cnn's brian todd was able to make it to the place where the couple was found. he got there by air boat. it's the only way he could get there. he reports tonight on just how badly hit that entire area was. >> reporter: it's still almost unapproachable and dangerous. we have to navigate around seeping natural gas and down power lines just to get near it. this house is where the first two reported fatalities from isaac occurred. a couple trapped inside. urban truel, the fire chief here, knew them and had to pull their bodies out. do you think the couple had a chance to get out once the water started flowing in here? h >> the water came up so fast. we had a lot of emergency personnel that had a rough time getting out. so, elderly couple, needing assistance, would have been very -- very tough to do. >> reporter: there may have been one opening. maybe. the couple was found floating in the kitchen of this house. the kitchen is around the other side of the house. we can't access that right now. what we're told is the water levels at the time rescuers got here were abou

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here's cnn's brian todd. >> reporter: if you think fans are mad about the nfl's replacement referees, try the players. the green bay packers who lost on a wild call at the end of the game with seattle apparently discussed drastic medss on the flight home. t.j. lang of the tweets said there is a potential plan. >> there is a conversation about is there anything that we could do to go on strike or not play games. go out and have an agreement to snap the ball and take a knee every play. >> the head of the national football league association says he doesn't think it is in the players or fans best interest to do that. no response from the nfl. rick doc walker a host for d.c. radio station espn 980 says a players' protest could backfire. >> you have to let it go or it will carry over to the next week. it is unfortunate what happened to green bay but it happened and it's over and you can't reverse it. >> reporter: no question the nfl has got on the the point of a public relations nightmare with the replacement refs that few if any anticipated and the overriding concern the safety of the pla

majority of syrians are seeking and that it could potentially lead to greater loss of life. >> brian todd is joining us from d.c. brian, so let's get this straight here. anybody with a credit card can go to the website, give money, that eventually could end up in the hands of rebel fighters and provide a weapon for those rebel fighters. is it just as easy as that? >> it absolutely is, suzanne. he showed me the website yesterday. can you go there with your own credit card. you can use pay pal. you can pretty much give as much money as you want, and that money will get to syrian rebel commanders on the ground and basically it's their discretion on how to use it. they can use it for medical supplies. they can use it for communications equipment, but, yes, they can also use it to get, you know, guns, weapons, ammunition. things like that. it's pretty smooth, actually. >> in your piece there sounds like a lot of questions whether or not this vetting process is really adequate to be putting a lot of trust in some of these guys on the ground. we don't even know really who some of these people ar

brian todd has the story. >>orter:unned at the beginning,syrian's rebels have gradually gained strength, taking the figh me directly to bashar al assad's regime and scoring ies have started om thicomputer in shington? herehat's where you can a hey conduct - whe thave a stronghold. >> brian heads the u.s.-based arm of gro, a nogoveal grodedicated to help rebels. >> why did you want to do this >> wel,ou know, i have a, and he's 18 mo old, d i think that -- i sawy images of what w goi on there. 2-year-olds that are, you know, white, pale, and lifeless. >> on his group's website, you can donate usesing a credit card or pay says pal. the website explicitly states your money can be used by the free syrian army to buy weapons. he says they've raised a couple hundred thousand dollars so far. most of it from a syrian ex-pats. it's all legal. a former nato political officer got the treasury department to give the syrian support group a license so it can raise money for e rebs witho violating a way forhe st syri vernment

here's cnn's brian todd. >> reporter: it's still almost unapproachable and dangerous.te around natural gas and power lines to get near it. this house is where the first two reported fatalities from isaac occurred. a couple trapped inside. urban truly, the fire chief here, knew them and had to pull their bodies out. do you think this couple ever had a chance to get out once the water started flowing in here? >> the water came up so fast, we had a lot of emergency personnel that had a rough time getting out. so elderly couple needing assistance would have been very -- very tough to do. >> reporter: there may have been one opening, maybe. the couple was found floating in the kitchen of this house. the kitchen is around the other side of the house. we can't access that right now. what we're told is that water levels at the time rescuers got here were eight feet higher than they are now, up to that attic vent right there. if the couple could have gotten to that, possibly they could have gotten out. >> he declined to identify the couple. he says emergency officials got word

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our brian todd explains. >> wolf, this is the sadie may room of the baltimore art.n donor, a patron of the arts in baltimore. she lent a painting to this museum many decades ago. in 1951 that painting was stolen from this museum, the circumstances around that are not clear. but it made its way somehow from 1951 to a flea market in west virginia a couple of years ago where it was sold for $7 where it was actually bought at a flea market with just some other kind of trin kwets in a box. it is worth up to or possibly over $100,000. and we're here with the director of the baltimore museum of art. can you tell us how you think it made its way from being stolen here in 1951 to being sold in west virginia at a flea market. >> it's a bigamist ri. of course we may never know the course of the painting. we didn't have computers, we didn't have digital images. things were recorded by hand on index cards, things were mimeographed or carbon paper. very different from how we record information today. so we'll be very lucky, i think, to find out the whole story. >> well, good luck

brian todd has been looking into that problem. what is this all about?t accounts this is a sleek new version of the iphone. it's already very popular, but if you want to use it to go point a to point b, be patient. >> reporter: from australia to arlington, virginia, they lined up for apple's latest version of what's become an i caan, the iphone 5. it's faster, lighter, has a bigger screen than the previous iphone, but there's one feature that's being widely slammed, its map application. >> so i think there was a little bit of disappointment when we started seeing a lot of kinks in it. there's a lot of blogs that are pushing out problems here and problems there across the globe. >> reporter: apple has just moved away from google's operating system for maps and rolled out its own to compete with google. the early result, users say it steers them to the wrong places, even omits locations altogether. we tested the new operating system out using an ipad trying to find a local hotel. we typed in howard johnson on the new map app knowing this hotel in northeast

brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> all right.k to yemen where violence sparked by that very film is continuing. mohammed jamjoon, you have been watching the violence happening all morning long. earlier the yemeni government said it had things under control, and does it? >> well, carol, the yemeni government are saying they have it under control and we are hearing from the eyewitnesses on the sceneb that the crowd has disbursed and earlier in the day, there were thousands of people out side of the embassy and now only dozens, but we are seeing the dramatic video of what was going on earlier in the day, and in the video, you see the angry mob outside of the embas embassy, and you will see the smoke rising from within the compound walls. we were told by eyewitnesses there were cars set on fire and tires set on fire, and you also see how water cannon s deployed by the yemenis forces to try to disperse the crowd. they say this film was angry and insulting to muslims and directed the anger to the u.s. embassy. what i am hearing again a

brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> cnn's belief blog co-editor.c, tell us about what this means here. put this into context for us, the fact that now we believe the filmmaker is a coptic christian. does that have any real weight here? >> yes. suzanne, a lot of coptic christians here in the united states have emigrated from egypt where we heard in brian's package there just a minute ago, is really the origin and the scene of the church and goes all the way back to 43 a.d. where they believe the apostle rob brought christianity to he jipt. there is the flight of the holy family shortly after jesus' birth. they fled to egypt to inherit and put out an execution order for all the jewish boys under the age of 2. there's strong ties to egypt there in alexandria. of course, cops have this long tension between muslims and bitter and especially since the arab spring after we saw a church bombing in alexandria and, of course, during clashes with egyptian security forces last year about 21 people, copts and their supporters were killed. >> eric, how large is

brian todd has been investigating. >> this group based in the united states and canada is raising moneyhe rebels. that money is often used to buy weapons. because they're not being sent directly from this group, it is legal but this still raises concerns in washington. >> reporter: outgunned at the beginning, the rebels have gained strength taking the fight to. >> that's where you can actually identify where they conduct -- where they have a stronghold. >> the u.s. based arm of the syrian support groom, a nongovernmental group dedicated to helping the syrian rebels. >> why did you want to do this? >> i have a son and he's 18 months old. and i think that i saw too many images of what was going on there of two-year-olds that are, you know, white, pale and lifeless. >> on his group's website you can donate to the rebels. he says they've raised a couple hundred thousand dollars so far. it's all legal. sayers got the treasury department got the syrian support group to get a license. >> it's a way for the u.s. government to allow donated resources from america to get to the rebels without the

here is our brian todd. >> randi, a grandson of former president jimmy carter was instrumental of gettinghis videotape out of obscurity into a media frenzy. he didn't actually make the videotape. that was done four months ago in a moment mitt romney likely wishes he had back. it starts with a videotape of mitt romney speaking last may at a fund-raiser attended by wealthy donors inside a private home in florida. he's asked how he's going to convince voters that they need to take care of themselves instead of relying on the government. unguarded romney tells the group nearly half the electorate will vote for president obama no matter what. >> there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent on government, who believe they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they're entitled to health care, to food, to housing. >> reporter: the video, showing romney seemingly callous and out of touch has blown up after being posted online on monday money romney called a news conference. >> it's not elegantly stated. i'm sure could i state it more

brian todd, cnn, baltimore. >>> "cnn newsroom" starts at the top of the hour. we have lots, beginning with our legal guys who join us every saturday. avery and richard. we have an interesting case. you know you take a picture and put it on your facebook or blog, the protect is protected to a certain extent, right sph. >> absolutely. >> a gay couple of new jersey they took a beautiful picture of themselves and it was lifted and anti-gay campaign and now this couple has filed suit. that's the picture that they took and it was superimposed and the background changed from that beautiful manhattan skyline to a colorado kind of landscape and with this antique message and that couple is pursuing a lawsuit against that group. our legal guys are going to tackle whether this is an issue of privacy, copyright infringement, theft. >> we have a lot straight ahead and then try to understand a group of teenage girls out of chester, pennsylvania. who allegedly attacked a mentally ill woman, beat her. the 48-year-old woman, we understand, is still being hospitalized and we're t

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brian todd knows. >> reporter: how did a videotape made four months ago become so potentially damagingf it were leaked in drips and drabs on youtube. in mid august the mother jones reporter david corn was put in touch with the source who videotaped romney and posted it on line. corn won't reveal who the source is. last week corn was able to verify that the videotape was legitimate and then posted it this week on mother jones. this account was given to us by david corn himself, and he could not speak on camera, because he is a contributor on another network. who got it? james carter the fourth, jimmy carter's grandson. he has done reser arch in the past. he describes himself as opposition researcher and political junkie looking for work. he spoke with anderson cooper. >> i have been doing this pretty much full time, and, yeah, i do it for work and also for fun, so if someone will pay me for it, that would be great. >> he obviously has his own agenda, and trying to damage the romney campaign and without james cart ter the fourth this clearly would not have happened. >> david corn says th

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. >> our brian todd also spoke to steve klein. want to play a short clip of that and ask you something about that. here it is. >> very brave man. he's very depressed. and he's upset. i talked to him this morning and he said that he was very concerned for what happened to the ambassador. >> he's obviously talking about sam, the man you were looking at there is steve klein. so do you believe what he said? >> there's somebody who put this thing together and put this on youtube. that's all we know. and steve klein's reporting this person feels upset. we'll take him at his word, but what we'd really like to know is who is this person and more to the point, who is alleging a vast jewish conspiracy to make this film. this is spreading around the middle east that a group of jews in california are behind this. >> some of the things i've seen, a group of jews who put millions up to fund this film. >> you've seen this clip. there's no million of dollars. >> no, definitely, no, it doesn't appear that way at all. so, do you think if they were

brian? >> chuck todd starting us off from the floor. which brings us to andrea mitchell who will have one of the best seats in the house, just off the podium here, with a preview of the first lady's appearancen to the, andrea? >> reporter: good evening, brian. michelle obama is a political superstar, much more popular than her husband. once a reluctant campaigner, now she's a woman with a mission. michelle obama is now a political pro and her husband's best campaigner. hardly needing to practice with the teleprompters or getting a feel for the stage. aids say she will try to project empathy toward struggling middle class families and motivate women voters. >> this election ladies is a choice about supporting women and families in this country. >> reporter: the president said he'll be watching at the white house. >> i'm going to be at home and watching it with our girls, and i am going to try not to let them see their daddy cry. because when michelle starts talking, i start getting all misty. >> reporter: ryan seacrest asked mrs. obama a

brian? >> chuck todd starting off our coverage tonight. first lady michelle obama, her speech tonight, one of the featured events this evening in prime time, certainly, andrea mitchell is down alongside the podium here in charlotte. andrea? >> reporter: brian, she's now a political superstar, far more popular than her husband, once a reluctant campaigner, now she's a woman with a mission. michelle obama is now a political pro. her husband's best campaigner, hardly needing to practice with the teleprompters or get a feel for the stage. aids say she will try to project empathy toward struggling middle class families and motivate women voters. >> this election ladies is a choice about supporting women and families in this country. >> reporter: the president said he'll be watching at the white house. >> i'm going to be at home and watching it with our girls, and i am going to try not to let them see their daddy cry. because when michelle starts talking, i start getting all misty. >> reporter: ryan see crest asked mrs. obama about ann romney's

our brian todd is learning stunning new details about the attack from u.s. h military sources. and he joins us now. brian? >> we've learn just how long the firefight lasted and other details used by insurgents, including the location where they made their breach. the attack began under cover of darkness, just after 10:00 p.m. local time, according to u.s. and british military officials. some 15 afghan insurgents organized in three teams first got through a fence on the eastern side of camp bagstion, according to a british military source. the attackers were carrying automatic rifles, rocket propelled grenade launchers, suicide vests and were wearing u.s. army uniforms. jeffrey dressler is an analyst who's been to the camp. >> you can buy u.s. army uniforms in afghanistan. what happens is when these supply convoys are going through pakistan and trucks get seized or destroyed, a lot of that cargo is sold. >> reporter: u.s. and british military officials tell cnn british troops from a royal air force protection wing, along with a group of u.s. marines, were the

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cnn's brian todd is watching the negotiations closely and joins me now.g reports right now over whether the referees and the nfl have reached a deal or not. espn citing a source familiar with the talks reports an agreement in principle is "at hand." but sports illustrated peter king reports a deal is not imminent. that comes from one official who got an e-mail from the referees union. either way if a deal doesn't get done soon, the players themselves may take action. if you think fans are mad about the nfl's replacement referees, try the players. the green bay packers who lost on a wild call at the end of their game against seattle apparently discussed drastic measures on the way home. t.j. lang told wxyt about a potential plan. >> there was talk is there anything we can do go on strike or not play games, go out and have an agreement to snap the ball and take a knee. >> reporter: the head of the nfl's player association doesn't think it's in the players or the fans interests to do that. no immediate response from the nfl itself. former washington redskins