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farm. >> this will be a haven. >> reporter: from february 2010 to february 2011 he oversaw training of afghans at the hospital. these photos were taken by his american military staff. >> there are patients that are starving to death because they can't buy the food. they have to bribe for food and bribe for medicine. patients complained about no pain medicine and no medicine. >> reporter: and you are not supposed to worry about that. >> that's what we were told. >> reporter: they do not dispute it shows hidden abuse but insist after a u.s. inspection conditions have improved significa significantly. in this memo to congress alleges to senior u.s. generals who oversaw afghan training in 2010
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delayed bringing in pentagon investigators because of their political concerns over the looming mid term u.s. elections. gellar says caldwell was angry his staff wanted the inspector general to investigate and that patten ordered a delay out of concern it would embarrass the obama white house. >> then said we don't want to put the request in right now because there is an upcoming general election and we wouldn't want this to leak out. >> that is not acceptable. >> reporter: congressman oversight committee is investigating the behavior. >> it didn't come from just one high ranking high ranking military official on the ground. we have several of them who have stepped forward and said this was the case. >> reporter: gellar says he wants the truth to come out. >> the biggest frustration is
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our own leadership's response and how slow that was and how inadequate that was. >> reporter: general caldwell and general patten declined to comment. the pentagon is looking into dr. gellar's allegations. caldwell did request an investigation into the hospital after the 2010 election. the senior pentagon official tells us there is no indication the white house knew about this and the conditions are so much better that tv cameras can go in and have a look. >> thanks for bringing that to us. this week on tuesday the house armd services subcommittee begins hearings on this very hospital issue. next hour we will be back
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with another disturbing story out of afghanistan. this video circulating showing a woman being executed. reportedly her crime adultery. officials say she was shot by a member of the taliban and this punishment is a painful reminder of what life can be like in that country. we will talk to someone who says honor killing are afghanistan cultural problems not driven by the taliban. now to syria. international peace envoy is in the capital for a meeting with president assad. activists say at least 43 people have been killed today and u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says time is running out for assad. >> the future to me should be abundantly clear to those who support the assad regime. the days are numbered. >> meanwhile the syrian military
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says it is conducting live exercises and launching missiles to stay prepared for an attack from the sea. a tragedy in russia that no one saw coming. in the middle of the night rain swollen rivers overflowed sending flood waters racing through the towns. at least 150 people were killed. hundreds of others have been injured and more than 12,000 people are now homeless. officials say the flood waters rushed through the towns with such force roads were ripped up and cars were pushed into the sea. and flooding is a big concern in colorado after wildfires left entire mountain sides scorched leaving no trees or ground cover to help hold back heavy rain. >> reporter: with severe weather
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rolls in and the threat of flooding is high -- >> can you get with urban draining -- >> reporter: the emergency operation center gets to work. >> our role in emergency management is to identify storms rolling in and get information to first responders to make decisions on when to notify the community. >> reporter: those warn residents when to avoid roads like this one. heavy rain pushed rock and trees into some roadways. another big concern for director mark char's emergency management team is the burn areas. >> the lower threshold levels. >> reporter: he and his crew keep a close watch on incoming storms monitoring what the impact could be to residents. but they are also making sure another wildfire doesn't break out at the same time. >> we have the lightning software which we use for
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detecting where lightning strikes are. >> in the northeast heat is the threat. dozens of deaths are being blamed on a brutal heat wave that began over a week and a half ago. this damaged road in wisconsin sent at least one car flying into the air. the heat is being blamed for a metro train derailment. officials say a rail buckled there. no one was seriously hurt. dangerously high temperatures are forecast today for 11 states. meteorologist bonnie schneider is in the weather center. >> when you are looking back over the past 30 days we have 4,500 daily records. nearly 240 all time record highs
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from june 23rd to july 5th. we will see that for denver and nashville, tennessee with an all time record high of 109 degrees. wow. currently the temperatures are a little bit better in some places. chicago at 84 degrees and kansas city at 81. that is better than where it has been. just to the south of this region because the cold front hasn't pushed through yet the heat advisory impacting states from the midwest to the south including the carolinas and into norfolk, virginia. this is the region impacted by the power outages. let's take a look at when this will break. for sunday we are seeing improvements as the front drops down. by monday a lot of places are out of the triple digits even out of the 90s. so gradually slowly but surely we will watch for the front to drop down and slightly cooler air more typical for this time of year will spread across much
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of the region. that is some good news. as it comes and this is typical again we have a cold front we can get severe weather. we have two watch boxes all the way across the midwest and then certainly into west virginia and including washington, d.c. the threat for severe thunderstorms in these areas will stretch until early evening hours. so far no warnings. it could get a little dicy for those of you with outdoor activities in this region. make sure you have your weather radio tuned in. >> thanks so much. two parents in indiana are accused of leaving their babies in hot cars in separate incidents during this blistering heat wave. police say this man left his four-month-old daughter in the car with temperatures near 103 degrees. the baby later died at the hospital. and then in the town of fisher this mom is accused of
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neglecting her 16-month-old daughter leaving it inside the car. the baby was rushed to the hospital but was released today and now with child protective services. mitt romney is about to attend a big buck fundraiser tonight in new york and will be greeted by protesters, as well. we'll tell you why. ♪
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protesters who don't like the host. why davy coke and his brother charles have become such controversial figures. >> reporter: come election day you won't find the names charls and davy koch on the ballot. the billionaire brothers own koch industries. their other interest is politics. those who track them believe they have been operating a stealth political network for years. >> their primary political nonprofit group spends as much as $45 million on political activity in the run up to the 2010 mid term elections. >> reporter: they are some of the wealthiest marnz in the country. critics like mary boyle says the kochs are only interested in
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furthering their agenda. the brothers want fewer social services, lower corporate taxes and limited government regulation of industry especially environmental industries which could benefit their refineries. >> it's not just campaign contributions to candidates but money that goes to candidates, state and national level, political action committees, political parties, think tanks like heritage foundation, kateo institute as well as shodo groups. records show they donate to republicans far more often than democrats. they gave $200,000 to democrats. cnn contributor has written about the kochs on his
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conservative blog. why do you think so much criticism? >> everyone on left and right likes to have a boogie man and a face to put to something bad. for the right for the longest time it was george soreoes. on the left it was richard. now it is david and charles koch. >> reporter: he says this is nothing more than david and charles koch getting caught in the net of conspiracy theory. do you believe they are working behind the scenes? >> there is nothing secret there. it is like the nuts on the right who believe in the birth certificate conspiracy and the nuts on the left believe the kochs believe in everything. >> reporter: in march charles did respond to criticism in this. he wrote even when such policies benefit us we only support the
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policies that enhance true economic freedom. today supporting those policies is easier than ever. a year ago the supreme court gave the green light for unlimited corporate spending in our politics as well as anonymous spending in our politics. you can bet the koch brothers will be front and center or at least their wallet will be. after today's fundraiser in the hamptsons mitt romney gets ready to address the ncaa in houston. the economy and health care remain big issues for both not always in ways they would like. cnn political analyst joining me now from washington. good to see you, ron. >> glad to be back. >> hopefully you have ac or power back in your home. >> yes. >> the numbers for the economy remain pretty weak. what is the president's best argument that he is on the right
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path? >> well, i think the economic report that came out friday, the jobs report really under scores the diminishing odds that this president is going to get any kind of tail wind from the economy before november. i think that has two big impplications for us. first this is going to be a dog fight and a very close election that may turn on turnout and mobilization efforts. the second implication for the president is this increases the pressure on him to make a contrast or negative argument against mitt romney. what they were hoping to argue was more of we took the country back from the brink. do you want to turn back? it is tougher to lean on that argument with economic news that is so equivocal at best. that is going to push them further towards the argument that tries to make the case against mitt romney's direction. >> mitt romney is saying that corporate taxes, he is sticking on the message of economy and
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corporate taxes are too high. businesses face too much regulation. is that an argument that will connect with voters who are trying to pay their bills who are trying to already kind of grasp the fact that he's got money in foreign banks and not sure what that means and the obama administration is using that to their advantage with a new campaign ad? >> i was out on july 4th. and i was struck by really this fundamentally first and foremost about president obama at this point. many voters think he did the best he could. and the extent that they are looking for an alternative they are saying whatever we are doing isn't working. mitt romney isn't very sharply defined in their mind. the romney program we have less regulation. ten years after the bush tax
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cuts were passed there were fewer people working than on the day they signed them into law. there is an argument for the president to say we have tried this path and it hasn't worked. the reality is the last increment of swing voters don't have a path for the economic problems plaguing them. >> this morning taxes still remaining an issue on morning shows. former democratic senator bill bradley saying more people more than just the wealthy should be paying higher taxes. take a listen. >> if we are going to succeed we have to face our problems squarely. the deficit is one problem and that requires taxes on a lot of people, not just the wealthy. entitlealments, defense. the real issue is we need more people working in america and
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higher income americans. >> how would the white house be responding to that and mitt romney? >> mitt romney is imposing ag further 20% reduction. president obama wants to let the bush tax cuts on the wealthiest alone expire. what bill bradley says reflects a point of view which has a substantial constituency which says the long term is a problem not closed solely by raising taxes on those 250 and above even if coupled with significant reductions. there are others in the democratic party who says at some point all of the bush tax cuts should be allowed to expire. we should go back to the tax cuts of the 1990s where we had a good economy. it is something the president has indicated publicly and
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privately that he will fight until the end. if he is reelected and there is a broader fiscal deal he will continue to draw a line at 250 and above. as you know there are democrats who say the taxes should only be raised on people on a million and above. it will be interesting to see how to narrow it. >> and the u.s. supreme court's decision upholding the health care act still resonating. romney spending a big part of the week in a tangle over whether the health care plan includes a mandate and if it is a tax and there are no differences between what he did in massachusetts and what the president has done on a federal level. is he getting mileage out of this or is it posing a greater problem for him? >> this is a difficult issue for both candidates at this point. on the one hand president obama has never successfully convinced in polls a majority of americans
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that his tax reform will be good for them and the family and the decision that the law will remain in force if reelected increases the pressure on him. on the other hand mitt romney since he has been governor has changed his position on a lot of issues but rarely looked as tangled as he did trying to explain the differences between his mandate on the state level and what they did at the federal level when his mandate in massachusetts is enforced through the tax code and has a higher penalty, about double the federal government penalty would have. one last point about massachusetts. only 44,000 people in massachusetts are subject to the fine for not purchasing health insurance. over 98% of the state has health insurance now. what that says is if the mandate is brought into law the vast
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majority of people without health insurance would choose to by it with the substantial help. what john roberts says was a tax was the fine on people who chose not to buy health insurance. >> fascinating stuff. galls to see you. thanks so much. >> thank you. perhaps you watched a little wimableden. last season was the gulf's best tourism season in years. in florida we had more suntans... in alabama we had more beautiful blooms... in mississippi we had more good times...
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in london roger fedderer wins his seventh crown. he beat andy murray by three sets to one. murray was hoping to become the first brit to win the wimbledon men's title. amanda, it was a pretty close match at first with murray winning the first set. what caused the tables to turn? >> reporter: well, roger federer is a very good player. he wasn't going to let it stand in the way. it was emotional after the match. murray couldn't contain his
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emotions because of the weight of expectations and the hope of a nation resting on his shoulder. he was the first british man in the final hoping to be the first british man to win in 76 years. he did get off to a fantastic start. he easily won. roger federer hasn't won here six times before for no reason. he has the skills and ability to step up when needed. he took out the errors and started hitting more winners. then there was a rain delay. the roof came on and the problem for andy murray is fedderer's favorite spots is the grass and indoors. and so it is roger federer
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celebrating his seventh title. he is also celebrating becoming a world number one once again. >> at 30 no less. that was quite the tumble for andy murray there with the slick grass. it seems both of them were very gracious at the end of the tourney. andy murray barely able to keep back a tear. the crowd coming to their feet and supporting him. roger federer saying i see one day you will probably win at least one title. >> reporter: and that is the general feeling here. if andy murray manages to win one he will win a lot of titles. the problem is he has just got to win the first one and the three other fantastic players who are playing at the moment. maybe the hope for andy murray is he gets to the final and plays a player that is not one
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of those three. somebody else has got to get to the finals one of these days you would think. i think it is now 29 out of 30 grand slam finals won by one of those top three. it is a really tough challenge. maybe it could be he is around at the wrong time. i know the british fans here still have faith and hope. and of course with the olympics coming up in a couple of week's time. >> thank you so much. exciting time in london this entire year as a matter of fact. here is a question for you. can you make it through a day without your internet. you might find out tomorrow when many of us could have online access shut down. simple tips on how to avoid that. e you save. and when you switch from another company to us, we even reward you for the time you spent there. genius. yeah, genius. you guys must have your own loyalty program, right? well, we have something.
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international peace envoy arrived in syria today scheduled to meet with president assad. activists say at least 33 people have been killed across syria today alone. egypt's newly elected president announced today he is ordering the return to the parliament. it may be the first test of the president morsiand the military. you may be among one left
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with no internet because the fbi will shut down interset servers nationwide in an effort to get rid of something really nasty. first off, good to see you. for those of us in the dark what is the threat? >> this is a particularly nasty piece of malware created by a group of hackers. they were able to redirect internet traffic. they have been running temporary servers to help those effected be aware of this and get notified about it. >> what can i do if anything to avoid losing internet access? >> the good news is this has been a pretty successful cleanup effort. there was an estimated 4 million computers effected.
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since then the fbi has been pushing an apair ysz campaign. they got it down to 300,000 world wide. there is still a large number out there that they want to make sure that they catch. so one of the ways you can check to see if your system is affected is to go to dns-ok.us. it will explain how to go and take a look at your system and hopefully fix some of this. all of the major antivirus packages are aware of this. the fbi is recommending if people see problems reach oit to your internet service provider. all major providers are standing by to work with customers. >> if the fbi were to keep the servers on what would happen to the hundreds of thousands of computers? >> that is what they have been doing for the last six months or
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so. they realize that since the traffic was redirected if they shut them down people would be stranded. they work with several internet groups to create the temporary servers. they were supposed to be shut down in march but they felt they needed more time to warn people. they got a court extension to continue to keep the servers online until tomorrow. right now people infected are running through the servers. they need to shut them down and tomorrow is the deadline. people running through the infested servers will have a blackout tomorrow which is why they are recommending for people to be on the alert for this and reach out to your provider if you have trouble. >> thanks so much. now we know what to do and what to look out for. appreciate it. melinda gates is a practicing catholic and wants to provide contraception to women around the world. hey america, even though
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said conception is sacred and god's greatest gift. how do you wrestle with that? >> you have to be willing to speak your mind. i have to be able to say to me the contraceptive piece is not controversial. my roots, part of why i do what i do in the foundation comes from the incredible social justice upbringing i have, this belief in that all lives have equal value. we are not going to agree on everything but that is sokay. >> if you are meeting with the po pope what would you tell him? >> if you believe in helping poor women and children living and thriving i think this is a necessary tool in this day and age. >> another charge from catholic bloggers that birth control amounts to population control. is this population control? >> no. i think that's where we have
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gotten ourselves also in trouble on this issue. deciding about a family is a decision that needs to be made inside of a family. the population is coming down in countries where there is wide spread access to contraceptives. you have to start at the bottom up. to hear a poor woman say to me i can't find the means to feed this child. if i have seven children there is no way i can feed and keep alive seven children i think somebody needs to give voice to that and i think it is important that i do that. >> for more be sure to check out our belief blog. you can add your comments, as well. a real treat for a nascar fan in daytona. ♪ o say, can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's >> our robin meade singing the
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national anthem. meade is the host of "morning express." this new hampshire man is hoping his performance of the national anthem will earn him a spot in the guinness world records. he performed at public events. he says his singing marathon started out as a joke. face to face. the grammy nominated swamp blues guitarist wants the government to step up and do more to preserve the wetlands. big names in music are giving him a little backup. i mean for instance my mom went to bed tonight before making my dinner. which is fine, i mean i, i know how to make dinner. it just starts to make you wonder. is this what happens when you age? my friends used to say i was the lucky one. i had the fun parents. where's the fun now?
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it wasn't long ago when swamp blues guitarist became the voice of preserving the wetlands. he is collaborating with pretty big names in music to raise awareness. i caught up with him in new orleans and asked him what more can be done. >> great to see you. >> great to see you. >> reporter: we were talking about the wetlands and the bp oil spill and the damage and the recovery. since that time what have been your observations about the wetlands that you love so much and are so committed to? >> i haven't seen the commitment from the federal government to step up and do what needs to be done here. this is a federal government issue. it's a corps of engineers issue and needs to be addressed. we are still losing an acre an hour. that's the amount of land we
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lose here. >> what needs to be addressed and how? we are talking about what naturally should be taking place when you talk about erosion and what is by man. >> a lot of people know we provide a lot of oil and gas for the rest of the country. i know we have to drill and it's a part of what we do and a part of our energy source, the biggest part but it's always been one way or the other. we never really balanced this. there is a way to balance all of this. the reason the river isn't feeding the delta is because of shipping. we are choking it down with levees and not feeding the delta. the gulf is reclaiming everything the delta built. if we don't get some of the mississippi water back into the delta we lose everything. where we are sitting right now was built by the mississippi river. it is part of what the gulf will
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reclaim eventually. >> reporter: is that what is at the root of your music? >> dr. john, yeah. we got together before katrina. i'm a pilot so i spent a lot of time flying pipeline patrols from the coast and looking at it from the air you can see where we are messing things up and how we can do it differently. i started getting with the guys who are the musicians in town and try to get a group together to make some noise and tell everybody we have to address this. ♪ >> reporter: at what point did you come to the realization that music can help convey that message and could also help activate some solutions and real remedies? >> when people try to get me to run for public office and i realize that i knew people that went that route and once they got elected they lost power.
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they lost the ability to tell the truth. they lost the ability to say this is what i see. this is what needs to happen. that is why the music is so popular around here because we have gone through powerful things. the musicians that had to leave for katrina all ended up coming back because they can't help it. they got to come back. this is where the fire is. >> reporter: so the country has a lot to learn from the lessons of louisiana. >> whether in how we handle emergencies and how we get ahead of the game in infrastructure that is falling apart, how we deal with energy crisis and making more energy and how we deal with big spills and things like that, you better watch us. you know you are going to need the information that is coming from here eventually in this country everywhere. >> reporter: thanks so much for keeping us aware through your music. >> tad benoit is taking his
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message on the road this wednesday at toounz on the dunes in rhode island. he is only nine years and headed to college. he is in college. we will meet this budding genius and hear why he loves looking at the stars. [ 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,
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there like, the stars are and like how a star is created. and like how a galaxy is created. what like interactions between stars. and the formation of like maybe axle planets, planets that orbit other stars. you also learn about our place in the universe, basically. >> and i understand that you help discover a super nova and an ex oplanet. tell me more. >> so basically it is a planet that orbits another star. on my t shirt this space craft
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actually looks for planets with a method called the transit method. so basically this space craft is called kepler. it basically measures the intensity of a star. and it looks for dips like, yeah. but what the scientists down on earth look for dips in the light curves. if you see the dip that could mean that we found an exo planet. what i want to do with all my knowledge is like invent new things and like invent new
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technologies and be a doctor to take care of people and make people healthy and so forth. and i also want to like maybe yeah like -- >> there's more? >> yeah. there's more. so let's say i want to tell let's say like i want maybe i could warn people about stuff like or like to tell people to eat good foods or like what i'm learning in my nutrition class. it's important for people to be healthy so you can teach about people to be healthy so that can also help people in some ways. >> remember the name, abraham. he wants to be an inventor, a doctor, an astronomer and maybe even president, he says. he is probably on a pretty good
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it's been a month since we introduced you to five military vets most amputees out to climb mount mckinley in alaska. their three week journey ended a bit prematurely but sergeant curt bowers says he still feels good about it. >>. >> we were all disappointed. i cried when we had to turn back. we were on the glacier for 21 days. all of us feel that the adventure was a success. what we were trying to do was inspire and motivate others with disabilities. >> hear more about their amazing journey next hour right here in the cnn news room. a unique way to keep people healthy in new york. the city is building play grounds for adults. it is a plan a lot of people are welcoming with open arms.
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we have too much idle time on our hands in new york city. >> it does help me stay in shape. >> right now we need recreation for everybody. things for them to do. >> while there have been outdoor adult fitness play grounds since the 1930s it is the last few years we have started to come up with newer applications. >> you have yankee stadium right there. you have the cars right there moving. it is not like a gym where you just hear weights dropping and it is like you are outside. before you know it you are done with your workout. >> got people playing basketball over there. people running over there and people doing pullups here. at times people need to clear your thoughts. >> not bad for 39. >> they really care about people making a place like this. >> he got me out here. as bad as he looks he got me out
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here. i look a lot better than him. i am working on cardio. >> it is a big cost when people are not in shape. there are great practical reasons for people to get exercise. >> i'm tired. >> it is one of the best things ever to see something like this. this is like an adult jungle gym, an adult facility. definitely should have more of them. >> we let the world run out of time. you have to take time for yourself. that is what i love about this that is what i love about this place. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm about to show you something that is so disturbing, a video out of afghanistan showing the execution of a woman. and a warning this may be difficult to watch. not everyone should see this.
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the woman is seen on the ground surrounded by a crowd of men. then you hear the men talking. and then after shots ring out you can hear men will cheer. human rights activists and officials are expressing horror today after what some are calling an honor killing. i want to bring in our pentagon correspondent. what are you learning about this video of the woman who was executed and the circumstances? >> well, very disturbing to watch but many officials believe it under scores the real brutality of the taliban. this woman apparently was killed, executed by the taliban because they believe that two taliban men were somehow having some dispute over her all
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