what you're seeing is the live video of complete chaos. a car bomb going off at a funeral procession near the capital. what you're looking at resulted in 85 people at the funeral dying. absolutely remarkable. there was video that came in to cnn that really stopped us all in our tracks. we want to warn you about this. it's so graphic. it details a little girl. i want you to watch. have a look. >> reporter: the pictures are painful to watch. surrounded by corpses, one distraught man holds up the limp bloody body of a dead young girl. this is a new massacre by assad, he shouts. this is a new massacre by the countries that have conspired

against our people. also more bodies wrapped up. evidence of another horrific slaughter that's taken place in syria. syrian expatriots call it the proregime attacks escalated thursday. we've been unable to confirm what exactly happened but the attacks left more than 50 people dead. one amateur video shows a helicopter firing on the area. the state run syrian news agency says dozens of terrorist elements were killed in clashes as security forces continued to track down and arrest them. it said the forces discovered prisons where kidnapped people were tortured and killed. thursday, two blasts rocked

damascus, one in the heart of city. reports of more explosions around damascus on friday. then there's this. video from thursday purporting to show demonstrators getting close to the presidential palace. they go onto praise the rebels. one veiled one spray paints a message. the free syrian army are coming. >> while it may look like there is no hope in that country, there is this. there's an international plan now for syria and guess what, it's got the backing of russia and china. that's a big deal. it has to do with what to do about the assad government. the agreement is he's got to go. he can't be part of any kind of transitional government but that opposition members who work for

him can be. that's got our secretary of state a bit concerned. she did an exclusive interview with jill who will is stais sta live. when the secretary says i hate to say this, but this might not work, what chance does this have of working? >> reporter: when you hear something like that from hillary clinton, it gives you pause. she was the person over there negotiating and trying to get the russians on board. what she is saying, and this is the key issue, is what happens to assad? in that document it doesn't say what happens to him. members of the regime, members of the government as it is right now could be members of this transitional governing body. it doesn't specifically say he could not. that's where the opposition say wait, no way can he ever be part

of this transitional government even if there's going to be a transitional government. here is what when i talk to secretary clinton, here is what she said about whether assad could stay. i guess we don't have that sound. essentially, she said that there is no guarantee and that the opposition once they get in there will not let anybody with blood on their hands be part of this governing body. there's a lot of people in the opposition that don't believe that. >> let me switch gears to another front that he's facing. he's facing a lot of fronts. i don't know how he sleeps at night. he's dealing with the opposition and now with the international community and now china and russia on board an he's dealing

with the turks to the north. they have been scrambling jets. explain to me what's beginning on between these two countries that have not been that hostile in their history. >> reporter: in the past, they weren't. turkey has turned around. they very much believe that assad has to step down. it's gotten very tense because they have members of the opposition taking refuge in turkey. it's created a lot of tension. if you remember just at the end of june, you had that turkish plane that came close to the border and it went over the border. they shot it down. after that, turkey said we're going to take whatever action is necessary to protect us. since then, syria has been moving helicopters up to the border. not going over it, but up to the border. on saturday the turks got three

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it's interesting and happening now. it's about to happen now. rapid fire. let's go. president-elect of mexico has accepted congratulations from president obama. he's addressed the subject of relations with the united states. this happening at a news conference in mexico city. he ahead no direct reference to the war on drugs. he cited infrastructure and trade and security. that's tops on his list with washington. he rare ll ll lly referenced th c cartels. iran said it just begun controversial missile tests. the targets are desert bases made to look like they belong to other countries.

iran announced the test the same day they said they would stop by iranian oil. they insist it's for peaceful civilian purposes only. aircraft manufacturer air bus is landing in alabama and with a big bang bringing along jobs and money. today that company announced plans to invest $6 $600 million a new airplane construction facility near mobile. they will provide about 1,000 permanent jobs. construction set to begin next year. good news there. not good news. millions of americans are sweating through another blistering hot day today with very little power and little ways to cool off in many areas. weekend storms just ripped through neighborhoods downing trees and knocking out electricity. at least 19 people were killed in these storms.

parts of nine states and washington, d.c. are in the dark. no power. no ac. no fans. crews are scrambling to get power back up. it could be friday before the work is done, and look at the map. that means heat. heat advisories or warnings for 18 states. some of the temperatures are just cooling off to a mere 99 degrees. this is one rough heat spell. one community hard hit by the storms, arlington, virginia. bryan todd talked to a power company field supervisor about the challenges they face to get the power back on. >> reporter: this neighborhood sort of emblemmatic. look at where the tree it. it hit the power line and the car there, crushing it.

we're told that 12 poles are down in this neighborhood. 12 power poles the the tree takes this line, disables that poll, it knocks out this poll. now we're going to pick this up with josh little. he's a supervisor. he's supervising four crews. walk with me down here and talk to us about the domino effect. these two go out and we'll show people how these couple of polls go out. what happened down here? >> the size of the tree and the force of the fall, when it snapped the lines up here, it snapped these polls at such a force that it broke these polls at the bottom. it broke this one here and the one down the hill at the bottom and it destroyed another poll to your left. it did some damage to another poll to the right. >> that's kind of common place, that domino effect when a storm is this bad? >> yes, yes. you get the large trees that are healthy that get blown over.

the impact just tears everything down. >> about how long would it take you to get a neighborhood that's been this hard hit back up? >> it will take a minimum of two days to get everything back on in here. i have to do it without the modern machinery. >> your guys have been working for two and a half days straight? >> they are getting exhausted. they are determined to get these people back on power. >> good luck to you. the crews cannot work in the dead of night. they can't work 24 hours. when it gets dark, it's too dangerous to climb up polls to work on transformers and lines. they can do some work on residents at night. they have to wait for daybreak to come. hundreds of thousands of people still without power in the d.c. and virginia area. the last people may not get power until friday night.

>> that's a tough assignment having to work in that heat. in colorado, we have a different natural disaster to tell you about. families evacuated in the waldo canyon fire are looking at this when they come home. can you believe. they raced out of that home and that's the last they saw of it until this. the damage goes up to hundreds and hundreds of houses. the colorado governor described this kind of a site as he flew over pike national forest just outside of colorado springs. have a listen. >> it was like your worst nightmare of a movie set trying to show what armageddon would look like. we flew a helicopter in and this was as thefire was going on. i thought it was trees burning. as we got closer, it was homes. >> just awful. there's a silver lining, if you

can even imagine, evacuation orders have been lifted for all but 3,000 people. it was over 30,000 people who had to flee their homes originally. so now 3,000 are unable to go home. the weather is improving out there. that's helping the firefighters get the upper hand in battling these blazes. that really significant fire, the waldo canyon one is half contained. about 55% contained. just a brutal season. a new legal turn in mississippi's fight over abortion. why the only abortion clinic in the state can stay open, at least for now. their days may be numbered. we've got the story, next. home protector plus, from liberty mutual insurance, where the costs to both repair your home and replace your possessions are covered. and we don't just cut a check for the depreciated value -- we can actually replace your stuff

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mississippi's only abortion clinic can stay open and oil and gas prices are on the rise. it's time to play reporter roulette. we begin with the sole abortion provider in the state of mississippi getting a reprieve. a bit temporary, though. a judge has issued an order allowing the clinic to stay open despite the fact the clinic would not meet the requirements of a brand new law. explain to me, george, why the requirements, what's the new law and why couldn't the center comply with it? >> reporter: good afternoon. the new law has two parts to it. first of all, it requires any physician here in the state of mississippi be a board certified ob/gyn to perform abortions. it requires them to have privileges or permissions with local hospitals to permit patients, if necessary. the sponsor of this law says

it's a safety issue, plain and simple. when you talk to the director of this clinic, she says she was unable to get the permissions because she believes they are under a great deal of pressure not to help her out with this. i spoke to both sides on the issue of the impact of this law. >> what would it mean if this clinic were to close? >> tragedy. no one wants to talk about abortion or think about abortion until you're there. there's three reasons you have an abortion, rape, incest and mind. >> it made sure that if anyone was receiving an abortion it would be a professional ob/gyn who is board certified and followed them to a hospital if something was wrong. i'm disappointed they will spend another two weeks without that

requirement. >> reporter: the republican governor has said he's d disappointed in the judge's decision. this clinic will remain open through july 11. that's when a federal judge has set hearing on whether this clinic will remain protected under a restraining order. >> that story continues. thank you. next on reporter roulette, alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. i can't stand it when the 4th of july doesn't fall on a friday or a monday. oil prices on the way up again? >> they were the today they are down again. as far as gas prices go, believe it or not, you could see the slightest bump up in prices. more drivers hit the road. an analyst at gas buddy says you

can see prices increase over the next couple of days. the general trend for the rest of the summer for gas prices is likely a decline or just for them to hold steady. right now the national average is sitting at $3.33. that's according to aaa. we know oil and gas prices are tied to each other. it takes a couple of weeks for gas prices to follow along. after we have been watching oil prices fall for most of june, it spiked at the end of last week. now they are coming down again as traders take some profits off the table. as the trend continues, we could see gasoline prices follow suit. >> i've been watching those gas prices going down all week. somewhere in my 400 e-mails that came in, there's a stat about how much it fell in a week. we've been getting a bit of a reprieve.

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is paralyzed but my mind is the same. all i can move is my head. now i talk to people through a spelling board or a computer operated by my eye blinks. my day begins at 5:00 a.m. i need only four or five hours sleep. i watch television until 8:30 when first of the carers come. at 8:00 my wife gives me my drugs. the drugs are only to make my life comfortable as i have refused to take any drugs that prolong my life since 2007. >> if you were given the right to make that decision, would you choose to do so? >> yes. >> reporter: under british law he doesn't have that right.

he's physically incapable of committing suicide and it's illegal for anyone to help him. so called voluntary active euthanasia when assistance is required to end a life constitutes murder and the sentence is life in prison. he's taken his case to the high court saying he's not looking for new law allowing it, he wants a remedy to the current legislation which he calls discriminatory. >> some people have spoken to me and allowed slow terms for the deaf or dumb. i am neither. he must be unable to deal with such a choice. i says when a person has the mental ability, he should have the choice of life or death. the only difference is my inability to take my own life

without assistance. >> reporter: his condition hasn't changed for seven years and he and his wife say the longer the court takes to rule on his appeal, the longer his only hope for relief is postponed. >> i think the injustice of it all. you and i can take our lives any time we want, where as tony, being the one who needs that right can't do this. he's only asking for what everyone else has got. his right to take his own life. he wants that given back to him. >> reporter: the high court is expected to issue a judgment in tony's case after the end of july. as difficult as things are for them, jane says she and tony have never had any doubts that assisted suicide is the right choice for them. >> it's taken so long to get to this point. he's never waivered. it's what he wants. if it's what he want, it's what we want.

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and act quickly if the united states is going to avoid another washington showdown over the economy. >> i have been telling you about the economic storm that's making its way to our shores from europe where the blow back could hit america at hurricane strength from asia where jchina and india are stalling and from washington where politics could push america over a fiscal cliff if congress doesn't act. legislation needs to be passed now to head off a series of tax increases and spending cuts that are mandated to take effect on january 1st because congress couldn't come up with a proper deal to raise the nation's debt limit last year. that's the ridiculous compromise they came up with. if congress doesn't act before the elections, it may be too late to fight off the economic storm. a 30% chance of a recession.

after listening to me say this endlessly, even i'm starting to think i'm full of hot air. i'm going to give you three specific things that congress can and must do to address the economic storm. first, head off that so-called sequester. the $1 trillion of automatic, across the board spending cuts that are mandated by congress. the ridiculously name sequester legislation was passed as part of last august debt ceiling extension that followed, but would like to forget, intense partisan blackmail by both sides that nearly shut the united states down and led to a drown grade of the united states credit rating. solve it, congress. second, we're going to look at another debt ceiling extension. what say we all get together ahead of time and act on it before the election, before

washington gets attempting to take america back to the brink a second time. finally, negotiate another agreement on whether to exthe end extend the bush era tax cuts. these are three simple things that congress can do now. three things washington needs to do before the elections the avoid falling over that fiscal cliff in january. if politicians in congress put off the work that needs to be done, let them be held accountable for the next recession. >> always great advice. this next story, one of the men who was convicted of killing a mother and her two daughters in that brutal connecticut home invasion, apparently, he wanted to pull off a bizarre trick inside prison. it involve ed oysters an his ow death. i got mine in iraq, 2003.

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killer on death row hoping to speed up the execution process and get this, through a food allergy suicide by oyster, i'm not kidding. it's what a murder told the newspaper about why he lied about committing 17 other murders. it's very confusing. he's one of two men that were convicted in that 2007 home

invasion that really shocked the nation. he and another man killed two daughters and the wife of dr. william pettit before setting the home on fire. he told the newspaper he was hoping to figure out way to speed up his death and cut a deal for information on some fake murders to maybe try to get the police to swap info for food. what kind of food? oysters. why oysters? he's deathly allergic to them. i can't make this up. joey jackson is on the case. let me get this straight. he writes letters and sends them out of his jail cell talking about 17 other murders that he committed hoping that the police, the jail would intercept them, turn them over to the police. the police would come to his cell and say let's talk. >> kind of bizarre. >> and let's barter.

do they barter food for info? >> you'd be surprised. you want them to be comfortable. you want them to be calm. you want them to give you information. you say can i give you something to drink. are you hungry? in that context, you do. he was hoping based upon them attempting to solve various crimes that they would believe this to be true. there will be an investigation. if it is true, we'll see what happens, but we don't think so. >> i don't know if it was harebrained or not, he was thinking he could get a request, soda and a dozen oysters with hot sauce. >> he forgot the lobster and steak. this guy has tried to commit suicide several times. he's come close.

>> once during the trial and some before that. he was saying he was hoping he got shot at the time. in the event he had information or the district attorney or local town attorney wanted to speak to him, they would jump through hoops to make him feel comfortable. >> about those 17 murders that he was writing about and told the newspaper, i lied about it apparently the police have a response. they said they will probably suspend the investigations into the other murders. are they going to charge him with obstructing? >> i would highly doubt it. >> false reporting? >> no. he's on death row and who knows if he will be executed in light of the change in connecticut in whether the death penalty will be administered or not. >> they say that's going

forward. anything else there won't get the benefit. >> in any event. >> he gets his automatic appeal and gets his wish if he wants to. there's already a guy in connecticut who did that. oysters. >> people have varied taste. >> that's way to end this segment. >> pleasure and a privilege. >> you're so smart. >> i'm trying. chicago, have you been watching the crime scene stories. this deadly summer is getting worse. it's a deadly year. new york's murder rate is headed for a record low. what is going on in chicago? the two cities are going in opposite directions. we may have answers in a moment. great shot.

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probably heard about the murders that have been happening in chicago. if you haven't, where have you been? at last count it was 253 killings just this year. it's july. we're on pace to set a record in that city. i want you to see the latest victim. this might really underscore what's going on. that little girl's name is heaven, seven years old. she was hit in the chest with a stray bullet while she was selling lemonade and candy at a

stand set up by her mom. she died last wednesday. this is her grief stricken mother. >> i opened up this candy store two weeks ago for the kids to have candy on this block here. we just sitting out here. normal. she sitting right next to me. i just heard some shooting. >> john is writing about this, what's going on. he's a cnn contributor. the shooting of heaven now has people really sitting up and looking at this story as if they weren't already with the numbers be way they are. is this going to make a difference? >> when you put a human face. >> it's a baby. >> a 7-year-old child. this beautiful girl and this murders have ranged from age 75 to 7. it really does highlight a crisis that's going on in the

city of chicago. what's so stunning is this is against the trends we have seen in recent america. crime has been going down. murders have been going down. new york city just celebrated their first six months, only 193 murders. on pace to have under 400. >> let me go over those stats. john and i go back a long way. let's look at some of the stats for new york. the city of eight million people. about 190 murders for the first six months of this year. chicago, on the other hand, way smaller and the number of murders there 253. if you do the math, that means chicago's up by 38% and new york is down by 17%. it sort of defies logic. >> it does and it defies national trends. we have learned what works through policing. things like quality of life. >> this was a rudy thing.

this was a rudy giuliani thing. >> it forced police to start focusing on the small things. when there's a broken window in a neighborhood, it sends forth a subtle that lawlessness is permitted. by focusing on quality of life crimes police send a larger signal that this is a law-abiding place. it's really transformed policing in the united states. new york city has 245 murders in 1990. 2, 245 murders. 400. which is why chicago moving in the opposite direction is such a challenge for mayor rahm emanuel. he is taking it very seriously. buts in a crisis that goes in direction contradictions. >> since you brought up rahm emanuel, the mayor, he spoke to the broken windows. if there's a broken window, maybe fix it. it could have a domino effect.

it sounded like he was supporting the theory. let's take a listen. >> sure. >> we have the police department take down a narcotic unit out of a street corner. we then have a surge of services. graffiti gets eliminated. lights get fixed. empty lots get cleaned, mowed. garbages get pulled from them. you need the community to see physically not just the drug dealers and gang bangers eliminated. but the area that has to look different when the police then hold it. >> so the essence of this debate, and i want to ask you what your thought is here. throwing welfare at impoverished areas is the liberal version of how to get ahold of crime. this is what you're saying is the opposite. it's not necessarily tossing a bunch of money at the problem. it's instead being more clever with policing. >> that's right. and more importantly we know it

works. >> very conservative viewpoint. >> it's not throwing money at a problem. it's a smaller deployment of police. it goes against the root theory of crime. consider that during athe recession, across america, we've seen crime go down. that's in direction contradiction to the root concept of crime. what we've learned is it's not true. it does not need to be true. it's about sending subtle signals. when chicago's upward trend isn't just heartbreaking for the 235 people who lost their lives and their families, but it goes against the more heartening trends we've seen across the nation. >> so are you saying then that rouge rudy giuliani set the trend and chicago opted out? >> no, chicago was moving in line with recent trends until

this spring. that's what is startling. largely it's gang activity. >> everybody has gangs. l.a. has gangs. new york has gangs. >> l.a.'s crime is continuing to drop. it raises the question mark. why chicago? why now? why this spring? it's not just because it's been unseasonably warm. this is a real specific gang violence problem that's causing a crisis in chicago. these are spread out the city as well. >> you're hosting for erin burnett. going to do this in depth? >> absolutely. i will be on right after you for anderson. john avalon, thanks very much. so he's the fresh face of the old guard. take a good look. you're going to see a lot more of him. the projected winner of mexico's presidential race. so what does he think about the war on drugs? because america thinks a lot about it. we're going to talk in a moment. i'm feeling a very strong male spirit present. it's the priceline negotiator.

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50% of people polled agree with the supreme court's decision to uphold what's now become known on both sides of the debate as obama care. and 49%, however, disagree with what the supreme court decided to do. those are the numbers, folks. the projected president of mexico has spoken today by telephone with president obama and has just addressed the subject of relations with the united states. at a news conference in mexico city. his name is enrique pena nieto. he made no direct reference to the war on drugs. he cited infrastructure. he cited trade and security as tops on his list with washington. but no war on drugs. so is that an omen? is there something to be read into by the fact there was no mention of it? or any big sur prize, really? >> reporter: well, when he talks about security, he means the war on drugs. it's a bigger issue for mexicans

than just the war on drugs here. there's a set of issues, social and otherwise that go along with that. some of the drug gangs have remained in the drug business, but many of them have sort of branched out and gone into other fields, if you will. a lot of petty crime, car theft, kidnappings, where they will grab you, take you to an atm and make you withdraw as much money as you can. those are things people are frustrated about. what he suggested all along. what he wants to do is create a national police force to get the military off the streets. they are patrolling many of the streets in parts of the country. he wants to get them off the streets so it's a counter insurgency fight against the cartels and reduce the violence across the country at the same time so that mexicans can get on with their lives and the economy can grow and all the other things that need to happen here. ashleigh? >> obviously, we have a bit of a problem. i'm not sure if you can hear me,

but we cannot hear a word of what we're saying. so why we try to fix the connection. i can still hear it. it's so annoying. this live television thing that we do. i'm hearing that the audience can hear you, but i cannot hear you. i may ask a very stupid question afterward. >> it was brilliant, whatever i said. >> i'm sure it was. let me just do this quick follow-up. i apologize for not having heard a word of what you said, my friend. it was total breakup on my end. okay. all right. since we got a delay. let me start with this. hold on, one sec. let me get information on the new president. enrique pena nieto is 45 years old. he served five years as governor of mexico state, which is the country's largest. he leads the institutional revolutionary party. it ruled mexico for 71 years.

he's really sat on the sidelines since 2000. he certainly looks like he has the face for politics. what's the critical part of his agenda? >> reporter: well, two bits. the economy and security. and on the economy, you know, he takes over in december, is his inauguration. it's very likely he will have a workable majority, if not an outright majority in the legislature, which takes over in september. and we're likely to see a lot of big economic packages introduced then. ashleigh? >> okay. i can see your lips stopped moving, so you must have stopped talking. i couldn't hear a word. you did a good job down there. i know from the earlier hit. thanks for being with us. and thank you for being with us, everyone. i give up. sending it to wolf blitzer. wolf? >> ashleigh, thanks very much. happening now, president obama and mitt romney are locked in a dead heat right now. when it comes to battleground

voters, the numbers aren't so close. the brand new cnn orc polls are just in. we're breaking them down for you. standby. also millions still without power, baking in record heat in washington, d.c., in the mid-atlantic, days after being clobbered by a deadly monster storm. is there any relief in sight? and an american grad student fights for his life after being violently mauled by two chimps in south africa. ahead, the horrifying details of the attack. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." these numbers just coming in. let's go to the battle for the white house. a brand new cnn o.r.c. poll is just being