white house with a story just in to cnn. jessica, what do you know? >> reporter: a senior administration official tells cnn that a senior member of the network has been killed. it happened overnight earlier today in north waziristan, pakistan. and a man by the name of, we're told played a central role in helping the hackani network attack u.s. targets in kabul and south eastern afghanistan. that he was killed in a part of pakistan. and this is considered a safe haven for the haqqani network. they say he is the most senior leader in pakistan to be taken off the battlefield. as you know, the haqqani network considered a terrorist organization linked to the taliban and blamed by u.s. officials for the attack on the u.s. embassy as well as the attack on u.s. troops among other attacks. >> let me ask but other attacks. i know the president greeted his counterpart in south korea. you hit him hard with some questions about not only iran but also the u.s. economy. on the economy, you asked him why he is not sitting down with congress and compromising to get people back to work. what did he say? what was his answer? >> reporter: he said he'll meet with republicans any time any place if they come ready to negotiate. but he does not want more political theater. he doesn't want a repeat of what happened during the negotiations over the debt ceiling. not his words, mine. so if they're willing to compromise, he'll do it. it sound not likely to happen. >> we learned today the state department has had direct contact with iran about the alleged plot to attack the saudi ambassador to the u.s. on u.s. soil. you asked the president who in iran knew? >> reporter: you know, he would not link it to the highest levels. he would not definitively say the supreme leader or the president of iran knew. he did say definitively that at high levels of government, there was knowledge. that the case in the u.s. is solid and so all of the iranian government will be held accountable and the u.s. is pressing allies to tighten sanctions and take more action against iran. >> jessica yellen at the white house. i want to bring you in. jurors are deliberating in the second day of the trial of komisarjevsky. six hours of deliberation and counting? deb? >> reporter: now we're up to seven, as a matter of fact. there are a lot of counts. 17 of them. six are capital felony. that means jury needs to find the defendant intentionally caused the death of these three family members. the mom, jennifer, and her two daughters. the defense had a very good argument but in the end there is a 90-minute taped confession by the defendant in which he really describes what can only be called a sexual fixation with the 11-year-old girl. he call her by her nickname almost as if they were friends. the jury looking at all this. they did look at the bat that was used to beat the father. he is the sole survivor. he is in the court right now along with the parents of his wife, the deceased wife. and they are waiting like everyone else. >> and we were talking about the initial accomplice who was tried, steven hayes. that jury deliberated for what? five hours over the course of two days. so this jury taking a little longer. >> taking a little bit longer. certainly the stakes are very high. he could find himself on death row. so they are taking their time. the defense, they took a different tack by saying bits intention. about intention. did he spend to kill these people when he set out to rob their home? the question does intention mean that it was the day before or an hour before. >> deb, thank you very much for us from connecticut. snext next, chris lawrence live at the pentagon talking about this virus attacking computers, controlling military dwroens the air force's down playing this whole thing. chris, what are they saying? >> they're calling it a nuisance. the air force doing a bit of an about face. for week they wouldn't touch this story. wouldn't come out and say anything public about it. now they're coming out trying to explain exactly what went on. they're calling this virus a credential stealer. they say it is not designed to transmit information or video to an outside source. it is not designed to corrupt file or data. so what exactly does a credential stealer do? the air force isn't exactly saying that. they do say that this had to do with some of the compute per are associated with that unmanned drone program. so all of the reaper and predators flying in places like afghanistan and libya, well, they're controlled by air force pilots at a u.s. base in nevada. and that's where they have the problem with the computers. >> so if they're calling this a nuisance, does this mean they're not so concerned? >> it doesn't sound like they're concerned. in their statement, they say the virus has been detected and quarantined. but when we follow up with a question to ask, has it been expunged, because one of the things the magazine reported when they first broke the story was that they had a real hard time getting this virus out. we asked, have you gotten rid of it? has it been expunged from the system? they were not able to answer that yet. >> chris lawrence, keep asking the questions for us. thank you so much. that's your reporter roulette for this thursday. still ahead, forget electric chair. how about a spray of bullets? one lawmaker says death row inmates should just line up in front of a firing squad. plus a father killing eight people at a beauty salon. wait until you hear what his neighbors have to say about him. why does it take a kid dying for someone to step up and say this is wrong? >> a look at homophobia in schools. lily tomlin will join me to talk about why this affects her personally. and he is not a governor or senator but herman cain is the new front-runner in the republican race. at least according to one new poll. with the primaries around the corner, can he sustain momentum? 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>> 9-9-9 plan. >> 9-9-9? >> you got it. a slogan the republican brings everywhere he goes. is it enough to win over conservatives and knock off the other candidates? gloria borger is standing by. that's next. also, get this. meg ryan? tom hanks? in space? wait until you hear about this rendezvous. tom hanks and meg ryan meet up in space. sort of. the actors have asteroids named after them. and those space rocks both got the closest to earth in september, giving a rendezvous to the romantic comedy duo asteroids. if you didn't realize, there are other famous names including robin hood and stephen colbert. that's when you know you make it. official michele bachmann, now herman cain has caught fire among presidential contenders. at least one poll putting him at the top of the field ahead of mitt romney. the poll you see there was done for the "wall street journal" and nbc before this week's republican debate in new hampshire. let's to go gloria borger, chief political analyst. would we be wrong to dismiss herman cain as just the latest flavor of the week among these hopefuls? >> reporter: i don't think you're wrong. i think it's completely accurate. you look at the history of this race. we've gone from favorite to favorite to favorite. you forgot donald trump. remember when he was number one? michele bachmann, rick perry, now herman cain. what happens is he become the new favorite and he starts to get the scrutiny that someone would get who is leading the presidential field like on his economic 9-9-9 plan that you've heard so much about. and you're beginning to hear conservative republicans say this is something we don't like. we don't like a national sale tax. so herman cain has to get ready for the scrutiny that he will get both from the media and the other candidates. >> and this all go back to mitt romney, does it not? i read your column. to quote you, you say there's a teensy problem. he can't just seem to be conservatives don't like him. what is the issue with him not connectioning with the party's base? >> reporter: they don't like him because they don't trust him. they go back to the 2008 race and the social issues. they don't trust him on his health care plan them don't like that he said, for example, in the last debate that he was in favor of the bank bailouts. let me give you a cautionary note here. which is, republicans generally early on don't like their presidential nominees. it wasn't as if they rush to embrace john mccain. they didn't even rush to embrace ronald reagan. there were people running to the right of ronald reagan. so eventually you'll probably see people come on board because they're going to want to beat barack obama. but it's not as if republicans run to the first candidate out there. they like to kind of sample the field a little bit. >> and let me mention sort of an aside. i know erin burnett sat down and interviewed herman cain so we'll work on turning some of the sound around. we'll have to hear about how he feel about being number one. where does the tea party movement play in all this? wasn't this supposed to be the year they broke through to challenge the gop's so-called elite? >> it was, it was. it was what they wanted to do. the problem with the movement that considers itself pure and is very new is that it is often very difficult to find kind of the perfect torchbearer. the perfect torchbearer might have been sarah palin, for example. but she has many flaws. maybe it was michele bachmann. she has many flaws. and on and on. what you see with the maturation of this political movement which is what i think you're seeing, we talk to some tea party people. they said, look, they don't love mitt romney. in the end he seem like a plausible candidate. they want to beat barack obama. those people from the tea party who won't be able to sign on with whomever the nominee is will just look for somebody else they can support next time around. it is the way it moves with new political movements. >> read gloria's column. to go cnn.com/opinion. thank you very much. now this. >> i knew scott through just being a neighbor. he came over to help out. my dad pass ad couple years ago. he took the trash out a couple time. a great guy as far as i can tell. >> a great guy. that's how one neighbor describes the man who is accused of walking into this beauty salon and opening fire. now eight people are dead. we're now hearing about a motive and seeing new video of that scene. plus, some alarming video. what one guy did on a subway train. not only dangerous. it could be deadly. 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