unarmed observers turned back and three vehicles were fired upon by a source unknown when departing the scene. a very bad deteriorating situation. >> based upon what we heard, he said nearly all parts of the country in civil war. are we to assume it's nationwide now? >> it certainly is spread. these unarmed observers, only 300, they can't see everything. groups, opposition members, people reporting the increasing death toll. syria totally violating the u.n. security council resolution. members split on what to do. nobody wants to go in militarily. >> richard roth thank you. later we'll talk about the torture of kids there.

now to this. this is what attorney general said today in his testy exchange with senator john corning after a republican jumped on the dog pile of lawmakers asked for holder's job. he was defending himself from the recent intelligence leaks to the botched gun running sting. let's go do dana bash at the capitol. some of the senators really went after holder, didn't they? >> reporter: they sure did. you mentioned john corning from texas. he was the harshest but he wasn't the only. the other was lindsay graham who tried to make the case that they believe the leaks of classify information were political and maybe from the white house, which is why he was saying he believes there must be a special council, somebody independent of the obama administration to investigate. listen to what he was talking about with eric holder. >> you're not willing to embrace the idea that the better off for the country if you would pick

somebody that we all could buy into from the get-go rather than picking somebody, two people that you say are great, that i don't know anything about. >> reporter: now, what holder's response was i do know them and they're good lawyers. the point that republicans are making though is that they may be fine lawyers, but in this case of one, senator corning pointed out he's contributed to the obama administration and help the president with his vice presidential pick and they believe the appearance of conflict of interest is something eric holder should want to get rid of. democrats even though who have been harsh about the leaks getting out there and the impact it's had on national security, they say they are just fine with the two u.s. attorneys in d.c. and maryland conducting this investigation. >> what about fast and furious? i know the attorney general testified about that. that was the gun walking where the atf would allow the guns to be bought right in the united states. the criminals buy the guns and

walk them across the border of mexico led to the killing of one border patrol agent. it has a lot of republicans calling on him to resign. what did holder say? >> reporter: he's really trying to tamp down on all of the attacks on him on this issue because in the house, republicans who run that chamber, they have set a vote for next week to hold him in contempt because they say he's not giving them key documents on this whole controversy. he tried to put an olive branch out. take a listen to what he said. >> we have reached out to chairman issa, members of the leadership on the house side to try to work our way through these issues. we've had, i think, sporadic contacts, and we are prepared to make, i am prepared to make compromises with regard to the document. >> reporter: he said what he wants is to avoid a

constitutional crisis but that offer was rejected by house republican leader. there's been a lot of frustration, literally years now, in the back and forth over there. the reason republicans are so angry is because initially the justice department told congress that this was not, this program did not basically have gun introduction and it was the case they had to recant that and what members of congress and the republican side want to know why did they change. why did they not tell the truth to congress? >> we'll see if they turn over those documents. dana bash. thank you. a lot more coming into the cnn news room, including this. the feds don't have any answers so now they are asking the public to help track down this serial rapist and killer and his attacks involve pcp and

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public, and are asking for the public assistance's in trying to identify this individual. we have dna linked to all of this crimes. one resulted in a homicide. we are asking the public to take a look t the sketches that we have. we have one from 1996 and another from 2010. it's pretty good depiction. if they have any idea, anyone that meets these characteristics to call us at 1-800-call-fbi. >> we have both sketches up. sounds like police have a lot to go on. take a listen. >> this male was smoking wet which is marijuana laced with pcp. he was listening to reggae music.

the automobile was a buick regal or a monte carlo. >> they knew his car, the type of music, the drug of choice. this stuff called wet. he has a unique scar on his face. is that helping as far as searching for this guy? >> we're hoping so. that's the reason for getting this out. cleveland police department has been working on this case tirelessly. they have tracked down every lead that's come their way. they reached out to the fbi and said can you just help us get this house. we always reach out and help our local law enforcement when we can and when they ask. that's what we did here. we're asking for the public to take a look at this. an individual with a large scar on his face two and a half inches on his cheek, you would think is pretty recognizable. if you know someone that has that type of scar, the reggae

music taste may have changed over the years. it was important in 1996. maybe he's changed his type of music. we don't want people to he hsitt hesitant. go ahead and call. we take any tip seriously, and we'll follow that tip. >> what else are you doing other than sggetting the sketches out? >> we have put this on fbi radio, our twitter account. it's on the cleveland police department website. it's on the cleveland fbi website. all of our local tv stations covered this yesterday and continue to cover it today. we have various knock and talk operations that we do as a task force in cleveland that involve local, state and federal, going out to try to get information when people are reluctant to come to the police.

we go out to them. when we do those operations we take the photograph with us and we ask people if they have any information to give us a call. >> sure. you know this is one guy because the dna links them all. let us know if you find him. best of luck. the hunt here for a killer in alabama. police thought they had the suspect. a stand off ended with no one in handcuffs. there's a new twist today. a decision involving the kkk's effort to adopt a highway. i needed a coach. our doctor was great, but with so many tough decisions i felt lost. unitedhealthcare offered us a specially trained rn who helped us weigh and understand all our options. for me cancer was as scary as a fastball is to some of these kids. but my coach had hit that pitch before. turning data into useful answers. we're 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans.

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word of a decision in the kkk's effort to adopt a highway in georgia. let me bring in nick. no dice? >> no dice. we just got off the phone with georgia state official who says the georgia department will deny the application. >> wow. they are saying no. department of transportation. this could be a first amendment

issue. i imagine they are taking it higher. >> this is a huge fist amendment issue. ta said if their application was denied they would go to the aclu. this is an interesting part of it that there's already precedent set. a local chapter was allowed to adopt a highway. they were kicked out because they didn't live up to their end of the deal. >> but they were allowed? >> they were allow and picking up the trash. this case went to the federal appeals court and the federal appeals court upheld the decision. the fact is the precedent has opinion set. it appears the kkk have a fight on their hand. kick us posted. coming up, the house was surrounded. tear gas fired inside. thermal imaging helped. police thought they had the auburn shooter trapped nsds but six hours later they left with nothing. desmonte leonard still on the

run. he killed three people, including two form eer auburn football players. i know police thought they had him and sounds like they missed him. >> reporter: the scene is basically nonexistent now. authorities shut it down hoping to find a suspect. you mention those intense methods. they threw in tear gas twice. they used thermal imaging. they poked rods into the insulation and parts of the attic where they thought he was hiding but he wasn't there. they said they heard coughing and movement in the attic. we're living a mystery here right now. no one knows where he is.

the one thing that authorities have been communicating to us all day is this search is not over. they will not rest until they find the person who murdered three people here in auburn. the community is distraught. >> what are they saying? >> reporter: we rarely see incidents like this in this community. a lot of times we're here for happy events, college football games. it's not something that people expect to happen here. when it did, it really took this community, just sent shock waves through the community. this happened in an area of town where a lot of students and residents here say they feel very safe. it's very uncharacteristic of this community. >> i know the reward has been raised to some 30,0$30,000. hopefully they catch this guy. i know you heard about the rogue nonuns.

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of the north and they go off to the east. depends on the way the winds are coming from. we'll have more directional winds tomorrow. it's all about the wind speeds. the relative humidity is 10%. temperature not bad at 73. the winds are out of the west at 9 miles per hour at livermore. we're not seeing any great wind direction. that's good news. that's allowing the firefighters to get in there and get some real fire lines and allowing some of the air support to get in. the pictures have been just dramatic. i know you've been on planes. this is what we have been watching all weekend long. saturday and sunday the winds were blowing 60 miles per hour. the fire went from zero acres to 36,000 acres in about 48 hours. it was a tremendous fire fight there. >> lightning to blame, right? >> that's right.

there may be more lightning in the future. we're talking about thunderstorms, but don't have enough rain to wet down the surface. all the thunderstorms will have is lightning. it's energy, but the rain can't put that fire out. we could have more by the end of the week. >> awful. chad, thank you. next, let's go to john allen. john, there was this meeting today between a deputy and a group here, radical feminists. this is the vatican's term here for the biggest organization of american nuns. tell me who attended the meeting. what happened? >> reporter: hey, brooke president in meeting were two american nuns representing the leadership conference. it's the biggest umbrella group for women's orders in the state. on the other side was a team of senior vatican officials led my american cardinal.

it's the watchdog agency that's leading this crackdown. >> i talked to, we had a nun on the sthhow a couple of weeks ag. they said they will take this back to their members and decide how to proceed from there. >> reporter: both sides have drawn a line in the sand clearly. they said they don't want to be involved in something they see as blind or uncritical o bead yens. it was equally clear that if an outfit will officially represent

the catholic church then he will insist it do so in ways that's consistent with the church's teaching. why both sides talked about the open atmosphere that it was cordial and pleasant, at the level of substance this isn't going to get resolved soon. >> thank you, john. next, let's go to alison kosik with another requirement about retireme retirementage. what's the deal? >> reporter: part of the problem with social security is paying out more in benefits than it's bringing in. that's because people are living longer. they are getting social security checks for longer period of times. how long? in 2010 it was expected that men were expected to live 17 years beyond retirement. women were expected to live 20 years. the organize for economic cooperation and development thinking life expectancy will rise another three four years by 20 to 50.

that's only going to drain social security more. >> if we live longer, isn't the retirement age in the tus already up? >> reporter: it is. the full retirement went up from 65 to 66. it's scheduled to be 67 by 2022. the organization that looked at this issue is questioning if that's enough. it's pushing to raise full retirement to the age of 77 to save even more money. you can breathe easier for now. 67 will be the new 65 unless the group gets its way. >> working, working, working. thank you so much. that's reporter roulette here. a combination that's harsh reality in these tough times. here is poppy harlow. >> reporter: today we're talking about taxes.

thank you for being here. question about taxes that we got from a man on the street here in new york. take a listen to what he had to say. >> if i owe back tax, which is the case, is it dischargeable as far as bankruptcy is concerned? >> about how much? >> $10,000. >> what's your take? >> it is possible. it depends on what type of bankruptcy he's filing whether he's filing chapter 7 which allows for discharge of debt or chapter 13, which is a payment plan. chapter 13, it would not be possible. chapter 7 it is possible. he should check with an attorney that specializes in bankruptcy law. if it's taxes that are less than two or three years old it's not going to be discharged. taxes that are older than that, it might be possible. >> what about any forgiveness pra programs? >> there are a couple of offers.

you can settle what you owe. really tough requirements. the i.r.s. wants you to move that you wouldn't be able to pay off your debts over a period of six years or so, which is the other one, the installment agreement. right now if you owe up to $50,000 in taxes you can create a payment plan with the i.r.s. you don't have to talk to an agent. you go online and fill oult the form as you pay it off as long as six years time. >> better to do this directly with the i.r.s. than working with a debt collection agency? >> i think so. because a lot of the debt collection agencies will charge a fee or sometimes do things that might not necessarily be in your best interest. better to just work out a deal with the i.r.s. directly. handle it in a forthright manner so you don't wrack up additional penalties and interest. >> thank you. if you have a question you want our financial experts to tackle, just upload a 30 second video.

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to watch. that's an understatement. this is amateur video that's shot as recently as today. you'll see these two toddlers. one is crying. another is clearly wounded. it's tough for me to look at this. we're told three children were in that room. two of the children died as did a man and a woman. their wounds were caused by syrian government shelling. this is a portion of the video we elected to air to illustrate the atrocities helping each and every day in syria. we received this horrifying footage as the u.n. has released this report of the flight of children in syria. joining me from new york is the u.n. special representative for children. i want to begin by quoting from part of this report. it says children as young as

nine years of age have been victims of killing, maiming, arbitrary arrests, ill treatment including sexual violence and use as human shields. are you saying the syrian government is deliberately targeting children? >> what i think the syrian government is targeting communities, and the children are part of that targeting. what we see in other parts of the world, of course, we see killing and maiming. the cross fire to get killed. we see sexual violence a lot prevalent in many wars. this is the one conflict in which we're seeing the torture of children at a very high skill. so many executions of children. this is quite disturbing for us what is happening in syria. >> it's interesti ining you says is the one conflict.

is this the worse you've seen when it comes to kids? >> i've been here since 2006. i've taken this post in 2006, and i must say i've not seen such large scale violence against children such as in the torture of children and summary execution of children. i don't think i've seen it in any, i've seen a lot of children being killed in cross fire. i've seen children recruited as soldiers. i've taken testimony from children as victims of sexual violence but summary execution of children under the age of ten, i've not seen that anywhere else. >> this is clearly not in the cross fire. i want to quote your report. most child victims of tourture describe being beatened, tortured, subjected to stress positions, scarred by cigarette burns and in one case subjected

to electrical shock to the genitals. when it comes to the syrian government, what does this tell you? have they just completely spun out of control? >> well, i think they, as i said, in international hum humanitarian law, the basic premise is that soldiers should be celebrated from civilians. in this conflict that's not happening. the whole community whether it's a civilian or a combatant are being targeted, this is great concern foall of us. the point is first we hope there would not be war. if there is a war there are rules of war. rules of war you protect the children. >> obviously, the children are not protected we've been hearing that the u.n. is saying that syria has evolved

into a state of war. those words uttered for the first time. should we fear that the horrors facing kids will become even worse? >> well, i think, yes, it will become even worse in civil war because both sides are on the offensive. what has happened until, however you characterize it, earlier, it was mainly the syrian government forces on the offensive. you had syrian rebels resisting in small pockets. if it's a full scale civil war then it will be much more violence. whatever you call it, if that's what happening then large scale violence. >> my final question. i'm in atlanta. you're in new york. i sit here and i'm frustrated. i look at these pictures. i was in europe the last two weeks. people are talking about what is happening in syria, but there seem to be no solution. just speaking to an american

audience, what are we left with? what can we do? is it just nothing? >> well, there are two things. one is in the short term we have to find ways of stopping the violence and stopping the civil war. there are parties around the table at the security council that can influence both sides. it's really important that this war just stop. in the long term, i think people have to be held accountable for these terrible crimes. i think in that sense, perhaps, the united nations and others are gathering information which will be on record, and which at one point will be used if there is accountability. there should be accountability because these are horrendous war crimes and crimes against humanity. >> absolutely there should be accountability. thank you for your work. be right back. ♪

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after more than three decades, it turns out a dingo really did take her baby. >> the cause of her death was as the result of being attacked and taken by a dingo. >> that was a ruling today from a coroner. the case goes back to 1980. they went camping in the australian wilderness when her 2-month-old daughter disappeared. mom also said that a dingo stole

her baby. her story became the subject of that 1988 film called a cry in the dark starring meryl streep. >> no. a dingo took my baby. >> she was sentenced to life for murder murdering her daughter. vindication for this mother. sunny hostin is on the case. this is a long time gone by. we're talking three decades where this woman is falsely accused. she lost her child back in 1980. what kind of legal recourse sdos she have? >> you would think she wants recourse. everybody remembers hearing about this case. interestingly enough, she says she's at the end of her legal journey.

she has gotten everything out of the legal system that she wanted. she walked out with a death certificate so she can finally put that to rest. what a legal journey it's been. i've been doing some research on it. apparently four coroner inquests. one murder trial. one judicial inquiry and various federal and high court appeals over 30 years. the baby would have been 32 years old this year. this is, as she says, the end of her legal journey. >> i can't say i blame her just wanting to finally move past it. l let's move to the next case. this town has banned cursing in public. this town voted to fine people who drop some of these forbidden words out in the open. they are looking at something like 20 bucks per vulgar

violation. isn't this a first amendment issue? >> it >> it sure is. i live in new york city. my, god, imagine if you would try to do something like that here. >> all over. >> the supreme court has spoken on this. you're right. i mean, this is constitutionally protected speech. the supreme court has found the government really can't prohibit public speech just because it contains profanity. so i understand where they're going with it, but they're not going to be able to get very far with it. >> okay. so this ultimately winds up with, you know, someone saying, sorry, but freedom of speech. you can drop those f-bombs whenever you like. we just hope you don't, too often. >> i think that's right. >> all right. thank you very much. coming up as always, mr. wof blitzer, my friend in "the situation room." wolf, it's been so long. >> first of all, how are you feeling? we got a little scare over there. >> i had a oyster and little

hypothermia. i'm fine. >> it was that sunday morning. i was watching. it was hard to watch because the weather was so bad. >> yes, it was not fun. but seeing a thousand boats up the river tems for the hour and a half that i made it before having to get taken care of. but then being back there i felt perfect on tuesday in front of buckingham palace -- actually, standby. guys, just roll the clip. hi everyone, i'm brooke here in london sitting beside this fellow british man. and we have had the best time here covering the queens diamond jubilee. >> can i just tell you, wolf, that from the second i saw pierce, he said don't you know that wolf blitzer is going to be so jealous of me. >> i was. i was totally jealous. he's a great guy. >> he is. >> but that was so much fun.

i felt so bad when i heard you had hypothermia. >> i'm fine. >> that's pretty serious. >> i'm fine. >> you actually had to go to a hospital too, is that right? >> i was in hospital as they say, the hrh, and was perfectly taken care of. fine and whisked myself away to south of france. i'm quite fabulous actually right now. >> south of france. we want details. >> i know. in the commercial break, my friend. meantime, you have a show. tell me what you're working on. >> you know, i went to this luncheon at the brookings institution here in washington. a think tank sponsored today. and hillary clinton was there. the president of israel, but hillary clinton was very tough on what's going on in syria right now. she also said the russians are -- it looks like they're on the verge of sending attack helicopters to the syrian army, to the regime of bashar al-assad. if the russians do that, that's a game changer. we're going to go in depth on

that front here on "the situation room." the foreign minister of jordan has an enormous stake on what's going on in syria, thousands have been pouring in to jordan. you've been watching and you've been reporting all these late developments. a u.n. envoy now saying a full-scale civil war basically is in effect and they're torturing children. >> right. >> so that's going to be a big chunk of the show. a lot of other political news. the latest exchanges between president obama and mitt romney are getting increasingly more intense. we're going in depth on that as well. >> mr. bilitzer, see you in a few. >> good to have you back. >> thank you. an eyewitness to child rape in the investigation of jerry sandusky. today, jurors, they are hearing from mcquery himself, the star witness day two of sandusky trial. we're going to go live to the courthouse for the very latest there.

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it was sexual. it was wrong. it was perverse. those the are words of the prosecution in the jerry sandusky trial. michael mcquery is on the stand. and the story he has to tell is horrifying. he claims he saw sandusky raping a boy in a penn state shower back in 2001. and investigators were never actually able to identify the boy. he simply referred to as victim number two. a correspondent for trutv. i know you were inside.

walk me through some of the key moments of mike mcquery's testimony today. >> first of all, mike mcquery was very confident on that stand. a very bold voice. a very tall, tall man. he was a quarterback for penn state when jerry sandusky was the coach -- the defensive coach for penn state. he testified that in 2001 that he was at home that night. he was watching a football movie, decided i'm going to go and do some work. he went to the penn state campus, the athletic building, the coach's locker room, and he walked in the first door and he heard some slapping sounds, he said. he said he felt embarrassed. didn't know what it was. thought he knew what it was. didn't know if he should even see it at all. so then he went to the second door to where his locker was. he stood near his locker and looked in the mirror. it's a very small angular building. and in the mirror he saw the reflection of two people, a man and what appeared to be a little

boy. he turned around then to get an actual visual look at it and it was jerry sandusky. he said a little boy had his hands on the wall of the shower with jerry sandusky behind him, jerry sandusky's hands wrapped around the little boy's waist. he believes the boy was 10 to 12 years old. at that point his locker he shut it really, really hard. he wanted to make a lot of noise. and then he walked a few steps. he said it was three to five feet from them. they broke apart. and he saw jerry, he saw the little boy. he said there was eye contact between them all. and then he went up to his office, called his father and said what do i do. >> oh. so this is his testimony, just to be clear. we also heard from, you know, the first accuser coming forward against sandusky. what did he say? how did he appear?

>> this was a young boy just graduated high school. he walks into the courtroom this morning and he's petrified. he walks in and you see him sort of look like this. he sits in the witness chair and details how he met jerry sandusky. how jerry put his hand on his leg as they were driving in the car. when it got to the point where he had to testify in regard to the first alleged sexual act that jerry sandusky did to him, he said and he termed them his private parts, he started to sob. and before that he was -- just sort of like getting the courage, sort of hyperventilating, started to sob before he got those words out. and on cross-examination he was attacked -- i'll say, because for so many people he spoke to, he told them nothing happened, at all. that jerry always had his clothes on. >> and he is i know in his 30s now. a grown man just breaking down on the witness stand telling what he says happened so many

years ago. jean, thanks so much. we'll follow that trial closely there with you. in the meantime, that's it for me. good to be back here in the seat. i'm brooke baldwin. now to wolf blitzer. "the situation room" begins right now. brooke, thanks very much. happening now. >> you leave me no alternative but to join those that call upon you to resign your office. >> there's fury and fireworks on capitol hill. a showdown as attorney of the united states eric holder rejects public calls to quit and accuses of playing politics. the campaigns aren't letting accuracy get in the way of a good political battle. they are flying as the fact checkers work overtime. and a top united nations official now says syria is in a full-scale civil war, even as a u.n. report accuses the damascus regime of t