adpressure to the upper airway that reduces and eliminates upper airway closures caused by apnea. >> all right. much more of the newsroom straight ahead. i'm fredricka whitfield. news room continues with ashleigh banfield. >> i am ashleigh banfield. it's 11:00 on the east coast. that means it's 8:00 on the west coast. let's get started with this. it's not even labor day yet and the presidential campaign, i think you can say, it's pretty much in the gutter. it started with vice president biden telling a lot of african-americans that the policy will put people, and i'm quoting, back in chains. back in chains, seriously. before you freak out, biden's mention of chains according to their campaign is apaper lit a reference to paul ryan back in 2010 when he responded to the "state of the union" address

when he said we need to unshackle our economy. okay, is that weaseling out of a serious gaffe? you'll want to have a listen yourself to make a decision. take a look. >> look at their budget and what they're proposing. romney said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks rewrite their own rules. unchain wall street. they're going to put you all back in chains. >> ooh, ouch. paul steinhauser now has to follow that. that's pretty ugly. and you know what? it set off a real mess yesterday, didn't it, between these campaigns. >> it certainly did, ashley, and if anybody thought the naming of paul ryan as romney's running mate was going to end it, it didn't. there's been plenty since then as well. you're right, the romney campaign was very quick to

respond to those comments that the vice president made in virginia yesterday. take a listen to what mitt romney said in ohio and what joe biden said and also president obama had interesting comments on the campaign trail in iowa. here we go. >> his campaign and his surrogates have made comments that have disgraced the office of the white house. take your division and anger and hate back to chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting america. >> i'm told when i made that comment earlier today in danville, virginia, the romney campaign put out a tweet. you know -- tweet? put out a tweet, went on the airway and said, biden, he's outrageous in saying that i think i said instead of unshackled or unchained. outrages to say that. i'm using their own words. i've got a message for him.

if you want to know what's outrageous, it's their policies and the effects of their policies on middle-class americans. that's what's outrages. >> i'm quoting here. you can't drive a car with a win windmill on it. that's what he said about wind power. you can't drive a car with a windmill on it. now, i don't know if he's actually tried that. i know he's had other things on his car. >> all right. i've got to explain what the president was talk about there. he was pointing out his differences with mitt romney when it comes to renewable energy and he made a reference to shamus the dog. romney took a family vacation. they took the dog, put the dog in a crate on top of the car. it was used then. it's used again. the president going there with his comments. he made that comment three times three different campaign events

yesterday in iowa. ashley, listen. you were just saying it and i think you're absolutely right. this should be about big issues and there are lot of them. it looks like the campaign is playing small ball and we've only got two months. >> that ain't the first time. if shamus the dog had legs like that, you can bet this would play out for a few more weeks. we want to switch gears here. look at the map today. what a mess. and pretty remarkable, too, when you look at all of those areas burning. 62 out-of-control blazes scorching states. by the way, i usually sound like a broken record when i say this. the conditions are extremely hot and dry and that's making it hard for the firefighters who are putting their lives at risk. this is why they're doing it. the fires are ending up at your back door. people have had to run for their

lives, only to come back and find the mess that their legs leave behind. an affiliate reporter from kiro in washington. it looks as though there's really not much abatement that's coming. >> ashleigashleigh, it's bad. 44 square miles. that's how much has burned here in ellensburg in the last three days. more than 900 people have been evacuated. thankfully no reports of any injuries or deaths. the fire is burning through timber and grass. this part of washington about 75 miles east is agricultural land. we met one woman who was desperately trying to rescue her horses from the path and had to leave some livestock behind.

>> weed that that sound bite ready to gorks jeff. sorry that didn't go. you mentioned it, thank god, nobody hurt so far, but ho many homes did you say were destroyed? i counted i think only an hour ago 60. but think that count is up? >> reporter: yeah, we're being told about 70 homes so far. here in ellensburg, people are coming around. i'm standing in the lobby of a holiday inn express. some guests had been evacuated. one of the employees wanted to do something to help. she went to her manager. they welkt to facebook. this is what they had. an outpouring, clothes, toiletries. this is the kind of support

they've had. >> it's lovely to see that, but what a terrible story to have to bring to us and i hope things get better soon. stand by if you will for a scored. i want to bring in chad myers, our chief meteorologist. i was reading up on what a lot of the fuel is on this fire. the grasses, the sagebrush, and then beetle killed lodge poles. i don't know what that is. >> we've had a lot of kills in the west with these trees. utah, montana, and idaho. unless you live out there and see what's been killed partly because of the old drought. these beetles have just infested these trees. they suck the sap oust these trees and then the trees have no chance of living and they die and they're standing up and then they're dead standing up and they're just a fire waiting to happen and there are so many fires across the west right now. all the way into idaho,

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u.n. monitors, the people who are supposed to be watching what's going on there. three were hurt. none of the members were hurt badly. rebels claim responsibility saying the government was a nearby military complex. that's a bit of a twist from the usual happen ings there. so far today at least 50 people have been killed in fighting across that country. and with no end in sight to the civil war that is raging in syria, there are new allegations now from here, this side of the ocean, from the obama administration that the government of president bashar al assad is getting some sweet help from iran. these are tough words to hear. our barbara starr from the opponent gone joins us with the very latest. this is the heck of an accusation that there are iranian boots on the ground in syria training people. >> well, actually the secretary of defense isn't pulling any

doubts or punches about all of this. the u.s. now believes, according to him, that iranian trainers, forces if you will are inside syria on the ground. i want to take you right to panetta and what he's saying about all of this. >> it is obvious to both general dempsey and i that iran is playing a larger role in syria in many ways not only in terms of rogc but in terms of assistance, training. there's now indication that they're trying to develop or trying to train a militia within syria, to be able to fight on behalf of the regime. >> much of the same thyme iran tried back with the war in iraq. training the regime forces. why are they doing it, ashleigh? the pentagon believes it's an

indicator that bashir al assad's forces are getting exhausted, worship out, their equipment is getting worn out so they need outside help to train up a whole new round of forces so they can carry on. as for the opposition, the pentagon says it can now confirm, yes, it believes a few days ago the opposition shot down their first syrian fighter jet. ashleigh? >> well, and the video sure shows that. nice to have that confirmation. let me ask you quickly, in mecca in saudi arabia, this latest comment from leon panetta and the suggestion that iran is doing this, it can't be going well in this conference when so many arab states disagree with what bashar al assad is doing. >> you're absolutely right. this is some 57 nations going on in mecca right now. very serious business for the nations attending there, iran claiming to be part of the

effort to find a solution. you see the iranian leader there with some of the other leaders, but, look. this is happening while everyone's looking for a solution. panetta is pointing out that the iranians are inside syria stirring up, in his belief, more violence, more trouble inside that country. so've with iran's own neighbors, this just is so extraordinary that iran would be doing this and doing it at a time when it causes such international embarrassment at that conference. >> all right. barbara starr, thanks very mump for that. i want to take you to another story that straddles the continents. bill gates is on a mission to rebuild the toilet. i know it sounds odd but hear it out. a million and a half children die every year because of poor sanitation and lack of access to a toilet. they issued a challenge to

universities to create something new that works better as part of a worldwide effort to create sanitation and apparently save lines. our zain verjee who's been following this story has the following. this is serious stuff. walk me through it. >> it really is serious because something like 1.5 million kids die from disease because of unsafe sanitation around the world every single year. here's the criteria. no running water. this loo in the 21st century cannot have any electricity, no septic system and cost 5 cent as day and be environmentally green. friend le, and turn solid waste into energy. so a lot of scientists are competing for this. they're looking at turning things like waste into charcoal.

this would be an absolutely major breakthrough on the health front. there's going go a toilet fair. >> do they have a winner? >> no. it's a project in the making. $370 million. >> here i was thinking you were going to do a show and tell for me. >> and the winner is, yes, yes. >> we'll flollow up on that. i want to switch gears because there was another great international story we saw. if you're a smoker or not a smoker people can see how the labels on cigarettes are changed ore the years and in australia there's been a huge ruling on what cigarette packs can look like when you go to the store to buy them. tell us what's happened. >> now you see it. in australia you won't. you're going to get cigarette pack thags are bachlly blank.

australia is doing something. they want no branding, no advertising of any tobacco companies on this. what they're going to have is some really awful horrible images of what smoking can do to you. they're going to show cancerous organs, people who have lost their eyesight, anything to deter people from smoking. obviously the tobacco companies are really mad about this. they're say you can do this but it's not going to reduce the amount of smoking people will do anyway. nonetheless the organization is happy and the parents are thrilled, hoping the addiction will go down. in the u.s., one in five people according to the cdc die of smoking a year. >> hold that up again, i'm trying to think of the poor

convenience clerk who has to think about what cigarette use want to buy and has to take a big old guess. >> nothing. >> one last addendum. last year united states unveiled nine graphic designs zain was talking about and it's got to cover half of the package by november. that joins 41 countries around the world that think cigarette packages need to be more clear. ♪

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you know, chelsea clinton didn't necessarily choose to grow up in the public eye. she did so by default. she was born in the governor's mansion and she moved to the white house. politics and public service are pretty much in her dna. man, has she been tight-lipped. we have heard hide nor hair of this girl, that sun till now because you're about to get a very revealing look about chelsea clinton. she's opening up in an exclusive interview. you're going to buy it anyway. but now one more reason to because this is fascinating. vogue's contributing editor one

of the best in the business got incredible access to chelsea and followed her for two months. holy smokes, jonathan, when i read this piece, i thought this is not the girl that i remembered. transformation. >> amazing. one of the most amazing things about her is we feel like we grew up with her but we knew nothing about her. >> first of all i wanted to highlight right off the top one of the things we may have forgotten and that is when she was 13 years old and she recounts this today in her speech something that happened to her with regard to rush limbaugh, a comment that he made about her. again, she's 13. she's 13 and rush limbaugh said this. >> let's see who is the cute kid in the white house. no, no, no. that's not the kid. that's the kid. >> wow. well, if he could see her now. >> he's disgusting.

>> that was pretty horrible. that changed things because people don't dare talk about those kids in the white house anymore. >> that's true. thing one of the things clintons will go down in history for is being the world's greatest parents. they did such an incredible job of protecting her from the likes of us and it's an amazing thing she's finally stepped out and decided to do this. >> let's talk about this. she talked about running and she said this about running. she said it's one part of my life in which i fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the on seved. my heart just sank. >> isn't that amazing? one of her best friends from childhood said she as a little girl behaved like a person who was always being watched. >> she was. >> she group up in a fish bowl but somehow she magically survived it and grew up into this incredibly fun person to be around. >> i suppose it shouldn't have surprised me with smart parents like those two. she is just remarkably

articula articulate, poised, on seven boards, a lecturer at the university. i want to read this quote to let you know how articulate this young woman has become. she said i really wanted to work in the private sector. i felt as if i had no inherited understanding of that from my parents. but i didn't fundamentally care about denominating success through money. and think it's important to be in professionings in which you care about the metric of success. whoa. >> she had digressions that are frequent and lengthy. she'll tell a story and digress and she'll learn so much because she's got this big throbbing brain. she's so smart. someone said she may have been the smart ef person i ever met. >> 32 years old. i thought she was 19 or 20. 32 years old, married and

pressure from her mom hillary to have grand babies. it's great read, so insightful and it's twha you do best. i remember your jennifer aniston piece from a decade ago. >> let's talk about you. >> let's not talk about it. >> remember when it was a scandal to wear glasses on air, now we're all doing it. >> or die your hair. you can read the entire invery view on vogue.com as well. i recommend you get it. it's very heavy. almost a thousand page this year. >> it's a cinder bloc is what it is. >> it hits newsstands nationwide. by the way, she is a total fox. >> she really is. >> so i hope rush limbaugh is watching this interview and i hope he gets to see these pictures and see how poised and articulate this woman has become. thank you, john than. i want to bring you now -- if that's not inspiring maybe this will be. an 8-year-old girl, how she's turned her hearing difficult

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congress, guess what, you have a lot of company. check out the latest gallup poll. 10% approval rating. 10%. this ties the all-time record low from last february and that's the lowest rating in g gallup's rating. don't bash your opponent. they've been in constant equal disdain for democrats and republicans. wolf blitzer joining me now live. this is something the democrats jumped on right away when paul ryan was named at the v.p. running mate because they say, guess what, he's from congress and we know how people feel about congress right now. >> number has been steadily going down. you saw the graphic go down. 24%. down to a 10%. i wonder who are these 10% who approve of the way congress is actually doing the job. are they relatives of various

members? i've spoken to so many members and leaders including house and the senate in recent years and i said if a pollster came to you and said do you approve or disapprove, most of the leaders say they disapprove themselves. so there's a problem there. i don't know how to resolve the problem but clearly there's a problem. i get back to the point who are is the 10% who like how they're doing their job. >> excellent point. joe biden out on the campaign trail. he's known as the king of gaffes. this was a major gaffe and by their campaign account not a gaffe at all. the whole issue of unchained when he's referring to a room that's predominantly african-american and it's not the only time joe biden has had some major gafs. i wanted to go into the archives and show some other ones. take a look. >> you've got the first sort of

mainstream in tafrican-american is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy. mean that's a storybook, man. >> you cannot go to a 7-eleven or a dunkin' donuts unless you have a slight indian accent. i'm not joking. >> i heard a pundit who i thought least likely to say this, saying joe biden doesn't have a racist bone in his body but he's like that insensitive uncle, drunk uncle who doesn't get it or has the sensitivity. i'm waiting for the absolute outrage that doesn't come from the political confines. >> occasionally as you poupt out he says something he wishes he could take back and do a rew-do if you will. having sthad i will point out i've covered a lot of politicians including best in

the business. all of them occasionally have a gaffe. they say something they wish they could redo. mitt romney's statement, corporations are people too. i'm sure he wishes he could redo his statement or barack obama thinks there were 58, 57 states. he wishes he could redo that. have i made many gaffes? sure. you? of course. we all do. it comes with the territory. you're going to make some mistakes. that just comes with the territory. >> it feels like he's doubling down on this one. i'll be interested to see how this plays out on so many levels. wolf blitzer, thank you. i always look forward to these chats with you and i look forward to your show 4:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. meineke's personal pricing on brakes.

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>> went missing. >> he is a suspect. >> yes, he is. >> but he is not charged with that one. >> and they are not allowed the talk about it. and of course, the prosecution wants to talk about it, because it muddies him up and if your fourth wife is missing and on trial with the third one, what is the correlation? but the defense is calculating that if the judge had declared a mistrial, he would have declared it without prejudice and that means in english, they could retry him and get a new jury and go through it again. but the defense is confident in the jury and confident to date how the case is proceeding and withdraw the request. >> why did they do it in the first place? >> well, you change strategy and if a judge tells you, because what happens you have a pretrial motions and the before the trial, the judge establishes the ground rules as to what the witness can testify to, a nd in some cases it is prejudicial and hurts your client and impedes the ability to get a fair trial. >> well, if you are a prosecutor, all of it is

prejudicial. >> and all of it is unduly prejudicial, but the judge said this is order protected and very compelling for a police witness talking about the fact that -- >> a restraining order and the defendant came over to her house and threw her on the ground and held a knife to her and said, he could not do it. skwlt well, don't gloss over this, hold on, hold on, this is a former -- >> a colleague of his. meaning that drew peterson's colleague from the bolingbrook police department who responded to a domestic dispute. >> to kathleen savio who is dead and he is charged with her murder. >> yes. >> and the police officer who interviewed the dead victim and showed up from the dead wife, and he showed n ed up in a swat uniform and shoved me to the ground and said, you go ahead and do what you came here to do, kill me, and he allegedly says, where do you want it? and she said in the head. and then she alleges before she's murdered later, that he

allegedly, that she turned her head and he said, i can't kill you. all of the allegations, but the witness on the stand who said it to the jury. >> it is important because it is a prior bad act and the jury could infer if he had ill will to her, he could be capable of killing her later. >> so i thought that we were going to be talking about a mistrial today, but we are three weeks ipb to this thing, and we are going to go ahead, and from the evidence, does he have a fighting chance? >> well, i think that he does. the defense is banking on the fact that there is no physical evidence and hearsay evidence about things that he could have done and wanted to do and didn't want to represent harm to, he but there is no clear cut evidence, and that is what they are banking on. >> no physical evidence of a murder, because they did not believe she was murdered at the time, and they had to exhume her body and then determine she was murdered. joey jackson k you stick around? >> yes. >> we have another case this you won't believe in a moment.

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all right. an update to a legal brief we brought you on monday. a young man by the name of chavez carter, young african-american arrested july 28th handcuffed and placed in the back of the police car. and lo and behold he ends up dead, how? gunshot to the temple. think about that, he is handcuffed and dies of a gunshot wound to his head. joey jackson, i am trying to do this while i am talking to you. and we did this demonstration. >> we did. >> on monday and putting the hands behind your back. and do this and pretend they are handcuffed and hold a gun and see if you can shoot yourself in the temple. >> very difficult. >> very difficult and some say ip impossible. >> but the police video. >> and police in jonesboro, ark a, police say they have a video and back it up by showing a guy with a reenactment.

it is silent, so i will walk you through it. this man is the same height and build and the cuffs are the same, and the gun that he actually is using or at least holding is .380 semiautomatic cobra which is the same one that chavez had. and look at this. he is doing it. i dont n't know if he is good a yoga or if you are in that seated position -- >> or if he double-jointed or something. there is a lot to this. >> yes, a lot to this, and they will recreate it and whether that depicts what really happened, ashleigh, we don't know, and we won't know, and there is 100 ways to spin it. but the police are saying it was a suicide and they are saying they did not act inappropriate, and so they are releasing it. >> when they say it was a gunshot wound to the temple and what about accidental suicide. couldn't the forensics tell the story? >> yes, they will