. -- ali young. ali is 19 years old, and i also have the chance to visit with her best friend, who was 21. stephanie was downstairs with ali as well as her parents when i walked into the room, and i do not think this story has been least i had not read it yet, but i wanted to share it with you. when the gunman came in and through the canisters, he threw them only a few feet away from ali and stephanie. ali stood up, seeing she might need to do something or at least warn the other people who were there, and she was immediately shot, and she was shot in the neck, and if punctured obtain -- a vein, and immediately she started spirting blood, and apparently, as she dropped down on the floor, stephanie, 21 years old, had the presence to drop down on the ground with her, pulled her out of the aisle, to place her fingers over where ali had been wounded, and applied pressure the entire time while the gunman was still shooting. ali told stephanie she needed to run. stephanie refuse to go. instead with her oth

stephanie was downstairs with ali and ali's parents when i walked into the room. don't think this story has been heard. at least i hadn't read it yet. i wanted to share it with you. when the gunman initially came in and threw the canisters, he threw them only a few feet away from ali and stephanie, who were sitting there watching the film. ali stood up saying that she might need to do something or at least warn the other people who were there. and she was immediately shot. she was shot in the neck and it punctured a vein and immediately she started spurting blood. and apparently, as she dropped down on the floor, stephanie, 21 years old, had the presence of mind to drop down on the ground with her, pull her out of the aisle, place her fingers over where ali had been wounded and applied pressure the entire time while the gunman was still shooting. ali told stephanie she needed to run. stephanie refused to go. instead, actually, with her other hand, called 911 on her cell phone. once the s.w.a.t. team came in, they were still trying to clear the theater. stephanie t

ali? >> ali: there are disturbing new details about the aurora movie massacre suspect.colorado psychiatrist a notebook previewing his attacks some say. but it sat unopened in the mail room. one victim is suing the alleged shooter's physician for failing to warn the victims. but does the psychiatrist of an accused mass murderer have a legal obligation to turn him in? fox news legal analyst peter johnson, jr. is here. good morning. so is james holmes -- if james holmes had a therapist and if he ever said anything disturbing to the therapist, is there a legal duty to alert authorities? >> yes. we don't know specifically if he saw the therapist to whom this notebook was allegedly sent, but if he did see that person as a therapist and he made a specific threat about a specific person, that psychiatrist, that mental health provider, under the law of the state of colorado, had an obligation under the law to do two things: call the police, and two, actually warn that person or people who were the subject of that credible specific threat made by the patient. >> ali: this is comp

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>> ali: yeah.nd did it with their legs. >> steve: they did. it was funny. let's talk about this, mitt romney right now is in london. there he is arriving hours ago. you know what he's doing is while he's on foreign soil, even though brian williams n this clip you're about to hear at nbc trying to engage him to criticize the president of the united states, mitt romney would not take the bait on that when talking about israel. listen to this. >> we're on foreign soil right now and i don't want to be in any way critical of the president or to be fashioning foreign policy departure from the president while i'm on foreign soil. so i made those comments there, so i'm not going to make them here. but i can tell you that with regards to any nation that feels its security is at risk, that they should have a firm conviction that america is securely behind them and i hope that people of israel feel that. i would certainly want to communicate that i as a citizen and candidate stand with israel and want to see

ali is a commander of a citizens militia he founded.t president bashar al assad's brutal dictatorship. >> translator: they insulted our honor. it was time to take up arms. >> reporter: but taking up arms has a price. after ali joined the revolution, the syrian government burned down the homes of his parents, his grandparents, and his uncles. >> translator: every time they kill one person, the rebels grow in number. every time they burn a house, the demonstrations multiply. >> reporter: in a year ali's force has grown from 15 to 635 fighters. and they don't work alone. ali and his men leapfrog from one rebel unit to the next. surprisingly, they operate openly, carrying weapons, using the main roads. at rebel checkpoints ali's fighters are given safe passage. the rebels move so confidently because syrian troops have mostly withdrawn from the countryside and pulled back to their fortified positions. this is new. the rebels finally have a safe haven. >> translator: bashar and his supporters are cowards. the tyrant regime controls only where

i had a chance just now, about five minutes ago, to visit with ali young. ali is 19 years old.lso had a chance to visit with ali's best friend stephanie davis, who is 21. stephanie was actually downstairs with ali, as well as ali's parents when i walked into the room and i don't think this story has been heard, at least i hadn't read it yet, but i wanted to share it with you. when the gunman initially came in and threw the canisters, he threw them only a few feet away from ali and stephanie, who were sitting there watching the film. ali stood up, seeing that she might need to do something or at least warn the other people who were there and she was immediately shot. and she was shot in the neck and it punctured a vein and immediately she started spurting blood. and apparently as she dropped down on the floor, stephanie, 21 years old, had the presence of mind to drop down on the ground with her, pull her out of the aisle, place her fingers over where she -- where ali had been wounded and applied pressure the entire time while the gunman was still shooting. ali told stephanie, sh

or the courage that aly showed.rcumstances of what we have seen today are, as heart breaking as it is for the families, it's worth us spending most of our time reflecting on young americans like aly and stephanie. because they represent what's best in us. and they assure us that out of this darkness a brighter day's going to come. to the entire community of aurora, the country is thinking of you. i know that there's going to be a vigil and an opportunity for everybody to come together. and i hope that all of those in attendance understand that the entire country will be there in prayer and reflection today. so, thank you. god bless you. god bless all who helped to respond to this tragedy and i hope that over the next several days, next several weeks and months we reflect on how we can do something about some of the senseless violence that ends up marring this country but also reflect on all of the wonderful people who make this the greatest country on earth. thank you very much, everybody. >> the president also a fa

ali's got it down.they're going to be looking to repeal the president's health care reforms. the one the supreme court just ruled were law. legal. law of the land. this really is pure politics. you might say a meaningless exercise. because ain't no way it's going to pass anything but the house once it gets to the senate, dead in the water. they don't have the votes there. don't tell the republicans that. they say this is an effort to get a message out and that this is a message that americans need to hear if you ask the republicans. everybody has an opinion about this one. athena jones has been covering this story for us. all right, athena. i ran out of fingers a long time ago counting how many times this has come to a vote. i think today is number 31. for americans it's very frustrating. but for those who put this forward, they do have a point. >> certainly. they're trying to rev up their base. we got an e-mail from the gop whip in the house yesterday that said today's vote would be the 33rd floor vote

and i just hear her saying ali, get up, ali, get up, ali, get up. i couldn't talk. like, steph, steph, i can't. >> i never heard her voice sound like that. >> i can't move. i can't get up. she is like, get up. people start running down the aisle, i'm not aisle, my arm across me, just laying there so she grabs me and pulls me into, like, the seats where your feet would be. she looks at my ribs, my lungs -- >> just blood every where. >> she puts her fingers over my artery, carrotid artery, write got shot. >> i was like stay down, stay quiet, don't move, just be quiet, just keep breathing. i'm looking up through all of the rows of seats, i just peek up. and i see him up there. and i'm hearing him yell at people. and then you just heart rounds going off, just boom, boom, boom, boom. >> reporter: knowing she couldn't move, ali told steph to run, save herself. >> you have to go. you have to go. she is like, no, no, no, i'm not leaving you. stay. >> reporter: steph stayed by her friends side until the gunman was gone and s.w.a.t. teams arrived, helping carry ali over bodie

ali told stephanie she needed to run. stephanie refused to go.and, called 911 on her cell phone. once the s.w.a.t. team came in, they were still trying to clear the theater stephanie then with the help of several others carries ali across two parking lots to where the ambulance is waiting and because of stephanie's timely actions, i just had a conversation with ali downstairs and she is going to be fine. i don't know how many people at any age would have the presence of mind that stephanie did or the courage that ali showed. and so as tragic as the circumstances of what we've seen today are, as heartbreaking as it is for the families, it's worth us spending most of our time reflecting on young americans like ali and stephanie. because they represent what's best in us and they assure us that out of this darkness a brighter day is going to come. to the entire community of aurora, the country is thinking of you. i know that there's going to be a vigil and an opportunity for everybody to come together and i hope that all those who are in attendance u

let's go to ali velshi. >>> a record heat wave fading and floodwaters are rising, flash floods in the mid-atlantic, stranding 30 cars on the interstate in north carolina. the government says the past 12 months were the hottest ever on record in the mainland u.s. and that's not even countg july, more than 2,000 heat records alone broken or tied so far this month. for more on that, let's go to meteorologist alexandra steele in the weather center. >> good morning, ali. the preponderance of those were east of the mississippi river. look at these records, 113 in vegas, 108 in boise, 99 in reno,

keeping me employed, right ali. in and if you thought it was hot, you were right, the last 12 months were the hottest 12-month period since records began in the 1800s from the 1890s. so it certainly has been and this, believe it or not, doesn't even account for the over 2,000 records we have in july alone. we continued with that so july going down on the record books as one of the hottest. las vegas, breaking a record, 113. boise, 108. >>> reno, 99, doesn't sound like much compared to these numbers. temperatures in the east are cooler because the front has passed but what we're seeing with it, it stalled through the mid-atlantic now, we've got this stalled front, an unstable atmosphere and heating of the sun, all of the ingredients, localized flooding. expecting another 1 to 2 inches today. 88 in d.c., where all of the flooding will be, temperatures with the clouds late in the afternoon, staying in the 80s. 92 only in kansas city. certainly out of the 100s. this is where the extreme heat is. we're watching the next

>> oh, it does, ali. because the irs allows small businesses to report business income on their personal returns and those businesses can be structured in different ways. for example, limited liability companies. partnerships and s corporations. each has their advantages and disadvantages but you don't have to be a tax accountant to understand what this debate in washington is all about. all of these are called flow through entities, because the business profits flow through the company back to the owners. those folks then pay taxes on those profits at the individual rate -- millions of american business owners do this. >> how many of those millions of small businesses that use this flow-through would be affected by letting the bush tax cuts expire for top earners? >> very few. that's because most of them don't make enough money to be taxed at the very highest income levels. in fact, congress' joint committee on taxation, a bipartisan group in congress, knows exactly how many small businesses would be aff

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i'm ali velshi. zoraida is off today. >> i like these hours. >> i'm eating a hot dog this morning. >> i love that about you, ali velshi. i'm ashleigh banfield. it is 5:01. it's the holiday but this fourth of july is less about celebration and more about patience for many americans. and in some cases, even survival. because for six days now there have been many of your fellow countrymen with no power in this extraordinary heat wave. at least 20 people have now died since thursday when deadly storms slammed the east, slammed the midwest. and about 1.2 million people are still waiting to get their power back, to get a fan on, to get the ac back. this is right across the country. here are the states without power today. power companies are repairing damaged transmitters as fast as they can, but customers still could be waiting until the weekend. still until the weekend until they can get that electricity back. and all of this, while those unbearable temperatures just keep are seeing the country. now 14 c

i'm ashleigh banfield. >> i'm ali velshi.ifling heat and no power for a million people down from 4 million people on the weekend, but these extremely hot and muggy conditions persist on this independence day. west virginia army national guard soldiers are now out supplying water and food to people. health officials are warning people to toss the spoiled food that's in their refrigerator or freezer. brian todd is live in charleston, west virginia. what's the situation out there? >> reporter: well, ali, the fate is cruel to people in this state. you mentioned some of the conditions, you have the storms, the power outages and of course the heat that is not letting up in supposedly cool mountainous west virginia. they are not getting a break. it's going to be 95 degrees today. if you talk about the outages, roughly between a quarter and a third of customers in the state still without power. and with the stifling heat, how are people coping with it? pretty much any way they can. >> it's very hot. i've been sitting out on the porch

people want to ask ali and today, ali answers your questions. see this means you're big time. this means you're big time. woo hoo. ♪ one of my favorite places in los angeles to hike is runyan canyon. so when i was there last time i thought why not invite some friends. i posted on facebook on twitter, and not only did a whole bunch of friends live big friends show up but so did a whole bunch of new ones. are you guys with our group! yeah! you need a big towel. we need to give you a towel. how are you? everybody was full of questions and ready for challenge. oh my god matt! look at you! you look fantastic! you look amazing! how you feeling? good, good. ali met matt mccloskey just about one year ago. i've been overweight all my life. there's time where i cry. there's times where i wish i didn't wake up. i'm 26, i want to start a family. i'm motivated to get it done. i just need help. matt's wish came true when she stepped into his life. hello! hey! how are you? hello! hey! good nice to meet you. when we first met you, you were almost 100 pounds heavier, yes, 91.5 pounds. the peop

. >>> hey, i'm lala ali."our world with black enterprise."" >>> welcome to "our world with black enterprise." i'm marc lamont hill. like her father, she floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee. now she's not pulling any punches in her current fight. >> i'm here with athlete, entrepreneur, philanthropist, lala ali. >> and mother. that's a big one. >> you become mother again. >> a little girl and little boy. i'm done. i'm happy. >> i suppose you're not getting any sleep? >> no. but i can keep it moving. we're launching a new campaign called "pair up." kiz any disease affects 30 million americans. nine out of ten of them don't even know they have it. >> we all know someone suffering from diabetes or high blood pressure. a lot of the work i do is about health and fitness and wellness and trying to educate people on how to stay healthy and prevent bad things from happening. >> so for you, this is not just professional, it's also personal. >> it is personal. my family like so many others has dealt with high b

but if i could speak for myself, yes, i am optimistic and i have been optimistic even under ben ali's regime so it is not now i am giving up my hopes and optimism. i am optimistic because i see people fighting every day in that country to make this story a success. that is why i think when we are working, it means that we will have good results. >> you have been an activist for a long time. 10 years, or more? >> 11 years now. >> 11 years? and if you turn the clock back, what were you protesting back then as an activist? >> it started actually about freedom of speech, the main problem for us as human rights activist at this time. because when you cannot even report what is happening, how can you change anything? how can you talk about other rights if you don't have the right to speak about them? our focus was on the freedom of speech, but with the specific the -- i am 27 years old and then i was 16. >> how did you make it known to other people that that what you were protesting? >> this wonderful culture democratic tool called the internet. do you r. a. blogger -- >> you are a blogger?

i'm ali velshi. zz h zoraida sambolin has the day off. >> that is awesome. it's caught on camera. i'm ashleigh banfield. it's nice to have you with us every morning. it's 5:00 a.m. on the east coast. let's get started with this. go vote for someone else. how about that for a campaign pitch. fighting words for mitt romney after a pretty rough reception at the naacp convention. it was a tough sell to begin with though anyway. governor romney's really trying to convince african-americans that they'd be better served with him in the white house than with president obama. president obama has about 95ish percent support among african-americans. he misstepped when he referred to the president's health carrey forms as obama care. >> i'm going to eliminate every non-essential expensive program i can find, that includes obama care, and i'm going to work to reform and save -- >> yeah, those are the sound of boos. you might say ouch or maybe not. romney is getting beat up by naacp. listen to the president of the

was context that -- contacted at least three times to meet the president of the country at that time, ali abdullah saleh. it was after the goshens started, the revolution in yemen started, january 14, when -- i remember i met with president ali abdullah saleh in sana'a. >> what did you say? >> i said several things. he gave me about 20 minutes to speak. i told him exactly that we are they done people of this country and we are not driven by political opposition, not motivated by any particular -- but we are going to the street because this is the only solution we have left. this is the thing you have been doing for 33 years and we know how corrupt this country is and how you made our lives miserable and we no longer accept any more and you have to leave. >> you have to leave? >> yes. >> you told him to resign? >> yes. at one point, i raised my voice. he was listening for a while but after a while he repeated the same thing, that if i left the corrupt people from the opposition would come. i lost that and raise my voice and i said this country is not about you and not about this corrupt op

come on, aly. come on. come on. come on. come on. catch it! nice. come on. come on. stick. it, please. >> stick it! stick it! >> yeah! >> yeah! >> ahh! >> even you guys are laughing. that is the best thing. every parent can relate to that. you're watching your girl out there performing. tell me what that was like for you, rick. rick and lynn raisman, by the way, are here. >> it was just -- it was such a relief when she finished the event. it was -- i don't know, so much pressure and it's so magnified. it's just so big that it's just hard to sit there and just -- i can't even explain it. i mean, i'm embarrassed watching it now, but -- >> no, you shouldn't be. it's so real. >> you don't even realize it. you're just so locked in. it's just unreal. >> your muscles must be burning after the competition as much as your daughter's. i mean, you're sitting there on the edge of your seat. >> i know. i know. >> i really had -- i knew he was movinging. i had no idea he was moving that much. >> you were sticking it like you were saying stick it, stick it. she had an amazing performance

i'm ali velshi.da is off. >> i'm ashleigh banfield. 31 minutes past 5:00 on the east coast. >>> a message from mitt romney, everyone who booed him at yesterday's naacp convention, quote, go vote for someone else. this was a tough sell. romney was trying to convince african-americans that they'd be better off with him in the white house. it was this remark about obama care specifically that set the crowd off. >> i'm going to eliminate every non-essential expensive program i can find. that includes obama care. i'm going to work to reform and save -- >> cnn political reporter shannon travis is live from washington this morning. shannon, romney's not apologizing for what he told the crowd. here's a question for you. what got them going? obama care used to be a pejorative term. it's not now. the obama administration, the white house used it itself. what was the thing? i didn't think anybody thought romney liked health care reform in the way that it's passed. >> reporter: i mean, you're absolutely right, a

at the hospital, one of the first people she saw was ali's dad. >> he says, you know, ali can't talk because she's got breathing tubes down her throat. but they gave her a board to write on and the first thing that she wrote on that board was where's my steph? and i just lost it. >> reporter: a simple message that let her know she hadn't lost her best friend. now, look, there are makeshift memorials around the city and growing around the clock. i can testimoll you at all hour the day and night, people are drawn to these memorials to honor the victims of these attack, every one of the stories, is stories of the survivors what are is keeping constituent going now. the latest from aurora, colorado, jay gray, news4. >>> one of the survivors of that shooting was scheduled to attend the university of maryland in the fall. 22-year-old pedro anderson was hit by four shotgun pellets. friends and family have launched a website to raise money for her medical bills. those funds will also help her mother who is fighting cancer. >> my sister's hospitals bills, on top of that are make the financial

>> ali, look at the macro level.lk about getting things done on capitol hill, everything is done through the parties. quite frankly, what we've seen on the republican side is we've seen the rise of the tea party which had an enormous amount of influence over how house republican leaders approach legislation and approach how they do things. on the same side, on the democratic side, you have the liberals who are really pushing hard on the agenda. when you talk about the folks who are in the middle, these blue dog democrats, these folks who try to build bridges, folks that perhaps are saying might be the problem because they are trying to chart some kind of middle course. the bottom line is it so poisonous on capitol hill right now. this is not going to get fixed until after the election. if we think things are bad now politically, wait until after election day when they have to deal with all the major issues. >> and that's my concern. if you are so adamant as stephen moore was that this isn't going to get done beforeha

i'm ali velshi. welcome to "your money." as long as your politicians don't tell you the truth about our economy i will. >>> slowdowns in europe and asia are creating economic headwinds that are strong enough to blow us into another recession. that's where we are today but i'm so caught up in avoiding this recession that some of you think i'm not paying enough attention to how we got here and you may be right because we've got limited time and we need solutions and right now, those solutions, many of them, lie with congress. but there are causes and there are many of them. a simple answer would be the cleanest, the most convenient, out of control deficits or stimulus. it's barack obama or george w. bush, but it's not that simple, not that satisfying. one cause however does stand out amongst many. cheap and ample credit. for years the ability of almost every working american to access more credit than they should have been able to, masked the underlying fact that lower and middle class incomes were not rising. people felt and

stephanie was downstairs with ali and ali's parents when i walked into the room. i wanted to share it with you. when the gunman initially came in and threw the canisters, he threw them only a few feet away from ali and stephanie, who were sitting there watching the film. ali stood up saying that she might need to do something or at least warn the other people who were there. and she was immediately shot. she was shot in the neck and it punctured a vein and immediately she started spurting blood. and apparently, as she dropped down on the floor, stephanie, 21 years old, had the presence of mind to drop down on the ground with her, pull her out of the aisle, place her fingers over where ali had been wounded and applied pressure the entire time while the gunman was still shooting. ali told stephanie she needed to run. stephanie refused to go. instead, actually, with her other hand, called 911 on her cell phone. once the s.w.a.t. team came in, they were still trying to clear the theater. stephanie then with the help of several others, carries ali across two parking lo

ali kash? o my gosh, ali kash. why would you want to impersonate a spiritual leader? >> i think sometimes when you impersonate someone you're not you can sort of see something that's more true in the world. so i... (laughter) so i thought maybe.... >> stephen: you've lost me. i tell you what, you've losted me. we'll plitplay a clip of "kumare." >> there's nothing phony about him. >> kumar ray is open towards everything in a non-judgmental way. >> the more students i met and classes i taught the more it seemed the kumare movement could take hold. >> the people that feel that connection towards him and they see him and they're like bring it in, bring it in. >> stephen: if you don't mind me saying so, your beard is doing a lot of 2 t work there. (laughter) i'd follow a guy with a beard like that. >> thank you. i just shaved this morning. it grows very fast. (laughter) >> what were you teaching? >> well, i was teaching a philosophy call requested "the mirror" which is a madeup philosophy but isn't

five more corporations sever ties with the american legislative exchange council known as ali abunimah. alec to this country or corporations have even more influence than your ordinary lobbying, and do so behind closed doors and in the dark. >> 25 corporations have stopped supporting alec membership. we will speak with lisa graves. a new israeli government report says west bank settlements are illegal. >> authoritative document which spells out the rise of the jews [unintelligible] as was originally decided upon by the league of nations. >> we will host a debate. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. protests have erupted in spain over a massive new package of spending cuts and tax hikes to obtain the rest of the country's banks. in an address to parliament, the spanish prime minister unveiled an austerity package of nearly $80 billion involving a new sales tax and cuts to public spending. he said the measures were demanded by the european union as a condition for an emergency bailout of spain's banks agre

i'm al ali veshi. being thrown back and forth about the bush tax cuts. i want to break down fact and fiction here. let's listen to what the president said. >> many members of the other party believe that prosperity comes from the top down. so that if we spend trillions more on tax cuts for the wealthiest americans, that that will somehow unleash jobs and economic growth. >> ok. listen to that. will cain, he said if we spend trillions more on tax cuts. what president obama is talking about is spending money on tax cuts. spending money on taxes. a little bit of fiction there. i'm throwing you a bone, will. >> thank you. thank you. >> first, it is obviously not yet the case. the spending of money, if you want to call it that. some call it raising money. only happens if the bush ctax cuts are extended for everyone, something that the president said he would not allow. it's not trillions of dollars. it's not even a full trillion. the administration itself says it would save, or again if you look at it a dif