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exchange because many palestinians were serving life sentences for deadly attacks against israel. we'll be heading to shalit's hometown where fred pleitgen is. this is a very heart-wrenching moment for many israelis who are concerned about potential retaliation given how many of these soldiers have been released and with actual euphoria from many palestinians. fred pleitgen is with us now in gilad shalit's hometown. good morning, fred. >> reporter: good morning, christine. certainly the people here in shalit's hometown of mitzpe hila. there was controversy where people were saying th...

now we know that hamza alkhalee is dead. pictures of his body are disturbing. his family received his remains. it appeared the 13-year-old had been tortured. he was mutilated. many of the pictures we've received are too graphic to broadcast. cnn made repeated attempts to reach for comment without success. hamza's murder brought syrians into the streets. even children have joined the protests. we'll have more on dramatic developments in syria and the strongest words yet from washington in just a moment. but first, a look at the other stories we're covering tonight. what do robert e....

Sheema daiichi means that officials have to revise the cooling technique. they still expect to achieve a complete cold shutdown by january. meantime, officials are preparing to dump radioactive water from the plant into a giant storage barge. you see it arriving here at the port. officials say they'll dump contaminated water into the mega barge to make room for clean water to cool the reactors. japan's earthquake, the tsunami, and the nuclear disaster on march 11th crippled the country's tourism industry. before the quake, japan's tourist agency predicted that more than nine million people w...

couple uncoupled. we look behind the breakup of maria shriver and arnold schwarzenegger. the road to nowhere. the mississippi's rising water levels turned river side communities into ghost towns as thousands are forced to get out. and meet a real hamburger fan with an appetite for big macs that is undiminished after 39 years. to heal the past, queen elizabeth's visit to ireland moves into what could be the most significant day with a visit to the site of a british massacre. hours from now all of ireland will be watching as the queen visits a stadium where in 1920 british troops opene...

Towards shutting down its fukushima nuclear power plant. that was crippled in march by the earthquake and tsunami that devastated part of the country's northeast. today workers are back inside reactor number one to check on a ventilation system. if it's okay, then they can move on to installing a cooling system that will eventually lead to a complete cold shutdown of the reactor. workers only set foot in the daiichi building late last week. the first time anyone has been inside since the march 11th disaster. the earthquake and tsunami caused the worst nuclear accident since chernobyl. cnn's ky...