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this is not his critical inner circle. they have closed ranks, they have determined to fight, they have talked themselves into it, one of the officials says that they are fighting an insurgency and they believe right now they will win and sadly, anderson, the opposition remains fractured and unable to really mount an effective counter offensive according to these officials. >> does this surprise you? >> im not really sure about the quality of the american intelligence around syria. wh...

in addition, those same sources outlined the help assad is getting from iran. weapons and computer expertise to root out opposition. their own people. barbara starr is there tonight. and robert bair, and even though we have word of more defections from the syrian army, youre hearing that bashar al assad has a firm grip on power in syria? >> absolutely, anderson. i spoke with three separate senior u.s. intelligence officials. the assessment is all in agreement. assad remains in control,...

outlined the help assad is getting from iran. weapons and computer expertise to root out opposition. their own people. barbara starr is there tonight. and robert bair, and even though we have word of more defections from the syrian army, youre hearing that assad has a firm grip on power in syria? >> absolutely. i spoke with three separate senior u.s. intelligence officials. the assessment is all in agreement. assad remains in control, in charge. commanding his forces. there is no break...

85 lives today alone. in addition those same sources outlined the help assaad is getting from iran. in other words help in targeting its own people. also with us tonight, former cia officer and time.com intelligence columnist robert baer. barbara, even though we have word "today" of more defections from the syrian army, youre seeing that assaad has a firm grip on syria. >> the assessment is all in agreement. assad remains in control, in charge, commanding his forces. there is no break,...

journalistic code of ethics. >> yes, cain giving lessons in ethics. says hes not talking about sexual harassment claims against him. reporters have not stopped asking. also, more arrests and violence at several occupy protests around the country. this is your cnn sunday morning. thank you for spending part of your weekend here with us. and a special hello as always to our military men and women watching us right now on the american forces network. thank you for being here, and thank ...

Several children and a baby. two hours after the rescue, he was called to duty. he remains humble about what he did to help others. >> me and my supervisor looked at each other and said, we have to help these people out and i was one that was light enough to stand on the roof without hurting people underneath it and, so, i stood up there and he helped them get up and i helped to walk them up and over the back wall because the back wall actually collapsed in. it feels nice because some people did...

recall that could have an effect on your weekend fun. first, the latest on the search and recovery efforts in joplin, missouri. scores of people are still unaccounted for on this memorial day weekend. 156 people are listed as missing and searchers still going through piles of debris and the death toll could rise and the confirmed number of deaths stands at 132 with more than 1,000 injured. more than 2,500 people have applied for federal disaster assistance to help with home repairs a...

Finally some progress several business owners starting the process of rebuilding their stores in joplin, missouri. five days after the strongest tornado on the scale wiped out 1/3 of the town. and even as investigators over the past day have found at least 90 people on the missing persons list alive and well. they have confirmed another half dozen deaths from the storm. so the death toll now 132. casey stegall live in joplin, missouri tonight with all the details. casey? >> yeah, shepard, you kn...

Got dark. my wife, she still didnt take it quite seriously enough for me and i ran to the bathroom to get her to come in. i pulled her in. our pets refused to come in the bathroom with us and next thing i heard was the breaking of glass and the back wall of our house just collapsed and the wind picked up our dog and blew it out the front window. after that, we huddled in the bathroom and the house just tumbled and came down on us. we just held tight to each other, just prayed, hoping that it wou...

>> i actually talked to him the night before the tornado and his little brother called me and said that he was trying to get home in it and that severe hail had hit his car and nobody had heard from him and that was roughly about right ten minutes after the tornado went through joplin. and i actually live in tulsa, and i was in my car on the way to joplin as soon as i got that from my youngest son. >> well, i hear that he was in the car with somebody else who has survive. is there any ...