrested late yesterday and charged with eight murders. many of the family members actually found out about guy heinze jr.'s alleged involvement while they were at a visitation for seven victims who will be laid to rest here in glynn county later today. certainly a very gruesome crime, brooke. certainly something people are talking about. they wonder if anybody else could be involved in this.

right now the chief is not talking about that possibility. >> unbelievable to get that news and to think a 3-year-old, another victim, in the hospital today. sean callebs, live for us this morning. we appreciate it. security guards fell asleep on the job at one of the country's top terror targets. and one young man has just been given the green light to sue former attorney general john ashcroft. yes. to sue the former ag. we'll tell you why. let's say good morning to mr. reynolds wolf. there he is with the forecast. a lot of people curious to know if their plans will be ruined. >> indeed they are. i will tell you this morning in st. louis, you have scattered showers and thunder boomers too. i will let you know if that will last through your holiday weekend in a few moments. see you then. (mom) kids don't need a special occasion to have ice cream.

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not a total washout. farther south in jonesboro, you will see rain north of conway and little rock. something else we will be dealing with will be fairly nice conditions on the east coast. if you happen to be tuning in from baltimore, we have a little shock for you. let's show you a live image that we have, tower cam looks at pretty good conditions. you look over the bay, fantastic. wonderful spot there for you. good morning, baltimore. now we will cruise back a little more to the west. mile high city of denver, colorado. in denver, colorado, here's what you have this morning. another live shot, cyrystal clear, cobalt blue skies. you see the trees and traffic moving along. conditions fine there. meanwhile on to the west coast, still dealing with the smoky conditions if you happen to be in parts of the l.a. basin, you know they're battling firefighters. about 42% contained. a lot of smoke out there. if you happen to have a little bit of sensitivity in terms of your respiratory, you might want to watch out for that. scattered showers possible for much of the northeast also and northwest into say seattle and

even into parts of san francisco, where high temperatures mainly in the 60s. 78 in chicago, 87 in washington, d.c., 85 in atlanta and 88 in pam th tampa. it will be a great weekend for college football across much of the southeast. in fact across much of the nation. 88 in dallas and 89 in houston. that's the latest. let's send it back to you guys at the desk. >> you're still cracking yourself up. >> goofy morning, man. something weird going on. >> you embrace that inner geek, reynolds. you do it. >> like nobody else. >> we appreciate you, buddy. see you soon. up next -- we will be talking about a court case that could allow a man to sue the former attorney general john ashcroft. we will tell you how the ag ended up on the wrong side of this major ruling.

was once the attorney general and now he's experiencing a much different side of the law. federal court cleared the way for a man wrongfully detained to sue john ashcroft. civil rights attorney avery freeman joins us to flush this out. let's talk about the two parties involved here. we have a converted muslim, star running back from the university of idaho football team from kansas, thrown into prison for 16 days, and former attorney general john ashcroft. >> yeah, it's a five-alarm battle at least under the american constitution. late yesterday, brooke, what happened was a federal court of appeals decided, three judges,

decided that former attorney general may be liable in damages to this young man because he used the material witness statute to hold him and essentially arrest him and we are now, of course, in the second highest court in america, in a precedent-setting case. now the question is, does the justice department take the case to the u.s. supreme court or does it go back for trial in the case? >> let's point out some evidence here. you mentioned the federal material witness statute. ashcroft has admitted, using that statute to do things not permitted. i mean, that is -- it's self-incriminating. >> it's not good news, but, again, let's all put ourselves back, you know, almost eight years ago next week and how everyone was spieling. the justice department felt justified in using any and every possible way of getting their hands on terrorists.

the problem in the al kidd case is the government had no evidence. so what they did is they converted the material witness law where you have a witness against somebody else to investigate someone when you have no evidence. the three-judge panel said that this was repugnant to the constitution of the united states. used words like ignominious, very powerful position and actually puts john ashcroft in a position of possible personal liability that he may have to pay damages to this young man. >> let's remind people what happened to this young man before we move forward. more than 15 months after he was released, he was forced to live with his in-laws for a while, reports of having to live with his in-law, lost his life. what's next for him? what might he stand to gain here after going through this entirely ordeal? what will he gain monetarily, et cetera? >> you know what, that's going to be a difficult question, brooke. we don't know how to measure

violations of the constitution. the court went on to say that our fourth amendment, our right toe free from unreasonable searches and seizures is 217 years old. if the justice department doesn't take it to the supreme court, that will be the question for the jury, what is the value of the right to be free from government encroachment? and that's a question that really has never been answered on these kinds of facts. >> who knows if this might trigger an aavalanche of sore civil litigation if it goes through. >> let me respond to that. there were about 70 people affected. only a handful like al kidd brought lawsuits. all of the rest are barred by the statute of limitations, limited in terms of the people affected but in terms of the federal constitution, enormous decision that came out late yesterday. >> very interesting. avery, thank you so much for joining us. >> wonderful to be with you. we want to take a look now at some of our top stories we're keeping an eye on. a top u.s. command ner afghanistan is personally taking a look this morning at the scene of a deadly nato attack.

the associated press reports general stanley mccrystal is there with investigators. they're trying to determine if civilians are among the 90 people killed in that nato air strike on taliban hijackers. california governor arnold schwarzenegger wants to know who started this massive station fire that's burning near los angeles. and he is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case. but it's not only an arson investigation, it is a homicide case. two firefighters died last week while trying to fight that fire. and latest numbers from the labor department show the unemployment rate jumped to 9.7% in august. that's up from 9.4% in july. what it means is that 216,000 more people lost their jobs. that's the highest rate we had seen since 1983. back in the day they weren't exactly welcomed into the workforce with open arms, but women today, they're definitely making up for some lost time. get this, according to the labor department, the ladies are on the verge of outnumbering men in

the workforce. statistics show women now hold just under 50% of the country's 132 million jobs. t.j. holmes looking happy about that. >> that's great. why not? i think a lot of those women will be interested in our next guest. one of "people's" magazines sexiest men alive will be joining us live coming up next. i'm looking at him right here in the monitor. there he is. it has a good ring to it, doesn't it, brother? there, of course, hill harper. we're talking to this guy about his new book on black men and women and relationships. stay with us. ( revving, siren blares )

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"csi new york." and he's known the president since they were classmate back at harvard. next week this best-selling author's third book will be released. there it is. called "the conversation." the author is hill harper. we will have a conversation with him this morning. classmate of the president, you just hang in there. you keep working hard and one day your career's going to take off, too, like president obama's did. hang in there, hill. >> good morning. i'm working as hard as i can, t.j. >> good to see you. are you all right this morning? >> i'm great. how are you? >> doing well here as well. this book, this is your third now, "the conversation." this is about relationships and people are supposed to take advice about relationships from a single guy, from a single man. why should they be listening to you? >> the book is written from a single man's perspective. that's kind of the whole point. anecdotally i have so many of my friends single, both men and women. and i started to think about it, what is that about? and i started to hit with real serious data points. for instance, in 1966, over 80%

of african-american children being raised in two-parent households. fast forward to 2006, that number dropped to 31%. another data point is that 70% of black professional women are single. i really started to ask myself, okay, anecdotally, all of my friends say they want to be in great relationships but very few of them are. and then we have these numbers that are hard data. i wanted to say what's going on. as i single man i look at myself in the mirror and say, am i part of the problem? >> are you? did you figure that out? >> yes, i am. that's what i figured out. the book is called "the conversation," and the whole idea is i went out and interviewed hundreds of hundreds of people who have been married 70 years on down, divorcees, single people, et cetera. to talk about these issues and talk about these things. i understand there's a new relationship development in your life, which is very exciting, and i'm not part of the statistic. >> i'm not trying to be a part of the problem anymore, obviously here, and i'm trying to be part of the solution. there's a quote from the book that hits on what you're talking

about, "if we don't start addressing the issues between black men and black women, we will bear witness to the destruction of the black family. i won't stand by and be silent." the destruction of the black family, you mentioned some of the those statistics just a second ago. how close are we to that destruction that you speak of? and if something's not done, we will see it? >> well, we're close just in terms of building family relationships. we see as the trend continues, in the past 40 years you see a decline in two-parent household and that trend continues, we are ostensibly bearing witness to the extinction of the family unit. if you compare it with asian-american children, well over 80% being raised in two-parent households. with latino-american children, nearly 70% being raised in two-parent households. african-american children, it's almost 31%. that's a huge difference.

we have to ask ourselves, what's going on? for me, i wanted to start digging up and investigating solutions. >> how -- i guess that stas ticktic statistic about black women. you should want a professional, educated women. but 70% of these educated black women are still single. what result did you find -- what was your conclusion there? we know all sitting around us at the dinner table or out at night or whatever may be, have this conversation about black women always talking about they can't find a good man. >> you're absolutely right. we hear that as a mantra. i can't find the man. they're not out there. all of these problems in find ago good guy with a job, et cetera. to be honest what i started to find, the women i interviewed would say those things, it's almost like they're speaking them into existence. if you say that, that would be your reality. there's a whole other set of

women that say, there's great guys out there, great people. and they tract that. it's almost as if you attract what you say. this book is not investigative, serious study. it's a fun relationship book, a fun read. it's not trying to be some kind of treatise. it's different because it's written for both men and women. most relationship books out there are written exclusively for women. >> it sounds like -- i don't want to say it's a myth. there are knuckleheads, guys out there, no doubt about it, but is so much of this almost myth we continue to perpetuate in a lot of ways and if you think it, you believe it, and it will be so? >> i have a chapter called he said/she said and there's so much stuff that's said as if it's almost true and it ait sounds me. our reality is, if you actually go out in the world and you speak your truth into the world. i think come into life and come at life with a really positive,

open spirit those are the type of individuals you will attract. i'm sure since you're newly engaged, you can attest to that. congratulations. >> i appreciate that. thank you. i want to get one other point, this goes to the point we were talking about, but i will not say her name, a good friend of mine, rachel, she's watching this now and sends a text saying hel the cnn viewers i'm smart, cute and single. i'm a single black women and flash my picture up on the screen quickly. this is exactly who you're talking about, one of those professional women having a tough time finding a guy and she's putting her plea in right now on the air. >> absolutely. part of what i'm trying to do is i travel around the country doing book signings and things, even at the book signings i bring people together. who's single? what's going on? >> i guess i wouldn't belong at that book signing. i will skip it then. hill, good to see you. we will see you when you get here to atlanta. you have a good labor day

weekend. >> thank you, t.j. you as well. >> i guess what we got out of that is, ladies need to come to the book signing. and down in atlanta, ladies need to say, they are there. some ladies are just thinking, it's not that easy. >> it's interesting to hear you tract that if you just believe. maybe he's going to be, if you have that in your mind. >> it's all in the mindset. >> great interview. >> good conversation to have. great of the book, "the conversation." still to come -- we will talk about -- head out west and talk more about the massive wildfires. firefighters, police try to find the arsonist who is to blame. stay here. ( chirp ) team three, boathouse? ( chirp ) oh yeah-- his and hers. - ( crowd gasping ) - ( chirp ) van gogh? ( chirp ) even steven. - ( chirp ) mansion. - ( chirp ) good to go. ( grunts ) timber! ( chirp ) boss? what do we do with the shih-tzu? - ( crowd gasps ) - ( chirp ) joint custody.

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all right. does anybody have encyclopedias in the house? britannica, everybody had them as a kid. the big volumes, really don't have those anymore. kind of tough to get through, compared to what we these days. you try to find just about anything, it was in there in the encyclopedia. >> and now we just jump on the computer. people want their information fast these days so they turn to the internet and sites like wikipedia. well, as or josh levs tells us, that is not always the best place for accurate information. >> tens of millions of people use wick media all of the time. it is one of the chief sources of information in the world. but because anybody can access it and pretty much write in anything, sometimes you can't quite trust it. there's a great list to check

out from pcworld.com that lists the greatest wikipedia blunders. check out this one -- rob by williams eats domestic pets in pubs for money. david beckham, did you know he was a chinese goalkeeper in the 18th century? and this one, one of many examples in which celebrities were declared dead. here it is, paul reiser is one of them who was declared dead. they named that as one of the top blunders ever. in fact, i will show you this, one of my favorite stories on the onion, the satirical publication, wikipedia sem operates 750 years of american independence. they are poking fun at wiki. they say according to the story, the american revolution was in fact instigated by chuck norris, who incinerated the stamp act by looking at it, then roundhouse-kicked the entire british army into the atlantic ocean. that didn't make it on wiki but you can see the fun. take a look here. this is from wikipedia. they created this color-coded

system. the basic idea here is this -- the more orange the next is, the less they're saying, you can trust it. so over time as text becomes more trustworthy t. will stop being so deeply orange and become lighter orange, work its way to pretty much straight up black on white. here's how they are doing that. they're taking a look at the history of people who go into these pages and put things in. if these people have a history of a lot of corrections or people complaining about what they put in, that will get alerted here. also until a lot of people start to check out a page and seem to be okay with it, new text that is put on there will be that darker color. it will start to move into something can you trust more. now, we don't know if this will work or not. we want to hear from you on this. here's how you get in touch with us. you have our blog, also facebook and twitter, cnn.com/josh. facebook and twitter. will this make wikipedia more trustworthy for you? we want to hear your take on this and follow your responses right here.

back to you. >> well, reynolds scott wolf, i just wikipediaed you, if that's your real name. >> maybe it is, maybe it isn't. yeah, hard to believe. >> key strokes and you can learn about anything in the world you want to know. partly cloudy on the wick media stuff. pretty weird there. and so many people need a break. especially firefighters. they have been working so hard out in southern california. we have a forecast for you now that looks not too favorable for them. expecting winds to pick up today. temperatures into the 90s and 100s possible also. a live look shows you what we have in los angeles. there it is. you can see right on the bottom of the screen, just a view of the san gabriel mountains and also a thin layer of smoke that continues to drift in. the sun above. it will be a warm day for you. we will cruise our way off to the east. expect scattered showers across the four corners. south texas could see rain

drops. little rock, yes. you could see rain. st. louis, perhaps heavy showers expected in parts of the st. louis area. maybe a little bit of flash flooding in low-lying areas. spots of poor drainage. meanwhile, the southeast relatively dry with high temperatures in atlanta going to 85. not too bad. in chicago, 78, 83 in new york, 89 in salt lake city. as we fast forward into tomorrow's forecast, looks like the rain chances will stick around for parts of the mid-mississippi valley. possibly thunderstorms right around this boundary you will see here. this trough will be drifting its way from west to east. still dry for the most part into places like atlanta and most of, say, alabama into the carolinas. but, as we get into monday, look at the rain chances begin to pick back up. also, scattered showers across much of the central and southern rocky mountains and still try in the west coast. they cannot catch a break out there in terms of the forecast, can they? back to you guys at the desk. >> we appreciate it. we will check in with you shortly. still ahead here in the cnn

newsroom -- the latest from afghanistan where the nato air strike has killed dozens, including civilians.

all right. we talk about unemployment numbers all the time, and more people losing their jobs. sometimes they're just cutbacks. these two guys we're going to tell you about now, they lost their jobs as well. not because of any cutback necessarily but because they were hired to protect the george washington bridge in new york, but they were caught doing something other than protecting the bridge. >> yeah, they were caught snoozing on the job.

by the way, this bridge here, this is a huge bridge, really considered a target for terrorists. these two guys caught by a bicyclist. cnn's deb ferric has the story. >> reporter: joey lepore loves riding his bike from new jersey over the george washington bridge into new york's central park. you take this path every day? >> pretty much every day. >> reporter: it was on one of those rides across the bridge lepore looked over at the security booth and saw something that alarmed him. >> i saw a guy sleeping, and i thought, this is crazy that the guy is sleeping on duty. >> reporter: and he says it happened not once but three times. >> and i got totally outraged. i said, you know what, i'm taking a picture of this. >> reporter: which he did, walking straight up to the security booth. >> imagine if i was a terrorist. imagine if i had a gun in my hands. i could have opened up his door and blew his head right off. that's how close i was. >> months before going public, lepore said he reached out to

the security guard. >> i said, you know, i don't want to be a jerk and report this but you got to promise me that you're not going to be sleeping while you're supposed to be guarding a bridge. he said "no, no, no, it won't every happen again. don't worry." >> reporter: but when it did with another guard, lepore felt there was a big are problem. >> if this guy worked in a deli and he was sleeping behind a counter, i wouldn't care. but when you're protecting us and it's your job to have an eye out for anything potentially hazardous to us, i take that seriously. >> reporter: the authority that runs the bridge said both guards have been fired. a statement to cnn said it welcomes public vigilance and, quote, the port authority takes the safety of the passengers and facilities very seriously and has spent more than $4 billion on security since 9/11. although he feels badly about the firings, lepore still feels he did the right thing, especially because a cousin and friend died on 9/11