there. dan, this is actually the president's first bus tour, right? >> reporter: it is. he has done two other bus tours but those were, as the white house described them, official bus tour. this is the first one of his campaign and the focus will be on the economy, specifically getting americans back to work. and today the president is expecting to focus on two things. first of all, what he's done to stabilize the economy, to try and turn things around, but also what his administration has done to bail out the auto industry. that is key to this region that has depended so heavily on the auto industry and also manufacturing big here. so the president will talk about investments in manufacturing and how he's pushing for tax incentives for those companies that have moved jobs overseas to bring them back here to the u.s., kyra. >> and he's leading by several points right now if you look at the quinnipiac polls, yes, in ohio and pennsylvania? >> reporter: that's right. he's -- you know, these are two key battleground states that the

president won in 2008. it's pretty tight still, very competitive. but here in the state of ohio, the president leading by about nine points in the most recent poll. in pennsylvania, leading by about six points. so both sides are pushing very hard for all voters, specifically independent voters. but here on this bus tour, the president going after those blue collar, those working-class voters that are critical to both campaigns. >> all right. dan lothian, thanks so much. remember, the president is due to speak about 11:40 eastern. you'll hear him live here in the "cnn newsroom." the republican governor of louisiana and former governor of minnesota are tracing the president's route as mitt romney's surrogates. bob j jindal and tim pawlenty call their tour the middle-class promise gap tour. >> this president has been bad for america, bad for ohio. here in ohio where 40,000 fewer jobs than when he took office. average income has gone down $3,000. the list goes on an on.

but the bottom line is this. we've gotten tired of the broken promises. we need to elect mitt romney. >> the two are due in parma the next hour. romney himself remains on a working vacation in new hampshire. with the olympics just a few weeks away, police in london are taking no chances. and today they arrested five men and a woman in separate areas of london. the six are suspected of being part of a possible terror plot with potential targets in the uk. nic robertson on this out of london. so what more do we know, nic? >> police are saying it was an intelligence-lead operation that they were involved in the terrorist offenses. the police say this wasn't directly related to any threat against the olympics and there's an indication that the police have been watching this group for some time. they didn't say how long, but they've been watching them for a while and decided that this was a good time, the right opportunity to round them up.

but this comes against the backdrop of o'arrest, counterterrorism arrests in the last few weeks and other things that the police are doing to minimize the terror threat around the olympics. so it really gives the impression here that the police are not taking any chances whatsoever right now, kyra. >> so tell us more about these individuals that were arrested and what you know about their background, where they came from, a little more detail. >> we don't have a huge amount of detachl six of them, one was a woman. three were arrested in the west of london, three were arrested in the area in the eefrt of london close to where the olympics will be. they were aged between 18 and 30. but we don't have a lot more information. the police have taken them in for questioning. the police say they're now searching eight residential premises and one business premise to see what they can discover there, which really gives you the impression that this was -- whatever these people were involved in, there was a complexity to it and the

police were already well across that complexity, and we've seen the police and intelligence officials tracking terror suspects before they've gone into business premises, before when they've been tracking these individuals and found equipment and things stored there. so we don't know that that's the case this time, but it's beginning to build that kind of picture, kyra. >> all right. nick t robertson reporting for out of london. thanks. at one point, about 2 million people were actually in the dark. this is what washington's massive power outages looked like from space, extensive blackouts in washington and baltimore. you can see the images. but as power is switched on for many people today, suffering continues for half a million people without lights or air conditioning. most of them in west virginia where residents are now experiencing food short averages as well. people and stores there have been em thing their freezers, tossing out tons of spoiled

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into the ocean three years ago. richard quest has been following this story for us out of london. richard, what do we know that point with regard to what exactly went wrong? >> this is the report. it is some 206 pages long, and it comes on the back of three other interim reports. and knew we have an absolutely crystal clear review of what took place. we know that the speed sensor failed, and that was bad but by no means catastrophic. instead it was the actions of the pilot flying, the co-pilot in the right-hand seat, what the report says was the inappropriate pilot inputs that ultimately doomed the plane. he raised the nose, the speed got off. this is the crucial part though. the two pilots flying, two co-pilots, it says here the crew progressively became destruction tured. there was a failure to

understand the situation and the apparent difficulties of flying the plane at high altitude and turbulence. so they were faced -- it's so easy in the cold light of day for you and i to be sitting here, but what this report is all about is not about the plane, it's not about the technical fault. it's about the training, the education, and the relationship between the crew members in this particular air crash. >> so, richard, how experienced were those pilots? >> the captain was very experienced. the first senior officer -- first officer was experienced. the pilot flying was not very experienced. 32, 800 hours. that should have been sufficient. it wasn't that they couldn't fly a plane. there's a huge difference between flying a plane at 200 miles an hour flying it by hand with a joy stick and flying it at 35,000 feet at 600 miles an

hour. what they were suddenly faced with was what was called the surprise element that. i were suddenly faced with having to manually fly the plane in conditions they were not trained for. they are now -- pilots across the world are now getting trained across the environment because it's so much more challenging at high altitude and high speed. this crash has been a seminal moment. the industry has had to have a look at training and what needs to happen next. >> you also mentioned -- and i wrote this down -- the speed sensors actually gave invalid readings. so how did that happen, and are they still being used today? >> yeah. basically they flew through super cooled air and super ice crystals. but that's -- you know, that's called an unreliable -- uas. they continue at high altitude but losing your air speed.

if you're going down the interstate and your speedometer suddenly goes to zero, you don't suddenly think the car's about to crash. you respond accordingly. what this report tells us clearly is that they didn't follow the procedures they should have done. >> and i can't even imagine what those final moments were like. i know they've been detailed -- >> you don't want to. you don't want to. >> what have we learned and, you know, what about safety recommendations? what have been -- what are they now? what's been implemented? >> 25 safety recommendations. they're already being put in place, things like training for high altitude, training for stalls practice. the most important one is a look at the total training and education of pilots for these extreme conditions and for improving the relationship between when you have two first officers flying the aircraft. >> richard quest out of london for us. richard, thanks so much. japan's nuclear disaster was

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well, it started with a call to police one year ago today. the report? a man was looking into windows and pulling on handles of parked

cars. then six fuller ton california police officers went to the scene. here's what happened. we warn you. the video you're about to see is extremely disturbing. >> dad! dad! >> he's still going to fight. >> yeah, yeah. >> he's still fighting. >> relax. relax. >> daddy. daddy. >> relax. >> okay. >> daddy. >> what's this guy's name? >> we don't even know. we're trying to get it. >> daddy. oh. >> relax. relax. >> well, five days later, that man, 37-year-old kelly thomas, homeless and schizophrenic was dead and two of those officers will stand trial in his death. both officer manuel ramos and corporal jay sis a nelly are charged with voluntary

manslaughter and ramos faces a second-degree murder charge. as for the other four officers they were put on paid administrative leash but not charged. here's how thomas's family felt about that. >> they didn't take steps to stop them from beating kelly to death but at the very most they took part in some of the beating but it's unclear that they knew that kelly was not resifgt oracly was someone they should not be striking. >> the voice after an outraged community demand leadership. it brought down top city leaders. three councilmen were ousted in a major recall election. a huge political upset in the wake of this case. and for kelly's father, ron, the loss of his son has brought a new mission in his life. to change the way people treat and think about those who suffer from mental illness. he spoke with me in may and responded to those who've accused him of not being there

for his son. >> for those who say where were you, they have no idea what i've been through with kelly and the trials, tribulations of dealing with somebody, working with somebody with a mental illness such as his. it's a tremendous amount of work and effort, but you can tell certainly by kelly's last words the relationship that we had. we were very, very close. >> and he -- and today ron thomas plans to file a lawsuit. details of that along with new evidence in the case coming in a news conference along with his attorney this afternoon. we've been following this story very closely over the past year and will continue to do so, bringing you the latest as we hear it. and in florida at any moment now a judge could desight already weather or not to let the kill over trayvon martin go free for a second time. george zimmerman and his wife allegedly lied to the court about how much money they had when the judge first set

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a florida lifeguard has been fired after saving a man's life. you heard me right. tomas lopez said he was let go from his job at hollins dale

beach when he went beyond the area of the beach he was responsible for to rescue a man who was drowning. lopez says that several of the beach's lifeguards have quit in protest saying they would have done the same thing. lopez will be on cnn tonight, 7:00 eastern on erin burnette's "outfront." london has a new landmark in time for the olympic season. the shard will open as europe's new tallest building. it's 95 floors have enough for apartments, offices, a five-star hotel and, of course, several restaurants. design for the skyscraper took 12 years and cost 1.2 billion pounds. that's about $2.2 billion, by the way. oscar pistorius is headed to the olympics. known by some as the blade runner, the double app pew tee will participate in the relay

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every nook and cranny offers children a new adventure. unlike traditional museums, at naturequest children are challenged from self-discovery and explore and be carous in a hands-on environment just like real scientists. withover 100 interactive uncounters to choose from, my son's favorites, clubhouses built in a tree and hidden tunnels with fossils and rushes that send fish swimming when little feet step on it. >> naturequest is this amazingly fun world that's scientifically realistic. you can explore from the ocean to the top of the mountains and everywhere you look, there's something to do. everywhere you look, there's something to find. >> what does a 2-year-old care about science? not much, but my son has so much fun exploring he doesn't realize his brain is learning too. ann claire stapleton, atlanta. what's more beautiful than a covergirl? two covergirls.

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newspaper. basically throughout this discussion he's calling the most serious challenge to his families' more than 40 years of rule over syria, basically a foreign. he said foreign powers that tried to divide syria tried to copy models in tunisia and egypt into popular uprising that people were paying demonstrators, he claims, $10 to come out in the streets and demonstrate against his government and now that price has gone up to $50 a person to come out and protest against him. he's accusing neighboring governments like turkey and the u.s. of sending arms and money to what he calls terrorists, islamist terrorists to attack his government. and when asked about the enormous array of human rights abuses allegations against him and his government, he says

there may be a few mistakes made, but you can't accuse the whole government of crimes against humanity as united nations repeatedly has. he claims that united nations dominated by governments like the u.s., which are seeking his downfall in the first place. so a classic gathering of denial. and that is despite the fact -- and i have to warn viewers -- this is a very graphic video we have to show -- despite the fact that we see videos of this, similar to this, atrocities of torture, of a man being beaten by what appear to be syrian soldiers. these kind of videos coming out on youtube day after day after day where you have souldiers being a man saying this is the freedom you want, you dog? who is your dog. you want to fight the aloe whites which is the same seth as assad. you're a dog. we see evidence like this every day.

it's been compiled by united un watch. >> ivan, how can assad sit there and say a few mistakes after we have watched this video over and over again. you have told of stories where you've sat down with young kids saying that they've had their fingernails pulled out. >> reporter: i don't know. i guess he's a politician. >> ha. plain and simple. ivan watson out of istanbul. we appreciate you staying on this story, and we will continue to talk to you about it on a regular basis. wikileaks doing it again, this time publishing more than 2 million e-mails from syrian politicians, government ministries, and companies dating back six years. wikileaks say the e-mails shed a light on the inner workings of the syrian government but also reveal how the west and western companies say one thing and do another. it comes as founder julian

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well, his presidential bid is long past. he endorsed his former opponent, mitt romney, but herman cain still has a lot to say, and now he has a whole new place to say it. welcome to cain tv. it's actually a website launched on independence day, and if you think you know what you'll find

there, trust me, you don't. there's politics, sure, but also religion, technology, entertainment, inspiration, heck, even cooking. there's a wide array of contributors, but no mistaking who speaks for all. >> the tea party, myself, and other pro-constitution americas believe in the second amendment, and as benjamin franklin once said, democracy is two wolves and a lamb, voting on what to have for lunch. liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. let's give a lamb a gun. i'm herman cain. we are not stupid. >> and herman cain joins me live here in the studio. i love how you watch yourself and you just laugh. >> look. this is a unique way of talking about how i support the second amendment, and a lot of people -- you know, the whole idea is do it in a different, sometimes

fun way. it's not overtly political, but it is covertly conservative. >> okay. interesting way to put it. when i saw this, i saw segments about pursuing the american dream, say your twisted sense of humor. i definitely saw the at times wacky side to herman cain. you're definitely passionate about certain things. >> yes. >> what do you want to accomplish with this? >> here's what i want to accomplish. we need a voice that resonates with the american people. that was the biggest takeaway that i got from my presidential run. people told me that all the time. and then after i dropped out of the race, people continued to say to me, please don't be silent, don't let your voice go away, and certainly continue to be bold and unique in how you get the message over because one of the things that this country suffers from is too many people are app threatic or they have tuned out of what's going on. and people need to be better informed. that's really one of the

objectives of creating that internet platform caintv.com. >> you played off the they thing we're stupid. i paid attention. i'm wondering. do you think we're stupid? >> i think too many are stupid because many don't challenge the information our leaders giving or say to us, and i'm trying to wake people up, and that is basically to say don't take some of the leaders at face value for some of the things that they say because this is how a society can go down a very dangerous road. and so it might sound harsh, but it is waking some people up. >> you say on the website there is something for everybody. >> yes. >> there is definitely something for everybody. i want to roll a part from "street smarts" louis brown. you have picked a very interesting individual. i'm going ask you about that in a second.

you asked him at this point about middle east peace. let's roll it. >> they're not fighting over no land in the gaza strip. they're not fighting over, you nknow autonomy. they're not fighting over none of that. they're fighting over who's god's favorites because they're brothers and until daddy takes a pout and smacks that as & gets along you ain't never going to have no peace. >> so lewis right now has two episodes on your website. >> yes. >> you call it street smarts. >> yes. >> first of all, where did you find him. >> one of my producers chris ber guard lives in california. he just happened to be walking down the street one day, came across louis, and asked louis did he want to say something and put it on film and louis said yes and he had an opinion on some things that really sort of shocked chris and he said, well

why don't we see what's on hids mind, even though he is a homeless person, that doesn't mean that he is clueless. he probably knows more about world issues and what's going on than a lot of people who think that they know what's going on. now, i have one sad thing to say about louis. louis passed away just last week unexpectedly. so we only have about three episodes with louis, but we were going to continue. unfortunately chris went back to shoot another episode and talked to some of his friends and found that he unfortunately had passed of a heart attack. >> interesting. i had no idea. >> yes. >> and this was one of the segments that drew my -- i was drawn to it. >> yes. >> first of all because when i started listening, i thought, okay, what is herman doing here, he's exploiting this guy. but then i listened to what he had to say. >> yes. >> and he was a really smart guy. >> he's very smart and insightful. >> is this the right approach?

what were you hoping to do through the eyes of louis, and are you going to look for another louis? >> we're going to look for other louises, but it's not going to be forced. it's going to be if it's a natural kind of a thing. what i wanted to achieve and what we wanted to achieve through the eyes of louis is to hear from regular folk. whether they're homeless or whether they live in a large home, if they have an opinion about what's going on, let's express that opinion. we want caintv.com to be an alternative for messages that may not make it to some of the mainstream media outlets, may not make it to cable news, an alternate method, an alternate channel for people's messages, some of them movies, short stories, other alternatives. >> when i was looking at this, and i was talking to our entire staff, i said, i can't figure out if he's trying to do "snl,"

being the next black howard stern or looking to 2013 and want to keep your name out there. >> nope. my mission is to help get this nation back on the right track and i make no bones about what i'm trying to do and who i'm trying to support. you indicated i'm supporting mitt romney. i'm also supporting all my supporters who said keep your voice out there and the way you say things, which is in your face, bold and sometimes make people feel a little uncomfortable. so the objective is to keep my message and others who share a similar message out there amongst the public. >> tell you what. we're going to take a quick break. we'll talk more about caintv. stay with us. if you're head out the door, you can continue to watch cnn from

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headed to his father's house in gated community in sanford near orlando, florida. he said he shot trayvon in self-defense. plus, you're looking at live pictures right now. president barack obama campaigning in maumee, ohio. he's kicking off his "betting on america" bus tour. we're going to keep up on this event and when he steps up to the mike, we'll bring it to you live. and if you're just joining us, we're catching up with herman cain, former candidate hopeful. he's talking about his cain tv. it's your inspirational storieses on cain tv that i love. there's one in particular when you and your brother and mom went shopping. mom was looking through the racks and you wanted to get a drink of water. let's roll it. >> mom specifically said, now, you all make sure you all drink out of the colored fountain. being typical young boys, we got

over there and looked at those two water fountains and we kind of looked around and we kind of went, hmm, nobody's looking, and so my brother went first while i staid on the lookout to sip the white water. then he was on the lookout while i sipped the white water and then we both sipped the colored water and we looked at each other. the water tastes the same. >> yes, you've always been rebellious. but you guys never really grasped the discrimination thing, did you? >> no. >> and you never embraced african-american, that term. >> no. and the reason i like that particular segment is because i believe that one of merge's greatest strengths is its ability to change. i'm not holding onto the past. i don't want to forget the past.

whether you go all the way back to slavery, even for a fourth of july celebration i was on a program and someone said -- someone -- i think it was chris rock who made fun of the fact, well, it might be independence day, but the slaves weren't free then. but look at it this way. if america had not become independent, slaves might still be slaves. america's ability to overcome those things that it needed dwroefr coto overcome is one of the greatest attributes of this country. >> i have to ask you about the news of the day and we're waiting for the president to step up to the mike. and we'll go to that when it happens. >> let me ask you about the court's decision. you're a cancer survivor. you're a rich guy. you don't have to worry about health care. for those survivors, cancer survivors, what do you say about them, the court's decision, how it's going to impact them? >> i believe if we don't repeal the obama care, future cancer

patients are going to suffer. and the less money you have the more likely you're going to die. i know this firsthand. here's why. i believe we need to do some things to increase access and decrease costs, but i fundamentally do not believe that the obama care legislation and the law is the way to do it. if you look at everything that has been successful about great advancements in this country, it has come from competition. another government system. go back to social security. started in 1935. it is a mess. medicare, 1965. it is a mess. and now we want the government to take over the health care system? what i say to people who are cancer patients or who are being diagnosed with cancer today, that's one thing. but it's going to be worse for everybody in the future because another government controlled program in my opinion is -- it's -- i do not believe it can be successful. this is another reason i started caintv.com, to give me another platform in addition to radio,

in addition to guest appearances on shows like yours -- thank you -- to be able to try to get people to look below the rhetoric and let's figure out what is the right problem to work on and what's the right solution. that's what herman cain is about. >> how about the right vp? who should mitt romney pick? does he need to pick a woman? a black? a hispanic? >> i don't think the decision should be based on gender or ethnicity. it should be based upon the next person who could step into his shoes if something should happen to mitt romney. second airily, someone that can energize the base. i think that that's also important. but i don't think that should be the number one thing. to pick someone based upon gender and ethnicity is pandering. that's not how you win elections. you win the presidency by offering, in my opinion, bold solutions, and have a strong team around you, not necessarily based upon -- >> who's the best vp pick for

mitt romney right now. >> i can't tell you that. >> why not? i know you have an opinion and i know there's someone on your mind. >> because mitt is going through a very structured process, which i agree with, and that's his -- that's how he arrives at big decisions. >> there's somebody you like. who do you like? >> i like me, but i've already taken my name off. >> he's not going to pick you, herman cain, oh, my goodness. let's be real. i know you like yourself. >> the first thing i said is i'm not looking for anything, i don't want anything. >> he's probably said thank god. >> i put him at ease. i wanted to go off and do other things like caintv. >> i like congressman allen west of florida. now, the last time i threw his name out there, i said he should be the pick, no, he is one of the possibilities that i happen to think that would be a good choice. i think that representative allan west is a good choice and i happen to think that senator

ayotte up in new hampshire might be a good choice, and not because she is a woman, but what she would bring. i think they would be good, and there are senators i admire like senator coburn of oklahoma might be a good decision, but ultimately, it has to be someone that governor romney believes in and believes they could make a great team. >> herman cain, thank you for stopping by. it is always interesting. >> thank you, kyra. my pleasure. >> all right. as you know the website is cain tv.com and starting in january, herman cain will be taking over for neil boortz radio show here in atlanta. and live pictures of barack obama campaigning in ohio, and he is kicking off the betting on

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all right. in the meantime, let's talk about the section of america known as the rust belt, the auto industry is king, right. but despite president obama's auto bailout, not all of the workers in towns like sterling heights, michigan, are backing the re-election. poppy harlow traveling the country to states that voted solidly for president obama last time, but poppy, i'm curious what you are seeing now. >> well,t is interesting, because the auto bailout and you would assume that everyone in the auto industry around detroit loves the president and credits him for saving their job and that is what we found for some, but not everyone. first i want to play you a quick clip this year of both romney and obama talking about the auto bailout, and this means a lot to detroit. take a listen. >> some even said that we should let detroit go bankrupt. [ boos ] >> and you remember that. >> i believe that a market works

better than a president stepping in to take care of his friends. >> hrall right. we know that romney did not want a bailout for gm and chrysler, so we went to talk to a chrysler worker, stacy stewart, right there in detroit who lost her job for a year and a half and after the bailout, she got the job back and allowed her to send her daughter to college and buy a home. and then we talked to brian becker who said he is completely against the bailout, and completely for romney. get a taste of what is for the recovery. who do you credit? >> president obama. 100%, because when everybody else turned their backs on the auto industry, he did not let us fail. i believe without obama's bailout, we would not be here today. >> i guess we didn't have the sound for brian for you, but

what brian, the worker at ford told me, is look, these companies should have gone through traditionally bankruptcy and he opposes the bailout, and interestingly, kyra, even though he is a big romney supporter, he say has the problem of romney in michigan is that he believes that rmny treated the bailout like a bean counter and financial guy that he is rather than the heart that president obama did, and i thought that was interesting coming from a romney supporter. >> and are the people in michigan still focusing on the let detroit go bankrupt op-ed four years ago. >> yes, you remember "the new york times'" op-ed that got so much attention in 2008 and every person in detroit brought that up, whether they supported romney or obama, and that has resonated and left this feeling and many don't like it obviously in detroit and others are for it, and kyra, we are waiting for the president to speak in maumi, ohio, and it is a huge section

for the auto industry, and tomorrow we will take you to warrenstown, ohio, which is fascinating, because so many people pro obama for the president, and especially the workers and i then found people 15 minutes from the gm complex who are not support iing the president, and they say that the bailout left them out as autoparts workers and they say they are not included in the bailout, and that is interesting in ohio. the president being in ohio so important today, kyra, because he is going to tout the auto bailout and you have 7.3% unemployment in ohio which is lower than the national average but when we crunched the numbers we saw that ohio as a whole has 30,000 fewer jobs today than it did in 2007 which is important to talk about as we talk about the bailout. >> well shg, the people that yo have talked to and spent time with, what are they going to be paying attention to the

president and what he says as soon as he steps up to the mike probably a less than a minute from now and what are you paying attention to and what do you want to hear? >> they are divided and they do know what the auto bailout did or did not do for them. as we see the president coming up, we get the all-important jobs report tomorrow, and how did we do in june and how many jobs did we add in june, and it has to be a big numbers for the unemployment number to come down and the expectation of cnn is that we would have added 180,000 jobs which is not nearly enough. they want to hear a plan from the president about how to continue to rebuild the e kcono and indeed a recovery and the recovery is not stalling, because the past two months have shown us anemic job growth, and what is the president's plan and what does he have in the pocket

other than the jobs act that he cannot get through congress and let's listen in, right, kyra, to the president right here in ohio. >> hello ohio. hello. it is good to be back in ohio. all right. why, everybody who has a chair, feel free to sit down. just go ahead and relax. i know it is a little warm out here, but this is how summer is supposed to feel like. the couple of the people that i want to acknowledge first of all, please igive ina a big roud of applause for her work. and i am pleased again to see the outstanding mayor of maumee tim wagner right there. and one of the best senators in the country, your senator

sherrod brown, and one of your outstanding members of the congressional delegation marcy kaptur is here. and your former governor and my campaign co-chair ted strickland is in the house. i love you. it is great to see you. i hope that everyone had a wonderful fourth of july. we invited some people over for a barbeque. had a chance to say thank you to our incredible men and women in uniform and -- [ applause ] >> and we are so proud of them and then it was malia's birthday yesterday. she is 14 years old, and i know,

it happens too fast and don't remind me, because she is going into high school next year which means that when she was small i could say all of these fireworks i had arranged for her birthday. but she doesn't believe me anymore. so now, unless you have been hiding out in the woods somewhere, you are aware of the fact that it is campaign season. >> fired up and ready to go. >> fired up. it is campaign season again. look. i understand it is not always pretty to watch. there's been more money flooding into the system than we have ever seen before. more negative ads, more cynicism, and most of what you

read about or hear about on the news is who is up or down in the polls instead of what these issues actually mean for you and for america. so it can be frustrating. i know sometimes it may be tempting to kind of turn away from all of it and just turn off the tv, tivo everything that you want to watch so you can skip over the commercials, and it is easy sometimes to, i think, lose interest and lose heart when you hear what is going on in washington. and i'll be honest with you, i think that there are some to folks who are betting that you will lose interest. that will, that are betting that somehow, you are going to lose heart. but here you are in the heat. i'm betting that you are not going to lose interest. i am betting that you are not going the lose heart.

i still believe in you. i i'm betting on you. and the country is betting on you, ohio. because you understand that even though politics may seem real small right now and may seem real tty, the choice in this election could not be clearer. and it could not be clearer. the stakes could not be clearer. i know. with you. [ applause ] what's go g ing on in this elecn is bigger than just a choice between two candidates or between two parties. it's about two fundamentally different visions of where we go as a country. you see, i believe in an america where no matter who you are or what you look like or where you

come from, you can make it if you try. we've never been a country that is looking for handouts. we are a nation of strivers and risk-takers and entrepreneurs, workers, but what we ask for is that hard work pays off. that responsibility is rewarded. the idea is if you take responsibility for your life, and if you put in the effort, if you do the responsible thing, then you can find a job that pays a living wage. that you can look after your family, buy a home. that you can retire with some dignity and some respect. that you won't go bankrupt when you get sick.

and that you can pass that on to your kids so they can do things that you never even imagined. fthat is the essence of america, and i believe in that basic promise, because i lived it. that is my biography, and i had grandparents whose service at wor world war ii was rewarded by them having a chance to go to college and buying their first home. because i had a hard-working mom who raised me and my sister right, but also had some help so that we could end up going to the best schools in the even though we didn't have a lot of money. i got involved in politics and ran for president in 2008 and some of you joined me in 2008,

because we believed in that basic bargain that built the largest middle class in history and the strongest economy in the world, and we felt like that basic bargain was slipping away. hard work was not always rewarded. that being responsible didn't always get you ahead. the folks who acted irresponsibly were making out like bandits while ordinary folks were having a tougher and tougher time. so we came together in that election, democrats and republicans. to restore that basic bargain to restore this country. and we knew it was not going to be easy and we knew it would take hor than one year and maybe more than one term and maybe more than one president, but

what we didn't realize is that we were going to be hit by the worst economic crisis in our lifetimes. it rob bed millions of people o their homes and jobs and savings and pushed the american dream further from reach for a lot of people. but you know what, this cray sis has not changed the fundamental character of america. it hasn't changed the fundamental character of this town or this state or this part of the country. we still got people who are working hard and we still have people who are acting responsibly. it has not diminished our belief in the ideals that we were fighting for in 2008. and our mission right now is not just to recover from the economic crisis, although that is job one, our mission is to

give back to america, to americans all across the country what has been lost, that sense of security. our goal isn't just to put people back to work tomorrow, but it is also to build for the long haul a -- welcome to "newsroom international" and i'm suzanne malveaux and that is the president at woolcot museum, in maumee, ohio, and we will have more of that speech streaming live on cnn.com. and now we have allegations of voter fraud in a presidential election and massive recount. we are talking about mexico right now. enrique pena nieto is denying they bought votes and stuffed ballot boxes, and now more than half of the ballot boxes are going to be recounted. rafael romo join s s us, and ta

about the preliminary voting results, because we understand that he believes in both parts he got 143,000 precincts and a lot of accusations flying. what is the evidence so far? >> well, i had the opportunity to speak to electoral authorities in less than an hour ago and they gave me the results and we have it for 92.20% of the votes counted this is how it stands right now today at this moment. it's 38.4% for enrique pena nieto, and the challenger lopez abra dor has 31%, and the third place runner vazquez mota has 24% and the number four place is guadri of the alliance party at 2%. they will continue counting all of the votes to the presidential race tonight. tomorrow, they go the

legislators, and they go the representatives and then saturday to senators, and then officially they will say once and for all the election will be over. >> what is the timetable? >> well, it is not over until it is off, and the challenger has the time to go to the electoral tribunal and i have these allegations that i present before you and they will investigate. but the time line is this that the tribunal will work on them and investigate all of that and they have to have a final answer by september 6th, because by december 1st, the new mexican president has to be sworn in. >> this has to be sorted out by december, so there is time to play out. and why is there so many widespread allegations of the fraud? >> well, this is the primary party of mexico and yes, it

happen happened many times vote buying and intimidation and so many problems, but the people are saying this is happening all over again and there are three major accusations, and one is that they were handing out gift cards for people to buy groceries in exchange of votes. the other one -- >> really? >> exactly what they are sayingch and people lined up at a particular store in mexico city, and they say, we were given gift cards in exchange of votes and the cards didn't have money they were promised. another allegation by a group named civic alliance that 30% of the voters were somehow intimidated or witnessed a case of vote buying, and then the last one by the youth movement called i am 132 saying that they received 1,100 allegations of some sort of irregularities, and so, yeah, it is a very convol e convoluted case, but all put together, nobody really expects

the result to change. >> so if it does not change and he ultimately becomes the president, does it undermine the legitimacy here and are people going to accept him as the new president and the new leader of mexico? >> to give you an idea of 2006, the incumbent, and the current president won by less than 1%, philippe calderon, and two months passed before he was officially the president-elect. this time we have a difference of 7 percentage points so i do not expect that it is going to be a big issue. i expect enrique pena nieto will become the next president of mexico, and these issues will go around. and last time the challenger protested for 48 days and caused chaos in mexico city, blocking the streets and staging sit-ins and things that made him lose a lot of voters this time around. >> and do you think that it just happen and this is the 2002

ballot recount i had in bush and gore, and it is messy. >> no hanging chads, but obl gift cards. >> okay. fair enough. we will be talking to you. on to syria, and we are talking about this number here, 16,700 which is the estimated number of people killed in syria since the uprising began 16 months ago. this is staggering and you are talking about almost 17,000 people and most of them civilians caught up in the fighting. everyday scenes like this in syria playing out everyday, shells, mortar and street battles and gun fire, and today, 43 people reported killed in the fighting or caught in the crossfire. cnn cameras are not allowed in syria, and we are watching the developments from lebanon and turkey. i want to bring in cnn's ivan watson in istanbul and we know that the syrian president assad is talking to a turkish paper

and has a different outlook of what is taking place in the country, and he is saying that the protesters and occupationers are being paid. what is going on? >> well, it is fair to say that. the and the newspaper is a secular kamalist newspaper here, and long establish ed that the syrian president, and the most serious challenge to the rule that his family has had over syria for 40 years was basically a foreign conspiracy that demonstrators were being hired for $10 apiece to go and protest in the streets a gai s against government and now the price has been raised to $50 which is hard to imagine when we have seen syrian security forces shoot agent the demonstrators and so you would think that you need more than $50 to say "down with

the government." and gone with the line that he has said for more than a year, it is a foreign conspiracy and the neighboring turkey, and the u.s., and other islamist terrorists trying to bring down his government. he says that the allegations of the human rights abuses against his government coming from the united nations even, and maybe a few mistakes, but his government does not accept responsibility for the alleged crimes against humanity. >> and tell us more, ivan, of what he says, because he says he believes he is loved by the syrian people, and we have seen this talk with leaders seem to be out of touch with what is taking place on the ground, and it is possible that he really believes that? >> perhaps. i mean, there are supporters of bashar assad, and he is believed to have a particular support of the allawites who are well

represented in the high echelons of the military and the government, but it is clear with more than 15 months with this death toll of more than 16,000 dead that there are a lot of syrians who definitely do not like their president and will die to get rid of him. >> and ivan, quickly here, talk about the tension now between syria and turkey. we know that syria shot down one of the planes from turkey and now those turkish pilots, the bodies i believe have been discovered. >> they have. this is a major international incident that has put these two neighbors really very much on edge at the risk of a military conflict between them. the two pilots from this turkish reconnaissance jet that entered syrian borders and were shot down last month and the bodies have been rekoved from the

eastern mediterranean sea from a deep death of more than 2,000 meter meters and the turkish government says that the bodies were recovered today, and in a strange twist, the vessel of the ship that helped find the bodies and recovered them is the american research vessel the nautilus commanded by the u.s. marine explorer bob ballard who is famous for the discovering the "titanic" in 1980s and this ship happened to be docked here in istanbul when this incident happen and the turkish government told me that they reached out to this vessel which has a lot of the submersibles, and remote operated vehicles that can dive to depths and levels that no turkish ship has, and they have been brought in by the turkish military in syrian territorial waters to do this emergency search and recovery operation and it was a rescue

operation and now a recovery operation. >> eye varngs very interesting connection there. here is more of what we are working on this hour from the "newsroom international." they are calling them the syria files, and this is is a massive dump of secret documents on the internet that could paint a darker picture of the country's violent civil war. [ male announcer ] let's say you need to take care of legal matters. wouldn't it be nice if there was an easier, less-expensive option than using a traditional lawyer? well, legalzoom came up with a better way. we took the best of the old and combined it with modern technology. together you get quality services on your terms, with total customer support. legalzoom documents have been accepted in all 50 states, and they're backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

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again, the first batch of what they say is a huge pile of official e-mails hacked or found from the syrian government this time. and they say more than 2 million official messages and some of them from the highest levels of the government and the syrians will be embarrassed by what is n in the e-mails. and we have atika in lon dorngs and cle -- london, and this is clearly a lot of e-mails to go over, over 2 million, but anything that strikes you? >> well, over 2 million, but only 15 have been fully published and releesased and whe it is em bar bar razzing for the syrian regime, it is more embarrassing for the italian company setting up a radio network for the syrian regime particularly for police and military helicopterers and vehicles, and we are not talking about the distant past here, but e-mails as recently as february 2012 at the height of some of the worst violence.

so a lot of questions are likely to be asked of the eye titalian company as to what it was doing supplying and possibly helping the regime in the crackdown. >> is there any other evidence of private companies also assisting the syrian government or is that just one of the first ones that we know about? >> it is the first one that we know about, but again, more than 2 million e-mails and more than likely that we will see more of the business dealings coming up. one of the interesting points in the e-mails that i saw just recently is that one of them seemed to suggest that a u.s. company was refusing to sell components to the italian company, because of sanctions, and the italian company was trying to find a way to sidestep around it, and it shows the difficulties that the syrian regime has had getting what it needs. >> it is too early that the italian company would respond to what has come forward, is that right, atika? >> well, they have promised a press release, and we have

contacted them, but so far no comment. >> and why the timing? we know that the wikileaks founder julian assange is in deep trouble. >> and it is critical because julians a sau assange could not there because he is held up in the embassy at ecuador, so the timing is mystery and could well be that wiki ooh leaks is showing that they are a legitimate news agency and they will publish the material despite the fact that the editor and the founder is clearly in a bit of a legal corner. he's basically in this embassy, and he can't get out. if he does step out, he will be arrested for breaching the bail conditions and possibly extradited to sweden. >> all right. atika, if you get more on the e-mails we will come back to you and get more news of that and i appreciate it. i know a lot of work ahead. what are folks listening to around the globe? here is a taste of what is

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it was a commercial airline crash that killed 228 people, air france flight 447 went down in the atlantic after taking off

for rio headed for paris. well, that was three years ago and today we have a final word from investigators on what happened, what went wrong and who is to blame. i want to bring in richard quest. >> reporter: it all began on may 31st, 2009. shortly after 2200 hours utc, universal time, and standard time used in aviation, air france flight 447 took off from rio de janeiro heading for paris charles de gaulle airport. it was an airbus 230 series and carrying 228 people or souls as they say in the industry. 216 passengers and 12 crew members. four hours into the 11-hour journey, things started to go wrong. at 0200, the plane entered a thunderstorm with strong turbulence, and the pilots made

a short course correction to avoid the bad weather. then a problem with the plane's small probes that are used to measure the speed of the airplane. it is believed they got clogged with super speice. and then the autopilot disengaged. the co-pilot who was flying overreacted by pulling back on the side stick, and the plane started to climb. a minute, the plane had climbed to 38,000 feet, and was outside its certified parameters. though, as the air speed dropped dramatically, and the plane fell out of the sky, falling at nearly 11,000 feet a minute. as the earlier reports make clear, over the next 3 1/2 minutes, there was confusion in

the cockpit as the pilots tried and failed to regain control of the aircraft. so far, in the early reports, the accident investigators from france have been focusing on a series of sustained mistakes by at least one of the pilots. finally, after falling 38,000 feet, unable to gain control, the plane plunged into the sea and sanks to the ocean floor. days later, crews found wreckage in the equatorial waters in brazil and africa and 75,000 -- 570 miles north of brazil, and it would be days before the flight data recorder and the black box would be recovered. >> richard quest is joining us from lonlondon, and it looks li this is going to close this particular chapter of the

flight, and why three years? is that typical? >> it took three years, because for the first two years they didn't have the most important infor margs the cockpit rerecorder and the data recorder which was in the bottom of the southern atlantic ocean, and the early reports make it clear that without the information they probably would never have fully understood. once they got the data recorders, the rest became putting the pieces of the jigsaw in place. big questions unanswered, why did the pilot behave as he did, and the report does fundamentally make some assessments and suggests, s suzanne, and basically says that the pilot was overwhelmed. he made inappropriate moves, and what we get from now having a full picture is that in certain surprise circumstances, suzanne, it becomes very difficult for the crew to keep perspective of what they are doing. >> do we know as the victims'

families, are they satisfied with the full picture? >> i don't know is the short answer. we needed this investigation so that it does not happen again. and the 50-odd recommendations talk about education and flight information give nn in the flig, and all of the things that if this in future conditions will ensure this -- this is a seminel crash. every so often one of the crashes comes along and everybody has to rethink the things they have to redo certain things, and in the case of aviation, they have to rethink the way that pilots are trained a on the way they fly the planes in certain circumstances. >> all right. richard, thank you. appreciate it. she is already the most traveled secretary of state in u.s. history. we will tell you where hillary clinton is headed next. including best overall car rental. so elevate your next car rental experience

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she is already the most traveled secretary of state in u.s. history and now hillary clinton is about to add to the record. she is beginning an overseas trip to take her to at least seven countries and make stops in france, japan, and she is also visiting mongolia, vietnam and laos and cambodia and may go to israel as well when she is in the area, and plus one other country. when people think of pakistan they think of political extremism, right. well, you may not know that they contribute to the world and the country's pop culture and it is a billion dollar business in pakistan, and we are going to go to a factory in the pun jab

province that manufactures everything from bag pipes to footballs. >> reporter: mohammed arraf has a important job, he gives his stamp of approval to the bag pipes that are responsible for the most sales around the world. he gives his stamp of approval to the top exporters off bag pipes in the world. and this place might surprise you, pakistan. pakistan is the most successful exporter of bag pipes? >> yes. >> reporter: it is said they started to make them in the 1920s when a scottish businessman came to set up a factory and more than a century later, they have more than a dozen bag pipe factories and both big and small. do you make them as good as the scottish do? >> yes, we do make them by the

scottish standard. >> reporter: and they were so successful that the manufacturers started to make successful items like those of vintage american footballs and vintage american basketballs and this is going to surprise americans, replica civil war uniforms made in pakistan. do you think that the people who are in america who are playing with a vintage american football, do they think they believe it is made in pakistan? >> if they don't know it, they should know it. >> reporter: and today, they export dozens of items and dozens of surgical instruments even all made here in pakistan. >> and we are increasing and doing about $1.4 billion exports from this small city. >> reporter: those exports include some of the world's most popular footballs or soccer balls and the labels say nike and adidas, but these are hand

stitched in pakistan and during the 2011 world cup when demand spiked, so did the production. forward sports makes 25,000 balls everyday. >> you will see the stitching speed, they are doing the job by hand and looks like doing it by machine. >> reporter: some of the biggest names of sports equipment manufacturing have built their names and recognition on these factories this pakistan. so each ball is put through tough quality control tests and they are heat tested and water tested and impact tested and with machines that shoot each ball 3,500 times. only then are the balls packed and shipped away. >> the balls stitched in pakistan will be definitely be able to hiave quality. >> reporter: and pakistan has been in the news because of militant attacks and a lot of

investors are staying away because of the security concerns, but many say that this is exactly why it pays to do business here. plenty of space, and raw materials are cheap, and so is labor. is there anything that you can't make? >> only we can't make the atom bomb, it is not good. >> that is not such a bad thing. reza sayah, pakistan. nato trucks and supplies are moving into afghanistan from pakistan again. this is a major development, because pakistan locked down all border crossings. that happened seven months ago when the coalition forces mistakingly killed 24 pakistani troop troops and now nato is using alternative troops to get the supplies in and it is costing about $100 million a month extra however. and pakistan reopened the border to supply missions today. they call him blade runner

and losing his legs has not stopped him from making the olympics.

north korea, one of the world's most oppressive countries last year with more than 3 million people there primarily women and children were starving, all while the government was working to build a nuclear weapon. and now the north krorean leade

kim jong-un is loosening up in interesting ways. he is allowing women to wear pants and yankeearrings and pla shoes and also people can eat pizza, and making mobile phones available and giving trips to the olympics. and now to the olympics. oscar pistorius is the first amputee to compete in the olympic games, and he is going to run from the aid of prosthetic blades. >> reporter: he is a self-confessed speed freak. he has loved motorbikes and action sports since he was a child. >> yes, i have these ones that i use for sports and running. >> reporter: but the south african champion scott pistorius is also a double amputee, and because of a birth defect, he has been wearing prosthetic legs

since he was 1 years old. so before practice, he does not just change the shoes, but the legs. taking off the everyday walking prosthetics and putting on the running blades. a man who refuses to see himself as someone who needs a helping hand. an attitude that took him to the recent world championships as a member of the south african able-bodied team where he won silver in the 400 meter relay despite not running in the final race. >> it was very disappointing to me, because i know i ran the second fastest time in the semi-final in my leg, and it is one of those things unfortunately. >> reporter: that disappointment now behind him, pistorius is now looking ahead to london 2012 obviously the longer term plan is the olympics. >> you know, i have said all along i have run a qualification time, and my goal is to be consistent where i am, and if you look at where i am, and what

i have to do to be consistent, there is a lot of work ahead of nus in the quest. >> reporter: and his coach has been beside him in his quest to run world class times. >> i know we battle. i can give you one example, because it took us three months to get him out of to starting blocks because he has no feet or balance to stand still, and we must do a four-point stop, and took us three months to get him out of the starting blocks. >> reporter: but the sprinter's jo journey is not yet over. >> he is a champion, and champions are born. i know it. i am almost going 40 years in training, and i can see it. because he has got all of the abilities as a champion, and we did it gradually. >> reporter: he's become a little bit of a hero, and fans and sponsors lining up to meet the man known as "blade runner." oscar pistorius sweats it out

here on the training track and he says he wants to be known by the athleticism rather than by his ability which is why he gets upset when a small group of skeptics still question if the prosthetic legs give him an unfair advantage. >> if the legs did prepare an advantage then others would be running the exact same times i have, and that is not the case. >> reporter: oscar pistorius the south african sprinter who de n defines the olympic spirit. cnn, south africa. she is a glamorous star of the formula one racing scene, but a tragic injury may have brought her career to a streeching halt. to the look of skin. now for maximum results... the power of roc® retinol is intensified with a serum

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if you follow formula one racing you know maria villota. >> hello. my career started in madrid where i was in a car crash. >> today she is in a hospital after a crash in england. she lost her right eye after undergoing extensive surgery, and she was preparing a car for the british grand prix when the

accident occurred. an 11-year-old boy accused and arrested for protest iing i bahrain, and he was arraigned. the case of little ali hassan has drawn strong criticism from activists around the world. the government has been trying to silence the protesters since the arab uprising last spring. and we are joined by mohammed jamjoon, and this little boy was held in jail for a month, and now this ruling that he won't be locked up again, but what does this say about bahrain's harsh treatment of some of the protesters? >> well, suzanne, members of the opposition in bahrain and human rights activists in the country say the fact that an 11-year-old boy was locked up in bahrain for that amount of time shows that the crackdown against the protesters in bahrain is still going on. they say that the boy never should have been locked up.

they say that he was a victim of this continued crackdown that has been going on ever since the protest started in bahrain in february of 2011. for their part, the bahrainian government were saying that this boy is not locked up because of an illegal vandalism, but they say he was burning tires and block iing a thoroughfare, but also a history of skipping school. they say they did it for his benefit, and treated well in this detention facility, but it is an argument that is not holding water, because activists are saying this is a kid, an 11-year-old and how can you lock up an 11-year-old for this amount of time? >> and we know, mohammed, that the arab spring has not caught on in bahrain and also the home of a very important u.s. military base which has caused some complications for the obama administration and the u.s. government to get involved.

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welcome back to "newsroom international" and we will take you around the world in 60 minutes. let's look at what is trending this hour. the secretary of general of nato is in slovenia today urging syria the find a political solution to the country's crisis. also praising slovenia for the

commitment to missions in kosovo and afghanistan, but before the meetings began this is what he tweeted. great bike ride with the pmjansa at the brdo estate. inspiring landscape. ready for meetings with slovenian leaders. and in india, floodwaters have swallowed whole villages. sara sidner has more on this story. >> reporter: the sea does not show evidence of the dozens of lives it has claimed and on the surface, the struggle comes to focus as those on boats struggle to save their animals if they can. floodwaters have forced 1 million people to leave their homes and in all 2 million have

been affected. i have been forced to move to rail road tracks with my family says the man, and they are in temporary shelters that have been set up. there is no water for me or my children, the villager sahida begum says. and this is a part of the area where the central government has long neglected. it is a place with fewer infrastructures than other states. the prime minister toured the area and says that the government is doing everything it can to send in flood relief. so far the army and the dis is -- disaster division have sent 1,400 people to the perform rescues. >> upon extending relief aid to those who have been forced to

leave their home. >> reporter: the monsoon rain started the second week of june, and this village has seen weeks of flooding. some of the stranded villagers say they have been stranded for days and food rations have not met them. two dozen villages are inundated with water. other villagers have not been willing to leave their homes and willing to risk they lives what little they have left. sara sidner, new delhi. our favorite photos from around the world are coming up next. hertz to keep the car you reserved or simply choose another. and it's free. ya know, for whoever you are that day. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. [ 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... and, well...

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several stories caught our attention today and photos as well. take a look at this, if you look close closely this map makes america look like the shape of florida. it is 500 years old and discovered at the university in germany, and scholars say that this is the first map in which the name america appears. flower experts from around the world have transformed a park in moscow into a garden paradise. we don't have a picture of it, but it was russia's first ever international flower show and thousands of people are expected to attend. we will get that picture for you. and no fireworks needed, because this is the sunrise at copa cabana beach in brazil. copa cabana beach in brazil. quite nice. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm suzanne malveaux, and

welcome the newsroom, and we will go the ohio where the president is starting his bus tour. and we will talk about the power outages all over the united states, and why so many americans are working overtime. straight to it. a judge in florida set bond for george zimmerman at $1 million. you might remember he is the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the death of trayvon martin. zimmerman's earlier bond of $150,000 was revoked after prosecutor told the judge that he misled the court about how much money he had. it is not clear how soon zimmerman is going to post bond or when he will be released. a florida lifeguard has been fired after saving a man from drowning. yes, that is right. thomas lopez says he was let go from his job in hle