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. ♪ we are farmers bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> it was just an incredibly inspiring moment and reallyg on the house floor. had nothing to do with the vote happening and put the whole vote in perspective or the debate that's been so contentious. not about politics but a person. when representative gabby giffords returns to the house floor for the first time since she was shot on that dark day back in january. she was welcomed back and applause, a lot of applause, listen! [ cheers and applause ] >> she looked great. nancy pelosi calls giffords the person per sonification of courage. she was fighting for her life in intensive care. she wasn't moving the right side of her body and still has trouble standing and speaking more than short phrases. this is a triumph for her family and her and her friends. her friend and colleague, debbie wasserman schultz helps her into the house, you see her on the left, that's her husband on the right, mark kelly. i spoke with congresswoman wasserman schultz a short time ago. just a remarkable moment today. among all this bickering to have a moment like thi

. ♪ we are farmers bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> where's the leadership in washington?ong-term debt is becoming the next generation's problem but with a lack of leadership at the top, how do you inspire future leaders to solve these problems? let's ask someone who teaches leadership, deepak chopra, author of "soul of leadership" at the kellogg school of management at northwestern university. welcome to the program. >> thanks for having me. >> this recent debt debacle, many questioning where the leadership is coming from and whether we have seen the kinds of traits that are going to help us solve our problems. >> i think the only way to tackle leadership is to become leaders ourselves. we need a grassroots moment of leadership, which is based on solid principles. instead of looking at the problems and asking ourselves, what's the problem, we start to -- we need to start asking ourselves, what's the creative opportunity right now. we're trying to adjust the economy by tackling things like tax or adjusting the interest rates and all those little things, when we actually sh

, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> time now for the ridiculist.nee and public urinator. last night on a flight, he reportedly peed on the floor. the flight attendant told him he would have to wait to use the bathroom until takeoff. he created his own jet stream. when i first heard this story this morning, i thought there was no way it was real. the airline confirmed it beyond any shadow of skepticism. i mean they vaguely tweeted about it. "as you may have seen on the news, we're busy mopping the floor of one of our planes this morning. we would like to remind all passengers that all of planes are fully equipped with toilet facilities." the airline was busy putting the pee back in pr, some passengers couldn't hold it anymore and started spilling their versions of the incident to the press. can you blame them? they saw a thespian thes-pee-an. as a celebrity he's not accustomed to being told he can't do things he wants to do when he wants to do them. things like going to the bathroom. he's probably used to being pampered. i would go as far as to say

. ♪ we are farmers bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> syria stepping up its campaign.can you describe the killing of more than 2,000 people so far and at least 23 today alone. in a moment you'll hear from a top syrian diplomat who says security forces are there to protect protesters, not mow them down with gunfire. he says we have it all wrong, the world has it all wrong. we're keeping them honest tonight. the firsthand account of someone who says syrian authorities are hunting us like animals. he spent the day, though, not in hiding, but in this. [speaking in a foreign language] >> the experience just as you see it here, wave after wave of gunfire directed at people chanting god is great. syrian state tv tells another story clearly ad at odds with the video. the standard story. protesters are armed sunni muslim fanatics, say the government. the people look to be ordinary syrians and the protesters themselves say that's what they are. the only weapons you see and you rarely see them anywhere are stones. the weaponry you hear belongs to syrian authorities. in other new

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. ♪ we are farmers ♪ bum, ba-da-bum, bum, bum, bum ♪ >>> as brian wells was on the ground in that halfter he robbed the bank, another man was watching everything unfold from across the street. according to an fbi affidavit informants said a 63-year-old handyman named william rothstein was sitting in his car, eyes focused on brian wells. bill rothstein, officials later said, was the mastermind behind the entire scheme. >> i put a cut piece of green tarp down here to put his body on. >> okay. >> this is bill rothstein a few months after that bank robbery in a police evidence tape where he's explaining to a detective how he helped a former girlfriend marjorie armstrong dispose of a body. >> what came first, the body or the freezer? >> the body came in. i'll put it on a cart. the cart with the big wheels not the small wheels. yes, that one there. >> but what's really going on here? what did that body in the freezer and bill rothstein's confession have to do with the collar bomb explosion that killed brian wells? in a word, everything. bill rothstein told police he was just doing marjorie a

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. ♪ we are farmers ♪ bum, ba-da-bum, bum, bum, bum ♪ >>> gadhafi forces have been stationed to the eastuite some time now the last few days attempting to regain control of this airport. >> if you need to take cover do it. >> i think that's outgoing as far as i can tell. so i think we're pretty okay where we are right now. that is rebel fighters shooting out of the airport complex. now, what they're trying to do is push these gadhafi fighters back. they've entrenched themselves in these villages along the eastern part of the airport. >> that's our arwa damon just this morning in the middle of the battle to hold onto tripoli's international airport. as you saw at the top, the opposition took it yesterday. they control it now. but they're still fighting to keep it. they've been exchanging artillery and gunfire all day with new shelling reported just within the last hour or so. a big problem loyalist forces are firing from populated areas as we mentioned earlier. returning fire obviously then puts civilians at risk. arwa damon has been there through it all. she joins us now. arwa you've bee

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. ♪ we are farmers bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> late developments for tonight.d they've just gotten to tripoli international airport. what's the situation there? >> anderson, the opposition fighters here arrived around 11:30 noon, after what they describe as being a fairly tough battle as they tried to make their way up around 30 miles out they encountered their first resistance from gadhafi's forces and they say that firefight lasted about two hours. another location, another battle for around half an hour. this second location was very close to a military compound. they said they were finally able to secure the compound and get their hands on the weapons that were there that they describe as being fairly extensive, before making their wear to the airport where they say they got into a significant fight with the battle was not as tough as the road had been on the way up. there were casualties on both sides and there have been ongoing clashes all day in the periphery and the perimeter of the airport. a few miles just outside, they've been consistently clashing w

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. ♪ we are farmers bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> back now with my interesting guest, kathy griffinsting? that's the best you can come up with? >> kathy griffin on the economy climbs on desk to kiss piers. most awkward "piers morgan show" ever. >> right on. i say we do the rest of the show bottomless. anyone can do topless. with the glass table, it's limitless. >> you are dangerous for any cnn host. >> i'm dangerous with you right now. >> cnn fires you every year. >> yes, every year i get fired. >> i am a terrible slug that tries to make people laugh. and that's a bumper sticker that i'm going to put on my prius. i don't have a prius. >> i heard you had a bit of a foxy dinner last night. >> okay, i have a-list moments in my life. >> you had a private dinner party wf jack nicholson, john hamm, steve martin -- >> john hamm isn't a real celebrity. >> biggest movie hearthrob. steve martin, loren michaels. is he as fun at a private dinner peter as i would hope he is? >> yes. he has moment where is he's kind of nutty then super intelligence and then funny. it was the full package. it was

. ♪ we are farmers ♪ bum, ba-da-bum, bum, bum, bum ♪ and started earning loads of points.lloon with points? yes i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. ♪ ♪ there it is. [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. ♪ [ male announcer ] the new citi thankyou premier card gives you more ways to earn points. what's your story? citi can help you write it. >>> president obama in a solemn moment at the air force base today when the troops were returned from afghanistan. now two men who have seen the white house up close. dan rather. also joining me presidential historian douglas brinkley. dan rather let me start with you. it's a dismal time for americans and america right now. put it in historical context from all that you reported on over the years. how bad is it do you think right now? >> well, clearly the news is grim on a lot of fronts. the economy being first and foremost. i would say within that, jobs. but you know? i'm an optimist by experience and by nature and by covering america over -- well over half a century. this country has tremendous r

. ♪ we are farmers ♪ bum, ba-da-bum, bum, bum, bum ♪ >>> four people living in here, a mom and threet's a very small face, maybe five and a half to six feet in diameter, and all they have is in this small space. a cooking pot, a spooning a few bowls, a jug that holds water that they got from the unhcr. they have some -- a few plates. a pile of clothes and mats to try to keep the dirt out. it's not much. but this family feels lucky to be here, they arrives about a month ago and they're still waiting to find a more permanent settlement inside the camp. so many somalis are on the move, all across this country. 100,000 have arrived here in mogadishu. more are on the border with kenya, where we were yesterday. the world food program is a crucial lifeline. breaking news, the funding and food may run out in three weeks or less. these kids don't have time to spare. many are on the verge of death right now. tens of thousands have already died. here's what sanjay gupta found in kenya today. >> reporter: in the middle of the famine, the sickest of the sick come here. like ahmed. he's 6 years ol

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. ♪ we are farmers bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> i'm laughing because we have a funny ridiculouse program at the end, it's on my mind. >>> first event of the presidential campaign gets under way tomorrow. the ames straw poll in the campus state university. republicans from all across the state expect to weigh in, the vote is nonbinding but influential in weeding out the more influential candidates. sarah palin is not even a candidate and may not be at all a candidate but she is in iowa, surprise, making the rounds today at the state fair in des moines. where she was asked if she'll be on the ballot for 2012. she said she doesn't yet know. she and rick perry were making themselves felt at the gop debate last night in ames. in case you missed it here it is again boiled down to about a minute or so of some key moments. >> people are looking for a champion. they want someone who's been fighting. >> it's an undisputable fact that in congress, her record of accomplishment and results is nonexistent. >> when you were governor in minnesota, you implemented cap and trade in our state. you

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. ♪ we are farmers ♪ bum, ba-da-bum, bum, bum, bum ♪ >>> this was not a forcible encounter. in inappropriate behavior, perhaps, but that is much different than a crime. and in this case was treated as a crime when it was not. >> that was dominique strauss-khan's attorney, right after a new york judge sensationally dropped the case against the imf chief. strauss-khan said these past two and a half months have been a nightmare for me and my family. i want to thank all of the family and friends in france and the in the united states who have believed in my innocence. i want to welcome benjamin brafman, and cocounsel, william w. taylor. mr. brafman, i'll start with you. a great day for and you your team and mr. strauss-khan. were you confident this day would come? >> yes. i didn't think would come so quickly. i think both mr. taylor and i believed from the very beginning that dominique strauss-khan was innocent and if pushed to a trial he would be acquitted, but to have the case dismissed after indictment on motion of the district attorney's office, i don't think we expected tha

. ♪ we are farmers ♪ bum, ba-da-bum, bum, bum, bum ♪ >>> ten minutes to the top of the hour. official. >> we've got landfall. absolutely. cape lookout, about 10, 20 minutes ago. you can see on radar, it ace taken a little jog to the northeast. looks like it's back offshore five miles north-northeast of cape lookout. it's weakened a bit, our winds are down a smidge to 85 miles per hour. it's still a category 1, a stronger category 1 storm, and it is going to continue to just lash the outer banks and eastern parts of north carolina over the next five, six hours or so before you start to see this it let up just a bit. lots of storm surge being reported all throughout the outer banks in the range of 6 to 8 feet. we're getting many reports of damage, mobile homes as well as trees being uprooted and thousands and thousands of people are are without power this hour. so irene has officially made landfall, our first landfalling hurricane in the u.s. since hurricane ike back in 2008. >> jacqui, thank you for that. had when we come back, we'll be talking to general honore. he knows a th

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. ♪ we are farmers ♪ bum, ba-da-bum, bum, bum, bum ♪ >>> well, we're following other breaking stories. a lot of people tonight are trying to make sense of what's happened to the stock marketstoid. another roller-coaster ride as you know the dow jones industrials jumping 423 points. nearly 4% to close above 11,000. now the past six trading sessions have been incredible. you saw the dow scored its two biggest gains of the year this week. also its biggest low. year. today all of the major indices were back in the black. some encourage economic news helped stocks recover. i spoke to ali velshi just a few minutes ago about it. >> so, ali, what's the deal? it's up, it's down. what caused today's rally? so anderson, i think that people were taking a step back looking at the heavy momentum, selling of the last few days, and sort of re-evaluating whether or not it's justified. you even saw a movement out of treasury bonds in the united states, which we've seen some heavy buying into in the last few days while people are moving into, as we call a flight to safety, going into safer investments.

. ♪ we are farmers bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> the terror attack killed 270 people in 1988 andsenator chuck schumer is calling for the mastermind of that attack to go back to prison. joining me now a woman who lost her husband in the bombing of pan am flight 103. thanks for joining me again. what was your reaction to what we're seeing in libya? >> well, i'm elated to see the progress that the freedom fighters have made. in the last six months these people have done more to pursue moammar gadhafi and take him out of power and out of business than our government or any of the world superpowers have done in over 22 years. you have to remember that only seven months ago, these were average, ordinary libyan citizens who had the majority of them, 95% of them had never held a weapon in their hand. they're students, they're plumbers, they're doctors, they're people from all walks of life who courageously took up this fight and not had any military training. and here we are at a very pivotal time in our history with libya. this is the closest that we will -- we have come in 22 years to

. ♪ we are farmers bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >> back now with my interesting guest kathy griffin.teresting? that's the best adjective you could come up with. >> the twitosphere is runninup. jay golden five. kathy griffin on the economy climbs on desk to kiss piers. most awkward piers morgan show ever. >> give it up, people. come on. >> and you have been on ten minutes. >> i know. >> congratulations. >> i say we do the rest of the show bottomless because anyone can do topless. that's so last week. but with the glass table, it's limitless. >> you are dangerous for any cnn host. >> i'm dangerous for you right now. i guarantee that. >> cnn fires you every year. >> every year i get fired. >> terrible slug to get us all back into trouble. >> thank you. i came -- i am a terrible slug that is on cnn every new years trying to make people laugh. and that's a bumper sticker that i'm going to put on my prius. i don't have a prius. >> i heard you had a foxy dinner last night. >> okay, so i have a list moments in my life. >> you had dinner last night, a private dinner party with jack nicholson,

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. ♪ we are farmers bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> crime and punishment tonight, part two of a "360ng book that's controversial to say the least. a book that says god want parents to spank their children and that the spanking should be hard enough to cause physical pain. the book was found in the home of parents in california who were convicted of beating their 7-year-old daughter to death. the couple who wrote the book say they're in no way to blame. gary tuchman investigates. >> reporter: michael pearl is a competitive knife and tomahawk thrower. he never misses the target. but it's just a hobby. his life's work is preaching. he targets what some might call extreme discipline of children. >> i've never met any well-trained, emotionally secure, happy, creative children that weren't spanked. >> reporter: pearl is a minister of the gospel, a devout christian. he and his wife are best-selling authors who have written. religiously themed books. but their most popular and most controversial is a book called "to train up a child" in which they write about the need to inflict physical pai

, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> back with denise richards.f london. what i loved about this is that you were crit sighed for being too sexy. >> hmm. >> and how can a bond girl be too sexy, seriously? >> that is what i wanted to know, you know. it is very tongue and cheek and a lot of people criticized me for playing a scientist running around in little shorts and a tank top. >> that is the best way for a scientist to run around. i had no complaints about you, and i wish all scientists looked leek that. >> i definitely got slaughtered in the reviews. >> did you care? >> at the time i did. it was very hurtful because i had never up to that point had gotten bad reviews like that so, yeah. it was tough. >> what was it like being a hollywood starlet? >> well, it was very overwhelming and at the time i had done "starship troopers" and wild thing, and they all came out the same year and, you know, it's a lot, but also great. it afforded me a lot of wonderful opportunities and financially to be able to buy my parents a house and myself. that kind of

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. ♪ we are farmers ♪ bum, ba-da-bum, bum, bum, bum ♪ >>> we come to our criteria which has been in thein for almost 20 years. it has recently been upgraded. our decision to lower the rating to aa plus from aaa was really motivated by two things. one is the increasing political polarization which we think is going to impede the ability of policy makers to act proactively to get our public finances in order. the second really is the public finances themselves. the current level of debt is high. >> welcome back to the cnn special report. we're all waiting to see what happens on wall street in the morning. joe duran, one of the largest independent wealth counseling firm in the country with some $15 billion in assets under management. he joins us from irvine, california. what that fancy introduction means is that you've got clients and you've got money invested in the markets around the world. and what happens on these markets is important to you and your clients. and you're cautioning people, don't overreact. don't make any big moves. don't panic. >> one of the worst things that people do

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. ♪ we are farmers ♪ bum, ba-da-bum, bum, bum, bum ♪ >> through the past 40 years, he made libyans looke terrorists. we were like bombing, you know like him. but he made us look like we're not educated, we're like this third world country. we want them to know that we are very well educated. we're like you, just like all the americans, you know, for the whole world. we're just people. we want to live our life. >> we are a peaceful people. we want to live our lives. be free just like anyone else. >> that's two sisters in tripoli, 18 years old and 23 years old. they've lived their entire lives under gadhafi's rule. they now feel free for the first time to show their faces, to speak out. they even have a message to gadhafi. journalists are in libya to tell those kinds of storieses of the libyan people, not to become the stories themselves. but sometimes they don't have a choice. like the 36 journalists who were trapped by gun-wielding gadhafi loyalists inside that tripoli hotel. they were held hostage for five days. at times forced to lay face down for 36 hours at a stretch. they are free

. ♪ we are farmers bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ any questions? no.ot magicians ♪ we can't read your mind ♪ ♪ read your mind ♪ we need your questions ♪ each and every kind ♪ every kind ♪ will this react with my other medicine? ♪ ♪ hey, what are all these tests even for? ♪ ♪ questions are the answer ♪ yeah ♪ oh >>> i want to take a short break from somalia now and give you a update from stories i've been covering for more than a year. fers of all, right there that is diana nyad, you probably know her, 61-year-old long distance swimmer and one of the fearless people i know. we've bb following her along for two years as she's been train for a swim from cuba to florida. you heard that right, cuba to florida, 103 miles with no assistance, not even a shark cage. as it turns out, you need to have perfect weather conditions to execute a swim like this. on the day those conditions became perfect, results for the day i left for somalia which is why in't with her. she did get into the water and started an epic swim. but the seas became rough, her shoulder starte

. ♪ we are farmers bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> we are back from havana, cuba with the special reportave been taking a close look at heart disease for some time now. i can tell you that the american culture, especially the american diet, has been exported to just about every country in the world. they are starting to pay the price. heart disease is the biggest killer in the united states of men and women alike. now they say about one in three american adults has some version of it. what i think is so remarkable is we know with no new money spent on heart research, no new resources or no new break throughs, right now, we could have a shot at virtually eliminating heart attacks. sounds remarkable, i know. think about it for a second. for example, take a look at the food that you eat. think about that. now think about it again. sharon kinz is 66 years old. a retired private investigator from canton, ohio. a year ago, she had a heart attack after an artery became completely blocked. >> he said for someone who had what you have, the only warning you usually get is death. at that point, i r

. ♪ we are farmers ♪ bum, ba-da-bum, bum, bum, bum ♪ >>> the all important second stage of the debt ceilinglves a bipartisan super committee and it will have to do something that congress could not figure out how much to cut from programs like social security and medicare. so, who is this congressional dream team, and how will that process work? those are good question, and that is why we have people like tom forman who work here at cnn. he knows these types of things. hi, tom. >> hi, don. you are so generous to use the term dream team and people talk about being in the hot seat all of the time, and no hotter seats anywhere in washington than those on the special joint committee, because it is actually being designed to recreate in close quarters all of the fire and the fury we have seen on capitol hill in the past few weeks. and here is the nuts and bolts of it. take a close look. what we will have is a committee comprised of 12 member, and three of them picked by the speaker of the house, john boehner, and there are three of them picked by nancy pelosi as a minority leader and the head of

. ♪ we are farmers ♪ bum, ba-da-bum, bum, bum, bum ♪ >>> breaking news tonight, the senate takes it downre voting not tonight, but tomorrow, deadline day on the compromise. in a home, rand paul who plans to oppose it but first, my conversation earlier with congressman emanuel cleaver, democrat from missouri and he said quite a bit more than "no" in opposition to the bill. congressman cleaver you voted "no" and called it, a, quote, sugar-coated satan sandwich." >>> you'll see that there's nothing in the bill that would garner the support of any of the great religions of the world and by that, i mean everything that we're supposed to do to take care of the elderly and take care of those that are unable to take care of themselves and also dealing with our children, those things were not protected and although there are some so-called fire walls in there, this new supercongress of 12 will have some enormous powers. and keep in mind, social security, medicare and medicaid, are not off the table. it's been delayed in terms of when that subject will surface. but it's a bad bill. i voted "no" af

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. ♪ we are farmers ♪ bum, ba-da-bum, bum, bum, bum ♪ >>> even as rebels continue to tighten the nooseafi delivered yet another speech to his supporters. take a listen. >> do you remember the million marches? i am with you alongside with you in this fight. we will never give up. >> gadhafi has confounded the international community for decades for you. >> that might just seem bizarre and abusing but he can be quite calculating and deadly. >> as a 27-year-old army office, he overthrew libya's king in 1969 and set about wiping all foreign influence from the country. gadhafi always said that his goal was to change the world. but it was the way he set out to do it that amused, confused and often infuriated. gadhafi said he wanted to ig night the world. that merger plan fell apart. a later merger dissent grated into animosity. maintaining a colorful profile wherever he went, he made a point of emphasizing his roots, sleeping in tents protected by an eye-catching female security detail. his 2009 speech at the u.n. was typical. >> we are not committed to obey the resolutions of the security c

. ♪ we are farmers ♪ bum, ba-da-bum, bum, bum, bum ♪ [oinking] [hissing] [ding] announcer: cook foodsright temperature using a food thermometer. 3,000 americans will die from food poisoning this year. check your steps at foodsafety.gov. >>> our breaking news, america's credit rating has been cut, being downgraded from aaa to aa plus. reaction starting to come in, from 2012 gop front-runner mitt romney. america's worthiness just became the latest casualty of leadership on the economy. standard & poor's is a deep indicator. shawn egan, david walker, jeffrey toobin, several weeks ago what led to your decision to downgrade and when i talked to saying the tone and tenor of the decision? >> actually, we put the u.s. on negative watch as of march 1st and we downgraded it as of july 16th. this is a watershed event. never in the history of the country has this happened and europe is having a lot of difficulty. we've been here before in terms of a high debt to gdp, approaching 100%. but after world war ii when the rest of the globe was in terrible shape and the gdp towards the u.s. was very hig

. ♪ we are farmers ♪ bum, ba-da-bum, bum, bum, bum ♪ >>> i just found out the surgeon general has reviewedlth sanitation initiative that i drafted, and he passed it along to governor barnett. >> when can we expect to see the initiative in the newsletter? i gave it to you a month ago. would you please stand? >> i'll have it in there real soon. >> great. >> that's a scene from the movie "the help" which is out this week. the book has been on the new york times best seller for 26 weeks. you play a really evil woman. i can't imagine a woman less suited to play evil than you, miss sugar addiction. >> there's something really freeing about playing a character that isn't even like remotely likeable whatsoever, and there were a lot of very, very fun scenes that you know as a result of this playing this kind of horrible woman but of course, you know the backdrop of the movie is the civil rights movement and i play a character lily holbrook who is very prejudiced. there were scenes i would never want to go back to do again because i had to get into that ignorant psychology that isn't fun. >> are you

. ♪ we are farmers bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ [♪...] >> male announcer: now, for a limited time, yourus save up to 65%. call 1-800-sandals. conditions apply. >>> a look at the top stories right now. rebel fors in libya are closing in on tripoli. right now, they are battling gadhafi's forces in sa way. they could start advancing on the capital just days from now. >>> in the u.s., republican presidential candidates are campaigning today from the east coast to hawaii. texas governor, rick perry, is in the early voting state of south carolina. hermann cane is concentrating his efforts i

. ♪ we are farmers bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> president obama says he will roll out a new jobse's working on it right now. he is said to be meeting regularly with key economic advisers during his vacation on martha's vineyard. the plan is still a work in progress. in his weekly address the president said there are things the administration can do right now that will mean more jobs, more customers for businesses, and certainly we need to see a drop in unemployment. so we will wait for the jobs report to come out. >>> meanwhile, how to stand out in a tough job market. no doubt about it. it's tough out there. last week in atlanta, thousands of people stood in line for hours at a job fair that was sponsored by the congressional black caucus. some camped out overnight and others wait in the heat and many complained when they finally did see a recruiter, they were just told to apply online. now, in a statement the congressional black caucus said it will follow-up with employers who were there to see how many jobs they filled. joining me now is joe hanna hill, and she attended the job

. ♪ we are farmers ♪ bum, ba-da-bum, bum, bum, bum ♪ >>> tonight's report, new details in the disappearancerdener a. young woman from maryland missing in aruba. if your first thought is natalee holloway, you're certainly not alone. she was vacationing in aruba when she vanished and even visiting the same town. the 35-year-old gardener was last seen on a beach with her friend named gary, who reported her missing. but police say his story doesn't added a up. martin savidge is in aruba tonight and has the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: the last time anyone saw robin gardener was here at this baby beach. this man says late in the day on august 2nd they were snorkeling together when she simply vanished. >> he couldn't stand any more and he signed him to let's go back and when he reached shore, she was nowhere to be seen. >> reporter: he called 911 and a massive search was launched. helicopters, a plane, boats, and divers. but days later, still no sign of gardener. >> the body goes outside a reef, it goes very deep. you can see it there. it goes under the water. the current will take i

. ♪ we are farmers bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> tonight as if famine were not enough, a war tornntial carnage as massive new shipments of foreign aid arrive in mowing dee shah. al shabaab threatened to launch a guerrilla war in mogadishu just as other supplies arrive. they said they have to resort to guerrilla tactics because they can't match the power the pro-government military forces. this is the same group denying aid to the people of somalia for months, denying a famine is even happening, not allowing kids to be vaccinated against diseases because they say the vaccines are part of a western plot to kill somali children. 600,000 kids boys and girls just like our own teeter on the brink of starvation. many of you reached out asking how you can help the victims of famine. find more information at cnn.com/impact. aisha is back with a "360" bulletin. >>> a man detained in the disappearance of an american woman, gary giordano told police robyn gardner, disappeared while snorkeling. >>> the dougherty gang faces new charges tonight, a second colorado county filed attempted murder an

. ♪ we are farmers bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ any questions? no. we're not magicians ♪ we can't read your mind ♪ ♪ read your mind ♪ we need your questions ♪ each and every kind ♪ every kind ♪ will this react with my other medicine? ♪ ♪ hey, what are all these tests even for? ♪ ♪ questions are the answer ♪ yeah ♪ oh >>> we are staying on top of the news with hurricane arna but today the national council said it will not extradite megrahi. jut minister insisted, quote, we will not give any libyan citizen to the west, unquote. megrahi may be the last man alive who knows precisely who in the libyan government authorized the bombing. nic robertsson tracked him down and joins us with this exclusive report. nic? >> reporter: it was relatively easy to find him. we went to the neighborhood where we thought he was, asked store keepers and found it. we found his villa in an up market part of town. at least six security cameras and flood lights outside. this is where he's been living for the last couple of years. let's knock on the door, see if we can get an a