army staff sergeant left his base in kandahar afghanistan walked into people's homes and opened fire. 16 silions were killed including nine children and others. >> outrage and grief have overwhelmed afghan villagers in what was once the cradle of the taliban. a u.s. army staff sergeant left his base, entered three near by homes and shot and killed 16 silions in their bed. it is believed that some of the bodies were also burned. the attack sparked immediate outrage from karzai who called the incident unforgiveable. >> we deplore any attack by a member of the u.s. armed forces against innocent civilians. >> it's going to complicate missions but also it just i think we're all affected by senseless death regardless of how it happens. >> last month korans were inadvertently burned leading to violence that killed doze ns of people including americans. there are now grave concerns that these significant missteps could put american troops in additional peril. >> one incident like this in the minds of the civilian populations as well as the battle against the terrorists in afghanistan can chan

and he may be formally charged in the deaths of those men, women and children in kandahar, afghanistan. sergeant bales is in military prison in solitary confinement as the investigation moves forward. we're learning more about sergeant bales by talking to people who know him and reading things written by his own wife. let's now go to dan simon, live at the joint base lewis mccord base in washington state, that's where bales was last stationed for many years. dan, you just talked to someone who used to live next door to the staff sergeant. what did he tell you? >> well, hi, fredricka, a little context for this, the bales held on to a condo they used to live in and they were treating it as a rental property. well that condo, we were over there a little while ago, it is now in foreclosure. we spoke to the guy who lives next door. he says that this is not a guy that resembles whatsoever somebody who would go into that little town and kill 16 afghan civilians. but he did note that there seemed to be some financial troubles there. that the place was under foreclosure, that they hadn't mowed

meet with his legal defense team and in the shooting death of the men, women, and children in kandahar, afghanistan. sergeant bales is in a military prison, in solitary confinement. let's go to joint base lewis-mcchort. what more do we know about robert bales and what the week looks like for him? >> reporter: hi, fredricka. what has emerged so far is a soldier under emotional, physical strain after having served four war tours after the last ten years. we have a picture, this is somebody who faced enormous financial pressures. his wife put their home up for sale at a price significantly less than what they paid for it. a former neighbor also tells cnn that they didn't pay their homeowners association fees for like three or four years and that their condo was basically in a state of disrepair. bales, meanwhile, grew up in cincinnati, ohio, a suburb of cincinnati, and his former high school friends described him as a patriot and someone deeply moved by 9/11. take a listen. >> i can't believe it. i still can't believe it. i can't believe it. the bobby that i knew is not the bobby that could have done

army staff sergeant that left his base in kandahar afghanistan and killed 16 afghan civilians including nine children. >> the spent shell casings a grim witness to the carnage. in the middle of the night as many as 16 afghans gunned down all while the village slept. >> they killed a child. was this child part of the taliban? nato officials say a rogue army staff as a result left his base, went to the nearby village and went on a rampage. he went house to house, door to door shooting victims in random. photos frome the scene show blood splatrd on floors and walls. bodies wrapped in blankets. the 38-year-old from fort lewis, washington, returned to the base and turned himself in. the soldiers is married with two children and served three tours in iraq. this was his first assignment to afghanistan. >> this was an individual acting alone, not with authority. and we also have the individual, the suspect in custody, u.s. custody. and he is being interrogated by army investigators as we speak. >> the response was immediate and furious. afghan president karzi calling this an assassination that

other reports that he has planted bombs in afghanistan, did time in a kandahar jail. with terrorists in raids with nato troops in afghanistan, possibly united states troops. regarding this situation he said yes, i did these killings, that's what he told police, to, these are the reasons, avenge the death of palestinian children and avenge the involvement of the french military in afghanistan. seven deaths in the past week and a half or so here. as you noted a rabbi and three children at a jewish school on monday. last week three french soldiers all shot in cold blood in a vicious, ruthless, methodical way. he went up point-blank with automatic pistols, put them to the head including a young beautiful blond seven-year-old girl and blew that person away and others as well. that's why the police here are very concerned. they want to get him, they want to get him, bill and martha, they want to get him alive, they want to find out really not only why he did these things but what other contacts he might have with terrorists inside france. they are also concerned about what h

the money was paid out over the weekend at the governor's office in kandahar afghanistan.ies are told where it came from president obama. the u.s. defense department representatives say the money reflects the devastating nash of the incident. the shooting took place two weeks ago when a u.s. soldier allegedly carried out an unprovoked rampage by civilians and villages in the kandahar providence. robert bails is charged with 17 counts of murder in the attack. his wife expressed remorse for what happened but finds it hard to believe her husband could ever carry out such a brutal attack on innocent people. >>> i have no idea what happened. but he would not -- he loves children and he would not do that. >> the families of the victims say they want an open trial of sergeant bales and are demanding the death penalty. they say the money being paid to the families of victims is not compensation money but aid money to help them survive and improve their lives. continue to follow the case and obviously the u.s. military will be carrying out the court-martial trial. they will be wait

he escaped from a jail in kandahar, afghanistan in 2008. in prison, after being arrested carrying womb bomb-making equipment. merah had been holed up in an apartment building all morning after police attempted a predawn raid. he fired on police. three officers were wounded. he been negotiating with police and then he stopped talking then he just recently they reestablished contact with him at one point he did toss a handgun out of a window. merah is suspected of killing three jewish school children, rabbi and three paratroopers. he claims to be connected to al k. known to have spent time in afghanistan and pakistan he said he carried -- carried out shoot to avenge the death of palestinian children. interior minister in france says they've been monitoring him for years for having fundamentalist views. the shooter suspected in the school shooting and killing seven people has been taken into custody in france. katie marzullo, abc7 news. >>> that breaking news, katie, thank you. >>> mexican officials say nobody was killed in yesterday's massive

france's enter minister said that the man had previously been arrested on a trip to kandahar in afghanistan as well, and he added that he had thrown a gun out of the window and was talking about giving himself up in the course of the hours ahead. let's go over to christian fraser, who is in toulouse. christian, it's moving fast, isn't it? what is the latest? >> yeah, we just heard in the last few minutes what sounded like a stun grenade, david, perhaps police running out of patience with this man. we know from the interior minister that he does intend to come out alive. he said he would give himself up this afternoon, but there is a lot of police activity here at the moment. policemen are driving past us, forensic teams arriving here, and skilled negotiators, who are well used to this kind of operation. you mentioned he threw a handgun out of the win dosme this is a colt handgun that was used in the three previous shootings. he is known to be heavily armed. there is a news of a calish nick off and other handguns inside, said the interior minister. >> obviously huge caution, christian, still

she says, she went from the area around kandahar, afghanistan to karachi, pakistan, lived there eight or nine months. in mid-2002 she went from karachi, peshawar, and reunited with bin laden there. then she went to another town in pakistan, lived there for about two years. then in 2003 she went to another compound in pakistan. where she said they stayed about six years until bin laden's death. interesting here, she says in the town of hirapor she gave birth to two out of the five children she had with bin laden in a pakistani government hospital and says on each occasion she stayed in the hospital only about two or three hours. according to the "new york times," there's another document where she says she gave a fake i.d. to hospital staff there in that town. we have tried to contact pakistani officials for answers about that. what kind of government hospital was it? did pakistani officials have any idea that a wife of bin laden was giving birth to two of their children in a government hospital in pakistan? we have not gotten those answers yet, and no response to these new details fro

bales is the soldier accused of killing 16 civilian men, women and children last weekend in kandahar, afghanistan. today he remains in solitary confinement at ft. leavenworth. he's not yet been formally charged. >>> gas prices go up for the ninth straight day. it is now on average close to $3.84 a gallon, but if you live in some big cities, you're already seeing gas prices average more than $4 a gallon. the record high was $4.11 back in july of 2008. >>> a colorado dad is going the extra mile to stop his children from texting while driving. and he's getting an early start. his triplets are just 8 years old. he's already created a special cell phone app that blocks calls, texts and e-mails while users are driving. it is called the life before text app. and get this, it sends parents an e-mail if someone tries to disable the app. >>> rick santorum, this guy, he announced today puerto ricans need to speak english before they can become a state. you can't be a state if you don't speak english. we are so screwed here in california, oh, my god. we are so skewescrewed. oh, my god, we are so screwed. >>

the government in kandahar, afghanistan, says seven people are feared dead following a shooting by themember. no motive is known. officials say the service member acted alone. in a statement the u.s. embassy says it offered its condolences for the incident. an investigation is under way. for some perspective on that shooting in afghanistan, let's bring in retired u.s. army colonel bob mcginniss. he joining me by phone from woodbridge, virginia. let's talk about this. we're told by our sara sidner it is a u.s. soldier. let's talk about this soldier first. what's next for this u.s. soldier now that he's been detained? >> randi, he will be held, obviously. then he'll be given an attorney and will be, you know, questioned with that attorney present. whether or not he waives his rights will be determined. then, of course, you know, it could be a protracted process as the investigation goes forward. all the evidence is gathered. but then obviously if he's charged ultimately, he will be tried by court-martial. there's no extradition in this case. it will be a military cou court-marti court-ma

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security forces are now stepping up patrols in kandahar, afghanistan after a shooting spree left 16 civilians custody accused of carrying out that massacre. protesters are now dmappedding the soldier be put on public trial. >>> the investigation is under way into an early morning carport fire in oakland. it started just a few hours ago at an apartment house on adams street. that's not far from lake merit. this is home video of the big flames. the fire caused major damage to several cars and the apartment building above. the good news is there are no reports of any injuries. >>> the highway patrol is reminding drivers to slow down this morning. there are wind advisories at the san mateo, dunn barton, san rafael and bay bridges. motorists should also watch out for flooded roads from heavy rains which are coming later in the day. >>> fairfield police are investigating a deadly shooting. it happened at about 8:30 last night on utah street. as ktvu's allie rasmus tells us, this is now the fourth homicide investigation in fairfield in the last six weeks. reporter: that's right. we talked to fairfie

formally charged with premeditated murder and other counts today in a shooting rampage outside kandahar, afghanistan. if convicted, bales would face a minimum of life in prison, and possibly the death penalty. in addition to the 17 counts of murder, robert bales stands charged with six counts of attempted murder and six counts of aggravated assault. initial reports said 16 afghan civilians were killed, nine of them children and 11 from the same family. military officials revised the number to 17, but offered no immediate explanation. while much is known of the alleged assailant, there has been less told of the dead, though npr's quil lawrence this week spoke with muhammad wazir, who lost 11 relatives in the massacre. >> ( translated ): like anyone, i wanted my children to be doctors, engineers, important people. all my dreams are buried under a pile of dust now. i loved them all like they were parts of my body. i miss all of them terribly. >> brown: back in the united states, bales' civilian lawyer, john henry browne, spent 11 hours meeting with him this week. browne appeared today on cbs "this morn

. >>> leon panetta landed in kandahar, afghanistan, the scene of course of sunday's shooting rampage that killed 16 afghan civilians. he is meeting with president hamid karzai today. meantime afghanistan's defense minister took to the microphone today strongly condemning the shootings by the u.s. soldier. he called the rampage regrettable and deplorable. he did, however, acknowledge the country faces an even bigger issue and that's the fear the taliban could capitalize on this incident. laura? >> thank you for the update, marla. >>> 6:20. the results are in this morning. rick santorum won 2 of tuesday's 3 primaries. mitt romney won hawaii but placed third in both mississippi and alabama. santorum won both of those southern states. the results mean the republican race will continue into april or beyond. it is likely no candidate will clinch the delegates needed to secure the nomination before the primaries end in june. santorum hinted he thinks it's time newt gingrich dropped out of the race. >> the time is now for conservatives to pull together. the time is now to make sure -- to mak

. -- in terms of jeopardying thei there in kandahar, in afghanistan as a whole? kandahar has actually been a big success story for the strategy, but it's as tragic as this incident is, it would be a larger tragedy to let it affect the mission at large and what we're trying to do throughout the country. general allen made it clear to his commanders this morning after word about this incident happened that we're not going to let it affect our engagement strategy and we're going to continue to be out there amongst the populace, continue to try to beat back this insurgency. the mission continues as it must. >> captain john kirby, thanks so much for your time from washington. >> my pleasure. >> much more straight ahead with my colleague don lemon right here with me with a preview. >> what a horrible story. terrible, tashble. we're going to be talking about that, of course. it will be our lead story. also talking about joseph kony. it's been all over, he's become a household name in the united states? just the last three days thanks to a new documentary that aims to ma

soldier walked off the base in district kandahar, afghanistan with his rifle and went about 500 meters to the nearest village. he then begin kicking down doors and shooting afghan civilians. he had gone into as many three different homes and begin shooting. he then after he was done, went back to his base and was arrested by afghans and u.s. forces at that base. he is now in u.s. custody. both president obama and secretary of defense pinetta has called hamid karzai to offer condolences. president told skarzai the individual will be punished it was unlikely that statement alone or any condolences to president karzai will remove the anger that is boiling in afghanistan. we are just weeks removed from several u.s. soldiers burning the quran. anti-americanism has been growing here and this is the latest crisis that the united states military and diplomatic officials are trying to juggle. over the course of next few weeks the u.s. is trying to negotiate a long term agreement to keep troops in afghanistan past 2014. with this incident will only force and cause more pressure that that agreeme

>>reporter: ptsd may have play add role in last weekend massacre in afghanistan kandahar province.y sergeant accused of killing 16 villager will reportedly be flown to the prison in kansas tomorrow and the attorney says. >> decorated soldier who was injured in iraq. pl to his brine and to his body and then despite that was sent back. >>reporter: the attorney john brown there said his client saw friend's leg blown off just days before the kill spree. >> fallen tree in the east bay caused fatal accident this morning claiming the life of a promising college student. it happened on highway 13 just south of park boulevard. the victim was a young man from washington state attending cal on prison stij us bill gates scholarship. we are live from uc berkeley. >>reporter: kevin was in his first year here at cal. i went over to the dorm where he lived earlier. some of the students had already heard about what happened. others were about to find out. >> just really sad news to hea hear. i mean, just weird. it was someone i knew. >>reporter: death of 19-year-old uc berkeley student kevin lock l

according to afghan officials, he'll be meeting with senior officials in afghanistan, possibly kandahar province, tribal elders, and back in kabul, he'll meet president happened karzai and senior members of the government. the challenge for mr. panetta is to come out with a message that will be satisfactory for the afghan people, as well as for the afghan government. we understand that president karzai would be having a very frank conversation with him, allaying the anger and the disappointment of the afghan people, as well as the afghan government to mr. panetta, and calling for justice. that's according to senior aides close to the president. >> and, of course, the killing of 18 civilians by the american soldier, i understand that's going to come straight back into the front line again, isn't it? as we understand, there are pictures, cctv possible footage of that soldier surrendering, which no doubt will be aired in due course. >> it will be. you have to understand the details are still disputed. what we are hearing from senior afghan officials is that the american soldiers of the bas

kandahar province. the u.s. serviceman went house to house in afghanistan killing people in two villages.f 16 people, mostly women and children, cannot be forgiven. nato has launched an investigation. >> we are lacking into the background what actually happened in the villages. >> reporter: the soldier is in custody. cbs news has learned he is an army staff sergeant from fort lewis in washington state who was on his first tour of duty in afghanistan. president obama all the afghanistan's president to express condolences. the president says the incident does not represent the exceptional character of our military. sunday's shooting comes less than a month after u.s. soldiers accidentally burned copies of the quran at a base in afghanistan. >> reporter: six american soldiers were killed in

>>reporter: ptsd may have play add role in last weekend massacre in afghanistan kandahar province.y sergeant accused of killing 16 villager will reportedly be flown to the prison in kansas tomorrow and the attorney says. >> decorated soldier who was injured in iraq. pl to his brine and to his body and then despite that was sent back. >>reporter: the attorney john brown there said his client saw friend's leg blown off just days before the kill spree. >> fallen tree in the east bay caused fatal accident this morning claiming the life of a promising college student. it happened on highway 13 just south of park boulevard. the victim was a young man from washington state attending cal on prison stij us bill gates scholarship. we are live from uc berkeley. >>reporter: kevin was in his first year here at cal. i went over to the dorm where he lived earlier. some of the students had already heard about what happened. others were about to find out. >> just really sad news to hea hear. i mean, just weird. it was someone i knew. >>reporter: death of 19-year-old uc berkeley student kevin lock l

monitoring the man for years and this is new the bbc is reporting the suspect escaped from jail in kandahar in afghanistan08 he had been sentenced to three years in prison, after being arrested for carrying bomb-making equipment. katie marzullo, abc7 news. >>> 5:07. a freeway sign honoring four oakland police officers killed in the line of duty is scheduled to be dedicated later this morning. three years ago today, the officers were killed in a confrontation with an armed parolee. a ceremony will be held at the oakland police auditorium before the sign bearing the officer's names is dedicated on i-580 at the keller avenue bridge. >>> san jose city council approved the mayor's recommendations for new spending. san jose facing first budget surplus in a decade projected 10 million dollars to spend, after slashing salaries and cutting thousands of jobs itch the council approved the mayor's recommendation to use that money to open new libraries and community center that has sat empty for lack of staffing. mayor reed says the city should remain cautious noting the upcoming surplus is expected to be followed by

american soldier is accused of going on a shooting spree in kandahar province killing 16 civilians. secretary panetta arrived in afghanistan yesterday. he met with coalition forces and afghan leaders. the trip was scheduled for sunday shooting but that incident and the killing of six americans in retaliation of burning a koran was -- >> we will continue to face challenge. we must stay committed to achieving the mission that we are all unified in achieving. >> president obama says the plan is still to hand over security to afghanistan to local troops by the end of 2014. >> our forces are making very real progress. dismantle al qaeda, breaking the taliban's momentum and training afghan forces so that they can take the lead. >> but afghans and pro he'ses -- calling on nato forces to leave now. secretary panetta is using the trip to mend relationships. >> we have to learn the lessons from each of those incidents so

she went from the area around kandahar, afghanistan, to karachi, pakistan and stayed there for aboutnine months. in 2003 she went to the city of haripur in pakistan and stayed there for about two years and in 2005 she went to abbottabad, pakistan, to that compound where they stayed there for six years until bin laden's death. bin laden may not have been with her that entire time, but fatah says while they were on the run she gave birth to four of the five children she had with bin laden. in her report she claims to have given birth to two children in a pakistani government hospital. she says she only stayed in the hospital for two or three hours each time. the new york times cites a separate document saying she gave fake i.d. papers to hospital staff. i spoke with terrorism analyst brian fishman about the children born in those years. >> what does that say about his moind set during those years on the run? >> we have this notion that he was interested in preserving his legacy, you know. we have the famous video of him watching his old videos, sitting there in the house in abbottabad.

what the future lies because it wasn't too long ago, you know, i was sitting in the desert of kandahar, afghanistanou know, i am always willing and ready to serve my country in whatever capacity the american people would desire. >> duly noted, sir. we hope you will keep talking to us and join us. >> always. >> when you're vcht as well. >> and singing. >> and keep singing. you're pretty good. we like that. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> pleasure. >>> still ahead on "starting point," we're going to talk to sam lahood, he is the son of transportation secretary ray lahood. he's just been released from being held in egypt and he is talking to us in his very first television interview. the dark signal he says that this sends for the democracy in egypt. we'll discuss that. >>> and is it too early to write off rush? he's lost so far 13 sponsors, 2 stations, and counting. but he still has his biggest ally on his side, clear channel. we'll discuss that straight ahead. stay with us. ♪ ( whirring and crackling sounds ) man: assembly lines that fix themselves. the most innovative companies are doing things

ally in kandahar in southern afghanistan has been torturing civilians i interviewed young men into seeing men who were tortured by his forces in the governor's mansion in kandahar but he was responsible for a massacre in two thousand and six that the u.s. state department including one of its reports yet we've continued to back him d y well you know the thing is that. what they would say is that there are military imperatives that we have to work with the ones that we have that on the ground there that you know there's not a lot of good options in terms of you power power is going to be about guys that there are guys exactly and so that might be true but i think as the this reporting shows it's not a question of whether you sacrifice your strategy for an absolute commitment to human rights whether you incorporate human rights at all in your decision making and we've seen time and time again when it came down to it to make a choice as to whether the whole people we found militarily useful accountable for corruption or human rights violations. it hasn't even been a consideration we bear we'

kandahar. all over afghanistan.anything, the apologies, the strings of apologies from high level of the united states, betray a kind of defensiveness, uncertainty and even a sense of guilt that the ordinary afghan would think, the americans are going through a ritual of high level apologies. there is something large happening here. i think it's demeaning and it's ineffective. and one apology, one acknowledgment of the commander on the ground, mistake. unintentional. that is it. to say we will not tolerate attacks on americans, that is the correct response. >> bret: mara, meantime, when attack happened in the interior ministry, the advisors pulled out. the security reasons. we're told now a few of them are going back in to the ministries. despite the latest attack today. but many more remain on lockdown. the key to getting the transfer to afghan and troops out is this connection. >> these are not people we are working with side-by-side for shooting our soldiers in the back of the head. not just an attack of armed men