victor blackwell reports, the men were jailed in 1961 after a sit-in protest during the civil rightsl rise. >> reporter: this courtroom in rockhill south carolina is packed with people waiting to hear this historic apology. >> allow know take this opportunity to extend to each of you my heart felt apologies for what happened to you in 1961. it was wrong. >> reporter: a wrong committed before the solicitor was born more than half a century ago at the height of the lunch counter sit-in movement of the 1960s. at the time clarence graham was a 17-year-old college student, on the front line of the movement. he was determined but increasingly frustrated. >> demonstrating in the afternoon, after school and in the mornings and being arrested and weren't making in progress. >> reporter: but what graham and eight schoolmates did in 1961 made more than progress it made history. >> there was a lot of animosity you know he? they weren't sure about this. there were extra police here. you just didn't quite know what was going to happen. >> reporter: ann johnson was standing in the crowd outside mcc

victor blackwell has the details. >> that's probably the worst time in my life. >> reporter: bobbi kristina describing a 2012 health scare eerily similar. >> her husband found her face down in the bathtub in the bathroom of their home. she was unresponsive meaning not breathing, no heartbeat. >> reporter: after cpr efforts failed, she was rushed to a local hospital and placed into a medically induced coma. it's the latest in a string of well-documented struggles since whitney houston was found dead in a bathtub. >> i want to sleep. that's all i want to do. >> reporter: tough times for the woman the world met when she was a cute 6-year-old girl singing on stage with her mother. >> i just want to say clap your hands. >> reporter: viewers got a glimpse of her tumultuous pre-teen years, on "being bobby brown brown." her struggle was exposed with grief and alcohol. >> i know that in the past her mother would allow her to have a glass of champagne or a glass of wine. >> i don't know if she's self-medicating herself. if someone's grieving the way she's been grieving it's sort of hard to distinguis

our victor blackwell has more. >>> came and got me. i wasn't breathing. her heart stopped.eizure or something. >> probably the worst time of my life. >> reporter: bobbi kristina brown describing a 2012 health scare eerily similar to this weekend's medical emergency. >> bobbi kristina's husband found her facedown in a bathtub in the bathroom of their home. she was unresponsive meaning not breathing, no heartbeat. >> reporter: after cpr efforts failed, she was rushed to a local hospital and placed in a medically induced coma. it's the latest in a string of well-documented struggles since her mother pop icon whitney houston, was found dead in a bathtub at the beverly hilton in 2012. a drowning the result of a heart condition and cocaine use. >> like big time for somebody. i want to sleep. that's all i want to do. >> reporter: tough times for the woman the world met when she was a cute 6-year-old girl singing on stage with her mother. >> my name is bobbi kristine amp i want to say clap your hands. ♪ >> reporter: viewers got a glimpse of her preteen years in the short-lived brav

. >> i'm victor blackwell. 7:00 here on the east coast. >> we want to begin with breaking news in ukraine where deadly shelling is still going on. and really rocking the city of donetsk this hour. >> according to pro-russian rebels here, eight civilians were killed this weekend in fighting. and ukrainian forces report losing 12 of their own soldiers while eliminating, in their words, 70 insurgents across the conflict zone. >> you're looking at new video. and despite failed efforts to broker a peace deal, we have just learned the leaders of france, germany, russia and ukraine have reportedly all agreed now to meet in belarus on wednesday. >> cnn senior international correspondent nick paton walsh joins us live in donetsk where that deadly shelling continues. nick, it's pretty difficult to forge a peace deal when each side is counting the day. >> reporter: well, certainly. and 8 to 17 wounded now. there have been over 200 killed so far this month on both sides of the line, say the united nations. but let's break into a little bit more of that discussion about meeting in minsk, belarus, on w

. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you. >> one family, they had no idea whether their son is alive. they do know he's in the hands of isis. that's all they know. >> another family is mourning. their loved one has been killed in another beheading. >> isis's latest victim is kenji goto. a video released by isis appears to show his decapitated body. he's the second hostage killed in a week. his death is bringing swift condemnation from japan, the u.s., brittain and france. >> we don't know the status of a jordanian pilot. let's bring in cnn's will ripley in tokyo. also cnn's jamana karachi in aman, jordan. will, let's start with you. japan's prime minister says his country will never give in to isis. he's saying they'd like to commit to more support in this humanitarian effort. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. japan, as you know, pledged $200 million to the coalition to fight isis. that was just two days before the first propaganda video showing kenji goto and had a ruin any yukawa with isis demanding a ra

. >> i'm victor blackwell. >> deadly shelling is continuing to rock the city of donetsk this morning. >> according to pro russian rebels, eight people were killed. ukrainian forces say they lost 12 soldiers while eliminating, their word, 70 insurgents. >> despite failed efforts to broker a peace deal, leaders have reportedly all agreed to meet in belarus on wednesday. >> cnn's senior international correspondent nick p a aton walsh joins us. >> reporter: we have been hearing consistent shelling since we woke up this morning and the morning before that. no signs of the artillery exchanges happening around this, the strong hold of the self declared people's republic. you mentioned that plan for potentially the leaders of ukraine, russia, france, germany, the normandy compact. there's a lot of work that has to be done before that. imagine the symbolism, frankly, those four heads of state all going to the same place to talk peace. it pretty much has to succeed in some way or know where it's going for them to take that high visibility move. they will refer the meetings apparently happening

. >> and i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. let's get right to our breaking news. >>> you hear all of that gunfire from yesterday morning, but now police say they shot the lone gunman who fired those shots. one after another in denmark. that shooter sprayed bullets into a copenhagen cafe where a swedish cartoonist who had drawn the prophet humd was set to speak. >> following a massive man hunt the suspect in both of those attacks was killed in a shootout with police overnight. >> so let's talk on the phone here to journalist berg. she is in copenhagen. astrid, i understand you have information about the victims. >> we're learning more about the man that police consider to be the same man who has been behind both shootings. he was shot dead by the police tonight. they're awaiting at an apartment where a taxi driver had dropped the man off. the police tells us that they actually knew about this man before the shooting. we are not sure why, but the secret police in denmark had been looking into this guy. we are not sure if he has

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i'm victor blackwell. president obama calls the beheading of a japs journanese journalist hostage.t appears to show his decapitated body. the fate of another isis hostage a jordanian pilot is unknown right now. jordan says it will not give up trying to secure his freedom. will ripley joins us from toke. can you tell us about the reaction in japan about the news of this hostage death? >> within hours, the newspapers had printed special editions. of course, one thing they are showing is a still frame from the i circumstances propaganda video but more important than that is pictures like this showing kenji goto telling the stories of women and children who are suffering. these are the pictures the people in japan will choose to remember when they think about kenji goto. that is the memory his mother also hopes people will carry on. here is what she said today. >> translator: i'm shedding tears of sorrow. i just can't think of any words to say, but i don't want this sorrow to create a chain of hatred. kenji worked for children who suffered from conflicts in poverty and his goal was to

i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm christi paul. we want to begin with breaking news in ukraine where the violence is escalating in the wake of failed efforts to broker a peace deal there. >> accordi ining pro-russian re, eight were killed, 17 others were injured. cnn senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is live in donetsk where all of this is happening. nick, when we spoke with you yesterday, you said that there was this continuous shelling. are you still hearing that now? >> reporter: yes, it hasn't really let up. it did seem to be slightly quieter overnight, but this morning picking up again. and certainly this is a city coming to terms with what's happened in the last 24 hours. we've been ourselves around some entirely civilian areas, homes hit what seem to be by an artillery strike. in that one home we saw the mother there injured. the children narrowly escaped. a very horrifying situation for those caught in between the shelling. increasingly civilians here blaming the ukrainian military for the shells fired and

. >> and i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell.u hear all of that gunfire from yesterday morning, but now police say they shot the lone gunman who fired those shots. one after another in denmark. that shooter sprayed bullets into a copenhagen cafe where a swedish cartoonist who had drawn the prophet humd was set to speak. >> following a massive man hunt the suspect in both of those attacks was killed in a shootout with police overnight. >> so let's talk on the phone

. >> i'm victor blackwell. >>> a terror group linked to al qaeda is calling for attacks on malls in the.s., in canada and in britain. the somalia based group al shabab has released a video. you can see the man here, his face covered up. in english he urges the attacks. cnn cannot confirm the video's authenticity but two of the potential targets, minnesota's mall of america, and west edmondton mall in alberta, canada, are beefing up security. we want to go to our correspondent in london. does al shabab say specifically why they are making these threats and why they are making them now? >> reporter: that calling on muslims in the uk, the u.s. and around the world, they say to take inspiration from the horrifying west gate mall attack in kenya that shabab was able to successfully carry out. it seems they are trying to remind those around the world would be jihadi sympathizers that al shabab carried off a pretty spectacular terror attack and that they should be seeking to be inspired by it. the man speaking in the video whose still image has a pronounced british accent and sounded almost lo

. >> i'm victor blackwell. >> we want to start with the terror group linked to al qaeda.ada, and in the u.k. we're talking about the somalia based group, al shabaab. it's released a video. cnn is showing a still image. you see this man here, face covered. he's the one urging the attacks. we want to point out that cnn cannot confirm the authenticity of this video. >> it gives the gps coordinates. >> two of the targets, minnesota's mall of america and edmonton mall. they are having extra security p. >> the worries and fears of lone wolf attacks in the west are very real. al shabaab is piggybacking off of them, exploiting them especially given that u.s. authorities have been very candid about the fact that the somali american community has very much been recruiting ground zero for isis and al shabaab before it, victor. >> minneapolis in particular has become a main recruiting ground for al shabaab. it's home to the largest somali population in the united states. cnn cnn's erin mcpike has the reaction. >> reporter: that's right. i received a statement from the national securi

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. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you. >>> the silent grieving protesters are filling the streets in japan. >> and world leaders in the u.s., france, britain say they will not let isis get away with its latest killing of an innocent hostage. this man, japanese freelance journalist kenji goto. a video released by isis appears to show his decapitated body. the second journalist from japan killed in just a week. will ripley is in tokyo and ann pike is also with us. talk about what is happening in tokyo to the reaction of this beheading. >> reporter: there was -- this was not surprising for people here in japan who had feared that this was going to happen when the latest isis deadline passed and there was silence from that terror group as we have seen throughout this hostage crisis. those periods of silence and, quite quickly, when isis posts another video and given that their last threat was that they were going to take the life of kenji goto and the jordan pilot as well, people here did fear the worse bu

victor blackwell has the latest. >> reporter: he writes the privacy is respected in this matter pleasellow for my family to deal with this matter and give my daughter the love and support she needs at this time understandably of very difficult tragic time for his family it was saturday morning when brown was found face down in a bathtub full of water and her town home near atlanta according to police she was not breathing her car was not meeting 50 was she did not respond to the squad at the hospital and has been in a medically induced coma ever since. the details are eerily similar to those surrounding her mother's death whitney houston found on grammy weekend in the bathtub full of water and the beverly hilton hotel and drove from to be part of the cause of her death so we at the local investigators and jokes were involved in this case right now they did not see anything on the scene that would indicate that no alcohol or drugs laying around. that indicates that. there a few details come not from local investigators and hospital but of course this is going to be a waiting game. >> ja

i want to bring in cnn's victor blackwell. you're at the hospital. statement is quote, fighting for her life. what are you hearing there this evening? >> well according to sources, the family has also been told to prepare for the worst, but continue to pray for a miracle. those sources say that not only did bobbi kristina brown open and close her eyes today, but she also suffered several seizures today. doctors considered briefly reducing the sedatives in her brain to test for brain function, but they've decided for the moment to leave her in that coma. as you said she's been in this medically induced coma since she was found face down in that tub of water. cpr efforts were attempted at the home but failed and she was brought here to the hospital and she's been here ever since. >> what does that mean when they say she was found unresponsive? do you know what that means? was she breathing? did she have a heart beat? >> well according to the law enforcement sources who briefed cnn on what happened. she was not breathing. she did not have a heart beat.

i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm christi paul. so good to have you with us.as we want to show you chilling new images of american-made weapons falling in the hands of isis in iraq. look at this. militants attacked an iraqi military post in anbar province and this is what they walked away with. m-16s, heavy machine guns. >> american armored vehicles, humvees as well. they left behind a trail of death. the burned bodies of iraqi soldiers. of course we're learning this as the u.s. and iraq plan this major offensive to take back the isis stronghold of mosul. >> i want to get to ben wedeman live in northern iraq there. so ben, i know these images of isis capturing american weapons, they are clearly propaganda. what can we learn? wa is your take away? >> reporter: i think the take away is that isis despite more than six months of coalition aircraft is able to operate, attack iraqi army positions. it appears to be in broad daylight. and get away with it. not only get away with it, get away with, as i counted from that video, at least 35 american-made m-16s, a large

i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm christi paul.ting with the manhunt right now for the killer that gunned down one of russia's outspoken critics of president vladamir putin. >> investigators say there is no doubt the shooting of boris nemtsov was, quote, carefully planned and whoever shot him dead knew the route he was taking. the opposition leader and former deputy prime minister was killed as he walked along a bridge with a companion. this was 100 yards, though, from the kremlin. >> this morning grieving crowds of supporters gathered at the bridge where nemtsov was killed. they say they want justice here. >> frederick is at the vigil in the heart of moscow. good morning. >> reporter: people here in moscow are absolutely shocked at the killing of boris nemtsov, in the time we've been standing here we've seen thousands come and many laying down flowers, other people who are absolutely in tears. we have heard from the russian investigators they say that their investigation is moving forward, that they are questioning many of the wit

. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. happy valentine's day.ng critical ground in iraq right in their path is a massive air base the size of boulder, colorado, where there are hundreds of iraqi and coalition forces. >> isis fighters seized most of the town of al baghdadi in western iraq in an all-out assault yesterday. we're learning this morning at least 25 iraqi police were killed there. and they also, isis, sent suicide bombers to attack the al assad air base nine miles from the city. >> iraqi forces were able to shove the militants back but we're now learning that 13 iraqi soldiers died in that attack. elsewhere isis put on a very brutal show of force parading captured peshmerga fighters in cages. >> it's chilling video. iraqi tribal leader says cities and towns in western iraq's anbar province could collapse to isis in hours if iraqi forces do not stand their ground. >> he is pleading for more u.s. intervention including ground troops. phil? >> reporter: we're getting a greater sense of the cost, the casualties upon iraqi services in this

. >> here on the east coast, i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm christi paul. forces unleashing at least a dozen new air strikes against isis. >> the latest offensive taking place in the iraqi city of plo sool. let's get to phil black. phil is one of the few western journalists in that immediate area. phil, what are you hearing there, what are you seeing? >> reporter: behind me is the most important piece of territory that isis still controls in northern iraq. mossle. where i'm standing it's one of the closest positions occupied by the kurdish fighters who have drawn a defensive line around that isis-controlled city. from up here there is a commanding view. into mosul from the south and the towns and villages which surround it and which are still occupied by isis as well. on this day, overhead has been the constant sound of aircraft, fast-moving aircraft, we have seen what appears to be a slower moving, larger reconnaissance aircraft of some kind, then frequently, often very close to one another, the sound of large blasts in the distance. it is a hazy day, not

. >> i'm victor blackwell. 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 out west. you are in the cnn newsroom. >> high-level talks with russian president vladimir putin have apparently failed to broker a peace deal and end the bloodshed in ukraine. >> world leaders are meeting in germany hoping to craft a solution to a crisis really on the verge of chaos. already the conflict has claimed more than 5,000 lives and forced nearly 1 million people to flee. >> right now, vice president joe biden is addressing the mounting crisis there. listen to what he said just moments ago. >> >> america and europe are being tested. president putin has to understand that as he has changed, so has our focus. we have moved from resetting this important relationship to reasserting a fundmental bedrock principles on which european freedom and stability rests. i'll say it again, no spheres of influence, the sovereign right to choose your own alliance cannot repeat that often enough. no judged no existing agreement or any future agreement by the actions russia takes on the ground not by the

. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. it is 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 on the west. at this hour the clocking ticking toward the cease-fire deadline in ukraine. with under seven hours to go reuters is reporting seven servicemen have been killed and 23 wounded in the past 24 hours. and the sounds of shelling and gunfire can be heard in the eastern cities of mariopal and donestk. >> nick paton walsh is in live in donestk. you have a bit of a close call. you had to leave your post a while ago because shelling was getting too close to you. what are you hearing there now? >> the shelling has quieted in the area we were four or five shells that landed reasonably close, but emphasized frankly, how much of a horrific time so many civil jans have been having in donestk the past weeks or months. we see daily the damage done by shelling. we saw today ourselves what one local said was a rocket that landed near houses causing a huge amount of debris thrown in the air, large rocks crashing through the bedroom of a 12-year-old girl in one house. this has wrecked civilian live for m

. >> i'm victor blackwell. 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 out west during the "cnn newsroom" and we're starting with a strong statement from defense secretary ash carter. >> he says the obama administration still questions its plans to pull out almost all remaining 10,000 u.s. troops from afghanistan by the end of 2016 as scheduled. carter arrived in the afghan capital kabul this morning. >> it's his first overseas trip since he was sworn in a few days ago. in a news conference with the afghan president carter said he will assess the security situation against the taliban. >> president obama and i discussed in my first meeting in the oval office earlier this week just a few days ago, our priority now is to make sure this progress sticks. that is why president obama is considering a number of options to reinforce our support for president gainey's security strategy including possible changes to the timeline for our draw down of u.s. troops. that could mean taking another look the at timing and sequencing of base closures to make sure we have the right array of coalition capabilities to

good morning, i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm christi paulson. glad to have you here. >> we are getting video with a manhunt out for the killer of moscow's president. his killers are still at large and the supporters are bringing flowers and candles to the spot where he was killed. cnn's senior international correspondent fred fiken is there, what do we know about this car, fred? >> reporter: well, we know that since the late evening hours when this killing happened that the police have been saying they have been searching for a white car. it was really in the early stages of the investigation that we heard that eyewitnesss had seen a white car stop in front of boris' office. and a friend he was with from ukraine here opened fire and then sped off. and so certainly there was a manhunt underway. also specifically they are looking for a white car. it was interesting as we drove around moscow late last night and there were white cars being stopped frequently as police were clearly looking for the suspects. now, still it is unclear who was driving th