it is illegal in most places but people hop off buildings. is what you did okay? >> i don't think it is technically illegal of i think they frown against it a lot. but the waterways of alabama are actually legal to kayak whenever you would like. and i don't recommend anybody do these falls again. >> don't try this at home, underline, underscore. >> very professional calculated risk that we're taking here. >> ten seconds. are you doing it again? >> i will not be running these falls again. i was loving the memory that i have of it now. >> okay, isaac, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me on the show. now this. welcome back to hour two. i'm brooke baldwin. a couple stories for you. first the official end of the iraq war. also the republican race heating number iowa and the price of gold suddenly falls and a glimpse into the future of war. time to play reporter roulette on this thursday.

i want to begin in kuwait. at camp virginia with martin savidge where troops are getting ready to head hole. market? >> reporter: for those troops coming out of iraq, camp virginia is their first stop and the first step to get home in time for many of them to the holidays. they don't forget this is an important time and they are witnesses to history here. whether it is their first deployment or their fifth or sixth as it has been in some cases. they all know that being here at the end of this conflict is a moment that they will remember and a moment that historians will write about. also a moment that each soldier feels personally as they come across the border from iraq into kuwait. we had a conversation with a chaplain who has been up there and witness that had moment. and here's how he described it. >> i think it is awesome. the fact that we're bringing something to the close. as the chaplain, i get to go out and we go to watch the guys cross the border and say hey,

welcome to kuwait. you're on the way home. you see guys jumping out of the vehicleser giving hugs. and just saying, hey, we made it. for a chaplain, that's the cool thing. we did the other side of it as well. so seeing this is important to us. >> reporter: i've had conversations like that with a number of soldiers. and you say what do you expect it will be like crossing that border? initially they say, i don't think it will be that big a deal. when they do cross the border, it is in fact they say a big deal. one, because they go from a war zone to an area of safety. but it also means for every soldier when they cross that point for them, that person, their war comes to an end. >> martin savidge, thank you so much. in kuwait. next, senior political correspondent jim acosta for us in sioux city, iowa. we're all watching the calendar run down. the caulk us is january 3rd. the candidates are getting

feisty, aren't they? >> reporter: they are indeed. we're about six hours away from the latest gop debate in iowa. and newt gingrich, all eyes are on him. he is vowing to stay positive in this race despite the fact in the last couple of days, he has been the subject of a barrage of attacks. not only from the romney campaign but also a super pack that is very much pro romney. in addition to that, the former massachusetts governor gave an interview to the new york times in which he referred to the former speaker of the house as zany. well, at an event earlier this afternoon, here in iowa, newt gingrich maintained he is not going negative. here is what he had to say. >> i really do need your help on january 3rd. i know there are a ton of negative adds. you can go to newt.org and look at everyone of them. i'm be going to spend my time on that. i'm going to talk about a positive way. i have a number of friends running and one opponent.

i'm going to run this campaign on a positive basis. because i believe the peel of iowa are smart enough that they can see the difference between somebody who is trying to help the country and somebody who is simply running a negative campaign. >> reporter: we're going to have to see whether or not that tactic of staying positive for newt gingrich will work. there is a new gallup daily tracking poll out today that shows on a national level, newt gingrich's support has slipped a bit. he only has a five-point lead. 29-24 over mitt romney in that survey. that is an indication that newt gingrich's number are softening just a bit as we head into this final stretch of the campaign. >> and as you know, ron paul pretty good also. next up, allison live with the new york stock exchange and a little good news. >> reporter: a little bit of good news. the reason we're seeing some green on the screen. the number of people filing for those first time unemployment

claims tumbled all the way down to 366,000. we haven't seen claims at this level in three and a half years. what it means is we're getting closer to this range that economists say we need to be at to show that there is strength in the labor market. for months we've been stuck at that 400,000 level. i'll tell you what. we'll have to see what happens to these numbers when the holiday season comes to an end. the temporary workers come off the pay roll. many retailers brought in a huge number of seasonal employees but the jobs will go away in january. it will be interesting to see how it progresses. >> also quickly, talk about the prospect once again of the government shutdown. midnight tomorrow. is wall street worried about that? >> wall street is not woifrld i talked with some traders and they tell me there is so much disgust about all the shenanigans going on in washington that they don't actually think politician there's shoot themselves in the foot. specially with an election year coming up. there is the worry that if there is a shutdown that could chip

away at confidence in this country, even more so. the consensus seems to be that lawmakers, they'll come one a compromise in time. >> we were see. midnight tomorrow. the thank you so much. next on reporter roulette, let's to go chad myers who has a pretty stunning look at the future of the warfare. i've looked at these images. it is kind of wild. >> it is. the number one trending topic. we know about these vertical landing and takeoff planes. number one we'll talk about a disk rotor. the disks here, the flying disk becomes, sinks in. we have a jet that takes off. goes faster. becomes a plane. kind of a cool thing. this is a as a resulture. this is the coolest one, i think. this is a robot. but they are making compounds that can be solid or liquid,

depending if it wants to go around or through or under a door. these little legs can be hard and they can move around or they can actually be a little mouse. they can evolve and go into places where solid pieces would not be able to get to. this is something cool. like a land system. if you're going into battle and obviously you don't have the right cell towers. you can throw these outside the humvees and they become your cell towers for you. they're i-robots. they can foul. this we've had on tv. remember this? didn't work. two falcons. this is the falcon trying to go mach 20. both after flying nine minutes crashed into the pacific ocean. >> this is my favorite. >> how do you love this? the ostrich. why did they make it an ostrich looking thing? because it is the fastest thing on two legs. kind of cool stuff. they made it look like an ostrich. i love. this we're talking about this so often. this is phoenix. not in use yet but it can catch injured or damaged satellites. maybe even bring them back to

the earth rather than crashing through our solar system or into our atmosphere and landing on our earth. it wobble great if they could fix them before they crash. >> forward thinking research will you mentioned, it is on cnn.com. i highly suggest you read about this. that is reporter roulette for us today. still ahead, a fraternity handed out the survafl one of the questions was, who would you want to rape? we're now learning who is behind that survey. and we mentioned the government could shut down for the third time this year. congress once again playing with fire. and this directly affects your paycheck. plus -- >> can you put that knife away for a little bit while we talk? >> please stick around for this. cnn went inside the suicide hotline center for veterans. while we're there work the rescues happen. you'll see them. all of it was caught on our cameras. >> a shocking allegation. the u.s. didn't just lose that

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congress is playing with matches. we know they've i had to around with the pay chegs. now they're bumbling toward another potential government shutdown. this is the fourth time this year. before we get into the whole nuts and bolts and the gamesmanship, flat out, what's wrong these folks? >> you know, you tell me. i don't know. you know that old book men are from mars and women are from venus? right. i think that's republicans and democrats.

honestly. they do not approach issues the same way. there is a real ideological rift that i think in fact has almost begun beyond ideology into theology. for particularly a lot of the freshmen republicans in the house. and i think all of them come from much more ideological districts. because of the way party lines are drawn in this country. so i think the congress is so partisan, they just can't see to compromise anymore. >> they've got two big problems. number one, tax cut expiring. that's the end of this month. two, we saw the countdown clock. fighting for the government, that deadline, midnight tomorrow. the clock is ticking on both. is there any way they would leave town for the holidays without getting things done? >> reporter: actually, i think members of congress understand how the public feels. i just got off the phone with an adviser to a republican leader in the senate who said, look, in

the end, they're going to have to work this out. he thinks they may be some progress and will get, fund the government, certainly. the question is whether they do the pay roll tax cut right now or whether they wait a little bit of time. i believe personally, that politically, they cannot leave here without doing both of them. you saw the president earlier today came out and said, you people cannot go home for christmas break until you get this done. so what they're down to now is figuring out a way to pay for the pay roll tax cut and no surprise, democrats and republicans have very different ideas about how to do that. >> okay. so your source, your adviser on the phone that they have to get something done. they probably will. it's easy to fault the system. it is easy to blame the other side. mars, venus, what have you. what's your take though on why we're back here once again as we mentioned third time this year. with another government shutdown

looming. >> look, we're in a political year, surprise, surprise. and i think sometimes having covered congress for a very long time, that you want to stop them from legislating the closer you get to an election. because they don't seem to be able to get anything done. because re-election gets in the way of all of that. >> didn't we elect them to do a job? >> we did. and here's the problem. if they all look bad, this could be a huge anti-incumbent year. and nobody up there really wants that. there was a new pugh poll out this morning which said that two out of three americans say throw them all out. >> i remember that. >> that's not good if you're an incumbent. >> let's throw them all out but not necessarily my senator or member of congress, just yours. >> right. if people are angry enough, if people are angie enough and they want to vote against incouple benlts, they'll do that them did that in the 2010 mid-term

elections. and the democrats who were in charge got voted out. now the republicans are in charge. the question is whether the pendulum will swing. but they all understand now that it is in their own self-interests to get something done. and nothing moves congress like their own self-interests. i'm going to be a little less cynical today and say i bet they're going to do it. we'll see. >> all right, gloria, we'll take it. always a pleasure talking to you. >> now to this. pretty stunning developments in the fight over that u.s. drone in iran. here it is. the u.s. officials first told us it was missing during a patrol mission. now cnn is hearing the drone was used to spy on nuclear sites. if that's not big enough for you, get. this one iranian said he hacked into the drone. we're live at the pentagon. you've got to hear this.

this story is turning into one heck of a who done it. i'm talk b the u.s. drone now in the hands of iran. a short time ago, the christian sings monitor published this piece online that quotes an iranian engineer as saying iran hacked the drone's guidance system, coaxed this thing into landing in iran. from the looks of it, which iran is showing off as you can see in the video, it sure looks like it made a soft landing. a short time ago, we spoke with a report he who spoke with that iranian engineer who was essentially claiming iran outwitted the u.s. >> they've been observing for the last two years at least interesting overflights that have been coming from afghanistan of some of these stealth drones. they've been aware. they've also captured themselves and shot down a number of other less sophisticated nonstealth

drones. those drones are still using the same gps navigational characteristics. and surprisingly enough, we've heard last september, we had revolutionary guard commanders basically claiming that they had this capability. that they had a way of reprogramming, stepping in and reprogramming a gps set of coordinates so that it could move. it could basically spoof the drone into landing where it was supposed to be but in fact landing where the hackers, the spoofers wanted it to land. >> spoof the drone. so iran is essentially saying, hang on. that american drone didn't crash. we fooled it into landing even after announcing to the world that they had this capability now. this is what we're hearing. let's go to the pentagon and chris lawrence. what are the people saying where you sit? >> well, not a lot, brooke. the reason is, you know, one military official said, look, military didn't really even know what this drone was doing.

at the time. because it was a cia-run mission. they didn't have a lot of initial feeler on what this drone was out there doing. now publicly, defense secretary leon panetta in an interview with fox news, he didn't rule out the possible that this jamming technique may have been what brought down the drone. noon interesting cheryl of the house intelligence committee said flat out, that is not the case. that it was a technical problem as some u.s. officials have clald, that brought down the drone. so there are some conflicting stories out. there i did speak to one aviation expert who said look, iran may have this technology. he said it was adapted from russian technology and it is sort of a 21st century way to shoot something down instead of shooting it out of sky, you bring it down and you monitor it without causing heavy damage. >> huh! okay. so does the pentagon have an explanation for why the drone looks to know in primo shape?

no scratches. it looks like it handleded pretty easily. >> if you believe the iranians, it is because they guided into a landing. it thought it was landing in afghanistan, not iran. i spoke with another aviation expert who said it is possible the drone could have survived the fall by coming down at what he called a falling leaf pattern. what we don't see in that video that iran has been showing, you don't see what the underside looks like. remember, there was about a week's gap between the crash and this video coming out. so it is still undetermined exactly how much damage may have been sustained underneath where some of the sensors would be, that would try to pick up chemical patterns in the air or things like that. >> what about the mission itself? it sounds like the u.s. is changing its story as to what the drone was doing there? >> sort of an about face. when it initially crashed, the u.s. official was telling us,

you know, this was strictly a mission on the afghanistan side of the board. they were only for insurgents, not spying on iran. now a couple military officials have come back to us and said, you know, that's just not the case. it was something that a lot of experts questioned right off the bat. that it was a surveillance mission at iran's suspected nuclear sites in the area. we have other this first came out, we were speaking with people who were telling us, why would you need a more sophisticated drone to look for insurgents in afghanistan? afghanistan doesn't have any air defenses. you don't need to be stealthy, necessarily, in afghanistan. and they had a lot of questions about why would you need that drone for that mission. there were questions right from the start. now some u.s. officials are confirming that. >> okay. chris lawrence at the pentagon. thanks. still ahead, a bizarre war of words. vladimir putin versus of all people, john mccain. why the russian prime minister is questioning the senator's

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look at the survey. let's take a closer look at question number three. bottom of the screen. the question actually asks this. if i could rape someone, who would it be? i look at that and i think, really? really? are you asking that? >> reporter: it is remarkable. we expect more of our young men in college, no question about it. and it is being investigated. not only by the fraternity, sigma ma phi epsilon but also by the university. >> just today the centers for disease control and prevention, they said one the in five women have been raped or someone has tried to rape them. almost 22 million women in the u.s. 22 million. does that number, does that surprise you? >> reporter: well, it doesn't surprise me only because this is an area of the law that i have

practiced in. so these statistics have been similar for quite some time, brooke. but i think it underscores the need for our young men and our young women in college to be more considerate when it comes to sexual assault and sexual abuse and certainly, this fraternity should have known better. i think one of the good things that will come out of this investigation is that the university may disassociate itself with the fraternity, and the fraternity may expel some of the, all or some of the members, depending on who, how many people were involved in this questionnaire. so the statistics don't surprise me. they're so laralarming but they have recomplained the same statistics for the past several years. >> number two here. let's talk about this italian judge in the amanda knox case released this report today

explaining why knox was cleared of murdering her roommate. what did the judge say? >> reporter: the judge found there wasn't enough evidence proving their guilt. that i think was, just really extraordinary because that is the standard of proof here in the united states. right? the prosecution has to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. that's what this judge found. that the prosecution didn't prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. that there wasn't enough evidence of guilt. so a very, very good outcome for amanda knox. >> if this judge is saying there isn't enough evidence, is there even still talk from prosecutors about an appeal? >> reporter: that's right. the prosecution says it will appeal but not on those grounds. it will be a technical appeal. the prosecution probably will appeal in one or two days, but very, very narrow grounds. be on the base of the evidence -- not on the basis of

the evidence. that's good news for amanda knox. >> thank you. remember i said i was sending someone to help you? >> that was probably as close as i've come to a completion over the phone. >> this is a unique behind-the-scenes look at the folks who answer the calls of veterans threatening to take their own lives. some with guns. some with knives. and two dramatic rescues that happened while our cnn crew was there. do not miss this next story.

did you realize that 20% of all suicides right here in the united states are veterans? these are the men and women who bravely fought for our country each and every day. hundreds of suicide calls come into the crisis suicide hotline. we went behind the scenes at the veterans administration. and the day we hampdppened to b there, two suicide calls came in. >> how can i help you? okay. well, eric, first off i can say thanks for serving. what do you mean by crisis? are you suicidal? >> we've done close to 20,000 rescues. since the crisis line has started. the first thing i say to a caller when they do have the object that they plan on killing themselves with them on their person. whether it is a load gun on

their lap or the rope already strung or whatever. i say to them, can you agree to not shoot yourself, take your pills, get up on the ladder, while we're on the phone. >> can you put that knife away for a little bit? just while we talk? >> suicide veteran on the phone. he stated he had like a big knife on his lap. that he was going to use it to kill himself. >> he said he took all his medicine. so there was a possible overdose. >> can i send somebody to help you? i think that's what i'm going to do, okay? because i think you want help. you call the hotline. >> two police officers on the scene. >> remember i said i was sending somebody to help you? >> that was probably as close as i've come to a completion over the phone. >> the cdc estimates approximately 20% of all suicides are completed by veterans. >> what sort of women's do you have? >> every rescue, there is a behind of anxiety. there is always the chance that something is not going to go right. >> i need to know what we can help you be safe today. >> he was an amputee who had his

leg blown off in an ied and he didn't feel that he wanted to be baurd to his family anymore. with the sheriffs on the way, he shot himself. we never, ever give up on a rescue. whenever a vet needs help, we will do whatever it takes to find him. if he can't tell us where he is, we will do whatever it takes. >> you said as soon as we get off the phone, you plan on taking some pills. is that all plan on doing? >> he lost his wife. he had been married for 20 years. he lost her a couple of months ago. and he called simply to give me a message to give to his family about funeral arrangements. that he wanted to be buried with a photograph of her. >> what do you think she would say? how would she feel if she knew you were going through this and you were planning to kill yourself. >> when i tried to talk to him about his wife, he became so emotional, i couldn't understand anything he was saying. i tried to flip it around. if you were the one that had died and your wife was thinking

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time for the help desk. joining me this hour, a financial planner and the president of objective advice.com. and game cunningham with the national foundation for credit counseling. thank you both for being here. first question to you today, this come from richard in virginia. he writes i occasionally receive unsolicited invitations telling me impreapproved for a credit card. would accepting such an invitation affect my credit score. >>? well, receiving the application. it coming in your mailbox has no impact on your credit score. if you act upon, that of course the creditor will review your credit history. that will put what's known as an inquiry on your credit report. that is a small ding. it could potentially lower your score. not for long. don't worry about it. and fyi, that is rarely the reason anyone is declined simply

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claims of ufo citings at protests around the world. jeanne moos has the story. >> reporter: up in the sky, is it a ufo? a surveillance drone? over the heads of tens of thousands of russian protesters, it flew. and this video flew on to sites like ufo sightings daily where they pondered this possible alien probe. >> could the craft capturing this video be one of these probes? >> reporter: do you really think? many protesters figured it was their own government keeping they will under surveillance with a drone. but it wasn't aliens looking down on the crowd and it wasn't the russian government spying on demonstrators. it was this. >> it's a radio controlled. >> hexacopter. >> reporter: six rotors with a wide angled camera attached. and look at the beautiful

pictures it took of the biggest protest moscow has seen in decades. and when they added it together, the panoramic views, they got this. they call themselves aair pano. a group of russians who do this for fun. a two-man team operates it, a pilot and a camera operator. these days you never know where your drone is going to land. and no, the hexacopter did not end up in iran. still the pilot was not taking any chances. no point in crash landing on the crowd. it stayed over the river. and twice, someone in the crowd aimed fireworks rockets at it. >> to shoot the device with this. >> reporter: no damage done. you can buy something like this. a canadian company sells the dragon flyer x-8. camera and chopper sell for between $10,000 and $50,000. cnn is using something similar

for a nature special with philippe cousteau. >> reporter: they've been used at other recent protests, for instance, in warsaw to get a view of the action occupy warsa. occupy wall street has an ocukopter. they've been shooting beautiful places all over the world. by the way, do you believe in ufos? >> yes. we have one. >> ever tempted to fly a remote controlled chop e, try not to chop up your son. >> oops. sorry. >> jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> call it the dating club in the sky. forget about choosing seats at random. one airline allowing its customers based on certain

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why didn't someone think of this before? a dutch airline will soon make it possible for airline passengers to choose their seating arrangements through facebook. alison kosik is in new york with

this. let's just cut to it. is this a way to find a date a mile up there? that sounds like how they're kind of selling this. >> could be. they're not selling it this way. they're basically saying listen, if you want to figure out who you want to sit next to because have you ever sat next to somebody on an airline and they just don't stop talking? you put the earphones on, sometimes, it doesn't work. so klm airlines is is offering this service where if you've a passenger, you can use facebook to book your flight. the airline says the idea, interest and pick a seat. they say this could help you in business and sort of business friendly conversations and just it also takes out the creepy factor because they can't go on facebook and say, look, brooke baldwin, she's going to be flying on this flight. i want to sit next to her. it will take that out of the

picture because both passengers have to agree for it to work. as far as the dating as pegt that you mentioned, okay, you never know what happens up there in the air, that mile high club. >> i'm not speaking in that way. i met a pretty fascinating woman. you never know who's sitting next to you. someone's sitting there with ear bud's in the whole time, i guess they're sending you a message. on a much more serious note, today is a day, one of many, that really is going down in history. this is the day that the u.s. is officially ending the war in iraq and after nine year, u.s. troops are coming home and who better to help us understand the history behind this day than my friend, wolf blitzer. wolf, i know you were there in iraq, very beginning, in 2003. so, what did we do? we went digging through our air kooifs and i want to show this

video. here you were, live. from what i understand, with some video of you interviewing, this is sanjay in a gas mask? >> i remember it because we were both in kuwait city. i was broadcasting from the site of the hotel there, then we got word that about a mile away at a major downtown mall in kuwait ci city, one of those skuds landed. it was about 2:00 a.m. very few people were inside this shopping mall, but sanjay, not only is he a great neurosurgeon, a great guy, but a very courageous journalist. they started broadcasting live from where the scene. we assumed there was poison gas. we didn't know. sanjay was right there. i had a gas mask with me and our

security people said, can you put your gas mask on? i want i don't want to put the gas mask on. it will scare everybody. i didn't. if somebody would have said to me that nearly nine years later it would take for u.s. troops to get out of iraq, i would have thought they were crazy. >> you wouldn't have believed it. >> because i was working under the assumption of the first gulf war, six weeks, it was over. everybody went home. >> you were there though the day, i remember watching it. being in journalism and just watching the day they pulled saddam hussein's statue down. >> i remember. i wasn't in baghdad at the time. i was in kuwait. it was a moment, all of us who covered it will never forget. it was going so quickly. one of the reasons everyone was

so optimistic, it only took a few days for 150,000 u.s. troops to zip up about 400 miles, and saddam hussein went into hiding and was found in that hole and later executed after a trial, but it was history unfolding and all of us remember vividly. i do remember and i was in northern kuwait when the troops went in. almost all the u.s. troops went in fully protected with gas mask, chemical warfare here, because they thought weapons of mass destruction were there and they were going to be engaged in fighting with iraqi troops who would use those poisonous weapons. >> and they were not. thank you, wolf blitzer. we're going to give you a moment to breathe. we'll see you at the top of the hour. i want to end on this. some pretty amazing stuff.

this is in alabama. these people, these three different men are professionals. this is the falls and this guy's got a helmet cam. think of going off a building, nine, ten stories. the the falls are swollen. all kinds of runoff and they go, we're showing these pictures because they're a okay, but they saw this as challenge. they spoke to isaac, one of the three guys before. had to toss his paddle to the side because you don't want to be jabbed by anything as eureka arenaing down. the fact they're able to capture this, look at these images. just stunning. he has no plans of doing this fall ever again, but they are professionals. don't try this at home. but amazing stuff none the less. let's take a quick look at the big