hour is officially over, but really it's not over. one of the biggest problems in this area is traffic snarl. hundreds of traffic lights are out. there's one over here on randolph road just a couple hundred yards up from us now where they are trying to get people through that light. people say treat this like a four-way stop. every stop around here treat it like a four-way stop. this one just got running a few minutes ago. there's dozens in virginia and d.c. area, in d.c. proper as well. traffic snarl still continuing into the 11:00 eastern hour when rush hour should long since be done. you mention ed spiking temperatures. temperatures around here expected to get up to 97 degrees, so that's, you know, something that the motorists and others are dealing with. we talked to three people at a gas station just down the block a short time ago. here's what they had to say. >> but the thing you is just have to follow the other cars and also traffic, how they are

crossing. you just have to pay attention. that's all. >> a lot of detours. a lot of lights that are out. some that are on spotty, but a lot of congestion, a lot of discourteous drivers >> the biggest challenge for me has been to find a gas station that has power because with all the power outages and the technology that we've got, the gas stations don't open, if they don't have power. >> reporter: that last gentleman that we spoke to said that was the tenth gas station he had been to this morning before he had actually found some gasoline, so that's a huge problem as well. people moving around just trying to deal with this, trying to get to work even if it's late. about 600,000 customers in the d.c. area as of now still without pour but they are slogging through it trying to get, you know, just areas booted up. neighborhoods, entire neighborhoods booted up all at

once, but it's not easy. they have to rebuild circuits and rebuild transformers as they go, kyra. it's going to be a tough slog and we're told the last customer to get his or her power up may not get it until late friday evening, kyra. >> keep us updated and be sure to stay with cnn on the extreme heat wave and efforts to restore the power that's affected to so many areas. the heat is adding to the problems to fire fighters out west actually. take a look at this map right here. it shows the 12 western states dealing with the fires right now. here is one in colorado springs. fire fighters are now getting an upper hand, so much so that evacuation orders have actually been lifted for more than 35,000 people who have been forced to flee. rob marciano has been there since it began. rob, let's talk about the people that have been there insince it began. what exactly are they coming back to? >> reporter: you know, some are coming back to neighborhoods and homes that are just fine, that

was evacuated as a precautionary measure and kept that way because utilities and such had to get back online. others, think coming back to damaged homes or -- or nothing. yesterday the folks who were -- who knew that their homes were gone were finally allowed back to take a look in their private vehicles via convoy and look at what was left in their homes and neighborhood. we caught up with a couple of families yesterday and here's what they said about the experience. >> it looked like a war zone. it was just -- it was completely caved in and didn't even look like a house. it was bad, and it just -- the smell, it smelled like smoke, and it was just -- you got down in it and it smelled like ash, and -- and it was awful. >> reporter: you're looking at one of the subdivisions, one of the neighborhoods that was badly burned here in the shadow mountain area, mountain shadow area, and the scarred landscape uphill from there, can you see just how black it is, and look

at how close that blackened hillside is to the other neighborhood that was left untouched. and then further up the canyon and up the hillside you see pretty much the entire western flank of the front range there completely black. it will take years, if not decades, for that forest to regenerate itself and the community there will take slightly less time to rebuild, and the emotional scars may very well last a lifetime. it was a horrible, horrible day last tuesday, and this week has been no fun here in colorado springs. kyra? >> we'll keep in touch with you and with brian todd on all things weather. rob, thanks so much. you can help those affected by the wildfires in colorado. go to our website and follow the link to impact your world. every bit counts, of course, even your prayers. this just in. got a major settlement to tell but here. drug-maker glaxosmithkline has agreed to pay $3 billion to settle criminal and civil claims over the drugs packsil and

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and told their story. when we talked to several female service members, they told us, you know, there's no such thing as sort of consensual sex between an instructor and a trainee. they said you're incredibly vulnerable, and the relationship is based on intimidation. it's getting you tough. it's getting you ready for the military and they say, you know, there's just no way for a woman to really consent to sex with her instructor. >> this started what, about a year ago, with one trainer being accused, right, and then we've sort of seen a domino effect over the last 12 months or so? >> reporter: that's exactly right. another trainer copped a plea, so to speak, agreed to take a plea bargain deal, and he admitted that he did have sex with one of the trainees that he was responsible for, but then in testimony, evidently hearing, he

admitted it wasn't one but ten women which brings up the last point about you just don't know how many more victims there may be out there. >> let's talk about the two-star who has opinion assigned to investigate what happened at the air force academy. chris, we know this has gone all the way to the top. leon panetta has talked about the problem of sexual assault in the military, also the naval academy, west point. i mean, this has become a serious concern within the military ranks. >> reporter: that's right. secretary panetta has said, look, service members should not be afraid of fellow service members, and that's the heart of this right now. now, i have to say, not all of these are assaults, rape, like the one that's coming up in a couple weeks, the trial or the court-martial, but some are inappropriate sexual contact, and when you've got superiors and junior personnel, it's a

very, very tricky moment to say when there was actual consent, and i think that's the point of a lot of women -- female service members who are coming forward to say, look, the military is not like civilian world. we can't just quit our job. we can't use the civilian courts to get a remedy if we feel we've been harassed. it's a different dynamic, and we feel there has to be some special rules. some would actually like to see service members be able to take advantage of civilian courts in dealing with this. the pentagon is trying to keep it in house for now. what they are doing is starting up these special victims units. in other words, people who are trained in how to gather evidence in assaults, people who are trained in how to interview potential victims of sexual abuse, taking it sort of out of the chain of command and starting to have these special units to be able to address some of these issues. >> we will definitely stay with the story. chris lawrence, thanks so much.

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well, our neighbors to the south have elected a new president. in mexico enrique pena neato is the projected winner. a preliminary count actually shows him leading with nearly 40%. that puts the former ruling party back in power for the first time since 2000. so who exactly is enrique pena ne neato. well, he's 45 years old, a lawyer, and for five years he was governor of the state of mexico. that's the most populous state with 15 million resident, by the way, and he's been a longtime member of the pri party. he's married to one of mexico's

most famous soap opera stars as well. miguel, i know you've met him. what's your sense? >> reporter: my sense this is a very smart, very shrewd, very political guy. his uncle, by the way, was governor of the state of mexico previous to enrique pena neato taking over. he's been in the pri party his entire life. he's worked in the pouls and the gut of the pri party. he is a pri-ista as they call him at heart. this guy, if there's anybody who can change the pri from the inside out that's him. that's essentially what he's telegraphed to the mexican party, what he's saying the party will do. even if he wins by that 40%, 60% of mexicans voted against him, so in his speech last night he was very conciliatory. he clearly was speaking to everybody, students, students enraged at his own party as well, telling them that they are

going to create more opportunity, telling them that the mexican people have given him a second chance, and he understands that, and that he is going to change the pri and change mexico. kyra? >> change pri, change mexico. what about the drug cartels? can he even begin to change that? >> reporter: that is going to be a big, big issue here. i think the big things we'll see very quickly. the inauguration is in december. in september though the legislature starts up. he will have probably a lock on the lower house, it looks like, and maybe very close, at least a working majority in the senate as well. we're likely to see two things. one, an oil law here, a new law regul regulating the energy industry, including the pemex and also the beginnings of the new war against the drug cartels here. he wants to create sort of a national police force, a force that can investigate and replace on the streets and replace the military troops and wring in the

drug cartels. they wants to bring in his general, a drug adviser and perhaps shut down that southern flow of cocaine and other drugs from -- from some countries and also grapple with the marijuana and the meth growing and making here in mexico and try to bring that overall level of violence down on the street for all mexicans. >> we'll follow it. miguel, thanks. and in seer why a new international plan to end the deadly uprising of president bashar al assad already appears stalled if not dead. the deal by the transitional government was reached over the weekend in again v.a. by the u.s. and other governments as well as u.s. allies russia and china. syrian officials dismissed the deal because the possibility assad can remain in power. secretary of state hillary clinton concedes russia may not have the clout to force assad to step down.

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well, talk about your happy landings. take you live to mobile, alabama. it's the welcoming of the aircraft manufacturer airbus and the $600 million that it now plans to invest in its first

north american factory. the alabama plant is expected to produce the jennings renration. a-320 passenger plane and also provide about 1,000 jobs. airbus is a bitter rival of boeing which you probably know it. accuses it of unfair and illegal subsidies from european governments. more details from today's big announcement as soon as we get them. the supreme court ruling has been made. health care reform is upheld, but for some this debate is far from over. chief political correspondent candy crowley takes a look at the next stop for obamacare. >> reporter: you can't go higher than the high court so the way the white house figures it health care is the law of the land, period. >> it's time now to get over the debate and implement the law. >> reporter: problem is that settled law is one thing and settled politics is an oxymoron. >> i find it amazing when the governor and others in her party just dismiss the difference between a state having a plan

and the federal government having a plan. the there's a difference in the world. there's all the difference in the world. could you have states -- >> the supreme court just dismissed that argument. >> reporter: across the sunday talk shows the health care debate moved from the stately and secretive chambers of the supreme court back across the street to where it began, the hallowed but divided roots of congress. >> this has to be ripped out by its roots. this is government taking over the entire health insurance industry. the american people do not want tag down this path. >> reporter: after the fourth of july recess -- >> this is a 15-minute vote. >> reporter: house is planning to vet on repeal of health care law, blow it up, even the popular parts like banning insurance companies from setting lifetime caps on benefits or refusioning coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. and that's why even though repeal will pass the republican-dominated house democratic leader nancy pelosi is smiling. >> repeal of all the things i

said that help children and young adults and seniors, men or women who have pros kate cancer, breast cancer, and a pre-condition and everybody will have lower rates, better quality care and better access so that's what we want to repeal. we're happy to have that debate. >> reporter: pelosi can afford to be mellow. she and everybody else knows repeal are never pass the democratic majority senate, speaking of which senate republican leader mitch mcconnell may be in the minority now, but he happened to mention sunday that november could change things. >> if i'm the leader of the majority next year, i commit to the american people that the repeal of obamacare will be job one. by the way, i think we will also be insisting that we have a vote on obamacare again before the election, but in terms of achieving it, it would take a different senate with a different majority leader and a different president. >> reporter: which brings us to where the supreme court really sent the health care debate. >> it's beyond congress, the

president and even the supreme court. the american people will be the judge and jury of this law come november. >> reporter: turns out you can go higher than the high court. candy crowley, cnn, washington. >> and for more on, visit cnn.com. watch candy crowley on "state of the union" every sunday morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern. in illinois, taxi drivers will be able to charge passengers a $50 cleanup fee for vomiting in cabs. virginia law now says that all electronic messages on outdoor advertising must remain in place for at least eight seconds so drivers won't be distracted, and then in massachusetts a law goes into effect banning the disposal of medical sharps like needles and syringes in all household trash, and then in idaho law enforcement will now be able to issue arrest warrants by fax, and in kentucky all the folks with extra hogs on their hands,

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well, she has battled the flesh-eating bacteria for two months, and today amy copeland took a huge step towards recovery. she was released from a georgia hospital to begin rehab. her dad says she's very excited, like a kid going off to college. you'll recall that aimee had her hands, one of her legs and also remaining foot amputated. doctors say she became infected

after that zip line accident in may. and, of course, for more on the flesh-eating bacteria and her recovery, visit cnn.com/health. we are following her progress. and a federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order that allows mississippi's only abortion clinic to stay open for now. a state law imposing tough new regulations was supposed to go into effect today but has been put on hold pending a hearing later this morning. the kliclinic's owner says thate new rules could force her to shut down, so is this about protecting women's health, or is it just about politics? george howell is in jackson, mississippi. george, what's in the law that could actually force this clinic to close? >> reporter: kyra this, law does effectively two things. first of all, it requires that any physician who performs an abortion in the state of mississippi, that they be board certified ob-gyns and that they have special permissions with local hospitals to admit

patients, if necessary. the sponsor of this bill that became law says it sounds simple enough. it is a health regulation, but the owner of this clinic says, first of all, she's been trying to get those permissions since the law was signed back in april but to no avail and believes hospitals may be under pressure in the state to drag their feet onnish this u. i want to step out of the way and show you a live picture of what is a daily standoff. each day this clinic is open you can see people protesting who want to see the kliclinic gone, but, again, the clinic remains open, kyra, under this temporary restraining order that protects it from the state law, at least until july 11th when we will hear there will be a hearing on this case. i spoke to the owner of the clinic just about staying open and what she thinks about that. here's what she sao had to say. >> this has nothing to do with women's health, and they made that quite clear with their statements that they want to close this clinic, but up to now, women have a constitutional right to have this ability to have this decision to make, so we have to have somewhere for

them to make that in this state. this is clearly a challenge to "roe v. wade," and i think everyone in this country realizes that. >> reporter: just a minute ago i spoke to the sponsor of this bill, representative sam mimms who says he's disappointed that this law is not taking effect today, that this kline sick still open. also a statement from the governor that i want to read to you, governor phil bryant. his spokesperson says, quote, the federal judge's decision is disappointing, and governor bryant plans to work with state leaders to ensure that this legislati legislation takes effect as soon as possible, kyra. you see on one side of this story they are trying to work to make sure that the clinic is closed, but here at the clinic, it remains business as usual under this new protection. >> all right. we'll follow it. our george howell there out of jackson, mississippi, thanks so much. we'll definitely be watching what happens next. the reaction was pretty swift and exexpected. republicans railed against the supreme court decision last week to uphold president obama's health care law. >> i think that the chief

justice was wrong on this, but that's if the for me to say. the court has ruled, and i respect that ruling, but i think what the chief justice says is, look, in fact, he said it himself. he said it's not the role of the court to protect the citizens from their political decisions. the consequences of their political decisions. he threw it right back in the american people's lap and appropriately so. this is a policy decision. whether or not it's constitutional, it's now been ruled constitutional. doesn't mean it's the right policy for the country. >> democrats meanwhile applauded the ruling saying it's what the american people wanted. >> well, i think if republicans make as their number one issue the repeal of health care, they are certainly going to lose the election in the house and the senate and the presidency. bottom line is most americans are not for repeal. >> joe johns is with the cnn election express in des moines, iowa. joe, right after the supreme court ruled we went out there and taking the country's pulse for four full days. now we've actually got the numbers.

>> reporter: that's right. >> so as you've crunched it all, is it just what the american people wanted? >> reporter: well, you're right. thursday night, this is just after the supreme court ruling, cnn was out in the field trying to find out what you were thinking and what we found out, kyra, is that there's a very evenly divided split of americans on this issue of the supreme court's ruling on health care. 50% of americans in our poll said they agree with the decision. 49% said they disagree. it's also clear that whether you agree or disagree clearly depends on your party affiliation. take a look at this. democrats, 81% said they agree with the court's decision on the health care law, upholding the obama mandate. republicans, not so much. only 18% said they agreed with it. independents, you would expect them to be the tie-breaker, not necessarily so here. they are split, too. 47% said they agree with the

supreme court decision. >> you know what's interesting though when you lack at those numbers, joe. there's still a lot of people, and there were some polls that came out within the last week, that are confused about this, that still do not understand it. >> right. >> and in many ways decided to go with the way they voted because they -- that was kind of the only choice they were left with. >> i think that's obviously a very good question you can ask simply because this poll actually started being taken the very day the supreme court decision came out so there's going to be a learning curve for the american people to try to figure this one out. the interesting fact though is if you sort of ask globally who was the big winner in all of this, it turns out it was is united states supreme court in a lot of ways. look at this. the question we asked is do you agree with how the supreme court is handling its job and we see a big jump there among democrats.

democrats went from 50% in april to 13% approvingf the supreme court's job now. republicans, not so much. again, 31% of republicans saying they don't approve of how the supreme court is handling its job, and that's -- that's down from 52% in april. independents once again a wash, still right there in the middle. so people are looking at the supreme court saying i don't know if i like the supreme court based on this one decision apparently, kyra. >> all right. joe johns there in des moines for us. joe, thanks. not so fast, charlie rangel. the veteran new york congressman's victory in the democratic primary may not be as solid as he thought last week. apparently a new vote tally over the weekend put rangel up by just 800 votes, but there are more than 3,000 paper ballots that have to be sorted through. rangel is fighting in a new district, one that's much more

hispanic-american than in the past. had a chance to speak with him a while back and asked him about the challenge of facing a hispanic candidate in the primary. >> now we're on the breach, of course, people doing a cultural thing as opposed to an experienced thing and it will work out because no matter where dominicans are, puerto ricans, african-americans, and if you take a look at the diversity of my voting congressional district, there won't be a problem there in terms of getting re-elected. >> well, rangel's challenger is dominican-american, talking about adriano espaillat and now he's expected to go to court today over those uncounted write-in ballots. there are a lot of warning lights and sounds vying for your attention. so we invented a warning you can feel.

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well, in iraq he guarded thousands of detainees. in khadr he was an mp. in kuwait he was a u.s. customs agent. bernard james definitely has some skills, a lot of them, but now he's going from over the pond on to the court trading in his fatigues for a basketball jersey. air force staff sergeant bernard james has experienced a different kind of draft, the nba draft. he was picked in the second round and is now a dallas

maverick. bernard, first of all, congratulations, definitely not your typical path to the nba. >> thank you, thank you, yeah, definitely not. >> so what did it feel like when you found out you were drafted? i mean, you got a standing ovation. everybody stood up shouting your name, shouting usa. >> yeah. it just felt amazing. you know, i love seeing people's patriotism and i love seeing the crowd come together like that. you know, they were kind of cheering against each other all night. all of them had their jerseys on for the teams they liked so it was good seeing them all coming together and shouting, you know, usa. >> now i'm curious, iraq, qatar, kuwait in, particular iraq. how did you build your skills? i mean, it's not so easy to find a basketball court that's safe in a war zone? >> yeah, definitely not. i mean, it was tough. it was tough. there was definitely a drop-off while i was over there, but, you know, i mean, we had like a makeshift court, you know, so at least i was able to touch a ball

and just, you know, be able to, you know, keep used to how the ball feels, but, i mean, when i got back in the states, you know, i would just kind of go into overdrive to kind of make up for lost time. >> you know, this was not something that you dreamed about as a kid. you -- you -- you actually have a stepfather that was very influential in your life. he was military. it was had a no-brainer, you said, so how exactly did this happen? >> i think it was just -- it was just the right time, and i felt like, you know, i was getting that itch to be independent, you know. i think -- i think i got that a little bit earlier age than most people. i wanted to get out and do my own thing and make my own way so, you know, the military seemed like a perfect choice for me because i grew up in that regimented lifestyle and, you know, moving around and traveling a lot, so the military offered all of those things and, you know, it offered me a career. >> and how -- how did it lead into basketball? and tell me about eric dumas. apparently he was your

supervisor and saw you on the court one day and said holy cow, do you play ball? >> i know. it was -- actually eric dumas, i cite him as being, you know, the person responsible for getting me to play organized basketball, but before he even saw me on the court, this is at work one day. i just armed up and got my weapon, about to head out for duty and he asked me did i play basketball, and i said no, and he's like well you do now. >> why, because you were so tall? >> yeah, yeah, just tall and lanky, long arms. he was actually the coach for an intramural basketball squad. looking for a new center and happened to find it in me. >> he spotted you and said you're tall enough, i'll make you a good player, and you did, you obviously had a lot of talent. >> yeah. >> so when did you decide, okay, i'm going to go for it. i'm going to pursue the nba? >> i mean really -- i didn't start pursuing the nba until about a year ago until after my

junior season at fsu. before that, you know, the whole goal was getting out and just getting into college and getting my degree. i didn't really realize that i could play in the nba until, you know, about a year ago. >> it's amazing. all right. so let me ask you this because i want to bring it back to you serving our country. i mean, here you were in iraq, in qatar and kuwait. you're weapon-trained. you've been in hostile situations. you know, you're now going to be playing with a lot of guys, all they know is basketball, right? this has been their dream. >> yeah. >> they haven't been schooled like you have about the world and -- and they haven't served our country. how are you going to fold into that life? i mean, there's a lot of money. there's a lot of attitude. what are you going to bring to the game that you are hope might have a bit of a positive impact? >> i think -- i think my appeal to teams is just the fact that i have been through so much, so, you know, i think i have a better grasp on real life than some of these guys.

they get caught up, you know in, just the situation they have been in in their entire lives. it's understandable, but i think i'll be able to help keep my teammates grounded and just, you know, with a better -- better appreciation for what we are all enjoying, you know, as nba players. >> well, and you think of a lot of nba players, right, the fights, the attitude. you can't -- i mean, in the military you've got to keep your cool. you've got to know how to deal with pressure and know how to deal with stress. how do you think that's going to impact you as a player and also, you know, your teammates? >> it -- everything from the air force translates directly over into the nba, you know, from the high pressure situations to -- to keeping your cool under pressure, and all that -- all that transfers directly over, and it will help me become a better leader, and i'll be able to contribute a lot in the locker room to my teammates right from the jump. even before i'll be able to be a huge contributor on the court. >> you know before i let you go.

who do you think is going to be tougher, coach carlisle with the mavericks or your commanding officer when you were in the air force? >> i don't know. that's yet to be seen. i'm looking forward to it though. >> you might be -- you've got to be tougher, coach. you understand. now he's in iraq. might be coming back asking for more. >> yeah, maybe. >> bernard, good luck, we appreciate you being with us. >> thank you. >> you bet. we'll be watching your career and bernard james will report to the dallas mavericks july 11th. ♪ [ male announcer ] ok, so you're no marathon man. but thanks to the htc one x from at&t, with its built in beats audio, every note sounds amazingly clear. ...making it easy to get lost in the music...

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and the crowd went wild. the spap yards finally had something to cheer about last night amid the country's economic crisis. spain's soccer team beat italy with a convincing 4-0 victory to capture the 2012 european championship. they are not the best team in europe, some say they are the best team to ever play the game. spain is now the first to win three consecutive major tournaments in a row having won the 2008 euro cup and also the 2010 world cup. all right. let me tell you. you might want to remember this gal because she is set to be one of the faces for team usa in the summer olympics, and she's only 17. missy franklin had the fastest

time of the year last night when she swam the 200-meter backstroke in 2:06. that win qualified her for her seventh olympic event, the most ever by a u.s. female swimmer. well, it's hard enough to win a spot on the u.s. track and field team but two women sprinters now face a runoff in the 100 meters to settle a third place tie. you've got to listen to this. allyson felix and jeneba tarmoh finished in a dead heat for third place in the finals eight days ago. well, the top three finishers in each event make the team that will compete in the london games later this month. a usa track and field initially had said that initially that both women agreed to the runoff set for tonight, but now there is word that tarmo is having second thoughts. here to help us sort it out, you are saying this is great for the sport, because everybody is paying attention to it, but it is emotional for the gals. >> i feel sorry for the girls,

but if you like reality television. >> it is playing out right here in our world. >> yes, and it is the ultimate reality tv and it is going to last 10 seconds, but it will suck in so many people, and it is so emotional for both of of the girls and it is a unique situation for the track and field and if it goes ahead, it is fantastic for the sport and it is borne out of what was a disaster for the sport that they found themselves in the position in the first place. >> but now we are hearing that, the armoh is having second thoughts. >> well, people are persuading her not to run. she is a rookie in the sport, and she thought she had a place in the olympic team and finished third and there up ob the board she was third. she got the flag and did the lap of honor, and they said, no, basically these two crossed the line at exactly the same time. and the guy in charge of running the photo finish at first gave it to tarmoh, but because of the

pressure of the situation and this is to get on the olympic team, he said i'm not so sure about it. so they reran it, and reran it. >> they went through frame by frame. >> thousands of frames per second. >> what was the final word? i mean, were they exactly on the line together. >> no doubt? >> they could fot pick them apart. these two are friends. they train together. >> same coach, right? >> same coach, same sponsor, and both by nike, and here they are, and the trials have been going on for the rest of the week, and they took part in the 200 meter trial yesterday in which felix set the fastest time in 14 years, so she is on a high and definitely going to the olympics competing in the olympics and tarmoh missed out, and she came in fifth. and they are both going to be on the squad, but tarmoh would like to be there in her own right. >> when will we know? when she is going to decide? >> during the day and the last minute and even felix said this

is not worth it to me if i get injured. and so we will see if they both warm up and felix says, i am warming up, and i am not going to risk it. >> and they could flip a coin. >> how exciting is that? no way, you want to see them in action. >> absolutely. >> we will have a follow up and you will bring it to us as soon as it happens. thank you, don. as the olympic athletes prepare to go for the gold, piers morgan is preparing a special salute called "pride of america" airing this wednesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. accolade overdrive.

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unmanned test flight apparently as we are listening to the live news conference here is scheduled for 2014. well, with the conviction of jerry sandusky for raping several boys over several years, the focus now is turning to what penn state knew about his crimes and what officials did or didn't do to stop him. a batch of newly uncovered 11-year-old e-mails actually suggest that former university president graham spanier and former athletic director tim curley and former vp gary schultz actually considered tell telling the authorities about the infamous 2001 shower incident, but decided it would be more, quote, humanmanhumane, it quiet. susan candiotti, it is your report that is getting all of the attention, because of the the paterno factor and tell us ho i it is figuring into the coach? >> well, it is that apparently

joe paterno had another conversation that we didn't previously know about after he initially reported what mike mcqueary the grad assistant said he saw in that shower incident between jerry sandusky and the boy in 001, and the alleged e-mails reflected this and it is raising more questions about that. let's start with as you indicated that initially penn state officials apparently had a plan. let's go to the text of the first e-mail that is purported to be from the penn state athletic director tim curley from vice president gary schultz in 2001. it is the plan is to talk to the subject, jerry sandusky, asap regarding the appropriate use of the facility, and contacting the charity, second mile, and also contacting the department of welfare, and that is contacting

the welfare officials. remember, that if even you suspect something, you are required to report it to child welfare officials, and then kyra, something appears to change and i will tell you about the change of heart now in the second e-mail. we go to the second alleged e-mail. the very next day in a message to the president of the university from, let's see, from tim curley, and copying gary schultz, he says after giving it more thought and talking with joe yesterday, i am uncomfortable with what we agreed were the next steps. i'm having trouble going to everyone but the person involved. i think it is more comfortable meeting with the person involved and tell them the information that we received. so in other words, at this point, kyra, they decide not to move forward with telling all of this to the child welfare agenci

agencies. >> any comment from these three since you have been able to break this news? >> well, we didn't get any calls back from the lawyer representing your former president of penn state graham spanier, but we did a letter from the lawyers representing c curley and schultz. this is how it reads. for curley, schultz, spanier and paterno, the responsible and the humane thing to do was like governor corbett of pennsylvania to carefully and responsibly assess the best way to handle vague but troubling allegations. faced with tough situations, good people try to do their best to make the right decisions. the question is, was that the right decision not to report this to any outside authorities when they are required to do so and instead try to handle it internally, and as we know, the records show that child welfare was never contacted. and it is important, kyra, at least four children were later attacked by jerry sandusky. he was convicted in connection

with having sexual contact with at least four children after the 2001 shower incident. >> susan candiotti, thank you so much, and you can continue to conversation with me on twitter at kyra@cnn, and newsroom international starts right now. welcome the "newsroom international." i'm suzanne malveaux and we are taking you around the world in 60 minutes. here is what is going on. three british soldiers have been killed in afghanistan's kahelma province. it is not clear if the attacker was a police officer or infiltrator wearing the uniform. all right. you can hear the music and the chanting, but tens of thousands of people hit the streets in hong kong after the new leader was sworn in. protest is an annual event on the anniversary of hong kong's return to chinese rule, but this year, people say they are more

worried than ever about china's increasing role in their daily life and freedom. on to spain where you wouldn't know that there is an economic crisis from watching this. check it out. spain's soccer team beat italy with convincing force, a victory to take the 2012 european championship, but they are not just the best team in europe, and some say they may be the best team to ever play the game. spain is now the first team to win three consecutive major tournaments having won 2008 euro cup and the 2010 world cup. now to mexico where they have a new president today. election awe nuthorities projec rei

reiki pena nieto, and he was the president of the populist state from 2009 to 2011 and some parts of his life do sound like a soap opera. miguel is joining us from mexico city. tell us a little bit about the colorful past here. >> well, it is a soap opera if you consider here is a guy who is young and good looking and powerful and married to a woman who suddenly dies. has two kids out of wedlock and ends up marrying a soap opera star. that is who he is. he is married to a woman angelica rivera who was the star of "great love" and i love the title here, but all of that aside, he came from great criticism from the opposition, because he was a golden child and that his hair was too perfect and that he was too good looking and ken doll figure and a face of the pri. but i have met him, and he is a

very smart, very serious guy. very shrewd politically, and you know, he does believe that he can take the pri in a different direction and that is the big question, whether or not he actually will. suzanne. >> how will he govern differently than calderon? >> well, he can govern more easily than calderon. if he gets 40% of the votes, that is a landslide here, but still 60% of the people voted against him, but it looks like he will control the lower house in the legislature, and then it looks like he will have a working majority with the current administration who is in the upper house. so he will have a much better time tackling the unions, oil and energy issues and changing the police force and the military and all things he says he wants to do and the big grand mexican institutions and the historical institutions here are things that he wants to take on, and he says that he wants to do it and he can do it, and he will have a much easier time than calderon getting some of the

things done. suzanne? >> we noticed something this morning that president clinton's former ambassador to mexico james jones described him similar to ronald reagan, because he said that reagan was not analytically smart, but he chose people around him who knew how to run a good government, and does that sound like the new leader of mexico as well? >> well, it sounds right. i am thinking of along the lines of tony blair and what he did with new labor, and sort of a reaganesque tony blair, and in some ways it is true because reagan did turn the republican party and pena nieto can change it from the inside and mexican people seemed to have voted for that and this is the guy who can bring the change they want, and the economy is growing here fairly good, and it is to grow et ber than the u.s., but it is not growing fast enough. he talked about wealth distribution and helping the poor and stuff that you would

not expect out of a guy like this. he really wants to change the institutions to create more opportunities for mexicans across the board and bring that disparity between the rich and poor closer together. suzanne. >> miguel, thank you. i understand he is only 45 years old, too. he is one of the peers. thanks. good to see you. this is a scene after shelling in syria. opposition group today described a state of terror spreading in suburban damascus. opposition groups say that june was a particularly gruesome month and almost 2400 people were killed including mourners at a funeral saturday. the bomb was caught on tape. the explosion killed 85 people and wounded more than 300 others. opposition activists say that the attack was organized by the syrian government.

mohammed jamjoon is joining us from abu dhabi and we are seeing the violence increasing here sh, and we are getting the new death toll numbers from the opposition. do we have a sense of how great this is? >> h s >> suzanne, it is dire. the local coordination committees, an opposition group came out with a number saying that the 16 months since the se syrian uprising began that over 14,000 people have died in syria, and over 7,000 people have just died in the last four months. that is a staggering number when you think of all of the violence going on, and especially when you consider how much diplomatic activity has been going on in the past three months in trying to implement a peace plan and cease-fire that never took root there. now, trying to illustrate how bad the situation is there. you talked about the car bombing there from a few minutes ago, and you are playing the video of it at the same time, and at that

same time the diplomats were meeting at an emergency meeting in geneva, so even as the diplomats are trying to herald a peace plan, and the violence is escalating and this is a scene of utter carnage according to the activist we spoke to, and even after the car bombing they are blaming on the syrian regime, there were syrian forces who were shooting at them and a doctor who was tending to the wound was killed in that way. suzanne? >> we are talking about that, and the arab league is stepping up trying to stop the violence. they are trying to get the syrian leaders to get together in cairo to discuss the new international plan to end this violence and the deal calls for a transitional government that is decided on by the syrian people. i want to bring in jill d dougherty from washington, and this is the first time the arab league has been hosting the syrian opposition leaders and it comes after a weekend, a breakthrough, if you will from the world leaders agreeing they want some sort of transitional

government. do we have any sense of how these talks are going? >> well, at this point, no. that is what they are trying to do. it is very, very difficult. they have 250 opposition people there. it is a really disparate group, and they are trying really to just come up with some common vision, but afterall, this meeting over the weekend where secretary clinton was, if she in an interview with me said, admitted that there is no guarantee that this plan that they worked out in geneva is even going to ultimately work. she just said, i hate to say that, quote, but it is really the truth. one of the things that mohammed was talking about the opposition really are violently opposed to any idea that assad would stay, and when they say that there is not really clarity in the declaration from geneva, they are right, but here is what secretary clinton said, saying

the opposite, that actually in reality no way will he stay. >> what the agreement clear ly states is that there has to be a transitional governing body that will be constituted of people who are there by the mutual consent of the government and the opposition. now, unless i'm wildly off base, there is no way that anyone in the opposition would consent to assad or the inside regime cronies with blood on their hands being on any transitional governing body. >> well, that is certainly hope, su suzanne, but there is certainly no guarantee. and the strategy of trying to get russia aboard and they did accept some tweaks as they were called by russia and coming up with this lack of clarity. >> jill, one of the things that they are upset about is the fact

that assad would have some role in this transitional government, is that correct? >> no, it is not really that far, suzanne. what it is, they say in the document that they would, and members of the regime could thee ret cli be part of this. but it doesn't mean that assad would necessarily be in it at all. and in fact, that is what clinton is saying that he wouldn't realistically, but the problem is that it is not there specifically, and that is where this, this lack of clarity comes out. the whole idea i think was to really try to get russia aboard and go to assad and put the pressure on assad, but the russians say they are not quite sure they have the leverage to do that. >> jill dougherty at the state department. thank you, jill. here is more of what we are working on in this hour of "newsroom international." and why war rooms could drive up the price of gas between the u.s. and iran.

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missiles and the news agency says they are to make the region look like other regional powers. michael holmes is here to talk about the war games and the timing is important, because the european union to decide to go forward with the em bar doe go and how threatened does iran feel? >> well, economically very threatened and all of this is tying into that. what we have seen is the eu embargo on the iranian oil coming into full effect as of july 1st. what that will do is that 18% of iran's exports came from european imports, and that has all gone now, and you are talking about hundreds of millions of dollar and major export country has found that it is using the market that it has had and also that the countries can not insure the oil and giving iran a hard time, and yes, it comes right at the time when they are doing the war games which is basically flexing

their muscle in the region saying, hey, we can take care of ourselves while you are pressuring us about the nuclear issue. >> and the oil embargo is 80% of the revenue they are getting, and it is coming from the oil they are exporting? >> 80% of the foreign oil, and the foreign revenues comes from oil. yes, something like half of the total revenues comes from oil. as i say that the european union with a chunk of that and a lot of other oil goes to china and indonesia and other places as well, but it is a significant economic impact on a country that is already having economic woes caused by the sanctions that are already in place. >> so how much more can the iranian people take? i mean, when does this actually, and where is the tipping point do you think? >> well, a lot of people say that the sanctions put on them, a lot of people say that the sanctions don't work, but it is squeezing iran. the e kconomy is really having hard time and the inflation is officially 25%, but a lot of people say it is more than that, and the currency has been

devalued against the other currencies 50%. so a lot of of the iranians are going broke. other than those who are currency speculators who are making all of the money. the bread has gone up 16 times or 16-fold in the last two years so it is hard for the average iranian and they are starting to feel it. we have talked about this before, the iranians are traditional outside of the capitol, but outside, they are tech savvy and you start to threaten them. >> is anybody upset about the war games? >> well, it is the usual bellicose stuff that you hear from them, our missiles can reach the u.s. bases in the aer ea if israel tries to attack us, and we will attack them and destroy them and that sort of stuff. bahrain is also having its own military exercises, and that is going on as well. a lot of the economic stuff is interesting and to watch the impact. the talks themselves, the

nuclear talks at the heart of all of this, going nowhere. absolutely nowhere at the moment. >> this is a complicated situation, isn't it? >> yes, one thing leading to another and leading to another, but it is intertwined and it is all very important. >> thank you, michael. sunday after sunday, they are burning more churches to the ground in kenya. we will find out what is behind the violence. where is it ? it's gone. we'll find it. any day can be an adventure. that's why we got a subaru. love wherever the road takes you. wow, there it is. the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption.

imagine being bound, unable to move anything but your eye lids? it is a reality for a man in england who suffered a catastrophic stroke seven years ago and he says that the only relief for the condition called locked in syndrome will come from dying. he has been fighting for the

right to end his life. it is a case that is drawing international attention as well as opinions. we have a report. >> reporter: seven years ago tony nicholson was a healthy 51-year-old man. >> he is the life and the soul of the party, and a big bloke and ex-rugby player and worked hard and played hard. he was, you know, full of life and great sense of humor and liked the sound of his own voice. th >> reporter: then he suffered a stroke. today, man who loved life is fighting for the right to end it. >> my name is tony and i have locked in syndrome. this means that most of my body is paralyzed, but my mind is as if it was before the stroke. all i can move is my head and the stroke took away my power of speech. now i talk to people with a spelling board or computer operated by my eye blinks.

my day typically begins at 5:00 a.m. i need only four or five hours' sleep, because i live a sed entry life. i watch television until 8:30 when the first carers come. during this time, my wife checks on me at 7:30 and between then and 8:00, she gives me the juice for breakfast, and these are only to make my life comfortable, because i have refused all drugs to prolong my life since 2007. unfortunately for me tomorrow, tomorrow is the same, and the next and the next. that infinite. >> do you wish to die? >> yes. >> but under british law, he is incapable of committing suicide and it is illegal for anyone to help him. the so-called active euthanasia when assistance is needed to end

a life, it constitutes murder and the sentence is life imprisonment. tony has taken the case to the high court in britain and saying he is not looking for a new law to allow euthanasia, but he simply wants a remedy to the current legislation which he calls discriminatory. >> some people have in the past spoken to me in a loud and slow and deliberate tones normally reserved for the deaf or the daft, but i am neither. all too often well bodied people assume that if a person is so severely disabled that if he needs assistance to commit suicide, he must be au automatically unable to make the that choice, but where a person has the ability, he should have the choice of life and death, and the only difference of me and you is that i cannot take my own life without s a sassistanc >> tony's condition has not changed for seven years and he and his wife say that the longer the court takes to rule on the appeal, the longer his only hope for relief is postponed.

>> i think that the injustice of it all, and you or i can go out to take our lives any time we want, whereas tony, being the one who really needs that right can't do this. he is only asking for what everyone else has got, really, the right to take his own life. he wants that given back to him. >> reporter: the high court is expected to issue the judgment in tony's case after the end of july, and as difficult as things are for them, jane says that she and tony have never had any doubts that assisted suicide is the right choice for them. >> it has taken so long to get to this point, and he has never ever waivered and it is what he wants desperately, and if p it is what he wants, it is what we want. >> that was thelma alma geguir of london. and more and more churches

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somal somalia, and they describe a scene of mayhem where the men stormed in and lobbed grenades to the open churches and then fired what looked like automatic weapons. 17 killed and several seriously injured and scores likely injured. this worry is that it is the latest indication that while kenyan forces are in somalia trying to shore up a barrier between the lawless somalia and here in kenya, these attacks just keep on happening. there have been a spait of them over recent months both on the border region, susan, but also in nairobi along the coast. there are terrorist warnings by the government about the terror locations here in kenya, but this is the latest indication of what is problem of militants coming over to operate here in kenya. >> talk about that, because many believe it is al shabab and this is a group that is affiliated with al qaeda. >> well, this point, al shabab

at this point, they -- they are affiliated with al qaeda, and while the killing of bin laden has been demonstrably weakened to striking terror around the world, al shabab has a strong operational effectiveness in this region according to the security officials i talked to. and this is under african ml tear and covert operations by the united states and others, and they are moving back and forth between somalia and yemen and the country in the peninsula where al qaeda in the peninsula arabian peninsula and that is considered to be the most dangerous out there. and today, four hostages were released afterf a firefight in southern somalia, and they were

aid workers near the somalia border. and we reported on the family from that region last year, and now these people were trying to help the somalis in the refugee came taken from that camp and because of the tipoff of the local population, the kenyan authorities rescued them. one was injured by a gunshot wound to the foot. but they were relieved when they got off and spoke briefly to the media. >> all right. good news on that account. thank you, david. the most sacred tombs of timbuktu were set ablaze by militants, and we will tell you why things are getting out of control in mali. here can be such a big thing in an old friend's life. purina one discovered that by blending enhanced botanical oils into our food, we can help brighten an old dog's mind so he's up to his old tricks. with this kind of thinking going into our food, imagine all the goodness that can come out of it.

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welcome back to newsroom international and we take you around the world in 60 minutes. first to the west coast of japan where for the first time since may a nuclear plant is up and running despite the protests outside, the start-up operations began sunday night after the ohi nuclear plant number three reactor. originally japan shut down all of the nuclear plants for safety checks following the meltdown at the fukushima plant that was hit by a tsunami in 2011. in the west after can nation of mali, separatists are calling for the u.s. and france to help stop militants from destroying

the cultural heritage sites in timbuktu. a 15th century shrine to muslim saints have been destroyed. it happened friday one day after the u.n. world heritage committee placed the shrine on the list of having outstanding global value. there are 900 heritage sites around the world. the rebels say that islamic extremists, including a group related to al qaeda have taken control of timbuktu. montreal police say they have found what they say appears to be the remains of a human head. it was found in a city park, and what they are not saying if it is connected to the murder suspect luke magnotta who is accused of killing a student studying in montreal. and this is a photo of two women trying to go to the olympics.

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elite athletes hope that years of training and sacrifice add up to one thing, a chance to compete in the olympics, but two sprinters facing a runoff to settle a third place in the 100 meters and spot on the u.s. team. allison felix and jeneba tarmoh finished in a dead heat eight days ago. and that is when track and field said that both women agreed to a

runoff set for tonight, but now there is word that tarmoh is having second thoughts. i want to bring in don riddle who is here to sort it out. and don, you were saying this is not going to happen afterall? >> well, it does not sound like it which is a shame, because i feel for the athletes involved including jeneba tarmoh who thought she had won the third and thought she won. she looked up and saw her name on the board and did a lap of honor, but found out it was a heat. so for her, she was emotionally drained by the process and she has found the last week very, very difficult. she is a rookie in the sport and first year as a professional sprinter and she has had to go through this. last night she was having second thoughts and within the last few minutes the agent said she is not wanting to do it, and wants to pull out and conceding to allison felix and the emotional process of this, and she wouldn't have won the race anyway. >> any possibility that the women could share that place, that spot or that is not going the happen? >> well, only room for one on

the track. they send a team of three, and the first two in the race are going to the olympics and the dispute was over the third place finish. now, tarmoh will go to the olympics as a member of the relay team, but she wanted to go in her own right, but she felt she was not in a place to compete. >> there was talk of flipping a coin. do they have to do this race, because if she is so distraught for running this race, is that one of the options? >> well, that is one of the options, but from what i say, she is going to tell allyson felix to take the spot. it is a disaster for u.s. track and field and they did not have a contingency of how the deal with this and granted highly unlikely that it would have happened and they looked at the photo finish of this race and analyzed h analyzed thousands of frames in the race second by second and could not pick it apart. it is no plan to have a protocol and swimming does. the u.s. track and field team did not and they are in for some

real criticism there. they could have salvaged it if they gave us this superb race tonight, but fit does not a happen. >> and what happens to the one who gives up on this, she has to wait four more years before she has another shot. >> yes, absolutely. heartbreaking, right? it is brutal. all right. don, thank you. well, they live off of about a dollar a day and their hard labor powers everything from the computer to your cell phone and we are going to take you to congo where people in one of the most poorest countries on earth are sitting atop the technological gold mine. any idea where you're going ? wherever the wind takes me. this is so off course. nature can surprise you sometimes... next time, you drive. next time, signal your turn. ...that's why we got a subaru. love wherever the road takes you.

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welcome back to "newsroom international" where we take you around the world in 60 minuteses, and we will look at what is trending on twitter. it is a peculiar beauty padge pageants. and they registered as holocaust beauty padgetge jenlts, pagea in age, and the pageant organizers call it is celebration of life and some critics call it offensive. they are digging through the ground with their bare hands in search of minerals that make

your cell phones work. a lot of modern technology would not exist without their back-breaking labor. we traveled to the most desolate parts of of the country to see what life is like for these workers. >> i wake up at 5:30 here in the morning of the mining town, and this is a town with no electricity and no running water, and we were stranded out here. which is not part of the plan. they did not take to us too kindly initially, but they were worried about our safety, because we are in south kieu, and a bunch of foreigners spending the night here. they gave us a house to stay in, and then offered us a couple of soldiers. yesterday, we experienced them trying to keep some secrets hidden. so today, we have a plan to break free, and go a couple of kilometers and set up and wait for the miners to show up so we can really see how the mines operate.

this is a main mine. we just got here. these houses are all miners who work right here. it took two days of tracking and looking, and we are this is where all kinds of minerals are coming out of everything from tan ducksdulin.

>> this is the most expensive. this is where they get it. you can see like this one, it is very good, because it is a block of stone. >> it has a lot inside? >> yes, a lot >> reporter: it seems so primitive with the bare hands and the shovels to pull it out, and lot of it ends up in super high-tech devices, and you never think when you are using the devices that back home that this is how it actually starts, and that without this process, it wouldn't exist or it wouldn't work. >> wow. jason mujica is the producer who put that documentary together. jason, excellent work, and it is really fascinating to see this and you cannot imagine that you have a cell phone or the blackberry or something, and you don't think about what goes into making these. can you first of all explain to us what you mean when you say conflict minerals. what are we talking about?

>> the term conflict minerals refers to tungsten, tin, gold and tantilum and the last comes from a rock. and all of these are extracted from the democratic republican of congo, and they have become the kind of the favorite, the favorite tool of armed groups operating there to make some cash to fund their operations. >> why do these miners live under the conditions they do, such poor conditions? >> well, that is kind of the circumstance of most people living in south kieu is a spartan life, and the methods as you have seen in the film and you can watch in full at vice.com are very primitive, but what is not so troubling is the conditions they work in and the actual method of operating or

mining is not so problematic as the vulnerability to various armed groups that operate in the area. armed groups who can come in and kind of take over their operations, and in the best case scenario impose a tax on them, but in a worst case basically enslave the local population. >> i understand, jason, you also saw that there were children working in the mines as well? >> definitely. there were children. and some of the locals, i mean, kind of tried to keep them out of our view. they understand that americans, american camera crews tend to gravitate towards those things and it does not play well in the int international audience, but again, it wasn't so much, and seeing the children was not as disturbing in a place where education is a luxury, and for some people, you know, the opportunity to make one or two dollars a day to support the family is, you know, a little more important than getting to go to school, but again, when those armed groups come in and

take over the mines, you can be sure that it is all hands on deck, and those kids will be put to hard labor. >> what was the most disturbing thing that you saw when you were there and working and talking to people, what did they tell you or did they experience? >> well, it is a difficult question. i mean, it's congo has been suffering for a long, long time. and, you know, we met with the son of the famous -- i'm blanking out on this name. sorry. the son of the famous mobutu, and he admitted that congo was a failed state which is alarming coming from someone so close to the inner circle of congo. >> is there anyone, jason, who is working to help them to improve their conditions? >> well, i mean, conflict

minerals as an issue has been taken up by a lot of international activist groups, and these groups have done a lot to raise awareness of this issue, ironically or perhaps sadly, it has had some effect of creating a kind of unintentional embargo on minerals coming out of the congo which is that western companies would like to avoid minerals from africa and congo in particular altogether rather than have to jump through all of the hoops necessary to certify that these minerals are free of supporting armed groups and conflict. >> it is a complicated situation. jason, thank you. as always, we appreciate your reporting. if you want to see more of this the vice guide to the congo, go the vice.com for the full story. they are science students with a mission to help kick our addiction to fossil fuels.ut r re

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term in 1992. on the italy, the supporters of the italian national soccer team are ready to celebrate, but their team lost the european championship game to spain. spain has won back-to-back euro cups and reigning world cup champion. >> in spain, you would not know that the country is in the middle of an economic crisis if you are watching this. check it out. spain's soccer team beat italy with a convincing 4-0 victory to take the european championship, but not the best team in europe, because some say they are the best team ever to play the game. spain is now the first team to win three consecutive major tourns having won the 2008 world cup and the 2010 world cup. and now al from madrid, tell us about this. the team met with the king of spain, is that right?

oh, i understand that al is not with us. that is okay. we will try to get him back when he can. college students in singapore are vying to be head of the class and in a competition that is driving them to new heights. they are designing the eco-friendly automobile of the future. but it takes more than mathematical calculations to make these cars go up. we have this report. >> reporter: it is last-minute tinkering to make this eco car go. these international students in singapore hope this is the third year in a row they win for efficiency in the fuel car of their choice, hydrogen. >> it uses hiydrogen and combins with oxygen to produce electricity which is what you want to use and water. which is cool, because if you have water as your byproduct, it is ses en shaessentially a clea byproduct. >> reporter: they have the

crit critics, because it is expensive to fuel and restore. and it will take years to push ahead of the more popular hybrid and battery cars, but these students are busy doing the track runs in the school parking lot. >> we want to minimize drag and aerodynamics. of course, aesthetics wise, a good-looking car, yeah. >> reporter: the professor advices the team of five students from five countries and he es mat estimates that this i more fuel efficient. >> reporter: what the toughest thing for the students to design a car like this? >> the most difficult thing is that the car works. from the textbook, they believe as long as they can do the calculation right, the car works. but in reality the car might not work. this is basically the best lesson i think that they will have. >> and what does it feel like

going from literally drawing board to moving car? how does that feel? >> awesome. >> yeah, it is quite good to see that some of the design ideas get to look. it is a great form of training. so we can put out design team, and see how it works and trouble shoot. yes, it is pretty much what engineering is about. >> these students are inspired by the idea that today's experiments can become tomorrow's solutions, but it does not hurt to pick up a prize along the way. liz nislass, singapore. >> i understand we got al back from madrid. al, you are with the spain's team there and i heard they met with the king of spain, is that right? >> hi, suzanne. we well, the team has not arrived here yet, and this is the plaza in front of the city hall and they are still more than a hour of getting here and it is a sea of red. red is the color for the fiesta for la roca, because they have

won the third most prestigious award in a row. they can't get enough of it. suzanne. >> al, tell me what it is like to be there. >> you know, we covered the world cup two years ago and the fans down here, and we covered the fans four years ago and the excitement just keeps building and this year people were not quite so sure, and there were a lot of doubters here in spain and certainly abroad and could the team pull it off and convincing 4-0 victory over italy last night and they feel like the team has all of the respect they have, and they can't wait to see them and see that cup which is behind me very soon. suzanne. >> al, what do you think, are people not doing too well economically there, and does this give a lit respite there and they can feel good about themselves and feel good about being a part of everything, their country? >> that's what it has been like for the last three weeks as they have watched this team beat the likes of ireland and then france

and then portugal and now italy to take this. we talked to the people who say it is a great diversion, but not getting back to the fundamentals of of the society as a whole which is in a deep recession and more than 24% unemployment. suzanne. >> al, we can't help but look at the pictures, because they are absolutely amazing. how long does this party go on? >> well, we could be sure that it is behind schedule. they arrived at madrid's airport behind schedule, and they did see the king, and this fiesta was supposed to be down here by 8:00 local time, but i guess that it is going to be later than that and the party last night was all night non-stop with the city not sleeping. suzanne. >> and al, what happens next for the guys? any other tournaments that are left that they haven't won? >> well, i think that what is on their mind right now is a e rest. these guys have played more

minutes on the field than a lot of the other teams, because they play on the great club teams, real madrid, and fc barcelona and it will soon be the regular spanish league season coming up and then the qualifying rounds for the world cup which is the next item coming in two years' time, and it does not stop. suzanne. >> it is great to see you, al. congratulations to those guys. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm suzanne malveaux and this hour in the newsroom, we are focusing on politics and science and the economy at home. and sweltering heat is plaguing millions of americans this afternoon and 16 people are dead. power outages from maryland to ohio have left almost 2 million others helpless against the record-setting temperatures. weather alerts from across the country in just about ten minutes. drugmaker glaxosmithkline will pay a $3 billion fine for

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