now take a look at rescue teams evacuating the philippines' capital or large parts of it. almost 19,000 people displaced in that city of 12 million. and forecasters say the storms won't let up for at least another 24 hours. many there, of course, living in constructed homes, death tolls expected to rise before this is over. s gunman that killed six people at a sikh temple in wisconsin was a frustrated neonazi, how the southern poverty law center describes wade michael page. the organization tracks hate groups and says page was associated with the scariest, most violent skinhead group out there. page was shot and killed by police after he opened fire on the temple. authorities are investigating his ties to white supremacist groups. we're seeing for the very first time video from mars of the "curiosity" rover landing. there it was. it was shot onboard moments before touchdown. okay, it's a little grainy perhaps, but not bad for 352 million miles from earth. stick around. nasa promises more pictures in about an hour from now. chad myers is going to join me as well in 30 minutes to tell us what's happening in these seven minutes of terror, as they're called. unrelenting attacks in aleppo, forcing the u.n. to pull all of its monitors out of that syrian city today. they join the steady stream of civilians who are trying to escape the fighting between rebels and government forces. ben wedeman is in aleppo. >> we've seen a series of air raids from the syrian air force in the old city and whatnot. we saw helicopters in rebel-held areas and same steady bombardment we've seen since yesterday. overnight we got very little sleep because the artillery bombardment that really went on all night, became quite intense at about 3:00 in the morning. now this afternoon after one of those syrian air force air raids, we were outside a field hospital where we saw at least half a dozen wounded being driven up as well as several dead bodies in the back of pickup trucks. the field hospital was really completely overwhelmed. we've spoken to the doctor before the wounded arrived. he said that they're short not only of medicine and medical supplies, but he's also short of staff because many of the nurses and doctors he was working with are unable to get to the parts of aleppo that are held by the rebels. in fact, he came out of surgery with his rubber gloves full of blood and he was pleading with people on his cell phone to come and help him. because he simply could not deal with the level of injured who were arriving at the hospital. and now we've seen parts of town where there was severe destruction. these are heavily populated areas under normal times. the areas that are near the front line, it was obvious people have left. there are still hundreds of thousands, if not millions of civilians living in the rebel-held areas. this morning we're at about 6:30 in the morning, we're outside a bakery where 100 people were lined up to get what little bread is available. one man told me that his entire family sleeps in the stairwell of their apartment because of fear of the bombing. he said that they have very little in the way of supplies. one other woman told me that they've run out of cooking gas and that she's cooking on firewood she's picked up from public parks. and we just got video in actually from another city in syria. have a listen. the automatic weapons going off there. rebels apparently taking on government forces in the north of the country. a syrian opposition group says 115 people have been killed nationwide so far today. more gunshots. people trying to escape the violence have been crossing into neighboring countries by the tens of thousands. they have for months now. barbara starr is going to take us to a refugee camp that recently opened in jordan. >> reporter: for the syrian refugees, the swirling sands, the heat. now, everyday life at the refugee camp in jordan, a short drive from the syrian border. long walks across the camp for food and supplies. the camp has been open just one week. a water pipe provides a cooler moment. even as the girls do the family wash in a bucket. 13-year-old amani has been here just a few days. escaping from her home in dara with eight oer family members. we learn her heart is broken when she tells us -- "my mother was murdered. she was outside. we were inside and there was a bomb." she was hit by shrapnel. amani simply says -- "she was everything to me. she brought us up and died. she would take us wherever we wanted to go. i was the one most attached to her. what else can i tell you?" amani says there was shelling every night before they left. the family escaped with the free syrian army which took them to the jordanian border. the syrian regime claims its fighting terrorists, but 22-year-old tells us more about what happened to the family. she says "my cousin was out at a demonstration after friday prayers and was killed by a sniper. then a female cousin killed because her brother defected." the jordanian government says more than 140,000 syrian refugees are already in jordan. the united nations is prepared to house another 100,000 here. it's trying to improve grim conditions. >> it's a terrible situatio but the question is, would you want to put your family in a place like this? no, but we're in emergency operation. people are being bombed. they're running away. they're losing family members in syria. >> reporter: for some children, there are moments just to be a kid again and play with new friends. for many like amani, childhood seems gone. dying with her mother. "we cried a lot. we cried a lot. they buried her and what happened happened. god bless her soul." although the agencies running this camp say they are doing everything they can as fast as they can to improve conditions here, things are very grim right now. you know, michael, we could not have brought you that story without cnn's own photojournalist mary rogers and our producer. most of them veterans of many conflicts. i know they are colleagues of yours, close colleagues. the refugees tell us all the same story. the camp is in desperate situation. and some of them say it is so desperate that they are beginning to wonder if they should have gone back to syria, if they ever should have left. the jordanian government, the u.n., is really trying to make very urgent improvements to the situation there, michael. >> yeah. mary, joe, and yourself, barbara, of course for that report. you've been there for the last couple days. curious whether you've heard anything about the syrian prime minister, or former syrian prime minister, riad hijab who deflected yesterday. there was conflicting reports whether he was in jordan, whether he wasn't, whether he was going to qatar. have you heard anything? >> reporter: right. you know, michael, topic number one around security circles tonight, still he has not officially turned up here. but, in fact, talking to sources throughout the day, and there are still opposition forces who are saying that he has defected, that he is in a neighboring arab country. they will not say, they say for security reasons, where exactly he is. but the situation is expected to resolve itself in the next few days and he is expected to emerge, shall we say, somewhere in this region. these defections, as you know, are very dangerous, very critical circumstances till everybody gets out, all the family mbers get out and they are sure that everyone is safe. so it is, perhaps, now sadly somewhat routine that everyone is waiting to see him emerge and that wbe the signal that everyone who is trying to get out on this round, at least, is safely out of syria. michael? >> yeah, of course. couple of arab countries that are unneighboring, it does boil it down a bit. barbara starr, thank you for your reporting. appreciate it. here's more of what we're working on for this hour for "newsroom international." we're more than halfway through the olympic games. so where has australia again? the country has only two, yes, two gold medals so far. we're going to look into that if i can keep it together. plus beach basics usually include a swimsuit, sunscreen, a towel. but a ski mask? some parts of china that's what you'll see. we'll explain when we come back. is backed by an equally powerful and secure cloud. that cloud is in the network, so it can deliver all the power of the network itself. bringing people together to develop the best ideas -- and providing the apps and computing power to make new ideas real. it's the cloud from at&t. with new ways to work together, business works better. ♪ [ male announcer ] you work hard. stretch every penny. but chances are you pay a higher tax rate than him... mitt romney made twenty million dollars in two thousand ten but paid only fourteen percent in taxes... probably less than you now he has a plan that would give millionaires another tax break... and raises taxes on middle class families by up to two thousand dollars a year. mitt romney's middle class tax increase. he pays less. you pay more. mitt romney's middle class tax increase. so, i'm working on a cistern intake valve, and the guy hands me a locknut wrench. no way! i'm like, what is this, a drainpipe slipknot? wherever your business takes you, nobody keeps you on the road like progressive commercial auto. 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a country of 22 million people and people expected the aussies and americans to go at it in the pool. that's not the case anymore. >> look, i think the expectations have been too high, and i think we've been lucky for a while as well. we've been happy to perform and perform well, but i think we've become too used to being too successful, and we need to get back to basics and appreciate individual, each individual result for what it is and really appreciate when we do win a gold medal. >> yeah, not qualifying for the olympics this time around, thorpe is hoping to get to the world championships, however. on the medal tally board austraa sits below kazakhstan, north korea, and a more painful blow, the prospect of being trumped by australia's smaller neighbor and big sport s rival, new zealand. becky anderson joins me now from london. i just got back from aust raral on vacation, becky. people down there are really feeling this. they're not crying in the streets but pretty close to it. who are we, if not olympic champions in the pool? they're talking about having independent investigations now. what's going on? what are they saying there? is it big talk in london? >> reporter: you are making it so uncomfortably easy, having a pop has been a national sport. we've begun to feel uneasy about it. this is all wrong. don't forget, in the last three olympics, you had by day ten at least 11 golds. you got two golds, 12 silver and 8 bronze as it stands at present. and much worse for you than that sort of result -- you're right to point out that new zealand have got eight medals and three golds at this point, with a population of 4.4 million. is you're being trumped by them as well. what must be much more uncomfortable for you guys is that team gb's performance is possibly the best in 100 years. listen, we've been having a pop with the australians here. cameramen are surrounded by them. great job. b i don't know. i've done some research. i wondered what's gone wrong. ask me what i think has gone wrong. >> i don't know if you want to, becky. it is painful. it's your turn. all right. what's gone wrong? >> reporter: well, this is the deal. one of your athletes has made a very good point. mitchell who walked away with a silver medal for his efforts in the long jump has said, listen, all australia has ever cared about, and rightly so, because you've done so well in the past, are gold medals. 12 silver and 8 bronze is a really good haul at the moment. what the athletes are saying is there is actually quite a good feeling. they're not blaming themselves for a terrible haul. and if you look at the actual medals, themselves, you're doing all right. but this is real emphasis. because you've done so well over the past few decades, particularly, as you say, in sailing, swimming, and, for example, rowing, that we got past that phase here and you haven't got that significant haul. so it's tough, but the team, at least as far as i can tell and from speaking to some of the athletes here, aren't as disappointed as the media and perhaps the general public back home. >> yeah, no, you make a good point, though. you know, australia has finished in the top ten of the medal nations since 1988. it's the first time since 1976 they haven't won an individual gold in the pool, and you're rik right, the media is having a bit of a go. we should be counting silvers as golds. ali pierceman came out saying australians expect nothing less than gold and it's a shame. what you're saying there, that people are saying they're not given enough credit. thorpey said this, too, enough credit for getting a medal. rugby is going to be an olympic sport in 2016. that will be the time to shine. >> reporter: will it? how are we doing at the moment? i can't remember. >> doing good. >> reporter: let me make this point. you make a very good point. also cricket could one day be an olympic sport as well. you can't be waiting until these new sports come in. i think this is the crux of the matter. i know that thorpey brought this up with you. at best, if you look at the funding over the past sort of 10, 15 years into olympic events, it's $505 million betwn i think 2001 and 2006. and as you increase the number of events that you competed in, this is important for all countries around the world. that there was a declining amount of money that was actually invested by australia in these olympic sports. and you see a decline in the medal haul accordingly. and when you look at the kazakhstans, the belaruses, these new countries, we ought to be celebrating these countries who are doing so well. i can wage -- i haven't done the figures, there's an awful lot of money going into developing these sports. 20 years ago you had centers of excellence and a really good budget. you haven't got that in australia at the moment. you should have it. people should start talking about that. >> one of the aussie olympic committee guys said you can get a lot of silver and bronze, but the difference between silver and gold is money. and becky, i thank you. you're being rather gentle. i think it could is been a lot uglier. >> reporter: later. >> drop me a note and give me hate. good to see you, becky. thanks so much. becky anderson doing a great job there in london. all right. madonna always speaks her mind. you knew that. now she's supporting members of a russian band. a punk band who were put behind bars for their anti-government demonstration. we'll tell you what she said. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 let's talk about that 401(k) you picked up back in the '80s. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 like a lot of things, the market has changed, tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 and your plans probably have too. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 at charles schwab, we'll give you personalized recommendations tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 on how to reinvest that old 401(k). tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 so talk to chuck tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 and bring your old 401(k) into the 21st century. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 rollover your 401(k) or ira and receive up to $600. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 see schwab.com for terms and conditions. well, they wanted to make their voices heard when they protested against the russian president vladimir putin. ♪ extraordinary and unexpected scenes, a demonstration in a russian cathedral that landed members of the punk rock band in jail and on trial. the prosecutor demanding they get a three year prison term for that performance. the group is receiving some outspoken support for their cause. for more, let's go to nichelle turner. madonna speaking out in russia. >> they were hoping she'd speak out in support for them and she has. she was in moscow on tour and also there to launch her own fitness club. here's what she had to say. listen to this. >> i'm against censorship and, you know, my whole career i've always promoted freedom of expression, freedom of speech, so obviously i think what's happening to them is unfair and i hope that -- i hope that they do not have to serve seven years in jail. that would be a tragedy. through history, historically speaking, art always reflects what's going on socially, so for me it's hard to separate the idea of being an artist and being political. >> and we have definitely seen her, you know, speak out in support of a lot of these things and do a lot of things in her concert that have been a bit controversial. what she says are in the name of art. >> yeah, she's not the first musician to speak out about the band, either. they are getting some support in various areas. who else has come out? >> yeah, there's actually been a lot of big names that have been backing this group. sting, peter gambrio, members of france ferdinand, beastie boys, red hot chili peppers. all speaking out in support. anthony from the peppers wore one of their t-shirts during a recent moscow concert. a statement on his website, sting makes the point he believes it is an important part of democracy. here's what he had to say in part. he said, a sense of proportion and sense of humor is a sign of strength, not a sign of weakness. surely the russian authorities will completely drop these spurious charges and allow these women, these artists to get back to their lives and to their children. so, yeah, there are a lot of people that are stepping up and saying, you know what, art is expression, expression is art. you may not always agree with it, but there is a bit of a method to the madness. that's their view. >> president putin known for having a little bit of a thin skin. it will be interesting to see what happens. good to see you. nichelle turner with the latest on that ongo