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evaluations after allegedly calling himself the joker and threatening to blow up his co-workers. police say neil prescott was in the process of being fired yesterday when he made the threats in a phone conversation with a supervisor. police found 25 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition in prescott's apartment. as you may recall, the suspect in the colorado massacre also identified himself as the joker. congressman jesse jackson jr. is being treated for depression at gastrointestinal issues. his office said earlier this month that jackson was getting treatment for a mood disorder. an oil spill near grand marsh, wisconsin has been contained. about 1,200 barrels leaked from a pipeline yesterday, carrying crude oil to chicago area refineries. officials have launched an investigate shun into the spill.
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and the government says a drought hitting 72% of the nation's farms, that's 72%, likely will affect grocery prices for all of us this year and next and creating a desperate situation for farmers. >> this should be about a foot long, something like that. usually it's 44 grains long. this one is eight grains long. >> corn growing areas have been hit especially hard, resulting in prices reaching an all-time high. one of rochester, new york's most recognizable buildings is no more as you can see by the dust coming up in the rubble there. st. ann's heritage tower brought down in a controlled implosion this morning. demolition of the 19-floor nursing facility will make way for two new buildings.
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a big american victory in the pool today at the london summer games but also disappointment. ryan lochte won the first gold for the u.s. in the 400 meter individual medley. by superstar michael phelps finished fourth. no medal for him. >> michael phelps' lining streak came to an abrupt end here. even though ryan lochte expected him to have a chance, no one expected him to be this dominant. and more than michael phelps not winning the race, the fact that he didn't get a metal, this means he has to put the pieces back together and figure out what he's going to do next. he said after the race look, i just had a bad race. other guys prepared better than me, and i have to take it on the chin. so he was very gracious in defeat. for ryan lochte, it was the first time ever that he beat
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michael phelps in an olympic raise. they had faced off three times and couldn't beat phelps in any of those head-to-head meetings. we have to appreciate the fact that there is a new golden boy of american swimming here at these london games. it was all about michael in beijing. >> when you think about ryan lochte, this is somebody who is the world champion. so there's so many races that lead up to the olympics and clearly in beijing, it was michael phelps. but now we see ryan lochte. but who else is making some in roads there who we may be able to see metal during the swimming competition? >> you know what's been really surprising is how well the chinese swimming team has been doing. they finished first in the total metal count in 2008. and they did well in a variety of events. but we saw today the first
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chinese man ever to win a swimming gold metal. we saw a chinese woman beat a world record in the individual medley. this has been one of the most interesting stories. i know we have long way to go, but china proving that not only are they excelling in sports we expect them to, but now dominating in the pool, as well. so it will be interesting to see what they can do against the traditional superpowers of swimming like the united states, like australia, like south africa, and they could really turn the tables on those traditional power houses and start dominating in the swimming pool, as well. >> an exciting day at the olympics there, including some good tennis. ping-pong actually being played now. we go now to don lemon who is in colorado. don? >> deb, thank you very much. we're learning the suspect in the colorado theater shooting was seeing a psychiatrist before the rampage. that's new information here.
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did he exhibit any warning signs and if so, how much information does she have to reveal? we'll tell you about that. and it was his 27th birthday and his first wedding anniversary. alex sullivan went to the movie theater with his friends and wife that night. his life was cut short. i sat down with alex's family for an emotional interview, straight ahead. most efficient line of luxury hybrids on the road, including the all-new esh. ♪ while many automakers are just beginning to dabble with the idea of hybrid technology... ♪ ...it's already ingrained in our dna. during the golden opportunity sales event, get great values on some of our newest models. this is the pursuit of perfection. your masclashblast 24hruminous on sombut will it last.odels. with anti smudge power will last through all your drama. who knew lashes this big could last this long. lashblast 24hr from covergirl.
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just over a week ago, no one had any idea they would be trying to make sense of a huge tragedy out here in colorado. least of all the family members of those shot and killed in theater nine last friday. today, services were held to remember four of those victims. jessica ghawi was one of them. she was remembered during a ceremony in san antonio, texas, as a woman who celebrated everyone in her life. friends at her ceremony remembered light moments in the life of an aspiring sports broadcaster, even showing this video of her falling on the isles while wearing heels. at the time, just an intern trying to do an interview, who had her whole life and career ahead of her. matthew mcquinn was also remembered today when the
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gunfire began, he threw himself in front of his girlfriend, shielding her. he took three bullets, but she survived. friends and family members of the hero packed a church in springfield, ohio to remember him. the girlfriend whose life he saved took one bullet in the knee. she arrived on crutches and wept with his family. also remembered today, alex teves. he was a university of denver alum and also protected his girlfriend from the gunfire. his family gathered, remembering him as a hero who sacrificed his life to save another. the phoenix native graduated just last month in a masters degree in counseling psychology. john larimer was also remembered today. he followed his father and grand father in joining the navy and he received full military honors. we're learning that the shooter
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was seeing a psychiatrist at the university of colorado before the attack. i spoke to wendy walsh and asked her how much information this doctor has to reveal. >> she only had to say something if she could identify who or what or when the victim was going to be. you can't be arrested for expressing aggression in a therapy room. it's a place of complete confidentiality. and therapists hear all day long how people are mad at co-workers. but if he said specifically i'm going to go to this theater and blow it, she had a duty to report. which she probably didn't. >> and that's been the big news we've been following here. so dr. wendy, everyone is talking about here that they believe possibly it's schizophrenia. let's just say that's it.
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are all people with schizophrenia violent? >> absolutely not. i had an official instinct that schizophrenia would have played a role in this. remember, we don't know if he had a diagnosis. we happen to know that this psychiatrist, as being sort of the head of mental health there at the university, also had a specialty in schizophrenia. so it doesn't confirm it, but the onset is often in early 20s. and most schizophrenics are not violent. so for her to predict it based on this diagnosis wouldn't have helped. >> and i think this is probably a wakeup call for mental health, to be able to talk about it. one question that's been going around is, does this call for more government money to help people suffering from psychiatric illnesses? >> i think that this is just another occasion where we need to look closer at where our
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medical money is going, and how much mental health services are available either through private health insurance or through government funded, especially for those people who are most in need. they tend to be minority cultures. they tend to be students and the unemployed. isn't it ironic when you need mental health services the most, say when you're unemployed, you've lost your health insurance and you can't afford it. and most health insurance only covers a small amount of mental health services per year. so this is another time for us to look closely at what we're doing with our society. >> thanks to wendy walsh. we're looking back at the lives of those lost inside the colorado movie theater. a one-hour special airs in less than an hour. watch "madness at midnight," the dramatic story of what happened inside theater 9. other news to report
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tonight. rebel fighters clash with government forces in syria's largest city of aleppo. ahead, a rare look inside the firepower some of the rebels have managed to stockpile.
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at the beginning of syria's civil war, the rebels were outmanned and outgunned. they're better armed now, but the rebellion is taking a toll on the towns where they fight. cnn's ivan watson saw the destruction firsthand. >> reporter: syrian rebel fighters show off captured weapons of war. these are the largest guns we've seen yet in rebel hands. a vehicle mounted mortar that fires giant 120 millimeter rounds. an armored personnel carrier. and anti-aircraft gun mounted on a pickup truck. this one's gotten use in battle. >> translator: a couple weeks ago i shot down a helicopter. >> reporter: this is a bus driver who is now a rebel. moments later, a helicopter
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flies high overhead. so we're looking at a helicopter that's circling over this town right now. and we're hearing gunfire. and this is what scares the fighters the most. this is what has been killing the most rebels that we've come across, the most casualties. this chopper came from the city of aleppo, located just six miles away from the town of anadan. they say they're fighting for freedom and they've succeeded in pushing out government security forces from this town. but look at the cost. there isn't a single civilian resident left in this town. it's been blasted and is almost completely deserted except for fighters. the town is scarred by artillery fire and empty. two days ago, three people, kurds from out of town, were driving this small vehicle,
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small truck up this road. and they were hit from a military checkpoint, it looks like right about here. it still smells like rotting flesh right now. a fighter says there's a government army base out in the farmland a few miles away and the soldiers there fire at us. bullets whiz overhead as we film a defaced statue of the current president's father. nearby in the mansion of a wealthy businessman, we find a squad of rebels taking up temporary residence. they show me an entire armory of weapons they say are captured from syrian security forces. it's a small arsenal, stacked up next to the original house owner's gilded chairs and dainty pillows. have you even captured armor? what happened to the guy you captured this from? "he died," the rebel commander
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says. god willing, he went to hell. unlike libya, these rebels don't show off by constantly firing their weapons in the air. syria's rebels aren't getting nearly as much help from the outside world. for these fighters, every bullet is precious. ivan watson, cnn, syria. >> incredible piece there. well, alex sullivan was killed in the colorado theater that fateful night one week ago. it was his birthday. next, his family sits down with don lemon to share their special memories.
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people always thought he was older than he was. and what you had to do then is when you got up to him and you looked in his eyes, there was the child. >> we had so much fun together. we climbed trees, we, you know, climbed through sewers when we weren't supposed to, and we got in trouble. we had so much fun together. >> he really wanted to go to that movie. i understand one of the last things he did is he tweeted, the movie is about to start in an hour. i can't wait, i can't wait. >> best birthday ever is what i think it said. that was -- that was his thing. we went to the movies on his birthday. >> he's in the movie. can you imagine what they went through? >> from what i heard, it was instantaneous for alex. alex -- it was an instantaneous
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death and when i went to the coroner's office on saturday and saw him and got the coroner's report, it was -- it was a relief. that was our worry, that it was going to be, you know, some kind of a gruesome thing and it was going to be tough. but he took a single shot and it ended up going through his heart and he died instantaneously. is there was no screaming. there was no anguish. he hit the ground and he was gone. and so i -- i -- i have a lot of relief from that. >> who told you? >> sarah was our victim advocate, and she -- we all moved over to the aurora south. cassy was admitted into the hospital for anxiety attacks and
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we wanted to be close to her. so we all met there and they put us in like a huge room and everyone that was with us at gateway followed us. even though they said, like it was only family, we said no, no, no, they're all coming with us. and we just kind of sat in that room and once the door opened, sarah walked in and we kind of knew. >> when she came through the door, deathly silence. everything stopped and she came over and got me and my wife, terry. and we sat down. she sat in front of us, and she said, it's confirmed. alex is one of the dead in the movie theater. and we -- you know, we grabbed each other, held each other. they told us people might be
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outside, so the security guard there was just a wonderful man. that you guys might be around and somebody might be running through and he came out and he said, you know, how sorry he was. and i told him, and i said, you know, today -- today was my son's birthday. and it staggered the man. he actually staggered back when i told him that. and he told me, he said, i've been in the prison system working in corrections for 26 years. he said, i will tell you, he said maximum security prison is hell on earth. that man will be feeling it for the rest of his days. he says, so you don't have to worry about that. and i said, i'm not wore yesterday. i said, we're already moving into celebration mode for alex sullivan and nobody is ever going go
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ing to forget him. we've already forgotten about whoever has taken care of this. we went home, got the jamisons out, got a cigar, put some van morrison on and began to celebrate our son. >> amen, brother. good for you. >> my thanks to tom and megan sullivan. during that interview, we talked about -- they called it their inappropriate sense of humor that the family has. whatever it takes, they're getting through it with that and their faith and we wish you the very best. thank you for sitting down with me. and i want to remind our viewers, we have a programming note. make sure you watch "madness at midnight," the dramatic story what happened inside theater 9. that's at 8:00 p.m. eastern,
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10:00 p.m. eastern, as well. it's half past the hour now and we want to get you caught up on the other stories making headlines. deborah fairic is in atlanta with that. >> amazing to think that this man was born and died on the same day. moving on, authorities may have disrupted a tragedy in the making. a potential copy cat crime after allegedly calling himself the joker and threatening to blow up and shoot his co-workers. police say neil prescott was in the process of being fired yesterday when he made the threats in a phone call with a supervisor. police found 25 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition in prescott's apartment. as you may recall, police say the suspect in the colorado massacre also identified himself as the joker. residents of aleppo, syria feeling an assault on the city by government forces.
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many civilians took shelter in syria's largest city after similar attacks on other cities. cnn's ivan watson says the rebels in aleppo will not give up, not without a fight. >> reporter: i've been speaking with one rebel operative who says that a column of syrian army tanks tried to enter the flashpoint neighborhood in the southwest of aleppo this morning. and he claims that rebel fighters succeeded with rocket-propelled grenades in destroying six tanks trying to get into that neighborhood. it's a poorer neighborhood, one of the first that the rebels moved into and seem to control. it's also been where some of the fiercest fighting has been. of course, activist groups telling us that this is the worst violence that aleppo haste seen yet. >> u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon says it's more evidence
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that a political settlement is needed in syria. a big american victory at the london summer games. but also a little disappointment. ryan lochte won the first gold medal for the u.s. in the 400 meter individual medley, taking the race by more than three seconds. a lot of time in the pool there. superstar michael phelps finished fourth. phelps has 14 gold medals from previous games. mitt romney was at the olympics earlier, but he's moved on to israel on his overseas tour. he arrived in tel aviv tonight. the gop presidential candidate is to meet tomorrow with israeli and palestinian leaders. a romney aide says iran will be a major topic. romney is planning to hold a fund-raiser and give a major foreign policy speech tomorrow. florida senator marko rubio had a scare today. he was on a private plane that had to make an emergency landing
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i'm don lemon, live in colorado where the 24-year-old suspect in that theater shooting is behind me in the detention center. we'll have more on that. but we're going to focus on the victims of this tragedy, as well. the victims and the people who survived. the community here, as well as the investigation. that's coming up in just about 15 minutes here on cnn at the top of the hour.
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"madness at midnight" 8:00 p.m. eastern and again at 10:00 p.m. eastern. more news to cover, though. deb has that for us. >> hey there, don. well, a shocking hepatitis c scare has thousands of people on edge. a medical technician is accused of deliberately infecting people with the virus. elizabeth cohen is tracking the alleged serial infecter. >> reporter: federal officials say that he took powerful narcotics meant for patients and used them on himself and gave those patients infected with hepatitis c. authorities believe that he infected 30 people with hepatitis c in new hampshire in 2012. now we learned that in 2010, he surrendered his license in arizona as a radiologic tech. that is when the licensing board started investigating him after
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an incident at a hospital in arizona. they interviewed an employee who worked with him and here's what that employee had to say. the employee told the licensing board, i looked in and found dave lying on his back in the bathroom stall. i looked in the toilet and spotted a 5 cc syringe and a needle floating in the water. the label was a blue fentanyl label. he then said, i'm going to jail. while this arizona board was investigating him, he voluntarily surrendered his violence and wrote a letter to the board saying, i surrender my arizona license at will, because i don't have the resources or money to fight the accusations and willing to wait to be eligible for reinstated in three years. later that same month, he went on to work in hospitals in philadelphia, kansas, georgia, and then new hampshire.
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>> a daring mountain climber doesn't use a rope. one false move, it could mean a horrible fall. you may need to hold your breath like i did when you watch alex hamel scramble up the mountain. >> i'm definitely not afraid of heights at all. i'm just as afraid of dying as anybody else. a lot of people say they're
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afraid of hiegts, but they're afraid of falling off a cliff and dying. if i thought i was going to fall off the cliff, yeah, i'd feel fear like anybody else does. >> hi, my name is alex. i'm a rock climber. i did a lot of hiking as a kid. hiking turns into scrambling and scrambling turns into free soloing. free soloing is climbing without a rope. in general, when i'm soloing big walls, it's anything from a thousand to three thousand feet. anything beyond 150 feet is all the same. it doesn't really matter if you do 2,000 or 20,000. either way, you're done if you fall. blood on the wall was a climbing film about me soloing to big roots. you just have a cubic inch of your finger shoved into the crack and then both of your feet pasted on. i think soloing is a certain
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amount of commitment, concentration and focus just to make sure you don't make any mistakes. humans say it's inherently dangerous. it's only dangerous if you fall off. driving is only dangerous if you crash, you know. i climb year round, but i have to follow good weather around the world. if i'm on the road in the u.s., i stay in this van. here's a brief tour. there isn't a whole lot going on. there's a bed, there's a kitchen, there's, like, a stove and propane, some water. a bunch of food. i've got all of my stuff under the bed. that's it. yeah. that's pretty much the whole thing. for the most part, i'm just hanging out in the van. it sounds grim, but when i get to places, i know people and i climb to them. there's always a climbing community. >> so this is a crash bed. this is just like a big mat that just sits under you.
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>> once you pass, like, 15, 20 feet, you kind of need a big pile of pads. and then once you pass a certain point like this, no matter how big the pile is. you see my arm is stragt. i'm not pulling with my arms. now i want to rock up on that right leg. i climb full time. this is what i do. there are rocks all over the world. it's beautiful. you can climb anywhere. >> the question, how does he get down? well, when we come back, we'll return to don lemon in colorado for the latest on last week's shooting. we'll also profile a young babysitter who survived a horrible movie theater attack. it's coming um. honestly. our sales have increased by 20%. what is this mystical devi.ce i p. see before it's an ultrabook. he signed the purchase order. with an ultrabook, everything else seems old fashioned.
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at just 13 years old, she has now endured more than most of us ever will in our lifetime. amid all the chaos inside movie theater 9, one babysitter tried to do cpr on people she loved. >> so we just put into your hands, lord. >> reporter: prayers for 13-year-old kaylan, a survivor. >> he just kept firing. he kept firing at anyone he saw. i thought i was going to die. >> reporter: you thought you were going to die? >> i've never had that feeling before in my life. and it's the scariest feeling.
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to think that you're going to die. >> reporter: kaylan watched as three people with her at the batman screening were shot, including a 6-year-old girl she regularly babysat, veronic veronica mozer sullivan. >> i thought it was partly my job to protect her. and even if i wasn't her babysitter, i would still feel the same. she was just a child. >> reporter: lying on the theater floor, she called 9-1-1. >> i put my hand on veronica's, like, rib cage to see if she was breathing. but she wasn't breathing so, i started freaking out. and then they told me to do cpr and i told them i couldn't because her mother was on top of her and couldn't move. >> reporter: veronica's mother, ashley, was shot in the neck and abdomen. she lived. veronica did not. >> she liked to draw and she
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liked to look at the -- i had a bunny -- well, i have a bunny in the room. and she always liked to look at the bunny. >> reporter: okay. take your time. her pastor calls her a girl with a servant's heart. >> she's the type of kid that would come in a room and say what can i do to help? how can i give of myself? a young kid, that really can't be taugt. >> she actually was consoling me. >> reporter: you were? >> and she was telling me that it will be okay. >> reporter: how has this changed your life? >> there are certain things i can't, like, hear or certain things i can't look at or certain things that i can't do or even wear. >> reporter: like what? >> like the clothes that i wore that night. i don't want to put those on again.
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popping sounds. or, like, banging. if it sounds a certain way. and i can't really look at popcorn. >> reporter: i know you want to say something to ashley, the mother of veronica, the little girl you tried to help. >> all i want right now is to go visit ashley. >> reporter: kaylan may not have been physically wounded, but she still bears the scores. aurora, colorado. >> wow, amazing. little kaylan there. and, deb, so many heroes in this horrific tragedy. so many heroes who we have spoken to. and those who have managed to live who will live with the scars say they don't want to be referred to, deb, they say they're not victims. they say they are survivors. we're told that the suspect in
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all of this has access to television and newspapers. we certainly hope he's watching and if he is found guilty of this to know the horrible thing he is accused of doing. i'm don lemon in colorado. our special report begins right now. >> reporter: a night of anticipation turns instantly tragic. >> gunshot after gunshot. >> there's hundreds of people just laying arnold. >> reporter: a masked gunman on a rampage of terror. >> the guy is just standing right by the exit just firing away. >> reporter: 70 people dead or wounded. >> i've got seven down. seven down. >> reporter: the fight for survival. >> we looked up and then there was another car and then there was another police car and there was another police car. >> reporter: the effort to heal. >> we will remember you. we will honor you by celebrating life. >> reporter: the victims remember.
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>> maybe if i was there, she would still be here. >> reporter: hello, everyone. i'm don lemonment. . one week ago in aurora, colorado, one man in one moment changed the lives, so many lives, in an instant. tonight, the dramatic store of what happened inside theater 9. and the many questions about what was behind the shooting rampage that left 12 people dead and 2 58 others wounded. now we're learning of possible warning signs that he had been seeing a psychiatrist and mailed her a package that detailed the deadly plans. but the package wasn't delivered in time. of course we're going to honor the victims. i've been reporting on this tragedy over the past week aloong wialong with my colleague, drew griffin.

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