a school bomb plot that could have been worse than columbine. how cops stopped it..als they found. plus.. the new racy lingerie for 4 year olds! does it go too far? join us for cbs 5 early edition ... beginning at 4:30. ,,,, >>> on the "cbs morning news," here's a look at today's weather. storm clouds will form in the desert southwest. in the northwest, there will be plenty of sunshine. you can look for some blazing heat in the southern plains with seasonal temperatures in the northeast. >>> here's another look at this morning's top stories. the white house says president obama will unveil a new plan to lower the deficit and create more jobs after labor day. he and his family head to martha's vineyard today for a ten-day vacation. >>> a 17-year-old florida boy has been arrested for allegedly planning a columbine style attack on his high school. police say they found fuses and timing devices in his apartment. >>> each year about 68,000 people are diagnosed with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. the food and drug administration approved a first of its kind t

. >> reporter: during the columbine high school massacre 11 years ago, 14 people were murdered before the students killed themselves. officials say the difference this time is they were alerted in advance. >> it's unfortunate to have a situation like this, but it's most fortunate that we stopped it. >> reporter: some students are scared now to start school. >> we like might not even show up to school, just to be safe. >> reporter: police say so far they believe cano acted alone in his threat against the school. and school officials say they are trying to contact all the parents now to assure them the school behind me is safe. saying classes will still begin on tuesday, brian? >> mark potter in tampa, florida for us tonight. mark, thanks and when our broadcast continues on a wednesday evening, the news tonight on women's health, the blood test that could be a lifesaver, the question is why don't more doctors conduct the test. >>> and later, a girl who had a big dream to make a difference for other kids and a mother who is making sure that dream lives on. >>> before we get to an importa

. >> pelley: an attack worse than columbine thwarted. kelly cobiella reports on how the cops got there before the shooting started. the numbers are surprising-- bill whitaker on why so many more kids in america are living in poverty. and what do you do for children who lost nearly everything in the joplin disaster? stitch together a new start with helping hands across america. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. a lot of economists say that with chronic unemployment, wild jirations in the stock market, and americans cutting back on spending, the odds of another session recession are growing. today, at the end of his midwest bus tour, we asked president obama which way he thinks the economy is headed? senior business correspondent anthony mason is in illinois where he sat down with mr. obama this afternoon for the cbs news program "sunday morning." anthony. >> reporter: scott, the president said he was happy to be out of washington and he looked it. he insisted that he's o

. >>> coming up, an attack worse than columbine. >> i was shocked. >> how police uncovered the plot before the shooting got started. >>> it just sucks all the air out of it. it's just so unbelievably devastating. >> children who lost nearly everything in the joplin disaster went back to school today. how they're getting a new start with helping hands from the south bay. >>> and a situation for abercrombie and fitch. the reality tv stars it wants to pay to not wear its clothes. >>> the day the big cooling occurs, we'll pinpoint that with your forecast as eyewitness news continues on the cw. [ bailiff ] fee court is now in session. come on out, guys. the jury has reached its decision. now, you guys found the other airline guilty of charging a 150-dollar change fee. you bet! southwest would never do that. and that was after she changed her flight and paid the difference in airfare. that other airline treated her wrong. she was understandably upset. well, who can afford a 150-dollar change fee? he was surprised with the verdict. you got that right. [ male announcer ] don't pay a change fee on

police say the goal was to cause more casualties than 1999 columbine school shootings. karen travers has the latest. >> tampa police say the 17-year-old meticulously planned his attack for the first day of school next week. >> he also mentioned his desire to cause more casualties than were suffered at columbine. >> yesterday, he was arrested for plotting to set off bombs at the former high school. the target, 30 students and two assistant vice principals. but they prevented another school massacre. tuesday night, police got a lead to his apartment. >> they indeed found a manifesto written by jared that outlined minute-by-minute to include debt kating explosionive devices through the school. police say he acted alone. he was expelled in april and had not enrolled in classes last year. he has been arrested four times on charges from marijuana possession to carrying a concealed weapon. there are pictures of him with machete and a knife. freedom high school 2100 students are scheduled to start school as planned. >> the government investigates the company that just downgrade

the massacre he spent months planning and the tip that may have stopped an attack even worse than columbine

relief and gratitude for the anonymous tipster who may have prevented a tragedy like columbine. just six days from now, 2,100 students were planning to start the new school year at freedom high in tampa, but also making plans, according to police, a troubled teen. a lone wolf with materials for a bomb. but as we said, this time, a tipster may have saved the day. and abc's yunji de nies is in tampa to tell us about it. yunji? >> reporter: good evening, diane. if jared cano's plot had gone the way he allegedly planned, the first day of class here at freedom high school would have seen the deadliest high school attack since columbine. police say jared cano detailed his murder plot down to the minute in a manifesto, mapping out where he would plant a series of bombs. his target? 30 students and two administrators. >> we were probably able to stop a potentially catastrophic event the likes of which the city of tampa has not seen. and hopefully never will. >> reporter: last night, working off a telephone tip, investigators headed to cano's home. inside, they found all the elements to

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they say that manifesto, he also wrote, he hoped to cause more damage and casualties than columbine. cano was no stranger to authorities, as you mentioned. he had been expelled from freedom high school. he also had been arrested in the past for charges including burglary, carrying a concealed weapon and also drug possession. they say they found a marijuana grow operation in his room when they arrested him. they credited an unnamed person, an informant who turned him in. they say that person helped to avoid this mass catastrophe. cano has been charged with charges including threatening to discharge a destructive device, possession of bomb-making materials and cultivation of mayor wanna and drug possession. richard? >> thank you very much, kristen dahlgren live in atlanta with us for the very latest. >>> we want to bring in tampa, florida, police chief who joins me on the phone. you're leading this investigation now. chief, could you tell us how did you discover this plot? >> as kristen indicated we received a phone call yesterday that the individual provided information that jared can

peor que la masacre de columbine. >> un informante dijo la policÍa que el estudiante expulsado de lascolar. al confirmar que la informaciÓn era creÍble, de inmediato fueron al apartamento donde el joven vivÍa con su madre y lo arrestaron. allÍ encontraron un manifiesto escrito en el que detallarÁ minuto a minuto su escalofriante plan. >> el plan incluÍa detonar los ciegos a travÉs de la escuela. la policÍa tambiÉn encontrÓ un plano de la escuela y los elemental que iba a utilizar para materializar su idea. >> descubrieron agentes detonantes tubos plÁsticos entre otros. segÚn su manifiesto, tenÍa como objetivo especÍfico atacar a dos miembros del centro escolar y decenas de estudiantes. >> tambiÉn mencionaba su deseo de crear mÁs daÑos que en la masacre de calumbine. el joven tenÍa el rÉcord delictivo, habÍa sido arrestado varias veces por robo y posesiÓn de drogas. el director del centro escolar elogiÓ la estrategia con que las autoridades abortaron el plan. >> trabajamos en conjunto con la policÍa, e inmediatamente ellos vinieron a la escuela y llegar al fondo del asunto. estudiante

he mentioned his desire to cause more casualties than were suffered at columbine. >> police believe revenge was the motive for the plot. >> students and teachers at joplin, missouri, headed back to class after the deadliest tornado in six decade. it destroyed hundreds of buildings, including six schools. one of them joplin high school. today, high schoolers will attend class in an empty strip mall remodelled to look like a school building. they have 122 students who will each get a new laptop. there is more. abc david muir has a look at more. >> i made this outfid for your first day of school. i love you, carroll from texas. lone star love. >> what goes around comes around. if it's somebody else's turn we'll be there for them. >> other locations include a middle school and industrial park and district office in former state transportation department. >> here kids are going back to school this week as well and it will feel fall like soon. >> a cooling trend on the way. until then, we have warm weather inland today and tomorrow. the clouds are breaking up over san francisco. no flight arrival

they say he was hoping to outdo columbine. here's a question, are teens more trouble nowadays? that discussion is next. that one day on the red hills of georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. i have a dream today! [ male announcer ] chevrolet is honored to celebrate the unveiling of the washington, d.c., martin luther king jr. memorial. take your seat at the table on august 28th. [♪...] >> male announcer: now, for a limited time, your companion flies free, plus save up to 65%. call 1-800-sandals. conditions apply. >>> okay, you know, it has been a week with parents shaking their heads over what could have happened after the arrest of a florida man's son for allegedly plotting to blow up a school. >> i seen these pictures on tv, it bothered me. you know, where's his mother at? you know? what's going on? and i don't know what he did, i have no idea what's going on with them. >> that man's son, 17-year-old jared cano was arrested by tampa police for plotting to out do columbi columbine.

to me, i'd equate that with columbine, with war.nce you desensitize a human being, you cannot tell the difference between shooting someone in a video game and a real person. some people can be gentle and kind. i can be ghetto when i want to be. i grew up with the black panthers doing peace and freedom benefits for them. so on the one hand i like the softness of spirituel the day, but i also like the energy that you need to be a warrior where you need to be. i love martin luther king, but also malcolm x, sometimes you have to really hold your ground. compassion, kindness, education. rather than more killing. >> when you graduated in 1965, it was the height of the civil- rights movement. you just alluded to the environment that you were growing up in. as a young musician, what was it like for you in san francisco at the time? >> it was heaven on earth. we would go down to the fillmore and see these great band, the doors, and jimi hendrix, cream, and then go down to the grove to see other music. you could go to the mission district to

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there are certain so called columbine, i ask admonish. do you understand what you did is wrong. i can divert to peer court. sometimes the district is compelled to spend and refer for expulsion. >> i do want to say. this is a bad budget year. i have been told all the things to cut. i am committed. i want to cry. all the things we fund are held up as models and i am committed to the next year's children's club. it has to be our coming together. it's a 2-way street. it's the school district embracing the community. it's really going to take resources and i think the superintendent is correct, resources. we could do better. we could be better partners to end on a mundane note. one of the core successes of a community school is a single point of entry. someone's job is the resource coordinator. that's one of the first things that i am considering funding. having a point that really welcomes the community. >> thank you and so due to time, i would like to take one more remark from doctor wenz. >> in regards to the funding for social emotional learning. when you look at kids who are exp

a tampa teenager stands accused of trying to plot a columbine-style school massacre.ut on the first day of the school year. another columbine, that's what tampa police believe they've prevented by stopping 17-year-old jared cano, arraigned in court. >> we were probably able to thwart a potentially catastrophic event, the likes of which the city of tampa has not seen. >> reporter: according to authorities, cano wrote a manifesto that detailed minute by minute his plans for an attack on tampa's freedom high school, starting at 5:00 a.m. next tuesday. >> i think most people are going to be, like, scared. a lot of people might not even show up to school, just to be safe. >> reporter: the manifesto allegedly includes the school's layout, as well as his intention to kill 30 students and 2 school officials. >> there were two individual faculty members that were specific targets. officers found material in his room that could be used for making explosive devices. >> reporter: those materials included fuses, timers, shrapnel, accelerant and plastic tubing. >> it's always happe

he mentioned his desire to cause more casualties than were suffered at columbine. >> police believe revenge was the motive for the plot. >> students and teachers at joplin, missouri, headed back to class after the deadliest tornado in six decade. it destroyed hundreds of buildings, including six schools. one of them joplin high school. today, high schoolers will attend class in an empty strip mall remodelled to look like a school building. they have 122 students who will each get a new laptop. there is more. abc david muir has a look at more. >> i made this outfid for your first day of school. i love you, carroll from texas. lone star love. >> what goes around comes around. if it's somebody else's turn we'll be there for them. >> other locations include a middle school and industrial park and district office in former state transportation department. >> here kids are going back to school this week as well and it will feel fall like soon. >> a cooling trend on the way. until then, we have warm weather inland today and tomorrow. the clouds are breaking up over san francisco. no flight arrival

former student of the hillsborough school district, had the desire to cause more casualties than columbine. and we were told earlier by the school system that this plot was supposed to be carried out on the first day of school, which was next tuesday. so they apprehended this young man yesterday, they found bomb making materials inside the apartment that he was living in. they did not actually indicate in the presser that they had those bombs actually assembled ready to go, but they say he did have the materials for making these types of explosive devices that could have done a lot of harm. so everyone breathing a huge sigh of relief right now in tampa. >> among the items that were seized, or at least located, they said shrapnel, some tubing, and also apparently this young man, 17-year-old, had been arrested recently for possession of marijuana and then possible burglary as well. how have they been able to kind of locate this individual, just one scitizen? >> he was well-known to police, he had a juvenile record, a criminal record. they l a process to check up on their juvenile offenders.

columbine revisited, maybe worse.expelled from freedom high school and police say he spend the summertime plotting his violent revenge. but his plan to detonate explosive devices at the school and murder innocent students, teachers and administrators was foiled by an anonymous tip. he had twices to make pipe bombs, big ones. police say he planned to cause more casualties than the columbine high school massacre that killed 13 people. he has been arrested several times before, breaking and entering, stealing a handgun. he was already on a police watchlist. when cops raided his apartment they discovered what they call a manifesto detailing his planned destruction. schematic drawings of rooms inside the the school and statements about killing specific administrators and any students who happen to be near by august 23. the plan was mapped out minute by minute. if tried as an adult and convicted it could put him behind bars for decades. unlike columbine web apparently worked alone. megyn: we are a couple weeks away from a b

this 17-year-old suspect wanted to cause more casualties than the 1999 columbine attack. a 17-year-old former student, identified as jared cano is in custody. he's accused of planning to bomb freedom high school next tuesday. police say they found explosive materials and this written minute by minute plan to kill about 30 student and two specific administrators. >> we will were probably able to thwart a potentially catastrophic event, the likes of which the city of tampa has not seen and hopefully never will. >> i want to bring in david mattingly who has been covering this for us all day long. i want to begin with the fact that i'm glad we're sitting here telling this version of the story. this could have gone a different direction. a lot of this is all in thanks to this unsung hero who we may never know who this individual is who tipped police off. what did the police ultimately find? >> what they ultimately found in the bedroom of his apartment where he was living, found bomb making materials, found shrapnel and wiring. they found things that you could definitely make a

police say the 17-year-old was planning to cause more casualties than the columbine high school tragedya massacre that claimed 13 lives. >>> health officials say two children and a young man in three states have died this summer from a brain eating amoeba that lives in the water. the illness is extremely rare, but almost always deadly. about 120 u.s. cases have been reported since it was identified in the 1960s. >>> last night on piers morgan tonight, christine o'donnell stormed off the set after refusing to answer questions from the host that weren't specifically with the subjects she wanted to talk about. the one time tea party darling balked at questions about witchcraft and sex but accused who a morgan of being rude and walked off after he questioned her about her stance on gay marriage. >> don't you think as a host if i say this is what i want to talk about, that's what we should address? >> not really, no politician. >> i'm being pulled away. we turned down another interview for this. >> where are you going? you're leavinleaving? >> i was supposed to be speaking at the republican

. >> reporter: during the columbine high school massacre 11 years ago, 13 people were murdered beforehe two student shooters killed themselves. officials say the difference this time is they were alerted in advance. >> it's unfortunate we have a situation like this but it's more fortunate that we stopped it. >> reporter: kelly will be a freedom high school sophomore this year but says she and others are scared now to start school. >> we might not even show up to school, just to be safe. >> reporter: police say so far, they believe cano acted alone in his threat against the school. >> nbc's mark potter reporting. >>> newt gingrich will spend time campaigning in new hampshire in the next few weeks but also a couple other states. >>> plus, president obama heading to vacation in just a couple hours. critics say that doesn't look good. the market's tanking down almost 400 points. you should be at work. >>> caesar's entertainment group is taking a big gamble with the las vegas skyline. they announced plans for a $550 million retail, dining and entertainment project on the strip. another one

he said he hoped to quote, cause more casualties and columbine. police adding that he had a troubled past and kept disturbing and detailed accounts of plans to attack his fellow students and faculty. >> they received permission to search his room and his apartment, and they indeed found a manifesto written by jared, that outlined minute by minute what his actions were going to be on the first day of school, to include detonating explosive devices through the school. there were two individual faculty members that were specific targets, and then he also mentioned his desire to cause more casualties than were suffered at columbine. we had officers found material in his room that could be used for making explosive devices. the material that they found included fuel sources, shrapnel, plastic tubing, timing and fusing devices within his room. megyn: well cano is now in police custody and faces several charges, including possession of bomb-making materials and cultivation of marijuana in his room. and we've got this fox news election alert on new drama

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brought to >> closed captioning brought to >>> a very close call for a school in florida after a columbine-style is averted. police say a 17-year-old threatened to plant a bomb at his former school and detonate it on the first day of classes next week. he was expelled last year. the teenager detailed his murderous plot down to the minute in the man fess stow -- manifesto describing where he would plant a series of bombs. >> we were able to thwart a potentially catastrophic event , the likes of which the city of tampa has not seen, and hopefully never will. >> police say someone alerted them to the plot when they searched his home they found the elements to make pipe bombs. shaw rap national, plastic tubing and ago sell rents and timers were also found. and he is now facing charges. >>> president obama is promising a major address after labor day. he says he will layout plans to the boost the economy and reduce debt. part of the plan includes raising taxes on the wealthy. senator barbara boxer said a tax increase probably will not get through congress. >> if it is a -- if it is called a tax incre

teenager has been arrested after threatening to blow up his farmer school and claim more victims than columbine-year-old jared cano was arrested last night in tampa. police say they were tipped off about his alleged plot to set off bombs on the first day of class at freedom high school. >> they indeed found a manifesto written by jared that outlined minute by minute what his actions were going to be on the first day of school to include detonating explosive devices through the school. >> police say they also found materials to make pipe bombs at his home and believe he was acting alone. cano was expelled last year from the school for an outside incident. school officials say classes will start on tuesday as scheduled. >>> casey anthony's lawyers have filed an appeal to try to keep her from having to return to florida to serve a yearlong probation sentence. a judge recently ordered anthony to return to orlando by the end of next week. she was supposed to report to a probation officer in a case in which she pleaded guilty to stealing checks from a friend. that case is not related to anthony's rec

the program which you basically start after columbine was expanded to incidents such as 9/11. and lastly, research into areas related to violent extremism was begun. 9/11 also help to focus our efforts in ensuring that persons are not targeted, are not teased or not bullied or harassed because of the way their culture and customs, their religion they practice, or because of where they were born. it has led to partnerships with expanded partnership with her office of civil rights, as was with the office of refugee resettlement. this is a word cloud and finally i would say one of the things that 9/11 gave us was a whole new vernacular in akron -isms. have been made and the knock, national information coordination center and national operations center. we have a national disaster recovery framework and the national response framework. we have the art of f. and e. f. s., recovery support function and the emergency support function. we have the hs and hsi. we have ice and we have ics come immigration and customs, and incident command system. finally, we have assess a and tsa, speci

columbine and virginia is bracing itself for its fear it will be one storm in a generation with dozens ordered to leave the sun decisions on the transport and subway shutdown. and the republican idea pains its hopes on the new lead on its elected president and faces the tough task of rebuilding the country's economy former vice president alexander ungava one of a five year term with over all of the votes between two rivals to lead his country . up next to explore the latest in the appliance of science in russia and the brown and around the world now technology. welcome to technology update and welcome to mocks the world famous moscow air show where the planet's premier aerospace pioneers have come to show off their latest high flying hard to supply water to dream for the best and the best to soar above the rest and the legendary to coast the airfield in suburban moscow the very place named after an early russian aerodynamics genius this year was the tenth time around for this festival flight since it started nine hundred ninety three with over eight hundred companies representing thirt

is the climb in two point three percent this hour and that's after approval investments expire at columbine and columbia and here in most guys it's obvious that the markets are trading in negative territory x. the end of thursday's losses yes is now down over three percent although my sense is head in that direction let's take a snapshot of the market movers on the my psych's energy majors are among the worst performers with gasper all down over three percent new york banking stocks are also on the pressure with those burbank ending to be losing almost for life whose side this hour and the oil prices continue falling after an almost six percent decline on thursday concerns about global economic recovery are weighing on crude thoughts the week of dollar is given some supports that w.t.r. is out around seventy nine dollars per barrel while the bryants has fallen to one hundred five dollars a barrel and a quick look now at precious metals gold is trading at a new record high level as uncertainty about the global economy is pushing investors back to say favorites this fall weiss is now out of o

republic and their export to foreign direct investors big companies like samsung and the other korean columbines amongst others very much want to see the ability to harness the benefits of the single currency but there's no point in joining something where it's actually currently in intensive care and if someone switches off the life support system it could die ok looking at it on the big picture here opinion what do you think will happen to the euro in the wake of the crisis and this growing mistrust basically towards it. well look i mean what we saw the other day was was really one of the most pathetic sheer rods in european union history i mean with this meeting of the fabulous marcos the brothers mrs merkel and mr sarkozy and frankly they looked like come to mind villains they didn't look anything remotely approaching statesman like financially credible leaders the e.u. needs to get its act together it needs to cut the counsellor and get rid of places like greece and through the might of the euro it needs to create a new unstable system and it needs to adhere to the rules because all of the

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police say he was planning an attack worse than columbine. a 17-year-old expelled student under arrest charged with planning to blow up the school in tampa on the first day of class. police went to his house after getting a tip. they found a written manifesto targeting more than 30 students and administrators along with ingredients to make bombs. >> he doesn't know how to vent. i told him, i said, dude, go in your room and scream in your pillow. >> he has a long rap sheet including arrests for burglary, carrying a concealed weapon and drug possession. casey anthony doing everything she can to stay in hiding and out of the state of florida. defense team trying to appeal a ruling to force her back to orlando to serve probation on check fraud charges. a anthony's lawyers requesting that the judge be taken off her case, the same judge that handled her murder trial. taking a look now of live picture of hope benedict about to arrive in madrid to celebrate world youth day. millions of people are there that will end with a mass on sunday. a student v

from one of my colleagues at columbine, she put this on the end of every one of her e-mails.you maybe just one person, but to one person, you just maybe the world. thank you so much for all that you do every day. [applause] [applause] >> daniel? >> i think i'll speak from here, if that's all right. >> yeah, that's fine. >> bill and i first met about two years ago at a meeting in "the situation room" we were at the meeting talking about trying to come up with some strategies to under cut al qaeda's efforts to recruit americans to join their cause. and it was an unusual setting for us to be in the same room as certainly in the situation room and talking about those topics. we decided we needed to put our heads together and we've ended up working on a number of projects that i'm going to talk to you just a little bit about. first, i'll give you a quick over view of where i come from. i work for a government agency called the national counterterrorism center. as bill said after 9/11, there were a lot of new accra accra a- acronyms and letters. counterterrorism is a cross cutting

. >> he also mentioned his desire to cause more casualties than were suffered at columbine. >> police say cano acted alone and they got a tip that led them to his apartment. there investigators found element to make pipe bomb, shrapnel, fuses and timers. 5:44 now. you have a chance to dance with madonna. but don't expect her to tip you. list of small tappers. bloomberg business report is coming up. >>> pope benedict starts a four-day trip to spain. some are questioning the amount of money spent on the visit. >> bay area transportation leaders want to use bridge tolls to buy an office building. find out why the plan is going to square one. >> skin cancer break-through in the bay area. drug so promising it's rushed to people who need it most. >>> welcome back. 5:48. live doppler7 h.d. quiet as most of the state will see a lot of sunshine today. lack for a few more clouds along the coast. 72 this big sur. 75 in san diego. sunshine and 83 in l.a. may see sun around eureka in 61. mid-to-upper 90s through the central valley and yosemite. sunny, 80. nice temperature in tahoe. 112, a scorcher

casualties, he's again thinks of some type of incident where bombs were used, every timely such as columbinehen they want to act out, and this is kind of the master plan that they use when they consider what they're going to do. >> clint van zandt, and we should let folks know we're just gathering information in here. freedom high school is the school in question in tampa, florida. he had just been expelled. he was in court a short timal, and we'll continue to update the story, right after this. >>> all of the 2012 activity today is in new hampshire where rick perry and mitt romney are making to be. are they going to finally start acknowledging each other? and diana naiad, she is going to join us, and talk about that swim, and the different decision she had to make. to power our lives. while energy developement comes with some risk, north america's natural gas producers are committed to safely and responsibly providing decades of cleaner burning energy for our country, drilling thousands of feet below fresh water sources within self contained well systems and using state of the art monitorin

so rachel's challenge, which is a fantastic program out of colu columbine, helps bring kids back to compassions with respect. i want to get kids reading. i want them to be taxpayers, not skr just tax users. we want them to be respectful and be able to experience the american dream. if they're reading, if they're doing the right thing, they're going to be successful, and i want them to pay my retirement. i want them to be successful for a variety of reasons. >> you seem to have great joy in doing this. >> well, you know, i'm a baptist minister, so, you know, i've got a heart for what we need to be doing. my wife and i have always felt that giving when you have something is is a good thing to do. we've been extraordinarily blessed. we live in a great home, we have cars, we have everything we need. i don't need to work another day in my life and i'm going to have plenty of resources. if i take the next three years and four months and work for nothing, that's just getting back to a community i love. i hope people look at this and say, maybe we can do it. but i also want to let people know we're bl

from one of my colleagues at columbine, she put this on the end of every one of her e-mails.ou maybe just one person, but to one person, you just maybe the world. thank you so much for all that you do every day. [applause] [applause] >> daniel? >> i think i'll speak from here, if that's all right. >> yeah, that's fine. >> bill and i first met about two years ago at a meeting in "the situation room" we were at the meeting talking about trying to come up with some strategies to under cut al qaeda's efforts to recruit americans to join their cause. and it was an unusual setting for us to be in the same room as certainly in the situation room and talking about those topics. we decided we needed to put our heads together and we've ended up working on a number of projects that i'm going to talk to you just a little bit about. first, i'll give you a quick over view of where i come from. i work for a government agency called the national counterterrorism center. as bill said after 9/11, there were a lot of new accra accra a- acronyms and letters. counterterrorism is a cross cutting i

. >>> police in tampa, florida, say they've headed off a columbine-style massacre, arresting a formersay planned to kill dozens in an attack he allegedly outlined in a manifesto found at his home. officials at university of miami say they're cooperating with an investigation into claims why a former supporter spent millions on gifts, entertainment, and prostitutes for football players after the the school. a one-time businessman now serving a 20-year sentence for fraud told yahoo sports that several coaches were aware of his gifts over an eight-year period. >>> and the stock price of abercrombie & fitch fell after slamming michael "the situation" sorrentino saying they would pay him and his friends to stop wearing their clothes. analysts say it was more likely a retreat from a recent run-up after a better-than-expected earnings report. in a statement, a spokesperson says, kwoets, it's a clever pr stunt, and we'd love to work with them on ways to leverage "jersey shore." back to you. >> thanks. coming up, the ridiculist. a vacation on a budget with expedia. make it work. booking a flig

. >>> police in florida say they headed off a columbine-style massacre arresting a 17-year-old former dozens in an attack he allegedly outlined in a manifesto found in his home. >>> stock of ambercrombie and finch fell one day after the retail slammed this guy. michael "the situation" by offering to pay him and his pals on "jersey shore" to stop wearing ambercrombie clothes. >> i'm not sure they really offered. it's all a publicity stunt. i don't know. >> that's what mtv says. they say they think it's a publicity stunt but they could probably work some agreement out. >> thanks. coming up, a leak on a plane. i'm not talking about the vegetable. [ man ] this is my robot butler. say i'm missing england... i type in e-n-g and he gives me a variety of options. would you like to have a look at a map, my lad? ah, why not? should we check on the status of your knighthood? yes. again? yes, again! please. thank you! with my digital manservant, i'll never be homesick again. would you like me to put the kettle on, sir? no! i'd like you to get rid of that ostrich. it's been here a month. [ male an

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he also mentioned his desire to cause more casualties than were suffered at columbine. >> i'm joinedrmer fbi criminal profiler clint van zant. 17 years old, he'd been expelled from school, he'd been writing some concerning messages on facebook. now we're seeing the pictures of this kid who the reporter who was in the courtroom said that his -- he couldn't even say whether to expect his parents there to show up in his support. what do you make of all this? >> this is a challenge, contessa just like we've looked at flash mobs within the last few months. here's one individual. but again, the question that is begged is where are the parents? this young man at 17 had marijuana growing in his bedroom. had bomb making implements. had been arrested for stealing a gun and his parents aren't trying to get help. >> clint, i'm sorry, but we have a really bad connection with skype here today. it's sounding like bells are ringing here. we're going to work on that a little bit. they found a fuel source, they found shrapnel, plastic tubing. they said that this kid had everything he needed to make a

police say he wanted to attack next tuesday with a massacre worse than columbine. >>> in north carolina, authorities have identified a suspect who stole a plane that then crashed leaving behind only a trail of blood. >>> in texas, the hottest july on record, is taking a big economic toll. state officials say texas crop and live stock losses have surpassed a record $5 billion. now, we're going to take you back to hard ball. >>> back to "hardball." so who really are the members, the members, not the leaders, the members of the tea party out there. two college professors say they have the answer, and often it's not who they say there are. quote, our analysis casts doubt on the tea party's origin story. early on they were often described as nonpartisan, neophytes, they were highly partisan republicans, long before the tea party was born. well, republicans really are tea party people and the other way around joan walsh is editor at large at salon, and at notre dame, his book is "american grace." so, you're on, david. thank you, nice people in "new york times." it taught me a lot. and joan, i

. >>> police in florida say they headed off a columbine-style massacre arresting a 17-year-old formern attack he allegedly outlined in a manifesto found in his home. officials at university of miami, meanwhile, say they're cooperating with an investigation into claims by a former supporter that he spent millions on gifts, entertainment, travel and prostitutes for football players at the school. her man shapiro now serving a 20 year sentence for fraud told yahoo! sports that several coaches were aware of his gifts over an eight-year period. >>> stock of abercrombie & fitch fell one day after the retailer slammed this guy. michael the situation sorrentino by offering to pay him and his pals on "jersey shore" to stop wearing abercrombie clothes. did investor outrage over the offer fuel selloff? analysts say -- some are skeptical about this story including mtv. in a statement the spokesperson says "it's a clever p.r. stunt and we'd love to worm wit shoreh the largest youth audience on television". now back to you, anderson. >> isha, thanks. coming up, gerard depardo takes a leak on a plan

bail is set for three teenages for a columbine attack ought their high school.e white house approved $millions of dollars in emergency funding to help fight drought and famine in east africa. ambassadors were withdrew from syria. the president is solving ongoing crack down on antigovernment protesters. >>> david cameron is cutting vacation short and returning to london after a third night of controversial piece shooting. >>> a record is set for sweltering high in oklahoma. >>> now back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." a devastating weekend in afghanistan. 38 people were killed when a military helicopter was shot down by insurgents. among the dead, 22 navy s.e.a.l.s. of course, the heroes of our country. here's has president obama said today. >> i've spoken to our generals in the field as well as president karzai, and i know that our troops will continue the hard work of transitioning to a stronger afghan government and ensuring that afghanistan is not a safe haven for terrorists. we will press on and we will succeed. but now is also a time tom refl

his intent was to create more casualties than the columbine massacre in 1999. we'll talk to the police chief who's heading that investigation. police today's gut check. a french lingerie designer coming under fire for marketing a line of bras and underwear for little girls as young as 4 years old. all that in 15 minutes. >>> and now education nation. california's public higher education system enrolls more than two million students. many of those students and the schools themselves are being forced to make some very tough choices in drastic budget cuts. we have the chancellor of the university of california at bergly and joins us now. thank you for joining us. >> it's my pleasure. >> how severe, we've been watching from afar here on the east coast at what's happening that the california system. the big picture is dreadful and berkeley is one of the stars if not the star of the california system. how is it affecting you in terms of the services you need to provide to your students? >> obviously these are challenging times for public education nationally and part