Live now from capitol hill. Just after 8 p. M. On the east coast. Whats going on . Reporter whats going on is were waiting for white smoke out of the House Speakers Office which is right down the hall to see if they actually have a plan. Our understanding in talking to sources in the Republican Party and even some democrats is that theyre working on trying to shorten that stopgap measure instead of three weeks, which failed to just seven days for one week. The hope is that will appeal to enough conservatives who voted no. More than 50 republicans voted against this and that was part of the problem. But its still up in the air whether and how they can do that. But of course the clock is ticking and theyre still meeting trying to figure out a plan b. They simply didnt have one. They did not have one. They didnt expect this to happen dana. How did it why did it . Reporter good question. I mentioned the republicans who voted no. And then the other factor a big factor is democrats. Almost all democrats voted no. Now, they did so not because they want the department to shut down but trying to protest the concept of just doing a threeweek funding bill when what they want to do is fund the department for the entire year. Thats actually a bill that the senate the Republicanled Senate passed earlier today. But House Speaker felt that he couldnt bring it up for various reasons because mostly because the conservatives in his caucus and youre seeing that right now dont want him to bring anything to the house floor for a vote that doesnt also have at its core something to block the president S Immigration plan. They fundamentally believe that youve got to use the power of the purse, which is what this funding bill is to stop the president s executive action which they insist is unconstitutional. Theyre getting pressure from their conservative base back home and that is whats going on here. And of course dana we dont know whats going to happen in the next four hours let alone the next four days but theres a lot happening in congress over the next four days. Extremely controversial. The israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to speak. How does that factor in this . Will he still speak if congress is in this disarray in. Reporter hes certainly still expected to speak but whats fascinating is the fact hes speaking is playing into the pressure that republicans feel to get something done. Meaning its very hard for them to have these israeli Prime Minister come and speak before a joint meeting of congress to talk about security when the u. S. Congress the main government function, to keep americans safe isnt being funded because of conflict here so they realize that that will not work very well. It will be terrible optics. So thats one of the reasons why theyre working hard to try to figure this out, at least through next week and then again try to find a plan c or d or whatever were going to be at that point. All right, dana bash thank you so much. We sit in unchartered territory here. Let us know when the white smoke comes out of the speakers office. There will be developments no doubt over the next hour. We will bring them to you live. Meanwhile, president obama has largely stayed out of the gop in fighting however it looks like they did a little Contingency Planning out and apparently some outreach to the Democratic Leadership. More now from the white house, Michelle Kosinski is working her sources. Reporter weve been wanting to know. What is the white house doing on this . What is their take on things as they stand now . Because they seem to almost delight in the mess that was becoming of this over the last couple of days. At least in terms of how republicans have faced the problem. I mean the white house hasnt held back in saying that this is a failure of leadership, that Congress Seems to be falling down on its jaw. But we just got a statement from the white house now saying the president convened a meeting just now in the oval office with the secretary of Homeland Security with the director of the office of management and budget to look at the plan moving forward because, remember we dont know exactly what the outcome of this is going to be over the next couple of days. They want to plan ahead on that. Thats been a top priority and we know the president did make some phone calls to Democratic Leadership in both the house and senate just to get an update on how things are going and where things stand. Its a complicated issue. But the white house has ramped up its language over the last couple of days. I mean we havent seen the president come out, face the Briefing Room and talk directly to this but in appearances that hes made over the past week weve heard him look at this directly. Even though the White House Press office for days and days didnt want to get into the detail of how this is going to affect National Security it was the president himself on monday who, during an appearance said this is going to have a direct impact on security. And from there, the white house has gotten tougher and tougher in its language on House Republicans, in particular john. Michelle the white house may clear the president would have signed the threeweek measure but you also get the sense the president did not ask for a single vote here. Reporter right. Yeah. Exactly. I mean the rambling behind the scenes is something that everybody has wanted to know about but it seems like the white house has wanted to let this play out. It almost seems like lets see how bad this can get, how much of the blame will fall on the republicans, particularly in the house. Weve heard the house in no Uncertain Terms over the last couple of days put the blame squarely on the shoulders of House Speaker john boehner. That was a good question. I mean the president wanted to sign a full year of funding for dhs. He made that very clear, when the clean bill came up in the senate. That was a good sign that there could be some compromise but, you know when pressed on and the white house kind of didnt want to go there, didnt want to talk about if there was some short interim bill but said, if this is whats going to happen and the president will not allow the government to shut down. John . Michelle kosinski at the white house. Contingency planning going on. Well check back with you in just a little bit. Shortly after the votes hit the fan, Republican SenateLindsay Graham went in the situation room calling on both sides to get serious. I want the democrats tonight to help Speaker Boehner not shut down dhs in five hours and then i hope my colleagues in the house will abandon this desire to shut down dhs as a way to appeal the executive order. I dont think its going to work. We dont have the votes in the senate. Let the court act. Now over in the house side new york republican congressman peter king was just a bit blunter tweeting this morning about some of his fellow republicans. He wrote, ive had it with this selfrighteous delusional wing of the party that leads us over the cliff. Again, thats a republican talking about republicans. But lets talk about democrats now. Joining us is new York Democratic congressman steve israel. Why did you vote against funding Homeland Security for the next three weeks . Number one, terrorists dont fund their attacks to attack american citizens on three week budgets and we should not be defending our plans based on three week budgets. Number two, we finally have a situation where Mitch Mcconnell the Republican Senate leader where ted cruz a republican very conservative senator and every House Democrat agree we should vote on a bill that funds the democrat of Homeland Security for one year with no Strings Attached without antiimmigration riders and then a group of crazy republicans on the house side that refuse to pass that bill. We can pass this bill within five minutes, a full year funding of Homeland Security. We dont need to fund it for three weeks. We dont need to fund it for one week. We can do it for a full year and now we are working with senator reid and others to see if we can help john boehner extricate himself from the mess and the department of Homeland Security. If democrats wanted Homeland Security to be funded tomorrow lets talk about tomorrow. If democrats in the house wanted it to be funded tomorrow you could get it funded for tomorrow had you voted yes on the threeweek plan is that fair . We have said from the very beginning that a three week budget for the department of Homeland Security is preposterous its ludicrous and its actually making us less secure. You have terrorists who will do anything they want to at any cost to do us harm. Given that though given these terrorists will do anything at any cost is it irresponsible to let the funding lapse tonight even if it only means for three more weeks and three weeks, you could pass it for another three weeks . John whats irresponsible is republicans rejected what Mitch Mcconnell thinks we should do what House Democrats we should do what ted cruz thinks we should do and not pass the funding until the president nullifies an executive order on immigration. You want to oppose immigration . Do it vote on it debate it. Dont sink the department of Homeland Security because of your views on an executive order and thats whats irresponsible. With so much uncertainty in the world right now, with so much risk in the world now, doesnt someone need to stand up on capitol hill and be a grownup and say well absolutely. Thats what were doing. Its time for the adults to manage. We have indicated to both sides of the senate and the house and we have indicated to the white house that democrats are prepared to find a path that funds the department of Homeland Security. If it has to be for a few days in order to work something out, were willing to do it. Okay. But what we want when we get there, well give them the time well give them the space, the path. Give us a vote for one year of funding for Homeland Security and this issue goes away. One of the possibilities, congressman, we understand right now is house leadership, the Republican Leadership is thinking about is putting a plan on the floor in the next hour or so to fund Homeland Security for a few days up to a week. Are you saying to me right now you would support that . If i knew that we were going to in that week get a vote on full funding for the department of Homeland Security to protect my constituents for a full year, yes, i would support that. All right. Well there may be a window there. Youre saying one week is different than three weeks. Actually explain that to me. Why is funding it for five days or one week different than funding it for three weeks . Because we get a vote on funding it for a year and thats what the American People want and deserve and thats what we need to plan against terrorist attacks. Congressman, i appreciate you being with us tonight. I have a sense youre going to have a late night, so i do appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. Thank you, john. Lets try to make some sense of this, if there is any sense to be made. Wolf blitzer joins us right now, Gloria Borger and david gergen. When we woke up this morning, thought neither side thought this would happen neither side wanted this to happen yet it happened. Is Congress Just out of control now . Well theres a big split among the republicans. This is a huge embarrassment for the speaker, john boehner, he couldnt get this three week temporary extension of the funding for the department of Homeland Security through i assume when he allowed roll call to take place, had 218 votes necessary, didnt have 218 votes. 224 members voted against what he was proposing. Now theres only a few hours left. You hear there are some options. You just heard congressman steve israel say if in fact they could have a longer term extension, hed be willing to go with seven days. Earlier. The white house said would sign the threeweek extension into law if it was necessary to keep the department of Homeland Security funded past midnight tonight. I wasnt exactly sure if steve israel say meant for this fiscal year but thats the end of september. The new physicianfiscal year is october 1st or something longer in mind. If theres little goodwill on both sides over the next few hours, they can still work out a deal to at least keep it funded temporarily and then deal with the longer term funding in the days ahead. I think he meant october 1st which shows how meager the expectations are right now. Gloria let me ask you. There are 50 republicans, 50 republicans who voted against the speaker. That is a large number. Huge. Huge. Is that an indictment of his leadership . I think as wolff was saying, its an embarrassment. Its kind of stunning. They had 172 democrats voting against this. Because each side is acting as if this is a debating plug. The republicans are saying how dare the president try and pull this fast one with his executive order on immigration. Were not going to pay for it. When in reality the public is standing back and looking at this and saying the dysfunction in congress has not changed. The republicans are now in control of the congress and by the way, the House Republicans and the Senate Republicans dont agree with each other. Thats another kind of dysfunction were having right now. And everybodys trying to score debating points. In the meantime the clock is ticking on the funding of the department of Homeland Security and i think they end up getting some kind of a shorter term deal but because all of them dont want to be embarrassed when b. B. Netanyahu arrives next week. I was talking to a senior democrat who said that is very much a part of the conversations in republican circles and thats why democrats thought this was going to pass today but obviously it didnt. All eyes on congress for the next few days. Didnt look like this when everyone is watching. David gergen, let me ask you. How much of a risk are they taking by pushing this as much as they are, by not voting for the three week funding measure . Very little. This is a real embarrassment, john. The issue here is frankly not security because 85 of the dhs employees are expected to go back to work. America will still be as safe tomorrow as it was today if dhs temporarily shuts down but what it has been is a major test of whether republicans once they take the house and the senate can govern and the democrats shouldnt be expected to come to the rescue of republicans when this is a big test. Theyll work this out. But so far, this has been the best day Hillary Clinton has had in six months. It really goes it is. Because it goes to the question this is a rampup period to the 2016 election. Her argument or the argument of democrats is that if you turn the government over to the republicans, they cant govern. This is now exhibit one in that argument. And republicans need to get their act together and they frankly will have to cave on this. Theyll have to vote for a fiscal year extension of the kind steve israel was talking about. I think thats the inevitable outcome. But not just an embarrassment for the speaker, but republicans. We spoke to Michelle Kosinski at the white house and said president obama has been on the phone over the course of the day with Democratic Leaders checking in but certainly not twisting any arms here. What responsibility do you think he has . Do you think he will do anything over the next day or two to move this along . Now, my gut tells me hes working behind the scenes now with the Democratic Leadership in the house of representatives to get something passed, so there isnt a stoppage of the funding at midnight tonight. I dont think he wants to see that happen. He certainly doesnt want to see attachment to his own executive orders on Immigration Reform and both sides basically agreed that the language that was rejected the three week extension that was rejected in the house of representatives, that didnt include anything on Immigration Reform. Any lack of funding for Immigration Reform. Its one of the reasons why 50 republicans, hardcore conservatives didnt vote for it. Because it didnt specifically ban his executive action on Immigration Reform. All of it is pretty moot right now because the action he took on Immigration Reform is on hold. In any case because of texas federal judge ruled it unconstitutional. And theyre going through appeals. Thats going to take a long time. For all practical purposes what the president tried to do on immigration, give some sort of what republicans call amnesty, he called a pathway to legal residency in the United States for four or five million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Thats on hold now in any case but a matter of principle for a lot of republicans. Stick with me. I have to remind once again we dont know whats going to happen so well be covering this over the next several hours i believe as Congress Tries to figure out a way to keep Homeland Security funded until tomorrow. 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And sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. This is called non24. Learn more by calling 8448242424. Or visit your24info. Com. Some breaking news. Our jim acosta just reporting that president obama has not called House Speaker john boehner tonight. Again, to remind you, less than four hours, about 3 hours and 40 minutes until Homeland Security runs out of money. The house of representatives failed to pass a measure that would fund Homeland Security for just three more weeks. They voted no and now we are learning just now from the white house that with all this going on the president and the speaker of the house have not yet spoken. All right. Three and a half hours to go about what happens when the money runs out. Remember were talking about the department of Homeland Security here. Pamela brown joins us now to talk about that. Pamela after midnight what happens . Reporter well john dhs said it will be significant what happens and the employees of dhs, of the department of Homeland Security will feel it the most. In fact 30,000 employees would be furloughed including 5500 tsa agents if this funding doesnt go through. So even though vital functions will still be performed, the nonessential employees will be furloughed and federal Law Enforcement academy that trains customs and Border Patrol and atf would send trainees home this week. That would be the most Immediate Impact and monday when most go back to work that will be felt as well. Many of the agencies including tsa and the u. S. Coast guard wont get their biweekly paychecks. So essentially, john, 200 essential employees will have to work without pay until this funding goes through. The distinction between essential and nonessential is demoralizing to begin with but lets talk about the essential employees without pay. Do they get paid retroactively if and when this gets worked out . Thats up to congress john. Its up to congress on whether they will get paid retroactively as is often the case in these types of situations. So its not a guarantee. It is most likely that congress will allow them to get paid for the time that theyre going to be furloughed if the funding doesnt go through in the time that it needs to. I can tell you, jay johnson, has been reaching out to members of congress. Met with president obama as well. There has been a big sort of last minute scramble to have something pass soon. John . The history here is retroactively, they do tend to get paid. It doesnt make it easier over the weeks and months they dont get paid. Pamela brown, thank you so much. I appreciate you being with us. I want to go back to dana bash right now whos been outside of the speakers office. Dana do we have any news . Reporter earlier in the hour i told you the leading option was to try to pass a shorter term bill to keep the department running, about seven days. And weve been told by some republican sources that that is the plan that they are going to tonight, before the clock strikes midnight they are going to try to put or or they are going to put it on the house floor to pass it. Technically though it actually could be harder to do because the mechanism that theyre going to use will require twothirds majority to do so. So this means that theyre going to need not only the republicans who bolted last time but some democrats to do that. But it sounds like this is something that they are going to at least try to do tonight. Ive given up the prediction business because we thought the last one was going to pass but theyre going to make a go at it. You and john boehner both probably. They need to get some of the votes back some of the 52 votes they lost for this measure and need some democratic votes. Do you get the sense theyve been whipping the republicans who they have some control over and reached out to nancy pelosi to see how Many Democrats go along . Reporter yes and yes. I know from my sources that they have been talking all amongst themselves the leadership which is nice to hear. It shouldnt be a surprise but actually, it is. In the house and the senate trying to figure out how to work this out so that they can keep it going. Whats interesting is that part of the sell to the conservatives who voted no before is and part of the complaints that the leadership was hearing, is that they wanted a shorter term because they wanted to get whats known as a conference. They wanted to get to compromise talks with the senate sooner but heres whats going on. Its sort of a parallel universe aspiration because Senate Democrats have already said theyre not going to go to conference because theyre not interested in compromising. They said fund the department for a year. Well probably be right back here next week if theyre successful tonight, trying to figure out how to get this Department Funded once again through the end of the year. All right. Dana bash thank you so much for the news. The news being that house Republican Leadership has put together a plan to vote on a measure that would extend funding for Homeland Security for seven days. They need twothirds of a vote in the house of representatives to get this passed and that vote they hope will happen within the next several hours. So were going to have a lot to talk about and a lot to watch right here. Joining us again, wolf blitzer, Gloria Borger david gergen. I step back on the politics for a moment because i want to talk to you, you have worked in government before. You have been a government employee. There are about 200,000 employees at dhs deemed essential employees who have to work without pay if there is no deal here. Earlier today, i spoke to republican senator bob corker and he said what the Department Needs is full funding and full morale. The morale has got to be suffering of the dedicated workers whose jobs are being jerked around on them right now. I hate to say this john but this is not a calamitous moment for the country. The government regularly has shutdowns when bad weather winters heavy snow to determine whos essential and whos not. And, you know, if that happens frequently that kind of distinction is made. Its not a morale buster. I think the real issue is two things. Is there any danger that our guard will go down on terrorism . I dont think thats the case. The second issue is going to be what about the airports and tsa . You just reported that there would be some tsa laid off. If thats the case there will be hell to pay about it. Long lines and thats going to be a problem. I assume those people are mostly office employees, not people on the front lines. I think that the real issue right now is politics not the president , the white house, National Security would be much more engaged in this if they really thought there was a threat to the homeland from a 24 hour 48 hour. My sense is what the democrats will do is let this go over midnight vrks midnight have a partial shutdown and people put it back together. But to get the headline on cnn, chaos in congress that hurts the republicans. They got that headline because it happens to be true but david gergen important perspective there. Perhaps not calamitous for the government per se but Gloria Borger fair to say, calamitous to say politically for the house Republican Leadership. You have some news opn whats going on. We should all know that the senate just now passed by a voice vote this oneweek extension of the funding for Homeland Security which leaves it smack in the lap of the house as dana was talking about. And theyll probably bring that up as soon as they possibly can. I think its calamitous because the public takes a look at this and says this is just more business as usual. Its very hurtful for the Republican Party. And one thing we want to note in looking at all of this is that these leaders, particularly john boehner as we look at him in the house has no control anymore over his caucus. You know, in the old days when Ronald Reagan and tip oneil used to get together and cut a kneel, well tip oneil could speak for the Democratic Party in the house and he could deliver. John boehner has discovered time and time again that even when he tries to deliver as he did today, as hes done before on the Government Shutdown that he loses. Hes thwarted by his own party, and because he doesnt have the followership that the old speakers used to have. Everybody has their own agenda everybody going in their own direction, nobody beholden or feeling beholden to john boehner. People dont make careers of being in congress anymore. Who would want to do that right . And so its a whole different political environment were living in right now, particularly in the house. Dont even live in washington anymore, most of congress so its awfully hard to get them to do anything. Wolf blitzer, you know washington. You know government as well if not better than anyone. The Senate Just Passed this sevenday extension to fund Homeland Security over the next several hours. The house will try to do the same. Explain whats going on behind the scenes to secure those votes and whats going to happen over the next seven days if it does pass to pass a more permanent measure . Well it will pass if the democrats decide to go along with the sevenday compromise. The democrats didnt want to do that threeweek proposal that came up earlier. That failed because you couldnt get enough support there. So they didnt want three week. We have to see now if the president of the United States, the white house has been on the phone with nancy pelosi and been on the phone with harry reid Senate Leader and democratic minority leader in the senate and the house. If the democrats get on board for a sevenday sort of stopgap measure, give everybody a little time to breathe, make sure that after midnight tonight the money is still there, this could pass the house of representatives. But hes got to be sure hes got the votes right now. The speaker of the house and thats what i presumably theyre waiting in his office counting votes to make sure to get the 218 magic number. Counting votes has been anything but easy for them lately. Wolf blitzer, Gloria Borger david gergen thank you so much. Appreciate your help here because theres a lot going on still going on. Just ahead for us there is another big breaking story were following tonight. 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Should i be concerned about having dinner with you . This is a country of corruption. And if you have business in a very unsafe situation. Everybody can press you and destroy your business. This is the system. Meet Boris Nemtsov. He was deputy Prime Minister under yeltsin. Critics of putin, bad things seem to happen to them. Yes, unfortunately, existing power represent what i saw russia of 19th century. Not of 21st. Boris nemtsov was 55 years old. Joining from moscow is frederik pleitgen. What are Authorities Saying about this incident . Reporter we have just gotten new information a couple of minutes ago. Authorities say this happened in the late evening hours. And the interesting thing was Boris Nemtsov was walking directly in the vicinity of the kremlin and there was a second person who was with him. And she later spoke to an opposition figure who just spoke to us and he said that she told him that they had been walking along a bridge near the kremlin that a car stopped next to the two. A man jumped out, opened fire at nemtsov. Very targeted very direct. Jumped back in his car and sped away. Russian Authorities Say theyve started a manhunt for this person. Theyre searching for someone who apparently fled in a white car. I can tell you from moscow tonight that there are checkpoints here by the police where the white cars are actually being stopped quite a bit here in the city. So the russians are saying that theyve got this manhunt under way and Vladimir Putin came out and said he said that this bears all the hallmarks of a targeted contract killing which he believes is meant for a provocation job. Targeted contract killing certainly does not sound random. Fred nemtsov, not just an Opposition Leader. This man is a former deputy Prime Minister. A high level official in the russian government well known across the country and he was just assassinated essentially. Reporter absolutely. He wasnt only a highlevel russian politician but someone who after he left active politics became an opposition figure and was very much a critic of Vladimir Putin. Hes been jailed several times. Last time in 2011. He was a critic of Vladimir Putin and in the olympics in sochi said money was wasted and there was corruption but also an outspoken critic of whats going on in eastern ukraine. He is someone who kritcriticized the russian government for that and said in an interview recently he fears for his life and that Vladimir Putin was after him. At this point in time theres no clue as to who might be behind this, as to what might have happened but theres certainly opposition figures out there say they have no faith in any sort of investigation going forward. Frederik pleitgen thank you for being with us from moscow. For more perspective, i want to bring in julie yatgi. Shes written extensively about russia. We dont know yet what happened. There is an investigation led by the russian government now under way. So we dont know for sure but it is true to say this. That opposition people who oppose russian president Vladimir Putin, some have ended up dead or in prison. It is not a safe position to be in correct . Thats right. Boris nemtsov, even though he said that he was afraid for his life he did walk around without body guards. It was a very overt message of bravery. What weve seen in return is an overt message of fear. People in the opposition wont believe anything out of the kremlin in terms of who did this. They perceive this as a message directly sent to them. When you see Boris Nemtsovs body lying with the kremlin as a backdrop they understand thats a message directed to them. That if you speak out against putin, this could happen to you and whats really critical here is that this has never happened before. About a year and a half ago, one of the other Opposition Leaders was sentenced to five years in jail. That sentence was quickly overturned but that was a huge water shed moment. That was a landmark moment. The state had never done that before never really given such long sentences to the opposition. And that was seen to be like now the stakes are raised. This is something totally different. Jail and now murder. Yes. But again, we dont know who did it for sure. The timing. Lets talk about the timing here. Do you think its suspicious . Extremely suspicious and again, i think this is why the members of the opposition that ive spoken to tonight see it as a message to them. This happened about 36 hours before a planned opposition march, planned long ago for sunday that was to take place in moscow to protest against the economic crisis unfolding in russia against the governments policy in ukraine, and Boris Nemtsov had just come from a radio interview where he was putting out the call to moscowites to come down on sunday. And then gunned down. Where are the russian people in this . If an Opposition Leader is gunned down you would think theres mass outrage at such an action. Do you expect people to take to the streets over the next few days . If this happened randomly without the previous 15 years of putins rule leading up to this the control of television of sweeping clear the political field of any possible competition or any opposing voices then maybe there would be mass outrage but this is coming on the heels of 15 years of very studied neutralizing and marginalizing the opposition. Now this is a message that says not only will you be marginal marginalized and silenced something far worse could happen to you and i dont think maybe the march on sunday would be more populous than it otherwise would have been but dont expect a huge uprising with pitch forks and flames. Julie ioffe thank you so much. An american blogger is brutally murdered in bangladesh. Islamic group. Whoa whoa whoa whos responsible for this . . If something goes wrong, you find a scapegoat. Rick. Its what you do. Ahhhhhhhh whatd you say . Uhoh kelly if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Rick. Dont walk away from me. Ahhhhhhhh what does it mean to have an unlimited Mileage Warranty on a certified preowned mercedesbenz . What does it mean to drive as far as you want. For up to three years. And be covered . It means your odometer. Is there to record. The memories. 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Today, an extremely savage death on the steps of capital, he was murdered. More from agri agraval. Reporter following a brutal and deadly attack on an american author and blogger. A u. S. Citizen and his wife were returning from a book fair when witnesses say they were attacked by at least two men wielding machetes. The 42yearold roy was hacked to death. His wife was seriously injured. I saw an unknown person bring out a big knife and first hit him from behind on his head and then on his shoulders. I shouted for help from the people but nobody came to save him. No one came. A lady was with him. She was his wife. She was also hit on the shoulder. Reporter police say they recovered the machetes in the attack but not yet identified any suspects. According to several reports, an Islamic Extremist Group in taka have claimed responsibility. Roy received numerous Death Threats unhappy with his blog. Found the site free mind which champions secular thinking and challenges religious extremism. The site in bengali said we mourn but were not out. Roy also wrote for the center for inquiry, a u. S. Based Nonprofit Group that said it was shocked and heartbroken about the attack. Whats so sad is the way in which he was murdered it was so brutal and so callous for someone who is just so kind and so openminded. Its horrible. Reporter news of the shocking attack was splashed across front pages on friday and hundreds of protesters marched through the street of the capital to denounce roys murder. Hes the second to be murdered and the fourth in the muslim nation over the past ten years. Joining us now, ravi there were witnesses. What do police say about possible suspects . Reporter hi john. Yes, there were witnesses and, of course these guys probably left fingerprints on the machetes but when we spoke with the Bangladeshi Police the man leading the investigation, the Deputy Commissioner police in taka said one of the places they look for suspects is online. Roy, as weve been reporting received a number of deaths Death Threats on his blog and on facebook. In fact in roys own telling of this weve obtained a copy of one of his final pieces of writing in the magazine free inquiry and in that he describes about how a year ago he wrote a book called the virus of faith about religious extremism. It launched at the book fair and hit the best seller list and then began the intimidation and threats. In roys own telling of it on his own Facebook Page someone else, a wellknown extremist said well kill you. One year later, he comes back in the same book fair and assassinated. Horrible for him and his family. Ravi, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Up next he lived long and prospered. Well remember star trek legend Leonard Nimoy. Toenail fungus . Dont hide it. Tackle it with fdaapproved Jublia Jublia is a prescription medicine proven to treat toenail fungus. Use jublia as instructed by your doctor. 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Reporter Leonard Nimoy and always be remembered as spock, half human, half vulcan he portrayed on the big screen and small screen. His character debuted in the original star trek series september 8th, 1966. That may be correct, captain. Reporter aboard the star ship enterprise took him to many worlds. In reality, nimoys love for acting began here on earth in his hometown. Ive started acting when i was a little boy, about 8 years old in settle houses in boston and lived in it. Live long and prosper. Reporter nimoy played a lot of characters audiences love to hate. Ive done a lot. Got my comeuppings in the end of the show. They can smell a winner. Reporter big break came in an episode of the 60s marine corps drama, the lieutenant. Gene saw Something Special in nimoys spock. He invented that character. They made an earlier pilot in which nobody had grasped the edges of the character. With his imagination and his innovation his creativity made that character one interestingly humanized and so rivetingly intriguing. Reporter despite the star trek spinoffs dozen movies five series conventions, the first star trek series lasted only three seasons, 79 episodes. My favorite episode was called a mock time. In that episode, we heard the words live long and prosper prtfor the first time and saw spock do this for the first time. Reporter nimoy went to star in a number of tv shows and pursued over passions. Photography and poetry publishing a book in 1977. The answer has been here before. Reporter in the 80s, appeared in star trek the next generation kwgsand when j. J. Rebooted the films, the original spock was there too. 35 years ago, i met the enterprise for the first time. Reporter enterprise named after the star ship and when retired in 2012 nimoy was there to talk about it. Tell us what you feel today. A reunion. Reporter he spoke about the danls of spoking after being diagnosed with a lung disease. I quit a long time ago. Why is this happening to me . But its a lesson i had to learn. Reporter his character spock may have prided himself on being emotionless, but in the end, that could not be further from who the man was to his family and friends. Shall be your friend. First and foremost is a long and deep friendship love that i have for leonard. He is in essence, the brother i never had. Live long and prosper. Indeed a great boston boy. A great actor. Ahead, the next hour of 360, we update our breaking news. Will Homeland Security run out of money . Funding stops unless Congress Passes some kind of measure. We have new information just ahead. Helped guide our clients through good times and bad. Our experienced investment professionals are one reason over 85 of our mutual funds beat their 10year lipper averages. So in a variety of markets we can help you feel confident. 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