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Tragedy. bill: a report says he escaped from prison in kandahar during a jailbreak there. they want him alive. >> reporter: that suspect is holed up in an affluent suburb of toulouse. french president sarkozy arriving in the area. he will visit with some of the families of the victims of the shooting at the military base and visit with the police officers who have been wounded in this standoff. up until this morning we did not know the nature of the man believed to be behind the shooting. there ...

Almost by definition an admission you cant make it in the marketplace. martha: thank you very much. we have breaking news coming out of france. but tucker and alan, its good to see you. bill: toulouse, france reports say the suspected gunman in the jewish school shooting has been arrested after a 12-hour standoff. mohammad mera had been locked in a standoff in the southern french town since the early hours wednesday. we now found out that the reason why he was free anyway is because he escaped f...

Much in film and music and other places, they really dont have any idea what its actually like. and this shows them what it is actually like. >> today, four boys ranging in age from 12 to 16 have just arrived at the jail for a visit. all four have had run-ins with the law. >> everybody stand up. >> deputy justin plaza heads up the program known as jailbreak. >> jailbreak is geared towards kids that are headed towards -- in the wrong direction. >> put these uniforms on over your clothes, hurry up...

Like. and this shows them what it is actually like. >> today, four boys ranging in age from 12 to 16 have just arrived at the jail for a visit. all four have had run-ins with the law. >> everybody stand up. >> deputy justin plaza heads up the program known as jailbreak. >> jailbreak is geared towards kids that are headed towards -- in the wrong direction. >> put these uniforms on over your clothes, hurry up. >> not doing the right thing, making bad choices, and we bring the kids in and show them...

Petrae petraeus. petraeus is in command of our forces in afghanistan and was the architect of the successful surge in iraq. joining me to talk about this is james woolsey, former director of the cias w whos currently teaching at yale. do you see any shake-ups in the policy shift? its been a horrendous week in afghanistan, with the jailbreak, and then the reports. does this portend a shift or is this just good people taking over new positions? >> it portends far more continuity than shifts. there...

See how much tougher the security is now. its a totally security facility. that jailbreak will never happen again. and you know, its true. another giant, hundreds of prisoners released prisoners like the one that happened in 2008 has not happened again. this time it happened through a tunnel. a tunnel more than 1,000 feet long, dug from a house that the taliban had rented northeast of the prison, the tunnel went all the way from the house into the political wing of sarposa prison where the talib...

In 2008 so theyre no stranger to this type of severe weather but again its going to get worse before it gets better for people here. >> tyler, thank you so much. you grow up in a river town you know its all about the levees and all about the water. you know the crest levels for the rivers and something theyll be watching for the next couple days. >> one thing weve been watching very closely is the violence thats escalating in syria against demonstrators. keep in mind, these are unarmed demonst...

My cell phone, came out great, actually. i took this snapshot from the helicopter, because this, i knew what it was. this unmistakably is a prison, a big one. and kandahars prison, sarposa prison, is a really, really famous prison. its famous because in 2008, the taliban attacked that prison and freed everybody in it. there was a tanker truck bomb, a massive bomb at the front gate, and right away, a suicide bomber at the back gate. and with both of the gates breeched, dozens of taliban guys stor...

Obviously, they have the it taliban on the outside. >> helping out facilitating is the word theyve used. >> good to see you this morning. >> good morning. >> peter bergen our terrorism analyst. >> one of the stories the wikileaks story looking backward, filling in the picture, but the kandahar jailbreak looking forward because now you have, as he points out, very bad guys on the outside. >> im with you. i think that osama bin laden having to borrow $7,000 tells you a lot about who he is. >> and ...

One afghan official saying it was started from a house 100 meters south of the jail. the taliban reveling in this, seemed to almost break the news of this event talking about a tunnel 320 meters long that took them five months to dig. also, saying that amongst the escapees are 106 of their senior commanders. >> police now say they have recaptured eight of the escapees. the taliban is taking responsibility for, quote, facilitating the jailbreak. in 2008 about 1,000 escaped from the same prison wh...