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discussing the issue. is canada a rising imperial superpower? is it a better unemployment rate than the united states and canada's aaa. oh, and after the u.s. delayed the keystone pipeline, the prime minister harper went to china to talk about redirecting the pipeline to the pacific coast where china's ships are waiting. you know what brought this story to my attention? a canadian. they're everyone where. we begin with more advertisers abandoning rush limbaugh and the latest explanation of why. he labeled georgetown university law school student sandra fluke an slut and a prostitute. today, despite an apology on saturday, the list of departing sponsors grew and now stands at 12. on saturday he wrote the following on his website. quote, for over 20 years i have illustrated the absurd with absurdity. i chose my wrong words and i
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think it's absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of congress. i personally do not agree that american citizens should pay for the social activities. what happened to personal responsibility and accountability? where do we draw the line. if this is accepted as a norm, what will be following and new sneakers for students interested in running to keep fit. he closes saying, quote, i am positive it is not our business to know what's going on in anyone's bedroom. my choice of words was not the best and attempt at humor was a national stir. i apologize to miss fluke. he put a new spin on the apology suggesting the point he was making is right even though he used the wrong words to make it. >> the apology to her over the weekend was sincere. it was simply for using
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inappropriate words in a way i never do. and in so doing i became like the people we oppose. i ended up descending to their level. it's important not to be like them ever. particularly in fighting them. the old saw you never descend to the level of your opponent or they win. that was my error. last week. but the apology was heartfelt. the apology was sin veer. >> well, that's of course up to you decide but keeping them honest, limbaugh mischaracterized what this student was saying in the testimony. she wasn't calling on taxpayers to pay for social activities. shefs calling on the federal government to require that private health insurance cover birth control pills and wasn't talking about this to allow for sexual activity in the testimony to congressional democrats. she was talking about how important she thinks access to birth control pills are for women with a variety of medical
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conditions. now, in his original comments, he made it sound like she was talking about promiscuity. he chose to paint her as a sex addict who wants to sleep around at taxpayer expense. >> what does it say about the college coed sandra fluke that says essentially she must be paid to have sex? what does that make her? it makes her an slut, right? makes hear prostitute. she wants to be paid to have sex. she's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. she wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. >> he said that on wednesday. thursday he said this. >> so, ms. fluke and the rest of your fema-nazis, if we're going to pay for your contraceptives, we want something for it and i'll tell you what it is.
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we want you to post the videos online so we can all watch. >> that's rush limbaugh's portray of sandra fluke and other women. here's a portion of her testimony, what she actually said about a classmate who like many women takes the pill for reasons totally unrelated to birth control. >> after months of paying over $100 out of pocket, she just couldn't afford her medication anymore and she had to stop taking it. without her taking the birth control, a massive cyst the size of a tennis ball had grown on her ovary. she had to have surgery to remove her ovary as an as a result. >> she says the pill might have prevented that and oral contraceptives are prescribed for bleeding to ovarian diseases and acne. she said she's for a federal mandate that institutions offering health insurance include birth control pills in the coverage, something that 28
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states do. not as limbaugh suggested taxpayer funded birth control or a federal subsidy to have sex. this issue is turned in to a political uproar with the gop candidates trying to weigh in or aroad the issue. president obama reaching out to her. i talked about it shortly before air time with senior strategist to the obama 2012 campaign. david, rush limbaugh made the point that the president's approval ratings sliding with women and raised the issue to try to score himself some political points. what is your response? >> well, i guess rush was in collusion with us. no. that's ridiculous. and, you know, if rush has any concerns about this, he ought to look in the mirror because this was an event of his own making. the president sought to comfort a young woman who had been vilified nationally for speaking her mind on a matter of
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importance to her. rush distorted what she was saying and he called horrible names and in so doing he slandered not just her but all women of america so i think it was entirely appropriate for the president to offer support for that young woman even if rush doesn't like it. >> it's unusual for the president of united states to reach out to an individual like this. are you saying politics had nothing to do with it? >> it's also unusual for someone with a large audience to vilify an american, a young american speaking out as she did. so there's a lot about this that was unusual. i thought it was unusual that so many leaders on the other side of this debate in terms of the political debate took a pass on this whole thing, a powder on this whole thing. everyone should have stood up and said this was inappropriate as appropriately as many of rush's advertisers have said it
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was inappropriate. i was kind of shocked, anderson, when governor romney said that's not the language i would have used. i thought that was a cowardly answer and a test of leadership and one that he failed. >> there are conservatives who say there are people on the left, comedians on the left or entertainers on the left who have said some pretty extreme things, as well, and yet, not a call for politicians on the left to distance themselves from them. >> there's been a coursing of the politics left to right. i don't excuse anybody's inappropriate and in this case vile language whether it's aimed at someone on the left, right, middle. in this case, particularly egregious because it was a young woman not even in politics, just a young law student expressing herself in a public forum. i don't excuse it.
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there are very few entertainers who swing the weight that rush limbaugh does in the republican party. i think one of the reasons why governor romney and others were so timid in speaking out is because he's the defacto leader of the republican party and to take him on would be to risk your own standing within the party. and so that separates him from the others. >> do you think this is something that does have political benefit for the president, that it, you know, brings out women to vote, brings out people to president obama's side? >> you know, i don't know the answer to that, anderson. and we're a long way from an election. i think more than anything else, what it did was underscore, a, our politics is too coarse and we ought to be thoughtful about the language we use and the public square. but it also -- it also creates an environment in which public policy debates go in to a
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completely inappropriate realm. i think we ought to push back on that. we'll see. i mean, i think the one political dimension of this is that some folks are willing to stand up and say this was wrong, just flat-out wrong and i applaud those who did on both parties and then there were some timid and walked away and i think that was a little window in to what kind of leaders they would be. >> something mitt romney said today. i want to play this for our viewers. >> mr. president, one more thing. why didn't you call me when you're working on this thing? why didn't you say is it a good model for the nation? no, no. it's going to make a mess. >> there was a recent "usa today" gallup poll that found voters called the health care passage's bill a bad thing. how does the president overcome that between now and november? >> first of all, now that mention "usa today" in 2009 governor romney wrote an op-ed
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in "usa today" publicly recommending that the president pattern his health care plan on the plan in massachusetts including the mandate that is the subject of some controversy. that was his proposal. he made it publicly. president didn't need to call him because he made his opinion known in the public square. we also used many of the same adviser who is helped fashion that program in massachusetts which by the way, governor romney should feel proud about it. i don't know why he runs away from that. that's probably his singular achievement as governor of massachusetts. in terms of the polling, i must say that same "usa today" poll was the one out of perhaps 20 in that period of time that suggested that the governor romney was in the lead so i'm hesitant to comment on numbers within that poll. the president always knew that health care reform was a difficult political issue but here's the reality of it. today 2.5 million young people up to ages 26 are covered on
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their parent's insurance because of this health care plan. 105 million americans now don't have a lifetime cap on their insurance so that if they get sick, they won't get thrown off of their insurance. 17 million kids no longer can be excluded simply because they have a preexisting condition. and these are just some of the benefits that have already accrued to the american people with this health care plan. if the republican nominee wants to argue to take those away, let's have that debate right now. >> david, an axelrod, appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> we invited rush limbaugh to come on the program. we didn't hear back. let us know what you think. up next, the highest stakes yet for the four republicans who want to be president. a super tuesday preview. we have new polling tonight. will there be any surprises? later, john mccain calling for u.s. air strikes against
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syria. what the syrian regime is saying trying to discredit the cameraman and activist known as danny. >> they have called me lots of things. uk intelligence and now cnn journalist. our syrian government and the syrian tv is untrustable. >> show you what syrian state tv is saying about him and his explanation. anderson, we'll bring you the latest tonight from the tornado zone. new video coming in. taken by people staring death in the faith and a little girl's story told, a story of a miracle that sadly almost was. that and much more when "360" continues. ncer: with nothing but his computer, an identity thieft is able to use your information to open a bank account in order to make your money his money. [whoosh, clang] you need lifelock, the only identity theft protection company that now monitors bank accounts for takeover fraud. lifelock: relentlessly protecting your identity.
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well, ten states one day at least two presidential campaigns on the line and perhaps one last chance for another. tomorrow is super tuesday. tonight, new cnn/orc polling shows a romney/santorum tie in the state of ohio crucial for senator santorum, certainly. georgia is gingrich country. outpolling by nearly two to one. john king has a preview. >> anderson, we enter super tuesday with governor romney
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filling in the state with romney red. let's do this. let's use red to circle the states romney expects to win. vermont and massachusetts. he expects to win virginia, only ron paul opposing him on the ballot there. expects to win in idaho. so there's four. there's the ones they expect to win. here's the ones they think they might win. north dakota. they think they have a chance now in tennessee. that's a purr surprise. this is the biggest battleground, the contested prize of ohio. imagine if romney could do that, win six out of ten. they think five out of ten is a good possibility. what would a big impact like that have on the race? here's where we start. you need 1144 to clench the nomination. romney's not even close but he's well ahead of everyone else. let's play out that scenario. bang. you see romney winning. santorum gets tennessee.
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if there's the scenario, gingrich wins georgia. ron paul wins alaska. romney then at over 400. well ahead of any of the rivals. a long way to go. what a convincing lead that would be. what if this happened, for example? let's say ron paul picked up north dakota. switch it over there. takes a few taps. say that romney came back and took tennessee. switch it here. and then you would have a race that looked something like this. romney pulls up more. gingrich in second place with the georgia win on super tuesday. santorum down. the possibility heads we end super tuesday with romney above 400 and no one else even close to 200. that is the big strategy. they hope to come out and be far from the finish but they think ahead of everybody else. >> john, thanks very much. now the raw politics with pollster cornell belcher and gloria borger. cornell, john mentioned ohio.
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not the most delegates in terms of a bellweather how critical for mitt romney to pull off a win there? >> i think he needs to pull off a win there and big. the problem is he's not able to pull off a big win in any of the states looking inside the cnn polling. you know, the same sort of story seeing state is also in ohio where he is doing better with upscale voters. santorum better with blue collar voters and with evangelical and very conservative voters. which makes you understand why, you know, the mitt romney campaign won't allow an ounce or inch of light between santorum or gingrich in the issues because it opens them up to a contrast, a conservative contrast which will hurt him and makes for a good politics looking like it's flip flopping but in this case it's the lesser of evils than being openinged up to a conservative contrast to hurt him in the primary. >> rich, i mean, used to be
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super tuesday afterwards, that's a defining night. do you see anybody dropping out after this super tuesday? >> i don't think so. for starters, it is the semi super tuesday. last cycle, there's 21 states on super tuesday. on the democratic side, 23. it's interesting to note mccain won nine of the 21 states on the republican side. he won the lion's share of delegates, though. i don't think anybody will drop out but i think, first of all, i think if you look at the arc of the polling, although it's -- the cnn/orc poll showed it tied today, if you look at the tracking amongst all the polling, this is really pretty significant. romney movement from last tuesday or wednesday until today so i'm not convinced it's going to be a nail biter that we're trying to sell. >> gloria? >> well, i don't know that it's going to be a nail biter but i think what we could say by tomorrow night is that we're seeing the beginning of the end
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of the process. i don't think there's a lot of incentive for people to drop out so long as they have the super pacs willing to fund them and whoever thought that the true beneficiary of superpacs would be barack obama but he is? and i don't think, you know, i don't think you will see somebody rush to drop out but i would argue that if even newt gingrich wins, georgia, if mitt romney wins over half of the delegates tomorrow night, and you've already seen a bunch of prominent conservatives starting to endorse him, that you're going to see that sort of mood of inevitability take over and that the romney bandwagon will get a lot of steam. >> cornell, you say romney's strategy is successful. how so? >> it's been absolutely successful because, i mean, look, if you're a challenger and this is a teachable moment for the political science students at home. if you're a challenger, you have to drive a contrast and what they have been successful at
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doing especially looking at where he was on the blunt rubio legislation in the senate and one place at the beginning and then campaign came back and cleared it up saying, no, no, no he is not there, it's a lesser of evil to look like a flip flopper in this case than to be open yourself up to a contrast from the conservative side because then you can say, well look, if you're santorum, look, i'm here with where you are on the issues and he is not. he can't allow that contrast and then on top of that, well then, he attacks his candidacy and then destroys them and he doesn't allow sort of that conservative vote to coa les around him and it's an ugly and long process but a successful strategy. >> he needs both of them to stay in by the way. >> can i be a contrarian on the long process? i'm not sure that it matters. romney as good as he's going to be. he's been at this five and a half years. >> i hope you're right, by the
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way. >> that's the reality. but here's what i do think. if this thing -- if romney had won south carolina and then florida and it was over by nevada, let's say, then i think the conservative wing of the republican party would have felt cheated they didn't have a fair shot that he was so well funded and organized they never got their say. this thing going on through super tuesday and maybe on for three or four weeks, everybody gets to say, okay, we didn't get there but we had our shot and get in behind him. >> everybody had their say, debate after debate. it's fascinating. thanks very much. talk to you tomorrow. keep it here on cnn for super tuesday. complete coverage and analysis at 6:00 eastern tomorrow. we'll bring you results all long night in to the early morning so grab the popcorn. just ahead tonight, senator jahmeshia ca john mccain calling for u.s. air strikes in syria. >> we never manipulate.
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we have got thousands of youtube films on youtube. why would we have to manipulate anything? you can see the murders going on. why would we have to manipulate anything? >> more from the activist danny ahead. the investigation of murder in texas. why police think the iranian regym might be involved in the killing of this young woman. we'll explain. [ male announcer ] what if we told you that cadillac borrowed technology from ferrari to develop its suspension system? or what if we told you that ferrari borrowed technology from cadillac to develop its suspension system? magnetic ride control -- pioneered by cadillac, perfected in the 556-horsepower cts-v.
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the report because they won't allow us in to the country. today senator john mccain called for united states to lead air strikes to stop the killing in syria. >> the time is running out. assad's forces are on the march. providing military assistance to the free syrian army and other opposition groups is necessary but at this late hour that alone will not be sufficient to stop the slaughter and save innocent lives. the only realistic way to do so is with foreign air power. >> mccain wants to create safe havens. syria's leaders have told the world they're targeted armed terrorists. a story we challenged with facts over and over in the last year. tonight, syria continues to lie to the world. this time it's claiming that an activist, this man there, who we had on this program many times, secretly works for cnn. that we're paying him. keeping them honest, he does
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not. his name is danny. not a journalist. he was in homs and a great risk to his own safety, broadcast images on youtube. he is with injured children in a neighborhood in homs. we've had to rely on videos put on youtube because the government repeatedly refused to allow journalists to the front lines of the protests and killings there. some reporters have snuck in to particularly homs. i talked to photographer last week. he was hurt in the attack and now safe. i asked him the violence he saw firsthand in syria compares with everything else he's seen in many years of covering wars for the "sunday times." here's what paul said. >> i would say quite categorically, that's the most ferocious, vicious and unnecessary that i have seen. that there are actually no military targets within the
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area. all of the intended shelling is directed at the civilian population. it's quite a unique situation in the area. >> is it even a war? is it accurate to call it that? >> no. i think it would be wrong to call it a war. this is -- this is i think what you said, medieval siege and slaughter. i would hesitate to use the word war. >> slaughter. >> in the area. >> well, syria says it's not targeting civilians, but armed terrorists and say an activist who we have interviewed was making things up. earlier, i asked danny about the regime's latest claims against him made on state tv. danny, syrian state television as you know is now airing excerpts of this video of you that was shot -- i'm not sure how they got this video. do you know how they got it? >> while i was trying to talk to cnn, i was online for 20 minutes and live broadcast.
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this is all private. we should have -- this is all deleted. we have to delete all this stuff. >> right. >> what they did do is i waited for 20 minutes exactly. they said i waited two hours. most of the talk i was talking arabic. they made it in to weapon talk and that kind of stuff. >> i want to ask you specifics. they said the truth of danny the zionist and heavily edited. i'll show this. they say that you were getting the target ready to shoot. no, no, shoot it like i'm telling you. let's take a look. >> no, no. [ speaking foreign language ] >> and then the banner says notice the sound of an explosion after he gave the order making it seem like you were fabricating the sound of explosions. >> yes, okay. if you watch, it was on about six minutes i was talking to cnn on that time. there was no shooting going on at the time. if i was telling them to shoot
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to make it look like a war going on, there's shooting in the back sound while i was talking to you. >> they said the sound was you faking a shot. >> that was the sound a long way ago. the sound was being hit. they were hitting another area as i told you. it's about 15 kilometers away from where i am. >> you said i believe you said in the video. we are about to talk in the video. you said you had left the area being attacked. >> i tried to go there. i was two hours ago. >> okay. >> we had to leave. no way in. no one would get in th. >> the cameraman says, say there that shells fell and we are pulling bodies. take a look. [ speaking foreign language ] >> the banner there says even the cameraman is lying. what was happening there?
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>> there. as anyone who's trying to work isn't just me, all the reporters inside, they tell us, you have to say this, this is actually what's going on. i don't know everything that's going on in there. they get the information, how many people have been killed so i'm not really a reporter. they remind me, don't forget to say this. tell them we have people dead. people underneath the destruction. so i don't forget. >> they also say that you are basically have been paid by cnn. >> yeah. >> that's categorically untrue. just for the record, have you ever worked for cnn or received money from cnn? >> not one penny from cnn. i'm not a cnn journalist. they have called me many things. uk intelligence and now cnn journalist. i mean, let me explain something. our syrian government and the syrian tv is untrustable. >> you've been very up front in the fact you went there to join the free syrian army. that you wanted to join. >> yes. >> you are not pretending to be an impartial journalist. >> no, no, no.
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i still want to join if they would accept me. to protect my country. >> bottom line to go back to when they say that you were manipulating the sounds on the tape, that you were trying to make it sound like there were gun fire -- >> right. >> rocket fire. >> we never manipulate. we have thousands of youtube films out. why would we have to manipulate anything? you can see the rockets landing, the murders going on. why would we have to manipulate anything? >> one of the frustrating things as a reporter is that, and for this, we blame the syrian regime, we have repeatedly trying to go to homs, get visas. they're refusing. we have ended up relying on -- >> on us. >> people like you, on people who have uploaded the videos and can't independently verify them. >> of course. >> the reason we are relying on the videos is because of the syria regime's refusal to allow outside observers in. >> i want to get this point out. if we're doing all these
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killings, if weer lying, us revolutionary people, we want the news -- we want cnn to come and we want bbc to come. who's not allowi ining them in, or the regime? we want you to come in. we want you to come in and get the truth out. >> the piece they're airing ends with this line, in the end enjoyed the wealth he gathered from the wealth of syrians. >> what wealth? i haven't got any money. we're refugees. what wealth? my uncle's sending us money. living in egypt. we're living in a house and he is paying for it. like lots of people. there's something i want to clarify and the world to know this. the government will attack anyone trying to get the truth out. they said sending drugs with al jazeera on them. i bet they're going to cnn is
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sending them in. the government will attack anyone. >> senator john mccain called for the u.s. to protect the syrian population with air strikes. >> okay. i wanted to get in message out a long time ago. we still -- the european countries and arab countries, let us know. you're going to help us or you're not. we're stuck in the middle. they're saying we're going to do this and no we're not. either going to help us or say, no, you're on your own. just let us know what we're going to do. we are going to die or you're going to help us. stop saying we're going to do this and that. let us know our path. >> danny, i appreciate you talking to us. >> you're very welcome. >> the biggest attack they're claiming besides the lie that danny works for cnn is that he was faking the sound of gun fire or shelling. you heard danny mention we did the interview and aired on cnn, with him that night, you don't hear any gun fire in the
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background. we went back and watched it. he're correct. there is no fire in the back ground. in fact, the only thing you hear is a sound of a loud speaker of a nearby mosque and faking the sound of gun tire or artillery shells as they claim, you think the time to do that is on the air and that's simply not happening. coming up, the murder of a young woman in texas, why police are not ruling out the possibility that the iranian government may have had a hand in her death. also, tragedy in indiana. family of five wiped out by a tornado. hear from the man that tried to help them. >> i saw death. i knew we were done. >> you saw death? >> i mean, at that point, i knew it was over.
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the white house says president obama has reiterated to israeli prime minister netanyahu that he supports diplomacy backed by pressure in the effort to keep iran from getting a nuclear weapon. they met for two hours at the white house today to talk about iran's nuclear program. the president says hen ate netanyahu prefer a peaceful solution. police in texas searching for answering in the killing of an iranian student. houston police doubled the reward for information about the murder of the 30-year-old woman who was active in a local group that demonstrates for freedom and human rights for native country iran. police are going on record saying they're not ruling out
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the possibility that iran itself could be behind the murder of the young woman. cnn's drew griffin has the story. >> reporter: galardi in 2010 was on the streets protesting with the group saabs houston together trying to do whatever they could to show support for brothers and sisters suffering in iran. >> that's why we gather here to just be their voice here in showing them that we're together and they're not alone. >> reporter: she wasn't scared to show her face and wouldn't give the last name to reporters for fear she said of retaliation. less than two years later, she is dead in what appears to be an assassination-style murder that no one can explain. it was late sunday night january 15th, police say she was on the phone with an ex-boyfriend and turned in to this townhouse complex not far from where she lived with her parents. the boyfriend told police he
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heard a loud thud, screeching and then silence. her car was found here wedged up against this driveway. the engine on, the wheels still spinning and there she was slumped over the steering wheel with a single gunshot wound to the head as if someone were laying in wait. >> the evidence indicated that she had been shot through the passenger side window. she was shot one time and autopsy revealed that she was shot in the head. >> reporter: police have no leads. they have gone public asking for help but have found no one who would have wanted to kill her. and with nothing stolen or missing, they've ruled out a random robbery. and now, they're even willing to say they're not ruling out the possibility iran itself could be behind the killing. >> because of the obvious reasons, we're exploring those issues that she was advocating.
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>> reporter: two years ago cnn reported on what local police said was iranian involvement in the attempted assassination of a disdissent broadcaster in the california. since then, the u.s. accused of iran being behind the plot to kill a saudi ambassador to the united states but friends of the woman say it makes no sense to target a 30-year-old student in houston who held up streets on an american street corner. >> there are many more important opposition leaders, there are groups who have their own tv stations, groups lobbying in washington, d.c. there are groups who actually lot in iran to do different things. not us. why us? >> reporter: fred burton, a former state department counter terrorism expert who has investigated iranian assassination's says iran's intelligence like the government works in secretive ways with motives not always so clear.
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>> whether or not she was perhaps more important perceptionwise than perhaps her friends knew to that kind of organization. >> reporter: burton says he has no direct knowledge of the past but says an iranian born in paris moving to houston and taking part in protests who turns up unexpect antly murder they have unexpected ties that could have made her a target. >> you have a 30-year-old female that has traveled out of iran, spent time in europe, paris, for example, what has she been doing? was she more active overseas, for example, than we understand here? the iranians have a very strong network, the iranian intelligence service has a network in paris, specifically, trying to keep tabs on the dissidents. >> reporter: houston police admit they're stuck and will follow any lead, even those involving iranian conspiracies if it will lead to the killer.
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>> drew, she did have ex-boyfriends and one talking to her when she was killed. >> reporter: they've ruled him out and police told us they checked out and cleared other people close to her and no threats. >> and despite the mystery, the friends in sabs houston are convinced that iran was not involved. why? >> you know, to be blunt, they think she was just small potatoes when they were on the street in houston protesting the iranian regime. she kind of was prominently pictured because she was pretty, willing to talk to people but her friends say she wasn't an organizer, didn't have a hatred for iran's rulers and just a person showing support for the green movement and would be a stretch they said anyone in iran would have even noticed her. >> interesting. drew, appreciate it. thanks. well, still ahead, new video of some of friday's monster
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look at the monster. part of a deadly storm system with at least 42 tornadoes across 10 states and at least 40 people were killed. one of the youngest victims lived about 20 miles west of henryville in indiana. her name was angel babcock. she was just 14 months old. she was found in a field barely alive. her parents, her two siblings died in the storm. over the weekend, her extended family had to make an excruci e excruciating decision to take the toddler off life support. here's what her grandfather said. >> we are going to pray over -- we're going to pray there and i'll tell that little girl that -- i'm going to tell her that it -- it's time for her to meet her mommy and daddy. >> entire family gone. five loved ones all gone. here's susan candiotti. >> tornado coming down now. >> life isn't never going to be
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the same. never going to be the same for me again. >> reporter: how could life be the same for jason miller after being a sole survivor of a tornado, a twister that sucked him sky high and killed a family of five he was trying to protect, including 14-month-old angel, her 2-year-old brother and 2-month-old sister? when he spotted the tornado outside, he had seconds to react. >> i had already grabbed the little girl and she had -- the car seat. i told her run, run for the house. i just saw death right there. i knew we were done at that moment. >> reporter: you saw death? >> i mean, at that moment, i knew it was over. >> reporter: jason miller convinced the babcock family of five to get out of the smaller trailer and hunker down with him in the double wide and crouched down in the floor in the center of the trailer as the tornado got closer and closer. >> and angel was sitting there. i put my arm over angel and got her to get down. you know? i was like down, the house got grabbed. it was like a strong wrench on
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the house and it started to turn and all of a sudden just popped, it popped loose and it was amazing. unbelievable. >> reporter: the house got sucked in to the air and so did miller. he blacked out. >> i actually did open my eyes and came to while i was in the air at one point and i don't know how high we were but we did fly up over a saw mill about 300, 400 yards where i landed but only thing i could see was the breeze, pieces of wood churning around me and i remember looking down thinking, at least 50 feet. i don't know how i'm going to get down. >> reporter: he landed in a gravel yard at a saw mill about 100 yards away next to a field. people started looking for survivors. >> the man and woman was laying right here behind the saw mill. and all three of the kids was found right in this area. >> reporter: right in the muddy field. one of the babies was still in a car seat, a baby seat. >> yes. i don't know what to say. you know? just -- it's devastating.
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>> reporter: also devastating for jason miller who keeps thinking about the babcocks and their children. he wonders if he could have done more. >> i called them over to get killed in my house. there's a part of me that -- at first, it is just very hard to -- you know, not think it's kind of my fault but -- >> reporter: you know it isn't. >> doesn't matter what i know. it just matters i called them over to my house and they died. you get sucked up in a house with six people. 50 feet in the air. ripped apart. break your back and arm and ribs and five people you're holding hands with die. life can't ever be the same again after that. just too much. >> reporter: jason miller is suffered from many broken bones and fractures. but they will heal. healing emotionally may be much tougher. susan candiotti, cnn, new pekin,
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time now for the ridiculist. someone found a picture of jesus on a tortilla. a guy's mom made a dinner and sounds delicious but a side dinner is divine. >> mashed potatoes, gravy, chicken and fresh tortillas and out jesus came. same response from her. oh my god. >> potatoes sound awesome right now. luckily he noticed the image before biting the head off and
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now a rightful place of honor in a wooden box full of cotton. it also comes in handy to bury a parakeet. anderson, you are thinking, does jesus appear in corn or flour-based mexican dishes in no. there's a whole menu for sightings. here's a jesus and mary pancake, for instance. it looks slightly overdone for my taste. flip it sooner. we have the silhouette of the version mary in a dried mango. a grilled cheese sandwich and cotton balls for preservation. not as classy as the wooden box we apparently gets the job done. a cheeto jesus. but jesus sightings not just for
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breakfast, lunch and dinner. here's the wooden pattern on a door. the next one is easier to see because it's clearly jesus on a receipt of walmart and then there's -- wait for it. jesus in a dog butt. pretty powerful. it's easy to overlook the majesty too caught up in the fact you're looking at a dog but. i don't quite see it. there's the occasional dog butt and frequently food items and seems like it happens a lot. take the easy way out and buy this daily bread toaster to stamp jesus on there for you or be patient, my advice to start paying more attention to the cheetos and pancakes because sometimes if you're very lucky, the food will say grace to you. thanks for watching. we'll see you again one hour from now. another edition at 10:00 p.m. eastern. "piers morgan tonight" starts now.
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