been a strong suggestions that he has -- that his party has won a lead majority in some of the biggest cities, including tripoli. again, the head of the electoral commission has said we should not speculate on the results. we still not have -- we still have not heard any official ones. we've heard from the eu observer mission in libya, who also says we should not be speculating on the results. certainly, that's all people are talking about at the moment. a lot of people i've spoken to say, yes, i voted for his party. it does seem to be breaking that trend in the region. in tunisia, for example, we've seen largely islamist parties taking over, and in egypt, with the muslim brotherhood recently. >> let's not speculate about the results in any way. what we can say is libya is different in this sense. in other places, it may have been islamists versus the rest. in libya, you have this tribal element. >> yes, certainly in certain parts of the country. in libya's biggest city, tripoli, people do not speak or associate along tribal lines. this is a city of almost two million people. libya as a whole

the assad regime declared victory in a battle with rebels in the capital city of damascus and also the ongoing fight in aleppo, the biggest city and commercial center. wsewart ramsey of the british sky news is in syria this evening, and joins us now on the phone. stewart, what are you seeing inside aleppo tonight? >> reporter: the artillery that usually starts about now has started, though it is very sporadic. last night it was very, very heavy for a long period of time, consistent with the syrian government's strategy. they failed to take that stronghold in the southwest with ground troops, so they withdrew, and have been bombarding it with artillery and with helicopter gunships firing. : glor: stewart, from the best information we have been able to gather, the opposition controls between a third and half of the neighborhoods inside aleppo. does that sync up with what you are seeing? >> i would say maybe. it might be a little on the optimistic side. also, they don't have the numbers that they led me to believe. you do get that sense from the people involved in the revolution that they don't think they won't win now. it i

in syria the fighting goes on, a lot of it over control of the biggest city there, aleppo, the city the size of chicago, illinois, where the rebels have made their stand. we have been able to get a report out again tonight from our chief foreign correspondent richard engel, who is covering the fighting from inside syria. >> reporter: the government assault on aleppo is strangling the city. u.n. officials say some 200,000 people have fled aleppo in the last two days alone. syrian troops seemed determined to drive the rebels out of this city along with many of its 3 million residents. the rebels are trying to fight back. but the rebels aren't completely defenseless. they filled gas canisters with shrapnel to make their bombs more deadly then spread fertilizer on the floor and add aluminum powder. now it's a dangerous mix. as they fill the canisters with the explosive, tiny, combustible particles float in the air. one spark and it'll all go up. these are crude bombs but as rebel internet videos show they're powerful. yet it's civilians suffering the most here. we've seen government troops

the syrian opposition group says the operation to capture lipo, the biggest city, but syrian forces areing to take the capital of damascus. >>> in china 37 people died in the heaviest rainstorm to hit beijing in more than 60 years. large areas of the capital more swamped and other storm-related deaths are reported else are in china. >>> penn state football faces corrective and punitive sanctions today from the ncaa due to allegations that officials concealed the jerry sandusky scandal. and yesterday the joe paterno statue was removed and put in storage. >>> no england 17-year-old amelia adams held the olympic flame high yesterday as she rode on top of one of the london viewing capsules as it slowly rotated. the torch will be used to open the games on friday. >>> and a female russian parachute jumper set a world record on saturday fompl forming the shape of a red, white and blue lotus flower while floating thousands of feet in the air. they held the amazing airborne formation for seven seconds. >>> and now here's your first look at this morning's dish of scrambled politics. for the first

the story when we continue. >>> welcome back. tonight syria's biggest cityeppo is a battleground. the dead include 25 people in aleppo. this video purportedly shows some of the fighting in aleppo cnn can't vouch for the authenticity of it. with what we're hearing from witnesses on the ground, it appears to be occurring. street battles raging. attack helicopters. tanks firing in the city. all of this in syria's commercial hub. 200,000 people in and around aleppo have fled the shelling. conflicting reports about who controls the city's key neighborhoods. we do know that the so-called free syrian army scored a victory outside of aleppo today. in the meantime, there are questions growing about the fate of president bashar al assad. here's what leon panetta told our barbara starr today in an exclusive interview. >> i'm sure deep down assad knows he's in trouble and it's just a matter of time. >> what would you say to him? >> i would say if -- if you want to be able to protect yourself and your family, you'd better get the hell out now. >> so did the u.s. governme

they know brings the fight back to the biggest city and capturing them would deal a deadly blow to the assad regime. sharyn. >>> and the deadly ebola virus is making a frightening comeback in uganda. 14 people have died in the kibaale district 140 miles from the capital. the air bown virus spreads fast and there is no secure. >>> we turn to the desperate search to identify what could be tens of thousand of people infected with the deadly disease. the alleged culprit a medical technician that worked in 13 hospitals in 8 states. david kerley joins us with all of the details. david. >> good morning. more than 2 dozen cases of hepatitis b have been traced to this man. because he's a traveling hospital worker. there's a fear that many more could have contracted this disease which could lead to serious liver problems. >> reporter: he's been called a serial infector. an unprecedented case. >> he's poisoned 30 people and we don't know the pre vice numbers elsewhere. >> reporter: that's because david inspected with hepatitis c was a traveling medical technician. he has been charged with stealin

. >>> one of the biggest cities in pennsylvania is going broke. nton has a serious cash flow problem and the mayor decided to ignore a court and slash the wages of hundreds of public service workers including his own paycheck. their pay has been reduce today minimum wage just $7.25 an hour. many are pretty upset about the cuts however they're going to continue to do their job. the mayor says the city is facing a $16 million deficit and can barely pay its bills. >>> delta is facing some pretty stiff penalties for allegedly flying planes not in compliance with faa regulations, they total almost $1 million. ininfraction is for failing to repair a chip in the plane's nose. the other for a broken cockpit floods light socket. the airline has 30 days to respond to the agency. >>> all right ladies, coach is bringing back styles that made the company one of the most popular bag makers in the world. stores will soon begin receiving the first coach legacy collection for the fall 2012. so you're going to see the return of the brand's iconic shape and details u

baltimore was one of the biggest cities in america after world war ii, but its population has steadily gotten smaller. >> i love being downtown. it's so convenient. >> the more government cuts things, the more people tend to leave. >> reporter: valuable federal dollars are tied directly to the population for cities nationwide. >> pure and simple, the more population you have, the more dollars you would get for housing or health programs and a host of other things that are funded at the federal and state levels. >> reporter: city planners say it could take three to six months for the census bureau to determine whether it will reassess baltimore's population. back to you. >> thank you. city planners estimate baltimore could gain or lose $90 million over ten years depending on how the census department responds. >>> the red cross is in need of volunteers tonight as the region suffers the wrath of mother nature. many people are lacking food, shelter and clothing right now. last month's devastating storm and the hot temperatures have stretched the red cross to the breaking point. to volunte

three hundred and first houses have reportedly storms the national election commission office in the biggest city have been guarding destroying computers and burning voting material side the incident comes just days before the country's first direct call for congress which will be tough to oversee a new government once elected but activists and journalists succumb to try and there's little sign of a democratic process. elections are about to come about in libya in a few days but i don't think it's a sign of any democratic progress in libya because all indicators which should be there which would lead to. a healthy democracy will be taking place absent so what we have is that is the relative persecution of women's right relative to what happened in the gadhafi persecution of all dark skin libyans who are being persecuted on the basis that they are loyal by and by but by dint of the pigmentation of their skin to gadhafi we have. a good law we have four hundred militias all across libya there is no there's no law and order there's no security so this is this is far from any basis of a true people fo

this is new video of the battle in the streets of aleppo. syria's biggest city. army tank battered the city saturday as forces loyal to president assad looked to krushl the rebels. opposition leaders warn that a massacre may be coming and has a message for allies. >> translator: our friends and will allies will bear responsibility for the terri terrifying massacres that will happen in aleppo if they don't move soon. thisegime is planning for a big massacre in aleppo. >> at least 160 people were killed across syria yesterday. >>> in israel, mitt romney spoke a short time ago about the syrian situation saying the u.s. needs to partner with israel to find a patho peace. romney has been making the rounds with israeli officials this morning. but later today, he is expected to deliver a major address on foreign policy. now in it, we should hear him single out the threat from iran. cnn has more from jerusalem. good morning to you. what is that message for iran that we are expecting to hear? >> reporter: basically we're expecting to hear mitt romney, who has been quite ha

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whether or not the project moves forward and if it does, how the city and region grapple with the growth is probably the biggest challenge of the district. >> how will you balance the needs of the city against the needs of your district? >> that is the biggest challenge for any representative, whether it is a local supervisor, assemblyperson, or congressional representative. it is important that i keep in the back of my head that i sit on the city and county board of supervisors. there is a responsibility to the city as a whole. there is no easy way to balance it. you deal with those issued by issue. >> the city is faced with tough budget decisions, including where to make cuts and whether to raise taxes and fees. how will you approach the difficult choices? >> i think the biggest challenge in the budget is the cost associated a city employee pensions and benefits. those are the single biggest driver to our expenses, far exceeding our revenues. i have a single-minded focus dealing with that. for the last few months. we have been sitting down with our various public employee unions trying to come together on a w

we have been working to build this, and that work has led to the city earning the title of no. 1 park system, in the 40 biggest cities in the country thanks to our efforts that were announced a few weeks ago, and even as strong as our partnership has been in the past, i want to acknowledge that our future looks even bigger still. we are eager to continue our work and a partnership, whether it be for a land acquisitions and continuing finance efforts, to raise support in san francisco or design and construction work. we continue to work to make sure there is a park or playground within walking distance of every san francisco ian, and i want to welcome our program director. >> thank you. i just wanted to take a quick moment to thank a lot of members of the apartment, because under all of those broad accomplishments, it takes a lot of people doing hard work to get these things done. go these projects have been in the works for at least six years, and there have been many people involved, but a few stand out that have been on this trip with us. they really helped set the goals for this project and helped make sure

rebel fighters in syria say they have seized two police stations in the fight for the huge city of aleppo, the biggestcity in the country. it is home to one of the most intense battles, 16 months into the uprising. they have been attacking strongholds for 11 days. yesterday, government media, reported the government had "purged" the city of armed groups. but the rebels say that not the case. they claim they still hold several neighborhoods. despite reports of heavy government shelling from attack helicopters, we are learning what would be the growing influence of al qaeda. analysts are telling other the guardian," that al qaeda and other islamic extremists doing their best to hijack the syrian revolution helping with the attacks aimed at assad regime. fox cannot independently confirm any of the reports and often these are inflated for public consumption. al qaeda is not everywhere. the chief fox news correspondent, jonathan hunt, is here. the rebels hope aleppo will be a base for overthrowing of the government. >>jonathan: talking of al qaeda influence which united states officials have talked about b

the cbs morning program, erica hill and charlie rose. we have art escape this weekend. it is a very, very big deal for the city of baltimore. gigi, you know this is one of the biggest city festivals in the united states of america. we do it once again this weekend. it's a beautiful thing for this area. let's talk about it. how are you today? >> reporter: i'm well. multimillion dollar event. it a attracts hundreds of thousands of people every year. you're right, it is the largest free art festival in the nation. more on art escape when we return on eyewitness news morning edition. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> here is first warning doppler weather radar. here are the showers that came through over night. out to the west there's more moisture that's going to follow this path. there's a frontal boundary stalled. right now we are on the humid side of that front. take a look. 96% humidity, 73 light now. -- right now. barometer is at 29.88. the low 70s cumberland, 66 oakland, 73 elkin, baltimore, easton, ocean city, 76 dc, 78 packs river, 73 columbia, westminster and bel air, upper 70s rock hall, annapolis and kent island. here's this moisture. thest -- it's going to define o

. >> federal court proceedings started today in sacramento in the case involving the city of stockton. last week stockton became the biggest city in american history to file for bankruptcy. lawyers showed up for what was mainly a procedurel hearing. the judge dealt with technical matters and then scheduled a status hear un. >>> the unemployment rate held steady in june at 8.2%. the economy add 84,000 new jobs, that's 20,000 below what economists had forecast. unemployment rate has been above 8% for more than three years now. on wall street the weak jobs numbers pushed stocks lower. the dow lost 124 points. coming up at 5:30 workers bracing for another blow from best buy. what that retailer is doing to try to get back on track. >> the president hit the campaign trail today and tried to put a positive spin on the new unemployment figures, they appeared at the university in pittsburgh and noticed that the economy add more than 80,000 jobs last month. the president called it a accept in the right direction but also admitted it's not enough. >> we have been fighting back. what we all understand is that we have so much more to d

budget shortfall of forty over forty five million dollars and then there's stockton california the biggest city to file so far they filed june twenty eighth they have a budget shortfall of twenty six million dollars and there's mammoth lakes california they filed that bankruptcy back in the beginning of july four hundred forty three million dollar court order placed against the town and now oakland though they're taking a very different approach they are fighting back against the big banks that they blame for putting the city in the economic crisis to begin with. goldman sachs faces a fifteen million dollars penalty if they break this deal with goldman sachs oakland though is there any not to invest in goldman sachs again. so what happened was the oakland city council voted unanimously to break the deal with goldman sachs the city would be required as i mentioned earlier to pay a fifteen million dollars penalty fee if they break a deal with goldman they made back in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight the deal locked in the interest rate at the time but the problem with that is the federal r

we have seen the greatest effort by the regime to round out rebels in the biggest city in syria in theh which is a central support area for the bashar al-assad regime. it is where he get as lot of financial support, as well. he sent in fighter jets. he sent in tanks. he sent in helicopter gunshots. he is trying to get to the rebel assault that is in the making. they are using heavy artillery in damascus. hundreds of families running for their lives streaming across syria's borders. the question is how much the rebels can withstand the firepower being pelted on them by the regime. all they have is rifles and machine guns. but they seem determined to try and overthrow the regime which seems to be losing the fight. >>shepard: thank you, dominic, from central israel. with us is the former intelligence officer with the secretary of defense, mike barrett here from washington, dc, newsroom, and a former director of strategy for the white house homeland security counsel is now the c.e.o. of a security consulting firm. i'm not positive people get that this is one religious sect against another

. >>> the mayor of the biggest city in the country demands more from the president on gun control. >>words are nice, but maybe it's time that the two people who want to be president of the united states stand up and tell us what they're going to do about it. because this is obviously a problem across the country. >> the nation's largest lobby to prevent gun control, the brady campaign, echoed that sentiment saying, this tragedy is another grim reminder that guns are the enablers of mass killers and that our nation pays an unacceptable price for our failure to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. john avalon, back in new york. john, what are the candidate's stances on guns? >> it's fascinating. take a look what's being proposed. in the case of president obama, he does support strengthening gun control legislation. however his administration has no specific proposals they're putting forward. in some cases they've actually lose loosened gun control laws. and on governor romney's side, as governor he signed legislation that enforced gun control, but as presidential candidate he

the globe's leading firms for example years ago. to help implement high speed rail links between russia's two biggest cities following the success of the saab sun project the country's rail operator is looking to push ahead with further collaboration. we should cooperate constructively in order to produce high quality products but it's not just a one way street as it sometimes portrayed in the media but it was simply importing some things can help resolve limited specific tasks such as providing. but in the long term it's all about mutual benefit developing technologies together and producing al factories here and that's what we expect to see in the long run. and the latest evidence of that cooperation was on display recently in the city of vienna located midway between moscow and some of the. this western european bound

the other side of town. last week the city started work on a 54-inch water line. one of the biggest in the city that takes water to two other counties. the reason why they tore out this section of pipe is because special sonar equipment told them it was going to fail. so they were proactive. >> we're looking at all the underground pipeline systems so we can evaluate it. and lay out our plans. systematically we replace the pipes that need to be replaced. >> reporter: there is not just one pipe on light street. there are two. 700 feet of 10-inch pipe laid here back in 1914 was nearing the end of its life span and the city says the best way to manage that asset is to take it out as well. with monitoring and planning they hope the two new lines will last another 100 years or more under light street. >> three weeks is a long time. for motorists. this work needs to be done. we're hoping people will be patient, and once it's done we will have more reliable systems for water. >> reporter: those repairs are expected to take about three weeks. for motorists forced to wait in traffic for a whi

government troops are battling the free syrian army in the country's biggest city. some 200,000 people have fled aleppo and surrounding areas in just the past two days. >>> another busy, action-packed day for athletes at the london olympics. the u.s. men's swim team took silver, losing out to france in the 4 by 100 meter relay. in basketball, the u.s. beat france. and american swimmer dana vollmer set a world record. she became the first woman to swim the 100 meter butterfly in under 56 seconds. >>> seven people were killed today in arizona when a tractor trailer crossed over a median and slammed into a van. all the victims were in the van. the truck's driver and his wife are both hospitalized in serious condition. the accident happened on interstate 10 near phoenix. >>> a missing 12-year-old arkansas girl has been found safe after police discovered the bodies of the couple she lived with. amber was found with her 33-year-old brother, now a suspect in her abduction as well as a double homicide. the girl is believed to be either the daughter or granddaughter of the de

this morning the battle for aleppo appears under way fighter planes and army tanks are shelling the biggest cityand families are leaving by the hundreds. rebels are still in control of most areas, despite the fierce clashes government newspaper is calling the fight, the mother of all battles. u.s. government is warning of a massacre and even russia says the tragedy is emanant. >>> it is training camp for the burgundy and gold this week we finally got to hear extensively from robert griffin the third he answered a lot of questions in his first press conference. dave ross and lyndsey murphy were there for it. rg 3 talks about being one of the new guys and new cars and twitter and also how training camp compared to minicamp. >> all business now getting down to the season time and i think everybody came back in great shape, as you can see from the run, a letle bit and everybody is -- a little bit and everybody is ready to go out and compete. >> the nerves you had maybe you didn't have at some of the other camps the minicamps, ltas. >> no, man, i think i was more anxious maybe a little nervous for ma

violence plagues the biggest cities, but it also plagues the smallest towns. claims the lives of americans of different ages and different races, and it's tied together by the fact that these young people had dreams and had futures that were cut tragically short. and when there's an extraordinarily heartbreaking tragedy, like the one we saw, there's always an outcry, immediately after, for action. and there's talk of new reforms and there's talk of new legislation, and too often those efforts are defeated by politics and by lobbying and eventually by the pool of our collective attention elsewhere. but when i said in the wake of tucson was, we were going to stay on this, persistently. so we've been able to take some actions on our own, recognizing that it's not always easy to get things through congress these days. the background checks conducted on those looking to purchase firearms are now more thorough and more complete. instead of just throwing more money at the problem of violence, the federal government is now in the trenches with communities and schools

syrians are fleeing the country's biggest city, aleppo. take a listen. e arab league is warning of war crimes there. the u.n. estimates 200,000 have fled in the past two days. the free syrian army, meantime, is taking the fight to the government fighters at an army base. >> i've been watching a rebel attack on a syrian army base located just outside the northern limits of that city of aleppo. it started around sunset with a great deal of rocket fire and mortar fire and machine gunfire. and we've basically been watching constant tracer fire at night focused on this syrian army base and emerge hadding from this syrian army base. >> syrian activists say 114 people were killed in today's violence. >>> seven people were killed today in arizona when a tractor trailer crossed over a median and slammed into a van. all the victims were in that van. the truck's driver and his wife are both hpitalized in serious condition. the accident happened on interstate 10 near phoenix. >>> and if you feel like you're paying more at the pump, it is not your imagination. the pri

>> in syria, intense fighting between bashar al assad and the rebels are reported in two of the biggest cities has experienced heavy fighting, the two cities have been under a veneer of normality, but no the army's elite division backed by helicopters has taken out an all-out assault, though it is a charge they are quick to deny. two more army generals of assad's regime have defected to neighboring turkey. >>> 20,000 of the world's leading experts on hiv and aids are gathering in washington starting today for the international aids conference and what a change since the biennial conference was held in washington 20 years ago. 20,000 studies will be presented to try to end the epidemic now in the third decade. >>> relief on the streets of los angeles. now that a man is in custody after stabbing allegedly three homeless people. courtney anthony robinson also known as david ben keys was arrested friday night after calling 911 to turn himself in. >>> it is a question that you might have asked yourself already, how could god allow senseless acts of violence occur like that in aurora, colorado? well

it happens to be, in terms of population, the biggest city in syria. it is critically important to both sides, not just for the honor of physically holding control of that city, but also as a fell he of brookings, for the morale of the rebels. >> if the insurges can hold off for a while, that will give more fence sitters, the sense they should join the ininsurge -- insurgency. >>jonathan: but as he points out we should neither underestimate the remaining strength of president assad's security services and his will power or overestimate the significance of the defections. this is from a syrian diplomat, of only a dozen worldwide and if you consider that syria has 1 ,000 ambassadors there have not been very many high-ranking defections yet. >>shepard: on of thes to stop the civil war, no action from the united states or anyone else but a lost talk today. >>jonathan: a lot of talk from the u.n. secretary-general who said, again, that syrian president bashar al-assad has to stop the crackdown. those comments came as there were more reports of u.n. onlier mi

the stories about their security is disconcerting korean. >> he can appeared to draw a contrast between holding gains and new-line then and opposed to sell a city. >> this is the one of the biggestbustling cities in the world of course it is easier if you hold it in the middle of nowhere. >> die >> >>darya: president obama met is reaffirming u.s. ties with israel. it in raid u.s. support in the solution of the palestinian conflict. >>mark: will be right back as the kron 4 morning news continues. here is a live look outside. they're watching the fog and waiting for it to break up. happy birthday! thank you, nana send money to anyone's checking account with chase quickpay. all you need is an email address or mobile number. you're welcome. take a step forward and chase what matters. beaches gulf of the but in san jose they have plenty of sunshine. >>erica: you can see that right now it is a very mild for every one around the bay. there will be a little bit more sunshine around the in downtown san we are in the '50s and '60s right now. when we get to the afternoon you will see that all back cloud cover will begin to burn off pin i will have that afternoon highs and show you the seve

baltimore was one of the biggest cities but it's population has gotten smaller. >> i love being downtown. >> the more the government cut things the more people tend to leave. >> valuable federal dollars are tied directly to the population for cities nationwide. >> the more population you have, the more dollars you get for housing or health programs and a host of other things. >> city planers say it could take the census bureau some 3 to 6 months before it decides whether to reassess baltimore's population. >> city planers estimate baltimore could gain or lose $90 million in federal funding, defending how the bureau responds. >>> for the first time in more than two decades john hopkins falls from the number one ranking. hopkins was demoted to the number two spot this year. it's massachusetts general claiming the top spot this year. hopkins is still ranked number one in five specialities. >>> today the red cross is asking for your health. our recent storms and the blazing hot temperatures that followed have left the red cross in need some assistance. to find out how you can help go to wjz.