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CNNW CNN Newsroom December 13, 2012

Good to be with you. Iment brooke baldwin. I want to begin with a cnn exclusive. This is tough to watch, but the pictures speak volumes about what the Syrian Civil War is doing to its own people. This is about this teenager who defies the basic survival instinct, running away from a hail of bullets. Oh, no. Instead this young man who used to work in a bakery decides to crawl into the gunfire to try to save a strangers life. This is a reality for so many syrians every single day. Heres cnn, but if there children in the room, get them out now. A fighter slithers across the street. His body hugging the cold pavement. Yards away a woman lies motionless. She has been shot by a sniper. Her rescuer is not a relative nor a neighbor. He never met her. He is just 17. He knew he had to save the woman or die trying. When we met him later, he told us translator we had a feeling she was still alive. We wanted to save her. To get her to a hospital. As he crawls closer, he can see her hand. Her fingers shaking. Cover him cover him, someone shouts. Other fighters lay down and cover fire. He quickly ties the hose to her legs, but he is unable to retreat. I said to myself, if i die its gods will that i die next to this woman, he told us. Finally he makes a run for it and the rebels drag the woman back. The woman and her son were walking down the street there. Rebel fighters shouted at them to stay away, but it was too late. This is crisscrossed with similar sniper alley skpes some are known, but others do not reveal themselves until the first shot has been fired. Despite the efforts, the woman dies. Her son is utterly distraught. Dont die now. Dont die today, he pleads. Answer me, mom. She is not dead, he said as he collapses. He is left wondering whether her life could have been saved if he reached her sooner. Until recently, he worked at a bakery. Now like thousands of young syrians he puts his life on the line. Translator i am not a hero. I am just like anyone else. We are left to wonder how many acts of courage go unrecorded every day in syria and how many innocent are lost. Cnn. There new signs that the man behind the war scene you just witnessed may be close to defeat. One of them comes from the official scene right here beside syrian president assad. This is Russias Deputy foreign minster. He told his countrys state run news service the Syrian Government is losing control of more of the country. A quote from him. We need to look at the facts in the eye. Unfortunately we cant exclude a victory by the opposition. Russia was one of the votes that kept the United Nations from acting against assad. On top of that, today the native secretary general said this. I think the regime in damascus is approaching collapse. I think now is only a question of time. Another possible sign of assads regime cracking. Four scud missiles that Officials Say were aimed at antigovernment faxes in northern syria. Scud missiles here. Analysts say the regime they are using reckless extremes its a sign of desperation. We will talk about that at the top of the hour, but today 28 syrians were killed according to opposition groups. Nearly all died in two car bombings in the damascus superbs. A warning, your bank account could come under attack from cyber criminals. This coming from the Computer Security firm mcafee. Hackers are planning a massive attack on 30 u. S. Banks and Financial Institutions. Take a look and see if yours is on the list. This is a partial list. The attack is called project blitzkrieg that supposedly launched by two Russian Hackers to begin next spring. The goal is to steal millions from customer accounts. Kevin, let me bring you in. You are a former hacker and you have your own business. Welcome. Explain this to me. Project blitzkrieg. How is it supposed to work . Its a large scale attack. They will be using all types of technology and basically what we call bot nets to gather a lot of Computer Systems is of average people into this bot net. How thats done is these attackers are able to get software on to these computers and install Malicious Software that can gather banking credentials or even as you are online with your bank, they can be actually changing how it looks to you on your screen. So this is incredibly scary. Heres the thing, when you read about this, these u. S. Financial institutions are not doing enough to beef up security online. They are putting it on we, the customer. We have to give up all this personal information for us to access the bank website. If and when this happens and lets hope it doesnt, what do banks need to do . I mean as a consumer, first thing i would think about is moving away from the windows operating system. For example to the mac or a linuxbased system. The software is not written for the operating system yet. It probably will be in the future. Also not to be gullible, but how your computer gets infected with mall wear is you will receive an email that contains an attachment or a hyper link. If you are gullible enough to open it, now this software sits on your computer and it can do these nasty things like interfere with your banking transactions. Its important not to be gullible and be careful what you open on the internet. We should point this out. There a lot of skeptics in the community that say this whole thing can be run by Russian Police trying to catch hackers or maybe its the ramblings of a wannabe criminal. What do you think . I think its real. You do . We have organized crime that use computer hacking techniques and want to steal money. They asked Willie Sutton why did you rob the bank . Thats where the money is. They want to make the operations scaleable. There millions of dollars at risk. The two ways that they are going to get you is by tricking you into opening up the attachment or clicking that hyper link or what they will do is exploit a security flaw on your computer system. Its important to keep your operating system files up to date and these applications that sit on your desk top. Even a free tool that can help you do that if you Google Software personal inspector with that. It looks on the computer and finds the software thats out of date. This is great information. Its absolutely free. We will put it on the blog because a lot of these folks could be affected if we are talking 30 banks and u. S. Financial institutions. Thank you so much. We put it on the blog. Cnn. Com brooke. Tragedy in afghanistan when an american is killed when a Suicide Bomber Attacks this area where leon panetta just visited. You see erin burnett and we will get her report coming up. You have seen the bickering and the public sniping. 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[ male announcer ] stop the uhoh fast with kaopectate. 19 days and counting until the government goes over the fiscal cliff. Your taxes automatically go up. At this moment i wish they were close to a deal, but after john boehner and House Minority leader nancy pelosi spoke a short time ago, deep sigh. Not there yet. Take a listen. Republicans put out a let theyre had more signatures than ideas. It had like one number. Thats not lets get real. Lets really get real about this if we are going to have a solution. Here we are at the 11th hour and the president still is not serious about dealing with this issue right here. Its this issue. Spending. We want to talk about polling. Most americans agree that spending is a much bigger problem than raising taxes. We want to deal with this in a responsible way. As you just heard, House Speaker said the white house is not serious about cutting spending, but the white house said it could be over if republicans agreed to raise taxes on the top 2 . Guess what. 76 of adults surveyed agree with the president on this one. This is according to the polls as the wall street journal nbc poll. Lets go to washington to the senior congressional correspondent. Dana, you talked to the two men who spent their careers in Congress Making deals like this. How do they pull it off . It was a fascinating conversation. The two men you are talking are about two former Senate Majority leaders. A republican and a democrat. Trent lott and tom daschle. They worked on opposite sides for almost a decade. That is the question i asked. It wasnt always pretty, but how did you come up with deals when you had touch negotiations like whats going on right now. The answer was simple. Talk to each other. I do think that they reached a point where they need to quit talking through the media. Im talking about both parties and the leaders in congress. Some of the most effective wi timth theresint or at dn least with the chief of staff and the director with our key budget people and we really talk about alternatives and hammered it out. This will be the test. If we reset it has to happen around the fiscal cliff first. There a lot of other issues out there that could be addressed if we can really create a new climate. Whether we do in part depends on the success of this effort right now. Brooke, you heard him mention the word climate. That is a major difference that they admitted exists in the atmosphere and even five or years ago. Senator lott admitted if he were a leader he would be concerned about a challenge from the right that republicans didnt like too much. The same for democrats that. Dynamic that blossomed and in a big way over the last few years. It is a big reason why both sides are having trouble coming up with a deal. That are is fascinating. They get the behind the scenes of the two men now that they are friendly and talking about it. What about secret conversations. Where do they do that . At a golf course or hotel . These two had something interesting. They actually had a hotline. They had one phone line that went from senator to senator. The staff didnt know about it and they met secretly on balc y balconies to work it out without anyone around. Im picturing Smoke Signals and a bat signal. Thank you very much from the hill. We are getting new details on the man behind the shooting rampage in oregon and the tragic, tragic aftermath of his rage. Coming up next, how the shooters exgirlfriend describes him and his final days before the tragedy. Welcome to chevys yearend event. So, the 5. 3liter v8 silverado can tow up to 9,600 pounds . 315 horsepower. Whats that in reindeerpower . [ laughs ] [ pencil scratches ] [ male announcer ] chevys giving more. 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Never mean to anybody. Too sweet. She also said roberts recently quit his job and sold his things and planned to move to hawaii and bought a ticket. Now she wonder fist he planned to move. Here say counsellor with his high school. He was counseling kid assigned to the yard system and helped us with work in the counseling office. I found him to be a polite young man. Soft spoken and nice smile. Just really surprised that somebody with his personality would do this. We are learning more about the victims. 54yearold cindy ann yullie. She was everyones friend and a hospice nurse. Steve forsythe had two children and loved to coach kids sports. Christina is in the hospital in serious condition with bullet fragments in the lung and liver. The 15yearold will recover, but faces more surgery. John mcafee, the Software Pioneer is back in the u. S. I dont even know why im here. This morning i was in jail and today here i am. A bizarre murder mist rear had this mouth you will on the run and hiding in belize to you go at mally and now miami beach. Whats next . We caught up with him. Thats ahead. [ female announcer ] what if the next big thing, isnt a thing at all . Its lots of things. All waking up. Connecting to the global phenomenon we call the internet of everything. Its going to be amazing. And exciting. And maybe, most remarkably, not that far away. Were going to wake the world up. And watch, with eyes wide, as it gets to work. Cisco. Tomorrow starts here. Tragedy in afghanistan as an american is killed outside of a base in kandahar. All this after leon panetta left the area. Cnns erin burnett is on that trip. I was traveling with the defense secretary and in kandahar with him. At this point the u. S. Defense Department Said that they dont know whether it was linked to the secretarys arrival. You may remember when the secretary visited afghanistan, there was an unauthorized vehicle that gained access to an air base on that visit. We are not sure if it was lirchlged or not. It was a terrible attack. One member lost his and two afghan civilians in terms of injuries. 18 afghan civilians. The numbers could change. The taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing and in fact praised the spokesman for the suicide bomber for his bravery. The timing on this is very tough for afghanistan and the United States. Both are trying to tell a story about improving security in this country with an insurgency on the wane if not on the way to defeat. General abrams in kandahar said the security situation gets better every day and said the insurgents are limited. When he gave examples on what they tried and failed to do, attacking the air field was on that list. Just to make it clear here, this attack happened at the entrance to the air field and its unclear as to whether they actually were able to breech the perimeter at this time. Back to you. Thank you. Secretary panetta revealing that president obama invited afghan president karzai to washington for meetings sometime early next year. I want to you listen to what leon panetta told erin burnett about al qaeda hours before the attack. The original mission was i will quote the president , to defeat, disrupt, and destroy al qaeda. Is that Mission Accomplished . The mission of defeating and deterring al qaeda i think is well on the way towards achieving the mission with regards to afghanistan and the threat we face here. We continue to face al qaeda elsewhere, not only in pakistan, but yemen and elsewhere. We have had success going after special operations. We are continuing to do that. The main challenge is to make sure there is no safe haven, but the key to that is in afghanistan that can secure and govern itself. They can lock in terms of the mission in afghanistan. You can hear more from the defense secretary on erin burnett out front. 7 00 eastern. Bottom of the hour now, brooke baldwins hugo chavez suffered complications from his operations. Rafael romo with what happened. A hemorrhage . Thats right. A few moments ago, the minster for venezuela gave a speech it all confirming that thats right. The president chavez in a surgery for cancer in cuba experienced a hemorrhage and said the surgeon his to take corrective measures to stop it. He said it will take time for him to recover because of the complexity of the operation he underwent as far as complications that arose during surgery when there was a hemorrhage that required measures to get it under control. Its a nation that supplies about 14 of the oil that we consume in this country. It has been unfriendly to the government of the United States and western powers. He was diagnosed with cancer in june of last year and undergone procedures to cuba. The most recent one was this weekend when he announced that once again he found malignant cells in his body and he had to undergo another surgery. The interesting

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