immigrants and their descendants helping pioneer new information from going toll the iphone. so the story of immigrants in merge isn't a story of them. it's a story of us. it's who we are. and all of you get to write the next chapter. each of you traveled your own path to this moment. from campaigning a ruin to the philippines, russia, ma law, and places in between. some of you came here as children brought by parents who dreamed of giving you the opportunities that they had never had. others of you came as adults. finding your way in a new country, new culture, a new language. all of you did something profound. you chose to serve.

you put on the uniform of a country that was not yet fully your own in a time of war. some of you deployed into harm's way. you displayed the values that we celebrate every fourth of july. duty, responsibility, and patriotism. we salute a husband and father originally from mexico now a united states marine, drawn , jy his wife sill video ya and daughter juliet. he says becoming a u.s. citizen in front of his wife and family and it's a better step. where's francisco? [ applause ] >> we salute a yum woman from el

salvador who came when she was 6, grew up in america and who served and dreams of become an army medic so we congratulate luisa childers. we salute a young man from nigeria who came here as a child. i left nigeria, he says, with the dream that we all have, a destiny in life and we're all born were the resources to make a difference. we are confident he will make a difference, we congratulate alowatkasin okindoro. [ applause brktsz. we salute a young man who has volunteered to help care for our veterans. he's becoming a citizen, he says, to be a part of the

freedom that everybody is looking for so we congratulation javier beltran. [ applause ] >> it's taken these men and women, these americans years, even decades, to realize their dream. and this, too, reminds us of a lesson on the fourth. on that day our founders declared independence. but they only declared it. it would take another seven years to win the war, 15 years to forge a constitution and a bill of rights. nearly 90ees and great civil war to abolish slavery. nearly 150 years for women to win the right to vote. nearly 190 years to enshrine voting rights. and even now we're still perfecting our union, still extending the promise of america.

that includes making sure the american dream endures for all those like these men and women who are willing to work hard, play by the rules, and meet their responsibilities. for just as we remain a nation of laws we have to remain a nation of immigrants. that's why as another step forward we're lifting deportation to children deserving of a country. we have the d.r.e.a.m. act for those who want to contribute to society and serve our country. it's why america's success demands comprehensive immigration reform because the lesson of these 236 years is clear. immigration make the nation stronger. immigration makes us more prosperous and immigration prepares us to lead in the 21st

century and these young men and women are testaments to that. no other nation welcomes so many new arrivals, no other nation constantly renews its, refreshes its with the hopes and the drive and the optimism and the dynamism of each new generation of immigrants. you are all one of the reasons that america is exceptional. you're one of the reasons why even after two centuries america is always young, always looking to the future, always dejts that our greatest days are still to come. so to all of you, i want to wish you the happiest fourth of july. god bless you all, god bless our men and women in uniform and your families, and god bless the united states of america. [ applause ] . >> you heard it right there from

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david mattingly at a gas station in atlanta. david, it's pretty good news for all of us, especially families, but it could be short-lived. >> reporter: well, that's right. it could be good news today, but we're already seeing the prices inch back up. it's inched up a cent across the country in the last 24 hours. the problem is uncertainty in the markets, uncertainty with the political situation in the middle east and the hurricanes later in the summer in the u.s. all of that could potentially affect the supply chain so what experts are saying is enjoy it now, fill up now because -- and we're looking at the possibility of maybe up to 15 cents more per gallon on average by september and it's all because of that uncertainty. >> well, what do you think? will folks be e taking longer trips with these new deals this holiday? >> people are taking longer trip

this holiday season. when you look at numbers, it's not at that dramatic compared to last year at this time. you might have an extra $2.25 in your pocket when you walk away from the pumps. that isn't that dramatic. what is dramatic and what's affecting so many in their decisions is we saw recently 78 straight days of oil prices coming down. so that was enough for them to say let's take the car trip we've been planning plus it's handing right in the middle of the week. you're seeing people who used to take it as a three-day weekend and turning it into a four or five-day vacation. they may be traveling 50 miles more with their car trips more than they have been. >> we know you're not traveling. you're here at home do you have fun plans or are you working

iffer the day? >> reporter: i'm going hour by hour, try not to think about the good stuff until later. >> we'll keep checking in. david mattingly for us there in atlanta. thanks, david. why don't we head over to coney island, hot dogs, the battle for the mustard yellow championship belt. nathan's famous hot dog-eating contest. the man to beat, isn't it always this guy. joey chestnut holds the record for eating 68 hot dogs and buns. as for the women, always beware of the 100-pound sonya thomas. she actually puts away 41 dogs for the win a year ago and this is her yesterday at the weigh-in.

alison kosik, i have interviewed her before and i remember one of the funniest things she ever told me is when she goes on a date, she likes to go to the buffet. can you hear me? >> reporter: nice. talking about the women. the women's championship is going on right now. they're shoving as many of these as they can into their mouth. thing they're three minutes right now into the contest. the goal of this thing, of course, is to see who can eat the most hot dogs in ten minutes. the woman to win is sonya "the black widow" thomas. as you said she downed 41 hot dogs at one point. that's her record. she's trying to beat it today. of course, in about a half hour the men are going to take the stage and the favored to win there is joey chestnut. he downed 68 hot dogs. he's trying to beat his record

as well. says he's prepared for this because he hasn't eat about solid food for three days. there is a technique for this. they go ahead and split the hot dog in half. they also have to eat the buns -- split the buns in half and dip them in water. do you want to come and join us? >> you're making me very hungry. you can buy the nathan's hot dogs in the grocery store. i see them everywhere. you don't have to head to coney island, although coney island is pretty darn right. >> reporter: that right. you can buy the nathan's hot dogs at the supermarket. i'm not eating them after i see what's going on the stage. it's so disgusting you can't watch it after seeing what they're doing with it. i'm sorry. >> get into the spirit. take a bite.

give me a little something, something. you're like a size zero. >> there's -- on tv there's no way i'm eating one of these, sorry. >> alison kosik, she got the great gig at the hot dog glory contest at noon. she's dmot doing financials for us. she's doing the hot dog eating contest. we'll keep checking in with you. if you've got 500 bucks you can have a house or for $200 a vacant land in detroit. 6,000 properties are up for auction in wayne county. the properties apparently are spread throughout the county. most, though, are in struggling detroit neighborhoods. the closed bid auction started last month and bidding ends next tuesday. all right. as you know, it's independence day and the holiday commemorates the adoption of independence. besides being a historic day,

it's also one for a lot of fun, relaxation, barbecues, coney island dogs with allisoi alison. we've got the answers straight ahead. mine was earned off vietnam in 1968. over the south pacific in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection, and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve.

hairks it's private first class eric. i want to do a shout-out to my family, mom, dad, sister in grand rapids, michigan. as well as my friends. i love and miss all you guys. have a happy fourth of july. it is the fourth of july. according to our poll released today, the two best parts of the holidays are food and fireworks. 38% say cookouts and picnics are the most enjoyable part of independence day. fireworks. having a day off in third. that's surprising and parades were the best thing about today's holiday. now, celebrating the fourth? visit my facebook page and let me know how you're spending the fourth. the fourth of july, let me know. it's about america's independence and all the sacrifices that have been made for our freedom. so in this week's human factor,

our dr. sanjay gupta raises the story of a u.s. soldier who has done just that. when did you know you wanted to be in the army, be a military person? >> my dad fought in vietnam. my older brother was a '94 west point graduate. i'm a '97 west point graduate and my younger brother is served in the army. >> reporter: but it wasn't till his convoy was hit by a roadside bochlt he woke up three weeks later missing his entire leg. >> i'm lying there thinking oh, my gosh, how much worse could this get. >> reporter: it was his 2-year-old daughter who snapped him out of it. >> she's 2 and she wanted me to play with her on the ground. i'm in a power wheelchair and broken pelvis and she said, daddy, can you play with me. i said i can't sit on the floor.

she turned around and said under her breath and said my daddy can't do anything. i sat on the ground with my broken pelvis. >> he's competed in a 100-mile swim and just finished a relay bike race across the united states, peddling six hours a day with just one leg. >> it's a neat ride because you're going through the rural parts of america. to me that's the heartland. >> reporter: the ride was grueling, yet for gabe it was about more than just finishing. >> you have a setback and it could be something dramatic like when i got hurt in iraq. the important thing is you find a new normal and go and do the very best with what god has given you. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >> for more on this, watch dr. sanjay gupta on saturday and sunday. you hear stories like that and you wonder how we can let guys like that become homeless. well, it's happening but we do

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we'd be another step closer to understanding the universe itself, which is ultimately quite a mystery to us. >> well, what's got bill nye and the rest of the scientific universe so pumped? >> i can't exactly show you but it's the best evidence yet of what one physicist calls the last missing piece of current understanding of the universe. we're talking about the higgs boson sub particle and it's been detected in this vast underground tube in europe and a smaller one in the u.s. here's what the collisions look like and here's atika schu bert on why it's the biggest thing since the big bang. >> as a lay maine would say i think we now have it. would you agree? >> reporter: until today the so-called god cart kl with our understanding of the university

existed only in thee but not anymore. collecting data like this, scientists have announced the discovery with 99.999% certainty that the higgs boson does exist, the so-called god particle. professor peter higgs, now 83 years old who first theorized its existence in 1964 was in the audience to experience the moment. >> for me it's really an incredible thing that happened in my lifetime. >> reporter: so what is the god particle and just what does it do? well, in one sense it is the missing link to this massive equation. this is the standard model for particle physics and this is our understanding of how the university works. the higgs boson gives us mass which is how we measure matter, the stuff we're made of. scientists say without mass, stars, galaxies and plan its

would not have been able to spin themselves into existence after the big bane. so how did scientists find it? well, with a massive particle collider at sern. researches smashed particle beems together to see what's inside, effectively recreating the big bang trillions of times over and over. and this is what they saw. sub atomic debris including decayed remains of what they say appears to be the higgs boson tlib proving its existence. the mysteries are not solved yet. consider this. all the gal ak actionies, planets and stars, everything we can say, they make up only 4% of the universe. there's still a lot more to discover. finding the higgs boson, the god

particle opens a new door. >> i never knew you had a physicist vibe in your journal is tiks journey there. tell me. fill in the blanks here of this mile-long math problem. i saw you in front of the board here. very impressive. what do you think? >> well, there actually already has been one real world payoff. the world wide web. that was invented at cern to store all of this data to store what is really biggest scientif experiment, but does that mean we will have real life applications with the higgs boson? maybe not in our lifetimes, but it is not the say this we won't see anything down the line. when they created electromagnetic fields, they had no idea what they would use them for but, we use them everyday in

our computer es. so you never know. >> i am fascinated how the brilliant scientists figure these things out. what did you find so interesting, and you cover so many different stories and this is a unique one, what did you find so interesting? >> well flrgs are so many parts of this that is interesting that i cannot begin to tell you, and i will tell you what is touching though, which is watching all of the scientists, and there is not a single empty seat there. they with with all really emotional and touch and you could seepeople were holding back tears, because you cannot underestimate what a huge scientific discovery this is and not just the discovery, but the higgs boson and it really inspires me to find the inner geek. >> well, cool stuff and how fun to talk about a god particle. thank you. if you are just leaving the house, you can watch cnn from

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hello, i'm specialist john trubell and i want to give a shoutout to my boyfriend in pimberton, north carolina. happy july 4th and i will be home soon. i'm michael levine deployed in afghanistan at isaf command. i want to say happy july 4th to

my family in new york, and my mother and dad and sister-in-law and their new baby evelyn. happy july 4th. well, those patriotic parades are taking place all over the united states. you are looking live at our affiliate from miami, florida, wsvn and the parade is going through biscayne right now. making sure that charities is doing right by your donations is something that we are paying close attention to. it is something that our drew griffin has been investigating for more than a year and digging for answers from charities accused of collecting millions of dollars and not spending it where the donors expecting it and not spending it on the vets. one of the charities under diskrutny is the national association of veterans there.

is no sign of to cash donations of more than $56 million over three years that has actually gone directly to veteransch. instead of cash, drew found that the group gives away stuff, free stuff that they have gotten from various organizations for nothing and the vet groups say when they get it, they continue need it. for example, more than 11,000 bags of coconut m&m's is what showed up at the door of a veterans group in birmingham, alabama, that takes in homeless vets off of the streets, and the director is pretty fed up with the whole thing. here is part overdrew griffin's investigation. >> reporter: he has gotten candy and cough drops and hundreds of pairs of shoes he did not ask for and now j.d. simpson has a message for them who want to help him to support the small veteran shelter he helped to found three years ago in birmingham, alabama.

>> i am fed up with everybody out there saying let's help the vets and flavor of the day. don't say it, do it. >> reporter: he founded the st. vincent's veterans center with almost no money. simple that homeless vets get shelter, and hungry vets get food and they call it three hots and cot, and they need money to keep it going. >> i had $250,000 cost this year. that is not a salary for anybody who works here. we are all volunteers. >> reporter: on the shelter's front porch, he recalls the day a veteran in a wheelchair showed up. >> i came out here with a rainstorm and he showed up with no way to get in the house, and the dav came and helped us put up this ramp, and now he can use

i it. >> he said that the veterans need money for gas and food. not coconut m&m's. >> we don't need a silver bul t bullet. we don't need a sound bite. we just need people to get off their fricking selves to help. there are a lot of success stories out there. we were going the tahiti going to the retirement, abut it feel good when our daughter calls and says, she got her daddy back. >> drew griffin, cnn. >> after watching drew's investigative piece, i want to wish all of you a happy

independence day and give a shout out to the men and women of the uniform and whether you are celebrating the history or the patriotic traditions or the darn good barbeque, i want to lift up the troops and the military vets and the families. also, if you don't mind, could we remember 9/11 for a second? all of us will never forget the devastation of that day, but another thing they'll never forget is how many of you across this nation hung the american flag from your home. it is amazingk because we came together as a country, and we showed so much support for everything that we stood for, freedom, family, democracy and unity and we have the flags on cars, uniforms and stamps and it hangs from the white house all of the way to the south pole, and we hang it at half-staff to mourn a loss. think about it the american flag is the most symbol of americanism. so celebrate it today. as you gather with your friends and those you love, talk about what the american flag means to

you and your family. happy fourth of july, everyone. thanks for watching. you can continue the conversation with me on twitter at kyracnn. "newsroom international" starts "newsroom international" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com welcome, everyone, and welcome the "newsroom international" and we are going around the world in 60 minutes. in germany a man takes hostages in his home. the standoff is over, but it is messy and several people are dead. police say that the man was about to be a victim, and one of the people he held hostage was the official who came to throw him out. there was a fire. there was some gunshots and four people are dead, but we don't know yet if the gunman is among them. more details as we get them. and authorities have raided the home and offices of former

president nicolas sarkozy. they say that the search is because of alleged campaign financing probe. france's richest woman allegedly gave 150,000 euros to sarkozy's aides which is well beyond the 4600 euros leg legally allowed for donations. sarkozy denies any guilt, and he was not there. he was in canada with his family during the raid. and the head of the bank of bar cli's is out. it is charged that his bank fixed rates in the height of the global crisis. he is questioned because diamond is blamed on the rate-fixing

scandal. barclay's is the biggest bank. and a group studying yaser arafat says he has found evidence that the long-time president had been poisoned. there is a conspiracy that he was mirderred and perhaps by israelis or palestinians who were opposed to him. and we will talk about this, and what we found in his belongings. first live to jerusalem where elise labott. the allegation is that the man who led the p.l.o. or the palestinian palestinians for all of those could have been murdered. how is this playing out? >> michael, exactly, this study that came out is a study of anze

gave them his toothbrush and personal effects to the swiss institute to do studies on it and look at the medical records and what they found was traces of pa lopalonium and when we ta to the executive director a few moments ago she says it confirms the suspicions that the palestinians have that he was murdered. take a listen to what she said. >> the suspicion that he was killed or deliberately murdered has been long time palestinians believe that. i was with him and saw the transformation and i personally talked to the doctors and they gave us several options, and they said among nem them the

most logical is some toxin or poison introduced, but we didn't have any proof. but this report shows that there was sufficient evidence that he was killed, assassinated using polonium. >> reporter: now i have to be careful to note, michael, that the researchers are not saying that this is proof that yaser arafat was assassinated or poisoned, but they found these traces of polonium and they don't know what happened, but they want to do more investigation. >> yes, part of the investigation is exhuming the body and digging him up from the shrine where he is at the headquarters and examining his tissue, and his wife is saying yes to that and the palestinian authorities are saying no objection either, and is that likely to happen?

>> well, we don't know right now. mrs. arafat is traveling right now, and we spoke to her and she said she has not officially launched a report the exhume the body, but she says she has no political or religion reason not to do it and they see yaser arafat as the father of the palestinian people, and they are deserved to know how he died. >> i was there at his funeral and met him on several occasion over the years and tell is why this is so important, and we never knew for sure why he died, but why so important to know why he died. this is so many years, maybe ten. >> well, if you remember at the time, it was a sudden illness, and it baffled doctors and as she said, it baffle d the peopl around him, because it deteriorated so quickly and so the palestinians always had a suspicion of what happened to him. as you said, there were always a conspiracy theories and

everybody was quick to point the finger at israel at the time, and they were saying this is confirms if you look at polonium 210 which is not available certainly to the palestinians in an open form. it is open to states who have nuclear programs or nuclear work, and the pal stestinians a saying that israel has a nuclear program, e of course and that has not been admitted by israel, and of course, this proves the suspicions all along that israel was involved. we spoke to the israeli officials a short time ago, michael, and what they said is that these accusations are baseless and absurd, and yaser arafat has been dead for ten years, and why have the medical records been sealed, and they say open it up, and you will find out. >> it is a mystery. thank you so much, e lice.

waves of immigrants desperate to make a new life are making a treacherous journey to a place they want to call home. it is not taking place in the u.s./mexican border, but we are talking about what is happening increasingly and regularly in australia. today, another boat packed with asylum seekers has run into trouble and not for the first time either near the australian island of christmas island. and now let's talk about the boat first, and what are the latest of the rescue attempt because of the seas being so rough? h. >> well, the australian navy is keeping an eye on this boat, and they did establish that everybody is well and they found that there were 180 people aboard this boat, but they have not been able to get them on to the marine. the safe toy the marine boat now because of the rough seas, because of the rough conditions.

>> only a couple of weeks ago 90 would-be migrants die d in similar circumstances. these are asylum seekers who come by boat and represent a small number of immigrants, about 2%, but it is a hot potato and socially divisive and tell us about that. >> well, it has divided the country about what to do with the asylum seekers who come into australia. do we take them in or send them home or open up the borders to them? that has divided the country and such that both of the political leaders of both major parties are refusing to decide anything definitive and refusing to come up with any definitive policies of what to do. >> a lot of them come from indonesia and that is part of the political mix asking indonesia to do something. >> well, a lot of them come from indonesia, but a lot of them don't. it is interesting to mention that though they are dubbed

indonesian asylum seekers they are coming from iran and iraq and sri lanka and from war-torn country, and setting off for a better life in australia. >> and this is launching a political hot potatpotato. >> yes, and the officials met, but they refused to come up with anything other than an information campaign to try to dissuade the young men from manning these boats. >> which is plainly ridiculous when they are launched by organized smugglers who are charging the people thousands of dollars to get on rubbish boats and may die at sea. this is another point, once they get to australia, the australian criticism has been subjected to criticism and some people call it inhumane. >> many people say that the conditions once they get to australia and the detention facilities are prison-like. you could imagine how desperate you would have to be to give up

your entire life savings, hand them over to these people, smugglers, and basically get on a boat that is not seaworthy by any stretch of the imagination, and with hundreds of other people set out across rough oceans, and maybe survive and maybe don't survive and once you get to australia, they will throw you in a detention center off of the coast of australia and there you may stay for years before the australian government decides what to do with you. >> it is a big unresolved issue in australia. good to see you. here is what else we are working on in this hour of "newsroom international." it is shades of the "titanic." we will go inside of the costa concordia and talk to the passengers. >> everybody was running for their own lives. and later, it is decisions of a baby boy used to make on their own and now in germany, a

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i tell mike what i can spend. i do my best to make that work. we're driving safely. and sue saved money on brakes. now that's personal pricing. welcome back. let's go the kenya now. that is where two rainian nationals are accused in a terror plot, and they were taken into custody june 19th, in nairobi, and according to the court documents, the kenyan officials were led to more than 30 pounds of explosives hidden at a golf club in mombassa, and david, what are you learning about this very curious case? >> well, it is a very curious case, michael. it is a case that is unfolding. the two iranian suspects with sn

a high court today, and they were handcuffed together and heard some procedural efforts, but it starred in june when the two suspects were picked up by police and take tone mombassa, the coastal city, and they were taken to a golf course, and they say that the iranians uncovered for police some 30 pounds of highly explosive devices which secure tell us if used in unison could take down a large building. the accusation is that these two are involved in some kind of terror plot, the senior officials telling me that it was either striking places here in nairobi or in kenya. general or neighboring countries, the worry of course is that they are some kind of wider plot by iranian operatives, but that is not proven yet, but certainly the earlier indications are if proven, this could be a serious

plot that was uncovered. >> and what are the iranians themselves saying and for that matter the iranian government? >> well, the iranian government has rubbished the claims, and they say it is because of an oil field, and kenya an mounsed the signing with iran and they say that because of the announcement, they are trying to smear the agreement, and in particular israel and the prime minister's office saying that it quotes that iran is the global exporter of terror. this is playing out on the doe mes tick and international level including with the united states, because when these two men were picked up, it was right in the midst of a terror warning that the u.s. embassy had put out on mombassa, so it is unclear if these two or three vents are connected, but i'm sure that as time goes by, this case is going to see, and see if

the dots are connected. >>s if nating. david mckenzie there in nairobi, thank you very much. his beat for us. and it has been six months since the costa concordia disaster and you remember this, 32 people died when the ship ran aground and off of the coast of italy. and now we talk to some of the few survivors who managed to get off of the ship alive. >> reporter: when the order to abandon ship was given, hector perez and sahin khan were at a lifeboat. the crew member who had access to the boat told the pas sen, jr.s to calm down. >> as soon as he opened the door, everybody ran towards that e emergency boat and pushed him out of the way. everybody was panicking, and everybody was running for their

own lives. a lot of them did not realize they were going to let the people jump into the boat without an actual seat. those that realized it, they jumped into the boat, and stayed standing on the boat, and way over 150-people limit. >> reporter: the boat carrying the two carried them to sea, but even then, they were not safe. >> i look up, and i see the emergency boat a go sideways one way, and suddenly, it went this way again and then it fell right on top of our boat. >> if our boat would have turned when we were evacuating and the second boat fell on us, we would have been dead. >> severalboats could not with lowered and so the problem of evacuating people intensified.

this family was forced to return to the ship when the life both would not inflate. >> it took another roll toward the starboard side. >> reporter: one of the crew told the investigators that some officers literally pushed the passengers into the water, but for the family, they turned around and tried to climb across the ship with nothing to hold on to. >> the side of the ship is now the bottom of the ship. so you are literally walking on the side of the ship. >> reporter: the speed with which the concordia tilted, first one way and then the other, has alarmed maritime experts. this is the safety of life at sea rulebook, the maritime safety bible, if you like, issued by the international maritime authority here in

london. it specifies that the ships should remain stable with two watertight departments and says they should be evacuated within 30 minutes, but the loss of power and the flooding of the pumps and the backup generators had turned the concordia into a helpless hulk. as the water continued the rise, the ship tilted further, more than 60 degrees. >> and then i remember us all starting to pray and saying our good-bye good-byes. i can remember thinking, oh, my gosh, we are going to die, let's just get it over with. >> reporter: by now, it was nearly 1:00 in the morning. the ananias family and others were trying to climb a metal ladder on the outside of the ship, but it was still a mad scramble to escape. >> the men pushing women aside and children aside. >> i put my foot down and i

said, this is not going the happen. i will not see another man jump in front of this mother and child to get his way. it was not going the happen. >> dramatic stuff and you can hear more from the survivors and the investigators as dan rivers takes a closer look at what went wrong on that fateful night. it is a cnn special "cruise to disaster" at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn tonight. and she survived a bloody massacre in rwanda, and one that killed hundreds of thousands of people, and she has a message for americans on this fourth of july. one you will want to hear. stay here. if you want to make a difference, you have to have the right education. university of phoenix opened the door. my name is james craig, i am committed to making a difference, and i am a phoenix. visit phoenix.edu to find the program that's right for you.

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and welcome back the "newsroom international." we are taking you around the world in 60 minutes and all of the news that matterers overseas. americans marking independence day of course with parades and the backyard barbeques and the fireworks, but for one rwandan american, it is a day of mixed emotions. jacquelyne was 9 years old when her mother, her father, six brothers and sisters were among 800,000 and some say up to 1 million people slaughtered in rwanda. she and her grandmother escaped the genocide taking cover with friends and family members. her final stop, an orphanage run by two italian priests. the grandmother killed soon after. in '90, '95, a group brought her to the u.s. in an op-ed piece in sunday's washington post, she declares july 4th her day of liberation. she joins us live from new york,

and thank you for doing so. good to see you, jacquelyne, and having covered the rwandan genocide myself in 1994, i can see where you are coming from, and as the hot dogs are eaten, and you have a different perspective. you hear me, jacquelyne? tell me about the perspective that you have. >> yes. i'm sorry, i had tech issues. but it is today is a special day. you know, not only in this country, but in rwanda as you said, because today is liberation day where we remember being liberated from the 1994 genoci genocide. a lot of us clearly remember, you know, remember as the day went that we had home that we would leave again having spent almost 100 days fleeing for our

lives simply because of our ethnicity that we were tutsis in a country that believed that being a tutsi was a crime deserving of death. so it is a day when we celebrate our liberation, when we celebrate where rwanda has been and going since 1994. person personally, it is also a time when i think about my own family that i lost in the genocide, my immediate family and also my extended family and friends who are not here to enjoy the freedoms enjoyed in america and in rwanda, so it is a significant day for me and a day of mixed feelings. >> suzanne mall h vveaux and i discussed rwanda on this program and i hope that i never in my life see horror on that scale firsthand. what is the message that you want to get to americans given your perspective? what are you trying to say to

them? >> well, my message today on july 4th is for us to celebrate and go out and enjoy the barbeques and the picnics and all of the ways that you celebrate with our families and friend s friends in this country, but i think it is also important for us to realize that those freedoms and those rights that we are enjoying are not commonplace, a nd tnd that will millions of people all over the world living in fear because of what they believe and what they look like and to realize that we should not take those things that we have for granted and take individual and collective actions to try the bring those same rights and privileges and freedoms to our brothers and sisters who are in need, and deserve of them. >> and you are of course, a rwandan american, and you know, i am curious whether in your years of living here, do you think that americans know enough or care enough about what is

going on outside of their borders, and what actually is happening overseas can impact the u.s.? >> yes, there is a growing movement of awareness. i have been sharing my story over the past several years and i travel and i speak to student s in schools and i speak to other people in conferences, and you know people are becoming more aware of what goes on around the world and they also think that they are probably becoming aware of that as you mentioned what happens around the world ultimately have consequences for us, because we are now living in a global community. but despite the growing awareness, i also think that it is still a long way to go in terms of being able to prevent these things from happening, and i know that as we speak, atrocities being committed in congo and syria and parts of burma. we have a long way to go and it

is important for all of us as individuals to reflect on what we can do. >> well, on that point, jacquelyne, i mean, you were in rwanda, the one mass killing genocide where the world did absolutely nothing. when you look at sudan, somalia and syria, do you feel that there is a responsibility there not just for the united states, but for the world in general to act? >> i think that there is a responsibility. i think that one of the most disappointing things for the survivors in rwanda was to learn that why our families were being murdered. the many people in the international community knew what was going on, but it was not a will, a political will to intervene, and so for us, it is our goal to speak out and to talk about the need for the international community to act collecti collectively and in the face of atrocities and to speak with one voice and unless we do this, it is always going to be a different country with the same

tragedy and we need to reflect on that as a nation and both as international community and we need to do more and can do more. >> jacquelyne, i want the ask you this. you know, i have not been back to rwanda since 1994, and those memories are seared into my conscious, and we have been back and you have seen the change and rwanda is doing well economically and there have been moves towards the reconciliation process which we have reported on, on this program and how do you see your country going back now given what it went through those years ago. >> i think that rwanda has come a long way and it has been 18 years now since the genocide, and in 1994, you know, now only 1 million people had been murdered, but the country itself was in ashes. when you go the rwanda now, it is remarkable to see where the country is. but, you know, on the other hand there is still a lot of charges,

because for a country to experience what it experienced, you know, it is definitely going to take a long time. and in terms of, you know, the reconciliation, that is a movement to take a long time and for the people to do what they did in 1994, it took a long time of, you know, a lot of indoctrination and a lot of teaching of hatred, and this is something that is going to take the same amount of time or even longer to undo the type of ideologies, but we are moving in the right direction, but there are challenges that we need to talk more. >> and i could not agree more and there is a long way to go, but boy, there are great strides taken in rwanda and great talking to you jacquelyne, and enjoyed your perspective. thanks so much. >> thank you for having me. important topic, too. well, the locals think it is a natural form of natural viagara and the hunt for it is killing the himalayan grasslands.

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for more of the inside story, visit shinglesinfo.com welcome back, everyone. turkish military officials say they have found the bodies of their air force pilots shot down by syrian forces. this happened june 22nd after the turkish jet crossed into the syrian air space and went down in the mediterranean and still disagreement over whether it was still in syrian air space when it was shot down and all of this raised considerable tension between syria and turkey and both of the countries boosting the troop levels the border they share. we will go the southwest japan now. more than 25,000 people having to evacuate their homes due to torrential rains, and we mean

torrential rains, and a seasonal front brought landslides and in some areas two inches of rain were falling every hour, and the evacuations have been under way for two days now. now, to a growing demand for something that you may not have heard of, it is a small caterpillar fungus that is believed to boost sexual performance naturally. it is found high in the himal a himalay himalayas, and it is nicknamed the himalayan viagara, and you wond find it in the backyard, and it is called a wonder drug. we are joined by phone from a reporter in italy. kyle, tell us about this fungus and how it is found and consumed. >> well, it is a extremely small specimen that sticks out of the ground and looks like a thick blade of grass. what happens before this is a

pa parasitic fungus then comes up out of the ground and they are looking for a piece of fungus that is attached to a caterpillar corpse that is sticking ow of the ground 1 to 4 centimeter centimeters. >> why wouldn't you want to eat that. this caterpillar fungus is not only an aaphrodisiac, but it ha been around for years. >> yes, the history is not particularly well documented, but it is only in the last ten years that the aphrodisiac quality has been marketed around the world. >> well, there is the downside of course sh, and explain how getting this fungus that is affecting the himalayan grasslands.

>> well, it only grows at certain altitudes and again, this is understudied, so it is not exactly known where, but however, when, you know, in one particular district of nepal, where i did research the police estimate 40,000 people will migrate this year for the harvest, and the harvest takes place over the course of a month and it just ended this week. so you have all of the people coming, and it means more garbage and people trampling on the grasslands and crawling around and the har vevesting med itself involves digging a 8 inch diameter hole, so it leaves little marks and increased use by the people. >> and what are those lands used traditionally? >> well, people in interviews say it is used because the yaks and the cows are not getting enough grass and so in the winter they tend to die more and that means that the local livestock are suffering, and in

general, some people can make more of a profit from the harvest itself, by opening up a small store or guesthouse or something like that, so you will get mixed reaction from this influx of outsiders in these regions. >> what an extraordinary tale. kyle knight who is normally in nepal joining us from italy. believe it or not. well, when you think of saudi arabian fashion, lingerie does not immediately leap to mind, but that could be changing, and fast, and we will will have that when we come back. towndoing errands and never ever have to fill up gas in the city. i very rarely put gas in my chevy volt. last time i was at a gas station was about...i would say... two months ago. the last time i went to the gas station must have been about three months ago. i go to the gas station such a small amount that i forget how to put gas in my car. ♪

welcome back, everyone, to "newsroom international" where we take you around the world in 60 minutes and we now take you to saudi arabia and a major social revolution happening there in women's underwear shops. >> reporter: it is not the sort of thing that you expect to see in a saudi shopping mall, lacey, provocative underwear, and in is a kingdom where women are always completely covered when they are outside of the home, and when they can only travel with permission from the male guardian. >> can we go buy some lingerie? >> reporter: until january of this year, women here looking to buy lingerie were served only by men, but then something of a revolution, by the standards of this conservative country. a royal decree declared that from now on only women can sell

lingerie and cosmetics. and the woman who owns this lingerie shop in one of the malls welcomes the change. >> it is not nice when a man explains to the lady what this is and what color you need and what size you need. >> reporter: but the change came about only after a lot of pressure. social conservatives argue that women should not work outside of the home, especially where they might come into contact with men. last year, women began to fight back, launching a boycott of lingerie shops, and even conservative women support the change of policy, especially given an estimated 45% of saudi women are unemployed. >> translator: women need to work now more than ever, and saudi men who are looking to get married want women to be working. >> reporter: even so, there are

many hurdles for working women in saudi arabia, and they are not allowed to drive, and there is little public transport, so getting to work is a challenge. which is why, there is the man working here on this day. and women are still barred from many jobs, but they already work in health and education, so the retail sector would be the next barrier to fall. rima, cnn, saudi arabia. >> now you know. they are rocking africa and defying the stereotypes and we will tell you about the heavy metal heroes of botswana when we come back. h it all, we've persevered, supporting some of the biggest ideas in modern history. so why should our anniversary matter to you? because for 200 years, we've been helping ideas move from ambition to achievement. and the next great idea could be yours.

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well, when you think of african music, you don't think hard core rockers and well, you might need to think again. check out these guys, leather, spike, cowboy hats and not what you would expect to see in southern africa, but there is a growing subculture of metal heads in botswana. photographer frank marshall captures the rocker es in in all of the, h ell's angels renegade glory. and he goes one step further to go the botswana to meet some of the men and hear the music. here it is. >> reporter: botswana is known for the vast wilderness and wildlife areas, but there is a growing musical movement here

painting a much different image of the country. i'm told to get a real sense of the metalhead culture i need to go to the town kayne. the leader of the group is called gun smoke so i am here to know what their daily lives are like, and what are botswana's metalheads. >> hey sh, fellows, i'm lookingr gun smoke. >> hello. we are here. >> and i'm errol. come on down. i know this is your rock. i see schoolchildren here and they are looking up to you all and everyone seems to have a respect for you and what does it mean? >> it means a lot. it comes with responsibility and everything. trying to portray a good role

model to them, i try. i am not going to be a hard core, but at times, we have to live in the world we are existing and balance the equation. i trust you understand what i am trying the say. >> what about the heavy metal music and the look that is so appealing to you? >> definitely a trend to the looks, and we express ourselves better when we are like this. we become unique, and with so many groups and everybody, but the rockers, the number one music and is you need to be extreme and be on top of the world, and prove our point. >> reporter: okay. by now, i have learned quite a lot about botswana's so-called metalheads, but i have yet to actually hear the music performed live, and really,

isn't that how you judge any band of any style of music? well, i have come to a place outside of botswana's capital and this area there is a band called skin flint, and their style is african heavy metal, and judging by the attire, i think that this is the group right here. hey, guys. >> hello. >> reporter: what makes your band different to some of the others i have read about and seen. >> instead of other bands westernizing the music, we bring the african culture to the forefront. >> how do you do that? >> we sing about the folklores that we have had from the ancestral beliefs. and we have a lot of the ancestral beliefs like back in the day they used to belief that if someone dies and then you touch the dead person, then god will come into his soul.

♪ we are going to take your soul ♪ >> that was cnn's errol barnett reporting from botswana. while we are at the music business, let's listen to what people in my native australia are hearing right now. check it out. ♪ i don't want to say good-bye ♪ i just want to give it one more try noid i'd do anything ♪ ♪ yes i'd do anything >> if you are sick of the other aussie, well, look at this 19-year-old karice eaton who wowed the audiences with the australian tv show "the voice." slipping in a plug. and it used to be a private

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let's take you to germany now, where there is growing anger offa court ruling effectively banning circumcisions of young boys. the court said that the

procedure causes physical harm to infants that outweighs the parent's decision to alter the body even if that is part of the religious tradition. and diane magna has more. >> these costumes elegantly named the kids elegance store are for a purpose, they are for the muslim boys to wear at their circumcision ceremony, which the shopowner says takes place between ages 1 and 12. male circumcision is standard practice for germany's 4 million muslims just as it is for muslims and jews the world over, but last week a judge in coll lo -- cologne ruled that s circumcision mounted to grievous

harm, and his right to physical integrity outweighed his parents' wish to have him circumcised. though the ruling applies to one district in cologne, it has left doctors fearing prosecution. the hospital in berlin has stopped all circumcisions until the legal situation is clarified, though they are w worried about the consequences. >> we think that it is possible that islamic parents go abroad or go into the backrooms of some practices. >> reporter: and the jewish circumcision ceremony takes place on the eighth day of a baby's life at a special tradition. >> it is a double-sided scalpel which is very sharp. and very smooth. >> reporter: he tells me that this ruling won't stop him from carrying out what he believes is his mission in life. >> i will continue doing it.

in any case whether, whatever it means, because i nknow that it s important, and for me, it is to say the most important thing in life. >> reporter: but jewish leaders make clear that in the country that orchestrated the holocaust, they believe it is a serious assault on their faith. >> this is not just some other k custom. this is the basis of what we are. and therefore, it is absolutely of enormous importance that as quickly as possible that the german government comes out with a clear statement and creates a situation, a law, a clear law that circumcision is respected and part of religious freedom. >> reporter: despite the statements of of the world minister that germany no doubt protects religious freedoms, many citizens don't feel so sure. >> we have a phrase which goes

and flies in the soup, you can't eat the fly, and the judge is just like the fly. >> reporter: a sense that sours the sense of belonging in a community that is struggling to feel fully accepted in modern german life. diane magnay, berlin. >> it is a controversy far from over in berlin. stay tuned for more "news international" on the other side. one a day women's 50+ is a complete multi-vitamin designed for women's health concerns as we age. ♪ it has more of seven antioxidants to support cell health. that's one a day women's 50+ healthy advantage.

welcome back to "newsroom international", everyone. a couple of stories we want to update you. the first one is a hostage situation in germany where a man with a gun is taking hostages in his own home. that standoff is over, but it is messy. several people are dead. police say that the man was about to be evicted and one of the people he actually held hostage was the official who came to throw him out. there was a fire. there were gunshots, and four people are dead. we don't yet know if the gunman is among them, but some officials are saying that is the case. we are continuing to follow that story. in southwest japan, more than 25,000 people had to be evacuated from the homes due to torrential rains, the seasonal rain front brought flooding and threats of lanslides and in some areas up to two inches of rain were falling every hour and those are evacuations left to bundzway now. and keep an eye on that.

why am i here and not suzanne malveaux? well, she was out pounding the pavement in the largest fourth of july 10k race which i am absolutely incapable of doing. >> we are running for team cnn. we are going to try to do this in less than howard's time, and he is three hours, and he is last. we are not going out like that? >> well, i am praying that i will survive that. what i am trying the do. >> well, suzanne and team cnn, and i could not run to the mailbox and i don't know how they do this. they were among 60,000 runners out there today, and the team's time a speedy 70 minutes is all it took to cross the finish line and would be more like seven days for me. you can hear her laughing in the background. that will do it for me, and fredricka whitfield is up next fredricka whitfield is up next hour. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

>> of course he could do it, michael. welcome to "newsroom" i'm fredricka whitfield. we will focus on the economy and issues at home. barack obama is spending the day with the country's newest citizens where the president took part in a naturalization ceremony for members of the military, and homeland secretary janet napolitano swore them in, and tonight there will be a celebration on the north lawn at the white house. and no power. that is the extremely uncomfortable position that people find themselves in after weekend storms knocked out power from il toile the nation's capital, and the most outages five days after the storms h