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Channel, armed with what appears to be an explosive attached to him holding hostage and evacuated building, a bomb squad, a neighborhood cordoned off by a man who read a book about a gorilla talking to machine about what its like to be held in captivity. a movie later, a protest, thousands of dollars and a hostage stand off. the worlds gone crazy. on the phone is the public information officer of the montgomery county police. sir, nice to talk to you. thank you for being here. >>guest: sure. >>s...

Small group of fishermen put this up to keep the public from seeing what happens. down there in the cove. >> world renowned marine mammal specialist teamed up with his son lincoln to film his mission to save dolphins wherever theyre in trouble in the upcoming three part series called "blood dolphins" premiering on the animal planet tomorrow night. welcome to both of you. >> thanks. >> good job. son following in his fathers footsteps. he trained flipper. i mean, five flippers to be that sensation...

>> it was during the flipper show. i was literally living with them and i would go down to the end of the dock with a long extension cord and a television set so flipper could watch flipper on television on friday night at 7:30. and i realized wow, theyre self-aware. the next progression is if theyre self-aware, what are you doing keeping them in captivity? >> what are we going to see in this series? we see some real ugly stuff, too, correct? >> we do. thats not what the show is so much about. i...

Dolphins and training them. last 40 years, ive been doing the opposite. untraining them and putting them back in the wild. >> lincoln, did you have to convince your dad that this is probably not a good thing for the dolphins? >> no. i grew up during this -- i mean, i had it hammered that it wasnt the right thing to do my whole life. basically. >> right. i look at dolphins as they seem so happy doing their tricks, you know, its almost like a dog in your house, oh, yeah, better off in the wild? pr...

To put the two prisoners together take one sailor that survived, and move him to a village which is in the northern province where my guy spotted the private again. so he is still alike, healthy, still a hostage and they still want to change him for prisoners and money. >> that is not something for which the united states has too great an appetite? >> there will be no swap with gitmo. sometimes karzai government lets a bunch out of prison but the u.s. military does not release prisoners or terro...

>> so youre telling me that you released your frog, your captivity grown frog just before the frog strangler. >> you know why im optimistic, born free. remember when they put that lion back -- yeah, elsa and im hoping that raising him in captivity. >> you really ought to check the weather before you do something like that. >> didnt mind being green, brian. >> if you missed bret favres preseason debut against the 49ers. vikings and san francisco. favre is old. why play him a lot? he played four w...

In this year alone, where the ngo workers have been taken by opposition groups and have been fairly well treated and released after 10 to 15 days in captivity. that in itself has changed a little bit this year than previous years and has given us cause to soften the position toward ngos generally. the important thing is that no one really has complete control of the stakes here, so theres a big difference between perhaps the strategic intent on anyones side and the tactical reality of that. we h...

Skirts the controversial issues of cap and trade and offshore drills and looks at more of going after bp and releasing the cap on the liabilities of paying for the spill and promotes natural gas production and electric cars. whether or not to get it to the floor and start debate is unknown. democrats are -- some moderate democrats have concerns. savannah, chuck? >> all right. ken strictland with the latest of capitol hill, thank you. >> thank you. iran rejecting the u.s. pleas for three americ...

Ever to hit the region. russias emergency ministry says more than 1,200 homes have been destroyed, thousands are homeless. and in northeast china, 47 people are dead, another 45 missing after a weak of flooding. the heavy rains are blamed for sweeping thousands of barrels. filled with chemicals into a major river. the barrels are being retrieved but no word on what, if any, contamination those barrels may cause. and yesterday, on the one-year anniversary of their captivity, the three u.s. hi...

Serving in afghanistan and their families. we have been closely following the situation from the outset. forces on the ground if afghanistan are doing everything they can to locate and safely return our missing shipmates." now of course, the bottom line concern is if they cannot find them quickly, there is great concern that the men could be taken across the border into pakistan outside the arms of any potential u.s. military rescue. the u.s. is aware of the reports that one sailor in fact has b...