up with solutions that congress then has to pass. i will tell you, we are in a presidential election cycle. that makes things more difficult than they normally are. >> all right. sometimes markets can be more difficult than presidential cycles. we'll see how the next few months bear out. thank you very much. futures are lower. the dow futures down 211 points now. stay with cnn for continuing coverage of the debt mess and the market reaction. now to don lemon in the cnn newsroom. tonight, the reality of war. >> he's with the lord now. i'll see him again someday. >> the worse loss of life in a single incident in afghanistan. tonight we hear from family, friends and those who served with the fallen. >> that's the worst phone call you will ever get in your life, i assure you.

>> he wasn't murdered. he was just shot to death. i'm like -- what? >> the ghosts of katrina, haunting a mother whose son was gunned down by new orleans police. why didn't a jury find them guilty of murder. and who's really at fault for the u.s.'s new lower credit score? >> this is washington's fault. >> there is a lot of finger-pointing. why does the downgrade report specifically mention one party? we asked the leader of the tea party express. it's all right here, right now on cnn. good evening. i'm don lemon live at cnn world headquarters in atlanta. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we are following market reaction to the historic downgrade from credit markets in the u.s. to asia to the middle east. we'll tell you what it means to you as you start your work week. first a developing story out of afghanistan. this has been perhaps the darkest hour for the u.s. military in ten years of war.

we have new details on the single deadliest loss of u.s. troops since the afghan war began. 30 american military personnel killed including 25 special forces. we are now learning the ch-47 chinook helicopter they were in was on a mission to reinforce army rangers penned down in a fierce battle with the taliban. nato troops were assessing the crash site when the chopper was shot down. we are learning more about the men who died in the incident. one was aaron carson vaughn, 30 years old and the father of two small children. i spoke with his grandmother about the last time she saw him. >> it was aaron's birthday in june. he turned 30. i told him to be careful. he said, granny, don't worry about me. he said, i'm not afraid because

i know where i'm going if something happens to me. aaron was a christian. he stood firm in his faith. >> the flight engineer leaves behind a two-year-old daughter, a 13-year-old daughter, and a fiancee. i spoke with her a short time ago. everyone wants to know -- how are you doing? >> i'm doing the best that i can do. >> yeah. >> it's really hard. >> it's hard. >> it's very hard. it's something that i never thought would ever happen to us. >> how are the girls? what have you told them?

>> my 2-year-old, she just knows that everybody's unhappy. she can't stop crying. it hurts all of us. the entire family, every single one of us. all of his close friends. >> this was his first tour. he had only been there a week. >> yes. >> when was the last time you saw him? >> i seen him in july for four days. and i -- >> you said for four days in july and before that -- >> on skype before this happened. >> he told you he would be out of touch. he told the family because of the mission, something he was working on, right? >> yes.

he sent me an e-mail the day before. he told me -- he said, please don't worry about me. he said, that's the last thing he wants me to do. he said just to know that he's doing everything in his power to be safe and to make it home in one piece and that he loves me and he loves his girls and he knows that i need him back home. he said, you and the girls are always in my heart, don't worry, this place isn't going to change me, i'm going to change this place. that's just how i am. he said, i love you, ma, just take care of my girls and know that i am here thinking about you all the time. i'll be home before you know it. love you, ma.

>> are you reading from the e-mail he wrote to you? >> yes. >> tell us what kind of a guy he was, candie. >> everybody's hero. he was an amazing guy. always was smiling. he had the biggest, brightest smile on earth. he's always telling jokes to everybody, making people laugh because it's what he liked to do. he loved his daughters. his daughters were his world. he lived each and every day for his kids. and fis -- for his family. >> there are 29 other families that are dealing with this same sort of grief that you're dealing with. can we even imagine what you're

going through? >> no. unless you have gone through this, you have no idea. it's just hard. i don't know how to explain how it feels. i'm still going through it. it's going to be a long time before i can make it through all of this. >> sergeant patrick hamburger with the nebraska national guard, one of 30 u.s. service members killed in a helicopter crash in afghanistan. he was 30 years old. virginia beach is home to many navy seals. the loss of 22 of the elite troops is a blow to the community. brian todd is there in virginia beach tonight. you have been talking to people there. how are they doing? >> reporter: not well, don. it's a surreal atmosphere. you can hear fireworks going off here in the background. this is a weekly tdi

they would have this no matter what. it's bizarre to be here in the middle of this. it's been a somber mood here. this is a military town and for a place like this where the realities of war are constant this has been a tough couple of days. kimberly vaughn describes the horrible moment when uniformed officers came to her door and told her about her husband. >> i just fell to my knees. >> aaron vaughn was one of 22 navy seals killed in the helicopter crash in afghanistan. kimberly is left to care for 2-month-old chamber lynn and 2-year-old reagan. >> i want to tell the world he was a wonderful husband, a fabulous father to two wonderful children. he was a warrior for our country. he wouldn't want to leave this earth any other way than how he did. >> reporter: on the boardwalk in the diners of virginia beach a community grieves for nearly two dozen young men who were in

their midst but they never really got to know. mary's restaurant is a hangout for some of the seals based near virginia beach. >> you feel like you're at rock bottom again. you feel you are not succeeding at what needs to be done and you have to ask, is it worth it? is another life worth it? >> it's a great loss. very sad day. very sad day. >> reporter: these were elite commandos who could never reveal what they did to these neighbors. still, people feel a close bond with the seals. in only 13 weeks this community has gone from the triumph of the killing of osama bin laden what appears to be the biggest single loss of life in seals history. we are told none of the seals killed in this operation were on the osama bin laden raid. the mayor wanted to throw a parade for the men, but

couldn't. now he has to help a city grieve for a group of young men whose names they may be hearing for the first time. >> it hurts. it's a shared pain. everyone thinks highly of them. >> reporter: john magwire knows about the shared pain. he was a seal for ten years stationed near virginia beach. is there survivor's guilt when something like this happens? >> former seals like myself and all seals go through the emotions. we are at war. freedom isn't free. i guarantee every one of these guys if they had a chance they would do it again. >> reporter: now the focus turns to the families. current and former seals and their commanders will try to raise money for the foundation to give financial support to those left behind. now john maguire, other current and former and current seals are getting more busy than they hoped to be. >> thank you very much, brian. now to the historic downgrade of the u.s. credit rating. how do you factor into this and

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want to get back to our developing story. consequences from the downgrading of u.s. credit for the first time in history. we don't have to wait for mondayalready seeing the reaction. news that standard & poor's downgraded the u.s. for the first time in history. u.s. stock futures are trading tonight. what does this mean to your mortgage, credit cards, 401(k) and other investments? what will the world be like in the morning? will it change anything? we'll explain it all with the help of christine romans and richard quest in new york tonight. brianna at the white house. let's start at the white house. the administration has a lot of issues with s&p assessments, right? >> reporter: that's right. they are really taking issue, especially, don, with the math behind this decision because the treasury department, when it got wind that this was under way, went through the numbers and found a discrepancy. this is what you will hear administration officials refer to as a $2 trillion error in

calculating deficits. today we saw surrogates for the president, administration officials just blanketing the sunday shows including larry somers, former top economic adviser to the president. here's what he said about how this -- really about the math that s&p did on this. >> look, s&p's track record is terrible and its arithmetic is worse. there is nothing good to say about what they have done. >> so on one hand it's interesting. you hear administration officials criticizing the math that s&p did, but on the other hand, s&p says the reason -- they aren't backing off of this downgrade and they say the reason is just because essentially all of the chaos that went into coming to the debt deal, how it was so last-minute and created uncertainty, you also see administration officials pointing to that rationale

pointing the finger at house republicans saying they are to blame for being uncompromising in the debt ceiling law signed. >> some say geithner was to participate in a phone call with g-7 nations. it didn't happen. it did happen. was he on the phone calls and, if so, do we know what happened there? >> reporter: we have a readout. there is not a lot in it. it's long but really doesn't tell anything surprising about this discussion with g-7 finance ministers. basically it appears this was a chance, at least publically, for the leaders to get on the same page. a lot of language about affirming our commitment to take all necessary measures. committed to taking coordinated action where needed. we reaffirmed shared interest in a strong, stable system.

while the u.s. is dealing with the downgrade there is obviously big trouble in europe with the euro which is also affecting the u.s. this was a chance for all of the leaders to really get on the same page. >> thank you very much. we want to go now to hong kong. the markets there are experiencing something they haven't done in a year. >> all the markets here are down in negative territory. the markets down the most are the hang seng in hong kong down 2.8%. singapore also down by 2.6%. if you want to look for a bright spot, one thing i can say is most of the indices are off the lows from this morning. for example, australia down in sydney, the markets down there opened down more than 2%. it's now down by about .7%. as i mentioned they are off the lows. part of the reason for this was dow futures. investors saw the dow futures down by more than 2%. right off the bat at the opening

bell in our area, a lot of these indices plummeted down. now we are seeing gains. it's mostly banking stocks and energy that are pulling the indices down. oil is down. so, don, the other issue here is others are worried about a weak u.s. dollar. we have a lot of exporters here. with the weak u.s. dollar driving up asian currencies. >> thank you very much. we want to get to richard and christine in new york. christine, my first question to you is i want to talk about what brianna said. she said timothy geithner was on a call and they are committed to taking coordinated action where is needed. does this mean anything? will this help anything going forward? >> that has nothing to do with the downgrade. i would like to point out. richard and i have been talking for an hour that the real concern is spain and italy.

it's europe and what's happening there and the g-7 leaders getting together, talking about -- you know, they speak in the g-7 speak, right? the g-speak, richard. he deciphers it well. this is about europe, right? this is less about the downgrade. we just interviewed a market participant, someone with billions in the market who said the downgrade won't mean anything for stocks or your pocketbook, europe is more important now. >> hold that thought, richard. we'll get to you and christine after the break. what all this means to you, the people at home watching. we are watching the markets an keeping you informed as you get ready to start the week. for red lobster we can find.tb yeah! [ male announcer ] hurry in to crabfest at red lobster. the only time you can savor three sweet alaskan crab entrees all under $20, like our hearty crab and roasted garlic seafood bake or snow crab and crab butter shrimp. [ jon ] i wouldn't put it on my table at home,

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we are talking about the credit downgrade with christine and richard in new york. when people wake up tomorrow what will they discover when the stock markets open in the u.s. for the first time after this downgrade? richard, is this the end of the world as we know it? is the sky falling? >> don't be ridiculous. of course not. you may have a dow futures that are down slightly. you may even have a market off a hundred or 200 points. how we start is never how we finish. we have had this bromide of a g-7 statement. they are all coming out. as you would expect. the imf has a statement that seems meaningless. putting it all together, this is a slow burning, deeply seated crisis that is affecting the global financial markets. and the real issue -- and christine agrees with me, so i'm on safe grounds -- is what it means for jobs.

if you have a slowdown in europe and a slowdown in the united states, and you've got china starting to come off the boil somewhat, you've got to ask yourself although it may not be a global double dip but where is the growth going to come from to create the jobs? >> christine, when you're in a pub, bar or restaurant talking to people, no one's going, oh, i'm concerned about the downgrade. people are saying, i have been out of a job for a year. that's what people want to know. >> the downgrade was humiliating and avoidable. people are talking on the street because they think it shows their political process is crazy and they are worried about more cost cutting or spending cuts. it is about jobs. i don't hear a credible plan, any kind of consensus for a plan to get jobs growing. as richard will point out, growing jobs takes money. it may take government

intervention. you've got a part of congress now that doesn't want the government involved in your life. so that means -- and spending cuts means fewer jobs. >> richard, i want to ask you this. people think, oh, this is part of what happened with the downgrade, then the fight over the debt ceiling. this started before that. >> it's been going for decades. we didn't just wake up in the united states or in europe and suddenly, oops, my word, there is a global financial crisis. what have we done wrong? this is going back years. robbing peter to pay paul, deficit financing, living beyond our means on both sides of the atlantic. this is what the problem has been. now, finally, look, there is a massive shift of economic power from europe and the united states to asia. anybody that doesn't realize that and deal with it is deluding themselves. >> richard, christine, thank

you. >> see you in the morning. >> the democrats definitely know who they would like to blame for the credit downgrade. they came out swinging during the sunday talkers. take a listen. >> this is essentially a tea party downgrade. the tea party brought us to the brink of a default. >> i believe this is, without question, the tea party downgrade. >> the tea party obstructionism in washington is keeping us from restoring that balanced approach that america has always used. >> democrats are clearly trying to label this the tea party downgrade. earlier i spoke with amy kramer, chairwoman of the tea party express. she fired back. >> don, we're not backing away from the fact that we stopped the administration and harry reid from pushing through any tax increases. >> moving on.

the s&p points fingers. it says the downgrade reflects our opinion p that the fiscal consolidation plan that congress and the administration recently agreed to falls short of what in our view would be necessary to stabilize the government's debt dynamics. there is a section, where s and p calls out compared with previous projections our revised based case scenario assumes the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts -- meaning bush tax cuts due to expire by the end of 2012, remain in place. we have changed our assumption on this because the majority of republicans in congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe congress reinforced by passing the act. meaning the debt ceiling deal. so, amy, the tea party will not budge on tax cuts. and right here, s&p is saying that kind of rigid position was a major reason for the downgrade. how do you respond to that? >> look, the size of our debt is because we're spending too much.

not because we don't have enough revenue. we cannot increase taxes enough to spend the way that we do and cover it. that's the bottom line. i've said it over and over again. we have a spending problem. that is what got us into this situation. they did not downgrade our debt because we don't have enough revenue. >> the tea party, proud of it role in the debt ceiling negotiations. clearly nobody wants to be left holding the bag on this downgrade. i want to bring in errol louis. you heard the democrats blaming the tea party and the tea party express chairwoman throwing it back at them. i don't know. no one's going to take the blame, are they? >> not willingly. it's interesting how the bickering that went on today and started friday night frankly really perfectly reproduces the very deadlock that led to the downgrade in first place. it's a serious problem that's been going on for decades. there are people who feel you should never raise revenues.

people who felt that when we did have a budget surplus that it at the end of the clinton presidency, that it was time to give the money back. that it would be immoral for the country to hang onto it. that's not a radical position. it is at odds with the notion that we have to get rid of the deficit at all costs. the bickering makes it a longstanding argument, impossible to resolve. >> it confirms what s&p said in the downgrade report. i want to talk about timothy geithner. republicans want him gone after this. today, the treasury released a statement saying he's staying in his post. do you think his days are numbered? we have heard it before. they say, i'm standing by this guy. i'm not going anywhere. a week or two goes by and they're gone. >> sure. keep an eye on the presidential approval polls. you know, that's probably your best clue as to whether or not

some kind of a shake up the economic team. it wouldn't be necessarily limited to geithner. there are a number of people, council of economic advisers, all kinds of people who are part of the economic strategy team. it looks like they need to be shuffled or reworked in order to make the administration viable. then that's what will likely happen. >> geithner was on the phone with g-7 ministers tonight. damage control? if so, did it help anything at all? >> well, there are a couple of things going on there, don. first of all, he had to do that. you have to do that in advance of the markets opening. even if it's just sort of pro forma. if he hadn't, it would be a negative mark on the administration. secondly, as christine was saying, right now, today this is about europe in large part and the g7 is more concerned about what's happening with the 6% of yields on bonds, ten-year bonds.

investors are demanding so much in order to support the economy and the governments of italy and of spain that there is a real crisis brewing over there. so the g7 needed to talk about that as well. what geithner did was the only responsible thing he could have done. we'll look for him to hear more from the administration after markets open. they have to try to keep under control what's happening here an in europe. >> if you have a few dollars to invest. say you have $1,000. what are you going to invest in tomorrow -- stock market, gold, a box in the backyard, a mattress? what do you do with it? >> i believe and what i keep hearing about what people say about my poor, battered 401(k) which is to sit tight and wait. if you have more than five or ten years and you don't think the country's going under there is no reason to start moving stuff around. >> people can't wait though. they are nearing the finish line.

they have to use it to live for the rest of their lives. thank you. >> that's true. those are the people who get hurt the worst unfortunately. thanks, don. >> scenes of desperation and tragedy in somalia to report to you. famine left thousands dead. survivors are doing everything they can to live another day. it's not just hunger killing the smallest victims. our report from the horn of africa is next. she's risking life and limb to do something no one ever did before before -- swim from cuba to florida. why? >> many of you have been asking about information on social media. twitter.com/donlemon, facebook and foursquare as well. for dentists, the choice is clear.

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ago, and rarely more people have come into this area. at first it may seem that nothing changed. but people are getting some level of help. but now the big worry is disease. this is a testament to that. this is a cemetery on the outskirts, that's become almost packed, this section, and it's mostly children. they try and protect the graves with whatever they can. a bit of a thorn tree there, to help them from the wild animals that could come in here and get into those graves. more than 2 million kids are in desperate need of help in this crisis. and when children come into this area, they are tired, they are hungry, and need food and water. but then most of them are not vaccinated and many of the people here are saying they're not getting vaccinations for things like measles. this crisis is far from over. and it's places like this, grave sites like this, that are a testament to the crisis in the horn of africa. david mckenzie, cnn, kenya. >> all right, david. monday night at 8:00 make sure you join anderson cooper and dr. sanjay gupta as they bring a

live special report from the horn of africa. we'll take you into the camps where hundreds of thousands of people are fighting to stay alive. an a.c. 360 special report. somalia, on the front lines of famine 8:00 p.m. on monday night on cnn. up next, a mother cries for justice in one of the most infamous episodes in new orleans history. mom loves the vitamin . and now it has 40% fewer calories than most regular soda brands. sunnyd! ♪ make today a sunny day! collect sunny d labels to get free books for your kids' classroom. go to sunnyd.com

in tonight's what matters, we go back to new orleans.

one of the darkest chapters from hurricane katrina was an incident on september 4, 2005. it became known as the danziger bridge killings. two were killed, four wounded by officers. on friday five former officers were found guilty on 25 counts of civil rights violations but not of murder. i spoke to the mother of 17-year-old james brizette. she does not believe justice was served. >> i am very hurt. i am very hurt by this jury's decision. j.j. was my baby. he was very quiet. he was very passive. he grew up in a home with no cussing, fussing, fighting. he didn't hear none of that. so our home life was very quiet. you know, no step-parents, none

of that. so that's why he didn't know anything about fighting. he didn't know nothing about that. i'm in the courtroom. i'm looking at this picture where my child is trying to get under the bridge for protection as far as he could. these officers leaned over the railing and sprayed my child with bullets. my child was in pieces. the part that hurts me is that after six years, all this hard work and investigation, they're guilty for everything except the fact that james wasn't murdered, he was just shot to death. what? i am sitting in the the courtroom. my heart stops beating. i stopped breathing. i'm like, yes, indeed. if you're hiding from me and i

go out of my way to lean over, to search for you, find you and then shoot you but it wasn't murder, you just was shot to death. i cannot understand that. i cannot understand that. >> why do you think it's so important for you? why do you want to be there for the sentencing? >> because i want to know what kind of time they're going to get. i know what time they gave my son. they gave j.j. forever more a box of ashes. that's what j.j. got. you took his life. now, the government and justice is going to take your life and put nut box. >> sentencing for the five former police officers is set for december 14th. to be clear, murder was never an option under the federal prosecution, only civil rights violations. up next, from one horrible crime in louisiana to another in mississippi. >> absolutely.

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according to prosecutors in mississippi. tonight, a cnn exclusive special report. you will learn how james craig anderson died. a warning, the images of what happened to him are graphic. here's cnn's drew griffin. >> reporter: he is just 18 years old, facing a possible double life sentence for the senseless murder of a man he never knew. darryl is thin, short with blond hair, accused of leading a group of white teenage revellers on a mission -- to find and beat up anyone who was black. >> they discussed let's go get -- let's be honest. let's go get a nigger, right? >> that's exactly it. >> reporter: robert shooler smith says the evidence and witness accounts tell a story of a crime that would come right out of mississippi's troubled past. on june 26, a group of white

teens, seven in all leaving an all night party in rankin county, mississippi, in search of a black person to, quote, mess with. >> out of hate. >> out of hate. >> reporter: no doubt in your mind this was racially motivated, hate vote motivated, let's go kill a black guy crime? >> there is no doubt. they were looking for a black victim to assault and even kill in this instance. >> reporter: they drove 16 miles on a freeway heading west. at 5:00 a.m. that sunday morning the teens in two vehicles took the ellis avenue off ramp leading to a predominantly black section of jackson. just as they were exiting, an unsuspecting 49-year-old auto worker james craig anderson was standing by his car at a local motel and he was black. >> reporter: they found the first black person they could

find and that was in this parking lot. >> this is the first business that you get to coming off of the highway. so that was the first person that apparently was out here and vulnerable. >> reporter: according to witness statements, at first james craig anderson was beaten and taunted with racial slurs. surveillance video shows white teens going back and forth in what prosecutors say was a continuous beating of the victim as one of the teens walks back to the cars after beating anderson he pumps his fist in the air and shouts "white power" according to a motel security guard. some of the teens got in the white suv and drove away, leaving anderson beaten and lying on the ground. deryl dedmon wasn't through. he had two girls in his truck as he was leaving this parking lot, a big f-250 pickup truck.

james craig anderson, the man who was beaten almost to a pulp, was stumbling down this curb. that's when police say deryl dedmon hit the gas, jumped the curb and ran over his victim, smashing him. what he didn't know was the entire episode was being caught on a surveillance camera on the corner of this hotel. this is what was caught on that tape obtained exclusively by cnn. we warn you, it is disturbing. a video captures what the prosecutor says is pure racial hatred and murder. >> what did the surveillance video show? we'll tell you when we come back with the second part of drew griffin's report. find coverage

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let's return now to hines county, mississippi to a crime that harkens back to a dark history in this nation's history. the video you are about to see is graphic. here's drew griffin. >> reporter: deryl dedmon wasn't through. he had two girls in his truck as he was leaving this parking lot. a big f-250 pickup truck. james craig anderson, the man who was beaten almost to a pulp was stumbling down this curb. that's when police say deryl dedmon hit the gas, jumped the

curb and ran over his victim, smashing him. what he didn't know was the entire episode was being caught on a surveillance camera on the corner of this hotel. this is what was caught on that tape obtained exclusively by cnn. we warn you, it is disturbing. a video capturing what prosecutor robert schuler-smith says is pure racial hatred and murder. here you see james craig anderson in a hotel parking lot as he first comes into view in the lower right corner of the screen. this is after he was beaten, according to law enforcement officials. he staggers into the headlights of mr. dedmon's truck. the truck backs up and surges forward suddenly, running right over the defenseless man. take a look again as the

approaching headlights glow on anderson's shirt then disappears under the truck. according to police dedmon, with two teenage girls as his passengers, drove to a local mcdonald's meeting up with the group. there according to witnesses interviewed by police he said, i ran that nigger over. >> he was not remorseful. he was laughing. laughing about the killing. >> reporter: later that morning, james craig anderson's family learned their 49-year-old brother and son died in what they thought was a hit-and-run. only later when witness statements were taken did they learn the real horror. winston thompson is the family's attorney. >> as the facts developed, it went from a bad situation to a much, much, much worse. this could -- at that time they were being told this could have been a racially motivated killing.

>> reporter: now it appears there is no doubt. >> still in shock. still in disbelief. >> reporter: calls to dedmon's attorney went unanswered. during a bond hearing the attorney said he saw nothing to back up the racial allegations. at dedmon's home a girl who answered the door pretended not to know him though the pickup truck he allegedly used as a murder weapon sticks out of the family garage. police say they returned it after the vehicle was processed. a second teen, john aaron rice was charged with simple assault for his part in the beating. his attorney also didn't return calls. neither teen entered a plea. the other teens in the group haven't been charged. james craig anderson's family decided to remain silent, for now, trying to come to grips with the crime they thought was in mississippi's past -- the murder of a man just because he was black.

drew griffin, cnn, jackson, mississippi. >> all right, drew. thank you very much. lots of jitters as the asia markets get rolling. we'll take you live to hong kong for an early indicator on where the u.s. markets may be headed monday morning. rst place. great. [ martin luther king jr. ] i still have a dream that one day on the red hills of georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. i have a dream today!

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