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we managed to reconnect to michael holmes out on the road. what are conditions like right now, michael? >> reporter: i can tell you it's starting to get very cold here again. you were talking earlier, anderson, about sort of the legacy of this. i can tell you this sort of thing. the cars, we've been driving around the interstates all day. and we have seen hundreds and hundreds of these cars just abandoned by the side of the road. it's been quite extraordinary. you can see on this one the police have come along and they put these little tapes on here. they were checking every car to make sure no one was in it overnight. hundreds, thousands of these cars. a lot of people were in the traffic so long as you were saying, 10, 12 hours, more in some cases, a lot of them ran out of gas. we've seen cars parked in the middle of off ramps, right in the middle. nobody's come back all day to get them. have a look at the freew behind me. you can see it's pretty empty really. that's because everybody is at home now. so the freeways are actually moving pretty

my "around the world" co anchor and friend, michael holmes, is in baghdad now. we also want to talk to nicholas burns, former ambassador to nato, professor as well at harvard in cambridge, massachusetts. michael, i really want to start off with you here. you're on the ground, we've heard about these numerous explosions time and time again. where were you, where was the crew, how close were you? >> yeah. a couple of those bombs were not that far away from where we stand right now. a mile or two. you know, it just went on and on today, suz. i can't tell you. at last count, we had nine explosions around the city today. seven of them were car bombs. two of them were ieds. there was an attack on a funeral up in ba cube rah, a school teacher's funeral of all things. a man died yesterday. security forces say they stopped another four car bombs before they were detonated. our death toll at the moment, it goes up all of the time. our figure at the moment is 49. i've seen figures in local media as high as in the 70s dead. and more than 100 wounded. and, you know, as you c

michael holmes out for us in atlanta. and thousands of children were forced to spend the night in their schools or worse, stuck on school buses. mike crawford's 9-year-old son was among them. mike was stranded on the road for 27 hours. 27. couldn't get his son. he abandoned his car, walks to school and get there is at 5:00 this morning. and mike joins me now. mike, i guess my first question is this, what blows your mind more, is it the fact that you were in atlanta and a major city stuck in your car for 27 hours or the fact that your 9-year-old son, sam, slept at school? >> sam slept at school and when i got there, i slept at school, too. it wasn't actually 27 hours on the road, just 27 hours away from home. i was on the road, on a single road, roswell road, for 14 1/2 hours. and there were many times for several hours at a time when we didn't move at all. >> how did once you saw your son and i know your sop was there with a couple of kids, how did he take it? how did he handle it? >> not as well as i would have liked. he

cnn's michael holmes is reporting from iraq.s. we want to warn you, they're graphic. >> reporter: the deadliest fighting iraq has seen in years. in recent days al qaeda-backed militants have been battling iraqi security forces for control of fallujah and ramadi. this is the territory the u.s. marines fought and dieded to capture during the iraq war. now u.s. officials tell cnn they're investigating these photos taken in 2004. the website tmz published the photos and turned them over to the pentagon last week. tmz was told they were taken in fallujah. it appears to show u.s. marines burning the bodies of dead iraqi insurgents. in one photo a marine is pouring liquid on a body, the same body in flames and this picture of a marine kneeling next to a skull. there are many more. >> this looks really bad, but we don't know exactly what was happening and we don't know what the circumstances were. >> reporter: u.s. military officials can't tell us what unit these men were in. they're trying to determine their identities. rue says the 20

we asked michael holmes to come on with us and he said yes, thankfully. what's it like out there right now, michael? >> it's cold, i can tell you that, anderson. any moisture that's still around on the ground is going to be frozen by now. that is a bit of a concern. you mentioned all the cars. we were at one point here on 75 north, one of the main freeways that runs through atlanta. this is just some of thousands of cars, we've been all over the enter straits all day today. thousands of cars just abandoned by the side of the road and they are still here. on the door handle, there is yellow tape. the police have gone through here last night and today and just marked those cars to say they have looked in them and nobody is in them as a bit of a sign to everyone else. there's been a lot of police around. they've been making sure there's no looting going on i have to say. and in fact, they've stopped and checked on our welfare several times. the national guard came by just after we spoke to you a couple hours ago and said are you okay? so a lot of activity. bu

our own michael holmes is in baghdad which, just today, was rocked with attacks. lot of marines who fought in fallujah and are wondering what is going on there and in iraq in general. what is going on? >> i think it's fair to say it's not looking good. just this evening, a series of bombs around the city killing or maiming dozens of iraqis. police checkpoint just outside the city attacked by gunman, killed two policemen, wounded several others. it's sadly coming back to being the tragic norm around here. there was a high-profile visit at bath dghdad today, the u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon arriving. to discuss what is happening in anbar province and fallujah, so familiar to americans and american marines in particular. he spoke afterward, ban ki-moon, of the need for social cohesion and cohesive dialogue. a message perhaps for the man he just met with, prime minister al maliki who's government stands to alien nate sunnis, despite promising america and others he was all for power sharing and reconciliation. and tribal leaders say that while, yes al qaeda-linked

. >> i'm michael holmes. >> i'm michael holmes. good to be back. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> let's start with the terror threat level before the start of the winter olympics. >> today seen as a key test of russian security because the olympic torch is passing through the militant hot bed of dagestan. and this comes just as we learn details now about a new warning from terrorists in that city. ivan watson is following all of the angles from sochi. >> reporter: under heavy security monday morning, the olympic torch made its way through the city of dagestan. a region plagued by islamist insurgents. this amid a new warning from terrorists in that region over the weekend, promising more attacks like this recent bombing in russia, though not specifically mentioning the sochi games. as olympic athletes begin to arrive, the u.s. state department issued another warning last week, urging american athletes not to wear their uniforms outside the games' ring of steel. >> if we need to extract our citizens, we will have appropriate

michael holmes is there. what's the latest?rter: six car bombs in a couple of hours in baghdad alone. you mentioned baqubah, an ied went off during a funeral event. this is becoming a daily thing. it's happening every day. it's still not the open-arms sectarian conflict that everyone has been feeling during the attacks but everyone's worried it's headed that way, i was talking yesterday to the former prime minister and said they're running out to of time. >> michael, a top leader says the iraq government is following americans' advice in dealing with this crisis. how involved is the u.s. right now in what's happening in iraq? >> reporter: yeah, you're talking about the deputy prime minister here in washington. as we say, a sunni blaming nuri al maliki for the blast. also urging washington to get more involved. citing they had a legal and moral responsibility. it's fair to say the u.s. is more involved now than they have been according to critics. and the u.s. has pretty much dropped the ball since the withdrawal in december 201

cnn's michael holmes is in baghdad. hi, michael. >> hi to you, carol.hether we come back, we were speaking with a former iraqi p.m., not complimentary about the current p.m. and also had some words for the united states on what's going on in iraq. we'll have that when we come back. when you have diabetes like i do, getting the right nutrition isn't always easy. first, i want a way to help minimize my blood sugar spikes. then, a way to support heart health. ♪ and let's not forget immune support. ♪ but now i have new glucerna advance with three benefits in one. including carbsteady ultra to help minimize blood sugar spikes. it's the best from glucerna. [ male announcer ] new glucerna advance. from the brand doctors recommend most. advancing nutrition for diabetes. >>> on the morning of december 18th, 2011, the last u.s. troops crossed over into kuwait from iraq effectively ending our country's on-the-ground military involvement in iraq. many held prime minister nuri al maliki's government would usher in an era of reconciliation and people working together

my co anchor, michael holmes, is reporting from baghdad. >> hi, suzanne., of course, we have literally heard the car bombs as they have exploded all around the city. dozens of people died, many, many more were wounded as they always are, in terrible ways. now, it's hard, of course, for people not here to imagine what it must like to live like that every day. well, we went to speak to some ordinary iraqis about living in baghdad today. it is security camera video posted on youtube that we can't independently verify, but what it shows is chilling. this is in the commercial area of al senar in central baghdad. amid the usual traffic chaos, a small yellow car double parks, the driver casually walks away. people go about their business, until -- the camera dislodged by the blast cannot show the death and maiming the bomb caused. one of so many this month. such is life in baghdad today, death can come at any time. targets usually not government buildings, these days. security too tight for that. but city streets, marketplaces, commercial areas, bustling with eve

they remain en force, and the violence continues. >> michael holmes for us in in baghdad.you are in the "cnn newsroom," and i'm kyra phillips and thank you for joining us. a massive security breach and target is not the only retailer involved. >> and don't go near the water or drink it or bathe in it. a toxic situation is getting worse. >>> and a-rod may have won a battle against major league baseball, but not the war. he may have played his last game. those stories are all coming up. >>> in a few hours now, some wealthy hunters will auction off a permit to kill a rare black rhino. the dallas safari club says that as surprising as it may sound, tonight's auction is done in the name of conservation, to save the threatened black rhinoceros, and the hunting permit is expected to fetch up to $1 million. here is ed lavn dandara. >> reporter: coming this close to a black rhinoceros is rare. there are only 5,000 left in the world. in the country of namimbia in southern africa, only 700 alive. thousands of miles away in the convention hall in texas, the dallas safari club says the

michael holmes is live in baghdad right now following all this violence.ood to see you this morning. what's happening there? >> reporter: yeah. things have been fairly quiet in anbar province, fallujah and ramadi and where all that fighting has been both by the al qaeda linked groups but also sunni tribesmen who have their own beef with the government. they feel they have been cut out of everything. here in baghdad today it's been pretty busy too. two car bombs have gone off here today, one at a bus station targeting recruits that signed up and about to head back to their home towns. 12 killed, three wounded. there was another bomb also in a shia neighborhood here in baghdad and four killed there. 14 wounded. then a third car bomb in the north of the country, mosul, a familiar name to many who follow iraq and a place where al qaeda has been very active particularly since 2011. so three bombs in all going off today and the death toll continues. i got to tell you also, where mosul is and where al qaeda has been active police have arrested 137 people they sus

michael holmes is in baghdad. >> a bloody day in iraq.in baghdad two car bombings this morning. the combined death toll 7 at least and another two dozen wounded. a gun n man attacked an army post. here is where it gets murky. the army responded by firing from a helicopter into that area. 8 people were killed 17 wounded. no statement from the army on that one. in ninive provinsarmy helicop r helicopters attacking three pick ups. five men described as al qaeda linked men were killed. a car bomb killed one person and wounded 11. one of them was killed and one severely wounded. two more bombs killed four and wounded 26. you can see this situation is becoming dire. now in the place where the latest up tick in violence began, we are told it has been relatively quiet. where those al qaeda militants from the islamic state of iraq and syria tried to take over, they are in charge although both cities do have presence and were clashing with security forces. area of three small towns militants from the isis have been pretty much surrounded from the m

michael holmes is live from baghdad.tuation there. >> reporter: what's interesting is two cities at center of all of this in a well known to americans the locals there say the tribal leaders, the tribes are charge inside those cities. but i got to tell you there's been a lot of incidents around. and between those two cities. they are not very far apart. for example, police say iraqi military hit a guest house there owned. by a tribal leader. three dead, seven wounded. sort of a tick, tick, tick deaths that have been building up. seven civilians were wounded later on. usually we can't verify as e sh showing those extremists. you say from the islamic state in iraq and syria they were taking on the government. forces outside of ra ma day and also we saw evidence of what the opposition say the tribes say they destroyed five humvees. this happened at a place just about four miles northeast of fallujah. the fighting is still very much going on. it's sporadic. so it's still a very concerning thing for iraq. >> michael holmes, b

let's check in with cnn's michael holmes. he's on the road in atlanta right now.hought you would have to cover a story like this in atlanta. >> you're right, wolf. the irony does not escape me. a week back from baghdad and here we are looking at this. what a nightmare it's been. kyra's dead right. people around here just cannot believe that this happened. i got to show you. this is one of atlanta's main freeways. this is 75 north. and it is at 6:00 p.m., this should be jam packed. it's not. but last night this was a parking lot. and have a look over here. these are the cars that people just got out of and abandoned in the middle of the night. some people slept all night in their cars. we spoke to a truck driver earlier who had been since 4:30 yesterday afternoon by the side of the road. you can see here the police came along and put this plastic on all these door handles showing that they checked the cars and no one was in them. all these people have just abandoned them. there's some in the emergency center lane as well. they're all over the place. you can come ba

michael holmes is live for us now from baghdad. re about the situation there. >> hi, fred. there's been a lot of sporadic violence off and on during the day in anbar province, as you said, fallujah and also ramadi are the two cities that have been at the center of this fallujah, of course, very familiar, resonating with americans where a lot of americans lost their lives fighting islamists. now, what has been happening there is that the tribes, the sunni tribes, many of whom, of course, feel disenfranchised by the government of nuri al maliki. they've been opposing the government for some time. s that also allowed a situation where al qaeda-linked fighters, the islamic state of iraq and syria, have come into that area and that's where we've seen this fighting start. it all began actually when the government tried to shut down a protest camp in anbar province. it was protesting against the government. well, today we have seen a various incidents inside fallujah to ramadi. it's been calm most of the day but we've just been getting inf

michael holmes has more. >> reporter: other places in iraq were in the news today.ere in baghdad two car bombings this morning. one at a bus station that was targeting army recruits one headed home after signing up. the combined death toll 7. another town north of baghdad as well causing death and injuries and two journalists were attacked. this was happening in mozul. one was killed and the other lost his legs in a bombing. in a place where this latest blood shed began which all stayed relatively quiet. but, there is an area between those two cities the towns clustered together where we are told that militants have been surrounded by the iraqi military. no clue on what the military is planning to do there. when it comes to feluja the iraqi military is staying out for now. we are told that some of those militants are in the city tribal leaders say they are in charge and have warned the army to stay out. it is a complex scenario not all tribes agree with each other. some are working with each other and others see them as allies of convenience against the sheer. he ha

michael holmes is in baghdad with more. hi, michael. >> reporter: hi, carol. yes, particularly deadly day here but this is become a daily report, really. seven car bombs in the city this morning. in baghdad alone. also just north of here there was an ied, a hidden bomb that went off in a funeral tent. in total nearly 30 people have been killed. around 100 have been wounded. the killing, little sidebar to that, security forces said they did stop another four suicide car bombs before they were he did to natd. things looking pretty grim not just here in the capital but out west in the anbar province, fallujah, ramadi some activity there. it's not open sectarian as opposed to these daily attacks but many people are worried it's heading that way. >> michael holmes reporting live from baghdad this morning. it's day seven without running water for thousands in west virginia. still slowly residents around charleston are being told they can start flushing the contaminated water out of their homes. the blue areas is where the water is safe. it's about half of those affe

. >> and i'm michael holmes. >> now, the nationwide debate about pot, it was reignited last week when the president told the new yorker that marijuana poses no greater health risk than alcohol. >> so that's where we begin. >> i stand by my belief based on, i think, scientific evidence, that marijuana for casual users, individual users, is subject to abuse just like alcohol is and should be treated as a public health problem and challenge. but as i said in the interview. my concern is when you end up having very heavy criminal penalties for individual users that vn v bebeen applied uneven in some cases with racial disparity, i think that's a problem. over the long term, i believe if we can deal with some of the criminal penalty issues, then we can really tackle what is a problem not just for marijuana, also alcohol, also cigarettes, also harder drugs, and that is try to make sure our kids don't get into these habits in the first place. you know, the incarceration model that we've taken, particularly around marijuana, does not seem to have produced the kinds of results that we've set, b

my co-anchor, michael holmes, is in iraq.utting the faces to those numbers. >> reporter: you know, suzanne, one problem covering a story like iraq is that it is so easy for the death toll to become just that, numbers. and in the time we've been here those numbers have been high. they've been very high. we decided to try to put a human face on all of that by visiting just one family who have suffered not from one car bomb but incredibly two. a father's unimaginable grief. a mother's endless tears. and three children who barely comprehend what has happened to their family. no insurgent, nor a politician, they are a visceral human portrait of iraq's grinding violence. >> translator: we don't work with the government. we're simple people. we have nothing. we sell watermelons. >> reporter: their agony began on july 23, 2007 when a bomb exploded at the family's humble watermelon store barely 50 meters from their home. son, ali, 19 years old and about to get married, was killed instantly. >> translator: i was a week away from marryi

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our colleague michael holmes, who never made it home last night, spent the night at the cnn center in atlanta, he's out on the roads right now. there's a little bit of sunshine, i take, it but still also gridlock, michael. i know our viewers have seen you covering wars. you recently got back from baghdad and iraq. what's it like in atlanta right now? >> reporter: yeah, i come from baghdad to this nightmare, wolf, you're right. yeah, we're out here on i-20, which is a major atlanta freeway. runs east/west just south of the city. just have a look there. it's been gridlock here since we got here. they seem to be funneling the trucks up to the left 37 it's mainly trucks, have i i have to. look at the ice on the back of that truck. i'm going to bring you over here and introduce you to someone we just bumped into on the side of the road. walter wilkins. how are you doing? >> good. >> reporter: explain how long you've been out here. >> i've been out here since 4:30 yesterday evening and the traffic is at a standstill. i thought the roads would be better prepared, but he they weren't. >> repo

i'm michael holmes, of course. we begin with those two sporting event ramping up the highest levels of protection ever afforded to any games. >> armies of human and high-tech security are taking measures, being deployed as we speak. both for the super bowl in new jersey this weekend and then next weekend, for sochi and the start of the winter olympics in russia. let's begin with the super bowl, shall we? evan perez joining us from washington. evan, what exactly are you hearing from homeland security with regard to the safety measures right now? >> reporter: well, they're deploying a lot of resources to new jersey and new york for this coming weekend. one of the things they're doing is adding more air marshals, more radiological detection teams, which are going to be going through transit hubs in new jersey and to try to make sure they can find any problems before they occur. more random baggage checks will be done at some of the transit stations. passengers screening at airports, they're going to add people to help

my co anchor and friend michael holmes, has spent a lot of time there, and he is back there for the first>>> plus, dramatic new video of the confusion and chaos in the moments after the asianic flight 214 plane crash in san francisco. >>> and a social studies teacher is now being called a hero after staring down the barrel of a shotgun and

my colleague and co-worker michael holmes has the story. >> back in 2004 as the insurgency in iraq grew fighters in falluja were striking american forces every day. ieds favorite weapon. it was a cop back then but hated what the extremists were doing to his city and his people. so he decided to help the americans. even now he does not regret what he did. >> translator: yes, of course, fighting against al qaeda is right because they're killing civilians, soldiers, police, innocent people, and those who work with the u.s. marines. >> he shows us photographs with his american colleagues and letters of commendation from several u.s. offices praising his intelligence work describing how he saved iraqi and american lives. the insurgents were less pleased with his work, but they were patient and got their revenge in 2009. >> translator: i left my home in the morning to get some shopping. and when i was driving, suddenly blew up. i lost my legs and got major damage in my wrist. >> in the years that followed omar steered clear of falluja returning every month or so in secret to see his family fo

michael holmes, thanks for being in baghdad for us. appreciate it. >>> there are growing concerns today that the west is getting drier, and that could mean a really bad fire season. new figures from government scientists show drought conditions in california and elsewhere in the far west intensified dramatically last year. california, for example, received the lowest amount of precipitation in more than 100 years. scientists are warning there may be water shortages in the coming months. and again, huge fire risk. >> indra petersons has been warning us. >> she has. >> that things could get bad in california over the next few days. let's go to indra for a look at the forecast today. >> good morning. yeah, that's usually the biggest concern. it's january and february, the one time in california really not talking about drought conditions, because it's when you typically get the rain. that is the opposite of what they've been seeing in what should be their rainy season. high pressure still dominating, bringing in the typical santa ana wind

>>> michael holmes is joining us from baghdad right now. i know you were there in 2011 when u.s.eft iraq. you say the situation right now is a whole lot worse than it was then. what are you seeing? >> reporter: it is, wolf, from the moment we came in from the airport down the old route irish as the military used to call it, the number of checkpoints and just sheer security presence is more than it was back in 2011. not as much. i've been coming here since the war began. and, of course, in 2006, '07 and the like it was more than it was today, but it was certainly a great deal more tense, if you like, than it was when the americans left, no doubt about it. you've seen that unfold in the bombings that have gone on. even today four in the space of three hours just here in baghdad. >> what are iraqis on the ground saying to you, michael, about this uncertain future for iraq? >> reporter: they're fearful, wolf. i think it's fair to say. i've spoken to a lot of iraqis who are. it is a possibility, it could go that way if some sort of compromise is not reached. nuri al maliki portrays th

michael holmes covered the war. 14 people were shot dead north of the city and 11 killed in other attacksrificed in fallujah are no doubt wondering what is going on there. >> people are wondering even more. they had high hopes after saddam hussein was overthrown that things would get better. 11 years later, things are as bad as i would have to go back to 2006, 2007 at the height of the insurgencinsurgency. they are back at the beginning of the war that was here when the americans left. it does have an eerie sense of instability here. people go to work and stay goodbye to their families and don't know if they come back that night. yesterday was a good example. explosions around the city and 60 people dead. 100. it's a daily thing here. it's into the sunny shia war. it's not looking good. >> they will stay with iraq and according to statistics just updated, the war took 4,423 american lives from an ex-guest. they ripped apart a partnership bound by the love that would have lasted a lifetime. that's how she describes her marriage in her book called unremarried widow. henderson's husband mile

and first to you, michael holmes. how is it to you. we are moving at a snail's pace. we are on i-20. it's an east-west highway below. they are rolling along here. we have interviewed the truck drivers who had been sitting on the side of the road. he's given up and he was about 70 miles from here. he gave up and has been there since 4:30 p.m. we are in the left lane and we saw a car empty in the fast lane that is being left there. a lot of people ran out of gas. it is still a very desperate situation and 2:00 p.m. eastern. this is nowhere near cleared up. still ice on the roads. we crawl for a couple hundred yards and then sit for ten minutes. we did speak to one good samaritan and there have been many around throughout this. his name is chris white. have a listen. >> i just came here and i brought some water and towels to see if anybody was stranded and if families have been here. they gave them some gas and actually kept out more people. >> you are literally looking for people who ran out of gas? >> correct. i found two couples and i will bring them back to my house

michael holmes is there. >> reporter: hi, christi, after a bloody week in baghdad, violence continuesce, sunni and al qaeda-linked militants fighting daily in and mainly around the cities of ramadi and fallujah. the iraqi army staying away from a full-on assault of those cities but right now, this is a place on the edge. fears high on one major bombing. one high profile assassination away from all-out sectarian conflict. >>> we want to go to sochi, russia, the site of the winter olympics. officials scrambling to get everything ready for what could be the most expensive olympics in history. cnn's international correspondent nic robertson is there. good morning, nic. >> reporter: christi, wherever you look here, preparations still under way for the olympics. we're right down on the coastline here. the moving rocks for the coastal defense. in the background, you can see the main olympic stadium. thousands of workers here over this whole olympic village area trying to get it ready. security very tight. hundreds of policemen out on the streets. if you look up in the sky up there, you might

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