county, maryland and that they are safe. authorities had believed they were in d.c. in the area, because of this man. he is eric eugene black which they were originally traveling with. all three went missing yesterday afternoon, but investigators quickly learned black had relatives in the d.c. area. black was pulled over by virginia state police on i-95 south of richmond around 4:30 this morning. again, an 18-month-old girl and her mother who had been the subject of an amber alert have been found safe in prince george's county. good news there. we turn to tucker barnes, he's going to tell us what we can expect for our forecast for today. >> good morning. off to a cool start today. temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s. you saw the cloud cover in the live shot. lot of sunshine for your day and slightly warmer temperatures. good news forecast. reagan national now, 43 degrees. dulles, 38. bwi marshall 38. let me ion, north and west in the mountains temperatures at or below freezing. we have cold temperatures not too far away. look at our radar, got a couple of light showers south and east of town. st.mary's city and across the bay, oxford, a couple of light showers. all of this associated with a disturbance overnight. the back side of it, even the cloud cover is to the south and west of washington. when it gets out of here, should be a beautiful afternoon and a little warmer than yesterday, with highs in the mid-50s. chilly start. nice afternoon. 53degrees at 5:00 p.m. more details on the weekend and a sneak peek at next week, holiday week, coming up. let's get the latest on traffic. >> the crew in skyfox hanging with us checking out eastbound along 66 where we had the incident east of nutley. it's tying up that green arrow lane traveling inbound towards the capitol beltway. delays forming near nutley towards the beltway. 66 traffic congested, exiting from centreville headed eastbound towards fair oaks and delays. southbound 270 coming in out of germantown headed towards the lane divide, about 40 minutes. this is with all the lanes open. no other issues reported for those on the beltway between college park and bethesda. accident near edsel road. stay to the left to get by. northbound 395 at the 14th street bridge, no issues reported now. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. classified hearings this morning. former cia director petraeus giving testimony this morning at 8:30. >> today's testimony is not about the extramarital affair that cost him his job. lawmakers want to know what they can tell them about the deadly u.s. consulate attack in libya. as doug luzader reports now, they'll ask if his testimony matches other top officials'. >> reporter: this is all going to be behind closed doors ns about his personal life, today the questions are going to focus on the benghazi attack and specifically whether the petraeus version of events matches what we heard again and again from u.s. ambassador to the united nations susan rice in the aftermath. former cia director david petraeus has been here on capitol hill time and time again. but today before the senate and house intelligence committee is shrouded in secrecy. he may have a blow by blow attack on what happened in benghazi, libya, that led to the death of four americans, including the u.s. ambassador. >> director petraeus went to the people, as i understood it, that were involved. so the opportunity to get his views, i think are very -- is very important. >> reporter: this comes after a day of hearings yesterday into the benghazi attack. most closed to the public, but one was open. and much of the focus is on u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice, who back in september appeared on five sunday morning talk shows with the same talking points, the attacks she said appear to be the work of protestors, not terrorists as it now appears. the implication at the height of campaign season, the president did not want to be responsible for a terrorist attack. >> the arrogance and dishonesty reflected in all of this is breathtaking. >> these unfair attacks on r susan rice are simply wrong. she had to rely on the intelligence that was provided. >> reporter: the hearings this morning begin after dawn, that is very unusual here in washington. it's possible we may not even catch a glimpse of david petraeus. in washington, doug luzader, fox news. we're just getting reports of an explosion in israel's biggest city after air raid sirens went off. another rocket was fired from gaza this morning sending people running for bomb shelters in tel aviv. 500 rockets rained down on israel in wednesday killing three. israel responded with 150 air strikes targeting militants. so far, two palestinians reported dead. appears a ground war could be looming. israel is moving ground troops towards the border. some 30,000 reservists have been called up. the looming fiscal cliff takes center stage at the white house today. president obama will meet with leaders of both parties from the house and the senate this morning to start talks on avoiding those automatic tax hikes and deep spending cuts. then this afternoon the president will sit down with the heads of 13 civil rights groups to get their input on a negotiation. tony? we are on traffic watch in virginia this morning, where the 495 express lanes are set to open. today is the big day, and fox 5's sherri ly is live in tysons corner with a preview. sherri? >> reporter: tony, everyone knows the beltway is notorious for its gridlock. but that ride is about to become smoother either late tonight or early tomorrow morning, the express lanes here will open up. come monday when it's bumper-to- bumper on the beltway, the express lanes should keep drivers who pay moving. the $2 billion project stretches 14 miles from springfield to the american legion bridge, with exits and entrances along the way. prices will be based on congestion and how far you travel. the more cars using the lanes, the higher the price, average of five to six dollars during rush hour. drivers will need an easy pass transponder, carpoolers with three or more people who drive for free must have an easy pass flex, which has a switch to avoid paying the toll. they'll be on the lookout for cheaters trying to get a free ride. >> everybody needs the easy pass flex if they want the toll free trip. we have a partnership with the police and they'll be out enforcing the hov 3 rules. >> reporter: what's the penalty? >> similar to other hov facilities. can be up to a thousand with subsequent violations. >> reporter: if you think the express lane prices are steep, the fines for cheating are even steeper. signs are posted with the pricing at every entrance into the express lanes, and once you're in those lanes, that price will not change. we do have more information on what you need to know on our web site, myfoxdc.com. while the average rush hour trip is supposed to be between five and six dollars, if you're going the full 14 miles, it could be higher. that's the latest here in tysons corner, back to you. a check of the other top stories now, a bowie state university student found not guilty in the death of her roommate. she was acquitted of all seven charges in the stabbing death. simpson pled self-defense, saying she was bullied by frazier. there were mixed emotions last night. >> we have a young woman, a beautiful young college student who is dead, whose neck was split. we have another young women who has experienced this as well. there are no winners. >> she is tremendously remorseful for this incident. it's affected her emotionally in ways you can only imagine. >> simpson's attorneys say she'll resume her studies at a different school. former washington mystics star chamique holdsclaw is facing assault charges. atlanta police say she shot into an ex-girlfriend's car tuesday after using a bat to break the windows. no one was hurt. she and the alleged victim jennifer lacy were teammates in atlanta in 2009. lacy currently plays for the tulsa shock. in prince georges county, a silver alert for a missing elderly woman. she is 90 years old and was last seen wednesday afternoon in the 4900 block of eastern avenue in maryland. she was driving a 2005 toyota corolla tags with 763bfa. she was wearing a dark coat with a purse. her family is concerned she doesn't have her blood pressure medicine. a tragic crash in texas leaves four to be treated to a deer hunting trip. 17 others injured, six remain hospitalized this morning. bp has agreed to pay over $4 billion for the oil spill in the gulf of mexico two years ago. a rig explosion that killed 11 triggered the spill which turned out to be the largest in history. in addition, three bp employees were charged, two of them, with manslaughter. the company has so far set aside $42 billion to pay fines and damages resulting from the spill and that amount may grow. attorney general eric holder says the settlement is the latest step in the ongoing efforts to seek justice. 7:13 now. we are following breaking news involving the future of the company that makes twinkies and cupcakes. that is after the break. >> also coming up, there is a new tourist destination in florida, and it has something to do with the petraeus sex scandal. >> and looking for an extra boost of energy? why some say you should think twice before downing a bottle of 5-hour energy or another popular drink. details about a federal investigation next. >> also, he is the latest celebrity to get the madam tussaud's treatment. we'll tell you what steven colbert is doing in d.c. today. wow. >> as we take you to the break, live look outside. the latest weather and traffic from tucker and julie, that's next. p risis,h the home of the woman linked to the scandal involving former cia director david petraeus and his mistress has become a must see for the tourists and local residents have been flocking to jill kelly's house in tampa, florida, to take pictures or wait for a glimpse of the socialite herself. i know we're not supposed to do this now. i have been to tampa and driven down there, because i'm like, lock at these beautiful homes and, you know, you understand the curiosity. i wouldn't seek it out, you know. >> it's a house. >> how about if you're in tampa? >> still wouldn't go. what's the point? it's a house. >> everybody has a camera. >> what you got for us? >> cold this morning. little cloudy. we'll be in for a mostly sunny day and back in the 50s. >> and it's the day of the goddess love, so who cares it's friday. >> learn something new. >> fascinating. that was from ask tony and tucker earlier. we learned all about today. >> really interesting. >> 43 now in washington. still cold west. 31 pittsburgh. 30 in columbus. 38 this morning in new york city. still have this cold chunk of air and area of high pressure to our north. that will be a good thing, because it will give us clearing skies shortly. few light showers south and east of the city. southern maryland, st. mary's city, might encounter a light shower or across the bay into st. michaels. few light sprinkles early. upper level disturbance moving through quickly. should move north and east, and you can see into the west now where we're getting clearing skies and that means lots of sunshine shortly. i think by 9:00, 10:00 this morning, should be mostly sunny and bright and beautiful afternoon. 54 today. weekend forecast generally looking good. 54 tomorrow. sunday, partly sunny. redskins and d.c. united. will not be raining, but clouds sunday afternoon. monday cloudy. most of next week looks quiet. traveling tuesday and wednesday, thursday looks good, too, for thanksgiving. >> thanks, tuck. >> let's go to julie wright now. >> good morning, tony, allison, tucker. you'll find traffic volume increasing and starting to slow northbound i-95 at dale city continuing to woodbridge. delays due to the crash, tying up the commute northbound at edsel road. stay to the left. 395 no issues on the 14th street bridge. 295 slowing towards the naval rch lab, 31 miles per hour. below speed at 25 miles per hour to the inbound 11th street bridge. inbound new york avenue traffic lights delays northeast to northwest. southbound 270 from 85 to rockville, 40 minutes at this time. that's with all lanes open. tough for those across the 14th street bridge. earlier incident stopped mid- span. it's cleared. slow traffic leaving the beltway to king street and over the potomac. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. thank you. we have breaking news to report concerning hostess, the legendary snack food and ead maker. the company announced a few minutes ago it will begin to wine down operations. >> no! >> it asked a bankruptcy court for permission to close its business and sell off its brands. this is the result, they say of a strike that's been ongoing regarding bakers. they claim their contract cuts wages and benefits. hostess says bakery operations has been suspended at all plants. delivery will continue until it runs out of products. this could result in the loss of 20,000 jobs. >> wow. i know we're not supposed to get involved in the news stories, but as someone who loves delicious snack cakes, please work this out. >> and i don't want to see them unemployed. >> neither do i. holly is strolling through a whimsical forest of trees and gingerbread homes. details about a weekend celebration for kids and adults and all for a good cause. 7:21. we'll be right back. they're a hit among high school and college students -- i'm sorry, craziness going on here. who think they need a boost to stay awake. >> the fda says no link has been proven, but if government investigators determine drinks like 5-hour energy have contributed to or caused any of the deaths that have been reported to the fda, it may order those popular energy shots off the market. fox5's bob barnard with more now. >> reporter: the fda investigation comes three weeks after we told you about the death of a 14-year-old of hagerstown. she died from cardiac arrhythmia. her family says she drank two 24-ounce monster energy drinks in it's 24 hours before she died. and had a genetic disorder that can weaken blood vessels. her mother -- >> it's just something that you never want to go through. >> reporter: the fda says it's now investigating reports of five deaths possibly linked to monster energy drink, another 13 to a product called 5-hour energy. >> i'd say most of my drinks take them, like often. they really help us stay awake studying, you know if i have a paper the night before i'll drink some. >> reporter: we spoke to students at gw, where the starbucks was jam packed. this is a coffee generation that also loves its caffeinated energy drinks. >> i don't know, i'm really used to caffeine, like diet coke and coffee. i need the extra jolt. i need the 5-hour energy or monster to stay awake. >> reporter: the energy shots come in small bottles and can be found in your neighborhood pharmacy. the fda says it's investigating 92 patient reports, including 33 hospitalzations related to 5- hour energy, adding, if we find a relationship between consumption of the product and harm, fda will take appropriate action to reduce or eliminate the risk. >> even though it says drinking one bottle per day is okay, it's not for me. >> reporter: he says he just got out of the hospital after an adverse reaction to 5-hour energy. >> i suffered headaches and heart palpitations. i felt awful, sweating. i'm very fatigued now, actually. >> reporter: the fda warning makes clear these energy drinks aren't a substitute for drink and anybody considering taking one of those products first consult a physician. you might have an underlying health concern. >> different people react to things differently. allergens don't affect all people the same way, and energy drinks similarly don't react to people's bodies equally. >> bob barnard reporting for us. up next, indepth look into what's ahead for former cia director david petraeus as he gets ready to answer questions on the attack in benghazi. >> the redskins taking on the eagles and d.c. united continues its playoff run. sports breakfast is coming up after the break. 7:27. we'll be back. this year, america's privately-owned freight railroads plan to spend $23 billion on their network. that's like building 4 nat's stadiums, 5 wilson bridges, and 8 dc convention centers...all in one year. and not a penny of it comes from taxpayers. this year, america's privately-owned freight railroads plan to spend $23 billion on their network. that's like launching 4 mars rovers, 10 gps satellites, and 20 space shuttles ...all in one year. and not a penny of it comes from taxpayers. the redskins host the eagles this sunday with a new approach. back from the bye week. they're looking at the last seven games almost like a new season, hoping to correct the issues from the first nine games. michael vick will not be playing. d.c. united takes the field this sunday for the second leg of the eastern conference finals. to advance to the finals, they need to score at least two goals sunday. kickoff is set for 4:00 p.m. at rfk stadium. do they have to -- this is going to sound like an ignorant question -- >> there are no ignorant questions. >> do they have to score two goals ask win or -- >> no, they need a two goal differential. they need to win and by at least two goals. >> i see. >> 2-1 is not enough. >> that's tough. >> i know. >> but they can do it. >> yeah, they can do it. >> yeah. >> they have the greatest fans in all of soccer. good turnout. weather will cooperate. you know, i think they can do it. >> speaking of the weather. >> yeah, i'm going to do that right now. thanks, tony. >> don't get him started. >> really, i have to keep moving. tony is a task master today. >> they keep telling us, we got to go. >> let's go to the map before i get in trouble. sunny skies return. they're back. not at the moment. i know, you're looking out the window and saying what sunny skies? they'll be here shortly. coming up 95 and traffic is a little bit heavy. 43 now in washington. 41 in leonardtown. i hear you laughing at that, tony. 28 in martinsburg and winchester. it's cold, particularly north and west, temperatures below freezing. in town, we'll rebound into the low to mid-50s. warmer than yesterday. mix in the sunshine, and it's going to be a decent day. one or two showers here. southern maryland pushing across the bay, towards easton. upper level disturbance overnight. we're on the back edge of it. and in central virginia towards charlottesville. working up 29, clear skies. we have the cloudiness at the moment. i'd say in the next hour or so, breaking out into sun. high pressure will deliver close to a perfect friday and saturday. sunday fsunday afternoon, little coastal storm here will work up the coast, and it won't bring us rain, but clouds towards us. we'll have partly sunny conditions for sunday. 54 today. mostly sunny. still cool. wind north at 5 to 10. that's a little cool for this time of year. there's your weekend forecast. 54 saturday. 53, partly sunny sunday. early next week, if you're traveling, things look fine locally for traveling. thanksgiving, sunshine, upper 50s. let's get the latest from julie wright. >> every time you show the turkey i get hungry. >> yeah, i can't wait. >> on the roads now, we have some problems to report. this crash involving a pedestrian, police activity here tying up a portion of randolph road east of connecticut avenue at dalewood. follow their direction. typical slowdown, 95 getting past coalsville road. nothing out of the ordinary there. 66 coming out of manassas, well below speed at 38 miles per hour headed eastbound to centreville. all of the lanes here are open. traveling northbound on i-95, no issues reported. reports of an incident at davis port road, northbound i-95. authorities checking for an incident here. backlick road, towards 95, all lanes are open. outer loop slowing approaching boulevard, past colesville room. inner loop, no tieups now to college park and towards greenbelt. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. thank you. u.s. intelligence officials testifying before congress about the deadly september 11th attack in benghazi, libya. former cia director general petraeus is scheduled to appear in a closed session today before the house intelligence committee. a lot going on. joining us now two times in one week i believe, jj green, national security correspondent for wtop. jj is busy, everybody is busy and the world is very busy. i want to start, though, with general petraeus and his testimony today. what do we expect to hear from him? >> they want to know what he was thinking, what he was planning, what the process was. they also want to hear what he thought was going on, and how his people fed him the information, what they fed him and what they were recommending he do. they also need to know if his mind was on the job. if his mind was plugged in. that typically is yes when you start talking about david petraeus, but the david petraeus that's up there today is different from the david petraeus that was up there the last time. >> that's interesting, because i was relieved not to have to talk about his personal down fall, if you will, but you can't help but talk about it. >> well, a part of it is this, can they believe what he says, after this affair situation, that's the reason why it's such a complicated matter. because being in the position he's in, and having had this affair, people will question his judgment. they will question whether or not he's going to be honest. if he wasn't honest with his wife, will he be honest with the government? back to we have the real serious issue, they also want to know how the cia is positioned to deal with this kind of thing and what he would say would be reflective of what their preparations were like, who was where, who knew what, and how they handled what they knew and whether or not it can be done in a timely fashion, and also, are you seeing something and then not calling it what it is because you don't recognize it for what it is, or are you doing something other than that? and that's something real serious that i'm sure the folks on the hill will want to ask about. >> we have reported earlier that also looking specifically to see whether his version matches what the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., susan rice, what she was saying in the days or so after this attack. it got heated yesterday in this hearing with the president being called really, a liar, saying he lied, that susan rice lied. how do you put that against what happened yesterday? >> well, in my report yet on wtop, talking to some of the folks that were in these hearings and talking with folks since then, two things came out, when they first found out about what was going on in benghazi, it looked to be a random gathering that got out of control at the main complex in benghazi. but they also learned something else, that there was second separate attack on the annex, which appeared to have signatures of command and control, that there were people who knew what they were doing in terms of using weaponry, in terms of operating in attack mode. so probably there's an opportunity there for the two ideas to kind of meet, that okay, this is why we thought it was what it was, and this is why it changed later once the second attack began. >> the timing of that film, if you will, that showed mohammed in a bad light, i mean, that happened. that really happened. that came out, was translated around that time. could all those things have been coincidence? >> well, i don't think it was -- well, could have been. but, you know, regardless of what the circumstances were that brought all this to bear at the same time, the marines were in yemen. they were dealing with hot spots there. egypt, there are situations in egypt that had to be dealt with. there were situations all over the middle east popping up because of this film. so whether or not the forces that were engaged whether or not they knew this film was coming out and decided let's use this date to get in with the crowd and make this look like an out-of-control protest, but at the same time have something serious going on or not, i don't know whether they thought that or not but it did happen that way, and the real question that has to be answered on the hill today, if this does happen, how well prepared are we to deal with it? >> very interesting. also heating up is israel, the fighting there. we're out of time. what's your headline here? >> schools are closed there, people are being told to stay close to home. when they hear the air raid sirens, to move quickly. this is just continuing to grow. >> jj green, wtop, national security expert. i'm going to say expert. you may say correspondent. we'll be right back. we're back with your look at what's upcoming new and note worthy for the week of november 19th, 2012. monday, november 19th, d.c. city council chairman continues hearings into the closing down of school buildings by d.c. public schools. hearing starts at 2:00 p.m. tuesday, november 20th, the senate committee on homeland security and government affairs considers the nomination of robert okun at 2:30. wednesday, november 21, the electric vehicle association of greater washington holds its monthly meeting looking into ways drivers in the capital region can expand use of evs. it starts at 7:00 p.m. thursday, november 22nd, the washington national cathedral will conduct its annual thanksgiving service. that starts at 10:00 10:00 a.m. friday, evening special presentation at the world war ii memorial from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., telling the history of the memorial and the war it commemorates. that's your capital rundown for the week of november 19th, 2012. you'll find us on myfoxdc.com and our twitter hashtag is capitalrundown. i'm tom fitzgerald, see you next week. cold start to your day again. cloud cover overnight. couple of sprinkles south and east of the city. later this morning, sunshine. beautiful. >> yay! >> by afternoon, close to perfect. even warmer than yesterday. 39 in manassas. 41 leonardtown. 43 in washington. one or two sprinkles and cloud cover at the moment. that will push off to the east and high pressure will dominate our weather today and tomorrow. bottom line, cool for this time of year, but with lots of sunshine and temperatures back into the mid-50s it should feel better than it has the last couple of days. certainly more sunshine than yesterday. here's your accu weather seven- day forecast, saturday and sunday just fine, partly sunny sunday afternoon for the big games around here. early next week, if you're traveling monday through wednesday now look dry. that's good news. thursday looks sunny and bright with highs in the mid- to upper 50s. thanksgiving will cooperate, too, for all the football games before the big meal. >> what a deliverer of good news you are. >> yeah. >> that's a fun tradition, being outside playing football. thank you, sir. >> julie wright is standing by with a look at your traffic. >> allison, i'm wondering, since tony already owes me a pie from last year, if we're going to make a bet this year. >> i think you have to raise the stakes a little bit. not just two pies, either. like something else. >> really? >> i'm placing no bets regarding the redskins. >> there you go. >> because he's still in debt from last year. all right, you guys, here's what i know, police activity portion of randolph road east of connecticut avenue, reports of a pedestrian involved in an accident. no issues south on 95 and 295 out of laurel. 66 below speed at 38 miles per hour leaving manassas, and again from fair oaks toward nutley street, 21 miles per hour. lanes were opened earlier. definitely slow eastbound, 21 miles per hour inbound to the capital beltway. stalled car inbound on the douglas bridge tying up the main line. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. thank you julie. hey, get this, comedian stephen colbert will be at madam tussaud's in the district today to unveil a wax statue of him. he even donated his own clothes to dress the statue. the unveiling is at 11:30 this morning. does john stewart have a statue? >> i have to look it up. that's amazing if -- because if you don't remember, he used to be one of the correspondents on the jon stewart show and got his own show. >> good for him. that's great. >> i'm waiting for you to go in, tony. i'm going to be there. >> keep waiting. a family fun event to get you into the holiday spirit. >> holly good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. it's never too early to start thinking about decorating your christmas tree, especially when you talk about christmas trees decorated for good causes. that's what the junior league of northern virginia's enchanted forest is all about. we are live amid the trees this morning. 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[ ding ] [ female announcer ] pillsbury cinnamon rolls. let the making begin. ♪ ♪ hmm these smell amazing, too bad the guys aren't here we're clear. ok, swarm! swarm! hello [ female announcer ] pillsbury chocolate chip cookies. let the making begin ♪ there you go. there's the list. just in time for the holidays, there are new toys selected for the national toy hall of fame. star wars action figures and dominoes beat out plastic green army men, the board game clue, the magic 8 ball, sidewalk chalk, and twister. >> magic 8 ball knew it wasn't going to get in. >> am i getting in? the answer is no. the toy hall of fame is at the strong museum in rochester, new york. to date, 49 toys have made the cut. each must be widely recognized and foster learning and creativity. you know, those are high standards. back in the day, some toys weren't interested in fostering learning. >> the cardboard box you told me is in there. >> that's in there. >> takes imagination. before you start trimming your tree, might want to check this out. junior league of northern virginia hosts its 12th annual enchanted forest. >> it includes plenty of fun for kids plus more than 130 decorated trees up for auction and the proceeds benefit local charities. holly morris is there now, always a beautiful sight to see and she joins us live from falls church. >> we're talking about you, holly. >> reporter: you were? i was going to say, are you talking about the trees or me? >> of course you. >> reporter: you can't help but feel more beautiful amidst these trees. this is only a quarter of the set up this week. it will get you in the mood for christmas and for giving. that's the most important thing. candace bennett is the president-elect. good morning to you. merry christmas. >> good morning, holly. >> reporter: with this, let's talk a little bit about the enchanted forest for people who aren't familiar. >> this is our 12th annual event and basically it's a combination of events. this is a forest, which we are themed trees. 130 this year. they're up for sale on auction. and we have children's events, including breakfast with santa and the children's science center will be here. >> reporter: when you talk about the trees in particular, like who decorates them and why the different themes? >> it's a combination. we have a lot of members who decorate them and we have a lot of local businesses that also contribute trees throughout the forest. >> reporter: it's a silent auction, so people can bid on them. the money from that goes to support the programs the junior league supports? >> that's correct. leadership and development programs as well as our local charities. >> reporter: they have all these wonderful trees and lots of events we'll talk about more later. they have amazing vendors that will be out here, so you can get many of your holiday shopping gift items crossed off your list. through it all the whole point, really, is the community outreach. it's what the junior league does best. holly riley is the education enrichment share. good morning to you. merry christmas. >> thank you. >> reporter: let's talk about the community outreach. >> we do programs in the community that reach thousands of children in dozens of events throughout the year at local family homeless shelters, title one schools, health fairs and other events. >> reporter: you have special shelter trees which is one example of how you help. >> we do. we have trees that will be going to different shelters. every item on the tree will go to a homeless man who has just found a home. >> reporter: that's great. >> another tree, all the items will go to abused women and children in loudoun county. >> reporter: if you come here and bid on one of these trees, then the money not only goes to help that shelter but the actual tree itself goes to the shelter as well. if you're looking at all of this and look, everyone is just silent and in awe and listening to everything i'm saying, i hope you're listening at home as well, and are going, i want my tree to look like one of these. this is lillian and alicia jones. they say they're mother, daughter, but i think you could be sisters. >> pretty much. >> reporter: we'll talk about your night cream later. first of all, i want to get quick tips on how to make your tree look this amazing. >> one thing, we start -- you normally start from the top and go down. you go with the larger items on the outside. but i start normally with the small and kind of make a little larger, soft onments. the delicate things put on at the end so they don't fall off. we have the ribbon, you can go with various colors for a little sparkle, little, you know, pizzazz. i usually put that on afterwards. see here with the lights and trees. then we put, i'll put gifts sometimes it's nice to wrap empty boxes just to entice people. you know children. >> reporter: oh, yeah. i love this tree, because it makes me want to sing, oh christmas tree and god bless america at the same time. these are two military wives, so thank you. >> military daughter. not married yet. >> reporter: military daughter and wife. i want to thank you both, because you served as much as your dad and husband. mom knew what she was doing. >> if you don't know how to decorate, you can spruce up your tree with anything fun pick a theme, favorite movie, you can add lights, also fun hats or toys. or you can add pictures or if you went to the beach that summer, feel free to hang on -- >> reporter: my gosh, i have the best idea of all. you two come decorate my tree. >> we're there, done. >> reporter: myfoxdc.com, we have a link to the junior league, the event, the enchanted forest is this saturday and sunday here. we're going to have more junior league coming up in our next hour and more news after the break. you're watching fox 5. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ we were skipping stones ♪ ♪ and letting go ♪ ♪ over the river and down the road ♪ [ female announcer ] at nature valley we know nature comes together in amazing ways. that's why we bring together natural ingredients, like dark chocolate with toasted oats, or sweet golden honey. perfect combinations of nature's delicious ingredients from nature valley. ♪ ♪ ♪ i was thinking that i hope this never ends ♪ [ female announcer ] nature valley granola bars nature at its most delicious. the man at the center of a personal scandal find himself front and center in one of the biggest scandals facing u.s. security abroad. general david petraeus testifying now about the attack in benghazi. >> here at home, a bell way boost and don't we need it? driving one busy stretch of the road in northern virginia is about to get easier, if you are willing to pay a little extra. >> and is it the end of the line for twinkies and wonder bread? we're following the future of hostess brands. good morning, i'm tony perkins. >> they're alison seymour. it's a shame, though. >> if they go under yeah, there's a labor dispute. the company is having financial trouble and they're saying they're shutting down. >> i'm hurting inside. >> we'll talk more about. >> i'm going to buy a lot of hostess now. the good news is -- >> they last forever, yes. >> yes, i can eat them for years to come. let's get to the satellite radar. >> that's the problem with the brand. >> i don't see it as a problem, allison. cloud cover moving through. to the west clearing skies and the clouds will soon be out of here. mostly sunny later. most what you see there not touching the ground. one or two sprinkles in southern maryland and eastern shore here early. all this quickly out of here. we'll be in for a mostly sunny afternoon and warmer mid-50s for highs. 44 currently in washington. 30s at dulles. 38. 40 at bwi marshall. here is your forecast today, little bit of cloud cover here for the next hour or two. then mostly sunny by afternoon. dry friday. 53 at 5:00 p.m. high of 54 55. about 5 degrees warmer than yesterday. should feel better with the sunshine. >> thanks, tuck. now let's check in with julie wright for a look at your on time traffic. >> on the roads now we have hands full with an incident downtown. this is inbound south capital street headed for the douglas bridge. avoid the right lane. 295 below speed continuing northbound. lanes open eastbound on 66 but below speed and in the thick of it traveling east of fair oaks to nutley street. 14miles per hour headed east of fair oaks to the capital beltway the beltway slow leaving annandale. southbound 95 and 295 in the clear. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. turning to the developing conflict in the holy land. another air raid this morning in israel's capital and missile defenses in tel aviv are hitting rockets fired from gaza. over 100 rockets were hit. but another 300 got through killing three israelis in the last couple of days. this morning israeli tanks are on the border of gaza preparing for a possible ground war. israel launched 150 air strikes on hamas militants, killing 20 palestinians since wednesday. the former director of the cia has arrived on capitol hill to give testimony. >> general david petraeus is not talking about the sex scandal. he's attending classified hearings about the attack on in benghazi that led to the death of the american ambassador to libya and three others. he might be able to give more details about what happened. >> director petraeus went to tripoli. he interviewed many of the people, as i understood it, that were involved. so the opportunity to get his views i think are very important, is very important. >> three days after the september 11th attack, petraeus testified that it was sparked by a flash mob. petraeus will appear first before the house intelligence committee and then its senate's counterpart. tony? president obama will meet with bipartisan leaders of congress this morning to discuss the fiscal cliff. he's pushing for a plan to cut the deficit that will include tax increases on the wealthy. after the meeting, he is set to meet with several civil rights organizations and other advocacy groups to get their input on fixing the economy. we have an update now to an amber alert that we've been following all morning. 18-month-old alexis rose carwile and her mother, jennifer carwile, were found safe early today in prince george's county. alexis was first reported missing yesterday afternoon from halifax, virginia. police say the two were with this man, eric eugene black. he was arrested around 4:30 this morning south of richmond on i-95. carwile and black were supposed to hand over the child to social services this morning. another big story we're following, an event honoring military veterans ends tragically. a collision between a train and a parade float in texas killed four people. 17 others were hurt. marianne rafferty with more now. >> reporter: a deadly accident on the streets of texas. police say a train collided with a float thursday afternoon in midland. it was carrying u.s. military veterans and their spouses. >> i saw the truck crossing the tracks about halfway across the gate started coming down. the truck tried to blow its horn to get the other people in front of him out of the way. the gates actually hit the first people on the trailer. >> reporter: the union pacific train hit the float as it was being pulled across the tracks. a spokesman for the company says the train was sounding its horn and adds the crossing gate and lights were working at the time. but one witness says otherwise. >> the thing from the -- >> crossing -- >> yeah, crossing guard, it didn't go ding ding, ding to let you know. i don't know if it's because of electricity around the neighborhood was off about 20 minutes or 30 minutes. so for people to know that the train come by, they didn't even know nothing, because, you know, it was too late. >> reporter: the parade was supposed to kick off a weekend of events including a banquet and hunting expedition. they've now been canceled. >> we'll be looking at something else later in a way that we can benefit the families of those who were injured or were killed, and we will proceed with that. >> reporter: local police along with the national transportation safety board are investigating. marianne rafferty, fox news. a student found not guilty on all count of murdering her roommate. simpson says she complained to university officials about frazier several times before the stabbing incident. d.c. high school principal is on leave today as she faces serious charges of taking part in a fight at a homecoming game. thelma jarrett and two other coolidge high school employees are accused of attacking a former staff member. the victim says it happened after the football game earlier this month. jarrett is charged with simple assault. local investigators want you to take a look at this picture. it shows the suspect in a frightening assault last week at a northern virginia library. police believe this man followed a 17-year-old girl into the women's bathroom at thomas jefferson library in falls church and assaulted her. the girl screamed and the man took off. contact police if you recognize the suspect. well, we are approaching a historic day for the beltway. starting tomorrow, the 495 express lanes will open in virginia. >> to use them, you will have to pay a toll or have a minimum amount of passengers in your vehicle. fox5's sherri ly has everything you need to know, and she joins us live from tysons corner. if done right, a lot of people will be happy. >> reporter: i think so, allison. i can tell you i know a few people who will be willing to pay to get into the express lanes. this morning we've seen a number of test cars going back and forth in the express lanes. we have crews putting finishing touches on things. those express lanes run for 14 miles from springfield to the american legion bridge. and starting late tonight or early tomorrow morning, drivers will get to test it out for themselves. drivers will pay based on how many cars are using the express lanes and how far they travel. the average trip is expected to cost five to six dollars during rush hour, but could be higher. you will need an e-zpass to use the lane. carpoolers with three or more people can use the lanes for free, but will need an e-zpass flex transponder which has a switch that allows hem to avoid paying the toll. prices based on congestion, so the more cars using the lanes the higher the price and to limit the number of vehicles and keep traffic moving. >> before every entry point you'll see prices signs. the bottom price on the sign is the maximum you could pay to go the further rest from that point. that's your most accurate price. but there are pricing tools on the 495 express lanes' web site. >> reporter: the test will come during rush hour on monday morning. but this is sort of a soft launch. it will give drivers a chance to get used to the lanes, all the entry and exit points along the way over the weekend before they begin to hit the road for their commute monday morning. the goal, we're told, with that congestion is to keep traffic moving in those express lanes at a constant 45 miles per hour or more. a big difference from that bumper-to-bumper traffic a lot of people find themselves stuck in. that's the latest here in tysons corner. back to you. >> sherri, thank you very much. a man who spent years behind bars for murder is cleared by dna evidence. but even out of jail, he is still fighting for his innocence. >> coming up, our paul wagner with an exclusive report on how two of the jurors who convicted the man are now helping him. >> and next, breaking news concerning hostess, the twinkie cupcake and bread maker makes a devastating decision about its future. it's 8:11 now. we'll be right back. 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[ male announcer ] next up -- the gutters. citibank popmoney. easier banking. standard at citibank. welcome back. the district of columbia wants to close 20 schools that have low enrollment. last night families passed a city council hearing to speak out. the school's chancellor said the closures and consolidations are necessary to focus on academic achievement. on capitol hill today, a house committee holds a hearing to review the airport authority which manages reagan and dulles. this after an audit questioned the way in which the authorities hires contractors and spend money. transportation secretary ray lahood is among those scheduled to testify. bad news for hostess. it announced a short time ago it will begin to shut down operations after asking a bankruptcy court for permission to close its doors and sell off its popular brands. the company says this is all the result of a strike involving bakers who claim their new contract cuts wages and benefits. hostess says 18,500 workers will be laid off. unfortunate. >> we'll be following that story. let's switch gears now, check in with tucker barnes. he's got -- >> i know. you are -- i've never seen you eat a twinkie. >> we don't have them in the snack machine. >> took them out of the building. yeah, they did. we've had many ho hoes together, haven't we? >> we have. ding dongs. >> okay, okay. let's move on. time for my first 5 photo of the day. we all need a pick me up. >> that's me when i was little. >> it is? >> kind of what i looked like. >> were you that cute? >> not quite. >> this is roman levi taylor of greenville. >> adorable. >> what a great picture. smile on the face. >> look how little he is really. >> isn't that great? that's great. >> adorable. his aunt sent in this photo of him taking a bath in the sink, as we can see. >> that ought to be their christmas card. who will have a bad day looking at that? >> she tells us, i guess fairly common, early riser. read between the lines. they're watching us at 4:00 a.m. >> great picture. >> how sweet! >> i love his name. >> that is a good name. >> great head of hair, too. >> yeah. that's great. >> go to myfoxdc.com and click on mornings. we love your picture. >> he may never know the joy of a hostess cupcake. >> we'll have to save him one, tony. it's our job to buy them up while we can. take a look at what's happening out there. 44now in washington. it's plenty cold across much of the area. 30s to the north and west of town currently. 31 in pittsburgh. 30 columbus. 38 in new york city. couple of showers south and east of washington. lower eastern shore pushing across the bay. most of what you see there is not touching the ground. much of the activity is offshore east of ocean city. notice just to the west we're getting clear skies and that will move in very soon. if you're watching just to our west out towards gainesville, or out in virginia, you probably are getting in on the sunshine. the rest of us will see it shortly. mostly sunny afternoon and a nice start to the weekend. highs today warmer with the sunshine into the mid-50s. most of your weekend should be nice and dry as well. next seven days, actually looking pretty good here, as we turn the corner to thanksgiving week. accu weather seven-day forecast, 54 today. saturday and sunday fine. partly sunny and 53 sunday for the skins and d.c. united. temperatures in the 50s, close to 60 by thanksgiving day, with sunshine. let's do some traffic and get the latest from julie wright. i like the purple. looking good today. >> oh, thank you. i was wondering if you and tony ever shared a ho ho together. >> well, we would share a package. never shared an individual ho ho together. not like that. [ laughter ] >> this segment is done. [ laughter ] outer loop of the beltway, delay from university boulevard around georgia avenue, all lanes open inbound 50 before the beltway. stalled car cleared and lanes open again. eastbound 66, tapping the brakes through centreville. slowest trip is eastbound from the fairfax county parkway to the beltway. about 34 minutes and it's with all the lanes open. southbound 270 no incidents reported. from 85 to rockville, better than what it has been. now 41 minutes and lanes open, easy commute on the beltway traveling across the american legion bridge. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. julie, thank you. 8:19now. a man convicted of murder is cleared by dna evidence. but now he has to fight to restore his innocence. he was convicted of murdering a cabdriver more than 30 years ago. his conviction has been overturned, but he yearns for real innocence. a certificate signed by a judge that would allow him to sue for restitution. two jurors in the case are on his side. paul wagner has more. >> reporter: when he went on trial more than 30 years ago, susan was a member of the jury. she and 11 others found enough evidence to convict him in the murder. >> i certainly remembered feeling that the evidence was so strong, it was scientific evidence as it was presented, that it was enough for us to question his alibi. >> reporter: in fact, an fbi agent told the court there was a one in 10 million chance the hair did not belong to the suspect. susan remembers careful deliberations in the jury room, but was conflicted by her role these years later. >> intellectually i don't feel responsible. i think that it was a thoughtful process in the deliberations and that we made, as a group we made what i think ended up as a unanimous decision, if everyone didn't come along at the same pace. based on what there was that we were offered. emotionally, i felt terrible. >> reporter: another juror told the court, i remember the other jurors, when we got in the jury room saying if they found the stocking cap with his hair, then he had to be guilty and that was it. that's what the jury based everything on. how else could his hair get in there unless he had the stocking cap on? the u.s. attorney's office is not opposing tribble's request for the certificate of innocence, which he needs for restitution, up to $50,000 for every year he spent locked up. though the judge threw out the conviction, she has so far remained silent on all three motions filed with the court. tribble's attorney with the public defend's service says tribble needs the document because he is jobless and virtually homeless. paul wagner, fox 5 news. >> two other men, donald gates and kirk ode em who were convicted and exonerated in this case, have received that certificate. a spokesman for d.c. supreme court says the judge could not comment on a pending case. there is incredible new video out there of when hurricane sandy hit the new york city area. we're going to show it to you next. >> also this hour, getting into the holiday spirit a little early with a trip to an enchanted forest. and there are dancers there as well. holly morris will show us how you can take part and get entertained as well this weekend. 8:22. we'll be right back. ♪ president obama has seen firsthand the damage from hurricane sandy in the new york city area. the president toured hard hit staten island thursday with mayor bloomburg. many people who met with the president yesterday brought up the fact they feel the government's response wasn't fast enough. it is likely little comfort for the storm victims, but an an analyst says the amount of time they've been doing without power is extraordinary. >> energy department records show it took 13 days for power to be 95% restored in new york. new jersey reached the same level in 11 days. take a look at this, new video coming in, a surveillance camera captured some of the flooding and damage in hoboken, new jersey. more than two weeks after hurricane sandy, the train system is operating under limited service. no word yet on a time line for full restoration. that looks like historic -- >> you saw how high the water was. >> unbelievable. unbelievable video. 8:26 now. it's a friday morning. a former wnba star who played in the district is under arrest. we'll explain. >> new way to navigate through d.c.'s exciting night life scene. details about a shuttle service that claims to be cheaper than taxis and more convenient than metro. we'll have more on that. we'll be right back. it's 8:27. ah. fire bad! just have to fire roast these tomatoes. do you churn your own butter too? what? this is going to give you a head start on your dinner. that seems easier sure does who are you? [ female announcer ] new progresso recipe starters. five delicious cooking sauces you combine with fresh ingredients to make amazing home-cooked meals. ♪ ♪ ambiance [ female announcer ] new progresso recipe starters. your head-start to home cooked. welcome back. a former washington mystics player is facing assault charges. atlanta police say holdsclaw shot into an ex-girlfriend's car tuesday after using a bat to break the windows. no one was hurt of the holdsclaw and the alleged victim, 29-year-old jennifer lacy, were teammates with the atlanta dream in 2009. lacy currently plays for the tulsa shock. prince george's police have issued a silver alert. a 90-year-old was last seen wednesday afternoon at 2:00 leaving her home on eastern avenue. she was driving a gray 2005 toyota with maryland tags 763bfa. she is in need of medication for high blood pressure, diabetes. if you have information in this case, you're asked to call prince george's county police. in ecuador, some are taking the american democratic party to the extreme by getting a donkey on the ballot. the presidential election there is in february, but the deadline to get mr. donkey on the ballot was thursday. the group tried to register his name. they even dressed the donkey in a tie for the event. but they were turned away from the electoral office. >> what? they were? >> what's this? this makes more sense. this is santa claus, this is santa in his modern day way making his way to tysons corner. he's on the new toll road. >> santa, the first occupant of the toll lanes. >> pretty sweet sleigh. >> is he driving or somebody else? >> i think somebody else. we've said too much. >> the top was down there. >> nice ride. >> little bit of cloud cover this morning, but mostly sunny here in the next hour or two. and a nice afternoon. very pleasant. not a lot of ind. high temperatures back in the mid-50s. even a little warmer than yesterday. currently 44 in washington. 44 in annapolis. quantico, 44 for you as well. 41 leonardtown. winchester, you are 32 degrees. 31 hagerstown. all of us into the low 50s, i think even north and west close to 50. here in town into the mid-50s for afternoon high temperatures. satellite radar, radar first, couple of left overshowers across portions east of the bay here, over towards oxford, light shower. upper level disturbance overnight brought a few sprinkles and showers. most of the activity was offshore. clear skies getting close here, working in on 66. i think in the next hour or so, should be sunny across the region and a nice looking afternoon. temperatures will be a little bit warmer than they've been the past couple of days. high pressure off to our north. relatively cool flow here. keeps us dry friday, into your day tomorrow. few clouds sunday with a coastal storm. should be dry for the weekend. 54 the magic number the next couple of days with plenty of sunshine. sunday dry, with partial sunshine in the afternoon. if you're traveling early next week across the mid-atlantic, nice and dry. thanksgiving here upper 50s, with sunshine for the big day. that's a look at weather. allison and tony, back to you guys. a new boost for d.c. night life. >> it is a shuttle service called the d.c. hopper and it provides transportation with perks. lauren demarco joins us now to explain. nice having you on the morning show. >> great to be here, you guys. this story takes me back to my fun days in d.c. i feel like i'm getting -- >> they're over? >> yeah, i don't know. [ laughter ] >> i really like this. these two guys had this idea and they're making it work. they saw an opportunity and went for it, and there are even popular new technology they're using to make their concept work. let's take a look. >> also when you get there, you're able to skip the line, no cover charge. >> reporter: a hot night on the town with v.i.p. treatment and transportation. >> definitely something people are talking about more and more. >> reporter: the d.c. hopper is the new way to get to and from some of the region's favorite spots to night life. it's a creation of maryland natives brandon and alex. went to winston churchill high school, local. >> reporter: after turning 21, they became frustrated with the limited transportation available on weekend nights. >> we want to go out and experience other areas, but it wasn't convenient. we'd have to walk to the metro, or get a cab, but couldn't get back, because when we left cabs wouldn't drive us home or the metro would be closed. we wanted a convenient, fun way to get out to d.c. >> reporter: enter the d.c. hopper. it costs $16 each way between bethesda and dupont circle or georgetown. to travel between the two d.c. locations only, it's just 10 bucks. the shuttle runs every half hour on fridays and saturdays from 9:30 p.m. to 3:15 a.m. each driver is armed with an ipad device that swipes credit cards or drivers can pay with the app, square. >> it says slide to pay. >> reporter: it's not a party bus no alcohol on board, but -- >> we provide water and red bull for free. >> reporter: it's fun and convenient. >> if you're at the bar, you can go on to twitter and check it out. >> reporter: then, look for the hot spot. as far as the specials, about a dozen bars and nightclubs allow riders to skip their lines and cover charges. and the establishments are already noticing extra business. >> hope people get to know this service more, so they can use it and come down to d.c. >> keep in mind the shuttle takes you between night life locations so you'll still need a designated driver or another way to get home unless you live of course within walking distance of one of the stops. allison and tony, they plan on expanding. talks in opening another stop in clarendon. >> so smart. >> they said people kept walking by the stop going, i had this idea, you guys did it. >> these young people now who come up with these ideas and put it into action. that's great. >> thanks, lauren. >> thank you, lauren. the redskins take on philadelphia sunday. but not before inhouse battle. >> four down showdown, offense versus defense. this one may need some fact checking. we'll explain. ♪ ♪ ♪ we were skipping stones ♪ ♪ and letting go ♪ ♪ over the river and down the road ♪ [ female announcer ] at nature valley we know nature comes together in amazing ways. that's why we bring together natural ingredients, like dark chocolate with toasted oats, or sweet golden honey. perfect combinations of nature's delicious ingredients from nature valley. ♪ ♪ ♪ i was thinking that i hope this never ends ♪ [ female announcer ] nature valley granola bars nature at its most delicious. d.c. united takes the field this sunday for the second leg of the mls eastern conference finals. united fell short in houston last sunday and in order to advance to the finals, united needs to score at least 2 goals more than the other team. kickoff set for 4:00 p.m. at rfk stadium. we wish them the best. it's time for the four down showdown. each week we put a member of the redskins offense against the defense to find out how much they know about the upcoming opponent. >> so sunday it's the philadelphia eagles, and here is fox 5's lindsay murphy. >> reporter: welcome to the four down showdown after the bye week they've had plenty of time to study their philadelphia trivia, right? >> yes. >> reporter: are you going to know any of these answers? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: the defense is up 2 points in this game. you feel good about your chances? >> well, you know what, i'll take my chances. >> reporter: okay. kirk cousins, backup quarterback is your challenger. how do you feel about getting the offense making up ground here? >> we got ground to make up. i better get it done here. >> reporter: are either of you trash talkers? >> i'm not the best, but i can try. >> reporter: how about you? >> not at all. >> reporter: okay, great. no trash talking is what i guess. first down give me one nickname for philadelphia. >> brotherly love. >> the city of brotherly love. >> reporter: i'll give it to you because it was close enough. >> i come from the midwest, so. >> reporter: i thought everybody knew that. >> i'm the underdog. i got to overcome this. >> reporter: you can do it, i trust you. second down, this line of snack foods is headquartered in philly, tasty cakes, thin mints hostess. >> hostess. >> hostess. >> reporter: negative. tastykake. >> i was familiar with hostess. >> reporter: which of your teammates is a former eagle? >> chris wilson. >> reporter: no. no. >> for a little bit. >> reporter: not according to the redskins' stats. >> eagle, eagle. >> reporter: he's a special teamer. he's got a good foot. >> savraka. >> reporter: if wilson was, i blame that on daniel. fourth down, rookie quarterback nick folds went to what college? >> arizona. >> arizona. but also went to michigan state. >> but i went first. >> reporter: got that one. you got it. you won. >> too quick for me. >> my personnel report, so it was fresh on my mind. >> little known fact, nick went to michigan state for his freshman year and we were teammates together. >> reporter: we can give you half a point, but you still lose. >> but i feel better now. >> reporter: one for fun. what round was he drafted? >> second. >> third. >> i lost by half a point. i made it interesting. >> reporter: that's all from the fourdown showdown. >> we did check, and of course chris wilson was a member of the philadelphia eagles in 2011. >> that's always fun. >> yeah. the final installment in the "twilight" saga is all the buzz, because it's now in theaters. >> "twilight" star and heartthrob robert pattinson sat down with kevin mccarthy. >> reporter: santa is my heartthrob. he's making his list, checking it twice and enjoying a live performance as they are gearing up for a wonderful thing going on this weekend. it has to do with christmas trees, live musical performance, vendors, cooking lessons, and all about a good cause. it's called the enchanted forest. we're going to tell you how you can be a part of this coming up. stay with us. ♪ alright let's break it down. mom, pop it. ♪ ♪ two inches apart, becky. two inches. t-minus nine minutes. 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>> can it be a real tv people? >> sure. do anything you want. >> i was going to say girls gone wild. >> how would edward fare in girls gone wild? >> i think it would get him out of his shell. >> you see bella turn into a vampire in breaking dawn, obviously. hypothetically, let's say you transform into human and she never went to a vampire, how differently do you think the story would play out? >> i think bella would lose interest. >> only wants you for your vampire. >> the whole moral of the story. just wants to steal my kid. >> i love the line you say, i have a bad habit of underestimating you. as an actor, have you ever gone into a role and underestimated yourself and after you were done, surprised yourself like wow i did that, that was cool, i pulled that off? >> i never felt like that during an entire movie. sometimes there are certain scenes which something comes out which you have no idea where it came from. then it's like, the best feeling in the word. >> any particular scene you can remember where you felt that way? >> there was a scene when we were -- when bella dies, i was screamly nervous about. can't cry, can't do anything. and you don't breathe. i think that was one shot where i was like, wow, something happened. i was doing it with a dummy of kristin. i thought that was quite cool. >> thanks, kevin. >> very good. this weekend the junior league of northern virginia hosts its annual enchanted forest. >> with decorated trees up for auction, a sugar cookie soree. >> reporter: i live really large from now until the end of the year with a name like holly. it's super fun and festive and it's what this event is as well. it's a holiday extravaganza. so much going on you'll want to be a part. they have the trees and this entertainment stage where they are different performers each hour. and yes, it includes irish dancing, which we have here this morning. this is the maple school of irish dance. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> reporter: tell me about your group. >> the maple school of irish dance we are thrilled to be here with the junior league. it's a great fun event for children and for families. we do perform not just st. patrick's day activities, but like to perform at fund raising and thrilled to be part of this group and delighted stephanie invited us and hope to be affiliated with the junior league for years to come. >> reporter: irish dancing is so big in our area, and you can see it. everyone enjoys it. >> absolutely. it's not just st. patrick's day. it's everywhere. since lord of the dance and riverdance, everyone likes to see irish dancers. >> reporter: how did you first get introduced to the junior league? >> i knew stephanie and she was telling me about the event and i said, i'd love to come see it. i went, my god, i love this event. bring your children. so much fun. >> reporter: i understand you got the designer tree last year. >> i did. it's beautiful. you should see it. i'm hoping to get another tree. can never have too many. >> reporter: a girl after my own heart. since you brought up the designer tree and you brought up stephanie, we're going to check in on both. thank you, thanks for bringing the girls out. doing a wonderful job. without further adieu, here is stephanie smith, and here is monica, the enchanted forest cochairs this year. what a wonderful job you have done. >> thank you. >> reporter: she was telling us about the designer tree she won last year. explain it. >> we always have a designer tree. we're raffling off the tree of elegance. it's gorgeous, adorned in so many beautiful ornaments. >> reporter: you're raffling it off and that's a separate event saturday night. >> it's our annual gala, 12th year, and it is a four-hour gala. takes place here among the trees. open bar, appetizers and we have casino gambling this year that you can win prizes with your winnings. it's going to be fantastic. >> reporter: that's a separate ticket, right? >> it is. >> reporter: the proceeds go osama obviously go to the junior league and what they support. tell me about the different performances you'll have on the stage. >> in addition to the irish dancers, we have ballet, and ukulele phil. and children of yoga. mr.skip who plays the guitar. and everyone's favorite is the pirate magic show. he'll be on twice. it's by far everyone's favorite. >> reporter: this is amazing and has grown so much. this is your largest fundraiser, right? >> correct. >> reporter: about how much money do you bring in? >> about $100,000. we've been doing it 12 years. we keep trying to march towards that number and make it stronger. >> reporter: it takes an amazing amount of generosity from a lot of people to pull it off. a lot of this is donated, right? >> it is. we are so blessed by our donors, sponsors, league members people in the community. everybody comes together. it is a labor of love. >> reporter: how is the best way for people to make the most of the event? >> there are so many events to go to, but i would definitely come here. general admission ticket gets you into the forest. you can see the trees, all these -- 130 trees. you can see the performances. you can see the science center room, kids in the kitchen, the craft room. also if you really want to make it a great time get our premium event. we have cocoa and cupcakes with the fairy princess and breakfast with santa. those take it one step further. >> workshops milk and cookies. >> reporter: your kids won't sleep for a week! come early, stay late. average, how much do the trees go for? >> they range. it's comfortable for everybody. they generally go about $150 to we have some that are upwards of a thousand. and the raffle tree is valued at about $1,500. there is a comfortable range for everybody. they make beautiful wonderful presents. they adorn homes and are gorgeous. >> reporter: thank you so much. myfoxdc.com is our web site. we have a link to theirs. the 12th annual enchanted forest. twelve dollars will get you a general admission ticket, at the door or through living social. they have cooking, too. we'll talk about that in our next hour. back to you. >> holly, thank you. it is now time to say good morning to our facebook fan of the day. it is kathy. hello. she says she could really use a lift, as she's looking for work now. kathy watches fox 5 morning news every day and says being the fan of the day will be a great pick me up. >> aww. >> here you go, kathy. we wish you the best of luck with the job search. for your chance to be monday's fan of the day, post a comment below kathy's picture on our page. >> she looks like a kind person in that picture. coming up in our next hour, david petraeus on capitol hill this morning. he is testifying about the deadly attack in benghazi. we'll have an update. >> and all girls, all zeppelin, a tribute rock band to led zeppelin joins us live instudio to talk about their act performing one of the classics, you don't want to miss it. we'll be right back. ve got t go. 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i have lost confidence in chief armstrong to ensure that we move forward for impact decisions for the city. >> and she added that the federal monitor who has been overseeing the city for over a decade said that he was disappointed in the evidence that he had seen in the report saying that it demonstrates cultural problems with and the department, and now within the past 30 minutes a spokesperson for chief armstrong said he is deeply disappointed in the decision and how it is handled that the chief was notified that he would be dismissed 15 minutes before the press conference. he is looking at his next options. and now, the new chief search will begin. and that will be nationwide. >> the new mayor seemed emotional and voice shaking at times, but firm. what was your impression in the room? >> reporter: after she read that statement, she was asked a couple of questions and one of them when she carefully chose her words, she was asked about if she had talked to the chief about the decision, and she said no, and then asked about the reasons for the decision, she referred to the city's legal team for those answers. >> okay. christie smith, live in oaklandb and thank you so much, and we will see you later in the newscast. and chief armstrong's firing is the latest shake-up. the department has had 10 chiefs in ten years since may of 2013, ten different people have held the position of chief of police in oakland. that is including some who have held on it the interim role. and as you heard, acting chief darrell allison is going to be holding it now as they conduct the nationwide search. and at 6:00, we will have a reaction of his supporters and what they have to say about his firing. tonight, we are hearing that barbara lee is going to be running for the senate seat that is going to be vacated by barbara feinstein. it comes a day after feinstein is saying that she is not going to be seeking re-election after her term ends in 2024. adam schiff and katy porter have announced they are running for that seat. in oakland, a ransomware attack is slowing down their responses. they can receive calls, but it is preventing them from receiving calls on time. >> some of the calls have allowed a malicious attack on the city's software. today, the d.a. has offered some clues as to what they felt was happening inside of that home that exploded. we have the latest development from san francisco. during the arraignment, darron price did not say a word. the cameras were allowed in open, but we were not allowed to show his face. the public defender said that he is going to plead not guilty to child endangerment to a controlled subject. public defender says she is going to be ask brooke jenkinson to keep him sat down, and he is going to be charged with making hash. >> it is not something who was making something with a marijuana plant form, it is something cooking something of dangerous influence. he said, she de and now the families and neighbors are grieving over price, and we are learning that she is price's wife. >> it is very stressful of the grief that the family is going through, and while having him in custody is not describable. >> they believe that some of the chemicals used in the explosion was ignited by the fire and so there are people on 22nd avenue who are very traumatized by this. >> imagine if a house blew up on your block. we want to bring the people in a safe space to discuss. >> and this is in the fair meadow neighbor and this is a building that is going to be making room for people with the project approved last year, and it is going to allow the disabled community to live closer together. and we want to know that it is part over the larger community, and folks are living side by side, and rather than apart. >> the new building will have 50 apartments, but no estimated time when it will pope. the intent is clear, reducing hate crimes in the aaip community. today, the law enforcement and community organizers came together for a summit on safety. we have alicia jones there with the details. >> we have to be together, because no. >> reporter: that is the message of the top unity leaders as they concentrate on the you have to report those types of things, and i cannot emphasize, let's work together. we will do our part, and all we do is to ask you to come to the forefront with your voices. >> reporter: the goal is to provide education and resources on addressing hate crimes, and all of the community organizations believe that the one-stop model is critical in addressing that issue. she is hoping that will empower the victims. >> if you are a crime in chinatown or anywhere, the trauma never goes away. >> reporter: congresswoman vicky chin is reaching out to clients through the domestic vick times -- domestic victims to keep the momentum going. >> we want to bridge the cultures and make sure that we stick together. >> molina jones, nbc bay area news. the debt ceiling is the amount of debt that the u.s. can be in before it is forced to stop borrowing. today, the budget is hitting something between july and december, and they will be able to stop and so far, no such bill has been introduced. president biden says that the bill will trim the deficit substantially. he gave the speech to a group of workers. he said that it would benefit the most worthy americans. >> this the deal. the republicans have said they will extend trump's tax cut. now, that is supposed to go away, and it would exploes the deficit and leave the american tax bill >> he says it will cut the deficit by $2 trillion, and he going to reduce the deficit in. >> many are just leaving profession, and the california bill wants to raise the minimum wage workers from $15 to $29. they are struggling to pay their bill, and that with higher health care workers. that law would go into effect next year. still to come. safety in the skies. it is a rough month from aviation meltdowns, and near misses on the runway. tough questions for the head of the faa. and the assistance now being offered and how you can apply. i'm chief meteorologist jeff mcneri, and i will show you the full business can happen anytime, anywhere. so help yours thrive and stay connected with the comcast business complete connectivity solution. it's the largest, fastest, reliable network. advanced gig speed wifi. and cyberthreat protection. starting at just $49.99 a month. plus, you can save up to 60% a year when you add comcast business mobile. or, ask how to get up to a $750 prepaid card. complete connectivity. one solution, for wherever business takes you. comcast business. powering possibilities. passenger safety is a main topic on capitol grill. the nation's top officer of safety got a big grilling on capitol hill, and the meltdown of aviation systems that left millions of passengers stranded. we have more from washington. >> reporter: millions of travelers everyday count on the federal aviation system to keep flights going smoothly and safely, but after a series of events, billy nolen was on on capitol hill. they wanted to know how this fedex plane almost collided with a southwest plane. just last month, a delta plane was ordered to take off after another plane was taxiing the runway, and nolen explained the computer glitch that grounded all of the domestic depart chers for first time since 9/11 and leaving millions stranded, and the faa is working to update an outdated system in which a contractor accidentally outdated a system. >> can i sit here to tell you that there is never going to be another outage, no, sir, i cannot. >> reporter: and with the chinese spy balloon shot down, there are calls for president biden to offer more information to reassure the americans that the skies are safe. >> and the three smaller objects that were shot down after the chinese spy balloon could be for benign or commercial research, and secretary lloyd saying that there is remote and other treacherous conditions. secretary lloyd austin sat down with courtney cube to discuss the objects that were shot down, and why they were not defected faster. >> we are typically focused on the things that are moving fast, and so it is a little bit more difficult to collect on the slow-moving objects like a balloon. as we made some adjustments, we were able to determine and locate more closely. >> that full story will be on "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. if you think that you are eligible for fema opening up new disaster resources, you can go to the website to learn more. >> this is everything from fema disaster claim information and making sure that you report the information, and so it is well rounded resources here, and come on down, and get your questions answered. >> the center is opened daily from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. to answer questions. >> at least we don't have heavy rain right now, but it is cold outside, and it is hard to get any work done outside when it is this cold. >> it is bone chillingly cold out there, and we got some respite with the sunshine, and we are looking at the increasing possibility of the rainfall picking up in the long range forecast, and we will have the details in a second, and start it off with the satellite radar picture, and spend a few minutes out there today, and it was amazing, and after dealing with all of that off/on wind in the past couple of days. today, it is good enough here, and you can see it bubbling the clearing here, and take your eyes out toward specific, and you can see how things are going to change leading to increased rain chances that we have not seen like this in a few weeks. we will get you all of the details there, and right into tomorrow morning, and as we roll into tomorrow morning. it looks like we will head into the forecast tomorrow. the most important thing they will do is to make us more chilly than we thought. in the south bay and in the peninsula, 37. coming in cold at the east bay at 35. day time highs with the clouds will drop off a couple of degrees, but overall, not bad here. 58 in cupertino, and 59 in san jose, and over to the east bay, where it is calm winds and 59 here in peninsula. we got plenty of 50s coming our way. and so, now, everything that we right now, it is continuing to show the storm system moving off towards the south. so i am keeping a slight chance, and we could get a spotty showers in friday's forecast. the most interesting thing that i am bringing you tonight is that eventually by mid next week, starting wednesday, we could go under a more active pattern from the 22nd, and at least into the 24th on friday, and maybe even continuing into the following weekend saturday and sunday, and that is what is it going to look like. and one larger storm in the afternoon with and so this system is not going to be as cold as the early january storms, and 30s and 40s in the afternoon highs, and so next week, things are going to be looking up in terms of the rain chances. otherwise, look at the weekend forecast, and we will get the sunshine in here, and warm it up with the low 60s. inland valleys, 66 saturday and 67 sunday. >> that is sounding fantastic. ooh, looking forward to that. we have not seen the 60s in a long time. thank you, jeff. >> you got it. we will continue the breaking news coverage, and the firing of oakland's police chief in the past hour. the police chief is responding. what he has to say and how he was, how he says i we have a update on the breaking story at the top of the hour. the mayor of oakland firing the chief of police because of accusations that he mishandled a case involving officer misconduct. and then we got this statement from armstrong. quote, i am deeply disappointed in the mayor's decision. after the relevant facts are fully evaluated by weighing the evidence instead of strategically leaked sound bites, it will be clear that i am a lou loyal and effective reformer of the oakland police department. and it will be clear that i am fired unjustified and unfair. and i anticipate releasing more remarks. now, coming up more footage after the devastating earthquake in turkey and syria. the earthquakeser to apart the land of a canyon that is stretching more than a mile long. the death toll is now more than 40,000, and growing. the rescuers are still trying to make last-ditch efforts to pull the victims from the wreckage, but the freezing temperatures are gripping that region, and tens of thousands of people are still remaining in shelter. >> with reliable covid-19 results in just 15 minutes, everyone is making room for binaxnow in their medicine cabinet. do we still need these pregnancy tests? 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from the platform. plus, every one was contributed to make this world cup the best world cup. ever thief as president. thanks. the organizers of count all 2022, just days ahead of the world cup final ah. peruse. government does declare a 5 day curfew in 15 regions across the country. that's after the supreme court decision to keep impeached. president federal castillo, in detention for the next 18 months. castillo has been charged with the rebellion and conspiracy. after trying to dissolve congress, at least 14 people have been killed in week long protests sparked by the countries political crisis out as there was. john holman, is it lima? what tends to happen is the process she called in the afternoon, especially here in the capitol in lima. so that will become more apparent later on in the 1st day of the state of emergency, it almost doubled the number of deaths. and a lot of those were in the i a show proven starts in the south of group, and it's a real bad scene of support from federal castillo the now ex president. so we'll see a little bit later today what the reaction is, especially to the fact that the federal castillo being imprisoned, has now been extended to 1818 months, not before. he gets a trial to decide whether he is guilty of those terms. now in terms of the curfew as well, just to say that in lima we are now there is no curfew that square. just under a 3rd of the population of fries 3000000 people live. it is quite targeted. 15 provinces, in which most of the protests have been seen in the south of the country, in the main, where petro castillo has been popular in rural areas, especially in which, as someone raised from through, he has a lot of support in ukraine, at least 5 cities including the capital, keith have been hit by as many as 60 missiles launched by russia. people in parts of kiva being urged to take shelter to the city, was shaken by 3 blasts. ukraine says that russia's military has targeted critical facilities in khaki, eve creevy, thee and zap alicia jones home has more shortly after dawn on friday and yet another country wide russian missile attack the target. as before, ukraine's energy grid officials say 9 power facilities would damage the aim to freeze people into submission air raid sirens in the capital, keith drove civilians under ground seeking shelter in the cities, metro stations. air defenses are said to have intercepted most of the incoming missiles, but even then debris must fall somewhere and it can fall anywhere. and what else to do on a freezing friday on the ground? but don and c. o. o. at tech and our energy and infrastructure making people suffer. you are in the winter time that's about genocide to follow a nation. but i must admit that our moral is extremely strong and we will never surrender on thursday. far away in geneva, the un high commissioner for human rights was that ongoing, a tax on energy infrastructure. we're exposing millions to extreme hardship. over 10000000 consumers are facing cuts in electricity and millions. a cut off from a regular supply of water and additional strikes could lead to further serious deterioration in the humanitarian situation and spark more displacement. this was the scene at a residential building in the central city of creevy, re struck by missiles shot down or gone astray. and this metro station, another impromptu shelter in the northern city of car key, which will be hard to you. we heard the explosions. they were a lot of them, she says i was in a bus and the electricity was still on. but then the power went out and we came down here. now we're waiting for the air raid alarm to end. after the 9th such wave of attack since october with public food and heating stations now in widespread use, ukrainians were left placing emergency blackouts and plummeting temperatures. as this punishing wartime winter grinds on, jonah haul al jazeera. the e u has threatened sanctions south to twitter suspended the accounts of more than half a dozen journalists who write about the company and its new owner, ellen musk. they include reporters from the new york times cnn of the washington post mosque treated that he couldn't accept that his real time location could be shared in what's known online as docs. in saying that it endangered his family, he said the twitter would release a feature indicating the reasons for any suspension. and that rules banning the publishing of personal information also applied to journalists, alzheimer's gable as under reports from new york. well, there's been a lot of shock, quite frankly, because this was very unexpected. and it wasn't really announced in advance at all . and all of the journalists that were had their account suspended, very prominent journalist for very large news organizations, cnn, the washington post the new york times. what they all had in common or have in common is they were all tech journalists that were covering twitter as a company and covering ellen musk takeover of twitter. this year. a few of them had been somewhat critical of the takeover and of you on must. but nothing that would cause any sort of red flags. it would cause you to say that they would need their account suspended at all. so this certainly is come as a surprise not only to those journalists, all of whom have said that they got no warning of this, and we're not given any reason whatsoever on why their account was suspended. as a certainly calling into question. now a lot of free speech issues as well. people are saying, you all must have bought twitter in his own words to make it a more a place of more free speech. but clearly this move of suspending. these journalists seems to defy that twitter no longer has a public relations department or a media relations department. the response to questions from journalists, elan muska, fired those employees shortly after taking over the company. so it's very hard to get information about what's happening in the company, and it really runs through one personnel and as you are, must himself or concerns about free speech had been raised frequently in the lead up to a long mosques acquisition of twitter. but the suspensions of journalists accounts, a sounding alarm bells. germany's foreign ministry has treated saying the press freedom cannot be switched on and off on a whim. and the british prime minister spokesman says that regardless of ownership, social media platforms must balance, protecting their users while upholding free speech. in response to the criticism, musk tweeted a poll asking people whether he should unsuspended the accounts of people who tracked his location, jacobo, bash, and gama is the director of justice ship, a judicial think tank. he says there are inconsistencies. any long mosque sanctions . we routinely distinguish between information that might be illegal and i don't believe the information question wasn't legal, but with journalists reported it would, it will typically if it's a public interest relating to an opposing the public interest, like, you know, most definitely is. and we would say that this is the core of, of journalism and protected speech. so when, so when you are much crack style on that and without wanting seemingly both changes rules that he's previously committed to a holding. and an incorrect style and journalist with a massive following, who writes critical stories about him and his company. that obviously is incompatible with the ideal of free speech, you know, legally. and of course he has the right to do so, especially within the united states. and in europe, rules are about to change. but so, so he's not violated anybody legal right to free speech. but he himself has said that he wants to strengthen what you might call a culture of free speech on twitter. and i think that was a very laudable addition, but unfortunately his role out has been disastrous. and i think he's on several occasions undermined the very principal that he said that he wanted to hold . namely, strengthening free speech and open dialogue. a caught in kosovo, has convicted a former rebel commander of war crimes that include murder, it found soluble, tortured prisoners in a camp run by the kosovo liberation army during the 1998 to 999 conflict with serbia. he's been sentenced to 26 years in prison, but carlo has more from christian a. this is the 1st verdict, since the so called castillo tribunal was established in 2015. and this is the 1st verdict for the war crimes committed during the kosovo war. as the judge explained to mister most the fought as the commander, chief commander of a gorilla unit of the kosovo liberation army. oh was the main executive who ran ah, so called prison in the village of lush nearby to day capitol, a city of breach tina he oh, was responsible for torturing at least 6 people and giving commence in this prison and during the kosovo of war. a mister mustafah since he was arrested in 2020, has been detained in the hague, in the netherlands, and the so called cost of all tribunal is operating under kosovo. los. but it is organized and the trial has been held in the hague, in the netherlands because of witness protection. this verb they've come, comes in a sensitive time where attendance between deal banyon majority and the serve minority in the northern part, parts of kosovo, our own going for 7 days. and the diplomatic relations between belgrade and british tina are at the low point. 8 police officers and a civilian have been injured by a car bomb in turkey. the explosion happened in the southern province of de albuquerque. on friday morning, the officers were travelling in a minibus of a time. 5 people have been detained in connection with the attack. a police officer in jordan has been shot dead during a confrontation with protest. us in the southern city of mon king abdullah, the 2nd attended the mounds funeral on thursday evening. police say it's not clear who shot the officer, have been demonstrations against the high cost of fuel in several cities, including the capital riots. squads have been dispatched in anticipation of any further protests. we'll get a weather update next here on al jazeera then and the lift off lift off of swat are 1st the global survey of earth surface water to stay around the global view of the climate crisis. nasa launch is a satellite to conduct a survey of the world's oceans. ah, anticipation is rising. and so with the, with sponsored my cattle aways hello, we got some significant snow in the forecast for japan over the next couple of days . you can see this line of cloud, the spelling of shall cloud drifting across the relatively warm waters of the save to pan. and that's going to bring really wintry mix there into a good part of japan for the sas and wet weather into the southeast of china. pulling across taiwan, drives up here, claris guys come back in behind. it is largely dry for good part of china. but there's that snow just around the yellow sea. spect see if he snow flurries across the korean peninsula. but there's that really heavy snowfall that we will see across western parts of honshu as we go on into sashay more so as we go on into west sunday, some snow, they're just pushing up into a condo at that stage, temperatures. bulstrode, on the other side of the mountains, it shouldn't be too bad the token of this back to see a flurry or 211 degrees celsius in the heat of the day, farther south, plenty, a shower across the southeast asia, driving some large storms just into the south china sea easing across towards the malay peninsula where the concerns he was suspect into the night potentially over the next couple of days. what's the weather to coming in just for lanka, rober the next few days, but for much of india and puppy star is fine. i'd try to with sponsored by catch on aways blue with a ah. hello again. this is al jazeera, the may news the south peruse, government is declared a 5 day curfew as protest, so the country's political crisis continue. the supreme court as world of former president federal castillo will remain in detention for the next 18 months. he was charged with rebellion and conspiracy of trying to dissolve congress. at least 5 ukrainian cities, including the capital key, have been hit by as many as 60 russian missiles. ukrainian officials say that russia's military has targeted critical facilities in cost, heave creevy. and suppose you are, the e. u has threatened sanctions up to twitter suspended the account, support and half a dozen journalists who write about the company. and it's due on a yellow mosque mosque tweeted that he couldn't accept that. his real time location could be shared in what's known on line as boxing, saying that it endangered his family so now just 2 days away from the world cup final, between argentina and france, some fifo president, johnny infant. tito has hailed cartel 2022 as the best world cup ever. he was speaking at a press conference in doha earlier on friday. i'll to say was anti richardson was there? well, on the eve of this world cup in this same conference, whole faith of president johnny and van sienna, delivered an hour long monologue in which he rounded on. critics of castle in particular, western countries saying they were in no position to be handing out moral lessons. what a month on he was in much more positive mood emphasizing the quality of the football at this world cup of world cup where same from all consonants reached the knockout rounds for the very 1st time and have caused highlighted the exploits of morocco becoming the 1st african seen to reach the semi finals and is now the world's best football, is the fans and immediate get ready to leave. cattle insists a meaningful legacy will be left behind. many people from around the world hash come to guitar and have discovered the outer world, which they didn't know or did they knew only for was portray to them. and these people, when they go back home, they will speak about that experience. the people who stay here, they will speak about that experience and they will open up more to the others. and i think this is a really an important or non football legacy, which this particular woke up person has brought in francine, who also gave an update on the format of the corporate world cup. he says it will be expanded to include $32.00 teams from 2025 in the short term. a smaller version of that tournament will be hosted by morocco early next year. now morocco's had multiple bits in the past. the host, the men's world cup, none so far successful, but after everything that capturing their team has achieved hair in qatar backers and no harm to their efforts to one day take the men's welcome back to africa. infancy also facing the complexities of the expanded world cup in 2026. that will include $48.00 countries rather than 30 to the size of the groups. the number of games, the length of tournament all questions that a yet to have definitive answers fee for he says will be revisiting all those topics early next year. so fans continue to fly at the catalog for the last 2 matches of this world cup soup work. if in doha, has been a central gathering point for supporters and al jazeera alexia bryan, is there for us? right bow busy there. i can see behind you a rest day to day, but is it the calm before the storm ahead of a 3rd place playoff tomorrow? i think it really is age are in there are a lot of people to fill out all about, but most people i've been speaking to, most of the vibe that i've been getting are people is that they really are trying to preserve their energy. maybe getting a bit tired, it is after day 27 and people have been walking up and down the stretch of the so watching those games expanding a whole bunch of energy. this has been a competition full of ha, stopping movements full of apps. it's phil of last minute changes in fortune pertains and i think, you know, really has been a journey for and they are feeling it and they're holding on because they is that big weekend ahead. of course, the 3rd place play off a game that sometimes doesn't get quite as much attention as it is this tournament . because morocco that team that has to be imagination of fans here in ohio or across the arab region, of course, the african continent. every time that team has won a game, and so far, they have been celebrations across the city from here to the blanca, from london to montreal. so that will be a big game to watch on saturday night, as it gets under way at khalifa, international stadium. and then of course, there is the big final on sunday night between argentina and france. people have been speaking through the bookies as well. they seem to be evenly split about who will take away. that's again, i was speaking to jen tinian fan. they are saying that actually what ever happens they so proud of how their team has played. that's why there is a lot of expectation on that global. it's lucas. now the number 10 lee and how may say, who really, really wants to take his team to victory and try to prevent france from getting back to back. when's at the wilcox tournament? as you can hear, bit of support america for tomorrow, not match. so we'll see who will win. we'll have to wait and say, i'll just hear alexia bryan reporting live from dough house of suit. what if, which is a terrific place to be at any time with the not just during woke up. thanks to lexi south africa's governing amc is holding a leadership pole with president civil rama pose a tip to win a 2nd term. while the parties faced difficulties from leadership battles to corruption allegations. it's been in power for nearly 30 years. since south africa's 1st democratic elections for me to mila reports from travis, brook, once celebrated as a liberation party that fought against racial segregation. in recent years of africa, the governing african national congress has been riddled by corruption and criticism . it's a party of respected global and african leaders such as oliver tumble and nobel peace prize laureate nelson mandela. but 28 years into democracy, the agencies facing increasing condemnation for poor leadership and governance. since monday, la subsequent president tub. when becky and jacob zoom out were recalled or forced to resign, current president saddam opposes facing similar pressure in a scandal involving the 5th of hundreds of thousands of dollars from his game farm . the agencies reputation for many is in tatters. cryptography, nepotism, convey deployment from the very beginning of b and c government, which then became a norm within the party and within the higher echelons of government. so even when people are found to have sallied their day, the day they record as it were, they still continued to be deployed as members of the a and c and s trusted members of the n c. and that's what led to ramp and corruption, a pretty performance economy, record high unemployment and energy prices and a multitude of fraud. scams of frustrated south africans the port. he won the 1st and mccracken elections in 1994 with a 62 percent majority that dropped to 57 percent in the last polls support for the agencies been in decline for years. some voters have protested against the amc by staying away from the polls. others have abandoned the governing party and voted for the opposition. the democratic alliance and economic freedom fighters dominate opposition voices while they're combined support of almost a 3rd, a vote can be ignored. and a and c parliamentary majority has often protected its battle leaders. the in c needed money and the people who supported the ends, he saw money as being something that they could get their hands on. so the solution was you could relatively easily do what you wanted and get what ever tindles you wanted, provided you gave to caesar a portion of it and kept a portion for yourself. and the rock began thus, this weekend, the party will hold an elective conference to choose a president and other senior figures. supporters hope the new leadership will revive the party. by for many south africans, it's the same old faces with the same old scandals for me to mila al jazeera janice bug. at least 19 people have died and several are missing. after a landslide had a camping ground in malaysia, it happened in getting highlands outside corner lumper. the victims include at least one child, rescue crews are searching for survivors. more than 20 people have been pulled alive from the mud. as that got to me at the moment, we have 390 full rescuers from 15 agencies working on the search and rescue operation. until now, we are still coming the area done with the incident happened. those who japan's government has approved a tax hike to increase its military budget. the government will bring spending to 2 percent of g. d. p by 2027, citing growing military threats from north korea and china. opponents of the tax increase at force, the government was spoon the decision. thousands of government documents relating to the assassination of us president john f. kennedy at being made public nearly 60 years after he was shot dead. the u. s. national archive has released lily. 13000 files about the killing in dallas in 1963, but the white house held some documents back to you to national security concerns. the warren commission that investigated the shooting found that lee harvey oswald assassinated j. f. k. nasa was launched a rocket from the coast of california to one entered ignition and the lift off. it's carrying a satellite which will conduct an unprecedented survey of the world's oceans, the surface water, an ocean topography, satellite or swat, will perform detailed scans of all the ocean's lakes and blanche rivers on the planet. that data could provide vital clues about the climate crisis. but also she is the chief operating officer at the french national center, the space studies. he explains the importance of the mission. it's very important and very important for the old community to talk of the climate change because it's a measurement, very important to measure the sea level. it's a measurement to have been down for 30 years now. it's the story called cooperation . well, with the gps and you get to states between a french based agency and the united states to measure the sea level. and the sea level is a very good marker for the global warming because it is due to ice melting 1st. and secondly. so extensions are mentation of the room of the water and because of the heat. so when measuring a sea level at 2 millimeter and very precious, then you have a very good marker for the climate change. he's very important. so only it is very important for the book creation. you know that more than 20 percent of the population leave less than 30 kilometers from the sea side. and so the elimination of the level of the sea met may be very important for the future of our society, dental people. so it is very important. and lastly, the satellite will measure very precisely also for the 1st time the fresh water on the us, which is a very important challenge or so for the future. and our does that it does have a new generation of, of instrument which is inc to get the federal mitre system in k a bond. usually we have an ultimate that we measure already is a level of this, you don't as a satellite. and then we have a new system with indifferently, much more precise to measure the level of the sheet, but not only and also freshwater on big rivers and big place. so it is very, very important and a new step for not only the research, but all very operational things to tackle climate change. there's a major clean up on the way. and berlin, after a huge aquarium burst in the foyer of a hotel. the aqua don had been a major tourist attraction of the german capital. as alex bird reports, ah, it was the world's largest freestanding aquarium. 1500 tropical fish living out their lives in the foyer of a berlin luxury hotel bus. early on friday morning that marine dream came crashing down. the 25 me to toll cylindrical tank 1st, sending 1000000 liters of water rushing through the hotel lobby and her champ, their shirts everywhere. the furniture, everything has been flooded with water. and of course, i think destroyed by this huge pressure. she said looks a bit like a war zone. no, it's a huge a very on just yes, the we watch. and then we was all amazed from its beauty beauty. nathan suddenly forgot everything is the malice totally mass. 2 people were injured as as soon army of broken glass debris and fish washed through the building and out on the streets of central berlin. the hotels, restaurants and shops were also heavily damaged. it sounded almost like a firework, but the hotel actually shook inside. ah, i, i could describe it as a and i guilted out of bed and turned around and i didn't see any movements. i didn't know what the heck was going on. it's still unclear what caused the tank to burst. hundreds of people had been staying at the hotel and had now been forced to leave the building, but was about the fit she's oxycontin. us episode not yet been able to walk the 1st floor completely, which is probably where these fish will be. but the thing is that the water is completely leaked out, and about $1400.00 of these fish there were in this aquarium could not be saved either. hundreds of small fish had been house and aquariums under the hotels lobby without electricity for the tanks. it's feared many may have suffocated. and if any fish are found alive, a number of organisations including the bill and zoom have offered to take them and alex beard al jazeera. ah, it is good to be with us. hello adrian for they get here in doha, the headlines and also sierra peruse government has declared a 5 day curfew as protest.
discovery. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com it is sunday, september 30th. good morning, everyone. i'm gary tuchman in for randi kaye. wi start with battle between afghan soldiers and international troops. right now we know at least one coalition worker is dead. a civilian worker is dead as are a number of afghan troops. joining me on the phone is ben farmer, the afghan correspondent for the daily telegram. thanks for joining us and right now do we know how this clash started? >> reporter: no. they're only saying it's a suspected insider attack. the afghan officials have a little more information. they say there was a clash. there was an american soldier, afghan and two or three coalition soldiers killed. it happened about an hour's drive southwest from the capital. it's an area where american troops are having a great difficulty securing the main highway in the country. now what caused that clash is not true, but investigators are on the way to the scene and they're trying to find out exactly what caused these deaths. >> now, ben, nato just resumed patrols with afghan. could this lead to another halt with that? >> reporter: well, i think it will be viewed with a lot of concern with coalition headquarters. you're quite right that around two weeks ago general john allen dramatically scaled back the number of operations of the number of americans and coalition forces staged with their afghan partners just to prevent just this sort of attack. those joint partnerships started to increase in the last few days, but now they'll have to decide whether -- what action they will take as a result of these deaths. but first they'll have to final out exactly what happened. >> ben farmer from "the "daily telegraph."" we thank you very much for joining us. there have been about 50 of these so-called green-on-blue attacks, a fact that angers the top military commander there. here's what he told "60 minutes." >> you're in a tough spot right now. can you explain why the sudden increase in these attacks? >> i'm mad as hell about them, to be honest with you. we're going to get after this. it reverberates everywhere, across the united states. we're willing to sacrifice a lot for this campaign. wee not willing to be murdered for it. >> at a certain point if these attacks continue americans are going to say that's enough. >> it may be. it may be the voice right now that we're hearing. the key point us is for us to understand that the vast ma jart of the afghans -- and you've lived with them. you understand these people -- they're with us on this. they understand right now the severity of this problem and the urgency of what's happening, and there have been afghans killed trying to save our forces when these attacks have been under way because that was the only reaction that they could have taken was to try to save us at the moment of that attack. >> regional coalition commanders in afghanistan have been given the go-ahead for the resumption of some of those patrols. those okays only came after review of their security situations. to politics now and more allegations of voter registration fraud in the sunshine state of florida. the complaints center around a company originally hire by the republican national committee. strategic allied counseling did registration drives. the new york times reporting that the suspicious registration forms have now been found in ten florida counties. in colorado, one worker was caught on tape trying to register only mitt romney supporters. take a look. >> hi. >> i am polling people, but would you vote for romney or obama. >> wait. i thought you were registering voters a minute ago. >> okay. >> i am. >> who are you registered? all voters? >> i'm actually trying to register people for a particular party because we're out here in support of romney actually. >> and who's paying you for this? >> oh -- let me see. we're working for the county clerk's office. >> okay. you cannot come out here and register one party, lady. are you working for the county clerk's office? i've got it all on tape. you're working on the county clerk's office? >> i believe so yes. >> you're only registering romney's people? >> we're trying to. >> and you're working for the county's office? what's your name. >> she said she was working for the county clerk's office but the county clerk said that's not true. he also said my office will not engage in partisan voter renl station, although he asked asking a preferential question before registering is not illegal now, cnn has not been able to confirm that, so what is the national republican committee saying about strategic actions? first of all, the party fired the company. this from ryan mahoney. we have zero tolerance. we have therefore cut ties with strategic allied consultants and urged the state parties to do the same. others followed suit and fired strategic. strategic allied consults is now being investigated by law enforcement. it's quite a story. it's actually going be a little quiet for the next few days on the campaign trail. that's because they have something else to work on. here's senior political editor paul steinhauser. >> reporter: hey, good morning, gary. it's pretty obvious. one event will definitely dominate the white house. >> i'm looking forward to the debates r the first comes on wednesday night when they face off in denver. both candidates have a lot on the line, especially the gop challenger who a few days ago gave some insight into his debate preps. >> it's great to have senator rob portman. you know, he debates me now from time to time. he's playing barack obama in these mock debates we have. i don't like him very much anymore, all right? he keeps on beating me up and i keep going away shaking my head. >> reporter: he flies to colorado on monday night, hun r hunkering down while making final preparations. then he goes to nevada and then goes behind closed doors before debate day. meanwhile both presidential campaigns play the expectations games, trying to lower the bar for their candidates. gary? >> paul, thank you very much. next hour we'll take a closer look at the art of the debate and the strategy of the dodge. we'll show you how dodging important questions can actually earn candidates points with voters. and a programming note, the first presidential debate of 2012 is this wednesday night. watch it live, 7:00 p.m. eastern on cnn and cnn.com. tomorrow morning the u.s. supreme court justices will formally kick off a new term. on the agenda, some of the toughest and most controversial issues of our day. here's joe johns with more. >> reporter: right after the supreme court health care's decision in june, chief justice john roberts joked to colleagues that he would find an island fortress to escape the heat. here's how ruth termed the spring. >> it's been taxing. some have called it the term of the century. >> reporter: now three months later the court is back and there's no sign of it cooling down. >> the justices are moving right into the fire. they're tackling some of the most legal questions of the day. across the board probably the most biggest term in at least a decade. >> reporter: same-sex marriage, voting rights, and abortion are all likely to come up this term which kicks off monday. >> there are some very exciting cases already on the docket and there's a lot more in the pipeline that the court's going to be making a decision on soon. >> reporter: another set of big decisions will bring more scrutiny on the chiefs justice. rulings that the health care program he offered caused a rift between anton and scalia. >> no, i did not have a falling out with justice roberts. >> loud words exchanged? slamming of doors? >> no? >> no, no. >> nothing like that? >> nothing like that. >> liberals fear a more hard line, dogmatic shift to the right. >> a lot of progressives are concerned that this might mean that chief justice roberts has built up some capital, some good will, and will now push the conservative agenda. >> reporter: tom goldstein who has argued before the court thinks roberts wants a more conservative court but h that he'll do it gradually. >> he's not trying to move the law radically quickly. i think justice scalia and thomas want to get to the end as quickly as possible and make the law conform to what they really understand, whereas the chief justice is more incrementalist. >> reporter: but conservative court watcher doesn't believe that will change any time soon. >> certainly this is not a crusading conservative court until we have a shift in the membership of the court it's impossible to call it a court that leans more to the left or the right. >> reporter: for opinions that would be close, opinions will be paid attention to by justice anthony kennedy who's the swing vote. protests and bloodshed dominate international news. austerity measures continue to bring aim and outrage. we'll take you to madrid and the latest in protests over spap's latest 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check point that killed three iraqi police officers. to syria now where rebel and government forces are fighting it out block by block. opposition liters say at least 21 people were killed across the nation in fighting yesterday. that's what it looked and sounded like on the streetses o aleppo. it's just one of the cultural and civilian landmarks being destroyed in civil war. i-tv's bill sealy has more. >> reporter: in one city this would be bad enough. in three, it's a disaster, but this is now the reality in the three main cities of syria. the ragings, troops fighting rebels for control of whole districts. aleppo is syria's biggest city and business capital engulfed now in the business of war. the damage is extraordinary. the death toll incal cue label. aleppo is being destroyed to make it safe. syrian troops are on the offensive in the country's third city, homs. recapturing many areas from what they say are foreign fighters and extremist muslims. rebels they say directly armed by arab states. in one district they took, they showed us what they said was an abandoned rebel headquarters. bags with saudi arabian markings scattered around, a makeshift scaffold with ropes and a meat hook was there. they said rebels tortured and hanged people here. we have no way of proving this. the u.n. mostly accuses the regime of mass torture but says rebels are guilty of human rights abuse too. no one is safe, no faith is spared. christian churches and muslim mosques, a battleground. but one man is an optinift, the new governor of homs, syria's third city. these rebels, he says, will be beaten, and we'll win the war in homs in one month. >> one month. that seems very optimistic. >> one month he insists, but britain and america should stop supporting terrorists. they are his master's words. throughout the interview, explosions echo across the city. explosions, too, in syria's capital city, one at a military base. bombs smuggled inside and detonated by rebels. here, too, troops 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>> because he was black because we were black and he was white. >> jennifer couture was a substitute teacher that subbed one day when he was out. she figured she might be punished for speaking to us but she backs up what the children told us. >> when you took over, were the black students segregated? >> yes. >> as well as the special ed students. >> the children, the parents and other teachers say the bizarre behavior lasted for months. final after continued complaints olmsted was placed on leave this past january and then two months later he resigned. get this, he's still being paid. he's owed back sick pay. all of this has caused great deal of anger. the three children we talked with and the relatives have filed a lawsuit against olmsted and the saint paul schools because they knew about it and did nothing. we promptly investigated. we responded appropriately, and we intend to vigorously defend the lawsuit. but the parents disagree. >> they'd rather sweep it under the rug rather than deal with it. >> and then there is this. documents that indicate that olmsted was reprimanded back in 2011 for sexually offensive behavior toward a female co-worker at a holiday party and in 2003 he was suspended for making sexual references against schoolchildren. the former superintendent stated for now discernible appropriate instructional reason and you digressed to describe some of your experiences of life on a farm and gave the class a graphic description of cass straighting horses and throwing their testicles into the fields for cats to eat. he was welcomed year after year without ever tell parents a thing. we wanted to see what olmsted had to say. he happened to be talking to a cop when we came up. mr. olmsted, my name is gary tuchman from cnn. i want to ask you about what happened in the courtroom. >> i have no comments. >> there are allegations that you separated black children from the rest of the children in 2011. >> no comment. >> in 2003. >> no comment. >> did you do it or not. just be honest. >> no comment. >> why are you still collecting a paycheck? >> no comment. >> should they be paying your paycheck. >> why won't you talk, just answer that. >> i won't comment from on that. >> we asked for a comment on fr. his attorney. his lawyer declared he has never discriminated against any student. plaintiff's allegations against mr. olmsted are false and mr. olmsted is confident he'll be completely vindicated by the true facts. what those true facts might be remain a mystery tochl the chirp though, what happened is all quite obvious. >> did he make you feel like you were not as important as the white kids in the class? >> children who are still dealing with the emotional ramifications. >> we'll continue to follow this story as it makes its way through the minnesota court system. if you've been to the grocery store lately, you may have noticed meat prices have gone up. next we'll tell you why pork and beef prices in particular are rising and costing you more. these fellas used capital one venture miles for a golf getaway. double miles you can actually use... but mr. single miles can't join his friends because he's getting hit with blackouts. shame on you. now he's stuck in a miniature nightmare. oh, thank you. but, with the capital one venture card... you can fly any airline, any flight, any time. double miles you can actually use. what's in your wallet? 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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com it is sunday, september 30th. good morning, everyone. i'm gary tuchman in for randi kaye. wi start with battle between afghan soldiers and international troops. right now we know at least one coalition worker is dead. a civilian worker is dead as are a number of afghan troops. joining me on the phone is ben farmer, the afghan correspondent for the daily telegram. thanks for joining us and right now do we know how this clash started? >> reporter: no. they're only saying it's a suspected insider attack. the afghan officials have a little more information. they say there was a clash. there was an american soldier, afghan and two or three coalition soldrs killed. it happened about an hour's drive southwest from the capital. it's an area where american troops are having a great difficulty securing the main highway in the country. now what caused that clash is not true, but investigators are on the way to the scene and they're trying to find out exactly what caused these deaths. >> now, ben, nato just resumed patrols with afghan. could this lead to another halt with that? >> reporter: well, i think it will be viewed with a lot of concern with coalition headquarters. you're quite right that around two weeks ago general john allen dramatically scaled back the number of operations of the number of americans and coalition forces staged with their afghan partners just to prevent just this sort of attack. those joint partnerships started to increase in the last few days, but now they'll have to decide whether -- what action they will take as a result of these deaths. but first they'll have to final out exactly what happened. >> ben farmer from "the "daily telegraph."" we thank you very much for joining us. there have been about 50 of these so-called green-on-blue attacks, a fact that angers the top military commander there. here's what he told "60 minutes." >> you're in a tough spot right now. can you explain why the sudden increase in these attacks? >> i'm mad as hell about them, to be honest with you. we're going to get after this. it reverberates everywhere, across the united states. we're willing to sacrifice a lot for this campaign. wee not willing to be murdered for it. >> at a certain point if these attacks continue americans are going to say that's enough. >> it may be. it may be the voice right now that we're hearing. the key point us is for us to understand that the vast ma jart of the afghans -- and you've lived with them. you understand these people -- they're with us on this. they understand right now the severity of this problem and the urgency of what's happening, and there have been afghans killed trying to save our forces when these attacks have been under way because that was the only reaction that they could have taken was to try to save us at the moment of that attack. >> regional coalition commanders in afghanistan have been given the go-ahead for the resumption of some of those patrols. those okays only came after review of their security situations. to politics now and more allegations of voter registration fraud in the sunshine state of florida. the complaints center around a company originally hire by the republican national committee. strategic allied counseling did registration drives. the new york times reporting that the suspicious registration forms have now been found in ten florida counties. in colorado, one worker was caught on tape trying to register only mitt romney supporters. take a look. >> hi. >> i am polling people, but would you vote for romney or obama. >> wait. i thought you were registering voters a minute ago. >> okay. >> i am. >> who are you registered? all voters? >> i'm actually trying to register people for a particular party because we're out here in support of romney actually. >> and who's paying you for this? >> oh -- let me see. we're working for the county clerk's office. >> okay. you cannot come out here and register one party, lady. are you working for the county clerk's office? i've got it all on tape. you're working on the county clerk's office? >> i believe so yes. >> you're only registering romney's people? >> we're trying to. >> and you're working for the county's office? what's your name. >> she said she was working for the county clerk's office but the county clerk said that's not true. he also said my office will not engage in partisan voter renl station, although he asked asking a preferential question before registering is not illegal now, cnn has not been able to confirm that, so what is the national republican committee saying about strategic actions? first of all, the party fired the company. this from ryan mahoney. we have zero tolerance. we have therefore cut ties with strategic allied consultants and urged the state parties to do the same. others followed suit and fired strategic. strategic allied consults is now being investigated by law enforcement. it's quite a story. it's actually going be a little quiet for the next few days on the campaign trail. that's because they have something else to work on. here's senior political editor paul steinhauser. >> reporter: hey, good morning, gary. it's pretty obvious. one event will definitely dominate the white house. >> i'm looking forward to the debates r the first comes on wednesday night when they face off in denver. both candidates have a lot on the line, especially the gop challenger who a few days ago gave some insight into his debate preps. >> it's great to have senator rob portman. you know, he debates me now from time to time. he's playing barack obama in these mock debates we have. i don't like him very much anymore, all right? he keeps on beating me up and i keep going away shaking my head. >> reporter: he flies to colorado on monday night, hun r hunkering down while making final preparations. then he goes to nevada and then goes behind closed doors before debate day. meanwhile both presidential campaigns play the expectations games, trying to lower the bar for their candidates. gary? >> paul, thank you very much. next hour we'll take a closer look at the art of the debate and the strategy of the dodge. we'll show you how dodging important questions can actually earn candidates points with voters. and a programming note, the first presidential debate of 2012 is this wednesday night. watch it live, 7:00 p.m. eastern on cnn and cnn.com. tomorrow morning the u.s. supreme court justices will formally kick off a new term. on the agenda, some of the toughest and most controversial issues of our day. here's joe johns with more. >> reporter: right after the supreme court health care's decision in june, chief justice john roberts joked to colleagues that he would find an island fortress to escape the heat. here's how ruth termed the spring. >> it's been taxing. some have called it the term of the century. >> reporter: now three months later the court is back and there's no sign of it cooling down. >> the justices are moving right into the fire. they're tackling some of the most legal questions of the day. across the board probably the most biggest term in at least a decade. >> reporter: same-sex marriage, voting rights, and abortion are all likely to come up this term which kicks off monday. >> there are some very exciting cases already on the docket and there's a lot more in the pipeline that the court's going to be making a decision on soon. >> reporter: another set of big decisions will bring more scrutiny on the chiefs justice. rulings that the health care program he offered caused a rift between anton and scalia. >> no, i did not have a falling out with justice roberts. >> loud words exchanged? slamming of doors? >> no? >> no, no. >> nothing like that? >> nothing like that. >> liberals fear a more hard line, dogmatic shift to the right. >> a lot of progressives are concerned that this might mean that chief justice roberts has built up some capital, some good will, and will now push the conservative agenda. >> reporter: tom goldstein who has argued before the court thinks roberts wants a more conservative court but h that he'll do it gradually. >> he's not trying to move the law radically quickly. i think justice scalia and thomas want to get to the end as quickly as possible and make the law conform to what they really understand, whereas the chief justice is more incrementalist. >> reporter: but conservative court watcher doesn't believe that will change any time soon. >> certainly this is not a crusading conservative court until we have a shift in the membership of the court it's impossible to call it a court that leans more to the left or the right. >> reporter: for opinions that would be close, opinions will be paid attention to by justice anthony kennedy who's the swing vote. protests and bloodshed dominate international news. austerity measures continue to bring aim and outrage. we'll take you to madrid and the latest in protests over spap's latest plan for 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check point that killed three iraqi police officers. to syria now where rebel and government forces e fighting it out block by block. opposition liters say at least 21 people were killed across the nation in fighting yesterday. that's what it looked and sounded like on the streetses o aleppo. it's just one of the cultural and civilian landmarks being destroyed in civil war. i-tv's bill sealy has more. >> reporter: in one city this would be bad enough. in three, it's a disaster, but this is now the reality in the three main cities of syria. the ragings, troops fighting rebels for control of whole districts. aleppo is syria's biggest city and business capital engulfed now in the business of war. the damage is extraordinary. the death toll incal cue label. aleppo is being destroyed to make it safe. syrian troops are on the offensive in the country's third city, homs. recapturing many areas from what they say are foreign fighters and extremist muslims. rebels they say directly armed by arab states. in one district they took, they showed us what they said was an abandoned rebel headquarters. bags with saudi arabian markings scattered around, a makeshift scaffold with ropes and aeat hook was there. they said rebels tortured and hanged people here. we have no way of proving this. the u.n. mostly accuses the regime of mass torture but says rebels are guilty of human rights abuse too. no one is safe, no faith is spared. christian churches and muslim mosques, a battleground. but one man is an optinift, the new governor of homs, syria's third city. these rebels, he says, will be beaten, and we'll win the war in homs in one month. >> one month. that seems very optimistic. >> one month he insists, but britain and america should stop supporting terrorists. they are his master's words. throughout the interview, explosions echo across the city. explosions, too, in syria's capital city, one at a military base. bombs smuggled inside and detonated by rebels. here, too, troops crack 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>> because he was black because we were black and he was white. >> jennifer couture was a substitute teacher that subbed one day when he was out. she figured she might be punished for speaking to us but she backs up what the children told us. >> when you took over, were the black students segregated? >> yes. >> as well as the special ed students. >> the children, the parents and other teachers say the bizarre behavior lasted for months. final after continued complaints olmsted was placed on leave this past january and then two months later he resigned. get this, he's still being paid. he's owed back sick pay. all of this has caused great deal of anger. the three children we talked with and the relatives have filed a lawsuit against olmsted and the saint paul schools because they knew about it and did nothing. we promptly investigated. we responded appropriately, and we intend to vigorously defend the lawsuit. but the parents disagree. >> they'd rather sweep it under the rug rather than deal with it. >> and then there is this. documents that indicate that olmsted was reprimanded back in 2011 for sexually offensive behavior toward a female co-worker at a holiday party and in 2003 he was suspended for making sexual references against schoolchildren. the former superintendent stated for now discernible appropriate instructional reason and you digressed to describe some of your experiences of life on a farm and gave the class a graphic description of cass straighting horses and throwing their testicles into the fields for cats to eat. he was welcomed year after year without ever tell parents a thing. we wanted to see what olmsted had to say. he happened to be talking to a cop when we came up. mr. olmsted, my name is gary tuchman from cnn. i want to ask you about what happened in the courtroom. >> i have no comments. >> there are allegations that you separated black children from the rest of the children in 2011. >> no comment. >> in 2003. >> no comment. >> did you do it or not. just be honest. >> no comment. >> why are you still collecting a paycheck? 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stevens. that was two and a half weeks ago. two and a half weeks that have seen the administration first describe this as a spontaneous outburst even though our reporting revealed that officials knew within 24 hours that it was not. only much later did they back away from that assessment. today, the director of national intelligence, james clapper, put out a statement explaining that early evidence supported that theory so that's why they told the white house and congress. clapper says that throughout the investigation, his agency made it clear that the assessment was preliminary and could change. neither his statement nor our sources specify a time frame for the dni's change of view. again, our sources tell us that law enforcement officials knew within 24 hours that this was a terror attack. our reporting also reveals that even though the administration says the investigation is going smoothly, the fbi has hit a bump in the road to the crime scene and tonight, we've got reporting that could explain why that is. a senior law enforcement official telling fran townsend the fbi wanted the u.s. military to provide perimeter support in benghazi, protection, in other words, but that request was not granted. fran's a former white house homeland security advisor. she served in the george w. bush administration, currently she sits on the cia external advisory panel and recently visited libya with her employer, mcandrews and forbes. also joining us, former fbi assistant director, tom fuentes, who has extensive experience investigating attacks on americans overseas, and former cia officer, bob baer. so fran, so the fbi sought military protection to go into benghazi. why didn't they get it? >> well, the answer to that question, i think, is not really clear. so it's not unusual, when you want to set up a security perimeter, you may look to the host country. if the host country is unable or unwilling to provide it, we don't know what the answer to that is, you may ask if you think you need it for u.s. military support, but that's got to go through a process. it needs state department and nsc support, the u.s. military would have to make an assessment about how big a security package that would entail and lastly, and perhaps most importantly, you need host government. the libyan government in this case, support to allow u.s. military boots on the ground to provide sort of the defensive security perimeter around the benghazi compound. now, i spoke to a senior administration official who said they have been having regular meetings twice daily, secure video teleconferences on updates of the investigation. there has been regular deputies committee meetings hosted by dennis mcdonough, the deputy national security advisor and discussions regarding libyan support and cooperation, my law enforcement source was quite clear, it's not that the libyans haven't been cooperative. there have been discussions that the libyans were concerned that they themselves couldn't provide the sort of comprehensive security to protect the fbi team and that there were concerns on the libyan part about having a u.s. military presence on the ground. all of that said, anderson, as you point out, 18 days later after the attack, the fbi today sort of indicated to me through a senior law enforcement official they're having serious debates as to whether or not with the passage of so much time, whether it makes sense to take the risk at all even if they could have gotten the kind of support early on. now, what will they gain by going to benghazi and taking the security risk. they may decide not to go at all. >> so just to be clear, we're not sure at this point where the breakdown occurred in terms of who -- i mean, whether it was the libyans, whether it was -- or state department, we don't know where the breakdown occurred. >> no, that's right. anderson, it could have been something as simple as this sort of -- when the interagency discussion, the u.s. government writ large decided that if that's what you're required for your perimeter security, that indicated itself it was too dangerous and that they shouldn't be bothered, they shouldn't go at all. it's not even clear to us yet whether or not this request was put to the libyan government. >> fran, you say not only fbi investigators not gone to benghazi yet, but that some are not even in libya. >> that's right. anderson, whenever there's an international terrorism investigation, there's a protocol where fbi agents with palletized cargo and equipment predeploy in the region to get closer. in this case, that did happen. there were agents in germany where they conducted interviews of u.s. personnel who were coming out of libya, and there are also in another country, a third country in the region where they predeployed also to be nearby, but many of those still remain in that third country awaiting visas to get into tripoli. >> still waiting for visas? >> that's right. well, look, this is always -- i can tell you myself when i went, it's not easy to get a visa into libya. obviously, this is something that the libyan government can facilitate for the fbi, but you know, we saw yesterday the u.s. government drew down their personnel because of concern in the protests today so it may be that they've just been waiting for sort of a break in the security situation to get them in. >> tom fuentes, you have your own take on what's happening with the fbi contingent. >> right, anderson. during my five years running international operations at the bureau, i oversaw hundreds of these deployments, my staff and i, making the logistical arrangements, working on the visas, working with the host country on how many investigators would be allowed, how they would get there, what kind of equipment we could get in there. and we always had these type of challenges. what happened in this case, i talked to several senior executives the day after the attack on september 12th, who said looking at the videos of that compound being burnt to the ground, looking at the fact that the libyans have no control, no ability to maintain law and order in benghazi, we're probably not going to be able to get in there. we'll try, we'll deploy, we'll get in the neighborhood, we'll have equipment standing by, maybe we can have some assurance that we can get in there and be protected, but at this point, we don't think there's going to be a lot of information of value. basically, they have to conduct a risk assessment. what evidence are they likely to get after a crime scene has been completely trampled by locals, souvenir hunters, reporters, everybody, much of the material burnt and taken away, and they're weighing that with the odds of if they send a team in there, even with u.s. military protection, and all of a sudden mortars start raining down on their heads from nearby houses, now what do you do. do the marines attack those houses and kill innocent men, women and children that are -- you know, you suddenly have a war situation in an attempt to get evidence that may be of such limited value that it's just not worth the risk politically or investigatively. >> we don't really know what other information, if any, there may have been laying around that could have been scavenged by anybody, by libyans, friendly to the united states or not friendly to the united states. at both of these installations there could have been classified information for all we know, correct? >> well, i think almost undoubtedly there's been classified information lost. you simply can't burn out of a consulate like that in a minute's notice. you need thermite grenades to blow through the safes, you need to destroy the hard drives. when you're under fire, no one can do that. there was no safe rooms to do that. there was no oxygen in those safe rooms. there was no way to keep the temperature down. the people in that consulate did exactly what they should have done and that was get out of there as fast as they can, and not get killed. now, frankly, i would like to see the fbi's investigation on this simply because it's the least politicized agency in washington, and the fbi would come out and tell us exactly what happened there. number one, i would like to find out if those mortars in fact hit the annex as it's been described. also, were the assaults, the people that assaulted the consulate using 12.5 machine guns. that tells us a lot, that it truly was a military assault, that there's no amount of protection that would have protected that consulate. to go back to the military, absolutely right, it would be actually occupying that part of benghazi. you would have to send armor in if in fact you were being hit by artillery or heavy machine guns, and this is something that the white house is reluctant to do and it's of course politically impossible for the libyan government to let an american military occupy a part of benghazi. >> tom, in past experience, i don't know if there has been a situation like this, but where u.s. personnel had been evacuated, after an incident like this, who's responsible for locking down the facility, for trying to secure the facility? >> the libyan government. that's where the breakdown is. when we've had these situations overseas, we've had one of two situations. either we have a country that has an established law enforcement and military such as the embassy attacks in kenya and tanzania in 1998, or you have a failed state like somalia where we had blackhawk down. if you have that situation and it's a failed state or it's a war zone like iraq and afghanistan, had it been in the early 2000s, then you send in the military, send in as many troops as you need. you just take over. but when you're trying to do that in a sovereign country or a country trying to gain its independence and stand up for itself, that's an extremely difficult situation to do that in. >> tom, from your experience, is it possible to have a thorough investigation without setting foot at a crime scene like this? >> it's still impossible to have a very good investigation and bob is correct, it would be nice to go in there and see what kind of armament was used and where, you know, how they actually took down those buildings. but on the other hand, if they go in there and they find and they do the explosive residue and send everything back to the lab to be examined and they find they've got munitions from the united states, from nato countries, from other countries, that's going to basically tell them nothing, because, because of the insurrection that led up to the overthrow of gadhafi. you have countries from all over the world, including the u.s., sending munitions into that country, training the locals how to do it to overthrow the gadhafi government. they had on-the-job training for months and months in how to operate mortars and rpgs and assault rifles and pistols. so you had a war zone there for a long time, so you have tens of thousands of civilians who know how to operate that military hardware and would have the equipment to do it. and after gadhafi was overthrown, the new government came in, no one has gone to that country and taken the munitions and the weapons and the bombs and mortars out. that's all still sitting there. we'll have the same issue in syria when that ends. for all the stuff that's being sent in to help the rebels, what happens in the aftermath when you've got tons of stuff that came in from all over the world and it falls into the hands of bad guys. or terrorists. >> bob, you're concerned about that particularly even talking about that now for months. >> yeah. it's all over the middle east, there's weapons easily available, they're for sale, they're being shipped around. there's enormous amount of money going into countries like libya and these countries fragment. libya is a tribatribalized soci. it's astounding if you look at the french intelligence reports that there's something like 100,000 to 200,000 militia men in libya but there's only 5,000 to 10,000 regular forces. the central government is outnumbered and to go to the central government and say do something about this is unrealistic. >> tom, very quickly. >> if i could add one more comment. the other issue is even if the libyans say we're going to provide our best troops, our best police officers to come in and provide perimeter security, you don't know what kind of background checks or who they're loyal to. you could have a situation like in afghanistan, that people that we have been working with and training and side by side turned and fire on our people. so that's the dangerous aspect here. you can only have confidence if it's u.s. force protection but bringing that much equipment and even armor as bob mentioned is not feasible. >> given that mortars were involved you would have to have a pretty huge perimeter to be able to secure both sites. tom, appreciate your expertise. fran, as well. bob baer, thanks. join us on facebook, follow me on twitter right now. let us know what you think about this situation. next, we will introduce you to the fine art of predebate trash talking. that's to say trash talking your own team and praising the other side. we'll tell you why that happens and why it's happening now and show you one debate moment that changed the face of tv and some that changed american history. we will also take a preview of what we can expect from this first debate coming next week. i'm an expert on softball. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown. but it's for them, so i've found a way. who matters most to you says the most about you. massmutual is owned by our policyholders so they matter most to us. massmutual. we'll help you get there. in that time there've been some good days. and some difficult ones. but, through it all, we've persevered, supporting some of the biggest ideas in modern history. so why should our anniversary matter to you? 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you and especially the pundits that their own guy can barely tie his shoes and the other guy can leap, debate opponents in a single bound. >> we know that governor romney's been practicing for months. i think the invasion of normandy took less preparation than he's putting into these debates. >> he's articulate, smart. he did a great job in 2008 during that campaign as a debater. he had some tough debates with hillary clinton and he performed well. >> well, that was rob portman, of course, who has been prepping governor romney. before that, senior obama campaign advisor david axelrod. each has been working as though the entire campaign depends on what happens in next week's debate. the question is will it? we will talk about that in a moment. first, one indisputable truth, debates can make history. >> i have been -- >> september 26, 1960. the first televised presidential debate, signaling a new era where appearances matter more than ever and gaffes, however small, are magnified. >> the goals are the same for all americans. >> john f. kennedy, a young senator from massachusetts, facing off against vice president richard nixon, who is known to be a fierce debater. but on screen, kennedy looks cool and calm, while nixon looks uncomfortable, sweating profusely under the hot studio lights. nixon flounders under the glare of television for all four debates. kennedy goes on to win the election. in 1976, president gerald ford makes this blunder in his debate with georgia govern oor jimmy carter. >> there is no soviet domination of eastern europe and there never will be under a ford administration. >> i'm sorry, could i just -- >> the remark becomes a central theme in carter's campaign and is blamed by many for costing ford the election. in 1980, ronald reagan is repeatedly attacked by president carter for his stance on health care. >> governor reagan, as a matter of fact, began his political career campaigning around this nation against medicare. >> but reagan wins fans and the election by staying cool. >> there you go again. >> four years later, president reagan again uses humor to handle attacks on his age during his debate with walter mondale. >> i want you to know that also, i will not make age an issue of this campaign. i am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. >> in the next election, democratic candidate michael dukakis is asked this controversial question in his debate with vice president george w. bush. >> governor, if kitty dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer? >> no, i don't. i think you know i have opposed the death penalty during all of my life. >> the public sees his answer as cold and dispassionate and that very night, his poll numbers dropped. during the 1988 vice presidential debate, republican senator dan quayle's comparison to john f. kennedy elicits this blistering response from his opponent. >> senator, you are no jack kennedy. >> body language plays a part in the presidential debate. in 1992, george h.w. bush deliberately looks at his watch and he pays for it when the audience and voters see it as disrespectful. body language makes a difference in the debate between al gore and george w. bush as well. gore sighs over and over again and bush, the underdog, surprises by winning the debate and of course, the election. both president obama and governor romney had seasoned debaters and experts say neither are prone to making major gaffes. but if there is one thing that history has taught us, when it comes to presidential debates, expect the unexpected. joining us now to talk about the moments and debate magic yet to come, republican consultant romney 2008 campaign advisor, alex castellanos and donna brazile. a lot of folks are saying these debates are do or die for romney. donna, do you agree? >> absolutely. first impression is very, very important. mitt romney had several opportunities to change the trajectory of the campaign, his selection of a running mate, paul ryan, got a small bounce. the convention speech didn't get any bounce, and now the first debate. this is like the first night on broadway. there will be more voters tuning in, they will be looking at his performance and if he comes across as somebody who is credible, who is up to the task, he might get another bounce out of it. >> aren't undecided voters the least likely to tune into the debates? gallup looked back at records and found only two examples where debates really changed the course. that was 1960 and 2000. >> they are important moments for these candidates but you're exactly right. it's so hard to change anything at this point. why. these two guys are not unpainted canvases. barack obama, his canvas is pretty much filled in. we know him. we have seen him for four years. as president. mitt romney has been through a long and grueling campaign. there is very little white space left on his canvas. so if they're really going to do something different that changes how they're understood, it has to be something very big. >> it's interesting, both candidates, campaigns are trying to lower expectations a lot. do you think mitt romney actually could be kind of better prepared than his campaign that's trying -- >> there's no question, he participated in 20 debates and as you know, you hosted a few of them, he was always well prepared. he understood what was at stake and i thought he was perhaps better prepared than any of the other candidates but you know, these debates can reinforce the current perception of the candidates and i think that will pretty much help president obama, but if mitt romney can create a different impression that he's somebody that's more likeable, that he understands the issues and that he's more compassionate or empathetic, it could re-align the campaign. i don't think by much, because president obama right now is in a very strong position. >> what do you think mitt romney needs to do? >> oh, i think mitt romney needs to talk about failure and success. mitt romney may not be the perfect candidate, but this president doesn't have much in the way of accomplishments, especially when it comes to this economy. he has to say look, barack obama, you may have succeeded as a politician but you haven't succeeded as a president. i know what it takes to succeed in life, hai've done it a lot i business creating growth and jobs. let's talk about that. >> it does seem in the last couple days his campaign has been kind of trying to make him seem like a warmer guy. i mean, that photo -- >> hes loosened his tie, taken it off. he's laughed a little more. the job for mitt romney clearly is to get in the ring, get in the arena and to show that he can handle these tough issues. he hasn't been specific. he has to avoid talking about taxes, has to avoid talking about the 47%. he has to play offense. and president obama has to make sure that he doesn't play preventive defense. >> just being on that stage with the president, does that make mitt romney seem more presidential? >> absolutely. debates are great levellers. any time you're in the ring with the president of the united states, it tends to bring the water level up for both candidates. >> but let me just tell you, i will never forget when al gore, al gore had a lot of momentum, he went into the debate and i thought he was very well prepared. george bush was there as well, but you know, i don't know if you recall, anderson, some viewers heard al gore sigh, like he sounded like he was tired, and then of course, that debate with bill clinton and george herbert walker bush where he showed, he looked at his watch. so these are moments when people are really assessing your temperament, your body language, your demeanor. so it's a big night for both president obama as well as governor romney. >> did you hear him sigh? were you backstage like stop sighing? >> i heard it the first time. by the third time i pretended not to listen. but more importantly, once they put up that split screen, then you looked at he was rolling his eyes and of course, it was not a pretty moment. but we came back in the second debate. >> that's when the democrats started sighing, too, right after al gore. mitt romney has to demonstrate he's changed. there are a lot of voters in this country who are unsatisfied with barack obama. they think we could do better. they don't know that mitt romney is that change. neither of these guys has told us what the next four years could be like because of the changes they would bring. >> and that's i think another challenge that mitt romney has on wednesday night. that is to finally lay out some plans. he's been talking a lot about i have solutions, i know how to get the economy moving, but he really hasn't given us a concrete beyond the 59 points, the five points -- >> neither has our president, though. >> our president did in his convention speech outline what he would do over the next four years which i believe is very important because he'll have an opportunity on wednesday night to expand upon that. mitt romney once again, this is the third time he's going to have an opportunity to introduce himself, this time we'll see if he can charm us into thinking he's the one. >> i think you're a little confused. that was the wrong president. that was bill clinton who said that. >> thank you. ahead, we will investigate our shameful fact. after risking their lives on the battlefield, disabled veterans are fighting a battle they never expected for the benefits they deserve. we'll be right back. those surprising little things she does still make you take notice. there are a million reasons why. but your erectile dysfunction that could be a question of blood flow. cialis for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to 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about veterans having to fight for disability benefits they say they are entitled to. their doctors have vouched for their injuries. they filed the required paperwork not to mention they've risked their lives for their country but now find themselves doing battle with the very agency that's supposed to take care of them, the department of veterans affairs. randi kaye investigates. >> reporter: mike rio can't go to the grocery store without making a list even for just one item. he can't drive without gripping the steering wheel so hard, his knuckles turn white. and he can't stand longer than 30 minutes because of severe back pain. this is mike rio's life post-afghanistan. >> i need to discover who i am again. i'm not asking for help for the rest of my life. i want to feel like i matter. >> reporter: mike's wife maggie says her husband returned from war a shell of the man he once was. gone was the fun-loving, free-spirited, laid back guy he used to be. war, she says, changed him. he still has ringing in the ears from explosions. he also suffers from vertigo, headaches, and has terrible anxiety. we saw it first-hand during our interview. mike was so anxious, he could hardly sit still. we met at mike rio's mother's house near phoenix, arizona, where he, his wife and daughter have been living for the last year and a half. maggie and their daughter share a bedroom and mike sleeps every night on the living room couch. what is it like for you at 51 to be sleeping on your mother's couch? >> ashamed. i feel low. i feel -- how can i support my family, let alone get them a house? >> reporter: mike doesn't have the money for a place of their own. he can't work. firefights and an ied blast in afghanistan left him with a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. maggie isn't working, either, so she can look after him. the money is running out, and they find themselves like hundreds of thousands of other veterans, fighting a battle they never expected. one they frankly can't believe. they're fighting for benefits from the department of veterans affairs. >> i thought they were there to help us. you know, i -- if it wasn't for my wife, i would be in the fetal position. i would be curled up in a ball. i couldn't do it. >> reporter: mike has been trying to get his disability claim processed for nearly two years. there has been lost paperwork, long wait times for appointments, and erroneous lab results. when mike was prescribed some medication, it was for a bladder infection he didn't have. mike first filed his claim in january 2011, right after he got back from afghanistan. in august, that same year, he learned his claim was finally in review. then in december 2011, he was told to expect a decision by the end of the year. that deadline came and went. keeping them honest, we asked veterans affairs assistant secretary tommy sours why veterans who risk their lives for this country are waiting months, even years, for disability. despite v.a. secretary eric shinseki's promises for a quick turnaround on claims. secretary shinseki said his goal was to have claims resolved in no more than 125 days with 98% accuracy. why hasn't that happened yet? >> well, again, this is a problem that has been decades in the making. we're transitioning from a paper-based system to an electronic system and it is a huge amount, a huge undertaking and task. >> reporter: is the current backlog of claims acceptable? >> it is unacceptable and we know that. we do. >> reporter: unacceptable, yet more than a year after mike filed his claim, he was still waiting. we interviewed 16 other veterans for this story. all of them told us they waited many months to get a simple disability claim resolved. in some cases, more than a year. many of them also told us they weren't helped quickly enough with serious mental health issues related to ptsd. in one case, a veteran told us he had called a v.a. suicide hotline and was told they would call him back. they never did. right now, according to the v.a., there are close to 900,000 claims pending and of those, 66% of them have been waiting longer than secretary shinseki's goal of 125 days. worse, more than 228,000 claims have been pending one year or more. on average, the v.a. says veterans wait 256 days before their claim is resolved. paul reichoff, the founder of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, says troops are tired of the rhetoric. >> there's a difference between the speak you get out of the bureaucrats in washington and the reality of what you see on the ground. the guys and gals on the ground don't care about how many bureaucrats there are, how many pilot studies there are, how much money is being spent. they care if they have gotten a decision back from the v.a. >> reporter: there is a saying among veterans about the v.a., saying the v.a.'s policy is delay, deny until we die. what is your response to that? >> i would say there are many veterans out there that love their v.a. care, that absolutely love it. >> reporter: assistant secretary sours says the v.a. is on track to process one million claims this year, and that it paid out nearly $5 billion in compensation last year. adding to delays, the v.a. says many veterans are returning with severe and complex mental injuries, and sometimes file incomplete paperwork. the backlog also increased when thousands of vets were finally allowed to file claims for agent orange and gulf war syndrome. on june 27th this year, mike finally got word his disability claim had been processed, 18 months after he had filed. but mike was awarded only 40% disability, which works out to $659 a month. he got credit for his ptsd but even though he had been diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury, by a doctor at the v.a., he was denied coverage for that injury. like so many others, mike and maggie plan to appeal their disability rating, a process that could set them back another two years in getting their case resolved. >> he could have been killed. every time i spoke to him on the phone i thought this might be the last time i hear his voice. our relationship has had to take -- >> that's another dimension. yeah. our relationship. >> i'm married to a different man now. i love him as much as i've always loved him, but he's different. >> reporter: different in a way maggie and mike hope to make the v.a. understand. that $659 a month in disability certainly doesn't cover the price they've paid for war. randi kaye, cnn, phoenix, arizona. >> incredible, they might have to wait another year or two. coming up, disturbing accusations at a school in minnesota, where students say a teacher segregated the african-american students from the white students and called them horrible names. gary tuchman speaks to some of those students and the teacher at the center of the controversy, next. ♪ my life begins today ♪ ♪ fly by night away from here ♪ ♪ change my life again ♪ ♪ fly by night, goodbye my dear ♪ ♪ my ship isn't coming ♪ 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>> like i wasn't smart enough, or i'm not good enough -- i'm not good enough for me to be with the other children, the other white children. >> reporter: the children say at first they were afraid to tell their parents and grandparents, but they ultimately did, after they say they were repeatedly called stupid, sloppy and disgusting. why do you think he was so mean to you? >> because we was black and he was white. >> reporter: it's not just students and relatives who are speaking out about olmstead. do you work at the same school where timothy olmstead worked? >> i do. >> reporter: jennifer couture is a teacher who substituted for the class one day when olmstead was out. she worries school administrators might punish her for speaking to us about him but backs up what these children told us. when you took over his class, were the black students segregated from the rest of the class? >> yes. as were the special ed students. >> reporter: so special ed students and the black students were not sitting with the white students? >> no. >> reporter: the children, the parents and other teachers say the bizarre abusive behavior lasted for months. finally after continuing complaints, olmstead was placed on leave this past january and then two months later, he resigned. but get this. he's still getting paid. the st. paul school district says he's owed back sick pay. all this has caused a great deal of anger. the three children we talked with and their relatives have filed a civil suit against olmstead and the st. paul public schools, who they say knew about his actions for months and did nothing. the superintendent of schools denied to us in a written statement that the district ignored the complaints. we promptly investigated. we responded appropriately and we intend to vigorously defend the lawsuit. but the lawyer representing the children and parents disagrees. saying the school put protecting its reputation above protecting its children. >> they would rather sweep it under the rug and deal with it. that's exactly what happened in this case. >> reporter: then there is this. documents from the school district indicate olmstead was reprimanded back in 2011 for sexually offensive behavior toward a female co-worker at a holiday party and in 2003, he was suspended for five workdays for making sexually offensive and inappropriate references to school children. in the disciplinary letter to olmstead, the former superintendent stated for no discernible appropriate instructional reason, you digressed to describe some of your experiences of life on a farm and gave the class a graphic description of castrating horses and throwing their testicles into the field for cats to eat. despite the fact that allegations against olmstead in the past were excessively disturbing, the st. paul school district continued to welcome children into his class year after year without ever telling parents a thing. so we wanted to see what olmstead, who still has a teaching certificate, had to say. he happened to be talking to a cop when we came up to him. mr. olmstead? my name is gary tuchman with cnn. i want to ask you about what happened in your classroom. do you have any comments about that? >> i have no comments. >> reporter: there are allegations you separated the black children from the rest of the children in the classroom. >> no comment. >> reporter: in 2003 and 2011 reports about you, a fellow employee, saying inappropriate things to other students. >> no comment. >> reporter: did you do it or not? just be honest with me. >> no comment. >> reporter: why you still collecting a salary from the school? >> no comment. >> reporter: should taxpayers be paying you money after you resigned from school? >> no comment. >> reporter: how come you don't want to talk, sir? with all due respect. >> i won't even comment to that. >> reporter: following olmstead's litany of no comments, we asked for a comment from his attorney. in a written statement, his lawyer declared timothy olmstead has never discriminated against any student. plaintiffs' allegations against mr. olmstead are false and mr. olmstead is confident he will be completely vindicated by the true facts. what those true facts might be remain a mystery. to the children, though, what happened is all quite obvious. did he make you feel like you were not as important as the white kids in the class? 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>> l-i-l. >> wolf blitzer, rap expert. this is actually the latest in a long type of hipster moves by sir blitz-a-lot. need i remind you he danced on stage at the "soul train" awards. lest you think that was an anomaly, check out b. diddy keeping it real on "ellen." ♪ >> shorty got low indeed. you see, he had a long history of being hip. he does. i think he bumped it up a notch recently with the new glasses although as i said on the "ridiculist" a couple weeks ago when he debuted the new look, i think maybe gray-z was taking a page from the nothing's cooler than ac playbook. there's just, i don't know, let me put my glasses on. there's just something -- oh, you know what? i think i know what it is. it would seem that mr. wolf blitzer got himself some new glasses. i wonder where he could have possibly gotten that idea. now, i don't want to accuse wolf blitzer of going all single white female on me but these glasses, they're kind of my thing. so last week, snoop wolf filled in for me here on "360" and guest hosted the "ridiculist" and i think he made some fair points. >> when two undeniably hunk-tastic men work together, a rivalry is inevitably going to arise. >> i ask you, is there anything better than hearing wolf blitzer say the word hunk-tastic on friday night? the answer is yes, there is something much, much better. pour yourself a cocktail, dim the lights, sit back and behold. >> the pussy willows blowing in the wind on the lake of shore titekaka are almost as magical a as uranus. >> what? i leave for one night and you have this poor man doing this? the guy used to be a white house correspondent, for goodness sakes. i would explain the context of that but frankly, i have no idea what the context was. i actually prefer for it to come out of nowhere and just exist in the universe all on its own. it proves without a doubt that wolf blitzer is professionally unflappable, not to mention the biggest rap loving beard sporting "situation room" hosting dougie dancing hipster ever to steal my glass. yeah. i'm sorry. i just had to get tha
officials knew within 24 hours it was not. today the director of national intelligence, james clapper, explained early evidence supported that theory, so that's why they told the white house and congress. clapper says throughout the investigation, his agency made it clear that the assessment was preliminary and could change. neither his statement nor our source have a time frame. law enforcement officials knew within 24 hours this was a terror attack. reporting reveals that even though the administration says the investigation is going smoothing, the fbi has hit a bump in the road. a senior law enforcement official, telling fran townsend, the fbi wanted the u.s. military to provide perimeter support in benghazi, protection in other words, but that request was not granted. fran is a former white house homeland security adviser, serbed in the george w. bush administration. sits on the cia external advisory panel and recently visited libya with mcandrews & forbes. and former fbi assistant director tom pointes who has extensive experience in investigating attacks overseas. so there was military protection to go into benghazi, why didn't they get it? >> the answer to the question is not really clear. so it's not unusual, when you want to set up a security perimeter, you may look to the host country. if the host country is unable or unwilling to provide it, we don't know what the answer to that is, you may ask if you think you need it for u.s. military support, but that's got to go through a process. it needs state department and nsc support, the u.s. military would have to make an assessment about how big a security package that would entail and lastly, and perhaps most importantly, you need host government. the libyan government in this case, support to allow u.s. military boots on the ground to provide sort of the defensive security perimeter around the benghazi compound. now, i spoke to a senior administration official who said they have been having regular meetings twice daily, secure video teleconferences on updates of the investigation. there has been regular deputies committee meetings hosted by dennis mcdonough, the deputy national security advisor and discussions regarding libyan support and cooperation, my law enforcement source was quite clear, it's not that the libyans haven't been cooperative. there have been discussions that the libyans were concerned that they themselves couldn't provide the sort of comprehensive security to protect the fbi team and that there were concerns on the libyan part about having a u.s. military presence on the ground. all of that said, anderson, as you point out, 18 days later after the attack, the fbi today sort of indicated to me through a senior law enforcement official they're having serious debates as to whether or not with the passage of so much time, whether it makes sense to take the risk at all even if they could have gotten the kind of support early on. now, what will they gain by going to benghazi and taking the security risk. they may decide not to go at all. >> so just to be clear, we're not sure at this point where the breakdown occurred in terms of who -- i mean, whether it was the libyans, whether it was -- or state department, we don't know where the breakdown occurred. >> no, that's right. anderson, it could have been something as simple as this sort of -- when the interagency discussion, the u.s. government writ large decided that if that's what you're required for your perimeter security, that indicated itself it was too dangerous and that they shouldn't be bothered, they shouldn't go at all. it's not even clear to us yet whether or not this request was put to the libyan government. >> fran, you say not only fbi investigators not gone to benghazi yet, but that some are not even in libya. >> that's right. anderson, whenever there's an international terrorism investigation, there's a protocol where fbi agents with palletized cargo and equipment predeploy in the region to get closer. in this case, that did happen. there were agents in germany where they conducted interviews of u.s. personnel who were coming out of libya, and there are also in another country, a third country in the region where they predeployed also to be nearby, but many of those still remain in that third country awaiting visas to get into tripoli. >> still waiting for visas? >> that's right. well, look, this is always -- i can tell you myself when i went, it's not easy to get a visa into libya. obviously, this is something that the libyan government can facilitate for the fbi, but you know, we saw yesterday the u.s. government drew down their personnel because of concern in the protests today so it may be that they've just been waiting for sort of a break in the security situation to get them in. >> tom fuentes, you have your own take on what's happening with the fbi contingent. >> right, anderson. during my five years running international operations at the bureau, i oversaw hundreds of these deployments, my staff and i, making the logistical arrangements, working on the visas, working with the host country on how many investigators would be allowed, how they would get there, what kind of equipment we could get in there. and we always had these type of challenges. what happened in this case, i talked to several senior executives the day after the attack on september 12th, who said looking at the videos of that compound being burnt to the ground, looking at the fact that the libyans have no control, no ability to maintain law and order in benghazi, we're probably not going to be able to get in there. we'll try, we'll deploy, we'll get in the neighborhood, we'll have equipment standing by, maybe we can have some assurance that we can get in there and be protected, but at this point, we don't think there's going to be a lot of information of value. basically, they have to conduct a risk assessment. what evidence are they likely to get after a crime scene has been completely trampled by locals, souvenir hunters, reporters, everybody, much of the material burnt and taken away, and they're weighing that with the odds of if they send a team in there, even with u.s. military protection, anall of a sudden mortars start raining down on their heads from nearby houses, now what do you do. do the marines attack those houses and kill innocent men, women and children that are -- you know, you suddenly have a war situation in an attempt to get evidence that may be of such limited value that it's just not worth the risk politically or investigatively. >> we don't really know what other information, if any, there may have been laying around that could have been scavenged by anybody, by libyans, friendly to the united states or not friendly to the united states. at both of these installations there could have been classified information for all we know, correct? >> well, i think almost undoubtedly there's been classified information lost. you simply can't burn out of a consulate like that in a minute's notice. you need thermite grenades to blow through the safes, you need to destroy the hard drives. when you're under fire, no one can do that. there was no safe rooms to do that. there was no oxygen in those safe rooms. there was no way to keep the temperature down. the people in that consulate did exactly what they should have done and that was get out of there as fast as they can, and not get killed. now, frankly, i would like to see the fbi's investigation on this simply because it's the least politicized agency in washington, and the fbi would come out and tell us exactly what happened there. number one, i would like to find out if those mortars in fact hit the annex as it's been described. also, were the assaults, the people that assaulted the consulate using 12.5 machine guns. that tells us a lot, that it truly was a military assault, that there's no amount of protection that would have protected that consulate. to go back to the military, absolutely right, it would be actually occupying that part of benghazi. you would have to send armor in if in fact you were being hit by artillery or heavy machine guns, and this is something that the white house is reluctant to do and it's of course politically impossible for the libyan government to let an american military occupy a part of benghazi. >> tom, in past experience, i don't know if there has been a situation like this, but where u.s. personnel had been evacuated, after an incident like this, who's responsible for locking down the facility, for trying to secure the facility? >> the libyan government. that's where the breakdown is. when we've had these situations overseas, we've had one of two situations. either we have a country that has an established law enforcement and military such as the embassy attacks in kenya and tanzania in 1998, or you have a failed state like somalia where we had blackhawk down. if you have that situation and it's a failed state or it's a war zone like iraq and afghanistan, had it been in the early 2000s, then you send in the military, send in as many troops as you need. you just take over. but when you're trying to do that in a sovereign country or a country trying to gain its independence and stand up for itself, that's an extremely difficult situation to do that in. >> tom, from your experience, is it possible to have a thorough investigation without setting foot at a crime scene like this? >> it's still impossible to have a very good investigation and bob is correct, it would be nice to go in there and see what kind of armament was used and where, you know, how they actually took down those buildings. but on the other hand, if they go in there and they find and they do the explosive residue and send everything back to the lab to be examined and they find they've got munitions from the united states, from nato countries, from other countries, that's going to basically tell them nothing, because, because of the insurrection that led up to the overthrow of gadhafi. you have countries from all over the world, including the u.s., sending munitions into that country, training the locals how to do it to overthrow the gadhafi government. they had on-the-job training for months and months in how to operate mortars and rpgs and assault rifles and pistols. so you had a war zone there for a long time, so you have tens of thousands of civilians who know how to operate that military hardware and would have the equipment to do it. and after gadhafi was overthrown, the new government came in, no one has gone to that country and taken the munitions and the weapons and the bombs and mortars out. that's all still sitting there. we'll have the same issue in syria when that ends. for all the stuff that's being sent in to help the rebels, what happens in the aftermath when you've got tons of stuff that came in from all over the world and it falls into the hands of bad guys. or terrorists. >> bob, you're concerned about that particularly even talking about that now for months. >> yeah. it's all over the middle east, there's weapons easily available, they're for sale, they're being shipped around. there's enormous amount of money going into countries like libya and these countries fragment. libya is a tribalized society. it's astounding if you look at the french intelligence reports that there's something like 100,000 to 200,000 militia men in libya but there's only 5,000 to 10,000 regular forces. the central government is outnumbered and to go to the central government and say do something about this is unrealistic. >> tom, very quickly. >> if i could add one more comment. the other issue is even if the libyans say we're going to provide our best troops, our best police officers to come in and provide perimeter security, you don't know what kind of background checks or who they're loyal to. you could have a situation like in afghanistan, that people that we have been working with and training and side by side turned and fire on our people. so that's the dangerous aspect here. you can only have confidence if it's u.s. force protection but bringing that much equipment and even armor as bob mentioned is not feasible. >> given that mortars were involved you would have to have a pretty huge perimeter to be able to secure both sites. tom, appreciate your expertise. fran, as well. bob baer, thanks. join us on facebook, follow me on twitter right now. let us know what you think about this situation. next, we will introduce you to the fine art of predebate trash talking. that's to say trash talking your own team and praising the other side. we'll tell you why that happens and why it's happening now and show you one debate moment that changed the face of tv and some that changed american history. we will also take a preview of what we can expect from this first debate coming next week. how did i get here? 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we will talk about that in a moment. first, one indisputable truth, debates can make history. >> i have been -- >> september 26, 1960. the first televised presidential debate, signaling a new era where appearances matter more than ever and gaffes, however small, are magnified. >> the goals are the same for all americans. >> john f. kennedy, a young senator from massachusetts, facing off against vice president richard nixon, who is known to be a fierce debater. but on screen, kennedy looks cool and calm, while nixon looks uncomfortable, sweating profusely under the hot studio lights. nixon flounders under the glare of television for all four debates. kennedy goes on to win the election. in 1976, president gerald ford makes this blunder in his debate with georgia governor jimmy carter. >> there is no soviet domination of eastern europe and there never will be under a ford administration. >> i'm sorry, could i just -- >> the remark becomes a central theme in carter's campaign and is blamed by many for costing ford the election. in 1980, ronald reagan is repeatedly attacked by president carter for his stance on health care. >> governor reagan, as a matter of fact, began his political career campaigning around this nation against medicare. >> but reagan wins fans and the election by staying cool. >> there you go again. >> four years later, president reagan again uses humor to handle attacks on his age during his debate with walter mondale. >> i want you to know that also, i will not make age an issue of this campaign. i am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. >> in the next election, democratic candidate michael dukakis is asked this controversial question in his debate with vice president george w. bush. >> governor, if kitty dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer? >> no, i don't. i think you know i have opposed the death penalty during all of my life. >> the public sees his answer as cold and dispassionate and that very night, his poll numbers dropped. during the 1988 vice presidential debate, republican senator dan quayle's comparison to john f. kennedy elicits this blistering response from his opponent. >> senator, you are no jack kennedy. >> body language plays a part in the presidential debate. in 1992, george h.w. bush deliberately looks at his watch and he pays for it when the audience and voters see it as disrespectful. body language makes a difference in the debate between al gore and george w. bush as well. gore sighs over and over again and bush, the underdog, surprises by winning the debate and of course, the election. both president obama and governor romney are seasoned debaters, and experts say neither are prone to making major gaffes. but if there is one thing that history has taught us, when it comes to presidential debates, expect the unexpected. joining us now to talk about the moments and debate magic yet to come, republican consultant romney 2008 campaign advisor, alex castellanos and donna brazile. a lot of folks are saying these debates are do or die for romney. donna, do you agree? >> absolutely. first impression is very, very important. mitt romney had several opportunities to change the trajectory of the campaign, his selection of a running mate, paul ryan, got a small bounce. the convention speech didn't get any bounce, and now the first debate. this is like the first night on broadway. there will be more voters tuning in, they will be looking at his performance and if he comes across as somebody who is credible, who is up to the task, he might get another bounce out of it. >> aren't undecided voters the least likely to tune into the debates? gallup looked back at records and found only two examples where debates really changed the course. that was 1960 and 2000. >> they are important moments for these candidates but you're exactly right. it's so hard to change anything at this point. why. these two guys are not unpainted canvases. barack obama, his canvas is pretty much filled in. we know him. we have seen him for four years. as president. mitt romney has been through a long and grueling campaign. there is very little white space left on his canvas. so if they're really going to do something different that changes how they're understood, it has to be something very big. >> it's interesting, both candidates, campaigns are trying to lower expectations a lot. do you think mitt romney actually could be kind of better prepared than his campaign that's trying -- >> there's no question, he participated in 20 debates and as you know, you hosted a few of them, he was always well prepared. he understood what was at stake and i thought he was perhaps better prepared than any of the other candidates but you know, these debates can reinforce the current perception of the candidates and i think that will pretty much help president obama, but if mitt romney can create a different impression that he's somebody that's more likeable, that he understands the issues and that he's more compassionate or empathetic, it could re-align the campaign. i don't think by much, because president obama right now is in a very strong position. >> what do you think mitt romney needs to do? >> oh, i think mitt romney needs to talk about failure and success. mitt romney may not be the perfect candidate, but this president doesn't have much in the way of accomplishments, especially when it comes to this economy. he has to say look, barack obama, you may have succeeded as a politician but you haven't succeeded as a president. i know what it takes to succeed in life, i've done it a lot in business creating growth and jobs. let's talk about that. >> it does seem in the last couple days his campaign has been kind of trying to make him seem like a warmer guy. i mean, that photo -- >> hes loosened his tie, taken it off. he's laughed a little more. the job for mitt romney clearly is to get in the ring, get in the arena and to show that he can handle these tough issues. he hasn't been specific. he has to avoid talking about taxes, has to avoid talking about the 47%. he has to play offense. and president obama has to make sure that he doesn't play preventive defense. >> just being on that stage with the president, does that make mitt romney seem more presidential? >> absolutely. debates are great levellers. any time you're in the ring with the president of the united states, it tends to bring the water level up for both candidates. >> but let me just tell you, i will never forget when al gore, al gore had a lot of momentum, he went into the debate and i thought he was very well prepared. george bush was there as well, but you know, i don't know if you recall, anderson, some viewers heard al gore sigh, like he sounded like he was tired, and then of course, that debate with bill clinton and george herbert walker bush where he showed, he looked at his watch. so these are moments when people are really assessing your temperament, your body language, your demeanor. so it's a big night for both president obama as well as governor romney. >> did you hear him sigh? were you backstage like stop sighing? >> i heard it the first time. by the third time i pretended not to listen. but more importantly, once they put up that split screen, then you looked at he was rolling his eyes and of course, it was not a pretty moment. but we came back in the second debate. >> that's when the democrats started sighing, too, right after al gore. mitt romney has to demonstrate he's changed. there are a lot of voters in this country who are unsatisfied with barack obama. they think we could do better. they don't know that mitt romney is that change. neither of these guys has told us what the next four years could be like because of the changes they would bring. >> and that's i think another challenge that mitt romney has on wednesday night. that is to finally lay out some plans. he's been talking a lot about i have solutions, i know how to get the economy moving, but he really hasn't given us a concrete beyond the 59 points, the five points -- >> neither has our president, though. >> our president did in his convention speech outline what he would do over the next four years which i believe is very important because he'll have an opportunity on wednesday night to expand upon that. mitt romney once again, this is the third time he's going to have an opportunity to introduce himself, this time we'll see if he can charm us into thinking he's the one. >> i think you're a little confused. that was the wrong president. that was bill clinton who said that. >> thank you. ahead, we will investigate our shameful fact. after risking their lives on the battlefield, disabled veterans are fighting a battle they never expected for the benefits they deserve. we'll be right back. 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>> ashamed. i feel low. i feel -- how can i support my family, let alone get them a house? >> reporter: mike doesn't have the money for a place of their own. he can't work. firefights and an ied blast in afghanistan left him with a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. maggie isn't working, either, so she can look after him. the money is running out, and they find themselves like hundreds of thousands of other veterans, fighting a battle they never expected. one they frankly can't believe. they're fighting for benefits from the department of veterans affairs. >> i thought they were there to help us. you know, i -- if it wasn't for my wife, i would be in the fetal position. i would be curled up in a ball. i couldn't do it. >> reporter: mike has been trying to get his disability claim processed for nearly two years. there has been lost paperwork, long wait times for appointments, and erroneous lab results. when mike was prescribed some medication, it was for a bladder infection he didn't have. mike first filed his claim in january 2011, right after he got back from afghanistan. in august, that same year, he learned his claim was finally in review. then in december 2011, he was told to expect a decision by the end of the year. that deadline came and went. keeping them honest, we asked veterans affairs assistant secretary tommy sours why veterans who risk their lives for this country are waiting months, even years, for disability. despite v.a. secretary eric shinseki's promises for a quick turnaround on claims. secretary shinseki said his goal was to have claims resolved in no more than 125 days with 98% accuracy. why hasn't that happened yet? >> well, again, this is a problem that has been decades in the making. we're transitioning from a paper-based system to an electronic system and it is a huge amount, a huge undertaking and task. >> reporter: is the current backlog of claims acceptable? >> it is unacceptable and we know that. we do. >> reporter: unacceptable, yet more than a year after mike filed his claim, he was still waiting. we interviewed 16 other veterans for this story. all of them told us they waited many months to get a simple disability claim resolved. in some cases, more than a year. many of them also told us they weren't helped quickly enough with serious mental health issues related to ptsd. in one case, a veteran told us he had called a v.a. suicide hotline and was told they would call him back. they never did. right now, according to the v.a., there are close to 900,000 claims pending and of those, 66% of them have been waiting longer than secretary shinseki's goal of 125 days. worse, more than 228,000 claims have been pending one year or more. on average, the v.a. says veterans wait 256 days before their claim is resolved. paul reichoff, the founder of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, says troops are tired of the rhetoric. >> there's a difference between the speak you get out of the bureaucrats in washington and the reality of what you see on the ground. the guys and gals on the ground don't care about how many bureaucrats there are, how many pilot studies there are, how much money is being spent. they care if they have gotten a decision back from the v.a. >> reporter: there is a saying among veterans about the v.a., saying the v.a.'s policy is delay, deny until we die. what is your response to that? >> i would say there are many veterans out there that love their v.a. care, that absolutely love it. >> reporter: assistant secretary sours says the v.a. is on track to process one million claims this year, and that it paid out nearly $5 billion in compensation last year. adding to delays, the v.a. says many veterans are returning with severe and complex mental injuries, and sometimes file incomplete paperwork. the backlog also increased when thousands of vets were finally allowed to file claims for agent orange and gulf war syndrome. on june 27th this year, mike finally got word his disability claim had been processed, 18 months after he had filed. but mike was awarded only 40% disability, which works out to $659 a month. he got credit for his ptsd but even though he had been diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury, by a doctor at the v.a., he was denied coverage for that injury. like so many others, mike and maggie plan to appeal their disability rating, a process that could set them back another two years in getting their case resolved. >> he could have been killed. every time i spoke to him on the phone i thought this might be the last time i hear his voice. our relationship has had to take -- >> that's another dimension. yeah. our relationship. >> i'm married to a different man now. i love him as much as i've always loved him, but he's different. >> reporter: different in a way maggie and mike hope to make the v.a. understand. that $659 a month in disability certainly doesn't cover the price they've paid for war. randi kaye, cnn, phoenix, arizona. >> incredible, they might have to wait another year or two. coming up, disturbing accusations at a school in minnesota, where students say a teacher segregated the african-american students from the white students and called them horrible names. gary tuchman speaks to some of those students and the teacher at the center of the controversy, next. ♪ ♪ fly by night away from here ♪ ♪ change my life again ♪ ♪ fly by night, goodbye my dear ♪ ♪ my ship isn't coming ♪ and i just can't pretend oww! ♪ [ male announcer ] careful, you're no longer invisible in a midsize sedan. the volkswagen passat. the 2012 motor trend car of the year. that's the power of german engineering. to provide a better benefits package... oahhh! 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>> like i wasn't smart enough, or i'm not good enough -- i'm not good enough for me to be with the other children, the other white children. >> reporter: the children say at first they were afraid to tell their parents and grandparents, but they ultimately did, after they say they were repeatedly called stupid, sloppy and disgusting. why do you think he was so mean to you? >> because we was black and he was white. >> reporter: it's not just students and relatives who are speaking out about olmstead. do you work at the same school where timothy olmstead worked? >> i do. >> reporter: jennifer couture is a teacher who substituted for the class one day when olmstead was out. she worries school administrators might punish her for speaking to us about him but backs up what these children told us. when you took over his class, were the black students segregated from the rest of the class? >> yes. as were the special ed students. >> reporter: so special ed students and the black students were not sitting with the white students? >> no. >> reporter: the children, the parents and other teachers say the bizarre abusive behavior lasted for months. finally after continuing complaints, olmstead was placed on leave this past january and then two months later, he resigned. but get this. he's still getting paid. the st. paul school district says he's owed back sick pay. all this has caused a great deal of anger. the three children we talked with and their relatives have filed a civil suit against olmstead and the st. paul public schools, who they say knew about his actions for months and did nothing. the superintendent of schools denied to us in a written statement that the district ignored the complaints. we promptly investigated. we responded appropriately and we intend to vigorously defend the lawsuit. but the lawyer representing the children and parents disagrees. saying the school put protecting its reputation above protecting its children. >> they would rather sweep it under the rug and deal with it. that's exactly what happened in this case. >> reporter: then there is this. documents from the school district indicate olmstead was reprimanded back in 2011 for sexually offensive behavior toward a female co-worker at a holiday party and in 2003, he was suspended for five workdays for making sexually offensive and inappropriate references to school children. in the disciplinary letter to olmstead, the former superintendent stated for no discernible appropriate instructional reason, you digressed to describe some of your experiences of life on a farm and gave the class a graphic description of castrating horses and throwing their testicles into the field for cats to eat. despite the fact that allegations against olmstead in the past were excessively disturbing, the st. paul school district continued to welcome children into his class year after year without ever telling parents a thing. so we wanted to see what olmstead, who still has a teaching certificate, had to say. he happened to be talking to a cop when we came up to him. mr. olmstead? my name is gary tuchman with cnn. i want to ask you about what happened in your classroom. do you have any comments about that? >> i have no comments. >> reporter: there are allegations you separated the black children from the rest of the children in the classroom. >> no comment. >> reporter: in 2003 and 2011 reports about you, a fellow employee, saying inappropriate things to other students. >> no comment. >> reporter: did you do it or not? just be honest with me. >> no comment. >> reporter: why you still collecting a salary from the school? >> no comment. >> reporter: should taxpayers be paying you money after you resigned from school? >> no comment. >> reporter: how come you don't want to talk, sir? with all due respect. >> i won't even comment to that. >> reporter: following olmstead's litany of no comments, we asked for a comment from his attorney. in a written statement, his lawyer declared timothy olmstead has never discriminated against any student. plaintiffs' allegations against mr. olmstead are false and mr. olmstead is confident he will be completely vindicated by the true facts. what those true facts might be remain a mystery. to the children, though, what happened is all quite obvious. did he make you feel like you were not as important as the white kids in the class? children who are still dealing with the emotional ramifications. gary tuchman, cnn, st. paul, minnesota. >> we will certainly continue to follow that story. as the battle rages on, the latest on what's happening to syria's chemical weapons. that report next. 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[ male announcer ] sponges take your mark. ♪ [ female announcer ] one drop of ultra dawn has twice the everyday grease cleaning ingredients of one drop of the leading non-concentrated brand... ♪ [ crowd cheering ] ...to clean 2x more greasy dishes. dawn does more. so it's not a chore. time for the "ridiculist." tonight we're adding anyone and i mean anyone who thinks he's hipper than wolf blitzer. no one and i mean no one is hipper than wolf blitzer. yesterday in "the situation room" he proved it once and for all after a certain news item involving the music business. take a look. >> elvis presley is no longer the artist with the most billboard hot 100 hits. that title now goes to rapper lil' wayne. lil' wayne -- >> you keep saying little. it's lil' wayne. >> i'm not all that hip. not as hip as you. >> it's lil' wayne. >> okay. thanks. >> not little. not little. >> how do you say it? >> l-i-l. >> wolf blitzer, rap expert. this is actually the latest in a long type of hipster moves by sir blitz-a-lot. need i remind you he danced on stage at the "soul train" awards. lest you think that was an anomaly, check out b. diddy keeping it real on "ellen." ♪ >> shorty got low indeed. you see, he had a long history of being hip. he does. i think he bumped it up a notch recently with the new glasses although as i said on the "ridiculist" a couple weeks ago when he debuted the new look, i think maybe gray-z was taking a page from the nothing's cooler than ac playbook. there's just, i don't know, let me put my glasses on. there's just something -- oh, you know what? i think i know what it is. it would seem that mr. wolf blitzer got himself some new glasses. i wonder where he could have possibly gotten that idea. now, i don't want to accuse wolf blitzer of going all single white female on me but these glasses, they're kind of my thing. so last week, snoop wolf filled in for me here on "360" and guest hosted the "ridiculist" and i think he made some fair points. >> when two undeniably hunk-tastic men work together, a rivalry is inevitably going to arise. >> i ask you, is there anything better than hearing wolf blitzer say the word hunk-tastic on friday night? the answer is yes, there is something much, much better. pour yourself a cocktail, dim the lights, sit back and behold. >> the pussy willows blowing in the wind on the lake of shore titekaka are almost as magical as uranus. >> what? i leave for one night and you have this poor man doing this? the guy used to be a white house correspondent, for goodness sakes. i would explain the context of that but frankly, i have no idea what the context was. i actually prefer for it to come out of nowhere and just exist in the universe all on its own. it proves without a doubt that wolf blitzer is professionally unflappable, not to mention the