the arab league says war crimes are being committed in syria. the syrian government battling rebels to control the largest city. the u.n. estimates roughly 200,000 syrians have fled the city. they say the government is stopping supplies of fuel and food from reaching neighborhoods controlled by rebel fighters. a memorial service held today for the 15 victims of a rollover crash in texas. the truck was filled with undocumented immigrants. customs, enforcement agents say they were from guatemala, honduras and mexico. a damaged front right tire is blamed for the cause. this man and this woman trieded to get married in their own church. the answer, no. the reason, because they re black. it happened in mississippi. they are angry and are doing something about it. stay with cnn. they will be with me live right here later this evening. and it s becoming a very long, hot summer for a big chunk of the country. extreme heat is making life miserable for folks in the southern plains. h
welcome back, everyone, to aurora, colorado. i m randi kaye. let me get you caught up now on the latest details from here in aurora. we are learning more about the victims this morning. a few names have trickled out in the last few minutes, in fact. but coming up at 10:00 a.m., we expect police to release the full list of victims in this shooting. here at the theater, people have gathered to remember those. there was a vigil last night. much of their makeshift memorial is still here. officials have also set up a grief counseling for folks here for anyone who needs help, who just nds to talk about what happened in their community. we also have a new image to show you this morning. take a look at this with me. it comes from the adult sex website, adultfriendfinder. police believe that this is james holmes, the suspect in the shooting. but investigators haven t been able to confirm that yet. sources did say that holmes had died his hair red before the attack. police and federal
how would a president romney or gingrich or cain handle a situation like this? that is the kind of topic the republican candidates will debate tonight. its focus will be foreign policy and national security. cnn, the heritage foundation and the american enterprise institute will bring it to you from washington tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. we re talking to our deputy political director paul steinhauser, pentagon correspondent chris lawrence and joe johns at constitution hall where the debate will take place. joe, let s start with you. is the 11th big gop presidential debate this year, what are the expectations? who might benefit from a foreign policy question tonight and who might, you know, possibly be in trouble? well, when you look at the range of all these republican candidates who are going to be here at dar constitutional hall, the first thing you can say is that there are at least three candidates who are expected to know this stuff cold. that would be the former spe
we just don t know who is behind it. we ve been very careful all afternoon to not jump to conclusions. when you see multiple bombings like this, when you hear reporters and witnesses on the scene describing shotgun pellets or bb s, or metal balls that you ve seen in these bombings before being used, to really have these explosives have the most mass casualtyies, as you mentioned, the hallmarks of other potential plots. correct? correct. i think when you see ball bearings, as you mentioned here is the president. let me interrupt you. i m sorry. security team on the events in boston. we re continuing to monitor and respond to the situation as it unfolds. i ve directed the full resources of the federal government to help state and local authorities protect our people, increase security around the united states as necessary, and
the wall street swindler. in a new interview, madoff says banks just chose to look the other way. in bahrain this hour, one of the arab nation dealing with protests and surging anger among its citizens and a critical u.s. ally in the region. the protests had been peaceful during the week until the government launched a crackdown. two protesters have been killed and today the government is vowing justice. new york columnist nick christoff is on the phone with us. what are you seeing? reporter: it began with people with modest steps towards reform. people were hugely antagonized the way the government backed down on protesters, firing tear gas, rubber bullets, and, in some cases, shotgun pellets at them. the result is that increasingly,