you have been following white supremacists in the military for some time.an you talk about the reaction to the killings in wisconsin, and the more you hear about the profile of wade michael page? >> the interesting thing about page is, you quoted "stars and stripes >> article that said he was completely open about his white supremacist and neo-nazi inclinations in the 1990's. remember, during that time, this was after the trauma that you mentioned, and the bombings in oklahoma carried out by timothy mcveigh, another veteran of the first gulf war, who was decorated with a bronze star as well. military in the mid-1990s was embarrassed by the fact these first the veteran had committed murder indiscriminately. the narrative is, there are cracking down at this time. page's example shows this was not the case. even the 10 regulations that exist were completely jettison during the war on terror. i spent years talking to veterans, much like page, and far right leaders, who basically said there was an open-door policy during the war on terror. you could enter with s

is also looking into page's possible ties with white supremacist groups. >> he apparently was in a whiteist band backed by a label that's based here in maryland. the owner of that label is baltimore. we have more on page's ties to our area. >> reporter: wade michael page was a member of two white supremacist bands,. he was the lead vocalist and paid guitar. it's my space page features photographs of wade page and band members playing in front of a nazi flag. in an interview

on monday, the southern poverty law center revealed page was connected to the white supremacist movementand a member of two white power bands named and apathy and definite hate. the southern poverty law center described him as a "frustrated neo-nazi who the leader of a racist white power band." according to a profile in the "milwaukee journal sentinel," he used the phrase "dirt people close >> to describe people who were not white. he lost his job as a truck driver after five years. he lost his home when it was foreclosed by wells fargo. wade michael page have been on the radar for the fbi for several years. teresa carlson said he did not present an obvious threat. >> we did not have an active investigation on him prior to yesterday. >> [unintelligible] >> there may be references to him in various files, and those are being analyzed right now, but we have no reason to believe, as far as i know, no law enforcement agency had no idea he was planning are capable of such violence. >> to talk more about the significance of the shooting and the identity of the gunmen, we're joined by don walke

we learned the gunman, army veteran wade michael page, was a white supremacist.s show hate groups are on the rise. they counted 1,000 active hate groups in the u.s. and 7,000 hate crimes were reported. this chart shows what we're talking about, hate groups in america in the last decade. you see it right there, a disturbing trend, which is why we're putting "hate in the usa" in focus this morning. this hour we want to discuss the presence of white supremacy groups on our military bases. some say it's more prominent than you might think. our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence explains. >> well, randi, the military has very strict rules that say troops cannot be a member of a white power group or have any sort of racist tattoos on their body, but there are a small number of believers in the ranks, and they're everywhere from boot camp all the way up to special operations forces. wade michael page's belief in white power was tattooed all over his body, as his myspace photo shows. but back at ft. bragg, you couldn't tell by looking at it. >> he didn't have the tatt

he was also a member of a white supremacist white core band called apathy.e's victims including temple president whose niece said he tried to fight back. >> witnesses said that he took him in a grip to kind of wrestle him hoping that the gun would fall. but in the end he got wounded. he got shot. >> eliot: both local police and the fbi were at page's home last night, five miles from the shooting. >> this remains an active% investigation. we're investigating it as a possible act of domestic terrorism. however, motive is still being assessed at this time. we had no reason to believe and as far as i know no law enforcement had any reason to believe that he was planning plotting or capable of such violence. >> eliot: first lady michelle obama said, the people of oak creek must know that the american people have them in their hearts and prayers. and mitt romney reached out saying a senseless act of violence. we join americans everywhere in mourning those who lost their lives and in prayer for their families in the difficult days add. but there we wanted more. >>

cnn has been able to confirm that the gunman was an army veteran who may have been a white supremacist male wearing a white t-shirt and having a tattoo that commemorated 9/11. searching a house six miles from the temple that is believed to be the rented home of the suspected gunman. the chief of police saying because of the nature of the town, the fbi is going to be involved too. >> we're treating this as a domestic terrorist type incident and therefore the fbi has the resources needed to help investigate that. >> one of the heroes on sunday was seen in this facebook photo, the president of the temple, killed when he tried to tackle the gunman and shot in the back. >> the fbi in denver says a suicidal person who made threats against oil and gas sites in western colorado is in custody. investigators have been conducting sweems of a refinery and surrounding area but haven't found any public safety issues. part of highway 6 and 50 was closed for a while but has been reopened. >>> those wildfires are still burning in parts of oklahoma this morning. a monster blaze between mannford and kell

a front for white supremacist gangs. asatru members have been allowed to hold services at some prisons but wabash has banned such gatherings. >> the white supremacy gang members are using the services to have their gang meetings within the services themselves and it's been quite disruptive at the other facilities. >> murray denies any ties to white supremacist gangs and has decided to file a grievance to appeal the ban of group meetings. >> it's not gang. it does not promote gang mentality or any criminal elements at all the. it's a religion based on virtue and knowledge. >> the ban also hasn't stopped murray from recruiting new members. his latest, william jones jr. >> marcus has been teaching me about what the hammer means. what the different gods and goddesses are. >> jones, who also denies being a white supremacist, came to wabash three years ago at age 18 and sentenced to six years for burglary. >> i was hanging out with the wrong people and i strung out on drugs and broke into a house and took a tv and a bunch of ot

>> well, tattoos are everything in the white supremacist culture. i looked at one of his tattoos online. it had the word 14. which is an acronym for one of the white supremacy logos. >> also, 88 i've seen has some significance. >> 88 is their heil hitler. 88th of the alphabet. >> you say acting as a lone wolf is a tactic in the modern day supremacist movement. >> it is. lone wolf tactic has been around for a while. there's a point system for the lone wolf. and they love to use that tactic. it eliminates anybody else getting in trouble. a larger group of people won't go to prison or go to jail. >> i'm also curious, t.j., about your personal story, and how you were able to go from at one point, you know, believing these hate-filled messages and to a point where you now are actively working against it. can you explain a little bit about how you got out of it? >> okay, i'm sorry, can you repeat that? >> yeah, i'm curious about how you basically changed your mind. i mean, you were once involved in the white supremacist movement. you were a skin head, you

nor the only hint of his apparently long-held white supremacist beliefs.ht the latest in efforts to pin down any and all hate group connections he may have had. now earlier today, president obama reacted to that possibility. >> i think the american people immediately recoil against those kinds of attitudes, and i think it will be very important for us to reaffirm once again that in this country, regardless of what we look like, where we come from, who we worship, we are all one people, and we look at one another and we respect one another. >> mitt romney called the shooting a tragedy that should never befall any house of worship. nationwide there's been increased security at many sikh temples. tonight, we'll talk to local leaders here who are worried this exact thing might happen. worried about a rise in violence against the sikh community. not just here but across the nation. as always, focus as much as we can on who the victims were, what their lives were like, who the hs

extremist views or references to white supremacist mantra. so far, no angry blog or hate- filled manifesto. police caution we may never know exactly what motivated the deadly shooting spree. the fbi is taking the lead in the investigation working to determine whether the killings were an act of domestic terrorism. >> we are looking at ties to white supremacist groups. >> we can say he was in the military 1992 to 1998. he had a general discharge and that he was ineligible for re- enlistment. >> we had no rope to believe that he was planning or capable of such violence. >> reporter: we have learned that there may be some financial trouble. his home was in foreclosure and had been sold it a bank in january. people was killed by a police officer after he opened fire on complete strangers at the wisconsin temple on sunday. members of the sikh community are calling it a hate crime. investigators say there is a lot of information to decipher in trying to find a motive for this shooting. coming up later this morning, we'll hear from the shooter's ste

the suspect was a white supremacist or a skinhead. including the gunman, were killed. >>> nasa's mars rover curiosity has started sending back pictures of the red planet capping off an eight-month, 350-million-mile journey. >>> one man was killed and several others injured after lightning strikes hit the pocono raceway in pennsylvania. >>> more heat and showers across the south. >>> one young athlete that learned the hard way that there's more to winning than just scoring a goal. >> he had to make a public apology to his fellow airline passengers. >> reporter: from flight attendant freakouts like this american airlines worker. >> get out of my way! >> reporter: to steven slater's infamous bleep you to a passenger. and alec baldwin's words with a stewardess over words with friends, we have grown accustomed to an impolite attitude on board. >> my fellow travelers, today, i ard you with great remorse. >> reporter: 17-year-old lacrosse player max breedlove was traveling to a tournament. he thought he could beat the first come, first seat

. >> basically we began to in the him when he began to play white supremacist rock-n-roll groups. that began in 2000. we have seen interferes he has given in white supremest website when he talks about leaving his native state of colorado to embark on the tour of the white supremacist world. from that point forward he got involved in a lot of different bands, bands with names like intimidation one the blue-eyed devils. these are well-known neo-nazi bands on the white supremacist music scene. ultimately this guy began his own band called end apathy. i think that's an interesting part of his history because it is quite clear from an interview he gave a couple of years ago. when he talked about the name end apathy it related to his attitude towards the white supremacist movement. he basically looked around and looked at the bands and the organizations on the radical right and felt these people were doing nothing. that people needed to stand up and do something to make the movement get up and go. he didn't talk about what that something might be. he didn't talk about violence or hatred

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in a 2010 interview with the white supremacist website, wade michael page said he started playing in white power bands in 2000. according to an intelligence firm that scans the internet for extremist activity, page also posted hundreds of messages on white supremacist websites since march of 2010. >> my sense is that we are not talking about someone who was on the fringes of the scene but really someone who was in the thick of the white supremacist world, and especially the music world. >> authorities, however, have not uncovered any writings by page that indicate he was planning the attack. sources tell cbs news federal officials came across page's name during various investigations but that he was never a target. >> we had no reason to believe and as far as i know, no law enforcement agency had any reason to believe that he was planning or plotting or capable of such violence. >> the 40-year-old page joined the army in 1992, but he was demoted and later discharged in 1998 for being drunk on duty and absent without leave. sources say page legally purchased the .9-millimeter pistol h

and basically explained it as a message to his colleagues, his fellows in the white supremacist world, essentially saying "we've got to act now." he really didn't go into any detail. he didn't talk specifically about violence or hating muslims or sikhs or anything like that but it seemed very clear he was itching for action. >> do you believe this kind of extremism, white supremacist, also other forms of extremism, is that on the increase in america, do you believe? >> oh, i think there's no question about it at all. one of the things we do at the southern poverty law center is count the number of groups on the extreme right. and we've had just explosive growth. in particular, militia-type groups. groups we used to call militias in the 1990s. this expansion this amazing expansion, came immediately after the election of barack obama. so i think what is really going on out there is there are an awful lot of people in this country who have heard about the loss of white majority. the census bureau have said whites will lose their majority in this country by the year 2050. and who feel inc

small numbers of white supremacists have infiltrated most parts of the military to. while he was at fort bragg, three soldiers were caught and convicted of murdering a black couple outside of the state's theory is all or identified as a neo-nazi skinheads. fact >> this is a former marine and skinhead that says some military units ignored racism. >> used to hang a swastika. everyone in my unit knew it. the only time asked me to take the dow was with a commanding general came through. >> that is not to say it happens across the board, >> it is a all day around the bay area in some places. in other places a scorching hot stay. temperatures in the '50s. once you go inland is a different story. right now 95 degrees. we have a big spread on temperatures. 50s at the coast into triple digits inland. for tonight, a meteor shower taking place. >> here is the satellite view. fog at the coast. as we get closer to 9:00 the bay fog should be gone. tomorrows temperatures will be once again in the '80s for the south bay. low 90s in the south. okay, here's the plan. you have a plan?

military veteran who may have ties to the white supremacist group. he served in the army for six years and a pentagon official says he rose to the rank of sargeant before being demoted and leaving the military. fbi believes page act add lone. he wants to speak to associates as it investigates a possible hailt crime. >>> that is part of the investigation. tracking down family members associates and friends, asking questions that is ongoing at this point. i don't want to talk about specifics. we're looking at ties to white supremacist groups, of course. >> three of the wounded victims are still in the hospital and they're in critical condition. and including first responding officer that was shot and is expect today recover. >> the pain where many feel the sikh religion feels misunderstood. leaders pry trying to promote tolerance and understanding. david louie joins us with that part of the story. >> there are churches and temples throughout the bay area, such as the church on the hill. as much as symbols of religious freedom, inner faith council belie

when you first realized what had happened, and you discovered it was a man believed to be a white supremacist, what was your reaction to that? have the sikh community been fearing an attack of this nature? have you felt like you've been vulnerable? >> yeah, i think my first reaction was to be honest with you, i could guess it was a case of mistaken identity. but later on what i felt was, you know, maybe we as a community has not been able to, you know, explain to people what we are. had that guy had just an iota of thought about sikh religion or little speck of what sikh beliefs are, i think he would not have even thought of harming us, you know, because we believe in universal brotherhood. we don't believe in -- we don't have any conflict against any nation. we don't have any conflict against any work. i think we as sikhs probably our leadership might have failed somewhere with the public relations. we have not been able to explain what we are. what we do for the humanity. had that guy knew that, i think he would not have gone to that extent. at least coming to the sikh temple. and hitting u

and in an interview with white supremacist website, he talked about that end apathy meant.nd basically what he was saying is people in the white supremacist world talk a lot but don't act much. and he wanted to at least give the name to his band to suggest people should get out and do something. it's worth saying, he didn't specifically talk about violence. >> what do you know about the people he was hanging around with? if he was in a band, he had associates. what do you know about them and what are you going to find out? >> when we talk about these bands, we're really talking about bands with neonazi beliefs. these are bands that as a general matter sing about murdering jews, murdering black people, murdering so-called race mixers and so on. his friends were very much like he was. one of his band mates and, in fact, a roommate of his at one point was a guy who was a member of the confederate hammer skins. the confederate hammer skins are part of the larger hammer skin nation. this is, you know, the scariest skin head group out there. really a terrifying and violent group

this man-- identified as a white supremacist- pleads guilty to a federal hate crime. alleged members of the anarchist group --american charges including anti-american paramilitary training and planning an attack in central florida. prosecutors say their ultimate aim is race war against jews, immigrants and other minorities. trials are scheduled for later this year. which brings us back to sikh temple shooter wade page. how do you stop an apparent lone wolf? "the sad fact is that wade page is just one of thousands of people, who look like him with the racist tattoos, who say vile things about kiiling jews or blacks or whatever the case might be. but he decided to step over to violence, and most people won't, and it's very very hard to know when that's going to happen." the fbi says unless there's a threat of violence, agents cannot arrest them, no matter how hateful the speech. susan candiottt, cnn, new york. -----end----- cnn.script----- internet...at warp speed! speed!the state with the fastest connection... that's not far. far.and later...a water fun fight... causes

they appealed to the harford county sheriff's office to do patrols, convinced that the white supremacist misdirected his hate at the temple. >> they have mistaken them for muslims. we are concerned they might be looking out for a muslim place of worship and not a sikh place of worship. >> reporter: the sheriff has agreed to increase security although they have not received information that a threat is imminent. they will hold an open house tomorrow night to encourage understanding. jeff hager, abc2 news. >>> hundreds of jeep owners complained about a shake and shimmy with their wranglers. what you should do. >> amazing video from inside a cockpit as a plane goes down in a field. >> i'm meteorologist mike masco. it's been clear. storms have started to form. we'll track. it are avenue watching -- you're watching abc2 news at 5. >>> we are one month away from the airing of the katie couric show. here's katie with more. >> we're a month away from the launch of katie, my new daytime show. i've been thinking about the kinds of stories i want to talk about -- technology, for example, and how it

you are hearing anything that is possibly saying they linked this man's involvement in this white supremacist band and motives in this shooting? >> of course, we do not know, you know, what his motivations are. what was inside his head. we can tell that you the white supremacy rock band he was in, end apathy, was very much involved in this white supremacist movement. this feeling that the -- >> drew, i'm going to cut you off. i'm so sorry. i believe we have the press conference start right now and the latest involving this shooting at the sikh temple. let's go to it live. >> a couple of ground rules for this morning. i'm going to introduce tout order of speakers this morning. after which we'll -- after their presentations, we'll follow it up with questions. first will be the mayor. second will be police chief john edwards. third is fire chief tom rosenditch. fourth is united states attorney james santel. fifth is fbi special agent in charge teresa charlson. and fifth is bernard zeeper, special agent in charge for atl. thank you. john edwards, police chief. >> i'm sorry. the mayor is first. >>

the white supremacist movement in the united states today actually has five main submovements in it--hies supremacists, like the ku klux klan. racist prison gangs. christian identity, which is a racist and antisemitic religious sect. and racist skinheads. and racist skinheads have more or less the same ideology as the neo-nazis do, but what differentiates them is racist skinheads also constitute a distinct subculture where they have a subcult that you are began in great britain in the late 60s and early 70s and eventually a racist offshoot of that subculture developed and came to the united states. and they have distinct traditions and clothing and hairstyles, and musical styles, and like any subculture-- like the punk subculture, or the goth subculture. so the hammer skins are distinct because they're one of the most respected groups in that subculture, and in particular, they have a very dominant role in the white power music scene in the united states, hosting every year a number of the major white power music consers -- major by their stashedz-- and a number of white power music b

to read a clip from that report if we could bring it up there it states quote threats from white supremacists and violent anti-government groups there in two thousand and nine have been largely rhetorical and have not indicated plans to carry out violent acts nevertheless the consequences of a pro law and economic downturn including real estate foreclosures unemployment and an inability to obtain credit could create a fertile recruiting and vironment for right wing extremists and even result in confrontations between such groups and government authorities similar to those in the past can you darrell a lab or a down on what you mean by that and also. so the media response that you got to this report well basically what a right wing extremism is is we're talking about people that are motivated by hate white supremacist members of the ku klux klan neo nazis racist skinheads it also encompasses those who have extremist views towards the government including the militia extremists that are basically conducting paramilitary training and also sovereign citizens these are groups and individuals who b

schieffer: six people were killed but one. >> we are looking at ties to white supremacist groups. e> schieffer: reports from elaine quijano, bob orr and ben tracy. orpicture perfect landing on mars. john blackstone with the geometry-failing engineer behind the mission. wildfires in oklahoma. residents return for what's left of their homes. they mey made the ultimate sacrifice. david martin with the 13-year- old doing all he can to help their families. >> you were working 15, 16 hour days. >> it was a sacrifice i was willing to make. captioning sponsored by cbs veaptioning sponsored by cbs with scott pelle this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> schieffer: good evening, scott's off tonight, i'm bob schieffer. why? it's the question we all ask when congresswoman gabrielle 'sffords was shot last year it's the question we asked after the aglorado shooting two weeks ago. it is the question being asked estionafter the shooting at the it is the sikh temple in wisconsin yesterday that left six dead and a lawman and two other people why?ically wounded. why? why would someone w

at the sikh temple we had an individual that was a member of a white supremacist movement and had an ideology that basically fit a fear of muslims and i do believe you know in my professional opinion that this individual mistook the sikh temple as a gathering place for muslims in the colorado case it was more of a person that was mentally ill who had no ideology to further them towards violence and didn't really have a political objective behind their attack so it's important to differentiate between those two right glad that you brought attention to an important distinction there. do you think this kind of reflects this shift in attitude this is breeding islamophobia. apparently that. the suspect was mistaken because in this case they were actually muslim but i mean something bigger going on here and this post nine eleven country this world that we left it there right after nine eleven we saw a lot of anti muslim sentiment that spilled out into violent acts against muslims and unfortunately there were several attacks against sikhs around that time and then more recently within the p