send ali your tweets. his handle is @alivelshi. thank you for joining the conversation this week on your money. we are here every saturday 1:00 p.m. eastern and sunday at 3 p.m. have a great weekend. new details are out today concerning a shooting in louisiana. at least some of thecei seven people arrested may be linked to a group on the fbi's domestic terrorism list. what more can you tell us? >> well, i talked with two law

enforcement sources who tell me some of the suspects in the case may have ties to an antigovernment group called sovereign citizens, a group on the fbi's domestic terror list. they generally don't recognize the authority of police officers. seven people are charged in last thursday's shooting of four deputies outside of new orleans. two deputies were killed and two were wounded. a sheriff in another part of louisiana tells me they had a file on all but one of the suspects that was later arrested. about two months ago there was surveillance on the group for a week. authorities say they saw only women, none of the men and that the group had moved out of state so they weren't able to move in on them. >> what more are we learning about the suspects? >> one of the suspects, terry

lin smith has a facebook page. it includes a photo of smith holding a gun. it is unclear what hater is referring to. under political views it is listed independent citizens whose mission is to give government back to the people. sheriff rodney tells me that he believes that the group is linked to sovereign citizens. our law enforcement sources agree it is too earl ay to fully link the deputies shooting to the extremist group. smith also has a facebook page. he has pictures where he is pose wg weapons including what appears to be an assault weapon. he is alleged to be the shooter in the first incident. when police tracked the group to a mobile home park three more deputies were shot and two died. >> thank you for bringing us those details.

now to the standoff between british police and wiki leaks founder julian assange. assange made a move stepping out on to a balcony in london. british authorities and a crowd of supporters watched as assange delivered a blunt message to the united states. >> reporter: it has been two months since julian assange set refuge. sweden wants him extra indicted and julian assange is fighting against it. today assange addressed his supporters from that balcony still protected part where he has been granted asylum. scores came out to hear him while british police stood guard. he told supporters his fight was purely political. >> there is unity in oppression.

there must be absolute unity in the response. i ask president obama to do the right thing. the united states must renounce its wish against wiki leaks. >> britain and sweden say it is purely a criminal investigation and he is running from the law. if he steps outside that door british authorities will arrest him. that's why his supporters are outside here keeping vigil. no matter how many colorful protests and rallies and speeches julian assange so far is going nowhere. he is stuck inside the embassy of. in eastern afghanistan nato says three were killed in imp rovised explosive attacks. the attack comes during a major muslim holiday and at a critical

time for the united states as it prepares to withdraw troops by the end of 2014. in syria president bashar al assad attended prayers. rebels say the vice president has defected. nic robertson has details. >> reporter: what we can learn from this, the fact that vice president wasn't there at this important prayer service is that the government has been lying. they have been saying he has no intentions to defect yet now we see if the situation was normal he would have been there with the president and other government officials and he wasn't. it doesn't mean we know where he is. what rebels are telling us is the commanders have lost communications with him and they don't know exactly where the vice president is. he is trying to get out of the country to jordan. they are concerned, they say,

that if his family is captured then he may be forced into surrendering. these images of president bashar al assad appearing at this tiny mosque close to his presidential palace tell us quite a lot. this is a rare appearance by him in the first place. normally he would attend these important prayers in the center of damascus. he has chosen to go to a tiny mosque close to the presidential palace. it gives the impression he doesn't want to drive into the center of the capital. his political world is shrinking. the vice president is not there. the prime minister was only appointed a couple of weeks ago. saturday he changed the health minister, the minister for industry and the justice minister and the governor of aleppo, all important positions right now. it does appear that his support for him is crumbling.

elsewhere in syria the death count seemed lower than normal. there were plenty of antiassad protests. people chanting against bashar al assad as they would normally do on fridays. also waving shoes in the air to insult the president. the death toll on this day that is normally a day of celebration generally lower than it has been over the previous days. nic robertson, cnn. now to the severe fire danger. this map showing red flag warnings in oregon, idaho, montana, utah and washington. this is utah where a new wildfire ignited as fire crews contained two other fires started by lightning. mandatory evacuations remain in effect today in several communities threatened by wildfire. it is a dilemma some on

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a new study shows nearly 1/3 of doctors would not accept new medicaid patients last year. as medicaid coverage expands under the affordable care act might that change? athena jones reports. >> good morning. >> reporter: the work day begins early at the maryland office. >> tingling in the hands and buzzing in your ear. how long have you had that? >> reporter: he is the only physician inane office serving about 6,000 patients. only about 60 of them are covered by medicaid. the reason is economics. >> primary care is a mix of compassion and economics. you have to pay a rent. we have to pay electricity. we have to pay the staff. and i have to take something home to my family. it is basically trying to run a business. if the economics are not right the economics are not right. >> reporter: while the amount

medicaid pays doctors varies by state it is often much lower than what doctors get from medicare or private insurers. according to a new study 96% of doctors accepted new patients last year but nearly 1/3 owere unwilling to accept medicaid patients. acceptance rates for new medicaid patients were higher in states where payments were higher. the new health care law will raise medicaid payments to primary care doctors making it equal to medicare payments in 2013 and 2014. >> what we are going to see we hope is that doctors will be more willing to take these people with new medicaid coverage and see them in their offices and provide primary care services rather than expect those people to end up in an emergency room to get care. >> reporter: what happens after

2014? >> we will see whether the federal government can step in and say if it was a good idea. we will put more federal money up. >> he plans to take new medicaid patients next year. just how many is impossible to say. athena jones joining us live from washington. why did the cdc and medicaid officials say the study's results may be of limited value? >> they say this study just looked at this one year, 2011. they say it is helpful but it is not necessarily going to be predicted because that one year 2011 they say is a year that many states faced difficult budget issues that may have led them to cut the rate of payment to doctors accepting medicaid coverage. another study looking at a full range of factors and policies is going to be necessary to really get a sense of what access to

doctors will look like in 2014 and beyond that. >> athena jones in washington. thanks so much. >> thanks. you still have time for a summer get away whether you want to hang out where the stars do in hollywood or check out great music in memphis. we have tips for you for labor day vacation. and if you have to go out today you can continue watching cnn from your mobile phone. you can watch cnn live from your laptop. so you see everything the way it's meant to be seen. experience life well lit, ask for transitions adaptive lenses. who dreamed she could fly. like others who braved the sky before her, it took a mighty machine, and plain old ingenuity to go where no fifth grader had gone before. ♪ and she flew and she flew,

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for just the second time the u.s. constitution sailed under its own power. it commemorated the battle that won it the nickname. it sailed around the boston harbor. summer is just about over. can you believe it? still a little bit of time to plan a labor day get away. boston is among the places being recommended to help us.

here to help us plan the rest of our summer, the beginning of fall. let's begin with boston. it is a fantastic destination. you always learn a lot about history. >> labor day is a great time to get a little patriotic and head to boston to learn that history especially on the freedom trail. you can see 16 historical sites. the paul revere house is one. it is the oldest building in boston. you can see the uss constitution and then the ben franklin statue. if you are more of a tour person they have a new tour called patriots and pirates. you can see the harbor where the tea went into the water. >> you can't be in boston and not enjoy incredible food. >> absolutely. so you can't leave without trying clam chowder. a favorite is ned divine's. don't leave without trying that. >> a little bit of music too?

>> absolutely. if you head to the bee hive they have jazz and blues all labor day weekend. so you can get great local flavor. >> your favorite place to stay? >> the fair mont wharf. you are within walking distance and starts at just $219 for labor day. we always like to travel by way of our stomachs. why not go to a big food and wine event. >> this labor day in l.a. is the taste, an amazing event with tons of celebrity chefs. while you are here it is a three-day event and you can try food from 40 area restaurants. and while you are here you should stay in west hollywood. it is a beautiful property with a musical ped i -- pedi gree.

>> i think of memphis and i think immediately of barbecue and music. tell us about music taking place there free. >> this free festival is the music and heritage festival. you know they have it right. you can see tons of music on five stages including rock, gospel and of course the blues. you can't visit memphis without hearing the blues. it is a free festival and a family friendly environment. >> and a favorite place to stay is the madison. >> the madison, a lovely hotel on beal street which is memphis's most famous street and on the river. starts at a very affordable $182 a night. >> fantastic. we are capping off our summer and beginning our fall the right

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in the battle for the white house medicare is taking center stage. paul ryan hook his message on medicare right to voters in florida. >> we think the best way to save medicare is to empower 50 million seniors, not 15

unelected bureaucrats to make their decisions on how they get their health care. mitt romney and i will protect and strengthen medicare so that the promises that were made that people organized their retirements around like my mom will be promises that are kept. >> president obama's campaign is firing back this weekend at a rally in new hampshire. the president described his changes to medicare. >> since i have been in office i have strengthened medicare. i have made reforms that have extended the life of the program that have saved millions of seniors with medicare hundreds of dollars on their prescription drugs. the only changes to your benefits that i have made on medicare is that medicare now

covers new preventive services like cancer screenings and wellness visits for free. >> cnn senior political analyst joining me from cambridge, massachusetts. is medicare going to be the republicans achilles heel or are paul ryan and mitt romney making their case to better clarify the plan or approach? >> too early to tell. we are not going to know for sure who has won the argument until the dust settles. in the the past the democrats have held the upperhand on medicare and when republicans talk about changing it that would work in the democrats favor. times have changed. americans know the entitlement programs you can't keep them the way they are, that they have to be changed. they are more open to arguments. whether the republicans can win

the argument or not i don't know if we know. there is an interesting poll out of florida. it is a poll that asked floridaens are you more scared of obama care or the ryan plan on medicare? people said they are more scared of obama care. again, i think it is one poll. it is one straw in the wind. this makes it a very, very interesting race and one of the most important elections we have had in a long time. >> given that information you have to wonder who whose benefit it will be that there is a prolonged debate about medicare. >> let's put it this way. if the obama camp wins this argument and moves seniors in their direction ball game over. the romney camp has a lot riding on it. there is one other element that

i do think may help president obama and that is this conversation about medicare is squeezing out the jobs conversation. it's making it more about a choice about the future of health care. the republicans originally wanted to run this as a referendum on obama and jobs. on medicare they are going to have to fight and that is what they are doing. they are putting one heck of a fight and they may win it. >> let's talk about the climate. one week after mitt romney announces his running mate, the reception of ryan apparently reporting this is the worst reception since dan quail's announcement of being a running mate. it's really interesting because a week after words like bold and energized were used to describe ryan as romney's pick now suddenly that momentum has dropped? >> i don't see that. i'm sorry to disagree with usa

today. i think both sides, there were few undecided voters. ordinarily you get a four or five point bounce out of your vice presidential pick in the year going. the ryan bounce has been smaller. here is -- fred, if i may call you that as your friends do -- so the point is this. there are intangibles that the polls are not picking up on. one is this has energized the republican base. the winner will be the one who can turn out the voters. people come out to vote. and this has energized the republican base. it has put a new spring in mitt romney's step. he was drifting in his campaign before this. i do think it introduces a an

electricity before the republican convention that is good for republicans. there will be a lot of people tuning in to see chris christie on opening night. the democrats are likely to try to follow suit with that. this is i think going to bring this election a lot more energized and a lot more interesting. i think having an election about big ideas is healthy because it does send a message to washington, we want to go for smaller government or government that is the kind that barack obama envisions which is more compassionate. that is an important choice. >> just over a week away from the convention. we will be watching and listening. thanks so much. appreciate it. it is a little known story in world war ii. thousands of jews were given safe passage into mostly muslim

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many countries across europe close their borders to jews trying to escape persecution. albania opened its borders. a new document profiles this part of history. earlier i spoke a woman who escaped to albania with her family. >> we chose to follow the story of a father who rescued a

family. it was the father's promise to return the hebrew prayer books. and then the nearly 50 years of communism cut off albania from the outside world. the family never came back for the books so it became his son's promise and that is the besa, the promise to protect them, the promise that he must fulfill. >> was this difficult for you to do? you were very young when your family along with another family fled. what was your understanding at the time about what was happening? and perhaps how did that evolve over the years? >> well, this actually quite simple even though i was only eight years old at the time when we left germany, it was all

around you. you knew that you were being persecuted. you couldn't go to a playground anymore. you could not sit on a bench in the park. every place you went was written jews are not allowed. i do remember my parents despite it all taking me for my seventh birthday in december of 1937, already then taking me to the theater which even then was a dangerous task to do. so it was all around you. you knew that this is what was going on. >> you mentioned that the fear never leaves your life. so when you are recalling your memories for this film, did you have those feelings of fear that would return? >> i do want to emphasize the fact that any albanian who was

caught hiding a jew, his life and his family and possibly the village was at stake. that they did that was incredible. it cannot be emphasized enough what these people did. besa is certainly part of their culture and it comes from the moral dictate. that is how they live. and as i have mentioned when i spoke to a high school group in germany, here was a rather illiterate country, high percentage of illiteracy who were able to rise to a very high moral standard and compare that to a supposedly very intellectual and progressive germany who was able to stoop to

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dodgers at that time. he said it is time and i got to meet my god one day. he made it happen. and he signed jackie and roy and me and said you men will do it. i get no help from the other owners. >> this is the love of the game. sthat what fuelled you to be the great player that you have been? >> it was a great job to have. we thought it could turn out to be. we didn't make a lot of money. i think the minimum salary at that time for a rookie was $5,000. now it is $500,000. so big change has been made. >> what is that like to you? the incentive for young players today, money, great. hopefully the love of the game was there. it was the flip side for you as you explained. >> we had somebody in mind we had to do and it was to change

baseball. and we were veterans in getting all of this to happen, civil rights movement was moving along. it was too slow for a lot of people. we did hurry it up a lot. we did our job and we made it happen. >> and you have worked hard over the years to really inspire, get young people involved in the game. are you happy with those efforts? do you see that there are a lot of kids interested in baseball or does it disappoint you that so many schools have eliminated baseball programs because they don't have the funding for it and maybe there isn't the interest. >> back then all we had was negro and you were lucky if you had the chance. jackie, kansas city and roy in

baltimore. we became the veterans and became the wherewithal to make it happen. we were very happy that we were selected. >> you are going to be given this beacon of hope award during the civil rights game. what does this mean to you? >> it is a great thrill and a great honor. and i just bless god and god blessed me. we got together and said let's do it together, me and god. and we accepted the award. my wife got in touch with some people and they put it together. there were people i think frank robinson with the commission office has something to do with it. we got it together and here i am. i am going to be fortunate enough to accept it. >> cy young awards, mvp. the list goes on. where does this stack up when you look at the legacy of your career and being recognized as a real trailblazer? >> it is great to be the first.

i was the first to win the cy young award. i was the only one to win the rookie of the year and the cy young award. nobody did that until justin verlander won it in his career last year and won the cy young award and most valuable player award and rookie of the year award in 2006. he is a member of my team. i have over 55 years. >> i just want to ask you your thoughts on magic johnson being a part owner of the dodgers and seeing that there are a lot of celebrities whether in the music industry or sports getting a piece of ownership in sports teams? >> i am proud of him. just a big thrill when i heard she was going to be on the team that was going to buy the dodgers. i was waiting for him to make it happen and he made it happen. now he is there. i see him all the time.

a wonderful person and we are looking for big wonderful things for the dodgers and magic johnson. he will be a great part of it happening. >> thanks so much. an honor to meet you. congratulations on the award. this is a big weekend at the box office. which movies are worth your time and money? previewing "the expendables 2." so you see everything the way it's meant to be seen. experience life well lit, ask for transitions adaptive lenses. and sounds vying for your attention. so we invented a warning you can feel. introducing the all-new cadillac xts. available with a patented safety alert seat. when there's danger you might not see, you're warned by a pulse in the seat.

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this weekend two highly anticipated flicks are in the theaters. gray is the senior editor at the rotten tomatoes review website. let's begin with should we talk about "expendables 2", what's this all about? >> sylvestor stallone and the guys are back. this is every action star you have ever wanted to see in a film together. so this is the second one in the series. >> i thought it was going to be an animated film. >> it is so far from animated

your head will blow up from the magnificence of the movie. all of these guys are in one film. and the simple, simpleal plot of the film is that bruce willis offers them a job. it turns out to be harder than they imagined. >> great names. wow. >> and on the tomato meter you learn more about this later but we get the reviews together that the critics have put together. expendables is fresh at 65%. that means 65% of the critics liked it. >> i am with them. i think the movie feels a little bit like it was written by a dude hit in the head too much. >> you look at the action this is a dude's movie all the way. >> sylvestor stallone is

partially responsible. it is full of explosions. >> i'm with the critics. now, let's talk about the whitney houston's last film before her parting. does it sparkle? >> it absolutely does. i had so much fun watching this movie. it is for anybody who watched dream girls and thought that it had a little too much integrity. it's like sparkle is soap opera dream girls. it has the rise and fall of an incredibly talented girl. jordan sparks. exactly. and carmine plays the oldest sister. every single one of the girls in the film are amazing. the music can't be beat. i loved it. i just thought this movie was fantastic. on rotten tomatoes 56% on the tomato meter.

what the critics are saying is that it is full of every single movie cliche that you can think of. and it is. the music is great, jordan sparks is great. >> should we be looking at a clip? >> let's watch. >> i know lord loves me and he wouldn't torture me with something i want to do. >> you figured i was wrong? >> i thought i had a gift. >> sparkle, you can have a gift. it's how you use it. >> interesting. i like what jordan sparks said about this movie and whitney houston in a previous interview saying each character extrapolated something from different phases of whitney houston's house whether by design or chance. >> that is probably why the

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comedians didn't miss a beat when they took on the presidential campaign. jim acosta looked at the best of the week. >> mitt romney is hoping to energize republicans by announcing paul ryan as his running mate. >> bold, so daring, white, christian and male? that is a triple not threatening to me. >> what? that guy next to romney is not already a romney? are you sure that is not like brick romney or chad or fudge romney? >> i don't really know him well because i have never been to the tim. >> jokes from house minority leader nancy pelosi. one late night comic was not laughing. >> paul ryan like mitt romney and like president obama is a family man. i have a monologue.

i need more herman cains. i don't need family men. let's get herman cain and john edwards back in this race. >> or maybe donald trump. >> donald trump says he has a big surprise in store for everyone at the republican national convention. >> senator john mccain said it would be rise for president obama to drop joe biden from the ticket. >> reporter: speaking of the vice president. >> president obama said he is sticking with joe biden as his running mate even though biden made a series of major gaps this week. joe biden says this is [ bleep ] great. >> president obama called mitt romney and asked mitt if he

would fire biden. true story. >> reporter: makes you wonder why anyone would ever run for president. >> it's the worst job in the world and you have to run. you have to beat yourself up before you get in to take over the worst job in the world. would you be surprised if nobody ran for president? >> i wouldn't be surprised. i got a gig at dairy queen. that's where i will be. >> better offer. >> i'm not running for nothing. >> late night comics will have a whole new week of material straight ahead. president obama heading to iowa while mitt romney swings through the southeast. welcome back to the news room. i'm fredricka whitfield. right now 43 states are battling the deadly west nile virus.