most notorious prisons where they had been held for 26 months. fattal's grandparents and cousin, perhaps just like, watching c thmpb n this time yesterday from their home in seattle. i want to you watch their reaction the second they first laid eyes on him. >> they emerged. the families are cheering. they're running down the steps. >> oh! >> flashing lights. >> how wonderful is that. what a moment for this family. like i am, waiting 26 months for this day to come. i have josh fattal's uncle back on the phone with me from seattle. fred, what a past 24 hours, huh? how are josh and shane doing? and do we know yet when they get to come home? >> well, i did get a wonderful photograph e-mailed to me from my sister. but i just sent on it to your studio. a picture of laura, jacob, josh, all together. looking remarkably happy. and you see my barents their tears of joy. i think we're all still a little shell shocked by the wonderful night of this. i understand they're doing really well and we expect to see them home. >> do we know yet, do you know yet what they said the first moments they came racing down the stairs yesterday in oman? >> i don't know whether they could hear between the tears of joy and the situation. i wasn't able to discern what was being said. but my parents did have a chance to talk to josh directly. so maybe you can follow up and see what they said. >> we certainly will. we do have some sound. i wanted to ask you if you knew anything firsthand. we do have some sound as well from josh and shane right after this moment here. after the hugs and tears, tasting freedom in oman. let's listen. >> we're sincerely grateful to the government of oman for hosting us and our families two years in prison is too long and we sincerely hope for the freedom of other political prisoners and other unjustly imprisoned people in iran. >> you know josh better than we do. how does he look? how does he sound to you? >> this was, every time i would get a glimpse of him. between the trial or during any, i'm only looking for the glint in his eyes, the smirk in his mouth. at no point, i've seen him look a little down trodden, a little beaten up but not, emotionally but not ever broken. and he seems as vivacious and animated as ever. so i'm confident this guy, who has a tremendously strong constitution. both physically and emotionally, is coming out of this hole. >> we're looking at the moment. psych shane throwing his articles around sarah shourd. his fiance. she was arrested and health in iran. she was released last year because of health concerns and then shane proposed to sarah when they were in the evin prison in tehran. what do you know about how these with, these three spent those 26 months inside that prison? >> how they spent them? >> what they did. >> yes or no and shane were roomed together. sarah was alone. sarah, it was a hard term for her to be alone all that long. they would get an hour or two a day to walk outside and they would get like 16 minutes of television. that was their connection to reality. one story i did get, was that when shane told josh he want to propose to sarah, josh said he would forego his hour or two of daylight that day in order to give him some alone time outside so they could ask, so he could propose. so talking about good friends. you only get an hour or two of sunshine a day and you forego that. i think those guys will be forever inseparable. >> i think so. and then you have the picture. let's put the video back up of josh's grandparents who we saw. i don't know if that was laughter or crying there. here they are. the grandparents and the yusin. they were watching the news yesterday with us. they're in their 80s. how hard has this been on them? >> it's been, you know, a lot of emotional collateral damage associated with this period. and my parents are 87. and they are not spring chickens but they are with it. they know what's going on and they've had the displeasure of watching the various false starts that this process has gone through. and my father's heart has not been all that cooperative during a couple of these milestones. but he's hanging in there now and we all need to close the loop in being able to put our own hug around the family. >> do we know yet when they'll hop on another plane and come home? >> i expect it will be momentarily. i think they've had enough of touring the middle east, to tell you the truth. i don't know exactly when but do i believe, my parents have spent the past couple months in seattle avoiding the hurricane season of florida. and are heading back next week. so they will be potentially able to see them soon. but i'm waiting to, i'm just the uncle sitting here in the wings. i'm waiting to hear what josh wants to do. what he needs. he might just need to be in the middle of a city and feel the vibration of all the people in contrast to the isolation that he's been subject to. but until he tell us what he wants, i'm just waiting in the wings to be helpful if i can. >> i cannot imagine. fred felleman, thank you so much for calling back in. >> did you see the still image that i sent? >> we got it. we played it a couple of time. thank you so much for sending that in and sharing it with us. perhaps we'll check in with you once josh and shane are back home. many thanks to you. have a good one. now this. >> that sounds awful but it is kind of a relief that it is over for me. >> that is the refraction the family of a murdered police officer after learning troy davis was in fact executed. but many supporters of davis still believe in his innocence. also ahead, ben wedeman finds possible yellowcake. what is being done about it? 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>> in my mind, yes. in my mind, it has. it took a long time to get there but it really does in my mind. >> several hundred protesters, demonstrators, rallied outside the prison in jackson, georgia where he was executed. in his case, drew international attention. seven of the nine witnesses who testified, several decades ago, recanted or contradicted their testimony. among those holding the vigil was davis' sister who says she will continue fighting to prove his innocence. >> i have to get over that. i believe in a higher power. and i believe that he is going to give never strength to carry on and to continue this fight. not just for my brother but all the troy davises around the world. >> former president jimmy carter has been outspoken. had call for sparing davis' life. releasing this statement. we are deeply saddened by the execution of troy anthony davis by the state of georgia. if one of of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated. david mattingly joins me here to talk about this. you were there. i was watching you for hours on end last night on 360. it seemed a fairly peaceful, solemn occasion. people holding candles. a lot of those people didn't want davis to die. >> there were hundreds of people. most across the street from the gates of the prison facility where we were. between them and the facility were about 100 armed officers. many of them in riot gear which really struck us as sort of strange. because the demonstrations had been so peaceful up until that point. but as the night went on, when we got to 7:00, the time when the execution was supposed to take place, there was this crescendo of emotion. that demonstrators wanted everyone to know they were there and how they felt at the time. and when they realize that had there was a delay. there was sort of a brief period of elation. there was some jubilation in the crowd. people cheering. but then as the hours went by, people became emotionally weary. physically weary as the night wore on. and once they got word that the supreme court had rejected the stay, everything was very quiet. a lot of prayer. there were some tears. at the time of the execution, people were lighting cams. there was a lot of silent prayer, group prayer. people resigned to what was obviously going to be inevitable once the supreme court ruling came down. it was a night for a lot of personal reflection and flepeop feeling like they weren't done. >> we heard from the flip side, officer macphail's mother saying this is relief. relief for her. but at the same time, we heard the sound from troy davis' sister saying, even after his death she wants to prove his innocence. how can she do that? >> i wouldn't know how they can do that. they've had so much help. so many people involved in this fight for the last 20 years. in the last few years, since his last past what i dith the delay don't know how they'll proceed in the future. but troy davis has become more than just a single inmate being executed on georgia's death row. he has back tremendous symbol, not just in the state of georgia but worldwide. remember, there were over 600 people signing the petition. many, many people invested in seeing him have his sentence commuted. having him get off death row. when that didn't happen, now you have a lot of people with a lot of unresolved energy. wanting to see something happen here. so i really don't think this is the end. >> we'll continue this the next hour talking about the death penalty as we move forward nationwide. david mattingly, thank you. now this. we used to have the best infrastructure in the world here in america. >> we're the country that built the intercontinental railroad. we built the hoover dam, the grand central station. >> president obama still pressing for infrastructure spending to create jobs. also, the nfl. not taking kindly to fakers sending out a memo after players were caught pretending to be injured so the referee would call a time-out? 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the brent spence bridge connects the home states of two of the president's most powerful rivals. the gop senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky and speaker john boehner of ohio. let's to go cincinnati. in the crowd we find the white house spokesman there in cincinnati. what was the president's message? what was the headline? >> reporter: it was pretty interesting. he was very aggressive. this is something we've seen over the past couple weeks. aggressively calling out republicans by name. house speaker john boehner, mitch mcconnell using this. the brent spence bridge as a back drox kentucky is over there. ohio is over here. trying to highlight what he says republicans were standing in the way of his $447 billion jobs plan. listen to what he said. >> part of the reason i came here is because mr. boehner and mr. mcconnell, those are the two most powerful republicans in government. they can either kill this jobs bill or they can help pass this jobs bill. >> reporter: you'll remember, that the president during that whole bruising debt ceiling battle tried to strike tone of being the grown-up in the room, the compromiser, the reasonable one. now he is facing in the aftermath of that, dismal approval numbers and we're seeing a very different tact that he's taking. calling out republicans. >> one more for you and i'll let you go. i know the band there is loud. we're looking at the bridge. they are calling to get people back to work now. projects that are shovel ready. we discovered this particular bridge, connecting kentucky and ohio, it is anything but shovel ready. what's the deal there? >> reporter: that's exactly right. that's what the spokeswoman for the ohio department of transportation told me. that this really isn't the best example of a shovel ready bridge -- a shovel ready project. that's something, brooke, that republicans are absolutely slamming the president for trying to promote a jobs plan that he says will create a jobs plan and then coming here. that it wouldn't have construction going on until mid to late 2013. that's with an expedited process. more likely you wouldn't see jobs here until 2015. here's what the white house is saying. they're saying they didn't say it was shovel ready. the point they're making, this is what we heard from jay carney today, this is symbolic of the crumbling infrastructure across the country. that republicans have a choice to help out the president to do something for jobs, and that instead the white house says, they're deciding to play politics instead. trying to beat him politically. rather than try to do something for the american people. >> thank you. speaking of the american people. and zpoks the dow. let's go to the big board. the dow is down now over 500 points. we're just about a half-hour away from the closing bell. a huge, huge drop. we'll check in to see what's behind these numbers today. also, it is the end of rem as we know it. the band is breaking up. i'll talk to one of my favorite musicians who has been very much inspired by them and made with members on the last album. going to join me live in a couple minutes. but first, anderson cooper introduces us to the top ten heroes of 2011. they will each receive $50,000 and a shot at the big prize in december. all year we've been introducing to you everyday people who are changing the world. we call them cnn heroes. today we announce the top ten cnn heroes for 20 level. i am ay stokes uses the noet match teens lacking role models with adults around the world. bruno serato is getting solutions so kids don't to go bed hungry. and he reprocesses soap. and diane, in a violent neighborhood, she open her door inviting gang members in. eddie helps young football players side lined by spinal cord injuries. elayna offers poor children a way out of the trash dump into school. patrice diagnosed with incurable cancer, started feeding and coaching children from haiti's slums. robin helps poor women have healthy pregnancies and safe deliveries. sal pays for food, rent and bush administration necessities to keep the working poor afloat. and taryn ability sisterhood of women for american war widows. congratulations. the top ten cnn heroes of 2011. which one inspires you the most? 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