i don t know what they do. how much ammunition duf wio have with you? [ inaudible ]. what s that? enough to take care of business. [ inaudible ]. omar? yeah. i really want you to help me stop this situation, okay? okay. if you work with me, we ll get this to stop, okay? om omar. omar. omar. wow. one thing that really struck us about that whole exchange is the dispatcher s words were as calming as the killer s words were chilling. we ll talk more about it with howard robertson, a former s.w.a.t. commander in new orleans. that s where he s joining us live. first of all, howard, the fact that the dispatcher was so calm and he was trying to deescalate the whole situation, he might have saved more lives, right?
killer s chilling last words. take a listen. we don t want any more, you know, people to lose their life. i m not going to kill anybody else. the dispatcher s call, remarkable. maybe saving more lives. people are 100 years old and older are missing. the japanese not wanting to give up their dead or the government checks either. a college professor can t. why? because he s not gay. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast and 6:00 a.m. in the west. i m krya phillips. you are live in the cnn newsroom. we begin with the breaking news on a broken economy. we have new evidence of just how feeble the recovery is and how many americans have nothing to show for it. the nation s unemployment rate has remained flat at a disheartening 9.5%. just last month, 60,000 jobs vanished. the news is bad but not quite as bad as we expected. if you have tickets on an amtrak train going south from washington, you will have to change your plans. a cssx coltrane derailed in quantico, virginia, blocking
a pit bull, and is standing guard of an unarmed young lady with her hands on the back of the car with an asp in one hand and a pit bull in the other. reporter: when state troopers arrived they determined justice was not a police officer and called jefferson parish deputies. deputies searched his car and found an arsenal of weapons including a rifle, shotgun, assault weapons, knives, and 446 rounds of live ammunition. a police officer is not going to pull his gun out on a traffic stop. he is going to walk up to the car cautiously. reporter: wdsu crime and safety expert howard robertson says there are signs to look for to help you distinguish between an officer and an impersonator. uniform or not, every officer has three forms of i.d. on them a badge to where so you can see it, i.d. card, and formal i.d. if an unmarked car is signaling you to pull over robertson says stop in a well lit area and call 911. if it s not a marked car and
well, the party is on its way for this weekend. they are hoping. this beach is not closed. however, like many of the beaches along the gulf, it is under what they call a health advisory right now. we ll explain exactly what that means and if those kinds of warnings really are affecting tourism on what people are hoping is going to be a big weekend for the bars and restaurants and the beaches and the hotels along the gulf coast this holiday weekend. also, we re used to hearing a republican criticize the president. but when this republican did it now some republicans are calling for him to step down as the head of the republican national committee. yes, we re talking about the chairman there, michael steele. he s been under fire before and under fire once again maybe like no other time before. also, a story you just have to hear to believe. look at this. this is dash cam video. when we talk about dash cam we re usually talking about cops. this was a fake cop who was so good