>> oh, my god. >> please stay where you are. everybody, stay where you are. >> did you get it? oh, my god. >> keep your heads up. everybody, stay where you are. >> i knew that was in the stands, oh, my god. >> it could have been us. >> i know. in my mind, it was coming. >> joining me on the phone is the man who shot that video. he is brent wilson, he's back home in portland, oregon. brent, you know, we could hear i counted three "oh, my gods." i don't know if that was from you or your son. i can't imagine what you were feeling. if you can, walk me through your initial thoughts when you saw that plane nosedive and hit the crowd. >> it was obviously an incredibly tragic event, and initially, before it got down to the ground, you know, it was all over the sky and for a brief moment what appeared to be an eternity to us, you know, it was coming directly for us in our area. and, you know, i just froze and my sons. it was something that is life changing. my son kyle actually is the one who was videotaping it. yeah, that is my yelling "oh, my god "oi god." the reason we came forward with our video is we really want to portray -- i mean, when you see it in the crowd, granted, it's shocking, but there was not mass hysteria. >> why was that, do you think? why wasn't there mass hysteria, given what we're watching here replay? >> well, this event draws a significant amount of both retired and active service personnel, and a lot of these pilots are ex-military pilots that have retired. you know, i think people jumped into action. what we saw -- we true saw the human spirit. unfortunately it takes a tragedy sometimes to see that, i mean, it's i think as christians we want to do that always. my sons and i, we sat and we prayed for those people that lost their lives and those that have lost loved ones. >> ten people, again, just bears reminding. ten people. we have different shots from the video what your son shot, some from other people in the crowd. once your son stopped rolling, brent, what did the organizers tell the crowd right after the plane came down? what are we not seeing on the tape? >> what you're not seeing is a very orderly exit of probably 15,000, 20,000 people and folks leaving orderly. they're making sure that -- basically make room for ambulances rolling in. there is no one that we witnessed that was in any way disrespecting those families that had just lost loved ones. in fact, just the opposite. >> brent, forgive me for interrupting. i wanted to ask you about something you told one of our produce irs. he said that sitting there you could tell that the pilot in the air was trying to avoid as many people as possible. actually, tweeted that out and got a response from a pilot who said, you know, if this aircraft had some kind of malfunction, there's no way to control when you crash at that height and that speed. i'm just curious what made you say that. how could you purr sieerceive t? >> well, i'm an aviation addict, i'm not a pilot. i study aviation a lot, and what i saw in the plane as i saw it do what's called a yaw, like crab crawling if you think about that, like a plane lands in a cross-wind, they sort of crab down, sort of thisside to side motion, which means the pilot is truly working the rudder as hard as he can to try to gain some control over that plane. i truly believe in my heart and i will to the day i die that that pilot did absolutely everything he could to avoid, you know, killing hundreds of people. had he landed in the grandstands, we would be talking about hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries. you know, at the last moment the plane -- there was sort of this lurch upward. whether he had control of that or whether it just randomly happened, it saved hundreds if not thousands of lives. >> that's stunning. given, though, what you've seen, what your sons have seen, will you go to another air race? >> well, that's a very good question, and i think at this time, you know, that's something that i'm going to visit with my family over the next year about and we'll make that determination together in prayer. at this point, our thoughts and prayers are focused on those injured and those families who lost loved ones. you know, that's down the road, and i don't know. >> brent wilson, i thank you for calling in. i thank you for sharing your video. appreciate it. glad you guys are okay. >> thank you very much. still ahead -- a controversial book. it claims president obama's top advisers had doubts he could handle the economic crisis, but the white house says this book is full of -- you know what. >> i lived the reality, and the reports i've read about this book bear no resemblance to the reality we lived together. >> so here's one of the questions -- was this book taken out of context? then this -- a decision for death for troy davis. georgia denying this man clemency. what will happen now. sun life financialrating should be famous.d bad, we're working on it. so you're seriously proposing we change our name to sun life valley. do we still get to go skiing? sooner or later, you'll know our name. sun life financial. the healthcare law gives us powerful tools to fight it... to investigate it... ...prosecute it... and stop criminals. our senior medicare patrol volunteers... are teaching seniors across the country... ...to stop, spot, and report fraud. you can help. guard your medicare card. don't give out your card number over the phone. call to report any suspected fraud. we're cracking down on medicare fraud. let's make medicare stronger for all of us. try capzasin-hp. it penetrates deep to block pain signals for hours of relief. capzasin-hp. take the pain out of arthritis. a georgia death row inmate's last-ditchests to save his own life have failed. troy davis is set to die by lethal injection tomorrow night. the state board of pardons and paroles denied his clemency this morning. davis was convicted of killing a police officer 20 years ago. davis maintains he is innocent, and seven of the nine witnesses who testified decades ago have either recanted, changed their testimony. in fact, people from all over the world have been pushing for davis to be granted clemency. he got a lot of high-profile support as well, including from a former president, former fbi director. but in a statement just a couple of hours ago, the georgia pardons and paroles board said this. i'll read the statement for you. they say, the board members have not taken their responsibility lightly and certainly understand the emotions attached to a death penalty case. since 2000, the board has commuted three death penalty cases. in considering clemency in such cases, the board weighs each case on its own merit. they have considered the totality of the information presented in this case and thoroughly deliberated on it, after which the board's decision was to deny clemency. now, the family of officer davis -- the family of the officer troy davis was convicted of killing said the board made the right decision. mark macphail's son who was a baby when his father was killed said justice was served. mcfail's mother says she'll never feel closure, but she may find peace when davis is executed. here is what she said about her son. >> mark was very full of life. he spent years in the military to protect us. he went into the police department to protect us, and that's what he was doing. he loved his children. he loved his family. any chance he had he would come home to be with us all. so he was quite a young man that we all loved dearly. >> despite the decision fwr the board just this morning and the imminent execution, davis' supporters say they're going to keep fighting to save him. a.mnesty international is callig on anyone who has power to stop what they're calling a grave injustice, also the pastor at ebenezer baptist church who prayed with troy davis just last night says he doesn't believe davis is out of options. here's what he told suzanne man sorrow. >> malveaux. >> we're not conceding the point there are no other options. in fact, we call on the board of pardons and paroles to reverse their decision. they have the authority, they have the power to do so. as a matter of fact, we call on everyone who has a role to play in this execution to stand on behalf of what's right. the district attorney down in chatham county, mr. larry chiz em, could ask the judge of the superior court to vacate the execution warrant. we call on him to do so, particularly because he shared with me and others that were he trying this case today it would not be a death case. yet here we are. i'm not sure how the board of pardons and paroles has come to this zishdecision but we ask tho reverse it. >> in georgia, only that board of pardons and paroles, not the governor, has the right to grant clemency. new details in the hunt for a serial killer, could be killers, on long island. >> it is believed that one or mo individuals have murdered young women working as escorts. plus -- new sketches are released of two of these unidentified victims and the dna link found miles away. then -- take a look at this huge gas rig explosion. we're learning more about details there in oklahoma. coming up. 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is anyone claiming responsibility for this? >> reporter: well, they have said to the reuters news agency that they were behind this. but, to be honest, their admission of responsibility has been unusually slow. there was a strange silence at first. there are some doubts as to the complete voracity of this claim. but what's not in doubt is what seemed to have happened. two apparent taliban negotiators going to see rabbani to talk perhaps about a peace september, waved in by one of his colleagues, another government peace negotiator, who said, come into the house for the talks. one of the them detonating the bomb inside his turban, sending a shock wave through the government. one of their key figures taken out in his home. a blow in kabul, who only days ago were involved in a fire fight for a long period of time near the embassy. as the u.s. economy limps along, james car vil says president obama needs to make change. this book "confidence men" said top advisers had little confidence in president obama's ability to deal with the economy. was the book taken out of context? you decide. i want to tell you about this bombshell book about the early days of the obama administration. a lot of questions like, is it accurate? i'm talking about this book called "confidence men," a new book that's highly critical of president obama and his top economic aides. the white house says, don't believe everything you read. it's trending today and brian todd has the story. >> reporter: for a best-selling author, serious brushs back from the white house over a new book that depicts infighting and indecision in the obama administration's early days. in his book confidence men, ron sus kind says obama's advisers had doubts whether he could handle the economic difficulties. summers is quoted as saying in 2009, we're home alone. there's no adult in charge. clinton would never have made these mistakes. we couldn't reach summers for comment, but in an e-mail to "the washington post" says the hearsay attributed to me is a kbiks of fiction, distortion and words taken out of context. >> i lived the reality and the reports i've read about this book bear no resemblance to the reality we lived together. >> reporter: treasury secretary timothy geithner responding to a passage in cusskind's book saying president obama decided early on to restructure several troubled banks but discovered nearly a month later his directive had been ignored by the treasury. >> absolutely not. i would never do that. >> reporter: cnn chief political analyst gloria borger says in books like this former officials try to bolster their own legacies or settle scores. >> reporter: would it lead to some kind of finger pointing behind the scenes and people looking over their own shoulder? >> it might. i mean, this is washington. people are always going to try to figure out who was the source for that, who was the source for that story. i bet that came from him, or i bet it came from him. >> reporter: a defiant white house press secretary launched a separate offensive against suskind. >> one passage seems to be lifted almost tiernly from wikiped wikipedia. >> reporter: when the white house was followed up with, officials indicated jay darny was referring to a passage about the federal mortgage firm fannie mae as first reported by politico. quote, in 1968, it officially became a publicly held corporation to remove its debt and related activities from the federal balance sheet. the wikipedia passage says, in 1968 it converted to a publicly held corporation to remove its dist and debt from the federal budget. we contacted the publisher for response. a spokeswoman there says suskind spent more than 700 hours with more than 200 individuals in writing the book. the spokeswoman calls it exhaustively resources and harpercollins is proud to be publishing it. >> by the way, the white house cooperated with the author as he was writing this book, giving them access to both the president and his inner circle. and with the slumping economy here, james carville says president obama needs to finally make a change, but will he? mr. carville will join me live coming up. then, while president obama is in new york at the united nations general assembly meeting, then she overcame torture and cancer before becoming president of brazil. a look at her in today's "human factor." to the same challenges. but at prudential we're helping companies everywhere find new solutions to manage risk, capital and employee benefits, so american business can get on with business. ♪ want to let you know what's happening right now. take a look at this live satellite picture here. thousands of people need to get out of the way of a typhoon that's about to hit japan. chad myers has been watching this thing swirling. he'll explain where this massive storm equal to a category 3 hurricane is aiming for hours from now. we'll get to chad momentarily. first, james carville has a lot of advice for the president as of late. he's not at all shier about sharing it. the longtime democratic strategist and cnn distributor says president obama is showing a new aggressiveness. he says it's about time. james carville joins me live. james, you're pretty intense about this. you say the president should fire some people here, we talked about that with your op-ed on cnn.com. i know you have great sources. is there any indication that the president is going to do that, going to fire people? will we see the change you're calling for? >> i think that there are going to be changes in the white house the . i don't know if somebody will be fired, probably natural attrition, turnover but it probably will happen. i thought this morning was a refreshing and interesting departure from the strategy before. we had two major setbacks. this debt ceiling deal was a huge setback, didn't help the white house at all, actually hurt, and these two elections were a clear signal. we should take it at that and that prompted the piece that i wrote. the best time to plant an oak tree was 25 years ago, the second best time is yesterday. they planted one yesterday. let's see if it works. it seems they're signaling a change in direction, which is regarded as a good thing. >> yesterday we saw the president standing in the rose garden announcing this tax cut plan, so-called buffet rule. how did he do? >> again, he gives a great speech, a great press conference. no doubt about that. any time that he does, he is a very articulate and well-spoken man. the question everybody has is, is he going to follow up on this? is he going to keep talking about it? is he he going to push it, give examples? you know, is he going to carry tough if we ever get to the point? who knows of negotiations? or will he take this and carry it through the election? in all likelihood that's when all of this will come up. that's what people are saying to themselves, hey, this thing looks like a good start, a departure from where we were. >> james carville, i know you're out and about. you were in buffalo, now you're in chicago. i hear from people on twitter, when you hear from americans they're mad. they're sick of the back and forth, bickering inside the beltway. their big worry,they want jobs. here's my hypothetical to you. let's say the president fires fo folks, lets them go, hires you. day one, what do you do to get the jobs ball rolling? >> well, i think from day one that the thing i would talk about is the ongoing decline of the middle class and that we have a mission here. if we just get the jobs ball rolling, without restoring something to the middle class, we are missing the boat here. >> but what specifically? >> well, first of all, get health care costs under control. secondly, instead of having something and calling it a stimulus, if you said you were building things to help build the middle class, people would love that. third, you've got to deal with some of the problems we have and this horrific inequality the middle class is experiencing. yesterday is a good start, the single most popular way to reduce the deficit is to have this kind of tax that the president was talking about. so i think this is very in line with what he needs to do. he's got to give people a signal that you're changing things. that's what they started yesterday