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evacuation aircraft to rescue him, his fellow soldiers, marines and afghan army soldiers. specialist kyle j. white, extraordinary heroism and selflessness above the call of duty in keeping with the tradition of the military service, and upon the company himself, company "c," 2nd airborne, 173 airborne brigade and the united states army. >> president obama awarding the medal of honor to a remarkable man. an american hero at the white house this afternoon.
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in watching the news, they're always so stoic. this man earlier today said i'm accepting this on behalf of the men who did not get out alive. it's 3:00 on the east coast. noon on the west coast. i'm shepard smith in new york. and this is "shepard smith reporting." somebody has rammed a truck into a television station in baltimore county police say the guy who was behind the wheel is now in the building. they consider him armed and dangerous. and the circumstances surrounding this are extremely weird. it happened at tv station wmar. the abc station in maryland. basically baltimore. staffers have been tweeting about this situation. we have some of the tweets. they're a little old. they may have been in a meeting when all of this was going on. the suspect tried to get in the building scream, said let me in, he was god. he comes into the door, there's
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a receptionist there as the story is told us. he starts screaming "i am god, i am god. let me in the building." in an effort to prove it, he went outside and got a track. rammed this into the building three times. got into a landscaping truck and rammed the building three times. i saw last three as he broke into the lobby. team 2 is the hash tag for the news station. we ran into the station with kelly. kelly is brian's new director. anyway, he want to the newsroom from abc 2, screaming for everyone to get out. went back door to lock -- went in the back lot. i guess. we don't really know what's going on. we're being kept away. apparently, the latest we have is, the guy is believed to be on the second floor. they've been going through this building which is quite large.
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all of this starts 11:00 this morning. four hours ago. police are asking people not to tweet about act tiftd on scene or show pictures because it may endanger the officers. of course, we've gone along with their requests on this. this is happening in the area, locals describe it very busy even on a normal day. there are offices and schools. molly is on scene. have we been able to learn anything more about how this starts? >> reporter: it starts at 11:45 this morning. it must have been quite a scene. and that's off to the security guard who wouldn't let the man in to begin with. he was knocking on the door saying "i am god. let me in." the guard wouldn't let him in. the suspect got his truck, went up a couple stairs and started ramming his car into the glass doors and finally got inside. what we're being told that the news station leadership acted
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quickly. got everybody out the back door. so far, no injuries which is pretty remarkable for racing everybody out. baltimore county police say 55 people were evacuated. they believe that was everybody in the building. and now s.w.a.t. teams are in inside. shep? >> have we been able to figure out or anybody able to anything out who this guy is what his motivation may be? >> reporter: no motive. police don't have a motive yet. we're trying to suss out any motive they have. they're calling this guy armed and dangerous because he rammed his truck into an occupied building. but there are no shots fired. so we don't know that he has a gun. when police got in, they went right up to the vehicle in the lobby. they went in there, they've been going room to room trying to find him. at this point, we don't know where he is in the building and s.w.a.t. teams are still in there. >> all right. molly, news conference, i'm
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learning this at 3:15 this afternoon, about 11 minutes, we'll of course get you the information from that. in addition, we've just gotten a tweet from one of the guys tweeting before, said the engineers who work in the station, they basically take care of all the equipment and get stations on the air are fighting to get them on the air. they would like to very much be reporting on this situation. it's my understanding, it's taped programming. at any rate, when we get this "i am god" guy, we'll get back to pa. nigeria has signaled it could be willing to negotiate with terrorists. could be. that's after the united states is in the hunt for the hundreds of schoolgirls. some of the girls parents say they rk nice their daughters in chis chilling hostage video. extremists apparently forced them to convert to islam. and they threatened to sell them as sex slaves. nigerian government officials say all options are on the table
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to save them, an apparent shift, after they said they would not negotiate. the terror group's leader said he would be willing to trade the girls in exchange for prisoners. despite the u.s. involvement in this rescue mission, the white house said it will have no part of negotiating with terrorist. >> it's certainly not the position of the united states. we, as a matter of policy, deny kidnappers the benefits of their criminal act, and that includes ransoms or other concessions. >> we now know dozens of american operatives are on the ground in nigeria trying to find these girls. they're also flying manned missions. that's new to us. jennifer is live at the pentagon. >> well, shep, in the last 24 hours at the request of the nigerian government, the defense department began flying aerial intelligence and surveillance
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flights using fixed-wing planes over northeastern nigeria, in search of the kidnapped girls. the u.s. conducted several flights yesterday, i'm told, by pentagon officials. and now the u.s. has permission to fly over nigeria airspace. a senior u.s. official tells me to stay tuned as to whether u.s. drones may be soon be flying over nigeria. >> jennifer, is the u.s. sharing intelligence of this gathering with the nigerians or using it separately from nigeria? >> well, not at this point. at this point, one month after the kidnapping, the u.s. is not sharing intelligence including intelligence gathered at the surveillance sites with the nigerian government because we're told they're still establishing protocols with the nigerians. they are sharing with the military team on ground at the u.s. embassy in nigeria.
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again, this team is unarmed. and the nigerian has only requested surveillance at this time. >> with mike barret in washington, a former military intelligence officer with the defense department. mike, this don't negotiate with terrorists. don't talk to terrorists. i get it in concept. does it work here? >> sure. really what you see here say concept between two policies. the longstanding policy has been to be don't negotiate with terrorists because you want to encourage future acts of terrorism. in the short term, what you want to do is keep the girls alive. keep the situation moving until you can locate them and, you know, conduct a rescue. you want to make the kidnappers who happen to be terrorists in this case, feel like they have something to gain by keeping people alive. it's more of a tactical move, i would say, at this point, to just trying to keep things playing out. but again the stated long-term policy is the correct one which
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is you can't negotiate with terrorists, otherwise, you're going to say this happened all over the place. >> secretary kerry declared them terrorists a year ago. i don't know many people who have even heard of boko haram. they have killed by estimate 1500 people. and they make their money by kidnapping children and selling them. >> that's right, shep. just before 9/11, most people hadn't heard of osama bin laden or al qaeda. we're seeing local franchise groups, many of them are violent. off the coast of the somalia, to what degree, they're affiliated with jihad versus being kidnappers or ransom. the same with boko haram. their kidnappers but their means of financing their operation is kidnap and ransom. >> mike, my understanding is one of the reasons they're so difficult to get to, sometimes, they're a cohesive unit and
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sometimes, they're splintered and fractured all over the place? >> that's right. after 9/11, we had a decision to make. i think we made the right decision, you want to splinter the core of al qaeda. fact of the matter is we splintered them into 1,000 pieces. now, we're going have to continue could be vigilant. we'll see many more off the horn of africa, we'll see it in somalia, u.s. operations, particularly intelligence surveillance teams will be aiding nationals on the low end in terms of terrorism and ransom, while other operations have to be prepared for the larger-scale al qaeda-style attacks against our interests. >> it's complicated. mike, thanks, pal. sure thing. the sad story of casey kasem and where in the world is he? he was perhaps the most famous disk jockey in america.
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casey kasem's top 40 radio show. he is now officially missing. we do not even know if he's even in this country. he's suffering from a debilitating disease and his family is fighting over what to do with him. that's coming up next. in addition, two breaking news stories, this is baltimore, expect the president to speak about this crazy situation to speak about that. and the sergeant who just received the medal of honor at the white house is going to walk through those doors and speak. at humana, we believe if healthcare changes, if it becomes simpler... if frustration and paperwork decrease... if grandparents get to live at home instead of in a home... the gap begins to close. so let's simplify things. let's close the gap between people and care. ♪
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a live look at baltimore coming up. we're waiting for a news conference from townshend, maryland. the strangest situation. think about it. this man has crashed a truck into a television station where they do television reporting and there are no pictures of this truck. we have no pictures of anything. frankly, not much of an idea of what the heck is going on. hopefully, they'll tell us. we're led to believe it's moments away. we'll get there. first, though, the legendary radio deejay casey kasem is missing. and now a judge has ordered an investigation to find him. he's 82 years old. has advanced stages of parkinson's disease. he can no longer even speak. his children has told the judge they're unable to find him because his wife jean keeps moving him in and out of
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different medical facilities. even the wife's lawyer said he has no idea what casey kasem is that niece longer in the united states. one of kasem's daughters asked for conservativeship. the judge said you got it. he also granted kasem's children access to their father's medical records, something they weren't able to get before. >> here's how his daughter reacted to this ruling. >> it's elation because we finally feel that justice was served but it's also extreme worry. we want people to call police, help us find our dad. he's very ill. he shouldn't be moved. >> she thinks her stepmom either left the country with her dad or took him to an indian reservation. jean kasem's lawyer argued as her husband she has any reason to move him as she sees fit. this is incredibly sad. a judge has said, no, she
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doesn't have that right anymore. much as you would with a child who has not been treated properly by the court, this man has been transferred to another person, and that person can't get it. so what do you do? >> this is exactly like the child when you've got two parents fighting over divorce custody saying i'm the better parent. i make better decisions, i should be in charge. jean has been married him for 33 years, she wanted to move him. and it was well within her rights to move him if she thought that was in his best interest. it doesn't look like she was in violation of any court order. now you the judge wants to know what happened, so he can issue an opinion and issue a final ruling later. >> is it your sense from reading all of this, and there's volumes on it, what the wife is doing is trying to keep casey kasem away from the rest of his family. and if so, why? >> it does, it looks like that.
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she also made public statements that she thinks the children are harming him. she thinks they're bringing too much attention to his situation and he wouldn't want that. and also that they loaned the children money and they haven't paid it back. >> there's no thinking that the daughter might get permanent custody. this is a temporary thing so the judge can figure out what's up? >> right, exactly. the judge said we're going to have a final hearing in june. appointed sort of a guardian, which is a court-appointed attorney to actually look out for casey and actually see what's going on. a court investigator, so there's several different people that the judge has working for him that are going to go out and investigate and report back to the court so the court can make a decision. and the judge may find that jean is caring for him. and that she is the appropriate person to be responsible for him at this time. i think the judge wanted more information to get to that decision. >> ashley, thanks very much.
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there's a moral for all of us here. we'd be wrong not to bring it up, when you're 50 and you're feeling okay and you have things that you want to go places, you have to write those things down with a lawyer. and casey kasem was not planned out in this way in a way that so many others are. or his family would not be able to have this fight because the letter of the law would apply. sadly, he hadn't done that. and it's a tough thing for all of us to do. but the lawyers will tell you, get it done, a living will and estate planning, otherwise, it could get ugly. an explorer in the caribbean now claims to have found one of the most famous ships in all of history. one of the three sailboats that christopher columbus reached to reach the new world. that's the claim the "nina," the "pinto" and he says he's found "santa maria. "were ".
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22 minutes past the hour now. we've passed the point of no return. that's according to scientists at nasa and the university of southern california. they say giant glacier in an tartica are beginning to collapse and that's going to make levels rise at alarming rates in the sea. here's the map of where we're talking about. west of antarctica. take a look at pictures here. these are from nasa. this is settled science. and scientists say that the warm waters have been eating away at these six glaciers. one, two, three, four, five -- six glaciers. eating away at them for decades. the melting water is flowing
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into the sea. but it's happening much faster than even these scientists predict. they say those six glaciers alone could cause a rise in seas toups four feet. and they say this glacier which is called twaite glacier is beginning to collapse. they've just seen signs of this in the last few days -- i should say, few weeks. here's a overhead shot of the same area. the glacier that's collapsing. researchers say the melt cog cause sea levels to go up ten feet in the coming century. we could see changes in the next few decades. that's because the -- i don't know why they have to name things so difficult. anyway, this glacier here, scientists say powerful winds have been pulling the warmer waters to the surface for years now. and that even if the warm waters went away, it would still be too little, too late.
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the cause is unclear. scientists say man made climate change is likely a big factor. climate change it is real. the science is true. an underwater explorer said he may have found the remains of christopher columbus' ship the "santa maria." that's what he says. more than 500 years after it sank in the caribbean, the ship "santa maria" is somehow salvageable. it would go down as one of the largest ships ever salvaged. went down in the seas 1942, the nina and pinta are the other two. he and his crew have now arrived in what is now the bahamas. they abandoned the santa maria after it struck a reef. this is a replica. they're trying to get to it to believe they have found the
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"santa maria." let's get to the wall where the underwater explorers say the ship's on the bottom of the sea. he used columbus' own diary entry to find it. a representative says this photo, this one here, says he believes he's found the historic ship wreck the "santa maria" has been located. call me skeptical. >> the lead archaeologist in this case say they basically narrowed from that historical documents that you mentioned, like that diary, they narrowed it down and they knew it had to have occurred in the certain bay off of haiti. he said this is the only wreck that could be the "santa maria." a piece of iron weighing more than ten pounds and shot more than 400 possible sites. they eliminated them one by one. they believed it was one of the sites that they actually
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eliminated after 2003. >> 2012, after doing research, i woke up in the middle of the night, and it was like, oh, my god, we've discovered the smoking gun. >> well, that quote/unquote smoking gun that he was talking about is actually an unique 15th century cannon. they said when they discovered this in 2003, they didn't think it was a cannon. >> it would have historical significance. >> we learned that columbus sailed the ocean blue. we see in the background here, this ship, of course, the one that he was on was the "santa maria." the lead archeologist is planning to survey the site to find that this is the "santa maria" but he says he's certain. >> i think it has to be recognized as the ship that changed the course of human
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history. it has to be preserved. we should get together and figure out how to preserve this for humanity. it's extremely important. there's nothing like this. it's only going to happen one time and it has to be done correctly. >> now, sadly, he said many of the artifacts have since been looted from the site but they have pictures. >> it's been there all that time and this guy found it? >> he said, for one thing, he found a big pile of balance of the rocks. so it's not something that's very obvious. when you look at the pictures, what they're going to do next is scientific evidence. . sergeant white just received the medal of honor. we don't want to miss. >> in just a moment, we'll be introducing the recipient of the medal of honor, sergeant kyle
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white. sergeant white will be making brief remarks, however, he will not be taking questions. if you do have questions, contact army affairs. 797-2163. ladies and gentlemen, today's medal of honor recipient, sergeant kyle white. >> good afternoon. on the surface, this is a piece of blue fabric in medal. at its core, it say symbol of our nation. a nation forged in war. of men and women who give their all all for their nation and for each other. at its core, it is a symbol of the responsibility of all soldiers knowingly face when they depart for distant lands in defense of the nation. the responsibility that locks us all in bonds of brotherhood. the medal of honor is said to be the nation's highest award for
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valor by one individual. to me, it's much more. it's representation of the responsibility we accept as warriors and members of the scene. it is a testament to the trust we have in each other and our leaders. because of these reasons, the medal cannot be an individual award. battles are not won by men. if that were true, the taliban would have won on that trail in afghanistan because they have every tactical advantage, including the numbers. battles are won by spirit. and spirit is present in relationships built and the trust and sacrifice we share with one another in times of hardship. and by that definition, cannot be possessed by one person. without the team, there can be no medal of honor. that is why i wear this medal for my team. i also wear a piece of medal around my wrist.
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it was given to me by another survivor of the 9 november ambush. he wears an identical one. this is maybe even more precious than the medal of symbol just placed around my neck. on it are the names of my six fallen brothers. they are my heroes. though i am still uncomfortable with hearing my name and the word "hero" in the same sentence, i'm now ready for the challenge producing wearing this blue piece of fabric and medal. with the same valor as i was faced with. and i vow the responsibility of doing so. thank you all for allowing me to share this day with you. god bless the united states army, and god bless america. >> sergeant kyle white who says the wrist medal that he wears may even be more precious than
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continuous coverage of baltimore, maryland. actually, taoson, maryland were wbal television is. we're waiting for a news conference to come because of this crazy happening this morning. about 11:45, this guy has a stolen vehicle. he drives up to the television station, he walks in, tells them he's god and he wants to come in. security guard and receptionist are like, no, you're not coming in here, god. the guy who claims to be god goes outside and gets a stolen vehicle crashed it three times into the situation and the truck is into that station. he's barricaded, believed to be on the second floor. all the news personnel and station personnel have been
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evacuated. they were tweeting about what was going on there for the longest time. but now, it's nothing but silence. members of law enforcement will come to that microphone and give us an update. and when that happens we'll take you there live right after this.
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the man who wrote the legal justification for droning americans overseas could soon be one of the nation's top judges. he is one of the obama's administration most controversial num knominees. the man's name is david barron, he's the former acting assistant to the united states. and he wrote the memos what the white house calls the legal basis for the controversial drone strikes something that p napolitano said was controversial. captain harris, lawmakers from
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both party, criticizing this nomination, right? >> that's right, democrats and traditional supporters on the left, they're on the same page to enforce david barron's legal opinion before the senators vote on his nomination. >> there are very few decisions that come out of the justice department than more controversial than authorizing to kill a u.s. citizen away from the battlefield. >> mark udall joined by the republican congressman ron wyden, and for al awlaki killed. senator rand paul is taking the debate a step further. writing in the "the new york times" the american people deserve to see the redacted verges of this memo so they can understand the legal
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ramifications for the extraordinary exercise of executive power. what's striking in his reporting, not even congress knows for sure how many legal memos were written about the drone program. the aclu's best assessment is that there are 11 memos and four have never been seen by capitol hill. >> what are mens of the legislation saying about this? >> a short time ago we head from white house press secretary jay carney who said it's optimistic that they'll get the nominees through. >> i think the president's track record getting his nominees supported by democrats has been very strong. and continues to be strong. and we look forward to confirmation of all of his nominees in a timely fashion. >> and facing this bipartisan pressure, the senate majority leader harry reid saying this afternoon that two of the drone memos have been made available for review. >> i ran into two of the senators they're working at
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reading the memo. >> the key thing is there's no sense at all that all of the memos will be relessed for capitol hill to review them before the david barron vote. and that may be a sticking point and deal breaker for some of those senator, both republicans and democrats, shep. >> catherine, thank you, ma'am. a moment ago, the associated press called a session for clay aiken. aiken has the votes, and the reason is his opponent died yesterday, nearly a week after the voting wrapped up. and election officials -- relatives say his opponent who was a 71-year-old named keith crisco died after he fell down in his home south of greensboro. aiken released a statement of crisco saying he was a gentleman, a good and honorable man and extraordinary public
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servant. he went on to say i was honored to know him. election results are to confirm that aiken is the winner. the ap said that he was leading crisco by 400 votes. how long before the election is confirmed who actually won? >> it's going to be at least nine more days, shep. north carolina officials are scheduled to meet on may 22nd to potentially certify these results. in the meantime, there's a possibility of someone challenging those results. we've spoken to individuals who have updated their count to include individual and absent tee ballots. showing that he's leading by 390 votes and just above the threshold required for a runoff. again, these results are unofficial, shep. >> and we're getting more from clay aiken and from the republican incumbent in this case, right? >> we are, indeed. in fact, the republican congresswoman issued a written statement.
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in that statement, renee elmers writes his kindness to his principles were models we should all strive more and he will be dearly missed. crisco got an mba under president nixon and served as north carolina's commerce secretary under former governor beverly perdue. clay aiken wrote about crisco, quote, no matter how high he rose from the government's cabinet he never forgot where he came from. >> jonathan serrie in the newsroom. thank you. do you drink whiskey? you're not going to like our next report right after this. the citi thankyou preferred card. now earn two times the points on dining out with no annual fee. go to citi.com/thankyoucards.
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this situation outside of baltimore, wbal television is still going on. it's possible that people are in that building sheltered in place. they don't know.
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a meteorologist issued astatement saying the guy struck the building not three times, but seven times. and he's still in there. according to all reports, we were told there would be a news conference a short time ago. we were supposed to have it at 3:15. it's 3:45. that has not happened. the school is locked down in shelter. we'll have that the moment it happens. first, though, if an old fashion said your drink, it might be time to find another drink or at least use another bourbon, because bourbon drinkers are running the country dry. last year bourbon and tennessee whiskey makers made more than $2.5 billion in u.s. sales. and they exported a record $1 billion record. after that, bourbon takes a while to make. it's aged in oak barrels. now reportedly, the industry is running out of wood. mark brown is the president and
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ceo of buffalo trade facilities. you're the one telling us you're going to have a shortage. why are you telling us this? >> well, the first and most important thing, it's not tennessee. and wouldn't believe eastern kentucky, i guess? >> no, i would not. >> go on. we wanted to put the release out so our customers when they walk into their favorite whiskey sto store and they can't find our brands that they understand what's going on. that is after the industry collapsed back in the 1980s we became very concerned about the amount of whiskey we were making. but we went back to the core elements of making great bourbon wh whiskey. >> forgive me, but as a journalist, the reason you send out a statement is to get people to run to the store if they like
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your bourbon and buy a bunch of it. that would be my first observation, you can come back with that and then i'll have one more. go on. >> unfortunately, we just don't have the whiskey to ship. most of the whiskey that we're selling today was made as far back as 1991. and most recently as 2006. and we simply underestimated the amount of demand there would be for that whiskey. so today, when we're bottling, we simply don't have enough. the last thing we want to do is set people off running to the store to stockpile. >> so i was wrong with that. my second observation is probably the british have stolen the bourbon. >> well, there is always that possibility. but americans -- we do make the best whiskey on the market. and that's partly why demand is skyrocketing. and we've got our hands full right now, coping with demand in the u.s. but beyond that, we do see rising demands from china,
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india, brazil and even russia. >> do you reside in eastern kentucky? >> no i actually live in louisville. and work at the distillery in kentucky. >> how long you have been in louisville, because they'll teach you how to pronounce. >> since 1992. >> i guess you're -- hey, we hope you don't run out. >> thanks very much. >> have fun. bourbon drinkers go by everything you have right now, at the distillery, they're running out. that and cat food. the author knows the identity of the zodiac killer. he claims it's his father. plus, german automaker porsche now facing a lot suit over the car crash that killed paul walker.
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eight minutes before the hour. in baltimore, it's still going on. wbal television, guy rams a truck into the building. i have now learned they still haven't find him. can you believe that? the search continues for the suspect -- wmar, my apologies. no injuries, no confirmed weapons, barricades still in progress. now the station's people are tweeting i've never seen someone run so fast in heels, talking about somebody who's on the way to the exit from the building earlier. barricade remains in progress. police confident suspect is still in the building. from this we can learn they still haven't found him. they're confident he's there but
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they haven't found him and this guy is saying two employees simply saved their lives by telling us to get out. we don't know if this guy had any weapons on him and we don't know if this guy had anything. we don't know if he had -- he said he was god. they cannot now find him. we'll report, you decide. a man who spent a decade searching for his biological father said he discovered his dad was one of the most notorious serial killers in the united states. that his father was the zodiac killer. at least that's what he's claiming in his new book. it's called "the most dangerous animal of all." the author claims he has evidence that his father was behind the string of murders that terrorized san francisco bay area during the late 1960s. the case of the zodiac killer is still unresolved. investigators put together a few sketches of the suspect, like this one based on witness descriptions. police did not ever find a suspect. they did link the zodiac killer
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to at least five murders between 1968 and 1969, and somebody claiming to be behind the murders sent letters to local newspapers and this is one of them. in some of those letters the writer called himself zodiac and told police they would never catch him. some letters include a strange code. this code thing, which was crazy in the newspapers at the time, series of symbols. trace gallagher has the rest of this story live in los angeles. you have a copy of this new book from sort of our parent company. tell us about it. >> reporter: we just got the copy about 45 minutes ago and so we're just going through it. we do have some of the key reasons the author believes his father is in fact the zodiac killer. this is his father on the left, a man named earl van best jr. you can see on the right that is the sketch you talked about that they believe was as close as they can come to the equal zodiac killer. he says he it is a very, very
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close match. you mention those ciphers. he sent those to newspapers around san francisco taunting them along with these letters. this is one of those ciphers. he said that his father said -- or the zodiac killer said his name was in that one of those and this in red is what he calls to the solution of it. his name was in there, nobody ever found it but he looked in it and there it was down here. ev, remember earl van best jr. here's the best and here's the jr. right here. not exact science but that's the reason he believes he solved this cipher and believes his father is the zodiac killer. >> and they did some handwriting analysis, right, trace? >> yeah, he took -- very quickly, he took some newspaper writings from the "san francisco chronicle" compared it and put it on the screen to a marriage license his father signed. that's the j right there. an analyst says that it was almost exact.
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he also had pictures of the victims who said looked very much like his birth mother. >> trace, thank you, sir. we'll be right back.
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on this day back in 1981 an escaped murderer from turkey tried to assassinate pope john paul ii. the gunman broke out of a military prison while awaiting his murder trial. in his cell he left behind a letter saying he would shoot the pontiff. months later at the vatican, the convicted murderer fired four shots at the pope's open car and narrowly missed his vital organs. witnesses knocked the gun out of the shooter's hands and held him down until the cops got there. the pope would recover after a few weeks in the hospital. an italian court sentenced him to prison. however, he was later pardoned at the pope's request. shots rang out at st. peter's square 33 years ago today. we're waiting for more from
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baltimore where that weird thing has happened with the guy who calls himself god ramming a truck into a television station. cops keep tell us they'll tell us what's happened and they haven't done that. when they do, we'll break in. i'll see you then. for now, here's neil. well, now we know. those eight million obamacare enrollees, more like two. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. three out of four folks who signed up for the health care law already had health care coverage. can they really be counted as new enrollees? net, net, not quite. and a new mckenzie group survey says not even close, revealing only a quarter of those who signed up for the affordable care act didn't have coverage before. and we are not even getting into whether all of them paid, because many of them did not. many more put off completing the sign-up process because, well, they discovered they couldn't afford it, whether