i'm poppy harlow in today for fredricka whitfield fr. >>> dangerous heat affecting 2 1/2 million store victims in the southeast. >>> in colorado police are telling wildfire evacuees to be on the lock jute for buokout fo bears. >>> mexico holds an historic vote. >>> first the stifling heat wave that's creating dangerous conditions in the midwest, south and northeast. take a look at the predicted highs for today. 103 where i'm sitting in atlanta. 20 states are under heat warnings or advisories right now. the sizzling temperatures aren't just uncomfortable, they can be life threatening, especially people who don't have air conditioning. that's the unfortunate reality in a lot of northeast right now after storms knocked out power to millions of homes. athena jones joins us from a cooling center in burke, virginia. give me a sense of what officials are saying about when power's going to be fully restored there. >> reporter: good afternoon, poppy. of course this power is just the top of enone's mine. in maryland power company officials say it is going to take up to a week for full restoratio

fredricka whitfield talked with kate maxwell of jetsetter.com to find out what you can do other thanng to the games if you're going to cross the pond. >> really london is known for some pretty fabulous museums all year round. let's begin with the tape modern. >> as you say, london's museums are really capitalizing on the influx of tourists over the olympic and mounding some fantastic blockbuster exhibitions. the tape modern has damian hurst, one of the world's most unflu influence controversial markets. there are spot paintings. there's even a room of live butterflies, believe it or not. definitely check that out. his dime encrusted and platinum skull worth something like 50 million pounds. really facts and controversial exhibition. >> that skull makes me think of alexander mcqueen, one of the more prominent fashion artists -- or late fashion designer. >> right. >> really, british fashion has received a kind of resurgence because of kate middleton. that's why you may want to stop by the victorian albert museum? >> it is london's big art and museum design. they have an exhibition of 6

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mal whitfield. he is 87 now.ng will stop him from heading to london tomorrow 64 years after winning the 800 meters and the 4 x 400 relay and winning bronze in the 400 meters. he won't be alone. my brother lonnie and i will escort my dad who is anxious to reunite with a host of other 48ers like sammy lee, harrison dillard, herb douglas, all making the journey across the pond to london. we call them the '48ers. dad with his fellow olympians from that historic games are featured in a "new york times" beautiful photo gallery. you'll want to check that out. you can hear them in their own words as well at ny times.com. hear their stories of inspiration and how they now in their 80s and 90s continue to keep that olympic flame burning bright. >>> all right. mitt romney made his appearance at the olympics and now he's moved on to his next stop, israel. he's getting ready for some high level meetings. inin t thehe b b. eveverery y titimeme o of f. ououtdtdoooorsrs, , oro. trtranansisititiononss® ls auautotomamatiticacallll

now i toss over to fredricka whitfield, and good day to you whitfield, and good day to you all. -- captionsedricka whitfield in for suzanne malveaux. in this hour, mitt romney manages to make headlines with foot in mouth comments that offended the british prime minister and the mayor of london and other stories that we are following and right to it. people are mopping up and assess ing the damage in parts of the northeast today and a series of severe storms swept through communities in new jersey and pennsylvania and new york and the storms left hundreds of thousands of customers without power. a brooklyn man was killed after lightning hit a church causing a scaffold to fall on him. a falling tree crushed a pennsylvania woman's car. >> i was coming home from the grocery store and the sky was pitch black and next thing you know the back door swinging open and my son is yelling from the front of the house, get out here and get out here, and came out and watching the trees fall and it is chaos. >> we will check in with the cnn severe weather

whitfield. >> well, thank you mr. stear. i'delighted e ovsiveateeya r omeereni together in this important hearing. everyone in america is very much aware f solyndra nd slyndra fithdegomee frmany. os gha ilon dollars loan guarantee to a company so inept that it's gone bankrupt unless the american taxpayer holding the bag. second, the facthat george isma esin ndaso jo ra f president obama and kept a questioning motivation of this loan and solyndra is not the only cub any thtivaoa ra tise nk. u'otco power, balance solar and others. all things onsidered, there is more than enough evidence to declare this program a failure. infac,oeeid w s ffoe president. it has been a failure for a lot of reasons. one, lack of transparency. two, costly for taxpayers at a time when we have andhfrid asedealbtdnnl fi thhc nth case of bankruptcy, the lawyers of solyndra and the lawyers for the department of energy and the administration agreed to subordinate the taxpayer s that the private invesrs get their neyc istane ay last is really almost unbel

joining me now with more on that part of the story is fredricka whitfield.poke with an actress who is also a parent advocate, working to prevent bullying among girls, certainly a topic i know i'm passionate about. tell us more about that. >> reporter: oh, yeah. i mean, this is really a fascinating set of panels that they have going on here. of course, like all the music and the musicians that you just mentioned are here in the essence music festival, but they have some incredible empowerment panels. i just spoke with an actress you probably know from "without a trace." well, coming up this fall, she has a new movie called "won't back down," and it really is about education reform. she's a mother of two, going to school right here in the united states. she has an own personal observations about the frustrations and the real things to celebrate about the educational system here in the states. so, she's going to be part of a panel today to talk about how it's so important that education systems at schools continue to encourage their parents to be as involved as

i'm fredricka whitfield. we start in syria. this is the most senior syrian diplomat to defect and support the country's uprising. nawaf al-fares defected last week and sat down with our ivan watson for his first television interview with the u.s. network. he says the country is a totaltar ian regime. >> reporter: in 2003 after the toppling of the regime the syrian regime felt threatened so they coordinated with al qaeda and had an agreement to keep the road open to iraq. militants came from all over the world through syrian under the eyes of the syrian police who are responsible for the killing of iraqi and american forces. he trained and provided shelter and built safe havens for al qaeda to hide in. i remember one of the safe havens. the americans raided it in 2008 and captured prisoners. this was a hiding place for al qaeda on the border with iraq. it was under the control of a brother-in-law of the president. >> who is making the decisions in damascus right now? who is directing the syrian government policy facing this upri

our fredricka whitfield caught up with some of them and asked them about diversity on the team and whatit means to people watching back home. >> reporter: 2008 olympic gold medalist cullen jones relishes the idea of being a role model. >> i think that's huge. i can't tell you how many family members i knew picked up a driver because they saw tiger woods doing it. i think that the beacon of seeing someone that looks like you that is excelling in a sport, like i said, getting out of a bad situation, those are the glimpses of hope people see. >> reporter: jones is part of something historically different about usa swimming. he's one of three athletes with african-american heritage who will compete for the u.s. the first time there's ever been more than one. growing up in new jersey, jones learned to swim at age 5 after nearly drowning at a water park. now he helps teach other minority kids to swim through usa swimming foundation's make a splash program. he knows it will take time before those efforts create more minority swimmers with olympic dreams. >> good job. all right. i don't know if

whitfield -- six minutes for mr. whitfield. >> well, thank you, mr. stearns, and i'm delighted that the oversight and investigation and energy and power subcommittees are joining together today in this important hearing. everyone in america is very much aware of solyndra. and solyndra is troublesome for many reasons. first, the federal government chose to give half a billion dollars loan guarantee to a company so inapt that it is gone bankrupt and left the american taxpayer holding the bag. second, fact that george kaiser, a major investor in solyndra, was also a major fundraiser for president obama, cast a questioning motivation of this loan. and solyndra is not the only company that received a loan guarantee that has gone bankrupt. you've got beacon power, you've got abound solar, and there are others. all things considered, there is more than enough evidence to declare this program a failure. in fact, some people said it really was a slush fund for the president. it's been a failure for a lot of reasons. one, lack of transparency. two, costly for t

whitfield. and then i give myself four minutes for my opening statement. chairman upton, proud sponsor of the no more solyndras act. product of an 18 month oversight investigation. today marks a turning point in the investigation. we gather to consider it a little fix problems during our investigation. the cylinder at investigation and introduction of the no more solyndras not is a great example of how more oversight should work. ask us questions, collect facts and identify problems and offer legislative solutions. solyndras was the first recipient under title 17 of the energy policy act and the poster child for president obama's green energy program. it is also the first stimulus pact recipients of the d.o.e. loan guarantee in the first to file for bankruptcy just two years after the long closed in six months after d.o. we've restructured the loud and supported they did private investors. all but ensuring taxpayers will see it done. through the first five companies that received the department of energy has now filed for bankruptcy and hundreds of million

that will do it for me, and fredricka whitfield is up next fredricka whitfield is up next hour. -- captionse he could do it, michael. welcome to "newsroom" i'm fredricka whitfield. we will focus on the economy and issues at home. barack obama is spending the day with the country's newest citizens where the president took part in a naturalization ceremony for members of the military, and homeland secretary janet napolitano swore them in, and tonight there will be a celebration on the north lawn at the white house. >>> and no power. that is the extremely uncomfortable position that people find themselves in after weekend storms knocked out power from il toile the nation's capital, and the most outages five days after the storms h

my friend, my colleague, fredricka whitfield will be back here on this very chair tomorrow in atlanta is having a great time in new orleans and has a special guest with her right now. right, fred? >> reporter: you're doing a great job holding down the fort. here at the essence fest, yes, there are a lot of incredible talents. powerful talents, all that you just mentioned but also some brilliant minds who have come together to provoke some very stimulating conversation. some really forward thinking discussions taking place. you know, on the heels of the u.s. supreme court ruling, upholding the affordable health care act, there remained disparities among health care. particularly in the black community. and that's one of the things that we'll be discussing today during a panel that i'm mod rating later on this afternoon called women's agenda. and among those panelists will be dr. freda lewis hall who is with me now. dr. julian malveaux. the editor-in-chief of essence magazine, and an entrepreneur who has her own web cast. we'll be about a number of things from health care to the family

this is big news. >>> welcome back, i'm fredricka whitfield.s just in, and we understand two days now before the opening ceremony in in olympics in london, nine olympians have been suspended for doping according to the olympic federation. those are three russians and two ukranians and one bulgarian and one moroccan and one greek and one turkish national and apparently the tests conducted measured changes of the blood profile which intimates that sophisticated doping may have been used, including human growth hormones and all of this taking place on the same day just moments after we learned that one greek olympian has been removed from the team because of offensive remarks she made on twitter about african athletes. so all of of the athletes just two days shy of the opening s ceremonies in london. all right. meantime, the mystery lady is a mystery no more. >>> turns out the woman who has been beside north korea's new leader at public events is his wife. that is according to reports from the neighboring south korea based on an announcement heard

the woman whose seat i am keeping very warm right now, fredricka whitfield is in new orleans.lots of powerful panels and, of course, powerful music and musicians. just take a look behind me. that's charlie wilson of the gap band who has launched a single career right now and you can see a huge crowd has turned out just to get a glimpse of charlie wilson, a picture of him and maybe a chance to kind of summon him over and ask him a few questions. it's happened like that all morning long here at the convention center. also today, talk about those powerful panels. national urban league mark will be returning to his home city, once mayor here in new orleans, along with congresswoman maxine waters and a number of other people will talk politics today. what's at stake be for you. just four months away from the national election. and then among the great panels that have been taking place here, i had the privilege of talking to vanessa williams and her mom helen williams who had come out, cowritten a book together "you have no idea." it talks about the mother/daughter relationship and

i'm fredricka whitfield.ruggling to come to grips with the horrifying act of violence. deadly shooting rampage at a local theater. this is a live picture right now from andrews air force base. president of the united states will soon be heading to colorado, meeting with the victims and their families. >>> tonight the community in aurora will come together to memorialize the 12 lives lost in that rampage. today people are seeking comfort and support at morning church services. >>> cnn's kyung lah is live in aurora. you've been hearing some very incredible stories from people who survived the rampage. how are they dealing with today? is it any easier? >> reporter: certainly not. we're only talking about a short period of time that's passed since that rampage happened. i've been speaking to patients in the hospitals, family members, their relatives, their friends, and they are telling stories that are horrific. they are all traumatized. i can tell you that within these terrible stories were also remarkable stori

i'm fredericka whitfield. we want to bring you up-to-date surrounding the movie massacre.rather quickly this hour in aurora, colorado. the scene of the mass shooting at the movie theater that left 12 people dead. new developments at the shooting suspect's apartment now, just moments ago, a controlled detonation of sorts. you heard the boom there. all we understand is that police actually yelled "fire in the hole" three times after placing some sort of wiring through the window by way of bomb experts that were in a bucket that were lifted to that third floor level. they placed some sort of wiring in there and we understand from our security analysts who we spoke to last hour who was explained to us that a device would then be shot into the window when they felt like we had a good point of view. so you heard the boom there. still unclear from the police department whether this was mission accomplished. we don't know if they actually hit their target. we hope to hear more details and we are hearing from former assistant director of the fbi tom fuentes. you've had familiarity

i'm fredricka whitfield. stay with cnn. "your money" starts right after this. it's time to live wider awake. only the beautyrest recharge sleep system combines the comfort of aircool memory foam layered on top of beautyrest pocketed coils to promote proper sleeping posture all night long. the revolutionary recharge sleep system... from beautyrest. it's you, fully charged. >>> an economic storm is headed our way. i've given you the proof but you're demanding to know how we got here in the first place. i'm ali velshi. welcome to "your money." as long as your politicians don't tell you the truth about our economy i will. >>> slowdowns in europe and asia are creating economic headwinds that are strong enough to blow us into another recession. that's where we are today but i'm so caught up in avoiding this recession that some of you think i'm not paying enough attention to how we got here and you may be right because we've got limited time and we need solutions and right now, those solutions, many of them, lie with congress. but there are causes and there are many o

that will do it for me, and fredricka whitfield is up next fredricka whitfield is up next hour. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> of course he could do it, michael. welcome to "newsroom" i'm fredricka whitfield. we will focus on the economy and issues at home. barack obama is spending the day with the country's newest citizens where the president took part in a naturalization ceremony for members of the military, and homeland secretary janet napolitano swore them in, and tonight there will be a celebration on the north lawn at the white house. >>> and no power. that is the extremely uncomfortable position that people find themselves in after weekend storms knocked out power from il toile the nation's capital, and the most outages five days after the storms hit, west virginia. 5,000 homes are without air conditioning in the middle of a brutal heat wave. cnn's brian todd is there. >> fredricka, temperatures are spiking here in west virginia where it is to get up to 95, and well on the way to that right now. power is out for roughly one quarter to a third of the customers in west virgin

now i toss over to fredricka whitfield, and good day to you whitfield, and good day to you all. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> hello, everyone. i'm fredricka whitfield in for suzanne malveaux. in this hour, mitt romney manages to make headlines with foot in mouth mments that offended the british prime minister and the mayor of london and other stories that we are following and right to it. people are mopping up and assess ing the damage in parts of the northeast today and a series of severe storms swept through communities in new jersey and pennsylvania and new york and the storms left hundreds of thousands of customers without power. a brooklyn man was killed after lightning hit a church causing a scaffold to fall on him. a falling tree crushed a pennsylvania woman's car. >> i was coming home from the grocery store and the sky was pitch black and next thing you know the back door swinging open and my son is yelling from the front of the house, get out here and get out here, and came out and watching the trees fall and it is chaos. >> we will check in with the cnn severe weather

i'm fredricka whitfield. >>> we start in syria with surprising new revelations. a former top official says the country provided shelter an built safe havens for al qaeda for years. this is the most senior syrian diplomat to defect and publicly support the country's uprising. former syrian ambassador to iraq defected last week. he sat down with our ivan watson for his first television interview with the u.s. network. he says the country is "a totalitarian regime and a dictatorship. and all orders come from president assad." >> translator: in 2003 after the american invasion of iraq a toppling of the syrian regime, they had an agreement with al qaeda so keep the road open to iraq so militants started coming from all over the world to syria under the eyes of the syrian secret police who are directly responsible for the killing of thousands of iraqis and coalition forces. he trained and provided shelter and built safe havens for al qaeda to hide in. >> he is the second high-profile sooun official to break within the regime in a week. ivan, did he say why he defected

i'm rob marciano, in today for fredricka whitfield. we begin in israel where republican presidential candidate mitt romney gets tough on iran in a speech to israelis, but also aimed at u.s. voters. let's bring in right now cnn's sara seidner in jerusalem where romney just delivered that speech. sara, set the stage for us there. >> reporter: well, he was standing with the old city behind him, a very beautiful picture and one that very much talks of the region that he is in. but he had some very, very strong words about iran. this is really the first major foreign policy speech that we're hearing from mitt romney. he chose israel as the place where he would give that speech. you can hear there the applause, the israelis in the audience really liked what he said. he talked of iran, he talked of the fact that he believes that the united states has to lead the effort in preventing iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. iran has denied it is trying to obtain nuclear weapons, saying that its nuclear program is only aimed at trying to build its

. >>> you're in the cnn newsroom, i'm fredricka whitfield. an you a tist ek man is recovering after wandering for more than three weeks in utah's desert. rescuers found the 28-year-old man yesterday starving and dehydrated but alive. he says he survived on frogs, roots, and river water. cnn's nick valencia is here with more on this journey. how did it begin? how did they find him? so many questions. >> it is shocking would he survive something like this. 28-year-old autistic man, lost in the wilderness for three weeks. we know what happened to william la fever. about june 6, june 7, he called his father from boulder, utah. originally from can colorado springs. somehow without a vehicle he gets to boulder, utah. he called his father and said he was robbed of his camping ger and needs money to get to page, arizona to get to his sister. he dezads it take this 15-mile long river hike and he gets lost. by himself. he was with his dog. his dog, trustee companion, took off on him. and he was by himself when the department of highway patrol and highw

debut.three swimmers on team usaaare of african american heritage.and as fredricka whitfield reports.ill inspire future generations. generations. 2008 olympic gold medalist cullen jones relishes the idea of being a role model."i can't tell you how many family members that picked up a driver because they saw tiger woods do it so i think that 3 the beacon of seeing someone that looks like you that is excelling in a sport like i said, getting out of a bad situation those are the glimpses of hope people see." jones is part of something historically different about usa swimming. he's one of three athletes with african-americaa heritage who will compete for the u.s. -- the first time there's ever been more than one. growing up in new jersey, jones learned to swim at age five, after nearly drowning at a water park. now he helps teach other minooity kids to swim through usa swimming foundation's make-a-splash program. he knows it will take time before those efforts create more minority swimmers with olympic dreams."i don't know if it will necessarily be in my lifetime or not, but i just think

i'm fredricka whitfield. aurora, colorado, a community struggling to come to grips with the horrifying act of violence. deadly shooting rampage at a local theater. this is a live picture right now from andrews air force base. president of the united states will soon be heading to colorado, meeting with the victims and their families. >>> tonight the community in aurora will come together to memorialize the 12 lives lost in that rampage. today people are seeking comfort and support at morning church services. >>> cnn's kyung lah is live in aurora. you've been hearing some very incredible stories from people who survived the rampage. how are they dealing with today? is it any easier? >> reporter: certainly not. we're only talking about a short period of time that's passed since that rampage happened. i've been speaking to patients in the hospitals, family members, their relatives, their friends, and they are telling stories that are horrific. they are all traumatized. i can tell you that within these terrible s

i'm frederica whitfield in atlanta. i want to bring you up to date on the investigation taking place in aurora, colorado. a press conference may begin just moments from now. of course we'll take you to that live as it happens. until then, here is the latest. that loud pop you're hearing there, this is the bomb squad carrying out a controlled detonation at the apartment complex where the suspect lived this as they slowly work to enter the booby trapped apartment of the suspect james holmes and a police spokesman made this announcement. >> it's been successful in disabling a second triggering device. although not certain, we are hopeful that we have eliminated the remaining major threat. however, we will not know this until we enter the apartment. >> we'll bring in ed eleven dara just outside that complex. >> now all the teams that they have here at the apartment complex which is that red brick building, now those teams that are on the ground because of that detonation, they used a water shot, which is like a water bottle

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i'm gary tuchman in for frederica whitfield. nine days and counting. a searing heat wave affecting a huge section of the united states is once again creating dangerous conditions from the midwest to the eastern seaboard. temperatures so high they are literally causing roads to buckle. in wisconsin, this warped road actually sent an suv flying into the air. that is a true picture. that is not made up. the heat is especially dangerous for people who don't have power and that is the situation facing hundreds of thousands of people who lost electricity during a major storm one week ago. and we have reporters covering all angles of this story. let's start now with meteorologist alexandra steele in the cnn weather center. how hot is it around the country today? >> i'll give you the two hot spots thus far. what do you think st. louis hit so far, gary? >> st. louis has hit, i can see it so i can cheat. 106 degrees. >> well, that was actually the forecast. >> oh, i see. i would say 107 degrees. >> 106. you were right the first time. >> okay. >> and rockford, il

i'm fredricka whitfield.lemon picks it up from here live from aurora. ♪ the one and only, cheerios >>> hello everyone. i'm don lemon. coming to you live from aurora, colorado you're in the cnn newsroom. let's get you up to speed now on what's happening here in aurora. a community still in deep shock today. the mayor of aurora talked to reporters a few minutes ago. he's been meeting with victims of yesterday's horrific movie theater shooting. this is the mayor. >> one of the people i met with this morning at the hospital was somebody who was hit with buckshot in his back, broken rib, punctured lung, broken collar bone. came out his back at the base of his neck. he is doing well right now, believe it or not. that's because he got to the hospital and because the doctors and nurses at the hospital do the best job that they can do. >> now about the apartment where the suspect, james holmes, lived. police say it was definitely booby trapped, rigged with trip wires and some sort of explosive devices. there is still

i'm fredricka whitfield. have a great weekend.ng to ford, the works fuel saver package could terally pay for itself. jim twitchel is this true? yes it's true. how is this possible? proper tire inflation, by using proper grades of oil, your car runs more efficiently, saves gas. you could be doing this right now? yes i could, mike. i'm slowing you down? yes you are. my bad. the works fuel saver package. just $29.95 or less after rebate. only at your ford dealer. so, to sum up, you take care of that, you take care of these, you save a bunch of this. that works. >>> good evening. i'm poppy harlow in for don lemon. let's get you up to speed on the news today. this is not good for the president of syria. one of his most senior officials had defected and now he is talking to cnn. he was until a few days ago the syrian ambassador to iraq. he lef his post, fled to another country and is now supporting the rebels trying to throw out president bashar al assad. >> the regime in syria is a totalitarian regime and dictatorship. there's only one

i'm rob marciano in for fr fredricka whitfield. sara, what's his reaction to his remarks. >> look. romney made very clear how strong he feels the u.s./israeli relationship needs to be. he talked very frankly about what he thought needs to happen with iran. he blasted iran. he said that he believed iran was getting closer and closer to trying to obtain nuclear wepts and united states must lead the effort from keeping iran from being able to obtain any kind of nuclear weaponry and also that he backed israel if israel would decide that it needed to strike iran to protect itself. >> with hezbollah rockets aimed at israel from the north and hamas rockets aimed from the south. with iran bent on nuclear arms, america's vocal and demonstrative commitment to the defense of israel is even more critical. whenever the security of israel is most in doubt, america's commitment to israel must be most secure. >> now, he said that the security of israel is also vital to the national security of the united states. you can see here him really making a push and trying to get not only the israelis who

lately they've become more -- >> i'm fredricka whitfield, see you again tomorrow noon eastern time.he situation room" and wolf blitzer. >>> fred, thank you very much. happening right now, mitt romney is preparing to sit down for a one-on-one interview right here on cnn. we're going to ask him to tell us exactly when he left bain capital, why he won't release more of his tax returns. his interview with our own jim acosta coming up here in "the situation room." also, president obama barnstorms across a battleground state he desperately needs to hold. >>> and the chilling video diary recorded by a man plotting to kill his own family. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> as we await jim acosta's interview with mitt romney, there are important new developments in a search for a running mate. we're seeing reports that there is now a short list of possibilities and the biggest name on that so-called short list is the former secretary of state, condoleezza rice. let's bring in dana bash. she's working the story for us. the name has been floated out there for a while. but al

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pat evans whitfield is a health department worker in fayetteville, north carolina. she wishes more hiv positive clients followed the law requiring only protected sex. >> we expect for you to abide by it because you're infecting someone else and we expect at some point we have to say hey, look, this has got to stop because it goes on and on. >> reporter: the purpose of this conference? exchange scientific and policy ideas to better develop strategies to combat aids and hiv. although treatments have improved tremendously in recent years, long time survival is now routine, not everybody gets the medicine. organizers of the conference estimate throughout the world 5,000 people die of aids every single day. in washington john henrehan, fox 5 news. >>> just ahead on the news at 10:00 the tragedy in colorado has lawmakers fired up. today many focused on rallying for stricter gun laws to stop more of these senseless crimes. our fox 5 political analyst mark plotkin will join us to weigh in on the issue. >> plus erasing the memory of joe pa, joe paterno's famous statue remove

welcome to the newsroom international, i'm fredricka whitfield in for the suzanne malveaux, and we aren 60 minutes. this is what is going on. iran's ambassador to the u.n. blames israel for suicide bombing in bull guerra that killed five israeli tourists. the bulgarian bus driver also died in the bus attack last week. they have accused iran and hezbollah for the bombing. and ehud barack is asking the world to speed up efforts on stopping the nuclear progress before it bombs israel. and to iran now. >>> oh, that is some olympic excitement taking over the city today as the golden torch makes a victory lap past landmarks there, and thousands of people have lined the streets looking for a glimpse and many are calling it a once in a lifetime opportunity. >> it is lovely to see everybody here. it is just brilliant. brilliant. >> we wanted to see the torch, because it is a once in a lifetime opportunity, and we wanted to get here earlier and show our support. >> reporter: was it worth it? >> very much so. we enjoyed it. the atmosphere and the fun, and people and everything, great. >> this is

. >>> today our own friederiedric whitfield goes face to face. has played for the rolling stones, the allman brothers but his passion extends beyond the stage. he was caught up at the new orleans jazz festival. >> reporter: so great to see you. you are as well known as conservationist as you are a musian playing with eric clapton, rolling stones, allman brothers. what is it about being so connected to the environment and making that commitment to your tree farm and wild life? how did that come to be? >> the first connection people ask me about it seems like a dichotomy. the first connection is the fact that the piano that gave me my career and livelihood comes from what resource of wood. ♪ we all need someone we can lean on ♪ >> there is a direct connection in that way. deeper than that my wife's family has been connected to the land for generations as farmers and being good stewards of the land. that began to rub off on me a long time ago. eventually we acquired our own tree farm. >> reporter: what do you want to see in wild life conservation an

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i'm fredricka whitfield. a significant new development in the mass shooting at a colorado theater.james holmes was seeing a doctor who specializes in schizophrenia. drew griffin is with cnn's special investigations unit. >> according to his attorney in colorado the 24-year-old accused of killing 12 and gunning down dozens of others was seeing a psychiatrist at the time of the shooting. it's a huge development that stems from that package that was mailed to a professor at the university of colorado's aurora campus on monday. according to a motion filed in colorado, just yesterday, that professor was actually james holmes' psychiatrist, dr. lynn fenton the head of student medical health services at the university of colorado's aurora campus and according to holmes' attorney mr. holmes was a psychiatric patient of dr. fenton and his communications with her are protected. that attorney is now trying to get ahold of that package and the contents of which according to cbs news supposedly describe how holmes would kill people. the information is privileged according to holmes' attorney, c