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flames. later, rebels were seen in other government tanks. more pictures. this is a burnt out police station seized and burned today by the rebels. take a look and listen. these are syrians. they had taken this photo from the captured police station. they ransacked and they burned. we have struggled to get our crews, get our journalists inside syria. its been frustrating for us here at cnn and the assad government has put the country under lock and key. with all of that in mind, ivan w...

Atheist president. it was only 54%, which is not an acceptable number. we want that number to be higher. but its much higher than it was the first time the poll was conducted back in the 1950s, only 18% said yes. so, clearly the trend is in that direction. its also worth pointing out, among young people, the number was 70%. so certainly the generations coming up are more tal rant of secularity than the older generation. >> im an atheist. something i never understood. why would nonbelievers want ...

the massacre inside that colorado movie theater now appears to be only part of the horror that was planned. a law enforcement official who seen video of the suspect, james holmes booby trapped apartment tells cnn it was rigged with more than 30 homemade grenades and ten gallons of gasoline. the source says that would have created a fireball knocking out walls engulfing the entire building in flames undoubtedly killing many more people. cnns ed lavandera is joining us now once again fro...

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died early friday in that shooting. let me just tell you that a citywide prayer vigil is set for a few hours from now, and of course, we will be covering it for you. and from the police today, they are still not saying anything about what would make their suspect, that suspect go on the deadly rampage. they do believe though that holmes planned this attack for at least two months. and it is that planning and the evidence that holmes left behind that i want to talk to cnns ed lavandara ...

People running, then he was aiming at people. is that what you saw? >> oh, yes. >> were you even trying to see where he was? >> he at the time was five feet away from me. he dropped to the ground first and he pulled a gun in front of my face and was literally four or five feet away from me. at that point i realized i only had, you know, a window of opportunity to move out of the way. >> he was literally pointing -- >> yes, maam. >> was it a handgun or -- >> it was a rifle. >> it was a rifle. at ...

Literally four, five feet away from me. at that point i realized i only had, like, a window of opportunity to move out of the way. >> he was literally pointing -- >> yes, maam. >> what was it? a handgun? >> no. it was a rifle. at that point i was so terrified. >> your heart must have stopped? >> exactly. i didnt know what to do. either i can stand here and get shot or i can move. i dove into the aisle and tried to bury myself and get under the chair as much as possible. >> did you see this happe...

Presumably that happened through separate paths and not, you know, the same path. they were both invested in golden gate. golden gate was going to do -- the idea was they were going to invest mostly in sort of high-tech california. they were located in san francisco. this opportunity came along right after 9/11 there was this attempt to form -- there were a number of these companies that tried to spring up. endurance specialty was one of them. first organizational meeting started right after 9/1...

Like you talk about it could blow up in their face. >>neil: i always learn something. the smartest man in politics bar none. bar none. be careful pointing another banking scandal at doorstep of the greedy s.o.b.s you just stepped in something and just say it smells and a little too close to home. mine was earned off vietnam in 1968.

Topic. we will all be talking about the vice presidency and the rollout of the running mate and maybe a good idea to do this before he goes out of the country for the london olympics. what do you think? >> well, hes doing more than going to the olympics. hes also meeting with leaders of the free world like david cameron, and hes going to israel to meet with benjamin netanyahu to make sure our strategic partners who get disappointed from time to time on where the united states is, that we shore u...