an unusual and risky job. but frank wants it. take him by the tail. you grab him by the neck as you climb up the crocodile, clamp down the mouth and then with duct tape go around at least four times. make that mental note. four times not three but at least four. sounds easy, right? the pay is only 25 bucks an hour. but the adventure in free reptile wrestle something guaranteed. shep? shepard: phil keating on the dock. second correspondent whose name i have gotten wrong tonight. we re going to return to our top story after a commercial break. steve harrigan, a witness to a government slaughter in syria, dozens of people murdered from the air. the government are an air strike on its own women and children are dead. steve watched it. the latest on this horrifying firsthand account next. this is the plan for back to school.
and wants to get rid of it. our question of the morning coming your way. goats on a roof. need i say more? news room begins right now. good morning to you. thanks for joining us. this morning we begin with a question both chilling and deadly serious. is someone putting politics ahead of your safety? the fbi is investigating the leaks of classified information and whether the white house is behind them. even leaders of the president s own party are voicing grave concerns about the amount of secret information now being made public. avalanche och leaks and it is very, very disturbing. it has dismayed our allies. it puts american lives in jeopardy and puts our nation s security in jeopardy. if you look at terrorism intelligence is fundamental to knowing what is going to happen and prevent it from happening in the first place. some of the information is coming from recent articles in the new york times which details the drones and cyber attacks. paper is defending itself th
on this holocaust remembrance day, the president gave a powerful speech at the u.s. holocaust memorial museum right near in washington, d.c. speaking of government slaughter in syria which has now claimed more than 11,000 lives. jill dougherty is joining us with the latest details. at the museum, president obama referred to the unhappy record of the state department during the holocaust in world war ii. now he says preventing mass atrocities is no only a moral responsibility, it s a key security issue of the united states. reporter: barack obama shook hands with people who survived the death camp more than 60 years ago. he found new meaning in the phrase never again. never again is a challenge to nations. it s a bitter truth. too often the world has failed to prevent the killing of innocents on a massive scale and we are haunted by the lives we did not save. we are seeing the the killings in bosnia, the killings in darfur. they shock our conscience, but they are t
more bloodshed today in syria. anti-government activists saying syrian troops opened fire on a huge crowd following friday prayers. rallies taking place today in the several cities in that country, defying a government crackdown. leland vittert is live in the our middest bureau with more on this. reporter: hi, jenna. calling it a government crackdown may be putting it lightly. the kind of reports we re hearing out of syria right now really describe a government slaughter. this is the second day of protest for the second friday of ramadan. right now those protesters are shouting, we will not kneel , and the people demand the execution of the president. the government is responding with tank shells and an unbelievable show of force. the protesters have said they are not going to leave the streets until president assad leaves office. he says that s not going to happen and so far today has killed at least 11 people, five of those very close to the